Equipping the Saints (mini) Conference
October 19th, 9am-3:30pm
Join an assembly of lay leaders and clergy from across our Diocese for an opportunity to gather in prayer, listen, learn, connect, and grow together! The day includes a plenary speaker, workshops, and a catered lunch. All are welcome!
Tickets are $15 to offset costs for food. Registration is through the Diocese, click on the button below to register.
If you need childcare provided in order to attend, please phone (604) 261-4228 ext.226
Plenary Speaker:
Alison Silgardo
CEO of Seniors Services Society of BC
Alison Silgardo has been working with seniors and their housing for over 14 years. Her experience spans three continents Asia, Europe and North America.
Alison’s work has included strategic planning and visioning to operations, knowledge exchange and training as well as evaluation, implementation and audit in these sectors. Alison participates on a number of local and provincial level committees and groups with a focus on enhancement of system delivery.
Her mission in her role leading Seniors Services Society is to enhance the quality of daily life of low income senior renters by developing a blue print for their care, knowledge exchange and training and developing a framework for implementation of a system of care for this group of seniors.
Workshops
Rev. Dr. Katherine Hough
Incumbent at St Augustine’s Marpole
Giving with Joy, Estate Planning as Christian Discipleship
Whoever thought estate planning was part of our discipleship? Yet God calls us to be generous with the gifts S/He gave us. By preparing now we relieve our loved ones from the burden of trying to second guess our wishes after our death and allows us to be generous and joyful in providing gifts to charitable causes. This workshop will provide you with the tools and information you need for a will, a representation agreement and a power of attorney.
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Dr. Hough has been a lawyer for over 40 years, first working as Crown Counsel and then specializing primarily in Wills & Estates. Currently her area of practice is confined to Wills and Estate Planning. Dr. Hough is also an Anglican priest, having been ordained for over 30 years ago with her ministry primarily in the Diocese of Kootenay and has recently moved to the Diocese of New Westminster where she is the Incumbent at St Augustine’s Marpole.
Dr. Hough has provided Wills Seminars to many different church groups focusing on the need for estate planning, representation agreements and powers of attorney. She also focuses on the Christian call to embrace charitable giving through estate planning.
Rev. David Taylor
Rector of St. Mark’s Ocean Park
Practicing Healing Prayer in Worship
Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord (James 5:14). In this workshop, we will learn how to use holy oil as we pray for those in need.
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Rev. David Taylor is the Rector of St. Mark Ocean Park as of September 2023.
David has grown in the Anglican tradition having a background in the pentecostal church. He has degrees from Summit Pacific Bible College in Abbotsford, Regent College in Vancouver and the Vancouver School of Theology.
He is married with two adopted children.
David’s passion is to re-connect people to the Scripture and the depth of the spiritual history of Christianity.
David is both Spiritual and Religious. He delights in the personal spiritual journey of the heart and he works to ensure the marginalised are cared for.
He is also a composer of worship music and liturgy. His work can be found by clicking HERE.
Anna Markey
Alzheimer Society of BC
Dementia-Friendly Communities - Introductory Workshop
As the population of our province ages, we will all be affected by dementia - as friends and family members, neighbours, clergy, and members of a congregation. Join us for this Dementia-Friendly Communities introductory workshop where we will learn more about dementia, develop communication strategies for dementia-friendly interactions, and explore ideas to ensure that people affected by dementia continue to feel supported, included and welcomed in their faith experience and community.
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Anna Markey is the Provincial Coordinator for Dementia-Friendly Communities with the Alzheimer Society of B.C. Anna is trained as an Occupational Therapist and spent many years working in acute health care, long term care, and occupational rehabilitation before completing her Master of Environmental Studies degree in Community Development and Health. For the past ten years, Anna has worked in the not-for-profit sector where her focus has been on community accessibility and inclusion for people with disabilities. Anna has worked for the Alzheimer Society of BC since September 2021 in the community services department and the community engagement team.
Rev. Jessica Schaap
Missioner for Christian Formation
Eucharistic Visitor Workshop
This is a workshop for people to develop and increase confidence and skills in offering the ministry of home communion or eucharistic visiting. The workshop is 3 hours long and includes:
developing skills in pastoral listening,
scheduling and preparing for visits,
making visits, learning a simple liturgy, and practicing with home communion kits
debriefing and reporting with the team and priest in charge.
We will focus on practical details as well as prayerful preparation. This workshop can be taken in preparation for licensing to this ministry or to discern your own calling to it.
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Jessica is an alumni of VST (M.Div.) and was ordained in the Anglican Church of Canada in 2008. Most recently she served as Rector at St. Paul’s in Vancouver’s West End and previously as assistant priest at St. James in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. She is a keen supporter and student of congregational development and of how to foster and cultivate the imagination for religious leadership. She is a “Fresh Start” facilitator – a program for clergy transition into new charges, a Provincial Synod council member for BC and Yukon, and was a co-organizer for a conference on preaching co-sponsored by the Diocese of New Westminster and VST in September 2017. Prior to ordination she worked for seven years in communications for the digital media industry in BC. She has an M.A. in Communications from McGill and a B.A. in English from UBC. She lives in East Vancouver with her husband Harry, daughter Madeleine and cats Jack and Jasper.