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Christian Channel gets Youngren owner
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The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has approved the sale of The Christian Channel to World Impact Ministries (WIM), an organization based in St. Catharines, Ontario. WIM, established by Peter Youngren in 1976, has been producing Christian television programming for more than 15 years and owns its own studio. Hiring 20 to 30 new employees, WIM will produce a new nightly flagship program called Encounter and other educational and entertaining religious programming. The channel's previous owners, the S-VOX group of companies, will continue to operate Vision TV and One: the Body, Mind & Spirit channel, as well as the local stations Joytv 10 in Vancouver and Joytv 11 in Winnipeg.
Ed replaces Dave
Edwin Epp has been appointed executive director of cbm Canada, formerly known as Christian Blind Mission, effective May 1. He succeeds Dave McComiskey, who has served as cbm's executive director since 1999. McComiskey will assume the new position of regional director of cbm's Southern Africa regional office in Capetown, South Africa. Born in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, Epp has served for more than 23 years in international development. For the past 10 years, he has held leadership positions with Mennonite Economic Development Associates, including vice president of resource development, director of international programs and director of strategic planning. cbm is an international Christian development organization based in Stouffville, Ontario that helps more than 21 million people annually, with over 1,000 projects designed to serve those with disabilities in more than 100 developing countries.
He hopes to make a major difference
Geoff Ryan, a major in the Salvation Army, has become a research fellow with Cardus, a Christian think tank on economic, educational, urban and organizational problems based in Hamilton, Ontario. Ryan has served with the Salvation Army in a First Nations village in northern British Columbia, in St. Petersburg, Russia, and in inner-city Toronto. He will work with Cardus's Stained Glass Urbanism Project, which connects people of faith with government in order to make cities better.
Anglican canons start new province with a bang
The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), the new Anglican 'province' for 'traditional' Anglicans, will hold its inaugural assembly at St Vincent's Cathedral in Bedford, Texas, June 22 - 25. The assembly is expected to ratify the ACNA's draft constitution and bylaws, which are known in church circles as canons. The province has over 700 parishes in 28 dioceses, including 27 parishes in Canada. For now, two of the 28 dioceses will be the already existing Canadian organizations, the Anglican Network in Canada and the Anglican Coalition in Canada. In addition, some Canadian parishes from the former Reformed Episcopal Church will be included in a couple of cross-border dioceses. The dioceses may later be reorganized along geographical lines. Guest speakers at the assembly will be Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church; Archbishop Jonah, Metropolitan of All America and Canada for the Orthodox Church in America; and Todd Hunter, director of west coast church planting for the Anglican Mission in the Americas.
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A place to get clean
'A year of showers' may sound like the weather forecast for Vancouver, but in Vancouver's Downtown East Side, it refers to the first anniversary of the Lord's Rain, a project undertaken by Gospel Mission to serve the area's large homeless population. Since it opened April 30, 2008, The Lord's Rain has provided more than 500 showers, countless 'washing up' times at the sinks, and thousands of cups of coffee.
TWU players make the grade
Five members of the Trinity Western University (TWU) women's soccer team will be among the 20 players representing Canada at the 25th Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia, July 1 - 12. TWU's Graham Roxburgh will serve as Team Canada head coach.
Faiths fight malaria rather than each other
The Tony Blair Faith Foundation, in collaboration with the Belinda Stronach Foundation and the Interfaith Youth Core, have selected eight Canadians from the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths to serve as Faith Acts Fellows. They are among 30 young adults aged 18 - 25 from Canada, the US and the UK, who will spend ten months starting in August 2009 urging faith communities in the developed world to help eradicate malaria in Africa. They will be posted in interfaith pairs, hosted by the Micah Challenge Canada in Ottawa, the Canadian Centre for Ecumenism in Montreal and the Multifaith Centre at the University of Toronto.
The short name is "sik"
Apple withdrew a 'Baby Shaker' iPhone application in April just two days after it was launched. The "game", developed by another company called Sikalosoft, featured an illustration of a baby which continued to cry until the phone was shaken so vigorously that the baby's eyes were replaced by red Xs. The application was severely criticized by Focus on the Family and similar organizations.
A generation of no generation
The Catholic Organization for Life and Family has called for a public debate on the issue of abortion. It has invited all Canadians who believe in the humanity of the unborn child to meet on Parliament Hill for the annual National March for Life May 14. The full text of its statement "40 Years of Abortion: Urgent Time for a Public Debate" is available on their website.
Bob explains how it's done
Rosebud Theatre's executive director Bob Davis will be a featured panelist and speaker at the Alberta Regional Economic Development Conference in Sherwood Park, Alberta, May 12 - 14. The Christian-based theatre, in the small town of Rosebud, is being touted by the Alberta government as an example of how tourist enterprises can economically rejuvenate small towns. The theatre, now in its 26th year, attracts more than 40,000 patrons each year and also operates Rosebud School of the Arts, a postsecondary educational institution that offers conservatory training in theatre and music.
May 7/2009
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