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Space-makers
We have a couple of empty bedrooms in our house. At one time they were occupied by our kids, but for the last few years they’ve sat empty except when they’ve been temporarily occupied by visiting f...
A Vanilla Life: 5 Questions to Consider as you Build Cross-Cultural Friendships
5 Questions to Consider as you Build Cross-Cultural Friendships.
Vanilla describes most of my childhood: Food was predictable, community was homogenous, and the exotic or...
Five Steps to Practice Hospitality in your Home
A roadmap to practicing hospitality in our homes. Challenging us to restore the vision for our neighbourhoods and commit to the practice of hospitality, this article offers a practic...
Hospitality for the Holidays
4 Simple Suggestions to Include Hospitality in your Christmas celebrations. Christmas is a time for hospitality; a time to open our homes and extend a warm welcome to friends and family. ...
Welcoming Strangers: 4 Opportunities for Hospitality
Welcoming strangers has become one of our greatest needs and significant challenges as Christians in Canada. Here are 4 opportunities, for individuals & churches, to demonstrate hospitalit...
Visitors or Guests? How Warm is our Welcome?
One day our churches will reopen. As we prepare for that eventuality, churches would do well to discern the difference between treating newcomers as visitors or guests.
Hospitality in the Early Church
Hospitality was one of the factors that led to the discipleship and rapid expansion of the early church. The second blog in the series "Understanding Hospitality in a Western Context", this blog ta...
Hospitality in Scripture
Hospitality is a powerful practice with the potential to bring restoration and revitalization to souls in need. It is a virtue, espoused in scripture, through God’s earliest interactions with...