IMPACT REPORT 2025
Letter from your Pastors
As the calendar year of 2025 draws to a close, we pause to reflect on the remarkable journey we have shared and the faithfulness and remarkable generosity that define you as a church.
This year presented its own challenges yet in every circumstance and challenge your resilience and passion shone through. Together, we not only navigated challenges but actively served, extending practical help and hope to both friends and strangers in our city and made much of Jesus week in and week out.
We have so many powerful moments to celebrate from 2025:
- Record Baptisms: We witnessed a record-breaking number of public declarations of faith, which is a great indicator of the life and growth within our church body.
- Ministry Expansion: Our Young Adult Ministry launched and is growing, becoming a key space for connection, and engagement for such an important age group in our church.
- Deepening of community: Events like our church picnic, after church shared meals, 3 weekly prayer rooms all fostered deeper connections, faith and fellowship across all ages in our family.
- We celebrated: From our 8th Church Anniversary, sold out Christmas and Easter services, so many child dedications and services full of passion and divine moments and record attendance in every single ministry this year.
- Welcomed new staff: We were also privileged to officially welcome Pastor Mike G and Pastor Breanne to our pastoral team this year. Along with their families they quickly have been such an integral part of our church and reinforced our mission.
Church, your passion for your faith and our collective mission has been evident all year.. Through your dedication, we have been able to host vibrant worship, welcome guests with radical hospitality, provide essential community to all ages, and firmly elevate God's Word.
We remain deeply moved by your generosity. Your sacrificial giving has not merely sustained our day-to-day operations but has crucially fueled our ability to carry out powerful ministry and take action on building the future.
As your pastors, we are humbled and inspired by your example. Your commitment to prayer, acts of kindness, and financial generosity are foundational to the flourishing of this church. You are world class in every way.
As we move toward Christmas and look ahead to 2026, we are anchored by the word of the Apostle Paul:
“So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.”
Our prayer is that you remain deeply rooted and consistently built up in Christ, allowing your life to be an overflowing demonstration of gratitude. You truly are counted among our greatest blessings. Thank you for your partnership, support, friendship, kindness and commitment to God’s work here in Halifax through Nova Church.
As you read this year end IMPACT REPORT we hope your hearts are filled with gratitude and amazement at what God has done through you and also filled with faith for the year to come.
Thankful and full of faith,
Pastors Nancy and Mike
OUR MISSION
"Nova Church Exists to see people far from God, be brought close to God"
“Here are some of the ways we did that in 2025"
NOVA GOES
REACHING OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD
Practically Demonstrating Christ’s Love in Our Community and Beyond.
This year as a church, we were able to practically show the love of Christ to our community through our generosity.
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no commandment greater than these.”
1,100 backpacks filled with supplies for children
(with $16,150 costs paid by Nova)
$1,500 Towards Grocery Assistance
$1,000 in Mental Health Support
$3,300 in Pastoral Care
$8,820 supporting Connection Life Centre ( Victoria BC)
$3500 supporting ARC Canada. Church planting in Canada with national church planting initiatives
$85,157 PAOC Maritime District Tithe. Helping establish and maintain 60+ churches
When you add it all up, we put $116,427 into Nova Goes (External Ministry Initiatives)
NOVA GROWS
These are just a few of the examples of the fruit we’ve produced together as a church. Year after year, as we see growth in these areas, we’re reminded that it’s the result of the healthy, Spirit-led growth happening within our community. Thank you for your commitment to keep growing, and for the generosity that continues to overflow from this house
163 Bibles Given
15 Child Dedications
210 Active Dream Team Members & 44 New Dream Team Members this year alone
431 guest bags given out
Number: largest single service attendance outside of Easter or Christmas Attendance 647 people
Number of people attending Easter at the Cohn Attendance 1045 people
57 Baptisms this year
Percentage of attendance growth this year 19.5%
NOVA GIVES
“When we look over our finances as a church we celebrate the goodness of God and the faithfulness of your giving. We have been able to make a significant far reaching impact this past year and are in a position of health for the year to come"
Total Revenue (November 2024 - October 2025)
Tithes and Offerings
$941,105
Legacy Fund
$142,260
School Supply Drive
$13,020
Registrations & Merch
$8,460
Interest Earned
$19,119
Total Revenue
$1,123,946
Legacy & Savings (Total to date)
$562,847
In our Operating and Emergency Reserve Account
$250,000
Total Expenses
(November 2024 - October 2025)
$897,043
Operations 20%
Ministry 26%
External Ministry 14%
Salary 40%
Sunday Services
(Costs to provide regular church services online and in-person)
$127,825
A lot goes into executing Sunday Services. This number accounts for:
- Equipment Rental
- Production (Tech)
- Truck Rental
- Building Rental
- Sunday Supplies
Easter at the Cohn
$13,020
“This again was our highest attended service of the year where we sold out the Rebecca Cohn Theatre with over 1000 people and dozens of people making a commitment to Christ “
Guests (Gift bags and Cafe)
$13,778
HOSPITALITY
Hospitality is a value of our church and whether it's the first-time guest or one of our Nova family members, we want our time spent together to be both welcoming and connecting.
When first-time guests see that we anticipated their visit with a gift for them it speaks to their value, our welcoming spirit and that we were expecting them.
Our café has a sign above it that says the coffee is always free. We believe that when someone stops and grabs a cup of coffee, what they're communicating is that they are open to conversations and connection instead of just rushing off. We've seen God do so much in our lobby in building connections that grow people's faith.
As God continues to build a culture of generosity in our church and community, let's allow our imaginations to dream and our prayers and giving sow into what God wants to accomplish in and through us in 2026.
Ways to give
eTransfer
Send to give@novachurch.ca
In-Person
With debit, credit, cash or cheque after the service in the lobby