MISSIONS FESTIVAL 2026: FRIDAY, APRIL 17 TO SUNDAY, APRIL 19
Lift Up Your Eyes and Look

Friday, April 17

5:00pm: Supper 

6:15pm: Mission Session 1
                  Dr. Chris Carr / Seth Beebe
                    Update with our missionaries

Saturday, April 18

7:30pm Prayer service with our Missionaries
8:45am Breakfast
9:30am Missionary Breakout Session 1
10:30am Missionary Breakout Session 2

Afternoon: Missions Experience

5:00pm Supper

6:00pm Mission Session 2 
                  Dr. Chris Carr / Seth Beebe
                  Update with our missionaries

Sunday, April 19: 9:00am & 11:00am
Morning Worship Service and Mission Challenge

Full details on the weekend will be available soon

Dr Chris Carr

Dr. Chris Carr has served as Executive Director of Global Gates Network of Canada since arriving in the Greater Toronto Area in Sept. 2017 with his wife Eileen and 3 of their kids. They previously served cross-culturally in Russia and Ukraine from 1999-2015 with the International Mission Board.

“We have the honor of leading Global Gates Canada (GGC) in affiliation with Global Gates USA. We are based in Brampton on the west end of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). In tandem with our board of directors, we guide the overall strategic focus and development of Global Gates Canada as we serve with and encourage our teammates here who are scattered across the GTA and also in Vancouver in western Canada. Your investment in our family and in GGC helps us reach the ends of the earth through Canadian gateway cities with the good news of Jesus to the hundreds of thousands of individuals who’ve moved and continue moving to Canada from some of the hardest-to-reach places and people groups on the planet, all in the spirit of Acts 17:26-27. We help mission-hearted people in Canada to be connected, competent, and confident to make multiplying disciples in Canadian gateway cities to the ends of the earth.”

Global Gates Canada: A missions organization that exists to reach the ends of the earth through global gateway cities.

The mission of Global Gates Canada is to see gospel transformation of the world’s most unevangelized people groups who have come to Canadian gateway cities, and through them reach their communities around the world.

Youth Grades 9 to 12 are eligible to attend the Wayumi Expedition

  Individual Registration for Wayumi Expedition 2026. 

Wayumi Expedition is a summer camp and a summer missions trip, all rolled into one. At our campus in Pennsylvania, your students will discover how they can be a part of reaching isolated people groups who have never heard the Gospel.

The vision of TLC is to share the love of Christ in this community. We are seeking to engage the local community in ways that are both practical and relevant, to be good neighbours and friends. We want to make a difference in tangible ways wherever we are – sharing God’s love in word and deed.

The missions strategy of TLC is based upon the scriptural conviction that God’s plan for reaching the world is through the local church. It is the local church that is the primary means of sending people to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ to every person throughout the entire world. We believe that the local church is the sending agent and that mission boards, or committees, are the facilitating agents to reach the world. 

Our missionaries and global partners serve as an extension of the body of True Life Church, making an impact in our country and around the world. The role of TLC in this great worldwide ministry is to help in effectively equipping missionaries for life and ministry, and then to send them out with sufficient resources and encouragement for their task. 

 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20

We believe that the Biblical mandate given to the local church by Christ is to evangelize the world. Following after the admonition given by Christ in Matthew 28:19-20, we are to go into all of the earth, starting with our Jerusalem (Quispamsis), Judea (New Brunswick), Samaria (North America), and the uttermost parts of the earth (the world) and teach all nations about Christ’s substitutionary death for them, through every Biblical means possible. After they receive Christ, we are to baptize them and teach them to be obedient to Christ in living according to Biblical (not cultural) principles in the establishment of local, national, indigenous, and autonomous (self-governing, self-propagating, self-financing) churches. We are then to encourage and help to develop local pastors to build up these churches in the Lord with the purpose that they would, in turn, reproduce other bodies of believers.

This is done through the process of sending forth authorized personnel (missionaries) beyond the walls of TLC to the world around us (with an emphasis, but not exclusively, on crossing geographical, cultural, and linguistic barriers), to areas of the world where Christ is largely, if not entirely, unknown.

The role of TLC in this process is to pray for, identify, confirm, and send out those whom God is calling, help in effectively equipping them for life and ministry, and then send them out with sufficient, personal, loving, and accountable relationships with our missionaries and with their ministries.