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.

September, 2010:

Friday Sept 17th       Saturday Sept 18th
7:00pm-10:00pm       10:00am-4:00pm

We recommend pre-registering. E-mail workshop@jacobswell.ca to register or call 604.681.4898. The workshop costs $20.00, due upon registration. Lunch is included.

A little late but finally here, the May newsletter . . . hurray! click on the link to check it out.
May newsletter

Our last newsletter of the year. We do hope you enjoy it. In this one Sharon introduces herself a little better and an article about some of the ways the Olympics are impacting our neighbourhood. As well try Jane’s cookie recipe and check out some great pictures of our friend Gustave. click on the link to check it out. December 09 newsletter

Our community has just returned from a week in the Okanagan. We went anticipating sunshine, veggies and fun. And we had plenty of fun and chopped plenty of veggies. Sunshine well… not so much!

For me, the week was an initiation into the Jacob’s Well community. It was exciting to enter into relationship each day with someone new while chopping onions or scraping peppers from the drying racks. As I connected with God’s creation, both in people and through food preparation, it felt like a homecoming. I am looking forward to growing these new relationships.

                                                                                                - Sharon Smith

The Jacob’s Well community is continuing to grow in new and exciting ways. Check out some of the changes in the July Newsletter

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

Rain Down Heaven

If you would like to obtain a copy of the CD please contact brasstrumpetpublishing@gmail.com or call 604-681-4898