CCS Annual General Meeting 2024
2024-04-03 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Winnipeg) | Online
Join us for our AGM. Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 6pm Central Time via Zoom.
Please click [HERE] to register so we know who to expect.
Documents

Draft Agenda CCS AGM 2024
2023 Annual Report
2023 Year Book
2024 AGM Worship
2023 AGM Minutes
2023 Audited Financial Statements
2024 Nominations Table for AGM

Integration 3 - Spring 2024
2024-04-08 - 2024-04-13 | Woodsworth House, 60 Maryland Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
The Spring learning circle of the Integration Year.

Ages and Stages 2024
2024-04-10 - 2024-04-16 | Woodsworth House, 60 Maryland Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
EW02 Ages and Stages is an education and worship learning circle focusing on ministry with various age groups, development theory, curriculum, youth ministry, children’s ministry, adult education, ministry with seniors, and intergenerational ministry. It will be an opportunity to explore Christian education and faith formation for every age. Register for EW02 Ages and Stages

CCS Banquet 2024
2024-04-13 17:30 - 20:30 | St. George’s Crescentwood Anglican Church, 168 Wilton Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Saturday, April 13 at 5:30pm at St. George’s Anglican (168 Wilton St). Eat, drink, be merry! The grads receive their diplomas. We chat with the Companion. Good food and good friends. Tickets at $60. Contact Cheryl at office@ccsonline.ca to book yours today.

Annual Service of Celebration 2024
2024-04-14 14:00 - 15:30 | All Saints Anglican, 521 Broadway, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Sunday, April 14 at 2:00 at All Saints Anglican (521 Broadway). A celebratory worship service to recognize the graduates and honour the Companion. There will be pins. There will be towels (if you know, you know). There will be singing. There will be snacks afterwards. This service is free and open to the public. Parking is available across the street at Canada Life (spots that don’t say “reserved 24 hours” or something similar).
This service will also be livestreamed.

Oppression and Resistance 2024
2024-04-18 - 2024-04-24 | Woodsworth House, 60 Maryland Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
SJ03 Oppression and Resistance is a social justice learning circle focusing on systems of oppressions (racism, sexism, heterosexism, colonialism, etc.), models of change, and theologies of resistance (liberation theology, feminist theology, queer theology, etc.). It will be an opportunity to explore the strategies of the marginalized to survive and make change. Register for SJ03 Oppression & Resistance

Relationships 2024
2024-05-22 - 2024-05-29 | Online
SC03 Relationships is a spiritual care learning circle focusing on intimate and familial relationships, sexuality and gender, family systems, weddings, covenants, relationship break-ups, and the role of minister as support. It will be an opportunity to look at the big picture of what makes up relationships, and also the small details of how we engage one another. This is an online intensive. Register for SC03 Relationshps

Farewell Picnic for Lori Stewart
2024-06-11 17:30 - 19:00 | Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg
After ten years as CCS’s Development Coordinator, Lori Stewart is retiring in June. During her time in the role Lori has been a key part of building and maintaining the CCS community.
You are invited to a farewell picnic on Tuesday, June 11, at 5:30pm in Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg. Potluck. If you can, please bring a lawn chair and some food to share. (There will be cake!)
UPDATE: Where exactly in Assiniboine Park? Picnic Site #9. See below for a map and directions. If the weather is bad on the 11th we’ll relocate to the CCS offices at 60 Maryland. (RSVP to info@ccsonline.ca and we’ll send you an email with updates. You can also check the CCS website on the 11th.)
Not in Winnipeg but would still like a chance to wish Lori well and thank her for all her phone calls and emails and cards and letters? We’ve got you covered. Earlier that afternoon (3pm Central Daylight Time, 2pm Mountain, 1pm Pacific, 4pm Eastern, 5pm Atlantic) we’ll be having a casual online tea. Log in with a cuppa and congratulate Lori on her retirement. Register for a zoom link by clicking HERE.

Directions: Turn Right at the Pavilion; Left at the big P sign; keep right, past the Duck Pond and the back of the Zoo, keep going a ways. Site #9 is the first one on the right. Parking is at the side of the road.

Learning on Purpose 2024
2024-06-17 - 2024-06-28 | Merging Waters Pastoral Charge, 24 Maple St, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, H9X 2E1, Canada
Learning on Purpose: Changing Leadership for a Changing World is the Centre for Christian Studies’ 2-week intensive leadership development module. It is a practical, holistic, hands-on, learning community experience, and those who take it come out feeling transformed (in a good way!). Register for Learning on Purpose.
In 2024 Learning of Purpose will be held June 17-28 in Montreal, QC!
More information…

UCC Admissions Orientation Circle 2024
2024-08-12 - 2024-08-23 | Online
An online course for ministers coming into the United Church from another denomination.

Introduction to the CCS Spiral
2024-09-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
An online introductory session on the CCS Spiral model of action-reflection. Useful for anyone who’s never used the Spiral before, and a handy refresher for those who have.
Thursday, Sept 19 at 7pm CDT.
The “Spiral” is a tool for personal and theological reflection that has been used by generations of Centre for Christian Studies students. Grounded in the liberation pedagogy of Paulo Freire and the work of educational theorists like Solberg, Kolb, and Frye, the CCS Spiral helps users to make meaning of their lives through the lenses of Experience, Feelings, Thinking, and Action.
This 90-minute intro is free to attend. Please register for a link.

September CCS Friday - Art as Spiritual Practice
2024-09-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
As bearers of God’s image, we are each invited to participate in God’s creation. How does creative practice connect to your sense of vocation? Rev. Dawn Léger has been conducting research into how the practice of making art (especially among clergy) is both a connection to and expression of the Spirit within.
Dawn Léger, is a pastor, Anglican priest, spiritual director, educator, and a lover of art and artists. Dawn practices contemplative photography and painting from her home in Halifax, NS. She is always listening for the lessons that artists have to teach us as humans and leaders. She is concerned with clergy well-being, particularly facing the challenges of 21st century churches.
CCS Fridays are free. Please register to receive a zoom link.
CCS Fridays: Online conversations to help us all to respond faithfully to emerging issues in local contexts. These workshops are open to anyone who might be interested. Each session will be on a Friday from 12:00 to 1:00 CT and in the form of a Zoom workshop. There will be a presentation that will be recorded for future viewing, plus opportunities to engage with the ideas in small groups.

Integration 1 - 2024
2024-09-29 - 2024-10-04 | Drumheller, AB, Drumheller, AB, Canada
The fall learning circle for students in the Integrating Year of the Diaconal Ministries program

Eco-Justice 2024
2024-10-16 - 2024-10-22 | Centre for Christian Studies, 60 Maryland St, Winnipeg, MB, R3G 1K7, Canada
A social justice learning circle on environmental concerns, climate change, water and food security, population displacement, and the theology of creation.

Culture and Identity 2024
2024-10-24 - 2024-10-30 | Centre for Christian Studies, 60 Maryland St, Winnipeg, MB, R3G 1K7, Canada
An education and worship learning circle exploring race and culture, interfaith and ecumenical connections, and intersectionality.

October CCS Friday - Indigenous-Racialized Youth Scholars Program
2024-10-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Join us on October 25 (noon in Manitoba, 1pm in Ontario, 11am in Alberta, etc.) for an online conversation with Sarah Yang and Ryan Kisi who are members of the United Church’s Indigenous/Racialized Youth Scholars Program. Each participant in the program conducted a research project related to culture, racialization, and the church.
Sarah is a first-year university student, currently studying in Hamilton Ontario. She is of Korean descent but grew up in Manitoba, attending Teulon and Balmoral United Church. Sarah’s research covers the ways in which Racialized and Indigenous peoples may interact with capitalism and colonialism as embedded into culture and psychological mindsets.
Ryan is a 22-year-old from Zimbabwean heritage living in Edmonton and studying at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. His research is on the impact of racism on society’s perceptions and expectations of Black men in Canada.
Click HERE to register.
CCS Fridays: Online conversations to help us all respond faithfully to emerging issues in local contexts. These workshops are open to anyone who might be interested. Each session will be on a Friday from 12:00 to 1:00 CT and in the form of a Zoom workshop. There will be a presentation that will be recorded for future viewing, plus opportunities to engage with the ideas in small groups.

CCS Friday - Shifting Funeral Practices
2024-11-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Join us on Friday, Nov 22 to an online conversation with Michelle Owens about the changing landscape of mourning, grief, and funeral practices. Michelle is a United Church diaconal minister, former Principal of the Centre for Christian Studies, and currently serving in congregational ministry at White Oaks United in London, ON.
Click HERE to register for a zoom link.
CCS Fridays: Online conversations to help us all respond faithfully to emerging issues in local contexts. These workshops are open to anyone who might be interested. Each session will be on a Friday from 12:00 to 1:00 CT and in the form of a Zoom workshop. There will be a presentation that will be recorded for future viewing, plus opportunities to engage with the ideas in small groups.

CCS Friday - Christianity in a Crisis-shaped World
2024-12-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Join us on Friday, December 6th (noon Central, 1pm ET, 11am MT, 1oam PT, 2pm AT) for an online discussion of the shape of a Christian witness in a changing and challenging world. Jesse Zink’s new book Faithful, Creative, Hopeful: Fifteen Theses for Christians in a Crisis-Shaped World, draws on Scripture, the Christian tradition, and on-the-ground ministry experience to offer new paths for Christian ministry in a world being reshaped by climate change, economic inequality, and human migration. He’ll be joining the CCS community to discuss the ideas in his book and lead discussion on the changing nature of Christian witness.
Rev. Dr. Jesse Zink is the principal of Montreal Diocesan Theological College. You can learn more about the new book on the publisher’s website and read the introduction and first few chapters for free on Google Books.
Click HERE to register for a zoom link.
CCS Fridays: Online conversations to help us all respond faithfully to emerging issues in local contexts. These workshops are open to anyone who might be interested. Each session will be on a Friday from 12:00 to 1:00 CT and in the form of a Zoom workshop. There will be a presentation that will be recorded for future viewing, plus opportunities to engage with the ideas in small groups.

Ministry as Community-building 2025
2025-01-07 - 2025-02-13 | Online
An online social justice learning circle on healthy community, issues of safety and comfort, advocacy, congregational systems, and theology of the reign of God. Tuesdays and Thursdays for six weeks.

Intercultural Leadership for Educational Ministry 2025 begins
2025-01-09 06:00 - 20:00 | Online
A joint course of CCS, Emmanuel College, and St. Andrew’s College, focusing on intercultural leadership and anti-oppressive education practices. Thursday evenings from January 9 to April 10, 2025. More information…

CCS Friday - Black History Month workshop - From History to Future
2025-02-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Online
The International Decade for People of African Descent was from 2015 through 2024. The UN has extended for second decade, from 2025 through 2034. Let’s engage with the decade now.
On Friday, Feb. 14 we’ll be hosting a special CCS Friday/interactive online workshop for Black History Month, in collaboration with Antler River Watershed, Horseshoe Falls and Western Ontario Waterways Regional Councils of The United Church of Canada. It will be an hour and a half (a bit longer than our usual CCS Friday hour to make space for more discussion and activities), starting at noon Central Time (1 Eastern, 11 Mountain, etc.).
From History to Future: Fostering Hope for a Second International Decade for People of African Descent
Our facilitator will be Rev. Thérèse Samuel. Thérèse is an anti-racism education and serves as Minister for Right Relations and Social Justice with ARW, HF and WOW Regional Councils. (She is also a past CCS student).
Join this interactive workshop. Engage with concerns raised in the report on Canada from the first Decade for People of African Descent, and to consider possible actions for each of us and our churches to participate in forging a new future in the second decade.
This workshop is free. Click HERE to register for a link.
Download a poster to send to a friend or post at your church…

CCS Friday - God and Money
2025-02-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Join us on Friday, Feb 28 (noon Central Time) for an online discussion of Christian stewardship from a justice-oriented perspective. How can churches do fundraising, budgeting, investing, property management, etc. in ways that are anti-racist, decolonial, ecologically responsible and ethically faithful, and don’t just parrot neoliberal capitalism? Our special guest will be Sheryl Johnson, author of Serving Money, Serving God: Aligning Radical Justice, Christian Practice, and Church Life. Sheryl is a professor of ethics at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, California and a United Church of Canada/United Church of Christ minister.

CCS Fridays are free. Please register to receive a zoom link.
CCS Fridays: Online conversations to help us all to respond faithfully to emerging issues in local contexts. These workshops are open to anyone who might be interested. Each session will be on a Friday from 12:00 to 1:00 CT and in the form of a Zoom workshop. There will be a presentation that will be recorded for future viewing, plus opportunities to engage with the ideas in small groups.

CCS Annual General Meeting 2025
2025-03-12 17:00 - 19:00 | Online
Join us for our AGM online on Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 5pm Central Time (6pm Eastern, 4pm Mountain, etc.). We’ll be discussing the results of our recent strategic planning process, including recommendations for governance structure, staffing configuration, recruitment, and exploring deeper partnerships. The changes to CCS’s governance structure have been approved by Central Council, but include by-law changes that will need to be considered and affirmed at the AGM. The strategic changes to our staffing configuration, and probably an update on our search processes, will be discussed as well.
Click here to register.
Documents: (click on a document to download)

Agenda of the 2025 Annual Meeting
Minutes of 2024 Annual Meeting
Annual Report for 2024 UPDATED
2024 Year Book
Proposed changes to CCS By-laws

current by-laws
draft by-laws with proposed changes

2025 Nominations Table
Planning & Governance Report
Audited Financial Statements NEW

Integration 3 - 2025
2025-03-24 - 2025-03-29 | Centre for Christian Studies, 60 Maryland St, Winnipeg, MB, R3G 1K7, Canada
The spring learning circle of the Integration Year, along with graduation and Annual Service of Celebration!

Worship 2025
2025-03-26 - 2025-04-01 | Centre for Christian Studies, 60 Maryland St, Winnipeg, MB, R3G 1K7, Canada
An education and worship learning circle on liturgy planning and worship leadership, sacraments, and special services.

Annual Service of Celebration 2025 and CCS Banquet
2025-03-29 15:00 - 20:00 | St. George’s Crescentwood Anglican Church, 168 Wilton Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Saturday, March 29 at 3:00 at St George’s Anglican Church in Crescentwood (168 Wilton St,). A celebratory worship service to recognize the graduates of the Centre for Christian Studies and to honour this year’s recipient of the Companion of the Centre award. The Annual Service of Celebration is free and open to the public. The service will also be livestreamed.
That evening (also at St George’s) the CCS Community will continue in celebration with the CCS banquet. A catered meal, a chance to mingle with friends old and new and get to know the graduates a bit better. Punch at 5:30, dinner at 6:00, speeches around 7:00, and the evening ends around 8:00. Banquet tickets are $60. Contact Cheryl ( office@ccsonline.ca ) by March 14 to book your tickets.
Celebrate with us! Come to the service, or the banquet, or both.
Participating in Annual Service of Celebration
Students at the banquet

Grief and Loss 2025
2025-04-03 - 2025-04-09 | Centre for Christian Studies, 60 Maryland St, Winnipeg, MB, R3G 1K7, Canada
A spiritual care learning circle on pastoral support to the dying and those they leave behind, end of life issues, funerals, and questions of afterlife.

Ministry as Listening 2025
2025-05-07 - 2025-05-14 | Online
An online intensive learning circle on ministry of presence, pastoral visiting, prayer, counseling and spiritual direction, pastoral ethics and boundaries.

CCS Friday - Decolonizing Diakonia
2025-05-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Join us for an online discussion with Hyuk Cho about his new book “Decolonizing Diakonia“, based on the doctoral work of his partner, the late JungHee Park. Hyuk Cho is Director of United Church Formation and Studies at the Vancouver School of Theology. JungHee Park was a Diaconal Minister and graduate of CCS who died in 2016 before completing her PhD.
Click HERE to register for a zoom link.
CCS Fridays: Online conversations to help us respond faithfully to emerging issues in local contexts. These workshops are open to anyone who might be interested. Each session will be on a Friday from 12:00 to 1:00 CT and in the form of a Zoom workshop. There will be a presentation that will be recorded for future viewing, plus opportunities to engage with the ideas in small groups.

Learning on Purpose 2025
2025-06-16 - 2025-06-27
Our 2-week introduction to learning in community, self-awareness, group skills, conflict, making change, and approaches to theology, scripture, pastoral care, education, worship, and social justice.
