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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…

On Friday, at the Centre for Christian Studies, we had an amazing retreat day focusing on Images of Diakonia through the Easter and Passion stories. We had several learning centres set up with art, prayers, commentaries and a simple activity in each room. Participants circulated in silence entering into a spirit of contemplation and meditation….

Every once in awhile we like to give you a sense of what’s new at the CCS.  Here are a few titles we’ve recently added to our collection: Learning to Speak Christian by Stanley Hauerwas Diakonia: Re-interpreting the Ancient Resources by John Collins The United Church of Canada: A History by Don Sweitzer (featuring a…

This upcoming weekend is a big one for the Centre for Christian Studies.  This is the weekend when we celebrate the graduation of five students who have completed their training in diaconal ministry – Alice Hanson, Vicki McPhee, Ingrid Remkins, Tracy Robertson, and Debbie Springer.  It’s also the weekend when we celebrate two of the…

The CCS Pastoral Care Year students and a few folks from the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre began three days of learning at North End Stella Community Ministry.  The morning session was an exploration of the seven sacred teachings with Stan McKay and Barbara Shoomski.  Through stories and reflection, Stan and Barbara brought the students to a…