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Connexion the Newsletter of the Anglican Parish of Central Saanich Number 15 CONNEXION The Newsletter of the Anglican Parish of Central Saanich Number 15 June to August, 2015 St. Mary’s St. Stephen’s In this issue: Church Church Dates to Note 2 1973 Cultra Avenue, 7921 St. Stephen Road, Saanichton, BC V8M 1L7 Saanichton, BC V8M 2C3 From the Rector’s Desk 3 Rector: The Reverend Robert Szo Parish Outreach 4-5 Deacon: The Reverend Gil Shoesmith Parishioner Profile 6-8 Youth and Family Worker: Chris McDonald Recipe Page 8 Worship Services Worship Services Sundays Sundays Book Review 9 9:00 am, Choral Eucharist & Sunday School 11:00 am Holy Eucharist Parish in Pictures 10-11 1st Sunday, Service of the Word and Church (Sunday) School 4th Sunday, Praise & Worship in the Hall Third Sunday (September to June) Stories from St. Stephen’s Cemetery 12-14 7:00 pm Evening Prayer in the style of Taize Mondays (September to June) 7:00 pm Bible Study Around the Parish 15-16 Wednesdays (September to June) Tuesdays Altar Guild 16-18 10:00 am Holy Eucharist 11:00 am Prayer Group 10:30 am Friendship Coffee 11:00 am Bible Study Thursdays From the Editors 19 Praise and Worship every fourth Thursday Office: 250-652-1611 Hall: 250-652-7942 Parish Directory 20 Email: [email protected] Office: 250-652-4311 Web: www.ParishCS.ca Email: [email protected] www.ParishCS.ca Web: www.ParishCS.ca Dates to Note From Your Editors Here are some dates for you to note for the next three months. • Wednesday Eucharist at St. Mary’s will take a summer break after June, and will recommence on September 9th. Bible Study at St. Mary’s on Wednesdays and at St. Stephen’s on Monday evenings will also take a break until September after the second week in June. • Adventure Narnia 2015, the Parish’s popular Summer Camp, is fully booked (there may still be room for 3 – 4 year-olds), and there is a waiting list! It starts on Monday, July 13th and ends on July 17th. See elsewhere in this Issue a poster about the Camp. If you are interested in being involved in any way, please speak to Chris McDonald. • The Hymn Sing in the field at St. Stephen’s on Sunday July 19 will once again feature the indefatigable Louise Rose and members of her Open Door Choir. You are welcome any time from 3 pm on – bring a picnic – the hymn sing will start about 5 pm., so bring your voices as well. If it rains we will move inside. • The ever popular Service of the Blessing Of The Animals will be held (rain or shine!) in the St. Stephen’s cemetery on August 16, starting at 2 pm. Bring your pets, and get your neighbours to bring theirs. This is where the participating priests draw lots as to who blesses snakes and rats! • And let’s not forget the Parish’s first Peninsula Wine Fest, a family oriented and community focused Parish event at St. Stephen’s on August 29 featuring local wineries and food and beverage suppliers. See the Poster elsewhere in this Issue. It all starts at 1 pm and goes until 4 pm. 2 From the Rector’s Desk “Our Parish Identity” t the recent clergy conference, all the clergy in the diocese were asked to write down the adjectives that Adescribe the people we serve. I settled on three adjectives for the people of St Mary’s and St Stephen’s: Sacrificial, Committed After I put the two together, I noticed and Friendly. As I look at you and how you that it forms a neat little acronym: ODE live your Christian life, this is what I see. (Outreach, Discipleship, Evangelism). I also see how these adjectives intersect An ‘ode’ is defined as: “a poem in which a with the Parish Vision we’re working on. person expresses a strong feeling of love or The Parish Vision comes from the Parish respect for someone or something.” Survey that was conducted over the fall and Could this be our ‘ode’ to Jesus Christ winter. In the survey, you identified three and to the community we live in? I believe areas where you would like to see growth: it will be a great help to us as we express Outreach, Discipleship and Evangelism our love for the Saviour and our love for the (read Acts 2:42 and you’ll see how these people God has made in his image. three areas fit nicely with what we see in the early church). In Christ, Now put the three adjectives together Rev. Rob Szo with the three areas of growth and you get Rector, Parish of Central Saanich this as a parish identity: • Sacrificial Givers (Outreach) (Editor’s Note – If you change the order to Discipleship, Evangelism, Outreach, you • Committed Learners (Discipleship) get the acronym DEO!) • Friendly Inviters (Evangelism) The identity is broad enough to allow for flexibility, specific enough to give clarity and direction and short enough to be memorized. 3 Parish Outreach We are starting a series on Parish Outreach Projects. Here is the first article id you know that in a typical Canadian city, fewer than Mother’s 1 in 4,000 women die from childbirth? Meanwhile, in sub-Saharan Africa, it’s 1 in 16! Save the Mothers Dis working towards addressing some of the reasons for this Day discrepancy, with a particular focus on Uganda. Reasons for the high death rate are complicated. Because Walk of cultural expectations and prejudices, a woman may not be By able to seek care on her own, but may have to wait for her Christine husband or mother-in-law to do so. A serious problem may not be recognized until too late. Secondly, there may be no Malmberg vehicle available to reach the right facility, or roads may be washed out. Then within the health care system itself, there may be no medical staff available, the centre’s pharmacy may be empty, or there may be no blood for an emergency transfusion. continued on page 5 4 Parish Outreach continued One example funded by Save the Mothers is a Mother’s new toll-free telephone number to remote villages; the number can be dialled for free medical advice. Day A doctor at one of the Save the Mothers Friendly Hospital sites said this about the new service: “Many people have called us, and their trust in the health Walk care system has increased because they can talk to us– even from the comfort of their own homes. This was never heard of before.” Our annual Save the Mothers Walk is an example of the practical types of projects that our Parish is supporting. This year we reversed the route, going from St. Mary’s to St. Stephen’s through some lovely back lanes and pathways in Saanichton and down into the Mount Newton Valley. It was a lot of fun and we had a great turnout with 53 participants–young and old! The total funds raised to date increased from last year to $3650. We had quite a few visitors join us and the weather was perfect. A very special shout- out goes to the children of our Parish who did some great fundraising, and to the adults who supported them. Also thank you to the fabulous organizing committee–you know who you are! See you next year! 5 Parishioner Profile: Dennis & Carol Watkins by John Smith iyadh in Saudi Arabia was a place Dennis is the son of a Welsh coalminer of contrasts in the mid ‘70s. Batha who insisted that his sons not follow him into Street had a smelly open sewer run- the coalmines. Although his mother’s fam- ningR down it (known as the “Batha Canal”), ily included traditional Welsh “Ministers of while the King Faisal Specialist Hospital was Religion” Dennis disliked the “Welsh Bap- as opulent as they come. Carol, an English tist Hellfire and Brimstone” approach, espe- Registered Nurse, had been recruited to go to cially after hearing a manipulative evangelical Riyadh in 1974, and Dennis, a Welsh Radiog- preacher. And he certainly didn’t go down rapher specializ- the mines. After ing in therapeu- he qualified in tic radiography, 1967 he worked in arrived there in Tripoli, but when 1975. Riyadh anti-British senti- was a prim and ment developed proper place, under Gadhafi, where it was not Dennis decided to a good idea to drive out of Libya get caught with to Tunisia, only alcohol. Nev- getting through ertheless, there a check point by were parties! asserting that he It was at was not English, one of these par- but Welsh. ties that Dennis met two young ladies both Carol comes from a Wiltshire family, named Carol, one a striking redhead. He and she and her mother were regular “C of asked the other Carol to dance, but she de- E” parishioners. Carol, an RN with midwifery clined, and it’s good she did, as he danced and cardiology as specialties, worked for with the redhead, and “the rest is history”. It a while at the NHS Hospital in Bristol. It’s wasn’t entirely plain sailing for Dennis. When alleged she took Mums in labour on the back he told his mother he planned to marry a girl of her Honda motorbike to move things he had met in Riyadh, she asked, in descend- along. In Riyadh, where women were not ing order of acceptability, whether she was allowed to drive, the nurses always walked Welsh, Saudi or English, but Carol won her with a companion, and dressed modestly.
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