About Us
We are an institute, based out of Wycliffe College at University of Toronto, committed to supporting those who serve and research the Canadian Church through data-informed research, tools, encounters, and insights. We are especially committed to understanding
Data

We have one of the largest datasets on the Canadian Church spanning over 30 years of public and denominational data. This includes Canadian Census and T3010 datasets with over 900 million individual points of data.

We initiate and support church research:

This includes our own research projects (like our Divine Impulse Project), research partnerships, and independent research that we resource and amplify such as Evangelical Fellowship of Canada’s youth and social media project.

We gather church leaders and researchers and facilitate conversation and cooperation between them:

Often this means small, one-on-one ‘chats’, but we also host larger academic and denomination meetings and public-facing conferences like our annual Canadian Church Research Symposium.

We facilitate practical learning:

we feature a monthly bulletin about recent discoveries, build explorable data visualization, publish in academic and public, and teach courses for scholars and practitioners.

Points of Data

Churches

Denominations

Projects

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Mapping

Context is everything. Using GIS (Geographic Information Systems) techniques, we are able to provide detailed contexts for your local community.

Church Community Profiles

Suitability/Void Analysis

Demographic and Social Indicators

Geo-spatial Analysis

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Machine Learning

We employ modern machine learning techniques to analyze trends in the church.

Time-series Clustering

Change-point Detection

Supervised and Unsupervised Classification

Neural Networks and Predictive Modeling

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News & Stories

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Custom Research

We Can Help

Book a meeting with us and we can help explore your questions. Our team of dedicated researchers can help design and execute a wide variety of studies giving you the necessary data you need for your mission.

How we do it

Through a series of meetings we will refine the focus of the project. With our mixed methods research expertise and comprehensive dataset we are confident we can provide valuable insights for your project. 

Costs

The goal of the institute is to be sustainable and our purpose is to serve the broader faith communities. We will work within your budget to provide a feasible solution as best we can. 

Our Team

Steve Hewko

Director

Scott Mealey

Research Fellow

Elizabeth Millar

Research Fellow

Zev Minuskin

Data Architecture

Julianna Phail

Program Administrator

Partner

Are you a denominational leader, researcher or part of a faith-based network? Help us improve and enrich our data.

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Careers

Consider working or volunteering with the Institute.

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Support the Institute

Consider making a donation to help us further our understanding of the Canadian Church.

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Organizations and Partners