From Vancouver's Eastside to Hope: the Presbytery of Westminster. (Presbytery Profile).

Presbyterian Record | June 1, 2003| | Copyright

There are not many presbyteries whose bounds include a Bible belt or one of the country's poorest neighbourhoods. The Presbytery of Westminster has both. Extending from the Strait of Georgia to east of Hope, and from the United States border to 1,000 kilometres north, the presbytery contains Vancouver's downtown Eastside, arguably the most poverty-stricken, crime-ridden community in Canada, and British Columbia's Bible belt in the Fraser Valley.

Currently, there are 27 congregations in the presbytery, with a professing membership of 3,839 and 2,736 adherents. ...

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