KGF Church

A Message from God Changes Everything

Have you ever received a message that changed everything?

Sometimes they are messages that come with great joy and blessing.  Sometimes they come with sorrow and grief.  And often they simply surprise us.  That was part of the experience of some unsuspecting recipients when Gabriel brought a message from heaven.  Yet amidst the surprise, amidst even the doubt and fear, was a sense of wonder and hope. 

Whatever situation you find yourself in this Christmas season, God has a message for you that will change everything!  I look forward to seeing you this Sunday!

Rob Dyck
Lead Pastoral Candidate

Fully Alive: Participating in the Work of God

In his book, The Sacred Journey, Frederick Buechner writes:

"The question is not whether the things that happen to you are chance things or God’s things because, of course, they are both at once. There is no chance thing through which God cannot speak … He speaks, I believe, and the words he speaks are incarnate in the flesh and blood of our selves and of our own footsore and sacred journeys … ‘Be not afraid, for lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.’ He says he is with us on our journeys. He says he has been with us since each of our journeys began. Listen for him. Listen to the sweet and bitter airs of your present and your past for the sound of him.”

Esther is a story of “chance" and “coincidence,” and my hope is that this morning, you might pay attention to the chances and coincidences that show up in your own life to participate in the work that God is doing there and for the life of the world!

Levi Simpson
KGM Director of Spiritual Care

Fully Alive in the Shadow of the Empire

Every empire in history, no matter how powerful, has risen and fallen. Babylon is not just an ancient city in Scripture; it’s the recurring pattern of human pride that rejects God and worships itself.

Yet, in every generation, God preserves a faithful people people who live differently, who resist the beastly ways of the world by embodying His true kingdom ways.

Daniel and his friends, though exiled and immersed in Babylonian culture, politics, and power lived fully alive. They heeded the Jeremiah 29 call to work for the good of their captors, seeking peace and prosperity for the city. But with windows open toward Jerusalem, their hope was in the everlasting promise of God’s kingdom.

Today, we as God’s people are called to do the same: to live faithfully and fruitfully in a complex world but not by escaping our culture or conforming to it, buy by revealing another kingdom within it.

Devan Scollon 
Associate Pastor of Discipleship

Buy the Field!

How on earth do you walk by faith when your eyes, brain, and emotions say the opposite?

In a few days we will pause as a nation to remember the costs of violence and war. The world today is rocked by realities and consequences of humanity that too quickly forget the horrors that never just stay in grainy black and white films, but impact us still - including people who are part of our church and live with us in our city. As a church we honour Remembrance Day confessing that those in Christ are called to active love and peacemaking. This is central to our faith in Christ. 

The Apostle Paul wrote the often quoted words, "...for we walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Corinthians 5:7). Those pithy words look great on the wall or on this screen, but how do we apply them and live fully alive in the real world where we see so much that can make faith a idealistic dream disconnected from reality? 

This week we get to know the remarkable courage and faith of the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah, who did a remarkable act of courageous real estate faith when war raged around him and everything - and I mean everything - pointed in the opposite direction. You can read it before we gather on Sunday in Jeremiah 32. And, then, get ready to see differently!

Phil Wagler 
Interim Pastor

Living Fully Alive in the Normalcy of Life

The normal rhythms of life include struggle, victories, and a whole lot of ordinary moments in between. But in the midst of that normalcy, do we truly notice how God is at work?

This Sunday, we’ll explore the lives of Naomi, Ruth, and Boaz, and discover what it means to live fully alive even when life feels difficult, or even when it becomes routine. We’ll see how God was actively working behind the scenes to fulfill His promises, and how He continues to move faithfully in our everyday lives today.

The book of Ruth is only four chapters long, so I encourage you to give it a read!

Grace and Peace,

Josh Hufemia
Campus Ministry Lead, UCM at UBCO

Who Am I When I Live Fully Alive in a Complex World

Have you ever told your kids to clean up before taking out a new toy, only to be met with protests and resistance? They can’t see past the task to the joy that’s waiting on the other side.

This Sunday, we’ll explore how the Israelites faced a similar moment at the Jordan river. God had promised them the land—it was already theirs. But they had to cross the river and step into that reality.

When Jesus declared “It is finished” on the cross. He wasn’t starting something—He was completing it. Your freedom, your identity, your place as God’s chosen—it’s all already done. Perfectly. Completely. Ongoing.

But here’s the question: What Jordan river is God asking you to cross today? Maybe it’s forgiveness. Maybe it’s breaking free from bondage. Maybe it’s stepping into your calling. Or maybe it’s simply believing you are who God says you are.

Join us this Sunday as we discover how to stop standing on the riverbank and start living in the reality of what Christ has already finished for us. The land is already yours. It’s time to get your feet wet.

Phill Whatman

Living Fully Alive for God When We Hear Radio Silence

Have you ever asked yourself how did I get here?  Sometimes we can feel we are in a rut and waiting on God to act. Sometimes we simply go on auto pilot (life with kids can do that to you) and we wake up one day wondering how did I get here? Perhaps you have been seeking God's voice but only hear radio silence. Join us as we look at Moses journey who found himself in a place of waiting.

Phill Whatman

Fully Alive: Life Beyond the Pit

We’ve been exploring in John 15 Jesus’ vision for a fully alive people- a fruitful and abiding life.

This week we begin looking at biblical stories where God called people to embrace His appointed purpose in the midst of difficult circumstances.

We start with Joseph, whose life could have been defined by favouritism, betrayal, and suffering. Yet God was weaving a greater plan, for Joseph’s good and for the life of many. In the same way, the fully alive person trusts God’s larger picture and embraces His invitation to abide, be appointed, be pruned, and to bear fruit that lasts.

Pastor Devan Scollon

Fully Alive: Chosen & Appointed

It’s a try-out season for fall and winter sports? Di you try-out? Were you chosen?

Or, perhaps you recall those school days when partners were picked. Were you one of those standing awkwardly waiting? Were you always chosen first?

In John 15 Jesus makes a startling declaration to his disciples: you are chosen and appointed (John 15:16)! This might give a warm-fuzzy feeling of belonging, but it’s no participant ribbon! It is a call to a life of high responsibility; a life fully alive and on purpose!

We’ve been looking at Jesus’ foundations for the fully alive, fruitful life in John 15: pruning, abiding, friendship with God. This week we round this up with the transforming power of being chosen and appointed.

Phil Wagler

Interim Pastor

Fully Alive: Friends Forever

The 1981 Walt Disney classic “The Fox and the Hound” taught me what friendship really was. Friendship, as portrayed in the film, was about loyalty to another, even if it means you have to fight a bear to save your friend or stand in the line of fire to protect them from a hunter.

“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” - John 15:13 We know this intuitively, for it’s the very reason that “The Fox and the Hound” resonates with our hearts and is such a moving tale to this day.

Join us Sunday to find out what being a friend of Christ means, and how God might be inviting us to deeper obedience in loving one another.

See you then,

Pastor Joel