Bakery All Fired up Lutheran Churches Churches Invited to Amalgamate Spend Day by HENRIETA PAUKOV by STUART MANN the Bells of St
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PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 9 Young Anglican Seasonal workers Bishops commit to in top 20 get second home Anglican Communion 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&RIENDSOFTHE,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"OOK3ALE visioning session to figure out that was filled with such joy and charitable organization.