During the evening of Tuesday, February 7, 2023, the Right Reverend John Stephens inducted the Reverend Fr. Robin Ruder Celiz as Rector of the Parish of St. Helen, Surrey, a worshipping community that has gathered for more than 11 decades in the beautiful heritage church located in Surrey’s Gateway/Whalley neighbourhood.

Follow this link to Yonat Shimron's February 14th article on the NPR news website.

All over the world on a particular day millions of men and women and children do an extraordinary thing. They enter a place of worship and kneel, close their eyes, and wait. They wait for someone to come carrying a small bowl of black ashes. These ashes have been made by burning some dried palm branches which a year before were carried around in procession in this same place of worship. 

According to Dr. Scott Brubacher, Executive Director of the Anglican Foundation of Canada (AFC), “There has never been a swifter or more generous response to the establishment of a new fund than the ACW Council of the North Retired Clergy Fund to provide financial support for housing and living expenses to retired non-stipendiary clergy in the Council of the North.” 

To make a gift to the ACW Council of the North Retired Clergy Fund please contact Michelle Hauser, AFC’s Development & Communications Officer or visit the donate webpage

The Anglican Foundation of Canada’s (AFC) grants program will look substantially different in 2023 thanks to some important changes approved by the AFC Board of Directors in 2022.

For more information on AFC’s new grant categories or to apply for an AFC grant, visit anglicanfoundation.org/apply. 

This Lent, choose from a number of recommended resources to take the journey from Ash Wednesday to Holy Week (February 22 - April 2, 2023).

HERE IS THE LINK

A child has the great gift of turning the ordinary into something romantic and exotic. In fact for a child there is no ordinary. So much remains mysterious and unknown that everything is full of wonder. I find - as I’m sure you do - these memories always waiting to be touched and revived.

Youth Ministry Leader, flexible part time contract position - St. Alban the Martyr, Burnaby

Chef, part time/7 hours per week - St. Augustine, Marpole

In the Anglican Church of Canada, Freedom Sunday shines light on the connections between human trafficking, labour exploitation, and missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ persons. Everywhere, people of faith express compassion and solidarity with trafficked peoples through prayer, bible study and worship, and by making commitments to tackle these dehumanizing crimes.

Here is a link to all the information about, and resources for, Freedom Sunday on the Anglican Church of Canada's website

St. Hilda's Green Forum presents a free talk and discussion on "Greening Investments and Banking: Our Communities and Ourselves," with the Reverend Alecia Greenfield.

For more information, or for a Zoom link to attend this Green Forum event virtually instead of in-person, email greenparish@sthilda.ca.

 2023 training dates are open for registration. These will be in-person training on the last Saturdays in February, March and April. Click on the date to register. 

•             February 25 – St John the Divine, Maple Ridge

•             March 25 – St George, Fort Langley

•             April 29 – St Hilda, Sechelt 

If you have questions please contact Bill Siksay in the Bishop’s Office by email or by phone at 604-684-6306 ext 228. 

The Long, Long Night of Hope, a fundraiser to support the Lookout Housing & Health Society’s North Shore shelter, is back at St. John the Evangelist, North Vancouver for a 7th year – and they need your help to make this the biggest campaign ever!

For more information, please visit the website.

The daily prayer practice of the Iona Community in Scotland, comes from an inspired and beautiful liturgy that you will sure to find familiar and fresh. 

St. Mary's Kerrisdale

All are welcome to attend this Celebration of a New Ministry when Bishop John Stephens will install the Reverend Joyce Parry-Moore as Vicar of the Parish of St. Aidan and St. Bartholomew (aka St. Bart's), Gibsons. 

Six consecutive Tuesday's in Lent: February 28 - April 4

For more information contact the Reverend Wilmer Toyoken by email or by phone at 604.876.8191

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Please find a downloadable poster linked here

Get ready to enjoy the film 2040 from an award winning Director. 

5pm: The food truck, Tornado Potato, arrives. (Menu below) 

6pm: The film starts.

Tickets are $15, includes food. Tickets are available at the church. Consider picking up a few extra for friends and family. 

The conference includes two lunches (Saturday and Sunday), weekend-long refreshments, two workshops, one-on-one spiritual direction/listening prayer session, prayer stations, and spiritual practice kits.

St. Dunstan's Centre for Spiritual Renewal has a pay-what-you-can approach for events at the Centre.

Registration fees are $200, $175, $150, and $125. By paying more you ensure someone else is able to come. 

DOWNLOAD THE FULL INFORMATION FLYER HERE

Register Here

The research is clear. Lifelong learning and church vitality go hand in hand. How can this link be strengthened in your parish? Attend a free informative session to explore the “why” of lifelong formation and how it can happen, no matter the size or location of your congregation.

RSVP: jschaap@vancouver.anglican.ca OR cpullenayegem@vst.edu 

Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83476985701

Presented by the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster in partnership with the Congregational Vitality Initiative of the Vancouver School of Theology

**Registration is required for this free event.** Please send your name and email address to SpringStreetCommunityKitchen@gmail.com

Join with the folks of St. John's, Port Moody for the second in-person Spring Street Community Kitchen to be held this time at Inlet United Church, 1790 Ioco Road in Port Moody.

We will be making a breakfast casserole and lunch sandwiches to be served to guests of the Cold Wet Weather Mat program (hosted by Coquitlam Alliance Church in March). 

Registration for the Retreat: tmsc@telus.net or 604-988-8836

Cost: $60

Co-sponsored by the Thomas Merton Society of Canada (www.merton.ca) and Canadian Memorial United Church and Centre for Peace (https://www.canadianmemorial.org/).