“If you had to prove that God is alive in Vancouver, where would you take people to show them? What is God doing in our churches and communities – where do you see signs of hope and deep flourishing in…
The Vancouver Consultation
Vancouver neighbourhoods: West End
The West End is a densely populated portion of the downtown peninsula, located between English Bay, Stanley Park, Georgia Street (and the Coal Harbour neighbourhood), and Burrard Street (and the downtown core). Demographics From Statistics Canada, 2011 Census, custom order…
Regent Exchange: ‘Churches and the Housing Crisis’
Regent College will launch a new initiative, Regent Exchange, January 27, 7 pm, with a conversation on how churches are addressing the housing crisis in Vancouver. Veronika Klaptocz sat down with Ceri Rees, director of communications and public engagement at…
New beginnings: One refugee family’s story
The look in their eyes captures many English words they don’t even know yet – overwhelmed, exhausted, relieved, hopeful. You can see the scene playing out at the airport day after day as refugees finish negotiating the final hurdle of…
Around Town: This Thin Place, If Your Church Disappeared, Helijet donation …
Cancer has touched us all in some way. Research figures say 50 percent of us will wrestle with some form of cancer in our lifetimes. The other 50 percent may know cancer in a different way – through the struggle…
Vancouver neighbourhoods: Dunbar-Southlands
Dunbar-Southlands is in the southwestern section of the city, running south from 16th Avenue all the way down to the Fraser River. On the west it is bounded by the University (of BC) Endowment Lands and Pacific Spirit Regional Park.…
Vancouver neighbourhoods: South Cambie
With upscale Shaughnessy to the west and Queen Elizabeth Park to the east, South Cambie is comfortably situated right in the centre of Vancouver – bounded by 16th Avenue and 41st Avenue, and by the busy north-south corridors of Oak…