For the past three years, John Hamer has built up a new community at Toronto Centre Place committed to a five-point mission: (1) invite everyone into community, (2) continually learn and grow, (3) abolish poverty and end needless suffering, (4) pursue peace and justice, and (5) live life meaningfully together. Regular participants at Centre Place include a vast diversity of backgrounds and beliefs from Mormon to Protestant, Ethiopian Orthodox to Quaker, from Isma’ili to Sunni Muslim, as well as Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, humanists, and atheists. Hamer will outline the formula for the Toronto Centre Place and Creating Connection communities.

John Hamer, Roy Schmidt