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A Vanilla Life: 5 Questions to Consider as you Build Cross-C...
  5 Questions to Consider as you Build Cross-Cultural Friendships. Vanilla describes most of my childhood: Food was predictable, commu...
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A Vanilla Life: 5 Questions to Consider as you Build Cross-Cultu...
  5 Questions to Consider as you Build Cross-Cultural Friendships. Vanilla describes most of my childhood: Fo...
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A Simple Recipe for Making Disciples
When I have a bit of extra time, I enjoy cooking. I especially enjoy cooking for other people, and I particularly love trying new recipes. It’s ...
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A Simple Recipe for Making Disciples
When I have a bit of extra time, I enjoy cooking. I especially enjoy cooking for other people, and I particularly love ...
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Hospitality as Mission
"Our homes are becoming more and more important as a centre of mission. I would say, especially for our neighbours, our home is going to be the ...
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Hospitality as Mission
"Our homes are becoming more and more important as a centre of mission. I would say, especially for our neighbours, our...
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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 hosp...
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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 commi...

Scripture Earth: Sharing the Gospel in Diverse Languages

The website, ScriptureEarth.org, containing one of the largest repositories of Bible resources available, is a hidden jewel in the toolbox for diaspora ministry in Canada!

Scripture Earth: Sharing the Gospel in Diverse Languages

The website, ScriptureEarth.org, containing one of the largest repositories of Bible resources available, is a hidden jewel in the toolbox for diaspora ministry in Canada!


Unexpected Hospitality

A story of unexpected hospitality! A broken fence that led to neighbours showing mutual hospitality to one another...

Unexpected Hospitality

A story of unexpected hospitality! A broken fence that led to neighbours showing mutual hospitality to one another...


4 Opportunities for Hospitality: Welcoming Immigrants

Did you know that in 2022, Canada aims to welcome 431,645 new permanent residents? And over the next 3 years, Canada aims to welcome 1.3 million new permanent residents?

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 hospitality to immigrants and other 'strangers'.

4 Opportunities for Hospitality: Welcoming Immigrants

Did you know that in 2022, Canada aims to welcome 431,645 new permanent residents? And over the next 3 years, Canada aims to welcome 1.3 million new permanent residents?

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 hospitality to immigrants and other 'strangers'.


Conversations as Hospitality

Conversations. We have them all the time! After all, how could we offer hospitality without one? But, have you ever thought of conversation itself as an act of hospitality? 

Conversations as Hospitality

Conversations. We have them all the time! After all, how could we offer hospitality without one? But, have you ever thought of conversation itself as an act of hospitality? 


Loving Strangers: Why the Canadian Church Needs Biblical Hospitality

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. 

Loving Strangers: Why the Canadian Church Needs Biblical Hospitality

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. 


At Our Doorstep

We often think of missions as being to the "ends of the earth," but Jesus commissioned his followers to be his witnesses, starting in Jerusalem, right where they were. As followers of Jesus, we are called to do the same thing.

There is a mission field at our doorstep. We encounter people every day who do not know Jesus. And today, like at no other time in history, immigration has also brought the ends of the earth right into our neighborhood. My next-door neighbors are from another country, culture, and language group.

Now I can be a missionary without leaving my street.

At Our Doorstep

We often think of missions as being to the "ends of the earth," but Jesus commissioned his followers to be his witnesses, starting in Jerusalem, right where they were. As followers of Jesus, we are called to do the same thing.

There is a mission field at our doorstep. We encounter people every day who do not know Jesus. And today, like at no other time in history, immigration has also brought the ends of the earth right into our neighborhood. My next-door neighbors are from another country, culture, and language group.

Now I can be a missionary without leaving my street.