Join clergy and lay people from around the Diocese on October 18th, 9:00am for a mini Conference at St. Mary's to explore the timely topic of the growing mental health crisis and how you and your church can be a part of the response! Additional workshops including Labyrinth, How to Prepare Intercessions in Difficult times, Home Eucharist Visitation training and more!!!
Plenary Speaker: Bearing Witness, Building the Kin-dom: Advocacy, Mental Health, and the Church’s Call with Reverend Jeffrey Preiss
As a deacon in the Anglican Church of Canada and Director of Development & Communications at the Crisis Centre of BC, Jeffrey Preiss brings together the call of the Church with the realities of mental health crisis care in our province. His ministry is rooted in systems change and government relations, naming the root causes of suffering and advocating for the transformation of structures that keep people in crisis.
This plenary will explore how the Church is called not only to acts of compassion but also to advocacy that brings about the kin-dom of God in tangible, systemic ways. Drawing on his work at the Crisis Centre and his diaconal ministry, Jeffrey will invite us to see mental health crisis response as a place where the Church can speak with a loud voice: challenging stigma, pressing for just policies, and standing alongside those whose voices are silenced. Our missional work is more than charity; it is the bold proclamation of God’s kin-dom of justice, dignity, and hope.
For more information and the register visit: https://dnwlearningcentre.ca/events/equipping-the-saints-mini-conference/2025-10-18