Lon Towstego, Author at Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca News from the Diocese of Islands and Islets in the Anglican Church of Canada Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:49:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://faithtides.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cropped-Faith-Tides-Icon-32x32.png Lon Towstego, Author at Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca 32 32 207835967 Resiliency for the way forward — Clergy Conference 2023 https://faithtides.ca/resiliency-for-the-way-forward-clergy-conference-2023/ https://faithtides.ca/resiliency-for-the-way-forward-clergy-conference-2023/#respond Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:49:05 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=173210 We rolled into beautiful Parksville on Monday, April 24. Various clergy started arriving to check-in at the conference facility, the Bayside Inn. Great reunions began even at this early stage as many that hadn’t seen each other for a long time, embraced and caught up. Some met for the first time. In person and interactive […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/resiliency-for-the-way-forward-clergy-conference-2023/feed/ 0 173210 The illicit drug overdose crisis in British Columbia and our response as a church https://faithtides.ca/the-illicit-drug-overdose-crisis-in-british-columbia-and-our-response-as-a-church/ https://faithtides.ca/the-illicit-drug-overdose-crisis-in-british-columbia-and-our-response-as-a-church/#respond Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:41:30 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=170914 April 14 marked the fifth anniversary of the declaration of an opioid overdose emergency in B.C. Since the public health emergency was declared in April 2016, there have been 7,024 deaths from illicit drug overdose, and it is now the fourth highest cause of death in the province. On April 14, Lisa Lapointe, chief coroner; […]

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