If the snow accumulating across the deanery wasn’t enough to remind you that Christmas is fast approaching, then this will! The Deanery of Algoma has been working hard on creating a parade float that will be entered into Christmas parades throughout the deanery. The float is titled The Greatest Gift, with the hope of calling to mind our…
Members of congregations within the Deanery of Algoma have been invited to share in the designing, building and use of a parade float to be entered in Algoma and district 2014 Christmas parades. An ad hoc committee hasbeen meeting throughout the summer securing funds from the Diocesan Champion Project of the Anglican Church of Canada,…
Tuesday afternoons in Advent (2, 9, 16, 23 December), 4:30-5:30 p.m. Philosophers and geneticists tell us that in our beginnings we find clues to our end. Genesis is a book of beginnings, and from time immemorial, Jews and Christians have returned to this book to help them in understanding life’s meaning and purpose in the…
This year, the 2015 preliminary Diocesan budget will be presented via web conferencing. Sign up to review the budget as presented by our Treasurer, Jane Mesich, and to learn more about how the budget is put together and how it works. Jane will personally visit each deanery in the spring to present the budget estimates…
An Ottawa church responded to graffiti in their community in an unexpected, and missional way! Check out the full article from the Anglican Church of Canada’s website.
“Flat Jesus” is a concept based on the children’s novel “Flat Stanley” where Stanley is accidentally flattened when a bulletin board falls on him. What Stanley quickly discovers though is that being flat has some incredible advantages! He can go to all kinds of places that he couldn’t go before! Children in elementary schools were…
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Envisioning a communicating, sharing, and outreaching community The Deanery of Algoma Communications Committee arose out of a discerned need to increase awareness of activity within the deanery and to ultimately encourage community among parishes, with the hope of increased recognition of our unity in Jesus Christ. The Deanery of Algoma stretches along a major corridor…
