Paradise Annual General Meeting

About

Paradise Annual General Meeting (AGM) is the annual gathering of leaders, staff, volunteers, donors and members across the Paradise network to connect, share updates, learn and be inspired to continue furthering the network's unique mission and vision.

The focus of this year's meeting will be on mission. Paradise was founded with the specific purpose of fulfilling God's call to reach every major city using health-focused urban centres of influence and outpost centres. Join Paradise at this year's gathering to hear powerful stories of how people's lives are being touched and transformed by the Adventist message. We will also explore what's on the horizon to take our evangelistic impact to the next level.
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Can I attend?

Anyone with a passion for health and medical ministry, urban evangelism, lifestyle and outpost centres is welcome to attend!

General information

* Plenty of free parking
* Please kindly consider contributing to the potluck lunch. All items must be plant-based
* Registration not required
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Schedule
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Friday November 21, 2025

3:00 - 4:00 PM

Paradise Health Clinic AGM and Year End Board Meeting
*Board of Directors, Corporation Members and Clinicians only
Paradise Health Clinic (2-17310 Yonge Street, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada)

5:00 - 6:00 PM

John Burden College Board of Trustees Meeting
*Only Trustees and Faculty
Paradise Health Clinic (2-17310 Yonge Street, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada)
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Saturday November 22, 2025
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Location: Holiday Inn Aurora Express, 205 Eric T Smith Way, Aurora, Ontario, Canada, L4G 0Z6

10:00 AM

Newmarket Church Group: Growth and Expansion
Sherman Coleman, Newmarket Adventist Group

10:15

Reaching Young Families and Kids in Newmarket
Newmarket Adventist Group

10:30

Paradise HOME: Incubating the Next Generation
Lance Wilbur, Paradise HOME‍

11:00

Taste and See: Impact Stories from One Week In Paradise and Paradise Health
‍‍Dr Sasha Coleman, Dr Nadine Plummer, Jessica Barry, Vesna Cestaric, Paradise Health

11:30

Healed Through Gardening: Impact Stories from Paradise Fields Greencare Program
‍Alain Mugisha, Mario Roque, Paradise Fields

11:45

Update on Paradise Retreat Wellness Centre
Mario Roque, Paradise Fields

12:00 PM

Home Court Advantage (Part 1): Why We Need Paradise
Dan Cho, Paradise Health

1:30

Plant-based Lunch

3:00

Home Court Advantage (Part 2): Ekron and the Canadian Adventist Brain Drain: The Case for John Burden College
Dr George Cho, Chair, John Burden College

3:45

Reaching Newmarket: Preparing for Compassion 2026
Alain Mugisha, Paradise Fields

5:30

Paradise Health Clinicians Meeting

The Paradise Group

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Newmarket Seventh-day Adventists is the official church group of the Ontario Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in Newmarket. Newmarket Adventists is the first church plant affiliated with Paradise.

Paradise Fields is an organic regenerative farm located in Hamilton, Ontario. Paradise Fields seeks to produce the world's most nutrient-dense produce and help others experience the healing power of food as medicine.

Paradise HOME is a missionary internship and training program that equips young people to be the next generation of leaders and innovators in health evangelism, agriculture and business.

Paradise Health Clinic is a lifestyle medicine and wellness clinic that seeks to help people prevent, treat and potentially reverse chronic diseases using evidence-based lifestyle medicine.

Paradise Retreat will be Ontario's first Adventist wellness centre focused on helping people experience wholistic health and healing through lifestyle medicicine and horticulture therapy.

John Burden College is a non-profit post-secondary institution focused on training mission-minded Adventist clinicians.

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We are part of the Paradise Family

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