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Season seeks to rekindle faith

The Diocese of Toronto is planning to hold a Season of Spiritual Renewal to help Anglicans re-energize their faith. “I am really excited by it,” ...
Two trainees install a solar suitcase at a health clinic in rural Mozambique.

Diocese’s early support for PWRDF project lights the way

Mothers and babies in rural Mozambique will get a better chance at a healthy birth, thanks to a PWRDF campaign that ran last year from ...
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Spiritual gap year gives women space to reflect, deepen faith

One is a music therapist, recently graduated from Wilfried Laurier University. The second is a spiritual director from Hong Kong. And the third, from Lethbridge, ...

Campaign that provided millions is winding down

The diocese’s Our Faith-Our Hope campaign, which has provided millions of dollars to parishes, individuals and organizations, is winding down this year. No more applications ...
The Anglican

Diocese supports new Indigenous health centre

The Diocese of Toronto has given a $250,000 grant to the Anishnawbe Health Foundation to help build a new Indigenous health and cultural centre in ...
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New scholarship honours Primate

A major new scholarship fund has been created to help clergy and laity attend courses at St. George’s College in Jerusalem, one of the leading ...
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Grant improves lives of women, children

In the past year, prenatal health in Burundi has improved, more babies were born safely in Rwanda, more people in Tanzania gained access to clean ...
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Grants help re-imagine Church

The diocese’s Our Faith-Our Hope campaign has provided $10.5 million in grants, in addition to the portion kept by the parishes. Here is how some ...
The Rev. Andrea Budgey, Jacob Hounsell and the Rev. Maggie Helwig hold large plates of food in an industrial ktichen.

End of OFOH grants in sight

Seven years after it first launched, the Our Faith-Our Hope campaign is beginning to wind down. The last chance for parishes and individuals to apply ...
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Diocesan Centre undergoes changes

Over the past several months, changes have been emerging around the Diocesan Centre to help staff, clergy and volunteers with their work. These changes – ...

Our Faith-Our Hope is changing lives

I came across a pastoral letter from the Bishop of Toronto to the clergy and laity proposing a significant fundraising effort. In it he proposed ...
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Haliburton embraces refugees

A refugee family from northern Syria, a region that has experienced some of the heaviest fighting of the country’s civil war, is now living in ...
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$500,000 grant helps women, children

The Diocese of Toronto is making a $500,000 donation to the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) to improve maternal, newborn and child health ...

New course exceeds expectations

A course that teaches the Christian basics is catching on in the diocese and across Canada. The course, called Christian Foundations, is being taught at ...

Grafton church renovates hall

St. George, Grafton reopened the Canon Nind Hall on June 19 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by members of the congregation and local community. The ...

New course teaches the basics

The Rev. Canon Judy Paulsen was on a flight to the Maritimes when the idea came to her. For some time, she had been troubled ...

Grants to parishes total $4 million

Parishes in the diocese received just over $4 million in grants in 2015. Here is a list of the grants.   Area Resource Fund Grants ...
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New websites help churches look outward

A project is underway to help churches proclaim the Gospel through a medium that is becoming an increasingly dominant form of communication: the Internet. The ...
The Rev. Samantha Caravan and Cormac Culkeen outside St. John, West Toronto

Grant helps church reach LGBTQ youth

St. John, West Toronto has hired a youth minister whose job includes reaching out to LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) young people. The ...
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Church plants new ministry in complex

When Wycliffe College student Michelle Yeung started her summer placement at St. Paul L’Amoreaux in Scarborough, she had no idea of the pleasant surprise God ...
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New minister transforms kids’ program

St. Olave, Swansea in Toronto received a $49,000 grant from the Our Faith-Our Hope campaign last summer to hire a children’s and youth minister for ...
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Cable channel connects residents

When the Rev. Canon Derwyn Shea visited his wife in palliative care at Grace Hospital in Toronto, he saw that she avidly watched a television ...
The Rev. Jennifer Schick standing in the centre aisle of St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto.

Grant helps church connect with youth

St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto, is finding new ways to connect with its youngest members, thanks to the leadership of the Rev. Jennifer Schick. Ms. Schick ...
The Anglican

Church builds app for those on the move

Like many parishes, Grace Church on-the-Hill, Toronto, seeks to equip our parishioners to practice their faith outside Sunday morning. For the past several years, we ...
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New course expands horizons

For the Rev. Peter Mills, Mondays are unlike any other day of the week. For several weeks now, he has travelled from his two-point parish ...

Website now on mobile devices

The diocese’s website, www.toronto.anglican.ca, has been optimized for mobile devices and to meet current accessibility standards. “People are increasingly using their mobile devices to communicate ...
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Course helps with invitation

With the help of an Our Faith-Our Hope grant, a group of clergy and laity in the diocese has created a new, parish-based resource that ...
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