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Our love of nurturing nature in this simple way brings great joy. While most of us understand the need to nurture God’s creation, helping...

One chilly Sunday afternoon early in April our team crossed Dalhousie Street at Rideau. There in front of a popular cafe, amidst the...

The whole night went by and we handed out the usual: sandwiches, socks, juice boxes. Finally, as we were ending our shift, one of the...

Why do you volunteer at OIM? It’s a question that I have been asking our volunteers lately. The answers that have come back have had one...

John’s colourful dress reflected his mood and his outlook. I had once told him he reminded me of a peacock because he always had feathers...

Valentines Day Week – just passed. Kudos to all of our volunteer outreach workers in all capacities: street outreach, drop in, office...

This is George Frederic Watts 1886 painting, “Hope.” Hope is sitting on a globe, blindfolded, clutching a wooden lyre with only one...

OIM has been given a booth at the Ottawa Home and Garden Show, March 20 to 23 at the Ernst and Young Centre.  Why? A friend of the...

Following from last week, my friend ‘Jesse’, the ‘small things guy’. So last week at the drop in, I had to call the police and ask them...

I remember very clearly the day when Vern spoke up to support another guy who messed up.  The guy stole something from our office, and we...

Thinking about volunteering?  Just that in and of itself might be enough to change the course of your life! Volunteers are truly the...

I love street outreach. I don’t go out because of a sense of obligation, or because it’s what ‘good Christians’ do to get on God’s nice...

Tessa’s Home is an 8 part series running until December 27th.  To listen to the audio backgrounder from CHRI, click below. Miss previous...

Everyone here at Ottawa Innercity Ministries, staff, volunteers and street-friends, would like to thank our supporters for coming out to...

Her first stop was to see Clark, who is pictured above. He was sitting outside a store, soggy from the rain. He was happy to see the...

Today I lost another piece of my heart.  That’s what I feel when I meet someone who just makes me want to weep. Today I met...

This past Wednesday, Ottawa experienced what I hope was the last winter storm of the year (fingers crossed!). It was windy, snowy and...

Ok…OIM didn’t actually GO to the Oscars…but the film that won ‘Best Documentary Short’ is the story of Inocente Izucar, a street-artist...

I met Ashley last summer. She had just left her parents house and was staying at a downtown shelter. Like many other youth who first come...