Southside Community Church - Milton

Sunday, February 25 Speaker: Daniel Amaral This Sunday Daniel will be speaking about his path towards working at RE:SOUL and what it means to have continued faith in a fundraising journey. Through this teaching he’ll also talk about what it looks like to be present with God in the process.

Sunday, February 18, 2024 Speaker: Andrew Wood This Sunday Pastor Andrew will unpack the meaning of “logos” found in John’s gospel and explore the connection of the universal concept of Logos to our pursuit of God’s presence.

Sunday, February 11, 2024 Speaker: Andrew Wood The church is a people, but not just any people. The church is to be a family in a real and experiential way. We are to raise up one another in Christ like a father or mother parents a child. With love, discipline, support, training opportunities, we are to raise and send people who are formed in Christ to bring Christ to the world around them. Healthy families are often the result of orderly households. This Sunday we’ll talk about our household at Southside; both the physical home (200 Main St.) and the ministry/activity that happens in it and from it. We’ll talk about why we use our unique gifting, skills, abilities, passions, resources to bring order and structure to the household for the sake of formation and mission in the present and the future.

Sunday, February 4, 2024 Speaker: Ian Campbell Eph 4.11-12 How does the Church "work?" Pastor Ian will guide us through the Apostle Paul's genius answer to this question as we consider the APEPT model of ministry.

Sunday January 28, 2024 Speaker: Andrew Wood We explore the fourfold gospel and the history of the C&MA

Sunday, January 21, 2024 Speaker: Andrew Wood Andrew looks at the roots of the church in Canada with a focus on the C&MA.

Sunday, January 14, 2024 Speaker: Andrew Wood This Sunday Pastor Andrew will lead us in answering two questions: What is the church and what does the church do? Join us this Sunday to explore our identity and function as an expression of the local church in Milton.

Sunday January 7, 2024 Speaker: Ian Campbell A message on one thought to have as we start the new year.

Sunday, December 17, 2023 Speaker: Andrew Wood A short message about holy moments that followed the kids pageant.

Sunday, December 10, 2023 Speaker: Ian Campbell Luke 1.26-45 The idea of Heaven and Earth intersecting is at the core of our faith. This intersection requires a different kind of mapping or history telling. We lean into the Celtic ideas of "thin places" and the lovely "wardrobe" images of C.S. Lewis to get our minds around what Joseph and Mary came to believe and example for all of humankind!

Sunday, December 3, 2023 Speaker: Andrew Wood This Sunday we’re starting our season of advent off with a teaching on Holy Moments: moments worth looking back on in order to look forward. Today we focus on Joseph's obedience.

Sunday, November 26, 2023 Speaker: Andrew Wood Join us this Sunday for Pastor Andrew's wrap up of our teaching on fasting including a time for question & response.

Sunday, November 19, 2023 Speaker: Ian Campbell God's Chosen Fast Isaiah 58.3-12 It seems that Israelites were fasting but not seeing any result or impact of the discipline. They complain through the prophet Isaiah and God hears their cry and answers with a poignant "here's why it isn't working" indictment. On the upside God challenges them to behave differently and gives them a guide for the "kind of fasting He has chosen." As we look at the fourth reason we fast: to stand with the poor, we'll seek to understand what the link is.

Sunday, November 12, 2023 Speaker: Ian Campbell Matt 17.17-21 It has been said that "we can pray without fasting, and we can fast without praying, but when we combine the two, it's like there's a chemical reaction that amplifies the power of prayer." In this provocative account of Jesus' disciples not mustering enough faith for a miracle we can see there is a synergistic relationship between the two that invites us to a new level in our effectiveness in break through prayer.

Sunday November 5, 2023 Speaker: Andrew Wood We continue unpacking how the practice of fasting helps in our pursuit of holiness; from good too Holy. The focus this week will be on the idea of consecration with references from Romans 6 and some more in 1 Peter.

Sunday, October 22, 2023 Speaker: Ian Campbell 1 Corinthians 15 Continuing from last Sunday we will see the continuity of our conscious physical existence as the major aspect of our hope for the afterlife. This will add significance to the disciplines of life in the body in the here and now.

Sunday, October 15, 2023 Speaker: Ian Campbell Roman 12.1-2 As we have begun this chapter of teaching "Practicing the Way" and are embarking on the forgotten discipline of fasting we'll focus on the understanding that Christians need to have about the connection between the physical body and our spirituality.

Sunday, October 8, 2023 Speaker: Andrew Wood Fasting is arguably the most neglected spiritual discipline in the modern wester church. Over the next several weeks we’ll explore historical and biblical teachings on fasting and contemplate what God may have for us as a community through the practice of fasting. "May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Thessalonians 5v23

Sunday, October 1, 2023 Speaker: Andrew Wood (NB - message recording starts part way through) Are we feeling overwhelmed, anxious, and burnt out because we’re serving one another with our gifts and practicing loving hospitality? Or in the words of Tom Wright, are we spending our margin on tasks and pursuits that "merely wastes the time you could have been growing as a human being, discovering more about how God’s love can transform your life and that of those around you.” This Sunday we’ll explore 1 Peter 4:1-11 and decidedly live into the calling to serve by stepping into serving our community with our gifts, rather than step back in a season of busyness.

Sunday, September 24, 2023 This Sunday our new District Superintendent Shane Gould will be joining us for the induction ceremony of Pastor Andrew as Lead Pastor of Southside. Shane will share some of his shared history with Southside, his experience in ministry with the Christian and Missionary Alliance, and offer a charge to Pastor Andrew for the role he’s stepping into. The ceremonial service will be coupled by some worship and a time of prayer for Andrew and Ashton.