Churches in Vancouver

Active churches in Vancouver

6801 E. Mill Plain Blvd, Vancouver
1 sermon
7708 NE 78th St, Vancouver
4 sermons
11608 NE 107th St, Vancouver
2 sermons
7250 NE 41st ST, Vancouver
2 sermons
8802 NW 9th Ave, Vancouver
2 sermons
1933 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver
1 sermon

Types of churches in Vancouver

Modern Vancouver Churches

Many Vancouver congregations feature band-led worship, practical teaching, and casual spaces. You’ll find them along SE Mill Plain and the 164th–192nd corridors in East Vancouver and near the Vancouver Waterfront and Uptown Village, attracting commuters who prefer staying on this side of the river.

Historic & Liturgical

In and around Downtown, Hough, and Arnada, older sanctuaries host traditional liturgy, choral music, and seasonal feast days. These congregations often gather in landmark buildings near Esther Short Park or along Broadway, appealing to those who value reverence, stained glass, and steady rhythms of worship.

Spanish-Language Churches in Vancouver

Vancouver’s Fourth Plain International District, Ogden, and Bagley Downs areas host congregations offering Spanish services or bilingual worship. Many provide ESL classes, family immigration resources, and cultural events that connect new arrivals with long-time residents across the city.

Slavic & Eastern European Churches

NE Vancouver, Walnut Grove, and Orchards have a visible Ukrainian- and Russian-speaking faith community, with services in Russian or Ukrainian. Expect choral singing, modest dress traditions, and strong family networks, plus youth programs that help second-generation members bridge language and culture at school and work.

Sermon clips from Vancouver churches

65s
“It's just a different day, isn't it? But the things that matter most never change. You have peace. doesn't matter whether you feel peaceful. You have peace. And Jesus said when you go into places the currency of the kingdom is is his people, Christ followers, releasing peace wherever they go. Over in Romans 12 I don't know. It might come up on the screen. Over in Romans 12, it said, as much as within you, live at peace with everyone. Peace is something that when you possess it and it's from the Lord, no matter what happens outside of you or around you, the peace isn't dictated by circumstances. The peace of God will remain.”
27s
“So rather than looking to the externals, and what everyone else is doing, I like to remind people the problem is not outside, my problem is me. Brothers and sisters, your problem is you. And it begins in the heart. The only way a person would take something that is not rightfully theirs is because it begins in their heart. Murder begins in the heart. Stealing begins in the heart.”
43s
“You can't stay the way you were. You can't stay slaves. You can't stay in your comfort zone. We've got a journey to take. We've got appointed times ahead of us. We've got important things to do. God has a purpose for you. You can't stay where you are. Covenant always moves us out of the mundane nature of how we thought our lives were already framed. It says, have something brand new for you that you never even imagined. You may not fully understand covenant. You may not even fully understand the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, but the deed is done. We are moving into covenant. Get up.”
83s
“We've strayed away from what's most important. If a believer who is walking with god fellowship with god and in closeness with god as he's walking in fellowship and walking in the light his life will be radically changing. And the effect of god having fellowship with him and him walking in the light will be evident. It's something we can see. It's something we can hear and touch. You see, we're not firsthand witnesses anymore. I can't say that I saw and heard and touched. I can only tell you what he did in my life that I got to see and hear and touch.”
122s
“) "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. There is a battle happening. There is a war happening. and the the battlefield is our mind and and we're supposed to recognize that there is someone speaking lies there is someone who's called the father of lies and so though we walk in the flesh we don't war according to the flesh for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in god for pulling down strongholds casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of god bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of christ to the obedience of christ we're going to pray and i believe that god's anointing is going to come and just break uh strongholds break agreements that we've made because they've become they've become a foothold for the enemy these agreements have become legal right that the enemy access in our life in our mind in our in our physical body because you know even even anxiety guys is a result of pride why because anxiety is agreeing with the lies it's a lack of trust and so the enemy has access through those agreements and he begins to like a form of evil be destructive to our life it was not god's will for the israelites to die in the desert god did not lead them out of egypt so that they could die god's intention for them was to possess the land and so what i want to say to us is we're a lot more in charge than we think we've we've been given power to take thoughts captive"”
60s
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43s
“I realized that they were more in tune to the spiritual battle that were before them than what I was. They were just armed with the wrong weapons. Anyway, I won't go through that whole thing, but this Luke 10 became one of my primary patterns for going into situations like that. mean, we rattled it off real easy, man. Oh, god bless you. And and that's fine. You're to bless and not curse. But Jesus said, there's something that you possess because you've received him that is called peace.”
39s
“When you go into whatever circumstance you're in, here he's talking about you're going to people's homes, release peace. I find with me that I have to consciously prepare myself that when I go into this place, I'm going to do anything. Before I do anything else, I'm gonna say, the peace of God. Follow me in. Why is that important? Because you set the atmosphere, not them, not the world. We are atmosphere changers, and it's not we ourselves. It's the anointing and the presence of God that we carry with us. We shift and change atmospheres wherever we go.”
44s
“Every pastor in town deals with the same thing. Every church in the country deals with the same thing. And so it requires that you have a sensitivity to the Holy Spirit. Okay, Lord. I wanna I wanna take, and and and I wanna respond to those ones that you're sending, and I wanna move on from those that maybe are just there to be a distraction or whatever. Hopefully, that'll make sense to you. Jesus was telling them, it's more than about money. It's more than about provision. Verse four, it's more than about what you have on. It's more than about, where you're going or where your journey at. But he said, whatever house you enter, first say peace to this house.”
28s
“Because we live our lives as if our lives we can do whatever we want. We we we think about our things as if can do whatever I want with it. It's like, no. Not if you're a follower of Jesus. Not if you're trusting in him. So what should we do? Simple. I want to encourage you to choose generosity. And not just financial generosity. I'm talking about generosity in the totality of your life. Choose to be a person who gives their life away.”

Why Vancouver churches are unique

Set along the Columbia River and just across the bridge from Portland, churches in Vancouver reflect a friendly suburban city with historic neighborhoods and fast-growing eastside communities. That mix creates family-centered rhythms—think flexible service times, active kids spaces, and a casual Northwest feel—paired with contemporary worship and community life. Many emphasize strong kids programs for young families, modern worship with contemporary band, and casual dress and coffee culture.
Vancouver’s diversity—growing Latino families, a significant Slavic community, and longtime Pacific Northwest transplants—shapes multilingual, multicultural expressions of faith. As a result, Vancouver churches often offer services and ministries that honor different languages, traditions, and foodways while staying rooted in Scripture and neighborly service. You’ll find bilingual Spanish-English services, Slavic-language worship congregations, and multicultural worship and community meals.
Education hubs like WSU Vancouver and Clark College, plus easy access to trails, rivers, and mountains, encourage churches here to blend practical service with an outdoorsy, relational discipleship. Churches in Vancouver frequently invest in young adults and community outreach—connecting with local campuses, addressing regional homelessness, and hosting seasonal gatherings outside. Look for college student ministries, volunteer homeless outreach teams, and creation care and outdoor gatherings.