Update: I have just learned that First Baptist Church has a Strike Camp as well. I’ve added a brief description and link at the end of the article, and will add others as I become aware of them. No doubt…
Strike camps spring up in local churches
Ron Reed, and upcoming movies, take on the Tolkien-Lewis Project
“It is still one of the finest jests of the modern muses that this fogged-in English don was going home nights to work on perhaps the most popular adventure story ever written, thereby inventing one of the most successful commercial…
Seniors will get More Than a Roof in their new Little Mountain homes
Some 60 years ago, more than 200 social housing units were built in the shadow of Vancouver’s picturesque Little Mountain. As the years passed, the housing became more difficult to maintain; it was time to replace those aging structures. Enter…
Local Iraqi Christians ask Canadian government ‘to be our voice’
Update: Iraqi Christians in Metro Vancouver are again asking the local community to join them in fasting and praying for the persecuted in Iraq on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery, from 11 am to 2 pm this Saturday…
The art of seeing: A conversation with Makoto Fujimura
Makoto Fujimura is an artist, writer and speaker recognized worldwide as a cultural shaper. His style blends abstract expressionism with the traditional Japanese art of Nihonga; he founded the International Arts Movement in 1991. Following a very successful event sponsored…
Central Presbyterian receives final city approval for 22-storey tower
This week we are doing stories about churches undergoing major redevelopment in downtown Vancouver (below), and in the city centres of New Westminster and Surrey (see accompanying story). Central Presbyterian Church received final approval from Vancouver City Council Tuesday evening…
Around Town: Soccer finals, Folk Fest, gender dysphoria & Catholic schools . . .
The fullest of full moons rose over the Burnaby Lakes soccer fields as the sun set on another perfect day, last Friday (July 11). Six teams from the BC Christian Soccer League battled it out for supremacy in the three-division…