dantitus
Puritan Board Freshman
Hello all.
My family will be moving to Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada from South Korea in December. We will be living on the University of British Columbia(UBC) campus. Could anyone who may be familiar with the area please recommend some churches in the area?
For some background, we are currently attending a confessional Presbyterian church here in Korea. We trace our roots to the Northern Presbyterian Church ion the US during the 1800s. We do an hour of study going through either Westminster documents or the Three Forms of Unity before the morning service. We read either the Apostle's Creed or the Nicaean Creed every service. We sing mostly psalms with a short hymn at the end of the service. Group studies go through a list of mostly traditional authors including the Reformers, Puritans, Princeton, and Dutch theologians.
I am trying to look for a church that may be similar to our congregation in Vancouver but I am having trouble with my search. I found one PCA church, Faith Reformed Presbyterian but am not sure how "confessional" they were. I know PCA can vary greatly. I was surprised that there aren't a lot of confessional Presbyterian churches in Vancouver, let alone Canada. I went through all the NAPARC churches and noticed that there are lot more Dutch Reformed churches in Canada. I am familiar with the 3FU and understand that their theology is mostly identical with Presbyterian churches.
However my brother had once attended a Dutch Reformed church in rural village in Ontario and he had a pretty negative experience. He told me that the congregation felt cold and not very welcoming to newcomers, and he almost felt a bit of racism as the only foreigner in the church. From what I understand a lot of these Dutch Reformed churches are very still ethnically Dutch with closed cultural communities and they like to keep it that way. In fact the closest church from Vancouver I found had 5 elders with "Van" in their Dutch names. So I am not sure if my family would be welcomed.
TL;DR I am looking for a solid confessional Presbyterian church in Vancouver BC area, but I am finding mostly Dutch Reformed churches, which I have never attended and am scared to because of some negative experiences my brother had in a rural church as a ethnic minority. Any recommendations would be appreciated.
Thanks!
My family will be moving to Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada from South Korea in December. We will be living on the University of British Columbia(UBC) campus. Could anyone who may be familiar with the area please recommend some churches in the area?
For some background, we are currently attending a confessional Presbyterian church here in Korea. We trace our roots to the Northern Presbyterian Church ion the US during the 1800s. We do an hour of study going through either Westminster documents or the Three Forms of Unity before the morning service. We read either the Apostle's Creed or the Nicaean Creed every service. We sing mostly psalms with a short hymn at the end of the service. Group studies go through a list of mostly traditional authors including the Reformers, Puritans, Princeton, and Dutch theologians.
I am trying to look for a church that may be similar to our congregation in Vancouver but I am having trouble with my search. I found one PCA church, Faith Reformed Presbyterian but am not sure how "confessional" they were. I know PCA can vary greatly. I was surprised that there aren't a lot of confessional Presbyterian churches in Vancouver, let alone Canada. I went through all the NAPARC churches and noticed that there are lot more Dutch Reformed churches in Canada. I am familiar with the 3FU and understand that their theology is mostly identical with Presbyterian churches.
However my brother had once attended a Dutch Reformed church in rural village in Ontario and he had a pretty negative experience. He told me that the congregation felt cold and not very welcoming to newcomers, and he almost felt a bit of racism as the only foreigner in the church. From what I understand a lot of these Dutch Reformed churches are very still ethnically Dutch with closed cultural communities and they like to keep it that way. In fact the closest church from Vancouver I found had 5 elders with "Van" in their Dutch names. So I am not sure if my family would be welcomed.
TL;DR I am looking for a solid confessional Presbyterian church in Vancouver BC area, but I am finding mostly Dutch Reformed churches, which I have never attended and am scared to because of some negative experiences my brother had in a rural church as a ethnic minority. Any recommendations would be appreciated.
Thanks!