by Richard DeMarco
On the first day our team from Texas arrived we were met with lots of rain but God started to stir us. Our fearless YWAM host set up a dinner for us down the street at a Vietnamese restaurant. As we were walking, I was with John Daniel and I started to ask [...]
by Katherine Loucks
“There is truly no one like our God. I am so fully convinced of this fact now, after experiencing His beautiful presence for the last 25 hours. I have felt His love, His strength, and His healing. I have seen his heart for the people of Vancouver, the broken, the hurting, and the lost. I have smelled [...]
by Kalli Biegel
As a “people watcher” my senses have often been overwhelmed since arriving in Vancouver. Every turn is a new adventure, a journey of revelations. It seems as though the entire world has joined us here in the city, each person with their own unique beliefs and agendas, which has led to this marvelous [...]
by Ryan Hampton
February 14th 2010.
My somber heart goes out to our city on this day marked by flowers, greeting cards and warm fuzzies. Valentines day, Vancouver stops. and remembers and morns the lives lost. specifically those of women missing, abducted and murdered from the Downtown Eastside. Sisters, mothers, Aunties, daughters. Daughters of Vancouver. Many of [...]
We had our first prayer vigil last night with our teams from Antioch, Winnipeg and Davos.
It’s a vigil designed to challenge people’s preconceptions about the sex industry, to inform, to touch and to move them to prayer.
We were welcomed into The Great Room, a beautiful peaceful space in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and set up several [...]
Today was also a sad day, when at 12.34 21 year old Georgian luger, Nodar Kumaritashvili died in a tragic luge accident in Whistler.
Please pray for this situation, for his friends, family and teammates, and those in Whistler struggling through their grief.
http://www.ctvolympics.ca/news-centre/newsid=39621.html#ian+brown+a+dark
by Rebecca Barthelmess
Today was our first official day of ministry and it started with plenty of commotion and excitement. A few of us short term staffers along with a DTS outreach team from Finland were on duty at the Cross Culture Center with The Salvation Army doing warming stations. The torch was scheduled to go [...]
by Kalli Biegel
What an AMAZING welcome to the city! As months of anticipation, preparation and prayer came to culmination, the enormity of God’s plan, and heart for this city became more and more evident. Teams from all corners of the world arrived and flooded the church with energy, vision and enthusiasm, all uniting at this [...]
What an amazing day!
120 people flooding in to First CRC in Vancouver, to do registration, welcome games, getting to know one another and getting everything in order.
After a long year of preparation and prayer, what an amazing exciting start!
Welcome to Vancouver!!
So here’s the how-to:
Follow us on Twitter…our Twitter name is “ywamvanprayer” original I know! Search for us and sign up to follow our Tweets. I know you can read them right here, but how much cooler is it to read them fresh!?
Sign up to pray for us in the 24/7 initiative…go to www.ywamvancouver.com/signup We have [...]