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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 2012 Anglican, Bakery all fired up Lutheran Churches churches invited to amalgamate spend day BY HENRIETA PAUKOV BY STUART MANN THE bells of St. Mark, Midland, JOHN Stephenson Jr. and Bob rang during the Lord’s Prayer at Harford have been working hard the service celebrating the amal - over the summer to get Take This gamation with Holy Cross Bread, the new bakery started by Lutheran Church on May 27, one All Saints, Sherbourne Street in of many small ways that this serv - downtown Toronto, up and run - ice was different from the usual ning. Sunday service. Each Friday, the two have been “Part of the Lutheran tradition baking loaves of bread and selling is that the Lord’s Prayer is a highly them, at reduced prices, to the significant part of the service, and tenants of the nearby Dan Harri - so they’ve always rung their bells son Community Complex. They’ve during the praying of the Lord’s also been inviting the tenants to Prayer,” says the Rev. Catherine join them in the baking. Barley, the incumbent of St. They’re hoping to have the bak - From left, Keenan Menard, Bob Mark’s. “So the person who has al - ery running three days a week by Harford and John Stephenson dis - ways done that at Holy Cross did early September, selling bread, play their bread outside Take This that at St. Mark’s on Sunday. We cookies and communion wafers Bread bakery, located beside All are integrating Anglican worship and providing training and job Saints, Sherbourne Street. At and Lutheran traditions.” skills to 12 unemployed people. right, Dave Bezanson makes eu - The Anglican Church of Cana - “There’s been lots of interest charist wafers. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL da is in full communion with the from the tenants at Dan Harri - HUDSON Evangelical Lutheran Church in son,” says Mr. Stephenson, who Canada. This means that Angli - manages a drop-in at the housing receive a food handler’s certifi - cans and Lutherans in Canada complex. “It’s wonderful to hear cate, qualifying him or her to can share the Eucharist, use each them say, ‘I want to be part of work in a professional kitchen. this.’” In addition to working in the Continued on Page 2 The goal is to provide unem - bakery, the participants will also ployed people with training in the meet with a social worker once a bakery for 12 months, and then to month to develop goals for em - transition some of them into pay - ployment and learn financial Donations ing jobs. Each person who com - skills. pletes the year-long training will Continued on Page 10 help papers
THE stories, photographs and columns you read and see each ‘Cells’ build rural parish in U.K. month in The Anglican are made possible by generous do - nations from you, our readers. Without your financial sup - New Christians meet in homes to share faith port, we would not be able to BY STUART MANN Christians, who meet in people’s the Tas Valley in Norfolk, East course, several wanted to be con - bring you the paper in its cur - homes or other locations to grow Anglia. Her benefice is made up firmed. They also wanted to keep rent form. If you haven’t al - WHEN you hear the words “cell in their faith. of six parish churches and the cell meeting and talking to each other. ready done so, I encourage you church” or “fresh expressions of “We wanted people to know Je - church. Before this, she worked in Rather than be directed to their to make a donation and keep church,” you often think of them sus and to be able to grow in disci - rural parishes in Wales and nearest parish church, they were this important ministry going. as taking place in urban or subur - pleship, and we felt that to do that, Worcestershire. She’s also the au - given the opportunity to form An envelope for the annual An - ban settings. But they can also we had to meet people where they thor of the book Mission-shaped church in small groups, similar to glican Journal appeal is insert - happen in rural churches and were,” said Mrs. Gaze in an inter - and rural: growing churches in those in the Alpha course—and ed in this issue. As usual, your small towns and villages, with view in early June. She was in the the countryside. the first cells were born. donation will be split evenly surprising results. Diocese of Toronto to lead work - In 2003, she brought together a Mrs. Gaze said keeping the peo - between The Anglican and the In the Rev. Sally Gaze’s shops on growing churches in ru - team of people to run an Alpha ple together in small groups was national paper. Together, let’s benefice (a multi-point parish) in ral areas. course, which is an introduction to important to keep them growing in keep sharing our stories about rural England, for example, there Mrs. Gaze is no stranger to ru - Christian basics. About 26 people their faith. “They hadn’t come this wonderful church of ours. are 10 “cells.” These are small ral ministry. For the past 10 years, showed up, half of whom were new Thank you. groups, mostly made up of new she has been the team rector of to Christianity. At the end of the Continued on Page 8 Stuart Mann, Editor
PAIR BAPTIZED IN RIVER – SEE PAGE 8 2 The Anglican N E W S September 2012 Vote BRIEFLY Young Anglican leads named in top 20 Brooke Harrison, a member of the youth choir at Trinity, Auro - to union ra, has been named one of the Top 20 under 20 in Canada. “I was completely shocked. It was Continued from Page 1 very humbling,” said Ms. Harri - son. She was chosen from among 600 applicants. other’s liturgies, and participate Since the age of six, Ms. Harri - in each other’s ordinations. Angli - son has been raising money for can and Lutheran clergy may also various causes. When she was serve in either church. eight, she published Cookin’ in St. Mark’s and Holy Cross had Brooke’s Kitchen , a cookbook of been worshipping together in an family recipes that eventually informal way for many years, in - raised $60,000 for leukemia re - cluding Advent, Christmas and search. She later founded the Holy Week services. “When I ar - Youth Advisory Council for the rived, it seemed to me that it Philip Aziz Centre, a non-profit, made sense for us to be doing home hospice program in Toron - more things together,” says Ms. to for people living with cancer, Barley. “So we did a joint Bible The clergy of St. Mark Anglican Lutheran Church in Midland process out of the church after the service of amalgamation on May 27. HIV/AIDS and other life-threat - study that we planned together, ening illnesses. Ms. Harrison and we had 25 people from the and some of her high school two churches involved in that.” things like worship, finance, gov - and what they’ve accomplished,” what is our vision for the church,” friends raised $150,000 for the Holy Cross sold its building in ernance, a legal agreement.” says Ms. Barley. Both churches says Ms. Barley. “We are going to centre. 2010, and the new owner gave They held a town hall meeting held a vote immediately after need to be doing some things dif - Last year, after listening to them three years to continue to for both congregations, with pre - Sunday service on May 13, with ferently, we’ll need to be out in Bishop Mark MacDonald speak use the facilities. In September sentations on various aspects of the majority voting in favour of the community more, and we will about the plight of aboriginal 2011, Ms. Barley and the Rev. the proposed amalgamation and amalgamation. be making changes to our wor - children in the North, she Rachel Dart, the interim pastor at an opportunity for people to ask The joint congregation will ship. There really is a sense of en - sought out donations of back - Holy Cross, began to talk about questions. Some parishioners vis - worship at St. Mark’s, with Ms. ergy as we come together.” packs, toys and school supplies, bringing the two congregations ited St. David’s Anglican Luther - Barley as incumbent and Ms. That energy was palpable at valued at $100,000, and arranged together, and after Christmas “re - an Church in Orillia, to see “how Dart staying on as interim pastor the amalgamation service. “It to have them transported from ally started in earnest, planning the two churches came together until the end of December. The was wonderful,” says Ms. Barley. Aurora to Sioux Lookout and clergy and the people of the new “There was just so much excite - then by plane to remote First 4HE &RIENDS OF THE ,IBRARY 4RINITY #OLLEGE St. Mark’s Anglican Lutheran ment in the church. I’ve been here Nations communities. Church have a lot of work to do in three and a half years and I don’t Top 20 under 20 is a program the coming months, including a think we’ve ever had a service of Youth in Motion, a national TH !NNUAL "OOK 3ALE visioning session to figure out that was filled with such joy and charitable organization. Apart /CTOBER TO “who we see ourselves to be and anticipation.” from a $5,000 scholarship, awardees get paired with an Or - 4HURSDAY TH nPM &RIDAY TH AMnPM der of Canada mentor. Ms. Har - 3ATURDAY TH AMnPM 3UNDAY ST NOONnPM -ARY ' 'RIFlTH "! -"! *$ rison plans to attend Western -ONDAY ND AMnPM NO ADMISSION CHARGE &RI -ON University this fall to study so - -ACLAREN #ORLETT ,,0 cial justice and peace. "ARRISTER 3OLICITOR /NTARIO CASH q CHEQUE q DEBIT q !MEX q -ASTERCARD q 6ISA "LOOR 3TREET %AST Anglican Journal !TTORNEY #OUNSELOR AT ,AW .EW 9ORK 3UITE 3OUTH 4OWER 3EELEY (ALL q 4RINITY #OLLEGE q (OSKIN !VENUE 4ORONTO /. -7 2 -USEUM 3T 'EORGE 3UBWAY OR 7ELLESLEY "US TO THE DOOR "USINESS ,AW 7ILLS 4RUSTS %STATES 4EL Church changes name &AX St. George, Willowdale, has offi - WWWTRINITYUTORONTOCABOOKSALE qq WWWMACLARENCORLETTCOM % MAIL MGRIFlTH MACORLAWCOM cially changed its name to St. 2EGISTRATION 22 George on Yonge. The church’s vestry approved the change, as did Diocesan Council at a meet - TO PLACE AN AD IN ing in the spring. The church is located at 5350 Yonge St., THE ANGLICAN, Toronto. call Carol at 905.833.6200 x25 Send your parish news to or email [email protected] editor @toronto.anglican.ca
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MANY parishes welcome back old friends each spring, as retired snowbirds return from Florida and other sunny climes. But along with a few of those, St. Paul, Beaverton, swells with dozens of seasonal agricultural workers re - turning from Mexico to work in the surrounding fields. About 20,000 farm workers trav - el from Mexico to Ontario each year, including 120 who come to Beaverton, a small town on the eastern shore of Lake Simcoe. They live in close quarters and work long hours, cultivating and cutting bok choy to provide a bet - ter life for their families back home. Many of the older men use their wages to put their children through university or profession - The Rev. Ted McCollum, incumbent of St. Paul, Beaverton, visits Mexican farm workers harvesting crops in a field near Lake Simcoe. PHOTOS BY al schools, while the younger ones MICHAEL HUDSON often put their money into build - ing a house. They work in the iso - lated back roads of rural Ontario, where the almost homogeneous population speaks no Spanish, public transportation is virtually non-existent, and their ability to access local businesses and serv - ices during normal opening hours is limited. At St. Paul’s, we are in our fourth year of striving to become a bilingual, multicultural parish. Finally, it seems, we have fallen in - to a comfortable stride. When the Mexican workers returned to Beaverton this spring, those of us who are most involved in this min - istry received excited phone calls, Enrique, one of a group of Mexicans that attends St. Paul’s, provides A weekly dinner at the church brings rest and refreshment. Facebook messages, handshakes musical accompaniment during a service. and hugs on the main street. As Miguel Atriano said, “I feel like I gate an almost endless number of We are trying to develop within astic group of children amaze us stranger. The success of this min - have a second home here now.” practical and personal matters. Beaverton and the surrounding every week with how fast they can istry has depended not only on The English- and Spanish- Frequently, someone needs help area a greater understanding of pick up the lesson of the day. the great dedication of both the speaking parts of St. Paul’s con - with a government document or the two cultures and languages. We believe that these seeds will Mexican workers and Canadians, gregation have come together needs a ride to the bank, doctor or People from outside the parish, in - grow deep roots and far-reaching but on their openness to come to - through a weekly Eucharist in tax office, where translation is re - cluding local business owners and branches into the community, gether. Spanish, and many fiestas and quired. Recently, a man had to vis - post office workers, have enrolled making it a more hospitable place dinners. Our volunteer drivers it the Mexican consulate in Toron - in the Spanish lessons, and some for those who must make it their Kimberley Reid is a parishioner of help the men with their trans - to to sign papers that would per - have become involved in the min - second home. At the root of this St. Paul, Beaverton. She has been portation needs. mit his wife to take their son istry. In March, we also began a hospitality, both given and re - instrumental in the ministry to We have found that, due to lan - across the border to Sacramento, lunch-hour Spanish club at the lo - ceived, is openness—openness to seasonal field workers, and has guage and transportation impedi - California, to receive treatment cal Roman Catholic elementary other ways, other ideas, and an become almost fluent in Spanish ments, the men need help to navi - for severe burns he had suffered. school, where a small but enthusi - open heart to empathize with a as the ministry grows. FaithWorks donor challenges Anglicans New and increased contributions will be matched, up to $5,000 per donor
BY SUSAN MCCULLOCH ditional $150,000 in the 2012 Faith - their lives. I hope that my gift will creased contributions matched, up their donations matched. Works Campaign. help to inspire others to give gen - to a maximum of $5,000 per con - As of July 18, FaithWorks dona - SEVENTEEN FaithWorks Ministry “FaithWorks is able to support erously to support the ministries tributor. tions were more than 27 per cent Partners stand to benefit from a so many vital ministries because of our FaithWorks partners.” For example, if a church gave ahead of contributions received challenge grant offered by an An - of the generosity of many, many Mrs. McCain has offered to $10,000 to FaithWorks last year during the same time period in glican who was inspired by the people,” said Mrs. McCain when match all new and increased dona - and raises $11,000 this year, the 2011. The success of the Our Faith- apostle Paul’s reminder to the she announced the challenge. “My tions to FaithWorks raised be - challenge grant will provide an - Our Hope campaign has placed a Corinthians that “we who are family and I have been richly tween July 1 and Nov. 30, 2012. other $1,000 for a total donation to renewed emphasis on stewardship many are one body” (1 Cor 10:17). blessed, and I want to encourage Churches, individuals and corpo - FaithWorks of $12,000. Individuals, in parishes throughout the dio - Margaret McCain is offering a others to consider how God’s rations who give a higher amount companies and parishes that have cese, says Peter Misiaszek, direc - $75,000 challenge grant which, if promises of blessings and abun - to FaithWorks this year than they never before contributed to Faith - tor of Stewardship Development. successful, will help to raise an ad - dance have made a difference in did last year will see their in - Works are also eligible to have Continued on Page 7 4 The Anglican C O M M E N T September 2012 Committed to reconciliation The Anglican very summer, my wife ARCHBISHOP’S DIARY Anglican Church have been present to ex - The Anglican is published under and I spend part of a press not only apology for the harm done in the authority of the Bishop of Toronto Eday of our vacation BY ARCHBISHOP COLIN JOHNSON residential schools but our commitment to and the Incorporated Synod of the “touching base”—a continue walking together to build healthy Diocese of Toronto. 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Archbishop of Canterbury: ou may have heard of BISHOP’S OPINION ply lived out their faith in neighbourhoods. The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Rowan Williams, “management by walk - The theological underpinning is the Incarna - Lambeth Palace, BY BISHOP PATRICK YU Ying around” (MBWA). tion—God came to us. God seems to want us London, England SE1 7JU. The idea is that a man - to go to the world that God loves. When I was ager should not simply sit in ly is that one failed program after another at the course, we only studied one passage, In Canada: his or her office but needs to depletes hope, which is the most valuable re - the sending of the 70 in Luke 10:1-12. It was a A community of about 600,000 members walk around and talk to the source in a congregation. surprisingly rich text. What impressed me is in 30 dioceses, stretching from Vancouver workers, to listen to them and Mission by walking around does not start the fact that there is always a plentiful har - Island to Newfoundland and north to the Arctic Ocean. help when and where needed. I want to intro - with big programs that will turn everything vest, and that we are sent where Jesus him - duce you to “mission by walking around.” If around. It involves small groups of motivated self would go, and that we can cultivate a Primate: the word mission scares you, substitute the parishioners doing small-scale research that radical trust in God—a good antidote for the The Most Rev. Fred Hiltz, word ministry. may result in experiments. Craig told a story risk aversion that accompanies a reactive Church House, 80 Hayden St. While on sabbatical, I was able to follow about a big city church, built on the streetcar and frightened church. Toronto, ON M4Y 3G2 the news more closely. There was an article line in the 1900s. Like many city churches, its There is a trend to form virtual communi - on my Globe and Mail app called “9 lessons members now commute. To their credit, ties today, at least to form communities of In the Diocese of Toronto: from great leaders in tech.” The first story these parishioners came back to the much- affinity. We use social media with people we A community of 254 congregations in 210 parishes covering 26,000 square kilometers. was about Ursula Burns, chair and CEO of changed neighbourhood and offered pro - like half a world away and only hang out Of the nearly 5 million people who live Xerox. She started in the copy room and grams in the church. They ran sports pro - with friends we like, while we hardly talk to within the diocesan boundaries, 376,000 worked through the ranks to her present po - grams and a food program, but there was a neighbours. Church activity sometimes takes claim to be affiliated with the Anglican sition. The lesson is that she knows her busi - sense that they were not making inroads. Af - place exclusively within its walls. A priest Church, with about 80,000 people ness from the inside out. She knows MBWA. ter some facilitated reflection, some parish - can spend a good chunk of time on the com - identified on the parish rolls. The diocese This dovetails with the emphasis of the ioners organized a neighbourhood walk. puter away from people. That is at least in - is home to many ethnic and language- course I just took, offered by the Missional Small groups of parishioners decided to sim - complete. There is something earthy, some - based congregations, including African, Institute (i.e. Alan Roxburgh and Craig Van ply walk the neighbourhood. At the debrief - thing geographical about a religion about Je - Caribbean, Chinese, Filipino, French, Gelder). Much of it was about recognizing ing after the first walk, they looked at each sus of Nazareth , a first century Jew spending Hispanic, Japanese, and Tamil. The City of the adaptive challenges necessary to bear other and said, “Well, we are alive!” You see, most of his time walking around his home Toronto has the largest population of witness in the post-modern world. Many of for all their good intentions, they viewed the town. We have good company when we do aboriginal peoples in the country. us grew up at the zenith of the modern era. neighbourhood as foreign and dangerous, MBWA. The Archbishop of Toronto: We believe in a stable world and salvation by and indeed many neighbourhoods do look Today (July 26), I read a commentary arti - The Most Rev. Colin Johnson technical answers. In that world, all the like that until you get to know them. We may cle by City Councillor Michael Thompson ti - church has to do is do better at what worked sing “this is my father’s world” but mentally tled “Take a step back to see my Scarbor - York-Credit Valley: before—preach better sermons, have better we exclude the neighbourhood in which our ough.” In light of the horrendous shooting on The Rt. Rev. Philip Poole music, offer better programs—and people church is situated; perhaps we exclude the July 16, he felt compelled to write about the will flock into church. In that world, you area where we live as well. The church then many acts of goodness that he saw in the Trent-Durham: “find a need and meet it.” We research the becomes a place of refuge. In contrast, the area which he “loves and serves” as council - The Rt. Rev. Linda Nicholls need, or even commission research, and good people of that city church followed up lor. “It is a mistake to define a neighbour - York-Scarborough: launch a program afterwards. their initial walk by finding out where people hood by random acts of violence,” he writes. The Rt. Rev. Patrick Yu Many churches, if they do hands-on out - actually gathered and began to connect with Good call, Michael. I live in Scarborough, too. reach at all, try things that others have suc - them at those places. I don’t think that I urge the churches in Scarborough to take a York-Simcoe: ceeded at elsewhere. A priest may transplant church will ever be the same again. Would page from the good councillor: get out the The Rt. Rev. George Elliott what worked in a previous parish to the cur - that be good news if it happens to your door and see where the goodness is, where The Diocese of Toronto: rent situation. Perchance there are hits, but church? the opportunities are, indeed where God is 135 Adelaide St. E., there are more misses. When that happens, This is, of course, not a new idea. Evange - already working, and join in. And you, read - Toronto, Ont., M5C 1L8 people get weary of doing good, or blame the lization of much of the world happened be - ers, perhaps you can do the same where you 1-800-668-8932/416-363-6021 world for not responding. What is most dead - cause people, small bands of Christians, sim - are. Web site: http://www.toronto.anglican.ca September 2012 C O M M E N T The Anglican 5
EDITOR’S Refugees will suffer CORNER BY STUART MANN s a nurse practi - HEALTH CARE our system is based. tioner who has The federal government’s stated reason Aworked with BY JESSICA MUNRO for the changes (cost-cutting) is erro - refugees in down - neous. People who cannot afford preven - town Toronto, I am writing eligible for assistance. Thankfully, the gov - tive and primary health care will wait un - Give it a try to express concerns about ernment revoked changes to this group at til they are critically ill to be seen, requir - the changes the federal the 11th hour, but only after weeks of na - ing far more expensive emergency treat - government made on July tional protests by concerned health pro - ment. This is a poor use of our health care t church on Easter Day, I realized 1 to the health coverage fessionals and significant media coverage system. The province will be stuck with that I believed in the resurrec - provided to refugees in Canada. These criticizing this policy. More recently, bills for patients who simply do not have Ation. This came as a surprise to changes are inequitable and unjust and refugee claimants, who were to receive on - the money to pay. In some cases, they will me. For years, this had been the will have harsh consequences for many ly emergency care, are now likely to get be seen too late to be treated effectively one part of Christianity I could not be - individuals, families and communities. some of what Ontario Works and Ontario and lives will be lost. lieve in. (We’ll save the Holy Spirit for an - Nurses have a professional and ethical re - Disability Support Program clients get, Other concerns are that health care other day.) I could accept that Jesus sponsibility to promote the health of pa - but that isn’t yet clear. Some may not be providers may be reluctant to see refugee walked the earth, that he said and did re - tients and communities. As an Anglican, I eligible in the first six weeks of arrival, patients, because of the uncertainty about markable things, and that he was nailed also feel it is my duty to speak out against and providers are supposed to phone what (if any) services will be covered. As to a cross. But rise from the dead, spend the absence of compassion these changes ahead and ensure services are covered (a well, there is concern about the impact on some time with his disciples, and then reflect. process that can take up to 48 hours—not private refugee sponsorships, when med - ascend to heaven to be with God? Sorry, I Initially, when I wrote this article, the very realistic when the patient is in front ical costs for refugees, at least initially, couldn’t quite manage that one. changes were devastating to refugee of you and in need of help). may fall on the shoulders of the compas - So what had changed? How did I come health care in Canada. Since then, howev - Refugee claimants arrive asking for our sionate individuals and groups involved. to believe it? Here are some things that er, I’ve had to revise it twice, as the gov - protection. In many cases, they will not This is not how we should treat our happened. They might help you if you al - ernment has backed down on several is - have access to any physician or nurse, lab country’s most vulnerable new citizens. so don’t believe it. sues. Most disturbing were the initial tests, or, most frighteningly, emergency My Canada does not abandon and ignore First, you have to make an effort. To sit changes for Government Assisted care, unless they can pay for them. This their health care needs. As Anglicans, we back and simply say “Prove it” just does - Refugees, who often come from refugee includes women who arrive pregnant due remember that Jesus was a refugee—his n’t cut it. To accomplish anything in life, camps and may have lived through perse - to acts of violence in their home coun - parents fleeing from their own country to you have to get off your behind, either lit - cution and the atrocities of war, torture, tries. Unless they have a condition which Egypt to save the life of their son. I urge erally or figuratively, and do something famine and rape. The government’s initial poses a risk to public health, they will not anyone who shares these concerns to about it. Believing in the resurrection is argument that they would have access to receive coverage for treatment, even if write to their MP, MPP and the provincial no different. what the rest of Canadians receive was they have a heart attack, stroke or car ac - and federal Ministers of Health and to Start by putting your ego on the shelf false. Low income and disabled Ontarians cident. Someone who has latent TB will bear witness to the inequities that will re - and let Jesus Christ come into your life. I have access to Ontario Works and Ontario not be supplied with medication to help sult from these new policies. wrote about this in a previous column Drug Benefits, others to insurance cover - reduce their risk of developing active TB; and won’t go through all that again. But age through their employers. Neither however, once they have active TB and Jessica Munro is a nurse practitioner in this stage, I think, is essential. would have been available to these are desperately ill and a threat to public Toronto and a member of St. John, Attend a worship service that is mean - refugees, who spend their first year ad - health, the government will pay for the Norway, Toronto. For more information ingful to you. The Christians that I hang justing to Canada, learning English and medications. This contradicts the princi - about this issue, visit out with each week are supportive and upgrading schooling and skills, and aren’t ples of preventive health care on which www.doctorsforrefugeecare.ca/. loving. I see Jesus in their words and ac - tions. I could not have come to believe in the resurrection without them. Sit with the Bible for one hour a week. Just flip through its pages or look at the Can’t find one? Bring two! maps or read a few passages. If you find an interesting part, read it over again and ponder it. Maybe buy a book of com - was recently reading BACK TO CHURCH SUNDAY church health today can be seen in full mentary on it. I like the “For Everyone” about a priest in Eng - view on this one Sunday each year. The series by N.T. Wright, among others. Go Iland who addressed BY THE REV . D AVID GIFFEN number of people who are in church on to the Anglican Book Centre in Toronto his congregation from Back to Church Sunday speaks volumes (in person if you can—it has the best the pulpit on the Sunday about where a congregation’s missional background music in the city) and morning before Back to Michael Harvey, the founder of Back to voice and action reside. For a church like browse the shelves. There’s a new world Church Sunday. He said, Church Sunday. “We believe God does the one I serve, which has begun a re - waiting for you. “Next week, everyone is the growing. It is we who do the lock - newed era of growth, there is nothing If you do all that, you might find a required to bring a friend to church. If ing—we who lock growth down. Now we that can speak louder about how we feel change coming over you. You might start you can’t find one person to bring to have to work at unlocking growth.” about following Jesus as a member of a thinking about God and Jesus a little bit church, you don’t need to come at all!” It is based on a simple idea. Every particular community than offering an more. You might start living your life a Even working with the assumption that member of a parish who is committed to invitation to another to come along. little differently. If that happens, you he was speaking in jest, I’m not sure I the idea invites another person to come On this year’s Back to Church Sunday, might be leaving your old life behind and ° would have the audacity to stand in front to church with them on a designated everyone is required to bring a friend to entering a new one, with God and Jesus of my own congregation this September Sunday. Then the results are measured church. If you can’t find one person to Christ as your guides. Don’t fight it. Just and declare the same thing, although I six months later to see what happened. bring to church, bring two! let it happen. It’s a strange and marvel - secretly appreciated his intention. More than 150,000 people have accepted lous trip. (And don’t worry, you can bail Back to Church Sunday began in Eng - the invitation in the seven years that The Rev. David Giffen is the priest-in- at any time.) land in 2004 as an effort by the Church of Back to Church Sunday has been run - charge of the Church of the After six months or a year, look back at England to reach out to both un- ning, and organizers have found that 15 Transfiguration, Toronto. This article how far you’ve come. See the new things churched people in local communities to 20 per cent of those who come end up was published in the church’s newsletter you’re doing. See the old things you’ve and to parishioners who had lost touch staying. before last year’s Back to Church left behind. Look at the new purpose in with their local parish church. “We don’t I am of the strong opinion that one of Sunday. Back to Church Sunday is being your life. You might see that you’ve been believe in growing the church,” says the greatest tangible measurements of held in the diocese this year on Sept. 30. transformed. You might also realize that if a transformation like that can happen to you, a doubter and a sinner and an all- LETTERS four-year program of theological and group, as well as a group at the con - around hard nut to crack, then any - spiritual reflection and education, we vent. Your readers may want an opportu - thing’s possible—even the resurrection. EFM at two locations have been blessed by the ongoing gen - nity to explore the riches of the Christian That’s basically the trajectory of my Thank you for your fine article on the Ed - erosity of St. Thomas, Huron Street, tradition. EFM is a great way to do it in own journey. I’ve come to realize that the ucation for Ministry Program (EFM). But which has hosted EFM for over 20 years. either location. resurrection isn’t like some mathemati - you didn’t mention that EFM is active in The St. Thomas group is located in the cal problem to be solved or science ex - locations other than the convent of the heart of Toronto and meets on Saturdays Bill and Eliz Thoms, Carroll Guen periment to be proved—it’s something to Sisterhood of St. John the Divine. As stu - from September through May. The cur - and Willem Hart, Lucinda Sykes be lived out, something to experience in dents and graduates of this splendid rent mentor, Carol Kysela, leads the Toronto the everyday muck of life. That’s where you’ll find the risen Jesus, and your own 5IF%JPDFTFJTPO'BDFCPPL 5XJUUFSBOE:PV5VCF resurrection as well. 5PDPOOFDU WJTJU Send your parish news to XXXUPSPOUPBOHMJDBODB editor @toronto.anglican.ca 6 The Anglican N E W S September 2012 Mandarin ministry takes root Two ask for baptism
BY CAROLYN PURDEN church-goers account for one- third of the members, and the LAST September, the Rev. Esther rest are middle-aged couples and Deng started a Mandarin-lan - students who do not attend any guage worship service at St. Paul, church. L’Amoreaux, Scarborough. The The Saturday group did not area has the largest number of start as a worship group, but in immigrants from mainland China June Ms. Deng held a Eucharist in Canada, many of whom have no and worship service for the first Christian background. time, and now plans to do it once That first service brought out a month. 28 people, many of them friends In building up her congregation and supporters. The next Sunday, and group membership, Ms. Deng only three people attended. But had to learn from people without out of that tiny nucleus, a Man - injecting her own ideas. She im - darin-speaking congregation has migrated to Canada 20 years ago, Attendees of the Saturday group enjoy lunch at the Rev. Esther Deng’s home. Ms. Deng provides worship formed and is growing. but things are much different to - services and Bible study to Mandarin-speaking people in Scarborough. Today, between 10 and 15 peo - day and students and families are ple attend the service every Sun - dealing with financial and per - as people left to return to China. people and the other for older tion and Bible study group, at day. There is also a Bible study sonal problems she did not have “I considered whether I should people.” least two people have asked to be group that meets at the church on to face. “You have to treat them in stop, but we prayed and waited There is no question that Ms. baptized in September. Monday and a gathering at Ms. an individual way,” she says. and more people came,” she says. Deng has enjoyed a successful Ms. Deng says she has had a lot Deng’s home on Saturday. Many of the people who attend There is another challenge for nine months. Although many peo - of support from bishops, other The Saturday group started the Bible study at St. Paul’s on Ms. Deng. “From September, I ple left her Saturday group in churches and those who have with eight people in January and Monday and the Saturday meet - need more people to be involved,” April, several of them had accept - been praying for her ministry. “I now has up to 15 members. Atten - ings in her home are visitors to she says. “I hope I can find some ed Jesus Christ into their lives really feel great support from dance fluctuates from meeting to Canada. In April, Ms. Deng had a leaders inside the group so I can and told her they would seek out people and I want to say ‘thank meeting; most are not worship - worrying time when her group of separate the congregation into at a church when they returned to you’ to them,” she says. pers at St. Paul’s. Seniors who are 16 suddenly plummeted to three, least two groups, one for younger China. And out of the congrega - Learn, share your faith
A number of workshops and ini - But how does a cleric do it with - Rev. Martha Tatarnic will share Reimagining Church Learn how to talk tiatives are being held in the dio - out burning out? That’s one of best practices and talk about the cese this fall to help Anglicans the issues that will be addressed ups and downs. in York-Simcoe about your faith learn and share their faith with at the Reach New People work - Many parish teams have al - Bishop George Elliott invites Join John Bowen, director of the others. Here are a few of them: shop, held on Oct. 27 at Trinity ready signed up. The cost is $25 clergy and laity in York-Simcoe Institute of Evangelism at College, Toronto. per person or $100 for teams of to attend Re-imagining Church, a Wycliffe College, at a seminar on The day-long event, organized five or more. To register, contact four-week course that chal - what it means to witness to one’s Reach New People by the diocese, will feature three Elizabeth McCaffrey, the Congre - lenges participants to listen and faith. The seminar is based on workshop filling up speakers who have experience in gational Development coordina - learn together, and continue the the assumption that evangelism For many parishes, starting up a starting up a second service to tor, at [email protected] - conversation about being faithful is something that all Christians second service is probably the reach new people. John Bowen, can.ca. to God’s call in the 21st century. can do as a normal part of being easiest way to plant a church. the Rev. Judy Paulsen and the Reimagining Church is an in - a follower of Jesus. Mr. Bowen’s troduction to missional thinking talk, like his book Evangelism for Reach Grants for those who know something Normal People , will be biblically deadline Sept. 21 is wrong, but are not sure what grounded and will attempt to EH?M' The deadline for the diocese’s it is, how they should think challenge participants in a gentle popular Reach Grants is Sept. 21. about it or what might be done way. The seminar takes place on GhmcnlmZ Reach Grants are one-time about it. It is pitched to the level Oct. 17 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Timothy, grants of between $500 and $5,000 of the committed Christian who North Toronto, 100 Old Orchard mk^g]r\hg]h' to help start up new ministries to has not studied theology in a Blvd. For more information, visit reach people who aren’t being formal way. www.sttimothy.ca/bowen. ;dgi]Z]dbZaZhhl^i]bZciVa reached by traditional forms of The course takes place at St. ]ZVai]VcYVYY^Xi^dcX]VaaZc\Zh! church. The diocese has already Paul, Newmarket, Mondays, Focus on mission in AD;IXVcWZVeaVXZidXVaa]dbZ# given out 26 Reach Grants to - Sept. 10 to Oct. 1, from 7:30 to rural areas talling $61,400. The grants have 9:30 p.m. Individual registration Clergy and lay leaders are invit - L]ZcndjhZZi]ZldgYÆAD;IÇ! funded many new parish min - costs $50 per person. Teams of ed to the 9th R. Alex Sim Rural YdcÉi_jhii]^c`d[igZcYnXdcYdh! istries, including pub and cafe clergy and laity are encouraged Ministry Symposium, which is i]^c`d[jh# churches and ministries to to attend together and will re - taking place Oct. 22-24 at the Sal - youth, seniors and new mothers. ceive a course discount of $150 vation Army’s Jackson’s Point 6cYi]^c`VWdji]dlndjXVc]Zae# To apply, contact Elizabeth Mc - per team of four or more people. Conference Centre. The speaker Caffrey, the Congregational De - For more details, visit will be John Bowen, director of ;dgbdgZ^c[dgbVi^dc!dgidYdcViZ velopment coordinator, at emc - www.shapedformission.ca or the Institute of Evangelism at dca^cZ!\didlll#ad[iXh#dg\# [email protected]. call Elizabeth McCaffrey, the Wycliffe College. Each partici - Congregational Development co - DgXVaa)&+".,."&..)Zmi'''# pant can take four workshops. ordinator, at 416-363-6021 (1-800- For more information, visit 668-8932), ext. 225. www.ruralsymposium.ca. PLEASE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. Give it to a friend. September 2012 N E W S The Anglican 7
The Rev. Andrew Wesley, an Anglican pastor to Toronto’s aboriginal com - munity, points to a photo of him as a boy at St. Anne’s Indian Residential Roman Catholic School at Fort St. Albany, Ont. in 1952. Churches discuss life
Six Nations artist Hilton Henhawk works on a painting on a teepee at the Truth and Reconciliation Conference after apology in Toronto. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON Anglicans taking action, says Bishop Poole
BY CAROLYN PURDEN since. Afterwards, others in the workshop were invited to discuss THE mainline churches have all areas where the churches could apologized to aboriginal people do more. for the residential schools they It was evident that the apolo - ran, but this is only one step on gies had made a dramatic impact the journey of repentance. What on some of the churches. United do the churches do now to live out Church representative the Rev. Bishop Philip Poole Anglicans attending the conference gather for a group photo. the apology? Brian McIntosh said that after its This was the question posed to 1986 apology, the church’s struc - way it enters into international re - respect the teaching of their eld - had invited Bishop MacDonald to church representatives at one of ture was changed to reflect a lationships, especially with abo - ers, the workshop heard. The confirm their young people, but in the workshops at a Truth and greater emphasis on aboriginal riginal people. It is promoting and church representatives were preparation, the leader of the con - Reconciliation Conference, held in relationships and justice. In 1998, building its members’ awareness asked how their churches are re - firmation class took an unusual Toronto in early June. the church issued a statement of of the legacy of colonialism, and sponding. step. She based the preparatory The Meeting Place: Truth and repentance directed especially to ensuring Anglican participation Roman Catholic representative teachings on the Anishinaabe Reconciliation 2012 Toronto was a residential school survivors. at every Truth and Reconciliation Gerry Kelly talked about the deep Teachings of the Seven Grandfa - community-organized collabora - Catherine McClusky, speaking hearing across Canada. harm done to aboriginal commu - thers, a set of teachings on con - tion with the Truth and Reconcil - for the Presbyterians, said her The church has also provided nities by the disruption to and duct towards others. “It’s a tiny iation Commission of Canada. Its church’s apology represented a historical information about the banning of their ceremonies by thing,” he said, “But I bet dollars goal was to raise public aware - real desire to bring back “human schools, is working on translating government and churches. He to doughnuts that the young peo - ness of the intergenerational im - being to human being dialogue.” the apology into aboriginal lan - pointed out that people have been ple confirmed that day will never pact of the schools on survivors, The church apologized not only guages, and is providing anti- harmed, and they have only bro - forget the preparation they had their families and communities. for what it had done, she added, racism training for all committees ken communities to go to. for confirmation,” said Bishop The three-day conference fo - but also the things it had left un - and councils at the General Synod “Nothing has been so damaging Poole. cused on relationship-building, done. level, he said. as the disruption of ceremony,” he Mr. McIntosh said that many in and one of the many workshops it It is a challenge to live out the Bishop Poole expressed appre - said, explaining that ceremony is the churches want to help but do ran was entitled, “How can apology, she added, but the ciation for the work of the Angli - very precious. “Talk helps, cere - not know what to do. He suggest - churches walk the talk on recon - church is very good at responding can national aboriginal bishop, mony heals,” he explained. ed they find a group or organiza - ciliation?” at a grassroots level. She conclud - Mark MacDonald, adding, “We Ms. McClusky pointed out that tion active in their community Four church representatives ed,“The church is asking us to have much to learn as a national there could be a natural intersec - and reach out to them, saying anchored the discussion, with make right the things that break church about becoming more di - tion between aboriginal ceremony they want to learn how to achieve Bishop Philip Poole, area bishop the Creator, that break God’s verse, more engaged, more multi - and church ritual. As an example, a right relationship. for York-Credit Valley, speaking heart.” cultural.” she compared smudging at the en - “Approach with humility and for Anglicans. The church repre - Bishop Poole outlined a large Many indigenous people are in - trance to the church with incense openness,” he advised, “not feel - sentatives talked about their de - number of initiatives that the An - creasingly experiencing a conflict inside the church. ing that we have the answers. nominations’ apologies and how glican Church has taken since its between their desire to be practis - Bishop Poole told a story about Walk side by side into a different their churches had been affected 1993 apology. It has changed the ing Christians and their need to Christ Church, Bolton. The parish way of being.” FaithWorks contributions matched
Continued from Page 3 ment to helping those in need. generously sharing God’s bless - creasing needs throughout the For more information about the He says that the increased contri - “Margaret McCain is known for ings with others. Margaret’s lead - community and around the world. McCain Challenge grant or to butions to FaithWorks are a direct her generous support of many im - ership in offering this challenge In 2012, FaithWorks Ministry Part - make a contribution, contact Su - result of that growth in disciple - portant causes throughout our grant is a blessing to all of us who ners will receive $1.12 million. san McCulloch, FaithWorks Cam - ship. community and across Canada,” share in the ministry of Faith - Parishes have retained $83,147 to paign Manager, at 416-363-6021, Bishop Philip Poole, who co- he says. “Together with her late Works.” support their own outreach initia - ext. 244 (1-800-668-8932 ext. 244) or chairs the FaithWorks Corporate husband, Wallace, Margaret has FaithWorks Ministry Partners tives, while Area Councils re - [email protected]. appeal, praises Mrs. McCain’s ex - always lived her faith through lov - depend on FaithWorks support to ceived a total $36,736 to support To make a secure online donation, traordinary vision and commit - ing service to the church, and by help them respond to ever-in - priority projects in their areas. visit www.faithworks.ca. 8 The Anglican N E W S September 2012 Baptized in river
BY THE REV. RISCYLLA SHAW
SUNDAY , June 10 dawned glorious - ly for our church school’s picnic. The sun was shining and the breeze gently roused the scents of the warming earth and the new leaves. The local park served as the site for our celebration, which included the baptism of Julie and her nephew Cameron in the Hum - ber River. Julie, 17, bravely decided one day before Easter that it was time to start coming to church. She was on a search for truth, and the way she could live this out was to get her older sister, Alice, to drive her! Inside the red doors of Christ Church, Bolton, Julie has found a place for herself, her sister and her nephew Cameron, in a vibrant faith community that practices be - ing the hands and feet of Jesus in the world. Her next step was to de - clare her commitment to Christ. We practice immersion baptism, as a vivid expression of the Christ - ian’s participation in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus. It was a simple step to recognize the Humber River, in all its natural beauty, as the vehicle for baptism. The cool water swirled around our legs and the musical notes of the hymn “As I go down to the riv - er to pray” lingered in the wind. The congregation pressed forward along the grassy riverbank, com - ing as witnesses. With my word of invitation, many participated in the thanksgiving for the gift of wa - ter, hands dipping joyfully into the cleansing stream. Showing solidarity, the spon - sors-in-faith waded into the river with each baptismal candidate. I scooped water from the river and poured it onto each of their heads with a shell, declaring their new birth by water and the Spirit. The significance of this day will be lived into in the months and years to come, as Julie and Cameron shoulder their new identities, with The Rev. Riscylla Shaw, incumbent of Christ Church, Bolton, leads Cameron and Julie, holding hands, into the Humber River for their baptism. pride and humility. The service took place in a park beside the river. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON U.K. parish grows through cell church
Continued from Page 1 from a church background. They from the Bible, caring for each generations, and people who wherever is convenient. Each cell has never been a drain on the had shared their needs and con - other and the wider church, and reach out to those with learning is led by a trained leader, usually parish churches,” she says. “There cerns at Alpha, and if they went sharing God’s love in the local disabilities. a lay person. Their time together is a real relationship of love and to a Sunday congregation, they community and wider world.” “It’s often difficult in a small vil - includes “the 4 Ws” – welcome, support between them.” wouldn’t see each other and they Although congregation mem - lage church to find people who worship, word and witness.” Mrs. Gaze admitted that, at first wouldn’t have the opportunity to bers can join the cell churches if share your interests and stage in Three or four times a year, they glance, getting cells up and run - have the same sort of in-depth they want to, the cells are prima - life—one church has to cater for receive the Eucharist from Mrs. ning may over-stretch an already conversations and to pray for rily aimed at being church for the everyone—and cells give a chance Gaze or another priest in the Tas busy cleric in rural ministry. But each other.” unchurched—for those for whom for those with particular needs and Valley Team. her experience has been the oppo - While it might seem odd at first Sunday worship is unfamiliar and interests to get together to explore While there is inevitably some site of that. “In my experience, in to keep the newcomers separate uncomfortable, or simply impossi - issues of faith specific to them, such tension between the cells and the some ways the cell church is the from the regular Sunday congre - ble among work and family obli - as being a teenager or being a par - congregations in the parish easiest church to grow because of gation, it can actually lead to a gations. They also actively reach ent of young children or managing churches, they get along well to - the people who’ve joined it and be - stronger parish overall, she said. out to those who don’t attend a demanding workload. This is also gether, she says. Not only do the cause it’s mainly lay-led. When I “Cells are vital parts of the body, church, and they create opportu - attractive to others in similar situ - cells bring new faith and energy, invest in those cell leaders, they do and cells in church life are there nities for others to find out about ations on the edges of faith who they also provide practical sup - a lot of pastoral care and ministry to multiply and grow and keep the Christian faith for the first value the opportunity to explore port. They contribute a significant that otherwise nobody would be the body healthy. Cells are small time. what they believe and how this amount of money to the benefice’s doing, or I would be asked to do groups of people who meet as “Often a cell is defined by the works in their lives with people operating budget and, because and become stretched in doing it.” church-in-miniature. They are kind of mission they feel called who understand their situation.” they have no buildings to maintain, She said it’s a rewarding part of like cells which contain the DNA to,” said Mrs. Gaze. In her parish, The cells, which meet weekly, they can buy things like photo - her ministry. “Part of our ministry of what it means to be church— there are cells for youth, new have from four to 12 members. copiers and other items for the as ministers is to enable others to worshipping together, learning mothers, men, people of different They meet in people’s houses or parish churches. “The cell church be ministers.” September 2012 N E W S The Anglican 9 Bishops pledge support for Communion
ingness to listen to one another and less need to demonize one an - International other on both sides.” The high point of the meeting group meets for Canon Kawuki-Mukasa came when some of the African bishops began asking how the Canadian in Pickering church came to make decisions about same-sex relationships. The Canadian and American BY CAROLYN PURDEN bishops seemed to welcome the question, he added. “They were AFRICAN , Canadian and American given an opportunity to respond bishops meeting in Pickering and in a way that they felt they would Toronto in June expressed a sig - be heard without being judged. nificant commitment to the con - And their responses, I felt, were tinuing existence of the Anglican very effective in helping the Communion. The Communion is Africans understand what was important, they said, and regard - happening here and why deci - less of divisive issues, they are sions went the way they did.” committed to being part of the An - The dialogue is not intended to glican family. be an annual event, but a fourth is The 17 bishops were engaging scheduled for next year either in in the third annual Consultation of Gabarone, Botswana, or Cape Anglican Bishops in Dialogue and Town, South Africa. The chosen had two themes to discuss: their Archbishop Colin Johnson walks with Bishop Johannes Angela of the to developing relationships that theme of trust and reconciliation shared mission and the proposed Diocese of Bondo, Kenya, and other bishops on the first day of their will assist with God’s mission. reflects mission imperatives in Anglican Communion Covenant. meeting. Below, Bishop Robert O'Neill of the Diocese of Colorado “We listen and learn from one both Africa and Canada. The consultations emerged (left) talks with Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi, the Primate of Burun - another,” Archbishop Johnson Archbishop Johnson said all from the 2008 Lambeth Confer - di and the Bishop of the Diocese of Matana. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON said. “There is no agreement on a previous participants will be in - ence, when tensions arose over range of issues amongst the vited to the next meeting, but the the church’s stance on same-sex group, but on the core issues value of the dialogues will dimin - relationships, and are designed to there’s a real sense we can recog - ish if large numbers of bishops build community among bishops nize one another as brothers and become involved. For this reason, who live and minister in different sisters in Christ.” the bishops, in their closing state - contexts. Canon Kawuki-Mukasa echoed ment, encouraged other bishops, Archbishop Colin Johnson and this feeling. “There’s not as much as well as clergy and laity, to de - the Rev. Canon Dr. Isaac Kawuki- tension in Anglican relationships velop similar opportunities for Mukasa, coordinator for dialogue as there was seven or eight years building trust and talking frankly for the national church, organized ago,” he said, “and there’s a will - together. an initial conversation in 2008 and from that seed, future dialogues in London (in 2010) and Dar es Salaam (last year) developed. There is a core of bishops who sued after the Toronto meeting, logue, and a greater understand - have attended each of the dia - noting that they had been able “to ing and knowledge of each other,” logues, and they have been joined continue to build on the founda - he said. by others, depending on the lo - tion of understanding and trust” He pointed out that those who cale. But even with the presence that had grown over their previ - have very extreme positions on of new members, the bishops ous two meetings. the left or the right have little in - have managed over the three Archbishop Johnson has wit - terest in listening. The bishops meetings to build an increasingly nessed this growth since the 2008 who participate in the dialogue strong community. conversation. “There’s a growing represent the broad consensus of The bishops themselves com - sense of trust, and a deeper com - the Anglican Communion, and are mented on this in a statement is - mitment to one another in dia - committed to the Communion and Bishops reflect on mission, Covenant, future dialogue
BY CAROLYN PURDEN As a group, they pledged “to through the dialogues, the bish - consider deeply the impact of our ops also pointed out that they IN a statement issued at the end of decisions and actions—informed were “a work in progress.” Their the third annual Consultation of by our own context and perspec - continuing relationship will re - Anglican Bishops in Dialogue, the tives—on the life and ministry of quire commitment and patience, bishops noted that mission is not the church in other contexts.” they said something “that we do to anoth - The bishops also said they were The bishops closed their state - er.” Rather, its key tenet is listen - “deeply committed” to the inten - ment with a quotation from the ing for ways in which God is at tion of the Anglican Communion marriage rite: “May (our) lives to - work in the world, how others are Covenant. However, they differed gether be a sacrament of your responding to and participating in on the fourth section of the docu - love to this broken world, so that that work and how we might part - ment, which outlines conse - unity may overcome estrange - ner with them. quences for dissenting provinces. ment, forgiveness heal guilt and The bishops also said that mis - They added that whatever be - joy overcome despair.” sion is not about shifting re - comes of the covenant, “The Said Archbishop Colin Johnson, sources from abundance to scarci - process in which it plays a vital “I think this is an important mes - ty, but about combining a range of role has caused us to engage in sage of hope for a world that resources such as knowledge, difficult, holy, important and needs to see that people who are trust and discernment. hopeful conversations that have in conflict can actually continue to The key challenge, they added, deepened our friendship in Christ be in relationship.” was how to support fellow bishops and our commitment to support in the mission decisions they one another.” The full statement is available make within their own context While they commented on the on the diocese’s website, www. and from their perspective. growth of their relationship toronto.anglican.ca. 10 The Anglican C A N A D A B R I E F S September 2012
Thieves steal Woman baptized Mr. Vaillancourt were wrapped I am in Christ,” produced by and Man climbs CN Tower valuable items 1 in frigid river 3 in warm towels and given hot starring the youth themselves. to aid church 6 coffee. Joelle was presented with In addition to the video, four Valuable items were stolen from Between periods of gently falling an engraved Bible by the local young people shared their per - Ken Mann successfully climbed St. Mary and St. Paul, Lytton, snow, baptismal candidate Joelle Anglican Church Women. sonal beliefs and testimonies the 1,776 steps of the CN Tower in over Easter. Thieves carried off Caron and the Rev. Jacques Vail - The Messenger about their spiritual journeys. Toronto in April to raise funds the wooden church’s 100-year- lancourt wriggled into wetsuits The Messenger for the restoration of St. Paul, old pump organ, a painting of Shigawake, in the Diocese of Que - the Madonna and Child, the bec. He completed the climb in 29 Bishop’s Chair, a rood cross, the minutes, only one minute longer lid off the baptismal font, a cen - than when he did it 18 years ago. tury-old cope, and all the His climb raised $25,000. church’s brass. St. Mary and St. Gazette Paul is often thought of as the “cathedral church of the Thomp - Cuban bishop son Nation.” It is the largest of 7 the churches serving The Nla - visits Niagara ka’pamux First Nations. The Bishop Griselda Delgado Del church is located near the vil - Carpio of Cuba and her husband, lage of Lytton in the Fraser Gerardo, visited the Diocese of Canyon. Niagara for four days in April. The Anglican Link The Diocese of Cuba and the Diocese of Niagara are in a com - 1 panionship program. Highlights Chocolate festival of her visit included Morning 3 draws hundreds 2 Prayer at St. George, Guelph, 2 which is helping to rebuild a The Chocolate Lily Festival at St. church in Cuba, a fiesta and a Peter, Quamichan, in April was 4 5 worship service in Spanish, and the best one ever, with 300 pay - 8 an evening of Spanish food and ing guests coming to the music at St. Luke, Burlington. church’s historic graveyard to She also met with Bishop look at the beautiful flowers and Michael Bird, the diocesan bish - savouring chocolate creations in op, and Archdeacon Michael the parish hall afterward. The Thompson, the general secre - night before the big day, the vol - tary of General Synod. unteer groundskeeper, David The Niagara Anglican Lowe, went around the grave - 6 yard and poked little red flags 7 Choir visits isolated next to the lilies that had 8 bloomed. In addition to the community chocolate lilies, there were The Rev. Ken Abbott, along with white and pink fawn lilies, and plunged into the frigid Bat - the band and choir of the Parish shooting stars, toothworts and tle River in central Alberta in Youth plan, lead Youth retreat planned of Bay L’Argent, paid a visit to tall Oregon grapes. Volunteers April for a full immersion bap - 4 the isolated community of Ren - from The Land Conservancy of tism. Breaking through the icy worship service for dioceses 5 contre East in the Parish of Belle - Canada led tours of the flowers. water, Joelle was signed with St. Paul, Edmonton, held its first- The youth ministry team in the oram to participate in a service Meanwhile, inside the parish Holy Oil and given Holy Com - ever worship service that was Diocese of Brandon was plan - of prayer and praise. The ladies hall, the big attractions were munion, which had been conse - arranged and led entirely by ning the first-ever youth retreat of St. Stephen’s church in the chocolate fountains, chocolate crated at a Eucharist at St. An - youth. The service required a for the Ecclesiastical Province of Parish of Belleoram served lunch cakes and chocolate cones filled drew, Camrose, preceding the month of preparation by the Rupert’s Land, which encom - for the travellers in the local fire with chocolate ice cream. In the journey to the river’s edge. “I church’s youth group. Youth passes several dioceses in west - hall, and then everyone made church itself, a choir of 18 young had always wanted to be bap - leaders coached teams to greet ern Canada and the Arctic. The their way to the church for the people sang to a large audience. tized in open water,” said Joelle, people at the door, be sidespeo - retreat, for high school students service. St. Stephen’s congrega - Half the money from the event a 20-year-old university student ple, and write the prayers of the and first-year university stu - tion enjoyed the music and was donated to The Land Con - who grew up on a farm in Alber - people. The youth conducted a dents, was planned for the last singing and asked the visitors to servancy of Canada. ta. She said she wasn’t nervous skit during the children’s focus week of August. return next year. On their way The Diocesan Post about going into the river, de - time, entitled “Who is God?” The The Mustard Seed home, Mr. Abbott and the musi - spite the freezing temperature. skit was about a young girl on a cians thanked the captain and “I was a fearless child, and I’m a quest to find out the true identi - crew of the MV Northern Seal, swimmer,” she explained. Upon ty of God from her friends. The the boat that ferried them home. reaching dry ground, Joelle and sermon was a video called “Who Anglican Life Bakery makes tasty wafers Churches can place orders
Continued from Page 1 Mr. Stephenson is inviting tomers get to know the people churches to send small groups to who are doing the baking. “To the bakery to bake with the staff take part in the process of baking for a day. “We want people to not with people who are marginal - just buy the bread but to interact ized—that’s key for people to buy with what we’re doing. We’re into the project. The learning is From left, John Stephenson, Bob Harford and Keenan Menard check new loaves of bread. At left, communion hoping that churches will come much deeper then.” wafers. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON on a Friday and bake with the Volunteers are also needed to program participants, and then help out on a regular basis. The aims of the project is to produce but satisfying work. “It’s been a Churches that are interested in take the baked goods back to bakery is located in the Toronto quality food that is accessible to challenge but also a lot of fun. We visiting the bakery and purchas - their church for use on Sunday.” Friendship Centre, just two doors people who couldn’t otherwise af - had a good day about two weeks ing its products, or volunteers He says the bakery already down from the church at the cor - ford it. Therefore, the unem - ago when we were baking com - who want to help out, are asked to makes a delicious communion ner of Dundas and Sherbourne ployed and working poor will be munion bread and sitting around contact Mr. Stephenson by phone wafer. “It tastes better because it streets. able to buy the products at a low - eating cookies and drinking cof - at 416-368-7768. The bakery also has got a lot of shortening in it,” The bakery plans to sell its er price. fee and I thought, ‘This is a com - plans to launch a website in Sep - he says with a laugh. goods to individuals, local restau - Mr. Stephenson says getting munity of Christ right here.’ That tember, www.takethisbread.ca, to He says it’s important that cus - rants and churches. One of the the bakery going has been hard was a special moment.” sell its goods. September 2012 N E W S The Anglican 11 What is charity, justice? 10 named canons New workshop THE following were made Hon - looks at orary Canons of St. James Cathedral by Archbishop Colin Johnson at Synod on June 16: old, modern • The Rev. Canon Judith Her - ron-Graham , incumbent of meanings Trinity, Port Credit, for her extensive and creative contri - BY LEAH WATKISS butions to revitalizing small parish ministries, and for her MORE than 30 Christians from the work at all levels of the Dio - Pickering area gathered at St. cese. Martin, Bay Ridges, on June 11 to • The Rev. Canon Don Aitchi - attend a new workshop offered son , chaplain of Trinity Col - by the diocese’s Social Justice lege School, Port Hope, and and Advocacy department. The the Rev. Canon Stephen “Charity with Justice” workshop Crowther , chaplain of Holy addresses questions such as: Trinity School, Richmond What is justice? How is it differ - Hill, for their long, faithful ent from charity? What are some and creative work with young ways that we, as Christians, can people in school chaplaincy respond to the calls of Jesus and on the early frontier of Christ and the prophets? fresh expressions of church. “The world we live in today is • The Rev. Canon Murray very different from the one of Je - Henderson , incumbent of sus’ time,” says Murray Christ Church St. James, MacAdam, the diocese’s Social Toronto, for his long and Justice and Advocacy consultant. faithful service to the church “As our culture has become more in this Diocese and across individualistic and more materi - Canada, and for his contribu - alistic, our notions of charity and tions to diocesan ministry in justice have also changed. This Leah Watkiss and Murray spiritual renewal, re-configu - means that when we use the MacAdam hold up The Poverty ration and growth of the local words ‘charity’ and ‘justice,’ we Game, which shows players how church, and diocesan gover - do not refer to the notions of Je - hard it is to make it through the nance. sus and the prophets.” month on social assistance. At • The Rev. Canon Drew Mac - In the workshop, participants right, participants speak during a Donald , incumbent of St. discovered the Biblical meaning small group discussion. PHOTOS BY John, York Mills, for his cre - of charity and justice and com - MICHAEL HUDSON ative and expanding ministry pared it to modern notions. They combining the traditional and then spent time in small groups contemporary, and for his discussing the charity and justice work in this and other dioce - work of their parishes. They doing, and how much more could ses on diocesan councils, and brainstormed ways to reclaim be done.” for leadership in the Our Biblical notions within that work. Members of St. Martin’s Social Faith-Our Hope campaign. They were also presented with Justice Committee found the ma - • The Rev. Canon Richard ways to get involved in current terial interesting, informative, Miller , associate priest of St. diocesan initiatives. and useful. “The inclusion of the Peter, Erindale, for faithful The feedback received from scriptures where the concepts of work in parish ministry as the the event was positive. “It helped justice and charity are found in incumbent of St. Luke, Dixie me realize the difference be - the Bible was very helpful in South, Mississauga, and now tween charity and justice and has highlighting why we, as Chris - from a Christian perspective. To at [email protected] - as associate priest of St. Pe - encouraged me to become in - tians, should be seriously engag - learn more or inquire about host - can.ca or 416-363-6021 ext. 240. ter’s, and for his long-time volved with our social justice ing in these issues.” ing or attending a workshop in work as regional dean, and in group,” wrote one participant. The workshop is a free and en - your area, contact Murray Leah Watkiss is the diocese’s diocesan Human Resources, Another participant wrote: “It re - gaging way to get people to dis - MacAdam, the diocese’s Social Social Justice and Advocacy clergy wellness and on Dioce - minds me just how much we are cuss charity and justice issues Justice and Advocacy consultant, intern. san Council. • The Rev. Canon Elizabeth Morley for her outstanding ministry in challenging inter - im ministries. New topics at outreach conference • The Rev. Canon Merv Mer - cer , interim priest-in-charge of Trinity East, Toronto (Lit - BY MURRAY M AC ADAM so lead a workshop about support - small Toronto parish of St. parish outreach and advocacy tle Trinity), for his service in ive housing. Matthias, Bellwoods, led a success - ministry. A special program for pastoral development of semi - HOW much can you expect to learn The conference theme is ful campaign against the threat - young Anglicans (ages 14 to 25) narians, the Postulancy Com - and enjoy at a one-day conference? “Transforming Relationships,” a ened closure of the Bellwoods will be provided, led by Christian mittee and interim ministries. A great deal, if it’s the annual theme being reflected in the con - House supportive housing pro - Harvey, youth social justice coor - • The Rev. Canon Millie Hope , diocesan Outreach Networking ference workshops, which will in - gram, supported by their parish. dinator for Trent-Durham. Bish - incumbent of St. Martin, Bay Conference. The opportunity to clude new topics such as elder “I have been attending outreach op Linda Nicholls will preside at a Ridges, Pickering, for her meet and worship with Anglicans abuse, providing water for First conferences for years and never eucharist. faithful and fruitful parish who share your values, to be chal - Nations, sustainable community tire of the interesting and educa - Because workshops are limited ministry, and her excellent lenged by a dynamic keynote enterprises, prison ministry and tional workshops,” says Jenny For - to 30 people, register early before work as regional dean and in speaker, and to learn practical the Occupy movement. manek, a member of St. James your preferred workshops reach the councils of the church. skills and ideas to take back to Alanna Mitchell, an author, Cathedral’s outreach committee. “I capacity. Free childcare is provid - • Canon Paul Baston , registrar your parish are all included. The journalist and Christian, will lead always learn something new. I ed, but request it by Oct.12. The of the Diocese, for his exem - conference takes place on Oct. 20, a workshop on environmental ad - leave with new hope and a re - conference fee of $20 ($10 for stu - plary work in lay ministry in from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at Holy vocacy. Ways of developing trans - newed commitment to social jus - dents and the unemployed) in - the parishes he has attended, Trinity School, Richmond Hill. formative relationships with peo - tice and outreach ministry to cludes lunch. Register online at and his consummate compe - The keynote speaker will be Ter - ple in poverty will be explored in a which we are all called by Christ.” www.toronto.anglican.ca/out - tence as registrar of the Dio - ry McCullum, well known to many workshop led by the Rev. Helena The conference attracts about reachconference. For more infor - cese, as a major contributor Anglicans as the chief executive of - Houldcroft, director of Flemingdon 150 Anglicans from across the mation, contact Murray MacAdam, to Diocesan Council, Trusts ficer of LOFT Community Servic - Park Ministry. diocese. All interested Anglicans 416-363-6021 (1-800-668-8932) ext. Committee, FaithWorks, as le - es, a major provider of affordable The Rev. Joyce Barnett and are invited to attend, not only 240, or [email protected] - gal advisor and in a multitude and supportive housing. He will al - Krista Fry will outline how the people currently involved with can.ca of other capacities. 12 The Anglican P A R I S H N E W S September 2012
The Young Anglican Leaders of Christ Church, Deer Park, show their team spirit at the Trump AIDS Poker Walk in Toronto on April 28. Polka Mass kicks off clean-up day At St. Theodore of Canterbury, Artist Max Streicher (left) and members of St. Anne, Toronto—Shauna Gundy, Chris Sabas, and Wendy the Sunday after Easter is tradi - Boyd—install the inflatable sculpture “Quadriga,” in preparation for the church’s 150th anniversary cele - tionally designated as “Clean-up bration, which will take place Oct. 13-21 and will focus on the arts. PHOTO BY THE REV. GARY VAN DER MEER Sunday,” when parishioners ar - rive at the service in work clothes and spend the afternoon cleaning the church. The clean- up is in preparation for the Monks’ Cell, a fundraising steak dinner which takes place the fol - lowing Friday and Saturday and welcomes about 500 guests. The event has been running for 45 years. This year, St. Theodore’s mu - sic director, Gregory Paskaruk, suggested that Clean-up Sunday, The Rev. Elizabeth Green, the in - April 15, might be the perfect cumbent of St. Giles, Barrie, time to hold the church’s first blesses a member of the Canadi - Polka Mass. Leading off the an Motorcycle Cruisers at a spe - mass, four accordionists—in - cial worship celebration on June cluding Mr. Paskaruk, Paul Hi - 23, which included a blessing of etala, Roy Tillotson and the Rev. the bikes and prayers for a safe Canon Ian Noseworthy—aug - and happy summer season. Twen - mented by horn and clarinet ty-four motorcyclists attended players from St. Theodore’s in - the service, the first of its kind at strumental youth ensemble, The St. Giles’. The church plans to Members of St. Elizabeth, Mississauga, with Bishop Philip Poole and the Rev. Philip Der (right), hold up Tunes, played a prelude of hold the service again next year. their personal mission statements after being confirmed on June 17. The confirmands wrote the statements Liechtensteiner Polka, Sakkijar - PHOTO BY KEVIN DOONAN as part of their confirmation preparation. ven Polka and Maple Sugar. The polka theme returned at the postlude, with the Clarinet Pol - ka, and then, in honour of the clean-up work to come, the dwarves’ song Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho from Disney’s Sleeping Beau - ty . And then the congregation was off to work, energized by their first Polka Mass. Mississauga church reaches record For St. Elizabeth, Mississauga, the third Sunday in June was about more than just celebrating Father’s Day. Bishop Philip Poole confirmed 16 people and re - ceived one person into the Angli - Members of St. Thomas à Becket, Mississauga, congratulate the Rev. can Communion on June 17. It Canon James Woolley on his 40th anniversary of ordination on June 3. Musicians from St. Theodore of Canterbury pose with their instruments was the highest number of peo - From left to right: Jane Farrell, Joyce Veen, Thierry Cecilia, Canon Wool - during the church’s Polka Mass on April 15. Front row, left to right: Greg ple receiving confirmation on ley, his wife Cathy Woolley, Henry Turner, and Bishop Philip Poole, who Paskaruk, Mykola Paskaruk, Maya LiPreti, Paul Hietala, Roy Tillotson; the same day in St. Elizabeth’s had presided over confirmation that day. back: the Rev. Canon Ian Noseworthy. 20-year history. The church runs a ministry for Mandarin speak - 21st incumbent of St. John, Whit - Trump AIDS Poker Walk, spon - The Young Anglican Leaders tion after lunch. ers and holds services in Can - by. Formerly the incumbent of sored by Rotary District 7070 of Christ Church, Deer Park, al - tonese, English and Mandarin. St. Theodore’s in Taber, Alberta, (Southern Ontario). The St. so participated, along with the The arts meet the An expansion project is in the Mr. Stonehill succeeds the Rev. Mary Magdalene Marchers from Rev. Canon Douglas Graydon, as - sacred during works to accommodate the Elizabeth Hopkins, who was in - St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto, sociate priest, and Hilary growing congregation. cumbent from 2000 to 2011. walked with members of Latinos Keachie, Director of Children’s anniversary Positivos, raising $2,000 in sup - Education. They raised $3,160 to Art will be the focus of St. Anne, Whitby church gets Churches join walk to port of Latinos Positivos and support women and children liv - Toronto’s, nine-day celebration Casey House, a hospital that pro - ing with HIV/ AIDS in Africa. In of the 150th anniversary of its new incumbent fight HIV/AIDS vides palliative and supportive addition to walking in the event, founding, which will run from On April 25, the Rev. William On April 28, Anglicans from sev - care for people living with HIV the youth also served as the eco- Stonehill was inducted as the eral churches participated in the and AIDS. team, helping with waste separa - Continued on Page 13 September 2012 P A R I S H N E W S The Anglican 13
Saad Amjad (with plaque) receives the first All Saints’ Scholarship from members of the Scholarship Commit - tee of All Saints, Whitby, on June 3. The scholarship funds, in the amount of $1,500, were raised through a 17-month penny collection drive led by parishioner Margaret McDavid. The scholarship will be given annually to a Durham high school student entering college or university. Also in the photo, from left: Millicent Wright (scholarship committee member), Mr. Amjad (Saad’s father), and committee members Mary Anne Mantle, Margaret McDavid and Catherine Bartlett.
Norton and Anne Orser (seated) and Genevieve Johnston enjoy luncheon in the hall of St. Luke, Price’s Corners, following a service on June 3 cel - ebrating the church’s 150th anniversary of consecration by Bishop John Strachan. Ms. Johnston is a descendant of the Price family, who donated the land on which the church was built, while Mrs. Orser, whose maiden name was Drinkwater, is a descendant of the Rev. George Hallen, the first minister of St. Luke’s. PHOTO BY JULIE POORE
Archbishop Colin Johnson (left) visits with the Rev. Canon Anthony Jem - mott, incumbent of St. George Memorial, Oshawa, and parishioner Hugh Harris, after a service on April 22 celebrating the Feast of St. George, the church’s patron saint. PHOTO BY LYNDA FLEGG
Rick Norlock, M.P. for Northum - berland Quinte West (left), deliv - ers congratulatory letters from Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Governor General David John - ston to the Rev. Rob Sweet, priest- in-charge of St. Paul, Brighton, on June 17, during the celebrations of Young parishioners grab a bite after their confirmation by Primate Fred the church’s 150th anniversary. Hiltz at Grace Church, Markham, on May 6. From left to right: Katie Noel, Dasola Dina, Arden Worrell, Kayla Melbourne, and Denisha Brand. Sev - Young people display quilts they have made as part of the Dorcas Min - enteen people were confirmed that day. PHOTO BY MYRON NICHOLSON istry at Holy Family, Heart Lake, in Brampton, during a blessing of the quilts on April 29. The quilts were sent to an orphanage in Uganda with parishioner Jamie Robinson, who works with the Mercy Project in Gulu. PHOTO BY NORMA DEACON
Continued from Page 12 to a 100-voice choir, The Pax Christi Chorale, under the direc - Oct. 13 to 21. The celebration is tion of artistic director entitled Mirabilia, meaning Stephanie Martin, which will “things that cause us to wonder,” present two Bach pieces, Canta - and its lineup of worship servic - ta No. 147 Herz und mund und es, lectures, visual art displays, tat und leben, with the Jesu Joy film screenings, and music Chorale, and Cantata No. 80 Ein events aims to do just that. feste burg ist unser Gott, the The Byzantine-styled church, Reformation Cantata, accompa - which contains murals by mem - nied by a chamber orchestra. bers of the Group of Seven, will Worship services will include lodge art installations by the an opening evensong with artists’ collective Nether Mind, Mozart’s Solemn Vespers per - including Max Streicher’s inflat - formed by St. Anne’s choir and able horse sculpture Quadriga. orchestra, and a 150th anniver - The music program will range sary Eucharist on the final day, from The Junction Trio, led by with the theme “What does God flautist and Royal Conservatory have to do with art?” For more of Music faculty member Jamie information about Mirabilia, vis - The confirmation class of St. Thomas à Becket, Mississauga, with Bishop Philip Poole and the Rev. Canon Thompson, with cello and violin, it www.stannes.on.ca. James Woolley, gathers for a photo on June 3. 14 The Anglican L O O K I N G A H E A D September 2012
To submit items for Looking more details and registration, Ahead, email hpaukov@toron - contact Ron Coughlin at nbsc - to.anglican.ca. The deadline for [email protected] or 514-694-0214. the October issue is September 1. OCT. 19-21 – All men are invited Parishes can also promote their to the 2012 FLAME Conference, a events on the diocese’s website weekend retreat featuring talks Calendar, at www.toronto.angli - by the Rev. Peter Blundell, small can.ca. group discussions, worship singing, fellowship and much Worship more. The conference takes place at the Jackson’s Point Conference OCT. 14 – Join Christ Church-St. Centre. First-time participants Jude, Ivy, and Bishop George El - pay $135. For more information, liott, in a celebration of the contact Tom Butson at 905-640- church’s 150th anniversary at 10 2912 or [email protected]. a.m., with Holy Communion and OCT. 20 – The 2012 Outreach Net - dedication of the new window. working Conference, taking place Luncheon after the service. For at Holy Trinity School in Rich - more information, call 705-424-1257. mond Hill, will include workshops, a special program for youth, wor - Social ship, and keynote speaker Terry McCullum, CEO of LOFT Commu - SEPT. 22 – Caribbean Night at St. nity Services. For more informa - Simon-the-Apostle, 525 Bloor St. tion and registration, visit www. E., Toronto, at 6 p.m. Dine on toronto.anglican.ca/outreachcon - Caribbean cuisine and enjoy live ference. entertainment by Ken Lewis’ One OCT. 20 – “Lord teach us to pray: Man Band. Tickets are $30, with Living the prayer that Jesus cash bar. For more information, taught” is the theme of this call 416-923-8714 or visit www.stsi - year’s prayer conference. The mons.ca. Rev. Dr. Michael Knowles is the SEPT. 29 – St. Nicholas, Birch speaker. For more information Cliff, 1512 Kingston Rd., Toronto, and the application form, visit is hosting a 100th birthday party www.toronto.anglican.ca/prayer. community picnic, 12 p.m. until 3 Reduced rates for early regis - p.m. Food and fun for all ages; trants and first-time participants. music, games and special guests. Everyone is welcome. Visit Sales www.stnicholasbirchcliff.com. OCT. 2 – Downton Abbey Tea at OCT.13 – Grace Church, Markham, St. Dunstan of Canterbury, 56 19 Parkway Ave., will hold its fa - RELEASE Lawson Rd., Scarborough. Come mous semi-annual rummage sale for a Victorian-style English tea, from 8:30 a.m. until noon. Bar - Children release some of the 107 white doves into the air on Pentecost at St. John the Baptist, Dixie, Missis - featuring entertainment by a gains galore, including clothing sauga, on May 27. The doves, who flew back to their home, represented the spirit in Christians to spread the harpist. A prize for the best Victo - for all sizes, linens, household word of Jesus Christ, said the Rev. Steven Mackison. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON rian outfit, door prizes, 50/50 goods and small appliances, draw, crafts for sale. Seating is at books, toys, and much more. Call 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Christmas silent auction, food, music and 416-621-3630. 1:30 p.m.; tickets must be pur - 905-294-3184. crafts and gifts, knitting, sewing more. Free admission. Donations chased in advance through the OCT. 27 – The Church of the Ad - and quilt raffle, silent auction, of non-perishable food for the Dea - Music/Film/Theatre church office. Cost is $15 per per - vent, 40 Pritchard Ave., Toronto, home baking, plum puddings and con’s Cupboard food bank are wel - son. For tickets or information, is holding its Annual Fall Bazaar, candy, cheese, kitchen items, jew - come. For more information, call SEPT. 23 – Choral Evensong at contact 416-283-1844. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., featuring new ellery, boutique and treasures, 905-828-2095. Church of the Advent, 40 Pritchard gift items, china and glass col - gift baskets, church calendars NOV. 10 – Grace Church, Mark- Ave., Toronto, sung by the Schola lectibles, flea market, quilt draw, and paperbacks, Ted’s art gallery, ham, 19 Parkway Ave., will hold Cantorum under the direction of Educational/Conferences bake table, crafts, lunchroom and toys and the infamous odds and its annual Gingerbread Bazaar & Clement Carelse, at 4 p.m. For in - more. For information, call 416- ends. For more information, call Luncheon from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. formation, call 416-766-8412. OCT. 12-13 – The 3rd Canadian 766-8412. 416-485-0329 or visit www.stcuth - Antiques & collectibles, baking, SEPT. 28 – Organ Concert at St. Festival of Biblical Storytellers, NOV. 3 – Christmas Bazaar at bertsleaside.com. coffee time, crafts, knitting, new Thomas, Huron Street, Toronto, entitled Life is in the Breath, Church of Our Saviour, 1 Lauren - NOV. 10 – “A ‘Faire’ to Remember,” & nearly new, plants, preserves, by John Tuttle, organist and takes place at St. John the Evan - tide Dr., Don Mills, from 10 a.m. un - a unique craft sale and bazaar at sewing, surprise packages and choirmaster, at 7:30 p.m. Hallelu - gelist, Peterborough. Kathy Hood til 1 p.m. Baking, jams, preserves, St. Peter, Erindale, 1745 Dundas St. grab bags will be featured. Lunch jah! Gott zu loben, Op. 52, No. 3 by Culmer, Mission Funding Coordi - soups, knitted items and crafts, W., Mississauga, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. will be served. Call 905-294-3184. Max Reger (1873-1916), Sonata I nator for the Episcopal Diocese of jewellery, gingerbread house raffle Get a head start on your Christ - NOV. 17 – Christ the King, Etobi - (1937) by Paul Hindemith (1895- Texas, will be the featured speak - and hostess baskets raffle. For mas shopping: knitted and sewn coke, invites all to its Christmas 1963), and Symphonie II, Op. 20 by er/storyteller. All are welcome. more information, call 416-385-1805 goods, baking, preserves, jewelry, Bazaar from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. Louis Vierne (1870-1937). Admis - The cost of $150 for two days in - (church) or 416-449-3878. woodwork, Christmas crafts and Christmas gaffs, jewellery, home sion at the door: $20 (students and cludes workshops, epic telling, NOV. 10 – St. Cuthbert, Leaside, decorations, “Grandma’s Attic” baking, silent auction and more. seniors $15). Call 416-979-2323 or two lunches and one dinner. For will hold its Christmas Fair from finer things and collectibles, a Coffee and muffins available. Call visit www.stthomas.on.ca.
PRAYER CYCLE 6. Trinity Church, Bradford 12. Clergy Programs of the Diocese: Mo - Secretaries 25. St. John the Evangelist, Port Hope 7. Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada mentum and Fresh Start 17. St. Martin, Courtice 26. St. Mark, Port Hope FOR OCTOBER 8. David Busby Street Centre 13. The Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toron - 19. St. George, (Clarke) Newcastle 27. St. Paul, Brighton 1. St. John, Cookstown (FaithWorks) to 20. Chapel of St. George, Gore’s Landing 28. Primate’s World Relief and Development 2. St. John, East Orangeville 9. Bishop’s Committee on Healing 14. Durham and Northumberland Deanery 21. Flemingdon Park Ministry (FaithWorks) Fund 3. St. Luke, Rosemont 10. The Dam Youth Drop-in Centre 15. Chaplaincy to the Newmarket Court - 22. St. George, Grafton 29. St. Paul, Perrytown 4. St. Paul, Coulson’s Hill (FaithWorks) house 23. St. John, Bowmanville 30. St. Peter, Cobourg 5. St. Peter, Churchill 11. Diocese’s Communications Department 16. Administrative Assistants and Parish 24. St. John, Harwood 31. St. Saviour, Orono
dles. For more information and Lutheran Church in Orillia, Palestinian doctor Biblical storytelling tickets, contact Peter Misiaszek, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Learn promotes peace BRIEFLY director of Stewardship Develop - about doing stewardship in festival returns ment, [email protected] - small and rural congregations, Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Pales - St. John the Evangelist, Peter - glican.ca how to motivate generosity, and tinian doctor who promotes rec - borough, will host the 3rd Cana - Trent-Durham hosts how to implement a successful onciliation between Israelis and dian Festival of Biblical Story - Bishop’s Company Stewardship stewardship program. The reg - Palestinians after three of his tellers Oct. 12-13. The festival istration fee is $35 before Sep - daughters were killed by Israeli will include a keynote speaker, Dinner Conference scheduled tember 21 ($50 after). For infor - tank fire during the Gaza War, workshops, and a variety of Bib - The Bishop’s Company Regional The Ontario Stewardship Net - mation and registration, contact will be speaking at St. Olave, lical stories that will be told. The Dinner will take place at the Pe - work invites clergy and lay Peter Misiaszek, director of Swansea, Toronto, on Oct. 14 at theme for this year’s festival is terborough Golf & Country Club leaders to a conference called Stewardship Development, 10:30 a.m. The church is located “Life is in the Breath.” For more on Oct. 17. The speaker will be [email protected], on [email protected] at 360 Windermere Ave., Toronto. information, visit www.toronto. author and playwright Dan Nee - Nov. 3 at St. David Anglican . anglican.ca/calendar. September 2012 A n g l i c a n C l a s s i f i e d s 15
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He was the from Mesopotamia, was a man of #!,, • The Rev. Julie Meakin, Assis - Vacant Incumbencies most passive of the early patri - great faith. Isaac, who barely sur - tant Curate, Christ Church, Clergy from outside the diocese archs and the least travelled. Be - vived childhood, was a passive Deer Park, Toronto, July 1. with the permission of their bish - side his trip to Mount Moriah as a homebody. Jacob was a trickster IN MOTION • The Rt. Rev. Douglas Black - op may apply through the Ven. young person with his father, and a cheat. But God used each of well, Interim Priest-in-Charge, Peter Fenty. where he was saved at the last these patriarchs to establish a Appointments St. Martin, Bay Ridges, Picker - moment from being sacrificed to race of people. Genesis is the sto - • The Rev. Canon Ruth Smith ing, July 1. First Phase - Parish Selection Yahweh, he seemed to have trav - ry of these people as they moved (Ontario), Honorary Assistant, • The Rev. Andrea Budgey, In - Committee in Formation elled little from his home base. through history, trying to be obe - St. Olave, Swansea, Toronto, terim Priest-in-Charge, St. Si - (not yet receiving names): His people were semi-nomads dient and living in a covenant re - May 1. mon the Apostle, Toronto, July • All Saints, Whitby and moved from time to time to lationship with this new God, • The Rev. Roy Shepherd, Inter - 1. • St. Martin, Bay Ridges find pasture for their animals, but Yahweh. They regularly fell in im Priest-in-Charge, St. • The Rev. Elivered Mulongo, In - • All Saints, Peterborough Isaac stayed close to home and out of favour with Yahweh; Theodore of Canterbury, terim Priest-in-Charge, • Epiphany & St. Mark, Parkdale throughout his life. Abraham the Bible shows this thread of re - Toronto, May 1. Epiphany & St. Mark, Park - • Church of the Advent, Toronto even sent his servant to his demption winding throughout • The Rev. Liska Stefko, Associ - dale, Toronto, July 1. • St. Luke, Dixie South, Missis - homeland in Mesopotamia to find their history as God continually ate Priest, Church of the Re - • The Rev. Canon Douglas Gray - sauga a wife for Isaac. Of all the patri - accepted them back under his deemer, Toronto, May 1. don, Associate Priest, Christ • Parish of Elmvale archs, Isaac has the least amount protection. • The Rev. Susan Spicer, Assis - Church, Deer Park, Toronto, • St. Thomas, Shanty Bay of information written about him The Hebrew race was born in tant Curate/Deacon-in-Charge, July 1. • Church of the Nativity in the scriptures. The biblical in - the midst of a world where pagan Parish of Fenelon Falls and • The Rev. Susan Climo (EL - • St. Clement, Eglinton formation on him is found scat - worship of many gods was the Coboconk, under the supervi - CIC), Interim Priest-in-Charge, tered through chapters 17 to 35 in norm. Somehow they came to re - sion of the Rev. Canon Anne Holy Spirit, Dixie North, July Second Phase - Parish the Book of Genesis. alize that Yahweh was one, uni - Moore, May 9. 1. Selection Committee Receiving The “Akedah” (the binding) of versal, eternal and all-powerful. • The Rev. Carol Friesen, Hon - • The Rev. Canon Edmund Der, Names (via Area Bishop): Isaac was an important event in They entered into a covenant re - orary Assistant (Deacon), Interim Priest-in-Charge, St. • St. Simon the Apostle, Toronto Jewish tradition and was cele - lationship with this God, and Grace Church on-the-Hill, Christopher, July 1. (York-Scarborough) brated later in their history. The from this tiny clan history has Toronto, May 11. • The Rev. Lee McNaughton • Trinity East (Little Trinity), author of The Book of Jubilees , produced three major religions: • The Rev. Ted Bartlett, Interim (Ontario), Interim Priest-in- Toronto (York-Scarborough) written in the second century Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Priest-in-Charge, All Saints, Charge, St. Augustine of Can - BCE, linked Isaac’s escape from There is no archaeological Whitby, May 14. terbury, Toronto, Aug. 1. Third Phase - Parish Selection being sacrificed to the paschal proof that this clan even existed. • The Most Rev. Terence Finlay, • The Rev. Stephen Drakeford, Committee Interviewing sacrifice at Passover. Mount Mo - They are not mentioned in any of Interim Priest-in-Charge, St. Honorary Assistant, St. An - (not receiving names): riah was identified as Mount the ancient writings of other Clement, Eglinton, Toronto, drew-by-the-Lake, Toronto, • None Zion, the location of the temple in tribes or nations of the Near May 22. Aug. 1. Jerusalem. Thus, the lambs were East. The first mention of the Is - • The Rev. Jo-Anne Billinger, As - • The Rev. Sonia Hinds, Interim Leaves put to death on the supposed spot raelites appeared on a stele (a sistant Curate, St. Luke, East Priest-in-Charge, St. Margaret, • The Rev. Jennifer Schick com - where Isaac was to be sacrificed. stone slab with an inscription), York, Toronto, June 1. New Toronto, Aug. 1. menced a Pregnancy and Abraham’s servant arrived dated about 1204 BCE, when the • The Rev. Jordan Wellington, • The Rev. Janet Read-Hockin, Parental Leave on June 1. with Isaac’s bride, Rebekah, from Hebrew people had returned Assistant Curate, St. George, Incumbent, St. Nicholas, Birch • The Rev. Anna Spray com - Mesopotamia about the time that from slavery in Egypt and en - Pickering Village, Ajax, June 1. Cliff, Aug. 15. menced a Pregnancy and Sarah died. She married Isaac, tered into the land of Canaan. • The Rev. Beverley Williams, • The Rev. Mark Leach, Incum - Parental Leave on June 1. consoling him during his grief Our only knowledge of their exis - Incumbent, Christ Church, bent, Trinity, Streetsville, Aug. • The Rev. Andrea Christensen over the death of his mother. Re - tence is from scriptures. It is in - Scarborough, June 1. 15. commenced a Pregnancy and bekah was the most active and teresting that the writers of our • The Rev. Canon Timothy Foley, • The Rev. Gregory Fiennes- Parental Leave on June 25. energetic of the matriarchs, but Bible included the good and the Interim Priest-in-Charge, St. Clinton, St. Leonard, Toronto, she was barren for almost 20 bad characteristics of each of George, Newcastle, and St. Sept. 1. Installations years. Isaac prayed to his God, these early patriarchs and matri - Saviour, Orono, June 1. • The Rev. Carol Friesen, Assis - • The following Honorary and twin sons, Esau and Jacob, archs. • The Rev. Ronald Scott, Interim tant Curate, St. Christopher, Canons of St. James Cathedral were born. Esau, the eldest, was They were regular people, not Priest-in-Charge, St. Nicholas, Richmond Hill, Sept. 1. will be installed during Choral his father’s favourite. He was a super-humans, who believed that Birch Cliff, Toronto, June 3. • The Rev. Kenute Francis (Ja - Evensong on Sept. 16 at 4:30 hunter and an outdoorsman. Ja - Yahweh was working out His • The Rev. Gus Constantinides, maica), Priest-in-Charge, St. p.m.: cob favoured his mother and was purpose in their history. God had Honorary Assistant, Church of Stephen, Downsview, Sept. 15. • The Rev. Canon Don Aitchi - somewhat of a homebody. He was established a covenant with the Redeemer, Toronto, June 8. • The Rev. Mark Gladding (Nia - son also a trickster! Abraham in which He promised • The Rev. Charles McMulkin, gara), Incumbent, St. Mar - • The Rev. Canon Stephen In the Tanakh, the eldest son to make them a holy nation. It Honorary Assistant, Church of garet, New Toronto, Sept. 15. Crowther did not necessarily inherit the took many centuries for this to the Redeemer, Toronto, June 8. • The Rev. David Montgomery, • The Rev. Canon Dr. Murray leadership of the family. Jacob happen, but through the twists • The Rev. Catherine Waugh, Incumbent, St. Augustine of Henderson tricked his brother into selling and turns of history, the Hebrew Honorary Assistant, Church of Canterbury, Toronto, Oct. 1. • The Rev. Canon Judy Her - him his birthright, and then with people did emerge as a holy na - the Redeemer, Toronto, June 8. • The Rev. Heather Gwynne- ron-Graham the help of his mother he tricked tion under God. • The Rev. Stephen Blackmore, Timothy, Incumbent, Church • The Rev. Canon Millie Hope his father into giving him his As we continue this dialogue Interim Priest-in-Charge, St. of the Incarnation, Toronto, • The Rev. Canon Dr. Drew blessing. Rebekah then sent Ja - with the Tanakh, may you find it Matthew, Islington, July 1. Oct. 1. MacDonald cob to her brother’s house to es - a fascinating study in human na - • Mr. Jason McKinney, Minister • The Rev. David Turner, Asso - • The Rev. Canon Dr. Merv cape the wrath of Esau. Here the ture and discover what a great of Intentional Community, Jer - ciate Priest, St. Cuthbert, Lea - Mercer trickster will get tricked! Next and powerful God they wor - emiah Community, July 1. side, Toronto, Nov. 1. Continued on Page 16 month we will hear about his sto - shipped and followed. 16 The Anglican O U R F A I T H - O U R H O P E September 2012 Church aims high, pays off debt
Hatch. The leadership team de - Parish feels cided to use this positive energy to launch the campaign. There was the normal human apprehen - new energy sion that accompanies charting a new course, but with Ms. Hatch BY CAROLYN PURDEN as spiritual leader, and a team of very committed parishioners, ST. Margaret in-the-Pines, West those misgivings were replaced Hill, has every reason to celebrate with excitement and enthusiasm. a successful Our Faith-Our Hope Pledges from the first phase of campaign. The church exceeded the campaign came in at a steady its target of $150,000. At the end of pace. Before the campaign was in - the campaign, it had raised troduced to the congregation, $301,750—twice its target. n e a r l y 6 0 p e r c e n t o f t h e g o a l w a s Two years ago, this would have achieved. This early success mo - been an unlikely scenario. The tivated members of the congrega - parish was indebted to the dio - tion. There was an awakened cese and faced a bleak future of sense of sacrificial giving and a declining congregations and too greater awareness of the signifi - small a base of weekly financial cant role of the diocese in many support. aspects of parish life. Encouraged The former incumbent, the Rev. by the generosity of the pledges, Ronald Scott, and the churchwar - St. Margaret’s Our Faith-Our Hope executive committee members enjoy the end of a successful campaign. the leadership team set a new dens made the difficult decision Front row, left to right: Toni Terbenche, Judith Matthew, the Rev. Karen Hatch, Jacqueline Tannis. Back row, “challenge” target of $250,000, as to request that the parish be left to right: Iveleen Thomas, Trevor Matthew, Neville Alleyne, Joycelyn Williams and Margaret Halvorson. PHO - the parish’s portion of this placed under diocesan adminis - TO BY MICHAEL HUDSON amount would provide the appro - tration. In retrospect, this request priate funds to pay off the debt to and the decisions that followed it harsh realities that lay before current market values. On his rec - team requested deferral to a later the diocese. were pivotal in launching the them. ommendation, these fees were in - date. In February 2012, with the “The campaign was a journey parish on a course of renewed op - Mr. Scott, the churchwardens creased. Within a year of these ac - transitional year behind them, an of faith and hope,” said Ms. Hatch. timism, spiritual growth and sac - and the administrator embarked tions, the parish finances im - improving financial condition, “The financial commitments will rificial re-awakening. on a period of teaching and re-ed - proved, but the debt to the diocese and the appointment of a new in - ensure that the parish is able to The appointed administrator ucation, culminating in significant remained a major concern. cumbent, the leadership team address its immediate short-term and Bishop Patrick Yu, the area increases in stewardship commit - St. Margaret’s was scheduled faced the challenge of the cam - concerns, but the most enduring bishop, visited the parish on sep - ments from parishioners. The ad - to be in an earlier block of the paign. The spirit of renewal and benefits of the campaign were the arate occasions. During these ministrator reviewed all non- Our Faith-Our Hope campaign, optimism that began a year earli - moments of inspiration, spiritual meetings, both of them encour - stewardship sources of parish in - but on account of the financial er seemed to increase with the renewal, and opportunities for aged parishioners to confront the come and found them to be below state of the parish, the leadership appointment of the Rev. Karen community building.”
IN MOTION Aidan, Buckhorn. guishene and Waubaushene Arctic and Edmonton, Canon barton; Christ Church, Bolton, Continued from Page 15 • The Rev. William Gray has ac - will be Sept. 30. Hanes spent time in several with St. John, Castlemore; St. • The Rev. Canon Richard cepted an appointment in the parishes in the Trent-Durham Barnabas, Toronto; All Saints, Miller Diocese of Montreal. His last Deaths area (including the Parishes of Kingsway, Toronto; and St. Be - • The Rev. Canon Elizabeth Sunday at All Saints, Peterbor - • The Rev. R. Murray Belway Fenelon Falls, Bridgenorth/ de, Scarborough; before ac - Morley ough, was Aug. 26. died in Ghana on May 11. Or - Emily and Ida/Omemee). cepting an appointment as • Canon Paul Baston, LLB dained to the priesthood in Canon Hanes is survived by Youth Consultant for the Gen - Relinquishment 1956 in the Diocese of Niagara, his wife Shirley and three chil - eral Synod in 1969. In 1974, he Conclusions • Peter Orme has relinquished he spent many years in the dren. A memorial celebration moved to the Diocese of Algo - • The Rev. Judith Alltree has re - the exercise of his ministry in U.S. (including 10 years as a of the Holy Eucharist was held ma. After his retirement in signed as Incumbent at the order to be received into the Brother with the Order of the at St. Paul, Lindsay, on May 24. 1994, he was occasionally ap - Church of the Holy Spirit, Dix - Roman Catholic Church. Holy Cross), as well as in the • The Rev. Canon Jack Sydney pointed to parishes in Toronto ie North, Mississauga. Her last dioceses of Ottawa and Niaga - Crouch died on July 11. Or - as Interim Priest-in-Charge. Sunday was June 24. Retirement ra, and many years teaching in dained in 1954, he served in the His funeral took place on July • Mr. Rob Crosby-Shearer con - • The Rev. Mary Lewis has an - Africa. Mr. Belway was the parishes of Pickering & Dun - 16 at Holy Spirit, Mississauga. cluded his ministry at the Jere - nounced her retirement. Her younger brother of the late miah Community at St. Anne, last Sunday at St. Leonard, Rev. Donald Belway. A re - Toronto, on June 30. Toronto, was June 17. quiem mass was held at St. KKeepeep thethe cconversationonversation goinggoing • The Rev. Robert Szo has ac - • Major The Rev. Frank Beasley Mary Magdalene on June 20. cepted an appointment in the has announced his retirement. • The Rev. Canon H. Stanley Diocese of British Columbia. His last Sunday in the Parish Hanes died on May 12. Or - FForor decdecades,ades, The AnglicanAnglican andand thethe AAnglicannglican JoJournalurnal hhaveave His last Sunday as Associate of Elmvale was July 29. dained to the priesthood in been a vitalvital ccommunicationsommunications linlinkk betwbetweeneen parishes,parishes, Priest at the Church of the Res - • The Rev. Diane Fryer has an - 1967 in the Diocese of Toronto, diocesesdioceses andand ththee nationalnational Church.Church. urrection, Toronto, was Aug. 5. nounced her retirement. Her Canon Hanes was the Assis - Together,Togetherer,, wewe havehave sharedshared stories,stories, ideasideas andand opinionsopinions • The Rev. Glenn Empey has re - last Sunday at St. Athanasius, tant Curate at St. Matthew, Is - fromfrom a faith perspectiveperspective in a wwayay thatthat hashas helpedhelped us pputut signed as Chaplain at Lakefield Orillia, was Aug. 26. lington, before becoming the thatthat faith intointo action.action. College School. His last day • The Rev. Dr. Raymond Porth Incumbent at St. Paul the WhetherWhether encouragingencouraging a responseresponse toto humanhuman need,need, was Aug. 15. His ministry will has announced his retirement. Apostle, Rexdale. After return - educatingeducating aaboutbout ththee carecare of crcreation,eation, or hhelpingelping readersreaders continue at St. Matthew & St. His last Sunday at Penetan - ing from the Diocese of the discoverdiscover newnew waysways toto rreacheach outout anandd growgrow ththee Church,Church, The AnglicanAnglican andand thethe AnglicanAnglican JoJournalurnal ssparkpark compassionatecompassionate cconversationsonversations in an inincreasinglycreasingly guest speaker will be Archbish - 2011, was one of the founding secularizedsecularized world.world. BRIEFLY op Fred Hiltz, Primate of the An - members of the Canadian PleasePlease givegive generouslygenerously toto thethe AnglicanAnglican JournalJournal AppealAppeal glican Church of Canada. The Friends and was its long-time thisthis yyear.ear. WithWith yyourour helphelp wwee cancan keepkeep ththee conversationconversation dinner is the annual fundraising chair. going!going! 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