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ANGLICAN JOURNAL Inspiring the faithful since 1875 vol. 138 no. 9 november 2012 MORE Ahoy there! BUDGET MEET FATHER DAVID MULHOLLAND, P. 5 WOES HARVEY SHEPHERD Despite efforts to balance its budget, the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada continues to face fi nancial diffi culties. At the September synod of the ecclesiastical province of Canada— made up of seven dioceses in Atlantic Canada and Quebec—Archbishop Fred Hiltz said the forecast for 2012 is that the national offi ce will have a budget shortfall of $900,000. “The General Synod is struggling fi nancially and we have been on this trajectory for a long time,” said Hiltz, who is primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. While expenses have been “track- ing close to budget,” revenues came in “lower than anticipated,” said Michele ALYSSA BISTONATH George, treasurer for General Synod, WELCOMING THE STRANGER For 37 years, Father David Mulholland’s chaplaincy has served the worldwide Anglican Mission to Seafarers. in an interview. This includes antici- pated revenue from the Resources for Mission department, which handles the church’s annual appeals, among other fundraising activities. “I think PRIMATE our expectations were too high for The new face of family Resources for Mission and it’s going VISITS JAPAN to take longer for some of that revenue MARITES N. SISON MARITES N. SISON to materialize,” said George, who staff writer staff writer resigned Oct. 1. The face of the Canadian The Oct. 1 to 9 visit to Advertising revenue for the family is changing. There are Japan of Archbishop Fred Anglican Journal was also lower than more common-law couples, Hiltz, primate of the An- expected as was revenue from dioc- single parents and same-sex glican Church of Canada, esan giving. couples in our households will help inspire the faith of Management at General Synod has than ever before, according Japanese Anglicans, says been working to re-focus its activities to the latest data released the bishop of the diocese on mission while balancing the budget Sept. 19 from Statistics of Chubu, Peter Ichiro through cost-cutting. The latter has Canada’s 2011 Census of DUBOVA Shibusawa. included a 25 per cent reduction in na- Population. ON THE RISE Same-sex, common-law and single-parent families. Founded by Canadian tional staff over the past three years. And while the traditional missionaries as a mission Hiltz said that by 2016, the national family structure—mother, by 13.9 per cent in 2011, and same-sex married couples diocese in 1912, the diocese church structure “will look very differ- father and children—still single-parent families rose by may have been overestimated of Chubu in central Japan ent,” as mandated by Vision 2019, the accounts for two-thirds of all 8 per cent that same year. by as many as 4,500.) has 1,200 lay members and 10-year strategic plan for the church, Canadian families, the num- The number of same-sex The census also showed 20 clergy. which was approved by the 2010 ber of traditional families as married couples nearly that 92.1 per cent of Canadi- Hiltz’s visit was “a great General Synod. a proportion of all families tripled between 2006 and ans 65 years of age and older source of joy,” says Shibu- On Jan. 8-10, 2013, church rep- declined in the fi ve-year 2011—the fi ve-year period are living in private house- sawa. At press time, Hiltz resentatives from across Canada period between 2006 to 2011. following the legalization holds. More than half (56.4 per was scheduled to preach will meet in Toronto to look at the The census counted a of same-sex marriage in cent) are living as part of a at the 100th anniversary future of church and its structure. total of 9,389,700 families in Canada. The census counted couple, a slight increase from celebration service of the The consultation will be facilitated 2011. Of these, 67 per cent 64,575 same-sex couple 54.1 per cent in 2001. The Chubu diocese on Oct. 8 by Janet Marshall, a congregational consisted of married couples, families in 2011, an increase number of seniors who live and to give an address at the development offi cer of the diocese of down from 70.5 per cent a of 42.4 per cent from 2006. alone was down slightly, to 80th anniversary celebra- Montreal. decade ago. In contrast, com- (Statistics Canada later 24.6 per cent in 2011 from 26.7 tion of New Life Hospital in —with fi les from Marites N. Sison mon-law couples increased stated that the number of per cent in 2001. Nagano on Oct. 4. THANKS FOR SUPPORTING THE ANGLICAN JOURNAL APPEAL! INSIDE REPORT ON Does your church have EDUCATION hidden Children learn how to treasures brighten the world like these? …and more p. 8 pp. E1 to E8 PM# 40069670 PM# FROM THE EDITOR Let’s keep the lines of communication open K R I S T I N J E N K I N S of General Synod. Now, three years into the newspapers, magazines and books will be job, I feel the seismic shifts under my depart- available only online. The caveat here is Why does the blind man sing with such joy? ment each year at budget time. Where will “with time.” As a culture, we’re just not there In the hurly-burly of downtown Toronto’s the cuts be? How profoundly will they affect yet. Not in the secular world, and certainly busy Bloor-Yonge subway station, he stands our ministry? Editorial independence seems not in Church Land (where, I suspect, clergy alone during rush hour. He cannot see the a luxury when the very future of the national comprise the bulk of our online visitors). stern faces of the commuters pushing past newspaper appears to be at stake. What has emerged from our pulse-taking him. He seems as oblivious to their tension Can the church afford the Anglican of readers’ needs is a clearer picture of two as they are to his music. He sways slightly, Journal? Perhaps not. But can the church distinct audiences: one that is reading the his face tilted heavenward...to the grimy afford not to have the Journal? What would newspaper and the other that is visiting us ceiling. There is no warmth in this place, yet be the cost to the church? online. As one reader told us so succinctly, his face beams. The most profound impact on the Angli- “Until my generation dies off, both print and Every day that I pass him, I wonder: can Church of Canada would be the loss of electronic will be necessary—especially as What’s he got that I ain’t got? Is he the lucky the only direct link to people in the pews, we still pay the bulk of the bills!” one? Meagre though his means, he seems right across the country. Thanks to our 2012 They say it is always darkest before the peaceful and happy, unaffected by the nega- national readership survey, we know that dawn. As I write this, I am looking at a tive energy that surrounds him. He sings to many of you feel your diocesan and national proposal on fi nancial independence for the I feel the his heart’s content, whether it’s a quarter, newspapers connect you to the church. Journal that was prepared for one of my a loonie or nothing at all that falls into his You told us that without these newspapers, esteemed predecessors, Jerry Hames...back seismic instrument case. you would know very little about what’s in 1980. It is entitled, “Recommendations shifts I could sure use some of his irrepressible happening in your diocese or the Anglican for Implementing a Self-Supporting System “ optimism right now. Here in the national church generally. Furthermore, if the Journal for the Canadian Churchman” (the name of each year at offi ce, we are once again beset by calls were to cease publication, there would be the national newspaper back then). So, here budget time. for budget cuts. We feel the world tilt, the an immediate nationwide domino effect, as we go, folks. In the weeks ahead, we will be weight of professional and personal obliga- most of the diocesan newspapers would also working on a business plan that charts a new Where will the tions bearing down on us. Me, I am trying disappear, thanks to the high cost of distrib- course for the Journal, 2013-style. It’s good to live with the discomfort, even use it to uting them independently. to know that I’m not the fi rst to want to look cuts be? How look into the future. What lies ahead for the One of the solutions, of course, is to go at this. But I hope, for everyone’s sake, that profoundly will Journal and its readers? “web-only.” This means that everyone can I’m the last. When I fi rst interviewed for this job, just turn on their computer and go to the Why does the blind man sing with such they a! ect our I was asked to consider the concept of Journal website for their news. But wait: joy? He is doing what he loves. So am I. ministry? editorial independence and what that would many of you told us that you don’t own a mean to me. I welcomed the question, but computer. And those of you who do said KRISTIN JENKINS is editor of the Anglican also took the opportunity to express concern you’re using it for email, not catching up on Journal.