Karen Stecher spent 40 years with Windsor Essex Children’s Aid Society. After retirement she has become an advocate and facilitator with Safe Families Canada, helping the church to engage with families prior to the need for child protective services. Government funded systems are inadequate to provide the needs of minors in crisis. Karen will help us understand how we can live a world where children are safe and families are together. This session was recorded at Our City Windsor 2026.

Bob and his wife Margo moved into downtown in 2010 to creative alternative ways in loving our neighbours of no fixed address. DWCC has a faith-based mission to enhance the wellbeing of life in the downtown parish. Bob is a community builder and pastor at heart with an active vision to promote good neighbouring. In this session at the Our City Windsor Conference 2026, Bob spoke on prayer engagement for the city.

In May 2026, the General Conference of the Pentecostal Assemblies Of Canada was held in Halifax NS. Kevin Rogers played roving reporter and captured short conversations about God at work in multiple communities and tidbits of history.

Elizabeth Anderson is the director of Urban Cry School of Mission in Windsor, Ontario. At the Our City Windsor 2026 conference, she brought a fascinating perspective from Paul’s offerings for the church in Jerusalem in their experience of famine. In our pursuit of social justice, what distinguishes a humanistic response from the justice that God is looking for?

Our guest today is Brian Harrison. He splits his time as Outreach Pastor between Parkwood Gospel Church and Parkwood Outreach Centre (downtown). He is a lifelong musician and has decades of bringing people together in music productions. He is also a Windsor born member with lived experience in the Black community. Our city is rich in Black history and that has shaped our city culture. This session was recorded at Our City Windsor 2026 Conference at New Song Church.

Caroline Durocher-Bergeron provides national leadership with Mission Canada as the Coordinator for Québec and Francophone Canada. In this role, she helps identify, equip, and mobilize workers to serve francophone communities across the country, strengthening local churches and resourcing leaders for greater mission impact. She collaborates with districts and churches to address strategic needs, build bridges between leaders, and launch innovative initiatives and partnerships that reach unreached regions and populations. Caroline has served in pastoral and leadership roles for over 25 years, ministering in Haiti, Vancouver, Montréal, and now Sherbrooke, Québec, where she co-leads Église le Carrefour with her husband, Pascal. She has equipped leaders through national conferences, training programs, and mentoring networks, and continues to travel across Canada to strengthen francophone ministry expressions. She is the founder of VIVID Academy, a coaching and mentorship ministry focused on leadership development, and Valeureuses, a francophone platform that equips women. Caroline holds a Bachelor’s in Theology (Institut Biblique du Québec), a Master’s in Leadership (Trinity Western University), and certifications in Life, Leadership, and Business Coaching. She is currently completing a Master’s in Ministry and Business to support the launch of new and impactful initiatives within the Canadian church.

Susan Wells is a creative workhouse. Whether writing, producing a show or planning an event she puts her whole self into it. Since teaming up with Maury Blair’s Breakthrough Ministries, she has brought new life to an old ministry. At a time when Maury’s public ministry was declining, she came on board to rewrite his autobiography, create new opportunities for Maury to speak and creatively use Artificial Intelligence to create a graphic novel and short film based on Maury’s ‘Child of Woe’ story. In this interview we talk about some of the miraculous encounters and provisions to extend Maury’s ministry to brand new audiences around the world.

In this part of the interview, Victoria Martin talks about her street life, sex trafficking and her escape from the notorious pig farm of serial killer Robert Pickton. As she entered into witness protection and testified against some of her abusers, she also came to a new beginning as a follower of Jesus. The remainder of the interview talks about the healing journey and new life she now lives.

Victoria Martin grew up in Downtown Vancouver near the infamous Choklit Park. From her mother’s midnight move from Montreal to British Columbia, young Victoria left behind a father involved in organized crime. But she was no safer with her mother who let men do things to her as a young girl. In this part of the interview we hear her story of being a street kid who thought she had the world by the tail. The seeds of her faith started when she visited an ornate church and met the priest. Thinking that he was Santa Claus, she poured out her heart telling him everything that she wanted and dreamed about. Victoria’s life journey would be far from picturesque, but the presence of God brought her to her new day.

This is part 2 of my interview with Susan Keddy. In this episode we talk about the community impact of the ‘We Are Christ Days’ across Ontario. In these events, churches rallied together to host multiple sites for meeting community needs. We also talk about how an opioid crisis came into her life after being hospitalized and the grace of God to get her free from it.