A Week in Vancouver
My week in Vancouver was enjoyable and informative on many levels! I visited Willingdon Church which is an exciting example of an ethnically diverse congregation and one that we have learned from in the past. They have 4 weekend services and the 11:30am service that I attended was jammed on this late July wk’d. It was fun to worship with such an international community. Unfortunately, their International Pastor, Darryl Kroeker was away for the entire summer so I didn’t get a chance to catch up with him but I came away inspired by all that they are doing for the Kingdom and hoping that we can continue to emulate their ministry here in Calgary.
During my week of classes at Regent College I stayed with Keith and Maureen Shields and had a chance to worship with their house church and get acquainted with the people involved. We had a number of intriguing conversations and I appreciated becoming better acqauinted with their vision for what is a challenging and exciting community of condos and Olympic housing.
The classes at Regent were for the most part stimulating and thought provoking. I chose to merely audit, so I was free of writing papers etc. and chose only to do some of the reading. One class was entitled, Understanding Emerging Evangelical Media and the other was The Ethics of Filmmaking. It was great to have Cal taking that class as well and he and Heather and I caught up a bit during the week.
The temperatures in Vancouver during that week broke all records so there were a few days that I wished I was on the beach instead of in the classroom. I also had the opportunity to visit with Cam Roxborough who is pastoring a Multi-Site Church in Vancouver and pick his brain a bit about what it’s like to have four different sites that are all part of the same church. It was a great week and I followed it up by joining all our family in Invermere for a week of R&R…family style!