If you live in Vancouver, but still feel you’ve got a lot to learn about what makes the city tick, why not join UBC urban geography prof David Ley on his patented Postmodern Urban Spaces Tour this Saturday (July 18)?…
This week the Canadian Chinese Alliance Churches Association is hosting Joint Mission Convention 2015 in Surrey: Dr. A.B. Simpson, founder of C&MA [Christian and Missionary Alliance], upheld missions as the backbone of the movement building up the life and characters of…
Sophie Schmidt of King Road MB Church, Abbotsford, has been a quiet Christian presence on the Canadian Women’s National soccer team for 10 years. Her mother Cornelia has been an outspoken evangelist on short-term mission trips around the world for…
An exhibition of North Korean Art (May 28 – July 24) and a one-day conference on Global Church and Reconciled Korea (June 20) are part of a series of events making connections between critical issues in Northeast Asia and Christians…
Philip Owen was mayor of Vancouver from 1993 to 2002, and his contribution to the city and our society will be recognized next Monday (May 11) when the Vancouver School of Theology (VST) confers on him the degree of Doctorate…
China and its people – past and present, inland and diaspora, Christian and otherwise – will be the focus of much activity at Fraserview Church in Richmond this weekend (April 17 and 18). The occasion will involve two major events…
In the spirit of Missions Fest – where we were reminded more than once that well over half of the world’s Christians now live outside of Europe and North America – we will look at the fascinating history of Christianity…
There are always 101 good reasons to come down to Missions Fest – try it out this weekend (Friday to Sunday) if you never have, or haven’t for a while. But one element I’m particularly looking forward to this year…
“If you had no other choice but to stick to China’s state media – and, given censorship, that is the case for quite a few people on the mainland – you might believe that protests in Hong Kong are entirely…
In OMF we define creation care as “the responsible stewardship by humankind of the earth and its life forms, for the Lord’s sake.” We believe that “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it” (Psalm 24:1); that we are…