Watch Bishop Anna's sermon for the seventh week of Easter as we journey together this Easter season.

The Synod Office will be closed on Monday, May 18 for Victoria Day. We will be open again on Tuesday. We hope you enjoy the long weekend! 

On Wednesday, May 20 at 5:00pm there will be a special Choral Evensong at Christ Church Cathedral with Archbishop Shane Parker preaching and Archbishop John Stephens presiding.

The service will be followed by a wine & cheese reception hosted by the Anglican Foundation of Canada. All are welcome! 

Christ Church Cathedral is pleased to present a conference on homelessness in Victoria. The conference begins on Thursday, May 21 at 7pm with the opening lecture "A Theology of Home in a Time of Homelessness" presented by Dr. Siobhan Garrigan

On Friday, May 22 there will be a day of panel discussions on the factors that lead to homelessness, on the barriers, gaps and policy failures that perpetuate homelessness, and on what is working and where advocacy is leading to real change. The conference will close on Saturday, May 23 with a day of storytelling. We will hear from people who have spent periods of their lives unhoused, and the Rev. Maggie Helwig will read from her book Encampment. 

Are you looking to deepen your faith? Do you want to know more about the Bible, Christian tradition and church history? Are you hoping to understand how your personal experiences and beliefs bring you closer to God and God’s people?

Education for Ministry (EfM) is a learning program of theological education designed to equip lay people to live out the ministry to which all Christians are called through baptism.

If you would like to learn more about EfM you are invited to attend an open house at St. Peter’s, Quamichan on Thursday May 21, at 6:30pm. All are welcome. For further information contact Norman Knowles at nknowles@bc.anglican.ca.

The next online Parish Learning Hub session takes palce on Tuesday, May 26, 2026 at 12PM. Join Karen Hill and Naomi Racz for a session on website management and copyright. This session will cover the basics of managing a parish website, Facebook, or Instagram. It will also go over copyright, both for music and images which may be used during livestreamed services or posted on the website. 

Everyone is welcome to attend these free sessions, regardless of their role within the parish or whether they are a volunteer or employee. Registration is required and all sessions take place on Zoom. Each session will be 45 minutes long with 15 minutes for Q&A.

To register CLICK HERE.

As this series of Learning Hub sessions comes to an end, we are seeking feedback and suggestions for the next round. Click FEEDBACK below to fill out the form and give your thoughts. 

In this issue: Bishop Anna shares some of the work happening to share knowledge and resources across the dioceses of the ecclesiastical provincial, young adult ministry at St. Barnabas, dreaming big on music education, ripples from across the diocese, and more!  

Faith Tides is the online, faith-based publication of the Anglican Diocese of Islands and Inlets (BC). Through news stories, reflections and feature articles Faith Tides aims to showcase the work God is doing through our churches. It is a space where people of faith and doubt can walk alongside one another, share their stories and grow together.

We’d like to tell you about St. Luke’s Hospital in Nablus (the West Bank). Unreliable and costly power sources make health care a challenge during the best of times, or a crisis during the worst of times.

That’s where solar power comes in. Solar energy helps keep the lights on, keeps medical equipment working, and helps doctors care for patients safely. Alongside Hope is partnering with the Diocese of Jerusalem to purchase and install solar panels for the roof of the hospital. Learn about the many ways to support and donate to this campaign at alongsidehope.org/light-for-st-lukes.

Together, we will keep the light shining.

We would like to expand a warm welcome to Andrea Johnson, our Archives Assistant for the summer. She will be working on digitizing a variety of records held in the Diocesan archives and supporting the archivist.