Church Plant Update - King’s Cross
As a diocese our mission is to be building Biblically faithful, Gospel sharing, Anglican churches. And so planting new churches is a key priority for us and part of our DNA. You can learn more about that here.
Currently we have several congregations in the planting phase, along with more planned and more planters being assessed. One of these current plants is King’s Cross in Burnaby, BC. We connected with Rev. Jeremy Graham, lead pastor at King’s Cross, for a quick update on how things are going.
Jeremy is planting King's Cross Church after serving at St. John's Vancouver for ten years. He's married to Kim and has three teenagers who “make him feel old.” He loves cross-cultural experiences and the ethnic and cultural diversity of Vancouver.
Jeremy, give us a quick summary of the church plant you’re leading:
“King's Cross launched in May 2023 at the border between Vancouver and its nearest suburb, Burnaby. We meet at Collingwood Neighbourhood House on Sunday mornings and enjoy life together in neighbourhoods all over the cities throughout the week. Our mission is to joyfully love and serve Jesus Christ and share him with our neighbours.”
What are one or two specific stories from your church plant that’s been an encouragement to you recently?
“King's Cross hosted a neighbourhood Easter egg hunt after church in the courtyard outside our building. It was a beautiful spring day and we had 14 kids from the neighbourhood come and join our community as we searched for 250 eggs! We did our after service hospitality outside and offered food and drinks to our guests.
King's Cross had a first last month. Our first visitor who reported that they'd heard about our church from visiting a local community gathering. When they expressed interested in finding a church, another person (not a member of King's Cross!) told them they should check out the church that meets in the Neighbourhood House. Now they're part of our community. Small steps!”
What are your hopes/goals for the next few months?
“We are discerning a further partnership with the neighbourhood house that would allow us to do deeper community engagement through hosting cooking classes and free meals and could open doors for sharing the gospel.
We would like to run an Alpha course or similar evangelistic, relational program in someone's home to begin having spiritual conversations with those who regularly attend King's Cross but are not yet followers of Jesus.”
What are your biggest challenges and needs right now? So people can pray and support.
“We are trying to hire a part time Music Worship leader and have not found anyone yet.
Our core leadership team remains small even as we're growing and meeting newcomers with deep needs for evangelism and discipleship. We need time and attention to disciple and develop a larger team of lay leaders to support our core team.”
Please join us in praying for King’s Cross. You can help support them and all our church planting efforts by giving to our Multiply For Mission Fund.