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CoGS mulls changes to diocesan giving

Joelle Kidd — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:59:30 +0000

As proportional gifts from dioceses to General Synod—voluntary donations that make up nearly 90% of the national organization’s net revenue—enter a third year of decline, Council of General Synod (CoGS) is evaluating the system by which dioceses apportion their income to the national church, aiming to possibly propose changes at the meeting of General Synod […]

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PWRDF Ride for Refuge teams raise more than $18,000 for DRC hospital program

Joelle Kidd — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 13:00:45 +0000

For the sixth consecutive year, riders under the banner of the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) hopped on their bikes and rode up to 50 km to support victims of sexual and gender-based violence. The latest Ride for Refuge took place Oct. 5. PWRDF, which has participated since 2014, raised $18,498 for Maison […]

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2018 Anglican Journal Appeal raises $474,489

Joelle Kidd — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:00:33 +0000

Last year’s Anglican Journal Appeal, the Journal’s annual donation campaign, raised $474,489 and boasted its highest-ever average donation, $56. The total of the 2018 appeal was a 1.4% drop from the previous year, which raised $479,958. The average donation in 2017 was $55. The 2018 appeal shows the continuation of a trend in which fewer […]

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Anglicans respond to Hurricane Dorian devastation

Joelle Kidd — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:25:11 +0000

When Archdeacon Keith Cartwright, archdeacon of the southern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, visited Haiti in the wake of the 2010 earthquake, he thought he would never see anything close to that level of devastation again. But now, surveying the damage in his own diocese in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, he sees […]

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Managing church giving in an age of electronic money

Tali Folkins — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 19:13:17 +0000

When St. Mark’s Anglican Church, in St. John’s, Nfld., first set up a system for receiving regular pre-authorized payments electronically from its parishioners’ bank accounts in the late 1990s, only 13 parishioners opted for it.

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