“You just know when it’s time. You feel it in your gut,” says Greg Wasmuth. The stock of books, Bibles, music, movies, greeting cards, trinkets and artwork at Pilgrim Book and Bible is definitely dwindling as the 35 percent off…
by Jack Taylor • • Comments Off on New Hope cares for refugees, and can help you do the same
Peruvian theologian, Gustavo Gutierrez, said “You say you care about the poor? Then tell me, what are their names?” Care for refugees? Ann Ball, executive director for New Hope Community Services, says: It’s easy to say the words, ‘we care…
by Jack Taylor • • Comments Off on Tim Day on the Church in Canada: ‘We are bigger than we realize’
So what difference will that make for us as churches in Canada? Tim Day, executive director of City Movement, has now completed his tour of 30 Canadian cities – presenting to some 2,000 church leaders along the way. [For a…
by Jack Taylor • • Comments Off on Dennis and Mistin Wilkinson model community in the West End
When Dennis Wilkinson found himself on a Vancouver West End bench sharing the whole gospel story with a Jew and a Muslim friend together he knew his philosophy of church planting was rooting. He saw hospitality was at the heart…
Refugees, politicians and sponsors joined New Hope Community Services leaders and staff February 11 in the bright lobby of New Hope’s Surrey apartment building to celebrate the one year anniversary of its opening. Children from Syria, the Congo, Eritrea and…
by Jack Taylor • • Comments Off on Newcomers to Canada welcomed by individuals, then by church
There is an ocean width of difference between being alone and being lonely. Some think it is language, unaffordable housing, technology or erratic work schedules that distance us from each other. For newcomers to Canada, it may be all of…
by Jack Taylor • • Comments Off on New beginnings: One refugee family’s story
The look in their eyes captures many English words they don’t even know yet – overwhelmed, exhausted, relieved, hopeful. You can see the scene playing out at the airport day after day as refugees finish negotiating the final hurdle of…
by Jack Taylor • • Comments Off on Churches are making use of the airspace above their buildings
Urban churches are beginning to realize the treasure they have, not just in their pews, but hovering high above their buildings. ‘Air rights’ focus on the space above the church building, and Christians now take in the reality that owning…