See You All for the 240th!
A successful and inspiring weekend. Thank you to everyone who attended. We were blessed to have so many of our honoured Companions of the Centre all in one place.
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Anniversary Weekend wrapping up
Yesterday included reflections from past and present CCS principals, a presentation by students, workshops on the action-reflection spiral and ecumenical perspectives on the diaconate, field trips, and a wonderful banquet at which Caryn Douglas was honoured as a Companion of the Centre and CCS’s Ted Dodd and Ann Naylor were presented with the United Church…
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Music for the Soul with Carolyn McDade
Anniversary weekend celebrations continued with a celebration of song and music led by Carolyn McDade tonight.
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Anniversary Weekend Underway
CCS’s 120th anniversary weekend kicked off last night with an inspiring dialogue between Raheel Raza and Stan McKay on the subject of Diversity, Transformation, and Hope. (Watch for clips from that event in the next few weeks.) This morning registration has begun. Friends and former students are pouring into Woodsworth House to reconnect and catch up. …
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CCS Twister
If you’ve been a CCS student or supported a student in their field placement, you might have come across the CCS program “placemats”. We use them in orientations to literally lay out the diaconal ministry training program. The placemats are large laminated pages that say things like “Social Ministry Year” or “Learning Facilitator” or “External…
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Sandy Saulteaux seeking Keeper of the Learning Circle
Our friends at the Sandy Saulteaux Spiritual Centre are advertising for a Keeper of the Learning Circle. Visit the SSSC website for more info.
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120th Anniversary Update – 1 week to go!
We’re now at 71 registrations plus 13 Social Ministry students … plus staff and over 130 attending the evening banquet! If you haven’t already, register NOW online (A reminder: Early Bird rates applied until September 4. Regular registration fee is now increased to $120.) Joy Kogawa is unfortunately unable to attend the October 11 event…
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Fruits of the Earth, Fruits of Community
Principal Maylanne Maybee writes: I have spent the last week in two very different places and climates. From Wednesday to Sunday, I stayed with Phina Borgeson, a friend and fellow deacon in Santa Rosa, California as a base for leading a retreat for about a dozen deacons and others “in process” for becoming a deacon….
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Feast for Friends
CCS’s Ann Naylor reflects on the “Feast for Friends” held at the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre on September 22, 2012: Children are playing – working together to create a structure from the wood in the carefully stacked woodpile, sharing ideas, negotiating, being stubborn, cooperating, joking, celebrating their accomplishment. Adults are sitting together in circles – sharing…
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Diaconal Gatherings
One of the joys of being on the road has been the opportunity to meet with recent grads and re-new connections. A deep sense of history and pride is shared by our grads; having occasions to gather provides a deepened community of support and nurture. The chance arose to gather with two groups of CCS…
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Ontario Field Placement Orientations
In 2012-2013, the CCS students are engaged in the Social Ministry Year. Facilitating the orientation sessions for the students’ field placement allows for a broad connection with the diversity of ways they are embodying diaconia in the world. The range of their ministries gives evidence that not all of the church has retreated into institutional…
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Accompaniment and Solidarity Videos
The videos from September’s “Second Fridays at CCS” presentations are now available, so even if you weren’t in the room at lunch-time on the second Friday of the month, you can still be part of the experience. Dianne Baker, who served with the Ecumencial Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel, and Louise Simbandumwe, social justice…
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Summer Student Worked on CCS Archives
CCS is pleased to have received a grant to hire a student for the summer under the Heritage Grants Program of Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Tourism. The grant provides matching funds which CCS is using to sort, catalogue, and store its collections of historic and archival materials, including written records, photographs, scrap books, and memorabilia…
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The Roof is Done (reshingled)
Let the rain fall on the just and the unjust. Woodsworth House has new shingles, thanks to $15000 and a generous gift from the Winnipeg Foundation. CCS Treasurer, Brian Faurshou says, “We are grateful to the Winnipeg Foundation for their continued support of CCS. Thank you to all involved in this project!”
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50th Year Reunion for the UCTS Class of ’62
The UCTS (United Church Training School) class of 1962 celebrated the 50th anniversary of their graduation in June in Toronto.