Free Presbyterian
18790 58 Ave v3s-1m6 Surrey, BC, Canada

Cloverdale FPC is a Presbyterian church in Surrey, BC that offers a variety of modern ways to participate in spreading the Gospel! If you’re looking for Christian churches that worship on Sunday, online religious services, or a church service through radio broadcast, then Cloverdale FPC is for you. We understand that not everyone is able to make it in to Sunday services, whether due to illness or distance.

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Pastor Ian Goligher moved to Surrey from Northern Ireland in 1984 to start a Free Presbyterian Church in the Greater Vancouver area. He is a graduate of the Whitefield College of the Bible, the theological school of the Free Presbyterian Church of Northern Ireland. Before coming to Canada, Pastor Goligher served as the minister of the Free Presbyterian Church in Garvagh, a small town in Northern Ireland. He and his wife Beulah have raised their family of five children in Surrey.

Listen in Metro Vancouver, Vancouver Island, North Washington KARI 550 AM (streaming online at www.kari55.com) Sundays 10am; Monday to Friday 5am & 5pm... (If you live in the Victoria area, please visit the website of Victoria FPC) Fort St. John, BC Moose FM 100.1 Sundays 9:30am Swift Current, SA CKSW 970 AM Sundays 9:30am If you missed part of a program, or if you wish to recommend a program to a friend, you can browse our sermons to find the one you were listening to.

Please pray earnestly for the Lord’s fulfillment of His promise in this extended ministry of our church. Together, we can trust God to honour His promise to those who preach His word: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. (Isaiah 55:11)

Yes Were On The Radio Radio broadcasting has been a vital part of our ministry since the formation of our church. Through our radio broadcasts we have been able to bring the preaching ministry of our church to a much wider audience throughout greater Vancouver, as well as other parts of Canada. Over the years, our broadcasting schedule has grown from one or two programs per week to daily half-hour programs on Sunday Mornings and weekday mornings and evenings. These broadcasts have brought many opportunities to minister to many precious souls, and many of the people who now attend our church were introduced through the radio ministry.

What it Means for You A significant question remains for those who have read carefully. You recognize by now that you are a sinneryou have not perfectly kept God’s law in your outward actions, your relationships, or your inward thoughts and attitudes. You understand that it is right for God to enforce His punishment on your sin, both the effects of sin that we experience now, and the final judgement that will come one day. You understand too that Jesus lived the perfect life...Continue reading

The Ending The supernatural significance of Jesus’ death is proven by the fact that He rose again from the grave a few days later. This, the Bible says, is proof that Jesus did not die for the same reason you and I have to die (because we deserve it), but rather because His death was the way of solving the problem of our sin. After His resurrection, Jesus spent a month and a half speaking to His disciples and others in the regions where He had spent His life. Then one day, He... ascended up into heaven to sit on the throne God had prepared for Him (read about this in Acts 1). That’s where He is now. The Bible promises that He is going to come back one day and bring His solution for sin to perfect completion. He will judge all humanity, both those who are alive on that day and those who have died. His judgement will be perfectly righteous and fair: everyone who has sinned will die. (Romans 2, Hebrews 9:27-28) Since everyone is a sinner, all deserve to die. But remember that Jesus provided a solution for this great problem. God’s promise is that all who trust Jesus’ solution for sin will be saved from the death they deserve. He will judge them as if they had Jesus’ perfect record. He will count their sins to have been dealt with on the cross. more on this in a moment. With the completion of this judgement, God will usher in a new heavens and a new earth (Revelation 21:1) where the effects of sin are banished and the joy of a life in perfect and unbroken fellowship with the Creator can be enjoyed once again.

The Solution What solution could there possibly be to a problem of this magnitude? The whole Bible is really an answer to that question. The Bible tells the story of how, from the immediate aftermath of Adam’s first sin, God promised a solution (Christians use the Biblical word redemption) for all the problems sin brought into the world and into the lives of the humans God had made in His own image. This solution centres on Jesus Christ, which is why the people who believe ...Continue reading

The Problem This vision of life sounds impossibly wonderful, even fanciful. If this was how it began, why is life so different today? We all wrestle with pain, sickness, disease death. We all live with fear, anxiety, stress, and conflict. Our work is drudgery, and our play is dull and hollow. Our relationships are distorted by manipulation and competition. Our inner lives are tortured by envy, greed, bitterness, and anger. If everything started so well, why the mess? The Bibl...Continue reading

The Gospel The Beginning The Christian message starts with the Bible’s opening words: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1). This simple statement makes a stunning claim: that everything starts with God. As Creator, God is in charge of the whole universe. Everything owes its existence to Him, and He rightfully commands the obedience and loyalty of all His creatures. This is what the Bible means when it says that God created all things for Hi...s glory (Revelation 4:11) and when it describes God as Lord and King over all that He has made. God’s authority as Creator encompasses the whole universe, but it has special significance for human beings. When God made Adam and Eve, the first humans, the Bible says that He made them in His own image (Genesis 1:27). This means that Adam and Eve, and all of humanity after them, were more like God than anything else He created. Like God, we humans are personal beings: we think, talk, promise, study, invent, laugh, and endure sorrow and loneliness. Like God, we are also moral beings. Right and wrong are part of our lives. We refer to murder, lies, arrogance, greed, and cruelty as wrong or even evil, and their opposite virtues as good. Like God, we have a capacity for spiritual life. The Bible says that, when God made Adam and Eve, He made them with a living soul (Genesis 2:7). We are not just bodies; we all have a body and a soul. Therefore, we are capable of knowing God, even though He is a spirit, who has no body. In fact, we were made to know Him. God made Adam and Eve without any flaw, so that they were perfectly ready for a harmonious relationship with him. Adam and Eve’s life in the beginning was perfect, beautiful, fulfilling, and satisfying. They enjoyed the blessing of personal fellowship with the Creator who made them to enjoy life with Himself. Their life was free from physical harm or stress. Their thoughts were untroubled by fear, discontent, envy, greed, or boredom. Their relationship with one another was one of perfect transparency and freedom. Their spiritual needs were perfectly met in their untroubled relationship with their Creator.

Resources We are very happy to be available to provide sermons and Bible studies from our church, free of charge. The sermons are recordings of the messages delivered in our regular Sunday worship services. The Bible studies are the notes handed out in our Adult Sunday School class each week. Please feel free to copy and distribute these however you would like. We only ask that you don’t alter the wording in any way, and that you don’t charge anything for the copies beyond the cost of reproduction.

Ministry The ultimate aim of each ministry of our church is to promote the glory of Jesus Christ by proclaiming the good news of salvation for sinners. This starts with the centre of our church life in our weekly worship services every Sunday morning and evening. We recognize that all of our work is dependent on God’s blessing for success, so we meet several times each week to pray for our congregation, our ministries, and for the worldwide progress of Christ’s Church. The go...od news of the Gospel is not only the beginning of the Christian life, but also a call to ongoing growth in our life as disciples of Jesus. In order to promote maturity and development in the Christian life, we offer Sunday School classes for both adults and children. These classes are an opportunity to dig a little deeper into the truth of God’s word, offering a systematic understanding of God’s truth that enhances our ability to worship, serve, and witness. Of course, the good news must be preached to those outside the church as well. Our congregation regularly engages in street evangelism and door-to-door outreach in order to reach our neighbours with the Gospel message. Our main evangelistic ministries, though, are our broadcasts over radio and the internet. Through these media, we seek to offer a clear witness to the truth of God’s word and its message of salvation for sinners through Jesus Christ.