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 →
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City Summit points to more cooperation, including ‘One City, One Sermon’
by Flyn Ritchie • • 1 Comment
City Councillor Andrea Reimer would love to see churches working together for the good of the city. “Many things start in a church basement,” she said recently. “I use that phrase a lot – and here we are in a… Read more →
Vancouver Consultation: A year-long process
by Jonathan Bird • • 3 Comments
Jonathan Bird wrote about the year-long Vancouver Consultation process for the national Faith Today magazine. Vancouver is rightly celebrated for being one of the most liveable urban regions in the world. Yet Vancouver’s very success has contributed to profound spiritual… Read more →
Vancouver Consultation: City Summit agenda
by Jonathan Bird / Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
The year-long Vancouver Consultation process will be capped by the City Summit November 24 – 25, at Glad Tidings Church. Participating will be church and ministry leaders from the city of Vancouver, with a handful of observers from surrounding cities.… Read more →
Vancouver Consultation: Focus groups undergird City Summit
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The Vancouver Consultation kicked off in January and February by bringing together pastors and non-profit executives into nine focus groups based on which part of the City of Vancouver they ministered in. Out of the 309 congregations and 122… Read more →
Vancouver Consultation: A Catholic-Evangelical Conversation
by Flyn Ritchie • • 1 Comment
A Catholic-Evangelical Conversation was held earlier this year, as part of the Vancouver Consultation. Following is the article I posted after the event. ************** Coastal Church hosted a Catholic-Evangelical Conversation March 1, as part of the Vancouver Consultation process. The… Read more →
Catholic-Evangelical Conversation showed how to learn from each other
by Flyn Ritchie • • 1 Comment
Coastal Church recently hosted a Catholic-Evangelical Conversation, as part of the Vancouver Consultation process. The core of the two-hour event was a gracious exchange between Brett Salkeld, archdiocesan theologian for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Regina (here with blessing of Archdiocese… Read more →
Update from the Vancouver Consultation
by Jonathan Bird • • 2 Comments
The Vancouver Consultation is a year-long process to engage the diversity of the church in a kind of “spiritual census” of the city – discovering what God is doing around town; documenting best practices and innovative forms of mission; and… Read more →