Bibliographic record
Abstract
mmigration in Canada is a fact of history and it will continue to be an integral part of Canada's future.Many churches in rural Canada are uniquely positioned to be on the frontline in welcoming and creating belonging as many rural areas and small towns are seeking growth from the outside, from either migrant or immigrant journeys. 2My research examined the space or role a church can create for ministry by bringing together the established community and the newcomers (recent immigrants).By measuring voice, acceptance and purpose against the backdrop of Welcoming and Belonging we demonstrated a tool for the local church to use in measuring levels of integration in a local community.The research demonstrated that a church, by example, can come alongside the larger community to help create stronger community between established residents and newcomers.An hour's drive west from Calgary the mountains rise on every side inviting people to the Bow Valley and the Town of Banff (TOB); here we find Banff's Full Gospel Church (BFGC).We looked at our own journey in voice, acceptance and purpose and, through the use of surveys, interviews and focus groups, identified Welcoming and Belonging in selected stories found in the bible and in the stories of recent immigrants and established residents of BFGC in the Bow Valley.Located in a tourist town, BFGC has always had an ever-changing international visitor population.The influx of Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) in 2006 saw more people staying for longer periods of time and more nationalities beginning to appear in the congregation.The make-up of the church in 2006 was fifty-six regular attendees from nine different nationalities and five different languages.In 2015, at the time of this study, there were eighty-eight regular attendees from twenty-three different nationalities and twelve different languages.Now, in 2019, Banff is a community comprised of over ninety-one different nationalities and the church continues to reflect that diversity among attendees.1 Kevin received a Bachelor of Theology degree in 1987 from Northwest Bible College (Vanguard College) in Edmonton, Alberta.In 1999, he earned a Master of Divinity degree from Edmonton Baptist Seminary (Taylor Seminary), with a focus on cultural and urban ministries.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".