Southside Community Church - Milton

This Sunday, we celebrate God’s faithfulness and grace in the lives of four people from our community. Their Testimonies can be found separately on our YouTube channel.Channel Link: https://www.youtube.com/@southsidemilton

Are you desperate for a sign from God? You’re not alone. This week, Pastor Andrew will look at the beginning of Mark 8 and see how Jesus responded to the religious leaders and his very own disciples, as they continued to put Jesus to the test, requesting the very kinds of signs that had been in front of their faces the whole time.

This Sunday, Pastor Andrew will teach through the story at the end of Mark chapter 7, where Jesus heals a deaf and mute man in the region of Decapolis. He will show that 700 years before Jesus, the prophet Isaiah spoke of these very things happening when the Kingdom of God was at hand. This Sunday will build your faith by seeing the fulfillment of messianic promises after 700 years, and by seeing the fruit of this promised kingdom for 2,000 years since the life and teaching of Jesus.

This week Pastor Andrew goes through Mark 7:24-30

We are excited to welcome Christin Taylor to Southside this Sunday! A member of the teaching team at Westheights Community Church, Christin has been sharing the Word since 2018. She holds a doctorate in English Literature, manages Writing Services at Wilfrid Laurier University, and is a published author. Christin lives in New Hamburg with her husband, Dwayne, and their two children, Nathan and Noelle.This Sunday, Christin will lead us through Mark 7 as we explore Jesus’ radical redefinition of purity, where the old rules give way to a new reality that begins not with what we do, but with what Jesus does in us. Join us as we consider the question Mark keeps asking every reader: Will you cling to the old way, or step into the freeing, heart-level way of Jesus?

This Sunday, Pastor Andrew will share a brief teaching from Mark 6. He’ll also take time during the service to talk about Southside communities, introduce leaders and hosts, and help everyone get connected in different ways to life at Southside.

This Sunday, David Busuttil will continue our teaching series on the Gospel of Mark. He’ll zero in on the amazing story of Jesus’ healing of Jairus’s daughter in Mark 5:21-43 as we kick off the new year.

This Sunday, Pastor Andrew will continue teaching through the Gospel of Mark, covering one of the most amazing and well-known stories of Jesus’s ministry in the first century: Jesus calming the storm.

This Sunday, we are celebrating several baptisms! Both services will focus on baptisms, with the 9:00 am service featuring video testimonials, and the 10:45 service featuring testimonials and live baptisms.

This Sunday, Pastor Andrew continues teaching through Mark chapter 4, focusing on a couple of agricultural parables.

This past Sunday, Pastor Andrew returned to preach from Mark Chapter 3, a section we missed while guests blessed us over the previous three weeks. In this teaching, we witness the amazing power of Jesus to drive out evil spirits and discover profound truths about the familial identity of those in Christ.

This Sunday, we hear from Chris Chase, the Strategic Engagement Lead at Open Doors Canada, a non-profit that focuses on strengthening Christians where faith costs the most. Chris continues our teaching on the book of Mark, focusing on Mark 4. He also shares with us about the global persecuted church. Chris is a husband and father of two teenagers, and spent close to 20 years split between pastoral ministry, non-profit fundraising & seminary administration. When not with his family or serving at his local church, Chris loves writing, being a sports and gym enthusiast, and having coffee, both on his own and with friends.

This Sunday, we had another special Guest from Western Canada, Neil Campbell. Neil came to us from Family Foundations Canada, a recognized family-oriented ministry across Canada. Neil is married to Annette and is a dedicated family man. He serves as the national leader of Family Foundations Canada, an organization devoted to strengthening families through the principles of biblical teaching and spiritual growth. Neil shares with us a special message about becoming a family that shines light in the darkness.

This Sunday, we had the privilege of engaging with a teaching on Mark Chapters 2-3 by Chris Throness. Chris Throness serves as the Director of Leader Formation for The Alliance Canada, helping shape the next generation of pastors and leaders. A third-generation Alliance pastor, he has ministered in three Alliance churches across British Columbia, most recently as the Lead Pastor of Kamloops Alliance Church. Chris lives in Calgary, Alberta, with his wife Krista and their three kids. He is passionate about raising a new wave of leaders who will make Jesus known in Canada and around the world. Chris is amazed by Jesus, and hopes that you walk away more amazed by Jesus as well.

This week, Pastor Andrew unpacks Mark 1:29-45. We turn our attention to Jesus’s compassion, his prayerful discernment, and his full devotion to the purpose and calling he was sent with.

This Sunday, Pastor Andrew covers the story of Jesus’ baptism in John 1:9-13. Be prepared to consider what it means if this story is true!

This Sunday we get a chance to hear from some of our Y@M students about their experience at our recent youth retreat in Mississauga. We follow that with a teaching from from Pastor Andrew about the gospel of Mark in Chapter 1:14-28 where Jesus calls his first disciples to drop their nets and follow him.

We're starting a new teaching series on the Gospel of Mark, where we'll explore Jesus' life and grow in our amazement of his identity, actions, and teachings. This is a perfect opportunity for those in your life who are curious about Jesus. Invite them to join you on this journey of discovery with us at Southside.

This past Sunday, Luiz Godinho, a Southside community member and Alliance New Venture Partner, explored the question “In a world shaken by tragedy and injustice, how are we [as Christians] called to respond?” Luiz walks us through what it means to live a truly Christ-centered life and ministry, drawing from Romans 12:9-20. Together we discover the shape of Christlike love, the resilience of hope, and the revolution of overcoming evil with good. Join us as we seek to not only think like Christians, but to live like Christ.

This week, Pastor Andrew shares his vision for Southside who we are and where we're going.