DEPARTMENT NEWS
Pastor Bryan leading food program at the downtown Calgary.
Pastor Feeley speaking with Kamika.
Global Youth Day S
ometimes, God has plans for you that you never would have expected. God can take you from the lowest experiences and transform you for a greater purpose. That’s what happened with Mathew Feeley, our guest speaker for Global Youth Day in Calgary. The funny thing is I knew of Mathew Feeley in my high school days. However, that Mathew Feeley was not the same person who is preaching the gospel
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today. The story goes like this: Mat grew up in the area of Scarborough. My girlfriend at the time, who went to Senator O’Connor College School, would always tell me about this funny, crazy guy who had dyed hair and was always high on different kinds of drugs. It wouldn’t be until 2003 at Canadian University College where God allowed our paths to cross. God had transformed Mat's life when he walked in off the streets and into a crusade
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at the Scarborough Adventist Church. He heard the message and was baptized. God wanted him to hear the gospel preached and eventually become a gospel preacher himself. For our Global Youth Day weekend, on Friday night, Mat brought a powerful word, sharing his testimony of how he used to fight all through high school until one day, when he was alone at a bus stop without any help from friends, he
was jumped. It was a humbling moment that would make him never want to fight and beat people up again. A powerful testimony, along with an inspiring video, was shared by Kamika Guerra Walker. Kamika is an inspirational speaker. She started the Walker Foundation, which focuses on mental health, due to mental health issues that impacted her father. She shared this heart wrenching testimony of
