Tag "Outreach"
A place of refuge
Dozens of Arabic people have turned to Jesus in Ottawa, in the last year. When COVID hit, Ottawa’s Arabic Bible Church (now called ABC) was only a year-and-a-half old and averaged 40 attendees on a Sunday. In the last year, they tripled. “God has really […]
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Kingdom builders offer families a different pace of life
Kingdom-building projects come in all forms. In church, the phrase, “a Kingdom building project” might mean an evangelism campaign or new discipleship course—it may even be a slogan to raise money for a new building. At Watercolour Westport, the vision of a Kingdom-building project takes on a much […]
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Re-building bridges for Ottawa’s marginalized
The Metropolitan Bible Church’s (MET) 30-year-old outreach program, Bridges, received a structural makeover this fall. The ministry was essentially re-imagined to continue providing Ottawa’s marginalized community with food, faith, and fellowship after
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Sequoia’s 100 Days of Impact
One year ago, Sequoia Community Church was anticipating a large gathering for their Christmas Eve services in Barrhaven. No one expected the extreme changes that lay ahead. Yet, with God’s direction […]
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Christmas amid COVID
When a local teacher recently asked a little boy what he enjoyed about last Christmas, he told her about going to church on Christmas Eve to worship Jesus and walking home, hand in hand, with his family. It was a good night, he said, because he felt closer to God. How will churches capture this same powerful childlike awareness of Emmanuel—God with us—amid pandemic restrictions? […]
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Bethlehem Live sells out two weeks before event
“Our hope and prayer is that many would hear the Good News of Jesus as they come through.” Craig Macartney
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Outreach group accidentally plants house church
At first, Dundonald Park was quiet. The late-September skies were overcast and threatening rain as a small group arrived with members of CityChurch Hawthorne and e3 Canada. By the time they left, the park was no longer quiet and they were planting a new church […]
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Campus Ministries and COVID-19: What’s Happening?
How are Ottawa’s campus ministries handling the COVID-19 crisis? To explore this question, Spur Ottawa connected with four ministries that are deeply involved with post-secondary […]
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Ottawa pastor plants church in Quebec amid pandemic
The Quebecois are North America’s most unreached people group, with fewer than one percent attending an Evangelical church. Quebec is also Canada’s worst-hit region by COVID-19. Jonathan Camiré, and his wife Renée, are undeterred […]
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Friends for Dinner become roommates
It all started last Thanksgiving. Charmaine Kofler, pastor of Bridlewood Community Church of the Nazarene, hosted four international students for as part of a Friends for Dinner holiday meal. Yet, God had bigger plans […]
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