This summer, we’re releasing all the sessions from our winter learning series this past year, Six Acts in Six Sessions. This series is taught by dynamic speakers and scholars, who guide us through the six act drama of Scripture with the hope of sparking our imaginations in new ways. 

Here is Act Two with Jackson Theune.

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This summer, we’re releasing all the sessions from our winter learning series this past year, Six Acts in Six Sessions. This series is taught by dynamic speakers and scholars, who guide us through the six act drama of Scripture with the hope of sparking our imaginations in new ways. 

Here is Act One with Nina Schuurman-Drenth.

Watch the video here.

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JOMO stands for the Joy of Missing Out, and Christina Crook is all about inspiring people to get back to real connections, and letting ourselves feel bored to spark new creativity and wonder. There’s a lot of synergy between her work at JOMO(campus) and what we hope for with our students at Act Five. 

Links from the Episode:

• Christina’s Books

• JOMO(campus)

• The Presence in the Modern World by Jacques Ellul

• The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

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Cindy and Adrian are integral in the Indigenous Learning of our gap year program! They both bring vast experience and deep thought around how to engage with our Canadian history, and the invitations for today. It’s a conversation you won’t want to miss, and will give you a glimpse into more of the learning we do within our gap year program.

Links from the Episode:

• Book: Braiding Sweetgrass

• Hearts Exchanged

• Do Justice Podcast

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We can’t know for sure, but we wonder if Jill Weber’s commitment to prayer is what birthed Act Five. She is definitely the reason we host Spaghetti Wednesday meals though! 

Jill Weber joined us all the way from England for this conversation about prayer, following a Rule of Life, and the role of wonder in our lives. We hope you experience her wonder through this episode!

Links from the Episode:

• Jill’s Book: Even the Sparrow

• 24/7 Prayer

• Order of the Mustard Seed

• Waverley Abbey

• GOHOP

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Welcome to the episode where our “digital front porch” meets our actual front porch! Hear right from some our students, residents, and staff about their experience this year living at the Act Five home - it gives a beautiful glimpse into the life that happens here. It’s an episode you don’t want to miss!

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What does it mean to be people of our places? Why does it even matter? Join in on today’s conversation with Steve MacDouell, a pastor and professor, as we talk about the importance of neighbourhoods. 

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The Bema Podcast is a key teaching resource for our Six Acts class with our gap year students, so it was such a delight to have Marty Solomon, the host of The Bema Podcast, join us on today’s episode. To include our students, who have learned deeply from Marty this year, they had a chance to ask him a few questions too. 

Learn more about the Bema Discipleship group here.

Upcoming Events:

• Open House - March 8 from 1:00-4:00

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As people who love, and deeply believe in community, we aren’t naive to how hard and complex it is. It can feel like compost. 

Take a seat with us as we chat with Justin, who is involved with 541 Eatery & Exchange, a place of welcome, good food, and connection to hear more about our unique experiences in building and shaping communities - and being deeply part of these communities. 

Also hear Zoe’s story, an alumni of Act Five who did her placement at 541. 

Learn more about 541 here

Check out this article!

• https://morefullyalive.substack.com/p/beautiful-terrible-community 

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• Six Acts in Six Sessions

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Maybe our desire for unity isn’t enough. Maybe it’s only with confession, humility, and a dose of desperation that we can wobble our way into a unity that is stronger.

Listen in as Jon and Madi talk with two members, Dave and Steve, of the TrueCity Network, which is a collection of churches that are seeking the good of the city of Hamilton. 

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• 6 Acts in 6 Sessions

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