As Pastor Ranji was seeking the Lord for guidance for the next steps in his family’s life, Brother Susantha, Brother Wimal’s Family, Brother Vishwa’s Family, Brother Rohan’s Family & Sister Tamara were discussing the future of their Spiritual Lives. As the New Year 2017 began, the 5 families came together and asked Pastor Ranji to start a Church in Montreal with all of them. Pastor Ranji hesitated to answer, yet the Holy Spirit convicted him by asking “who are you to say no when my people want to gather together in My name?”.
As the families were about to have its first service on the 28th of January 2017, Pastor Ranji was seeking a name for this new Church. An memory from long ago came to his heart while reading Philippians 2: 1 – 11:
“Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! Therefore, God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
He was reminded of the beauty and strength of the Heart of Jesus Christ.
We strive to pursue exactly what our Church name is, to be the beating heart of Jesus in the city of Montreal.