By: Pastor Sam In my late teens, I went to my first NHL game watching the Leafs play against the Senators at the Corel Centre (now Scotiabank Place). After seeing professional hockey live, I found it difficult to go back to just watching on TV or listening to the play-by-play on the radio. On TV,...Continue Reading
By: Imelda When people ask me why I’m leaving Toronto again, I sometimes joke that moving so often as a child has made me restless. However, the real reason is that I have been following a series of promptings and the doors have simply opened outside my hometown. Each move has been a mini leap...Continue Reading
By: Pastor Sam Christmas at ET in the past has been filled with frantic emails to tri-congregational committees about setting up our crowded Inner Court celebration, scarily standing on top of a ladder putting up the Christmas photo board at the last minute, and standing in line at T&T buying all the cake loaves they...Continue Reading
By: Pastor Sam As 2014 winds down, let us pray through Psalm 148:1-6: Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts! Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars! Praise him, you highest heavens, and you...Continue Reading
By: Rosie Note from the Editor: This is a sneak peak at the Missions Committee’s newsletter that’s coming out in the new year. ~~~~~~~~~~~ “Never forget that I love you very much.” Words that I never expected to hear from a girl I met only a week earlier in Guatemala. Despite not speaking the same...Continue Reading
By: Annie I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me. ~ Matthew 25:40, NIV A couple of weeks ago, different news outlets quietly mentioned that Canadians were giving more. BMO had commissioned a poll that found charitable giving had increased 8%. ...Continue Reading
By: Annie When we talk about serving at church or leadership, it’s often focused on what people aren’t doing. Look at all these vacancies. Why aren’t more people stepping up? If you’d only put your trust in God, you could do great things. I’m not saying there’s no value in that line of thinking, but what’s...Continue Reading
By: Jeremy And we urge you…encourage the timid, help the weak, be patient with everyone else. ~ 1 Thess 5:14, NIV As I’ve been teaching my class on Youth at Risk and doing more counseling, a major theme has come up in those discussions and it didn’t matter whether it was in a church...Continue Reading
By: Annie When we talk about serving at church or leadership, it’s often focused on what people aren’t doing. Look at all these vacancies. Why aren’t more people stepping up? If you’d only put your trust in God, you could do great things. I’m not saying there’s no value in that line of thinking, but what’s...Continue Reading
By: Annie When we talk about serving at church or leadership, it’s often focused on what people aren’t doing. Look at all these vacancies. Why aren’t more people stepping up? If you’d only put your trust in God, you could do great things. I’m not saying there’s no value in that line of thinking, but what’s...Continue Reading
