A New Kind of Labour Day Sunday
For Pastors and Church Leaders:
If you’re reading this, it’s likely because a business leader in your church—someone who loves and honours your leadership—believes deeply in the role the Church can play in equipping God’s people for Monday through Saturday, not just Sunday. And they see this upcoming Labour Day weekend as an opportunity.
The idea is simple: What if your church commissioned people not just to serve within your four walls, but also for the spaces they occupy the rest of the week—their offices, farms, clinics, construction sites, classrooms, homes, and shop floors?
Why This Matters
Work is not a distraction from our discipleship—it’s a core part of it.
From the very beginning of Scripture, we see God working and inviting His people to join Him in stewarding creation. Adam and Eve were placed in the garden and given work before the fall. That tells us something: Work is not a curse—it’s a calling.
Yes, the fall made work hard. But through Christ, we are not only saved for eternity—we are invited to participate in God's redeeming work now. Our daily labour becomes one of the places we partner with Him to see His Kingdom come “on earth as it is in heaven.”
This has profound implications for your church.
What would it look like if your members saw their work as sacred? If your business leaders, stay-at-home parents, tradespeople, creatives, and public servants all understood their work as worship? What if they were sent by their church into the world with the same intentionality as international missionaries?
A Simple Opportunity This Labour Day
Some pastors across Canada are using the Labour Day weekend to name and bless this vision, offering a time of teaching and commissioning for their congregation’s working lives.
We want to make that easy for you.
Together with partners like GlobalWorks, we’ve created two simple resources to support you:
A Simple Theology of Work Framework (an excerpt from our BAM Canada audio course, ‘God, Business & Me’): Rooted in Scripture and written for the local church, this short guide explores how God is at work in and through us—redeeming, creating, sustaining, and restoring—through our jobs.
A Commissioning Script for Workplace Professionals: Adaptable for your setting, this script affirms the calling of every believer to represent Christ wherever they are—paid or unpaid, in formal jobs or informal roles.
This is more than a sermon idea. It’s a small but powerful culture shift.
You have the opportunity to help people see how their daily work participates in God’s ongoing mission. And you don’t have to do it alone. A business leader in your congregation is already ready to walk alongside you, and so are we.
We’re here to help you explore what this could look like in your context.
👉 Download the free resources at the links above and join the Business as Mission Canada Network to connect with others pursuing this same vision.
Let’s imagine what could happen if every church in Canada saw its congregation’s work not as something separate from faith, but as a vital part of God’s redemptive story.
✨ If you want to take this to the NEXT level, we would love to have a conversation about bringing a ‘Missional Business Bootcamp’ to your local community to guide the conversation together. Reach out to our team at info@bamcanada.net!
