A new venture in Drayton, ON!
Jeanette and Manuel Böhm are passionate about community, loving neighbours and partnering with Jesus as he reconciles all things here in Canada, and around the world. Their desire is to model how Jesus served through authentic and intentional relationships—listening and serving well in community, together. Now, in January 2023, the couple continued to follow Jesus’ lead by launching Love Drayton as a New Venture, in the Central Canadian District. They seek to find out where the wellbeing of people is not yet complete, and invite people to serve together.
In 2021, Jeanette began an apprenticeship with New Ventures. As part of this experience, she sought to develop a holistic approach to living on mission, while exploring reconciliation-based discipleship. Since she and Manuel reside in Drayton, Ontario, they purposed to learn what it meant to be reconciling neighbours in their local context—while also committing to the work of peace and reconciliation globally.
Since Manuel has been part of the Peace and Reconciliation Network (PRN) of the World Evangelical Alliance since its start, the couple continues to be part of a global team. PRN inspires and equips the global Church to be an agent for holistic transformation. This commission seeks to enable local communities through local followers of Jesus Christ, to be reconciled with their creator, their own story of pain, suffering, and to walk their journey of healing and restoration with those around them. This is what Love Drayton is all about: “. . .listening, learning, serving and exploring ways to grow as loving neighbours, together.”
They believe that Love Drayton, as a new venture with The Alliance Canada, is an opportunity to grow together as a community through learning about and serving as neighbours for the wellbeing of all the people of Drayton, a small town in Ontario. Love Drayton is based off our call to be ambassadors of reconciliation in 2 Corinthians 5.
“We believe through living out reconciling relationships with God, self and others, people will be inspired to embody and embrace the ministry of reconciliation in their own lives.”
Communities, therefore, are transformed through residents who share with the people the ‘Good news of the kingdom of God’ and live out what it means to be Church (based on the Greek term for church: ecclesia – “called out to take responsibility for their communities”). This way, Love Drayton isn’t something Jeanette and Manuel do for people, but simply a way of living with people and experiencing peace together. “One we believe God calls us to model.”
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