Believers from many churches.
One street. One Jesus.
Namesake is not a denomination, not a program, not a photo-op. It is a body of Christians in Calgary who refused to keep the Gospel inside a building.
"I wasn't looking for a ministry to start. I was looking for the Jesus I read about — the one who ate with sinners and touched lepers. I found Him on the sidewalk."
Emilio's testimony started in the aftermath — of addiction, of prison, of the kind of years that swallow a life whole. When Christ met him there, He did more than pull him out. He sent him back.
Namesake is the fruit of that sending. It's a ministry that knows the faces on the concrete because it once was one of them. It's why every outreach begins with prayer and ends with names.
Emilio still walks the same streets every week as a brother to many.
How it grew.
What we stand on.
The convictions that put our feet on the concrete every week.