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 getting enough to eat.
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 on Queenston Street, an area where it’s common to see people who are homeless and women working the streets late at night – many because they’re addicted to drugs or alcohol.
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, their faces lit up with delight at the surprise of speaking with a non-African man in their own language, and they giggled as they responded.
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 them to needy children. It was the annual Toy Run.
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 deal with morning sickness. Unfortunately, the medication had catastrophic teratogenic effects. It caused severe birth defects in infants exposed to the medication during pregnancy.“My hope is that the women in distress will find a refuge, a home on their journey – where employees and volunteers reflect the glory of God, in wisdom, love, and peace,” says Sylvie Plante, director of Maison de Sophia (Sophia House), a project affiliated with the Canadian conference’s Horizon Quebec initiative.