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Punk Monk Newsletter – Mar 2026

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Hey Team Punk Monk,

It has been almost 3 months since my last update, so I thought I would give you some photo highlights with some short stories (one one longer one) about what I’ve been up to in my ministry with GOHOP.

Sold Out Show!

I had the privilege of performing my Looking for Kindness Amidst Anxiety show to a sold out room at Eucharist Church in January. Nina, the pastor of Eucharist really wanted this to be an intergenerational event. I’m happy to say that a number of people brought their kids (something we were praying for at GOHOP). I met one little guy who was very excited to show me that he bought my book. His mom shared that a number of people in their home deal with anxiety so my story really resonated with them.

Ash Wednesday Funeral Songs:

Every year on Ash Wednesday I host a very strange open mic called Funeral Songs. There is a real mix of people who attend. It is pretty evenly split between church people, people who have left the church, and folks with no Christian connection. There was one lady who came up to me at the end and said “That was way less churchy then I thought it would be, and I mean that as a compliment!” Turns out she is Muslim, and was having a rough day and just stopped in for some company and the pizza we were sharing. There aren’t a lot of places where you get this mix of people being open and honest with each other. I’m so thankful that God continues to place me in these in between spaces.

The Beauty of Being Part of a Team!

As I was getting ready for this year’s TrueCity Conference and Prayer Room (TrueCity is a network of Hamilton Churches) I was also preparing for a very hard task. I had been asked by a single mom to do the funeral for her 13 year old son who passed away from a very aggressive form of Juvenile Huntington’s Disease. The boy was a classmate of my youngest, so of course I said yes but I didn’t feel equipped to pull together a funeral for someone so young. I quickly messaged all the pastors from the TrueCity network for advice. Within hours, 4 people offered some amazing help. Dena (an Anglican priest) dropped off some books of prayers for me. She even took the time to bookmark all the pages she thought would be helpful. Nina (a Baptist pastor) emailed me a funeral resource her church uses that had specific prayers for child funerals.This resource also had important advice on how to speak to the other kids in the room. Dave (on staff with TrueCity) let me know that Michael (a Christian Reformed Pastor) was actually telling a story at the upcoming conference about a hard funeral he did for a teen. Michael phoned me and really helped me to internalize what I needed to do to be a good support for the grieving mom and school community. 

The teamwork kept going. During the conference, I had so many GOHOP friends and TrueCity pastors come up to me, give me a big hug and tell me they were praying for me. The conference ended with everyone lining up for communion. I was at the front of the line, and after I took communion, I decided to leave early so I could keep preparing for the funeral that was the very next day. As I was walking down the aisle, I had so many pastors and prayer friends quietly pat me on the back, knowing why I was leaving early. I could literally feel that they had my back. 

The Funeral took place during the first shift I was booked as a host for the prayer room. Ian (the Director of GOHOP) said he would take care of finding people to cover me. Again, I experienced the beauty of being part of a team.

I won’t go into all the details of the funeral, but I decided that I really wanted to focus on prayer & stories. It wasn’t a church funeral, so I wanted to give everyone (especially the kids) a way into the prayers. At the beginning of the service I name dropped that I’m a Mennonite Pastor and that prayer is something that is important to me, but that we often make it too complicated.

I invited everyone to hold their hands open with their palms face up. I said that they could do this as a way of being open to a prayer I might be saying, or a story that someone shares. It is sort of a “Yes Please,” or an “Amen!” I then had everyone turn their palms face down. I invited people to do this whenever they heard something that felt too heavy or too hard to hold. They could imagine that heavy thing falling to the ground or being dropped into the hands of their neighbour, parents, or even the hands of God. The beauty of this prayer practice is that you then reset your hands to be open again for the next thing. Each time I was praying, I would model this posture from the front with my hands, and I could see others around the room doing the same. 

Afterwards a few parents told me that they didn’t know what to expect but that the service was exactly what their family needed. I also had two different people come up to me and say that their dad or grandfather had been a mennonite pastor. Both individuals said they were no longer practicing but that they liked being reminded of the pastor in their family. Seemed like God was up to something.

50th Birthday!

I turned 50 years old on Sunday. I was celebrated by friends & family, and had a very good birthday weekend. That being said, 50 is a strange number. It seems like a time where it is important to do some self reflection. I booked some spiritual direction appointments to talk through some of these things. If you are looking for a spiritual director, there are some great ones connected to GOHOP. Many of them will meet over Zoom, so you don’t need to be in the Hamilton area to use this service. You can find out more here: gohop.ca/spiritual-direction

541 Art Show:

The 541 Eatery & Exchange currently has my Kindness Cartoons hanging on the walls. The show runs to about the end of May. I do prayer and outreach in the cafe on Thursdays, and I’m hoping that some good conversations are sparked by my art being up in the room. 

if you would like to check out the show, 541 is open Tue-Sat from 8am until 2pm.  

Fundraising Update:

I’m happy to report that Mennonite Church Eastern Canada has renewed the 541 prayer & outreach funding for another year. This allows me to continue to be at the cafe on Thursday mornings! 

The GOHOP staff team is continuing to lean into our fundraising training with the Sweet Life of Missionary Partnership Podcast. As we use and implement what we are learning, we are also looking ahead to how we could onboard and empower future staff members as well. 

Thank you so much for being part of this partnership team, and empowering me to do this ministry work. There are 3 ways you can sign up for a monthly giving plan or make a donation: 

1.
Donate Online with CanadaHelps:
canadahelps.org/en/dn/53164

2.
Donate by E-transfer:
Send your e-transfer to donate@gohop.ca
You must write “Donation for Randell Neudorf” in the message section.  Please also include your mailing address to get a tax receipt next year.

3.
Donate by Cheque:
randellneudorf.com/gohop/donate

Prayer Requests:

The picture above is from one of the TrueCity Prayer Stations I created this year. People were invited to trace their hand and a wooden cross as they reflected on Jesus’ words in Matthew 16:24, “If any wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.” 

As the hands and crosses overlapped and filled up the small canvas, people were reminded that Jesus had help carrying his own cross, in the form of Simon (Mark 15:12). 

Praying for each other is one of the ways we help each other carry our crosses.

Here are some ways you can be praying for me:

  • Pray for my health. I have been sick or injured a number of times already this year. This is one of the things that has helped me to really focus on the importance of ministering as a team. Pray that I would be able to build up more collaboration and teamwork in the work that I do. 
  • We would like to expand the staff team at GOHOP. Pray that the right people would be called into this ministry. 
  • Pray for my family. We are thankful that Susan got an extension on her current library position doing kids programming (she is always applying for permanent positions to do the same thing long term. My daughter Zoe is getting married to Luis in less than a month (I’m officiating the wedding). Ethan is working hard at building his business, Buddy Boy Dog Training (he also does dog walking and pet sitting). Troy will be starting highschool in the fall (most of his friends will be going to a different school, so pray that he meets some nice kids). 
  • Pray for the Mom who is grieving the loss of her son. Pray that she would be open to meeting with friends and neighbours who are trying to be supportive. 
  • I’m leading some prayer and art workshops in May and June. Pray that I have a clear idea of what God would like me to share. 
  • GOHOP’s annual Prayer Truck is happening a month earlier this year in June. This is a street level prayer room behind an at-risk youth centre in downtown Hamilton. Pray that we would have a strong volunteer team and that we would do a good job of connecting to youth and other people passing by on the street.
  • Pray for my fundraising activities. Pray that I would be consistent with my time. Pray that I would have opportunities to meet with people about becoming monthly donors. 

How could I be praying for you? This partnership team goes both ways!

Thanks for taking the time to get all the way to the bottom of my newsletter! 

Grace & Peace,

Randell (Randy) Neudorf

Punk Monk Newsletter – Jan 2026

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Hey Team Punk Monk,

I hope you had some meaningful times of rest and reflection over the Christmas Holidays. I had a couple weeks off. It was very nice and delightfully uneventful.

The new year is going to be very busy for me but in a good way. If you live near Hamilton I have a show I would like to invite you to.

One Man Show Returns to Hamilton:

It was a little over a year ago that I debuted my Looking for Kindness Amidst Anxiety show at the 541 Eatery & Exchange in Hamilton. I’m very excited to let you know that this unique show is coming back to Hamilton on Friday, January 30th. It is being hosted by Salt Cellar Arts, a ministry of Eucharist Church. 

You can find out all the details on the Eventbrite Page. Please consider passing this on to anyone you think might enjoy an evening of kind stories, songs and drawings. If you would like to see the show or bring a friend, there are some Early Bird Tickets on sale right now for only $10 each!

Watch the Looking for Kindness Trailer Here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjhIXl-G898

Get all the Show Details Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/looking-for-kindness-amidst-anxiety-with-old-reverend-randell-tickets-1977635314462?aff=oddtdtcreator

PLEASE PRAY:

  • Pray for my health. There are so many different bugs going around. 
  • Pray that God would gather the right group of people to come hear my story. 
  • As I have been planning this show with Salt Cellar Arts, we decided to encourage families to attend with discounted tickets for teens & kids. Pray that this would really be a meaningful intergenerational experience for people.
  • Pray that I would reflect the Creator well with my creativity.

Sowing Seeds of Kindness:

During Advent I had the opportunity to show my Kindness Cartoons at a couple Christmas Markets. Afterwards I ran into a mom whose daughter had bought one of my pieces. The mom told me I had made a big impression on her daughter and thanked me for spending so much time with her. It was just another reminder that being part of these arts spaces is an important part of my ministry. Thank you for empowering me to be in these less traditional ministry spaces. 

Just recently I was at a party and was asked the dreaded question, “What do you do for a living?” After I gave a pretty vague answer about working for a prayer ministry, they started asking lots of follow up questions about the specific things I am a part of each month. When I got to the part about listening prayer, this stranger got really pulled in. I shouldn’t be surprised, listening prayer is contagious. It is pretty amazing to find out that the God of the Universe loves to communicate with us!

I’m coordinating two leadership teams at GOHOP, and both are all about the weird & wonderful world of listening prayer. 

  1. Prayer for Pastors & Leaders meets on Friday mornings. Each week we pray with a different person working for a church or ministry. We start with some silence and a time of listening prayer. We ask the Lord to bring to mind a word of encouragement – prayers, scriptures, feelings, thoughts, or images. These promptings are then shared in an open posture of humility.  We leave it to the person being prayed for to discern if the words resonate as something from God. Week after week I see God using this time to really encourage leaders who are continually giving of themselves to others (but often not having the same done for them). Most years I have to do a lot of outreach to fill our weekly schedule. This year we have had so many people reaching out to be prayed for that we are often booking about 2 months ahead. God is really up to something. 
  2. Barnabas Listening Prayer is a monthly learning lab that helps people grow in the practice of listening prayer. Often people think that you need to have a special gift to “hear” God, but we have found that listening is more of a muscle that needs to be exercised. There are tips & tricks that help stretch our own unique ability to listen in prayer. Just last week we had 3 new people attend and it was very encouraging. 

HOW YOU CAN PRAY:

  • Please pray for both teams as we have had a number of new additions to their leadership. It is exciting to see these new people jump right in with great ideas and energy. Pray that we would continue to gel as a team.
  • Prayer for Pastors and Leaders has been running for almost 25 years now (It is GOHOP’s oldest prayer ministry). I am looking to add an additional 1 or 2 people to this team. Pray that we would find the right volunteers who are passionate about supporting leaders. 
  • Pray for Pastors & Leaders in your community. Our ministers, boards, executive directors and charity workers are doing really hard and important work. 

Fundraising Is Hard but Partnership is Sweet!

The GOHOP staff team has been going through a YWAM podcast about personal fundraising called “The Sweet Life of Missionary Partnership.” The tag line they say over and over again is “Fundraising in hard… but partnership is sweet!!!” I’m only a couple episodes in but this language has been really encouraging. I thank God for you as a partner in this ministry. Thank you for partnering with your donations. Thank you for partnering with your kind messages. Most of all, thank you for partnering with your prayers!

If you would like to find out more about starting a Monthly Giving Plan you can do that HERE (even better, let’s meet for coffee). I’m a big believer in being upfront about money, so if you would like to see my budget and fundraising goals it is all posted HERE. 

3 Ways to Donate:

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/

Lastly, thank you to the person who made the anonymous donation in December. It was a very nice surprise. I don’t know who you are, but I have a sneaky suspicion that you are someone who is part of this partnership team.

Grace & Peace,

Randell (Randy) Neudorf

Punk Monk Newsletter – Oct 2025

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It is alway nice to be able to try new things. This week my family visited a corn maze. A couple of the kids had been before but we hadn’t ever gone all together. I’m very thankful that even though 2 of my kids are adults, they all still have fun playing together on our family adventures.

 As someone who is directionally challenged and uses Google Maps to get anywhere, I’m very proud that I actually made it out of the maze. You should also know that my wife’s favourite part was jumping out of the corn and scaring her children (good times!). 

Asah and a Damascus Road Encounter:

I was feeling very uninspired as I was preparing for October’s Asah: Creativity & Prayer Studio. I had used up all my new ideas in September, so I figured it was ok to use some past ideas this month. I picked two activities that wouldn’t usually go together but decided it was fine and didn’t really want to put too much more thought into it. 

Our first activity was called Four Images of God. A spiritual director introduced it to me at a retreat a number of years ago. You are asked to draw four images of how you perceived God in different times in your life. Here are the prompts I used:

  1. Draw your earliest image of God.
  2. Draw your image of God at your conversion, baptism, or confirmation (the time in your life where you felt like you made your faith your own).
  3. Draw your current image of God.
  4. Draw the image of God that God is inviting you into next.

The above photo is what I drew. The idea behind drawing instead of writing out your thoughts, is that drawing uses a different part of our brain (even if it is just stick figures). Through drawing we can sometimes access different memories or ideas that we have forgotten.

There was a new woman who joined us but she jumped right into the exercise. Afterwards the group was talking about the experience. Sharing is never mandatory but this new person was extra quiet during the discussion. After everyone else had shared about their drawings there was a long pause. I was about to move us on to our next activity when the new person said, “This has really helped me make sense of my story. I wasn’t planning on talking about this but I am a very new Christian. I actually had a Damascus road experience”

Without getting into the details of this person’s private story, she told us about some very dark things that were part of her life. Just as she was about to hit a dangerous point of no return, she had a very miraculous encounter. Just like Paul on the road to Damascus, God literally spoke into this woman’s life and pointed her towards Jesus. 

The whole time she was telling us her testimony, it struck me how all 4 of her drawings were from a very small, recent slice of time. I didn’t want to say anything but I kept having this thought that there must be an earlier image of God in her life, Something she doesn’t remember or didn’t have the awareness at the time to recognise as a God moment. 

This nagging thought wouldn’t let go, so just before she left I said,

“Thank you so much for sharing your story. It was a real privilege that you trusted us with that. It really struck me that all your drawings, even your first image of God, were so recent. I think as you mature, that God will continue to show you earlier and earlier times in your life when God was speaking to you and helping you in your life.”

Her posture relaxed and she exclaimed, “Thank you so much for saying that! I have been so angry with God! Why did He wait so long to speak to me? Why did He let me get so far into danger? Hearing you say that really helps.”

It struck me how amazing Jesus is. He can use a day where I was feeling guilty and apologetic for not having any flashy new ideas to bring some healing into a person’s soul. 

  • Pray for my new friend. Pray that she would mature in her faith and continue to discover Jesus in her life (both in the past and present). Pray that she would learn that God is ok with all her feelings (her thankfulness and her anger). 
  • Pray for me as I lead these creative prayer evenings. Pray that I would be open to the Holy Spirit’s leading. 
  • Pray that I would hold people’s stories well. Pray that I would be a good listening ear.
  • Continue to pray for my Asah co-leader Megan’s recovery from a concussion. She is slowly adding work back into her life. Pray for wisdom for her to know what she can handle and what to hold off on. 

Common Prayer for Ordinary Radicals:
In Person & on Zoom – Tuesdays at Noon.

I’m always excited to let you know about an opportunity that you can take advantage of no matter where you live. Every Tuesday at Noon I’m part of GOHOP’s hybrid Common Prayer hour that is in person and on zoom. I’m the one managing the Zoom side of things, so if you show up online, you will definitely see me. There is a real justice emphasis to these meetings as we are pray into issues of homelessness, poverty, at risk youth, newcomers and refugees. Find out all the details here: gohop.ca/commonprayer

  • We have been inviting people from charities and social services to join us in these justice focused prayer times.We have had a good response. Pray for these front line workers who see a lot of hard things every day. Pray that our ministry at GOHOP would be a good part of their self care. 

First Things Class 

If you were wanting to dig in a little deeper to all things GOHOP, we have a new class called First Things starting on Monday, November 10th. For six weeks people will get to learn about the six core values of 24-7 Prayer & GOHOP:

  1. Prayer
  2. Justice
  3. Hospitality
  4. Learning
  5. Mission
  6. Creativity

Each theme will have a guest practitioner to share about their experience with the theme (I’m on for the creativity week). Participants will also get a tool kit to help them try on some spiritual practices that build on these core values. If you live in the Hamilton area, this is a very practical way to deepen your prayer life. You can find out more info here: https://www.gohop.ca/firstthings  (I have been told that we have room to add someone last minute so ignore the deadline date).

Fundraising Update:

I am thankful that a couple extra surprise donations came in last month. I’m continuing to work at inviting more people to become monthly supporters. I find this to be the part of my job that feels most daunting. Pray that I would be diligent about fundraising and meeting with people to invite them to join my support team.
If you would like to make a donation or sign up for a monthly giving plan, you can do that by any of the following ways:

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/

Looking for Kindness Show Trailer:

Consider bringing my Looking for Kindness Amidst Anxiety Show to a venue, living room, or church near you. Here is a trailer to give you a little bit of an idea of what this performance is like: https://youtu.be/cjhIXl-G898?si=_OR_lZltUzXYM08E

Thank you so much for all your prayers and support. I am so thankful to have you in my corner.

Grace & Peace,

Randell (Randy) Neudorf

Punk Monk Newsletter – Summer 2025

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Hey Team Punk Monk! I hope your summer is going well. I wanted to let you know what I’ve been up to over the last few months in my prayer ministry with GOHOP.

Prayer Truck 2025:

Last week I spent most of my evenings in a U-haul truck, parked in an alley behind Living Rock (a ministry for at-risk youth). The truck was converted into a street level prayer room that was open for a week. We offered people water, friendly conversations, and prayer.

The prayer truck opened up on an evening where there was a fatal shooting downtown, so many people were understandably wanting us to pray about that. Praying for peace felt really important. A couple days later one of our hosts prayed for a family member of the woman who was shot. 

I got to pray with a teen who I would assume is trans. They asked me to pray for their mental health. I started praying, and half way through, I realized I hadn’t asked what pronouns they were comfortable with so I just went with  “they/them.” When I finished and said amen, I looked up at the person, they were beaming! I’m pretty sure I made the right choice. I don’t know why I didn’t think to pause my prayer and just ask what pronouns the youth was comfortable with, but I think God used my impromptu decision to show this young person that they were more than welcome at the Prayer Truck.

Another day I prayed for a young man who just graduated from an MBA program, had recently got married, and started a new job. I prayed for him in this season of new things. I prayed that when he looks back on this time 2 years, 10 years and 20 years from now, he would see the good roots put down in this time of change. Afterwards he thanked me and asked “How much do I owe you?” At first I thought he was joking but then I realized he was genuinely asking. I told him, “The prayer is free, this is just what we do!” I gave him a bunch of info on GOHOP and I’m hoping I’ll see him sometime in the future at one of our prayer times. 

  • Pray for peace in Hamilton. There is a lot of violence happening in the city right now. It seems like every week there is another shooting. At my church we sing “Mama, put my guns in the ground” (from Bob Dylan’s Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door). That is what I pray, over and over again.

Prayer Workshops and a Festival of gifts:

At the beginning of July I was attending Mennonite Church Canada’s national gathering in Kitchener. I was a delegate for my church (The Meeting Place) but I also had some workshops and events that I was leading. 

I got to lead two prayer workshops. I was introducing an Ignatian prayer practice called Gospel Contemplation, where you use your imagination to enter into a gospel story to have a conversation with Jesus. It was very well received and many people had very profound Jesus encounters. Afterwards I had a conversation with one woman who said,

“I really loved this! I used to always try to read the Bible through my imagination but my church told me it is wrong. They told me God has cast down imagination and we shouldn’t use it to read the scripture. Now I want to bring this back to my church and share it with everyone!”

This quote is very different from what I’m used to in Mennonite circles. I have found the Mennonite Church to be really open to the intersection of spiritual & creative practices, so I was more than a little surprised.

There were so many emotions that came up for me. I was overjoyed that this person encountered Jesus in her imagination and that she wanted others to also be able to have the experience of having a conversation with Jesus. I was also very sad that this person was taught that God had cast down imagination, when our imaginations and creativity are in fact a gift from God that reflects God’s own divine creativity. After we had talked a while, I was scared, because I was pretty sure her church wasn’t going to be open to receiving her rediscovery of imagination and prayer. I advised her to hold off on trying to change everyone’s mind at her church. Insteady I suggested she try to find 2 safe people who might be open to trying out Gospel Contemplation and imaginative prayer with her. 

  • Please pray for this lady and the rediscovery of her creative prayer gifts. Pray that she would find some safe people to pray with. 
  • Pray for all the people who took home prayer resources. Pray that the seeds of these ideas, handouts, tricks, and tips would take root.

On the Friday night of the conference I hosted a large intercultural and intergenerational gathering called “Festival of Gifts.” There were a lot of moving pieces happening with13 different groups contributing art, drama and music. We also had over 20 new congregations being welcomed into Mennonite Church Canada. This was a very packed schedule. I put a lot of work into planning things down to the minute to squeeze all of this into just 2 hours!. 

I opened the night by telling everyone that there were a couple skill sets they were going to need to navigate this Festival of Gifts:

  1. They needed to have an open heart and posture of receiving. Iasked everyone to put their hands on their lap or table with their palms facing up as a reminder of this open posture. I let them know that everyone who was bringing something to the stage was sharing an act of worship with their Creator. It might not be in a language we understand, or it could be something we aren’t used to, but we honour their gift by having an open posture. When we do this sometimes the Creator can whisper something back to us through what is being shared.
  2. They needed to master THE SWIVEL! I let people know that this was going to be a very busy night and that sometimes while one person was sharing on the left side of the stage another group would be setting up on the right side of the stage. I knew this might feel awkward so it was important to name that ahead of time. I got everyone to get ready for this by all “swiveling” their attention to the right side of the stage and then to the left, back and forth, and back and forth again, as a stretch to be ready for all the hard working churches, music teams, and youth that would be taking the stage. 

No one was more surprised than I, that the plan worked. Everyone was so joyful in the room and we even finished right on time! Afterwards the head of the denomination came up to thank me and said,

 “This was the one night of the conference that I was really worried about. We didn’t really know how to pull this event off. Once I heard that you were brought on to help plan and host the night I wasn’t worried anymore. I knew you had the right energy and ability to improvise to make this work.” 

It was so nice to hear that. I had met him a few times in the past, but I wouldn’t have even expected him to know who I was. 

I was also thankful for the Mennonite Spiritual Directors who had created a prayer room for the conference with a giant indoor labyrinth. I spent a couple hours praying in that room before all the kaoss of sound check started. It was a very wise choice. I felt way more ready to tackle all the behind the scenes curve balls that happened right down to the wire. It is amazing how a prayer room can focus our prayers in a very different kind of way. A prayer room functions a lot like the secluded places Jesus would go and pray in. Space and time set aside for prayer is such a life-giving practice. 

Do you have a go-to location that you use for prayer? It could be a park, a trail, a specific room in your house, or a prayer room.

If you live in the Hamilton area, here are a couple prayer opportunities you might want to try:

  •  Visit the GOHOP Prayer Room. Our summer hours are 8am – 8pm on Tuesdays until August 12th. We will then be closed for a summer break. The prayer room will open up again on September 9th from 8am-8pm on Tuesdays & Wednesdays.
  • The Form & Fire Prayer Internship will be starting on September 25th. This is a great way to take 3 months to lean into prayer practices from across the many streams of the church. Get all the details here: https://www.gohop.ca/internship

Pray for GOHOP:

  • Please pray for GOHOP’s fall activities. I’ll be helping to lead our Barnabas Listening Prayer Learning Lab and Asah Creative Prayer Studio. Both of these workshops have had some great momentum in the spring. Pray that we would be able to help move people from participating to leading prayer activities. We really want individuals to be able to pass on what they are learning.
  • September 1st – 7th, we will be hosting a week of Zoom prayer times for people across Canada. Pray that good connections would be made and that people would be inspired to start their own rhythms of prayer. If you would like to join us for this week of prayer, sign up for the GOHOP newsletter to find out more info: https://www.gohop.ca/newsletter 

Looking for Kindness Church Shows:

I have a 45 minute version of my Looking for Kindness Amidst Anxiety show that is designed for sharing with churches on a Sunday morning. I just got to share it with the folks at Crosshill Mennonite Church and it was really well received. A number of people shared with me about their own mental health journeys and appreciated this being talked about so openly at church. One teen who is really into music, liked the sounds my telephone mic made. I could tell he was excited to hear music at church that sounded so different. I also had a bunch of little kids tease me for singing so weird. I thanked them and said “Isn’t it great that we can be weird sometime. It would be so boring if we all sang exactly the same.” I think that took them by surprise because they kept hanging around while I was packing up and told me about the instruments they were learning to play. 

My next church show will be at Westview Christian Fellowship in St. Catharines on Sunday August 24th at 10am. 

  • Pray that good conversations would happen at Westview. Pray that the people who need to hear a little more about kindness would attend. 
  • Pray that other churches would be open to trying something different for their Sunday service. 

Thank You For Your Support!

Thank you so much for all the prayers, donations, and encouraging messages. I couldn’t do this ministry without your support. I thank God for your generosity and trust. 

If you would like to make a monthly or annual donation to my ministry with GOHOP you can do that here:

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

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

You can also donate by Cheque:
https://randellneudorf.com/gohop/donate/

  • In the fall I’ll be reaching out to more people to ask them to consider joining my monthly support team. Pray that I would be able to meet with 1 person a week in October & November. 

Summer Fun:

I got to try out paddle boarding a few weeks ago, and it was so fun. Have you been able to try something new this summer? I would love to hear about it.

Grace and Peace to you on your own summer adventures,

Randell (Randy) Neudorf