All Alliance churches are district churches including First Nations, English, French and churches planted among new Canadians. The oversight of licensing, ordination and the supervision of all official workers is a district function. All official workers participate in district conferences, district prayer retreats and district in-service training seminars. Church properties are registered in the name of the district.

In addition, the following national associations which cross district lines have been established. They are:

- First Nations Alliance Churches of Canada (FNACC)
- Canadian Chinese Alliance Churches Association (CCACA)
- Association of Vietnamese Alliance Churches (AVAC)
- Conference of Filipino Alliance Ministries (CFAM)
- Association of Spanish Alliance Ministries (ASAM)

The above national organizations receive general oversight from the Vice-President/Canadian Ministries and are accountable to the Board of Directors.

Other similar associations may be formed when a number of churches with a similar cultural or linguistic background in more than one district request it. Such associations are formed for the purpose of evangelistic outreach, church planting and promoting missionary vision. In all cases, they are advisory in nature.

Ministry in Canada among other major ethnic groups is on the rise. Increased ministry among Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims is reason for much prayer. These ministries are represented among our Sikh, Punjabi, Cambodian and Laotian congregations.

There are 16 distinct linguistic groups in The Christian and Missionary Alliance in C anada . First Nations people, Anglophone and Francophone, new Canadians and not-so-new Canadians all work together, to carry forward the work of God in Canada.

These various people groups do not cease to be different at the gates of eternity by being transformed into one homogeneous generic humanity. They all remain different and splendidly so.

Our differences are instructive for everyone. Perhaps we can learn to place more value on meaningful relationships from the First Nations people. Perhaps those in French Canada can bring to the Lord's Church their rich cultural background in the arts. Perhaps the Chinese can inspire us with their vision and entrepreneurial skills and the Vietnamese can teach us all something about the grace of suffering. The Filipinos can model for us their unusual “bridging” skills with all the nations of earth, the Koreans can teach us to pray and the Spanish can lead us in a great cacophony of charismatic worship.

In the Alliance we do not want to lose our multicultural distinctives. An era of post denominationalism could threaten multicultural ministries as they are presently being experienced. Let's take a second look at the richness of our multicultural fabric and embrace our diversity.