ALGOMA ANGLICAN November 2018 Official Voice of the Diocese of Algoma – A section of the Anglican Journal Vol. 61 – No. 9 Inside Algoma Gathering brings together those in youth minstry Johanna Kritolitis, Deanery- Facilitator for Temiskaming was one of a number of those working in youth minitry who attended Stronger Together held in Paris, Ontario. See p. 4 LOOKS LIKE SHOWERS: What happens when Bishop Anne Germond and Rev. Canon Bob Elkin disagree? Some- body ends up all wet. As part of our annual appeal, you get to decide. Waves are about to be made in Gathering Table comes to life in Thunder Bay The coming together of St. the Diocese of Algoma John the Evangelist and St. Luke’s, marks the beginning By the Rev. Canon Bob Elkin tween you and the outhouse” she a Friday night lately but I had my And so it was arranged. of the Gathering Table, a new I was shooting the breeze with replied, “But I know that Algoma opening and I pounced! “I chal- If $7,000.00 or less is raised I ministry in Thunder Bay. Bishop Anne Germond recently would respond even more gener- lenge you to a duel!” I cried. “An- soak the Bishop. If $10,000.00 or when we got talking about how ously to the right appeal.” I mulled glican’s may not gamble but there more is achieved I go under the See p. 8 stuff gets funded around the dio- over her comment about me and is nothing that says they can’t duel bucket. If it’s in between the one cese and especially how the Al- the outhouse and feeling a chal- as anybody who’s ever attended closest to what they said douses Next deadline goma Anglican raises money. I lenging response was required an annual vestry meeting knows. the other. The gauntlet has been The deadline for the next modestly made sure she knew I retorted: “Would you care to I say, “with luck they might raise thrown, and the arrangements are issue of The Algoma Anglican is that last year when a photo of make a small wager about that $7,000.00 again this year. What do made. Now it’s up to you Algo- Thursday, November 1. Send items to: me reading the paper outside of Bishop?” She gave me one of you say?” ma! Are you the generous but not Mail or courier: a biffy appeared on page one of those smiles usually reserved for Our bishop is no coward! over the top crowd that I believe P.O. Box 221 the fund raising issue the response idiotic internet pictures of kittens “$10,000.00” she said without you to be or will you blow the lid 1148 Hwy 141 was excellent and over $7,000.00 stuck in paper bags and shaking hesitation “and my choice of off, redeem the bishop and get me Rosseau P0C 1J0 was donated. “People probably re- her head replied: “Anglicans don’t weapons. Ice water buckets over drenched. Your choice, but I’m not E-mail: sponded well because they could gamble, Fr. Bob!” Obviously she the head! Winner pours it over the worried; yet! [email protected] see the obvious connection be- hasn’t been in the local casino on looser. Prepare to get wet Elkin!” Algoma participates in Shingwauk gathering hosted an important gathering this Shingwauk Indian Residential With a donation of $10,400, er, presided at the Sunday morn- Annual event allows summer fostering healing, shar- School, which is presently the the Diocese of Algoma provided ing chapel liturgy, which was ing, learning, and reconciliation. home of Algoma University and a quarter of the funds required for followed by a ceremony in the for healing and People from across the province Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig the conference. Individuals from Shingwauk cemetery. and beyond converged at Baawat- (Shingwauk University), the Au- the Synod office and local congre- A major highlight of the week- reconciliation ing/Sault Ste. Marie, in Robinson- gust 3 to 5 conference explored gations were among the attendees end took place immediately prior By the Rev. Dr. Jay Koyle Huron Treaty (1850) territory, on the theme “The Government at plenary and small group ses- to the conference. The official The Children of Shingwauk the traditional land of the Anish- Apology and the Indian Residen- sions. Bishop Anne Germond and launch of “Reclaiming Shingwauk Alumni Association (CSAA) naabeg. tial Schools Settlement Agree- Lana Grawbarger, Lay Incumbent Hall” unveiled the first major, Held at the original site of the ment: Then and Now”. of St. John’s Church, Garden Riv- See Diocese – p. 7 Algoma Anglican, November 2018 (2) November book review By Charlotte Haldenby and security that we take for Some of us have met with granted here. Now we fully under- refugees over the past few years stand what our refugees may have in so many ways: helping to come through. furnish places to stay, driving Another interesting book, for groceries or appointments, especially for crafty people is coaching them in English, or try- The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, ing to explain legal, medical and by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. It educational papers even some of is the story of a family in Kabul us don’t quite understand. They’re under the Taliban. The father has coming along. The mother of the to leave as he served in the army family I frequently visit told me of the previous government. The recently that her family loves family stays on, mainly girls with NEW METROPOLITAN: Pictured from left are Most Rev. Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Canada, even though it’s getting just two boys. The two older girls Anglican Church of Canada, the new elected Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province cold again, and that windstorm have their certificates to teach of Ontario, Rt. Rev. Anne Germond, and Archbishop Colin Johnson, Bishop of Toronto on Friday was so scary. But her school, but that can’t happen now. and present Metropolitan. husband is working, she’s taking In fact, under government orders classes, the toddler is in day-care, all women must stay in the home the kids are in school and the at all times, unless they are fully oldest two in special English as a clothed in chadri, only eyes vis- Bishop Germond elected Second Language (ESL) classes at ible, and accompanied by a male, one of our high schools. even a little brother. I have always hesitated to ask Kalima, despite her new certifi- what their life was like back home cate, now must learn dress-mak- Metropolitan of Ontario in Syria, for fear the memory ing, and her older sister teaches would be so painful. But Winnie her beading and embroidery. She By now, many of you have heard at the end of 2018. The Metro- am grateful for his love every day. Yeung, an ESL teacher in Edmon- goes with her brother to the shop- the news that our Bishop was politan is the Senior Bishop of the Our children, Caitlin and Richard, ton asked her students to tell her ping district with her first beauti- elected at the recent convocation of Province and the President of the are now young adults living away their life stories, and Abu Bakr al ful dress, and quietly persuades Provincial Synod, October 9-12, to Provincial Synod and the Provin- from home and this makes it some- Zabeeah a fifteen-year-old who the dress shop owners to take her serve as Ontario’s new Metropoli- cial House of Bishops, and Chair what easier. has been here three years now was work, when there are no others tan. She was installed to this office of Provincial Council. The Metro- Some of you have asked ques- so glad as he wanted Canadians in the store. Soon her younger during the Synod at Christ Church politan presides at the election of tions about what this means for to know what his family had gone sisters, their friends and the Cathedral, Ottawa, Primate Fred all bishops in the Province and at Algoma and how it will work with through. Together, with his story neighbourhood girls are all quietly Hiltz served as preacher. She will the consecration services of those me being the Bishop of our neigh- and talks with his parents and coming over to their house to be now be styled as The Most Rev. duly elected. The Metropolitan au- bouring Diocese of Moosonee. I checking details from newspa- trained in sewing, and Kalima Anne Germond, Archbishop of Al- tomatically becomes the Bishop of will continue with all of my duties per archives, they have written takes the work to town weekly, goma and Metropolitan of Ontario. the Diocese of Moosonee, too. and responsibilities as usual in the Homes: A Refugee Story. with her brother, of course. One The proper ways to address her are Before the election, delegates Diocese of Algoma, including pa- First they lived in Iraq, but of the girls has a relative on the ‘Archbishop Anne’, ‘Archbishop prayed that God would guide our rochial visits and the usual meet- they had to keep their Shi’a faith police force who alerts them to Germond’, or ‘Your Grace’. The minds, “that we might receive a ings that are held in the course undercover as the Sunnis gained danger, appreciating that his girl following is her letter to the Dio- faithful servant who will care for of a year. Moosonee Diocese is power. When it became too dan- is doing so well. At the end of the cese about her new ministry: your people and support us in our constituted in such a way that an gerous they moved over to Syria, book in 2011, the Taliban have Dear People of God in Algoma, ministries.” (BAS pg.