Taylor, an 18 year old, tech-talented youth from Maple Ridge, is no stranger to hardship and pain. She’s had challenges with identity and acceptance, spent her life juggling two households, and barely graduated high school. Her mental health was constantly… Read more →
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A Rocha co-founder had a ‘tremendous capacity for big-hearted love’
by Leah Kostamo • • 0 Comments
A Rocha Canada and Regent College will celebrate the life of Miranda Harris, co-founder of A Rocha. The memorial at Regent College will be shaped around viewing a recording of the official service taking place at St Aldates in Oxford… Read more →
Vancouver Foundation’s new ‘Connect & Engage’ report digs deeper
by Jonathan Bird • • 0 Comments
Last week the Vancouver Foundation released a much-anticipated update to its landmark 2012 Connections and Engagement report on loneliness and community life in Metro Vancouver. This update, like the original report, provides hard evidence for trends most of us know… Read more →
Real relationships: The gospel for wealthy Westside Vancouver
by Mark C. Anderson • • 0 Comments
About 15 years ago, our fellowship at Marineview Chapel realized that our neighbours in Dunbar were simply not open to invitations to church outreach events. Their lives were already over-resourced and over-committed. So when we approached them with invitations to join us… Read more →
Newcomers to Canada welcomed by individuals, then by church
by Jack Taylor • • 0 Comments
There is an ocean width of difference between being alone and being lonely. Some think it is language, unaffordable housing, technology or erratic work schedules that distance us from each other. For newcomers to Canada, it may be all of… 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 →
Compassionate friends must be more available than medical marijuana
by Karen Giesbrecht • • 0 Comments
A few weeks ago, I got a call from a friend at 4 am. Actually, it was a call from an acquaintance, but now I consider him a friend. He had not been able to sleep and was feeling overwhelmingly… Read more →
When life changes in a moment . . .
by Carson Pue • • 2 Comments
Have you ever had an experience where one bit of information completely changed your life? That is how 2014 began for me. The first week of January we received a cascading amount of bad news in that our doctor had… Read more →