MISSION STATEMENT

Glad Tidings Church exists to bring glory to God; to love and serve our community and to invite people into a relationship with Jesus Christ.

VISION

OUR CHURCH IS BUILT ON THREE PILLARS OF VISION:

Missional: Demonstrating and announcing the love of Jesus Christ in our neighbourhoods and communities in meaningful, practical and tangible ways.

Discipleship: Developing people into authentic and effective followers of Jesus Christ.

Next Generation: Meeting the relevant generational needs of our community and church while recognizing the next generation is essential for our future.

Our Story

GTC history and research courtesy of Dr. Linda Ambrose.

Glad Tidings Church has a long and storied history dating back to 1926, when itinerant ministers would travel to this booming mining town. Local members invited pastors to come and together officially organized the church as Glad Tidings Tabernacle in 1941 in various rented downtown meeting spaces until 1945, where they purchased a property on Alder
Street when weekly attendance was averaging 50 people and grew to 140 in 1963.

In 1967, the church purchased property on Prete Street (not far from the current property) and began building a new church. In the 1970s, Dr. Ambrose reports that: “attendance figures published in the Testimony show that Glad Tidings Sudbury was averaging a Sunday School of over 300 by June 1974, and that by April 1975 it had grown to over 500” She also notes a record from the Pentecostal Testimony that reports that Glad Tidings Tabernacle was consistently one of the “14 largest PAOC Sunday Schools in the country.”

In 1979, the congregation had outgrown the Prete Street location and purchasing a new property; moved a few hundred metres south on Regent St. By 1992, the average attendance was estimated at 700 people. In 1997, the church built a gymnasium and a few years later, GTT began a major focus on community outreach and in 2001 opened the Elgin Street Mission and the Samaritan Centre du Samaritain in downtown Sudbury.

In 2007, the church embarked on another building campaign to build a new auditorium and renovate existing properties with a vision of a growing church. As the church grew, it was incorporated and changed its name from Glad Tidings Tabernacle to Glad Tidings Church in the later twenty-aughts, early twenty-tens. It then renewed and recommitted its community focus with a significant missional thrust.

Ministries

Kids

Youth

Young Adults (College & Careers)

Seniors

Small groups

Discipleship

Prayer Teams

Missional community engagement and outreach

Staff and Key Leaders

Jean Bielaski – Communications & New Connections
Tom and Abbie Desloges – Interim Young Adults directors
Pastor Andrew Glass – Youth
Pastor Sherri Glass – Directing Pastor of Kids and Family Ministries
Shirley Hancock – Custodian
Kaylee Kruk – Youth Outreach Director
Jessica Manuel – Business Administrator
Rev. Scott Manuel – Executive Pastor
Zoe Monet – Jr High Director
Louise McNeil – Administration, Volunteer Coordinator, Mission & Community Outreach
Lynda Kirby-Roy – Administration, Volunteer Coordinator, Mission & Community Outreach
Rev. Josh Quinn – Pastoral Care Pastor
Dan Roy – Maintenance

Demographics

A multi-ethnic and multi-generational missionally-focused church.

500-600 Average Sunday attendance

Kids min is 150-200 kids on average

Membership is greater than 200

Community Bio

from Wikipedia

Sudbury, officially the City of Greater Sudbury, is the largest city in Northern Ontario by population, with a population of 166,004 at the 2021 Canadian Census.^[4] By land area, it is the largest in Ontario and the fifth largest in Canada. It is administratively a single-tier municipality and thus is not part of any district, county, or regional municipality. The City of Greater Sudbury is separate from, but entirely surrounded by the Sudbury District. The city is also referred to as “Grand Sudbury“^[7] among Francophones.

The Sudbury region was inhabited by the Ojibwe people of the Algonquin group for thousands of years prior to the founding of Sudbury after the discovery of nickel ore in 1883 during the construction of the transcontinental railway.^[8] Greater Sudbury was formed in 2001 by merging the cities and towns of the former Regional Municipality of Sudbury with several previously unincorporated townships. Being located inland, the local climate is extremely seasonal, with average January lows of around −18 °C (0 °F) and average July highs of 25 °C (77 °F).^[9]

The population resides in an urban core and many smaller communities scattered around 330 lakes and among hills of rock blackened by historical smelting activity. Sudbury was once a major lumber center and a world leader in nickel mining. Mining and related industries dominated the economy for much of the 20th century. The two major mining companies which shaped the history of Sudbury were Inco, now Vale Limited, which employed more than 25% of the population by the 1970s, and Falconbridge, now Glencore. Sudbury has since expanded from its resource-based economy to emerge as the major retail, economic, health, and educational center for Northeastern Ontario. Sudbury is also home to a large Franco-Ontarian population, which influences its arts and culture.

Industry

Mining and mining relating industries, Canada Revenue Agency, post-secondary and health sciences

Schools

Four main school boards: English public, English catholic, French public and French catholic

Shopping, services, conveniences

All major stores, and services, including multiple shopping malls, local and big box/chain businesses, restaurants and coffee shops

Distance from major centres

Sudbury is a major northern center

350km to GTA

300km to Sault Ste Marie

130km to North Bay,