Although I was technically going to Uganda to train leaders, I knew full well I would learn much more than I taught. As we are developing an Urban Monastery here in Hamilton, I was specifically interested in learning what the church in Uganda could teach us about community, hospitality, prayer and justice, which are key [...]
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Writing on the Wall – Canvas Prayers from the Hamilton Week of 24/7
Posted: March 6, 2012 in 24/7, Hamilton, Hospitality, Prayer, WorshipWe put a ton of canvas down on the floor in our prayer room last week, and supplied people with fabric markers to draw or write their prayers. So here is the end result!
Creating Community Through Shared Experience and Tradition
Posted: December 21, 2011 in Community, HospitalitySo it’s been six months since we moved into our new place in Hamilton, and we’re almost unpacked (ha!). Just a few boxes left in the front porch that need tending to. We are slow, but we get there eventually. We’ve also been in the process of unpacking together what it means to be a [...]
Weber Newsletter – Blooming Where We are Planted
Posted: November 18, 2011 in 24/7, Hamilton, Hospitality, Missions, PrayerIt has been a very busy season over the last six months, relocating the family and the ministry to Hamilton. God has opened door after door with favor and gracious provision. We are enjoying living in and developing our Community House just a little west of downtown Hamilton. Right now there are just three of [...]
What does an Urban Monastery Look Like?
Posted: November 12, 2011 in 24/7, Hamilton, Hospitality, Missions, Prayer, The Way, WaterdownPeople have been asking. And we’re trying to sort it out ourselves. GOHOP is morphing and in motion. We’re not sure what the destination is going to look like but hey, the journey is the thing, right? Here’s a map of our Prayer Spaces what life at the UM looks like this week. Zoom it [...]
Day in the Life of an Urban Monastic – Take 2
Posted: October 24, 2011 in 24/7, Hamilton, Hospitality, Prayer6 am I wake. Tossed and turned a fair bit in the night. Sleep gets a bit out of whack when Kirk is on night watch… 7:30 am Waiting for a bus. I’m learning to navigate the quirky Hamilton Transit System. After a long wait I discover the Canon bus doesn’t run this early on [...]
GOHOP is coming up to it’s 10 year anniversary on October 15. Happy Birthday, us! When the vision for the House of Prayer began to roll out a decade ago I felt very inadequate and overwhelmed. The only model of House of Prayer that I had to look at was IHOP down in Kansas City, [...]
Where Do You Get Those Crazy Ideas and National Prayer Conference Coming to Hamilton Oct. 13 – 15!
Posted: September 10, 2011 in 24/7, Hamilton, Hospitality, PrayerA few folks have asked me where I got the idea of having a prayer truck. Who would think of something so crazy wonderful and out of the box? The answer is, my friend Daria Nordozza. Daria is part of the National Leadership team of 24/7 Prayer.ca. She has a passion for praying for cities. [...]
The phone rings. “Hi Jill, Sara’s here at Living Rock, wanting to know when the prayer truck opens.” It was 9 am. I laugh. “Tell her she’s early! We’re opening at 8 pm tonight.” Sara had been joining us for our weekly Wednesday prayer meetings at the Rock. She didn’t like to pray out loud, [...]
Making Space – the Power of Simple Hospitality
Posted: August 27, 2011 in 24/7, Hamilton, Hospitality, PrayerWe’ve just finished a week of 24/7 prayer in the back of a UHaul truck. Parked in the downtown core, right behind Living Rock, a ministry to at risk youth, the Prayer Truck facilitated sacred space in and around it. Over the course of the week, faithful prayer warriors came and went, filling up the [...]
