Dan Sheffield
Dan Sheffield is a reflective practitioner who has been involved in church planting, community development and Christian formation in Canada, Egypt, South Africa and a few other spots along the way -- over the past 30 years or so. These days he lives in St Catharines, Ontario, with his wife Kathy, where he is lead pastor of Grapeview Church, a multi-ethnic congregation. He is the author of the books The Multicultural Leader and Conversations that Change Us.
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In the Christian tradition, Advent is a season of great hope and possibility. God has come to dwell among human beings, setting in motion something new and mysterious – the kingdom of heaven emerging in our earthly dimension.
For years, while my children were growing up, I had a tradition of sitting down, sometime over Christmas, and reading to them from William Kurelek’s, A Northern Nativity: Christmas Dreams of a Prairie Boy (1976). I didn’t grow up on the prairies but have lived there