INTERNATIONAL HOSPITALITY PROGRAM

A friendship program designed to facilitate friendships and fellowship intended for the community of people that call Northside Church “home”. It will help new Canadians to learn about Canadian cultures and also help Canadians to learn about other cultures.

Send your stories, comments and  pictures to  Ingrid at ijanzen@northsidechurch.ca or Lily at song@northsidechurch.ca

SUMMER is a great time to get together

for

Breakfast * Coffee * Lunch * Picnic * Dinner * Dessert

Make time to meet-up with the people around you. We want to bring everyone together as a united community at Northside Church. Take the opportunity to express your love and concern for one another.  Please take pictures!! We’d love to see what you get up to, even if it’s just a visit to the local Starbucks!

Along with your photos, write us the story of what you did and send them our way!

All e-mails can go to

Pastor Ingrid at ijanzen@northsidechurch.ca or Lily at song@northsidechurch.ca

Angela and Natalie's Baby Shower at Joe & Anna's

Potluck at Sam & Lily's

Hosts: Sam & Lily

From Left to right: Lily, Norm, Renee, Estera, Clude, Sam

Comment! “It was a day of discovery…Claude is a stand up comedian!!!  AS well, an evening of encouragement and inspirational sharing with Norm …till 2:30AM!!!! …Foods’ gone but could never get enough talking about our friend Jesus!” -Sam

Hosted by Ali & Maryam at Bunzen Lake – June 6, 2010

From left to right:   First row:  Shirley, Stanley, Rosie, Lily, Angela, Dennis, Sonya, Weiling, Elizabeth

Second row L – R:  Danyela, Ali, Reza, Ben, Theresa, Maryam, Candice, Maki, Sylvia, Krystle

Last row:  Richard & Reji

Carol & Lily – Backyard Coffee time

From Left to right: Cindy, Brighton, Jake, Maria, Lily, Joe, Sam, Britta, Athena, Dobrissa & Adon –  A fellowship from different nationalities…Indonesian, Burmese, Italian, Chinese, German & Croatian!

Host: Sam & Lily

L-R: Sam, Walter, Josie, Gonnie, Eva & Tyson

After dinner time, we had a bonding time predicting the ending of the movie “Home Beyond the Sun”.  Gonnie won the guessing game!!! We all agree she can be a movie writer.

Hosts: Sam & Lily

Guests: L-R:  Liter & Jane; James & Jane (Eugene)

Host: Jonathan and Arlene Gonzales

We had a great time getting to know the whole family and  had the most wonderful lunch served by Jonathan who used to be a hotel chef!!!! Learned a lot of food prep ideas too! Thank you, Jonathan and Arlene for your exceptional hospitality!!!!

– Sam & Lily

Cassidy, Ian, Amanda, Matt, Jarod, Pastor Derrick, Ana
and Doug having lunch together at Tim Hortons!!

Terry & Ingrid Janzen; Sam & Lily

Just spending a lazy afternoon together!

Chinese group at Sam & Lily’s

ESL volunteers and spouses at Sam & Lily’s

Hosts: Pastor Terry & Ingrid Janzen

Guests:  Rick & Linda Kennedy

“ We had Rick and Linda kennedy over for dinner in our back yard/little Stanley Park!!. We dined on southwest chicken salad & nachos and enjoyed the beautiful baskets and flowers that Terry has lovingly planted.  My dessert was a disaster so I threw it out and the only other thing I had was apples!!   Missing were the extra calories was probably a good thing so it ended up being a lovely evening sharing and caring with dear friends! ~ Ingrid

   Hosts: Pastor Terry & Ingrid Janzen

  Guests: Karen Campbell & Nicola Bartel

“I had lunch at my favorite restaurant in the whole world- Sushi Shelter 101 with Karen Campbell and Nicola Bartel on July 10th! We celebrated karen’s birthday and thoroughly enjoyed the beautiful, creative food presentation, amazingly delicious appetizers/main course and reminiscing about our many years as friends!! Totally fun!!” ~ Ingrid

Stay tuned for an upcoming “official” Hospitality Month opportunity...

Things to remember:

If you are a Host,  you can either…

a. invite your guest to your house for a family game, dinner or dessert time. WARNING: KEEP PREPARATIONS SIMPLE!!!

b. invite your guest/s to join for an outing, coffee time, lunch or simple dinner at a restaurant.

c. just be yourself and have FUN!!!

If you are a guest, please…

a. present a simple gift as a token of appreciation to your host.

b. show up on time on the date of arrangement.

c. call your host for any change of schedule or cancellation.

d. go with an open mind and a willingness to meet new friends and try new things!

e. just be yourself and have FUN!!!