Dear reader,
Greetings from all of us at the Anglican Journal. As this eventful year draws to a close, we are writing to thank you for your generous giving to the Anglican Journal Appeal in the past—and to remind you of how important your donations are. When you support the Anglican Journal, you are joining in the work of bringing about change in our beloved church so that it can continue to proclaim the good news in the 21st century.
That’s because thanks to your donation, the Anglican Journal is able to keep Anglicans informed about and connected to the changes that the church is making as it implements the recommendations of the Creating Pathways document. One change we reported on was the approval by the Council of General Synod in June of a new communications mandate that aims to make national communications more strategic, integrated and financially sustainable. The mandate affirmed the importance of the Anglican Journal to Anglicans across the country.
We also brought you a report on the work taking place to articulate an equitable partnership between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous churches in Canada, and an update on the emerging National Youth Council, which aims to provide a mechanism for youth to participate meaningfully in church governance, discernment and mission. We reported on the changes taking place in the staffing and operations of Church House, the national church’s office in Toronto, as it focuses on its essential functions of convening, connecting and communicating in service to Anglicans.
We know how much Anglicans value learning about what is happening in mission and ministry across the country. We’ve brought you stories about how forest church is connecting Anglicans with God through the natural world, about creative ways that remote and northern dioceses deal with staffing challenges, about hope and healing in Western Newfoundland and about the new bishop-elect of the Anglican Military Ordinariate and her thoughts on the future of military chaplaincy.
Looking further afield, we told you about a meeting of the primates of the Americas in São Paolo, Brazil, about the church’s humanitarian response in Cuba through Alongside Hope and about the Canadian Anglican delegation at the 19th meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Our stories about the national office’s recently rediscovered time capsule and about Anne Boleyn’s role in the English Reformation connected readers to Anglicanism in the 20th and 16th centuries.
Your generosity to the Anglican Journal Appeal also supports the diocesan newspapers that are inserted into issues of the Journal. This means your gift helps keep Anglicans across the country up to date on developments in their dioceses and nourished with spiritual reflection by bishops, editors and columnists.
All of us at the Anglican Journal and diocesan newspapers across the country are proud to be tasked with keeping you informed about, and connected with, the church you love—and we’re so grateful to donors like you who support us in this work. You can be sure that any amount, large or small, will make a difference.
Every donation you make truly matters.
With gratitude,
Henrieta Paukov
Editorial Director, Anglican Journal