For Lieutenant Jen Thompson, corps officer at Vernon Community Church, B.C., defending justice means walking alongside people with love and compassion, through good times and bad.

"[It] means seeing people, really seeing people, and taking the time to listen to people's stories and then being willing to journey compassionately with people, to enter into their experience, to be willing to engage with their suffering, and then to walk with them in a way that lifts that oppression off of them and gives them hope."