Hope Lutheran Church is located in Toronto but more accurately Scarborough which was swallowed up by Toronto about 10 years ago.

Scarborough unfortunately has also been called “Scarlem” because of the high crime rates.  Someone once said to me, “Why would you guys pick that location?  It’s so rough…”  To which I answered, “Where better for [...]

During the Easter season, there is a much greater percentage of people who are willing to come to a church event on this Sunday than any other in our community, so we operate with the urgent understanding that this is an opportunity we must make full use of.
Easter morning at Cross of Life always begins [...]

Its springtime or so I have been told. Here in Toronto the flurries still fly.   We ship in palm branches for Palm Sunday from some warmer climate and if there were any such thing as an Easter bunny, the eggs he hides would be covered in a layer of frost. Yet the cold outside does [...]

I never would have believed that our Good Friday services would become an “outreach” event.  However, in Canada, Good Friday seems to be taken serious by many who don’t always take going to church very seriously.  Very few churches do anything worthwhile for Good Friday around here, so we have been getting more and more [...]