Stories of Hope

  A perfect day! A fabulous schedule. Excellent speaker! Delicious everything! Deeply moving testimonies! Nice set up in the sanctuary! Loved the worship time! Loved meeting old and new friends! Loved the sharing time!

A History of Hope Fellowship, Chapter 4: The Building Years   In 2005 the Christian Reformed Church celebrated its one hundredth anniversary in Canada.

  I’ve been trying to imagine what Hope Fellowship would be like without any volunteers. I can’t

A History of Hope Fellowship, Chapter 3: The Healing Years   On Tuesday morning, September 16, 2003, in the tiny custodian’s room of our newly purchased little school, I sat at a wooden table that the previous pastor had hammered together as a desk and began my ministry at Hope Fellowship. Outside, a manure spreader went by on Bloor Street. I laughed out loud and wondered what I had gotten myself into

  In May, a Christian Reformed pastor from Seattle will move to North Oshawa to plant a new church close to UOIT.

  Last December I first heard about the Advent Conspiracy, a movement that encourages people to spend less at Christmas so they have more to give away. Brian Bell, the pastor of Trulls Road Free Methodist Church, told me about it as we visited together in his office.