Proceeds from the recent Amazing Grace project, which captured the interest of Anglicans across Canada and raised more than $91,000 for the Council of the North, will go towards the establishment of a suicide prevention program for its member dioceses.
The council, which met in February, decided that the donations “had to be spent for a project that would really address the needs of its members,” Keewatin Bishop and Council chair David Ashdown told the house of bishops at its spring meeting here.
“The issue of suicide is one that we deal with all the time. The council struggles with trying to find ways of preventing suicide,” said Bishop Ashdown. It’s one thing to minister to communities and individuals after a suicide has taken place. But we’d rather find help and focus the energy on preventing it as much as we can.”
The council “never had the resources until the Amazing Grace (project),” Bishop Ashdown said in an interview with the Anglican Journal. “It is amazing that we’ve now received the grace that will enable us to go forward and bring grace into other people’s lives,” he said. “I genuinely believe that, as a result of the Amazing Grace contributions, lives are actually going to be saved and enhanced.”
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