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Learning is a priority ministry of the Parsh Council

The ministries are:
Communications
Church Community
Learning:
Children / Youth / Adults
Outreach
Worship and Music
Parish Council

Learning Ministry

Chair: Jennifer Rieger
The Rev. Canon Dr. Judy Rois
The Rev. Greg Carpenter
Samantha Caravan
Joan LeGall
Barbara Pepperdene
Mary Tanter

Contact Chair, Jennifer Rieger through the Parish Office: 416-920-5211 or email

The Christ Church Deer Park community offers a number of learning opportunities and groups for all ages and interests - all are welcome. Please call the church office for further information: 416-920-5211.

Learning Ministry
The Learning Ministry welcomes your ideas for upcoming speakers. On September 29, 2009 Eric Robertson, our new Organist and Director of Music will be presenting an evening on music and worship. For Advent 2009 and Lent 2010, we welcome your suggestions of topics and speakers by e-mailing Jenny Rieger, Chair at jarieger@sympatico.ca


Learning Ministry Groups & Events

Book Club
People who enjoy reading books meet monthly. Join us for lively conversation, refreshments and wine, or bring your own choice of beverage. Details here ».

Challenging Christianity
Challenging Christianity is an adult forum for sharing genuine questions, doubts, perplexities and contrasting perspectives on contemporary issues and traditional teaching. You can drop in with any issues you like and find a receptive audience where easy pat answers just don't make the grade. Meets on the second Friday of each month from noon to 1:30 pm. Besides the historical contexts of ideas, we consider how they connect with current issues.

Next meeting TBA. Most recent meeting: Friday, May 8, discussed being baptized in the Holy Spirit. What are some of the unholy spirits dominating our world today? Which qualifiers fit our sense of "spirit" -- mean, partisan, generous, team, ambiguous, bold, cold, caring? What experiences feed which? How can church share a Christ-like Spirit? Reading: John 1: 19-34, Acts 10: 44-48; I Corinthians 12 & 13; Galatians 4: 6-9, 5:13-25.

Previous Meeting: Friday April 17, discussed Christian hopes for bodily resurrection. Some think we have bodies, some that we are our bodies, so that without some kind of body we are nothing. Read 1 Corinthians 15, Mark 16: 1-8; Luke 24: 13-32; Matthew 27: 62 - 28: 15; John 20: 26-31.

For further information please call Dr. Peter Slater through the Parish Office: Email or 416-920-5211.

Thursday Group
From time to time, a bible study in the relaxed and friendly atmosphere of at a parishioner's home. Further information call Elizabeth Muir through the parish office: Email or 416-920-5211.

Faith & Film Festival
Lights! Camera! Passion! A series of six films selected to entertain, to stimulate thought, and to encourage an exchange of ideas on what it means to be a Christian in today’s world. Discussion & refreshents. Free admission. See Faith & Film Festival page here »


Day-time Bible Study
takes place on Thursday afternoons throughout the year. See "Thursday Group" above or contact the office for information.

An evening educational series
is offered in the spring and fall. Past subjects have included The Gospel of St. Mark and the Life of St. Paul.

Lunch & Learn
At regular times during the year on Tuesdays at 12:30 pm. interested parishioners enjoy a "bring your own" lunch while hearing a talk by one of the members of our clergy team. Call the Parish Office for further information.
  • 2008 Lent series: "Does Healing Really Happen?".
  • 2007 series: Misbehavin' Monarchs - Exploring Biblical Monarchs of Questionable Character is archived here ».
Baptism/Confirmation/Re-affirmation/Reception
Adults experience stages of growth in faith. With the accompanying preparation, such growth can be appropriately expressed in Baptism, Confirmation, Reaffirmation of baptismal vows, or Reception from another denomination. For information, see life passages.

Adults wishing to be confirmed or received into the Anglican Communion are invited to attend classes now. The Bishop will celebrate Confirmation, Reaffirmation, and Reception into the Anglican Communion at Christ Church Deer Park on Sunday, April 26, 2009. To make enquiries, please contact The Rev. Greg Carpenter directly: contacts. Interested teens see here

ARCHIVE a selection of past educational programs

  • Scenes from the Life of the Virgin Mary: Approaching the Nativity of Christ in Medieval and Renaissance Art was presented December 2007 & 2008 with Guest Presenter Dr. Sarah McKinnon, art historian, professor and Vice Dean of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto. details »

  • Feeling Stressed Out? Coping Skills in a Fast-paced World October 2008. Feeling stressed? Guest presenter Dr. Rosemary Meier, Staff Psychiatrist, St. Joseph's Health Centre in Toronto discusses physical, emotional, mood and behavioural concerns involved in the stresses of coping with stress, busyness, life changes, health changes. Learn useful ways to cope. Archive ».

  • Christian Meditation: How It Began and How You Can Do It - Presented by Sister Constance Joanna SSJD. October 2007 ... archive »

  • “Take, Eat... This Is My Body: Representations of the Last Supper in Medieval and Renaissance Art” - Presented by Dr. Sarah McKinnon, Vice-Dean, Ontario College of Art & Design. March 2007 ... archive »

  • The Historical Jesus • The Embodied Jesus - Presented by Professor Colleen Shantz, Assistant Professor of New Testament for the Faculty of Theology of St. Michael’s College, U of Toronto. March 2007. Webpage archive »; brochure here » [652k PDF].

  • O Holy Night: Representations of the Nativity in Medieval and Renaissance Art. Presented by Dr. Sarah M. McKinnon, Vice-President, Academic, at the Ontario College of Art & Design. December 2006. Webpage archive »; brochure here » [260k PDF].

  • Celebrating Our Differences: Forging bonds - and friendships - between faiths. Guest Speaker Raheel Raza, award-winning journalist, public speaker, poet, playwright and author of Their Jihad - Not my Jihad. November 2006, hosted by the Neighbourhood Interfaith Group of Churches and Synagogues and CCDP. For brochure download, [612k PDF] click here ». See also Neighbourhood Interfaith Group here ».

Christ Church Deer Park

1570 Yonge Street
Toronto, ON M4T 1Z8

2 blocks north of St. Clair NW corner of Yonge & Heath
a 5-minute walk from the St. Clair Subway Station

Phone: 416-920-5211   |   Fax: 416-920-8400   |   Email


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