Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre

The Theology of the United Church of Canada: Book Launch
2019-04-12 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Winnipeg) | McNally Robinson, 1120 Grant Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3M 2A6, Canada
McNally Robinson Booksellers & Wilfrid Laurier University Press are pleased to present the Winnipeg launch of:

The Theology of the United Church of Canada
WLU Press
Edited by Don Schweitzer, Rob Fennell, and Michael Bourgeois
Featuring contributors Robert C. Fennell, Adrian Jacobs, HyeRan Kim-Cragg, and Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd.
This book provides a historical overview of what the United Church believes and how these beliefs have changed over the decades. It looks at how the Canadian context has shaped these beliefs and the contributions the United Church has made to Canada and the world. It also addresses some of the mistakes the United Church has made, along with its apologies and reparations.

Robert C. Fennell is an ordained United Church minister and Associate Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax, NS. He is author of The Rule of Faith and Biblical Interpretation: Reform, Resistance, and Renewal.
Adrian Jacobs is Keeper of the Circle at Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre (SSSC) in Beausejour, the national Indigenous ministry training school of the United Church of Canada. He is Ganosono of the Turtle Clan, Cayuga Nation of the Six Nations Haudenosaunee Community, Grand River Country in Southern Ontario. A lifelong carrier of Indigenous knowledge, he keeps the Red Buffalo Pipe for SSSC.
HyeRan Kim-Cragg is Lydia Gruchy Professor of Pastoral Studies in St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon. She holds a ThD in Pastoral/Practical Theology from Emmanuel College, Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto.
Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd is an ordained United Church minister, serving Westworth United Church in Winnipeg. She is also a published author and teaches at various United Church theological schools, including the United Centre for Theological Studies at the University of Winnipeg, Sandy Saulteaux Spiritual Centre in Manitoba, and United Theological College in Montreal.

BS2 – Wisdom & Psalms Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2019-04-08 - 2019-04-12 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
Resource Person: Bob Haverluck
Learning Circle Elder: Eileen Antone
Download the registration form.

Ceremony of Celebration
2019-04-06 14:00 - 18:00 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, Manitoba, R0E 0C0, Canada
Join us to celebrate our graduating student, Susan McPherson Derendy, and honoured elders Rev. John Thompson and Eileen Antone.
The service will be followed by a feast. RSVP to 204-268-3913 or sansau@mymts.net

TH2 – Christology Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2019-04-01 - 2019-04-05 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
Resource Person: Andrew Wesley
Learning Circle Elder: Bernice Saulteaux
Download the registration form.

FULL: Indigenous Farming on the Prairies: Stew & Stories
2019-03-23 15:00 - 21:00 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, Manitoba, R0E 0C0, Canada
We will gather to work together on a traditional “Three Sisters Stew” of corn, squash and beans, feast together and have a time of teaching with three Indigenous knowledge-keepers: Audrey Logan, Caroline Chartrand & Stan McKay.
Please let us know you’ll be coming so we can be prepared with enough food! Email sansau@mymts.net or call 204-268-3913. Space is limited.
Update: This event is now full. We regret that we do not have more room for any more participants beyond those who have already registered.

Suggested donation: $10

Audrey Logan is an Indigenous food sovereignty activist campaigning for “a dehydration station on every nation.” By returning to the ancient art of preserving food in times of abundance through dehydration, Audrey has learned to maintain a nutritious food supply throughout the year on a fixed income. She is on a mission to share this knowledge with remote and urban communities alike. If, as Wendell Berry says, “we need a revolution that the poor can afford,” Audrey is surely one of its vanguard.
Caroline Chartrand is the founder of the Métis Horticulture and Heritage Society, and has served on the board and been a writer for Seeds of Diversity Canada. She has been a passionate researcher of Indigenous farming on the prairies for decades. She has collected and saved seed for many rare varieties dating back to the early food systems of Indigenous and Métis farmers in this area. She is involved in the stewardship of the Gete Okosomin, the “really cool old squash” that forms one of the ingredients of our Three Sister Stew.
Stan McKay (Walking Buffalo) is a Cree elder from Fisher River First Nation. In Fisher River life was maintained by hunting, fishing, trapping, a few chickens, cows, horses and small gardens. At a young age Stan was taken away to Birtle Residential School, where he and the other boys ran a fully operational mixed farm. The boys began with collecting eggs in the elementary years and were making hay and tending hogs and steers by the time they were in high school. Western agricultural skills were gained at the same time as Indigenous cultural connections were lost. Stan continues to heal and learn from the legacy of this experience. He has maintained an interest in farming that he has passed on to his children. Today he frequently helps out on his daughter’s mixed farm near Petersfield.

Ministry in the Midst of Trauma
2019-03-18 - 2019-03-22 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, Manitoba, R0E 0C0, Canada
Teaching sessions will be facilitated by SSSC Keeper of the Circle, Adrian Jacobs and Indigenous Studies Program Director, Ray Aldred.

Wakan Ija: Children, They are Holy Too
2019-03-16 10:00 - 18:00 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, Manitoba, R0E 0C0, Canada
Children are sacred, every single one. When traumatized, children respond in predictable and often troublesome ways. Grandmother Pahan Pte San Win’s work with incarcerated youth has taught her some surprising lessons about trauma response and what youth need in order to return to stable and vibrant human beings. Learn Pahan’s approach to offering cultural activities that give youth a reason to be proud and a chance to shine. Hear from Grandfather Wanbdi Wakita how the teachings of Love, Kindness, Forgiveness and Respect can be powerful change agents. Children are sacred teachers. Let’s learn from them.
The Retreat runs from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00p.m. and is intended to create nourishing and relaxing experiences that are rich in Teachings and inspiration, while also taking time to reflect, integrate and unwind. We will sit with the fire, relax and walk in nature, journal, eat good food and be with others also seeking to walk with Indigenous community in a good way.
Registration includes, lunch, dinner and snack.
Wanbdi Wakita is a Wicasa Wakan, a Holy Man, who has spent a lifetime making prayers for people. As a residential school survivor, peace keeper with the Canadian Armed Forces, Chief of Sioux Valley Dakota Nation and Sundance Chief, Wanbdi has walked many paths. In 2015 he received the Aboriginal Circle of Educators’ Honouring Our Elders award and in 2016 the Order of Manitoba for his life long work to support those in need and to champion a message of healing and unity between all nations. Wanbdi is a gifted counselor and storyteller who possesses a rare breadth of traditional, cultural and sacred knowledge.
Pahan Pte San Win is Lakota, Cree & Metis with a degree in social work from the University of Calgary. Pahan has provided counseling support to residential school survivors, traumatized women and incarcerated men and youth. In 2016, Pahan received the Aboriginal Circle of Educators’ Honouring Our Elders Award. She is an accomplished storyteller sharing remarkable accounts on her blog, www.IMarriedaHolyMan.com and a published author contributing to the anthology “Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters”, editors Anderson, Campbell and Belcourt (2018). Perhaps most importantly, Pahan is the Sundance leader for the Sundance of Women 2017 – 2020.
Manitoba College of Social Workers has approved this workshop for the content specific Social Work with Indigenous Peoples requirement.
Recommended for professionals who work with children such as teachers, parents, child & youth care workers, social workers, as well as indigenous and non indigenous community members.

CS1 – Introduction to Christian Scriptures Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2019-01-28 - 2019-02-01 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
Resource People: TBA
Learning Circle Elder: TBA
Download the registration form.

Sacramental Elders Training
2019-01-25 - 2019-01-26 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
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PM5 – Pastoral Ethics & Boundaries Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2019-01-21 - 2019-01-24 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, Manitoba, R0E 0C0, Canada
Resource People: Aileen Urquhart
Learning Circle Elder: TBA
Download the registration form.

Winter Ceremonies
2018-12-22 13:00 - 18:00 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, Manitoba, R0E 0C0, Canada
A sweat will be offered at 1:00 pm, with a feast to follow. All are welcome to participate in any part of the ceremonies. Please bring a contribution of food for the feast. For more information, contact the office at 204-268-3913. Please consider a donation towards ceremonies.
You can read more about what to expect at a seasonal ceremony here.
Meegwetch, Ekosi

TH3 - Global Contextual Theology & Global Awareness Trip to Nevada/Arizona/New Mexico
2018-10-20 - 2018-11-02 | Manitoba
Dates subject to change.
Download the Learning Circle Registration form.

Annual General Meeting of the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre
2018-09-29 14:00 - 16:00 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, Manitoba, R0E 0C0, Canada
Please RSVP to 204-268-3913 or email sansau@mymts.net.

Mamawe Ota Askihk - Sharing Life Together Here on Earth
2018-08-20 - 2018-08-25 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, Manitoba, R0E 0C0, Canada
Gather with Indigenous community leaders and settler allies to reclaim the homebred, the homespoken, the homegrown, and the homemade.
Our week together will include hands-on learning about growing, harvesting and preparing medicines and foods from the land. There will be time for listening, sharing, singing, ceremony and sharing good food together. We will gather medicines, work in the garden, make moccasins, can tomatoes and more.
Come root yourself in an understanding of the land as our health. Come walk a healing path with young people. Share in the spiritual teaching, laughter, and new learning. And most importantly, taste the beauty of friendships formed through nurturing one another as the earth nurtures us.
All ages welcome.
We acknowledge the support of The United Church of Canada’s Justice and Reconciliation Fund and Mennonite Central Committee’s Indigenous Neighbours program in making this event possible.

PROGRAM

REGISTRATION
COST
TRANSPORTATION & ACCOMMODATION
CONTACT

Program
We will gather every morning for worship and reflection on the Seven Sacred Teachings. Participants will be able to move between hands-on activity stations throughout the day as they wish. We expect to offer medicine teachings, sage and sweet grass harvesting, tomato canning, salsa, sauce and ketchup making, pow wow drum making, deer hide tanning, moccasin making, and honey extraction. Children are welcome in all of aspects of the festival.
We will share meals together three times a day. An evening fire will follow the dinner-hour for sharing stories of land and healing.
Participants will be invited to contribute to the week by helping in the kitchen, leading music in worship, sharing their experience at the different activity stations, teaching a game or physical exercise and/or telling a story around the fire.
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Registration
Adults and children of all ages are welcome. Please fill out an application form for each individual. Participants under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent, guardian or caregiver.
Space at both the festival and the feast are limited and we are committed to having a balance of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people participate.
Fill out a Festival application form.
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Cost
Children 12 and under are free and youth prices apply to participants ages 13-18.
We hope you will bring friends and family. If you register with a group or family of 4 or more people, you will each get $10 off a Day Pass or $50 off a Festival Pass.
Adult Festival Pass: $320 ($370 after July 31)
Youth Festival Pass: $160 ($185 after July 31)
A Festival Pass includes all meals and snacks, Monday-Saturday.
Adult Day Pass: $80 ($90 after July 31)
Youth Day Pass: $40 ($45 after July 31)
A Day Pass includes meals and snacks.
Receive a SSSC Learning Circle credit for your participation: $100
This option is available for SSSC students who attend the full festival. Contact the Keeper of the Learning Circle at deanna@sandysaulteaux.ca if you have questions.
Adult indoor accommodations: $250
Youth indoor accommodations: $110
You will stay in a guest lodge on site, or be billeted with a friend of SSSC close by for the duration of the festival.
Adult camping accommodations: $50
Youth accommodations: $25
You can pitch your tent on the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre grounds and will have access to washroom facilities on site.
Payment can be made by cash, cheque or credit card. We ask for a 15% deposit once your registration is confirmed, with the remainder of the fees due when you arrive at the festival.
These fees help us prepare for an incredible week of hands-on learning, acquire the supplies and good food for enjoying together, cover travel for elders and teachers and recognize the time and contributions of the festival organizers. If these fees would prevent you from coming though – talk to us! We don’t want money to be a barrier to your participation.
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Transportation & Accommodations
Participants are responsible for their own transportation to the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre. We have some funding available to assist with the transportation costs of Indigenous participants. Contact us for details.
The application form invites you to share your travel plans with us and to indicate whether you are interested in carpooling so that we can connect you with other participants traveling from the same place.
Accommodations will be provided in the guest lodges at the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, or, if additional lodging is required, with a friend of the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre who lives close by. Participants can also choose to bring their own tent to stay outdoors at the Centre.
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Contact
For more information, contact the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre at 204-268-3913 or sansau@mymts.net.

147: Pathway to Treaty Relations
2018-06-23 09:00 - 14:30 | Lower Fort Garry
Treaty 1 was signed 147 years ago at Manitoba’s Lower Fort Garry
Join us at the Fort for a couple hours of treaty talk and learning in the historic village where Treaty 1 was signed.
Treaty is an invitation into sharing land for the benefit of all living things. Learn about the ways this sacred commitment can breathe new life into our relationships with one another and the world around us.

Please bring: $5, a bagged lunch, a lawn chair, and a friend!
Schedule

9:00 a.m. Tent – Resource tables and Registration open (These will be open all day for people to come and go)
10:00 a.m. Encampment Fire – Welcome & prayer; Sacred Fire Opening (Rey Anderson)
10:30 a.m. Picnic shelter/MPR – Guest Teachers (Allen Sutherland/Chris Henderson)
11:15 a.m. Picnic shelter/MPR – Guest Teachers (Allen Sutherland/Chris Henderson)
12:00 p.m. Lunch! Break out into groups for lunch and have people share where their family history (i.e. where parents/grandparents/ancestors are from and how they got here).
12:45 p.m. Picnic shelter – Panel guest stories
1:15 p.m. Picnic shelter – Conversation and Q & A with Emcee’s, guest teachers and panel guests
2:00 p.m. Encampment Fire – Rey Anderson – Sacred Fire ceremony where people can offer prayer and tobacco.
2:30 p.m. – Back to Winnipeg

Free Bus
Transportation to and from Lower Fort Garry leaves
– Salvation Army Family Centre, 51 Morrow Avenue at 8:30 am or
– IRCOM, 215 Isabel Street at 9:00am.
Please sign up at the above organizations, treatypathways@gmail.com or call 204-896-1616.

PC4 – Family Violence & Gender Issues Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2018-04-16 - 2018-04-20 | Manitoba
Download the Learning Circle registration form.
Resource Persons: Kelly Dvorak, Rob Thomas & Melba Laferine, RW Hoekstra, Joye Platford
Elders: Herb Russell & Bernice Saulteaux (to be confirmed)
This course seeks to provide students with trauma informed understandings, tools and resources to support families or individuals seeking healing from violent relationships or internalized oppression. Special attention will be given to the epidemic of gender-based violence against women and girls, as well as against LGBTQ persons. Students will explore these realities within the life of the church, as well as family and community systems more broadly. They will identify scriptural passages and teachings often used to promote or silently enable abusive behaviors that violate the dignity and respect of all people.

Ceremony of Celebration
2018-04-14 14:00 - 18:00 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
Join us to celebrate our graduating students and honoured elders.
Graduate
Eleanor Monias

Honoured Elders
Rev. Adeline Samson-Harvey
Rev. Solomon Meekis

The service will be followed by a feast.
RSVP to 204-268-3913 or sansau@mymts.net

H/CD5 – Community Development & Social Analysis Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2018-04-09 - 2018-04-13 | Manitoba
Resource Persons: Matthew LeBlanc (Executive Director of iEmergence: http://www.iemergence.org/about_us/staff.html) and Shaun Loney
Elder: Bernice Saulteaux
Indigenous communities in Canada have a long positive heritage of sustainability. This course offers the opportunity to review the varying strategies and processes of development that were present before colonization; during eras of colonial dependency; and which now continue to seek liberation, promote self-determination, and work toward building-long term community capacity. This course provides students with the opportunity to interactively engage and reflect on their own context through an appreciative inquiry approaches to community development. Gaining tools in social analysis theory, students will share with one another and think critically together about how our communities function – socially, economically, culturally, and politically
Download the Learning Circle registration form.

TH4 – Liberation Theology Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2018-01-22 - 2018-01-26 | Manitoba
The resource person for this week is Benjamin Lujan. Benjamin is Peruvian-Canadian and joins us as a Seneca College professor and a PhD student from the University of Toronto whose work is based in building interfaith connections to work for Indigenous Justice in Canada.
Download the Learning Circle registration form.

PM1 – Worship & Preaching Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2018-01-15 - 2018-01-19 | Manitoba
The resource person for this week is Basil Coward who joins us as a minister from a United Church congregation in Toronto, where he also works as a guidance counsellor with George Brown College.
Download the Learning Circle registration form.

Winter Ceremonies
2017-12-23 13:00 - 18:00 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
Our Winter Ceremonies will take place on Saturday, December 23, 2017. A sweat will be offered at 1:00 pm, with a feast to follow. All are welcome to participate in any part of the ceremonies. Please bring a contribution of food for the feast. For more information, contact the office at 204-268- 3913. Please consider a donation towards ceremonies.
Meegwetch, Ekosi
First time joining us for a sweat? Read more on what to expect.

Feast for Friends
2017-10-21 10:00 - 19:00 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
We’re pleased to announced that we will be hosting this gathering of friends once again! Indigenous people and settler people are invited to join us for a day of learning, listening, sharing and feasting – all in the spirit of reconciliation.
A day to meet each other in friendship on the land. All ages welcome.
Download the registration form or fill it out online.
Register by October 6th. The space is much more limited this year so we can only accept 100 registrations.
Activities will include:

Sharing circles, teachings, games, crafts
Teaching about land as our health
Sweat lodge ceremony teaching
Feasting

This partnership-building event is co-sponsored by: All Native Circle Conference, Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, and the Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario of the United Church of Canada.

Meals: Lunch and dinner and a snack will be provided. If you have special food needs, please bring what you need.
Registration Fee: A contribution to our Partnership Action Fund for a future event ~ pay what you can. (Cheques payable to “Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre – Partnership Action Fund”.)
Maximum numbers: We can accommodate 100, which includes 30 participants of Mamawe Ota Askihk. We are committed to having a balance of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
Transportation: Please arrange your own car pools. Call if you are stuck for a ride.
Overnight accommodation: There is none available at SSSC but there are several motels in Beausejour.

Questions? Contact Registrar Joan Jarvis at 204-233-8911 ext 226 or jjarvis@confmnwo.mb.ca
Want to dig deeper into “land as health”? Come out for the Mamawe Ota Askihk Festival (Oct 16-21) at SSSC.

Mamawe Ota Askihk - Sharing Life Together Here on Earth
2017-10-16 - 2017-10-21 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, Ploughshares Community Farm, Canadian Mennonite University, Student Christian Movement & the Feast for Friends partners present :
a festival & a feast for friends
Gather with Indigenous community leaders and settler allies to reclaim the homebred, the homespoken, the homegrown, and the homemade.
Come root yourself in an understanding of the land as our health. Share in the spiritual teaching, laughter, and new learning. And most importantly, taste the beauty of friendships formed through nurturing one another as the earth nurtures us.
October 16 – 20: A week-long festival where we’ll winnow wild rice, tan an animal hide, smoke fish, can berry preserves, share skills and tell stories.
October 21: The “Feast for Friends” will wrap up our week with a day of games, ceremony, show & tell, and of course, sharing good food together.
This event is made possible with the support of The James Robertson Trust Fund at the United Church of Canada Foundation and The Jubilee Fund, a project of Mennonite Church Canada and Mennonite Central Committee Canada.

PROGRAM

REGISTRATION
COST
TRANSPORTATION & ACCOMMODATION
CONTACT

Program
We will gather every morning for worship and reflection on Biblical stories of food and land. Participants will be able to move between hands-on activity stations throughout the day as they wish. We expect to offer sprouting, hide-tanning, fish smoking, berry preserving, seed-saving, soil-building, sausage-making, wild rice processing and a few tours of small farms in the area. Children are welcome in all of aspects of the festival.
We will share meals together three times a day. An evening fire and story-telling time will follow the dinner-hour, with a special guest each night with a story of food and land from a different culture.
Participants will be invited to contribute to the week by helping in the kitchen, leading music in worship, sharing their experience at the different activity stations, teaching a game or physical exercise and/or telling a story around the fire.
See our (draft) schedule here.
Our small group of 20-30 participants will swell to 100 on the Saturday as we host the “Feast for Friends”. We’ll have a chance to demonstrate the skills we’ve been practicing all week to the guests at the Feast and take part in games, sharing circles, traditional teachings and feasting to build friendships between Settler and Indigenous People as we spend the day together on the land.
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Registration
Adults and children of all ages are welcome. Please fill out a registration form for each individual. Participants under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent, guardian or caregiver.
Space at both the festival and the feast are limited and we are committed to having a balance of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people participate.
Fill out a Festival registration form.
To register for the Feast for Friends ONLY, held on the Saturday of the Festival, click here.
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Cost
Children 12 and under are free and youth prices apply to participants ages 13-18.
We hope you will bring friends and family. If you register with a group or family of 4 or more people, you will each get $10 off a Day Pass or $50 off a Festival Pass.
Adult Festival Pass: $300 ($350 after Sept. 15)
Youth Festival Pass: $150 ($175 after Sept. 15)
A Festival Pass includes all meals and snacks, Monday-Saturday.
Adult Day Pass: $80 ($90 after Sept. 15)
Youth Day Pass: $40 ($45 after Sept. 15)
A Day Pass includes meals and snacks.
Receive a SSSC Learning Circle credit for your participation: $100
This option is available for SSSC students who attend the full festival. Contact the Keeper of the Learning Circle at deanna@sandysaulteaux.ca if you have questions.
Adult accommodations: $200
Youth accommodations: $100
You will stay in a guest lodge on site, or be billeted with a friend of SSSC close by.
Feast for Friends: free
Donations are welcome. If you would like to ONLY attend the Feast for Friends, click here for details and to register.

Payment can be made by cash, cheque or credit card. We ask for a 15% deposit once your registration is confirmed, with the remainder of the fees due when you arrive at the festival.
These fees help us prepare for an incredible week of hands-on learning, acquire the supplies and good food for enjoying together, cover travel for elders and teachers and recognize the time and contributions of the festival organizers. If these fees would prevent you from coming though – talk to us! We don’t want money to be a barrier to your participation.
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Transportation & Accommodations
Participants are responsible for their own transportation to the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre. We have some funding available to assist with the transportation costs of Indigenous participants. Contact us for details.
The registration form invites you to share your travel plans with us and to indicate whether you are interested in carpooling so that we can connect you with other participants traveling from the same place.
Accommodations will be provided in the guest lodges at the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, or, if additional lodging is required, with a friend of the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre who lives close by.
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Contact
For more information, contact the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre at 204-268-3913 or sansau@mymts.net.
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Annual General Meeting of the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre
2017-09-23 14:00 - 16:00 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
Refreshments to follow.
Please RSVP to 204-268-3913 or email sansau@mymts.net

Native Ministries Consortium Summer School
2017-07-10 - 2017-07-21 | Vancouver School of Theology
This is an opportunity for students who are often isolated from one another to gather, learn and worship together. It is also an opportunity for intensive course work for students in the Native Ministries Program. The Summer School serves people from a wide variety of educational backgrounds, with an international and largely Indigenous faculty.
Our array of courses offers a wide range of topics for a critical mind and a curious spirit. Be ready to embark on a journey of learning, healing and growth!
Native Ministries Summer School is holistic and interdisciplinary. Courses examine sacred scripture, theology and philosophy through the lens of indigenous thought. Courses achieve this by examining social data, literary-oral tradition, the artistic cultural aspects of Indigenous spirituality.
Courses – Week 1 (July 10-14)
1. Ethics in Intercultural Context
2. Ministry in the Midst of Trauma
3. The Doctrine of Discovery, “A Christian Empire,” and the Colonization of a new World

Courses Week 2 (July 17-21)
1. Pilgrimage and Indigenous Journey
2. New Testament I: Synoptic Gospels
3. Knowing the Creator Through Creation
Financial assistance is available but applications are due by May 15.

146: Pathways to Treaty Relations.
2017-06-25 13:00 - 18:00 | Manitoba
Treaty 1 was signed 146 years ago at Lower Fort Garry. What does Treaty 1 mean to you? Treaty is an invitation into sharing land for the benefit of all living things. Come learn about the ways this sacred commitment can breathe new life into our relationships with one another and the world around us.

1-4 pm @ Lower Fort Garry (5925 Highway 9 St. Andrews, MB): Workshops and Artist Tent
4-6 pm @ Little Britain United Church (5879 Provincial Trunk Hwy 9, Lockport, MB – Just a short walk away from Lower Fort Garry): Bagged picnic lunch

What to bring: $5*, a bagged lunch, a lawn chair and a friend!
*The annual payment of five dollars was a part of the treaty agreements in the 1870’s and to this day, every person is handed five bucks by the Canadian Government staff at “treaty time”. We are inviting each person who attends to bring a crisp $5 bill (if you are able) and to pay at the registration table. These funds will be used by the Sandy Saulteaux Spiritual Centre to cover some of the costs of hosting this gathering.
Mark your calendar. More info coming soon at www.treatypathways.com.

HS3 Creation & Genesis Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2017-06-05 - 2017-06-09 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
Download the Learning Circle Registration form.

AT3 Storytelling Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2017-05-29 - 2017-06-02 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada

Engage Difference! Deepening Understanding for Intercultural Ministry
2017-05-08 - 2017-05-12 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
Deepening Understanding for Intercultural Ministry (DUIM) is a 5 day interactive and engaging program with practical ideas for implementation in your own context. DUIM is for ministry leaders nurturing cultural relevance, understanding, and awareness in their communities. Registration is open to anyone who is interested, or through Canadian Churches Forum partners.

“…it was one of the best learning events I have attended in that it allowed me enough time to consider how I might apply learnings to my context. I developed ideas well enough so that I could actually articulate these ideas to colleagues on my return to work. So often workshops tend to be heavy on content without enough time for application. Your program achieved its aim, ‘Deepening Understanding for Intercultural Ministry’”.
Registration deadline April 10, 2017

Learn more and register at http://www.ccforum.ca/DUIM

TH4 Interfaith - Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2017-04-03 - 2017-04-07 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
Download the registration form.

Resource Person: Deanna Zantingh, Shahina Siddiqui, Pundit Venkat,
Contact Info: Deanna@sandysaulteaux.ca (204-218-5812) Adrian@sandysaulteaux.ca
Elder: Bernice Saulteaux

Course Description:
This course engages students to reflect on their role as interfaith leaders. Through experiential learning and interaction with faith leaders from diverse traditions, students will increase their religious literacy by learning about religious traditions as internally and externally diverse. Student will hear about what motivates leaders within these traditions to work for social justice or a common good, and will reflect on their own religious motivations for these goals. Lastly, the course examines the public role of religion and the role of religious leaders today within diverse and complex societies; promoting the motivation to work together as faith leaders to work toward justice, healing, and peace.

Learning Objectives:

Inspire a vision of interfaith leadership and its important role within student’s current contexts of complex diverse societies.
Cultivate a knowledge base of interfaith leadership including an appreciative knowledge of traditions other than one’s own.
Nurture skillsets needed to engage in interfaith leadership and incorporate them into one’s own life, practice, and vision.
Increase one’s religious literacy, including awareness of diversity within religious traditions as well as between religious traditions.
Engage intangible learning opportunities that provide possibilities of establishing real relationships between students and SSSC and other faith traditions. relationship
Explore motivations for social justice and commitment to a common good within diverse traditions, and examine how such relationships could be a foundation to work together toward justice for Indigenous peoples in Canada and the world.
