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“I must go back to the Tea shop lady,” this thought kept pressing me as I asked the Lord who to share the Gospel with that day. I had been…

Lately, it feels like everybody is rethinking everything, especially work. It’s an active discussion with my team; we don’t want to return to the old normal but working remotely under…

At no time did we think it would be necessary to sanitize our hands, wear a mask and face shield to buy groceries, or meet someone in the park to…

In light of all that was so suddenly lost, O Lord, in light of all we had gathered but could not keep, comfort us.1 What began as wisps of smoke…

“How can I best pray for you?” This is a common question that people ask international workers (IWs). The answer can be both complex and simple. A couple of months…

COVID-19 opened doors to new initiatives that have strengthened the global Alliance family. In 2019, Jura Yanagihara, President of the Alliance World Fellowship (AWF) assembled an AWF Relief and Development…

Toronto was recently recognized as the most multicultural city in the world, with over half of its residents born outside of Canada. Newmarket, a town in Greater Toronto, has a…

We announced that we were going to be launching an entirely new mission field to South Asia, with the intention of reaching over a billion least-reached people. And then the…

The First Nations Community Church in Winnipeg is small, our membership is approximately 30 people, and on a Sunday service we average about 60 attendees. I have been the pastor…

What does it mean to take responsibility for something someone else did wrong? When John the Baptist “appeared” in the wilderness with a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of…