What is the ethnic makeup of the church in Canada and what impact is immigration having on Canada?
In Toronto, the newly arrived ethnic communities tend to be the spark plugs for evangelism. The multiplication of Chinese, Korean, Filipino and Black churches is stunning. There is a passion within the community to build churches that serve the needs of people of their own ethnic community; but in the meantime they’re bringing new life to the wider church. Often I find that it’s these newly arrived ethnic groups who evangelize other newly arrived ethnic communities. So the Caucasian church is learning an enormous amount from them, and while the underlying concern, as noted in the recent Ontario provincial election, is the potential impact of radical Muslim educational communities, my experience is that the arrival of these new ethnic groups has an enormous benefit to the witness of Christ in our society. The important moral issues we face are self-evident-they’re the ones we have been dealing with over the last number of years. Abortion will surface again. A recent article in the Natio
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