Artist Jennie Vegt tries her best not to come into a patient’s room with an agenda. Her first priority is to make patients feel seen and to get to know their creative interests. Her goal is simple: “Let’s bring arts experiences to the bedside.” Since 2021, Vegt has been an artist-in-residence through the Artists on…
Cancer wins too often. It took my mom on February 20, 2018, when I was 13 years old. Her name was Betty-Anne Rozema. My mom was a teacher at Knox Christian School in Bowmanville, Ontario, for 25 years, but soon after her diagnosis the chemo started to take its toll, and she had to stop…
Lucy Thomas, the fourth generation of residential school survivors in her family, was five years old when she was taken away from her mother and brought to Kuper Island Residential School in British Columbia. The students called it Alcatraz. While at Kuper Island, Lucy and her siblings were punished if they were seen talking to…
Last month I spoke with three Christian Courier subscribers, Dennis and Jenny DeGroot and John Ravensbergen, to ask why they love Christian Courier. My first call was with the DeGroots. Dennis grew up in Alberta, Jenny in Langley, British Columbia. They live in Langley and are recently retired. “We’re recent personal subscribers, but in some…
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