English Service | 09:30am – 10:45am
in-person
Children’s Worship | 09:30am – 10:45am
in-person
Sunday School | 11:15am – 12:30pm
in-person and on zoom1
Cantonese Service
| Saturday 4:15pm – 5:30pm2
| Sunday 11:30am – 12:45pm2
Mandarin Service |11:15am – 12:30pm2
1 In combination of online or in-person until further notice. Please refer to our latest online sermon and news.
2 Please refer to our Chinese website.
ONLINE COMMUNITY PRAYER TIME
Community prayer is online every Wednesday, 7:30pm via ZOOM. Download the app and pray with us at www.VCEFC.org/1033/prayer
Testimony of Teresa Lui
My name is Teresa. I was raised in a Christian family, and I grew up at another church in Vancouver. I currently work for the provincial government.
I was “a good kid”, the one at church who knew all the Bible trivia and Sunday School answers. I learned about the gospel early on, that God is holy and perfect, and that I am a sinner and fall short of God’s standards. I was always afraid of doing wrong and getting into trouble. When I was 10, it really sank in how God loved me so much, He gave His life and rose from the dead, to atone for my sin and make a way for me to be in relationship with Him. I wanted to respond to His love, and I got baptized when I was 11.
Looking back, I feel like I was quite young to make such a decision. In grade 10, after learning about more difficult subjects in school, I secretly planned to leave home for university so I could explore other religions without my parents knowing. But during a philosophy class in grade 11, when we discussed belief and knowledge, I realized that following anything would require faith. I thought over my Christian walk with God, and ultimately decided to keep all my eggs in this basket.
Life went on and various things happened. I remember visiting this church during a Good Friday service, when one of my high school friends got baptized, and then whenever another friend came back from out of town. Some years later—more than five years ago now—I was praying about finding a home church. I wondered where God wanted me to be, since technically I could be serving Him anywhere. My friend told me I was welcome here, and on the following Sunday, when Pastor Joe came up on stage for pastoral prayer, he said to us: “We welcome you, and we hope you find a spiritual home here and experience God’s love with us.”
I almost couldn’t believe it, and I don’t think I can remember him ever saying exactly that again. Afterwards, I asked God, “Is this really You?” and felt Him impress on me, “Stay here.” So, I told Him, “OK… but two things: I never want to go up on stage, and I never want to touch the piano again.”…and the rest is history.
Testimony of Tommy Kin Hang Chan
Hi everyone, I’m Tommy. I accepted Christ at 2021 and got baptized at North Shore Pacific Grace MB church at 2022, and I became a member in this church. Here is my short testimony.
I first learned about Christianity in church when I was three, but I lost faith in God since he didn’t reply me and help me achieve a high score in English Exam after I prayed.
After enrolling in a Christian secondary school, I often discussed and even argued controversial and challenging Christianity topics with natural science and philosophical aspects with my classmates and teachers who are Christians, however I was never satisfied with their answers. I became known as an nonbeliever in my class. Despite reading the Bible, attending fellowship meetings, participating in sermons, and engaging in preaching and evangelistic events, I thought the moral teaching in verses were shallow such that I didn’t need to it in order to be a nice person. Fellowship was just about playing games and connecting each other. There was no difference between social events. The content of sermons were not completely logical. I always found some mistakes in those logic implications. Preaching was a way to persuade people in an emotional way by sharing personal story.
When I was studying in university, the desire of going to church again as joining a small society grew in my heart after there was a time that I realized I lost my sentiments, which is not a human, when my thought was too logical. It was just like a death. But, I couldn’t convince myself to be a christian without knowing God is existed, which was my baseline.
After serval years, I prayed to understand the foundations of Christianity a bit better one day. Initially, nothing happened. Then, at the midnight, I woke up and there was thunder and lighting outside the house I lived. I prayed again, and within moments, I suddenly understood that all the bible stories I learned are actually linked together one by one to convey a singular message. I also understood the Jesus’s salvation which I didn’t get it twice before. In the meanwhile, I connected to God and experienced his holiness, love and power. I knew that he is unique and who I am craving for. I knew that he is the top of all gods because I compared this spiritually experience compared to other religious experiences I had encountered. It also fulfilled Matt 7:7, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” I shared my experience with Pastor Peter from NSPG, and he joked around and said “Tommy, you can’t escape from God. Let do an accepting Christ payer now.” So I accepted Christ.
Testimony of Erico Chan
I first learned about God when I was in elementary school, which is a catholic school. We had Bible lesson every week and were required to pray every morning assembly. For some reason, I would continue to pray to God every night before I go to bed as well. My family then immigrated to Canada when I was 12. I met a friend from school who invited me to a Christian church. I went to church with her and thought church was nothing more than a place to have fun and hang out with friends. At the age of 14, my family underwent a major financial crisis. They decided that our family should return to Hong Kong. At the very same time, my Mom was brought to a church and quickly accepted Christ as her savior. Our family started to attend church regularly. I have no doubt in the existence of God and I believed that God so loved us that He died on the cross for us. I believed that He rose from the dead 3 days later so we can reconnect with God and have eternal life. I accepted Christ and got baptized at that time. However, I was having a difficult time fitting in the small group and my faith remained shallow. Until I return to Canada for university, where I began to seek God earnestly. I was heavily involved in Chinese Christian Fellowship on campus. The fellowship provided a platform for Christian students to learn about God together, to support each other spiritually and academically. I was also very grateful that I had found a spiritual home in a small church in Richmond. People are very welcoming and their teaching sparked my curiosity to pursue a deeper understanding of God’s word. In retrospect, I believe God has planted His seed in me since I was young and He has been walking with me throughout my ups and downs so I can establish a deep root in Him.
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