Blog Articles

At the start of each ship visit, Port Chaplains never know how God will use us to share His love and extend ‘creative hospitality’ to the seafarers that we meet. This is even more reason why we pra...

Months before we plunged into a socially isolating global pandemic, I completed a research project on the impact of hospitality in Canadian Churches. I studied a number of Canadian congregations en...

February 2022 Update from Outreach Canada's Executive Directior, Dr. Craig Kraft. 

Canadian Christians should be known by their love and acts of hospitality. Followers of Jesus should reflect the qualities of the One they are following. 

What happens when strangers meet strangers? Common experiences draw us to be kind and generous to the stranger, but busyness tends to stifle our ability and perhaps our desire to engage with the st...

If you’re like me, when someone starts talking about the need to get more involved in evangelism, the first thought to come to mind isn’t ‘JOY’. Maybe its stress. Or guilt. Or shame. Or fear. Why d...

January 2022 Update from Outreach Canada's Executive Directior, Dr. Craig Kraft. 

Christmas is not all, and only about green mistletoe, tasty pastries, and sweet fluffy calico cats. It is, I believe about two puzzling and paradoxical truths...

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. ...

One of the things that should be on all our prayer lists right now is our church.  Pastors, elders, and various leaders and ministries have had a challenging time as we live through a global p...

What are some ways you could love and encourage the MKs you know? Here's a story of how one church practically loved and supported MKs!

With the recent upheaval in Afghanistan, the Canadian government has committed to accept 40,000 refugees. Lorna calls the church to step up to help settle Afghan Refugees.

She a...