TUCC has developed the following online courses, available on our e-learning platform, CHURCHx.
The Witness Blanket
In the fall of 2025, The Witness Blanket—a powerful national monument created by artist Carey Newman—will be on display at Trinity-St. Andrew’s United Church in Cannington, Ontario. TUCC is honoured to support this exhibition through our Davenport Interest Fund.
Made from hundreds of reclaimed items—a school door, letters, clothing, and personal belongings—The Witness Blanket honours Survivors of the residential school system and tells the truth of this painful chapter in our Church’s history (and in Canada’s history). It also challenges us to commit ourselves to listen, reflect, and continue the ongoing work of truth, healing, and reconciliation. Learn more on the national Witness Blanket website.
TUCC’s Janice Meighan interviewed Sharon Woodrow, a member of Trinity-St. Andrew’s United Church about the importance of the The Witness Blanket and why she was moved to bring it to her community of faith. You can view the interview on TUCC’s e-learning platform CHURCHx. You’ll also find materials there to help you explore the blanket in greater depth, including a teacher’s guide that may be of interest for Sunday School groups and guidance for communities of faith who would like to learn more about hosting The Witness Blanket.
Is your congregation struggling to keep your church building? Selling your church isn’t always the only solution. What if instead you opened your doors and turned your building into a centre for your community where groups of people pay you to use various rooms for a range of activities. Katja Brittain specializes in helping congregations turn their buildings from liabilities into assets once again. In this course she provides a step-by-step method to build a team, formulate a plan, get the word out, determine the right prices to charge, figure out how to make sure it runs smoothly, and most of all, reach your community in a natural way while earning revenue to help the congregation turn the building around from barely surviving to thriving. Furthermore, she gives you her blueprint for success, her contracts, forms, and spreadsheets that you can use on day one as though you had been doing this for years. Sign up for this self-directed course on CHURCHx and learn at your own pace. The course fee is $229.
An effective church staff team is greater than the sum of its parts. Whether you’re building a new team, or looking to strengthen and improve an established one, “Nurturing Church Staff Teams” explores what makes a church staff team effective. This course is intended for all church staff members, including ministry personnel, administrators, custodians, musicians and choir directors, communications personnel, and child and youth leaders. Through a series of guided sessions, your team members will be encouraged to examine their roles in relation to one another, understand each other’s gifts and personalities, and work intentionally on the team relationship. Together, you will learn strategies to manage conflict, practice giving and receiving feedback, and reflect on your communication to enrich the health of your team and model effective teamwork to your congregation. Sign up for this self-directed course on CHURCHx and learn at your own pace. The course fee is $100.
This network is designed to take your hybrid ministry to the next level. By “Hybrid Church” we mean worship and community events that take place with a live congregation physically gathered in church AND a congregation participating online using technologies like video streaming and video conferencing. This network will go beyond the basics of setting up a hybrid worship service and teach you how to troubleshoot and design a resilient setup and develop your ministry to these members. Join the network on CHURCHx to access bi-monthly live webinars and a resource library covering the basic theology of hybrid worship, terms and concepts used in livestreaming, how to assess and map your current set-up, and how to troubleshoot when things go wrong.
