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Province of Canada
Canada
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n May 2008, eight Mothers’ Union members from across Canada
were trained as Parenting Group Facilitators as part of the Mothers’
Union Worldwide Parenting Programme. These women, pictured
below, will now go back to their community and hold their first
Parenting Groups. ’Our members in Canada have such a heart for
Mothers’ Union. The work that we do in our faith communities is
indeed heartening, and we do it with intensity and with love,’ says
Kathleen Snow, Mothers’ Union Provincial President.
Answer to prayer support for a
The Northern Clergy Families Fund ’Refuge bus’ – a
was started in 1974 to give financial mobile drop-in
help to isolated clergy spouses place for teens.
serving in the northern dioceses. In They also
their thank you letters organise baby
recipients describe showers and baby
the hardships of supplies for a local
living in the north pregnancy care centre.
(or an isolated area) Mothers’ Union Diocesan
due to weather, the President Doreen Chaperon believes that
high cost of living ’when we work through Mothers’ Union we
and other factors are reaching out as Jesus’ hands’.
and often mention
how the money was Arctic members
an answer to prayers! One of the newest
branches in Canada was
Drop-in for teens
established three years
In the Diocese of British Columbia Mothers’ ago in Inuvik, part of the
Union members are involved in providing Diocese of the Arctic. The
diocese covers an area of
Fact File
some four million square
kilometres (15 times the area of
Population: 33,212,696
the United Kingdom) and has more than 10
Mothers’ Union Members: 750
Mothers’ Union has been active
language groups. In June 2008, 10 new
in Canada for 120 years
members were enrolled.
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