I was googling "Lenten Journey" the other day.  A long-stanidng tradition to use the 6 pre-spring, pre-Easter, weeks to ask who am I?  what are my roots for daily living?  how do I nourish my spirit, what makes me me?  How is my "me" connected to other "me"s?  Anyways, in my internet wandering I came across a great line:
Going to Church makes you a Christian about as much as sleeping in a garage makes you a car.

Got me thinking.  What does make a person Christian?  Does it matter? Is "Christia...
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We asked folks involved in the West Broadway Community Ministry (WBCM) 2 questions: 
    Where do you find the light of God/Christ/the Spirit at WBCM?
    How is your fiath affected by your ministry/volunteer work there?
These are 2 of the responses.
 
   "The first question is easy to answer.  I see Christ everyday in the volunteers who come from the West Broadway community.  People who have volunteered at WBCM for years. There are several others that volunteer every day the drop-in is open.  Do...
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   In Quebec, where I grew up, it was common to ask when meeting someone for the first time:  "how are you called?"  Somehow that feels seems more "real"  to me.  After all, a name is given by someone else; what I "call myself" expresses the essence of who I understand myself to be.  But it matters - just look at all the Baby Name books that are out there!
    It must make a differnce because I used my spouse's name for a while but shed it because it "didn't fit me".   I have friends who call ...
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  We've got 2 new signs happening here this week. One says  "Celebrating JC at the Heart of JB" and the other is a freshly painted United Church Crest  (Thank you John and Tony.)   How do we celebrate JC?   Maybe it's worth asking: Who is JC to you?  
The crest reminds us that each of us is endowed with a divine spirit -- that's the Dove; so you are my teacher: who is JC to you? and how do you find and celebrate this in our community at JB? 
* submitted by Heather  Sandilands...
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