Three key events will draw the city church together over the next month: Voices Together, a chance to worship together on Canada’s 150th birthday; Catholics & Evangelicals: What Can We Learn from Each Other?; and One City, One Message. Voices…
“Cheer on the ‘Caps and enjoy an evening of soccer, salvation and worship.” That’s the offer from the Vancouver Whitecaps for the sixth annual Whitecaps Faith and Family Night, next Saturday (June 3). The game with Atlanta United FC will…
Mission Possible is an innovative community economic development agency operating in the Downtown Eastside. It runs two social enterprises, MP Maintenance and MP Neighbours, which employ an average of 50 individuals per year in transitional jobs. They are the subject of a…
What began as a coffee discussion between two pastors – Dean Cooper of Peace Portal Alliance Church and Steve Bains of Gracepoint Community Church – has become much more. Over time, other pastors joined with Cooper and Bains and a…
Starting this month, Peter Biggs of The Light Magazine will research one Metro Vancouver / Fraser Valley municipality each month, and produce a four page feature. The May issue kicked off the 13 month series with a look at Maple…
Pacific Theatre will be creating a little corner of Ireland over the next month, in their production of Outside Mullingar. But it took playwright John Patrick Shanley many decades to warm to such an undertaking. He said in a 2014…
Christ Church Cathedral will host Vancouver Remembers and Honours next Thursday (May 18), “a community vigil for people affected by the overdose crisis.” Kari Bergrud of Union Gospel Mission – one partner organizing the event – sent out this invitation: The…
Marion Van Driel recently took a tour of A Rocha’s beautiful Brooksdale Environmental Centre in south Surrey. She visited the heritage barn which will be raised and restored, as part of A Rocha’s plans to expand the environmental education component…
This Youth Unlimited profile is timely both because this is Mental Health Week and because we are coming up on CityFEST, North Vancouver’s celebration of Youth Week. Four thousand on-lookers watched as Derian Moffitt stepped on to centre ice. Donned head-to-toe in a…
The Chapel Movement held a Next Gen Vision Night last Friday (April 28), in order to share what they have been up to over the past five years with the wider community. Following is a transcription of part of the…