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…
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…
Pastor Tim Dickau of Grandview Calvary Baptist Church wrote this Foreword for his long-time friend and colleague Barry Morris. Hopeful Realism in Urban Ministry was published by Wipf and Stock in 2016. Urban ministry, especially when it is going ‘well,’…
This profile is from the Faith in Canada 150 Thread of 1000 Stories. Faith in Canada 150 exists to celebrate the role of faith in our life together during Canada’s anniversary celebrations in 2017. Edwin Charles Phillips is quick to make the point…
Last week Church for Vancouver posted Frank Stirk’s story Christ City Church Kitsilano: Born of a unique partnership. This week he follows up with the story of another new church in Kitsilano. Both are adapted from his forthcoming book, Streams in the…
The following is an excerpt from the introduction to Evangelical, Sacramental & Pentecostal by Gordon T. Smith, who is president of Ambrose University and Seminary in Calgary. He is also an ordained minister with the Christian and Missionary Alliance and a…
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat made a plea April 15 “that many of this newspaper’s secular liberal readers should head en masse to church.” The conservative Catholic (who delivered the Laing Lectures at Regent College in 2014) urged them to return…