Kristin Joy Ritchie has been leading worship and writing songs since she was 13. While still in her teens, she released an EP with a friend, and over the last two decades she has sung in churches, in coffee shops…
Union Gospel Mission (UGM) has announced it plans to distribute $100,000 to 22 communities which are supporting their neighbours. Eligible applicants are encouraged to apply for a UGM Transforming Communities Grant. Here is how UGM describes the grant program: We…
Karen Giesbrecht and partners from different churches and supportive organizations have carried out ‘food asset and need scans’ for three neighbourhoods. Two weeks ago she wrote an overview. This week she focuses on on the West End and Downtown Vancouver…
Karen Giesbrecht and partners from different churches and supportive organizations have carried out ‘food asset and need scans’ for three neighbourhoods. Last week she wrote an overview. This week she focuses on the West Side of Vancouver and will follow…
Pre-pandemic, an estimated one in eight Canadians were food insecure, meaning they did not have the income to purchase enough food to stave off hunger, let alone support their health, make special food for a celebration or host friends for…
Cityview Church has been feeding and creating community with its neighbours for decades. Worship and community pastor Lalpi Guite – who began with the ministry the day he stepped off the plane from his home in northeast India in 2003…
Tucked away in a mini-mall slated for demolition on the boundary between Burnaby and Coquitlam is a thriving pulse of activity, ministry, community building, friendship and kingdom of God witness – the House of Omeed. The culmination of dreams, ideas,…
Andy Harrington is well known locally as the leader, first, of Youth Unlimited / Youth For Christ and then of Wellspring, which focuses on education in Rwanda. In September he made the transition from Wellspring to leadership of a worldwide…
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…
Three local groups have developed an important new resource for churches that want to support their neighbours. A Table for All is a 90-page “toolkit for community meals in a framework of food justice.” Karen Giesbrecht and Winston Green of…