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  • Learning Service from Freddie the Bus Driver

    I believe that God has a plan for everyone, but sometimes that fact alone doesn’t feel very comforting. I came across the Youth Ambassador of Reconciliation Program when I was struggling with God and...
    May 11, 2017
  • Advocacy Works: Empowering to be a Voice for Change

    Welcome to our Advocacy Works series! Want to see other posts? Sign up here to receive them in your inbox. From April 21-24, Freshta was part of a group of people from three different Christian...
    May 7, 2017
  • Advocacy Works: A Poem about Advocacy

    Welcome to our Advocacy Works series! Want to see other posts? Sign up here to receive them in your inbox. From April 21-24, Hamza was part of a group of people from three different Christian Reformed...
    May 4, 2017
  • Advocacy Works: Advocacy as a Spiritual Practice

    Welcome to our Advocacy Works series! Want to see other posts? Sign up here to receive them in your inbox. In my job as an advocacy and policy analyst in Latin America, I work to build bridges and...
    April 30, 2017
  • Advocacy Works: Breaking the Chains

    Welcome to our Advocacy Works series! Want to see other posts? Sign up here to receive them in your inbox. Have you ever thought of advocacy as an act of worship or a step of discipleship? I hadn't...
    April 24, 2017
  • True Worship & Fast: Riffing on Isaiah 58

    God is not impressed. Why, you ask? Allow me paint an evocative picture. Sing song, sing-a-long. Hands raised to high heaven, Like the branches of red oaks Only inches shy of touching the big blue sky...
    April 21, 2017
  • Did You Mean These Neighbours, Jesus?

    In the parable of the Good Samaritan in the Gospel of Luke, a lawyer put Jesus to the test by asking a bold question - “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” The lawyer already knew the...
    April 18, 2017
  • A Sesquicentennial Celebration!

    This year of 2017 is the year Canada celebrates 150 years as a confederation. As we do so, what is the story we will share? While four provinces (Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) came...
    April 10, 2017
  • Covenant Breakers

    We are a people who deeply believe in the importance of promises, and also, seem, ironically, to not be very good at keeping them. That’s one of the themes we can see running throughout the Bible: God...
    April 7, 2017
  • Called to Live out the Covenant Chain

    Welcome to our Sacred Covenants series! You can find other posts in the series here. I remember the first time I saw a Two-Row Wampum Belt. I was walking through the Woodland Cultural Centre in...
    April 3, 2017
  • Our Cloud of Witnesses: Pastor Ken Vander Wall

    While there were several members of the great cloud of witnesses who shepherded me into the worldview and polity of the Christian Reformed Church, one of the more memorable is my friend Pastor Ken...
    March 31, 2017