Peter Biggs of The Light Magazine is researching one Metro Vancouver / Fraser Valley municipality each month, and producing a focus on each one. The October issue brought attention to the Downtown Eastside and a feature interview with Jacqueline Dewar, who has worked and lived in…
Last Thursday, 170 people crowded into Fluevog Shoes in Gastown to celebrate the launch of Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries’ new curriculum for small groups, which is designed similarly to Alpha. Eight themes are explored from a psychological, social, and theological perspective, and each session…
Since 2011, CityGate Leadership Forum has coordinated the Planted Community Food Network to help seed a cultural shift in Greater Vancouver away from haphazard food charity, toward a sustainable local food system – opening access to affordable nutrition by building on the…
For those who await my weekly Church for Vancouver updates with bated breath (and even those few who don’t), I have some news. Over the next five weeks, updates will continue, but there will be one story each week instead…
The perennially hot debate over the role and value of independent schools received some welcome hard data with the release yesterday of the latest report from the Cardus Education Survey. Begun in 2011, this ongoing survey of high school graduates…
This week (October 7 – 13) is Homelessness Action Week, and no one can argue that Union Gospel Mission (UGM) is not doing its share. On Monday, volunteers served meals to more than 3,000 people. (See the Vancouver Sun’s article…
The West Coast Christian Accord (WCCA) declares a clear intention to fight back against the “SOGI agenda.” Speaking at the September 26 launch, pastor Kevin Cavanaugh stated: We are hereby revealing for the first time the West Coast Christian Accord,…