Last week we wrote about how Vancouver churches are responding through community food programs to the physical and spiritual hunger that COVID-19 is exacerbating. Prior to the pandemic, approximately one in 10 households in British Columbia were experiencing inadequate or… Read more →
COVID-19 and the end of Christendom are two ground-shifting realities facing churches at this time – both of which bring challenges and opportunities. One initiative aimed at resourcing churches to face these realities is the new Certificate in Missional Leadership… Read more →
World Refugee Day (June 20) and World Refugee Sunday (June 21) remind us that tens of millions of people in our world have nowhere to call home. But some of them do find new homes. Vancouver has several front line… Read more →
How the world can change in just a few days! As the seriousness of the global situation began to sink in towards the end of last week, more and more governments announced increasingly stringent measures to fight the spread of… Read more →
Surrey Christian School is heavily involved with its surrounding community, and that distinguishing characteristic has been examined and documented by two local academics. Dr. Adrienne Castellon and Dr. Allyson Jule, both professors at Trinity Western University’s School of Education, wrote… Read more →
A couple of years ago, my family and I walked a few blocks to our church to take part in its annual Christmas lunch. The cross-section of people in attendance was remarkable: middle-class families from our church, older homeless men… Read more →
Vancouver Sun columnist Douglas Todd had Vancouver School of Theology professor Jason Byassee write a guest column October 29. Following is Todd’s introduction and Byassee’s column, which are re-posted by permission: Even though Santa Ono presides over a secular university,… Read more →
I live in East Vancouver just off Commercial Drive. My house looks like a nondescript ‘Vancouver Special’ from the street, but it’s far from ordinary by our city’s standards. Over the past two years, I have shared my home with… Read more →
Cailey Morgan has just completed a series based on unique church expressions: Dinner Church, Campus and Community, Blended Ecology and Underground Network. Following is her Underground Network article, which features an interview with a well known local leader. I interviewed… Read more →
Many churches are looking for creative ways to get to know their neighbours, but few have done as well as Brentwood Park Alliance Church, which has been running Connections Coffee House in a quiet Brentwood neighbourhood for the past eight years.… Read more →
