
Our Ontario NextGen discussion panelists were Caleb Sholman, Kendra Franke, Jazlyn Armstrong, and Aaron Norg, interviewed by Martin Nieuwetz of the EMCC Next Gen Team.
This discussion was part of the Friday evening session at EMCC's East Regional Gathering 2026 at Wilmot Centre Church in Petersburg, ON, on April 17, 2026.

Our Alberta NextGen discussion panelists were Riley Bennett, Zac Day, and Jonnah Nance, interviewed by Martin Nieuwetz of the EMCC Next Gen Team.
This discussion was part of the Friday evening session at EMCC's West Regional Gathering 2026 at The Link Church in Medicine Hat, Alberta, on April 24, 2026.

In our opening session of Regional Gathering East 2026, Ken and Carolyn Benson gave a talk on the subject of Lifelong Learning.

Our Friday night session, at Wilmot Centre Church in Petersburg, ON, began with worship and shared messages from EMCC National Growing Young Director Gen Epp, Growing Young cohort participants, as well as Scott Clubine, Kara Powell, and Kevin Hegeman. The evening focused on NextGen ministry testimonies about and from the younger generations. Our discussion panelists were Caleb Scholman, Kendra Franke, and Jazlyn Armstrong, and Aaron Norg, interviewed by Martin Nieuwetz of the EMCC Next Gen Team.

President John Cressman shared a new vision for the EMCC denomination at our Regional Gatherings in Ontario and Alberta this past April, 2026. This recording is from his address in Ontario, at Bethel EMC in New Dundee on Saturday April 18, 2026.
You can learn more about the vision at emcc.ca/who-we-are#2033-vision

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John Cressman, our EMCC President, sat down with the president of the Alliance Church in Canada, Darren Herbold, for a conversation about what mutual learning looks like as leaders learn to collaborate in Canada.

Salim Tapan Pani joins EMCC's Director of World Partners, Nicole Jones-Qandah, for a chat about what ministry looks like for Salim and his family as they follow Jesus' teaching. Salim and Sunita Pani help to run Logos Ministries in the state of Odisha, India. Logos Ministries has been in existence for almost 30 years, and seeks to help communities in Odisha discover their own desires and to partner with them in incarnational ministry as Jesus did.

In this opening session of our West EMCC Regional Gathering, held at The Link Church in Medicine Hat, AB, you'll hear testimony from Pastor Kent Janz, and a keynote address by Pastor Lynn Dietz.

With worship, messages from Gen Epp, Growing Young cohort participants, Scott Clubine, Kara Powell, & Kevin Hegeman, as well as a NEXTGEN panel discussion led by Martin Nieuwetz, the evening focused on stories and testimony from and about the younger generations.

Jon Fuller, EFC Resident Missiologist, gives a brief summary of the process of reviewing EMCC's missions sending practices and our model. This report will help guide our denomination's conversations and the future of our mission sending as we continue to live out Christ's Great Commission.

Donald Gingras shares how God led him back into multiple avenues of ministry after retirement, in conversation with Scott Clubine.
Donald shared this story in person with those gathered in Ontario for Regional Gathering 2026, and recorded this interview with Scott in order to share the same story with those assembled for Regional Gathering in Alberta as well.