Thank you Leaders! Stay tuned for information on our plans for 2025!

“One Conference injected me with hope for the future of the Canadian Church.”

– 2023 attendee.

One Conference

unify. serve. equip. empower.

Thank you Leaders and partners for creating an unforgettable One Conference in 2024. Stay tuned for more information on our plans for 2025!

One Conference is an opportunity for Canadian Church Leaders to gather together to experience a spiritual refreshing, gain renewed focus, and be effectively equipped to lead the church.

Canadian Church Leaders are carrying the heavy weight of responsibility, and many feel spiritually or emotionally depleted. It’s true that the Canadian Church faces real challenges. But it’s equally true that there is brilliant hope. One Conference is an opportunity to connect with other leaders, encourage one another, and dig into both the challenges you’re facing and the hope that lies ahead.

With wholehearted worship, powerful keynotes, and thoughtful breakout sessions, our goal and commitment to you is that you’ll leave One Conference with a renewed sense of optimism and courage to help lead the church forward

One Conference

unify. serve. equip. empower.

Thursday-Friday, April 25-26, 2024 | Centre Street Church, Calgary, AB

One Conference is an opportunity for Canadian Church Leaders to gather together to experience a spiritual refreshing, gain renewed focus, and be effectively equipped to lead the church.

Canadian Church Leaders are carrying the heavy weight of responsibility, and many feel spiritually or emotionally depleted. It’s true that the Canadian Church faces real challenges. But it’s equally true that there is brilliant hope. One Conference is an opportunity to connect with other leaders, encourage one another, and dig into both the challenges you’re facing and the hope that lies ahead.

With wholehearted worship, powerful keynotes, and thoughtful breakout sessions, our goal and commitment to you is that you’ll leave One Conference with a renewed sense of optimism and courage to help lead the church forward.

Join us as we gather to see where God is moving and how we can be part of His redemptive plan.

Gathering Points

We’re working on a new plan for 2025! Here’s what our gathering points looked like in 2024:

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Evangelism Incubator

Join a facilitated pre-conference gathering to explore current cultural realities, generational shifts, and opportunities in your unique context.

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Main Sessions

Experience wholehearted worship and powerful keynotes that will refresh and equip you.

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Breakouts

Engage with Church Leaders around shared experiences, real challenges, and emerging opportunities.

2024 Leadership Faculty

We were blessed to hear from incredible speakers at One Conference 2024. We’re working prayerfully to consider speakers for 2025 and the message that God has for his church.

Domenic Ruso is a pastor, author & leader who believes that this is a great time to learn and engage with the next generation. His passion for the church led him to church plant (the180.ca) in the Montreal region where he grew up. It is in this emerging secular context that Dom is working through questions about faith, spirituality, truth and how those intersect with faith in Jesus and the Bible. He has a PhD in Church History & his passion for teaching a way that will help leaders and churches rethink their leadership paradigms to grapple with realities of our emerging Post-Christian context.  

Domenic Ruso

Pastor and Author, The 180 Church

Phil is Lead Pastor at Hope City Church in Edmonton Alberta. Hope City is a multi site, multi service church that has experienced an amazing move of God over the past few years. They have a vision of reaching one percent of Edmonton and are praying for and believing God for this. Phil is passionate about next gen leaders and reaching those far from Jesus.

Phil Kniesel

Lead Pastor, Hope City Church

Finu Iype served as founder and president of Passion to Reach Ministries, a global mission, evangelism, and church development ministry, for the past 15 years. Finu has worldwide speaking ministry experience having spoken at Pastor’s conferences, mass evangelism campaigns, and leadership development events across more than 20 nations. In the Greater Toronto Area, Finu’s ministry has involved coaching Pastors and consulting on church revitalization, with a focus on community outreach and discipleship systems. He also leads annual gospel training events like GO Conference, GO United YA Conference, and GO Lead Pastor workshops.

Finu Iype

Lead Pastor, Preaching, Mission, and Advancement, Village Church

Rob Hogendoorn is the founding and Lead Pastor of Forest City Community Church in London, Ontario. Beginning with a dozen people in the mid 90’s, Forest City Community Church has grown to be a multi-site church that has also helped birth new churches in Ontario and Quebec. Rob’s passion is to help churches grow in their ability to engage pre-Christian people with the hope of the gospel! Along with pastoring, he also serves on the GLN Canada board and is a partner with Alpha Canada.

Rob Hogendoorn

Founder and Lead Pastor, Forest City Community Church

From a young age, Pamela Aramburu was interested in two things – telling great stories and having an impact. At 17, she talked her way into hosting the weekend morning show on Calgary’s Shine FM. Two years later, she started reporting, producing, and directing stories for TV network news. Recognizing the impact she longed to see, and the only stories worth telling were Jesus stories, she joined Centre Street Church as their broadcast team lead where she eventually led the communications and technical teams for one of Canada's largest churches while serving on their senior leadership team. Now, as the Associate National Director with Alpha Canada, Pamela is passionate about helping people become part of Jesus’ story.

Pamela Aramburu

Associate National Director, Alpha Canada

Jessica DiSabatino is a communicator in both business environments and the church.  She loves theology and yet is able to connect with her audiences through her candid humour and her understanding of what it means to be human in this chaotic and messy world.  Following the death of her younger brother, Jess and her dad founded MySafeWork, a philanthropic initiative that brings justice to workplaces in Canada and around the world. For this work Jess received the Governor General’s award in 2017.  In tandem with her foundation work, Jess has pastored for 20+ years and currently serves as the Lead Pastor at Journey Church.

Jessica DiSabatino

Co-Founder, MySafeWork and Lead Pastor, Journey Church

Dr. David Koop is the lead pastor of Coastal Church in Vancouver. With a background in the petroleum industry, Dave’s journey took him from his consulting business to answering God’s call in 1994 to plant a church with his wife Cheryl under the skyline of Vancouver. Today Coastal Church is a culturally diverse, spirit-filled church in Vancouver with 8 surrounding campuses.    Dave brings a unique perspective to engaging communities in world-class cities, as highlighted in his doctoral studies at Bakke Graduate University. 

Dr. David Koop

Lead Pastor, Coastal Church

Location &
Accommodations

Located in beautiful Calgary, One Conference 2024 was held at the Centre Street Central Campus.

2025 Information to Follow!

Want to share your insights or excitement ahead of 2025? Send us a note at hello@globalleadershipnetwork.ca to connect.

One Conference Premier Partners

We’re thankful for organizations that partnered with us in 2024 to support the mission of One Conference to serve, equip & unify the church in Canada.

One Conference Partners

We’re thankful for organizations that stepped in during 2024 to help support the mission of One Conference to serve, equip & unify the church in Canada.