In three years, Willowdale Christian Reformed Church (CRC) in Toronto has almost doubled in size, thanks to Farsi-speaking newcomers from Iran. Long-time members of Willowdale’s congregation will tell anyone who listens that this is the work of the Holy Spirit. No one planned to have a ministry to Christians who speak Farsi, but church members…
In response to the declining attendance of young people, many congregations are doing the important and necessary work of reaching out to Millennials and Gen Zs. But there are three trends accompanying the outward migration of younger generations that ministry leaders should also pay attention to: Some of the parents of our emerging adults are…
The van Milligens are a doorknife family. I can feel the collective woosh of stirred air as eyebrows all over Canada are being raised. What is a doorknife? It is what we named the butter knife we used to open the door to between our kitchen and garage when the doorknob mechanism stopped working. My husband discovered that we could run a butterknife down the side of the door to release the latch in order to go to the garage. We used this system for three or more years.
MY MOTHER WAS ONLY 19 years older than I was. Although she died when I was in my early 20’s and didn’t have to navigate parenting adult children for very long, many of my transitions into adulthood were not all that dissimilar to ones that she had experienced when she was young.
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