CONNECTING
THE CHURCH
WITH THE CITY
FOR TRANSFORMATION
CityGate Vancouver works to form connections among local churches with each other and with civic leaders and organizations in Greater Vancouver. The purpose of these connections is to bring transformation to our neighborhoods and its people.
Upcoming Events
Finding Real Friendships in Pastoral Ministry
St. Andrew’s Hall, UBC
Friday, April 25, 2025
Ministry is meaningful—but it can also be lonely. Many pastors and church leaders experience isolation in their work. Join Dr. Dustin Benac and Rev. Mardi Dopho-Smith for input and discussion around loneliness in ministry. We will dialogue on cultivating connection and community. Come enjoy food and drink around the fire!
Money, Lies and God: The Dangers of Christian Nationalism
North Lonsdale United Church
Monday, April 28, 2025
Join us for an evening with Katherine Stewart, a leading journalist and author exploring the rise of Christian Nationalism in the United States and beyond. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Republic, and, most recently in Canada, on The Fifth Estate.
Christian Nationalism is not Christianity. It is a movement that co-opts Christian symbols and the good intentions of many believers to accumulate power and wealth for a select few. In her latest book, Money, Lies, and God, Stewart unpacks the dangerous fusion of politics, religion, and money that is shaping our current political and cultural climate.
Serve Our Schools
CityReach Care Society
Thursday, May 1 2025
Across our city, schools are facing increasing challenges in providing food security, mentorship, and community support for students. With rising grocery costs and growing needs, now is the time to come together and explore how we can serve our schools more effectively.
Join us for Serve Our Schools, a gathering of organizations, churches and school leaders who are committed to ensuring every child has access to the support they need. This event will feature insightful presentations, impactful storytelling, and interactive discussions on how we can work together to strengthen school communities.
Reimagining Church, Land and Community
Wycliffe College
May 13 & 14, 2025
Over the past decade, thousands of churches in Canada have closed, with many sold to the private market. In the coming years, even more churches will face decisions to redevelop, sell, or close. While some properties remain underutilized, others are awakening to new opportunities for justice and partnership within their neighborhoods.
This two-day conference aims to shift the narrative of decline around Canada’s church properties into stories of renewal, justice and flourishing neighbourhoods. Through plenary talks, storytelling, panel discussions, and working group dialogue sessions, the gathering is designed to inspire collaboration, meaningful dialouge, and exploration to new and innovative approaches to church properties.
ReLearning the Art of Neighbouring
Madonna House
Tuesday, May 6 2025
In our increasingly polarized world, neighbouring might just be at the heart of recovering our Christian vocation today. Join us for this evening of learning, listening, discussing and collaborating. Hear about real-life practices of neighbouring and community living. Network and learn how we can support one another in this future seeking vision and leave considering how you might take up one or two new practices in your own context.
RSVP by emailing events@citygatevancouver.org
our work: building networks
CHURCHES WELCOMING REFUGEES
Connecting churches, agencies and individuals to support and advocate for refugees and claimants through resourcing and collaboration.
REIMAGINING CHURCH, LAND & COMMUNITY
Catalyzing discussions about church properties to encourage theological reflection and proactive stewardship.
SERVE OUR
SCHOOLS
Bringing together organizations and churches to alleviate poverty, food insecurity and enhance education in our local schools.
CENTRE FOR MISSIONAL LEADERSHIP
Offering a one-year certificate program to help churches grow and develop into missionally focused communities.
METRO VANCOUVER ALLIANCE
Uniting faith communities, labour unions, educational institutions and community groups for organizational collaboration and strength.
NETWORK FOR NEIGHBOURING
Equipping and supporting individuals in intentionally loving their neighbours and building local communities.
The Bell
To be food secure, people need a home, a living wage, disability supports
“Ugh! I am so full,” groaned a friend, hands on her stomach, lamenting that she had eaten too much. We were cleaning up from a fundraising dinner, having just served a hundred people who had worked up an appetite on a long bike ride. We still had a few servings of...
Church offers sustained support for temporary modular housing neighbours
On February 28, 2018, I walked into the main branch of the Richmond Public Library to pick up a few books. To my surprise, the library was jammed packed. I had never seen so many people at the library before. What was going on? I discovered it was an open house...
‘Fargo’ finale put the modern Christian country of the USA on trial
The season five finale of Fargo packed a spiritual punch I was not expecting, with a dinner scene that invited everyone to a meal table that had overt eucharistic overtones and that invited everyone to take and eat and be forgiven, whatever sins they had committed (or...
Church Partnerships
Citygate is inviting churches to enter into a partnership agreement.
Partnership with Citygate connects your church with other churches, within and beyond your own denomination. We fill a collaborative vacuum and help the Church work together in the City. A partnership with Citygate connects your churches with valuable resources for strengthening your own local mission.
Through gatherings, conferences, courses, community development processes and more, Citygate is helping churches engage their neighbourhoods and address the issues of our city in a fuller way.
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