Beyond Culture:
Kingdom Values in a Multicultural World
The Jaffray Centre for Global Initiatives
The Jaffray Centre for Global Initiatives is a research institute at Ambrose University. The mission of the Jaffray Centre is to engage our multicultural world in new and meaningful ways through education, research, and project development. The centre is a combination incubator/ greenhouse where new ideas, collaborative initiatives, and fresh ways of looking at God’s global mission are nurtured.
Engaging the world around us in new and meaningful ways.
The JaffrayAng Symposium is a Jaffray Centre initiative that seeks to bring together academics, practitioners, and pastors from a variety of ministries and denominations across Canada to explore themes of interest related to the mission of God. The Symposium derives its name from two Jaffray related Canadian families who immigrated to Canada and contributed to the development of our country. Both families have left a rich legacy of domestic and international missional influence through their engagement in transnational ministries.
About the Symposium
As more cultural expressions of the Christian church emerge across Canada, new and old Canadians alike need to explore innovative ways to move beyond our historic cultural and linguistic silos to greater collaboration and deeper covenantal unity “so the world will believe and know” (John 17:20-25). Through a variety of presentations, breakout sessions and personal interactions with scholars and practitioners, the 2023 JaffrayAng Symposium will engage a variety of theological and strategic issues associated with creating, sustaining and replicating intercultural churches which reflect Kingdom values. The papers from each JaffrayAng Symposium are collected into a book so the insights gathered can become a resource for the Canadian Church and shared with a broader audience. The 2019 Symposium resulted in the publication of Beyond Hospitality and papers from the 2021 Beyond Multiculturalism symposium are in the publication process.
“An inbetweener is someone who intentionally moves beyond their natural sphere of relationships to engage with the cultural “other,” and extend the gift of understanding by making space in their lives to develop genuine friendships.”
— Charles A. Cook
