For over 40 years, Outreach Canada has been committed to helping the Body of Christ actively and intentionally live out the Gospel. Along the way, our diverse family of ministries has found creative ways to bring hope into workplaces and campuses, support missionaries and their families, mobilize new generations for mission, and reach Canada’s diverse communities.
Outreach Canada has continued to recognize critical needs and opportunities, activating leaders to respond with innovation and relevance in order to rally the body of Christ toward cooperative solutions.
The Early Years
In 1977, Outreach Canada began with a simple purpose—helping Canadian donors support missionaries abroad—but quickly recognized that Canada itself was a mission field.
With limited resources to draw on, Outreach Canada pioneered research initiatives that highlighted Canadian church planting needs and opportunities. Outreach Canada’s first Canadian ministry initiative was launched under the name Church Planting Canada.
Ongoing research continued to expose new challenges in Canada. In the first twenty years our growing team at Outreach Canada focused on strengthening the health of local churches and working with others to catalyze new church plants in Canada.
New Opportunities
As Outreach Canada grew, early ministry projects prioritized collaborative ministry practices that continue to this day throughout our family of ministries.
Expanding on strong foundations of research, leadership development and church revitalization, we started to develop specialized ministries for the workplace (workplace chaplains ministry), providing support to churches in the areas of vision renewal and transitional leadership, and mobilizing international missionaries.
Today: A Family of Ministries
Today, Outreach Canada’s ministry continues to activate leaders to respond to changes in the needs of the church and communities in Canada and to maximize our collaborative partnership with the OC Global Alliance.
Through the MORE Network, Outreach Canada partners with over 35 sending organizations to support missionary families in times of transition to the mission field and back, promoting optimal health and effectiveness in their life of ministry.
Through our Diaspora Ministries, Outreach Canada provides awareness, encouragement and equipping to the whole Body of Christ in Canada to recognize God’s purpose for the beautiful diversity of our communities.
Through BetterIt Workplace Chaplains, Outreach Canada sends trained and equipped chaplains into workplaces to build Gospel-informed relationships with employees from every race and religion, providing preventative support for whatever IT is that is keeping employees from thriving.
Through the OC Global Alliance, Outreach Canada is able to send individuals out to other areas of the world with the Gospel message. We are also able to learn and apply what God is doing globally to help the Body of Christ in Canada live out the Gospel with new and informed perspective.
Through it all, the heart of Outreach Canada has remained the same—to see lives and communities transformed by Christ, by making disciples and equipping leaders.
Today, we continue to write that story, activating leaders to help the Body of Christ live out the Gospel. We envision the Gospel alive in unimaginable says and are trusting God to use our family of ministries to shape His kingdom in Canada and beyond.