Connections

As the war on Ukraine continues into its second week, more than 1.7 million Ukrainians have left their homes for refuge in neighbouring countries. 

Ed Dickson is the overseas director of Loads of Love Humanitarian Aid and Mission Society. He and his family have been serving orphan children, seniors, refugees and local churches in Ukraine since 1996.

It was when Jordan St. Cyr served with Youth With a Mission (YWAM) as a teen that he found the inspiration to pursue music as a career.

He eventually released an EP, and in the years that have followed, he has received numerous and life-changing opportunities to work alongside so many talented songwriters, producers, and artists, all of who have encouraged him along his journey.

Scott box had been a successful worship leader for 25 years, externally proclaiming the love of God. However, internally his world was in chaos, consumed by mental illness.

Box was raised as a hero and groomed to be a worshiper, but his mental health continued to get in the way. 

After studying in Israel and Egypt in 2007 and discovering that God is better than she ever knew, Kristi McLelland has been teaching the Bible through a Middle Eastern lens.

"The Lord just wrecked my brain, to be totally honest. I've never recovered," McLelland explains. "I tell people all the time I went to Israel and learned that the living God is better than I ever knew, and I thought he was awesome before I went."

In 2021, Alpha Canada and Barna Group released research on Canadian GenZ’ers and their understanding of evangelism. The findings were both startling and encouraging.

Christian GenZ appears ready to live out their faith and share it, one personal relationship at a time. But, while they’re willing, Barna research, released last year, revealed that only 16% of these same Canadian teens felt they had been equipped to share their faith.

A church abuse prevention expert is saying enough is enough. In the wake of ongoing church abuse scandals, Elizabeth Fisher Good has created a ministry to put a stop to this.

Fisher Good, who has been working in the anti-sex trafficking industry for more than 10 years as the CEO of The Foundation United, has seen the all-too-common story of kids being abused, running away and falling into trafficking.

As was her own story as well, many of these young people were abused at the hands of church leaders and felt compelled to keep it a secret.

At 26, Baylor Wilson has already lived a life most people only dream about – excelling at competitive cheerleading, starring in Season 29 of CBS’s Survivor, scoring a country music publishing deal – all before graduating from college.  

But according to Baylor, these life-making moments were just a precursor to the abundant life she found when she met Jesus. When asked what exactly happened that prompted her to start writing songs about Jesus, she joyfully exclaims, “Jesus happened.”

Ukraine's president says Russia has embarked on a path of evil, but Ukraine is defending itself and won't give up its freedom.

Russia is shelling and conducting airstrikes on cities and bases, and Ukraine's government says Russian tanks and troops rolled across the border in what it called a full-scale war.

Ukrainians are gathering in train stations and clogging highways as Russian forces advance from the east, north and south.

With the success of blogs and videos on minimalism, it has become clear that it is more than just a trend. In a time of climate change and a pandemic, people are looking for new ways to live more meaningful lives, and minimalism is meeting that need.

Over the last decade, Becca Ehrlich has been through plenty. She lost her infant son in 2014 and shortly after became very ill. It took years of medical testing, surgery and bouncing from doctor to doctor before Becca was able to figure out how to manage her chronic illness.

A song created from an entry in Katy Nichole's prayer journal has gone on to impact millions of people worldwide, and that number continues to grow every day.

Katy Nichole has not only gone viral, now reaching well over 150 million people with the chorus to her debut single “In Jesus Name (God of Possible),” but she has also reached the second-highest position on the iTunes’ overall Top Songs chart while remaining No. 1 on the iTunes Christian & Gospel chart since the song’s release.