Hey everyone – great to be connected this way and I’m looking forward to this education journey we’ll be sharing together.
My wife, Sonya, and I live east of Toronto with our four incredible kids. We have the amazing privilege of living on a rural 2-acre property where we keep chickens and bees with lots of rooms for our dogs to run.
I’m an executive pastor at C4 Church where I oversee all of our multisite ministry as well as our worship services at our three locations. I’ve been in church ministry full time since 2005 and am so grateful for the opportunity to lead and serve my community in this way.
Leadership has looked different for me at different stages of my life but always something that I’ve pursued. From helping run camp programs to conferences to songwriting retreats to community events, I’ve always looked for ways to serve others by coming alongside and leading the way together.
Over the last 10 years or so I’ve been able to share what I’ve been learning around creative leadership on my blog and through social media. You can visit www.chrisvacher.com to find out more about me and what I’m passionate about!
Hi Chris!
Welcome to TWU! It is great to see that you are able to access our program from Toronto. This is why we have updated our online learning options.
I see that chrisvacher.com is a WordPress site, and it will be great to have you on board. If you would like, I can connect your personal site to this course hub and you can complete all the requirements for MA Lead online courses (at least the core courses) on your own site. This is entirely optional and may help streamline your blogging efforts, but if you’d rather keep your learning blog separate from your professional blog, that is perfectly ok as well.
I can also show you how to syndicate your posts from one site to the other. So many possibilities!
Looking forward to having your insight in this orientation course!
Colin
Thanks Colin. Really excited for what’s ahead in this program and yes, the online offering is a game changer!
For now I’ll keep them separate since the purpose and intents are pretty different. But I’m really familiar with WordPress and have been able to do a fair amount of work with the platform over the last 10 years or so.
Thanks again for the welcome.