Hey Team Punk Monk,

I snuck into ministry through the back door. My university degree is in Visual Arts, so I definitely didn’t have a conventional career path that led me to working for the Greater Ontario House Of Prayer (GOHOP). I try to live holistically, viewing my life as a Punk Monk, Musician, and Artist, as one job. 

This year I’m part of a couple Christmas Markets in Hamilton that are raising funds for very good causes. The first one is this weekend!

Eucharist Church Christmas Market:
Raising Funds for Sponsored Refugee Family.
130 Victoria St. N.
Sat Nov 29th (11am-4pm)
Sun Nov 30th (Noon-3pm)

541 Holiday Market: (buy your tickets here) 
A fundraiser for 541 Eatery & Exchange.
286 Sanford Ave N. (At the WestingHouse HQ near 541)
Sat Dec 13th (11am-5pm)

Meeting Place Update:

Through a partnership between GOHOP and The Meeting Place (my church), I have been doing weekly times of prayer and outreach at 541 Eatery & Exchange for over a year now. Many of the people that I connect with from the church and the eatery are very transient. Sometimes people just disappear for long periods of time due to high levels of homelessness, poverty, addiction and mental health struggles. That is why it is so important to be consistent. Church is always on Sunday at 4pm. I’m always available for prayer or a conversation on Thursday mornings around the big table at 541. This week that consistency paid off. We had multiple people drop by to reconnect. Some had been away for months, others years, but they all knew where to find community. 

• My prayer & outreach hours at 541 are funded through a grant from Mennonite Church Easter Canada. We have applied for this funding to be renewed in 2026. Please pray that this funding request would be approved. 
• Pray for people to access housing and medical care. Thankfully one of our regulars will be moving into a very good apartment in December, but there are so many others that need housing. There are also so many addiction and medical issues that people are dealing with. Just last Sunday, we had to call an ambulance for a man who was lying on the floor during our service. He didn’t have the energy to get up but thankfully he agreed to go to the hospital. That same night we were supporting a man who was also in obvious distress from a fentanyl addiction but he wouldn’t agree to go to the hospital. 
• The Meeting Place (and 541) don’t exist without a healthy mix of people being involved. Pray that more stable folks would join the church, people with the time and energy to help. Yes there are hard things about being a church that makes room for people on the margins but there are also real blessings in this kind of church. It feels like the type of church Jesus would hang out at.

Thank You for Sending Me!

I recently was listening to a podcast about ministry fundraising that emphasised that it is our supporters who are the ones that are sending us. This made me think of you. If you are reading this, you are a part of “Team Punk Monk,” You are the community that is sending me out into the world to do ministry. Thank you for sending me! Thank you for believing in me. Thank you for empowering me to:

• lead weekly prayer workshops
• connect with people on the margins
• host drop in prayer room hours
• develop prayer resources
• support pastors & leaders
• use my creative gifts

If you would like to make a year end gift to support my work with GOHOP you can do that here:

Donate Online with CanadaHelps:
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/53164

Donate by E-transfer:
Send your e-transfer to donate@gohop.ca
You must write “Donation for Randell Neudorf” 
in the message section. 

Donate by Cheque:
https://randellneudorf.com/gohop/donate/

My hope and prayer for you over the Advent season is that you would have the courage to be kind to yourself and those God puts in your path. 

Grace & Peace,

Randell (Randy) Neudorf