Category: News

It was a time of celebration and good-bye. Friends, colleagues, board members, Companions of the Centre, students, graduates and CCS staff past and present gathered on September 6 at St. Lukes Anglican church in Winnipeg to honour retiring principal Maylanne Maybee. Continue reading “So long. Farewell!”

Our Learning on Purpose: Changing Leadership for a Changing World course has just finished.  Fifteen participants from across Canada, from Halifax to West Vancouver, came together for two weeks of intensive learning.

And I mean intensive. Continue reading “2017 Learning on Purpose”

Are you interested in the kind of learning that goes on at the Centre for Christian Studies?  Do you wish you could explore specific themes and topics in spiritual care, or social justice, or Christian education and/or worship as part of a circle of learners?  But you don’t want to be a deacon or diaconal minister?  Or maybe you already are in ministry, but you’d like to keep learning.  Maybe you’re a CCS alumni who misses the community of a learning circle.

Continuing Studies at CCS may be for you.  Apply to be a Continuing Studies student, and you can register for theme learning circles with diaconal students – reading, discussing, exploring, connecting. Continue reading “Continuing Studies at the Centre for Christian Studies”

When we launched the project for evaluation and redesign of the Centre for Christian Studies program, we wanted to use the particular expertise of new Program Staff and to respond to the emerging needs of students, churches, and society. As things have evolved over the years since the current program was introduced, there has been less and less call on it by Anglicans.

There are a number of reasons for this: Continue reading “CCS Program Redesign – the Anglican Angle”

Wednesday, Sept. 6th

from 5:30-7:30 pm, at St. Luke’s Anglican Church (130 Nassau St N).
An opportunity to say farewell and express our appreciation to retiring principal Maylanne Maybee.  More details will be forthcoming.

Wednesday, Sept. 13th

from 7-9 pm, at Westminster United Church (745 Westminster Ave).
A welcoming event for new principal Michelle Owens.  Again, watch the CCS website in August for more details.

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As principal Maylanne Maybee prepares for retirement this summer, many people are wondering about what happens next for her.  Here are the basics: Continue reading “Wishing Maylanne Well”

CCS alumni Allison Halstead, recently retired from ministry in Miami, Manitoba, reflects on trusting the signs – as she walked into retirement …and along the Hadrian’s Wall path in Northern England.

Leading up to retirement, well-wishers often asked about my plans. I had no plans. There was, however, a rock in my day-timer. Continue reading “Walking the Wall Trail”

After a year and half of reviewing and redesigning, the Centre for Christian Studies is excited to be unveiling the new shape of our educational program!

We are grateful to the nearly forty volunteers who helped discern a path, especially the members of the Program Review Coordinating team.  We are also grateful to the Anglican Foundation, who provided funding for the program review and redesign process. Continue reading “The New Program Is Here, The New Program Is Here!”

Last Sunday the staff of the Centre for Christian Studies hosted a refreshment time for the Winnipeg Quaker meeting following their worship service.  For the past number of years the Quakers have been renting space at at Woodsworth House for their meetings, but their ranks have now grown to the point where they need to relocate.  They’ll be moving down the street to a housing co-op that has a large gathering space.  CCS has appreciated having the Quaker community in our building, and were glad to have the opportunity to wish them well in their move.

CCS’s other tenant, Nathanial Kaplan, who rented an office in Woodsworth House for his Reiki practice, has also moved out.  Best of luck, Nathanial.

If you or someone you know is looking to rent space – either office space or meeting space – feel free to contact the CCS office.

Congratulations to Kristin Woodburke (CCS grad 2014)  and Josh Ward (CCS grad 2017), who received degrees from the University of Winnipeg’s United Centre for Theological Studies this weekend.  Kristin received her Bachelor of Theology and Josh received a Master of Arts in Theology (Spiritual Disciplines and Ministry Practice).  Josh was also awarded the Nisbet Memorial and Winchester Prize for the second highest standing in Theology.

The CCS Awards Working Group is inviting nominations for the 2018 Companion of the Centre Award.  The Companion of the Centre Award was established in 2001 by the Central Council of the Centre. Through this award, CCS honours at the Annual Service of Celebration, except for exceptional circumstances, one or more persons:

• Graduates, who through their life and ministry, have brought distinction and honour to CCS;
• Members of the CCS community (friends, volunteers, former staff and so on) who have made a significant contribution to the work of CCS, or,
• Individuals in the wider community whose whole life and work epitomizes the ideals of CCS.

Nominations are welcome from graduates, students, friends, volunteers and staff.  (Download the form: PDF / RTF ).  Nominations must be received by September 30, 2017.