"Feeding
Vancouver's hungry... both spiritual and physical food."
The
Gospel Mission or 'Pigeon Mission' as it is known by street
people, is in many ways an old fashion mission.
Built
in the 1890’s, the building is a typical brick two-story
building located in Gastown on the north side of a small park
called 'Pigeon Square'.
Both the park and surrounding builds date back to the early
years of Vancouver, B.C., which was originally, called 'Granville
Town'.
It's located on the second floor and there is a faded reminder
of the buildings past painted on the side of it, that says,"Saloon,
beds 20 cents".
The mission is one of the oldest ones in Vancouver.
The date of it being turned into a mission is sketchy, but
I have spoken to people who have been coming there since the
40’s.
The A.C.O.P. has had a mission in that area since 1920's
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In
Operation Seven Days a Week.
Four of the nights are mission services, where we preach the
gospel, worship in song and feed the hungry. We have four
teams that do these nights who come from various different
backgrounds.
We
are always looking for more volunteers to help with these
nights as well as new ideas to make use of our facility.
We partner with youth groups and young adult groups that have a desire to minister to the residents of Vancouver's eastside and street people. One such group is Outreach One from Evangelical Restoration Church in New Westminster. We are always looking for new groups to share their faith and talents and learn the joy of giving to those who have so little.
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,
Easter and Thanksgiving Dinners
Christmas
Eve Service & Dinner, has become a tradition at the
mission. We serve a full course Christmas Dinner at 1:00pm
on December 24th.
Easter
Sunday Service & Dinner, is also served at 1:00pm
and we serve over 100 people ham, mashed potatoes, vegetable
and pie for desert.
Thanksgiving Sunday Service and Dinner. The dinner
serves well over 100 people a full turkey dinner.
. "This
ministry has grown only because of God given burdens."
We are
always looking for hungry Christians, young or old, who are
looking for a chance to serve.
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Carrall
Street Church
The other two evenings are given to the Carrall Street Church,
which consists of Sunday and Wednesday evenings.
We started this four years ago for the purpose of discipleship
and building stability in the street people.
Most street people go from mission to mission every day without
calling one place home.
I met some that looked at the Gospel Mission as home, but
weren’t growing.
So I (Barry Babcook) started the Bible Study on Wednesday,
without serving a meal, to see how hungry they were for God.
We average between 12 to 20 members, many consistently come
every week and are more interested in spiritual food than
physical.
We teach more about being a Christian on these nights. We
have continued to serve a meal on Sunday night, but the service
is now an hour and a half and we serve communion on the first
Sunday.
The mission has grown over these last four years, and I believe
it’s because of the increased stability in the core group.
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Our
Greatest Need is for Financial Stability.
It costs approx. $120.00 a day to run the mission and most
months we fall short of this. We end up depending on Christmas,
other holiday seasons and periodic corporate donations to
catch up. Over the summer we fall way behind.
If 10 -20 churches or individuals to committed to $50 -
$100 of monthly support, we would meet our commitments.
This would allow us to use the extra money that comes in once
or twice a year to do much-needed projects.
We would
appreciate any prayer support that you or your organization
could offer and if you would like to contribute to this need
either financially or on a volunteer basis, please contact
Rev. Barry Babcook at:
Telephone: 604.468.7692
barrybabcook@gospelmission.net
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