It sounds like a bad joke: what do you get when a Buddhist, a Christian and a Wiccan sit down for a meal together? Actually, it was one Buddhist, three Christians, one Wiccan and three agnostics and what you got was some…
We’re into September so there’s lots going on around Vancouver. Check out the Events calendar. Here are a few highlights this week: Josh Garrels at St. Andrew’s-Wesley I was one of the fortunate souls gathered at Josh Garrels’ Rio Theatre…
More teenagers in Canada now identify as Muslims than Anglicans, Uniteds and Baptists combined. That was just one of the findings put forward at Shifting Stats: Shaking the Church, a series of day-long forums for Christian leaders that attracted an…
UrbanPromise’s two after-school ‘camps’ – one in East Vancouver and the other in Whalley, near Surrey’s Central City – are no more. Featured in a Church for Vancouver story earlier this year, Camp Hope and Camp Peace had operated respectively…
Japanese and Korean churches in the Vancouver area are finding periodic ways to come together for both worship and outreach. And one of those churches has an event set for this Saturday (May 3), called Glimpse of Japan. (More information…
Worship leaders and pastors across Metro Vancouver will be gathering at three hub locations this Saturday (April 26) morning, “to share a meal, train together, build relationships and encourage one another through prayer and worship. As we converge, we will…
Union Gospel Mission is joining First United Church this year to lead a Good Friday Stations of the Cross pilgrimage. Participants will come together in order to carry a cross to seven stations, each of which signifies a place of…
The recent screening of a film that reveals through disturbing eyewitness accounts the horrors of the residential school system could become a catalyst for healing between First Nations people and Asian evangelicals. “People have been working hard at that already,”…
The faith community of St. Augustine’s, Marpole and priest-in-charge Andrew Halladay are demonstrating their commitment to their neighbourhood through some intentional hospitality. In December of 2013, Marpole Place Neighbourhood House (located at 1305 West 70th Avenue, just a few blocks…
Sunday, March 9 was a big day for the Punjabi Masihi Church. After almost a decade in the planning and building stages, the 160-member church dedicated its new $2 million church, located on 72nd Avenue, west of Newton Town Centre…