Fulfilling our Mission

For months we’ve been talking about becoming a multi-site church. Sunnyside Wesleyan Church is now a multi-site church: one church, two locations. It has happened!

Here are some snapshots of our first two worship services at Sunnyside Downtown in the University of Ottawa Alumni Auditorium. Close your eyes and imagine:

• One-year-old Finn Cain sitting wide-eyed beside a Rubbermaid bin, as the space around him becomes a nursery.
• Tears in the eyes of the man who “heard there was a church” and came in before the service to communicate his need and receive prayer.
• Pastor Brent pulling up the ‘community talk’ chair, encouraging our eyes of faith to ‘see’ the people God will draw to Sunnyside Downtown.
• Men and women kneeling, expressing their need for God at the altar rail. (The altar rail was built using wood from former pews at Sunnyside Grosvenor.)
• "That felt like Sunnyside." (a comment made by a visitor after the April 4 service)

We are called to be the presence of Jesus in the Sandy Hill neighbourhood. Monthly, between now and October, Visions of Multi-site will tell you stories about how Sunnyside Downtown is encountering God’s love, becoming like Jesus, engaging Sandy Hill in the power of the Holy Spirit. We don’t know what the stories are yet, but we know they will be good because God is good!