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Around Town: Connections, Unplanned, Hillsong, Epiphany/Surrey Food Bank …

by Flyn Ritchie • May 30, 2019 • 0 Comments

Many churches are looking for creative ways to get to know their neighbours, but few have done as well as Brentwood Park Alliance Church, which has been running Connections Coffee House in a quiet Brentwood neighbourhood for the past eight years.…

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Culture

Lessons from Singapore: the long path to discipling the nations

by Flyn Ritchie • May 30, 2019 • 0 Comments

“If the church doesn’t disciple the nations, the nations will disciple the church.” That was a key message delivered by veteran Singaporean church leader ‘Papa Khoo’ (Khoo Oon Theam is in his mid-80s) to a group of pastors last Thursday…

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Community, Culture

Tim Day on the Church in Canada: ‘We are bigger than we realize’

by Jack Taylor • May 30, 2019 • 0 Comments

So what difference will that make for us as churches in Canada? Tim Day, executive director of City Movement, has now completed his tour of 30 Canadian cities – presenting to some 2,000 church leaders along the way. [For a…

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City, Urban Issues

City of Vancouver is vitally interested in places of worship

by Jonathan Bird • May 23, 2019 • 2 Comments

Generations ago some wag coined the local aphorism, “Vancouver’s favourite bloodsport is real estate investment.” I first heard it when I arrived in the city 22 years ago during a period of rapid rise in home prices, one that now…

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City, Community

Around Town: Unplanned, Women & Families Centre, Baptist Housing . . .

by Flyn Ritchie • May 23, 2019 • 0 Comments

Why isn’t the movie Unplanned being shown in Canada? More than 200,000 people have signed a CitizenGO online petition demanding that Cineplex “Bring Unplanned to Canada and the World.” The petition, sponsored by National Campus Life Network in partnership with…

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City, Community

Thy Kingdom Come: join in prayer for Vancouver at Queen Elizabeth Park

by Aaron White • May 23, 2019 • 0 Comments

Local Christians are inviting anyone who would like to pray for our city to join them as they participate in Thy Kingdom Come, a worldwide movement of prayer. (See video below of the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Pope…

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Culture, Justice

Court’s ‘effective referral’ decision will force doctors to violate conscience or quit

by CLF EFC ACBO • May 23, 2019 • 1 Comment

This joint statement from Christian Legal Fellowship, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, and the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario was released May 15 to address a judicial determination which seems likely to lead to a serious erosion of religious freedom in Canada.…

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