It’s been a while since we checked in, and we have a lot to share.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and catch up with us! We’re grateful for your prayers, encouragement, friendship, and support.
Hospitality House continues to be a place where God is changing lives through simple, ordinary things: meals, friendship, Scripture, prayer, and Christian community.
God Is Using Ordinary Things
Much of our ministry is built around one simple conviction: hospitality creates space for the gospel.
Most of the time, that doesn’t look dramatic. It looks like food on the table, students in the living room, new Christians asking honest questions, people laughing over games, and someone staying late because they need to talk.
But we’re seeing God work through it.
Students who came to Canada alone find friendship and belonging. New Christians learn that they don’t have to walk with Jesus by themselves. People who have never really experienced Christian community are being welcomed into homes, meals, prayer, and conversations about the Bible.
Lives are being changed. Often quietly. Often gradually. But really. That’s the heart of Hospitality House.
What Our Week Looks Like
Over the past several months, our week has settled into a steady rhythm of hospitality, discipleship, prayer, and fellowship.- Monday nights: Colin and Gail have started an evening of fun and fellowship, mainly for new Christians so they can experience Christian community outside of Sunday mornings. These nights are a place for friendship, encouragement, and learning to walk with Christ together.
- Tuesday nights: Colin participates in intercessory prayer, while Gail helps host meals for international students at the church. These meals happen once a month during the summer and weekly during the school year.
- Wednesday nights: We host Christians for meals and fellowship in our home. We eat, talk, pray, laugh, and try to make our home a place where people can be known and encouraged.
- Thursday nights: We host meals for non-Christian international students where we talk about life, faith, and the Bible. These evenings are one of the clearest ways we’re able to welcome students, build friendships, and point people toward Christ.
- Friday afternoons: Gail helps run English Corner at the university in partnership with Power to Change. This has been a wonderful way to serve international students, help them practice English, and build meaningful relationships on campus.
- Sunday nights: Colin has been helping with youth group at church, which is now on break for the summer.
Beyond that weekly rhythm, we continue to fellowship regularly with students, help promote the Friends for Dinner program, and look for natural opportunities to encourage, disciple, and welcome people into Christian community.
A lot of ministry is just being available. A meal. A ride. A conversation. A prayer. A student who needs a place to belong. A young Christian who needs someone to walk with them. A friend who needs to be reminded they’re not alone.
It isn’t flashy work. But we’re convinced this is exactly the kind of work the Lord loves to use.
Family Update
On the family side, the kids are now finished school for the year. August will be heading into Grade 12 in the fall, which is hard to believe!
Over the next couple of months, our older two are looking for jobs or other useful ways to stay engaged and productive during the summer. Please pray that the Lord would provide good opportunities for them.
Rosie has built a little community of friends in our new townhouse complex and is often outside playing with them. It’s been sweet to watch her settle in and enjoy the neighbourhood.
Our house has also become a bit of a hub for Georgia and August’s friends. They’re over often, which makes the house louder and busier, but in a good way. We’re grateful that our children and their friends feel welcome here.
In many ways, this is part of the ministry too. We want our home to be a place of warmth, welcome, food, conversation, and grace. |
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Prayer Requests
We’d be grateful if you would pray with us about a couple of specific needs.- Housing: We have about one more year in our current house before our lease is up. After that, we’ll need to decide whether to stay here or move. We’d very much like to stay, especially because this home has become such an important part of the ministry. It gives us space to host students, new Christians, families, prayer nights, meals, Bible conversations, and fellowship.
Please pray for wisdom, provision, and clarity as we look ahead. To make staying in this home possible beyond our current lease, we would need roughly another $1,500 per month in ministry donations. Please pray that the Lord would provide what is needed in His timing and through His people.
- Health: Please continue to pray for Gail and the kids with their usual health challenges. We’re also thankful to report that Georgia has started a new medication that seems to be showing some promise. That has been encouraging, and we’re praying it continues to help.
A Final Invitation
For those of you who already pray for us and support this ministry, thank you. We don’t take that lightly. You are part of what God is doing through Hospitality House.
For those who aren’t currently monthly donors, would you prayerfully consider partnering with us in that way?
Even a modest monthly gift makes a real difference. It helps us keep opening our home, feeding students, discipling new Christians, welcoming people into community, and creating space for conversations about Jesus.
You can give here:
Colin and Gail McComb - Ministry Page
Thank you again for praying for us, encouraging us, and standing with us in this work. We’re deeply grateful.
With love and gratitude,
Colin, Gail, August, Georgia, and Rosie
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