By Adam Miller
Zendeh (Living) Church was a long trek westward for Iranian Amin Pour Kaveh who’d fled his country when he became a Christian. Pour Kaveh accepted Christ in Iran in 2002 and began telling others about his newfound faith.
His passion for Christ led to persecution at home and at work.
“They had fired me from my job,” Pour Kaveh says. “And it was not safe for me to stay anymore. The secret police were monitoring my phone line and watching me.”
Date Created: 2/24/2012 12:58:32 PM
By Adam Miller In a breezy corridor between buildings in downtown Vancouver, Victor Thomas pulls you in with a story told with a South African accent. He tells you how God brought him from Johannesburg to Vancouver and didn’t let
Date Created: 11/16/2011 12:58:25 PM
By Adam Miller
VANCOUVER, B.C.—Vancouver surprises you. It’s a vertical city; a large garden of high rises at the foot of the mountains and the edge of the Salish Sea. Surf and sail in the morning; snow ski in the afternoon; end the day with a five-star meal—all in Canada’s largest seaport and North America’s most diversity-dense city.
It’s younger than you’d imagine (125 years old), growing into every available space (mostly in high rises) and garnering a reputation for global magnetism. Some 200 language groups are represented among its residents.
Date Created: 11/9/2011 2:30:50 PM
By Adam Miller
LYONS, Ga.—Dannie Williams first set foot in Vancouver in 1985, and he never forgot it. He’d taken a trip with his wife, Gwen, starting in Seattle then working their way up the coast. When they reached the city it was as brilliant as it is today, if a little less populous.
The sea glistened, buildings lined up along Coal Harbor and the Strait of George, which they would cross to Victoria, British Columbia’s capital city on Vancouver Island.
God had already started planting a desire in Williams, beginning when Henry Blackaby came to speak in Texas where Williams was serving as pastor at the time.
Date Created: 11/9/2011 2:21:28 PM
By Adam Miller
VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Victor and Candice Thomas landed in Vancouver promising they’d never stay—that was four years ago. They arrived in 2007, so Victor could start a four-month stint as a researcher at Simon Fraser University—what Victor called an extended honeymoon for the newly married couple. But the young entrepreneurs from South Africa found a new calling in Burnaby, a quick train-ride from downtown Vancouver.
Three weeks before they were to return to Cape Town, Thomas walked the Burnaby campus of Simon Fraser, his eyes seeming to open for the first time.
Date Created: 11/9/2011 1:58:52 PM