Making crosses
Twice last year, about a dozen men from St. David’s Anglican in Prince Albert (Diocese of Saskatchewan) gathered to assemble wooden crosses. One of the men cut the cross pieces before they met.
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St. George’s Brandon
Whether it’s grocery store gift cards on the offering plate, home-cooked meals tucked away in the parish freezer, non-perishable food items in a cart in the narthex, or hot dogs and hot chocolate delivered to people living on the streets, the parishioners of St. George’s Brandon in the Diocese of Brandon have made it their mission to feed the hungry.
Family ministry in Teslin
‘Locally-raised clergy’ is a familiar term in Council of the North dioceses—and nobody knows this better than The Rev. Sarah Usher.
St. George’s Brandon—Building bridges to children and youth
“Where are all the young people? We need more young people!” This is the anxious cry heard in churches across the country. While the Anglican Church has yet to come up with a definitive solution as to how to retrieve a lost generation of young people, The Reverend Father Chad McCharles, Incumbent of St. George’s … Continued
Messy Church – Yukon Style
A few years ago, calling a church “messy” might have inspired an impromptu work bee complete with mops and pails, brooms and dustpans.
Ranch House ministries
Kamloops, in the heart of Interior BC’s ranching country, is surrounded by mountains and desert landscape. Shaped like a “Y” and sitting at the junction of the North and South Thompson Rivers, its economy is based on logging, mining, cattle ranching and a large university. Tucked into one of its lower income neighbourhoods is St. George’s Anglican Church, one of the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior.
Clergy Conference in Baker Lake, Nunavut
Baker Lake, NU was the setting for the Diocese of the Arctic’s recent Clergy Conference. In the final days of this past March, travellers from across the vast diocese began to arrive, flying into coastal Rankin Inlet and catching their 30-min.
Saskatchewan ordains four new priests
Four recent ordinations in the Diocese of Saskatchewan were marked by reverent worship, firm exhortations to Gospel preaching—and a great deal of feasting.
In the service of faith, an Interview with The Rt. Rev. Adam Halkett
CNC: Tell us about where you live and work. AH: I live in Prince Albert [SK] now—I moved to Prince Albert because my office is there. My home community is in Montreal Lake, it’s an hour north of Prince Albert. CNC: Can you tell me about the communities that you serve? Do you minister mainly … Continued
Northern Bales—Long Distance Shipping and Shopping
For the last 60 years, the Diocese of New Westminster’s ACW has been sending care packages to the Diocese of Yukon.
Athabasca’s “Archdeacon for Mission Development”
Council of the North Leads the Way: Structural and Cultural Renovation in Athabasca Anyone who’s spent significant time working in the Church at any level—parish, diocesan, or national—knows it is struggling to adapt its structures to new realities: an increasingly secular culture, aging congregations and depleted treasuries. In the Council of the North there has … Continued
A new diocese, born out of the “dream of the elders.”
The Anglican Church of Canada will soon have a new diocese. On July 6, 2013, the General Synod approved Resolution B001, a proposal that an area mission in Northern Ontario become an indigenous diocese—bringing to fruition plans that have been decades in development and which, according to Bishop Lydia Mamakwa, were born out of “the … Continued
Yukon models ministry of presence
In August of 2012, Terry and Ida Reid loaded a year’s worth of belongings onto their half-ton truck and left Newville, in Central Newfoundland, to head west and north. “We were leaving our friends and family, our house–and definitely our comfort zone. We felt it was a calling–and we responded.” The Reids were responding to … Continued
A New Vision for Moosonee
Interview with The Rt. Rev. Tom Corston (Bishop of Moosonee, Retd) Council of the North Communications(CNC): Tell us about the changes that are taking place in Moosonee. Tom Corston(TC): The diocese over the last few years has started to see some difficult changes, mostly brought about by the economic situation in the one-industry towns in … Continued
Council of the North diocese partners with Algoma in urban native ministry
Several years ago, the son of a northern Ontario chief, an Anglican, died in a Thunder Bay hospital. The chief said that the Church had failed him and his family because his son did not receive a visit by an Anglican priest. When Bishop Stephen Andrews (Algoma) became aware of this, he was deeply concerned about the need for better support for indigenous Anglicans in his diocese—especially those who travel from the far north of Ontario down to Thunder Bay for medical or educational services. In many cases, it is as if a diocesan boundary comes between them and the pastoral care they need.