What We Do

Prayer is at the heart of what we do at GOHOP. Our prayer room is currently housed in Wentworth Baptist Church, a historic church located in an under resourced neighbourhood in the core of Hamilton. Staff & volunteers commit to pray and welcome others into prayer.

These different prayer times are varied and might have a theme like:
  • Praying for/with pastors and leaders.
  • Praying for/with people on the margins.
  • Praying for/with street-involved youth.
  • Contemplative Prayer with Visual Arts
  • Taizé Worship Circle.
  • Celtic Daily Prayer Liturgy.
  • Singing the Psalms in the Benedictine tradition.
  • Praying for Newcomers & Refugees.
  • Weekly Worship and Prayer for our city and for renewal of the Church
GOHOP also organizes a number of annual events.
  • We have a 24/7 Prayer Room that happens during the TrueCity church conference. This interactive prayer room is open for two weeks straight gathering together numerous churches across the city to pray together.
  • This past July (2022) we held three Worship and Prayer times in the Park in collaboration with a Friday Night Prayer group and the Living Rock (a downtown ministry for at-risk youth). Along with prayer and worship, we served hundreds of burgers and hotdogs, built relationships with our neighbours, and provided activities for the children.
  • Previous years in July we have created a Prayer Truck (from a converted UHaul) as an outdoor prayer space that is parked behind the Living Rock. From the back of this “hippy van” we offer cold water and prayer to those walking the streets as a sacred meeting spot for people from all walks of life.
  • Studies in New Monasticism is a 9-month internship encouraging a life lived into prayer, mission and justice.
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me painting a minion on a kid's face this summer at the park!



GOHOP is not a church, it is an “Urban Monastery” (minus the robes & buildings) that seeks to support, resource and catalyze the Church. We live out rhythms of life that have been embodied and taught within monastic communities for centuries (prayer, worship, study, silence, solitude, fasting, celebration, and pilgrimage). 

By practising these rhythms our staff team seek to live lives of prayer & discipleship that are contagious. We provide a number of other discipleship opportunities for church leaders and lay people at home & abroad through workshops, spiritual direction, mentoring, and teaching engagements.
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Digging Deeper into the GOHOP Story:
GOHOP was founded in 2001 by my friends Jill & Kirk Webber. For those of you who want to dig deeper into the history of GOHOP you should check out these resources from Jill:

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