About 10 days ago I was sitting in a theatre at the University of Waterloo listening with rapt attention to Sylvia Keesemat. We had just had an amazing worship led by the group from the Atlantic Provinces and with the musical support of Becca Whitla. Why was I in Waterloo? Who were [...]

New home allows ministry to expand
The ministry led by Rev. Stewart Folster used to hold its services in Circle West Presbyterian Church. On Nov. 1, 2008, the Canada Ministries branch of the national Presbyterian Church purchased a building on the corner of Avenue E South and 20th Street for Native Circle Ministry.

I made my church’s website. I know, it needs some updating; I’ll get around to that soon. When I made it, I thought congregation members would refer to it often. Daily. It would be their sole source of information for what was happening in the church. I cleverly embedded a Google calendar in the ‘Events’ [...]

I had a great time Twittering my way through General Assembly last week, somewhat officially, using the #pccga09 hashtag. I don’t Twitter much personally, but tweeting in this structured, intentional way really made me appreciate the technology and the medium.
On a personal level, writing tweets was a great exercise. It made me focus on what [...]

The GA Junkie: In The Middle Of General Assembly Season — Hitting Stride
Well for the first time in a couple of weeks there is no General Assembly of a Presbyterian church going on today. (If you know of one I have missed pleeeeeeese let me know — this junkie is going through withdraw. [...]

If God Text Messaged the 10 Commandments – ChurchCrunch
What if God had text messaged the 10 Commandments? It might look like this:
1. no1 b4 me. srsly.
2. dnt wrshp pix/idols
3. no omg’s
4. no wrk on w/end (sat 4 now; sun l8r)
5. [...]

The 135th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada gets underway this weekend, but due to the recent population boom at my house (we had twins a few weeks ago), I won’t be attending GA in Hamilton.
Of course, I want to follow along as much as possible from home, as I’m sure you all [...]