Engineering and ministry. The words don’t seem to go together naturally. And yet, while missions can require leaving your career behind, sometimes it just means taking your professional skills into the missions context. Engineering Ministries International (eMi) provides opportunities for professionals to do just that. In early 2010, architect Rick Derksen of MQN Architects in […]
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A local church has been conducting a unique ministry for several years. Headed by bishop Charles Dorrington, the Reformed Episcopal Church in Saanichton is affiliated with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA); it is part of the Diocese of Western Canada, Alaska and Cuba. The latter country is the focus of Dorrington and his […]
TWU’s que bueno mission in Dominican Republic
The first time Dinora saw us, she was ecstatic. “The little woman has arrived!” she cried, in excited Spanish. It was May, and the six of us were sitting with Arlene, the American missionary, at a small Dominican preschool. We were waiting to meet our host mothers. Dinora, a single, childless woman who stands no […]
Bergens vow to continue work
Would they stay in Kenya, or would they come home to the Okanagan? That was a burning question for John and Eloise Bergen, after they were attacked by machete-wielding men apparently recruited by one of their former security guards. The short answer is that they planned to come home for healing, and then return to […]
Victoria youth with a Mexican mission
Members of the youth group at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Victoria left in late July for a long-anticipated short term mission. Youth leader Suzy Cleaver wrote the following a few days before she and the others left. Last year, while attending Creation Fest in Washington State, we were so excited and full of energy on […]
New Challenges in Europe
For many centuries, Europe was the bedrock of the established church. That state of affairs is long gone, according to church planting expert Murray Moerman. After many years leading Church Planting Canada, he has taken on a new challenge: the evangelization of one of the world’s most secular regions. With his wife Carol, he recently […]