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RICE, POETRY, AND "FROZEN"

A convention refugee is one who received refugee status through the United Nations. Did you know that in Canada,...
Hannah Wong
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Oasis Café | Winter Donations

As Vancouver's cold and damp months roll around, we try to stay warm and dry indoors. Some people, unfortunately,...
Elaine Cheng
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Half Sorrow

As she was putting on her coat and leaving one Tuesday, a volunteer with the Oasis Cafe commented "I thought I was...
Karen Giesbrecht
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Bullets, Baggage, and Beginnings

Farah* rolls over in her wheelchair and eagerly greets us into her home. The housing co-op in SE Vancouver...
Elaine Cheng
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I am an Immigrant

I am an immigrant. You are an immigrant. Your parents were immigrants. Your children will be immigrants—first...
Megha Sequeira
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Apartment Living

For the last seven years, my wife Caryn and I have lived in an apartment on the edge of Kerrisdale. We’ve got a...
Dan Matheson
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What Is Really in a Red Coffee Cup?

Written by Karen Giesbrecht & Simeon Pang—originally posted at Plantednetwork.ca Christmastime amplifies...
Karen Giesbrecht
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We're taking clean yogurt containers!

In our ongoing effort to reduce the waste we create through our community meals, we stopped buying disposable...
Karen Giesbrecht
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Ministry in Canada's Poorest Postal Code

Faith Today visits Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to understand what it is like to minister in this hard, hard place...
Julia Cheung