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You are probably familiar with the image of Joseph and Mary scouring Bethlehem in search of a place to stay (Luke 2). You may be less familiar, however, with the image of a fresh baby strapped to Mary’s back fleeing on a donkey away from Bethlehem and into the land of Egypt to escape…
Rob and a young Kidventure gardener work to prepare the site of the Healing Garden The famous line, “if you build it, they will come,” from the movie Field of Dreams is true in many ways of Crossroadsʼ emerging ʻHealing Garden.ʼ This summer, children attending Kidventure 2018, Loving Creation, enthusiastically muscled buckets of…
The North Delta Refugee Project (NDRP), created in November of 2015, is a joint initiative by members of four local churches. The first priority of the NDRP was to sponsor a Syrian family. We have also done a substantial amount of work with government assisted refugees living in our area. Our sponsored family…
After spending the summer leading worship at Crossroads while Rev. Cari was on sabbatical, Lydia Ruenzel decided that Crossroads would be a rich learning environment for her third-year field education placement. So, she’ll be back in our midst as our resident theological student from September 23, 2018 until April 2019. Rev. Cari will…
Rev. Cari Copeman-Haynes is on sabbatical from May 21 to August 29, 2018. After she is released from Crossroads’ ministry leadership at the end of worship on Sunday, May 20, Rev. Cari will spend until June 3 preparing for (and then presiding over) the General Meeting of BC Conference in Penticton, BC. During June,…
Lydia Ruenzel is a currently a third-year M.Div. student at the Vancouver School of Theology and a Candidate for ministry within the United Church of Canada. She grew-up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the Congregational Church and moved to Vancouver in 2009 to attend UBC. Lydia now lives in Port Moody with her husband, Derek. In…
A Joyous Welcome! On Tuesday, March 13, 2018 members of the North Delta Refugee Project (NDRP) steering committee from four North Delta churches, as well as family members who are already resident in Canada, made their way to the Vancouver International Airport. Our family was to arrive on a domestic flight from Toronto,…
Photo by Earl Ellett At December’s free community dinner at Crossroads United Church (Saturday, December 23, with doors opening at 4:30 pm) not only did guests enjoy a home-cooked turkey dinner with all the trimmings, they also received goodie bags prepared especially for them by the students of Delta’s École Élémentaire Devon Gardens…
Participants in the four-week study, The Jesus Fatwah, met for the third time in the presence of Maulana Nabil Khan, a young Islamic scholar who graduated from the Al-Ihsan Institute (founded and led by the Mufti Aasim Rashid). He commenced his studies at the tender age of fifteen and graduated seven years later. He…
January 21, 2017 A group of Crossroads women joined the Women’s March held in solidarity with the march in Washington, DC, walking for the values of respect, equality and openness which characterize the Gospel and which are eroding in public discourse in these times of political change. A core group of 6 women of…
