It is 23 years since Marvin Hunt, then one of the pastors at what is now Bible Fellowship Foursquare Church, was elected to Surrey City Council. At council’s February 3 meeting, Hunt handed in his resignation, informing Mayor Dianne Watts…
Since 2007, Dwayne Buhler has been executive director of Missions Fest Vancouver, the large and popular event that takes place each year ‘under the sails’ at the harbour-side Vancouver Convention Centre. Shortly after the end of this year’s Missions Fest…
Two churches in the urban cores of White Rock and Surrey are helping civic leaders to understand that faith-based groups contribute constructively to their communities. First United Church, on the edge of downtown White Rock, is hoping to develop several low-rise…
While the Vancouver School of Theology (VST) $28 million sale of the iconic Iona Building ‘castle’ to the University of British Columbia is significant news, VST principal Richard Topping suggests there is more to the story. The ‘more’ relates to…
It is now 53 years since a movement of western Canadian Chinese Christian students started a winter conference between Christmas and New Year’s. It was an opportunity for fellowship and community, as well as a chance to meet with and…
Trinity Western University (TWU) received not one but two pieces of good news this week, in its quest to develop a School of Law at the Langley campus. On Monday, December 16, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada (FLSC)…
On Saturday evening (November 23), NightShift Street Ministries marked 10 years of working with homeless, hungry and broken people, with an ‘UnGala’ that raised over $20,000. That is not the whole story. Four major Surrey business leaders have put up…
Our first week back living in Surrey, after 15 years in Ottawa, brought a trip down Billy Graham memory lane. The occasion was a pastors’ luncheon at Cedar Grove Church, during which attenders were given a joint presentation about a…
Deans of several law schools across Canada have maintained that Trinity Western University’s faith-based community covenant asking students to commit themselves to certain behavioural standards is discriminatory, particularly toward LGBT people. Janet Epp Buckingham, a lawyer and director of Trinity’s…