Day #2 – September 20th What types of conversations are you having with friends, family and co-workers about what you’re experiencing and the challenge you are doing? Typically, the conversations start off as explaining what the challenge is and the why, but it turns very quickly to the how. What foods do you have? ….Continue reading “Hunger Awareness Challenge – Day #2”
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Agape Centre Hunger Awareness Challenge 2022 – Day #1
Day 1 – September 19thWhat motivated you to accept the challenge? We all have an idea that there is a food insecurity present in our world, country and community; we have been hearing about it since the 1980’s with the Live Aid and TV commercials. This programmed us to go on about our daily livesContinue reading “Agape Centre Hunger Awareness Challenge 2022 – Day #1”
Hunger Awareness Profile
Be sure to follow the progress of this year’s Agape Hunger Awareness challenge by following:http://www.thedeaconguy.caor The Agape Centre on Facebook
Hunger Challenge Day 0
Getting ready to start the Hunger challenge tomorrow … well it seems that it has started already with the shopping adventure with Justin at the Agape Food Bank. Here is my food supply for the next five days…
Hunger Challenge 2022
Every year, The Agape Centre invites supporters to participate in the Hunger Awareness Challenge to bring awareness to the issue of hunger in our community. From September 19th to September 23rd, Deacon Guy will be taking on the 2022 Agape Hunger Awareness Challenge as well as fundraising for the Agape Centre foodbank while eating itemsContinue reading “Hunger Challenge 2022”
August 10th 2022 – 2nd Anniversary of Ordination
Today as I begin my day, I am reminded that this is a special day. Today I celebrate my 2nd anniversary of ordination.I am sure that for most men, as they enter into the life of a permanent deacon, they can feel overwhelmed. Luckily over the last two years, I think everyone has felt overwhelmedContinue reading “August 10th 2022 – 2nd Anniversary of Ordination”
Taking a moment…
it has been a busy few weeks … maybe months …winding down Lent, running through Holy Week and ramping up the Easter season. The parish has been busy, work keeps going and home is always exciting. When the life schedule gets all jumbled, I find myself retreating into some prayer time and podcasts …. oneContinue reading “Taking a moment…”
In case you were wondering…
With everything that we have experienced in the past few years and now the crisis in Ukraine, I find myself diving into reading the life of Pope John Paul II. There is so much insight and reflection that I receive from his story. He is the Divine Mercy Pope and if there is any statementContinue reading “In case you were wondering…”
What I’m Reading …
As you can imagine, in my many conversations with people it does not take long for a book recommendation to be offered. I have made it a practice not to run out and by the book, but simply write it down. Once the book comes up in three conversations with three different people then IContinue reading “What I’m Reading …”
Our call to shine…
Here is the Pope’s tweet for today, Feb 2, Pope Francis@PontifexOn the feast of the #PresentationOfTheLord in the temple, we present ourselves to God with purified spirits, so that our eyes might see the light of salvation and we might thus bring it to the entire world, as the Saints did. … today is aContinue reading “Our call to shine…”
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