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My Dream: Humble Spaces of Connection
By PortalBot • June 14, 2023

I had a dream recently. I could be wrong, but I think it was a dream from God with a message for me. And maybe it’s a message for you too.

Someone was promoting the idea of a coffee shop ...

Digital Bibles: A Key Discipleship Tool for Multilingual Speakers
By PortalBot • June 07, 2023

There are more opportunities today in Canada than ever before to reach out as a local church and welcome people of different language communities around us!  From sponsoring a refugee family, ...

Conversations as Hospitality
By PortalBot • May 31, 2023

Conversations. We have them all the time! After all, how could we offer hospitality without one? But, have you ever thought of conversation itself as an act of hospitality? 

God Speaks
By PortalBot • May 24, 2023

God speaks through Scripture. It is  a core means by which God makes himself known to us—a communication initiative of God toward us. Have you ever just stopped and said thank you to God for t...

Loving a Mosque Community Together
By PortalBot • May 17, 2023

Explore the inspiring journey of Loving Muslims Together in their mission that every Muslim in Canada would have a Christian friend who was companioning them in a journey of exploration and discove...

Introducing Loving Muslims Together
By PortalBot • May 10, 2023

God is giving us an opportunity. The nations of the world have come to our neighbourhood.

The Loving Muslims Together Network encourages, mobilizes, equips, and supports the Canadian Chur...

Unexpected Hospitality
By PortalBot • May 05, 2023

A story of unexpected hospitality! A broken fence that led to neighbours showing mutual hospitality to one another... ...

The Journey of Discovery
By PortalBot • April 27, 2023

I don’t like to run. My experience of running is that I’m short of breath, sweaty & hot, and there’s a voice in my head telling me to STOP!!!!

Recently, while praying for Muslims in C...

A Vanilla Life: 5 Questions to Consider as you Build Cross-Cultural Friendships
By PortalBot • April 20, 2023

5 Questions to Consider as you Build Cross-Cultural Friendships.

Vanilla describes many of our childhoods: Food was predictable, community was homogenous, and the exotic or unusual was re...

Prayer for Sikhs
By PortalBot • April 13, 2023

As the Sikh community celebrates Vaisakhi (a spring harvest festival) beginning April 13th/14th, would you join us in praying that the Lord of the Harvest will produce much fruit among them? <...

Muslim Worldview
By PortalBot • April 06, 2023

If you look through the wrong end of a telescope, rather than enlarging your view, the telescope actually shrinks and distorts what you see. If the viewer didn’t know better, it would be possible t...

Making Disciples of All Nations in Canada
By PortalBot • March 27, 2023

In the census data that was recently released on population, Statistics Canada reported that “millions of people from all over the world have chosen, and continue to choose, Canada as their new hom...