OTTAWA

Connecting Streams equips and mobilizes the Church to help society’s vulnerable populations know Jesus and experience His power to change the world. Through partnerships and teams, we build trusting relationships that foster faith and hope.

Ottawa Streams and Services

Intercultural Stream

Addiction Recovery Steam

Seniors/LTC Stream

Inner City Stream

Prison/Post Prison Stream

Prayer Teams

Grief Support Course

Trauma Healing Course

Church Partnerships

The Ottawa Current Newsletter

Intercultural Stream

We provide engaging opportunities for followers of Jesus to come alongside and befriend newcomers to Canada, introducing them to the One who can give them hope in all their challenges.

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Addiction Recovery Stream

We facilitate a Christ-centered 12-step program as a safe place to access support and be set free from addictions.

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Inner City Stream

We provide intentional opportunities for teams to share their stories and the transformational love of Christ with those who are experiencing homelessness or extreme poverty.

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Seniors/LTC Stream

We provide relationship, support, and discipleship opportunities for those living with various health challenges and disabilities. We send our teams to hospitals, long term care facilities, and seniors centres. We work with Embrace Ministries, which trains teams from local churches with the vision to see every seniors’ residence in Ottawa adopted by a local church or churches, where both residents, their families, and staff, through spiritual care, have an opportunity to come to faith and be discipled.

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Prison / Post Prison Stream

We provide purposeful opportunities for Christ-followers to reach out to those in the Ottawa correctional centres. Our trained leaders guide volunteers into life transformational encounters for everyone involved.

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Grief Support Course

We offer emotional, practical, and spiritual support for people at all stages of their grieving journey, introducing them to the love and care of God through Jesus.

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Prayer Teams

Prayer is the fuel that keeps our teams on the move! We have a weekly Thursday morning prayer gathering as well as an online team of intercessors that pray regularly for each of our teams and the ministry as a whole. We are always looking for more intercessors, so if this is on your heart please reach out to us.

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Trauma Healing Course

Trauma Healing ministry draws on the restorative power of God’s Word. The Bible-based curriculum – Caring for the Wounded Heart: Trauma Healing Program – includes basic mental health concepts to help participants identify their pain, share their suffering, bring their pain to the cross of Christ for healing, and, for cases where the trauma was caused by the actions of another person, learn to forgive their oppressors.

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Church Partnerships

Connecting Streams would be happy to walk with your church through a process of discovery, mobilization and equipping to love and serve the vulnerable of your community. We have designed an action plan for church leadership to identify and focus on the specific area of ministry the Holy Spirit for which the Holy Spirit is preparing your congregation.

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The Ottawa Current Newsletter

The “Ottawa Current” is our monthly newsletter to all our volunteers and friends of Connecting Streams Ottawa. In the newsletter you will read of the impact our teams are making as well as keep up to date with new teams that are forming or which teams are in need of volunteers.

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Current Ministry Teams

Bridges MON 6-8PM | OCACBridges provides men and women in the inner city of Ottawa with a meal and the message of the gospel. Bridges is a ministry of the Metropolitan Bible Church supported by Connecting Streams and Ottawa Chinese Alliance Church.

A.R.MTUES 7-9PM | Peace Tower ChurchARM is a Christ-centered, 12-step recovery program for anyone struggling with hurt, pain or addiction of any kind. Celebrate Recovery is a safe place to find community and freedom from the issues that are controlling our life.

Conversation Café THUR 1-2:30PM | Online (Womens)
THUR 7:30-9PM | Online Newcomers to Canada and Canadian friends read and discuss the Bible together using a discovery method. All faith backgrounds are welcome!

In Person Conversation Café TBDNewcomers to Canada and Canadian friends read and discuss the Bible together using a discovery method. All faith backgrounds are welcome!

Paul’s Prayer Warriors THURS 7:30-8:30 AM | OnlineWe gather online on Thursday mornings to pray for our teams, volunteers and their impact among program participants, as well as for the ministry as a whole.

Discovery Bible Study TUE 10-11:30AM | Online (Mens)
WED 7-9PM | OnlineNewcomers to Canada and Canadian friends read and discuss the Bible together using a discovery method. All faith backgrounds are welcome!

EMBRACE for Seniors in Residence ONGOING INITIATIVEThrough our partner EMBRACE Ministries, Connecting Streams encourages every church in Ottawa to adopt a seniors residence. Perhaps your church will be next!

LifeLabSAT 10AM-12 | Peace Tower ChurchLifeLab is a peer-to-peer workshop that helps someone find the root heart wound, resentments and fears that lead to addictions of all kinds. These include eating disorders, workaholics, anxieties, alcohol, gambling, pornography, drugs, co-dependancy and any other unmanageable ways of trying to manage your life.

Grief Support THURS 7-9 | OnlineGriefShare is a friendly, caring group of people who will walk alongside you through one of life’s most difficult experiences. You don’t have to go through the grieving process alone.

Caring for the Wounded Heart TUES 1-3:30PM | Online
THUR 6:30-9PM | OnlineSuffering from a wounded heart caused by grief and/or trauma? Please consider join this small group designed to help bring healing to the wounds of the heart. The group will be led by facilitators who have received training in Caring for the Wounded Heart.

Inspire Somerset WED 12-1PM | Somerset Towers“Inspire Somerset” seeks to bring the joy of the Spirit of God into the Somerset Towers community through music and scripture.

Upper Room Drop-In THUR/FRI 1-4:30PM | 816 BankThe Upper Room exists to make good Christian resources available and affordable to the Ottawa community. We seek to be an inviting setting for reading, conversations among friends, and opportunities for exploring questions of faith.

Safe Havens Youth Team TBD – Team Members NeededWe have an amazing opportunity to partner with the Haven Too Youth Shelter to provide spiritual friendship to the youth who use their services Wednesday and Thursday nights. If you have a heart for at-risk teens, please consider joining our team.