“As long as you don’t mind living off the land,” she concluded. My host’s caveat assured me I’d found the ideal location for a three-day retreat from the busy life …
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December 2008
Introducing Steve Pahl, Bob Snider, Mark Hunt, Terry Wicks, Peter Mitchell, Kerry Precht Farewell to John Klassen, Sandra Crux
It was the third weekend in January, 1985. The weather was cold, snowy, and icy in southern Ontario. The church, where my husband was youth pastor, was hosting a youth …
EFC appears against government of Alberta; Bus Stop Bible Studies; CMU’s membership with AUCC; U.S. Conference of MB Churches doubles membership; General Assembly of World Evangelical Alliance; Marv Frey passes …
Travelling through the isolated hills of northeastern Pennsylvania on the way to a seminar one Advent, the man jolts to attention when his gas tank warning light flashes red. The …
The Willow Park Church crew organizing a major B.C. youth conference called Rush is pleased: they have secured major speakers and musicians to headline a 2009 event that no longer …
Christians who want to make a difference as they Christmas shop may feel tension between buying local, buying fair trade, or buying at all.
Christmas without snow? I was dreading it.
MealsPlus is an outreach ministry of Cornerstone Community Church in Virgil, Ontario that began when church members discovered there were people living with severe epilepsy in their community who weren’t …
Westview Christian Fellowship entered a whole new arena of ministry when they purchased a building in downtown St. Catharines, Ont. Three years ago, the church acquired an old church structure …
Conceived in 2000 through individuals with a desire to start a new kind of church, Gateway Christian Fellowship celebrated their 8th anniversary Sunday, November 2, with a praise and covenant …
Dressed in bright colours, three teenaged girls strolled up to the well in the middle of a Nanerige village in Burkina Faso. When Phil Bergen addressed them in their language, …
Dora Wall is the youngest of seven children, and the last to celebrate her 50th wedding anniversary. Leroy and Dora Wall were married in Main Centre, Sask., July 27, 1958. …
I chuckled to myself at the irony of it all – Hell’s Angels tying teddy bears to the handlebars of their bikes, and, in a grand display of magnanimity, delivering …
One of my two brothers died at 15. His name was Norman, and he was a thalidomide baby. Thalidomide was a medication briefly prescribed to pregnant women to help them …
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