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• Thank you to all who participated in this year's World Day of Prayer celebration! We welcome your photos from the event -- send them in to the WICC office by mail or e-mail them here. Look for photos and a report from WDP 2008 soon!
• Would you like to serve on the national Council? WICC is currently receiving nominations for elected positions. Interested women are asked to fill out a Personal Profile form describing your interests and experience and submit it to the WICC office by April 16, 2008. For more information on Council Membership Criteria and the nominating process, click here.
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  Letter from the President: " I believe in the power of prayer and I believe, when we unite in prayer, the effect can be overwhelming."
  Check out the message from WICC's new President Judith Snowdon on the Power of Prayer by clicking here.

• WICC celebrates its 90th anniversary: In October 2008, WICC will celebrate a famous letter (dated Oct. 19, 1918) from Bessie MacMurchy inviting members of Women’s Missionary Societies to come together to organize a national prayer meeting. This letter – and a subsequent planning meeting held on Feb. 15, 1919 – led to the birth of the Women’s Inter-Church Council of Canada.
  
  Between October 2008 and May 2009, WICC invites you – our friends, supporters, and ecumenical partners – to be part of our 90th anniversary celebrations.  WICC is offering financial assistance to encourage groups to hold their own special events on the anniversary theme “Widening the Circle”: for a resource order form, along with the grant criteria and application form, click here. Visit our 90th Anniversary webpage for more information.

• Get your WICC News here! Our winter issue of WICC News features a report from the fall council meeting and introduces WICC's new president Judith Snowdon. Let us know if you’d like to be on the mailing list, or to download your free copy, click here.

• Daughters of Eve: Feminism and Faith – Our newest edition of Making Waves asks whether women of faith reject or embrace the term "feminism", and looks at the connections between feminism and faith. Click here for the index and excerpts from this issue. And please take a few moments to fill out our Readers' Survey: download it in pdf format here, or in MSword format here.
  To find out more about Making Waves, click here.
• Participate in an online dialogue: We have already received a couple of responses to our recent Making Waves issue on "Feminism & Faith" to start off the new Letters Online page. Have your say today!
• APRIL FLC Prayer Concern: Support for Grieving Parents - May 3, 2008

  will be the one-year anniversary of the death of my friend Shirley’s daughter, Suzanne. As the saying goes, Suzanne had everything to live for... Suzanne married in 2002. Two years later she was diagnosed with breast cancer. More… (PDF: 123K)
  This article is part of the monthly Fellowship of the Least Coin commitments to pray for peace, justice and reconciliation. Click here for more information about the FLC.

• Learn about the Iziko lo Lwazi Craftworkers: WICC supported this organization with a project grant this year. Check out our Gifts in Action profile here.
• NEW PRICE - Our widely praised resource, Healing Waters: Churches Working To End Violence Against Women is now available for only $20, including shipping. This 164-page user-friendly guide is designed to help lay leaders, church clergy and staff, and volunteers educate themselves and others on the issue of violence against women and the role of the church. Click here to order now.
• From Chains to Freedom: Journeying Towards Reconciliation – On March 25, 2007, we commemorated the 200th anniversary of the ending of the slave trade in the British Empire. The Canadian Ecumenical Anti-Racism Network offers this study and worship resource to encourage the journey towards healing, reconciliation and the transformation of our relationships.
  For more information, click here.
  Download From Chains to Freedom now.
  

Kelley Aitken, who designed the medallion graphics on this site, is an artist, writer and illustrator. She teaches art to women who have experienced long term poverty. She is the author of a collection of short stories set in Ecuador, Love in a Warm Climate, The Porcupine’s Quill, ‘98, and a co-editor of the anthology First Writes, The Banff Press, ‘05. She lives with her partner in Toronto.