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Serving downtown Vancouver for over a century, we are a community following Jesus with His heart for the city and beyond. Sunday Worship: 10am Join us!

A vibrant community congregates in our stone building. We are young, old, and in-between; rich, poor, employed and re-training; multicultural; families and singles; Bible scholars and seekers.

10/28/2026

Highlighting a few churchwide events happening in November (November?!). Everyone is welcome!

Find details at firstbc.org/events

10/27/2026

Psalm 68 oﬀers us a very diﬀerent vision on leadership.

It begins with a God who is not interested in power, but with people, with their struggles and their loneliness and the very human need to be included in community.

God is described as a defender of widows, a father to the fatherless. It describes God as one who pays attention to our relationships with others and to lives lived in the shadow of loss, to those of us who live with complicated pain, in often private grief. It describes a God who knows what we need to feel whole – to be fully and beautifully human.

“The Proclaimers”
Psalm 68:4-11, 17-20

This sermon was beautifully shared by Allyson Jule during Suzannah Nacho’s ordination service.

Watch or listen on our website:
firstbc.org/sermons

10/22/2026

Join us this Sunday as we celebrate the ordination of Suzannah Nacho to gospel ministry as an accredited minister of the Canadian Baptists of Western Canada during our Sunday service.

A lunch reception will follow the service. We would love for you to be part of this meaningful moment together!

October 25 • 10am
First Baptist Church
969 Burrard St

Livestream: firstbc.org/live

10/20/2026

This is how far Jesus is willing to go to draw us to himself. He takes on a body like ours. He invites us to come close to his body even if it’s uncomfortable. He gives his body for us so that we might be forgiven and live.

Taking Jesus’ physical body, his physical touch, seriously means wrestling with some uncomfortable things. We would rather it all be neat and tidy and contained but bodies are messy and sometimes they flow with power and sometimes they flow with blood and so does Jesus’ body.

“One Who Can Be Touched”
Mark 5:21-43
Drew Melton

firstbc.org/sermons

10/17/2026

Church is the people 🫶🏻 Love seeing you all on Sunday!

10am
969 Burrard St
“See” you online too: firstbc.org/live

10/14/2026

Join us as we come together as a church to read the entire Gospel of Mark in one sitting! This special gathering is part of our sermon series, “Who Are We Following?: Miracles in Mark’s Gospel.”

Lunch will be provided. Please register to attend: firstbc.org/event (link in story)

“Reading Mark”
Saturday, October 17
10:30am-1:30pm | Pinder Hall

Parking is available at Nelson Square (808 Nelson St.). Register your license plate at the kiosk inside the church upon arrival.

10/14/2026

Snippets from Thanksgiving Sunday ✨

10/13/2026

Freedom, in the end, is about who we bind ourselves to. Freedom is recognizing who we belong to and recognizing that it’s not ourselves. I don’t belong to myself, I am not my own, I belong to Jesus. I want to bind myself to Jesus, I want to be with Jesus. He is the one who is stronger than my own selfish desires. He is the one who is stronger than my sin. He is the one who is stronger than the evil others might do to me. He is the one who is stronger even than the systems of evil that threaten our world. He is stronger than illness, stronger than the storms, stronger than the power of the law, stronger than worry and fear and hunger and despair, he is stronger even than death.

“One Who Sets Free”
Mark 5:1-20
Drew Melton

firstbc.org/sermons

10/10/2026

It’s time for our beloved “Give, O Give Thanks to the Lord” singing round again! This Thanksgiving Sunday, we will also celebrate the dedication of children. It’s gonna be a beautiful day to gather and give thanks for His many blessings!

Sunday 10am
969 Burrard St
Online: firstbc.org/live

10/06/2026

Some of us are in the midst of a storm today. Some of us are afraid. Some of us are exhausted. The message today reminds us that: Our confidence is not that every storm will immediately disappear. Our confidence is that the One in the boat with us is Lord over the storm. Therefore, we do not face the waters alone.

“Let prayer interrupt your cycle of worries.”
Prayer is an act of faith. Every time we pray, we are acknowledging that God is God and we are not. We are surrendering our illusion of control and placing ourselves into the hands of the One who commands the wind and the waves.

“One Who Calms the Storm”
Mark 4:35-41
Joseph Leong

firstbc.org/sermons

Address

969 Burrard Street
Vancouver, BC
V6Z1Y1

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 4pm
Tuesday	9am - 4pm
Wednesday	9am - 4pm
Thursday	9am - 4pm
Sunday	9am - 12:30pm

Telephone

+16046838441

Website

http://www.firstbc.org/

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