Tools For Recovery In Street Ministry (LCHC team)

The team at Leamington Community Help Centre run an active mission for street-affiliated people. Part of this work includes addiction recovery services. At the Our City Windsor 2025 conference a group of recovered addicts shared their insights of ministry to this vulnerable population.

Robert Sandwith is the Manager of Recovery Care. Greg Poloz is the men’s recovery care coordinator. Mary Fehr is the women’s recovery care coordinator. Jason Kacsur is a recent success story of a person supported.

Leamington Community Support Centre

https://www.leamingtonhopecentre.ca/

Disability And Faith 101 (Keith Do

Keith Dow, PhD, is a Canadian theologian, researcher, and writer exploring the beauty and complexity of human limits, care, and community. He works with Karis Disability Services (formerly Christian Horizons) and serves as a fellow with the Psychology Cross-Training for Theologians program through the University of Birmingham and Martin Luther University College. His research explores theology, disability, and the ethics of care, emphasizing the beauty and limits of human life in community. Keith is the author of Formed Together: Mystery, Narrative, and Virtue in Christian Caregiving (Baylor, 2021) and leads the Images of God research project supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

This session was recorded at Our City Windsor 2025.

Links:

Keith’s website

https://keithdow.com/

Karis Disability Services

https://karis.org/

Brandon Blake - Tear Off The Roof (The Chosen Version)

https://youtu.be/WQA6fbSoq-g?si=x2-fOQJ1h_n0H4Ai

Maury Blair At Our City Windsor 2025

At 87 years of age, Maury continues to be filled with light and hope. From recounting the horrible child abuse he suffered to the overflowing joy of his journey with Jesus, we leaned forward to soak up the wisdom.

Maury continues to have daily conversations with people in his community to tell them about his hope.

Links:

Breakthrough Ministries

https://overcomingabuse.ca/

Revisiting Child of Woe

https://www.sidewalkskylinepodcast.com/sidewalkskylinepodcast/revisiting-child-of-woe-maury-blair-interview

More of the Maury Story

https://www.sidewalkskylinepodcast.com/sidewalkskylinepodcast/more-of-the-maury-story-maury-blair-interview

Healing Spiritual Cataracts (Tim Meisenheimer)

Timothy Meisenheimer has spent decades on the streets with beatitude vision, first in Ottawa and now in Windsor, Ontario. This was his session at the Our City Windsor 2024 conference. Tim takes seriously the path of Jesus in his sidewalk vision of the Kingdom of God.

Links:

Urban Cry School of Mission

https://www.facebook.com/urbancryschoolofmission

Downtown Windsor Community Collaborative

https://www.dwcc.ca/

Capital City Mission

https://capitalcitymission.com/

The Ottawa Mission

https://ottawamission.com/

Let Nothing Be Wasted (Ejay Tupe)

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.

Link:

https://paoc.org/canada/workers/ejaytupe

Signs Of Hope (Brian Egert)

Brian Egert brought this opening message at the Our City Windsor ‘Signs Of Hope’ conference in March 2024. One hundred people gathered at New Song Church in Windsor Ontario to reflect on the hope that Canadian churches can bring to their cities.

Brian is the Director of Mission Canada, an agency committed to raising up workers with a heart of hope for the nation of Canada.

Link:

Mission Canada

https://paoc.org/canada