If you’ve missed Martin Scorsese’s Silence, there is a one-night showing, tonight, at the Rio Theatre. The basic outline is this: Silence tells the story of two Christian missionaries (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) who face the ultimate test of…
JustWork received some positive coverage in The Vancouver Sun March 3, when Bethany Lindsay and Lori Culbert wrote Thousands of former homeless want to work, and could bolster BC’s booming economy: Advocates. The article began: Todd Kenneth, believe it or…
Years of planning, prayer, training, cooperation – and some conflict – will bear fruit this weekend as the Greater Vancouver Festival of Hope comes to Rogers Arena from Friday to Sunday (March 3 – 5). One final pre-Festival prayer gathering…
Dunbar Ryerson United Church recently announced plans to redevelop its Kerrisdale property – and there is already a Ryerson Neighbours website and campaign to block it. The church owns two parcels of land on the north side of 45th Avenue,…
The next couple of weeks will be a serious test for the Church of Vancouver. When Franklin Graham comes to Vancouver as part of the Greater Vancouver Festival of Hope March 3 – 5, some will be thrilled, others will…
James Grunau sent an email to his partner churches last week regarding the desperate housing situation for many newly arriving refugee claimant families. Grunau runs Journey Home, which works with refugee claimants. He says the church community has already begun…
Anglicans – and probably many Christians of all stripes – will participate in the 27th annual Women’s Memorial March next Tuesday (March 14). Writing on the Diocese of New Westminster website, Rev. Laurel Dykstra invited fellow Anglicans to join the…
The C2C Network is known for planting churches – but with Multiply 2017 (February 8 – 9 at Westside Church) it is sharing some of its speakers and expertise with churches which are already established. The Multiply Conference has been…
“The Burnhams, under torturous conditions, befriended their guards, comforted their fellow hostages and kept their faith in a God who seemed to have abandoned them.” That was the view of USA Today in the wake of Martin and Gracia Burnham’s…
To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, The Vancouver Sun and Province are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians. Stephen Hume began with soccer star Christine Sinclair January 6 and has followed up with Terry Fox,…