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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 strange...

In this webinar, Dr. Gordon Carkner analyses what is at stake in a radical individualist stance. He explores the social and personal consequences of this ideology that grips our society. His trajec...

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? 

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...

Building and equipping leaders in Burundi to extend the gospel in word and deed - December 2021 update.