News from CCS and the CCS community
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 lots of reading). Maybe we’ll update you when Ted gets back to Winnipeg.
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 Alberta Northwest Conference; Marly Bown in Bay of Quinte Conference; Ingrid Remkins, Jody Maltby, and Mary Elizabeth Piercy in Toronto Conference; and Carey Wagner 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 education and democracy. The ongoing demonstrations in Quebec, which began as a student strike, have quickly gained support across Canada and around the world. Rising…
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 Trust Award for excellence in theological education, awarded by the United Church of Canada Foundation. “It is the intent of the committee to acknowledge and…
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 colour pdf here.
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 opportunity for this to happen. We encourage you to check your storage room, your basement, your attic for: Scrapbooks Photographs of your days at CCS…
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 community (and no re-posting of some of those articles here on the CCS blog). Marc is back in our midst and we are happy to…
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 can use like a whiteboard to write notes, show slideshow presentations, etc.) They’re a lot of fun and they’re inspiring us to think about how…
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 of CCS! Meeting wonderful co-workers. We are looking for a group of committed volunteers to gather at CCS on Saturday, May 12 (rain date May…
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 had the privilege of joining the Pastoral Care Theme Year Learning Circle this Spring for 3 days as a “seasoned” diaconal minister. At the end…
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 chaplaincy. It gave me the opportunity to attend the Divine Liturgy on Sundays, to sing occasionally in the choir (alternating services in Slavonic, Greek, and…
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 circle, and was held at the North End Stella Community Ministry in Winnipeg. Here’s Ted’s wrap-up: The spring 2012 learning circle, March 14-29, of the…
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 CCS reflecting on diakonia in light of the Easter story. If anyone wants to play along at home, here is the worship booklet that participants were…