Reunion

Reunion

Happy New Year, family! Since the end of the pandemic, we have been on a journey as a fellowship of embracing annual themes to guide all our camps, events, initiatives, and communications: Come Home (2022) Invite (2023) Belong (2024) If the themes sound relationally...
Good News for Canadians

Good News for Canadians

Christmas is a time of year that largely has Canada’s attention. What should we as Christians and churches be communicating about it? As diverse as we are religiously and ethnically as a country, we still have a public holiday on December 25th. It has become, in...
Jesus’ Very Long Day

Jesus’ Very Long Day

I’ve noticed lately that our society is getting tired, and I am convinced that God has something better for us as citizens of the kingdom. Just pull up a chair and watch people. They run from paid work to housework to volunteer work, pushing every yellow light, taking...
Pentecostal Belonging

Pentecostal Belonging

Why are you a Pentecostal? Is it history, present experience, future hope, or a combination of them all? If you dug out my baptism certificate, you would know that I was Christened Anglican. Mom returned to her childhood faith at a Pentecostal Sunday School when my...
Belong

Belong

One of the things I love most about working at the PAONL is the sense of belonging. I’m not sure what you envision when you think of walking in the doors at 57 Thorburn, but for me it is a family. Mary, Owen and Dave are more than just MDSI Team members. Owen and I...