SEPTEMBER 20, 2025 • The Conference (Pacific Academy, Surrey)
Come be inspired, equipped and sent out as a disciple to proclaim Jesus! Hosted by Proclaim in partnership with Life Restoration Ministries, this year’s Upper Room Conference responds to Pope Leo XIV’s invitation to continue being a missionary Church. Your parish was meant to be a missionary outpost! Come learn what this means and how you can be a part of the movement.
A Day to Inspire Disciples
Be inspired to learn more about and seek out your personal mission in your parishes and in the world through the encouragement of speakers and local leaders.
What is a missionary outpost, and where do our parish communities fit in? In his two keynotes, Peter Andrastek will share about our everyday call to mission and the pivotal role that our parishes play in being missionary outposts in Vancouver.
What role do I have as a Catholic in Vancouver? Join Eric Chow, Director of Proclaim, and Archbishop Smith in a conversation around evangelization in Vancouver and the role that the laity has in proclaiming Jesus.
In partnership with Life Restoration, we’re excited to welcome Jake and Heather Khym as this year’s Upper Room MCs. As your guides for the day, they will offer insight and encouragement from their many years of ministry, evangelization, and formation.
This Year’s Conference is a Two-Day Event
Your conference ticket grants you access to both the main conference and a local gathering in one of nine parishes in the Archdiocese.
1. Main Conference
Come together with disciples from across the Archdiocese to be encouraged by keynote speakers and breakout sessions designed to help you seek out your personal apostolate in your parish and in the world. Discover the opportunity for your parish to be a missionary outpost, and what your place is in that story.
2. Local Gatherings
Come share a meal with a smaller group of disciples in your local context and listen to the Spirit and hear how He may be calling you to act. This is the opportunity to go further and deeper with your takeaways from the main conference, alongside other disciples.
We’re excited to partner with Life Restoration!
Jake and Heather Khym will lead us through the day as our MCs, encouraging us and offering insights on what it means to lean into our personal mission to evangelize the world.
Proclaim is an evangelization movement in the Archdiocese of Vancouver. The Archdiocese of Vancouver acknowledges that the land on which we gather and work is the traditional and ancestral territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.