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Hello Folks,
Many of you have wondered about the work of "integral mission" by Grandview Calvary Baptist Church in Vancouver. It is a complicated story with many parts. The church is attempting to be faithful to a conversion story and narrative as well as a justice and mercy narrative. This is difficult, not always successful, but a brilliant, Godly and devout attempt to hold these biblical imperatives in balance/tension. (Balance is an over-used word, tension suggests conflict; both are true).
Much of the initial funding for the property around Grandview Calvary was financed by Shirley and Howard Bentall. The God-drenched imagination and patient hard work has been the call of faithfulness from many people, including Tim and Mary Dickau. Tim and Mary serve in very different areas of leadership. They are truly gifted and prophetic. It is still an archaistic marvel (and as a parishioner, an embarrassment) that Mary serves unpaid. Monica Hof and Emmanuel Ndabarushimana are part-time pastors serving the evening and morning congregations respectively.
So attached is an explanation of what the umbrella groups and community partners of Grandview Calvary is about: Salsbury Community Society. The second page is a list of the component groups, their February prayer concerns and the names of their directors and their contact information.
You may want to share your our journey in these matters, or model a ministry on one of these works. Regardless, they represent a fascinating call on God's people in this generation.
Warmly
In Christ,
Jeremy
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WHO WE ARE: A community of locally-rooted initiatives committed to the welcome and support of vulnerable people in the radical tradition of Christ. SCS is composed of four non-profit initiatives (NPIs): REED, Kinbrace, Co:Here and Crossroads. We have two partner organizations, Grandview Calvary Baptist Church and JustWork, and one covenant partner, Stillpointe.
•· Community: We have deliberately chosen to define our relationship in terms of community as defined in the ecological sense: "a group of interdependent organisms of different species growing or living together in a specified habitat."
•· Locally-rooted: Each of the initiatives has grown out of the neighbourhood vision of GCBC.
•· Vulnerable people: We are particularly called to journey with people who are poor and marginalized of our society.
•· The radical tradition of Christ: In our vision and approach to our initiatives we seek to follow the ways of Jesus and be directed by the Spirit of God.
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OUR VISION: Through a holistic and relational approach to mutual transformation we seek to nourish individual, local, and global well-being.
•· Holistic: Not only does each initiative seek to value and offer dignity to the whole person, but by joining together with other initiatives we are able to be more holistic in our approach and in our actions.
•· Relational approach: Each of our initiatives seeks to break down the barriers of service provider and client and instead relate to all individuals as fellow members of community.
•· Mutual transformation: We recognize that we are all in need of growth and healing. Our vision is that as we journey together we will all be transformed.
•· Individual, local, and global well-being: We are inspired by the biblical vision of shalom, which brings peace, reconciliation, healing, and justice for all people and all of creation.
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WHAT WE DO: SCS is committed to fostering an inclusive, holistic community of mutual transformation and empowerment through work (JustWork), prayer and worship (GCBC), housing/hospitality (Co:Here, Kinbrace, GCBC), advocacy (Crossroads, Kinbrace, REED), education (REED, Kinbrace, GCBC, Crossroads), justice (REED, Kinbrace, Crossroads), and support (Kinbrace, Crossroads, Co:Here).
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FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO MAKE A DONATION
Please visit our website: www.salsburycommunitysociety.ca
or contact SCS administrator, Jenn Crolow:
Tel. 604-629-0653
Email:
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UPDATES & PRAYER REQUESTS
from the Non-Profit Initiatives of SCS
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KINBRACE
The Kinbrace community, rooted in relationship and practiced hospitality, welcomes refugee claimants new to Vancouver by providing housing, support and advocacy.
Kinbrace waits this month, like an expectant mother. Renovation of K2, the building that hosts our community potential and provides housing and office space, is near completion. Perhaps another week or two, or three, or more? Any day now......
Meanwhile, the waiting is a good exercise for the waiting we do with our brothers and sisters who are in the refugee claim process and are waiting for decisions, papers, resolution, family reunification, a home.
Please pray with and for all who are at Kinbrace, and for our waiting.
For further information, please contact Loren Balisky 604-255-9691 or
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JUSTWORK
Our mission is to foster dignified, gainful work opportunities for people facing multiple barriers to work.
This is our seventh year of work! We facilitate four very different social enterprises: JustCatering, JustGarden, JustPotters and JustRepair.
Over the past year, JustCatering in particular has experienced tremendous growth, which has led to the need to hire an Assistant Catering Coordinator. Please keep us in your prayers as we are close to filling the position.
For further information, please contact David Holcomb
@ 604-734-2104 or
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CROSSROADS
Crossroads Community Project provides support for those who struggle with homelessness or other poverty-related issues, and seeks to cultivate an inclusive community of growth, justice, creativity and care.
We are celebrating the one year marker for our Intentional Friendships with a special gathering of the friends to reflect back over the year and prepare for the next. We will be starting up new friendship matching in the next few months so let us know if you may be interested.
We mourn together for the loss of one of our Crossroads friends, Barbara Aubichon, who collapsed while at Out of the Cold on January 14 and later passed away in the hospital. Please pray for her friends and family as they grieve her loss.
Crossroads is facing financial challenges in the next couple of months as are in between grants and fundraisers. Please pray for God's provision.
In the coming weeks, please pray especially for the protection of our homeless friends as they are likely to experience increased discrimination and pressures during the Olympics.
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For further information, please contact Joy Banks @ 604-255-1111
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CO:HERE
Co:here encourages intentional communities shaped by hospitality, friendship, prayer, simplicity and solidarity with the poor, and provides vulnerable people with affordable, supportive housing.
Co:Here has had a really good start to this new year. We received grants from both Vancity and Hawthorne Foundation. This has allowed us to increase much needed staff hours.
We are hopeful as we look to the year ahead. As we continue to support the three Co:Here houses, grow deeper into our vision of being a place of hospitality to the stranger, and dream, vision and plan for the development on Victoria and 1st Ave we find strength and nourishment from being rooted in the bigger community of Salsbury and Grandview church.
For further information, please contact
Johanna Suttor-Doerksen@604-2966
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REED (Resist Exploitation/Embrace Dignity)
We at REED work to end trafficking and sexual exploitation and strengthen the anti-trafficking movement through a comprehensive approach to change in the radical tradition of Christ.
Please pray for us as we continue to speak publically about the systemic issues behind prostitution, specifically the demand for paid sex and the ways it fuels trafficking. And don't forget to wear your Buying Sex is Not a Sport pin or t-shirt during the Olympics!
For further information, please contact
Michelle Miller@ 604-725-3838
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STILLPOINTE
As a covenant partner of SCS, Stillpointe is available as a resource and retreat for any and all who are involved in the work of SCS.
For further information, please contact Mary Dickau @ 778-998-5436
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