Tune in tonight to Unfiltered with Jill Krop on Global BC 1, as Pastor Ward Draper of The 5 and 2 Ministries will be making his third appearance around 7:00…
By Mike Archer. Chilliwack Mayor Sharon Gaetz, Abbotsford Community Services (ACS) Executive Director Rod Santiago and Mayor Bruce Banman may not have been able to make it Friday evening but…
By Mike Archer. When Jeff Gruban of the Abbotsford Atheists, Skeptics and Humanists and Ward Draper of The 5 and 2 Ministries first met they recognized something in each other…
By Mike Archer. I won’t pretend to have walked even an inch in the shoes of those who spend their lives on the streets of Abbotsford, its alleyways, or its…
By Mike Archer. What they want is access to the supplies and necessities, like clean needles, needed to reduce the harm associated with drug use – things that Canadian citizens…
This week’s Comment of the Week actually comes from the Huffington Post which published Pastor Ward Draper’s Today column, ‘Next Steps‘, under the headline, “How Should We Deal With Homeless…
By Mike Archer. Mayor Bruce Banman is sounding more like former one-term mayor George Peary every day. Faced with the biggest test so far of his term as mayor of…
By Mike Archer. The Abbotsford Social Development Advisory Committee (ASDAC) was told Wednesday that the Abbotsford Chicken Manure Homeless Incident which has made headlines around the world was not an…
From Ward Draper. Over a dozen homeless camps destroyed by the city in the last 7 days. This cant continue! We now have dozens of people without any shelter or…