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Should I be grieving?: Disenfranchised Grief and the Caring Professions
Tuesday, September 26th at 7pm AST
Cost: $15 plus Eventbrite Fee
Format: Online
This online workshop aims to explore grief among clergy, chaplains/spiritual care practitioners, and healthcare professionals. These groups lose parishioners or patients but often wonder if it is okay to grieve. Not grieving, though, can lead to burnout, and grieving ourselves can help us to be more connected to those we serve. This workshop will cover recent research on disenfranchised grief amongst ministry personnel and healthcare workers. It will also provide ways to grieve and time for participants to share wisdom from their own experience. Click here to view the poster.
About the Speaker:
In 2022, Ginny Wilmhoff graduated with an MDiv, specializing in pastoral care and counseling, from Acadia Divinity College. She is an ordinand with the Anglican Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and she has completed her third unit of clinical pastoral education at the Moncton Hospital. During her clinical training, she has served palliative and hospice patients. Her previous experience includes 2.5 years as a case manager to the formerly homeless and 4 years providing student support at the University of King’s College in Halifax.
To attend, please register at this link.
The Fifth Gospel: Pilgrimage in Israel/Palestine
February 15 – 26, 2024
Course Fee: $250 CAD plus Eventbrite fee
Deposit: $500 CAD, non-refundable
Full Cost: $6,538 CAD
This course integrates biblical study with a 10-day pilgrimage in Israel/Palestine. Students will explore the Holy Land, its people, history, and archeology as well as the current experience of Palestinians living under occupation and the work being done towards a just peace. Several class times with the instructor will take place prior to departure, dates to be determined. These are open to Continuing Education participants. Click here to view the poster.
Some of the locations the group will visit:
• Qumran, the home of the Essenes
• Bethany by the River Jordan where John the Baptist baptized Jesus
• Sea of Galilee
• Nazareth
• Jerusalem
• Bethlehem
About the Instructor:
Dr. MacAlpine-Gillis earned an MDiv (Atlantic School of Theology) and a DMin (Bangor Theological Seminary). She served both rural and suburban churches during 31 years of full-time ministry. As an avid traveler, Dr. MacAlpine-Gillis believes in the integration of travel and Biblical studies as a way of bringing the stories of scripture to life through walking the land where they unfolded.
To attend, please register at this link.
The Legacy of The Hon. Hugh Segal and GLI
Honouring the Life and Work OF THE HON. HUGH SEGAL by Dr. Abram Epp
The passing of the Hon. Hugh Segal on August 9 reminds many of us of the struggle to achieve a Guaranteed Livable Income for which he advocated through his adult life. His 2019 publication, Bootstraps Need Boots: One Tory’s Lonely Fight to End Poverty in Canada, is both a memoir and a manifesto.
Of course, the fight to end poverty is no partisan struggle, as a close reading of Canadian political history over the past half-century and more clearly shows. In an era of social policy advances, Dr. Joe Willard, Deputy Minister of Welfare in the Diefenbaker, Pearson , and Trudeau Governments, wrote a report on social development policy late in the Sixties urging an income maintenance program.
As the Liberal Party prepared for a policy convention in Ottawa in November 1970, a ginger group at the University of Western Ontario issued a broadside about inequality in Canada and called for action. The London resolution calling for implementation of an income maintenance scheme for Canada did not make it to the convention, but a motion calling for a guaranteed annual income program to be instituted by January 1, 1972, was supported by a vote of 595 to 250, even though Prime Minister Trudeau had told delegates at the opening session that Canada could not afford a guaranteed income plan.
Failure to act on the recommendations of the Carter Commission on Taxation would have fateful consequences. Prior to the Constitutional Conference of First Ministers in Victoria in June 1971, Prime Minister Trudeau offered 50% federal funding to any province establishing a guaranteed income program. Premier Ed Schreyer’s Manitoba Government responded by establishing a pilot project based in part in the Dauphin area. Federal funding was ended by spending cuts the Trudeau Government instituted in 1977, and University of Manitoba Professor Evelyn Forget has only recently been able to assess how the people–and the province–benefited from the project while it lasted.
Eighteen years later, the Chrétien Government responded to similar financial pressures by gutting Canadian social assistance programs. Among the most significant cuts was abolition of the Canada Assistance Plan in Paul Martin’s 1995 budget, which allowed Ontario Premier Mike Harris to establish the Ontario Works program and thus force unemployed Ontarians to starve ever since—and through several changes of government!
The need for a guaranteed livable income becomes more obvious with every day that passes. Exacerbating the plight of so people in our communities is the fact that there is far too little social housing and that housing cooperatives have received little encouragement for decades.
Dr. A Ernest Epp, known by all as Ernie Epp, served as MP for Thunder Bay – Nipigon 1984-1988 and is now Professor Emeritus of History at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay.
Worship Resources
LET US PRAY (Vol. 1) is a collaboration with Jane Doull offering a complete set of prayers for every Sunday from September to Christmas Sunday:
Gathering Words
Opening/Centering Prayers
Prayers of Confession/Searching
Offering Prayers
Prayers of the People
Words of Blessing & Parting
This Volume (the first of four) includes prayers for Creation-time, Ordinary time, Advent and Christmas with prayers for other special Sundays within this time (Peace Sunday, Remembrance Sunday, Children’s Sunday.)
Read a sample of the prayers on the resource page.
WORSHIP SHEETS: If the Worship Leader is away or you need inspiration for worship, meetings or a group, here are 10 reflections They can be matched with prayers from Let Us Pray to put together a complete worship service. There is a sample you can preview on the resource page. See: https://prayerbench.ca/product/worship-sheets/
2024 Mission Support Grant Applications
The 2024 Mission Support Grant applications are now available here. Deadline for completed application and supporting documentation is Tuesday, September 20, 2023 and can be forwarded to: jwhittemore@united-church.ca or mailed to the Regional Office.
Continuing Education Opportunity
Rev. Oliver Dingwell (Cowan Heights United Church, St. John’s, NL) will be teaching a course entitled Liturgy, Sacraments, and Radical Hospitality at Queen’s College (Memorial University of Newfoundland) during the Fall 2023 semester on Monday evenings from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. NL time (5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Atlantic time) beginning Monday, September 11. The course will be offered both in-person and online via Zoom. It is possible to register for this course as a continuing education opportunity. The cost is $350 for the full course, or $175 to join as a course auditor.
The course will explore the concept of ‘welcome’ and ‘inclusion’ in the Canadian church context through a liturgical and sacramental lens. Together we will explore issues of race, gender, orientation, and identity in contemporary Canadian society, and how the worship and sacramental life of churches might be called to respond.
Oliver is the Minister at Cowan Heights United Church in St. John’s, NL. He is currently a doctoral student at Emmanuel College. His academic work is in liturgical and eucharistic theology, studying the value of frequent eucharistic celebration within mainline Protestantism.
For more information, please contact Oliver at odingwell@cowanheightsunited.ca. To register for the course or to get more information about Queen’s College, you can email queens@mun.ca or call (709) 753-0116.
