As a denomination started by Dutch Reformed immigrants in 1857, the CRCNA is familiar with the immigrant experience. Like many immigrant stories, the migration journey for the Dutch was long and...
Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. -...
My family and I spent four years as missionaries in Italy, where we met hundreds of people from various countries in Africa and the Middle East who arrived in Europe seeking humanitarian protection. B...
Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. - Psalm 73:25-26 Humanitarian...
February 22 is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in Canada. ( In the United States, January 11 is dedicated to addressing human trafficking.) After much advocacy for its existence, members of...
Dena Nicolai, chaplain and refugee support mobilizer with the Christian Reformed Churches of British Columbia, shares the simple starting place for much of her engagement with people who have been...
Attention: some *minor* spoilers ahead! The new Disney movie “Encanto” follows the story of a Colombian family who was forced to migrate after their village was burned. And if you’ve seen it, you’ve...
I don’t know about you, but I confess to having a love/loathe relationship with social media. Having said that, I am grateful that social media reintroduced me to The Rev. Dr. Howard Thurman’s...
Lord, thank you for 2021. I put my 2022 in your hands. As we exit 2021 we intentionally pray with gratitude for good news from this year. Electric Vehicle Battery Prices Continue to Drop, Making EV’s...
"The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer...
"Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited." - Thomas Merton Biden administration to restart a Trump-era remain-in-Mexico policy...
He has planted me and made me his own. Fed by the gentle waters of his spirit, I beg him by faith to prune me as he will, to let me grow tall and broad, lit by the sun to bear his everlasting fruit...
