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It’s not difficult to imagine the jokes and raised eyebrows that must be going around when people learn from our schedule of events that the Sunday service on the morning of October 14 celebrating the 120th Anniversary Service of the Centre for Christian Studies will take place at the Thomson Funeral Home on Broadway Avenue…
Etta Snow graduated from UCTS (one of the forerunners of CCS) 60 years ago, in 1952. Etta writes: The Ovimbundu have a very beautiful and meaningful phrase- ‘Ongeva ka yi popiwa’ literally means, the longings of the heart can never be erased as they are etched in one’s whole being. When I think of my…
Ministering by Word and Example, a course about being an Anglican deacon, returns this fall.
During General Council 43, various people will be reporting on what’s happening, sharing moments and offering their reflections. Tammy Allan and Marlene Britton-Walfall share sites, insights, music and a new Moderator is elected. Another couple of days have passed. Yesterday we dealt with business in the morning and then had the afternoon for excursion tours to see…
For those of you who get Mandate, the quarterly magazine of the United Church’s Mission and Service fund, check out page 16, which features CCS and some of our grads who are involved in community ministry.
This is one of a series of reflections about Courageous Risking, the 2018 gathering of DUCC (Diakonia of the United Church of Canada). The Diaconal story begins with the radical image of Jesus washing the feet of the disciples, and includes the examples of courageous risk-taking of Jesus overturning the tables of the money changers,…