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10 Years of CPT
10 Years of CPT
In 2025, CPT celebrates a remarkable milestone: 10 years of fostering connection, learning, and spiritual growth.
Over the past decade, more than 1000 pilgrims have travelled with us to sacred sites across Spain, the Holy Land, Greece, and beyond.
More than 75 teens have found deeper meaning through our Confirmation events, deepening their faith journeys.
Through our partnerships with Huron and VST, many have continued on to MDiv studies or the Huron Certificate. We have also supported 10 people as they studied for a certificate in United Church Worship, Preaching, and Pastoral Care, and we are preparing to launch our new Certificate in Sacramental Elders Studies. Our Licensed Lay Worship Leader program has welcomed 12 graduates who continue to serve and strengthen their communities.
We also hosted the Inviting Circle, a biweekly gathering for congregational leaders, offering continuing education, shared learning, and worship.
CPT has been proud to sponsor the Lester Randall Preaching Fellowship in Toronto, supporting preaching excellence across the church.
Nearly 3000 people across Canada have taken part in our ReVITALize events, creating spaces filled with renewal, learning, and community.
Our Fairmont campus continues to flourish, a vibrant worshipping community with weekly gatherings and a thriving garden that supports the London area.
CPT also travelled through Northern Ontario on a congregational listening and encouragement tour, meeting with communities, hearing their stories, and supporting their ongoing ministry.
As we move into our next decade, CPT will begin offering Pilgrimage Studies, a natural extension of the work we have been building over the years. This new focus reflects who we are becoming, a community shaped by experience, learning, and the movement of people across sacred landscapes. Pilgrimage Studies will allow us to deepen the conversations we have already started, broaden the ways we teach and engage, and welcome more people into the shared journey of exploring faith.
Here’s to 10 years and all that comes next.
New Program
Jeff is offering a course this spring through Huron’s Licentiate in Theology Program. The course is entitled:
JESUS AND PAUL: The Gospel’s Power in a Roman Empire
Together, we will explore the New Testament within its first- and second-century Mediterranean context, engaging its narratives, letters, and poetry as witnesses to the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. We will also consider how the earliest followers of Jesus proclaimed this message across the Roman Empire, and how these texts continue to shape faithful and compelling proclamation today.
📅 Saturdays, 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. (ET)
Beginning April 11
💻 Hosted via Zoom
$350 (Full Credit) | $175 (Audit)
If you are interested in deepening your engagement with scripture, particularly for preaching and teaching, I would be glad to have you join us.
To register, please contact Dr. Grayhame Bowcott at: grayhame.bowcott@huron.uwo.ca or by calling (519) 438-7224 ext. 832
The Crittenden Pilgrimage Bursary
The Crittenden Pilgrimage Bursary
The Crittenden Pilgrimage Bursary was established by The Rev. Jeff Crittenden and Katherine Crittenden in partnership with the United Church of Canada Foundation. Created to mark their marriage and shared commitment to pilgrimage, the bursary reflects the central role that pilgrimage has played in shaping their lives, leadership, and spiritual practice.
As longtime pilgrims and leaders, Jeff and Katherine have experienced pilgrimage as a source of clarity, transformation, and deep belonging. This bursary was created out of gratitude for those experiences and a desire to support others who feel called to undertake their own pilgrim journeys.
The bursary provides financial support for individuals engaging in human-powered pilgrimages, including walking, cycling, paddling, wheelchairing, and other embodied forms of travel. Each year, recipients are selected in collaboration with the United Church of Canada Foundation, supporting pilgrims who are ready to deepen their lives through this sacred and transformative practice.
The response to the bursary has been extraordinary. An initial fundraising goal of $25,000 has been exceeded, with more than $45,000 raised to date. This generosity ensures that the Crittenden Pilgrimage Bursary will support pilgrims for years to come, helping make pilgrimage more accessible to a wider community.
Those who wish to support this work are invited to contribute or share the opportunity with others. Every gift, large or small, helps open the way for someone to undertake a meaningful journey. All donations receive a tax receipt.
Donations can be made through CanadaHelps
Together, we walk alongside fellow pilgrims, creating pathways of transformation, step by step.
Leisure Resurrected
Leisure Resurrected
Four years of hard work and research has culminated into Leisure Resurrected written by our Co-Founder and Director, Jeff Crittenden.
As the church emerges from the impact of COVID, how will it reimagine its mission? With all the disruption COVID caused comes an opportunity for congregations. How will the local church organize itself, engage with the neighborhood and world, and offer pastoral care to a planet dealing with the significant issues heightened during COVID? Returning to old patterns of behavior is a wasted chance. A theological opportunity for the church lies in rediscovering the classical aim of leisure.
The early church during the first two centuries offers us an understanding of leisure quite unique from the dominant expressions of leisure, such as Greek schole, Roman otium, and the Jewish Sabbath. By exploring early Christian practices, we can find insights about leisure for mission today. These practices include setting aside a single day of the week to worship, sharing in a common meal open to all, and, following the meal, incorporating into nonwork time care and engagement in the health and vitality of the community in the name of Jesus Christ. The followers of Jesus were consistent, if extraordinary, in meeting weekly, on the Lord's Day, to worship, eat together, and go out into the neighbourhood to live out their faith.
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