Faith At Work In Canadian Cities
One of our podcast regulars, Ejay Tupe brought this message ‘Let Nothing Be Wasted’ at the Our City Windsor - Signs Of Hope conference.
His years of experience in urban ministry are informed by his reading of the Scriptures.
Ejay is an urban worker in downtown Toronto.
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Our guests on this episode are Ejay Tupe, director of Toronto Urban Mission Hub in downtown Toronto and Mike Morency, executive director of Matthew House – Windsor.
We will be talking about a story that began unfolding this past summer when over 200 refugee claimants from African nations found themselves sleeping on the streets. Many were outside a homeless support centre at 129 Peter St. in downtown Toronto. There seemed to initially be a funding stalemate between levels of government.
Into the crisis, three churches got involved directly by opening up their buildings to provide shelter, food, and support.
· Revivaltime Tabernacle
· Pilgrim Feast Tabernacle
· Dominion Church International
This story eventually leads to some of the asylum seekers ending up served by Matthew House in Windsor.
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Ejay Tupe
https://paoc.org/canada/workers/ejaytupe
Oct 30th update from Ejay
https://youtu.be/-o4LVpanGmo?si=J11xqAhrKoEd_DPb
Matthew House - Windsor
https://matthewhousewindsor.org/
Our City Scarborough Conference
https://www.ourcitytoronto.ca/
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Ejay Tupe
Mike Morency
Ejay Tupe has served as an urban worker in downtown Toronto for sixteen years. In this session he shares stories and ideas about listening to the city. What can we learn by listening to the people, the values and the culture?
Recorded at Our City Toronto 2023 conference.
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Mission Canada
Ejay and Cheryl live above a coffee shop on Queen Street in Toronto. As parents of a toddler, they exemplify urban disciples of Jesus living on mission in their neighbourhood.
In this session from the Our City Toronto conference (2022) they share life lessons and guiding principles on the power of collaborative relationship. They depend on each other and rely on other community members in accomplishing good work for their city and neighbourhood.
Both have been guests on previous episodes of Sidewalk Skyline Podcast.
Links:
Mission Canada
https://paoc.org/canada/workers/ejaytupe
Urban Trends In Canada
https://www.sidewalkskylinepodcast.com/sidewalkskylinepodcast/urban-trends-in-canada-cheryl-walsh
Sidewalk Pastors
Gangland Preacher
https://www.sidewalkskylinepodcast.com/sidewalkskylinepodcast/gangland-preacher-ejay-tupe
In the second part of the Sidewalk Pastors interview, we talk about the stereotypes around poverty and the spiritual formation that is grossly neglected in the field of social work. We will hear more amazing stories about real life people and their courageous struggles.
Our guests are great examples of Street Ministry Workers (letter “S” in our QUEST acronym).
If you have not listened, to part 1 please go back and listen to that first to get a proper introduction to our guests Bob Gal, Anna Morgante and Ejay Tupe.
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Mission Canada
Bob Gal
https://paoc.org/canada/workers/bobgal
Anna Morgante
https://paoc.org/canada/workers/annamorgante
Ejay Tupe