2013 General Assembly to be a ‘Long Weekend’
The Assembly Council decided next year’s General Assembly should begin on a Friday and end on a Monday, making the annual meeting of the church’s highest court more accessible to full-time working elders.
Community News
Assembly Council Discusses Vision and Mission Statements
“A community rooted in Jesus Christ, empowered by the Holy Spirit, courageously embracing the gifts of God, to be a blessing in the world,” reads the vision statement that will come before the church’s highest court in June. The accompanying one-page mission statement includes a series of bullet points outlining what the church aims to do.
Community News – April 2012
International Visitors to National Offices Two international ecumenical leaders visited national offices recently. Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit met with national staff and the church’s […]
Community News – March 2012
Canadians in Taiwan to Monitor Election The Presbyterian Church in Canada and the Canadian Council of Churches were both represented on a team of international […]
Interview with Rev. Gordon Haynes – Nominee for Moderator
Throughout the 2011 General Assembly, one word seemed to emerge over and over again: Vision. The Record asked the nominees for moderator of the 2012 […]
Community News – February 2012
Accessibility Standards Rise for Ontario Churches Churches in Ontario must take another look at their customer service this year to ensure they meet provincial standards […]
Interview with Rev. Dr. John Vissers – Nominee for Moderator
Throughout the 2011 General Assembly, one word seemed to emerge over and over again: Vision. The Record asked the nominees for moderator of the 2012 […]
Interview with Rev. Dr. Andrew Johnston – Nominee for Moderator
Throughout the 2011 General Assembly, one word seemed to emerge over and over again: Vision. The Record asked the nominees for moderator of the 2012 […]
Interview with Rev. John Borthwick – Nominee for Moderator
Throughout the 2011 General Assembly, one word seemed to emerge over and over again: Vision. The Record asked the nominees for moderator of the 2012 […]
Interview with Rev. Peter Bush – Nominee for Moderator
Throughout the 2011 General Assembly, one word seemed to emerge over and over again: Vision. The Record asked the nominees for moderator of the 2012 […]
Sanctuary Off Limits
When the Presbytery of Ottawa locked the doors to the sanctuary at St. Giles, Ottawa, to “discipline” the warring congregation, the secular press jumped on […]
Community News – January 2012
“Known to locals as "the pink church", St Andrews Presbyterian in Hamilton, Bermuda is a charge within the Presbyterian Church in Canada and is a […]
Community News – December 2011
Presbyterian Church Moderator Rick Horst (front left) and members of the TRC Commission place a copy of the PCC’s 1994 Confession to Aboriginal Peoples into […]
Community News – November 2011
First Nigerian Missionary to Canada Reports Progress Fifty – seven years after the Presbyterian Church in Canada’s first missionaries began their work in Nigeria, the […]
Community News – October – 2011
Volunteers in Evangel Hall’s kitchen help prepare one of the 8,000 meals produced there each month Celebration and Service at Evangel Hall Evangel Hall Mission […]
Community News
Stories and Celebrations at Inuvik TRC Event Two Hundred Kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, in the land of the midnight sun, Principal Clerk Stephen […]
Speaking Up
Rodger Hunter of Boarding Homes Ministry, recipient of the E.H. Johnson award for being on the cutting edge of mission: “Boarding Homes Ministry does not […]
One of Many Voices
When I first stepped up to a microphone on Thursday, my heart was pounding and my hands shook, yet beyond all my nerves there was […]
Shouting Out
Rev. Rick Horst, Moderator of the 137th General Assembly: “In and of itself, there is nothing wrong with institutions, but the Presbyterian Church in Canada […]
Business as Usual
THE BIGGEST STORY at the 137th General Assembly is what didn’t happen. While considering several different seemingly unrelated recommendations, assembly proposed numerous new motions and […]