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Insights
A national data platform anchored in a shared measurement framework — the Engaged Christian Indicator. Enabling denominations, ministries, churches, and gospel patrons can align on one common national outcome.
Transform Canada brings Christian leaders and gospel partners together to help more Canadians encounter Jesus, strengthen the Church, and see the transformation of a nation
Explore Your Role01 / The Opportunity
A moment of possibility.
We believe God is at work across Canada, stirring curiosity, faith, and a renewed desire for something deeper.
This is an invitation for the Church to respond together— to step into this threshold moment with shared vision, courageous leadership, and generosity.
02 / The North Star
Move engaged Christians from 6% to 16% by 2040.
A committed minority can move the heart of a nation. Our North Star is a spiritual tipping point for Canada.
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Engaged Christians47%
Nominal Christians35%
Non-Religious12%
Other Religions16%
Tipping Point **0%
of Canadians self-identified as Christians
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yet only 6% are actively engaged in faith
** The social tipping point: the share at which a committed minority triggers the possibility of rapid, system-wide cultural change.
Insights
Collaboration
Catalytic Capital
Multiplication
National Renewal
03 / Our Approach
Three levers of change.
Transform Canada unlocks a holistic approach to systems change through three integrated levers — proven in similar post-Christian contexts and contextualized for Canada.
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Collaboration
Convening leaders across denominations, ministries, and sectors around shared outcomes, not competing agendas. A backbone of data, shared measurement, and catalytic capital, with Spirit-led relational convening as the movement layer.
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Catalytic Capital
Aligning catalytic capital to amplify proven impact and catalyze breakthrough innovation. Reesourcing established models, seeding fresh approaches, and de-risking the experimentation that scalable transformation requires.
Integrated through every lever.
Prayer
Catalytic capital alone cannot produce spiritual renewal. A coordinated movement of prayer undergirds every decision, seeking the Spirit’s direction in where and how we invest.
Innovation
A disciplined commitment to experimentation, piloting new models, learning rapidly, and scaling what proves effective across digital platforms and emerging approaches.
The Rising Generation
Embedded across everything we do, not a standalone workstream. Leadership pipelines and mission models are built with and for those who will carry them forward.
Go deeper into the research, North Star, and collaborative model.
Receive the Vision OverviewNational City Engagement Tour 2027A national conversation.
A national conversation.
City by city.
Transform Canada is convening strategic leaders in collaboration with other key ministries and denominations across 12 Canadian cities — connecting national data with local experience, and local experience back into the national picture.
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05 / Our People
A shared vision.
A personal invitation.
Our founding team, board, and advisory council are at the heart of Transform Canada — connecting the movement with thought leaders, social innovators, church leaders, and high-capacity gospel patrons.
Stephen Mulder
Co-Founder
15+ years in the entrepreneurial and nonprofit sectors: Founder, Trellis Ventures, Co-founder, Missional Labs, Praxis Fellow, Executive Director, Bridgetown Church, and Associate National Director Alpha Canada. Global Consulting and MA at Regent College.
Darren Herbold
Co-Founder
20+ years in the nonprofit, business and the church: President, The Alliance Canada, Founder & Director, For Freedom International, MA at Liberty University, BA at Taylor University College.
Steve Hewko
Research Partner
Director of the Canadian Institute for Empirical Church Research at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto. Works at the intersection of theology, social science, and data science to help churches and organizations understand Canada's changing religious landscape.
Explore what is possible with catalytic partnership at An Evening of Possibility — a private dinner for Gospel Patrons - family offices, foundations and Christian business owners and marketplace leaders.
Request an InvitationAdvisors & Collaborators
Susan Overall Crozier
Global Strategic Collaborator
Faith Leader of a Private Family Trust and Director of Revive Australia*. Former McKinsey strategy consultant who helped shape Australia's catalytic philanthropy work.
Michael Gentile, CFA
Advisor
Co-Founder and Chairman of The Apostles Fund. Montreal-based investor with 25+ years in investment management; co-founded Bastion Asset Management.
Raphael Anzenberger
Advisor
General Secretary of the Union of French Baptist Churches of Canada and Founder-Director of Station-M. Missiologist, author, and co-founder of NC2P.
Kevin Lee
Advisor
Founder of Purpose Accelerator and Founding Partner of China Youthology; advised Nike, P&G, Lululemon, and Apple on insight and strategy. Founding Partner of The Liminal Group
Janice Ryan
Advisor
CFO and COO of Alpha Canada for 23 years, with deep expertise in financial stewardship, organizational growth, and expansion.
Henry Schorr
Advisor
Pastor Emeritus of Centre Street Church, Calgary — 40 years as Senior Pastor of one of Canada's largest churches.
Patrick McDonald
Advisor
Founding Partner of Openwell, Oxford. Co-founded the children's charity Viva and chairs the Europe Collaboration.
Jason Ballard
Advisor
Lead Pastor of The Way Church, Vancouver, and leader of The Pastorate. Co-created the Alpha Youth Series.
Jessica Chin
Advisor
CMO of the Algorand Foundation; formerly Head of Brand for Global Privacy at WhatsApp, global brand lead for Nike digital, and Apple special projects. Founding Partner of The Liminal Group
06 / The Invitation
Explore Your Role
Learn about the vision, discern a funding partnership, or bring your experience to a local leadership conversation.
Receive the Vision Overview
Explore the research, national North Star, and collaborative model behind Transform Canada.
Request the Vision OverviewAn Evening of Possibility
A private dinner for Gospel Patrons - family offices, foundations and Christian business owners and marketplace leaders.
Explore how aligned, catalytic capital can serve the evangelization and transformation of Canada. Learn from global case studies and strategic generosity and fuel this moment of possibility.
About the evening
Gather with individuals, families, foundation leaders, business leaders, and generosity advisors for dinner, stories of renewal, prayer, and candid conversation about what God is already doing—and what might become possible through a shared national vision.
These invitation-based evenings are for relationship and discernment among people who steward or advise charitable resources. Requesting an invitation is not registration or a confirmed place.
Join a City Conversation
A local table for leaders across cities to help the church move from isolation to impact.
In each city, a strategic gathering of church, denominational, ministy, marketplace, research and philanthropic leaders. National data is shared, local experience is heard, and the relationships, ideas and opportunities that accelerate the following of Jesus across Canada are catalyzed together.