Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

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[ March 27, 2010; 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ]

TAKE A STAND – SIT IN THE DARK
The planet needs you! Last year more than half of the adult Canadian population turned their lights out for Earth Hour. We want to exceed 10 million people this year and send a powerful visual message to lawmakers and manufacturers that Canadians want action on climate change. Are

Justice League – Fightin’ Friday

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[ March 12, 2010; ] March Focus on Peace & Conflict
WEAPONS: A DEADLY TRADE
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the

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[ March 5, 2010; ]
March Focus on Peace & Conflict
CHILD SOLDIERS
Children are amongst the first casualties of war. In war-affected communities children are vulnerable and are often orphaned. Conflict destroys buildings, infrastructure and communities; and children are left without family, access to food, medical assistance, or education. Armed military groups target children and round them up by force, putting them to work as

Justice Focus: Peace & Conflict

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PEACE AND CONFLICT
 ”Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; when we stand for justice.”
 - Baruch Spinoza

Our world is torn apart by wars, civil wars, political wars, war over land, water resources, crop lands, and high demand valuables such as oil and diamonds. Recorded human history includes the horror

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[ February 26, 2010; ] February Focus on Discrimination & Human Rights

WHO PICKED THAT APPLE?
In 1966 the Canadian government created a program called SAWP, Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program to address the labour shortage in agriculture. Since then, workers from around the world have been working on Canadian farms from planting, harvesting and processing food crops which end up in our

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[ February 19, 2010; ] February Focus on Discrimination & Human Rights

STORY
We sat in the park, it was a wonderfully sunny day. My friend and I had ventured in to the heart of the city, and as we got coffee we decided to sit in the park, soak up the sunshine, share the journey of the day and talk away

Haiti Revisited & Reflections

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*See video journal 2 and 3 here
In May 2007 (and again in 2008), an adventurous crew of SendTheFire friends from Ontario Great Lakes area packed up their gear and went to Petit-Goave, Haiti. They made video journals for us to ‘ride along’ with them on the adventure. This video and links above are to these

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[ February 12, 2010; ] February Focus on Discrimination

ALL PEOPLE ARE EQUAL
Refugees are people seeking safety and freedom from persecution. They are seeking the ability to live free from fear. A refugee is a person who, “owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside

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[ February 5, 2010; ] February Focus on Discrimination & Human Rights

ALL PEOPLE ARE EQUAL
Let us remember that all people are created by God, in his image and likeness. It is from this truth and starting point that we can begin to restore the rights of those whose rights have been denied.

God created man and woman in his own

Justice Focus: Discrimination

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[ February 1, 2010; ] This February for the justice calendar we will focus on human rights, diversity, examples of when human rights are broken, and how God’s people can be a catalyst for change by defending the rights of all people. The underlying theme of discrimination emerges from it all.

God created man and woman in his own image and

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