“Two are better than one, for they have a good return for their labor” Eccl. 4:9. That’s a basic principle behind our new initiative, the Church Energy Network. The Network functions by having many churches participate and providing them with our network of service providers. We start with services that provide savings for churches at [...]
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Community outreach is at the center of the vision of Fabre Street Pentecostal Church. This congregation, located in Montreal, Quebec, has been serving the Italian-Canadian community since 1920. Their ministries continue to grow as they effectively make disciples of all ages. A look at the church’s vision for the future showed the leadership that they [...]
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A thought provoking question was posed to me recently: “what is a distinctly “Christian” garden?” I thought I’d try to answer it in this blog to conclude the subject of gardens over the past month. It is easier to answer “what is a “Buddhist” garden?” than “what is a Christian garden”, since the garden style [...]
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I’ve heard it said that “prayer began in a garden” (meaning the Garden of Eden), but I don’t think that’s true. In the simplest sense of the word, prayer is people communicating TO God. In Eden, there was two-way communication between God and people, what would be better termed “communion”. Prayer began when face-to-face communion [...]
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