Tag "Prayer walk"
2021 sees greater response to City on our Knees
Each year, Pray Ottawa challenges the Church to kicks off the year with a week of prayer and unity that they call “City on our Knees”. While some may expect lockdown restrictions to lower the turnout, organizers are seeing the opposite […]
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Together we lift our voices to God
Pray Ottawa is inviting the Church to a start this new decade by lifting our voices to God, crying out as a city and for this city. This year marks Pray Ottawa’s fifth “City on our Knees” week […]
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Carleton student ministries kick off the school year with renewed prayer and unity
The night was strangely still. It was the most peaceful Cristi Dagenais had ever seen the campus of Carleton University, in the two years she has served on staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. The only sounds were […]
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Proof that prayer works
The men of Pine Grove Bible Church have held weekly prayer walks in their community for more than a year, and the impact of those prayers is now profoundly obvious. Local residents took to the streets to celebrate what Ottawa Police Chief Charles Bordeleau called, “a dramatic […]
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Hope finding its way into local prisons
The Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre (OCDC) has had a lot of recent coverage in the news because of serious issues with the province. Carl Wake, the chaplain at OCDC, has been there for almost 27 years. He says the […]
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Reclaiming a neighbourhood with prayer
Pine Grove Bible Church was in the news last week, after they held a prayer vigil at the site of Ottawa’s fifth homicide. A 20 year-old man was shot, just blocks from the church. But one piece of the story was largely missed […]
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