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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.
In 2021, the Ministry Streams task group submitted a report and proposal, “Ministry Leadership to Meet the Needs of the Church in the 2020s”, which acknowledged and commissioned the church to address the reality that United Church of Canada communities of faith are on the whole smaller, older, and less able to employ paid ministry personnel, making ordered ministry a less viable profession and lay leadership burdened by professional standards of accountability.
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.
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.
Many diaconal ministers have years of experience administering the sacraments in their communities of faith and in other ministry positions. When Diaconal ministers retire, this licence is removed.
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.
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.
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.
Inspired by God, we are Christ’s people in Bermuda and Nova Scotia, loving each other, following Jesus, empowered by the Holy Spirit.
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.
