The second Assembly of the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada will be held in Calgary, Alberta from June 27 to July 2, 2023. 

Information is available for both the Anglican Church of Canada General Synod meeting, as well as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Special Convention.

ACC General Synod

The Meeting of General Synod will take place from Tuesday, June 27 through to Sunday, July 2.

ELCIC Special Convention

Special Convention will take place from Wednesday, June 28 through to Sunday, July 2.

Latest News

Anglican Journal

General Synod extends mandate of Indigenous church funding commission

Anglican Journal

General Synod passes ecological justice resolutions

Anglican Journal

General Synod postpones discussion of governance changes

Anglican Journal

Church to establish permanent advisory council on dismantling racism

Anglican Journal

Anglicans, Lutherans vote for full communion with Moravians

Anglican Journal

New resource aims to engage parishes in social and ecological justice

Anglican Journal

Anglicans and Lutherans approve amended joint statement for peace and justice in Israel-Palestine

ELCIC

ELCIC delegates approve resolution on Peace and Justice in Palestine and Israel

ELCIC

Delegates approve amended report and recommendations from Task Force Addressing Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia

ELCIC

Pat Lovell presented with 2023 ELCIC Leadership Award

ELCIC

Report and recommendations from the Task Force Addressing Racism, White Supremacy and Issues of Racial Injustice Approved

ELCIC

ELCIC Special Convention delegates approve report and recommendations from the Task Force on Carbon Neutrality

Anglican Journal

General Synod elects new prolocutor and deputy prolocutor

ACC & ELCIC

Assembly considers reconciliation framework and tool to facilitate local reflection and engagement

Anglican Journal

General Synod authorizes gender transition and affirmation liturgies

ACC

Anglicans, Lutherans approve resolution to be in full communion with Moravian church

ACC & ELCIC

An invitation to reflection on Canada Day from Anglican, Lutheran leaders

ELCIC

Convention delegates affirm recommendations from Task Force Addressing Ableism

ACC & ELCIC

Assembly Session – Resolution on Peace and Justice in Palestine and Israel

Anglican Journal

General Synod approves ‘transformational aspirations’ to guide new strategic plan

ELCIC

Special Convention delegates hear from Task Force on Carbon Neutrality and Task Force Addressing Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia

ELCIC

Task Force Addressing Ableism and Task Force Addressing Racism, White Supremacy and Racial Injustice share reports and recommendations

ACC & ELCIC

Anglicans, Lutherans working together in areas of advocacy around homelessness, affordable housing, and emerging interfaith work and dialogue

ACC & ELCIC

Anglican, Lutheran leaders’ deliver State of the Union address

Anglican Journal

Anglican Foundation to fund climate care and ‘green shoots’ ministry

ELCIC

ELCIC National Bishop Susan Johnson Opens Special Convention / Assembly 2023

ACC

Anglican Communion Secretary General urges “moderate language” over disagreements

ACC

ACC Primate opens 43rd General Synod with focus on diversity, transformation

Matthew 10:40-42

Rewards

40 “Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. 41 Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous, 42 and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.”

John 15:12-17

12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing, but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. 17 I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

John 21:15-19

Jesus and Peter

15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my lambs.” 16 A second time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Tend my sheep.” 17 He said to him the third time, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter felt hurt because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” And he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. 18 Very truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to go.” 19 (He said this to indicate the kind of death by which he would glorify God.) After this he said to him, “Follow me.”

Luke 11:33-36

The Light of the Body

33 “No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a bushel basket; rather, one puts it on the lampstand so that those who enter may see the light. 34 Your eye is the lamp of your body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but if it is unhealthy, your body is full of darkness. 35 Therefore consider whether the light in you is not darkness. 36 But if your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be as full of light as when a lamp gives you light with its rays.”

Matthew 8:1-4

Jesus Cleanses a Man

8 When Jesus had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him, and there was a man with a skin disease who came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing. Be made clean!” Immediately his skin disease was cleansed. Then Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”