“Hope is the reason why I came here,” Tareq Hadhad says. “I was looking for a place where I feel that I belong. Canada made it so easy for all of us to feel like we can belong to a new place, our adopted home. “Syria is my home by birth, but Canada is my home by choice.”
After nearly 15 years of anticipation, The Salvation Army’s Barrhaven Church and Community Centre in Ottawa has opened its doors to the public. A grand opening and ribbon-cutting event invited the community and congregation to celebrate the milestone.
Advocacy work focuses on housing, gender-based violence, poverty and emergency disaster services.
Justin Napier is the executive director of the Gateway of Hope in Langley, B.C., and teaches courses on chaplaincy as an adjunct instructor at Winnipeg’s Booth University College.
Our prayer for reconciliation as National Indigenous History Month comes to a close.
It amazes Joyce Starr Macias that God, who created all things, wants to communicate with us here on earth and, later, to spend eternity with Him. But who has the time?
Don't you want to be part of something where the doors are wide open and accessible to all—where everyone, especially those on the margins, know they have a seat at the table?
