Erin Knight

Apr 8, 2024 | christiancourier.ca | Erin Knight

During the 1980s, All Nations Christian Reformed Church in Halifax was involved in “Sunday Suppers,” a partnership between local churches that helped feed the homeless in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia. Out of these suppers, it became clear that vulnerable youth in the city also needed a place to go and gather as some organizations, like shelters and soup kitchens, didn’t allow anyone under the age of 18.

Feb 7, 2024 | christiancourier.ca | Erin Knight

The NewGround program of Diaconal Ministries Canada has been on a 40-year journey of impact and blessings all across this country. Some may remember the program by its former name, Operation Manna. NewGround believes that God is constantly at work, inviting churches to follow him into their communities to work for its transformation.

Jun 30, 2023 | christiancourier.ca | Harry Stam |Erin Knight |Diana Boot |Cassie Westrate

Skip to content Matthew 25 is one of my favourite Bible passages and I have enjoyed many good sermons that reflected on it. God instructs his people to feed the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the naked, the sick and those in prison.

Jun 12, 2023 | christiancourier.ca | Angela Reitsma Bick |Monika Platt |Erin Knight |Becky Jones

It sounds like a Dickens tale. Born poor and orphaned at age 12, John Fawcett survived by apprenticing to a tailor. He became a Christian in his teens, married at 25 and began pastoring a small rural church for pennies – sometimes potatoes, if that’s all his parishioners had. It was 1770, Wainsgate, England. There’s no earthly reason for his name to be remembered 250 years later . . . but it is. He’s in our hymnals as the author of “Blest be the tie that binds.”You know the words, right?

Jun 10, 2023 | christiancourier.ca | Angela Reitsma Bick |Kathy Vandergrift |Marian Van Til |Erin Knight

“In your relationships with one another,” Paul wrote (from prison!), “have the same mindset as Christ Jesus” (Phil. 2:5). That’s the verse chosen as the theme of the Christian Reformed Church’s (CRC) Synod 2023, taking place this week in Grand Rapids, Michigan – and its focus on relationships is a fitting one. That’s because members of the CRC denomination – like the ancient church in Philippi, perhaps – are having an increasingly difficult time living in ecclesiastical harmony.