Our weekly Creating Conversation editorial gives opportunity for people to speak about issues they believe are vital for the church to respond to. We asked Shadia Qubti to respond to Jonathan Bird’s accompanying comment, in part to model healthy conversation.…
Last year, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, local Christian leaders raised and dispersed more than $770,000 to support vulnerable senior citizens. Tom Cooper of City in Focus spearheaded the initial effort. Now, joined by Tim Dickau of CityGate Leadership…
Last Sunday (February 28) marked the installation of the 10th Diocesan Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster. Two live-streamed liturgies took place at Christ Church Cathedral that day. In the morning, Archbishop Skelton preached and presided at the…
Jason Byassee and Ross Lockhart will launch their new book, Better than Brunch, next Wednesday (January 27). In the meantime, Mark Glanville offers these insights. For a while now I have been hunting for a book that displays, thoughtfully, what…
Has COVID-19 been a challenge or an opportunity? Our church has been challenged on many levels – but we have been reminded of our original call, to pursue the things God had sent us into our neighbourhood to do. Southside,…
Last spring, we wrote about how Vancouver churches are responding to the physical and spiritual hunger that COVID-19 is highlighting through community food programs, and through growing food. As the infection rate increases, we continue to feverishly figure out how…
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…
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…
Three Christ City Church pastors offer some thoughtful guidance on not rushing back to ‘normal.’ While some churches are anxious to get back to their buildings and resume church as usual, quite a number are deciding to delay that…
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…