A major storm was brewing on that early spring day as we drove across the prairies, hoping to make it home from a short family getaway before the billowing snow hit. But we all needed a break, and our...
It’s just water. It seems like a simple story: when clean water is accessible in a community, it contributes to health and wellbeing. Without it, survival is impossible. And while that’s true, the...
In 2020 Meadowland Fellowship CRC, located in Ancaster, Ontario, started the Hearts Exchanged journey. Our journey has been enlightening as it helps us advocate for justice in places where justice has...
In the midst of such turbulent times, we may wonder what’s true, what we can do and how we should live. There are temptations to retreat from all that’s happening or to watch wide-eyed and paralyzed...
Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down, Breastplate...
I prefer the “straight” times! I like to be able to see how everything is fitting together. The “crooked” times are difficult, not just because they’re crooked but because we can’t see how God is...
In Canada, the United States, and across the world, newsreaders are being inundated with stories about our most vulnerable neighbours who are being persecuted. In particular, it is migrants with...
I know you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always, though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are...
“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am...
Every week, a group gathers at the Lantern CRC Church to offer a light lunch, coffee, peppermint tea, and meaningful conversation. Every other week, through Cree Nation and Iksook, this hospitality...
Recently, l headed to the mall to meet a friend and her delightful, always adorably pigtailed 3-year-old. The mall is enormous—the largest in Canada—so for ease of finding each other, we met at the...
“With that we face the shocking reality. Jesus stands at the door and knocks. He asks for help in the form of a beggar, a down-and-out, a man in ragged clothes, someone who is sick, even a criminal in...
