Conference, modelled on the long-standing Atlantic Theological Conference, featuring speakers from across North America. The Conference was held in Kelowna in 1995, in Calgary in 1996, and in Vancouver in 1998. Commissioned a booklet, What Happened to Morning Prayer: the Service of the Word as a Principal Sunday Liturgy, co-authored by Dr. Alan Hayes and Dr. John Webster, and published by Wycliffe College in Toronto, 1997. Sponsored “Parish Alive!”, an organization producing online and DVD teaching resources for parishes, 2003-2006. Commissioned a three-volume set of books, Discovering the Book of Common Prayer: A Hands-On Approach, authored by journalist and writer Sue Careless. Volume I, Daily Prayer, and Volume II, Our Life in the Church, were co-published with the Anglican Book Centre in 2003 and 2006, and Volume III, Special Occasions was co-published with St. Peter Publications in 2009. Organized the Cranmer Conference, a weekend event for young people featuring worship, teaching and recreation, held at various locations in Ontario, 2006-2011. Made representation to the decadal Lambeth Conference of worldwide Anglican bishops, together with the Prayer Book Societies of England and the USA, 2008. Commissioned the production of “622”, a four-year teen education curriculum for use in parishes, 2016-2019. Produced the “Common Prayer Canada” app, enabling users to access the set daily forms of prayer according to the BCP for any day of the year, 2020. Governance The Society is governed by a National Council, made up of national officers (a chairman, up to five vice-chairmen, a treasurer, a recording secretary and a membership secretary), the presidents of the local branches, and up to twenty councillors. Each year the members of the National Council elect the national officers, who may be nominated by any member of the Society. The councillors are elected at the Society’s Annual General Meeting. Book of Common Prayer The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) used in Canada was originally compiled in 1962, and is a national expression of a tradition of Christian worship stemming from the original Book of Common Prayer published by the Church of England in 1549. The original 1549 BCP was itself a revision of the medieval forms of worship in use within the English Church prior to the Reformation. The BCP simplified older forms, and made the Bible itself the standard of all Christian worship. The BCP contains in one volume what previously had been contained in many separate tomes: The Daily Offices