All posts by Preston Pouteaux
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Home for the Messy Holidays
Families are complex. If you’ve celebrated Christmas this week with your extended family, or chose to avoid them this time of year, then you likely...
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A Community of Care & Support
Becoming a Lone Ranger in a world of noise and demand is an alluring idea. Anyone of us could become Lone Rangers, we could easily...
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Open Space for Small Talk
The in-between life of our neighbourhoods is often made up of ordinary stuff. Errands, texts, coffee, meal prep, trips to the mailbox, school-work, and appointments seem...
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Drawn Together
I was visiting with a neighbour who had never walked around the ponds in their community. I was surprised. The truth is that there are...
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Pettiness
Small things are important. A kind word can go a long way to build up another person and expressing simple love in a family might...
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Intrepid Whimsy
In October I embarked on a cross-Canada tour talking about the ways that loving our neighbours is changing our lives, our hearts, and our communities....
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Distinctly Chestermere
What makes your neighbourhood special? This is the question that a community in London, England first asked about 30 years ago. They began the Local...
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The Turquoise Table Story
Kristin Schell tells the story of how she longed for community and found it in surprising ways. In her book, ‘The Turquoise Table,’ she shares...
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Letting Your Neighbours Shape You
We have the ability to shape our community for better or for worse. The words we use, the time we invest, and the connections we...
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Halloween in the Neighbourhood
One of my first halloween neighbourhood memories involved one white bed sheet cut into dozens of long strips. My mother bundled me up in...
Preston Pouteaux - Into the Neighbourhood
Preston is a pastor at Lake Ridge Community Church in Chestermere and experiments mostly in the intersection of faith and neighbourhood. Into the Neighbourhood explores how we all contribute to creating a healthy and vibrant community. Preston is also a beekeeper; a reminder that small things make a big difference.
email: preston@lakeridgecommunity.com
