Don?t miss this Forum ? help us to end homelessness NOW.

Don?t miss this Forum ? help us to end homelessness NOW.

Featuring the talents of Alex Dugdale, The Sacred Music Gospel Choir, The Sojourners, Marcus Mosely, Fred Stride Jazz Orchestra and Dee Daniels.

Featuring the talents of Alex Dugdale, The Sacred Music Gospel Choir, The Sojourners, Marcus Mosely, Fred Stride Jazz Orchestra and Dee Daniels.

Date: November 7

Time: 7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30)

Location: 1012 Nelson (at Burrard Street)

Panelists:

FREE PUBLIC EVENT

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Date: November 7

Time: 7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30)

Location: 1012 Nelson (at Burrard Street)

Panelists:?

• Francis Bula
• Mike Howell
• Patrick Stewart

FREE PUBLIC EVENT

For more information, go to the Home page.

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6:30 ? 9:00 pm

Evergreen Cultural Centre

Studio Theatre and Main Lobby

1205 Pinetree Way

Coquitlam, BC, V3B 7Y3 ? map

Light refreshments will be served after the program.

Admission is free and guests are welcome, but advance registration is required.

RSVP [...]]]>

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

6:30 ? 9:00 pm

Evergreen Cultural Centre

Studio Theatre and Main Lobby

1205 Pinetree Way

Coquitlam, BC, V3B 7Y3 ? map

Light refreshments will be served after the program.

Admission is free and guests are welcome, but advance registration is required.

RSVP online by Wednesday, November 10, 2010.

Please feel free to forward this invitation to a friend.

For more information about this event, please contact Melissa Forster at 604-827-5831 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 604-827-5831 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or at .

As you are aware, ending street homelessness is one of Vision Vancouver?s top priorities. Today, our city moved a big step closer to reaching our goal of ending street homelessness by 2015.

Sponsored by: End Homelessness Now & First Baptist Church

The CenturyMen, established in 1969, is an auditioned men?s chorus of professional Christian musicians who are Ministers of music, Concert artists, College Faculty members and one pastor across America and Germany.

The CenturyMen [...]]]>

Date: July 16, 2010? Time: 8:00pm

Sponsored by: End Homelessness Now & First Baptist Church

The CenturyMen, established in 1969, is an auditioned men?s chorus of professional Christian musicians who are Ministers of music, Concert artists, College Faculty members and one pastor across America and Germany.

The CenturyMen assemble annually from across the United States and Germany for a concert tours in different areas of the United States. Every five years The CenturyMen makes a tour abroad as a concert/ mission tour. Overseas tours have included the nations of England, Wales, Scotland, Germany, Austria, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Switzerland, Israel, Brazil, the People?s Republic of China, Russia, Poland, and the Czech Republic.

The CenturyMen concert is open to the public. For further information, please contact:

Don Evans, First United Church (Mission)

Phone: (604) 681-8365 Ext 105

Cell: (604) 505-5921

Fax: (604) 681-8928

Saturday, May 8 ? 9:30-3:30 ? 411 Seniors Centre, [...]]]>

Saturday, May 8 ? 9:30-3:30 ? 411 Seniors Centre, 411 Dunsmuir St.

Tenth Avenue Church, 11 West 10th Ave, Vancouver

Presentation

Dave Witt, Team Leader, True City

Andrew Zantingh, Pastor, First Christian Reformed Church of Hamilton

Q & A and Discussion

moderated by Jonathan Bird, City Gate Leadership Forum

Tenth Avenue Church, 11 West 10^th Ave, Vancouver

Presentation

Dave Witt, Team Leader, True City

Andrew Zantingh, Pastor, First Christian Reformed Church of Hamilton

Q & A and Discussion

moderated by Jonathan Bird, City Gate Leadership Forum

John Ralston Saul will speak in the UCV Sanctuary. Saul is current President of International PEN, and an award winning essayist and novelist. He is the author of, among other numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, A Fair Country: Telling Truths [...]]]>

Tuesday, 7:30 pm March 30, 2010

John Ralston Saul will speak in the UCV Sanctuary. Saul is current President of International PEN, and an award winning essayist and novelist. He is the author of, among other numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, A Fair Country: Telling Truths about Canada. (Epperson thinks this is the most important book on Canada he has ever read.)

This is an extraordinary opportunity for UCV and the wider Vancouver community to hear one of Canada?s most important and influential public intellectuals.

Please spread the news and bring your friends!

(A collection will take place to support UCV?s ?Our Children?s Table,? a pre-school literacy and nutrition program.)

Co-hosted by North Shore Unitarian Church

Share the Gold invites you to help link the worlds within our city by creating a human chain along Hastings Street.

A Half-Hour Stand in Solidarity

as together we create

A Human Chain to Share The Gold

Our vision is of [...]]]>

Share the Gold invites you to help link the worlds within our city by creating a human chain along Hastings Street.

A Half-Hour Stand in Solidarity

as together we create

A Human Chain to Share The Gold

Our vision is of a golden chain of individuals standing 3m apart along either side of Hastings Street for 3 blocks from First United, past Carnegie Community Centre and InSite to Pigeon Park

On February 24^th (4.45pm to 5.15pm)

Please wear a yellow scarf ? or obtain one at First United at 4.15 pm

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If you have any questions about this project, please contact Bill Briscall at 604-215-3047 at Rain city Housing.

A sixth emergency shelter for the homeless will open at 747 Cardero Street on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 to ensure shelter options are available throughout the city for a temporary period ending by April 30, 2010.

With the shelter?s opening, 40 additional sleeping spaces will be available through the City?s [...]]]>

A sixth emergency shelter for the homeless will open at 747 Cardero Street on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 to ensure shelter options are available throughout the city for a temporary period ending by April 30, 2010.

With the shelter?s opening, 40 additional sleeping spaces will be available through the City?s 2010 Winter Response Program, for a total of 460 spaces. The 2010 program will have 500 temporary emergency shelter beds in total.

The Cardero Street shelter will be operated by RainCity Housing, who have operated housing and shelter for people throughout the Lower Mainland since 1982. At least two RainCity staff will be at the shelter at all times. As with other shelters opened under the 2010 Winter Response Program, shelter users can bring shopping carts and pets and will receive two meals each day.

A community open house is planned for January 26, 2010 to provide information on shelter operations and 24-hour agency contacts for neighbours. A bed reservation system will reduce line-ups and access to adequate washroom facilities will be ensured. The shelter will remain open 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week.

Emergency winter shelters are funded in 2010 through a $1.2 million contribution from the Government of British Columbia and $500,000 from the City. Shelter locations are chosen based on need and the number of homeless in the area.

Two other temporary shelters opened in December 2009 at 677 East Broadway and January 2010 at 1435 Granville Street to join the three temporary emergency shelters already in operation.

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Media contacts:

Corporate Communications

604.871.6336

RainCity Housing

Bill Briscall

604.671.2169

The purpose of the meeting [...]]]>

Reverend Dr. Steven Epperson and ?End Homelessness Now? would like to invite you to a meeting on Thursday, January 28th from 6:30pm ? 9:00pm at the Unitarian Church, 949 West 49^th Street (Oak & 49^th), Vancouver. Refreshments and Networking at 6:30pm, Program begins at 7:00pm.

The purpose of the meeting will be to:

1. Provide an update on new City Shelters.? What new Shelters have opened up?? What other Shelters are planned? Do these new shelters need support? Are people already involved?

2. Look at organizing Neighborhood Hubs.? Who is willing to work with other Faith Communities in their area?? Are there Faith Communities willing to adopt a Shelter?

3. Feasibility of establishing an Interfaith Alliance to End Homelessness.? What will this look like?

4. Discuss strategies to have a City Wide Plan to End Homelessness.? What is the role of the Faith Community in prompting government to develop and monitor this plan?

We welcome new members from the faith community who were unable to attend the meeting before Christmas. We encourage you to send a representative if you are not personally able to attend.? Nancy Hall will facilitate the meeting. Nancy has ?years of experience in community development and in facilitation of strategic thinking towards improving community health.

Please RSVP if you are able to attend. Thank you.

Amanda Trimble

Administrative Coordinator

First United Church (Mission)

320 East Hastings Street

Vancouver, BC V6A 1P4

Phone: (604) 681-8365 x126

Fax: (604) 681-8928

Email:

Web: www.firstunited.ca

@ Tenth Avenue Church, 11 West 10th Ave, Vancouver

Presentation: Dave Hillis, President, Leadership Foundations

Planning Circles: Jonathan Bird, City Gate Leadership Forum

How can the resources of the Christian community (clergy [...]]]>

Thursday, January 14^th, 10 AM ? 4 PM

@ Tenth Avenue Church, 11 West 10^th Ave, Vancouver

Presentation: Dave Hillis, President, Leadership Foundations

Planning Circles: Jonathan Bird, City Gate Leadership Forum

How can the resources of the Christian community (clergy & laity, church & parachurch & marketplace) be connected and then engaged in a common effort with government and non-Christian groups?

AM? Find out how the church in other cities is partnering successfully within and beyond itself for spiritual and social transformation.

PM ?Over lunch and through the afternoon, together we will identify a collaborative project which addresses a pressing spiritual and social need.

City Gate Leadership Forum

(formerly Shalom Seekers)

Jonathan Bird

City Gate Leadership Forum

From good intentions to effective outcomes.

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