Research Articles

How can your church better understand & serve your community? Here are 3 stats that we believe every church should know about their neighbourhood...

This summer, we had the privilege of connecting with Shelly Lyons about her research on Adult Third Culture Kids. Listen in to hear more about the “heart” behind the research and her big pictu...

Information matters. Outreach Canada research can provide the information you need to make informed decisions and to be better equipped to make disciples and serve your community. 

OC's Community Profile is an in-depth, customized view of a community's demographic information.

Every ten years, the Canadian government takes an extensive census of our nation. This research provides an amazingly detailed look at who we are and how we have changed or grown in the past decade...

One of the main reasons I decided to pursue doctoral studies was to conduct research. Not just any research, but "Adult Third Culture Kid" (ATCK) research. For many years, I worked with children, t...

A collection of past research articles from Outreach Canada.

Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic, Canadian churches were required to stop holding public gatherings.  In the weeks to follow, Canadian churches have been exploring new ways of gathering as ...

A biblical understanding of how Christians should welcome strangers is imperative for our day.  How do we demonstrate love toward people who are very different from us?  We must...

Breakthrough discoveries come from a first-ever effort to conduct a national study of the country’s largest-attendance churches, an initiative sponsored by a large coalition of Canadian scholars an...

A look at church attendance trends.

A report detailing the change in the Christian population and church attendance in the city of Abbotsford.