Engage
Working for God’s Justice & Compassion
We are committed to becoming just communities, welcoming the gifts and voices of those who have been excluded. Vineyard Engage inspires and empowers Canadian Vineyard people to engage with justice locally, nationally, and globally: setting things right in our relationships and society.
Dawn Humphreys
National Catalyst of Vineyard Engage
Dawn leads Strathcona Vineyard, located in downtown eastside Vancouver. She seeks to empower those on society’s margins to find a place of belonging and purpose in the Kingdom of God, and to inspire and equip others to engage with God’s heart for the poor and oppressed; she currently works as a Pastoral Representative at Regent College, Vancouver.
Resources
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (2022)
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. (1 John 3:16,18) Orange Shirt Day was...
Black History Month & Remembering Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women
Responding to Graves at William's Lake Remembering the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Engaging with Black History Month in Canada "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King Jr. (April 16, 1963: letter from...
NUMWAYUT: The Reason We Walk (the TRC & reconciliation by Gordie Lagore)
The theme of our Vineyard Canada West and East Gatherings this year is Metanoia, which is the Greek word for "change your way of thinking," often translated repent in the New Testament. Metanoia is a lifelong journey. As summer comes to an end, and as we are entering...
Special Liturgy for National Indigenous People’s Day 2024.
Special Liturgy for National Indigenous People's Day 2024. "For Esther and myself, our heart as Non-Indigenous writers was to serve and amplify the Indigenous voice, story, and perspective. As Terry shared so generously with us, it became clear that this litany would...
A 30 -YEAR HEALING
"I hate white people now." I'll never forget our 11-year-old son uttering those words as we walked out of a movie theatre together in Bedford, England in 1990. We had just finished watching the newly released movie, Dances With Wolves, and our son was searching for an...
TRC Calls to Action
Erika Kobewka, (Old Strathcona Vineyard, Edmonton), has written a beautiful responsive reading for the four Sundays of Advent. Download the attachment below to use it with your church community.