Meet Matt. A dear friend of Glass Canvas whose identity at a young age was shaped by external factors. Throughout his formative years, he struggled with the way his identity was forming — either through basketball, friendships, and achievements — without first understanding who he truly was. He...

Meet Asia, a a friend of Glass Canvas who has been accompanied by a member of Glass Canvas, and her own community. We were honoured to witness her life and her vulnerability as a model of the freedom we desire for those you are accompanying. Asia spent years chasing the film industry, believing...

Meet Simon. A member of Glass Canvas Ministries and a part of our Accompaniment Training team. As a young missionary kid in Papua New Guinea, Simon formed many of his early memories surrounded by missionaries and witnessed how they faithfully brought the gospel into the jungle. His worldview was...

I'm struck by the fact that God actually trusts us. He trusts us to cooperate, He trusts us to act, He trusts us to dig deep and go beyond the shallow and superficial. Essentially, He is asking us to do the hard work and trusts us to actually do it. The problem is that if I’m being honest, I hate...

As a child, I despised the words “just wait.” Even into adulthood, I find that patience is the thing that I struggle with the most. Whether it’s waiting for a bus that is perpetually late or for God to reveal the next step, the desire seems to always be the same: I just want to move. Our society...

We’ve all been there before…trying to quickly finish grocery shopping before nap time, exchanging some clothes at a nearby department store or in my case aiming to squeeze in some much-needed mommy time at a local coffeehouse. And then it happens their bottom lip starts to quiver, the little...

We knew my grandma was in pain for a long time. We’d seen her suffering from COPD for the better part of a decade and it was a painful and slow decline. Her lungs were losing their elasticity and every breath was slightly harder than the last breath. We'd see her about once a year and every time...

What kind of faith can actually last a lifetime?