Tag: Place of Refuge

  • Churches partner to help residents in recovery

    Churches partner to help residents in recovery

    Twenty years ago, two men attending Vancouver’s Sherbrooke Mennonite Church desperately needed a safe place to live so they could find their way out of the world of addiction. Considering what could be done, Garry Janzen, Sherbrooke’s then-pastor, proposed the idea to his congregation of helping people in addiction recovery. “We did a feasibility study…