Rev. Dr. Hans Kouwenberg visited Anishinabe Fellowship Centre, one half of Winnipeg Inner City Missions along with Flora House. WICM serves the mostly-aboriginal population in the city's violent north end. Also present at the time: Rev. Rick Fee, General Secretary, Life and Mission Agency; Lori Ransom, the church's Healing and Reconciliation animator; Rev. Margaret Mullin, WICM's Executive Director; Kouwenberg; and Glen McCoubrey, WICM's board chair.
ENI — A survey by The Associated Press and MTV has found that religion and family are two of the strongest components contributing to the happiness of youth aged 13 to 24 in the United States.
ENI — Few churches see sustained growth as a result of Alpha courses, a new study argues, despite the popularity of this introduction to the essentials of Christianity.
Staff changes continue at the church's head office. Keith Knight has resigned as associate secretary for Resource Production and Communication to pursue other career opportunities. Knight served in the position for more than eight years, and led the re-vamping of the church's website.
ENI — The Vatican has issued Ten Commandments for motorists:
The Canadian Foodgrains Bank has signed a new five-year agreement with the Canadian International Development Agency worth $20 million per year. This is up from […]
A time capsule of worship resources used by Presbyterian congregations is currently being created and will be sealed and stored for 50 years. The General Assembly approved the project in 2006, and the committee on history with the help of the national archives, is administering it.
Don't look now, but did you notice? The paradigm … it shifted. Historians will likely look back on 2007 as the year that climate change […]
The Presbyterian Church was represented on national television in July when Rev. Stephen Kendall, principal clerk, shared his opinion on the Pope's recent comments. Kendall was asked by CTV News to reflect on Protestant church leaders being enraged about Pope Benedict's statement that the Catholic Church is the only true church.
ENI — Rev. Samuel Kobia, head of the World Council of Churches, urged ordinary people in the Middle East to take action to promote peace and justice in the Holy Land.
ENI — Christians from both parts of divided Korea have prayed together for the reunification of their country, which has been split in two by a militarized demarcation line since the end of the 1950-1953 Korean War.
Hundreds are dead, thousands are injured and hundreds of thousands of people are homeless or displaced after tropical cyclone Yemyin brought torrential rains, massive flooding […]
Barb Summers, newly-hired communications coordinator for PWS&D, is shown in Ethiopia in 2005. Summers travelled there with her previous employer to celebrate the opening of a new school. Although the Presbyterian Church doesn’t work directly in Ethiopia, it supports work in the African country through the Canadian Foodgrains Bank.
One of The Presbyterian Church in Canada's first woman elders died on June 15. Joan McInnis (nee Watkin) was an elder at St. Andrew's, Arthur, Ont. McInnis was ordained on the same day as Mrs. J.M. Thomas of Fallingbrook Church, Scarborough. They were ordained in 1966, the same year General Assembly gave the go-ahead for women to hold such positions.
Discussions about mission, new directions and the future of the Women's Missionary Society ensued at the WMS' annual council meeting in May. After the 2008 mission exposure tours (to India and Eastern Europe) were announced, Rev. Rick Fee, General Secretary of the Life and Mission Agency, shared a vision he has for mission.
ENI — Church groups in Pakistan and India have condemned Britain's decision to honour author Salman Rushdie with a knighthood, and claimed it risks inflaming hatred against Christians in their countries.
ENI — The United Church of Christ in the United States argues it has not changed its policy on the Middle East after accepting a resolution that its executive council consider “ongoing balanced study, commentary and critique” about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“I marvel as I look out among you at such a disparate and varied group. you are young and old, come from all corners of the nation and world, but you are also one. your passion and perception is a credit to your congregations and presbyteries.”
As a young girl, Pauline Brown dreamed of going to India. Years later, while a navy nurse, she met a man with gangrene who used to be a missionary in India. She told him of her dream to travel there, and his encouragement made the pull even stronger.
ENI — More people in the world are living in cities than ever before, and this is leading to renewed interest in religion, according to a new UN report.