Housing affordability, urban density, mobility and public spaces – these are among the most pressing issues facing the citizens of Vancouver right now. And they are the subject of Your Future Home: Creating the New Vancouver, an exhibition being hosted…
When Grayson Bain spoke recently at the Vancouver Tea Festival, he described how he and the JusTea team in Vancouver are creating partnerships with Kenyan tea farmers which will allow those farmers and their families to retain the value of…
City in Focus will give out over $40,000 to four individuals in honour of their exceptional work in Vancouver’s urban communities, next Monday (November 30) during an awards ceremony at the Vancouver Club. “Part of caring for the soul of…
Several churches and ministries in Metro Vancouver are becoming increasingly involved in finding ways to help refugees from the Middle East settle into a normal life in Canada. I explored several of these initiatives as we approach World Refugee Day…
Terry LeBlanc will speak at First Baptist Church as part of Reconciliation Matters in downtown Vancouver this Sunday (May 31, 9 and 11 am). The day-long event will include an ecumenical service (10:30 am, at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church), a…
Life in the Neighbourhood is a day “geared to helping begin a movement of neighbourhood churches across the city.” Sponsored by Forge Canada and hosted by First United Mennonite Church, the April 11 event will feature four tracks: Neighbourhood Life…
Jazz Evensong is a continuing Wednesday evening worship event at Brentwood Presbyterian Church, a small but creative North Burnaby congregation. The Brentwood experience is shared with a few other congregations in the Vancouver area – most notably St. Andrew’s-Wesley United…
“We don’t know what will happen, but God does.” So said Fr. Richard Soo at an Ecumenical Prayer Rally for Peace and Human Rights in Hong Kong, in front of the Chinese Consulate last Saturday (October 4). Numbers are down at…
Alpha is a worldwide phenomenon, but it is clearly based in England; Nicky Gumbel and the core team have always been associated with Holy Trinity Brompton in London. So how did the Alpha Youth Film Series come to be produced…