A lifetime of giving
Leigh Anne Williams
December 1, 2014
For much of her 75 years, Mary Teya has been a voice for the church and for people in her home community of Fort McPherson, N.W.T., and far beyond.
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For much of her 75 years, Mary Teya has been a voice for the church and for people in her home community of Fort McPherson, N.W.T., and far beyond.
The Rev. Canon Judy Rois, executive director of the Anglican Foundation, has been named as one of Canada’s 100 most powerful women by the Women’s Executive Network (WXN).
The Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) have approved in principle a plan to hold a second joint assembly in 2019.
When the House of Bishops met at the Mount Carmel retreat centre in Niagara Falls, Ont., from Nov. 17 to 21, the agenda included discussion of some big issues-the controversial proposed amendment to the marriage canon to allow for same-sex marriage, end-of-life issues and the role of the house itself in the church.
On Nov. 15, Archbishop Terence Finlay and the Rev. Andrew Wesley updated the Council of General Synod (CoGS) on the work of the Primate’s Commission on the Doctrine of Discovery, Reconciliation and Healing.
On Nov. 15, Carolyn Vanderlip briefed the Council of General Synod about the aims of its new Canadian Anglican Partnership Program, of which she was appointed director in May.
Accompanying a written report about his work and travels recently, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, used his address to the Council of General Synod (CoGS) to focus attention on where the church is at in relation to the priorities and goals outlined in Vision 2019.
Mississauga, Ont.
Dean Peter Wall, chair of the General Synod planning committee, updated the Council of General Synod (CoGS) on plans for General Synod 2016 and put forward a resolution proposing that during that meeting members of General Synod will be “seated, at times, in diocesan groups, and at other times, in mixed table groups,” depending on the agenda items.
Mississauga, Ont.
Members of Council of General Synod (CoGS) meeting here Nov. 15 were asked to consider what role they might have as the Anglican Church of Canada begins to prepare to discuss the contentious issue of proposed changes to the marriage canon that would allow for same-sex marriages.
The Commission on the Marriage Canon’s final reportwill incorporate not only the submissions received from Anglicans acrossCanada, but will also reflect consultations about how changing thechurch’s law to allow for same-sex marriage might affect relationshipswithin and outside of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Mississauga, Ont.
On the first morning of its fall meeting, Council of General Synod (CoGS) members unanimously approved a balanced 2015 budget of $11.95 million for General Synod.
Reflecting on his experience at the UN WorldConference on Indigenous Peoples, National Indigenous Anglican BishopMark MacDonald said that in spite of the reservations expressed by theCanadian government about the document that renewed the internationalcommitment to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of IndigenousPeoples, there was much to be celebrated and heartened by.
The Anglican Foundation has formed a new partnership with Hope Air to help children and youth in need of medical care fly to the cities where they need to go for treatments.
When the deadline for making submissions to the Commission on the Marriage Canon passed at the end of September, 222 individual Anglicans, two dioceses, seven parishes, one theological college, one ecumenical partner and several Anglican organizations had shared their views about the possibility of altering the marriage canon to allow for same-sex marriages.
Stepping away from what is typical practice inOntario, the national offices of the Anglican Church of Canada willclose for Remembrance Day on Nov. 11.
As a part of a $350,000 lawsuit filed by the diocese of Brandon against its former executive archdeacon Noah Njegovan in March, a Brandon court has granted the diocese’s request to extend a temporary freeze of Njegovan’s assets until the case is settled.
Before being appointed in 2012 as the Anglican Church of Canada’s special advisor for government relations, the Rev. Laurette Glasgow spent 37 years working for the federal government.
Compassion can be a powerful force for change. The Anglican Journal takes you to three communities where it is at work for and with youth.
Cultivating compassion was the goal that the Rev. Jeffrey Metcalfe and his wife, Julie Boisvert, a teacher at Grosse-Ile School, had in mind when they created a youth pilot project called the Social Justice Club in their parish in the Magdalen Islands, a small archipelago in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, said he hasn’t heard directly from the Archbishop of Canterbury whether the next Lambeth Conference will be postponed, but “it’s pretty obvious that in all likelihood it would not be in 2018 because it takes three, four, years to plan.”
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