Lutheran/Anglican Clergy Study Conference

The annual clergy study conference, held in partnership with the Diocese of Rupert’s Land and the Diocese of Brandon, is a time for learning, renewal and fellowship with colleagues. Rostered pastors and deacons serving under call or appointment are expected to attend.

2025 Clergy Study Conference
Engaging Scriptural Imagination
June 18-20, 2025

Lakeview Hotel & Resort
10 Centre St #118b 
Gimli, MB R0C 1B0

Registration link: https://form.jotform.com/250406426444250

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Melissa Nixon at the Diocese of Rupert’s Land: 204-992-4200.

Cost
Two nights (June 18-20)

  • $625.00 – Single Occupancy (2 Nights)
  • $575.00 – Double Occupancy (2 Nights)

Three nights (June 17-20)

  • $760.00 – Single Occupancy (3 Nights)
    $710.00 – Double Occupancy (3 Nights)

If you select Double Occupancy, you are agreeing to share a room and we will need to know your roommate choice.

If you require accessibility accommodations (main floor, wider doorframes), please be as descriptive as possible with your needs, as the Resort only has one fully accessible room (walk in shower).

MNO clergy (and Anglican clergy serving MNO congregations) are encouraged to plan to arrive on Tuesday afternoon for a pre-conference time of focused discussion and conversation at Gimli Lutheran Church (see agenda). Anglican clergy may choose to arrive on Tuesday evening (additional cost). Please select the Three-night option. The Lutheran/Anglican study conference will begin on Wednesday morning (see agenda).

Clergy are welcome to bring additional family members to the resort.  These guests will need to register for meals.  They are welcome to join the clergy for meals and for morning and evening worship.

Registration and payment due by May 10, 2025. No refund for cancellation after May 11, 2025. You may pay via e-transfer (mnosynod@elcic.ca), mail a cheque (935 Nesbitt Bay), or request an invoice from the Diocese.

  • Comfortable clothes (indoor and outdoor)
  • a shawl or light sweater in case the meeting room is cool
  • ELW and/or BAS books
  • Bible (optional)

**note that there is a bar/restaurant in the hotel, and several restaurants in the area.  Most restaurants take payment via debit/credit card, but some have a cash only requirement after certain hours.

Childcare will be provided for children (age 2-12, no diapers) for a fee during keynote and programme sessions of the event.  Children will join adults for meals, and can join adults for worship. Please register name(s)/age(s) of children on registration.  More information will be sent to those who request childcare.

Agenda

*subject to change. Final agenda will be sent out closer to conference date

 Tuesday, June 17

1:30 pm            Lutheran clergy (clergy serving a Lutheran ministry or rostered in the MNO Synod) arrive for pre-conference event. Optional arrival and fellowship for Anglican clergy

Supper (on your own) for those who have arrived early

7:00 pm            Holden Evening Prayer followed by fellowship/reception at Gimli Lutheran Church

Wednesday, June 18

Breakfast on your own

9:00 am                            Arrive, check-in, registration

9:45 am                             Morning prayer

10:00 am                           Welcome, land acknowledgement, announcements, introductions

10:30 am                            Large Group Keynote Session 1

12:15 pm                            Lunch Break

1:30 pm                              Bishops’ Reports

2:00 pm                             Workshops

3:00 pm                              free time

5:30 pm                               Supper

6:30 pm                               Large Group Keynote Session 2

8:00 pm                               Eucharist

8:45 pm                               Social Hour

Thursday, June 19

8:00 am                             breakfast (provided by the hotel)

9:00 am                             Morning prayer

9:15 am                             Denominational gatherings

break

11:15                                     Large Group

12:00                                   Lunch

1:00                                     Large Group Keynote session 3

2:00                                      Free time (optional excursion)

5:30 pm                              Supper

6:30 pm                              Facilitated large group discussion

7:30 pm                             break

8:00 pm                              Evening Prayer (healing service)

8:30 pm                                Social Hour

Friday, June 20

8:00 am                                 Breakfast (provided by hotel)

9:00 am                                  Discipleship Dialogue

9:45 am                                  Closing Remarks

10:00 am                                  Break/Check Out/Set up for Worship

10:15 am                                  Closing Worship w/eucharist

11:30 am                                   clean up/depart

The Same Story Still: a rediscovery of Scripture

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the Bible — that ancient text that is supposed to undergird our daily lives and inform our times of worship — is actually interesting. Let alone potentially transformative. At times its greatest interest seems to be when it is wielded as a tool of divisiveness rather than relational unity. Dr Jeffrey Johnson delights in inviting readers and listeners back into the Story, to rediscover the disconcerting, delightful, mysterious, and enlightening text that still can compel readers and listeners (and exegetes!) in eras and cultures of which its first recipients could have never dreamed.

Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson, PhD St Andrews (Institute of Theology, Imagination, & the Arts), is an independent scholar and the director of ‘Windstone Farm Linlathen,’ an ecumenical Theology, Ecology, & the Arts non-profit in the Ottawa Valley, Canada (See the Linlathen You-Tube site for conference videos) – where she stewards and is in part rewilding a 19thc settler farm, on traditional unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe territory. Kirstin publishes and lectures widely on the 19th century literature scholar and social activist George MacDonald, as well as Victorian Literature, the Inklings, and the integration of theology, ecology, and the arts. She is on the Board several Inklings journals and societies, as well being Board Trustee for the Americas for the environmental organization A Rocha. Kirstin has recent chapters in An Introduction to Child Theology (2022), Unsaying the Commonplace (2024), and Where the River Goes (2025). She has also written introductions for several new MacDonald publications, including Lilith (2022), The Hope of the Gospel (2023), and the full-text graphic novel of The Golden Key (2023). Her online work includes numerous podcasts and interviews as well as lectures and classes, primarily – but not soley! – on the topic of George MacDonald. When not otherwise occupied, Kirstin delights in (re)introducing academics and clergy (amongst others) to the Book of Nature.

Hotel

Lakeview Gimli Resort is a beautiful resort with a beach for a backyard, and at the heart of the town’s attractions. The shores of Lake Winnipeg create a beautiful beach just steps away from this resort.

You’ll enjoy a resort that’s packed with thoughtful features, wonderful amenities, and a small-town charm. With your stay you will be available to use the resorts many amenities including free wi-fi, indoor & outdoor pools, hot tubs and saunas.

The resort has two restaurants on site. Seagulls and The Pier are located within Lakeview Gimli Resort. They both have an incredible view of Lake Winnipeg along with fantastic food, excellent service, and a relaxing atmosphere. They offer an extensive menu with a variety of appetizers, soups, salads, sandwiches, pastas, and entrees, each of which has their own unique touch. They source ingredients locally wherever possible; including the pickerel caught from Lake Winnipeg next door, for the most fresh and delicious experience the Interlake region has to offer.

What to do around Gimli

Enjoy some peace and quiet or an exciting adventure in Gimli, an Icelandic town full of history. Lakeview Gimli Resort is located right in the heart and soul of Gimli.  You can walk right along the boardwalk, go to the beach, head to the Viking Museum, the Viking Park, the Glider statue, the Gimli Art Club, the Gimli Sea Wall is a beautiful walk with the family and to look at the marina, the infamous H.P. Tergensens for shopping. The resort also has great little shops within.

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