For pastors, planters, and the leaders who stand with them

Healthy churches, everywhere, for everyone. Starting with yours.

You came to Canada with the gospel already in your hands. You've been sharing it at your table, at your job, in your own language. Somewhere along the way, people started gathering around you, and now you're leading something.

I'd like to help that become a church that lasts, and one that starts others.

I'm Will. I planted three churches among immigrants like me, and for the last seven years I've walked with more than eighty diaspora leaders across Ontario as they've done the same. Whether you're the pastor, or you're an elder or board member who wants to support your pastor well, this site is about what makes a church healthy and how I can help you build it.

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Who I work with

Mostly, leaders who were born somewhere else and are now shepherding people in Canada. But that takes a lot of shapes.

Some of you are planting from your living room with eight people and a dream. Some of you pastor an established Korean, Filipino, Persian, Spanish, or Urdu-speaking congregation and sense it's time to send out your first plant. Some of you lead a second-generation ministry inside your parents' church and need material that fits your people.

And some of you aren't the pastor at all. You're the elder, the deacon, the board member, or the ministry leader who watches your pastor work a full-time job, raise a family, and carry the whole church on top of it. You want to support him better, and you're not sure how. I wrote a page just for you.

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What a healthy church actually looks like

A lot of us were taught that a church is a Sunday service, a building, and a budget. I don't think that's what Jesus had in mind, and I don't think it's what you were sent here to build.

When I look at the churches in our region that are still here ten years later, still bearing fruit, they have the same four things going on. Not perfectly. But they're growing in each one.

They're reaching the people around them. They're making disciples, not just gathering a crowd. They're raising leaders from their own people. And they're giving the mission away instead of holding onto it.

That's the whole picture. Everything I do is aimed at helping you grow in these four, and there's a fifth thing underneath all of it: the health of the leader. We'll get there.

Four marks of a healthy church

Whatever God is doing where you are, let's help it take root.

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Reach Your City

The people God wants to reach are already in your life.

Your coworkers, the parents at your kids' school, the family who invited you for dinner. You don't need an outreach program. You need to see the relationships you already have as the field, and help your people see theirs the same way.

What this can look like

A Saturday with your core team mapping every relationship you already have with people who don't know Jesus
A gospel conversation guide that fits your culture, in your language
A plan for gathering your first fifty, relationally

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Make Disciples

From stranger, to friend, to follower, to someone who follows Jesus on their own.

A crowd is not a church. What turns a gathering into a church is people being formed by Jesus, step by step, with someone beside them. This is where I do most of my work: turning what you already teach into something people can hold, use, and pass on.

What this can look like

Your sermon series becomes an eight-week small group guide with leader notes
A new-believer booklet in your voice, in your heart language
A membership class you can run every year, or a book from fifteen years of teaching

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Raise Leaders

Your next leaders are sitting in your living room right now.

Most planters carry everything themselves because they don't see anyone ready to help. In my experience the leaders are almost always there. They just haven't been named, trained, and trusted yet.

What this can look like

An honest, kind assessment of someone you think might be called
A core team season so you lead through people instead of around them
A cohort of twelve planters, or one-on-one coaching for you and your spouse

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Multiply

A church that reproduces doesn't depend on one person.

The goal was never a big church. It's a church that starts other churches, sends out leaders, and keeps going when you're not in the room. That takes systems, funding with dignity, and a leader who isn't running on empty.

What this can look like

I carry your admin: newsletter, flyers, forms, follow-up
A fundraising plan that keeps your self-respect
A sending plan for a church ready to plant its first daughter church

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The foundation

Live Whole

Healthy churches are led by healthy people. There's no way around it.

I've watched too many gifted leaders lose years to exhaustion, a strained marriage, or a body that finally said no. Not because they lacked faith. Because nobody ever told them that their sleep, their food, their marriage, and their rest were part of the calling too.

Most of us in this work came from cultures where you push through. Then we arrived in a country with long winters, long commutes, and jobs that don't care that you preached three times on Sunday. Something has to give, and it's usually us.

This is close to my heart, and it's where I'm building next: retreats, gatherings, and courses where pastors, doctors, and counsellors sit in the same room and talk honestly about what it takes to lead for thirty years, not three.

More about living whole

Waking up actually rested

A marriage that carries the weight together

A body you still recognize

Rhythms that outlast the season

Naming the grief of leaving home

Habits that survive an empty tank

How we'd start

Honestly, it's simple. We get on a call. You tell me your story and what God is doing where you are. I listen, and then I'll tell you what I see. If there's something I can build, carry, or coach you through, we pick one thing and start there.

We talk

A free one-hour call, in English or Korean, about what God is doing where you are and what would help most.

We pick one thing

One booklet, one system, one season of coaching. Small enough to start this month.

I build it, you lead

You review, we adjust, and you get back to the people God gave you.

We keep going

Most leaders start with one project and grow into an ongoing partnership.

Some leaders need one booklet. Some need someone to take the admin off their plate. Some need a coach for a season. Some churches need a plan to send their first planter. Some just need a conversation with someone who's been there. All of that is fine. I work by the project or by the month, and I'll always tell you the cost before we start. And if money is the thing holding you back, tell me. I'd rather explore how to serve you than have you go without help.

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I've walked this road

I've been planting churches for more than fifteen years. Three of them, ranging from fifty to five hundred and fifty people, all of them among immigrants like me. For the last seven years I've served as a church planting catalyst in Ontario, walking with leaders through assessment, launch, and the long years after.

When I started in that role, our region was seeing two or three new churches a year. Now it's fifteen to twenty. I don't say that to take credit. Most of it is God, and most of the rest is the eighty-some planters I've had the privilege of serving, nearly all of them born outside North America and leading in more than twenty languages.

I didn't grow up in church. I grew up in a Buddhist monastery, came to Canada at fifteen, and met Jesus in a university library over an essay I didn't want to write. I live in Milton with my family. I'm a starter and an encourager by nature, and I've had to learn shepherding and systems the slow way. That's probably why I care so much about building for you what I wish someone had built for me.

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“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.”

Isaiah 61:1

Everything on this site comes from one conviction: God has already placed in you what your community needs. My work is to help you see it, protect it, and give it away.

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How I think

Seven ideas behind everything I do, given away.

Notes

Short pieces for leaders with no time. Four minutes each.

Stories

Leaders I've walked with, in their own words.

Questions

Denominations, languages, money, confidentiality. Answered plainly.

A free place to start

The First Four Weeks

A printable guide for walking with someone in their first month of following Jesus. Simple enough to use this Sunday, easy to translate. Free.

What is God doing where you are?

I'd love to hear about it. An hour, no pitch. If I'm not the right person, I'll point you to someone who is.

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