A regular Missions Fest speaker received an international award for his peace-making efforts in Colombia just days before arriving in Vancouver. Following is an account from World Watch Monitor, re-posted by permission: An American missionary has received an award for…
Missions Fest Vancouver (January 27 – 29) is upon us, and I’m very much looking forward to hearing many speakers addressing this year’s theme, ‘Justice and the Gospel.’ There is no arena is which that focus is more pressing than…
The area around Brentwood Mall and the new SkyTrain station is undergoing a dramatic makeover. Life has been disrupted, but there is at least one oasis of calm in the midst of all the upheaval. Connections Coffee House has been quietly…
Fr. Matthew Johnson serves in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside with the Street Outreach Initiative, a joint program of the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster and St. James Anglican Church. British Columbia finds itself in a life and death crisis. All around…
“The Burnhams, under torturous conditions, befriended their guards, comforted their fellow hostages and kept their faith in a God who seemed to have abandoned them.” That was the view of USA Today in the wake of Martin and Gracia Burnham’s…
To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, The Vancouver Sun and Province are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians. Stephen Hume began with soccer star Christine Sinclair January 6 and has followed up with Terry Fox,…
Brian McConaghy, founder of Ratanak International, will be a featured speaker at Missions Fest Vancouver (January 27 – 29). I am a weapons specialist by trade and a highly trained forensic expert with 22 years’ experience in the RCMP. I…