Southside@Main | Sunday Morning Services

This week, Pastor Andrew explored how wisdom and generosity emerge from bravely facing our mortality. He shows how these qualities open paths to joy when we understand life's limited nature. Drawing from Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, Andrew offers a chance to thoughtfully consider life's fragility and discover joy within that truth.

Pastor Andrew continues our journey through The Joy Refuge Series by exploring the Joy of blessing others this past Sunday! He's also joined by our friend Marcio Padovan, who shares some practical ways we can all bless and honour to those closest to us.

This Sunday, Pastor Andrew continues our discussion on joy with a brief teaching about finding joy in wisdom.

This week, we had the pleasure of having Woro (Aykay) Akara lead our Sunday teaching. With his passion for studying Scripture and gift for teaching, Woro explores the definition of joy and shares practical ways to experience it. His focus is on the enduring joy found in Christ. Drawing from Scripture, including John 16:33, he discusses how our joy transcends fleeting emotions and circumstances, ro...

January 19th, 2025 | This Sunday, Pastor Andrew continues teaching on Joy in Generosity, and focuses the attention on relational generosity in Christian community. Alastair Sterne says in his book on Joy that “the space between us is sacred because Jesus dwells among us. We are made to behold him in each other”

Sunday August 11, 2024 This Sunday Pastor John Mah from Mississauga Chinese Alliance Church is coming to teach in our Milton. Church series. Pastor John is a friend of Southside and is coming to share some stories from his life, ministry, and God's Word about missional living alongside the body of Christ.

Sunday, August 4, 2024 Speaker: Rachel Ayala This Sunday we have the exciting opportunity to learn from Rachel Ayala. Rachel is an Elder at Southside and a Psychotherapist by vocation. Rachel is going to talk about identifying cracks in a relationship and what kind of tools God has given us to reconcile towards oneness and unity.

Sunday, July 28, 2024 Speaker: Andrew Wood This Sunday Pastor Andrew is going to continue to teach about the fundamental goal throughout all of scripture: oneness. We'll see how the entire plot of the scriptures is to become one and unified under Christ. Starting at home then bleeding out to our communities and into the world.

Sunday, July 21, 2024 Speaker: Andrew Wood Over the next two Sundays, Pastor Andrew is going to teach about the fundamental goal throughout all of scripture: oneness. This Sunday we'll see how God, right from the start in Genesis 1-2, designed us for oneness. Starting with the male/female creation story, we'll see how the entire plot of the scriptures is to become one and unified under Christ. Sta...

Sunday, July 7, 2024 Speaker: Regan Neudorf Regan is the leader of New Ventures in the Canadian Central District of the Alliance Canada. New Ventures is the wing of the Alliance that empowers and equips new missional ventures (many of which are church plants) in our region. https://www.newventurescanada.com/ Regan will share some of his story and experience with churches working together to start...

Sunday, June 30, 2024 Speaker: Andrew Wood The family service message focused on milton.church

Sunday, June 23, 2024 Speaker: Jim De Marsh This Sunday we have the privilege of having long time Milton Pastor of Milton Bible Church Jim DeMarsh coming to Southside to teach. Jim will be sharing his story of ministry in Milton, talk about unity in the church in Milton, and offer some thoughts on missional living alongside the broader church in the city. Jim has been serving Milton for over 30 ye...

Sunday, June 16, 2024 Speaker: Andrew Wood This Sunday Pastor Andrew will transition us from the Practicing The Way teaching series to a new one called Milton. Church. In this talk Pastor Andrew will highlight the necessity of community in our Spiritual formation and invite us to broaden our involvement in the local Church to produce unity amongst the Body in Milton. Connected to this teaching ser...

Sunday, June 9, 2024 Speaker: Andrew Wood This Sunday Pastor Andrew will continue the conversation about practicing the ways of Jesus. We’ll focus in on the reality that relationships form us because we are relational by nature. To be made in the image of a Triune God means that we are fundamentally driven towards and formed by loving relationships inconsistent, authentic community.

Sunday, June 2, 2024 Speaker: Erick Olazabal Erick and his wife Kayla are pastors at RedHill Church in Milton. Erick had a passion for teaching and leading communities in practicing the ways of Jesus. In his past time Erick plays and teaches soccer and has a passion for mentoring the next generation.

Sunday, May 26, 2024 Speaker: Andrew Wood If the primary aim in life is to become a person pervaded by God's love, then what is getting in the way of that? This week we’re going to look at the things that are unintentionally forming us then take a look at what scripture says about our formation and what to be intentional about in order to become what God intends us to become. 1 John 2 & Romans 12...

Sunday, May 19, 2024 Speaker: Andrew Wood This Sunday Pastor Andrew is going to highlight 1 Timothy 4 as a call to spiritual formation and intentional training in the Christian life. This week we’ll start a multi-week conversation regarding the “HOW” to spiritual growth and formation and leave this Sunday with a practical step for us all to take this week in our apprenticeship to Jesus.

Sunday, May 12, 2024 Speaker: Andrew Wood This Sunday Pastor Andrew will remind us of what the Gospel is and shine a light on the gospel we see lived out everyday; particularly by motherhood. This teaching will launch us into a season of teaching that follows our discipleship course that we’re doing in communities called Practicing The Way.

Sunday, May 5, 2024 Speaker: Andrew Wood This Sunday Pastor Andrew will teach from Romans 8 about our identity in Christ and the subsequent freedom we have to live according to the Spirit of God. We’ll then celebrate by taking communion together remembering why and how we have the identity we have.

Sunday, April 28, 2024 Speaker: Ian Campbell Romans 7.14-25 Two natures at war - is that the dynamic of the Christian life? Paul asks the provocative question "Who will set me free?" Does he answer the question? That's what we'll talk about.

Sunday April 21, 2024 Speaker: Ian Campbell Romans 6.15-23 in his poem "Invictus" William Henley reaches his climactic lines "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul" In Romans 6 the Apostle Paul takes this idea to task by proposing that we are all servants to someone - the choice is Who?

Sunday, April 14, 2024 Speaker: Andrew Wood This Sunday we start a 4-part teaching on Romans 6-8 that Pastor Ian has discerned for our church. Pastor Andrew will lead the teaching this Sunday on Romans 6:1-14 with a focus on positional righteousness and its relationship with experiential righteousness. The goal of this teaching series is to clarify what the Apostle Paul was teaching the church in...

Follow up conversation to Sunday, March 24, 2024 Andrew Wood has a conversation with Julia Tarcisius on Spiritual formation and the presence of God.

Sunday, March 10, 2024 This Sunday we’ll get the opportunity to hear from Melissa & Curtis Miles about their experience of the presence of God. Curtis and Melissa have been serving the local church for over a decade in Milton and have a deep understanding of pursuing the presence of God. Melissa being a local therapist and Curtis working with Practicing The Way (the discipleship content we’re usin...

Sunday March 3, 2024 Speaker: Ian Campbell "Experiencing the Presence of God" John 1 Pastor Ian will press further into the theology of John Chapter One and how John, the disciple, friend of Jesus, both experienced the Presence of God as he experienced Jesus close up, and explained how the Logos is the Presence of God in His Creation.