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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Sean Benesh is a leading voice in thinking about neighbourhoods and urban culture. He has written extensively about how the dynamic and complex everyday...

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A Country of Neighbours

This week I sat in a backyard socially distanced circle by the lake with a dozen of my favourite people. Lake Ridge Community Church, like all organizations in...

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Seven Neighbourists

Neighbourists are those people who find meaning from neighbourhood, by giving meaning to their neighbourhood. They have lifestyles that chooses to engage the...

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The Great Disconnect

On June 9th, as part of the City of Chestermere’s Senior’s Week, the city screened “The Great Disconnect.” This film, by Tamer Soliman, takes viewers on a...

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Peace and All Good

We have set out bird feeders this summer in the branches of our growing front yard trees. As I write this a little song bird is about five feet away singing a...

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Neighbourhood Scouts

There’s a Bible story that I loved in Sunday School. It goes like this: when Moses was wandering in the desert after they left Egypt, he sent a dozen scouts...

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The 1000 Year Neighbourhood

I hiked up a dusty path leading to the ancient city of Jericho and stepped to the edge of a famous archeological wonder: Kathleen Kenyon’s trench. It is like a...

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Your Great Joy and Calling

We each have something special, unique, and remarkable about us. Call it a built-in gift, capacity, or perspective that has real power to influence the world...


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