Sopari Sor was born in a refugee camp on the border between Thailand and Cambodia – so it is surprising, if not miraculous, that she graduated from the nursing program at Trinity Western University this spring. An April 28 story… Read more →
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Rob Des Cotes: March 2, 1954 – April 6, 2016
by Flyn Ritchie • • 4 Comments
I have met many good Christian leaders throughout my career with Christian Info Society and Church for Vancouver, but I particularly looked forward to a call or meeting with Rob Des Cotes. I always felt welcome when I called, enlightened… Read more →
Around Town: Festival launched, Mining & Soil, Gruesome Playground Injuries …
by Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
The Greater Vancouver Festival of Hope is under way. Some 350 leaders attended a dinner and another 900 people took part in the public launch event at Broadway Church last Thursday (March 31). The year-long festival journey will culminate with… Read more →
Love in the time of refugees
by Leah Kostamo • • 1 Comment
I’m in love. I was fretful and anxious, but now I’m in love. The context for my emotional bi-polarity has been the Syrian refugee crisis. In my anxious phase I posted a great number of guilt-inducing refugee photos on Facebook.… Read more →
Around Town: This Thin Place, If Your Church Disappeared, Helijet donation …
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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… Read more →
Around Town: Numb, Climate Change, Christian Seasons, Roy Salmond . . .
by Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
Regent College grad Jason Goode will celebrate the North American premiere of his Okanagan-shot thriller Numb on the closing night of the 2015 Whistler Film Festival this Sunday (December 6). Numb is billed as a survival thriller: “When a couple… Read more →
Local actions anticipate Paris Climate Change Conference
by Flyn Ritchie • • 1 Comment
Several actions, writings and gatherings illustrate a groundswell of local concern about environmental issues, and interest in the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference to be held in Paris November 30 – December 11. The “meeting of all countries which want… Read more →
Chris Wright says creation care is central to the mission of God
by Lloyd Mackey • • 0 Comments
What do creation care and evangelical Christian faith have in common? Quite a bit more than many have understood, if Chris Wright, international ministries director for Langham Partnership, is to be believed. Wright is in Vancouver this week for Holy Ground:… Read more →
Around Town: Katharine Hayhoe, CityFest, Raymond Roussin . . .
by Flyn Ritchie • • 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… Read more →
Green City: TreeKeepers, M2/W2’s Garden of Hope, Katharine Hayhoe
by Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
Vancouver is a green city, but apparently not as green as it used to be, nor as green as the mayor would like it to be. So TreeKeepers is taking action to make sure that our ‘urban forest’ gets a… Read more →