Indigenous Leadership Week

What is the Indigenous Leadership Week?

A unique one-week program each year that gathers Christian Indigenous Leaders from across the country to learn and grow together, in partnership with Wycliffe College in Toronto.

One goal, different experiences

• To break the mold of western-style learning; and meet the needs of Indigenous people according to their cultural experiences and heritage

One people, different contexts

• Participants from Newfoundland to British Columbia - from Southern Ontario to the Northern Lights
• A wide range of ages from recent high school graduates to great-grandparents
• The meeting of Indigenous leaders with diverse cultural contexts but one faith

One team, different gifts

• Indigenous leaders like Bishop Mark MacDonald, Bishop Lydia Mamakwa, and the Rev. Ray Aldred team up with various Wycliffe Faculty, to serve Indigenous People
• Designed to adapt as leaders and participants learn together

One future, many hands

• Free for all participants due to generous financial support of the 3 year pilot project by Mr. & Mrs. Jim and Edna Claydon of Toronto
• Local dioceses or parishes invest in their participants with a $500 donation

To read about Indigenous Leadership Week 2015, click here.

Next Indigenous Leadership Week:

Learning & Living Communion

May 16-20, 2016

We will explore together questions like:

• What does the Bible say about Communion?
• What are some different ways that Christians understand Communion? (e.g., Anglican, Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, etc.)
• How does one conduct an Anglican Communion service?
• Where did our ways of celebrating Communion come from?
• What does Communion have to do with evangelism and mission?

And we will go on field trips to:

• Local churches
• Local Indigenous cultural sites 
• A Toronto Blue Jays baseball game
• And more!

With Indigenous Leaders: Ray Aldred, Bishop Mark MacDonald & Bishop Lydia Mamakwa, and Wycliffe Faculty Members: Annette Brownlee, Alan Hayes, Judy Paulsen, Ephraim Radner & Peter Robinson.