Advent Project News Today

Inlet United Church in Port Moody is raising non-perishable food items for students returning to Simon Fraser University (SFU) in the new year.

Advent draws us away from the spirit-stifling societal frenzy and into the quiet, where we can commune with God. 

In 2008, when the U.S. economy crashed and people were losing their homes and jobs right and left, local artist Doug Nicholson picked up a paint brush. In one session he painted darkness and despair and hopelessness, his brush illustrating the collective feelings of the nation. Nancy Kennedy Grace Notes “I painted it the week that everything collapsed, and this became a dark painting for me as opposed to the abstract paintings I normally do,” he said. However, as a Christian, Doug bel...