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Langley AdvanceWelcome to the Neighbourhood, 2016
FAITH
ches, old andcan be found
ughout theleys.
LANDREVILLE
[email protected]
eptember 12, 2015 wasa day to remember inMurrayville, where
theChurch in the Valley, ah-day Adventist Church,d its doors to the
public.mpassing 63,000 squaree church at 23589 Oldd., can be seen
fromHighway and is accessibleoth roads.Township had rezoned they
and construction started
4. The new church cam-ludes a state-of-the-artp centre that
seats 900, anKindness (AOK) Centre
community services min-
and a youth centre fory to young people.ugh its AOK
ExtremeRepair program,rove’s Seventh-dayists rebuild entire
homes
milies that can’t affordrenovations.
r AOK programs run byurch include BreakfastCHIP, Operation
Kindness,Moms’ Oil Change,me Inn, Christmas Partys, Summer Camp
for
Kids, Natural LifestyleCooking School, andCars for Moms.
Fort Langley
Fort Langley is notonly the Birthplaceof BC, it’s also
home to Langley’s old-est churches.
In the Fort, severalsmall white buildings
with narrow steeplestestify to congregations’and missionaries’
effortsin the 1800s.
St. Andrew’s Unitedin the Fort was foundedin the 1880s and is
stillhome to a vibrant con-gregation.
Since settlers startedto arrive in the mid-1800s, they
broughtCatholic and Protestantchurches, withdenominations of
differ-ent faiths following.
A Good Friday trad-ition in Fort Langley
is the Stations of theCross, an outdoorservice organized bythe
churches of FortLangley, that annuallyattracts hundreds
ofworshippers.
Through meditation, prayer,song, and the carrying of a
largewooden cross to stations pos-itioned around downtown
FortLangley, worshipers reflect upon Jesus Christ’s final
journey tothe cross.
Each year, Wagner Hills – aChristian organization that
offersresidential treatment and coun-selling to men who have
alcoholand drug addictions – provides awagon that serves as a stage
andsound system for the outdoorservice.
Gateway of Hope
South of the Village, someof Langley’s more prom-inent churches
include St.
Joseph’s Roman Catholic Churchin Langley City, Christian
LifeAssembly on 56th Avenue, and
St. Andrew’s Anglican onOld Yale Road.
The Salvation Armyhas a community pres-ence at its Gateway
ofHope homeless shelter onthe Langley Bypass.
Langley is also home toBritish Columbia’s firstTemple of the
Churchof Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints (the Mormonfaith). It serves an estimated
22,000 Latter-day Saintsin 91 congregationsthroughout B.C.
andnorthern WashingtonState.
As immigrants havearrived from variousparts of the world overthe
years, old churcheshave adapted or newones sprung up to meettheir
needs.
Christian services canbe heard in German orKorean in Langley,
and in
recent years both a Sikhtemple and a Buddhisttemple have been
estab-lished in Aldergrove.
Many Langley churchesare involved in charitablework that takes
them into
the wider community.The annual Love Langley cam-
paign involves several churchesincluding Brookswood Baptistand
Southgate, and involves ran-dom acts of kindness throughoutthe
community.
hurch in the Valley among many places to worship
A fundraisingconcert was heldNov. 28 at Churchin the
Valley toraise funds andawareness forrefugees in Syria
and Iraq.
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