It was a bittersweet experience, wandering between booths at the Vancouver Convention Centre last weekend. So many good memories from 39 years of Missions Fest (more lately called Mission Central SERVE) – and so many expressions of regret and even…
We have finally arrived at the weekend many have been looking forward to – the one featuring SERVE (formerly Missions Fest) and CREATE, at the Vancouver Convention Centre, just like in the days before Covid. And this will be your…
Churches have carried on resolutely during the pandemic – but opportunities to work together, or even to imagine in concert how to work together, have been few and far between. Thus the Pastors and Leaders Summit planned for the morning…
Ever since the first Missions Fest Vancouver gathering in January 1984, the movement has gathered believers from the hundreds of churches in Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and beyond. Their history page states, “Missions Fest conferences . . . are…
Unfortunately, Mission Central SERVE (formerly Missions Fest) won’t be at the Vancouver Convention Centre this weekend – as it has been for so many years until COVID-19 struck. But it will be online – see just below. In the meantime,…
Mission Central SERVE (formerly Missions Fest) will be meeting online again this year, mostly, but the three-day event will offer many of the same elements that made the in-person event at Canada Place so popular: Mission Central SERVE (January 28…
Mission Central – formerly Missions Fest – will be hosting three conferences next year – SERVE (January 28 – 30), CREATE (February 25 – 26) and GROW (June). Mission Central’s mission is to grow missional disciples through collaboration, education, inspiration…
A conflict between a pride society and a Catholic church which will be heard early next year before the BC Human Rights Tribunal is already gaining attention. A November 27 report on CBC News noted that five groups have now…
In late August 2020, the Mission Central board of directors and staff decided to conduct a virtual conference instead of a live event at Canada Place. Not only would there be a new venue for the conference but a new…
Missional leader Alan Hirsch will be a keynote speaker at Mission Central: SERVE (formerly Missions Fest) later this week, January 29 – 31. Following is an excerpt from his book The Forgotten Ways (Brazos Press 2006, 2016). I wish to…