Evangel Hall - A million small things make a big difference.

It is Sunday evening at Evangel Hall. Some people have brought some food to share with those who have little. The dinner is over. Mario sets up the keyboard. Others stack the tables and set up the chairs. The communion table is pulled out from the wall. About 30 people gather. They come from the streets, from senior’s housing, from rented rooms, from crack houses and comfortable homes, from lowest Rosedale and suburban Thornhill.

Robert gives the Call to Worship. Brenda leads the service of praise. “Amazing Grace” is the favourite. Joseph sings

a solo – “Jesus Bids us Shine”. Marv talks about his years of drug addiction, living in the ravine, and of how Jesus, in the form of street nurses and outréach workers, set him free. He reads I John 4 and calls us to love one another.

Now it is time to pray. The worship leader leaves this part out at her peril. The people have come to express their joys and sorrows to God and to one another and they cherish this opportunity. They request prayer for the people who brought the food, for children they have not seen in years, for peace in the Middle East, for the family of a child murdered in the city. A congregation that visited us last week has phoned and asked us to pray for a bereaved family. And God is in our midst. We acknowledge, we celebrate the presence of God. Now it is time to go in peace.

Sunday worship takes place every week at 6:45 PM, following our community dinner which starts at 5:30PM