In February of this year, 16 members of Grace Community Church travelled to Haiti to help further the work of our church and school in Labouderie, just north of Port-au-Prince.  Check out the video.  Grace has a special arrangement with our mission partner, CPR-3, that allows us to send people on this trip for $500 per person, plus the cost of airfare.  Our next trip will be in October.  If you or someone you know might be interested, please contact us and our trip coordinator will get in touch with you. 

"Christ Is Risen" By Matt Maher

Please, take the time to pray for our Haiti trip team as they left last 9th of Feb!

Julia McDonald; Vienna Bassan; Wendy McGuire;

Livinia Oltean; Esther Leung; Maggy Sawatsky;

Sharon Lovelace; Rob Bassan; Ben Leung;

Nathan Buhler; Tom Ariss; Ken Tindale; 

Jacob Tindale; Jeff Willis; Terry McDonald; 

Jared McGuire; Rob Wood; Bartley Sawatsky.

In May of 1997, five young adults moved to Mississauga. None of them had lived in Ontario before, but all of them felt God leading them to bring the love of Jesus to this city. They knew no one, but were confident that God was directing them, and so they began making relationships with the goal of starting a church. After meeting with a few pastors in the city, the team learned that Mississauga was known as “a church planter's graveyard.”

The story of how God had brought the team together in the first place is truly incredible. Bartley Sawatsky and Nathan Bryant met while at Bible school in New Brunswick. They then “coincidentally” met up again in Washington, DC, along with Nathan's twin brother, Philip. The trio roomed together while attending Washington Bible College and Capital Bible Seminary, unaware of how God would unite them for ministry in the future. But just a few short years later, Nathan received an invitation (from the Home Missions board of the Grace Brethren Fellowship) to begin a church in Canada. He called Bartley, who was serving in Québec at the time, and the team came together and began raising support to move to Mississauga.

On September 13, 1998, they launched Grace Community Church with just 13 adults. Since that time God has done amazing things.

Grace is now a church of about 300 and has helped launch 3 new churches as well – in Milton, Vancouver, and Medicine Hat.

The church is committed to developing leaders and is poised to begin multiplying churches across the GTA.

Adam House is a Christian refugee reception centre located in Toronto, Canada. We provide a safe and comfortable home for newly arrived refugee claimants who have chosen, at least temporarily, to settle in the GTA.  Our caring staff provide assistance with the immigration and settlement process which can be very difficult to navigate.  Since opening in September 2002, Adam House has served 1400* refugee claimants from countries around the world, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.  We believe that God has called us to care for the very real needs of newcomers to Canada, and to share the Word of God as we have been called.

Adam House is named in honour and memory of Salah and Shaline Adam, and their children Joshua and Rebecca, who perished when Egypt Air Flight 990 went down on October 31, 1999.