The world is an active place, brimming with almost seven billion people; the population of the Lower Mainland alone is almost 2.5 million. And every person, each one of us, has a unique story that tells who we are, what… Read more →
Books, Community, Culture
It started like a bad joke . . . or Creation Care 101
by Leah Kostamo • • 0 Comments
It sounds like a bad joke: what do you get when a Buddhist, a Christian and a Wiccan sit down for a meal together? Actually, it was one Buddhist, three Christians, one Wiccan and three agnostics and what you got was some… Read more →
City, Community, News
This week: Josh Garrels, two art shows, Muffins for Granny, Bethel Music . . .
by Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
We’re into September so there’s lots going on around Vancouver. Check out the Events calendar. Here are a few highlights this week: Josh Garrels at St. Andrew’s-Wesley I was one of the fortunate souls gathered at Josh Garrels’ Rio Theatre… Read more →
Community, Culture
Shifting Stats tour shook the church, but also provided grounds for hope
by Lloyd Mackey • • 3 Comments
More teenagers in Canada now identify as Muslims than Anglicans, Uniteds and Baptists combined. That was just one of the findings put forward at Shifting Stats: Shaking the Church, a series of day-long forums for Christian leaders that attracted an… Read more →
City, Community
UrbanPromise closes urban ‘camps,’ hopes to start up again one day
by Lloyd Mackey • • 0 Comments
UrbanPromise’s two after-school ‘camps’ – one in East Vancouver and the other in Whalley, near Surrey’s Central City – are no more. Featured in a Church for Vancouver story earlier this year, Camp Hope and Camp Peace had operated respectively… Read more →