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Soul Care – Kingfisher Crossing

Soul Care – Kingfisher Crossing

Stefan and Heidi Konig welcome guests to their little piece of paradise in Canadian Shield country. Near Parry Sound, ON, Kingfisher Crossing is a place to get away from the tyranny of the urgent, relax, and tend to the soul.

Elizabeth Millar March 14, 2024March 14, 2024 Stories Of Interest Read more

Trip to Kenya – Decisions for Christ

Trip to Kenya – Decisions for Christ

One of the highlights of the trip to Kenya was seeing 20 people decide to follow Jesus. Doug Loveday and Chris Atkinson travelled most of the day to Pokot – a very remote and hot region of Kenya. They visited

Elizabeth Millar March 11, 2024March 11, 2024 Stories Of Interest Read more

Mutual Flourishing: Immigrants & French Churches

Mutual Flourishing: Immigrants & French Churches

450 km east of Quebec City is a French assembly- Assemblée Chrétienne de Baie-Comeau. About ten years ago, they built a little church building for their congregation of 25. A few years ago, waves of newcomers flooded the area. One

Elizabeth Millar March 7, 2024March 7, 2024 Stories Of Interest Read more

From Albania to Scotland to Canada – Village Church Newcastle

From Albania to Scotland to Canada – Village Church Newcastle

In the last few years, Nicole (and her husband Helio and their two girls) have moved from Albania to Scotland to Canada. While living near Edinburgh, Scotland, they were fasting and praying about what was next. They wondered if they

Elizabeth Millar March 4, 2024January 13, 2025 Stories Of Interest Read more

Word of the Year – Charleswood Community Church

Word of the Year – Charleswood Community Church

About 25 people from Charleswood Community Church in Winnipeg, Manitoba gathered together in January for a contemplative night of prayer and discernment. For each person, the question was: what would be their word for the upcoming year? The evening was

Elizabeth Millar February 29, 2024February 29, 2024 Stories Of Interest Read more

Trip to Kenya – Food

Trip to Kenya – Food

Fresh mangoes. Barbecued goat. A potluck feast. As I talked to Doug about his recent trip to Kenya to visit VMK pastors, these were the things that revealed God at work. The mangoes in Kenya were fresh off the tree

Elizabeth Millar February 26, 2024February 26, 2024 Stories Of Interest Read more

Pastoral Search & Discernment – Gentle Shepherd Community Church

Pastoral Search & Discernment – Gentle Shepherd Community Church

Discernment is a good and beautiful thing. Seeing the pastoral search team at Gentle Shepherd Community Church (Flesherton, ON) demonstrate wise and careful discernment is a joy for Jon Dart. Jon, one of VMC’s transitional pastors, is ministering at Gentle

Elizabeth Millar February 22, 2024February 22, 2024 Stories Of Interest Read more

Church & Reconciliation in Ethiopia

Church & Reconciliation in Ethiopia

“What does it mean to be the Church of Christ in contemporary Ethiopia?” This is the question that Girma Bekele is posing to the churches in Ethiopia. Girma is a VMC church planter and pastoral leader of Addis Kidan (which

Elizabeth Millar February 15, 2024February 15, 2024 Stories Of Interest Read more

Youth – Expanding their worlds

Youth – Expanding their worlds

Namrata is the youth pastor at Scarborough Chinese Bible Church. During seminary in Taiwan, she was a missionary in south east Asia as part of a cross culture mission. She was a little surprised when she was called back to

Elizabeth Millar February 12, 2024February 12, 2024 Stories Of Interest Read more

Disappointment & Hope – Aurora North End Parish Church

Disappointment & Hope – Aurora North End Parish Church

In recent years, Kevin Jolly and the Aurora North End Parish Church congregation have been faithfully praying about how to steward their building space well. They’ve got space – a church hall – that they’d like to be occupied and

Elizabeth Millar February 8, 2024February 8, 2024 Stories Of Interest Read more
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