The United Church of Canada invites you to deepen your engagement with anti-racism, cultural diversity, and faithful intercultural ministry through our upcoming online course:
Becoming an Intercultural Church: Encountering God Across Cultures
• Are you wondering how to begin exploring intercultural ministries in your local context?
• Are you curious how newer neighbours of diverse identities might experience belonging in your community of faith?
• Are you interested in embracing cultural and racial diversity in your church?
• Are you looking for practical, faithful ways to build confidence in engaging across differences in your congregation?
This six-week interactive online course offers a meaningful space for ministry personnel, lay leaders, and congregational teams to explore these questions—and more—together.
Course Details
Wednesdays, October 14 – November 25, 2026 6:00–7:30 p.m. ET
This course invites participants to move beyond simple “inclusion” efforts toward genuine transformation as communities are continually reshaped—learning new ways of relating, leading, and being together across differences.
Drawing on intercultural theology, biblical reflection, ecumenical missiology, and lived experience, participants will explore how to faithfully engage power, difference, and diversity within their communities of faith.
Together, we will:
• Reflect on cultural and racial diversity in churches
• Explore intercultural theology and faithful practice
• Learn practical ways to integrate intercultural ministry
• Engage questions of power, difference, and belonging
• Share learning and reflections within your congregational context
Rather than offering quick fixes, this course encourages a vision of church shaped by patience, deep listening, companionship, and shared responsibility—equipping communities to live faithfully in diverse and changing contexts.
Learn Together as a Team
While individuals are welcome, we strongly encourage participants to register as part of a small team from your congregation or region. This creates space for shared reflection and meaningful application within your local ministry context.
Course Themes by Week
• Oct 14 – Advent: Waiting in Changing Landscapes
• Oct 21 – Christmas: Crumbs or Banquet? Confronting Racism as a Theological Wound
• Oct 28 – Epiphany: Intercultural Theology and the Gift of the Other
• Nov 4 – Lent: Missio Dei and Restraint from Mastery
• Nov 18 – Easter: Reconciliation without Mastery
• Nov 25 – Pentecost: Becoming an Intercultural Church
Facilitator
This course is led by Rev. Dr. Hyuk Cho, Director of United Church Formation and Studies at the Vancouver School of Theology. Rev. Dr. Cho is a respected scholar of intercultural theology, postcolonial mission, and ecclesial formation, and brings both academic insight and lived experience to this work.
Registration
• $40 per individual
• $70 for a group (up to 10 participants)
We hope you will join us for this important learning journey as we continue to grow as intercultural, anti-racist communities of faith across Canada.
Rev. Adele Halliday
Anti-Racism and Equity Lead
The United Church of Canada
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