hospitality on Queen St.

Have you ever had an experience that felt too meaningful to describe? That’s how I’ve been feeling about a recent outreach walk in Parkdale. While I know that I won’t be able to paint an adequate picture of the evening, I’d like to try and share what I can. While we saw and chatted with…

The spice of life

If variety is the spice of life, yesterday was a flavourful day! We met in the morning to do some admin work at our new “office”, the kitchen of a baptist church in Chinatown that has graciously offered us space, access to wifi, and a coffee maker 🙂 We talked through some logistics, answered emails,…

Toronto, the small town

I love outreach. Erinn wrote a great post about outreach yesterday ( http://erinnoxford.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/reason-1001/ ), and last night I had another experience that I’d like to share. I am part of a number of communities in Toronto outside The Dale, and these communities often overlap in a delightfully symbiotic way. One of these communities is Sanctuary,…