Appendix A: List of Topics at Each Meeting

Vancouver, February 2003

  • Met with VST faculty
  • Reviewed material from preliminary regional gatherings
  • Discussed mandates
  • Talked about history since 1943 including the failed Plan of Union
  • Set the Agenda for the Dialogue including methodology
  • Worship at University Hill United Church

Winnipeg, November 2003

  • Shared Ministry
  • Resource Kit
  • Visited Jessie Saulteaux Centre
  • Overview of the Anglican-United Church relationship over four time periods
  • Work arising: Ecumenical Shared Ministries Handbook
  • Worship at the Pinawa Christian Fellowship

Halifax, March 2004

  • Met with military chaplains
  • Met with AST faculty
  • Fred Krieger — Reviewed the responses of our two churches to the WCC’s paper Baptism Eucharist and Ministry
  • Worship at St. George’s Anglican Church, Halifax, and St. John’s Anglican Church, Fairview

Toronto, November 2004

  • Met with TST faculty
  • Sacraments
  • Models of church
  • Models of ecumenical theological education
  • Lay Presidency of sacraments (United Church)
  • Worship at Trinity United Church, Aurora

Saskatoon, April 2005

  • Some attended Collaborative Ministries Conference
  • Met with Saskatoon Theological Union faculty
  • Ecumenical Shared Ministries Handbook draft
  • Reviewed Ecumenical Agreements and Statements from other parts of the world
  • Visited Wanuskewin Aboriginal Heritage site

Montreal, September 2005

  • Met with Montreal Diocesan College and United Theological College faculty
  • Ecumenical Shared Ministries Handbook revisions
  • Preparation of Report
  • Worship at St. Barnabas Anglican Church, Pierrefonds

Winnipeg, April 2006

  • Met with faculty of Winnipeg area theological colleges
  • Engagement with Indigenous ministries
  • Study Guide
  • Finalized Ecumenical Shared Ministries Handbook
  • Reviewed proposal for National Ecumenical Shared Ministries Working Group
  • Lay Presidency
  • Worship at All Saints’ Anglican Church

Edmonton, October 2006

  • Met with Anglican and United Church members involved in interfaith work
  • Issues arising from General Council
  • Lay Presidency (Sacraments Elder)
  • Churches’ statements on Interfaith Relations
  • Study Guide
  • Worship with Inner City Pastoral Ministry in Edmonton

Halifax, April 2007

  • Varieties of formally recognised ministries in our two churches
  • Mission of the Church
  • Theologies of Sacramental Ministry
  • Developed a Chart of Ministries in the two churches
  • Interfaith Relations
  • Worship with St. Matthew’s United Church

Mississauga, October 2007

  • Authority and purpose of the Dialogue
  • How dialogues develop and receive statements
  • How doctrine functions in our churches
  • Our spiritualities
  • Update on use of study guide
  • Worship at Trinity Anglican Church, Streetsville

Ottawa, April 2008

  • Met with people in our churches working on Truth and Reconcilation
  • Met with Ottawa congregations who used the study guide
  • Discussed the current state of the ecumenical movement with Dr. Catherine Clifford, RC ecclesiologist
  • Began to develop pastoral letter
  • Discussed the WCC document Called to Be the One Church
  • Worshipped at Wesley United Church

Quebec City, November 2008

  • Future of the Dialogue
  • Pastoral letter
  • Lambeth Conference (with local Anglican priest, bishop, and archdeacon)
  • Outline of final report from this phase of the Dialogue
  • Worshipped at la Paroisse de Tous les Saints

Calgary, January 2009

  • Writing the Dialogue Report
  • Integrated Pastoral Letter into Dialogue Report