Global Missionary Enterprises<\/a> (GME) is a registered charity and a mission organization in Canada,” says Robert Johnston, the president\/owner of Aviva Natural Health Solutions. “It was started by my parents in the 1980s. Locally based in Portage la Prairie and we’ve recently expanded into Winnipeg.”<\/p>\nGME supports projects and global workers around the world in their mission work of spreading the gospel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Winnipeg cafe that supports missionaries<\/p>\n
Located under one roof at 1821 Wellington Ave, Johnston’s new business, including\u00a0GMissions Cafe,\u00a0are celebrating their grand opening on June 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“This cafe is actually an extension of what we do in Portage la Prairie,” says Johnston. “This is a cafe, we’ve set it up near the airport so that it’s a come and go, as well as you can sit down. The charity operates the store and the cafe. All the proceeds go towards paying our staff, the space, and supporting the missions work that we do.”<\/p>\n
In the same building, Johnston runs the Aviva Natural Health Solutions store, and GME Clearance Centre. The grand opening will include all three of these new businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Growing up in missions<\/p>\n
“I originally went to Bible school. I became a pastor and actually starting pastoring in Winnipeg as a youth pastor. There’s been this kind of calling in my life. I’ve been involved in pastoral work, government, business, and more recently, as my parents got older and passed away, we had to do something with the charity they had started.”<\/p>\n
After praying about which direction to take, Johnston and his wife felt called to focus their lives back on mission work. Johnston went back to his roots, as he grew up as a missionary kid.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We grew up doing missionary work. My dad was very courageous and as children he took us into remote areas of the island of Jamaica where we helped to build churches.”<\/p>\n
Through the lense of God’s love<\/p>\n
This time in Jamaica positively affected the rest of Johnston’s life and choice in career.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We really want to further the kingdom of God, and help the work that’s going on around the world. As a child, experiencing the poverty and the needs that were present, it changes your life. It helps you to realize how blessed we are in Canada. It gives you a different perspective on life. I would encourage parents to expose your children to things like this at a young age. It’s been very foundational in my life.”<\/p>\n
Johnston says GMissions Cafe are also looking for volunteers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Our slogan is to advance kingdom work, and we can all be a part of that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Winnipeg caf\u00e9 is blending coffee with compassion, as GMissions Cafe opens its doors near the airport…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-696994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}