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The need this Christmas

A couple of notes from around work. The Salvation Army Community Services is at 50% (just over $5000) of their online fundraising goal. So if you are like me and don’t carry cash with you, donate online. If you have any questions on where the money goes or want a tour, email me at jordon.cooper@salvationarmysaskatoon.org. [...]

Losing My Religion

Aug 29th, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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A lot of you have asked why I have stopped posting about items of faith and Christianity here and the reason is pretty complex. First of all after reading around 5 books a week for 15 years or so, I no longer have the time or the desire to read that much. Much of that [...]

The Canadian Response to the Haiti Earthquake

Jan 20th, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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Update: Jason Kenney has announced the Government of Canada is expediting the process for kids who are in the adoption process. At the same time I am hearing that this is the same thing he said a couple of days ago and he didn’t announce any details which as you can imagine, is frustrating adoptive [...]

Update on Darren

Jun 20th, 2007

by Jordon.

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Wendy, Mark and I went to Royal University Hospital to visit Darren tonight. He is doing as well as one would expect after having his heart stopped for several hours but he was in good spirits and we had a short visit, dance (the famous straw stirring the drink) and prayer together. They send him home [...]

Darren is doing fine

Jun 18th, 2007

by Jordon.

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For the next little while Jordon has midnight to eight a.m. shifts at the Salvation Army. So if something important comes up I get to hack his blog. Our good friend Darren Friesen has open heart surgery this morning. It lasted four hours and was done to see if they could fix one of his [...]

Prayer for Darren

Jun 14th, 2007

by Jordon.

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Over the years Darren has had to take a lot of abuse being a co-worker and friend of mine. It kind of falls into the category of “whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” category. We worked together at Lakeview and now he is the Saskatoon Community Chaplain and he works with some of the [...]

Pocket Edition of the Divine Hours

Jun 5th, 2007

by Jordon.

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I don’t how many of you use Phyllis Tickle’s The Divine Hours but I carry one around with me to work and home every day which is no small task (it’s a large book). This bit of good news arrived in my inbox today and while I don’t generally post press releases, this one made [...]