The dates for the Growing towards God series running this fall were posted incorrectly and have been updated in the link below.
Sorry for my mistake.
Correct dates for Inner Transformation through the Enneagram.
Category Archives: Education
Growing Towards God: Tomorrow night!
Deepening our Learning
Potluck and Overview
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
at 6:30 to 9:00 pm
with Nancy Phillips and Janelle Schneider
This one night class gives an overview of the last series: Introduction to Spirituality with Nancy Phillips and introduces the next series: Inner Transformation through the Enneagram with Janelle Schneider.
Sunday School helps send an orphan to school in Uganda
Wondering why our flyer boys are actually boys and girls?
As a fundraiser for the Rupert’s Land Orphan Fund, the kids of St. John’s Sunday School and their friends were out delivering our Easter flyers this spring. The money we saved on sending the Easter Invitations through the mail was donated on their behalf to help send an orphan to school for an entire year.
The kids raised enough money to sponsor an orphan for a year.
Paying school fees allows orphans go to school and makes it financially easier for them to stay with their extended family.
One in every seven children in Uganda is an orphan. Our sister group of churches, the Diocese of Buganda is helping the orphans of Uganda by providing for their school fees. Basic tuition is paid for by the government up to grade seven, but the additional costs for uniforms, lunches, examinations, school supplies and building fund are not provided. Paying these fees ensures that the orphans will be able to attend school and reduces the financial burden on the extended families caring for them. Money raised through the Rupert’s Land Orphan Fund goes directly to this effort.
Thanks to all the volunteers: our Sunday School children and their friends, their teacher, Gary and the parent volunteers who came out to lend a hand, as well as the organizers and Bud Oliver from the Rupert’s Land Orphan Fund whose important ministry helps us help others. A very special thanks to the Teakles who had the delivery teams over to their house for brownies and ice cream!
Learn more about our Sunday School.
Learn more about the Rupert’s Land Orphan Fund:
brochure: part one
brochure: part two
Education: Easter Reflections on Christian Leadership
Images of Diakonia:
Easter Reflections on Christian Leadership
Retreat and Open House
Friday, April 13
Centre for Christian Studies
60 Maryland Street, Winnipeg
204-783-4490
Diakonia:
service, ministry and leadership all rolled into one.
After a busy Holy Week and Easter, come and join us for community, learning, and quiet reflection about diakonia – that mysterious word that means “service”, “ministry”, and “leadership” all rolled into one.
If you can’t come for the whole day, come for the Open House from 3 to 5 pm.
Evening Bible Study
If you’re interested in participating in an evening bible study this spring at St. John’s see Ian Stewart after the service or contact the church office.
Growing Towards God: Potluck and Overview
Potluck & Overview
with Nancy Phillips, facillitator
and special guest, Janelle Schneider
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
at 6:30 to 9:00 pm
at St. John’s Anglican Cathedral
Open to everyone!
Introduction to Spirituality:
Deepening our Learning
Become aware
of God’s presence
and action
in your life.
This final session to our Introduction to Spirituality series will review some of the tools learned for developing our awareness of our spiritual selves and our relationship with God. We will review Centering Prayer technique, Lectio Divina, Examen of Consciousness, body prayer, the Welcoming Prayer, journaling, dream work and contemplation and action.
If you will be joining us for the first time, you will gain an overview of tools for spiritual development that you can begin to explore.
If you attended all or some of the sessions, you will have an opportunity to deepen your understanding of these tools.
Intoduction to the New Series:
Inner Transformation
through the Enneagram
Our special guest for these evening will be Janelle Schneider, Spiritual Director and Enneagram Facilitator, who will provide us with an overview of the Enneagram. Janelle will be joining us for four sessions on the Enneagram beginning in September.
Come and meet Janelle and learn about the Enneagram as a tool for inner transformation.
Growing towards God: New Series in September
We’re excited to announce a new Growing towards God series coming this fall to St. John’s Cathedral!
Starting in September, learn about the Enneagram as a tool for inner transformation with Spiritual Director and Enneagram Facilitator, Janelle Schneider.
See more details on the series,
Inner Transformation Through the Enneagram.
Teaching our Children: Why did people want to kill Jesus?
We’ve been careful to teach our kids that Jesus loves each and every one of us, but then when Lent comes, how do we go on to explain why so many people wanted him dead?
Anglican Virtual Church School lesson writer, Fiona Brownlee challenges us to tell our children the whole truth about Jesus:
“I think we need to be honest with our children. I think we need to give them the whole story of Jesus. Not just the parts that make us comfortable.
Jesus during his ministry made many people uncomfortable. He made the religious leadership uncomfortable. He made the political leaders uncomfortable. I think if he visited one of our parishes he would make us uncomfortable as well.
Children need to know that Jesus made and continues to make people uncomfortable. For some in Jesus’ day this discomfort turned into fear and they thought the only way to deal with it was to put him to death.”
Read the full article Lent, Children and Honesty about Jesus
Education Opportunity: Indigenous Wisdom
Indigenous Wisdom
with Bishop Mark MacDonald
University of Winnipeg
Faculty of Theology
April 30-May 4, 9 – 5 pm
North End Campus
527 Selkirk Avenue
Bishop Mark MacDonald is National Indigenous Bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada. He is also a musician, a theologian, an educator and a healer.
Available for audit,
diploma or degree credit.
For more information please contact Chris Wells at the University of Winnipeg 786-9857.
The National Worship Conference: June 29 – July 2, 2012
What does it mean
to go Beyond the Fortress?
As Christians, we have established meaningful traditions in our worship. In doing so, we have built “fortresses” around ourselves, in order to keep these traditions alive. For some the fortress is their church, for some it is their faith. We carefully guard our fortresses (with open doors – not closed doors), but we all feel safe and secure in our personal Fortress.
What happens when we leave our security, and move out into the community and witness our faith?
But what happens when we go Beyond our fortress. What happens when we leave our security, and move out into the community and witness our faith? Do we hide or guard the fortress, to make sure that nothing will change and our traditions are kept strong. How can we make worship more interesting and inviting and draw more people in? This has always been a topic at the forefront of discussions in the Church. It’s now more urgent than ever.
Come join us at the Conference to discuss with fellow Worship Leaders how to be comfortable beyond the fortress, and explore what happens when we move out and profess our faith to all who will listen.
About The National Worship Conference
The National Worship Conference is a biennial conference sponsored by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada. The Conference welcomes participation by clergy and laity of these two churches as well as clergy and laity from other churches who seek to build up the life of the Christian community through our worship so that we might serve the world God loves.
Find out more about the The National Worship Conference or register.
