Four years ago Jonathan Bird and I posted a series on the neighbourhoods of Vancouver. We are offering them again, with demographics from the latest national census and some other updates. We begin with a particularly historic area. Sunset is…
Peter Biggs of The Light Magazine is researching one Metro Vancouver / Fraser Valley municipality each month, and producing a four page feature. The June issue features Abbotsford. Situated some 30 minutes east of the Port Mann Bridge, Abbotsford – aptly named ‘city in the…
Cancer has touched us all in some way. Research figures say 50 percent of us will wrestle with some form of cancer in our lifetimes. The other 50 percent may know cancer in a different way – through the struggle…
Sunday, March 9 was a big day for the Punjabi Masihi Church. After almost a decade in the planning and building stages, the 160-member church dedicated its new $2 million church, located on 72nd Avenue, west of Newton Town Centre…
What is the average person in a long-established church to do, when new neighbours come from different parts of the world and different cultures? The folks at Richmond Faith Fellowship Church, assisted by Outreach Canada, hope to provide some answers…