Welcome to the Internet home of the Grandview Church Kitchener Centre Cluster. Check in here to contact us, get information about upcoming meetings or events or just find out more about the community in which we live!
Please see the blog post below for a summary of our last meeting and an idea of how God is moving us to serve our community!
Kitchener Centre Landmarks:
Victoria Park
Kitchener City Hall
Waterloo Regional Children's Museum
The Centre and the Square
Provincial Courthouse
Kitchener Center Cluster
March 11, 2010
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
March Update and Next Meeting
Hi Kitchener Centre Cluster!
Sorry for the delay in getting this post up.
We were thrilled to welcome some new faces to our last gathering back in February! We came away from our gathering with a goal of researching further areas where we can plug in serving our new Canadian population in the Kitchener Core. It should be interesting when we get back together in March to see what we've learned!
Speaking of which...
Our next gathering will be on Monday March 8th at 6 pm. Contact us at cleruez@grandviewchurch.ca to let us know if you plan to attend so we can get you directions and let you know what to bring for the potluck.
Aimie and Colin
Posted by cleruez @ 03:10 pm
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Kitchener Center Cluster Recap, Purpose and Next Meeting
Hi Kitchener Centre Cluster!
Hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas and New Years. Due to the hectic nature of the season our plan to "Tree" our neighborhood didn't come to fruition. It would have been nice to have been able to use this as a kick-off to our involvement in our community but the fact that it didn't happen certainly doesn't change the exciting path God has for us.
As I mentioned in our November blog post I've always found it amazing that God likes to make it clear when he's working. Members of our cluster met throughout the Fall seeking to see the Kitchener Core through Jesus eyes so that we may be His hands and feet in serving our neighbors. We completed several "homework" assignments including a walk or bus ride through the Kitchener Center neighborhood and conversations with our neighbors about the needs of our neighborhood. At our November meeting as all of the adults in attendance (and one who sent her homework along with us :) ) recounted their conversations we found His leading. In one fashion or another everyone's conversations revolved around new Canadians and their struggle to adapt to their new home and find support and community here. As we talked it seemed clear that this need resonated in the hearts of everyone there.
As we prepare to move forward in 2010 our purpose will be to find how and where God would use us to show His love to new Canadians in our neighborhood. We are already aware of several existing ministries that we may be able to come alongside and we are very excited to see where God will use us. Please join us on Thursday February 11th at the home of Eric and Wendy Saulesleja for a time of food, community and planning as we continue our journey of mission together. If you are able to attend please RSVP to cleruez@grandviewchurch.ca and we will let you what to bring (i.e. appetizer, main course or dessert).
Look forward to serving Him alongside you this year.
Our God is awesome!
Aimie and Colin
Posted by cleruez @ 02:13 pm
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Kitchener Center Cluster Recap, Purpose and Next Meeting
Hi Kitchener Centre Cluster!
Hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas and New Years. Due to the hectic nature of the season our plan to "Tree" our neighborhood didn't come to fruition. It would have been nice to have been able to use this as a kick-off to our involvement in our community but the fact that it didn't happen certainly doesn't change the exciting path God has for us.
As I mentioned in our November blog post I've always found it amazing that God likes to make it clear when he's working. Members of our cluster met throughout the Fall seeking to see the Kitchener Core through Jesus eyes so that we may be His hands and feet in serving our neighbors. We completed several "homework" assignments including a walk or bus ride through the Kitchener Center neighborhood and conversations with our neighbors about the needs of our neighborhood. At our November meeting as all of the adults in attendance (and one who sent her homework along with us :) ) recounted their conversations we found His leading. In one fashion or another everyone's conversations revolved around new Canadians and their struggle to adapt to their new home and find support and community here. As we talked it seemed clear that this need resonated in the hearts of everyone there.
As we prepare to move forward in 2010 our purpose will be to find how and where God would use us to show His love to new Canadians in our neighborhood. We are already aware of several existing ministries that we may be able to come alongside and we are very excited to see where God will use us. Please join us on Thursday February 11th at the home of Eric and Wendy Saulesleja for a time of food, community and planning as we continue our journey of mission together. If you are able to attend please RSVP to cleruez@grandviewchurch.ca and we will let you what to bring (i.e. appetizer, main course or dessert).
Look forward to serving Him alongside you this year.
Our God is awesome!
Aimie and Colin
Posted by cleruez @ 02:13 pm
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Hi Kitchener Centre Cluster!
Wow what an exciting meeting last Wednesday! I've
always found it amazing that God likes to make it clear when he's working.
On Monday we were feeling a little discouraged,
having struggled, we thought, to find opportunities to talk with our neighbours
and having no sense of leading whatsoever about where God may want to use us
within our neighbourhood.
As we met on Wednesday night we realized how great
God is. As all of the adults in attendance (and one who sent her homework along
with us :D ) recounted their conversations we found His leading. In one fashion or another everyone's conversations revolved
around new Canadians and their struggle to adapt to their new home and find
support and community here. For us personally God had provided for some last
minute conversations and helped us to realize we had had some without really
realizing it that echoed this need. As we talked it seemed clear that this need
resonated in the hearts of everyone there.
We began to brainstorm ideas for how to be Jesus
hands and feet in our community now that we had this direction from Him. God
has already provided us with several connections for potential on-going areas of
service but one idea seemed to catch our hearts to start it all off. For our
Christmas Presense Project our group will be "Treeing" our neighbourhoods.
Basically the concept is as follows:
1) Set up a webpage with information about our
neighbourhood, who lives in it, where we're from, what we do, how we live, etc.
Basically some information to help our community know who their neighbours
are.
2) Put together packages including,
a) a picture of a Tree,
b) a Christmas ornament, favorite recipe or
some other item to share a bit of our traditions with our
neighbours,
c) a letter telling people they have been
"Tree'd" and inviting them to check out the website to learn more about their
neighbourhood and encouraging them to make copies of the package (substituting
their own ornaments, recipes, etc.) and "Tree" 5 of their neighbours. The
letter would indicate that the "Treeings" were started by the Grandview
Kitchener Center Cluster.
3) Drop the packages on doorsteps through out the
Kitchener Center neighbourhood and see how God works!
Our goal is to start to build a sense of community
within our neighourhood. In this way we trust that God will work to help some
of our "new neighbours" adjusting to our country to gain some sense of community
and those of us who have been here much longer to learn about them and get to
know them.
At this point we still need to finish deciding what
to include in the package, what to say in the letter and information to include
about our neighbourhood on the website. Please send your feedback to us (cleruez@grandviewchurch.ca) and we will post them in this blog. We'll
will schedule a time in early December for us to get together to assemble our
packages and get the "Treeing" started!
