poverty

Hunger Banquet

This past Saturday a team of us from two churches organized a Global Awareness Banquet. The banquet is a dramatization of the inequity that perpetuates poverty in the world. Guests are randomly assigned according to the realities that divide us today 15% rich, 30% middle class, and 55% poor on a global level. The rich [...]

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Out of the cold…

Yesterday a life group I’m a part of helped out at the “Out of the cold” program which shelters, feeds, and clothes some of Toronto’s homeless. A few thoughts: I arrived late, and really didn’t help out in any way. Yet one of the ‘clients’ insisted to thank me, and that I was still volunteering [...]

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Bread or Beauty?

I’ve been volunteering weekly at Sanctuary for the last few months. The first time I was there, I was surprised how many guys were playing bridge… I ask, “Where’d you learn to play bridge?” (As I’m thinking only grannies play bridge). “Jail”, one guy says “oh”. I talk to another dude who’s sketching and has [...]

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Calcutta is everywhere

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Irresistable Revolution Resources

The day I finished up a 30 page church planting proposal, I began digging into Shane Clairborne’s book The Irresistable Revolution. Two days later, I finished it and was wrecked and questioning all the visioning, plans and, strategies I had jotted down regarding church planting. I was humbled and reminded that very few of us [...]

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Bono preaches…

Amazing. Read the transcript below. Video clip on cnn here. Bono’s best sermon yet: Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast If you’re wondering what I’m doing here, at a prayer breakfast, well, so am I. I’m certainly not here as a man of the cloth, unless that cloth is leather. It’s certainly not because I’m [...]

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Homeless in the city…

I joined the university kids for The Lord’s Table sandwich run ministry downtown yesterday. It’s been a while since the last time I’ve spent a night directly in contact with the homeless. Many of them were lying up against the office buildings. The images of cardboard shelters, tired looking faces, and dirty hands – against [...]

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Los Angeles Dream Center

I wasn’t sure what to expect from the Dream Center. I knew it was one of the fastest growing churches in America. Browsing their webpage, after seeing a picture of their pastor, Matthew Barnett, I found myself still wondering who the real pastor was. He looked younger than me!   It is in fact a [...]

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