Category: Events

The Centre for Christian Studies invites you to attend a Covenanting Service and Reception for Michelle Owens as she begins her role as the new Principal at The Centre for Christian Studies

Wednesday, September 13, 2017
7:00 to 9:00 p.m.

Westminster United Church
745 Westminster Ave at Maryland Street, Winnipeg
Please enter by the Westminster Avenue door. Lift available.

Refreshments will be served
Service of Installation at 8:00 pm.

RSVP to Cheryl Thiessen by Sept 5
204-783-4490 or office@ccsonline.ca

If you are not able to attend, you are invited to offer your welcome and greetings by phone, e-mail, or mail.

The students in the CCS Integrating Year are one month away from graduating!  Plan to be part of the celebration.  Festivities start on the evening of March 25th with a banquet at St. George’s Anglican Church Crescentwood (168 Wilton Street, Winnipeg).  Tickets are $45 ($20 for CCS students).  You can get an individual ticket just for yourself, or buy tickets for all your friends and family.  (Heck, even if you’re not coming you could buy a ticket to donate to a student, if you were so inclined.)  Contact Cheryl at the CCS office to purchase your ticket.

The next day, March 26, is the Annual Service of Celebration.  Come worship with the graduates and honour this year’s Companion of the Centre, Linda Ervin.

Sing for Justice is a chance to get together with people in your community to sing songs of justice and right relationship and at the same time raise funds to support student learning at the Centre for Christian Studies!

Dianne Baker is hosting a gathering at the Centre for Christian Studies, 60 Maryland St. Winnipeg, in the KP room on November 21 from 7-9.  Everyone in the Winnipeg area on that date is invited.

Knox United Church, 200 MEMORIAL AVE N in Russell, Manitoba has decided to host a Sing for Justice event on Sunday, November 20th (evening) with the offering coming to CCS.

CCS and St. John’s College are co-sponsoring a day-long workshop based on Becoming the Story we Tell: Renewing our engagement with Christ crucified and risen, an Anglican resource developed by the Primate’s Task Force, on Saturday, November 19th, from 9am to 4pm.  The day will be facilitated by the Rev. Canon John W.B. Hill of the diocese of Toronto and the Rev. Gregor Sneddon of the diocese of Ottawa, and will include worship, experience and reflection, teaching (scripture, background, context) and one-on-one spiritual conversations.   Continue reading “Becoming the Story We Tell”

Sing for Justice is an event in your community that engages people in singing for justice and at the same time raises funds to support student learning at the Centre for Christian Studies. Continue reading “Sing for Justice”

On April 10, 2016 CCS will honour Jim Boyles and Stan McKay with the Companion of the Centre Award.

The day before, on Saturday, April 9th, at 9:30am, you are invited to join the CCS community for a conversation with Stan and Jim about various things, including the implications for the church of the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the calls to action arising from the Truth and Reconciliation Report.

The Companions in Conversation gathering will take place at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church on the corner of Wolseley and Walnut.  All are welcome.

Learning on Purpose: Changing Leadership for a Changing World is our 2-week intensive leadership development course, designed to help you follow your sacred calling with meaning and intentionality.  It’s an introduction to the CCS educational style and a primer in leading from the edges, learning in community, and faithful acting/reflecting. Continue reading “Help Us Promote Learning on Purpose”

CCS’s big weekend of the year is less than a month away!  Pretty soon the Integrating Year students will be coming for their final learning circle, followed by their graduation from the Diaconal Ministries program. Continue reading “2016 Grad Banquet tickets”

“Wilderness, Weeping, and Wiping” was the title for a daylong retreat held on Saturday, February 27, 2016 for about fifteen deacons and associates in the diocese of Rupert’s Land. The words referred to some key themes in the Lenten lectionary– Jesus struggling in the desert, lamenting over Jerusalem, being anointed by Mary with costly perfume.

Continue reading “Wilderness, Weeping, and Wiping”