News from CCS and the CCS community
It’s a new year, and with a new year comes a new look for the CCS website and blog, a new format for our regular “Common Threads” updates, and new forms for students. Things might get a little jumbly in the next while as we put all this newness in place, so please bear with…
Last Friday the doors of CCS were thrown open to welcome our friends and supporters for an afternoon of eating cookies, sipping cider, chatting, and singing well-known and lesser-known Christmas carols. Thanks to everyone who joined us to make the day merry, and thanks to Michele Barr for her musical accompaniment. Friday was also the…
CCS volunteer treasurer Brian Faurshou writes: “The generosity of the donors to CCS is exceptional; their past gifts have made CCS a unique community able to provide the message of God’s love, grace and justice to our world. Funds from our donors are fundamental to CCS’s continued mission, and key to a multitude of decisions…
The Centre for Christian Studies has announced the names of three people it will honour as “Companion of the Centre” in 2013: Marion Logan, Jessie MacLeod, and Miriam Therese Winter. The Companion of the Centre award was established in 2001. Through this award CCS honours people who have brought distinction and made significant contribution to…
The Central Council of the Centre for Christian Studies announces that HyeRan Kim-Cragg, the Lydia Gruchy Professor of Pastoral Theology at St. Andrew’s College, in Saskatoon, has been named as the recipient of the $10,000 Kaufman Scholarship. The funds will assist her in a project to explore a theology of resistance. Kim-Cragg’s project will continue…
Ted writes: In the Diocese of Rupert’s Land, two parishes have been experimenting with Local Collaborative Ministries, a version of “Total Ministry.” Pembina Hills parish is a rural setting covering vast distances in southern Manitoba, and St. Thomas is situated in the Weston region part of Winnipeg. These parishes have named and designated local leadership…
The puppet has been named! “CiCi S.” A blue ribbon panel of experts has combined two entries: Brenda Zanin of Ottawa wrote of her selection “CiCi”: “It’s gender free and it could also be ‘see-see’ -the key learning sense of sight. It’s friendly.” Deb Kigar, of Quebec, had a similar suggestion “CeeCeeS.” So judges took…
Lynn Smith, a Social Ministry Year student from Peterborough, made a puppet for CCS and left it here for our use. But s/he needs a name! Can you think of one? Send your replies to tdodd@ccsonline.ca The prize is a surprise…
Principal Maylanne Maybee writes: Has CCS ever done such a thing before? Has there ever been anything like it? About 100 people – students and staff, past and present, graduates, Friends, supporters, and honoured guests – converged in Winnipeg from Thursday evening until Sunday morning. People came from Victoria, BC to St. John’s, Newfoundland, from…
Marc Desrosiers, former Development and Community Relations Coordinator at CCS, will continue to volunteer with the bi-weekly “Common Threads” updates and the fall fundraising campaign. Marc writes: Just when I thought my “volunteer time was up” at CCS, I will now continue to serve the CCS constituency on a limited part time contract for the…
Amidst all the hubbub of the anniversary celebration, the students in the Social Ministry learning circle have been meeting and working and learning. We have four new students joining the learning circle this year. So far they’ve been exploring social analysis, marginalization, history of mission, and the reign of God. On Tuesday they made a…
On October 13th, 2012 Caryn Douglas was named a Companion of the Centre by the Centre for Christian Studies. (In fact, she was named earlier in the year, along with Barbara Barnett and Charlotte Caron, but as she was unable to attend the annual service of celebration in the spring her official recognition was deferred…
A successful and inspiring weekend. Thank you to everyone who attended. We were blessed to have so many of our honoured Companions of the Centre all in one place.
Yesterday included reflections from past and present CCS principals, a presentation by students, workshops on the action-reflection spiral and ecumenical perspectives on the diaconate, field trips, and a wonderful banquet at which Caryn Douglas was honoured as a Companion of the Centre and CCS’s Ted Dodd and Ann Naylor were presented with the United Church…
Anniversary weekend celebrations continued with a celebration of song and music led by Carolyn McDade tonight.