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North American Interfaith Network (NAIN)
US Contact: Rev. Gloria Weber, Interfaith Voices for Peace & Justice, P.O. Box 270214, St.
Louis MO 63127 USA, Tel: 314-892-1192, Fax: 314-892-1255, Email: gloweber@swbell.net.
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The North American Interfaith Network is a non-profit association of interfaith organizations and
agencies in Canada, Mexico and the United Stat
NAIN General Board Members
Chair: Vasu Bandhu
Vice Chair: Shirin Mehri
Secretary: Alan Toubeaux
Treasurer: Rachael Watcher
Previous Chair: J. Shelton Nalley
Program Committee Lead: Lynda Trono
Bettina Gray
Robert Hankinson
Ruth Broyde Sharone
Tarunjit Butalia
Maneck Bhujwala
Vivian Kwok
Indra Neelameggham
Earl Smith
Honorary Members:
- Elizabeth Espersen, Meetings in Faith
- Michael Goggin
- Bettina Gray, Creative Films
- Dr. Peter Laurence
- Rob Hankinson
- Kay Lindahl
- Rev. Dr. Donald Mayne, Edmonton Interfaith Centre for Education and Action
- Gard Jameson
- Sam Muyskens, Global Faith in Action
- Ruth Broyde Sharone, Southern California Parliament of the World Religions
- Ralph Singh
- Judy Lee Trautman
- Woody Trautman
- Rachael Watcher, Covenant of the Goddess
- Charles White
https://waicc.org/posts/waicc-funds-open-arms-to-support-housing-outreach
Wolfville Area Inter-Church Council
WAICC funds Open Arms to support housing outreach
The Wolfville Area Inter-Church Council (WAICC) has donated $45,360 to support the on-going work of the Open Arms Resource Centre’s mobile outreach team for one year.
The donation has been made through the WAICC council’s new housing committee to support outreach within the WAICC boundaries in eastern Kings, which include Greenwich, Port Williams, Avonport, Gaspereau and the South Mountain.
Open Arms executive director Leanne Jennings and housing and outreach manager Nick Haddock were pleased to accept the donation, which will support a worker one day a week to the WAICC district.
Haddock said that the team has already connected with two unhoused individuals in the Wolfville area.
Open Arms is based in Kentville and provides not only outreach, but a 20-bed emergency shelter for the unhoused. The agency also operates the Tiny Meadows Pallet Village, affordable housing and a thrift store.
WAICC was founded in 1970 by the six local churches as an ecumenical forum. It launched the Inter-church Housing Society which created decent affordable housing for poverty-stricken families and whose success made it the subject of two National Film Board documentaries.
Rob Hankinson
Rob Hankinson was ordained to the ministry of the United Church of Canada in May 1973. He was Minister of Garneau United Church, Edmonton, (1980 - 2008); Associate Minister of Robertson Wesley United Church, Edmonton, (1977 - 1980); and Minister of the Lac La Biche United Church Pastoral Charge (1973 - 1977). He has been active in ecumenical and interfaith activities since attending Canada’s first ecumenical seminary, The Atlantic School of Theology, Halifax, Nova Scotia (1970 -1973).
From 2008-2012, Rob was Chaplain at the Ashbourne, Garneau United Church’s Assisted Living facility here in Edmonton and an on call Chaplain at the University of Alberta Hospital. He continues to serve as an on call Chaplain with the City of Edmonton. In 2008 Rob was appointed Secretary of the North American Interfaith Network (NAIN), and in 2012 Rob was elected Chair of NAIN.
During his ministry in Alberta Rob has been involved with the following ecumenical and interfaith organizations: the Edmonton and District Council of Churches (1980-2000, with two terms as President); the 7th National Institute on Ecumenism (1992); the Interchurch Interfaith Committee of Edmonton Presbytery (1986- present); Chair of the Interchurch Interfaith Committee of Alberta and Northwest Conference, and member of the national ICIF Committee of the General Council of the United Church of Canada in the 1980’s; Chair of the Ecumenical Chaplaincy Board, University of Alberta (1980-1983); Chair of the Alberta Church Consultation Committee (1982-85); and a founding member of the Edmonton Interfaith Centre for Education and Action(1995). He served as an alternate delegate for the United Church of Canada and three years as a Vice-President (1997-2000) on the Governing Board of the Canadian Council of Churches. In 1985, Rob was a member of the first Canada- USSR ecumenical study tour. In 2003 he was conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity (Honoris Causa) by St. Stephen’s College. In 2005 he was awarded the Alberta Centennial Medal for community service. In 2009, he was named Minister Emeritus of Garneau United Church.
Rob taught “Introduction to Hebrew Scriptures” at St. Stephen’s College, University of Alberta (1985-1991). He participated in the United Church’s Western Field Based Diaconal Ministry programme through teaching introductory Ethics courses and offering seminars on Prophetic Literature and Hebrew Scriptures (1990-1993).
Rob has an ongoing commitment to interchurch and interfaith efforts, and continues to offer support for programmes and activities seeking social justice. He was appointed Executive Director of the Edmonton Committee for a Parliament of the World’s Religions in August 2013.
Born and raised in Nova Scotia and P.E.I., a graduate of Dalhousie University and the Atlantic School of Theology, Rob has lived in Alberta since 1973. Rob’s partner (of 45 years) is Dr. Mary Norton, Art Therapist, and Expressive Arts Facilitator.
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North American Interfaith Network
Type of Organization: interfaith network
Field: interfaith education and action
Region: AB
Website: http://www.nain.org
Primary Contact
Rob Hankinson
Past Chair
robthechaplain@gmail.com
780 695 6502
Address
11148 84 Ave
123
Edmonton,
T6G0V8
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