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Priest Finds Lost Churches Grants Blog Brings Begin Buildings to Flow Back to Life by STUART MANN by CAROLYN PURDEN WHEN the Rev PAGE 3 PAGE 6-7 PAGE 12 Brothers’ gift Anglicans busy New video urges inspires church over summer action on poverty TheTHE NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF TORONTO A A SECTION OF THE ANGnLICAN JOURNAL g l www.tiorontoc.anglican.ca n SEPTEMBER 2013 Priest finds lost churches Grants Blog brings begin buildings to flow back to life BY STUART MANN BY CAROLYN PURDEN WHEN the Rev. David Giffen ar - SINCE the founding of the Diocese rived at the Church of the Trans - of Toronto in 1839, some 50 Angli - figuration in Toronto three years can churches in the City of Toron - ago, there were no children in the to have disappeared—either torn Sunday school. Today, there are down for new development or about 14 on a Sunday, and some - used for different purposes. times as many as 20. Now that The Rev. David Harrison, the in - ministry is set to grow even more. cumbent of St. Mary Magdalene, With the help of a $52,000 grant Toronto, writes a blog, Lost Angli - from the diocese’s Our Faith-Our can Churches, that brings these Hope campaign, the church plans churches back to life with photo - to hire a children’s ministry coor - graphs and anecdotes. dinator. The person will introduce Since 2012, Mr. Harrison has un - a new curriculum, mentor and covered the histories of 25 of the train volunteers, and work with missing churches and intends to Mr. Giffen on creative ways to dis - explore the remaining 25 church - ciple the children. The Rev. David Harrison stands in es in the next year or so. “It wouldn’t have been possible front of the former St. Margaret, He says that while his blog is to do this without the grant,” says Spadina, in Toronto. The church about local history, it is also about Mr. Giffen. “The congregation is closed in 1909 and an art deco fa - death and resurrection. Congre - over the moon.” cade was added later. It is now a gations develop, churches are Over the next five years, the fabric store. At right is a photo of built, then local demographics Our Faith-Our Hope campaign the former church (far right)in 1920. change and the church is no will give millions of dollars in PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON AND CITY longer required. But churches of - grants to parishes and ministries OF TORONTO ARCHIVES. ten serve new purposes—as wor - in the diocese that want to “re- ship centres for other Christian imagine church,” says Canon Paul denominations, or else their rehearsal hall for the Mirvish the - Baston, chair the Our Faith-Our names (and sometimes their fur - atrical productions. A new St. Hope Allocations Committee. nishings) find new life in the sub - Jude’s arose in Bramalea, and it urbs. inherited some of the older Continued on Page 2 In fact, Mr. Harrison experi - church’s memorials and the font. enced this himself in his previous Mr. Harrison started the blog parish, St. Thomas, Brooklin. A because he was looking for a new Donations fast-growing area, Brooklin need - hobby. Working on his own time, ed a new Anglican church and one he tracks down former Anglican was built. The new building incor - churches through the diocesan help papers porated some of the furnishings archives, visits and photographs from St. Clement, Riverdale, them, obtains archival images and which closed in 2006. posts the story on his blog. To THE stories, photographs and “So there is a sense of continu - date, the blog has received more do some sleuthing to find a church terested in churches that have columns you read and see each ity with the past,” Mr. Harrison than 7,000 visits. because it has disappeared. St. gone to other denominations. He month in The Anglican are says. “And we are about death Sometimes he finds the church Barnabas, Halton, torn down in talks of Eastern and Russian Or - made possible by the generous and resurrection in our Christian still exists but is no longer used the 1970s, was described only as thodox churches that fill the plain donations of you, our readers. journey, so that plays out in this for worship. After it was closed in being on a corner at an intersec - interior of an Anglican church Without your financial sup - story of lost Anglican churches.” 1909, St. Margaret’s at Queen tion. However, Mr. Harrison found with icons and colour. “The shell port, we would not be able to A historian by training, Mr. Street and Spadina Avenue was the site when he visited the locale is still there but all this richness bring you the paper in its cur - Harrison started investigating given an art deco façade and is and saw a building on one corner has been added and they’re really rent form. If you haven’t al - lost Anglican churches through now a store crammed with fab - that was newer than the struc - quite spectacular,” he says. ready done so, I encourage you his interest in St. Jude, Ronces - rics. tures on the other corners. In addition to Toronto’s lost to make a donation and keep valles, where his grandfather was “You can see some of the archi - In one case, even the land has churches, there are another 126 this important ministry going. the rector and he was baptized. tectural details are still there in - disappeared. In 1911, St. Nicholas lost churches outside the city. An envelope for the annual An - Closed in the 1970s and later side and along the exterior side of was built on Fisherman’s Island, a “That’s a long-term project, if I glican Journal appeal is insert - torn down, it had an interesting the building, but I walked by sandbar that ran south from Cher - ever decide to tackle it,” he says. ed in this issue. As usual, your post-Anglican history: the church Queen and Spadina almost my en - ry Beach. Church and island dis - “It’s a retirement project.” donation will be split evenly was used by other denominations, tire life and had no idea that that appeared when the harbour area Lost Anglican Churches can be between The Anglican and the and the parish hall became a was an Anglican church,” he says. was filled in 1915. found at http://lostanglicanchurch - national paper. Thank you. farmer’s market and then a dance Sometimes Mr. Harrison has to Mr. Harrison is particularly in - es.wordpress.com/. Stuart Mann, editor FUNERALS BECOMING ‘ENDURANCE ORDEALS’ – SEE PAGE 5 2 The Anglican N E W S September 2013 First round of grants total $593,398 Application good and here is a way to support it.’ That financial gift is a real en - couragement at the local level.” deadline The first grants were not limit - ed to parishes. Wycliffe College received $75,000 to help launch a Sept. 15 new program called the Graduate Certificate in Missional Leader - Continued from Page 1 ship. The one-year course will The money will be given for equip clergy with practical skills work in the following areas: lead - in the areas of community en - ership development, pioneering gagement and formation, mis - ministry, communicating in a sional thinking, preaching and wireless world, adaptive reuse of worship and leadership develop - parish facilities and enabling ment. parishes to become multi-staffed. “We want the program to be at The Church of the Transfigura - the leading edges of growth and tion was one of eight applicants discovery for church ministry in who received funding from the our day,” says the Rev. Dr. Peter campaign in the spring. The dead - Robinson, professor of Proclama - line for applications for the next tion, Worship and Ministry at round of grants is Sept. 15. Wycliffe. Canon Baston said he was im - He says the course, which pressed with the first batch of ap - draws heavily on practical experi - plications. “It was clear that the From left, Jeff Potter, Nicole Coates, the Rev. David Giffen, Giselle Trenaman and Becky Potter of the Church ence and case-based learning, will parishes had taken an effort to be of the Transfiguration, Toronto, will hire a children’s ministry coordinator with a grant from the Our Faith- become a “think tank” that will innovative and creative, in terms Our Hope campaign. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON provide important resources for of developing a proposal. It was in - both the college and the diocese. teresting to see the thoughts they gory except adapting parish facil - his church better communicate phone call or a visit.” “We pray that through its gradu - had about what they could do to ities. The grants ranged in size with the world around it. “We’ve He says St. Paul’s will be using ates, this program will encourage re-imagine church and really from $2,698 to assist a priest with discovered that a lot of people first the money to update the church’s renewed Christian discipleship in make an effort to spread the life of professional development to connect with St. Paul’s by visiting audio-visual equipment and to our day, a renewed sense of mis - Christ more broadly throughout $361,200 to support a new church. our website, where they get a create better online content, both sion among Anglicans in this dio - the diocese.” The Rev. Canon Kim Beard, the sense of our ministry and what’s to use during worship services cese and a renewed momentum in In total, $593,398 was given out incumbent of St. Paul on the Hill, going on here. That’s where and to share with the outside church growth – parish by in the first round of funding.
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