Planning Committees

Assembly Planning Committee

The Rev. Susan Johnson (Co-Chair) National Bishop, The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
The Most Rev. Linda Nicholls (Co-Chair) Primate, The Anglican Church of Canada
Ms. Angela Chorney Event Planner, Dots & Crosses Event Management
Ms. Shannon Cottrell Executive Secretary for Governance, The Anglican Church of Canada
Ms. Trina Gallop Blank Assistant to the Bishop, Communications and Resource Generation, The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
Mr. Kyle Giesbrecht Director of Finance and Administration, The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
The Rev. Dr. Larry Kochendorfer Joint Anglican Lutheran Commission Co-Chair, The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
The Ven. Alan T. Perry General Secretary, The Anglican Church of Canada
The Ven. Tanya Phibbs General Synod Planning Committee Chair, The Anglican Church of Canada
The Rev. Canon Dr. Murray Still Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples Co-Chair, The Anglican Church of Canada
Mr. Joseph Vecsi Director, Communications & Information Resources, The Anglican Church of Canada
The Very Rev. Peter Wall Joint Anglican Lutheran Commission Co-Chair, The Anglican Church of Canada

Thank you also to:

The Rev. Paul Gehrs Assistant to the Bishop, Justice and Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations, The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
The Rev. Canon Dr. Scott Sharman Animator for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations, The Anglican Church of Canada
Dr. Ryan Weston Lead Animator, Public Witness for Social and Ecological Justice, The Anglican Church of Canada

General Synod Planning Committee

The Ven. Tanya Phibbs Chair
Ms. Lisa Barry Senior Producer, Anglican Video
The Rev. Canon Dr. Grayhame Bowcott 2025 Host Diocese Representative
Mr. Brian Bukowski Manager, Web
Ms. Angela Chorney Event Planner, Dots & Crosses Event Management
Ms. Shannon Cottrell Executive Secretary for Governance, The Anglican Church of Canada
The Rev. Helen Dunn Assembly Worship Committee Co-Chair
The Rev. Dr. Karen Egan Prolocutor
The Ven. Dr. Pilar Gateman Local Arrangements Committee
Ms. Camille George Johnson Executive Assistant to the General Secretary
The Rev. Cynthia Haines Turner 2019 General Synod Planning Committee Member
Ms. Ruth-Anne Marley Local Arrangements Committee
Ms. Rita Matthews Local Arrangements Committee
Ms. Judith Moses Deputy Prolocutor
The Most Rev. Linda Nicholls Primate (ex-officio)
The Ven. Alan T. Perry General Secretary
Mr. Shane Roberts Production Coordinator, Anglican Video
Mr. Joseph Vecsi Director, Communications & Information Resources
Mr. Chris Wood Council of General Synod Representative

Thank you also to:

Mr. Ben Davies, Production Coordinator/Manager of Anglican Video (2020 – 2022)
Mr. Luke Gobbett, Council of General Synod Representative (2020 – 2023)
The Very Rev. Paul Millward, 2025 Host Diocese Representative (2020 – 2022)
Mr. Michael Still, Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples Representative (2020 – 2022)

Assembly Worship Committee

The Rev. Helen Dunn (Co-Chair)
The Rev. Kristian Wold Co-Chair)
Dr. Joy Berg
Dr. Neil Cockburn
The Ven. Rosalyn Kantlaht’ant Elm
Mr. Ben Johnston-Urey
The Rev. Dr. Larry Kochendorfer
The Rev. Lyle McKenzie
The Rev. Dr. Eileen Scully
The Very Rev. Peter Wall

Local Arrangements Committee

The Ven. Dr. Pilar Gateman
Ms. Ruth-Anne Marley
Ms. Rita Matthews
Ms. Dianne Widney

Matthew 10:40-42

Rewards

40 “Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. 41 Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous, 42 and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.”

John 15:12-17

12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing, but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. 17 I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

John 21:15-19

Jesus and Peter

15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my lambs.” 16 A second time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Tend my sheep.” 17 He said to him the third time, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter felt hurt because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” And he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. 18 Very truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to go.” 19 (He said this to indicate the kind of death by which he would glorify God.) After this he said to him, “Follow me.”

Luke 11:33-36

The Light of the Body

33 “No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a bushel basket; rather, one puts it on the lampstand so that those who enter may see the light. 34 Your eye is the lamp of your body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but if it is unhealthy, your body is full of darkness. 35 Therefore consider whether the light in you is not darkness. 36 But if your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be as full of light as when a lamp gives you light with its rays.”

Matthew 8:1-4

Jesus Cleanses a Man

8 When Jesus had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him, and there was a man with a skin disease who came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing. Be made clean!” Immediately his skin disease was cleansed. Then Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”