January 26th, 2007 - Mennonite-Salvation Army Partnership
At St. Jamestown 614:
“If we cannot prevail with men for God, then we will, at least, prevail with God for men,” said 19th-century British preacher Charles Spurgeon before a congregation of nearly 25,000 at London’s Crystal Palace. He routinely drew 5,000 weekly to his Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit including Prime Minister Gladstone, the royal family, Florence Nightingale, even U.S. General James Garfield (later President).
It’s little wonder Tara Bishop, associate pastor at Toronto’s St. Jamestown’s 614 project, quotes his work at the foot of all her correspondence.
614 St. Jamestown, like its sister project in nearby Regent Park, was established on the concept of Isaiah 61:4—a message of rebuild, restore, renew—a philosophy Tara Bishop shares with her senior pastor, The Salvation Army’s Kevin Moore. Bishop and Moore have come together in this unique approach to inner-city ministry from very different backgrounds. Bishop represents the Mennonite Brethren (MB) while Moore represents The Salvation Army.
Mennonite-Salvation Army Partnership - Christianity.ca
April 7th, 2007 at 5:10 am
I am very interested in how you went about getting your project up and running in partnership with the Salvation army 61:4 project. I am an Australian training to be ordained as an Anglican priest and living in a regional city with a growing homeless and street kid population and with the accompanying problems such as drug, alcohol abuse and violence on the rise, especially in our city centre. I have another priest also very interested could you give me some idea where to start?