GC45 Audit Committee Report for Summer 2025
On behalf of General Council, the Audit Committee has carried out its assigned duties from 2019 through 2025.
GC45 Theology and Inter-Church Inter-Faith Committee Accountability Report for Summer 2025
The Theology and Inter-Church Inter-Faith Committee met twice in person throughout the triennium and periodically online, with smaller working groups meeting more frequently. For the first two years of this triennium (2022-2025), TICIF focused primarily on theological work assigned by General Council, developing principles for the United Church’s justice work.
GC45 Total Compensation Review Task Group Final Report for Summer 2025
In November 2023 the Executive of the General Council established a Total Compensation Review Task Group to look at compensation practices through lenses of equitableness, adequacy, and sustainability, reporting to the 45th General Council in 2025.
GC45 Vocations of the Whole People of God: Ministries for Our Time for Summer 2025
A reflection on ministry is at its heart a statement about the how the church participates, recognizes, and supports the many ways people take part in God's work of love in the world.
GC45 Anti-Racism and Equity Accountability Report for Summer 2025
The United Church’s focused work on anti-racism includes: anti-racism education and education for congregational leaders, anti-racism in theology, leadership opportunities for Indigenous and racialized youth, working towards creating a culture shift, advocacy for racial equity, and anti-racism in governance.
GC45 Antler River Watershed Accountability Report for Summer 2025
Welcome to Antler River Watershed Region, where our purpose is “Holding and Encouraging Communities of Faith.” We live out this commitment through the work of our Affirming Regional Council. Antler River Watershed Region encompasses the counties of Elgin, Essex, Kent, Lambton, Middlesex, and Oxford.
GC45 Apology to 2SLGBTQIA+ Communities by The United Church of Canada for Summer 2025
At the 42nd General Council, the church approved support for a national process of a Living Apology installation project for dialogue, storytelling, education, and reconciliation with persons who identify as sexual or gender diverse including but not limited to Two-Spirited, Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, Queer persons.
GC45 Bermuda-Nova Scotia Regional Council Report for Summer 2025
Inspired by God, we are Christ’s people in Bermuda and Nova Scotia, loving each other, following Jesus, empowered by the Holy Spirit.
GC45 Board of Vocation Accountability Report for Summer 2025
The Office of Vocation’s purpose is to “support faithful, well-equipped, effective ministry personnel,” from initial discernment of a potential call to ministry through formation for ministry, the practice of ministry, and into retirement stages. The Board of Vocation is the elected member body which oversees the Office of Vocation, honouring and living into intercultural mission and ministry.
GC45 Canadian Shield Regional Council Report for Summer 2025
It has been an exciting and challenging time between 2022 and 2025, as the Canadian Shield Regional Council (CSRC) continues to transform from three parts of the church, who had been neighbours structurally. This new northern region has moved from introducing ourselves to becoming partners in ministry as a Northern region.