Jubilee Mennonite Church celebrates launch of community resource centre “If an alien ship were to come take our church away, would anyone notice?” This is the question that members of…
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“By being in church every October 31, I’ve missed a really good opportunity to encourage our neighbourhood,” says Leonard Klassen. King Road Church in Abbotsford, B.C., has traditionally hosted a…
Five years ago, when Westside Gathering, Montreal, pastor David Manafo invited local pastors to pray weekly about the results of a demographic study on West Island, “a vision of how we could work together started to form,” he says. Those prayers led to the formation of WIN, a group of churches that pray together twice a month for their neighbourhoods, promote each other’s outreach initiatives, and collaborate on community projects.
The Economics of Neighborly Love: Investing in Your Community’s Compassion and Capacity Tom Nelson IVP Books, 2017 “If we are going to love our neighbor well, we must not only…
“Between 85 and 90 percent of Christians don’t know their neighbours’ names,” says Anna Marie Geddert, community ministries pastor at Jubilee Mennonite Church, a joint MB/Mennonite Church congregation in Winnipeg.…
What I learned about interfaith conversation During my 10 years as a producer of GodTalk, a live radio show on Manitoba’s CJOB 68, I spent many hours talking to people…