Introducing Our Residence Manager: Meet Madison Eckert!
Act Five has some exciting news to share! We are thrilled to welcome Madison Eckert onto the staff team as our Residence Manager for the next two years! Madi has […]
Lessons From International Trips
For the past month, our students have been out across the globe! Half of them did disaster relief work in South Texas, building a home for an immigrant family, while […]
Life as an Act Five Resident
If you had asked me back in high school where I thought I would end up living after I graduated from university, I could never have come up with the […]
Freedom in Restriction: The Beauty of Community Life
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” (Matt. 5:17) Psalm 133:1 reads: […]
Through Childlike Eyes: Reflections from Alumna Alleluia Buist
Alleluia Buist, an alumna of Act Five (‘22), recently completed a 3-month internship at A Rocha Canada’s Brooksdale Environmental Centre. Here she shares her experience and learning from her time […]
Making Room this Christmas
From the end-of-term newsletter, December 2022 I wonder… do we have any room this Christmas season? Do we have room for God to come again and dwell among us – in a new way – just as he did in […]
Life in Community: End-of-Term Reflections
Tell us your story. At the end of each term, our students are given an assignment as part of the Place, Home, & Land course that asks them to share […]
How You Spend Your Days…
Our students have now completed 9 weeks of what we call “Ordinary Time” at Act Five. This thing called “Ordinary Time” is what makes our gap year program both dynamic […]
A Week on Manitoulin Island
By David Schuurman, Program Manager I’ve been closely involved with Act Five since the day the program got possession of the property on Blake Street, I lived at the Act […]
At the Quarter Mark: Engagement & Rest
*While speaking of our day at A Rocha below, we truly rested in creation without taking photos, and so the images included here are from other days to this point […]
