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Causes We Support
Mid-American Reformed Seminary (MARS)
MARS seeks to train and prepare men to serve as ministers in Reformed churches. Some of our own ministers have been trained at MARS. Mr. Christian McShaffrey, a student at MARS, has preached for us during the time that this church was vacant. He also spoke for our young people at the youth conference.
Please take note of the Messenger, which is a periodical of Mid-America that includes information about new students, updates, and events. It is available in the front foyer rack.
http://www.midamerica.edu
Benevolent Fund
The Benevolent Fund is a fund that is used to assist people in need, first in our own church and then in the broader community. This fund needs to be replenished from time to time, so we ask that you consider the need of brothers and sisters in Christ.
Word and Deed
Word and Deed is a relief organization based on reformed Christian principles to provide aid in the name of Christ. Presently there are 200 projects in 16 different countries.
Word and Deed is involved in disaster relief, relief programs, development aid, employment programs, and child sponsorship. Their goal is to alleviate the physical need and give spiritual nourishment at the same time.
The Word and Deed head offices in Holland and now has branches in Canada and the United States.
Our Sunday school students are sponsoring two children through Word & Deed.
http://www.wordanddeed.org
Pregnancy Help Centre of Durham
The purpose of the Pregnancy Help Centre of Durham is to help pregnant girls in distress. The Centre rents a house on 29 Drew Street in Oshawa that has various meeting and storage rooms. The girls are given counseling which encourages them to carry the pregnancy to full tern. Baby food and clothes are available to the new mothers. The counsellors minister to the girls emotionally, but also spiritually if an opportunity opens. The Pregnancy Help Centre of Durham is openly a gospel-oriented mission.
http://www.pregnancyhelp.ca
Reformed Faith and Life
"Foi et Vie Reformees" (Reformed
Faith and Life) is a Reformed radio broadcast ministry in French,
bringing the light of the Christian Gospel to French-speaking men and
women in various parts of the world (especially Africa). Not only
does it produce radio programmes dealing with a variety of topics
from a Biblical perspective, but it also sends written material to
correspondents throughout the world. The ministry of Reformed Faith
and Life is wholeheartedly committed to proclaiming the whole counsel
of God in the French language through the means of radio-broadcasts,
literature and any other appropriate means. Rev. Eric Kayayan, from
Rietvallei Reformed Church, is the broadcasting minister: among other
activities, he writes and records the radio programmes, and sends
them to the various radio stations which are interested in
broadcasting them. A Reformed Radio Administration Committee based in
North America oversees this ministry, in collaboration with the
Rietvallei Reformed Church in South Africa.
http://www.foi-vie.org.za/ehome.html
Covenant Christian Church Mission Outreach (Hope Centre)
The Hope Centre is a ministry, focusing on the large South Asian population of the Greater Toronto area. It is supervised by the Covenant Christian Church (URC) of Wyoming, Ontario.
The Hope Centre is also a congregation called Hope congregation, meeting twice each Sunday for worship. It has three elders and one pastor. One of the elders works alongside of Rev. Tony Zekveld full time in missions and outreach. It is not yet organized but works jointly with the elders in Wyoming.
The Hope Centre's ministry includes one-on-one with Sikhs and Hindus, small Bible study groups, visiting in homes, hospitality, children's Bible classes, prayer inside homes, translating articles and messages into the Punjabi language, writing for South Asian magazines and a radio broadcast using the messages of Rev. Kuldip Gangar. The Hope Centre's policy is to be open daily and to be available to those who are in need.
Cornerstone Bible Institute
Cornerstone Bible Institute is a ministry providing Bible correspondence classes, reintegration support, assorted inmate services, and assistance to chaplains.
The Bible correspondence courses provided to Canadian inmates are focused on the contents of the Holy Bible, specifically written and designed for inmates, and available free of charge to any Canadian inmate and their family members.
The reintegration support, or Stepping Out, is a covenant-based, support and accountability structure which assists a released Cornerstone student with reintegration back into the community.
http://www.cornerstonebible.ca
New Horizon
New Horizon Church in Toronto is a community of mixed ethnic and Canadian Christians adhering to the historic Protestant faith. New Horizon's mission is to help people to know God, and to receive God's answers to the difficult problems of life.
New Horizon's Pastor, Rev. Mitchell Persaud, was sent to Toronto as a church planter and evangelist in 1997. The mission work is under the oversight of Cornerstone United Reformed Church in London, Ontario.
http://www.newhorizonchurch.ca
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