General Synod has voted to add additional advocacy, ministry and communications to the support the Anglican Church of Canada offers to migrant farmworkers. The assembly, which is meeting in London June 23-June 30, heard a presentation from the Rev. Enrique Martinez of the parish of Long Point Bay and director of the Huron Migrant Farmworkers Ministry, which provides meals, spiritual care, mental health support and bicycles to migrant workers in the diocese of Huron; and from Chris Sorio, a me...| Anglican Journal
Council of General Synod (CoGS) will work with ecumenical partners to encourage the study of principles of accessibility and inclusion across the Anglican Church of Canada, including the tenets of disability theology, after General Synod voted for an amended resolution June 25.| Anglican Journal
General Synod has voted to pursue the six pathways for change recommended by a primatial commission over the next triennium—and to allocate up to $2 million of unrestricted funds from General Synod's Consolidated Trust Fund to do that work. Both resolutions passed with overwhelming majorities.| Anglican Journal
The national office of the Anglican Church of Canada has hired an accounting firm to investigate the way in which a $9-million lease for its new Toronto location at 300 Bloor Street West—space to be shared with the national offices of the United Church of Canada and the Presbyterian Church of Canada—was approved.| Anglican Journal