Category: News

CCS goes to General Council

Ann Naylor reflects on the 41st General Council of the UCC, August 11-18, 2012 “You are doing well, relatively speaking, but you need to muscle up because the hardest sprint …

Look up. Look WAY up.

Indeed, those would be NEW SHINGLES being installed at JS Woodworth House. And what a Summer during which to have the work done, with average afternoon temperatures hovering at +/- …

Scott is an award-winning playwright too

CCS program admininstrator and registrar, Scott Douglas, was the recipient of the 2012 Harry S. Rintoul Award for best new Manitoba play at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, presented by the …

Voices of Transformative Hope

[Update Sept 20, 2012: Due to a family emergency, Joy Kogawa will not be able to attend this event.  Click here for updated information about this public lecture.] Principal Maylanne …

Faith Conversations With Integrity

UPDATE: This event has been cancelled due to lack of registrations.  Alas.  Watch for more short term programming sponsored by CCS in the future. Identify your own faith stance! Practice …

Second Fridays at CCS

Noon-hour learning at the Centre fro Christian Studies.  Bring your lunch. September 14 Theology of Accompaniment and Solidarity Dianne Baker and Louise Simbanduwe October 12 Theology of Justice and Liberation …

CCS Friends at General Council

These CCS Grads / Friends will be at the CCS display from time to time throughout the week – please visit and say ‘hello’ to: Christina Paradella • Ken DeLisle …

Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre appoints new Keeper of the Circle

Congratulations and best-wishes to the new Keeper of the Circle at the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre. Announcement from SSSC: The Board of the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre is pleased to announce the …

Goodbye, Sadly, From Marc

Marc Desrosiers writes: With very mixed emotions and further to Maylanne’s message above, I will be leaving CCS effective August 3rd (from the office), and from active staff service to …

Summer at CCS

Much of the CCS staff were on holidays during the month of July.  Ted, Ann, and Scott were off all month, with Liz taking a few weeks here and there.  …

Experience General Council

Some of our United Church friends might want to keep tabs on the General Council, meeting this August in Ottawa.  The church has provided a bunch of ways to experience …

Raising the Roof

CCS is thrilled to have been awarded a grant in the amount of $15,000 by The Winnipeg Foundation to re-shingle the roof of our home. “This will add years of …

Companion Nominations Invited

CCS is inviting nominations for its annual “Companion of the Centre.”  Through this award, CCS honors, at the Annual Service of Celebration, one or more persons: graduates who through their …

Congratulations Ken DeLisle, president of MNWO Conference

Companion of the Centre, former editor of Tapestry and chair of the Communications Committee, and friend of CCS, Ken DeLisle was recently elected president of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario Conference …

120th Anniversary Schedule updates

There have been a few updates to the schedule for the CCS 120th Anniversary celebration in October.  On the opening night there will be a public lecture on “Transformative Hope …