TrueCity Hamilton

On Saturday morning Kevin Makins shared the following “Targum” based on Isaiah 65 “Look! I am creating renewed heavens and a renewed earth, and no one will even think about the old ones anymore. No one will even remember our contaminated soil, or warehouses filled with toxic barrels, or fields stripped for strip malls, or [...]

On February 22nd and 23rd over 400 of us came together to explore how geography and mission collide.  This year’s TrueCity conference will be memorable for many reasons from the powerful times of worship, to John Terpstra’s poetry, to the hundreds of conversations that were happening throughout our time together, we had a joyous, encouraging taste [...]

Surely the Lord has been in this place, here in Hamilton, this year. Hear these stories of where we have seen God in our churches and through our movement. God has been working in the lives of youth. The after school boys Junior high program that Wentworth Baptist Church started a few years ago has turned into a [...]

“I felt at a loss as to how to proceed,” the intern recalled. Her assignment was to take two bag lunches downtown, to share with someone in need of lunch or company — in short, to make a new friend. “I noted the questioning stares” from passers-by in the downtown mall, she continued. “I was [...]

Little by little over the past nine years we who make up the TrueCity Hamilton movement have been learning to live out the reality of our unity in Christ.  There have been a fair few false starts and lots of faltering steps as we have pursued God’s call to engage mission together.  Proclaiming the gospel [...]

How can Hamiltonians make responsible food choices, and how can we make these choices better together? A steadily growing corps of volunteers is working toward a practical answer to questions like these: they plan to open the Mustard Seed, a cooperative grocery store, as early as May of this year. We caught up with a [...]