Our Mandate
The Healthy Church Task Force meets monthly to fulfill its mandate, which is to, “to foster congregational health within the churches of CAN by means of the following:
1. Cultivating pastor-church relationships
2. Dispatching appropriate resources for congregation councils and pastors
3. Strengthen, support and challenge pastors, their spouses and families
4. Encouraging the active participation of congregations, councils and pastors in restorative justice efforts within their communities
5. Create a roster of local skilled and trained and qualified mediators, restorative practice facilitators, church consultants, professional counsellors and specialized transitional ministers.
6. Exercise intentional cooperation and appropriate reporting of its work to the CIC and PCR.
1. Cultivating pastor-church relationships
2. Dispatching appropriate resources for congregation councils and pastors
3. Strengthen, support and challenge pastors, their spouses and families
4. Encouraging the active participation of congregations, councils and pastors in restorative justice efforts within their communities
5. Create a roster of local skilled and trained and qualified mediators, restorative practice facilitators, church consultants, professional counsellors and specialized transitional ministers.
6. Exercise intentional cooperation and appropriate reporting of its work to the CIC and PCR.
Committee Members:
John Pasma, chair, regional pastor, ex-officio
Peter VanderBeek, regional pastor, (2019)
Melle Pool, church visitor co-ordination, (2019)
Joanne Munro, restorative justice mediator, (2019)
Anita Veldhuisen Slomp, restorative justice mediator, (2019)
Gary Bomhof, church counsellor, (2020)
Janet Vlieg-Paquette, secretary, (2019)