The National Planning Committee of the Anglican Lutheran National Worship Conference (NWC) announced in March that this year’s conference will be held online.
The 2020 conference was to be held in Ottawa in July 2020, but it was postponed due to the pandemic. Continuing health and travel concerns prompted the planning committee to keep this year’s event online.
The theme is aptly “Disruption and Grace: Learning Edges in Liminal Times.” In a letter sent to bishops in both the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, the planning committee wrote: “We want this online NWC to provide an important opportunity for those involved in worship and music in our churches and ministries to be able to listen, reflect and talk thoughtfully together about the significant disruption and grace we have all experienced during this pandemic and to glean new learnings and possibilities together.”
The NWC will include opening and closing worship, the conferral of the Companion of the Worship Arts to the one Anglican and one Lutheran recipient announced last spring in recognition of their local and national contributions to worship.
In this 20th anniversary year of the full communion partnership of the ACC and ELCIC, and July 7 being the anniversary of the signing of the Waterloo Declaration, the organizers are hoping to also celebrate this anniversary milestone together.
For more details on the event and registration: nationalworshipconference.org.
Deanery of East Ontario — Church of the Nativity, L’Orignal