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Editorials

The Bishop’s Message: What’s the purpose of the Church?

“Arctic people are “outcome-based” people.” This was one of the first and biggest things that I had to learn when I began writing lessons and preaching in the North. University-educated southerners are trained to hint at your goal, but save it until the end of your message – your conclusion, the final paragraph, where you tie together everything that has been said. Not so with … Continue reading The Bishop’s Message: What’s the purpose of the Church?

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Community Ministries

Giving hope to First Responders in Kangiqsualujjuaq

Supporting one-another in the midst of loss The Rev. Raquel Mack, Kangiqsualujjuaq “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”John 15: 12-13 This year has not been an easy one for Kangiqsualujjuaq, Quebec. We experienced 10 deaths in 7 months. For a town of 1,000, it … Continue reading Giving hope to First Responders in Kangiqsualujjuaq

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Community Ministries

Ministry to the Parish of Yellowknife

By Heather Durkee, ministry volunteer “We just got here” is the first thing that greets me as I open the side door of the Anglican Church in Yellowknife. (That, along with a blast of -25C air!) I look up and into the smiling face of one with bright eyes and who is sufficiently bundled against the cold of this February morning. It’s 11:53am on a … Continue reading Ministry to the Parish of Yellowknife

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News

Meet the New Arctic House of Bishops

Diocesan Bishop – Alexander Pryor Born in Newfoundland and Labrador, Alexander Roy Pryor grew up immersed in the rhythms of church life, accompanying his first service as organist at age nine and later serving as a eucharistic assistant from his early teen years. He earned dual music degrees—BMus in organ and a BMusEd in choral, instrumental, and classroom music—at Memorial University. Following a teaching placement … Continue reading Meet the New Arctic House of Bishops

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Community Ministries

“Our prayers are being answered!”

God is re-planting a Gospel-sharing, community-focused Anglican congregation in Inuvik, NT The Christmas decorations were still on the walls of the sanctuary – from Christmas 2020! Sometime over the course of Covid, Ascension Anglican Church in Inuvik, NT shut its doors for the last time, as the too familiar stories of high costs, debts, and lack of volunteers caught up with the small but faithful … Continue reading “Our prayers are being answered!”

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Editorials

Tongues of Fire: The Spirit that Breaks Barriers

How Arctic Anglicans Model Reconciliation Beyond Rhetoric By The Rev. Chris Dow, Chaplain at Wycliffe College (Toronto) For Christ himself is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. (Eph. 2:14) I recently returned from the synod of the Diocese of the Arctic, where I am still canonically … Continue reading Tongues of Fire: The Spirit that Breaks Barriers

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Retirements and Moves around the Diocese

Bishop Joey Royal resigned his positions as Suffragan Bishop, Rector of Holy Trinity (Yellowknife) and Director of ATTS in October 2024. He took up a position in Ottawa with the Christian Embassy of Canada, and the move allows his son to attend a special school where he is making great progress working through his dyslexia. Pray for clergy families, as accepting a ministry posting in … Continue reading Retirements and Moves around the Diocese

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Community Ministries, Uncategorized

Church Reopens in Resolute Bay!

On Good Friday 2025, the Rev. Deacons Martha and Nathaniel Kalluk opened St. Barnabas Anglican Church in Resolute, the second-most northerly community in Canada. Ordained in December after graduating from ATTS, the Kalluks had lived in Resolute years ago, but had moved to Iqaluit for work. Now they return home as ministers of the Gospel. In addition to their church work, they’ve had great times … Continue reading Church Reopens in Resolute Bay!

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Diocesan Ministries

Teens Encounter Christ

By the Rev. Nick Kigeak, Arviat From August the 30th to September 2nd, I and a team of 14 others ran the Teens Encounter Christ program. Because of Covid the last TEC was in 2019, and it’s been really good to have it back up and running again. Candidates (youth participants) and team members came from Arviat, Rankin Inlet, Iqaluit, Gjoa Haven, Coral Harbour, Pond … Continue reading Teens Encounter Christ

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