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Providing Sanctuary During a Pandemic PRESBYTERIAN ConnectionThe Presbyterian Church in Canada • presbyterian.ca ISSUE 17, SPRING 2021 Providing Sanctuary During a Pandemic The Nest at Camp Kintail became a temporary women’s shelter in the midst of a pandemic. By the Rev. Theresa McDonald-Lee, Co-Executive Director, Camp Kintail be able to welcome campers and up for new arrivals seeking safety. guests? Would Kintail’s beautiful We said yes. At a time when it was Camp Kintail, located in Goderich, site sit empty for months? difficult to know what to do and how Ont., is usually a busy and lively A phone call from the Huron Wom- to help, other than stay home, it felt place. School groups in the spring, en’s Shelter answered our prayers good to be able to meet a practical campers in the summer, and retreat and transformed our concerns into and real need in our community. guests in the fall and winter ensure possibility. Even before the pandem- We spent a week getting ready. that the camp rings with laughter ic, the women’s shelter had been This meant posting new physical- and activity the whole year long. full. So once COVID-19 struck, the distancing signage, adapting food In the middle of March 2020, the shelter anticipated a rise in the need service practices, deep cleaning, camp fell silent as all our programs for more beds, as typically there is and creating welcome packages for and groups were cancelled; like an increase in shelter use during our guests. much of the country, Camp Kintail times of emergency. They asked if After a lot of coordination and locked down. As we looked ahead, the camp would be willing and able many phone calls, the new guests we wondered what sort of ministry to house and feed the women and moved into the Nest, Kintail’s new could happen when the world had families currently under their care, so year-round building that had been In a traditional year, Camp Kintail campers enjoy a rich camping experience. PHOTO changed so drastically. Would we that more shelter beds could be freed Continued on page 3 CREDIT: HANNAH DICKIE Page 8... Page 11... Page 40... Online General Human Anchored PM#40614067 Assembly Trafficking to Jesus PRESBYTERIAN 2 SPRING 2021 Connection presbyterian.ca MESSAGE FROM THE MODERATOR Reflecting with the Psalms Lectionary Psalms for Lent of Year B, as a way to look back on the dif- ficulties, learnings and blessings of the past year. Perhaps some of my experience will resonate with yours. Psalm 25:4–5: Make me to know your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all day long. This year of pandemic has been a time of learning for me. I’ve learned new skills related to video conferenc- ing, live-streaming and video edit- ing. But more than just the practical By the Rev. Amanda Currie, skills, I’ve learned that authentic min- prompted me to open my eyes and the redeemed of the LORD say so, that we continue to empower. When Moderator of the General Assembly istry can take place even online and appreciate the beauty and wonder of those he redeemed from trouble and the pandemic does finally come to still have a significant impact. I’ve God’s Creation. I live in the “land of gathered in from the lands. an end, may we not simply return to In the midst of trouble, persecution learned to be courageous in jumping living skies” that is Saskatchewan, We have not ceased to worship in business as usual, but continue the or threat, the psalmists voice their in and giving it a try and been hap- and I was blessed by the scenery this year of pandemic. Most in my work of listening, repenting, respond- complaints with the question, “How pily surprised by what God could do each day, whether I was walking in congregation are worshipping with ing and healing. long, O Lord, how long?” As this is- among us in these new forums. my neighbourhood or in one of the us online, and some are joining us Psalm 118:24: This is the day that sue of the Presbyterian Connection Psalm 22:27: All the ends of the beautiful areas outside the city. who attended only rarely in person. the LORD has made; let us rejoice and goes out, a whole year has passed earth shall remember and turn to the Psalm 31:9, 14, 15a: Be gracious Others are receiving sermons and be glad in it. since the COVID-19 pandemic was LORD; and all the families of the na- to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; services by mail so they can read, In a recent online gathering for declared on March 11, 2020. tions shall worship before him. my eye wastes away from grief, my pray and reflect at home without the prayer and support, one of my col- When we’d first begun the adjust- While I haven’t been able to travel soul and body also. But I trust in you, Internet. Although the world is strug- leagues shared about the pandemic ments to our daily lives—things like in the last year, it has nonetheless O LORD; I say, “You are my God.” My gling so much, God’s steadfast love as a time when he has been learn- working from home, online school, been a year of connecting across times are in your hand. remains, and we are giving thanks. ing to live in the moment. It made me cancelled travel plans and virtual Canada and growing awareness of Last year was very difficult in many Indeed, our awareness of our need realize that I’m not always very good ways of doing church—most of us the worldwide church. My little con- ways. In addition to the isolation and for God seems to be prompting many at doing that. imagined it would be a matter of gregation in Regina has received loneliness caused by the pandemic to reach out for help and the strength My mind goes back to wonderful weeks. Church folk commented that visitors from Canada and around the restrictions, there was the actual ill- to endure. memories of pre-pandemic times— Lent 2020 was “the Lentiest Lent we world through our live-streamed ser- ness. For many months, I listened to Psalm 51:6–7: You desire truth in church suppers and celebrations, ever Lented,” and we looked forward vices, and I’ve had the opportunity the stories of those personally im- the inward being; therefore teach me hugs shared between friends, gentle to things getting back to normal by to preach in Presbyterian churches pacted and watched the numbers of wisdom in my secret heart. Purge touches of comfort offered in crises, Easter. It would be a truly joyous cel- in Canada, Guyana and with the Ca- infections and deaths with concern me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; choristers and congregations singing ebration with everyone back together nadian Council of Churches through and sorrow. But eventually COVID-19 wash me, and I shall be whiter than side by side, access to patients in again! video conferencing and pre-recorded hit my community directly. snow. hospitals and long-term care homes. As I wrote a reflection for the PCC videos. Even if we initially used the By January 2021, eight mem- The pandemic has revealed a lot I also long for the future and the end website on March 14, 2020, based language of churches being “closed” bers of my congregation had tested of difficult issues to be concerned of the pandemic. I imagine the pos- on the Sunday Psalms for Lent of because of the coronavirus, the pan- positive—mostly folks either living about—not only that our health care sibilities for travel, and connection at Year A in the Lectionary, I knew that demic restrictions could not stop all or working in long-term care. One system has limitations and that a gatherings, like summer camp—the the church and the world would need the families of the nations from turn- of our members died just before viral pandemic has the power to ex- way it is supposed to be. to trust in God to make it through this ing to the Lord in the midst of the cri- Christmas, less than two weeks after ceed them, but that our society is But I am determined to see the crisis, but I had no idea how much or sis and worshipping God. contracting the virus. We’re waiting plagued by inequalities that must be good in each day even now—giving how long it would take. Indeed, we Psalm 19:1: The heavens are tell- until springtime to have her funeral recognized, acknowledged and rec- thanks for life, health, relationships still don’t know how long this pan- ing the glory of God, and the firma- as well as several other funerals for tified. We might have predicted that and ministry that is enduring and even demic will continue to plague us with ment proclaims God’s handiwork. folks who died during the pandemic Black and Indigenous people would thriving in this time. This is the day new variants emerging, limited suc- In a year without travel and without from other causes. It is challenging be disproportionately affected by the that God has made! God is with me cess in flattening new waves and the in-person events, I spent a lot of time to keep going with that heavy load of pandemic.
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