A new mural flanking the doors to the chapel at The Salvation Army’s Weetamah church in Winnipeg welcome visitors and make the entrance more welcoming. It acknowledge the land on which the building sits, honours the people who visit the building and shares the teachings with everyone who enters.

“We felt it was a great opportunity to visually acknowledge the place in which we worship and create community and the connection to all people who come through the building," says Captain Ian Scott, the Salvation Army pastor at Weetamah when the mural was commissioned.

We sometimes hear that the family is the basic unit of society, that villages and cities are made up of households, and so forth. The logic may seem intuitive because it has been repeated by philosophers since at least Aristotle. But both Jesus and Paul acknowledge more complicated realities in the community of Christ-followers.