Telling our story. Line item budgets are boring. Not only that, but seldom do they tell the real story. It’s too easy for us to make assumptions about how the dollar we give is used or not used on what we specifically consider important. However, no facet of church ministry operates in a vacuum. For […]
Stewardship
Season of Creation 2022
Christians around the world are invited to give particular attention to praying and caring for God’s creation as part of the global Season of Creation, observed from September 1st to October 4th every year. General Synod 2019 passed a resolution adopting the Season of Creation in the Anglican Church of Canada as a time of […]
Cathedral Building Conditions and Issues Report
The Building Conditions and Issues report was prepared by the engineering firm of Heritage Standing Inc. (HSI). The report contains a total of 36 recommendations, and classifies each recommendation as one of; Emergency High Priority Medium Priority Low Priority Operational consideration For each recommendation the report details the scope of the recommended work, the necessity […]
Great Canadian Giving Challenge 2022
This June, join the Great Canadian Giving Challenge! Your charity could WIN $20,000! From June 1 – 30, every $1 donated through CanadaHelps gives your charity a chance to win $20,000. It’s a month-long initiative to help you drive donations during a slow time of the year for fundraising. Every June since 2015, we’ve given […]
COVID-19, religious freedoms and the Christian response
The Mission and Outreach team of the Diocese of Fredericton continued its Christian Forum series with a most timely topic entitled COVID-19, Religious Freedoms & Christian Response. Dr. Alan Sears, Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Education at the University of New Brunswick, was the speaker, his second time presenting for the diocesan Christian Forum. […]
What is Giving Tuesday?
GivingTuesday – the world’s largest generosity movement GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement, taking place each year after Black Friday. The “Opening day of the giving season,” it’s a time when charities, companies and individuals join together and rally for favourite causes. In the same way that retailers take part in Black Friday, the giving community comes together […]
Climate Church – Climate World Book Study
While we’ve been focused on the global pandemic for almost exactly a year now, the urgency of working on climate change has not diminished. We should be putting as much effort into stopping that as we are into stopping the pandemic. Climate change is more than a science issue, it’s a spiritual and moral issue […]
Smart (er?) Stewardship
Diocesan Stewardship Officer Mike Briggs writes in the October NB Anglican ‘Work smarter not harder.’ How many of us have heard the above phrase in our working lives? It is an exhortation to use your time wisely so you can produce more with less effort and is typically well understood by everyone. Have you thought […]
Online giving form now in house!
We’ve embedded our CanadaHelps donation form to better meet our needs of those of online givers. We haven’t changed the provider of this service but using the embedded form reduces our services charges which makes more of each donation reach us. Canada Helps charges 2.75% for processing. Check it out on Our Facebook page (GIVE […]
Investment Committee members
The Diocesan Synod Finance Committee is looking for people with a keen interest in investments to serve on its Investment Sub-committee. The committee monitors the Diocesan Consolidated Investment Fund (DCIF) and working with its portfolio manager offers advice and recommendation to the Finance Committee regarding these funds. Given the importance of investment income to the […]
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