April Newsletter
The theme of our latest Newsletter is Shalom. Click the link to read it.
Welcome to Jacob's Well
Jacob’s Well is a faith-based community in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, BC. We seek mutually transformative friendship with those on the margins of society and equip others to do the same in their own context.
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Next Life in the Margins Workshop May 10-11, 2013
A weekend workshop where we will explore God’s heart for people on the margins of society. We will examine stories from the Bible and share our experiences from life in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. Together we will wrestle with questions like:
Who are the marginalized?
Is God biased toward the poor?
Are we called to save people?
What is the difference between mercy and justice?
What is the gospel?
This workshop will spark your imagination as you live out God’s call to love marginalized people in your own neighbourhood, school, church, or workplace.
NEXT WORKSHOP
Friday May 10, 2013 Saturday May 11, 2013
7:00pm-10:00pm 10:00am-4:00pm
To register E-mail workshop@jacobswell.ca or call 604.681.4898. The workshop is $25.00 the day of and $20.00 if you pay in advance (we’re working at getting PayPal up and running for registration, so watch this space). Regardless please email us to register! A vegetarian lunch is included.
Rain Down Heaven
Rain Down Heaven is the latest musical offering to come out of our community, thanks to the songwriting gifts of Tom Wuest, accompanied by other Jacob’s Well members.
read the blurb below and enjoy two samples from the CD.
The thirteen songs on Rain Down Heaven are songs of longing, desperation, and hope, which draw from the voices and yearnings of a cast of biblical characters. Daniel prophesies to King Nebuchadnezzar that, though his dominion reaches to the ends of the earth, he must “come to know that Heaven rules.”
Mary, the young, pregnant mother of Jesus, sings a joyful adulation for the God who scatters the proud, brings the rulers down from their thrones, sends the rich away empty, lifts up the lowly and fills them with good things.
Zechariah and Isaiah speak of the ONE who will order His kingdom with justice and peace, who will suffer the sins of His people and bring healing. Luke and Paul suggest that Isaiah foresaw Jesus as the ONE who would reconcile all of creation to the Creator.
David and Solomon, in their psalms, proclaim the Savior as the ONE who will stand with the lowly and break their chains. Paul reminds us that the powers will be judged. Mark echoes Jesus’ first words and tells the story of the resurrection. John the Baptist recognizes Jesus as the Lamb of God who will take away the sins of the world.
Finally, in the last song, a song written for dear friends on the eve of their move away from Vancouver some years ago, several biblical texts are woven together to capture the deep and universal human longing to be rooted and known.
Break Their Chains
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Rain Down Heaven
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If you would like to obtain a copy of the CD please contact brasstrumpetpublishing@gmail.com or visit brasstrumpetpublishing.com for more info