Meeting Jesus Under the Bridge

Lives Changed at Hochma

“They were selling drugs while we were eating dinner with them!” says Lyne Renaud, pastor at Hochma in Quebec. “As we were eating, customers would come into the apartment and do business! I looked at my husband Michel and said, “Wow! Where are we??!””

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A Small Congregation with a Big Heart - Refuge de Paix

Lucy bundled herself up warmly and made her way through the blustery streets of Sherbrooke on the way to Refuge de Paix early one Sunday morning. It was the kind of grey, stormy day when Sunday worship services are cancelled because it is too wintry to be outside. It was also a morning that Lucy Roca, pastor, had prayed. “Lord, even if there is only one person who will come,” she had prayed, “I will go and be there for them.”

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Glowriding in the Kingdom of Heaven

Mennonite churches have been relatively successful at doing good for the most vulnerable in our society. Important work often seen as for our neighbours might include: building housing, serving meals and sponsoring refugees. During a neighbourhood glowride my approach to good works began to change from doing for, to working with the most vulnerable. Before talking about that small but important distinction, I need to tell you about glowrides.

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