By Pastor Rhoda Klein Miller This week our church lost a treasured friend and pillar of faith, Mavis Jones. For decades she poured her heart and soul into ministering to others. This past year she could not attend very often but would join our...
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By Pastor Rhoda Klein Miller Relationships impact our well-being, for better and worse! How much do you value kind words spoken from a close friend or a warm hug at a difficult time? Yet these same relationships also bring some of life’s biggest...
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By Pastor Rhoda Klein Miller This is not a perfect church but I glimpsed a near perfect example of Christian community last week when our guest speaker faced multiple delays causing her Friday arrival to be postponed till noon the next day...
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By Omagbitse Ojoor Over the past months, my wife and I have watched closely as our now 18-month-old son grew in stature and developed his senses. One beautiful sight is how his eyes light up when he sees his older sister especially when she...
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By Pastor Peter Qiu You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? Christians are being compared to salt. Just as the value of the salt is its saltiness, so having Christian influence...
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By Pastor Rhoda Klein Miller There’s a story of a husband and wife who entered marriage with an unusual strategy for household decisions. They agreed he would make all the major decisions and she would handle the minor ones. After 20 years, a...
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By Pastor Rhoda Klein Miller This weekend we are beginning a series of seminars from 10-11am Saturday mornings that cover key practices for optimal wellness. From a Biblical perspective, health is important not only for personal quality of life...
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By Pastor Rhoda Klein Miller It’s one of our favourite worship services of the year, MultiCultural Sabbath! Many first time visitors to OAC comment on its multi-cultural diversity. Instead of creating a church for one cultural affiliation, we...
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By Pastor Rhoda Klein Miller In January of this year a small team of OAC volunteers prayed over the upcoming twenty Thursdays. They made a commitment to support each other and total strangers in the ministry of healing and discipleship through...
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By Pastor Peter Qiu Worship has always been at the centre of the great cosmic conflict. The tension we continue to struggle with is between focus on God or on self. Worship is a recognition of power. We see the power struggle continue when Jesus...
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By Pastor Peter Qiu A church that does not care for the youth has no hope for the future. Every church can be extinct within one generation, no matter how vibrant it used to be. Being future-focussed is the only option for a thriving church to...
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By Pastor Peter Qiu For three years the disciples had before them the wonderful example of Jesus. Day by day they walked and talked with Him, hearing His words of cheer to the weary and heavy-laden, and seeing the manifestations of His power on...
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