Over the past few days we have seen tragedies rock the globe, specifically, the overthrow of the Afghan government, the earthquake that struck Haiti, and, in our own province, the quick-starting fires that continue to ravage the interior of BC. …
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Dear Emmanuel Family,
This is a unique moment we are in as a church family, as a community, and globally. The COVID-19 virus is presenting us with new challenges and new opportunities, as individuals and as a church family. Information, …
Dear Emmanuel Family,
I wanted to take this opportunity to offer a pastoral note regarding COVID-19. We are in a moment where a lot of information is coming at us quickly. Almost hour by hour we are reading about continued …
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Last fall we entered in to the adventure of reading the whole of the new Testament together as a church family. We used Bibles that had removed the verse and chapter numbers as …
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Well, we’re back in Canada (almost all of us at least), exhausted but so thankful for an amazing experience.
Our last day in Israel and Palestine took us to the desert again. We …
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Today was a very diverse day, a very full day, and a very powerful day.
We began the morning at the Temple Mount. This is the platform built by Herod that housed the …
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Day 6 brought us to the Old City of Jerusalem, and today, Day 7, we spent some time within the original city limits of Jerusalem from the Old Testament, (which is now called …
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Today we left the banks of the Sea of Galilee to head to Jerusalem for our final four nights here in Israel. On the way, well more our of the way, we made …
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Sunday, and Monday went by very quickly! We spent these days in the region of Galilee.
We began Sunday morning with worship on the beach by the Sea of Galilee. We sang, prayed, …
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Day 2 of the tour was heavy, from start to finish. We spent our morning at Tent for the Nations – a Palestinian Christian family’s “homestead” surrounded by five illegal Israeli settlements. We’ll …