South Shore Emmanuel Alliance

South Shore Emmanuel Alliance is an example of what can happen when churches collaborate in prayer and venture together for the kingdom of God.  

When the seven other Chinese churches in Montreal recognized that over 27,000 newcomers from mainland China were steadily settling in Montreal’s South Shore, they began to pray and plan for how to reach this growing demographic.

After casting vision with the CCACA for a future church, the existing church communities began to strategize. They also hosted bi-weekly prayer meetings ahead of the full launch in September. Then, closer to the launch time, they began to advertise the news of this upcoming church in local Mandarin newspapers. 

South Shore Emmanuel Alliance launched around Thanksgiving 2017 and the vitality that this congregation is already showing is connected to the vital network that has helped launch and support it:

In addition to lead pastor Pastor Mei-Ying Yang, South Shore Emmanuel Alliance is supported by three consulting pastors in the area.  There is now a solid core attending -- currently around 45 adults and 25 children from the South Shore. In addition, they’ve established four small groups focused on Bible study and personal evangelism training (with 55 people attending those groups); four people are preparing for baptism; and in December 2017 they are preparing to launch an adult Sunday school that will run through the book of Acts.  

It would seem that when God moves people to work together despite their differences and for His greater purpose, the whole is always greater than the sum of its parts!  

Please continue to pray for this New Venture.

 

 

 Pastor Mei-Ying Yang is thankful for the space that South Shore Alliance can meet in: St. Barbara’s Anglican Church. She serves with her husband and they have three daughters.  She was saved and baptized in 1987, called to ministry in 1993, and up until 2004 she led Sunday school ministry in her church. Upon completing her M.Div. in Toronto in 2010 and interning in churches there, she returned to Montreal in 2011, moved to South Shore Chinese Church in 2014, and in 2016, felt the call to reach the new Manadrin speaking immigrants around her.