I am renowned for what is technically known as a “low coolness factor” and normally people sedulously keep me away from anything having to do with youth; but if you are elected moderator, they have to invite you to events like Canada Youth 2014.
The Women’s Missionary Society was formed on May 15, 1914 when three women’s groups came together at Knox, Toronto.
The Montreal Arabic Presbyterian Church is not located in Montreal; since 2010, it has rented facilities in an Evangelical Baptist church on the adjacent island of Laval. But it was not always so.
“Ok, everybody, I want to meet you in the living room for a conference immediately!” I stomped into the house huffing and in a rage.
Six incredible women received inaugural Woman of Faith awards at a gala dinner on May 18. All six have spent their lives serving God and […]
Christian Faker As I Lay Dying is a fairly popular metalcore band out of California. If you have listened to rock radio in the last […]
If General Assembly represents the Main Street of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, then the Women’s Gathering and Canada are two of the side roads, or crossing arteries. Good theory perhaps; but like so many municipalities, the landscape is shifting.
September, for many of our churches, is a month of ministry startups for the school year. So there is the challenge of calling people back into our activities and programs.
For years I never wrote anything longer than a grocery list. I’d given up journaling—as a mom of three boys, I thought sleep was a better use of any rare spare moments I might have.
Joanne Instance, national president of the WMS between 2001-2004, passed away in Winnipeg on May 23 at the age of 78. In an email to […]
The story of Kim Phuc’s life is one of resurrection. At the age of nine, she was caught in a napalm attack near her home in Trang Bang, in southeast Vietnam.
*&^%$#@***###!! Fooled you, eh?? That is not swearing, it’s me whistling a gentle, relaxing, somewhat off-key tune to calm my frantic mind.
In two weeks’ time, I’ve got a lovely assignment. I’ve been asked to say grace before the meal at the wedding of two dear friends. […]
The spiritual practice of silence is simple, but it is one of the more forbidding disciplines for our day. It is a prophetic practice because it challenges our cultural way of being.
When you’re tired out from walking, fed up with scrounging for food, weighed down with your few belongings and your growing children, you can actually forget the feel of the whip on your back. All you want is a full belly, a night’s rest, and a day off the road.
I enjoy my life for the most part, am grateful for my health and family, but at that time I was feeling that I was on a treadmill going nowhere. Nothing significant seemed to be happening. I was 61 years old and wondering if I was on the right track.
Thousands of Iraqi Christians have fled their homes as militants from the Islamic State (also commonly known as ISIS) swept through areas of eastern Syria and northern and western Iraq, […]
On Aug. 18, Jan Hieminga of Knox, Oakville, Ont., began an 800-kilometre walk along the ancient El Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage that takes hikers […]
The WMS Book Room located at church offices on Wynford Drive and operated by the Women’s Missionary Society will close as of June 30, 2015 […]
Winnipeg Inner City Missions organized a community festival day on July 20 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Flora House. Established in 1964 by the […]