Partners in Mission & Ecojustice Committee
The Partners in Mission and EcoJustice committee, waiting for the bus in Brandon, Manitoba.
The co-chairs are The Venerable Peter Fenty and Ms. Susan Winn.
PMEJ Committee Mandate 2007-2010
Preamble
The work of the Partners in Mission & Ecojustice Committee is to help the Anglican Church of Canada understand and participate in God’s mission in the world by:
- challenging attitudes and structures in church and society that cause injustice,
- building relationships among people and provinces within and beyond the Anglican Communion,
- modeling respectful inclusion and hospitality,
- fostering commitment to the integrity of God’s creation.
- ensuring that this mission is handed from generation to generation.
We, as the Church, are mandated to be signs and instruments of God’s reconciling love in the world. We have a responsibility to incarnate our response to Jesus’ summary of the law, ‘to love God and our neighbour as self’, to Jesus’ example of being in right relationships, and to the question posed by the prophet Micah (6:8): “And what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and love kindness, and walk humbly with your God?”
Mandate
The Partners in Mission & Ecojustice Committee shall:
- Engage itself and the wider church in biblical, theological and ethical reflection, listening for the Spirit and discerning God’s mission for the church and the world.
- Create an ethos of ecojustice and evalngelism in our church life.
- Engage and nurture global relationships with Anglican and ecumenical partners.
- Oversee policies governing mission personnel programs and financial grants to partner organizations.
- Facilitate networks and build capacity for mission and justice throughout the church.
- Journey with Indigenous peoples as we seek healing and reconciliation, and stand with them in their struggle to protect their land and rights, including the right to self-determination.
- Receive, prioritize, and respond to social, environmental and ethical issues within Canada and globally, based on established church policy.
- Report to the Council of General Synod and recommend new policies and actions.
- Participate in national and international councils of Churches, such as the World Council of Churches, the Anglican Consultative Council, the Canadian Council of Churches, and in partner organizations such as KAIROS, Project Ploughshares, the Churches’ Forum for Global Ministries, the Women’s Inter Church Council, the Church Council on Justice and Corrections.
- Educate, inform, and engage Canadian Anglicans to participate in mission, evangelism and justice-making.
- Communicate with other standing committees, boards and councils of General Synod, with the PWRDF, and with the House of Bishops.
- Coordinate initiatives of the Partners in Mission & Ecojustice Committee with other standing committees of General Synod, such as the Faith, Worship, and Ministry Committee, with the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples, the board of PWRDF, the House of Bishops.
Membership (2007-2010)
- The Rev. Florence K. Ayban, Episcopal Diocese of Central Philippines, International Partner
- Ms. Elizabeth Beardy, Diocese of Keewatin
- Mr. John Brewin, Diocese of Toronto
- Mrs. Caroline Chum, Diocese of Moosonee
- The Rev. Margaret Cornish, Diocese of New Westminster
- Mr. Jesse Dymond, Diocese of Huron
- The Ven. Peter Fenty, Co-Chair, Diocese of Toronto
- The Ven. Peter John Hobbs, Diocese of Ottawa
- The Ven. Dr. Richard LeSueur, Diocese of Calgary
- Capt. Robert E F Marsh, COGS link member, Diocese of Fredericton
- The Rev. Iola Metuq, Diocese of the Arctic
- Mr. Bill Mous, Diocese of Niagara
- The Rev. Nigel Packwood, Diocese of Brandon
- The Rev. Jonathan Schmidt, Canadian Churches Forum for Global Ministries, Ecumenical Partner
- Ms. Colleen Sym, Diocese of Niagara
- The Rev. Susan Titterington, Diocese of the Yukon
- The Rt. Rev. David Torraville, Diocese of Central Newfoundland
- Ms. Jennifer Weiss, Diocese of Qu’Appelle
- Ms. Peggy Wilmot, Diocese of British Columbia
- Ms. Susan Winn, Co-Chair, Diocese of Montreal
- Lutheran (ELCIC) Partner - TBA
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