Wine Before Breakfast

09/30/2025

Wellspring Worship Centre is a teeming church community in North York, pastored by James Sholl and attended by Sarah Murley who may be familiar to folks to the Wine Before Breakfast and Wycliffe communities. This Saturday they welcome Joash Thompson and Brian Wrecker, who are each launching new books that discuss the liberating nature of Jesus, calling us to re-examine some of our inherited beliefs. The discussion will be conducted by Sheila Gregoire and promises to be very meaningful, challenging and, hopefully, liberating!

Details below.

https://www.newleafnetwork.ca/events/justiceofjesustoronto?fbclid=IwY2xjawNIztNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFKQTNUajBOTXpvODBvUWFGAR47TVZEYOrxQCO_r1-vvuuG__5aEgWZn41IXKeHTUiYQoGFVwNUmXzOd_FCbQ_aem_gcC6hxkJP9Zbrj_uakEtBg

The Justice of Jesus and Hell Bent Book Launch with Joash Thomas, Brian Recker & Sheila Gregoire October 4, 2025, 7 - 9 pm Wellspring Worship Centre 89 Center Avenue North York, ON M2M2L7 Join us on Saturday, October 4, at Wellspring Worship Centre (North York, ON) for an evening o

09/17/2025

Learn more about our musical guest Deb Whalen-Blaize.

Deb is a songwriting and guitar playing singer who needs music to mean something. Growing up singing in church probably had something to do with that. Faith and music have remained hand in hand in her life, and her young dreams of folk-rock stardom have been tempered into carving out some musical space in Toronto, both among the singer-songwriter crowd and in the Anglican Diocese. Working for 13 years as the music director at Wine Before Breakfast, a weekly campus ministry Eucharist service based primarily at Wycliffe College, she developed a deftness at incorporating singer-songwriter music among hymns as a way to engage scripture. Throughout those years, she was invited to offer this unique music ministry in different churches around our Diocese, including Church of the Transfiguration (where she served as the parish missioner for 5 years), Christ Church Deer Park’s monthly Church on Tap service and at the Cathedral’s Leonard Cohen themed Eucharist service as part of the Snell Lecture Series.

She is pleased to perform at the Bishops Company Dinner with a few of her friends, offering a selection of familiar tunes you may have heard on the radio, that hit a little different within the context of our faith.

See Deb perform on Friday, October 17th. Get your seats here. https://bishopscompanytoronto.ca/the-bishops-company-dinner-2/

01/13/2025

Join us at our Silent Retreat on Saturday, January 25. Registration deadline is this Friday. For more information, see

You're invited to a day to practice silence and encounter the presence of God.

12/03/2024

Happy Giving Tuesday! Here is our invitation to support the campus ministry

Support Graduate Christian Fellowship (Christian Reformed Campus Ministry) as we create space for healthy disagreement.

07/23/2024

An update on how God has worked in and through the campus ministry this past season.

"I'm thankful you and the ministry are here." Such encouraging words are ones that both Carol and I have heard from students.  Thank you for your prayers, encouragement, and financial support that make it possible for the ministry to be a source of hope and encouragement.   We wanted to share wit...

01/10/2024

You're invited to our annual Silent Retreat. It will be a time of silence and reflection on Toronto Island. And Deb will be coming to lead with music!

You're invited to a day to practice silence and encounter the presence of God.

12/22/2023

Check out our recent update, which highlights some of the recent transitions and new things we've been doing:

Follow the link to read our year-end newsletter which says more about some of the transitions of this past season and how we've seen God at work in and through the ministry.

11/28/2023

Chceck out this brief update that includes some of the great descriptions about the graduate fellowship that the community shared back in September, and please consider campus ministry as one of the organizations that you support either on or as you start thinking about year-end gifts.

Our twice annual invitation to support the Christian Reformed Campus ministry at the University of Toronto.

11/01/2023

Are you looking for an Advent Bible Study to do with friends or your church community? Are you struggling with how to respond to the overwhelming sorrow and loss present in the world today? The writers of the Psalms were also struggling with deep loss: violence, poverty, war. And, in the midst of such losses, they called God to account, demanded justice, and professed hope that the Creator God would set things right.

This fall Dr. Sylvia Keesmaat will be teaching an online four-week course: "Inhabiting the Psalms: Ancient Songs for a Time of Crisis" that weaves these ancient texts with more recent musical and poetic reworkings of the Psalms. Sunday evenings Nov 26-Dec 17. Go to www.bibleremixed.ca for more info.