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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Seasons of the Soul

Every year at this time I look out over my beehives with deep compassion. There, half buried in snow, are a few thousand honeybees huddles together for warmth...

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Felicity

The most valuable piece of paper in our home right now is a yellow piece of construction paper we taped up beside the mirror in our bathroom. My young...

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Wabi Sabi

Nothing has taught me as much about life, faith, and relationships as being a parent has. Each morning I am awoken by the chatter of one of my two little...

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The Problem of Pain

Last year I had a debilitating nerve pain that overturned my daily life. From the tip of my finger to my neck, on one side, was an agonizing pain unlike...

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Neighbours 1952

It was in a time of revolution in China and war in Korea that Norman McLaren decided to create a short film about two neighbours. The film, called...

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Parka People

Years ago, to pay my way through college, I spent my summers working at my local grocery store. While it seemed like everyone else was out in the sun, I was...

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Toothpaste

I love new things. Christmas morning with its bursting stockings is like a slice of heaven for me. Few things are better than new socks, or a kind email, or a...

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The Gatherers

Several years ago I visited an orphanage in Kenya. I spent much of my time there with several young men who had grown up and moved out of the orphanage, but...

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Christmas Given

Christmas comes with gifts, and certainly that is one of the very best things about it. It might be more high-minded to say that Christmas is about more than...

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A Patient Patient

Waiting hurts. It takes a certain strength of character to wait and assume the painful cost of sitting on the sidelines or letting another go first. Even the...


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