Reality Church Vancouver, a plant of Westside Church, had hoped to launch in mid-2008. But they needed a place to rent, and for six months every site they approached that seemed the least bit promising turned them down. Then in…
On Easter Sunday, Coastal Church formally launched its fourth Metro Vancouver campus just steps away from the always busy Commercial-Broadway SkyTrain Station. “That’s what attracted us to that location in the first place,” says campus pastor Brad Bergman. “It’s right…
After arriving in Vancouver from Hong Kong in 1976, Marion landed her first job with The Chinese Community Library Services Association in Strathcona, the city’s oldest residential neighbourhood. Then she worked for 30 years as a social worker in Chinatown…
The electricity is erratic. There is mould in the walls. Its nameless streets are crowded and filthy and dangerous. Poverty is rampant. Dogs bark all night. The weather is cold. Such is life in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, a…
Burnaby author and photographer Marja Bergen has written a new book that she believes is unique in offering comfort and hope to people – and especially Christians – struggling with mood disorders and other mental health challenges. “You can give…
Herbert Tsang, president of the non-profit Church Music Ministry of Canada, wants to help churches and church musicians return to where worship used to involve people lifting their voices in harmonious hymns of praise to God. “That seems to be…
Lower Mainland Christians are hopeful the newly formed Metro Vancouver Alliance – a broad, non-partisan coalition that includes people of faith – will develop solid solutions to some of the critical social issues facing their communities. “We see so much…
Trinity Western University (TWU) president Bob Kuhn says the ongoing opposition by many in the legal community to its planned law school makes him question how much freedom evangelical Christians really have to express their faith in public. Much of…
In the course of 10 years as secretary general of the World Evangelical Alliance, Geoff Tunnicliffe has travelled to more than 100 countries and has flown well over three-million kilometres. Now he is looking forward to what he calls some…
While preparing to launch Christ City Church, a Mennonite Brethren church plant in south Vancouver, pastor Brett Landry received an offer he believes could only have come from the mind of God. He was told South Hill Church, a long-established MB church…