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A group of young adults from Grant Memorial Church gathered on Saturday evening for a night of food, fun, and fellowship, hosted by the church’s Young Adult Ministry.

The event featured a barbecue, a multi-sport tournament, and plenty of opportunities to connect. Leaders grilled burgers, organized games, and helped create a welcoming and relaxed atmosphere.

Attendees competed in activities including basketball, soccer, and gaga ball, with gift cards awarded as prizes for the winners.

While celebrations of culture continue across the province for Asian Heritage Month, the Asian Heritage Society of Manitoba is balancing revelry with reflection on the struggles and lessons of the past to continue to work towards a more equitable future. The organization will be “Honouring Resilience, Uplifting Stories” with a lecture-conversation of the same name taking place this week in association with the Seven Oaks School Division and the Writers’ Union of Canada.  

After months of controversy, Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, has appointed a new pastor in hopes of turning the page.

On Sunday, Gateway Church announced through a post on social media that they have hired a new pastor. 

"After a lot of prayer, we're thrilled to announce that pastor Daniel Floyd has accepted the call to become the new senior pastor of Gateway Church," said Tra Willbanks, an elder with Gateway Church.

The new pastor, Daniel Floyd, and his wife, Tammie, say they are very excited to be a part of the Gateway family. 

In 1875, 18 villages were established by the first wave of Mennonite immigrants who settled in the West Reserve. 

One of those villages is Reinland in the RM of Stanley, where still today, one can see an enduring symbol of early Mennonite settlers: the Ens Heritage Housebarn.  

Over 300 people have been evacuated from Pimicikamak Cree Nation as a wildfire approaches near the northern Manitoba community. 

As a precaution, 216 people were evacuated to Winnipeg and 86 to Thompson on Saturday. 

55 firefighters have worked around the clock battling the blaze, and as of Sunday, Chief David Monais said the fire was considered stable. However, according to the province's fire status report, the fire continues to burn out of control, reaching 1,500 hectares.

King Charles is set to open a new session of Parliament on Tuesday, seated in a throne that incorporates a piece of English walnut from Windsor Great Park, a preserve of his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth.

The Royal Family connection is especially appropriate given that the Queen was the first sovereign to deliver a speech from the throne in Canada, a role usually fulfilled by the Governor General.

Talks between Canada Post and negotiators from its union are expected to resume over the next few days, its union said Sunday after the two parties met amid warnings of mail delivery delays tied to a national ban on overtime for postal workers.

In an afternoon statement, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers said its negotiators had "worked hard to carefully evaluate" Canada Post's latest offers and prepare responses ahead of the day's meeting with the employer and the mediators. 

At the age of 79, Duck Dynasty's patriarch, husband, father, and grandfather, Phil Robertson, has died. 

"It was his testimony that changed his life, our families life, and thousands of others," said his granddaughter, Sadie Robertson. "Now he is experiencing it in the fullness. Fully alive in Christ. The new has come."

John 3:17

"For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him."

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Psalm 127:1, 3, 5

There’s no substitute for the family! I’m sure you can recall times in your own family that make you chuckle.