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Pray For GA 2022 – Week 1

Monday, May 9 - Sunday, May 15. As friends, members, adherents, elders, and ministers in The Presbyterian Church in Canada, we are fervently praying for the 147th General Assembly, to be held online June 5-8, 2022. We are praying in advance for the commissioners, the moderator, the clerks, the General Assembly office, and all of … Continue reading Pray For GA 2022 – Week 1

A Prayer Testimony

This is a testimony of a couple who for many years, were homeless and travelling around Canada, destitute and struggling with addictions and hopelessness, surviving by living in parks, alleyways under tarps, tents, and receiving handouts in community centres and shelters. They lived “welfare cheque to welfare cheque” and often taking advantage of the compassion … Continue reading A Prayer Testimony

Renewal News
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In the current issue of Renewal News:

Drawing Guidance From Nature

Lessons from Squirrel Land. Picture a collection of old trees, filled with squirrels darting up and down the trunks and back and forth across the branches. They are frenetically active. Two squirrels are chasing one other with a walnut in its mouth. Theft? Covetousness? Fun and games? Squirrels just do what they are wired to … Continue reading Drawing Guidance From Nature

Living Hope: A Day of Encouragement and Renewal

Videos on this page:
Rev. Dr. Dale Woods: “Six Stages of Faith” - experiences of faith throughout life.
Kristy Short of Alpha Canada: "Engaging evangelism in a COVID World".
Rev. Dr. Christine O’Reilly: "Salt and Light" - church court strategies post-Remits.
Rev. Doug Cameron and Rev. Cathi Cameron: "Grieving to live" - engaging loss to regain vitality.
Rev. Dr. Esther Acolatse: "Recovering the joy - rekindling the hope".
Shane Davis and Jon Dykeman: "Youth/young adult ministry - how to engage and encourage."
Cory McKenna of The Cross Current: "How do we walk as followers of Christ in an increasingly secular world?" ... Read More

Good things to know about Renewal

New director: Rev. Meridyth Robertson, of Trail, British Columbia, joined the board as of October 30, 2021. Her profile will appear in a future edition. Let’s get together: Renewal Fellowship’s next annual meeting will take place on April 30, 2022. Location/method (online or in person) TBA. Extraordinary support: Over the past 24 months, Renewal has … Continue reading Good things to know about Renewal

Remit Response Survey

Along with the quarterly e-mailout of the Renewal News and Prayer Calendar, sent the last week of September, we included a survey, asking respondents to share their responses to the adoption of remits ‘B’ and ‘C.’ We received 21 responses: Ministers - 12; Elders - 5; Members - 3; Adherents - 1. Responses arrived from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland and included … Read more

Renewal News

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In the current issue of Renewal News:

Special Committee Pastoral Letter

The 2021 General Assembly appointed a special committee to listen to concerns identified by petitions from the Presbyteries of Eastern Han-Ca and Western Han-Ca. The petitions state "we have experienced treatment at the hands of many in The Presbyterian Church in Canada which has caused us much pain and raises alarm, for we have collectively … Read more

GA 2021 Prayer Initiative – Now What?

We could not have fulfilled the need for prayer without each of you. For all the time spent on knees, in prayer closets, listening, petitioning and interceding, we thank every one of you. But now what? What do we do now? How do we move forward, honouring Jesus while working through how we feel about the outcome? Maybe, just for a moment, we sit and wait. … Read more

Renewal_News_Summer_2021 Download the Summer 2021 issue of Renewal News in PDF format.

In this issue:

PCC Covenant

There is much that unites us: we worship and serve the same Lord, we hold the same convictions about the inspiration and authority of the Scriptures, and we seek to order our lives and our ministries under the authority of our sovereign God and His revealed Word. Different circumstances will lead us to follow Christ faithfully in different directions, and none of these directions is a better or worse calling than another. ... Read more

Eastern and Western Han-Ca Petitions re: Racism and Marginalization

Editor's Note: These Han-Ca petitions have been supported by a letter from the Chinese Consultation, composed of six congregations – Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, Markham, Mississauga, and Celebration Chinese Presbyterian Churches, and by a letter from Chapel Place, an Arabic-speaking congregation. To the Venerable 146th General Assembly of The Presbyterian Church in Canada, The Presbytery of … Continue reading Eastern and Western Han-Ca Petitions re: Racism and Marginalization

Western Han-Ca Presbytery Overture re: Sister Denomination

To the Venerable 146th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada: WHEREAS, Korean congregations from 1967 onwards entered into a mutual covenant with the Presbyterian Church in Canada for the reason that our theological and doctrinal beliefs, expression of faith and worship, and governance were in consonance with those of the Presbyterian Church in … Continue reading Western Han-Ca Presbytery Overture re: Sister Denomination

Navigating through the storm when the church is adrift

What can the faithful do when the church is spiritually adrift? When the authority of Scripture is being challenged over sexuality and ordination — what better opportunity to remind ourselves to be anchored in Christ and look for a safe harbour. For inspiration, we turned to our new friends at Cruxifusion, a network of ministers who are centred on Christ ... Read more

Letter to Assembly Council re: Gracious Dismissal

Following the Assembly Council's refusal to receive the report of its own Gracious Dismissal Committee, several members of Psalt drafted the following letter to the Assembly Council, which was signed by 303 people. It was received for information, but unfortunately, no discussion or action was taken on it. Stephen Kendall sent the following reply after … Continue reading Letter to Assembly Council re: Gracious Dismissal

Presbytery of Montreal Overtures

Ten overtures transmitted by the Presbytery of Montreal:Overture from the Presbytery of Montreal requesting consideration of the report of the Gracious Dismissal Committee before proceeding to discussions about Remits "B" and "C" from the 145th General Assembly (2019).Overture from the Presbytery of Montreal requesting the charting of a clear and non-punitive way forward for congregations … Continue reading Presbytery of Montreal Overtures

Parkwood Ottawa Overture re: Separate Synods

WHEREAS The Presbyterian Church in Canada was formed in 1875 as a union of several branches of the reformed and presbyterian Church, all of which held the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the only rule of faith and life and subscribed to the Westminster Confession of Faith as the principal subordinate standard; … Continue reading Parkwood Ottawa Overture re: Separate Synods