22-day campaign to focus on Healing Fund

Notes: "The Anglican Church of Canada's General Synod has requested bishops and deans to focus, for 22 days, from May 31 to June 21 [2017], on renewing the church's commitment to support the work of the Anglican Fund for Healing and Reconciliation through prayers, participation in awareness-raising campaigns and donations. Early this year [2017], Council of General Synod (CoGS) agreed to dedicate the undesignated proceeds of Giving with Grace, General Synod's annual fundraising campaign, to replenish the fund. For the next five years, the fund -- created in 1992 as part of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement -- will focus on language recovery". General Secretary, Archdeacon Michael Thompson, "stressed that while the Anglican Church of Canada has met its legal obligations under the settlement agreement, 'we're far from finished with our spiritual and moral obligation to continue to support the healing work that is underway among those survivors and in those communities'."

Subjects: Giving with Grace; Anglican Church of Canada - Finance; Fund raising - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada; Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA); Settlement Agreement; Anglican Church of Canada. Anglican Fund for Healing and Reconciliation; Anglican Church of Canada - Residential schools; Native peoples - Canada - Languages; 22 Days Campaign; Thompson, Michael (Michael James), 1956-