The newly appointed Senior Development Officer for the Anglican Church of Canada, Canon Geoffrey Jackson, sees stewardship education as the “foundation for all we do in ministry and mission of the church.”
The registration process is now underway for the Third International Conference on Afro-Anglicanism to be held this summer (July 20-27) in Toronto.
The conference will take place at the University of Toronto under the theme, Celebrating the Gifts of Afro-Anglicanism. Keynote speakers and workshops will address spiritual, global and social issues.
The Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, is part of an 11-member Canadian ecumenical delegation visiting China April 6-18.
By Diana Mavunduse Archdeacon Jim Boyles, the General Secretary of General Synod who steered the Anglican Church through the residential schools crisis, has announced that he will retire this summer. In emails sent to General Synod staff and to members of the Council of General Synod, Mr. Boyles said that “having passed my 65th birthday … Continued
The Anglican Book Centre is increasing its distribution list by forming new partnerships with publishers in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Entering into partnerships with the other publishers, “enhances ABC’s ability to serve both the Anglican Church and the wider Christian community,” said ABC Manager Daniel Benson.
As diocese and parishes prepare for Palm Sunday, Anglican Book Centre staff members are working towards the deadline on getting the traditional palm crosses ready for Palm Sunday.
For more than 27 years, Lottie Gauthier, ABC order processor and former ABC bookstore staff member Bernice Campbell have been making palm crosses for dioceses and parishes to use during Palm Sunday services, but now Ms. Gauthier is passing on the tradition to other bookstore staff.
About 81 Anglican women, representing different Anglican Provinces world-wide are preparing to gather in New York for the 49th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which will convene from Feb. 28 – March 11, 2005.
As a debut on the international stage for a newly elected Primate, Archbishop Andrew Hutchison’s trip to Cuba (Feb. 15 to 18) could not have gone better if it had been scripted.
Preparations are gearing up as the date for the largest indigenous Anglicans gathering, known as the Sacred Circle, nears.
The Fifth Anglican Indigenous Sacred Circle will take place at the Wilderness Edge Retreat and Conference Centre in Pinawa, near Winnipeg, from Aug.7-13. Over 200 people—lay, ordained, youth and invited guests—are expected to attend this year’s gathering.
General Synod Communications announces the publication of a new resource, which explains, in plain language, the stewardship initiatives planned under the Letting Down the Nets document approved by General Synod last year.
The Primate, Archbishop Andrew Hutchison has appointed Archbishop Terence Finlay as his special representative on residential schools.
Archbishop Finlay will be working with General Synod staff and volunteers to support the Anglican church’s commitment to resolving claims and promoting healing and reconciliation initiatives.
The end of January will see the implementation of several changes to the General Synod website (www.anglican.ca), including a new look for the home page.
Canon Philip Wadham, General Synod’s mission coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean, will soon leave on his last visit to the two regions before he retires in April.
Emergency relief for survivors of the devastating tsunami in Southeast Asia is reaching people in need, said Elsa Tesfay-Musa, refugees and emergency relief co-ordinator for the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund.
The Primate’s Theological Commission of the Anglican Church of Canada met Jan. 14-17, in Oakville, Ont., to address a question put to it by the General Synod of the church in 2004.
The General Synod had voted to defer a clause of a resolution calling the church to “affirm the authority and jurisdiction of any diocesan synod, with the concurrence of its bishop, to authorize the blessing of committed same sex unions.” In deferring the resolution it requested the Primate’s Theological Commission “to review, consider and report to the Council of General Synod, by its spring 2006 meeting, whether the blessing of committed same sex unions is a matter of doctrine.”