One of the great things about our community is that people here genuinely care about each other.

Whether it’s with one of our pastors or a gifted and trained member with a heart for others, there are people here who would love to walk alongside you. The primary way we provide care is through our Care Team.

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Care Team

Our Care Team is made up of compassionate women and men who have been equipped with the skills to provide high-quality, confidential, Christ-centered care.

Care Team members provide care through listening, encouraging, and praying. This can be for a few meetings, or in an ongoing capacity. They meet with one person at a time on a weekly basis. To be clear, our Care Team members are not counsellors or trained professionals.

Who should seek out the Care Team?

The Care Team is for anyone who needs a consistent, caring spiritual friendship. You can think of Care Team members as people dedicated to the charge of St. Paul in Galatians 6:2, “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” In our context, these burdens could be:

• Persistent physical or mental illness
• Grieving the loss of dreams for family or a future that is perpetually unfulfilled
• Grieving the physical death of a loved one
• Financial strain
• Difficult work relationships or situations
• Difficult family relationships or situations
• Weighty life decisions (i.e. moving cities, career changes, having children)
• Addiction (substance abuse, technology, pornography)
• A difficult breakup (or divorce)
• Loneliness (i.e. being new to Vancouver; trouble making friends; new parents)
• Spiritual dryness and feelings of abandonment by God
• Other sinful habits that require consistent accountability 

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Here are additional resources we have available: