The two-week June 2012 Leadership Development Module in New Westminster, BC ended yesterday. All reports indicate that it was a spirit-filled time of reflection and growth (and hard work and …
Registrations are still coming in for CCS’s 120th Anniversary celebration this fall. And if you have any memorabilia from CCS or its United Church and Anglican forerunners, let Marc know.
Congratulation to all the CCS grads who have been commissioned to diaconal ministry in the United Church this last month: Alice Hanson, Vicki McPhee, Tracy Robertson, and Debbie Springer in …
Students of Emmanuel College, a seminary of the University of Toronto, have written a Letter of Solidarity with those in Quebec and elsewhere who invite us to imagine a different approach to …
The Centre for Christian Studies is pleased to announce that Ann Naylor and Ted Dodd, program staff at CCS, have been named as the 2012 recipients of the prestigous Davidson …
Check out the new brochure! Contact Marc at mdesrosiers@ccsonline.ca if you want to order some copies.
The new edition of Tapestry – the Centre for Christian Studies’ newsletter is out. If you receive it by mail, it’s on its way. You can find it in glorious …
Are there any deaconess uniforms out there? Any graduation certificates? CCS is looking for material to add to its history files and archival collection. The 120th Anniversary celebrations provide an …
Our Development and Community Relations staffperson, Marc Desrosiers, was on sick leave for a few weeks in early May, which meant no regular “Common Threads” update emailed out to our …
At the beginning of this year we installed two SMART boards at CCS. (If you’ve never seen one, a SMART board is like a large touch-sensitive computer monitor that you …
Expecting to be in Winnipeg on Saturday, May 12th? Feel free to join us at Woodsworth House for a work bee. Fresh air! Lending a hand sprucing up the exterior …
Irene Rainey is a diaconal minister, she has been on the CCS Central Council, and was a guest at the recent Pastoral Care Learning Circle. Irene says… “ I recently …
Christ is risen! Alleluia! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! As a student in England in the mid seventies, I lived in an ecumenical Christian community run by the Russian Orthodox …
While we’re in updating mode, here’s a summary of how the “Strengthening Aboriginal Relationship Project” went. The project made up the first part of the spring Pastoral Care Year learning …
I’ve added some photos of the diaconal retreat day reflection centres to Ted’s earlier post about the “Images of Diakonia” event held last Friday, where thirty-some people spent the day at …
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