TrueCity Hamilton

“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 [...]

Join us for two weeks of night and day prayer for Hamilton.  Sign up yourself, your family, your small group for a one hour time slot, or join in some scheduled worship or contemplative prayer.  The second Friday night, March 1, there will be “Fire in the Night” – all night worship from 10 pm [...]

At the corner of Vine and Park Street North, behind Philpott Memorial Church, life in the Vine keeps growing.   The Greater Ontario House of Prayer (GOHOP) has partnered with TrueCity to run 24/7 prayer rooms in the Vine building at the end of February these past two years.  As noted in a previous post, in May Philpott [...]

Since last summer, the GOHOP team has been praying in various “prayer spaces” around the city of Hamilton and in Flamborough. We have so appreciated the hospitality of various ministries, including Hughson St. Baptist, and Youth Unlimited, but we were longing for a permanent location where we could set up a space for ongoing prayer [...]

Our friends, Peter and Sandy, at Little Bethel Church in Hamilton, were inspired by the weeks of 24/7 prayer we have been running the last few years.  A couple of weeks ago they transformed their sanctuary into a prayer space for their east end neighborhood.  For three days, members of the church and the community [...]

“In Dutch we have the word “gezellig”.  It can’t be translated into English directly, but basically it means a comfortable, friendly, peaceful atmosphere in a room and/or with a group of people.  This is what we have here”, said Conrad, gesturing around the room. My Dutch speaking friend and I were just sitting down for an hour [...]