It’s Christmas in May for Carolyn Arends, but those bearing gifts will be repaid later this year. The local musician has created lots of music over the years – 10 albums and counting – though she clearly has a particular…
Artisan Church has been praying about what it would mean to be a Neighbourhood Parish Church. Already well established in the Central Branch of the Vancouver Public Library downtown, and planning a second community in East Vancouver, their vision is…
Unfortunately, this first event is already over – but it does need to be recorded. Wednesday night (March 19) will be remembered as a very significant evening by the hundreds of people in the very diverse crowd that gathered at…
Wes Janzen has had a foot in two worlds for many years, shuttling back and forth between Langley and Ukraine. Here he has been a fixture at Trinity Western University for 33 years, as professor of music and director of…
Margaret Atwood will be the star attraction at A Rocha’s Green Gala this Thursday (May 22) at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel. The story of how the acclaimed author got hooked up with the Christian environmental stewardship group is a good…
“It’s the show that saved Pacific Theatre, that I thought would end Pacific Theatre.” Ron Reed, who has guided the theatre company for more than 30 years, said in a recent interview that Espresso pulled them back from the brink…
An inspirational evening with a young orchestra whose members play instruments recycled from their home – a garbage dump in Cateura, Paraguay. That’s the promise, and I’m hoping quite a few people will take a gamble with the Recycled Orchestra…
Tass Saada will speak at several events in the Metro Vancouver area this week, telling of his transformation from a Palestinian militant into a Christian who works for the good of both Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip.…
A funny thing happened on Sunday at church. I had been scheduled for a month to read the scriptures, and I felt a slight chill when I discovered the passage was John 12:1-11. This is the story of Mary anointing…
Apologetics Canada has stepped in at the right time to fill a need. Their fourth annual conference, March 7 – 8, drew about 2,000 people to two local churches – Willingdon in Burnaby and Northview in Abbotsford. There were people…