Healthy Church Task Force

Our Mandate

The Healthy Church Task Force meets monthly to fulfill its mandate, which is:
to foster congregational health within the churches of Classis Alberta North by means of the following:

Cultivating pastor-church relationships
Dispatching appropriate resources for congregations, councils and pastors
Strengthening, supporting and challenging pastors, their spouses and families
Encouraging the active participation of congregations, councils and pastors in restorative justice efforts within their communities
Creating a roster of local skilled and trained and qualified mediators, restorative practice facilitators, church consultants, professional counselors and specialized transitional ministers.
Exercise intentional cooperation and appropriate reporting of its work to the Classical Interim Committee (CIC) and Pastor-Church Resources (PCR).

Task Force Members (as of Dec 2019):
Joanne Munro, restorative justice mediator, (term ends 2019)
Anita Veldhuisen Slomp, restorative justice mediator, (2019)
Peter VanderBeek, STM, regional pastor, (2019)
Melle Pool, church visitor co-ordination, (2019)
Janet Vlieg-Paquette, secretary, (2019)
Gary Bomhof, church counsellor, regional pastor (2020)
Henry Kranenburg, regional pastor (term ends 2022)

The History of the Healthy Church Task Force (being written up for posting)

The work of Regional Pastors in classis (still being written up)

The role of Mentors (coming at a future date)