Events
Worship - Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2025
YOU ARE INVITED!
The Christian Council of the Capital Area invites you to join us for an in-person gathering to celebrate the visible unity within our Christian communities to be able to pray together, especially with a liturgy prepared by the Christian Council of the Middle East.
Speaker: Dr. Murray Watson
Date & Time: January 19th, 4 pm
Location: Ottawa Mennonite Church, 1830 Kilborn Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K1H 6N3
Parking is available on-site.
Donations will be directed towards a designated project chosen by the Ottawa Mennonite Church.
Please join us for a light reception after the prayer service for fellowship and conversations.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Murray Watson (SSL, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome; PhD, Trinity Collge, Dublin) is a Catholic Biblical scholar who has worked for more than 20 years in the field of ecumenical and interreligious dialogue and education. He currently serves as the Adult Faith Formation Animator for the Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board, based in the city of Barrie, Ontario (Canada). In 2024, Murray published Restoring the Gospels' Jewish Voice. André Chouraqui and the Intersection of Biblical Translation and Interfaith Dialogue, available from Paulist Press.
CCCA Symposium 2024
About the theme:
Our ever-changing technological context has often raised new questions for Christians about the nature of humanity, but these questions have accelerated in recent times. How do our virtual social networks reflect and reshape our embodied relationships? What parallels and distinctions can be drawn between human reasoning and Artificial Intelligence? Drawing on the reflections of philosopher Shannon Vallor and theologian Michael Sacasas, this webinar will grapple with a few of the new—and the enduring—insights about humanity that recent developments in AI have highlighted.
About the speaker:
Paul Heidebrecht is the inaugural director of the Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement and teaches Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College. In these roles, he catalyzes collaboration among students, researchers, practitioners, entrepreneurs, activists, and artists in order to help build a more peaceful and just world. He holds a Ph.D. in theological ethics from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, along with degrees in theology from the Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana, and engineering from the University of Waterloo. Prior to coming to his current role at Grebel in 2014, he led the political advocacy efforts of the Mennonite Central Committee Canada in Ottawa for five years. He
has also served overseas with MCC in Nigeria and Bangladesh, and worked in a variety of roles as a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario.
"Good Samaritan" Bible Studies - Week of Prayer for Christian Unity ONLINE
The Christian Council of the Capital Area is inviting you to an ONLINE 4-part thematic Bible Study based on the Week of Prayer of Christian Unity 2024 resources. Matthew Brunet, Ecumenical Office of Catholic Archdiocese of Ottawa and Tim Kehoe, Priest of St Thomas the Apostle Anglican church, will lead the February 6 session.
"Good Samaritan" Bible Studies - Week of Prayer for Christian Unity ONLINE
The Christian Council of the Capital Area is inviting you to an ONLINE 4-part thematic Bible Study based on the Week of Prayer of Christian Unity 2024 resources.
"Good Samaritan" Bible Studies - Week of Prayer for Christian Unity ONLINE
The Christian Council of the Capital Area is inviting you to an ONLINE 4-part thematic Bible Study based on the Week of Prayer of Christian Unity 2024 resources. John Perkin, Pastor of First Baptist, and Karen Dimock, Pastor of St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, will lead the January 23 session.
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity - Worship Service
January 21: Annual celebration of Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Worship Service hosted by the Christian Council of the Capital Area.
"Good Samaritan" Bible Studies - Week of Prayer for Christian Unity ONLINE
The Christian Council of the Capital Area is inviting you to an ONLINE 4-part thematic Bible Study based on the Week of Prayer of Christian Unity 2024 resources. David Sherwin, President of CCCA, and Teresa Burnett-Cole, Coordinating Minister at Glebe-St. James United Church will lead the January 16 session.
Our Home and Treaty Land
Join us for an evening of sharing from Rev. Dr. Ray Aldred and Rev. Dr. Matthew Anderson, the co-authors of “Our Home and Treaty Land.”
The Christian Council of the Capital Area has completed a 5-session study series of this book and this symposium is the spotlight event to hear from Ray and Matthew, updates since the writing of book, and other insights they have had since its publication.
Participants are invited to submit questions before the symposium to Ray and Matthew in anticipation of the Question and Answer portion of the event.
"Our Home and Treaty Land" online book study
“Our Home and Treaty Land”
The words “Treaty means that your identity is bigger than just you” are used both literally and metaphorically.
Come study together "Our Home and Treaty Land"!
Using the new book by Raymond Aldred and Matthew Anderson, the Christian Council of the Capital Area is inviting you to join a continuous 5-week book series to discuss themes such as treaties, pilgrimage, right relations, and creation care. This is an opportunity to engage this book with participants across the capital area and also across Christian traditions.
SCHEDULE: March 1 to 29, Wednesdays at 7 pm to 8:30 pm
NOTE: Zoom link will be sent to you as a reminder for the online gathering.
If you have further questions or concerns, feel free to contact us at info@ChristianCouncilCA.ca.
Worship - Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2023
“Do Good; Seek Justice”
YOU ARE INVITED! The Christian Council of the Capital Area invites you to join us for an in-person gathering to celebrate the visible unity within our Christian communities to be able to pray together.
DATE & TIME: January 22, 4 pm
LOCATION: St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 82 Kent St, Ottawa, ON K1P 5N9
Please join us for a light reception after the prayer service for fellowship and conversations.
"Do Good; Seek Justice" Online Bible Studies - Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
The Christian Council of the Capital Area is inviting you to a 5-part thematic Bible Study based on the Week of Prayer of Christian Unity 2023 resources. Each session will be led by volunteer leaders from our diverse denominations representing the member churches and traditions of the Christian Council.
THEME: "Do Good; Seek Justice" (Isaiah 1:17)
We are no strangers to the issues highlighted in the 2023 WPCU Eight Days of Prayer reflections! Although Canadians often speak of building a diverse, inclusive, and just society, we know that racism is deeply embedded in our society and that we have seen great violence against people of colour and against ethnic and religious minorities. As we undertake these Bible Studies, let us bring the honest questions and reflections that come when the light of the gospel illuminates the truth of both our past and our present. As we seek greater unity, may it be in service to the love and justice God has revealed in Jesus.
CCCA Symposium
From Pandemic to Endemic
A discussion about the impact of the pandemic on our approaches to theology, how we be church together, and the emotional and spiritual health of our communities.
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2022
The Christian Council of the Capital Area invites you to join us for an in-person gathering to celebrate the visible unity within our Christian communities to be able to pray together, especially with a liturgy prepared by the Christian Council of the Middle East.