Articles from the present issue of Beacon Magazine
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Jesus loves the city’s children I love Hamilton; The Hammer. I met my wife here; my four children were born here and I’ve lived here for nearly 18 years. I have the opportunity to see thousands of amazing children each week through my work with City Kidz and I’m constantly reminded why I love this city. Say what you will, and many people do, this is an awesome city, filled with awesome people. So why is it that Hamilton still has one of the highest child poverty rates in the country? Over 22,000 children in Hamilton still live in poverty. According to Stats Canada, this means one in nine in our country, but a whopping one in four in our city and three out of four in the neighborhoods where City Kidz is involved. It’s deepening and it’s widening, even while the awareness has never been greater. |
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JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010 FEATURE STORY Covering our communities in Prayer
 They come from various churches and denominations, and from all corners of our communities, drawn together by a deep desire to ask for God's guidance and blessing.
Whether they are meeting in an 'upper room' overlooking Hamilton, or circling our cities in a rolling caravan of vehicles, these Prayer Warriors are faithfully bringing our community's needs before God in prayer. |
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JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010 COVER STORY City Kidz - Loving Away Poverty, One Child at a Time
 Each Saturday morning, the fleet of bright red school buses roll through east-end Hamilton, and hundreds of excited children pour into an old movie theatre to laugh and sing and to experience being part of 'City Kidz'.
For many children living in poverty, City Kidz is showing that God's love reaches beyond all barriers of circumstance, and that there is a future of joy and hope. |
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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009 COVER STORYGleaning a Harvest for the Hungry
 All around the world, people are going hungry while here in Ontario millions of pounds of fruit and vegetables are being dumped in landfill sites.
The Ontario Christian Gleaners are collecting, processing and dehydrating this surplus fruit and vegetables, and producing a dried soup mix that is allowing humanitarian organizations to bring food to those faced with hunger.
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Sophia House helps addicts find freedom After 18 years of turning tricks to finance her drug habit, Grace (not her real name) has been off the street for two months. She’s clean and sober and planning to go to Mohawk College in the fall. If she doesn’t get OSAP funding she has “four jobs circled in the Spec” and she’ll work her way through college. One way or another, she is determined to make a new start. |
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