Funds go toward Indigenous ministry
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article41208
- Author
- Folkins, Tali
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2017 September
- Author
- Folkins, Tali
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2017 September
- Volume
- 143
- Issue
- 7
- Page
- 14
- Notes
- "The diocese of Ontario is using the $115,000 returned to it under the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement to support the First Nations-related projects, including ministry in the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, near Belleville, Ont. Since 2015, when the national church started returning settlement agreement funds to the dioceses, many have announced plans to use the money for Indigenous ministry. The diocese of Ontario, decided the funds must go entirely toward work related to First Nations communities and reconciliation, Bishop Michael Oulton said. Some on the money now supports ministry in Tyendinaga, the only Indigenous parish in the diocese. In 2015, the parish found it could no longer afford full-time ministry, but with the diocese's help, last fall [2016] the parish was able to hire a married couple: Canon Rod BrantFrancis became the new incumbent, and his wife, the Rev. Lisa BrantFrancis, priest associate. Between 15 and 20% of the returned funds will be paid to the parish every year for the next several years, with the hope that Tyendinaga will once again be a financially self-sufficient parish, as it had been for hundreds of years previously, says Rod BrantFrancis".
- Subjects
- Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA)
- Settlement Agreement
- Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of Ontario
- Oulton, Michael (Michael Douglas), 1959-
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Anglican Church of Canada - 21st century
- Indigenous ministry - Anglican Church of Canada
- BrantFrancis, Rod
- BrantFrancis, Lisa
- Christ Church (Deseronto, Ont.)
- Mohawk - Ontario - Tyendinaga