2020 Clergy Appreciation Month Nominations

Thank you for nominating the impactful pastors, priests, and ministry leaders in your life for 2020 Clergy Appreciation Month! Read more to see the list of nominees.

And THANK YOU to the clergy members that continue to inspire and teach us, and bring us faith and hope. Your outpouring of love on our city has been so important, especially this year. You are so valued and appreciated!

There is still time to nominate a clergy member in your life. Contest details here.

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Joy comes in the form of a pumpkin!

Mike's Garden Harvest generously reached out to CHRI looking to donate a pile of 56 pumpkins and we knew just how to use them! CityKidz Ottawa inspires kids living in need to dream big but many of their in-person programs have been put on hold due to physical-distancing. A safe, pumpkin, porch drop-off was a simple way to bring a smile to those children’s faces!
Here are some of the excited families Lydia and Wendy visited:

Daily Encouragement on Your Health Journey

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Fearless Not Foolish

CHRI's Home Stretch host Care Baldwin was invited to be a guest on the indoubt Podcast where she joined host Isaac Dagneau and co-host Daniel Markin to discuss how the church, and how us as Christians, work through the reality of a worldwide pandemic. They also ask “how do we as God’s people respond to the rights, freedoms and value of all people?”

Take a listen to their conversation here.

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Community, Serving, and Patty-Pan Squash

This past spring, I expanded my role at CHRI to Community Relations. At the time, I thought of this as growing beyond just running the CHRI Fun Team and events, to working more closely with churches. Little did I know that Community Relations would be a 24/7 job that seeped into my personal life.

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SHARATHON 2020 GRAND TOTAL

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Free Back-to-school Kit from Focus on the Family Canada

Help your kids with their back-to-school transition with this free tool kit from Focus on the Family Canada! You’ll find tips for getting your child to move toward independence and ways for you to encourage them in this exciting new chapter of their young lives. Add a comment

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Five Ways I'm Praying for Teachers this Year

Teachers face significant challenges in the coming months once school reopens in early September.

Schools and school boards across the city and the province must impose restrictions to ensure safety for teachers and students during this COVID-19 pandemic. These restrictions create difficulties for parents, children and teachers.

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Skill, Faith, and Sailing Home to Dad

As the true implications of the Covid-19 crisis grew increasingly dire, Juan Manuel Ballestero wanted more than anything else to be reunited with his elderly parents in Argentina in time for his father’s upcoming 90th birthday. The problem? Ballestero was in Portugal and all international flights had been cancelled. With a daunting 5,600 miles and the Atlantic Ocean between him and his family, Ballestero was faced with a seemingly insurmountable dilemma. But, the 47-year-old mariner came up with a daring solution—he’d simply sail home.

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