God’s Got This!

At this time last year, many of us were saying, “Wow!  What a year 2020 has been. I can’t wait to turn the page to 2021!”  During 2020 we had entered into a deadly pandemic, seen our communities forced into various stages of lock down, come face to face with the...

What Are You Looking For?

“Dad, I need some help with something.”  This is a call that I have gotten regularly since the kids went to UBC.  Of course, when I hear that I have a little trepidation run though my system.  Is something wrong?  That’s the first thought, but more often...

Engaging in Mission Together

By the time I finally got around to asking Lori to marry me, we had been deep in discussion about our marriage. We knew that we were going to join our lives together, we knew that we were going to move to Chicago so I could attend seminary, we knew that we would be a...

What Kind of Place?

Well known Vancouverite, restauranteur and baseball fan Nathaniel Ryan Bailey came to the city in 1911 when he and his family moved from Minnesota.   He was nine years old and quickly discovered Athletic Park, where he watched the Vancouver Beavers and others play...

Heading Toward Baptism

“As many of you were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.  There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one. in Christ Jesus.”  Galatians 3:27-28 GTCC is...