'God reached me': Prison inmate shares powerful encounter

When a man with a face full of tattoos stepped into prison and met his cellmate, he didn't think it meant he would also meet the Lord. However, that's exactly what happened. 

"I had an encounter with the Holy Spirit when I was in jail," an inmate shares in a video on Instagram. 

The inmate shares his testimony of being sentenced and going to jail at the end of 2018. 

"My cellmate was Joshua Pardue, man I would never forget. I was watching TV and he's like, 'Do you believe in Jesus?'"

'In high school I started meeting Jesus through worship': New music from Manitoba artist Jake Fretz

Canadian worship leader and artist, Jake Fretz has been a music lover before he can remember. 

"My mom always tells me that she would go to church on Sunday mornings and as soon as the music would start I would start kicking and dancing so much that she actually had to take a seat in the pew. So I've always felt like this is something that has been in my blood and in my DNA right from the beginning," Fretz says.

'In high school I started meeting Jesus through worship': New music from Canadian artist Jake Fretz

Canadian worship leader and artist, Jake Fretz has been a music lover before he can remember. 

"My mom always tells me that she would go to church on Sunday mornings and as soon as the music would start I would start kicking and dancing so much that she actually had to take a seat in the pew. So I've always felt like this is something that has been in my blood and in my DNA right from the beginning," Fretz says.

'We love you Beans!': Spencer Wright and wife share video tribute after tragic death of three-year-old son

Rodeo star Spencer Wright and his wife, Kallie, are grieving the loss of their three-year-old son Levi after a tragic accident last month. 

Levi was playing with his tractor in the backyard of the family home when he drove into the creek and taken a mile downstream by the current. He was in the hospital for two weeks where he received treatment and subsequently recovered.

While he did regain consciousness, and doctors were hopeful, he did not survive.

'God has things in store for our children this year': Winnipeg camp director returns from life-changing bike trek

A local camp director who biked 1,300 kilometres from Winnipeg to Calgary is back home. 

On May 25, Kristen Schulz, interim camp director for Calvary Temple, set out on the road in hopes of raising funds to send kids to camp for free this year. 

"When I look at the challenges facing kids today. When I look at everything that's coming against them, they're facing things very unique to this generation, things that I feel we're not prepared as a society to deal with, and it's leading to a loneliness epidemic," Schulz explained. 

Church fire that consumed Group of Seven murals was 'heart-wrenching': priest

As investigators work to determine the cause of a devastating fire at a historic Toronto church, community members and art experts are mourning the loss of a sacred space that housed unique artwork by members of the Group of Seven.

The Sunday morning blaze caused massive damage at St. Anne's Anglican Church, a national historic site where "extraordinary" early paintings by three Group of Seven members and other prominent Canadian artists were installed along the interior in the 1920s.