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# 159 The Journal of the Anglican Diocese of Yukon Spring 2011 Bishop Buckle ordains Deacon Laurie Munro at Wycliffe College page 2 Northern Lights Spring 2011 Liard);The Most Rev. Terry Buckle, Blanche Buckle and family; The Rev. Dn. Sarah Usher, Len Usher & family Day 1 & 16 Day 10 and 25 Parish of Whitehorse: Christ Church Mayo: St. Mary with St. Mark. Cathedral. The Lay Ministry Team The Ven. Dr. Sean Murphy; The Rev. David Pritchard & family; Rev. Martin Carroll, Ruth Pelly Crossing: St. James the Lord’s Carroll & family; Licensed Lay Ministers: Gaya Brother. Licensed Lay Minister: Betty Joe. Tiedeman, Beverley Whitehouse. Day 11 & 26 Day 2 & 17 Dawson City: St. Paul’s. Moosehide: Fort Nelson: St. Mary Magdalene. Toad St. Barnabas; The Klondike Creeks; The River, Alaska Highway, mile 150-506 The Rev. Dn. Percy Henry. The Rev. Dn. Don & Lana Thompson and Dempster Hwy. The Ven. Ken Snider (Honorary Assistant) and family; Licensed Lay Ministers: Glen Gough, Aldene Snider. Licensed Lay Ministers: Mabel Jeanie Arva and Mark Tudor Henry; Shirley Pennell, Betty Davidson. Day 3 & 18 Day 12 & 27 Watson Lake: St. John the Baptist Old Crow: St. Luke’s. Lower Post, Swift River. The Rev. Dn. Marion Schafer, Esau Schafer & Telegraph Creek: St. Aidan. family. and Lay Ministry Team Dease Lake; Glenora. Rob Langmaid (Evangelist) Licensed Lay Minister: Tim Liverton Day 13 & 28 The Rev. Dn. Sarah Usher: Diocesan Administrative Officer Day 4 & 19 Members of the Diocesan Executive Carcross, Tagish, Johnson’s Crossing Committee. St. Saviour’s. Diocesan Prayer Partner: Diocese of The Rev. David Pritchard and family Fredericton. Teslin: St. Philips The Rev. Dn. Sarah Usher and the Ministry Team Day 14 & 29 Patti Tetlichi, Yukon Apostolate: Bishop’s School of Yukon Ministries. Day 5 & 20 PWRDF Diocesan Representative: Communities of: Carmacks & Keno. Diocesan ACW President:Evelyn McDonald and all ACW members. Day 6 & 21 Atlin: St. Martin. The Rev. Dn. Vera Kirkwood & family. Day 15 & 30 Licensed Lay Minister: Dorothy Odian. Those retired from Missionary Service: The Rev. Dorothy Thorpe. The Rev. Bruce Aylard & Audrey Aylard. Day 7 & 22 The Rev. Don Sax & The Rev. Dn. Lee Sax. Communities of Faro and Ross River The Ven. Ken and Aldene Snider. The Rev. Geoffrey & Rosalind Dixon. Day 8 & 23 The Rev. Canon David & Alice Kalles. Haines Junction: St. Christopher’s. The Ven. John & The Rev. Dn. Carol Tyrrell. Beaver Creek: St. Columba. The Rev. Fred & Marcia Carson. Alaska Highway: mile 918-1202 The Very Rev. Peter & Barbara Williams. The Ven. Sean Murphy and the Ministry Team Marion Carroll. The Rev. Mary & Lino Battaja. Day 9 & 24 The Most Rev. Terry and Blanche Buckle Parish of Whitehorse: Church of the Northern Apostles. The Ven. Dr Sean Murphy (Archdeacon of Day 31 and daily: The Rt. Rev. Larry Robertson, Sheila Robert- son & family. Northern Lights Spring 2011 page 3 Our Bishop Writes ... called me to a dependency on the great mercy of our forgiving Father in heaven. Longer days and Lenten journeys remind us of the new life that Easter brings. I see signs of this life throughout the Yukon. It takes a form of an independence of strength that says despite the hardships we will not only survive we will reach out to others around us. The people in Fort Nelson, BC, our most southern parish, are concerned with receiving training to be able to reach out to people with pastoral care. This parish, A Season of Renewal which is struggling with losing a full Being a newcomer to the Yukon time minister, is concerned, not with (Cheechako I think is the Gold Rush themselves, but with the care of the word), and despite the continued cold people around them. weather, I am assured that Spring is I see this strength and life in the coming. For sure, the longer days of form of Olive Patton, a 93 year old bright sunlight are truly welcomed and enjoyed. I have seen no signs of under the power of her walker with melting but it is enjoyable to walk lady, who comes to the Diocesan Office down the street greeting others who the Rev. Sarah Usher. This elderly also have found it delightful to seek muffinsmember for of theour CathedralAdministrative tells me Officer, the sun on their faces. how hard Rev. Usher works and that Already the Shrove Tuesday Pancake the least she can do is to brighten her suppers have come and gone and Lent is upon us. From a delightful pancake with the attitude of this elder who so supper at St Paul’s in Dawson City dayeasily with reaches a muffin. out toI am others. dumbfounded She does on the Tuesday, to the ecumenical not mention her own considerable Ash Wednesday service with our full communion brothers and sisters at at the fact that she now has to bring a Trinity Lutheran Church the next day difficultiespillow to sit of on getting in church around of Sundays. and jokes in Whitehorse, Sheila and I began our I see it in the parishes of Christ Lenten Journey with an awe inspiring Church Cathedral and Northern drive of about 550 kilometres between Apostles of Whitehorse. Both parishes communities and services. As I drove faced considerable increases to their in the -25° C weather on the snow budgets to meet the pastoral and and ice covered roads, through the outreach needs of the community and isolated areas surrounded by these instead of complaining they reached huge mountain ranges, I was struck within themselves and in a couple of by how fragile we are and how easily, weeks have increased pledges that with one mistake, our lives could end more then cover these new expenses. in this unforgiving land of beauty of I see this life in the great welcome the Yukon. It was a Lenten lesson that I receive from so many parishes: page 4 Northern Lights Spring 2011 parishes that have seen the economies about. Resurrection! The resurrected of their communities die as the mines Christ was not the same as before. As shut down; parishes where there was, our Diocese resurrects itself we are not long ago, a full time minister and not sure how it will look. We do know now there is not. I get not self pity, but it will be different from what it once a longing plea to help us to minister to was. Join us as we journey through our people, to help equip us to reach Lent, looking forward to the new out to our community. I also realize strength, new joy, and new life that the that with all the potlucks I am going Easter resurrection brings. May God, to have the same problem as always our Father and Creator, bless you and losing weight. your family this season and may your New life, that is what Easter is all walk with Jesus be a truly personal one. Bishop Larry chats with St. Paul’s Lay Minister and Rector’s Warden Betty Da- vidson at one of several pot-lucks during the Bishop’s recent visit to Dawson from March 10 to 14. Anglican Fellowship of Prayer Canada I have just been appointed as the prayer by all Diocese of Yukon representative to the 2. Encourage prayer for lay people, Anglican Fellowship of Prayer Canada. Bishops and other clergy of the Chris- The following is an excerpt from their tian Church with particular emphasis website explaining their purpose. on the worldwide Anglican Commu- The Anglican Fellowship of Prayer nion (Canada) is a part of the International 3. Bring people into a full redeem- Anglican Fellowship of Prayer (AFP). ing, sanctifying communion with God The Purpose of AFP is to: through Jesus Christ, emphasizing 1. Promote the practice of Christian Cont’d on p. 7 Northern Lights Spring 2011 page 5 The Bishop and the Laurie Munro Snowmobile Ordained as Deacon years of my minstry the snowmobile wasI must my car. tell I you drove that one for from the firstcom 20- munity to community as well as from nets daily with one. I pulled a kaumo- housetik (sled) to house. with a Isnowmobile checked my withfish kids and groceries in it. So you will understand just how embarassing this following story really is. I was going out to Moosehide, (some sacred grounds) to check submitted by Blanche Buckle the facilities for a possible Bishop’s school. When I was told that we would The Ordination of Laurie Munro as go by snowmobile that did not fright- a Deacon was held in the Founders’ en me. It was a normal part of my day Chapel of Wycliffe College, Toronto for a long time. But I did not realize Ontario. how long ago that was. It had been The ceremony took place on about 10 years since I had done any Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 4:45 serious travel on a snowmobile. I was pm. also about 60 pounds lighter. When I Presiding Celebrant, The Rt. Rev. got into my winter gear I realized that it was tight, to say the least. Tom Corston, Bishop of Moosonee. When Ronald, the man known as Preacher & Ordaining Bishop, the Mayor of Moosehide, showed The Most Rev. Terence Buckle, Ret., up I realized the problem. He had a Diocese of Yukon. small one seater and I was not small It was agreed between Bishop at all. I was to sit behind him on the Larry Robertson and Laurie Munro, seat. When I went to sit on the seat I that Archbishop Buckle would learned that my legs did not move like ordain Laurie Munro while he was they did 10 years ago.