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Instruments of love and compassion

Anna Greenwood-Lee — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:24:51 +0000

In April of 2024 Archbishop Linda, Archbishop Chris and I wrote a letter to the federal government asking that the day school settlement agreement be re-opened. Marvin Underwood, member of this diocese, has shared with me how traumatizing and unfair this process has been for him and for all the other claimants. It was not […]

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Bishop’s Dinner to raise funds for ministry in the North Island

Faith Tides — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:23:29 +0000

As you are able, please join Bishop Anna and others from across the diocese on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025 at 6 p.m. for an evening of relationship building. The evening will also be an opportunity for Bishop Anna to speak about what she sees in her travels across the diocese, particularly in our vibrant churches […]

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Lynne McNaughton resigns as metropolitan

Naomi Racz — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:22:48 +0000

At the provincial synod for the Ecclesiastical Province of BC and Yukon, held on Sept. 22, Archbishop Lynne McNaughton made known her intention to step down as metropolitan. Archbishop Lynne officially resigned in a letter dated Nov. 22, 2024 and addressed to David Lehmann, senior bishop in the ecclesiastical province. The letter has been published […]

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An artistic expression of liturgical colour

Jeanette Amundson — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:21:04 +0000

We the church are light the light shining in darkness the darkness vanquished The Christian calendar year, portrayed in colour blocks painted by my daughter, Andrea Fruhling, reminds me of the flow and the freedom of the spirit in all of the seasons of our Christian year. They bring light and life to all that […]

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Lay leadership in worship course to run in spring 2025

Ingrid Andersen — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 07:47:22 +0000

Many of the parishes in the diocese are “in transition” and do not necessarily have a priest to celebrate the eucharist each Sunday. Additionally, parishes are rediscovering the daily office and considering ways to have lay-led weekday services. Lay-led services are an opportunity for renewal: to encourage lay people to live into the vows they […]

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