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Audience-Specific Outreach

How can your ministry make sure the right message reaches the right people? This month, we have a new Topic Handbook devoted to Audience-Specific Outreach to help you break down the steps to consider when sharing your ministry's activities with others. This resource offers practical guidance with respect to identifying and mapping your audience to ensure that your core message reaches others. You'll also learn how to reach different groups as well as how to best manage these tasks within your organization's capacity. Fundraising with integrity is highlighted along with guidance in how manage communication channels, sequencing, and selecting the ideal formats for your messages. To help you put these ideas into practice, we have also added 16 new downloadable sample documents including checklists and worksheets. These tools cover topics such as making your communications accessible to everyone, keeping ministry partners informed, and reviewing your outreach campaigns. Explore the new handbook and find tools to help your ministry communicate with clarity and confidence. All of these resources are available in the CCCC Knowledge Base, an exclusive benefit for CCCC members.

Sufficient Resources: Establishing a Sustainable Ministry

Does your vision for ministry ever feel way bigger than your bank account? You are definitely not alone. As the calendar year winds down, the pressure to boost revenue and hit financial targets can feel overwhelming. There is plenty of helpful advice from fundraising professionals about navigating these final weeks of the year. But as Christian leaders, we get to start from a much deeper place: resting in God's abundant provision and generosity. Sustainable ministry is about more than raising enough money. It is also about recognizing, stewarding, and developing the people, relationships, skills, and other resources God has already entrusted to us. The Studio's resource, Sufficient Resources: Establishing a Sustainable Ministry, invites ministry leaders to consider this broader perspective.

Community Trust Fund (CTF)

Some donors choose to give securities to support ministries and benefit from potential tax savings. If your charity is offered such a gift, are you set up to receive it? If not, CCCC can help. Through our Community Trust Fund (CTF), your charity can accept gifts of securities without managing the associated administrative work. CTF handles the valuation, receipting, and accounting on your behalf. A modest fee is then deducted when the securities are sold. This service makes it easier for your charity to accept generous gifts while freeing up more time to focus on your ministry. Learn more about the CTF or book a call with Nick Lall, CCCC's Head of Group Benefits, to discuss how this service could help your charity. 

Finance Committee Recommendation Politicizes Charitable Status

The House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance (the “Committee”) has recommended changes that raise concerns about the politicization of charitable status.

In its report, Recommendations of the Standing Committee on Finance for the 2026 Budget, the Committee recommends amending the Income Tax Act to require greater transparency from "anti-abortion pregnancy centres" to prevent harm and the misuse of charitable status.

Recommendation 65 echoes a 2024 proposal that would require pregnancy-support charities to disclose services they do not provide, including abortions and birth control. While this recommendation is problematic, it is not binding, nor is it law. No legislation has been introduced to implement it.

CCCC remains concerned that targeting charities based on their activities or sincerely held beliefs threatens the stability of the entire charitable sector. Proposals that single out a category of charities for additional scrutiny risk making charitable status dependent on government priorities rather than established legal principles. Instead, existing tools that apply neutrally across the sector can address legitimate compliance concerns involving individual charities.

CCCC has recently sent a letter to the Minister of Finance and Secretary of State expressing concern and asking for the government to reject the recommendation.

CCCC at the Supreme Court

On Friday, October 9, CCCC appeared at the Supreme Court of Canada in a joint intervention with the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. You can watch CCCC/EFC oral submissions here (beginning at 2:35:30) and can read CCCC/EFC written submissions here.

The key issue in the Vabuolas case was whether the BC Privacy Commissioner could compel production of purely religious records for line-by-line review. CCCC and EFC intervened to ensure that purely religious decisions, and records of those decisions, are not subject to state oversight, whether by an independent commissioner or otherwise.

It is well established law that purely religious, theological, and doctrinal decisions are not justiciable, that is, courts don’t second guess or make judgements about them. They don’t have the proper authority or the necessary expertise.

Our position in this case was that it simply raised a new context of privacy law that likewise requires restraint toward purely religious matters.

The Supreme Court reserved its decision, meaning it will be released at a later date. Stay tuned to future Bulletins and our blog where we’ll update you on the outcome.

From Scattered Tools to a Trusted Digital Ministry - Digital Marketing

November 18, 2026 | 2:00 pm EST (Webinar)   

From Scattered Tools to a Trusted Digital Ministry - Digital Marketing, led by Jeff Lukin, CCCC's Head of Marketing and Digital Experience, presents a practical, knowledge-based webinar for Christian ministries in Canada that want to make better digital decisions with limited time, staff, and budget.

NOTE: If you are looking at this page after November 18, please go to our Store (members have free access) to find the post-webinar recording or see The Green® webinar chats to ask questions.

Accredited Member News

Congratulations to the Accredited Members listed below who recently participated in a scheduled accreditation review and demonstrated their ongoing commitment to CCCC Accreditation standards. We are proud to have you as part of our Accredited Member community! To find out more about CCCC Accreditation and our Accredited members, visit giveconfidently.ca.

• Africa Inland Mission International (Canada) - Africa Inland Mission (AIM) is an evangelical Christian mission agency dedicated to building the African church. Their passion is to see the worship of Jesus Christ spread across the continent of Africa – through individual lives fully committed to him, and collectively through Christ-centered churches. God has done a mighty work in Africa, where his Church is vast and growing daily, but the task is far from finished.
• Evangelical Free Church of Canada - The Evangelical Free Church of Canada (EFCC) serves in the birth and growth of families of dynamic EFC churches in Canada and around the world. EFCC’s vision is to become a network of mission- and Spirit-driven, reproducing churches. With their international ministry arm, EFCC focuses on creatively helping people and churches engage in Spirit-directed ministry fitted with their gifting.
• Fellowship of Christian Farmers - Canada - The purpose of the Fellowship of Christian Farmers Canada (FCFC) is to build, maintain, and strengthen faith in God by presenting Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. Their vision is to train and equip Christians, through local chapters, to share the gospel in the marketplace with people in Canada from sea to sea
• Hope Pregnancy & Family Support Centre - Hope Pregnancy & Family Support Centre equips, encourages, and empowers life-affirming choices. Their vision is to protect the sanctity of life in an atmosphere of protection and restoration, while emphasizing the concept of healthy relationships as the basis of a community. They offer pregnancy tests, options council, pre-natal support, post-natal, parenting, post-abortion healing, a moms and tots group called Growing Hearts, a program called Mentoring New Moms that supports a woman during the first three months after her baby is born, and material assistance.
• Latin America Mission - Latin America Mission (Canada) is a Christ-centered interdenominational organization that partners with Latin American and Canadian churches, foundations and associations in a wide range of ministries throughout Latin America and among Latin American people living in Canada.  Latin America Mission (Canada) coordinates the placement of long and short term missionaries in Latin America in various ministries, including church planting, Christian camping, children and youth ministries, theological education, evangelism, Christian schools and in development projects.
• Maritime Christian College - Maritime Christian College (MCC) is a coeducational institution of higher learning for the purpose of conferring certificates and degrees as chartered by the Legislature of Prince Edward Island, Canada. They exist to educate, equip, and inspire disciples of Jesus and their platform is completely online, offering flexible and accessible learning to students regardless of where they live.
• The Yonge Street Mission - The Yonge Street Mission (YSM) is a registered Canadian charity serving in downtown Toronto and a Christian faith community. They are on a mission to break the cycle of long-term poverty in the lives of individuals and families. The YSM believes that every person is created in the image of God, and cares for those experiencing poverty as an expression of God’s love and hope for their lives; they serve all individuals equally, regardless of race, sex, religion, country of origin, or any other status.

For more information see CCCC Accreditation, Accredited Members, and/or visit giveconfidently.ca.

Offering Counting Sheet

Churches handle Sunday offering counts in different ways, and moving from paper to a digital system can raise questions about accuracy, security, and ease of use. A recent discussion on The Green® brought members together to share how they record donations, from paper counting sheets and spreadsheets to custom software. Some have found that digital tools help with totals and reconciliation, while others prefer to keep paper records as part of their process.

How does your church record and verify Sunday offerings? If you use a digital counting sheet, what has worked well for your team, and how do you protect the information? Join the conversation on The Green® and share your experience.

Are You Making the Most of Your Software?

We use different software programs every day, but how often do we take the time to discover features or shortcuts that could make our work easier? A recent post on The Green® explores four simple habits: learn what your software can do, simplify how you use it, question processes that feel harder than they should be, and look for ways to improve. Sometimes, a small change can save time and make a routine task much easier.

What software tip, shortcut, or feature has made a difference in your day-to-day work? Share your favourite discovery on The Green® and help others find new ways to work smarter!

CCCC Benediction

Curtis Towns, Director of Operations

In this season, may you be reminded that the earth is the Lord's and our God will supply all of your needs (Psalm 24:1; Philippians 4:19). May your trust be evermore in his faithfulness. Whether his provision comes in the form of people sowing time, talent, or treasure into your ministry's mission, or it comes in the form of wisdom or favour, he knows exactly what we need to carry out what he's called us to.