• An average of 275,000 immigrants enter Canada each year

• Canadian Immigrants come from over 200 countries

• Canada receives more immigrants from Africa and the Middle East than from Europe

• Canada receives 3 times as many Asians as we do Europeans or Africans

• 2002 figures (CIC)
  - 14.51% China
  - 12.58% India
  - 6.18% Pakistan
  - 4.80% Phillippines
  - 3.38% Iran
  - 3.20% Korea
  - 2.48% Romania

• mobilize the Canadian church to build relationships with newcomers to Canada.
  

The objective of Culture Connexions is to:

• multiply cross-cultural urban ministry by working alongside churches and individuals
  

Culture Connexions missionaries have a dual focus:

• to partner with local churches to enable them to participate in cross-cultural ministry
• to train and equip individuals for ministering amongst people of other faiths and cultures in Canada and overseas

Culture Connexions (CCX) works to bring Intentional Intercultural Churches and workers together through:

• Workshops and seminars
• Outreach Networks in co-operation with the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC)
• Denominational Leaders Gatherings
• Intercultural Leaders Roundtables
• Intercultural Ministry Seminars
  

CCX raises awareness amongst churches of the need to reach ethnic groups in their community by:

• Assisting a church in assessing needs and opportunities to set up programs and train individual workers for ministering amongst other faiths and cultures
• Assisting the local church in developing relationships with their local ethnic communities.
• Training in TESL ministry
• Offering the School of Urban Biblical Studies