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Around Town: UGM Camping, City-wide Worship and Prayer, Migrant Justice . . .

by Flyn Ritchie • May 20, 2015 • 0 Comments

Union Gospel Mission has been sending kids to camp for more than 60 years. They’re raising money to send more kids this year, and Miranda’s story (from UGM’s Gratitude magazine) makes it clear how important those camp experiences can be…

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New churches have a tough time finding a home in Vancouver

by Frank Stirk • May 14, 2015 • 0 Comments

Reality Church Vancouver, a plant of Westside Church, had hoped to launch in mid-2008. But they needed a place to rent, and for six months every site they approached that seemed the least bit promising turned them down. Then in…

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St. Mary the Virgin, Sapperton celebrates 150 years

by Rob England • May 14, 2015 • 1 Comment

On May 1, 1865, 150 years ago this month, the parish church of St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church, Sapperton, was consecrated. In those days, the church was a small wooden building in a clearing in the great forest outside…

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Christian professionals might become extinct in Canada

by Bruce Clemenger • May 14, 2015 • 10 Comments

A law school that doesn’t exist yet has already been blacklisted by the law societies of Nova Scotia, Ontario and British Columbia. Each had voted to bar its graduates from practicing law in their province. It’s not because the proposed…

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Around Town: The Inkwell Workshops, Regent Lecture Series, 127 Housing . . .

by Flyn Ritchie • May 14, 2015 • 0 Comments

A week from Saturday (May 23), The Inkwell Workshops will offer a rich day, full of opportunities to hone your writing and marketing skills. Workshop leaders include:  Dr. Monika Hilder, associate professor of English at TWU and author of Surprised…

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International China Concern creates families for China’s abandoned, disabled

by ICC Staff • May 7, 2015 • 0 Comments

When International China Concern (ICC) began its work in 1993, disabled children in China had a bleak future. The great majority of the children left in orphanages would die there; babies often lay shoulder-to-shoulder with several others in small cribs;…

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Around Town: Katharine Hayhoe, CityFest, Raymond Roussin . . .

by Flyn Ritchie • April 30, 2015 • 0 Comments

“Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, a cheerful, Toronto-born evangelical Christian, has become the hottest ticket in the highly polarized U.S. debate over climate change.” So said William Marsden in an April 24 story in the National Post. Hayhoe will be the…

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