Saturday, May 3, 2014 at 02:56PM By Tracey Lloyd Smith
Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at 08:21PM 
Senegalese children receive gifts from Samaritan’s Purse. These would be the only possessions many of the children could call their own. (Photo: Karen Stiller)
BY Karen Stiller
TUCKED AWAY on a narrow side street of Dakar, a barred door opens into a courtyard. Laundry is strung across the open space, drying under the hotter-than-hot sun, mostly t-shirts of the boys who sprawl on mats in the corner watching old cartoons on an even older television.
What appears to be a high-stakes game of UNO unfolds around a card table near a scratched and faded ping-pong table.
This is a boy’s shelter run by a Christian couple in the predominantly Muslim nation
Friday, September 27, 2013 at 11:12AM 
Josh Wilton (below) believes Marketplace has flourished because it meets an unmet need in providing a safe place for Christians and others to meet and discuss work-related issues.
(Photos: Doug Kelk)
By Doug Kelk
THERE IS A BUZZ in the air as business people and public servants working in downtown Victoria arrive and mingle at the Marketplace Gathering lunch at Church of Our Lord. Inside the community centre adjoining Victoria’s stately old wooden church, a woman loads her plate with fresh vegetables and a ham and cheese wrap. She scans the room of about 45 people, seated at small tables, looking for
Monday, June 3, 2013 at 11:56AM 
Bishop Terry Buckle is second from left. The Street Hope Team stands in front of the Old Rectory.
(Supplied photo)
By Sue Careless
THREE YEARS AGO, as he sat working at his desk in Whitehorse, the Archbishop of British Columbia and the Yukon could see through his window people on the streets “coming and going, busy with life and business in the downtown area. My thoughts and my heart’s desire were to see a gospel ministry out there where the people were.”
But provincial and diocesan matters and all the paperwork
Monday, April 1, 2013 at 12:53PM 
Photo: Sue Careless (Inset: www.Dreamstime.com)
By Allyson Eamer
CHRISTIANS HAVE TENDED to avoid speaking openly about depression. It’s not a word that has fit comfortably within the Christian lexicon. We’re acquainted, through Scripture, with downcast, weary, faint-hearted, despairing and distressed. We can cope with discouraged, troubled
