Jacob’s Ladder

A Newsletter from St Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope Pentecost 2017

Pentecost 2017 Contents

Title Page Communications 1 Word from the Incumbent 2 From the previous Editor 3 Wardens @ Work 4 Stained Glass Windows 5 Departures & Retirements 7 Cotter’s Weekly Letter 7 Music Notes 8 Outreach & Social Justice 9 Among Friends 10 Events at St Mark’s 14 St Mark’s Lion 15

Photo credit- Anne Oram Communications at St Mark’s Dorothy Geale

When I first joined St Mark’s tedious? How much do skills are available. But is the over 25 years ago, social audiences overlap? How web page the easiest source of media was non-existent. many use Facebook? And of information for parishioners Weekly bulletins and Jacob’s those how many subscribe to and the broader community? Ladder (first published in 1973) St Mark’s Facebook page? For now, selected The Lion’s were the primary means of There are plans for The Lion’s Roar highlights will be communication within the Roar to “not only publish repeated in Jacob’s Ladder for parish. notices ... but become a tool for broader communication. Now, a variety of electronic evangelism communicating in Feedback is welcome through means exist for updating so words and images, the good news the physical mail slot for content of publications within that inspires our parish”. Still Jacob’s Ladder in the Church St Mark’s becomes an issue. work there. We hope to office or directly to How much repetition is useful upload it to St Mark’s web [email protected]. and when does it become page weekly once technical 1

A Newsletter from St Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope Word from the Incumbent Extracted from Fr Randy Murray’s Report to the Parish Advisory Council March 2017

Mark’s visibility in and stable, sustainable, full-time contribute to the life of Port ministry and leadership at St Hope and its surroundings. Mark’s.

Our successful Lenten Movie We need to revisit this year’s Nights using the new a/v budget. There is no evidence equipment offers potential for now to give us confidence that future growth. a balanced budget is feasible. We must make significant Anecdotal evidence suggests Below are personal thoughts changes to spending for the attendance numbers remain on the current state and future remainder of the year. If we stable. We have lost some prospects at St Mark’s. do not do it ourselves members through infirmity, according to our needs, Our liturgical life remains death and moves as well as someone external will do it strong, fundamentally sound inevitable losses when a new according to their needs and and beneficial for our present incumbent arrives. priorities. The Wardens need congregation. Celebration of One of the most important support in this daunting task. the Eucharist is the heart of gifts we have at St Mark’s is our common life. Morning In the future, some see two the wonderful spirit that Prayer in the rectory, Lectio Anglican parishes in Port pervades our life. St Markers Divina, Centering Prayer, Hope as unsustainable. I did are open to new ideas and monthly Wednesday evening not become Incumbent to ready with those of their own Eucharist/potluck as well as preside over an amalgamation (sometimes too many!!) Evensong grow as shoots of process. St Mark’s has a great requiring us to develop focus new life in our daily worship. deal worth preserving and and order, to think building upon. We cannot Tuesday Tea and Theology strategically and set priorities. bask in the afterglow of our continues to be the major The greatest threat is our illustrious history and vehicle for adult education financial position - expenses tradition then fold after lavish supplemented by Five Minutes exceed income! The Wardens bicentennial projects. Instead Monthly. The Lion’s Roar will are in the midst of two we need to commit our become a tool of evangelism measures: a stewardship energies to focus on what is communicating in words and program to increase and needed to preserve, enhance images the good news that stabilize income in the short and project all that is so good inspires our parish. to medium term and an about St Mark’s into a Exhibitions by local artists in endowment fund for the sustainable and flourishing our Parish Hall will raise St incumbency (EFTI) to support third century.

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From the previous Jacob’s Ladder Editor Ian McDonald

For over 40 years, Jacob’s The top of Jacob’s Ladder, the No matter: early on Jacob’s Ladder has been the newsletter started life with an Ladder won a beloved place in centerpiece of our parish ambitious schedule of the hearts of St. Markers. communication strategy and monthly publication. And Here is a small sample of the an indispensable part of our there seems to have been no November edition of 1974. life together. With this issue I shortage of material to fill its Some things don’t change! am pleased to hand over the seven or eight single spaced As the editorship changes editing and production of our legal size pages! hands, I must express the newsletter to Dorothy Geale. Unsurprisingly, in the gratitude of all of us to all As Jacob’s Ladder changes beginning there were no who have contributed to hands I know she will both pictures or graphics, and from Jacob’s Ladder during my time encourage submissions for the early copies retained in as editor. They are too many future issues and welcome the parish archives it appears to name, but Claire Mowat your comments. that the production tool was (compiler of Among Friends) An historical note before I go. the old fashioned Gestetner and Anne Oram The first editor was Suzanne duplicator. (photographer) must be Lawson (widow of the late singled out for their Art. Originally called From extraordinary contributions.

3 A Newsletter from St Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope Wardens @ Work Marion Thompson (Rector’s Warden) and Les Robling (People’s Warden)

One of the major priorities Canon Graham Cotter, seeing how best to respond to the your Churchwardens have the importance of this challenges every parish undertaken this year is to objective, has started EFTI on encounters when introducing bring our operating budget the road to success with an a year-round stewardship into sustainable balance. For initial donation of $50,000. education program. Over the some time it has been clear We are hoping other summer the Stewardship that to achieve this we must parishioners will be inspired Committee, chaired by also make deep cuts in to make gifts, large or small, Marion Thompson, will work spending. Thus, with regret, to match Graham’s generous toward launching our the Churchwardens made the contribution. We encourage Program in September. difficult decision to eliminate you to get on board with this the position of Parish critical endowment fund and Secretary. Barb Grandy’s last we look forward to seeing the official day is August 2nd; fund increase by leaps and with vacation and lieu time bounds! her last actual working day In addition, we have signed a will be June 30th. covenant with the Diocese to Another major priority is to embark upon the Growing ensure that St. Mark’s will be Healthy Stewards program. a vital place of worship and Its various stewardship ministry well into the third components form a focused century of its existence. To year-round effort to inspire achieve this, we are in the our members to be more process of setting up an generous in their giving and endowment fund for the to encourage deeper incumbency (EFTI). We hope commitment to the life of the to raise at least $500,000. parish community. We have Invested with our brokers, the full support of the BMO Nesbitt Burns, with Diocesan Stewardship Office We have contracted with even a modest return of 5% and have been assigned a Town and Country our investment would yield coach, Jim Finlay, to help and Construction to finish $25,000, helping to ensure that guide us. Jim has a proven painting the Church exterior. we can always afford to pay a track record of stewardship Thanks to Ben Lloyd and his full-time priest. Obviously, leadership at All Saints foresight in creating the the more we can put into the Anglican Church, Whitby, Heritage Foundation, we are endowment fund, the greater and he will help to keep us very fortunate to have the will be the return. Reverend motivated and advise us on Foundation’s financial 4 A Newsletter from St Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope backing to help pay for the With Ron Rowe’s retirement We’re confident that you will immense job of painting the as Security at the end of May, give him a warm welcome. exterior and to replace the we have taken the All in all, we have been very badly-decaying front steps. opportunity to create the busy and we know that we Heritage Foundation funding positions of Sexton One and will continue to be fully and St. Mark’s restoration Sexton Two, with Peter occupied over the summer. fund mean there will be no Goering continuing in Sexton We thank you for your financial burden on the Two. The duties and money understanding and church. A couple of interior have been split more encouragement thus far, and restoration jobs, i.e., a bulging equitably. We are delighted we ask for your support and wall and suspect flooring to announce that Roddy involvement as we go behind the organ, will be Sergiades has been hired as forward. covered by the same financial Sexton One, starting June 1st. relationship.

St Mark’s Stained Glass Windows Doug Armstrong

Young/Breen Memorial St. John's. This original glass Window (East wall) remains in the lower half of When the King Street church the east window. was constructed in 1822-24 Sometime after 1876 (we don't the windows were know the exact date yet), the rectangular, and not as tall as upper portion of the east they are now. The glass in all window was redesigned as a windows was clear. There memorial window for John was probably an east window Young, died 1876, and his even then. wife Ann Breen, died 1858 In 1842 the chancel of the In 1895, extensive renovations church was extended and and reconstruction of the presumably the present church were done. A reredos window at the east end of the was installed behind the altar, church constructed. In 1851 the lower half of the east effectively hiding the interior the church windows were window. Over time, the view of the lower half of the enlarged, with gothic arches existence of the stained glass east window. New added. It is likely that it was below the Young window was clapboarding put onto the in 1851 that stained glass was forgotten. exterior of the east wall first used in the east window, covered the outside view of the design being the motif of 5 A Newsletter from St Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope The window remained hidden at the east end of the church. hold. Later (exact date is until the year 2000, when The little bit of window that unknown to me) his fiancé, another extensive renovation can be seen under the triptych Miss Mabel Corbett, donated of the church involved the shows just how bright and the stained glass window replacing of the clapboarding vibrant the colours are. occupying the centre frame on on the east exterior wall of the the north side of the church in In 2000, as part of the church. his memory. The window's renovation of the church, the maker is identified on the The photo shows Fr Tom entire east window was lower right edge of the Little and Bob Moss in the removed, cleaned and window as N. T. Lyon Co, process of uncovering the reinstalled by the Robert . rather dirty lower portion of McCausland Limited Co. the east window after 105 In 2015, the St. Mark's years of being covered over archivist contacted the by the clapboarding. McCausland Company to ask The rediscovery of the lower if they could identify the half of the east window led original maker of the east the church to remove the window. They confirmed that reredos in front of the east the work was that of the N. T. Lyon Company. McCausland had purchased N. T. Lyon in the 1930’s but did not have sufficient archival records from N. T. Lyon to tell us exactly when the original east window or its post-1876 upper half were installed.

The photo shows the east window as it would have The window has not been been seen in 1855 - a majestic touched in all the years since sight! it was installed except in 1988, window, and the remounting Tuer Window (North wall) when a painter's ladder the Triptych. This allowed In 1912, Mr. Thomas Tuer slipped down the outside of more light to come through was electrocuted while at his the church, smashing two the lower portion of the east work for the Port Hope frames of the window, just window. The lower part of the Electric Light Company. A below the arch. These were window still cannot be seen popular and valuable citizen, expertly replaced, with the aid from inside the church but is his service was attended by of the original drawings of the clearly visible from the lawn more than the church could window.

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A Newsletter from St Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope The repairs were done by in 1989 if they could supply records from N. T. Lyon to be Robert McCausland Limited, the date of the original able to do so. who had acquired N. T. Lyon installation by N. T. Lyon, but in the 1930's. They were asked the company had insufficient

Departures and Retirements Dorothy Geale

The Parish Secretary position is regretfully being eliminated by the Wardens as part of the overall efforts to bring St Mark’s operating budget into sustainable balance (see pg 4).

Barb was the “face of St Mark’s” during the week for

Ron Rowe, Security Barb Grandy, Secretary over 30 years. Ron, with the faithful contributions to the St Mark’s recognizes with able and enthusiastic help of parish by Barb Grandy and appreciation the long and Thunder, kept the church Ron Rowe. secure and in running order. Cotter’s Weekly Letter, May 22 2017 Introducing Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) Graham Cotter

She lived in that lifespan the horizon and muttered to to the monastery of his Order known to me as my own myself, 'The Towers of in Cambridge, Mass. father's and my mother's, Trebizond The universal City". Ron Row, Security I came by the letters to her roughly 1880’s to 1960-70's. Her letters to her sister and sister and the two volumes She was a university her letters to a friend tell the written to the Reverend graduate, a civil servant in stories of her social outlook Hamilton Cowper Johnson UK, a novelist with a religious and her spiritual journey. This SSJE as library discards! bent in her writing. Her final is especially so in the two Shame to you Gerrard Branch novel, The Towers of Trebizond, volumes of Letters to a Friend, of the Toronto Public Library - 1956 a title I read with since the friend was a Cowley shame to you - and thanks to enthusiasm in the 1960's: in Father, a monk of the Society you, for the gift. the decades when I often of St John the Evangelist. They found myself driving south I am an ardent member of the met briefly in England, but from Aurora, , to Trent Hills Library, her large correspondence with Toronto, I saw the towers of Warkworth branch, and I him was after he had moved greater Toronto ranged upon 7

A Newsletter from St Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope value these resources of common to many of us new light on the past, new roads pleasure and knowledge, but believers, who stumble over for the future, and what hope for hesitate to think that some "resurrection of the body," new powers. But what moors, precious objects in my house quoted from her letter of fens, crags and torrents lie all may go to some regardless February 15, 1951: about. institute or turfed out by I didn't, you know, mean that regardless non-readers! some beliefs were "unimportant" I think Wikipedia is objectively, or in themselves - of somewhat blinded in senses course they couldn't be, being a of literacy and spiritual part of the whole business - but wisdom, by giving short shrift that they didn't happen yet to to the Letters of Rose register with me, and so I didn't Macaulay and hardly bother with them. .. Life and Another aspect of Rose's mentioning Hamilton one's point of view shift about spiritual “showings" is the Johnson, her priest and one never knows what aspect note struck by Francis correspondent. These letters of them will attract this or that Thompson's Hound of are a refreshing and deep aspect of belief…But if my mind Heaven - a note I would like opening into the mind and can't quite take certain things - to record in my next excerpts heart of a believer reaching such as the physical Resurrection and comments on Rose out for help. As it happened, - does it matter, so long as it Macaulay. she and Fr Johnson were doesn't get in the way of belief in distant cousins, which Christ as master and saviour and The letter above is reprinted enabled her to write helper to be sought and served? from Graham Cotter's weekly comfortably as a friend; yet a letter of MAY 22. If you do You say "we cannot be expected friend who advised her - but not already receive his weekly to do more than yield to God the by her own testimony, for his letters, he will be pleased to minds we actually possess." so I letters to her do not survive. add you to his list. suppose God takes them and does [email protected] Here is a sample of her what he can with them….He writing about ways of thought keeps showing us new things,

Music Notes Randy Mills

Children’s Choir celebrate to the senior choir as our RSCM badges last February newest Alto. Now, with Jane, Helen Kennedy and Marion Singers New and New Thompson the Altos Over the past few months we occasionally are our largest have welcomed Jane McGrath section! Jane and her husband

8 A Newsletter from St Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope Jim are regulars at the Choir News end of May – always a 10:30am service on Sundays. Although the singers have popular end to that week’s had lots of music to rehearse, rehearsal! Elizabeth Hazlitt, the younger including many pieces in their sister of one of our teen Altos, Music on the road new (and rather heavy!) Margaret, has joined our As in past years, funds raised Oxford Church Anthem Junior Choir and has been an by our summer concerts will Books, things have been fairly energized singer at rehearsals be used to help our young predictable since our work and on Sundays. Welcome, singers take their singing to hosting the Chapel Choir of Elizabeth! other churches. Hatfield College, UK at the Summer Concerts end of March. Plans won’t be finalized until Plans are afoot to hold weekly school is out, but a day trip or concerts in the church once two to sing Evensong is likely. again on Wednesdays at 7pm during most of July and I hope we’ll also be able to August. travel further afield, and repeat our great trip to Organ recitals in the series Montreal. will feature Canadian music, as we celebrate our In early July I will travel No visiting choirs are on the Sesquicentennial. myself to Montreal for the horizon – but some invitations joint convention of the Royal Details will follow in Lion’s have gone out to Toronto Canadian College of Organists Roar, but if you are in town choirs. Watch Lion’s Roar for and (regional) American Guild over part of the summer, any news flashes! of Organists. watch for the start of this Fr Randy and Garry hosted popular series on Wednesday Word is out that 60 have the Junior Choir for cookies July 12. registered thus far – a record and treats at the rectory at the for an RCCO event!

Outreach and Social Justice

Faith Works respond to Jesus when he FaithWorks supports 18 Sue Essig asks, “Do You Love Me?” Ministry Partners. These

Here at St. Mark’s we have (John 21:12-17). Through your Ministry Partners include a started our annual request to efforts, and the generosity of variety of agencies in our parishioners to support many, many people, diocese, which help at-risk FaithWorks. As the annual FaithWorks has raised more women, youth and children; appeal of the Diocese of than $25 million since it was provide outreach to the Toronto, FaithWorks is one created in 1996. homeless and prisoners; help vehicle through which we refugees and new immigrants; and provide home based 9 A Newsletter from St Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope hospice and spiritual care for There are a number of ways If you want more information the terminally ill. FaithWorks that you can make your or have questions, please also supports the work being donation to FaithWorks. You contact Sue Essig at 905-885- done around the world and in can make a one-time donation 9733 or [email protected] Canada’s North by Giving with cash, a cheque or a credit Coldest Night of the Year With Grace (formerly Anglican card. Another option is to Appeal) and Primate’s World make a monthly donation. Relief and Development Fund. You can do this through PAR (pre-authorized remittance) or by credit card donation. Even a modest contribution of just $5 a month adds up to $60 a On February 25, 2017, St year! You can receive more Mark’s raised $1150.00 for the information about FaithWorks, Greenwood Coalition under or make a secure on-line Gary Potter. Cathy Carlyle, In donation by visiting Gary Potter and Nola 2016 the parishioners at St. www.faithworks.ca. MacDonald walked for St Mark’s church raised $14,975 Mark’s in addition to Iris and for FaithWorks. As a parish, If you do decide to make your Killari Geale and their we kept 15% of these funds donation on-line, please parents, David and Lili. Sarah ($2246.25), which was then advise us, so that we can get and Kate Legakis and Anne donated to GreenWood an accurate accounting of Finlay also participated with Coalition, Food 4 All, and contributions by parishioners another Team. SONG, which are agencies of St. Mark’s Church. here in our own community.

Among Friends Claire Mowat et al

On Saturday May 27, a section Both were founders of the Nuclear Watchdogs and the of the Ganaraska Hiking Trail Ganaraska Trail and active as Ganaraska Region Conservation was named after two former, local environmentalists. Authority. She helped to lay late, St Marker’s; Patricia the groundwork for the Blue Pat Lawson was a passionate Lawson and Jack Goering. Box recycling program and grassroots social and triggered the establishment of RonBarb Row, Grandy, Security Secretary environmental activist who Peter's Woods, a nearby 80 served on Port Hope's acre virgin forest sanctuary. Environmental Committee, Health Concerns Committee, 10 A Newsletter from St Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope Jack Goering, long-time TCS connecting alumni with the We grieve for the loss of master of math, science, School. Dorothy Locke, a longtime biology and environmental member of St Mark’s who science and honorary trustee, lived into her nineties. She brought a new awareness of had been active in so many of environmental issues and a St Mark’s activities over the passion for conservation to years. Her funeral was held the School where he formed here at the end of January. the first Green Club on We mourn the loss of the Rev. We remember Nellie Van Eyk campus and took learning Gordon Sheppard who died who died at the end of April outside the classroom in on November 19 at the age of at Extendicare in Port Hope. sightseeing and camping 69. Gordon grew up in Port We celebrated her 100th trips. He was a founder of the Hope and he was a faithful birthday in the Parish Hall town's Blue Box program and member of St Mark’s for of the Northumberland many years. A deeply Beyond the Blue Box program. spiritual man, he felt called to Jack was an early proponent study for ordination and and adopter of solar water earned his M.Div from Trinity heating technology and a College in 2004. He was valued member of many town ordained as a deacon in 2005 and county committees. He and a priest in 2005. He also shared his expertise and served as incumbent at St. advice in reviews of the th Paul’s, Newmarket and more last December 6 . She sat in town's growth strategy, recently in Waubaushene, her wheelchair in the last row official plan and corporate Penetanguishene and of pews every Sunday beside strategic plan Elmvale. He was loved by all her daughter, Dorothy Geale. Also on May 27, Geoff Dale who knew him at St Mark’s We are thankful for her long received the Colin T. Brown and by his fellow clergy. His and fulfilling life. Her funeral '75 Leadership Medal, TCS’ funeral was held in St. Paul’s was at St Mark’s on May 5. with the Archbishop of highest recognition of We mourn the loss of Anna- Toronto presiding. exceptional leadership and Lyn Baxter, the loving volunteer service. A long-time Sanford Haskill passed away companion of Stephen Smith. faculty member (1946-1983), in December. A celebration of A retired nurse, she was the teacher and chair of the life occurred on January 21. mother of three daughters, Department of Classics, and His ashes were buried on the Megan, Sarah and Laura and latter Assistant Headmaster, May 24 weekend by the the loving step-mother of he is an honorary trustee and Haskill gravestone at St. Stephen’s daughters, Ann and honorary Old Boy serving as a Mark's. It was a small family Jennifer. Anna-Lyn was a respected ambassador, affair with a few good friends. member of St Mark’s church. 11 A Newsletter from St Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope Rimmington and his stone coming at the conclusion of mason colleagues. her first year. This summer she resigns her position at Quest Community Health Centre, St. Catharines and moves to Hamilton to undertake her final year in clinical placements and classroom lectures. She She was recovering from graduates next August with surgery when she died the designation of nurse Congratulations to Susan suddenly and peacefully after practitioner. Abell who was awarded the a stay in Northumberland Order of the Diocese of Toronto Hills Hospital. Her funeral Dougie Brooks, son of David for her volunteer roles in the was in St Mark’s on May 15. Brooks and Liz Prower, diocese since 2009. In 2015, earned two awards on June 4 Tom Lawson travelled to she became chair of the with the Northumberland Halifax in October 2016 as a Diocesan Strategic Planning Navy League Cadets (9-12 yr). special observer at the Committee and since Canadian Student Debating November, she has been the seminar. Tom founded this diocese’s Chief debating event 50 years ago, Administration Officer. She when he was a teacher at TCS. was a Churchwarden here at St Mark’s and still finds time Elmer Bogyay has settled into to be active in the community. his new home at Palisade Gardens in Cobourg. One award was a wooden plaque for Esprit de corp > The Canon Graham Cotter gave second, Cadet of the Year was the blessing on October 9 of awarded in recognition of his the relocated boat roofed excellent essay on what being house which is now in the a cadet means to him. Well town park in memory of done Dougie! . Canon Cotter gave the blessing ten years Anne Finlay and Evan ago when this dry stone Legakis and their daughters, monument, based on Farley Sarah and Kate made a short Mowat’s book, “The Farfarers” Emily Kedwell, daughter of trip to the Barbados in early was first erected on Catherine Peter, recently learned that February. Anne’s mother is Street by John Shaw- her master's thesis at from Barbados and Anne has McMaster University (MScN) several family members there. had been awarded an A-, this 12 A Newsletter from St Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope appreciation for liberating Dick and Pat Symons their country from German celebrated their 60th wedding occupation. Ben’s great anniversary at the end of grandmother, Nellie Van Eyk October. lived in the Netherlands during the war and It was a joy to welcome back remembered cheering Ellen Torrie, soprano soloist word “waste” at their source, in the streets of with the Toronto Men’s Welsh the local donut shop parking Rotterdam. The photo shows Choir on May 13. lot. He suggests a surcharge Geoff Dale with Katie Field of 25¢ for every cup. (née Geale) and Ben holding

Mabel Oram moved into the medal. Extendicare on May 1st and is Tom Lawson also celebrated feeling quite settled. She his last Fairmount birthday in the old family home surrounded by 14 friends and family. He turned 89 on April Ellen has been studying music 6. He was regaled with at Acadia University in Nova stories from various aspects of Scotia. She has sung in his life, and was presented enjoys the facility’s activities several choirs in this region with an extraordinary 3-layer particularly 'Fun & Fitness'. and she made her start here in chocolate cake made by the All being well she will turn St Mark’s junior choir when wife of an old TCS student, 100 in August. We welcome she was only about 10 years much enjoyed by all in Anne Oram back to Port old. Ellen is the daughter of attendance – with leftovers for Hope and St Mark’s. Kaye and Neil Torrie and the Tom and Graeme for some granddaughter of Elmer Geoff Dale gave Benjamin time. Fairmount recently sold Bogyay. Field a medal which was and Tom is moving to Rose awarded to him by the Dutch Glen Village Tom Lawson was in the after the Second World War in newspaper in May for having found hundreds of paper cups on his Dorset Street property over the years. He collected them and spelled out the

13 A Newsletter from St Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope Summer Events Gwen Duck

Please mark your calendars June 25 Strawberry Social August 19 Attic Treasures for the following St Mark’s and Basement Bargains events. This event provides an excellent opportunity to share June 17 ACO Garden Tour Annual Strawberry Social previously enjoyed items with St. Mark’s is delighted to be a On the Side Lawn of the Church our local community of destination on the formal tour bargain hunters. Peter and the refreshment centre for Sunday, June 25th at 12:00 noon Sandwiches, Strawberries and Kedwell is coordinating this the day. We will be serving Cream event. coffee/tea with sweets in the $15 per person morning and afternoon and All St. Mark’s families and chicken pot pie and salad for friends are welcome.

lunch. Volunteers are needed Sign up at the back of church. to support our efforts and the sign-up sheet is at the back of the church. Contact Gwen July 16 Parish BBQ Thank you for your ongoing Duck (905-885-8798 or support. [email protected]) for more information.

Special thanks to all the gardeners who have been working hard to have our property in pristine condition and to Doug Armstrong who is preparing displays highlighting our church history.

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Official St Mark’s Lion From Jacob’s Ladder Advent 2008 Ian McDonald

Do you recognize this lion? parishioners than the It appears as part of the parish rendition that we see flag, which hangs from the elsewhere in the church, it is balcony at the west end of the nevertheless our official church. “badge” in the terminology of As a parish, we are obligated heraldry. It was granted to us under the terms of the grant by the Canadian Heraldic to use it as our official Authority when we received emblem. Although this lion is probably our grant of arms in less familiar to most September 1997. .

St Mark by Wilhelmina Kennedy on display in the Parish PhotoHall credit - Garry Lovett

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JACOB’S LADDER

St. Mark’s Anglican Church 51 King Street, Port Hope, ON L1A 2R6