Tim Dickau

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Tim Dickau was the pastor of Grandview church in Vancouver for 30 years. During that time, the church had gone from being ready to dissolve to becoming re-established as a force for good in its neighbourhood. In the last three decades, the church has found creative ways to bear witness to the good news of God’s reconciling and restoring love through community living, welcome of the poor and the stranger, economic development through social enterprises, a 26unit community housing project, proliferation of the arts, prophetic witness and deepening practices of confession and repentance.

Tim’s first book, Plunging into the Kingdom Way, describes the process that the church engaged in as they moved towards practices of hospitality, community, justice and confession. Tim has recently embarked on a new venture as the leader of the certificate in missional leadership program with the Center for Missional Leadership at St. Andrews Hall on the University of British Columbia campus.

He has also become the director of Citygate in Vancouver where his task will be to help "connect the church with the city for transformation". The organization has a goal to help churches and communities to collaborate with each other to pursue systemic change through creation of housing, food security, and other responses.

Tim lives with his wife Mary. Upstairs lives one of their three sons, his wife and grandson. Tim and Mary have lived with over 30 people in their practice of living in a shared home with others.