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Upcoming Events at a Glance
2017
October 27-29 Women’s Retreat Samish Island
November 3-5 High Priest, Evangelist and Seventy Retreat –Edmonton
2018
February 3 CWM Virtual Conference
Feb 16-19 CWM Winter Youth Retreat, (location to be announced)
Feb 23-25 Weekend of World Religions Vancouver
March 2-4 Nurturing Spirit Retreat Samish Island
Mar 16-18 Women’s Retreat Medicine Hat
*dates subject to change, always check online or here for the most up to date information.
All camping dates are included at the bottom of this Weekly Wire and on the CWM website.
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This Week…in the Weekly Wire!
Mission Conference 2018 in Regina, SK
Canada West Mission Conference photos, video and more!
Chilliwack Garage Sale
Men’s Retreat Photo
Camping Thank You Video
High Priest, Evangelist Retreat
Women’s Retreat Samish Island
Singles Retreat Samish Island
Peace and Justice Newsletter
What’s Up…In the CWM –time to submit articles
eLearning Temple School Courses
– new registration process -new classes
Community of Christ App
Shopping on Amazon.ca
Links to our Worldwide Ministries website
We want you to ‘like’ our CWM Facebook Page
2017/2018 Camping Dates
Quote of the Week
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Official Notice: CWM Electronic Mission Conference
The Canada West Mission Centre will hold its first Electronic Mission Conference on Saturday, February 3, 2018. Initially we will plan on it taking about 2 hours beginning at 10 a.m. PST, 11 a.m. MST, 12 p.m. CST.
The conference will operate according to the electronic conference procedures approved at the 2016 Mission Conference in Ribstone.
The intended agenda is to enable consideration of a motion (or two) that may be intended to go to the 2019 World Conference. Such motions must be submitted to World Church by April 1, 2018. Other agenda items may also be considered. Agenda items for our E-Conference must be submitted no later than January 3, 2018. The agenda will be circulated to the mission centre no later than mid-January.
All congregations should plan to elect delegates for this conference just as are elected for regular conferences. Formal notice of numbers of delegates (unlikely to change much from the immediate past conference) will be forwarded soon.
Please watch for information that will be sent to Pastors in the next couple of weeks about what each congregation will need to do to prepare for this conference. It will be Internet based so Internet access will be required for participation. If a congregation does not have Internet access in their building, another location may be used (home, business, hotel conference room, etc.). Please: only one location per congregation. Two or more congregations coming together in one location will certainly be acceptable.
Much more information will be shared between now and the date. Watch for it!
--Stephen Thompson
CWMC President and Financial Officer
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Thank You Video from Youth Camp
This summer, campers at Hills of Peace Youth Camp were afforded a wonderful opportunity to build community through sports and play. Six generous congregations across Canada West Mission donated money to the cause, resulting in a camp-wide sports day for both campers and staff. Orbis Sports, out of Edmonton, provided everything we needed for the day, and the result was pure joy!
Thank you to the Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge, Regina, Saskatoon, and Senlac congregations for supporting this initiative financially, and for all those who helped to make this sports day a reality!
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Men’s Retreat 2017
Find out what went on, in the upcoming edition
of What’s Up…In the CWM
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High Priest, Evangelist, Seventy Retreat
There will be a High Priest-Evangelist Retreat in Edmonton the weekend of November 3 – 5, 2017. All are welcome. Please pre-register with Lisa Neudorf lisa@communityofchrist.ca by Monday, October 23 and advise if you require billeting.
The theme is “It is I, Lord.” Presiding Evangelist Jane Gardner and President of the High Priest Quorum, David Anderson, will guide attendees through Spiritual Formation and Compassionate Action ministry. On Saturday afternoon there will be break-out sessions when Jane and the Evangelists will spend time taking a deeper look at Doctrine and Covenants 165:5. David and the High Priests / Seventies will explore “Our Clarion Call: Prophetic Leadership in an Uncertain Age.” Denise Esch will be ordained to the Office of Evangelist during the Sunday Worship Service.
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2018 Mission Conference August 31 – Sept 2
Regina Saskatchewan
Guest Minister President Steve Veazey
I know it may feel early, but I encourage you to reserve your hotel rooms as soon as possible. Labour Day weekend is a huge football weekend in Regina, and all of the hotel rooms will be sold out soon for the Saturday night. We have a group rate at the Ramada Plaza use code
CGC0C4 email regina@saskramada.com or call 306-569-1444
1Queen bed – $117 p/night
2 Queen beds $124 p/night
$12 per 3rd and 4th adults in room (children are free)
$15 per night parking
This hotel is 4.5 km from the Regina church. There are other hotels closer to the church, but the rates were substantially higher and we wanted to make this weekend affordable for everyone who would like to come out to see President Veazey. Please feel free to book anywhere you like but again, we urge you to do that very soon. You can always cancel your room closer to the conference if needed.
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Women’s Retreat Samish Island
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We’re accepting submissions for the fall edition of
What’s Up…In the CWM
Tell us about what your congregation did over the summer, or what you have planned for this fall and winter.
Let me know if you plan to send something so I can save you space in the newsletter. debra@communityofchrist.ca
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Mission Conference in Vancouver
WOW!
Follow this link to see our special edition of
2017 Mission Conference in Vancouver!
See the Conference Program online
Crazy Conference Group Photo
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Community of Christ website links
Community of Christ Upcoming Events: Visit the Community of Christ Calendar to see upcoming events, links to Daily Prayer for Peace, and Worship Resources.
Community of Christ Current Announcements: See the most current announcements on Community of Christ homepage or on the Announcements page .
Community of Christ Mission Stories: Mission Stories
The next link is to a great video produced by the Community of Christ that everyone should see.
Community of Christ, What We Offer You Video
To those seeking a spiritual home, Community of Christ is a welcoming, loving, worldwide faith community that values the worth of every person as a child of God, and provides a safe space for you to explore and deepen your relationship with Jesus Christ and each other.
In Community of Christ, you will receive love and support as you discover renewed purpose for your life through compassionate, Christ-like service that ends suffering and fosters justice and peace.
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Peace / Justice -- Human Rights
The blog associated with this newsletter is at: http://untilall.org/blogs/newsletter/. Feel free to comment on any topic.
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BURMA / MYANMAR: END ETHNIC CLEANSING OF ROHINGYA
In 2012 and again in 2014 this newsletter highlighted actions and concerns related to the plight of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Burma. While most people in Burma are Buddhist, and there are other groups and conflicts, the Rohingya have been marginalized for decades, officially deemed immigrants from Bangladesh.
Being stateless means diminished rights in an impoverished area. It also means voiceless and thus open to increasing conflict and violence. From our longitudinal study of Darfur, when people who want a nonviolent resolution, find all such avenues fruitless, eventually a few may take up arms both for protection and to highlight their case to the world. Thus fast forward and we find again this is the case.
But the government disproportionately cracked down not simply on the insurgents but the entire Rohingya population, resulting in a UN official indicating the government’s response appears to be a “textbook example” of ethnic cleansing. There have been over 400,000 displaced, with many villages burned, and an unknown number of people killed or raped.
The violence must be stopped, a path to full inclusiveness for all provided, and human rights violations on all sides must be investigated. The following petitions address two audiences. Avaaz {the site we sometimes use to explore the influence of massive petitions, in this case now over one million signatures} is targeting those governments supporting Burma’s military. The Amnesty International petition is aimed directly at Burma’s military Commander in Chief. Please consider signing both.
Nobel Peace Prize Laurate Aung San Suu Kyi: While previous newsletters gave her silence the benefit of the doubt, it is time to side with Desmond Tutu’s response where he pleaded with her to speak out for justice and unity and cautioned that “If the political price of your ascension to the highest office in Myanmar is your silence, the price is surely too steep.”
Take Action [Open to all; Consider signing both]:
Tell Governments To Stop Supporting Burma's Military [Avaaz]
Tell Burma's Commander in Chief to Stop Ethnic Cleansing [Amnesty International]
Background:
Summary of Current Crisis [International Crisis Group]
How Years of Strife Grew Into a Crisis [NYT]
How New Muslim Insurgency Arose [ICG, Dec, 2016]
Final Report on Fair Future [Chaired by Kofi Annan; very in-depth]
THE U.S. AND SUDAN SANCTIONS
The action on this issue from the last newsletter was part of efforts that may have helped dissuade the Trump Administration from lifting sanction on Sudan. However that had a three month timeframe which is almost up now. So new efforts are needed to help maintain the sanctions until Sudan changes its action and addresses the marginalization of all its peripheries, most especially Darfur and South Kordofan / Nuba mountains. As noted before, the lifting of sanctions was shocking to many Sudan watchers, including myself, who feel it was based on murky logic (see Current Status, June 25, [UntilAll.org] or the Background links below).
Thus there is urgent need to tell President Trump not to permanently lift the sanctions. Even if one felt progress was being made, six months is far too short, as Human Rights Watch argues, below.
Take Action:
Don't Lift Sudan Sanctions [Act For Sudan]
Background:
Sudan Sanction Review Fails 8 Benchmark Tests [HRW]
{Counter View} Repeal Sanctions, There are Still Others in Place [Crisis Group]
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=== FOLLOW-UP TO PREVIOUS ACTIONS AND ARTICLES ===
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At Least 200 Environmental Activists Slain In 2016:
This newsletter has taken action to safeguard environmental activists throughout the world, and for good reason. This year saw the most deaths ever. While India had a three-fold increase, Latin America remained the deadliest region. Mining, oil, agriculture and logging were the industries most associated with the deaths.
Most environmental activist killed in 2016 [Globe and Mail]
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Chinese Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Liu Xiaobo, Died
In a sad note over the summer, Liu Xiaobo died. He helped lead the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy uprising for which he was imprisoned. Upon release he continued to lecture about democracy and human rights, including helping to draft Charter 08 which laid out the comprehensive changes needed, such as a new constitution, for legislative democracy. He was imprisoned again where his health deteriorated.
http://time.com/4848696/liu-xiaobo-dies-china-nobel-prisoner/
An archive is kept at:
http://www.cofchrist.org/humanrights/hr-newsletter/default.asp.
In appreciation and support,
Rod Downing
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Canada West Camping and Event Calendar
2017
October 27-29 Women’s Retreat Samish Island
November 3-5 High Priest, Evangelist and Seventy Retreat –Edmonton
2018
February 3 CWM Electronic Conference
Feb 16-19 CWM Winter Youth Retreat, (location to be confirmed)
Feb 23-25 Weekend of World Religions Vancouver
March 2-4 Nurturing Spirit Retreat Samish Island
Mar 16-18 Women’s Retreat Medicine Hat
April 21-22 Ribstone 110th Anniversary
April 26-29 Arts Retreat Samish Island
Apr 30-May 5 Samish Island Work Week
April 27-29 Weekend of World Religions Calgary
June 1-3 Nurturing Silence Retreat Samish Island
June 8-10 Spiritual Retreat Hills of Peace
June 9-14 Adult Reunion Samish Island
July 1-6 CWM Youth Camp Hills of Peace
July 7-12 Family Reunion Hills of Peace
July 14-21 Family Reunion Samish Island
July 14-18 Junior Camp Hills of Peace
July 17-20 International Youth Forum
July 21-28 Spectacular Graceland University
July 22-28 Camp Kluane (girls 12-14 yrs) Samish Island
July 27-30 Nurturing Spirit Retreat Hills of Peace
July 29-Aug 4 Camp Chimacum (boys 12-14 yrs) Samish Island
August 5-11 Camp Kimtah (15-18 yrs) Samish Island
August 12-16 Camp Gemungai (8-11 yrs) Samish Island
Aug 31-Sept 2 Canada West Mission Conference – Regina Saskatchewan
Sept 28-30 Men’s Retreat Hills of Peace
Sep 28-30 Women's Retreat Chilliwack
Dates are subject to change, please register early to avoid cancellation of your event.
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Quote of the Week
Smile and let everyone know that today,
you’re a lot stronger than you were
yesterday.
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