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High school kits for MCC
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Members of Langley’s Brookswood School have
formed a ‘Students for Humanity’ club and since 2001 have
raised thousands of dollars for schools in Kenya. The club has also raised
funds to address local needs including winter coats for Union Gospel
Mission. Last fall they also produced more than 250 ‘school
kits’ for the Mennonite Central Committee to distribute overseas.
“It started because one grade 11 student in my
socials class said, ‘You teach us all these things [about
what’s going on in the world], but what can we do to make a
difference,’” said Lyne Tener, a Brookswood teacher and club
sponsor.
Sisters Marketplace is located two doors down from
Surrey’s NightShift Street Ministry in Whalley. Sisters offers
clothing for children, men and women at incredible prices. All net proceeds
will be donated to NightShift Street Ministries Society. Nightshift is
looking for volunteers to be store clerks and clothing sorters, and
are accepting donations of clean clothing for children to adults, from
sizes XS to XL. Contact 604.953.1114.
New ACiC church
Alternative Anglican group the Anglican Coalition in
Canada (ACiC) birthed a new congregation in White Rock/South Surrey. Now
into its second month, All Saints Community Church, led by Rev. Peter
Klenner, is the newest member of ACiC. The church can be reached at
604.209.5570.
Boundaries for us all
Well known psychologists and award-winning authors of
the Boundaries series,
Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend, will be in town to lead
‘Boundaries 2008 – when to say yes, how to say no – to
take control of your life’ February 2 at Willingdon Church.
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New Chinese magazine
Angel’s Heart Monthly launch in Vancouver and beyond recently. Representatives
from the Media Evangelism Association and Eternal Heart Media Inc.
presented the inaugural issue December 8, and have called for contributors
from local Chinese circles. The publication aims to comment on culture,
world events and overall life.
www.angelsheart.ca – Peter Biggs
MISSIONS FEST at 25
Bruchko returns
BRUCE OLSSON was 19 when he boarded a plane with a
one-way ticket for South America. Armed with only $70, he abandoned his
university studies and a promising career as a linguist – because he
sensed God was leading him to work with forgotten people.
He heard about the Motilone-Bari, a fierce tribal group
along the Colombian border, and set out to search for them. They eventually
found him.
Bruchko, a name given to
Olsson when captured by the Motilone, became the title of his first book.
Published as For This Cross I Will Kill You in 1973, the book tells his story of redemption and
development among a tribal group threatened by technology, Western culture
and Colombia’s cocaine cartels.
Olsson’s humanitarian work has won him awards,
and the high regard of the Colombian government and international agencies.
His work as a linguist – speaking 15 local languages – and
stern commitment to independent and autonomous projects has earned him the
respect of the missionary community.
Olsson should be thinking of semi-retirement back in
Minnesota, but instead continues to live with the people he has come to
champion. He works to develop schools, medical clinics, small businesses
and church leadership among the Motilone-Bari people.
Missions Fest is Jan 25 – 27, at Vancouver
Exhibition and Convention Centre.
January 2008
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