Blue Christmas (Longest Night) Services Across Algoma

Blue Christmas (Longest Night) Services Across Algoma

The Christmas season can be a tender time. For many, it brings grief, stress, loneliness, or memories that make the celebrations difficult to enter fully. While the world around us moves quickly toward joy and festivity, many carry burdens that are not easily set aside. Blue Christmas—also known as Longest

Update Your Parish Listings

Now is the perfect time to update your parish’s listing on findachurch.ca. As people explore church communities during Advent and Christmas, accurate and welcoming information helps them find you. Algoma is partnering with findachurch.ca to make updates easy—simply locate your parish, submit the update form, and ensure your listing reflects

Dinner Raises More Than $20,000 for the Anne Germond Legacy Fund

The Deanery of Thunder Bay–North Shore raised more than $20,000 at the St. Nicholas Dinner on December 5 in support of the Anne Germond Legacy Fund. An evening of fellowship, generosity, and community spirit, the event gathered 112 guests and featured a successful silent auction. Funds raised will help provide

Advent III: Oluchi Egbuonye on Joy

A newcomer’s reflection for Advent III: Oluchi shares how joy emerged not in ease or certainty, but in reunion, resilience, and the compassion of a church community that held her family through a season of crisis — revealing a joy grounded in faith and God’s abiding presence.

Seasons & Saints – December 11

This week, Rev. Susan Montague Koyle reflects on why Christian liturgy begins each new day at sunset — and why “Christmas Eve morning” isn’t a thing in the Church’s vocabulary. She also unpacks how the Christmas season unfolds from the Nativity to the Baptism of the Lord, and explains traditional