A discontented person thinks about what they don’t have and is miserable. A contented person thinks about what they do have and is thankful. But a truly blessed person thinks about how they can share what God has given them…
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…
There’s a new movement in town. Atesto – Portuguese for ‘testimony’ – is about empowering the local church, encouraging worship and fostering creativity in a new generation. If you’re at the York Theatre on Commercial Drive this Saturday (October 4),…
I’ve been privileged to serve as a columnist for Faith Today magazine here in Canada for two stints, the second of which continues to the present . . . But I recently happened across the ‘signing off’ column of my previous…
The Voices Together core team decided Wednesday (September 24) that Voices Together 2015 will take place at the Pacific Coliseum on Canada Day. Some 10,000 people from a wide range of churches joined together for a Voices Together gathering at…
A few hundred students received some hands-on farm gardening education during the two weeks leading up to the settlement of the British Columbia teachers’ strike, at God’s Little Acre (GLA) near Cloverdale in Surrey. And striking teachers, some of whom…
We really have our choice of music this week. On Friday (September 19) alone, you can hear a Maasai choir, take part in an old-style gospel sing-along, listen to popular worship music with Kari Jobe and Warren Barfield, or worship…
The leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria will visit Metro Vancouver next Thursday (September 18) as part of a Canadian tour. Pope Tawadros II is the 118th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark.…
For some 55 years, South Cambie Gospel Hall, at 60th Avenue and Cambie Street in south Vancouver has been a landmark on the corner, its sleek and simple lines providing a restful image to the thousands of drivers passing its…
Arne Bryan is the ideal subject of a biography: he’s led an interesting life, he’s made a difference in his community and he’s lived a long time. Beth Carson has now told his story in Pioneer of Prayer Canada. Arne…