Sunday AM Volunteer Schedule

Application forms for the Gateway of Hope (Langley's full service shelter and rehabilition centre)

2009 JRCC Gift Guide
A resource filled with gift ideas that support less fortunate people and equip workers and agencies to spread the message of hope. Use this order form to submit your order.

Reimbursement Request Form: open this document to request a reimbursement (MS Excel). Simply fill out the information and email a saved copy of it to the office.

Newsworthy

"Go Canada 'Gold'" - Langley Advance, Friday, Feb 26, 2010 (JRCC partners with Langley Events Centre to open the arena bowl for the Men's Olympic Gold Medal Hockey Game).  Additional video footage and local media coverage of the event can be seen online at http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_area/langleytimes/community/86248142.html 

"Joint Services" - Langley Advance, Dec 25, 2009 (profile of Willoughby Community Christmas services hosted by Jericho Ridge at the Langley Events Centre)

"Understanding Afghanistan" - Langley Times, November 12, 2008 (Feature Story on a JRCC hosted event assisting people in understanding the political, theological and personal dimensions of Canada's involvement in Afghanistan)

"Cross Canada Cyclist to Speak at Health Fair" - Langley Advance, Sept 5, 2008 (Profile of Mike Teeter, featured presenter at JRCC's 2008 Community Health and Safety Fair)

"Bike Journey Highlighted at Health Fair" - Langley TImes, Sept 3, 2008 (Community Health and Safety Fair)

"New MB Pastors Buy the T-Shirt" - MB Herald, June 2008 (Pastor Keith Reed featured)

"Churches Spread Kindness" - Langley Advance, June 10, 2008 (Love Langley featured in Pay it Forward campaign with JRCC as noted participant)

"Jericho Ridge Sends Missionaries" - MB Herald, March 2008

"Comings and Goings" - The BC Link, February 2008

"Jericho Ridge sees membership boom" - MB Herald, January 2008

Published Articles

Many of the staff and leaders of JRCC write for various periodicals. Below are links to or samples of some of these articles. We invite you to submit your own so that this can grow into a robust Print resource section over time.

"Holy Holes, Modern Monuments" - a devotional for the MB Herald's Text Message series.
Author: Brad Sumner
MB Herald, September 2009

"The Gospel of Image Management" - a colum for the MB Herald's Crosscurrents 'What I'm Reading' series (A Review of Kinnaman's "UnChristian" and Strobel's "Metamorpha").
Author: Brad Sumner
MB Herald, September 2008

"An Inconvenienced Truth (or "Why I Don't Own a Lawnmower') - a column for the MB Herald's Con$ume This series on the intersection of faith, consumerism and individualism.
Author: Brad Sumner
MB Herald, August 2008

"Coming to Grips with 'Culture'" - a review of Everyday Theology: How to Read Cultural Texts and Interpret Trends by Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Charles A. Anderson, and Michael J. Sleasman
Author: Jon Mair
MB Herald, March 2008

"Mission Select: Resurection Rescue" - an Easter devotional on Colossians 1:13-14
Author: Brad Sumner
MB Herald, March 2008

"Bridging the Jesus Debates" - A book review of Yoder Neufeld's Rediscovering Jesus.
Author: Pastor Brad Sumner
MB Herald, March 2008

"Barna's take on parenting" - a book review of George Barna's Revolutionary Parenting
Author: Brad Sumner
MB Herald, February 2008

"The state of our unions: 4 pastoral perspectives on divorce"
An explanation of how caring for those who have experienced the pain of divorce can be evangelistic and life-giving without watering down the sanctity of marriage.
Author: Brad Sumner
Published in MB Herald, May 2007

"Vive la revolution! A review of the Multi-Site Church Revolution: Being Church in Many Locations"
A personal and positive review of a newer model of church planting, as unpacked in this work by Leadership Network author's Surratt, Ligon, and Bird.
Author: Brad Sumner
Unpublished, written in Spring 2007

"Future-fitted faith" - a devotional from Jeremiah 29:10-14
Author: Brad Sumner
MB Herald, January 2007

"A summer of significance" - a review of Marva Dawn's The Sense of the Call and Donald Millar's To Own a Dragon
Author: Brad Sumner
MB Herald, September 2006

"A work in process" - a book review of Rob Bell's Velvet Elvis
We studied this book in the summer of 2006 for our Summer Book study. This review pulls some highlights from Bell's work and suggests some implications for us as Anabaptists.
Author: Brad Sumner
MB Herald, December 2005

Print Resource Archive

Here you can find links to past print resources (mostly sermon-related) distributed on Sunday mornings (note: for additional sermon or series specific resournces, see the "Sunday Mornings" section of the website or contact the office for assistance).

Sample Chapter (PDF): from the book we used at our 2008 parenting seminar The Parent You Want to Be by Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott.

Hermeneutics Quiz: this quiz will help you discover the presuppositions that you bring to your reading and interpretation of Scripture (used by Pastor Brad in his April 13 message).

God's Story of Redemption: discover how you can communicate God's plan of salvation by using a few simple illustrations (based upon Bill Hybels' Just Walk Across the Room).