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Hello/Goodbye

A new editor begins at the Post Goodbye from Susan Down During almost three years at the helm of the Diocesan Post, I have come ...
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Photos by Susan Down

Reaching Out

If you tried to join the February 7 livestreamed service from Christ Church Cathedral, you weren’t alone. In fact, so many tuned in to hear ...
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2021 Budgeted Income

Budget

Forecasting anything amid the uncertainty of a pandemic can be a difficult task. In January, diocesan council passed a $1.8 million budget for 2021 with ...
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New Bishop

New bishop leads the diocese

Masked clergy, hand sanitizing stations at the altar and a required address to the congregation spoken to empty pews were notable indications that the recent ...
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Black pioneers in the church

In honour of Black History Month, the Diocesan Post offers this excerpt from Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia, Third ...
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Gabriola Island: getting through together

On March 13, 2020, the council of Christ Church Gabriola (CCG) exchanged a flurry of emails in support of closing the church building prior to ...
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Terry Mikkonen retires

A longtime finance employee at the synod office has put down her spreadsheets and retired after more than 30 years in the job. Terry Mikkonen, ...
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Three Presenters

Values for a new world

The John Albert Hall Lectures reach new audiences online The story in last month’s Post about a generous bequest to the Lay Training Funds, administered ...
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Constance Isherwood

Constance Isherwood remembered

When she entered law school at the University of British Columbia in 1948, Constance Isherwood (then Holmes) was one of only eight women in a ...
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Mark and Jane Hird-Rutter

Messy Church now offers takeout

If restaurants can switch to takeout service, so can church programs. Due to COVID-19, when the Messy Church program couldn’t be offered in person anymore ...
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Bishop leaving cathedral

Episcopal trousseau

A modern bishop’s attire and accoutrements, such as the crozier, pectoral cross and ring, are the traditional symbols of episcopal office. The pectoral cross, made ...
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2021 Budgeted Expenses

2021 Budget

Our budgeted income and expenses for 2021 can be represented in the following two charts:
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Vision Fund Projects

Vision Fund reports legacy

In late November 2020, the diocesan Vision Fund delivered its final report to the diocesan council. The fund was established by synod in the fall ...
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Coping with COVID: St. Peter, Comox

The pandemic has made it challenging to maintain churches everywhere. That is especially true for smaller parishes in our diocese. In the next issues we ...
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Personnel Updates – January 2021

Elaine Julian has been appointed interim minister to St. Columba, Port Hardy, by the United Church of Canada. Elizabeth Barnard (née Welch) has resigned as ...
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