Longevity In Urban Ministry (with Michael Krause)

Dr. Michael Krause has a broad range of ministerial experience in an urban context in churches, social service agencies and educational institutions.  He was the director of Evergreen, Yonge Street Mission’s outreach to street-involved youth, supervising 20 staff overseeing a thriving menu of programs including health care, housing support, employment training, drop-in and meal programs, and a broad range of advocacy support.

He was the youth pastor at Flemingdon Park Church, the assistant pastor at the Stone Church in downtown Toronto and the senior pastor at Church on the Street, an experimental church reaching out to street youth in the urban core. He has been active as a church planter in other contexts, pioneering Hills Church, an innovative, house church network based in Thornhill. 

Before joining the faculty of Tyndale in 2014, he functioned as the Staff Care director at Yonge Street Mission where he provided leadership development, ministry coaching and counselling to staff members working with the urban poor. He has been teaching courses with the TIM Centre Diploma program since its inception in 2010. He also has a private practice as a leadership coach and church consultant. Michael is ordained with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada. (description from Tyndale faculty page)

In this session from the Our City Conference (2019) in Toronto, he shares principles of longevity. How do you prepare and maintain a ministry life for the long haul?

Links:

Tyndale University

https://www.tyndale.ca/faculty/michael-krause

Yonge Street Mission

https://www.ysm.ca/

Church On The Street Reunion

Michael & Ejay Tupe

Gangland Preacher - Olu Jegede

Welcome to Episode 8 of Sidewalk Skyline Podcast. Today we are starting a series that I call Gangland Preachers. In this and upcoming episodes we are going to hear from some people that have firsthand experience when it comes to gangs and their effect on the community. Most of our discussions will focus on the Toronto area. 

Today’s guest is Olu Jegede who pastors Christian Centre Church in Toronto.

Hey, do you get those Amber Alerts on your smart phone? More than once I’ve been awakened in the night by that disturbing ring tone to report that a minor has been abducted or has gone missing.

I remember in early March of this year getting the alert about a 14-year-old boy that was missing from the Jane and Finch neighbourhood of Toronto. He had been abducted over a $4 million drug debt that his stepbrother had owed from last summer.

Well that young man was a recent example of someone that Christian Centre Church knows and cares about. He was recovered by police and returned home. These kind of stories are very real and personal for people like Pastor Olu Jegede.

In 2007 Jordan Manners was killed by gun violence inside his high school. This was one of the many young men that Olu has mentored over the years. 

Like Nehemiah of old, God calls some people into urban centers to build community and faith in places that have lost both. This session was a presentation that Olu gave at Our City Toronto 2019.

Links:

https://ccctoronto.com/

https://innercityoutreach.ca/

Jennifer and Olu Jegede

Jordan Manners’ funeral

Saving Surrey Kids (Mike Brownlee interview)

Here is an interview with Mike Brownlee, who is now 26 years deep in working with Metro Kids in Surrey, BC.

I have great respect for Mike and Lynn for their endurance. People like these often have a deep sense of what the Spirit is saying to the church in their community.

Mike is part of the Mission Canada urban guiding group that I belong to. This interview was held at our first-time meeting together. We recorded in the archives at Pentecostal Assemblies Of Canada back in March 2019. I hope to see him again this year and get an update on what’s happening in Surrey.

www.metrokids.ca

Lynn Brownlee’s book ‘Every Child Deserves To Know’

https://wordcom.paoc.org/products/books/missions-outreach/every-child-deserves-to-know-by-lynn-brownlee