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THE WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ IOCESAN IMES DIOTIMES D JANURY 2020 A SECTION OF THE ANGLICANT JOURNAL Welcome to our interactive, online version of The Diocesan Times. Click on the page titles below to navigate to that page. Then click on HOME at the bottom of any page to return here. Table of Contents • PWRDF activities in our diocese • St Bart’s by the Bog • Cartoon church • Bishop Cutler tenders resignation • It’s a New Day - time to read • Mission of hospitality • ACW Ministry and Mission • Bring me a higher love • Teach us to pray • Bible Puzzle • Blessings through life • SUBSCRIPTION renewal Page 3 Page 12 BISHOP RESIGNS! BLESSINGS THROUGHOUT LIFE Cutler THE calls it quits! IOCESAN TIMES page 3 D FEBRUARY 2020 A SECTION OF THE ANGLICAN JOURNAL Serving the Anglican Church in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island Well done! by Barbara Kent we had the roll out. The whole brought in 150 bricks and It’s fun to share happy stories, idea of being responsible slowly we started to construct and I’m excited to tell anyone stewards of our earth fit hand the well right in the church. about a rewarding and success- in hand with our idea to build We sold the bricks for $20 ful PWRDF campaign we had a well. It also spoke to gen- each and also had a huge water at the Church of St Andrew der equality issues because in bottle for anyone who wanted in Cole Harbour this fall. It’s a Kenya, young girls are forced to drop in their loose change. personal story for me because to travel as much as 8km a With the buy-in passion of I promised my father, Dennis day to fetch water for their our Rector, Rev Katherine Shaw, that I would assume his families. This means that only Bourbonniere and her unlimit- role as parish representative boys are given the privilege of ed energy to motivate us, there when he passed. It was a very attending school! That’s just was never a doubt we could do important program that he wrong! So each week, I’d put this. By Christmas we had well supported whole-heartedly. a fact about water on a white surpassed our goal and were The first year we encouraged board for everyone to read. able to purchase pumps and parishioners to buy goats, last Things like: taking a bath repair kits to accompany the year it was chickens and this uses 180 litres of water or 1.1 well. year I really wanted to make billion people have no access If all our challenges were a bigger impact, so I proposed to clean drinking water or a easy, they wouldn’t be as building a well in Kenya. It small bucket of water weighs rewarding! A quote that our was a $3000 endeavour but 20lbs. Educating and expos- previous Rector, Canon David I know my parish and they ing parishioners to the need Reid, often said was motiva- always respond when there is a and injustices facilitated their tion enough for me; “The task challenge and a need. response because we are a car- ahead of us is never as great as Coincidentally, we had a visit ing Parish. the power behind us!”Never Photo: The early stages of building the well building. from the Diocesan Environ- We proposed building our doubt the power of people mental Advocate and former own well as a visual aid to our working together for we can parishioner, Rev. Marian campaign. Our go-to guy at do wondrous things! Lucas-Jeffries the week before St Andrews’s, Frank Smith, New approach to Christmas Memorials by Donna Mattholie 10 pineapple seedlings. Cows For a number of years the and goats improve a family’s Parish of French Village has nutrition with a regular source had a Christmas Memorial of milk and eggs which can program whereby Parishioners also help a family’s income could purchase Christmas with the sale of milk, eggs and flowers in memory of loved offspring. They are also major ones. manure producers – especially pigs which improves crop But sourcing poinsettia yields. Bio-fertilizer helps plants in support of local farmers increase yields without suppliers at a reasonable cost polluting the environment. was proving very difficult and And pineapples? They provide time consuming. Often the nutrition and crop diversity in poinsettias were left homeless the community. after the Christmas services. As in the past, a tax- With this in mind, Parish deductible donation of $10 Council decided to focus on was suggested, with memorials a more sustainable Christmas printed in the bulletin. memorial for 2019. We chose to support the PWRDF “World The response was amazing. of Gifts”, and set a goal of Our parish boldly embraced purchasing a farm at a cost of this initiative and, instead of $450. A particular incentive purchasing one farm, we raised was that for every $1 donated well over $3000- enough to the Government of Canada purchase seven farms and contributed $6. additional livestock for this very worthy cause. A ‘Farm’ consists of: 1 cow, 1 goat, 2 piglets, 40 chickens, The gift of a farm for a village 20 kg bag of seeds, organic or a family is empowering - farm supplies, farm tools and and truly is the gift that keeps Photo: One of the new village farm gifts through PWRDF. on giving. HOME PAGE 2 FEBRUARY 2020 - THE DIOCESAN TIMES COLUMNIST From cast to walking cast to boot Winter is upon us and the laid-back and his different a parish Priest. saga continues at the rectory sweatshirts gave us a hint It has been a learning VOLUME 75 NUMBER 2 here By the Bog. Jason had of his character. Jason kept experience for all involved. learned to use crutches quite the new sweater for use only St. Bart’s will carry a scar as PAUL SHERWOOD well for the first month or on Sundays for as long as he a lasting memento to this Editor so following his accident, or would need to be without the time in our lives as a parish. incident as he likes to call it. Eucharistic vestments. You see, when Jason took Also on the web: A new cast with a walking Next step in the recovery his tumble and landed in a www.nspeidiocese.ca heel helped the mobility of will be a BOOT! Something heap on the floor in front of Letters & News Items: our rector and by late January that many folks dread but the pulpit, the ladder went Paul Sherwood, Editor Jason was hobbling around Jason awaits with great with him and crashed into PO Box 8882, the Sanctuary on Sunday anticipation. More mobility, the front pew. There is a Halifax, NS B3K 5M5 morning and with the help [email protected] more freedom. Soon we will significant gouge on the seat, 902.477.3040 of Jim and Larry, our retired have late winter thaws and and it took some scrubbing clergy, he was almost in full Advertising: ST. BART’S BY THE BOG mud too! That will slow to get the blood stains off the charge of worship life at St. down any outdoor activity book rack and the hymnals Angela Rush Bart’s. [email protected] Sarah Neish coming from the rectory.... that were sitting there! Jason 905.630.0390 A long alb seemed to hinder maybe.... Our J seems to be will carry his own scar on (Burlington, ON) Jason’s mobility, so we began able to figure out how to get his forehead from that same a new liturgical practice .... around with large plastic book rack. We will keep Published monthly except in July no albs, just a stole of the a wonderful example of the grocery bags tied around his any and all ladders well out and August by The Diocesan Times appropriate colour around talented parishioner who had cast or hopping to and from of his reach in future and Publishing Company. the neck of the celebrant. started the project in early the car much to the distress the Christmas decorating Online editions available via the This was a practice that all autumn, never dreaming of any and all who have to will be left to the team of diocesan website: www.nspeidiocese.ca the clergy adopted in support that her sweater would watch! parishioners who have been become a part of the Sunday of the rector. Jim wore his We have been right there doing it for years. .... always suit jacket with stole, Larry Eucharistic vestments. with two folks at each ladder, with Jason and Miranda, Printed by and mailed from: kept to his usual sweatshirt I noted that each priest helping out when we can, one to climb, one to hold it Webnews Printing Inc., routine, but Jason opted for who stood at the altar put giving them time and space steady. I think that is called North York, ON a new hand knit sweater that his own unique twist to the to heal and learning to take “team work”. he received at Christmas. service. Jim was quite formal on some of the duties that I’ll keep you posted, Opinions expressed do not It was a navy-blue sweater and looked the part. Larry we have always assumed were necessarily reflect the views of the with a cable stitch pattern; has always seemed more Aunt Madge editor, the management board of part of the job description of The Diocesan Times, the diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island or any representative thereof, except where expressly stated.

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