With the support of KAACR and Mission & Service, Kenyan youth believe in themselves and know that they have rights.
continue readingIt is an exciting time to be a student at Mission & Service supported Jerusalem Girls Secondary School in Kenya... a time to discover you belong only to yourself and your Maker.
continue readingThere was a full house at the youth service where the United Church Mission & Service pilgrims celebrated Sunday worship in Nairobi.... Hands were up and people were dancing in the pews!
continue readingSeventeen people from across The United Church of Canada participated in the Mission & Service Global Pilgrimage to Kenya, from from March 25 to April 4, 2017. The pilgrimage visited Mis...
continue readingPhotos cannot capture the hope I saw in the faces of people who desperately want peace in Colombia.
continue readingI took these pictures last August while visiting my mother’s relatives in the central part of Saskatchewan on the Muskoday First Nation. They capture some of the 825 dancers that participated in the 2...
continue readingThis time between National Aboriginal Day and Canada Day is a good time for some reflection. Some voices have questioned why we should celebrate Canada 150 at all when our natio...
continue readingFor the last decade, I have been teaching at Union Theological Seminary in the Philippines. Part of the curriculum is a field education program, which requires students to participate in community act...
continue readingEveryday Skeptics: Devotions for Spiritual Growth is the new United Church Lenten devotional for 2019. It features reflections from United Church partners who do local and global ministry, often in ch...
continue reading“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” —Maya Angelou, “On the Pulse of Morning” In July 2017 I received the then latest issue...
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