Author - Preston Pouteaux

Preston PouteauxPreston 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.

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Be of Good Courage

My heart sank when I heard the emergency alert from the Alberta Government: another set of restrictions and more hard news. I flipped over to my twitter...

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Allies

My wife, Kelly, served as a medical relief worker in Haiti and Brazil, but some of her best stories came from a year she spent working with farmers in Zambia...

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Third Places

Throughout this pandemic many of us lived our lives in one place: our home. For me, that meant turning our basement into an office space, our kitchen table...

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Around the Table

As I write this, my BBQ is doing something it has not done in a long time: it’s slow roasting a big piece of meat. This is not just any meat, it is meat for a...

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Isolation and the Great Idea

It sometimes takes a great sadness to change us; but not to coerce us, manipulate us, or guilt us into a new way of life. Instead, a great bump in the road of...

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When Neighbourhoods Lament

I remember sitting with a friend when I was going through a hard time in my teenage years. I was thinking about some pretty hard things and feeling a lot of...

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The Hopeful Sound of Block Parties

2020 was the first year our little corner of Rainbow Falls did not celebrate with a block party. We all shared in the ache of missing out. The pandemic kept us...

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The Pursuit of Happiness

Where does happiness come from? A few years ago my wife and I sat down over several days to do a little happiness audit. We wanted to try and figure out what...


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