Author - Preston Pouteaux

Preston PouteauxPreston is a pastor at Lake Ridge Community Church in Chestermere and experiments mostly in the intersection of faith and neighbourhood. Into the Neighbourhood explores how we all contribute to creating a healthy and vibrant community. Preston is also a beekeeper; a reminder that small things make a big difference.

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Confessions

I’m bad at hiking. I’ve discovered this over time and people who love me have helped me come to terms with it. There’s been an intervention and it’s time that...

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Kids need Neighbours

Parenting is humbling work. We love our children deeply, we discipline them, we coach them, we teach them, and we pray for them. We hope they turn out well...

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Kids need Neighbours

Parenting is humbling work. We love our children deeply, we discipline them, we coach them, we teach them, and we pray for them. We hope they turn out well...

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Beauty In Our Wake

Several years ago my wife and I moved to Chestermere and we moved into a home that was one of the first in a new housing development. It was dusty and the...

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Making Leaders

There are thousands of new leadership books making their way onto bookstore shelves every year. Whether they are praising or critiquing the leadership of...

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The Need for Speed and Fun

Like most good ideas, it started as a dream on a whim: gather kids, build some cars together, and see how far they will go down a pathway in the park. I was...

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Street-combing

I was raised in Canadian Prairies, so to visit the ocean is an extraordinary treat. This past week we had the pleasure of visiting New Brunswick and...

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Ask



I had gone a few weeks without my allowance and my mom knew it. My parents offered me a loonie every week back when the one dollar coins were brand new...

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Disappointed





I’ve heard it said that the distance between what you expected, and what you experienced, is called anger. The wider the gap, the greater the anger...

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Creative Conversations

This summer we went on a long ten hour car trip with our family. My five year old daughter loved playing ‘eye-spy,’ but after a few hours ‘eye-spy’...


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