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In the wake of a wildfire that destroyed more than half of Slave Lake, Alberta, Edmonton’s Salvation Army has been flooded with phone calls from individuals offering assistance to the town’s 7,000 evacuees. “We’ve had a tremendous response from across…Read More→
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GUELPH, ON – After sending missionary pilots to 32 countries for 40 years, Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) has started sending them closer to home. Inspired by a challenge from MAF’s U.S. office to care for First Nations communities, Canadian president…Read More→
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Christian aid organizations across Canada are responding physically, financially and prayerfully to the tsunami that Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan is calling the country’s greatest national tragedy since the Second World War. The 9.0 magnitude earthquake that ravaged Japan’s northeast…Read More→
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Andreas Duarte is on a mission to bring hope and healing to people around the world. Duarte became a Christian after he came to Canada in 1986 with his wife Bianca. Now an evangelist and pastor of Beautiful Pentecostal Christian…Read More→
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LONDON, ON–Befriending people living on the streets set Darryl Reckman on the path to becoming the co-founder of a church giving high priority to the poor and excluded. “As I got to know people on the streets, rather than returning…Read More→
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DRUMHELLER, AB�”For the past 16 years, Walter Albrecht has donated 10 weeks of his summer to acting in the Canadian Badlands Passion Play. “I just love doing it,” says the 75-year-old volunteer, joined recently in the annual production by his…Read More→
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VANCOUVER, BC–Anthropology students at Trinity Western University are looking to change the world’s perception of one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Canada. Students in Claudia Launhardt’s Anthropology 101 class at Trinity Western University (TWU) recently completed the final survey in…Read More→
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VANCOUVER, BC�”A recent restructuring of Arrow Leadership is the result of what newly appointed CEO Carson Pue calls “a year of listening.” “We took our foot off the accelerator of growth for the ministry,” says Pue, who served as president…Read More→
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LISTOWEL, ON—A farmwife and home-schooling mother of six, Ann Voskamp is also an award-winning blogger whose poetic memoir, One Thousand Gifts, will be released January 17, 2011. The book began, says Voskamp, with a friend’s simple challenge: come up with…Read More→
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TORONTO, ON—Toronto’s Messianic Jewish community has a new home, even if it only partially finished. Headed by Chosen People Ministries Canada (CPMC), part of an international movement founded in 1894 with the purpose of introducing Jews to Yeshua, the Toronto…Read More→