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Habitat property hunt
Habitat for Humanity (HFH) Kelowna is actively
searching for property for their next multi-family project. Explains HFH
Kelowna chair Brigitte Reimer: “To keep our homes affordable for our
partner families, we are mainly considering property that is zoned, or can
be zoned, for multiple families.”
The ministry is searching in Kelowna, West Kelowna and
Lake Country for a large lot close to schools and a bus route. Once Habitat
has the property, it will build townhomes for low-income working families,
using donated materials and labour. HFH is a volunteer-run, faith-based
housing organization. Donations are tax-deductible.
Further details of Habitat Kelowna’s site
selection criteria are available at habitatforhumanitykelowna@telus.net.
New gym floor
They have a new gymnasium floor at First Baptist
Church’s Bernard campus. How do we know? Thanks to a quick check of
their website, fbckelowna.com. On the church’s youth page is a note
inviting young people from grade seven up to come “every other week
[to] join others to play basketball on the new gym floor – Thursdays
@ 7 pm.”
Mind you, they leave some questions unanswered, like:
When does one stop being youthful? And: Which are the ‘off’ and
‘on’ Thursdays? For that info, call 250.861.5425 or e-mail
fbckelowna@shaw.ca.
As well, there is an active Seniors Fellowship at the
church’s KLO campus, every third Thursday at 11:45 am. The same phone
number and email address will link to someone who can provide further
details.
Feeling depressed?
Looking for life beyond anxiety and depression? The
‘Healing Gate’ on the New Life Church website (newlife.bc.ca)
suggests they might have – if not answers – at least some
‘windows of opportunity.’ Part of the Kelowna church’s
program points to a 10-step‘P’eace program: prayer, praise, perspective, patience,
perseverance, playfulness, positivity, purpose, passion and partnerships.
More details are available from Joanne de Vries at
jodevries@uniserve.com.
Big bike ride
The folk at Vernon Alliance Church are working to pull
together a group from their city to go to Seattle, July 11 –
12, for the Seattle-to-Portland Bicycle Classic. The objective is to
‘Cycle for Rwanda.’ The specific project is to contribute to
the building of Wellspring Academy in Kigali.
Further info is available from Gerry or Shirley Malnis
at 250.542.0398. The cycling project is just one of many in which the
church is involved. Contact: vernonalliance.org.
EFree action
Several weekday activities for a range of ages and
interests are listed on the website of Kamloops Evangelical Free Church.
The church’s site is actually accessible through an address that
lists all denominations present in Kamloops, and allows the viewer to
connect with the church they want to find.
The site is churches.kamloops.net. The EFree activities
listed are Morning Star crafters, ladies luncheons, hymn sings, men’s
ministries and drop-in basketball. Call 250.376.9365 for exact dates
and time.
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Webmaster Dan
Sometimes, it’s good to learn a bit about the
person behind a church’s website. One example is
lakesidepresbyterian.ca – the site for (you guessed it) Lakeside
Presbyterian in Summerland. It has a great page written by its webmaster,
Dan Radke. Its introduction includes the following:
“One day, in the spring of 2007, I was having
coffee with pastor Jim (Statham) – when he asked me what kind of
ministry I could do at Lakeside. Being interested in computers, I replied
that I could do the website.
“ Jim jumped on that idea – and next thing
I knew, I was in the process of taking over the website. Right from the
start, I realized that I’d like to have people overseeing me on this
project – so Jim suggested I put together a committee to do just
that.”
The rest of the story, including some excellent advice
about how to make best use of a church website, appears on Lakeside’s
site. Click onto ‘about us’, then onto ‘about this
website.’
Heavenly gift
A ‘Gift from Heaven’ is what they call it.
The ‘it’ is an on-line Bible course being offered on the Vernon
Canadian Reformed Church website, vernoncanrc.com.
The course was set up by the church’s
denomination, the Canadian Reformed Church. According to the informational
material, it is free and intended to be “easy to use.”
There are links on the ‘online Bible
course’ page of the website, through which the 25-lesson course can
be viewed and/or downloaded.
– Lloyd Mackey
May 2009
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