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Financial assistance

These resources provide information on financial supports available in certain contexts.

Indigenous-led healing: Anglican Healing Fund

The Anglican Healing Fund supports community-based healing initiatives led by Indigenous peoples across Canada. Since 1992 it has provided grants for projects that foster healing, resilience and cultural renewal in response to the intergenerational harms caused by residential schools and ongoing colonial structures. The fund centres Indigenous leadership and local priorities, helping communities strengthen language, identity and well-being. Individuals or parishes seeking to support this work may also make donations to the fund.

Lady Edith Drayton Trust: Health care and relocation support for clergy

The Lady Edith Drayton Trust provides financial support to clergy of the Anglican Church of Canada and their dependants who have extraordinary health care needs or are relocating from ministry in remote areas.

Vehicle loans for clergy and lay workers

The Missionary Society of the Anglican Church of Canada (MSCC) offers interest-free vehicle loans of up to $16,000 to support clergy and lay workers serving in missionary dioceses.

Acknowledging the land and God’s creation

This acknowledgement is crafted in light of the Principles of Reconciliation by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, as we seek to live faithfully in Christ and in right relationship with all. 

We give thanks to the Creator for this land, its waters, forests and all living beings, and for the abiding presence of Christ among us. From coast to coast to coast, these have been cared for and nurtured by First Nations, Inuit and Métis through countless generations. 

We honour the enduring relationship Indigenous Peoples have cultivated with these lands and waters, and the treaties and agreements that reflect these sacred bonds. We acknowledge the harms caused by colonial expansion, through frameworks like the Doctrine of Discovery and structures like the residential school system. We recognize our past failures as a Church, including disruption of connections to the land and suppression of Indigenous spiritualities. 

Guided by the gospel of Jesus Christ, we confess our need for healing. We commit ourselves to seeking truth, pursuing reconciliation and nurturing harmony with all creation. We place our trust in Christ, through whom all things are reconciled to God. 

May God strengthen us to live faithfully as stewards of the Earth. Let us walk in love, justice and reconciliation, joining in God’s work to restore all creation.