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TheTHE NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF TORONTO A A SECTION OF THE ANGnLICAN JOURNAL g l www.tiorontoc.anglican.ca n SEPTEMBER 2014 Tech tools enhance services Screens, videos increase participation

This is the first in a series on how the diocese’s Our Faith-Our Hope: Re-Imagine Church cam - paign is helping churches pro - claim and live out the Gospel in new ways.

BY STUART MANN

ON Father’s Day, the 11 o’clock congregation at St. Paul on-the- Hill, Pickering, sat in rapt atten - tion as some young people from the parish talked about why they liked their fathers. It was a de - lightful moment, bringing smiles to many. The difference was, the chil - dren were speaking in a short video that was shown on an elec - tronic screen at the front of the Parishioner Bill Bradbury operates the video camera and inputs the liturgy wording from the control desk at St. Paul on-the-Hill, Pickering. PHOTO church. With expert lighting, BY MICHAEL HUDSON sound and editing, they were able to tell their stories – and the con - out the building, including the camera technology, enabling it to addition to broadcasting the serv - morning. gregation was able to watch and parish hall. This helps with over - broadcast the service on screens ice, we can show things like pre - The church is using technology listen to them -- in a powerful way. flow crowds for things like wed - in the sanctuary. This means that sentations from the children and to not only enhance its worship St. Paul’s was able to create this dings, funerals, baptisms and oth - worshippers no longer have to flip liturgical dancing that people at experience but to welcome people experience with the help of a er special occasions, says the Rev. through prayer and hymn books, the back of the church might not who visit online. Its website in - $13,000 grant from the diocese’s Canon Kim Beard, incumbent. as the words and music are pro - otherwise see.” cludes a video that shows clips Our Faith-Our Hope: Re-Imagine “With the service on large jected up on the screens. Parishioner Bill Bradbury is from parish life. There are also Church campaign. The fundrais - screens, people in the parish hall “We can go paperless,” says the church’s audio-visual coordi - recordings of sermons and spe - ing drive has raised $41 million in can participate,” he says. “They Canon Beard. “This is helpful for nator, putting together all of the cial presentations, for those who pledges to help churches in the can sing along, watch and listen several reasons. Number one, service material for the screens can’t attend in person or are look - diocese share the Gospel in new to what is going on in the sanctu - people are looking up during wor - and doing the camerawork. He’s ing for a church. “For people who ways. ary. It makes their worship expe - ship. The singing is better and been training young people from are checking us out, they can get St. Paul’s used part of its grant rience much more intimate than people are looking at what’s hap - the parish to help out with the a good idea of who we are by our to install new wiring, allowing the it otherwise would be.” pening at the front rather than camera and to run the sound website,” says Canon Beard. church to show its services on The church also used some of looking down. Secondly, it’s envi - board. Together, they look after five electronic screens through - its grant to upgrade its video ronmentally friendly. Thirdly, in the audio and visuals on a Sunday Continued on Page 7 Archbishop celebrates on anniversary Newspapers need support

ON the 10th anniversary of his in - “We’re seeing it in our advocacy Archbishop Johnson was con - AS we begin another season of look forward every month to stallation as Bishop of Toronto, for the homeless, in placing the secrated bishop on June 21, 2003, The Anglican , please consider news, opinions, features, inter - Archbishop Colin Johnson will be diocese on a good financial foot - and served as the area bishop of making a donation to the Angli - views and coming events – all celebrating the Eucharist at 11 ing with the Our Faith-Our Hope Trent-Durham. He was elected can Journal Appeal (an envelope packaged in an attractive and a.m. on Sept. 14 at St. James campaign raising in excess of $40 diocesan bishop a year later and is tucked inside this issue for your easy-to-read format. Your finan - Cathedral. All are invited. million for ministry, and in his was installed on Sept. 12, 2004. convenience.) This will ensure cial gift will be split evenly be - “As the diocesan bishop, he able presence as our leader. He More information about the that the paper continues to carry tween the national paper (the An - sets the vision and goals of the brings a sharp intellect along service at the cathedral will be photos and stories of Anglicans in glican Journal ) and your diocesan diocese and we’re seeing the with an abiding faith in God posted on the diocese’s website, our diocese who are living out paper ( The Anglican .) Thank you fruits of his labour 10 years later,” through Jesus Christ and contin - www.toronto.anglican.ca, as it be - their faith in so many different for your support of this important says Bishop Philip Poole, area ues to provide faithful and excel - comes available. and fascinating ways. By making ministry. bishop of York-Credit Valley. lent ministry for the diocese.” a donation, you can continue to Stuart Mann, editor

INCOME TOP-UP FOR THOSE IN POVERTY? – SEE PAGE 5 2 The Anglican N E W S September 2014 Carnival kicks off at church Organizers, politicians blessed

MEMBERS of the Church of the children also sang. Nativity, Malvern, have always “Everyone was there for the supported and taken part in the same reason, which was to have Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival, fun and praise God and pray for held annually in Toronto to cele - the carnival to be a safe and hap - brate West Indian music, cuisine py occasion for all,” said the Rev. and the performing arts. But this Pam Prideaux, incumbent. “Na - year was just a little more spe - tivity has always played a role in cial. sponsoring the arts and culture, The church, located in Scarbor - and as a church with a primarily ough, hosted the celebration’s Caribbean heritage, it was very opening service on July 13. The special to be asked to host the service featured a blessing for service,” she said. the event’s organizers, volun - Each year, a church is selected teers, sponsors and local politi - to host the opening service of the Kanika Ambrose dances with Toronto City Councillor Raymond Cho at the Church of the Nativity, Malvern, dur - cians, including mayoral candi - three-week extravaganza. Nativi - ing a service of celebration and blessing for the Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival. Below, people gather for the date Olivia Chow. Participants ty was chosen this year because blessing. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON danced to the sounds of the Steel of its close proximity to the jun - Angels, the church’s steel pan ior carnival parade, which went day, the church set up a water pants and those who lined the band. The church’s choir and by the church on July 19. On that station in the church for partici - route to watch. The big carnival parade took place near Exhibi - tion Place on Aug. 2. In addition to giving the bless - ing, Ms. Prideaux took part in the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the # ! junior parade and said the grace at the gala. She praised her # ! parishioners for organizing the # $" # service at the church. “It all came together very smoothly be - */, *).,%/.%*).*.$!%* !-!*"*,*).* ) cause we have really great mem - ! !-%#).! .*-/++*,. bers of the church who take care 6 */,,%-$ of things and get things done.” 6 %.$*,&- 6 $!%-$*+7-*(+)3-/++*,.%)# '!,#3 %).%(!-*")!! 6 $!)#'% )%* !-!*"*,*).**/) .%*) -ARY''RIFlTH"! -"! *$ 6 )3*.$!,+,.*".$!$/, $ ''"*, !.%'- -ACLAREN #ORLETT,,0 "ARRISTER3OLICITOR/NTARIO "LOOR3TREET%AST !TTORNEY#OUNSELOR AT ,AW.EW9ORK 3UITE 3OUTH4OWER 4ORONTO /.-72 *,(*,!%)"*,(.%*)+'!-! '' !.!,%-%-4!& 7ILLS 4RUSTS%STATES "USINESS 2EAL%STATE 4EL %,! .*,*".!1, -$%+!0!'*+(!). &AX !2. 5 WWWMACLARENCORLETTCOM% MAILMGRIFlTH MACORLAWCOM

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BY HENRIETA PAUKOV

IF you peek into the storefront at 403 King Street East, near Parlia - ment Street in Toronto, you might see some of the staff of Lit - tle Trinity church (Trinity East is its official name) going about their day. And that is exactly what they intended. “That has always been the vi - sion around these buildings, that it’s our storefront into the com - munity,” says John van Gent, deputy people’s warden and chair sion we had for expanding our From top left: One of the restored of the committee that led an al - ministry into the community,” storefronts at King and Parlia - most $4.5 million project to re - says Mr. van Gent. “We decided ment in Toronto, just steps from store the façades of the Francis we felt called to redevelop the the church; the renovated space Beale Buildings at 399-403 King buildings for our own mission and behind the storefronts; city coun - Street East and build new struc - ministry.” cillor Pam McConnell, Bishop tures behind them. Two capital campaigns will Patrick Yu, deputy people’s war - The Georgian-style buildings raise more than $2.5 million in to - den John van Gent and parish - were built in the middle of the tal. The first started in 2009 and ioner Doug Milloy cut the ribbon 19th century, when the area was ended in 2013; the second started to open the new facility. PHOTOS BY home to working-class Irish im - this year and goes until 2018. In ANDREA D’SILVA migrants. They were designed as addition, the Diocese contributed commercial facilities—an inn and about $1.2 million in grant fund - a store have been among the ten - ing and also provided a bridge ants—with residential accommo - loan. Besides treasure, virtually grow,” he says. Little Trinity is al - dation in the upper stories. Little every member of the congrega - so planning to use some of the Trinity acquired the land in the tion gave time and talent as dif - wall space to feature local artists. at 5 p.m., celebrated by Bishop late 19th century and had stopped ferent aspects of the project took Other ideas will emerge as the Peter Fenty, followed by the din - using the buildings by the early shape, from interior design to IT congregation listens to what the BRIEFLY ner at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $60, 1980s. They fell into disrepair. and audio-visual equipment. The community needs, says Mr. with a tax receipt of $30, and can Over the years, the congrega - ground floor now houses the Haughton. In the meantime, it’s be purchased by calling Felicia tion explored ideas for using the church office, the basement is a warm out and people are coming Priest given arts award Holder at 416-636-5071. buildings, including various com - youth ministry space, and the sec - to Little Trinity Park next door to The Rev. Canon Graham Cotter, munity partnerships, but had no ond floor is a multi-purpose space walk their dogs or relax on the an honorary assistant at St. money for development, says Mr. with a commercial kitchen. grass, so the church is planning a Mark, Port Hope, has received Lay anointers van Gent. Finally, 10 years ago, The project was a “four million series of Music in the Park the Companion of the Worship to be trained they brainstormed about what dollar investment in neighbour - events. Arts Award, given to a Lutheran The annual Lay Anointers’ Train - sort of spaces they wanted for hood mission,” says the incum - The church held an official re- and an Anglican every two years ing Weekend, hosted by the Bish - their ministry activities. bent, the Rev. Tim Haughton. For opening celebration on May 25 in recognition of their contribu - op’s Committee on Healing, will “We came up with a sizeable instance, the church offers Alpha and posted photos on Facebook. tions to the worship life of the be held Nov. 21-23 at St. John’s list, and we realized quickly that courses and “lots of people from “Amazing celebration,” wrote church. In 1994, Canon Cotter and Convent in Toronto. For more in - we didn’t have enough space in the neighbourhood are interested one commenter. “So glad I made his late wife, Evelyn, donated the formation and to register, visit our existing buildings for what we in connecting and this space will it to the dedication. What a testa - seed money for the Sacred Arts the diocese’s website, were doing, let alone for the vi - give that ministry a chance to ment of God with us!” Trust, an endowment adminis - www.toronto.anglican.ca. Regis - tered by the Anglican Foundation tration will close Oct. 24. (For re - to provide financial support for lated article, see Archbishop’s Di - creative liturgical expression ary on Page 4.) across Canada through worship, Outreach conference Oct.4 drama, liturgical dance, perform - Primate’s Fund ing arts, music and the visual arts. The Sacred Arts Trust has provides food WHAT does it mean to stretch a Another innovative workshop, one of Canada’s top media com - also helped support several na - The Pimate’s World Relief and meagre income to put food on the led by staff from the Workers Ac - mentators on social issues. tional worship conferences. The Development Fund has launched table, pay rent and meet other ba - tion Centre, will confront the About 150 Anglicans from award is given by the national a new program to provide food to sic needs? Participants in this plight of low-wage workers, an is - across the diocese attend the con - Anglican and Lutheran churches. more than 10,000 people, mostly year’s Outreach Networking Con - sue raised by the diocese earlier ference each year for a day of women and children, displaced ference can get a real-life taste of this year through a vestry motion learning, sharing ideas, inspira - Dinner supports by the conflict in South Sudan. the tough choices involved campaign that encouraged sup - tion and fellowship. The confer - The food will help bridge the gap through a workshop called port for a $14.50 minimum wage in ence takes place at Holy Trinity church in Caribbean between now and when they can “Poverty is No Game.” It will be Ontario. School, 11300 Bayview Ave., Rich - The Rev. Dr. Kortright Davis, pro - harvest their crops. led by Deacon Kyn Barker, as well The issue of whether the church mond Hill, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. fessor of theology at Howard Uni - as Sharon Anderson, who lives on should engage in political advoca - All are welcome. The conference versity School of Divinity and Society commemorates a low income and is involved in cy will be debated at a workshop fee of $25 ($10 for students and rector of Holy Comforter Episco - advocacy efforts to alleviate called “Is the Gospel Political?” led unemployed individuals) includes pal Church in Washington, D.C., diocese’s founding poverty. by the Rev. Paul Hansen, a theolo - lunch, and can be made online. will be the keynote speaker at the The Canadian Church Historical Poverty is just one of many gian and keynote speaker at a pre - Child care is provided, but please annual Canadian Friends to West Society will host a conference to workshop choices offered to par - vious conference. Workshops on request it by Sept. 25. For further Indian Christians fundraising commemorate the 175th anniver - ticipants at the conference, which environmental issues, restorative details and to register, visit dinner, held on Nov. 15 at the sary of the founding of the Dio - will take place on Oct. 4 in Rich - justice and refugee issues are also www.toronto.anglican.ca/out - Church of the Ascension, 33 Over - cese of Toronto. The conference mond Hill. The conference theme being offered. reachconference. Please register land Blvd., Toronto. Funds raised will take place Oct. 31 to Nov. 2 at is “Repairing the Breach,” in - Toronto Star columnist Carol as soon as possible so that you by the dinner support the work of Trinity College, Toronto. Histori - spired by the vision of faith in ac - Goar, the conference’s keynote can sign up for your first choice of the church in the Caribbean. The cal papers on a number of sub - tion outlined in Isaiah 58:12. speaker, is highly respected as workshops, before they fill up. evening begins with a eucharist jects will be presented. 4 The Anglican C O M M E N T September 2014 We all need healing The Anglican hen I was a newly ARCHBISHOP’S DIARY cal bodies, our minds, our souls or our rela - The Anglican is published under ordained priest, I tionships. Good healing recognizes the prop - the authority of the Bishop of Toronto Wwas called to the BY ARCHBISHOP COLIN JOHNSON er place of death, that final mystery that we and the Incorporated Synod of the hospital to see a must all face as mortal beings. Healing is Diocese of Toronto. Opinions expressed in very sick parishioner. I knew that was unexplained. about living faithfully and fully in this life, The Anglican are not necessarily those of that one of the sacramental Rowan Williams, the retired archbishop of until we receive the final and fullness of sal - the editor or the publisher. rites of the church was Canterbury and no one’s fool, once said vation (wholeness and healing) in the life to Canon Stuart Mann: Editor anointing for healing. I had “Where there is joy, you can be sure that Je - come. read about it but never seen it sus is in the neighbourhood.” It can also be A long-time friend who had been strongly Address all editorial material to: done. So with some awkwardness, I offered said the other way around: “When Jesus is in influenced by the Church of England’s heal - The Anglican the ministry, not knowing what to expect. I the neighbourhood, there is joy.” When Je - ing centre in Burrswood, had a dream to cre - 135 Adelaide Street East was shocked by what occurred – not an in - sus is present, healing happens, not simply ate such a healing centre in Toronto. She Toronto, Ontario M5C 1L8 stantaneous healing (that was certainly not as a miraculous sign, but as the reality of bugged me about it every time we met for Tel: (416 ) 363 -6021, ext. 247 my expectation!) but the deep calming of an God’s “shalom,” God’s abiding purpose to re - over 30 years! The diocese did create a very Toll free: 1 -80 0-66 8-8932 agitated spirit, and sleep. store all things to wholeness, the peace and modest centre that was not long-lived. Per - Fax: (416 ) 36 3-7678 Normally, I don't want my ministry to put salvation that God brings and that God is. haps the time was not right or the needs E-mail: [email protected] people to sleep. But here was a profound ex - Jesus’ acts of healing were not just about here were different. What has happened, Circulation: For all circulation inquiries, ception. I touched the person with the oil the individual’s physical well-being; they al - however, has been much more profound: the including address changes, new blessed by the bishop during Holy Week ways brought the person back into engage - launch of a multitude of healing centres in subscriptions and cancellations, (along with the chrism for baptisms), traced ment with their community. the local parish churches across the diocese call the Circulation Department at a sign of the cross with it on the person’s In Sirach 38:1-14 (the lesson appointed for where the ministry of healing has sprung up (416) 924-9199, ext. 259/245, or email forehead, and uttered the prayer, “As you are the feast of St. Luke, apostle and physician, in ways that could not have been anticipated [email protected]. outwardly anointed with this holy oil, so may on Oct. 18) we are told to “honour physicians when I was ordained almost 40 years ago. You can also make changes online: our heavenly Father grant you the inward for their services, for the Lord created them; Well trained lay anointers have joined clergy visit www.anglicanjournal.com anointing of the Holy Spirit” (BAS, p. 555). for their gift of healing comes from the Most in the regular offering of healing ministry and click Subscription Centre. Since then, I have regularly offered the High.” It praises medicines and the pharma - that is at the heart of Jesus’ mission. The Carol McCormick sacrament of healing in my pastoral visits, cists who create them, and tells us not to de - kingdom of God has drawn near. : Advertising and very often with the same results: no sud - spise them. (Remember, this is a text that is I give thanks for the ministry of healing in Address all advertising material to: den miracles, but a reassuring peacefulness 2,300 years old!) But the sick are also advised our diocese: for the team of devout and Fenn Company Inc. that “gives rest to the weary soul and makes to pray to God, to confess their sins (to come learned laity and clergy on the Bishop’s 2130 King Road, P.O. Box 1060 the ailing body whole.” into a right relationship with God, their Commission on Healing who provide top King City, Ontario L7B 1B1 We live in an age of science and reason, neighbour and themselves), to make a ritual notch, ongoing training in this ministry; for Tel: (905 ) 833 -6200, ext. 25 wary of the old magic and fakery that con - offering and then see the physician and phar - the clergy and laity who have been licensed Toll free: 1 -80 0-209 -4810 trolled those with less knowledge. I had al - macist, who exercise their God-given healing by the bishops to exercise this sacramental Fax: (905 ) 833 -2116 ways been faintly embarrassed by the mira - gifts. ministry in the name of Jesus Christ; for E-mail: cmccormick @canadads.com cle stories of Jesus. I was deeply offended by Modern medicine has shown us that sick - those who act as “ambassadors of reconcilia - the televangelists’ healing crusades and the ness has a physical pathway that was un - tion” in a wider ministry of healing in our The Anglican Church hype surrounding them, and in the manipu - known in previous eras, but we are learning world; for parish nurse and health teams lation of fragile and vulnerable people. In the again of the emotional, psychological and building healthy communities; and indeed, In the Anglican Communion: Diocese of Toronto, we had a story about spiritual components of illness, and the com - for those whose vocation is as physicians, A global community of 70 charismatic healing services that went mor - plexity and interconnectedness of cause and nurses, pharmacists, therapists, technicians million Anglicans in 64,000 bidly wrong. effect, and indeed of idiopathic disease with and researchers, for taking their essential congregations in 164 countries. But you cannot read the Gospels without no known cause. Healing involves medicine part in the healing of God’s creation. Archbishop of Canterbury: realizing that at the heart of Jesus’ ministry and technology, skill and reason, and, yes, On St. Luke’s Day on Oct. 18 (or right The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Justin Welby , is healing – labelled miraculous because the prayer and reconciliation. It is an integrated now!) take a moment to give thanks for the Lambeth Palace, healings were unexpected, a sign of some - whole. ministry of healing, a visible sign of Christ’s London, England SE1 7JU. thing unknown, a presence of God’s power We all need healing, whether of our physi - presence in our midst. In Canada: A community of about 600,000 members in 30 dioceses, stretching from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland and north to the Is there a way to share our faith? Arctic Ocean. Primate: The Most Rev. Fred Hiltz, n the weekend of Sept. BISHOP’S OPINION to go against our personality. “I can’t do that!” Church House, 80 Hayden St. 12, the Billy Graham says the average Anglican. So if that is what Toronto, ON M4Y 3G2 Evangelistic Associa - BY BISHOP PATRICK YU evangelism entails, we either avoid it or resist O In the Diocese of Toronto: tion will sponsor a it. “Festival of Hope” at the Air But there is another paradigm involving an - A community of 254 congregations in 210 parishes covering 26,000 square kilometers. Canada Centre. Churches in Say evangelism and someone is sure to reply other journey: it took place on the afternoon Of the nearly 5 million people who live Toronto, including some An - with, “I don’t want to shove religion down of Easter, on the road to Emmaus. You will re - within the diocesan boundaries, 376,000 glican churches, have been ad - someone’s throat!” It is not limited to Canada, call that Jesus walked incognito alongside two claim to be affiliated with the Anglican vertising and supporting this event. We hope I’ve found. A theological student in New disillusioned disciples away from Jerusalem. Church, with about 80,000 people and pray that the ministry will indeed be Zealand expressed a similar sentiment when He listened to them, met them where they identified on the parish rolls. The diocese about hope, and will bring many closer to she said, “I don’t want to change anyone’s were, but also challenged them. When they is home to many ethnic and language- faith in Jesus. mind. I just want to help them.” Noble senti - were good and ready, their eyes were opened based congregations, including African, Those who study the trends of evangelism, ment, but then I asked her how that is differ - and they recognized him at the breaking of Caribbean, Chinese, Filipino, French, however, say that evangelistic rallies are not ent than any other helping profession, and bread. What Bishop Cottrell wanted us to un - Hispanic, Japanese, and Tamil. The City of as effective today as they were in the past. will the church always be there if no one’s derstand from this narrative was that before Toronto has the largest population of Studies by the Billy Graham organization it - mind is changed towards her in a secular soci - we can speak, we need to listen. Listen to the aboriginal peoples in the country. self show that it takes an average unchurched ety? We believe the only choices are between friends we have, listen to the culture and its The Archbishop of Toronto: person five years to make a faith commit - a style of evangelism we dislike and not shar - hopes and aspirations, its heartaches and dis - The Most Rev. Colin Johnson ment. About 75 per cent of people who come ing our faith at all. appointments. In doing so, we join the Risen to faith with little or no church background do Bishop Stephen Cottrell of the Diocese of Christ who is already walking with people, York-Credit Valley: so gradually. Of the many people who will Chelmsford, in the Church of England, helped even when they think they are walking away The Rt. Rev. Philip Poole make a profession of faith at the Festival of the clergy of our diocese on this issue when from him. We only need to join in the action Hope, it is very likely that much work has he spoke at our clergy conference in June. He that God has begun. It is a humbler stance, Trent-Durham: been done beforehand by friends and family was humorous, encouraging and challenging not as people who have all the answers but as The Rt. Rev. Linda Nicholls in conversations, invitations and prayer, and at the same time. One of the most helpful people who recognize that God is walking York-Scarborough: indeed, we believe, by the internal witness of things he did was to reframe evangelism in a with us and care to point out to others this The Rt. Rev. Patrick Yu the Holy Spirit. different paradigm. Much of our impression of amazing reality. My own faith journey from unchurched to evangelism is based on the Damascus road If that is what evangelism entails, then I be - York-Simcoe: faith was also a gradual one over many years, story, when Paul was dramatically confronted lieve Anglicans have many of the gifts to en - The Rt. Rev. Peter Fenty in line with the 75 per cent. Anglicans in the by the Risen Christ and was instantly trans - gage in it. We have highly developed social The Diocese of Toronto: Diocese of Toronto, however, are obsessed formed from a persecutor of the church to its skills, we tend to be exploratory rather than 135 Adelaide St. E., with sudden conversions and are uncomfort - great missionary. There continues to be such dogmatic, and we have an emphasis on pas - Toronto, Ont., M5C 1L8 able with them. They associate all evangelism dramatic conversions – 25 per cent, according toral care, which is no more and no less than 1-800-668-8932/416-363-6021 with drama, emotionalism and manipulation. to studies – but even if it is effective, it seems Continued on Page 10 Web site: http://www.toronto.anglican.ca September 2014 C O M M E N T The Anglican 5

EDITOR’S We can do this CORNER BY STUART MANN Hugh Segal, the former Conservative sen - ator and new master of Massey College, University of Toronto, spoke about a guar - anteed annual income for Canadians at St. Anne, Toronto, on May 25. The parish’s No need Social Justice and Advocacy Working Group had invited him to speak during the Sunday morning service. The follow - to panic ing is an abridged version of Mr. Segal’s address. esus welcomes you, Dad,” said BY HUGH SEGAL Henry, reading the sign outside Jthe big Pentecostal church on the My exposure to the realities of poverty, edge of town. both as they affect our lives and the moral “Yes he does,” I answered. challenge related to dealing with it, began We were at the end of a fishing trip when I was very young. Calling my par - and it hadn’t gone well. We had driven ents lower working class in Montreal about 200 kilometres and caught exactly would have been a significant overstate - one fish – a perch that wasn’t much big - ment of their economic circumstance. I re - ger than the hook. The mileage and the call baskets of food being delivered by the lack of fish had made us cranky and jad - local congregation when they knew that ed. As we drove home, defeated, the sign we were in some trouble. I recall dining seemed to mock our situation. room table gatherings on Sunday night Hugh Segal (right) speaks to members of St. Anne’s after the service. PHOTO BY MICHAEL Henry fell silent, knowing that to con - with the bills piled high and my father HUDSON tinue could lead to trouble. I let my kids saying, “We have bills for groceries, bills talk about anything they want, but I for drugs, bills for doctors, bills for the Toronto Star did stories about senior citi - But if we can find $362 billion in one year, draw the line at making fun of Jesus. rent and bills for the heat. We can pick zens being evicted from their apartments the notion that we can find $30 billion a To be honest, I was surprised at the any two to pay this month.” That was part because they couldn’t afford the rent and year to top up those who fall beneath the conviction of my response. For some of the reality. were buying dog and cat food to have a lit - poverty line strikes me as completely rea - weeks, I had been having a “wilderness I also attended religious schools be - tle bit of protein to add to their diets be - sonable and utterly affordable. experience,” as some folks in the church tween the ages of seven and 16 – a pre-rab - cause they couldn’t afford real food. In like to say. This means that God feels binical seminary in Montreal. I was taught that period of our history, 35 per cent of Staying in school very far away and our faith is rather from the Old Testament about where our senior citizens were living beneath There’s a town in Manitoba called shaky. poverty stood in terms of what God expect - the poverty line. They were mostly Dauphin, and in the mid-70s, Prime Minis - This always happens to me in late ed of all of us. Deuteronomy 15:11: “You women whose husbands had died without ter Trudeau and then Premier Edward June, just as summer holidays beckon. shall open wide your hand to your brother, any savings or pension or equity built up Shreyer agreed to a test called the Min - After a year of working for the church to the needy and poor in your land.” Leviti - in a home, and they were managing as come. In Dauphin, everybody was told and attending worship services, I need a cus 23:22: “And when you reap the harvest best they could. that if for some reason there was a bad complete break. I’ve found that too much of your land, you shall not reap your field crop cycle and they didn’t do well at the God and Jesus isn’t necessarily a good right up to its edge nor shall you gather Poverty reduced end of the year, they would be topped up. thing. the gleaning after your harvest. You Four weeks (after those stories were pub - Seventeen per cent of the people needed The problem is, my annual breaks- should leave them for the poor and the so - lished), the premier of Ontario stood up help, which meant that 83 per cent didn’t from-the-faith can become a little too journer. I am the Lord your God.” and brought in the Guaranteed Annual need help at all. Everybody benefitted be - complete. It never ceases to astonish me Income Supplement, which was very sim - cause when they brought in that guaran - how Jesus, who is very nearly the central Low wages ple. There were no new civil servants, no tee, guess what happened? Hostel admis - figure in my life, can disappear so utterly Friends, poverty is too often dismissed by new programs, no new forms to fill out. sions fell by eight per cent, car accidents from view as soon as I put on a pair of politicians on the far right and the far left Instead, you simply filed your tax form, as fell, arrests fell, family violence fell. Do sandals, flop in my favourite coffee shop as being the result of people being simply we’re all supposed to do every year, and if you know what increased? High school and crack open the New York Times. lazy and not wanting to work. They say it you fell beneath a certain level, you were students staying to finish their high As the summer days drift by, one is so complex, there is no way to solve it automatically topped up. That spread school education, which we all know is the blending into another, Jesus (let alone without a hundred different special pro - from Ontario to other provinces and even - best first step to a life of some measure of God), seems ever more distant, buried grams. In this city, the vast majority of tually became part of the federal social se - economic success and security. under layers of indifference. At that poor people have a job. Some have more curity process. We know the guaranteed annual in - point he becomes like a historical figure than one. But the jobs have wages that are In two years, that 35 per cent rate of come can work in Canada. It has been to me, a curiosity. I wonder why I ever so low they don’t produce the income nec - poverty was reduced to three per cent. So tried, and there is serious data available got so worked up about him. essary to cover the rent, the food, the when people say to me, this can’t be done, for our politicians to address. This is usually the point at which I be - heat, the transportation and the clothes. we’ve never done it before, there’s no ex - Not eradicating poverty when we have gin to panic. It’s one thing to let every - This myth about people sitting on couches perience, I say that’s not true. We have the tools to do it is the ultimate immorali - thing slide: it’s quite another to let your and watching television and eating pop - done it before, and we can do it again. ty. As human beings in a wealthy country, saviour slide with it. I begin to wonder if corn is generally absolutely untrue. The OECD (Organization for Economic we can do this. We can reach out to those I can really manage this (life) on my own. Those who argue that poverty is very Co-operation and Development) says that who have their noses pressed to the win - Can coffee and the New York Times real - complex are against doing something sim - in terms of poverty amongst senior citi - dow of the economic mainstream, against ly fill the void? ple that addresses the core question. They zens, Canada is in the top five in the world the windows of the restaurant we call At this point I usually set a goal to say poverty is the result of low education, in terms of solutions that work. But when Canada, knowing they can’t get in. We read one of the Gospels, some of Paul’s of parental dysfunction, of drug abuse, of it comes to people who are poor and are of can say to them that with the grace of letters or a few of the epistles. (One sum - illiteracy, of immigration status, of not fin - working age, there are 24 countries, some God, there is room for everybody at the mer, for my sins, I read Revelation.) In ishing school. They say those causes are of which are much smaller and poorer family table that we call Canada. We have this way I have read the New Testament way too complex to solve in any simple than ours, that do a far better job. the wealth, we have the capacity and we several times. way, so the poor will always be with us The cost of topping up everybody in have the system of distribution. We can This past summer, feeling the link to and we just have to soldier on, doing what Canada who falls beneath a poverty line move beyond simply the swells helping as Jesus becoming perilously thin, I started we’re doing, when we know that what would be about 10 per cent of the present best they can for charity. We can move be - to read Matthew. After a few sentences, I we’re doing is not working. federal budget. When people say there’s yond public servants forcing women to stopped. It just wasn’t working. I flipped The rate of poverty in this country, not enough money to do that, I remind stand at bevelled glass to argue for through some more pages, hoping to find which is somewhere between nine and 15 them that in 2008 and 2009, when the enough money to feed their children. We something, but nothing stuck. I closed per cent, depending on the part of the banks began to collapse in the U.S. and can have a systemic, basic support, guar - the book. country you live in, hasn’t changed in a there was a huge financial problem, the anteed income for everyone. To my surprise, I didn’t feel panic at quarter of a century. Existing welfare pro - government of Canada found $362 billion, They said to Tommy Douglas, “You’re all. Jesus was still there, right in my grams, though well meaning and run by in one year, to have CMHC (Canada Mort - never going to have universal health in - core, Gospel or no Gospel, coffee or no people who are doing their very best, do gage and Housing Corporation) buy per - surance, so put it out of your mind.” They coffee, New York Times or no New York not lift anybody out of poverty. Quite the fectly good mortgages from the banks so fought him, tooth and nail. They brought Times . I somehow knew he would be. To contrary. The administration around eligi - that the banks would have the cash to it in in Saskatchewan and eventually it my delight and gratitude, I knew that my bility for welfare has 800 rules. You can be lend to people who were coming in to bor - was brought in for the rest of the country. faith (trust is a more accurate word) in the finest public servant in the world and row money for cars and mortgages and This too can happen. We probably need a Jesus didn’t depend on these annual mid- working as hard as you can, but that is an other things. I don’t disagree with that. fair amount of engagement between all of summer Hail Mary passes. Those days unmanageable workload. They were good mortgages and we now us in our respective political parties, and were over. Jesus would always be with We had this problem with respect to own those mortgages as taxpayers and I suspect a little bit of prayer always me, no matter where I was or what I did – our senior citizens back in the 1970s. The they’re generating a good, solid income. helps. unsuccessful fishing trips included. 6 The Anglican I N T E R V I E W September 2014 ‘We seem to be gaining some ground’

The Rev. Canon Dr. Isaac Kawu - The roots of the Consultation ki Mukasa, a priest of the Dio - of Anglican Bishops in Dia - cese of Toronto, is the Africa Re - logue may be traced back to lations Officer for the Anglican 2003-2004, when relations be - Church of Canada and The Epis - tween Africa and North Ameri - copal Church (USA). ca really started to deteriorate. A war of words erupted on the I fulfil a diplomatic role for internet, with groups vilifying both the Anglican Church of one another. In the midst of all Canada and The Episcopal that, a secessionist stream Church in relation to African emerged and anchored itself in provinces. My job involves cre - the largest provinces of the Com - The Rev. Canon Dr. Isaac Kawuki Mukasa, shown outside his office in Toronto, works to bridge the gap be - ating space for bishops from munion, in western and eastern tween the African and North American churches. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON African and the two North Africa. At the same time, the in - American provinces to meet and tegrity of the two North Ameri - to the first Consultation of Angli - and actions that were not always tion to flee the country. That is engage in conversation on a can provinces (the Anglican can Bishops in Dialogue, which correct. By meeting regularly how I ended up in Canada. This wide range of issues, and in the Church of Canada and The Epis - took place in London, England, and talking to one another, a side of my upbringing, difficult process build bridges and im - copal Church) was threatened in 2010. Since then, the bishops greater awareness of the chal - though it was, nevertheless prove relations between African and was in fact violated multiple have met in Dar es Salaam, Tan - lenges in the different mission turned me into a critical thinker. and North American dioceses times. That was the climate in zania in 2011, Toronto in 2012, fields will continue to develop. I recognized that order carries and provinces. which Archbishop Colin Johnson Cape Town in 2013 and Coventry While that may not lead to with it certain oppressive ele - chose to strike a different chord. this year. The 2014 meeting was agreements on certain issues, ments. I began to understand The broad vision is to bring As the bishop of perhaps the by far the largest, with 24 bish - the leaders will increasingly rec - that the very structures upon about healing between African most populous diocese in North ops (including the Archbishop of ognize that they are all faithfully which stability rests can at the and North American Angli - America, he chose to begin con - Canterbury) from 12 provinces. responding to the challenges of same time be immoral, destruc - cans following more than a necting with leaders in the their mission fields as best as tive and confining. The typically decade of injured relationships African church. In 2006, he and The meetings have strength - they can. Anglican vocation of balance be - that have threatened the sur - his wife Ellen visited Uganda. It ened the relationships among gan to set very deep roots in my vival of the Anglican Commun - was a difficult and courageous the bishops as co-workers in I was raised in Uganda in a consciousness. ion itself. Real difficulties decision because it was not at all God’s vineyard and con - typical Anglican clergy house - emerged when leaders from the clear that he would be received tributed to a lowering of ten - hold. At least two dynamics My favourite verse of scrip - two continents stopped talking by any of the bishops there. sions between African and had a formative impact on my ture is, “Blessed are the peace - to one another. To bring about Thankfully, some did. That was North American provinces. On life and influenced who I be - makers, for they shall be healing, we must try and find the beginning of his bridge- another level, the group has be - came. In the early days of my called Children of God” ways of bringing the leaders into building role between Africa and come a conciliatory voice in the life into my early teens, the East (Matthew 5:9). As a young fami - conversation in small and larger North America. Communion at a time when African Revival movement domi - ly man, my father was not popu - groups in which friendships can many leaders, particularly in nated my life. I went to numer - lar among his own people, the develop and trust be regained. In 2008, Archbishop Johnson Africa, are becoming weary of ous revival meetings with my Baganda. He had the “annoying” My job is to create opportunities sponsored a Fringe Event at the tensions in the Communion. siblings and “came to the Lord” tendency to accept and reach for such informal gatherings and the Lambeth Conference more times than I could count. out to people of other ethnic to find ways of leveraging the en - where a group of about 30 The bishops want to continue The movement instilled in me a groups and even try to learn ergy and goodwill that comes Canadian and African bishops meeting and learning more strong sense of morality and the their languages. Whenever he out of those encounters and feed met, got to know one another about one another's mission assumption that there’s a certain spoke other languages, some of that into the general healing of and talked about mission in contexts. Problems in the Com - order of things that cannot be vi - our own people despised him relations between the two conti - their different contexts. Some munion arose partly because olated and needs to be observed. and perceived him to be a trai - nents and in the Anglican Com - of the dioceses represented at there was very little awareness The other dynamic was the rise tor. Later as a leader in the munion in general. We seem to this event agreed to start a theo - of the dynamics in one another's of the African nationalist move - Church of Uganda, those same be gaining some ground in this logical conversation among them mission fields. This lack of ment: the emergence of “inde - traits enabled him to play a very regard. on the issue of human sexuality. awareness led to assumptions pendent” African states and the significant role in the country. It was that conversation that led about one another’s decisions ideology of post-colonialism, They made him a bridge-builder, with its critique of the establish - a peacemaker in a society trou - ment and deconstruction of tra - bled by its ethnicism. He in - ditional assumptions. 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As of June 1, the Our Faith-Our Hope: Re- for the diocese to create missional Imagine Church campaign has given a to - websites and social media strategies tal of $2,590,858 in grants to churches, in - for 18 strategic parishes over the next dividuals and groups for work in the fol - year and a half. lowing areas: leadership development, pi - • St. Bride, Clarkson. $15,000 to pur - oneering ministry, communicating in a chase equipment to install a new au - wireless world, enabling parishes to be - dio and visual system that is enabled come multi staffed and giving to others. by its website. Here is a summary of all the grants • St. Cuthbert, Leaside. $4,000 for an awarded to date. improved sound system and website. • St. George, Pickering Village, Ajax. Leadership Development $11,447 to purchase audio and visual • Wycliffe College. $75,000 for the de - equipment to strengthen their online velopment of a leadership program communications. for new clergy and lay leaders. • St. Hilda, Fairbank. $20,000 to install • The Rev. Richard Dentinger. $2,698 an in-house television channel that for a professional development will provide ministry to residents of course at St. George College, St. Hilda’s Tower and the Lewis Gar - Jerusalem. nsworthy Residence. • Spirit of Invitation. $120,400 for the • St. Peter, Erindale. $25,000 to create diocesan Spirit of Invitation working and implement a new communica - group to develop a course that uses tions strategy. video and instructional content to ex - • St. Paul, Newmarket. $30,000 to ex - plore the concept of invitation in a pand its WiFi, improve its website practical, dynamic and engaging and introduce video conferencing manner. and webcasting. • The Rev. Stephanie Douglas-Bowman. $15,000 to assist with doctoral studies Enabling Parishes to Become Multi- in children’s and family ministry. Staffed • Archbishop’s Youth Ministry Team. • St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto. $6,200 to offset the cost of the Dioce - $75,000 to hire a youth minister. san Youth Retreat, scheduled for • Church of the Transfiguration, Oct. 3-5. Toronto. $52,500 to hire a children’s • The Rev. Kevin Wong. $5,415 to help minister. finance the cost of taking an English • Christ Church, Stouffville. $25,000 to language training course. hire a director of young Christian formation. Pioneering Ministry • Holy Trinity, Thornhill. $62,000 to as - • Redeemer, Ajax. $361,200 to support a sist in the hiring of a youth ministry new church plant in Ajax. coordinator. • St. Matthew, Islington. $8,000 to pio - • Oshawa Area Parishes. $52,000 to neer a new ministry designed to bring provide joint church ministry for focus to the creative arts and artistic youth in the Oshawa area. expression as tools for ministry. • St. Jude, Wexford. $66,500 to hire an • Parish of Georgina. $16,500 to provide Grants from the campaign are changing the church. Clockwise from above: the Rev. Jen - additional member for the pastoral an outreach chaplaincy over three nifer Schick’s ministry is focussed on building up and encouraging programs for children staff at the parish, covering three years at Sibbald Point Provincial and youth at St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto; Dr. Sylvia Keesmaat teaches about hope in the years. Park during the summer months. Bible on Trent-Durham’s website; children celebrate Palm Sunday in Big River, • St. Olave, Swansea. $49,000 to hire a • Church of the Resurrection, Toronto. Saskatchewan, part of the Council of the North. PHOTOS BY MARY LOU HARRISON, BILL BRADBURY part-time children’s youth worker. $269,000 ($151,000 in the first year and AND THE COUNCIL OF THE NORTH $118,000 in the second year) to en - Giving to others hance its ability to pioneer ministry to launch a pilot project in video web- • St. Mary Magdalene, Schomberg. • Council of the North. The Council of in the recently disestablished parish conferencing and social media for the $9,000 to upgrade the church’s sound the North is made up of nine dioce - of St. Columba and All Hallows, purposes of Christian learning and system and install a WiFi system. ses, the Anglican Parishes of the Toronto. sharing. • Christ Memorial Church, Oshawa. Central Interior and the Archdea - • Communications Department, Dio - $27,298 to purchase video equipment conry of Labrador. They are in Communicating in a Wireless World cese of Toronto. $30,000 to make the and upgrade computer and website sparsely populated areas such as the • St. Paul on-the-Hill, Pickering. $13,000 diocesan website and FaithWorks technologies. Arctic, Yukon, northern and central for new wiring and video camera website viewable on mobile devices • Church of the Evangelists, New interior of British Columbia, Alberta, technology to broadcast services and and comply with new accessibility Tecumseth. $9,000 to improve and de - northern Saskatchewan and Manito - events on electronic screens and on standards. velop its website. ba, northern Ontario, northern Que - the website. • All Saints, Collingwood. $25,000 to en - • Grace Church in Scarborough. $4,000 bec and Newfoundland and • St. Augustine of Canterbury, Toronto. hance communications for those in to purchase flat screen TVs and Labrador. $500,000 for leadership $4,000 for a Friday Night movie pro - the congregation who are visually, screens to be utilized through the training and support. gram to reach those in the community. hearing or physically impaired. church, allowing the church to be - • Anglican Military Ordinariate. The • Parish of Penetanguishene and • Church of the Ascension, Don Mills. come paperless during worship and ordinariate is composed of all of An - Waubaushene. $10,000 to help equip $15,000 to purchase and install TV presentations. glicans in the Canadian Forces, in - all three parish points with technolo - screens, create a welcome video for • Grace Church on-the-Hill. $12,000 to cluding chaplains, military person - gy to enhance worship services and its website and improve its website. develop a mobile app that provides nel and their families. $500,000 to special event overflow. • Christ Church, Kettleby. $3,500 to in - Christian resources. fund the Office of the Bishop Ordi - • Trent-Durham Area Council. $3,500 stall a WiFi system in the church. • Parish Website Pilot Project. $58,700 nariate in perpetuity. Funds will strengthen ministry for years to come Church wired Continued from Page 1 BY PETER MISIASZEK Funds from the Our Faith-Our Hope: Re- sents the 40 per cent that is returned to Imagine Church campaign will be used to parishes on a quarterly basis as funds are The plan to equip the church with AS of June 30, $23,479,057.03 in actual gifts strengthen ministry in our diocese in the received, and will continue through 2017. screens, video camera upgrades, website has been received by the Our Faith-Our coming years. Not only will the funds allow The diocese has initiated an allocations features and wiring will cost about Hope: Re-Imagine Church campaign, with many parishes to invest in serious capital process for evaluating parish proposals for $50,000, of which $13,000 came from the outstanding pledges of $12,408,128.75. upgrades, retrofits and renovations, they significant grants from the campaign. The Our Faith-Our Hope campaign. “The These amounts total $35,887,185.78 from will also allow parishes to dream about Grant Application Guidelines are available grant has been a wonderful encourage - 8,549 donors. In addition, four parishes programs that they never thought possible on the diocese’s website (www.toronto.an - ment and it is much appreciated,” says have pledged to conduct campaigns on be - – either revitalizing our inheritance or glican.ca) on the Grants & Funding page Canon Beard. “We want to thank the cam - half of the diocese. Their total campaign reimagining the church of tomorrow. under the Parish Administration section. paign and the diocese. The grant encour - goal is $4,345,000, of which $2,649,000 is to As of June, 2014, $7,535,116.21 has been Parishes and congregations in the diocese aged us, and it helped us speed up the be remitted to the diocese. returned to parishes. This portion repre - Continued on Page 12 rate at which we can implement projects.” 8 The Anglican P A R I S H N E W S September 2014

ALL TOGETHER Bishop Philip Poole gathers with some members of St. Paul the Apostle, Rexdale, after a service of baptism, confirmation and re-affirmation of vows at the church on May 11. Eight people were confirmed, three re-af - firmed their vows and one was baptized. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON Feeding community ALTARPIECES for 18 years The Rev. Judy Oatway speaks at St. Mark Anglican-Lutheran Church, The community supper program Midland, surrounded by altarpieces from Kenya. With the support of Ms. at St. John, Weston, celebrated its Oatway and the Rev. Wilfred Alero, a Kenyan priest and artist, the people 18th anniversary in June with a of Sikri, Kenya, designed and stitched 13 altarpieces for their local An - barbeque attended by more than glican church, the Church of the Resurrection. The creative process of 100 people. Laura Albanese, MPP making the centrepieces, engaging with the Gospel and discovering for York-South Weston, presented what the stories meant to them helped knit the community of Sikri back St. John’s with a certificate in together, she said. Donations from the sale of some of the centrepieces recognition of the church’s serv - went to Sikri’s school building project and for clean water maintenance. ice to the community through the program. Two years ago, the weekly meal program was struggling. Age and ill-health had caused a number of core volunteers, including founder Mavis Breckenridge, to Mavis Breckenridge, the original founder of the meal program at St. step down. For six months in 2012, John, Weston (right), and her friend Audrey Ladkin, a long-time former “Com Sup”, as it’s known, was volunteer at the program, enjoy the 18th anniversary of the weekly held only twice a month and had lunch. PHOTO BY ELIN GOULDEN only one team of volunteers. A committee was formed to teams serving from 50 to 70 low- Jerusalem Sunday on June 1 with find ways to improve the logistics in come guests. posters, special hymns, a 10- of the program and attract new “We feel at home here,” says minute video on the Holy Land, volunteers. The then incumbent, Trish Schell, who, with husband the Jerusalem Eucharistic Prayer the Rev. Michelle Childs-Ward, Rob, is a regular volunteer as and special refreshments indica - approached the Rev. Michael Mc - well as guest of the program. tive of Israel – dates, apricots, Gourty of the nearby Roman Sylvia Giovanella, team coordina - grapes, fresh bagels, cream DUNKED LEGO CHURCH Catholic church of St. John the tor, agrees: “We try to make it a cheese and a Jewish coffee cake. Evangelist, to see if it could pro - family meal.” “It was an educating service,” Archbishop Colin Johnson wipes Bishop Philip Poole, the Rev. Penny vide support. The Catholic con - said Bruce Beveridge, a parish - his face after being dunked in the Lewis (left) and the Rev. Riscylla gregation not only provided two ioner. “Jerusalem, cradle of the water tank at Church of the Trans - Walsh Shaw are featured on a teams of volunteers, but donated Church celebrates three great monotheistic reli - figuration, Toronto’s picnic on church made out of Lego, created a barbecue to the program. Since gions, deserves a special Sunday June 8. Money raised by the dunk by young people at Christ Church, last year, Com Sup has returned Jerusalem Sunday of worship each year.” tank went to the Primate’s World Bolton. to a weekly schedule, with four St. Thomas, Brooklin, celebrated Relief and Development Fund.

work alongside the Rev. Rick with shopkeeper volunteers to Care. The goal is to find 100 read - story in Anglican Life. Through CANADA Chapman as part of the diocese’s help patrons choose appropriate ers who will donate $100 each to donation cans in t he parish’s Inner City Pastoral Ministry team. amounts for their family and help the paper keep publishing. A churches, bake sales and individ - The Messenger what they will use and need at number of readers have already ual donations, the young people this time. signed up, reports the paper. raised $1,800. Best of all, each BRIEFS Fruitful change “What we discovered was that The Diocesan Times young person took a turn shav - the interaction between patron ing Mr. Blackwood’s head follow - New position at food bank and volunteer increased and ing the Easter Vigil service. His KAMLOOPS – The organizers of there was joy and laughter in the Youth, rector pitch beard was trimmed, too. After - strengthens partnerships the Loaves and Fishes Food Bank room,” wrote Sheila Dunbar and in for PWRDF wards, everyone enjoyed a EDMONTON – Bishop Jane at St. Andrew’s/St. Mary’s in Lil - Jeanne Berdan. “Patrons said, ‘I ST. JOHN’S – As a challenge to potluck dinner. Alexander has appointed Sharon looet, B.C., report a very positive don’t need that item at this time,’ the confirmation class of the Anglican Life Pasula as the diocese’s first Abo - response to a change in the way and they chose the kinds of soup, Parish of Bay L’Argent, New - riginal Cultural and Educational they run the program. vegetables and protein that they foundland, the Rev. Jeff Black - Helper. Ms. Pasula aims to For years, patrons came, regis - liked and would use.” wood suggested that the youth un - Cathedral opens strengthen partnerships between tered and received a pre-filled bag The Anglican Link dertake a four-month fundraising new building Anglican and aboriginal groups, or bags of food based on the num - campaign for PWRDF. To keep REGINA – St. Paul’s Cathedral re - and to build community within ber in each family. Motivated by a the candidates motivated, Mr. cently opened its new community the Anglican aboriginal popula - desire for patrons to exercise Newspaper seeks Blackwood decided to take his centre after two years of con - tion. From 2008 to 2011, she was a choice and decision-making skills, 100 donors own challenge, promising not to struction. The new building in - vice president of the Metis Nation organizers moved from a “hand- HALIFAX – The Diocesan Times, cut his hair from Dec. 1 to April 19, cludes a hall, kitchens, wash - of Alberta. “The spiritual develop - out” to “shopping” set-up. Tables the newspaper of the Diocese of and not to shave during Lent. “By rooms, offices, a lift for handi - ment of all people and of aborigi - with food groups—protein, veg - Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Holy Saturday, the parish had capped people, space for a colum - nal people in particular has been etables, carbohydrates, fruits, ce - Island, has started a fundraising what may have resembled John barium and choir space. in my heart,” she says. She will real, and extras—were set up drive called 100 Readers Who the Baptist or a Sasquatch,” said a Saskatchewan Anglican September 2014 B I S H O P ’ S C O M P A N Y D I N N E R The Anglican 9 Annual dinner raises $95,000 Speakers praise clergy, Company

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TERRIFIC speeches were the order of the day at the 53rd annual Bish - Delores Lawrence, chair of the din - op’s Company Dinner, held in ner committee and MC for the Toronto on May 20. evening, welcomes guests. Both the Rev. Canon Andrew Asbil, the incumbent of the Church of the Redeemer, and John Fraser, the former master of Massey College and a lifelong An - glican, wowed the sold out crowd of 480 with their personal stories. Canon Asbil spoke about how the Bishop’s Company helped him and his brother and sister-in-law in a time of need, and Mr. Fraser spoke about how various Angli - can clerics guided him during the ups and downs of his life. The annual fundraiser began with a reception at Holy Trinity, Archbishop Colin Johnson and his Trinity Square, followed by din - wife Ellen enjoy Mr. Fraser’s ner at the nearby Marriott Down - John Fraser speaks about his Anglican upbringing at the Bishop’s Company Dinner. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON speech. town Toronto Eaton Centre hotel. The evening raised $95,000, in - cluding $10,150 from a silent auc - tion, to help clergy and their fam - ilies in need and to provide schol - arships for theological students. Mr. Fraser kept the crowd in stitches through much of his ad - dress, especially when he re - counted his early life as a choris - ter at Christ Church, Deer Park, a server at St. Bartholomew, Re - gent Park, a student at Upper Canada College, and a piano play - er for a group of down and out men at St. George the Martyr in downtown Toronto. During his teenage years, as his mother dealt with mental ill - ness and his father’s business faced bankruptcy, Mr. Fraser was taken under the wings of kindly Anglican clerics – an experience he never forgot. “I wasn’t really aware that I was being attended The Rev. Canon Andrew Asbil talks about how the Bishop’s Company Minoli and Ajitha Gunawardana of St. Matthew the Apostle, Oriole, were to by these unobtrusive Anglican helped him during a time of need. among the 480 people in attendance. saints, but I was, and they glow in my memory as I try to honour Finlay, the Very Rev. Douglas just get by it all to a better place law had been critically injured at the dinner. Leonard Leader and them as I see the needs around Stoute, the Rev. Canon Cheryl of possibilities. during a vacation in Europe. Af - Antoine Rutherford received the me,” he said, his voice breaking Palmer and the current incum - “To me, this is the core of the ter receiving a frantic call from Terence and Alice Jean Finlay with emotion. bent, the Rev. Jenny Andison. “To Anglicanism that I love,” he said. his brother in Austria, he contact - Bursary, which is given to two Mr. Fraser went on to a distin - all these rectors, I owe so much in “Through all the centuries of our ed Archbishop Johnson, who pro - students, one each from Trinity guished career as a writer with so many different ways as they church, despite every misstep or vided him with the time and and Wycliffe colleges, who are en - the Globe and Mail and editor of put up with the loosest cannon in catastrophe in our church, there funds to travel to Austria to sup - gaged in studies that celebrate Saturday Night magazine. Wher - their parish,” he said. have always been Anglicans port his brother and sister-in-law, and enhance the understanding ever he travelled in the world, he He spoke about the reconcilia - struggling to reach the light who was in an induced coma. of the diversity of the church. said, he sought out an Anglican tion he had with Archbishop Fin - through a prism of fairness and “Don’t ever underestimate the Kenneth McClure was awarded church and attended its services. lay after writing about the arch - understanding of each other. In power of the Bishop’s Company to the Kirubai Scholarship, given to “I am as Anglican as anyone can bishop and the church’s struggles the end, the reason why I love the be a vessel of hope for men and a Trinity College divinity student get,” he said. “I rejoice in my de - with issues of sexuality in a book church so much is because it re - women and children and clergy who is specializing in liturgy and nomination and love it to my in 2000. “(We) never abandoned mains an institution capable of like me who find themselves in a worship. Irina Dubinski received heart’s core. I love it as much for each other, even when the hurt absorbing the hurt we can dangerous position and don’t the William Kay Bursary, which its foibles and flaws as for its cer - was at its height,” he said. “I be - thoughtlessly and sometimes think they have options,” said aids students who are engaged in tainties and triumphs.” lieve we didn’t give up on each willfully inflict on each other and Canon Asbil. With the help of a theological education that will A member of St. Clement, other because we were both yet transcend it through a distinc - retired bishop, Canon Asbil’s sis - lead to ordination. The Rev. Va - Eglinton, for the past four struggling, fallible Christians of tive filter of tolerance.” ter-in-law was able to be flown lerie Michaelson and the Rev. decades, Mr. Fraser recalled with the Anglican variety. Right in the Canon Asbil spoke about how back to Canada and to receive the Daniel Graves received the fondness some of its rectors, in - marrow of our bones there was a Archbishop Colin Johnson and care of a neurosurgeon here. George & Eileen Carey Bursary, cluding the Very Rev. Duncan desire to work through to some the Bishop’s Company helped him As in previous years, scholar - awarded to Anglicans pursuing Abraham, Archbishop Terence peaceful solution or at least to after he learned that his sister-in- ship recipients were announced post-graduate theological studies. 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To submit items for Looking and discusses the life and work of Ahead, email [email protected] - composer Ralph Vaughan glican.ca. The deadline for the Oc - Williams. Call 416-769-5686. tober issue is Sept. 2. Parishes can OCT. 7 – To celebrate 130 years of also promote their events on the worship in the present church diocese’s website Calendar, at building, St. John, Craighurst, www.toronto.anglican.ca. presents the Three Cantors in an evening of song and fun. This Worship and music concert will take place at the church, 3191 Penetanguishene SEPT. 14 – 30th anniversary of Rd., Craighurst at 7:30 p.m. Tick - Christ Church, Stouffville’s cur - ets are $25 each. Call 705-721-9722. rent worship space during the 10 A gala reception will follow the a.m. Holy Communion service. concert. Bishop Philip Poole, who was the incumbent of Christ Church dur - Bazaars ing the expansion into the current worship space in 1984, will be the OCT. 18 – Semi-annual rummage celebrant and preacher and will sale, 8:30 a.m. until noon, Grace re-dedicate the space. A luncheon Church, Markham, 19 Parkway will follow. If you plan to attend Ave. Clothing, linens and other the lunch, RSVP to admin@stouf - items. Call 905-294-3184 fvilleanglican.ca or call 905-640- NOV. 8 – Annual Christmas 1461. The church is located at 254 bazaar and luncheon, 9 a.m. to 2 Sunset Blvd., Stouffville. pm., Grace Church, 19 Parkway SEPT. 21 – Special Feast of St. Ave., Markham. Antiques and col - Matthew service at 10 a.m. to cel - lectibles and more. Lunch will be ebrate the 50th anniversary of St. served. Call 905-294-3184. Matthew the Apostle, Oriole, 80 NOV. 8 – Christmas Fair featuring George Henry Blvd., North York. crafts, silent auction, kitchen Archbishop Colin Johnson pre - items, books, art, luncheon and NEW OFFICERS siding. All past and present more, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., St. Cuth - Bishop Peter Fenty, the area bishop of York-Simcoe, shakes hands with the new officers of the Diocesan An - parishioners welcome. bert, Leaside, 1399 Bayview Ave., glican Church Women at the group’s annual general meeting at Christ Church, Stouffville, in May. PHOTO BY SEPT. 27 – The Toronto All-Star just south of Davisville Avenue. MICHAEL HUDSON Big Band in concert at St. Dun - Toronto. Call 416-485-0329. stan of Canterbury, 56 Lawson NOV. 8 – Christmas bazaar, 10 Goulden, parish outreach facilita - the Word of God.” Children’s and party and open house, including Rd., Scarborough. Concert tickets a.m. to 1 p.m., Church of Our Sav - tor for York-Credit Valley. Explore youth program included. Hosted silent auction of original paint - are $25; optional pre-show dinner iour, 1 Laurentide Dr., Don Mills. some of the spiritual perspectives by the Bishop’s Committee on ing, to celebrate the 50th anniver - at 6 p.m. costs an additional $15 Baking, jams, knitted items, and practices that are vital to Prayer. For more information, call sary of St. Matthew the Apostle, per person. Reservations re - crafts and more. Call 416-449-3878. Christians who seek the justice of Tony Day at 905-846-2952 or tony - Oriole, 80 George Henry Blvd., quired. Call 416-283-1844. God’s kingdom. The church is lo - [email protected] or visit the dio - North York. Starts at 7 p.m. Tick - SEPT. 28 – Choral evensong with Conference and workshop cated at 1203 St. Martin’s Dr., Pick - cese’s website, www.toronto.an - ets $20 available by contacting the choir of St. Peter, Erindale, 4 ering. Call 905-839-4257. glican.ca. [email protected] or 416- p.m., at St. Olave, Bloor Street and OCT. 1 – St. Martin, Bay Ridges, OCT. 25 – Diocesan Prayer Confer - 491-2140. Windermere Avenue, Toronto, Pickering will be hosting a pres - ence at St John, York Mills. Emma Wine and cheese followed by peach tea. St. Peter’s entation at 7:30 p.m. on the Spiri - Marsh will be the theme speaker music director leads the choir tuality of Social Justice by Elin and the topic will be “Abiding in SEPT. 20 – Gala wine and cheese Director relishes role Can we share our faith? Continued from Page 4 FOR Kathryn Rogers, becoming that it’s for a ters. She leads a department of the diocese’s new Treasurer and good cause.” six. coming alongside people at criti - tian. Then you are ready to share Director of Finance is a dream Ms. Rogers, She says one of the best parts of cal times in the name of God. it with someone who has not come true. who is a char - her job is working with volun - When we get over the hang-up heard it before, or experienced it. Ms. Rogers spent almost 10 tered account - teers. “One of the great things with a certain style of evangel - It is simple but not easy. We have years as the director of Finance at ant, started at about working in a non-profit is ism, we will make amazing evan - to face a challenge of faith: is this the Canadian Cancer Society and the diocese in the opportunity to work with vol - gelists. But make no mistake: thing real for me? Is it important? came to love working in the non- Kathryn Rogers May. She suc - unteers who are willing to share there is a big hurdle to overcome If religion for you is simply a per - profit world. After a short stint ceeds Michael their knowledge. I always appre - and the time is short. We have to sonal preference of no real im - working for a private company, Joshua, who is now the Director ciate the opportunity to learn.” reverse the terrible habit of keep - portance, then I can understand she realized she wanted to return of Finance at Bible League Cana - She also enjoys helping church - ing silent about our faith. St. not wanting to share it with peo - to the charitable sector. da. es. “One of the interesting parts Francis challenged a church that ple. But I cannot understand not “I love the environment of a Among her tasks, Ms. Rogers of the job is the opportunity to talked big but did little with the sharing what is important and vi - non-profit,” she says. “It’s about oversees the finance, accounting work with churches around their saying, “Preach the Gospel; use tal with people you care about. If having the opportunity to work in and treasury functions of the dio - financial situation. I enjoy having words when necessary.” The pen - it is real for you, it is real for a place where people are doing cese, oversees office services at the opportunity to be an advisor.” dulum seems to have swung in everybody! things for the greater good. I’ve al - the Diocesan Centre and provides She can be reached at the opposite direction for us. In Bishop Cottrell gave us techni - ways thought that if I have to be support to diocesan committees [email protected]. church after church, our Natural cal help as well. Every church, he away from my kids, I want to know and churches on financial mat - Church Development scores said, needs to have a faith-nurtur - show that we score well in com - ing program running all the time munity life and caring but low in so people who are interested can passionate spirituality and need- explore in a safe setting. We can - based evangelism. Good work not assume everyone has a Chris - Working for a better world without good words is as unhelp - tian background, and everything ful as words without works. It is has to be from the ground up. time to turn from Francis to the “Pilgrim,” a Church of England GROWING up in a small town, everybody was Society of St. Vincent de Paul, a Bible, which tells us to be wit - resource designed to teach the Ryan Weston knew who was getting the Catholic charity dedicated to the nesses to the Risen Christ and al - basics of the faith, is a good start. struggling to make ends meet and same kind of reduction of poverty. He also ways be prepared to give an ac - Bishop Cottrell, who worked on asking for assistance. As he grew treatment and worked for the Canadian Catholic count of the hope within us. it, worried about it being too older, he worked with people with starting point,” Organization for Development I am willing to come to any British and hopes we can make it intellectual disabilities, a group says Mr. West - and Peace, an international devel - parish or group of parishes that more Canadian. The hurdle is not that is easily marginalized. Out of on. “I knew opment agency. wishes to begin a conversation technical but attitudinal. God’s those two experiences came a Ryan Weston that we could Mr. Weston succeeds Murray about an Anglican way of sharing church will persist till the end, lifelong passion to help others, a be doing a bet - MacAdam, who retired in June. our faith. This is a preview: you but what role the Anglican commitment that he brings to his ter job of taking care of one an - “Murray and many other people first learn to own your faith story, Church will play in it, whether it new job as the diocese’s Social other. We’re called to build the in the diocese have done wonder - get in touch with how God has will age or revive, grow or shrink, Justice and Advocacy Consultant. kingdom of God on earth as it is ful work over the years and have been working in your life, and depends on whether we can de - “I had a sense from a young age in heaven.” built a great foundation,” he says. then you share your faith story velop our own style of faith-shar - that the world can be a better Before coming to the diocese in with someone who already un - ing, and embrace it. place, a fairer place, and that not June, Mr. Weston worked for the Continued on Page 12 derstands, namely another Chris - O Lord, open our lips! 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Roy Shepherd, Inter - Vacant Incumbencies Ruth was used at Shavuot (in vidic kings, returned with this im Priest-in-Charge, Christ These incumbencies were vacant late spring); Lamentations was group, as did a priest named Appointments Church, Scarborough, June 1. as of July 22. Clergy from outside used at the fast of Av, commemo - Jeshua and a prince of Judah • Captain the Rev. Greg Bailey, • The Rev. Catherine Gibbs, the diocese with the permission rating the destruction of both named Sheshbazzar. Their lead - Incumbent, Parish of Honorary Assistant, St. of their bishop may apply temples in Jerusalem (during ership was ineffective. The hope Georgina, July 1. Michael and All Angels, through the Diocesan Executive summer); Ecclesiastes was used for a continued monarchy from • Mr. Irwin Sikha, Lay Pastoral Toronto, June 8. Assistant, Mrs. Mary Conliffe. during Sukkot (in the fall); and the house of David disappeared Associate, St. Margaret Tamil • The Rev. Jordan Wellington, Esther was used during Purim from history, and the concept of Congregation, July 20. Associate Priest, St. John, Wil - Trent Durham (in the winter). a Messianic hope in the future • The Ven. Judy Walton, Chap - lowdale, Toronto, July 1. • St. Matthew, Oshawa Let’s look first at the historic replaced the presence of a king. lain to Retired Clergy in York- • The Rev. Julie Burn, Associate narratives contained in the two The second temple of Jerusalem Simcoe, Sept. 1. Priest, Church of the Resur - York – Credit Valley Chronicles, together with Ezra was dedicated in 515 BCE. • The Rev. Andrea Christensen, rection, Toronto, Sept. 1. • St. Matthias, Bellwoods and Nehemiah. Chronicles cov - Ezra was sent from Persia, ar - Associate Priest, Christ • The Rev. John Oakes (Diocese • Trinity, Streetsville ers the story from Adam riving in Jerusalem about 458 Church, Deer Park, Toronto, of New Westminster), Incum - through to the Exile. It omits BCE. He was charged with Sept. 1. bent, St. Mary, Richmond Hill, York – Scarborough some of the bad images of the restoring the religious laws of • The Rev. George Jacob (Dio - Oct. 1. • Christ Church, Scarborough Davidic kings, but follows the the land. He arrived with a copy cese of Madhya Kerala), • The Ven. Bruce Myers (Dio - • St. Christopher, Richmond Hill story line of Samuel and Kings. of the Torah and spent time Priest-in-Charge, Church of cese of Quebec), Honorary As - (Associate Priest) Ezra and Nehemiah record the reading aloud from these books South India, Toronto, June 25. sistant, St. Stephen-in-the- returning of the exiles to of Moses in the town square, • The Rev. Dr. Judy Paulsen, Fields, Toronto, May 7. York – Simcoe Jerusalem. Ezra was a prophet, teaching the people what they Honorary Assistant, St. Paul, • The Rev. Jo-Anne Billinger, • Parish of Georgina priest and scribe sent by Cyrus, meant. Bloor St., Toronto, June 15. Associate Priest, St. Mary, • St. David, Orillia King of Persia, to restore reli - Meanwhile, the “People of the • The Rev. Riscylla Walsh Shaw, Richmond Hill, June 1. • Grace Church, Markham gious order. Nehemiah was sent Land” were being eased out of Regional Dean, North Peel • The Rev. Canon Ann Smith, out to be the governor of this Jerusalem. They had not been Deanery, July 1. Interim Priest-in-Charge, St. Retirement Persian province, called Yehud, through the fires of exile and • The Rev. David Donkin, Chap - Matthew, Oshawa, June 23. • The Rev. John Phillips has an - (Judah), to restore economic or - thus were not true Jews. Many lain, Royal St. George’s Col - • The Rev. Joyce Barnett, Inter - nounced his retirement. His der and rebuild the city walls. had intermarried with other lege, Toronto, Aug. 1. im Priest-in-Charge, St. John, last Sunday at Christ the King, To recap their history, Judah, tribes and were no longer pure. • The Rev. Canon Sister Con - Weston, May 1, concurrent Etobicoke, will be Oct. 26. the southern kingdom in which This became an issue for Ezra, stance Joanna Gefvert, SSJD, with her appointment as In - Jerusalem resided, was con - in re-establishing the laws of Associate Priest, St. George on cumbent of St. David, Death quered by the Babylonian Moses. Many of the returning Yonge, Toronto, Sept. 1. Lawrence Avenue. • Sister Margaret Mary Watson, armies in 586 BCE. Jerusalem Hebrews were guilty also of in - • The Rev. Matt Adams, Associ - • The Rev. Ruth Knapp, Interim SSJD, died on July 20. Her fu - and the temple were completely termarriage and Ezra demanded ate Priest, St. Aidan, Toronto, Priest-in-Charge, St. Thomas, neral was held on July 25 at St. destroyed and many of the more that they put away their foreign June 1. Millbrook, June 1. John’s Convent, Toronto. influential inhabitants were led wives and children born to these into captivity. In 539 BCE, Cyrus wives. of Persia conquered the Babylo - Aramaic was the language of nians. He believed in ruling by the Babylonians. This also be - The Diocese loyalty and obligation, so he re - came the spoken language of the leased the various tribes and Hebrews. They re-established is on each returned to their own the requirements of kosher food homeland, re-established their observances, in accordance with Facebook, Twitter kingdoms and became vassals of the Torah. In the restoration, we and YouTube. Persia. see the importance of Scripture; In 538 BCE, the first wave of the need to keep the Hebrews Hebrews arrived in Jerusalem. pure by not mixing with Gen - To connect, visit They were devastated by what tiles; the importance of the Sab - www.toronto.anglican.ca they saw. The desolation and de - bath; and circumcision. These struction was beyond their re - Continued on Page 12 12 The Anglican N E W S September 2014 Reach Grants bring ideas to life Church offers breakfast, friendship

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AS part of their Lenten study, the Rev. Veronica Roynon and Sue Savage read A World Worth Sav - ing , by George Hovaness Donigian. They were moved by the author’s words to seek out and respond to the needs of their community. One chapter in particular, called “Feeding Others and Starv - ing Our Guilt” touched their hearts. “That chapter gave birth to what we felt we were being called by God to do – to reach out to those who have a spiritual, emotional and real hunger,” says Ms. Savage. Based at All Saints, Penetan - guishene, the women see needs around them every day. Local jobs are hard to come by, so many people survive on government as - sistance. About 2,000 outpatients of the Waypoint Centre for Men - All Saints, Penetanguishene breakfast program volunteers Sue Savage, left, and June Marion stand outside the parish hall. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON tal Health Care live in the area in low rent housing and halfway dragons,” named after the popu - the menu was plenty of hot food, then maybe that will turn into ferent place from where we’ve houses. lar TV show Dragon’s Den. orange juice and fresh fruit. Ten something a little bit larger.” started before: we’ve been wor - The pair decided to launch a The Dragon’s Den format for a people showed up, including a Reach Grants, she says, play a ried about survival; now we’re monthly breakfast club at the Reach Grant is simple. Applicants man who cycled over from Mid - critical role in that. “If any idea is thinking about transmitting the church, to provide a hot meal and are given five minutes to tell the land. being held back because it needs faith, and that’s where the energy friendship to anyone who came panel about their idea and how it “This is good ministry because $800, then a grant makes it possi - is.” through the doors. “We wanted to will reach those who do not cur - they read their context – they ble,” she says. She says the missions help the bring friendship to each guest, rently attend church. They also looked at the place where they Since they were created three diocese learn about what is work - and, above all, to let them know have to describe how their idea were planted, they looked at what years ago, Reach Grants have ing and what isn’t. “We’re learn - that they have value and are will create a Christ-centred com - people needed and they looked at funded 44 missions across the dio - ing that you cannot have cookie- loved – not just by us but by God,” munity. The dragons make their what they were able to give,” says cese, launching everything from cutter solutions to mission. You says Ms. Savage, the parish ad - decision by the end of the day, and the Rev. Canon Susan Bell, the youth programs to farmers’ mar - need to watch, know your people, ministrator. Diocesan Council gives the final diocese’s Canon Missioner. kets. To date, $145,000 has been have sympathy and know what They shared their idea with approval. Canon Bell’s job is to help cler - disbursed. The number of grant God is calling you to do in your June Marion, the parish’s out - The dragons were so moved by gy and lay leaders build aware - applications has grown each year. context. The two big lessons reach coordinator, who quickly the women’s plan to start a break - ness of missional opportunities in “That’s why I get so excited, be - we’ve learned are that every mis - came on board. To help with the fast club that they not only ap - the diocese. She says small start- cause of the tremendous creativi - sion is a bespoke mission – it’s tai - start-up costs, they applied to the proved the grant but raised it to ups like the one in Penetan - ty that is out there,” says Canon lor-made for those people at that diocese for a Reach Grant. These $5,000 so the church could buy a guishene are exactly the right Bell. “People are just beginning to time, in that place – and that are small, one-time grants, be - new stove and the meal could be way for the Anglican Church to tap into it. There’s a lot of energy everybody is responsible for mis - tween $500 and $5,000, to help offered twice a month. share the faith with others. around it. We’re hearing, ‘I have sion because it’s in our DNA as churches and individuals turn “It feels great,” says Ms. Mari - “I really believe this is the way this idea, what do you think?’ sev - Christians.” their ideas for mission into reality. on. “I grew up in a foster home we’re going to experiment our eral times a week now. A video about Reach Grants is They filled out a grant applica - and I know what children have to way into the kingdom,” she says. “The ideas are really coming posted on the diocese’s website, tion for $2,000, then were invited deal with. There is a need for this “We can build some confidence from the right place: a want to www.toronto.anglican.ca, along down to the Diocesan Centre in here.” and capability around mission share a living faith in Jesus with information about grant ap - Toronto to pitch their idea to a The first breakfast was served just by doing and thinking and Christ, so that people’s lives and plications. The next deadline for three-person panel known as “the in the church hall in late July. On engaging in the small things, and hearts are changed. That’s a dif - applications is Oct. 24. Youth involvement a priority Funds Poetry in the Writings Continued from Page 10 awarded Continued from Page 11 “There’s a real commitment on ing connections between faith became the markers for Jews of have the writings of the Continued from Page 7 the part of Archbishop Johnson and social justice. He is also avail - the Exile as they restored their prophets Zechariah, Haggai, and the diocese for social justice.” able to guest preach about social are invited to submit applications land and their faith in the one Malachi and third Isaiah (Isaiah He says one of his priorities is justice or environmental issues. to receive grants. Grants are God. These were the circum - 56-66). to integrate more youth into so - Mr. Weston works with Elin awarded on a semi-annual basis stances of the Jewish people into Next month, we will look at cial justice work. He also wants to Goulden, the parish outreach facil - in May and October. A total of 40 which Jesus was born. the wisdom literature and espe - work more with parishes outside itator for York-Credit Valley, and grants have been approved, total - It was the priests who collect - cially the problem of evil as it ap - downtown Toronto. “There is a the Social Justice and Advocacy ing just over $2.5-million. (See re - ed the stories and rewrote the pears in Job, probably the most lot of poverty in the city but we Committee. The diocese’s social lated article on Page 7 for a list of accounts of scripture. The Torah fascinating book in the Hebrew need to look at what’s happening justice and advocacy work focuses the grants given to date.) This last appeared during the Exile. Fol - Bible. Enjoy the dialogue. in other areas as well and how on poverty reduction, affordable round of funding – completed in lowing the Exile, the work of the they’re being impacted by the housing and homelessness, HIV May – granted funds to 27 proj - prophets and the writings be - The Rev. Canon Don Beatty is an same issues.” and AIDS, and environmental is - ects. come part of Holy Scripture. honorary assistant at St. Luke, He is available to meet with sues. For more information, visit During the post-exilic period, we Dixie South, Mississauga. parishes to talk about starting or www.toronto.anglican.ca/sjac. Mr. Peter Misiaszek is the diocese’s expanding outreach initiatives, Weston can be reached at rwest - director of Stewardship engaging in advocacy or explor - [email protected]. Development. www.toronto.anglican.ca