When God calls His people to a place, He gives them His heart for the land and the people, that they may best be channels of His love. Few have understood my partiality to the Downtown Eastside save those who -like myself- have met Jesus there. I'd like to spend a couple of blogs sharing the Vancouver that I have known through the heart lens the Lord has given me for that place, with the help of photographers, artists and poets found online.
The following photos and comments by Christopher DeWolf


Welcome to the Downtown Eastside. This is Vancouver's poorest and most troubled neighbourhood. It is a ghetto for drugs and drug-addled whores, freaks, outcasts, junkies. Yet it is also home to people that care, the kind souls that hand out soup and clean needles and volunteer in the Carnegie Library. It is the best and worst of Vancouver.



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- Christopher DeWolf
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