The Maks

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Since January 2017, Toby and Loretta, along with their children Judah, Brielle and Isaiah have made City Gates their church home.

Prior to joining City Gates, Toby and Loretta worked with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Tanzania and served at God’s Tribe Church in Dar es Salaam.

Like City Gates, God’s Tribe is an Advance Movement partner church and it was there that both Toby and Loretta sensed a call to explore church planting.

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 As a church planting resident Toby will be:

  1. Enrolling in the Advance Church Planters Course – six modules over the next two years – to learn with other potential church planters in Canada and the USA;
  2. Joining the City Gates leadership development cohort;
  3. Serving alongside the elders of City Gates in the leadership of the church in various capacities and roles, practically applying lessons learnt in the cohort and church planters course.

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In his book Centre Church, Tim Keller writes, “The gospel is not primarily a way of life. It is not something we do, but something that has been done for us and something we must respond to.”

The gospel is the best news for a broken world full of bad news. In the last few years particularly, the gospel has transformed and reformed Toby and Loretta’s hearts and it’s this message they are giving their lives to share.

The gospel confronts us as individuals, but its context is community. A vibrant gospel community – the church – and more and more vibrant gospel communities is the hope for individuals and societies.

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City Gates has committed to the enrolment and travel costs associated with the Advance Church Planters Course. The plan is that City Gates would cover the majority of our support for 2018.[/icon_box][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_raw_html]JTNDc2NyaXB0JTIwaWQlM0QlMjJjaF9jZG5fZW1iZWQlMjIlMjB0eXBlJTNEJTIydGV4dCUyRmphdmFzY3JpcHQlMjIlMjBkYXRhLXBhZ2UtaWQlM0QlMjIyOTk0OSUyMiUyMGRhdGEtY2Zhc3luYyUzRCUyMmZhbHNlJTIyJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cuY2FuYWRhaGVscHMub3JnJTJGc2VydmljZXMlMkZ3YSUyRmpzJTJGYXBwcyUyRmRvbmF0ZW5vdyUyRmVtYmVkLm1pbi5qcyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRnNjcmlwdCUzRSUyMA==[/vc_raw_html][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]