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TheTHE NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF TORONTO A A SECTION OF THE ANGnLICAN JOURNAL g l www.tiorontoc.anglican.ca n MARCH 2016 FaithWorks raises record amount
BY PETER MISIASZEK
IN a challenging economic envi - ronment, the 2015 FaithWorks campaign result is one for the record books. As in past years, Anglicans across the Diocese of Toronto demonstrated their gen - erosity, raising more $1,675,000. Despite news of job losses, the de - clining dollar, downsizing and belt-tightening, FaithWorks raised more money in 2015 than in any year prior. “Thanks be to God for the gen - erosity of Anglicans across the diocese,” says Archbishop Colin Johnson. “FaithWorks is a tangi - ble example of Christ’s mission being served in the world, and many people need to be thanked for their commitment – donors, volunteers and clergy.” FaithWorks is the annual ap - Dean Andrew Asbil shakes hands with Archbishop Colin Johnson after peal of the Diocese of Toronto. being escorted to his chair while Chancellor Clare Burns looks on. At The money raised supports fami - right, Bishop Walter Asbil hugs his son. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON lies in crisis, children, youth and women in need, immigrants, the homeless, the imprisoned, those suffering from HIV/AIDS, and people living in the developing Cathedral world. “This demonstrates the breadth of our donor base,” says Shelagh McPherson, chair of the Faith - Works Allocations Committee. “A great deal of effort has been made turns page to promote FaithWorks in our parishes, in the corporate sector, among service groups and with individual donors. Our Christmas New rector, dean installed direct mail appeal alone raised over $50,000.” Parishes gave a total of $825,000 BY STUART MANN gregation near the end of the were woven throughout the serv - winds buffeting the church. in 2015, and about 85 per cent of service. ice. The passage from Ephesians “I know these are not easy days the churches in the diocese took ST. James Cathedral began a new The service started in dramatic was read in in Mandarin. for the church,” Bishop Asbil said. part in the campaign. A signifi - chapter in its history on Jan. 31 fashion, as native drumming In a delightful surprise, Dean “There’s an anxiety. But let me cant bequest was secured with the induction and installa - filled the air and Sandra Camp - Asbil’s father, Bishop Walter As - tell you what Andrew thinks. He through the parish appeal. More tion of the Very Rev. Andrew As - bell, a pastoral worker at the bil, a former bishop of the Diocese believes God does not call us from than 85 parishes experienced a bil as the rector of the cathedral Toronto Urban Native Ministry, of Niagara, gave the sermon. the past – rather, God calls us result greater in 2015 compared to and Dean of Toronto. performed a smudging ceremony “What I’d like to tell you about from the future. That is how An - the previous year. About 700 people filled the at the front of the church. Among Andrew is, he’s able to bring to - drew sees the church – facing the “Throughout the diocese, the downtown cathedral for the two- those who were ritually cleansed gether people who have widely di - future square on, with the Holy number of parishes making Faith - hour service, which had a strong by the healing smoke was Toron - verse views,” he said. Spirit of God to help us step out in Works an important focus of their emphasis on social justice and in - to Mayor John Tory, seated in the In a sermon that was by turns freedom.” stewardship and outreach is en - cluded several lighthearted and first pew. insightful and humorous, Bishop He asked Dean Asbil and his couraging,” says Susan McCul - poignant moments. The first and second readings Asbil spoke about his son with wife, Mary, to join him on the loch, FaithWorks’ campaign man - “I am moved beyond words to (Isaiah 55: 1-11 and Ephesians 4. 7, deep affection and respect. He de - chancel steps and, after some ager. “We’ve seen some signifi - accept this wonderful call,” said 11-16) reflected the themes of so - scribed his son as a gifted leader Continued on Page 2 Dean Asbil, speaking to the con - cial justice and inclusion that who is not troubled by the head - Continued on Page 2
ON THE STAINED GLASS TOUR – SEE PAGE 8 2 The Anglican N E W S March 2016 New dean Corporate donors given keys, support takes seat appeal Continued from Page 1 Continued from Page 1 cant growth, especially in the words of encouragement, em - Near the end of the service, York-Simcoe and York-Scarbor - braced them. It was a moving mo - Dean Asbil came down from his ough episcopal areas. The parish - ment that drew sustained ap - chair and, standing where his fa - Dean Andrew Asbil with his daughters Bridget (left) and Hanna before es in York Central Deanery and plause from the congregation. ther had stood, spoke about what the start of the service. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON St. James Deanery (located in After the sermon, Dean Asbil it meant to be the dean of Cana - Toronto) have developed into im - was formally inducted as rector da’s most populous diocese and portant pacesetters in the overall of the cathedral by Archbishop rector of its mother church. outside these four walls and to made us.” campaign.” Colin Johnson, the Bishop of “I’m glad to take this seat – it’s step into a deeper relationship He said the cathedral is built on Corporations – especially the Toronto and Metropolitan (senior pretty fancy,” he said, looking with our neighbours – with resi - sacred First Nations land and An - major banks – continue to be a vi - bishop) of the Ecclesiastical over at his chair and drawing dents and merchants, with civic glicans must walk in peace and tal source of funds for the cam - Province of Ontario. At the same laughter from the congregation. leaders, with our ecumenical reconciliation with indigenous paign. In 2015, FaithWorks Corpo - time, he became priest-in-charge But he quickly changed to a more partners to pray together and people. “We had a hand in a deep rate raised $309,000. Since its in - of St. Bartholomew, Regent Park. serious tone, and the congrega - break down walls that divide so pain; we must have a hand in ception in 2004, the corporate ap - Dean Asbil was given the cere - tion listened with rapt attention. that no one stands alone, that we deep healing.” peal has contributed more than monial keys to the cathedral by “But don’t let appearances fool stand with the poor and disen - He thanked a number of people, $4 million to FaithWorks. “It is the churchwardens, Angela Car - you,” he continued. “I know what franchised so that we might be - including the former dean, the wonderful to witness the generos - roll and Larry Enfield, and then taking this seat means. To be come better – that we might be - Very Rev. Douglas Stoute, and the ity of Anglicans and the corporate was formally installed as the new seated in this cathedral is to be come good. cathedral’s congregation, “who sector during challenging times” Dean of Toronto. shaped by the traditions and “To be seated in this cathedral put down deep roots and shot for says Bishop Philip Poole, the area At the end of the installation blessings of what it means to be means to offer radical hospitality the skies.” He thanked his former bishop of York-Credit Valley and ceremony, Archbishop Johnson, an Anglican – the good, the bad so that the next person through parish (the Church of the Re - chair of the FaithWorks Corpo - the diocesan registrar, Canon and the ugly. It also means to be those front doors feels the deep deemer, Bloor Street), his father, rate appeal. Paul Baston and the diocesan inspired by the Holy Spirit to take welcome of Jesus – the sojourner, his wife and children. Looking ahead to the 2016 cam - chancellor, Canon Clare Burns, us into uncharted waters and to the migrant, the refugee or just He waited for a moment, letting paign, the FaithWorks Allocations led Dean Asbil to the dean’s try new things, because the mis - the tired soul who needs a break all his words sink in. Then he Committee is holding firm with a “stall” or chair at the front corner sion field is changing always. from the pace of our reality, so added, “Now, that’s enough of goal of $1,550,000. The goal is at - of the chancel. As he sat down, he “To be seated in this cathedral that we might just find stillness that. We have work to do. Let’s tainable, says Ms. McCulloch. received a long ovation. means to have the courage to step and silence with the one who get on with it.” “2016 will be a special year for us – our 20th anniversary. 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March 2016 V C P C O N F E R E N C E The Anglican 3 For new ministries, hospitality is key Erinn Oxford Nathan Wall Meals play vital role, church planters say
BY MARTHA HOLMEN
“THINGS happen around the table that change people’s lives,” said David Fitch during his first keynote address at the Vital Church Planting Conference. Mr. Fitch, an academic, pastor Vinaya Dumpala (left) and a friend network at the conference. and church planter from the Chicago area, was the plenary speaker at this year’s conference, which took place Jan. 28-30 at St. Paul, Bloor Street. Jointly spon - 8FTQFDJBMJ[FJO/VSTFT sored by the Diocese of Toronto and the Wycliffe College Institute BOE$BSFHJWFSTGPSIPNFT of Evangelism, the conference at - JOTUJUVUJPOBMGBDJMJUJFTQSPWJEJOH tracted about 120 participants from various Christian denomina - Keynote speaker David Fitch talks about the importance of tables. QSJWBUFOVSTJOHQFSTPOBMDBSFQSJWBUFOVSTJOHQFSTPOBMDBSF tions. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON During the first two days of the conference, Mr. Fitch identified comes an important part of the t0WFSMBOHVBHFTTQPLFO three circles of Christian commu - community,” said the Rev. David t4FSWJDFTBWBJMBCMF nity: the Eucharistic table, where Giffen, incumbent, in his work - Jesus is the host; the dining room shop. t"GGPSEBCMFSBUFT table, where the Christian disci - Members of the congregation ple is the host; and tables in the prepare a meal each week, and public square, where Christians everyone helps to set up tables ZZZQKLKHDOWKFDUHFRP interact with the neighbourhood. and chairs, serve the food and “Proclaiming the Gospel clean up. The meal is seen as a vi - doesn’t stay in the closed circle. tal part of the gathering that be - It's in our neighbourhoods and gins upstairs in the sanctuary. The Rev. David Giffen #SJOHJOH)FBMUI$BSF)PNF our homes,” he said. “There’s a “We weren’t talking about a table everywhere. The question meal after the service, but a meal isn’t whether Jesus is there, but as church,” said Nathan Wall, scattered throughout the neigh - whether he will be recognized.” pastor of discipleship at Transfig - bourhood to host its programs. The notion of sharing the uration and a member of the plan - Epiphany and St. Mark, Parkdale, Gospel through hospitality ning team for The Water’s Edge. a coffee shop, a Presbyterian emerged with several other The team has found that the ac - church, a Salvation Army thrift speakers over the course of the tivities of cooking, setting up and store and other local centres all conference. Attendees heard the cleaning together help to create welcome The Dale into their stories of a variety of missional deeper connections than they spaces throughout the week. ministries, including a drop-in in first expected. “By spilling into the streets, we East York where youth can be “It gives people a space, a time more fully inhabit our neighbour - known and heard, and a new con - and an activity in which they can hood. We have built strong part - gregation in Vancouver that in - rub shoulders with one another, nerships with a variety of organi - vites people of any age, race or and ease into the kinds of conver - zations,” said Ms. Oxford. “We lifestyle to gather around the al - sations that we don’t often allow have the opportunity to be shown tar. ourselves time for,” said Mr. Wall. hospitality at the same time as At Church of the Transfigura - In Parkdale, the idea of hospi - giving it, and to me that’s beauti - tion, Toronto, gathering around a tality is tied to the very existence ful.” table has become an essential el - of The Dale Ministries, a commu - The conference culminated in a ement of The Water’s Edge, a new nity organization and church that Team Day on Saturday, when Sunday evening worshipping operates with no building or fixed Clayton Rowe and Hugh Brewster community. After a dressed-down address. of World Vision Canadian Pro - liturgy, held without processions “We became a church without grams helped participants devel - or vestments, the community our own walls,” said Erinn Ox - op tools to connect with their gathers for a meal in the church ford, director of the ministry. neighbourhoods. basement. The Dale, formerly called Park - To hear recordings from this “After worship we all head dale Community Church, relies year’s conference, visit www.vi - downstairs, where the kitchen be - on businesses and organizations talchurchplanting.com.
the Earth, our sacred home,” says brief worship service and a sim - Vivian Harrower, a member of ple supper at about 4 p.m. The BRIEFLY Holy Trinity, Trinity Square. church is located behind the The walk will start at 2 p.m. on Eaton Centre. Justice walk starts March 25 in Harbour Square For more information, visit Park, just west of the ferry docks www.goodfridaywalkforjustice. near ferry docks at the foot of Bay Street. Partici - wordpress.com. The annual Good Friday Walk for pants will stop at various “sta - Justice in downtown Toronto will tions” along Bay Street to name ACW general meeting begin near the ferry docks to some of those systems harming highlight the walk’s theme, “I the Earth and to call for repen - scheduled for May thirst: Water as passion and tance and action. The Toronto Diocesan ACW’s an - promise.” Those who do not wish to walk nual general meeting will be held “As Jesus cried out in thirst are invited to meet instead at on May 14 at St. Thomas, Brook - from the cross, we too thirst for Holy Trinity, Trinity Square, lin. The day will include a Eu - justice – for the environment and where they can watch a charist, music, reports, lunch, dis - all creatures adversely affected livestream of it. The walk will plays, items for sale and fellow - by systems that misuse or destroy conclude at the church with a ship. 4 The Anglican C O M M E N T March 2016 God’s new creation dawns The Anglican I know that my Redeemer replies. And the divine-human dialogue is The Anglican is published under liveth, ARCHBISHOP’S DIARY taken up again. the authority of the Bishop of Toronto and that he shall stand at the Job’s “I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Incorporated Synod of the latter day upon the Earth; BY ARCHBISHOP COLIN JOHNSON and that he shall stand at the latter day upon Diocese of Toronto. Opinions expressed in and though this body be de - the Earth,” has become a reality for Mary The Anglican are not necessarily those of stroyed, yet shall I see God; that my Redeemer lives!” He has no reason Magdalene. Her whole life has changed, and the editor or the publisher. whom I shall see for myself to believe this. There is no proof. Everything so has that of all creation. The darkened gar - Canon Stuart Mann: Editor and mine eyes shall behold, points to his abandonment. And yet he says: den of the tomb is revealed as the renewed and not as a stranger. 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In the Anglican Communion: A global community of 70 he more that I think money, and our gifts extend beyond what we million Anglicans in 64,000 about it, the more I am THE STEWARD put on the collection plate. Money is ab - congregations in 164 countries. convinced that passing solutely essential for supporting ministry: its T BY PETER MISIASZEK Archbishop of Canterbury: a collection plate for generous gifting to the church demonstrates The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Justin Welby , money is a practice that needs our faith in God and is a profound act of dis - Lambeth Palace, rethinking. The custom re - The gift is planned and reliable. PAG is one cipleship. But why does the act of giving London, England SE1 7JU. duces one’s understanding of example of how we can give of our first fruits money still have a place in the middle of a gift to that of an exclusive in a way that does not draw attention to our worship service? In Canada: monetary value and can exclude people from benevolence. It is usually made on a monthly There might still be a place for the offering A community of about 600,000 members participating. For most parishes, the “collec - basis and is completely detached from the of gifts during the Eucharistic celebration. in 30 dioceses, stretching from Vancouver tion” is that awkward time during the serv - formal offertory process. What if we took the time to acknowledge the Island to Newfoundland and north to the Arctic Ocean. ice when people fidget for change in their Most of us experience the preparation of service of one ministry on a weekly basis or pocket, scurry to fill an offering envelope the gifts in a similar fashion: sides-people en - thanked our volunteers publicly for their tal - Primate: with what limited cash they tend to carry, sure that the collection plate is passed from ent, ingenuity and perseverance? What if, in - The Most Rev. Fred Hiltz, pass the plate along without depositing a gift the front row to the back of the church, con - stead of passing a plate for people to place Church House, 80 Hayden St. or, worst of all, sheepishly peer at pew-mates gregants deposit a monetary offering on the cash or cheques on, we encouraged people to Toronto, ON M4Y 3G2 to see if they put anything on the plate. It has plate (or not) and pass the plate along, the offer their time and talent and intentions and become an unwelcome interruption to wor - collection is brought to the altar (sometimes prayers? Then all the gifts could be blessed In the Diocese of Toronto: ship. with the communion wine and water), a and left at the altar as a symbolic act of A community of 254 congregations in 210 parishes covering 26,000 square kilometers. I am all for generous giving. As I have blessing is made, and then the plate is thanksgiving. This way, everyone present Of the nearly 5 million people who live written time and again, giving should be reg - whisked away to a side room for safe-keeping could participate and they would come to re - within the diocesan boundaries, 376,000 ular, reliable and real; our offering should be or immediate counting. The practice leaves alize that gift isn’t synonymous with cash. claim to be affiliated with the Anglican proportionate, sacrificial, consistent and joy - me feeling empty. God has given each one of us very special Church, with about 80,000 people ful. The offertory can be a welcome opportu - The act of giving should be a joyful one gifts. We can reinforce our giftedness and identified on the parish rolls. The diocese nity to celebrate all this; but most of the time where all our gifts are welcomed, acknowl - uniqueness each Sunday if we make space is home to many ethnic and language- it isn’t. edged, offered and blessed. Somewhere for celebrating all those gifts right in the based congregations, including African, More and more church members are turn - along the line we have reduced the totality of worship service. Caribbean, Chinese, Filipino, French, ing to Pre-Authorized Giving (PAG) as a way our giftedness to money. And we reinforce Hispanic, Japanese, and Tamil. The City of of ensuring that their gift of money is made this sentiment by imparting a blessing on it. Peter Misiaszek is the diocese’s director of Toronto has the largest population of available to the church on a regular basis. However, Christian stewardship is more than Stewardship Development. aboriginal peoples in the country. The Archbishop of Toronto: The Most Rev. Colin Johnson 5IF%JPDFTFJTPO'BDFCPPL 5XJUUFSBOE:PV5VCF York-Credit Valley: 5PDPOOFDU WJTJU The Rt. Rev. Philip Poole XXXUPSPOUPBOHMJDBODB The Diocese is on Trent-Durham: 5IF%JPDFTFJTPO'BDFCPPL 5XJUUFSBOE:PV5VCF The Rt. Rev. 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The following motion was passed by the man-generated greenhouse gas emissions of our ongoing work of reconciliation; and David Harrison that Synod acknowledges diocese’s Synod last fall. Here, Peter Ben - is an undeniable threat to our ecosystem because our theological commitments and applauds the efforts being made by nett comments on the motion and the and to life on this planet; and because we must be realized in all aspects of our the Investment Committee to withdraw mover and seconder of the motion, the are bound, by our baptismal covenant, to corporate life, including our financial from the most environmentally damaging Rev. Maggie Helwig and the Rev. Canon “strive to safeguard the integrity of God’s practices. of our investments, particularly those in David Harrison, respond. creation, and respect, sustain, and renew tar sands oil; and Synod encourages the the life of the earth”; and because we are continuation of these efforts, in co-opera - committed to rebuilding right relation - Motion tion with our ecumenical partners and Preamble ship with Canada’s indigenous peoples, It will be moved by the Rev. Maggie Hel - with national church structures. Because climate change caused by hu - the original stewards of this land, as part wig and seconded by the Rev. Canon Divestment is It is a tool Un-Anglican for change
BY PETER BENNETT support of guerilla forces fighting BY THE REV. MAGGIE HELWIG apartheid that he announced he was AND THE REV. CANON DAVID HARRISON When this motion came to withholding his church collection in Synod, I was of two minds protest. I argued that his protest would on how to vote, but ulti - mean nothing because nobody in the We are, cently pledged to move €500 million out of mately decided the motion church would know why he was upset, in fact, coal investments and to triple its invest - was flawed. That it passed and in all probability his collection would in ment in green technologies and services. makes me more uncomfortable, but there not be missed. If you’re upset, write a let - agreement on many points. We too believe In the past few months, the United Church we are. What it doesn’t preclude is a ter to the rector, get a motion before that Jesus was very much engaged in the of Canada, the Diocese of Montreal and change of tactics, which is cause for opti - vestry, get yourself elected to Synod – in public square and that we are called to the Diocese of Ottawa have all voted to di - mism. For me, there are three reasons short, get engaged in the conversation! active engagement in the pressing issues vest from fossil fuels. We are not isolated, why I think the motion is problematic. To his everlasting credit, he accepted my of our day. However, unlike Mr. Bennett, and the cumulative effect is one that is Divestment as a strategy will have little argument and recognized that “cheque- we believe that divestment is, in some very hard to ignore. impact on corporate behaviour, because book” protests were not very helpful. The circumstances, the best form of Mr. Bennett does not address some of one institutional investor (the church) Anglican Communion has numerous divi - engagement. our other points, most significantly will be replaced by another (a pension or sions of opinion. For some, the irresistible Both divestment and shareholder ac - whether investment in fossil fuels is actu - hedge fund). As a financial advisor and urge is to take your marbles home and tivism have been employed as tools for ally fiscally responsible at this point. The member of the Responsible Investment not be in the playground anymore. For change, and both have strengths and limi - recent slump in oil prices could be just the Association, I know there are various most of us, the overwhelming urge is to tations. The church has already acknowl - beginning of a much longer trend. “The ways to achieve your SRI (socially re - open or keep conversation going, to edged that divestment may be reasonable: impacts investors are seeing in their port - sponsible investing) objectives. Positive search for common ground, to find a way we have well-established exclusions on in - folio from the current oil-price shifts may or negative investment screening (of forward. I view divestment as a form of vestments in alcohol, tobacco, and pornog - be similar to what they can expect to see which divestment is a form) is one. Share - cheque-book protest. It makes me feel raphy, and we participated in the ultimate - in the context of longer-term risks associ - holder engagement is another: the SRI good, but at the end of the day, have I had ly effective campaign of sanctions against ated with the shift away from fossil fuels, manager engages senior management in any impact on corporate behaviour? apartheid in South Africa. We believe that particularly those associated with higher person or at shareholder meetings in an I understand and agree with the prem - this, too, is a situation in which divestment carbon emissions,” says Peter Chapman, effort to influence corporate behaviour. ise that underlies the motion. However, is an appropriate and effective instrument. executive director of the Shareholder As - My view is that shareholder engagement as Archbishop Johnson said in his Both the Church of England and the for - sociation for Research and Education. is a more effective long-term strategy charge, Christians are called to be at the mer chairman of Shell, Mark Moody-Stu - (Source: The Toronto Star , Nov. 2, 2015.) than divestment in changing corporate “edge of chaos.” Too far from the edge art, have lamented the industry’s tepid re - Divestment cannot, of course, be our on - behaviour. and we are frozen out. Too close to the sponse to shareholder engagement and ly form of engagement with this issue. In At the risk of entering the theological chaos and we are consumed by it. Divest - have recommended divestment. fact, it should be seen as a step that com - quagmire of competing views of scrip - ment freezes us out. Doing nothing con - If we were the sole body to divest from mits us to additional actions – to work ac - ture, the Jesus I know was very much en - sumes us in the chaos. For me the “via tar sands oil, there might be more weight tively to reduce our personal and institu - gaged in the public square. He saw the media” is engagement. Going forward, I to the argument that the oil companies tional dependence on fossil fuels, to edu - money-changers and confronted them. hope we change tactics to achieve a com - will not even notice. But in fact, there is a cate ourselves about the environmental He saw the hypocrisy of the synagogue mon goal. large divestment movement already un - costs of the fossil fuel economy, to advo - leaders and engaged them in debate. He derway, and it’s growing. By September cate at all levels of government on issues didn’t divest himself from the sinner – he Peter Bennett is a member of the Church 2014, more than 800 organizations, with such as carbon pricing and the reform of engaged with them. Divestment is anoth - of the Redeemer, Bloor Street, and a more than $50 billion in assets, had offi - the National Energy Board, to support in - er word for disengagement, and in my member of Synod. cially committed to divestment, including digenous land defenders whose territories view, it’s not biblical. the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, the are threatened by fossil fuel development, I view divestment as Un-Anglican. I re - World Council of Churches, the Church of and much more. call a conversation with my father when Sweden, the University of Glasgow and ours was still a parent-child relationship. Stanford University. Last spring, the The Rev. Maggie Helwig is the incumbent He was angry at “Red Ted” Scott, who at Church of England announced its divest - of St. Stephen in-the-Fields, Toronto and that point was chair of the Central Com - ment from coal and oil sands (£12 million the Rev. Canon David Harrison is the mittee of the World Council of Churches. from a combined fund of £9 billion). incumbent of St. Mary Magdalene, Dad was so upset with the WCC’s alleged French insurance company Axa has re - Toronto.
parishioners – one-third of all givers in position is funded by the City of Edmon - to provide safe water for a newly built vil - the diocese – were using it, and donations ton and the Edmonton Community Foun - lage. The cost of the project is estimated CANADA made through it for the year totalled $2.2 dation, a charity. The diocese is providing at $25,000. The mission team was also million. administrative support, and both Mr. Van gathering medications and other materi - The New Brunswick Anglican Boom and his supervisor work out of of - als for the trip, and raising funds. fices at Christ Church Anglican Church in Niagara Anglican BRIEFS Group hires Edmonton. housing ambassador The Messenger Diocese launches Anglicans embrace e-offering EDMONTON – A Christian Reformed refugee fund FREDERICTON – Roughly one-third of all Church pastor has been named the first Volunteers to build VANCOUVER – The Diocese of New Anglican givers in the Diocese of Freder - housing ambassador of the Capital Re - water cistern Westminster has established a fund for icton are now using Pre-Authorized Giv - gion Interfaith Housing Initiative (CRIHI), HAMILTON – As of press time, a team covering refugee resettlement costs, in ing (PAG), diocesan staff say. PAG is an an Edmonton-area alliance of faith from the Diocese of Niagara was planning addition to funds raised by refugee-spon - online banking arrangement whereby groups, including the Diocese of Edmon - a mission trip to the Dominican Republic soring parishes. The fund began with an money is automatically transferred from ton, aimed at fighting homelessness. As to work on development projects in poor anonymous gift of $10,000, and a further the donor’s bank account at regular inter - housing ambassador, Mike Van Boom will villages around Puerto Plata, a Dominican $5,000 was raised at a diocesan event in vals. The amount and frequency are set be tasked with helping local neighbour - city popular with tourists. A key project November. As of Jan. 15, there was more by the donor, and can be changed at any hoods host conversations about creating being planned was the construction of a than $52,000 in the fund. time. As of 2014, 58 parishes and 1,196 permanent and affordable housing. His cistern, or water supply system, intended Topic 6 The Anglican I N T E R V I E W March 2016 My heart breaks over and over
Elizabeth Áine Achimah is the Lay Fast-forward 10 years: I was studying at Neighbourhood Chaplain for the Church the University of Toronto to obtain a sec - of the Resurrection, Toronto. ond bachelor’s degree in psychology, so I could go on to do further graduate work. I The main part of my job is overseeing had tried on many other hats but nothing The Side Door Youth Drop-In Centre . I seemed to fit right. This time, everything mentor and support a fantastic team of was going well. However, in December of volunteers who care for the youth. I pro - that year, God decided to shake things up vide leadership at our Friday night drop- a little bit. In the entire university, the on - ins and youth forum nights, which can ly courses that I was able to enroll in range from movie nights to board games were theology and Biblical studies. I to themed parties. I meet regularly with smiled at God’s sense of humour and re - the youth and their families outside of alized that he has always been preparing our scheduled events to provide pastoral me for ministry. I applied to Wycliffe Col - care. We recently started a play group lege and embraced ministry as a calling. for moms, dads, caregivers and their children. My specific interest in youth drop-in ministry to at-risk youth has been in - At The Side Door, we are working on a fluenced by a number of things. One of multimedia project that gives a voice them is the gang culture in Toronto. I to the youth to share what it is like to hear of gang violence with youth or be youth in Toronto today. It is easy to young adults and my heart aches be - talk about youth and read about youth cause it doesn’t need to be that way. culture, but we need to listen to youth. I Gangs provide youth with a sense of be - work with an amazing group of youth longing, meaning and family. I believe who have a lot of rich insights and wis - that the church and the Christian mes - dom to share, and we are trying to cap - sage ultimately does the same – and ture these things through videography, more! If the church can meet youth photography, poetry, storytelling and art. where they are and provide a place where they can be who they are and I have the amazing privilege of hearing loved, it has the opportunity to literally Elizabeth Áine Achimah at The Side Door Youth Drop-in Centre. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON the stories of youth and their families. save lives as well as speak God’s love in - I get to walk with them in times of uncer - to their lives. tainty, darkness and pain. There are I was born and raised in Ontario and my teenage years that I developed a rela - times in which I get to pray with them, am the eldest of eight children. I spent tionship with Christ and the church that What would I like to be doing in five speak God’s truth, and read scripture. I a lot of time dabbling in different areas, was separate from my family’s faith. We years? I’m open to the Spirit’s leading, as get to see the raw pain in youth as well both in terms of education and work, were attending an Anglican Church at I don’t have any specific plans. I imagine I as their courageous steps towards whole - bouncing back and forth from some form the time and I fell in love with the liturgy will be involved in some form of ministry. ness. I wouldn’t trade anything in the of medicine to philosophy and theology. and practices. In particular, I loved the world for this privilege. That being said, Most of my jobs have been ministry-relat - daily offices and made a point to pray I love the Psalms for their honesty. One this work is challenging and my heart ed. I remember, in one church, realizing them as often as I could. I was confirmed of my favourites is Psalm 25, in particular breaks over and over as I hear their sto - that I am most fully who God made me to in the Anglican Church, which was a very verse 21: “Let integrity and uprightness ries. I often sit and listen and feel like be as I serve within and from the church. meaningful moment in my faith journey. I preserve me, for I wait for You.” This there are no words or actions to make also went on a spiritual pilgrimage to verse has often reminded me that regard - things better. I have to sleep at night I grew up in a fairly broken home but Wales with the youth and young adults, less of what is going on in my life and in knowing that many of the youth I have church and living out the Christian life which had an impact on my life. the world around me, I am called to live come to love deeply are in situations that were always a central part of our lives. with integrity and to wait for the Lord. no one should have to deal with, let alone We attended a variety of denominations – When I was 17, I felt called to full-time a youth. I take hope and encouragement primarily free evangelical churches – and ministry. I remember my response very To watch a video of Ms. Achimah describ - that I serve a God who loves these youth were always heavily involved in each well: “No thanks, God, I’m going to be a ing her work, visit the diocese’s website, and their families far more than I ever church. 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The Rev. Jacqueline Daley, as - sistant curate at St. Hilary, Church hosts Cooksville and one of the organiz - ers of the event, wanted to create a space for people to gather around this issue because the church needs to start addressing forum on the racism and marginalization experienced by black youth. “It’s in the church, it’s not just out there,” she said. “Because who is out there is who is in the church, black youth and we just have to get close to people, as Jesus did, and not be afraid of these issues.” Elin Goulden, the parish out - reach facilitator for York-Credit Report highlights experiences Valley and co-organizer of the event, also highlighted the impor - BY RYAN WESTON from a recognition of the impor - tance of recognizing that church - tance of data in the social servic - es are already implicated in these ST. Luke, Dixie South in Missis - es sector and the need to compile issues, even if they may not yet sauga hosted more than 40 people relevant information to tell the realize it. “I would like to encour - from across Peel Region and be - story of black youth in Peel. Tana Turner, co-author of a report on the well-being of black youth in Peel age more churches to listen to yond on Feb. 4 for a forum on “Eq - “We wanted to shift the conver - Region, speaks at St. Luke, Dixie South in Mississauga. PHOTO BY MICHAEL their members and to their com - uity, Inclusion and the Black Com - sation about black youth [in Peel HUDSON munities, especially those who munity in Peel.” The event provid - Region],” she said. “What about have direct experience of injus - ed the opportunity for churches the assets? What were the good centage of the population.” cal well-being.” tice, without getting defensive, and the wider community to dis - things that were happening? How The report highlights the expe - Following the formal presenta - and without deciding in advance cuss how they could respond to were we going to shift the conver - riences of black youth with key tion, Ms. Turner facilitated small- that we know what folks need,” the recommendations of “Fight - sation about black youth?” institutions in the region, ranging group discussions around the she said. “Instead, we need to lis - ing an Uphill Battle: Report on the Ms. Turner offered a closer from police services to education specific role churches could play ten to them and ask how best we Consultations into the Well-Being look at some of the demographic to social services, with research in responding to some of their can support them.” of Black Youth in Peel Region,” re - data for Peel Region, noting that participants sharing their experi - recommendations. Although they Ms. Daley affirmed that leased last March by the in the 2011 census the population ences of discrimination, lowered had done similar presentations to churches are not alone when they F.A.C.E.S. of Peel Collaborative. of African-Canadians in Peel was expectations, and the need to stakeholders in the policing, edu - address these issues. “God is with Tana Turner and Dr. Carl about 116,000 or nine per cent of overcome stereotypes. “In cation, and social service sectors, us because that’s the foundation James, lead authors of the report, the region’s total population. essence, they feel that they are Ms. Turner noted that this was of who God is, righteousness and were joined by Maame Debrah, a However, “44 per cent of the black unwelcome in their communities the first time they had been invit - justice,” she said. “So when we’re community outreach coordinator population in Peel is under the here in Peel,” said Dr. James, ed to speak to a gathering of talking about this, God is with for the United Way of Peel Re - age of 24,” she noted. “So really, “and so, needless to say, this has church members, and they were us!” gion, to present the context and when we think about the future an effect on their sense of being, eager to engage in a conversation recommendations of the report to and our kids, it is so important to their sense of self, their sense of about how churches could con - Ryan Weston is the diocese’s the audience. Ms. Debrah noted the black community because belonging, their self-esteem. It af - tribute to the ongoing work com - Social Justice and Advocacy that the report developed, in part, they make up such a large per - fects their social and psychologi - ing out of their research. coordinator.
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BY JANICE DOUGLAS day last June, she observed details in the windows that I had never ST. Olave, Swansea’s windows noticed. have garnered the church, located “It is a significant collection,” in Toronto’s west end, a stop on she said of the 12 windows, which the Royal Ontario Museum’s include three collaborations with ROMbus tour of significant places Ellen Simon, who worked out of of architecture, history and cul - Ms. Williams’ studio. “The win - Sarah Hall stands in front of the ture. dows show a long, ever-changing first two windows Yvonne The tour on May 26, called progression of Yvonne Williams’ Williams created for St. Olave’s in “Toronto’s Coloured Gems,” will work from her early Gothic Re - 1937. The windows, situated in be led by stained glass artist Sarah vival style to modern abstract the church’s baptistry, were fund - Hall. It will stop at six locations, in - painting.” ed by families whose children cluding St. Olave’s, that are noted Ms. Hall is no slouch when it were baptized there and include for their historical or contempo - comes to stained glass. After com - depictions of children from rary stained glass. Participants pleting her diploma in Architec - around the world, flora and fauna will learn about various stained tural Glass from the City & Guilds and the Northern Lights. At right, glass-making techniques and the of London Institute, she assisted some of the 12 windows in the exceptional artists who created Lawrence Lee, head of the glass church by Yvonne Williams. PHO - the windows. department at the Royal College of TOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON The tour is a happy result of a Art in London, then spent a year in relationship that began almost a Jerusalem researching Middle Yvonne Williams was the first year ago when I contacted Ms. Eastern techniques in glass. In woman in Canada to run her own Hall to join me at a presentation 1980, she opened her own studio in stained glass studio, and Ms. Hall about St. Olave’s windows. Ever Toronto. She teaches a course on described her as a bit of a charac - since I read the essay “Wood, stained glass at the University of ter. “She came to my studio once. Stone and Stained Glass” by the Toronto and has created more Wanting to make a good impres - nent Toronto-based stained glass Catholic Church in St. John’s, N.L., Rev. Dr. Versey Wigmore (St. than 1,000 windows, which are in - sion I set out two pieces of expen - artist. In 1928, she began a two- and, closer to home, St. Timothy, Olave’s rector from 1955 to 1981), I stalled in North America, Europe sive red glass, so they would catch year apprenticeship at the Charles North Toronto and St. Michael and had been obsessed with the idea of and the Middle East. the sun. When she came in, she Connick Studio in Boston. She All Angels, Toronto. creating a multimedia presenta - When such an accomplished noticed them and pointed out, ‘We opened her first studio in Toronto “Her windows are indeed ser - tion that married his thoughtful artist accepted my invitation to co- have a copper red and a gold ruby in 1932. Things were slow at first, mons in glass, for stained glass in text to colour photos of the win - host the presentation at St. red – those two shades of red don’t partly because she refused to the hands of the creative artist can dows. I was particularly intrigued Olave’s, I was pretty chuffed. To a go together at all.’ Yvonne was re - work in the commercial styles become a very meaningful way of by the fact that almost all of St. packed room after Evensong on ferring to the minerals that give then in favour, so she supplement - entering more fully into the mes - Olave’s windows come from the the Feast of the Epiphany, I read glass its colour. She was right, of ed her income by dressing win - sage of the Eternal Gospel,” wrote studio of one artist, Yvonne from Mr. Wigmore’s essay and Ms. course.” dows at Eaton’s. Mr. Wigmore in his essay. Williams. Hall added fascinating details It was Ms. Williams’ love of By the time she died in 1997 at To buy a ticket for the “Toron - Ms. Hall had met and created about each window – how they colour that drew her away from age 96, she had more than 400 to’s Coloured Gems” ROMbus tour, windows for Ms. Williams, pub - were glazed, how a certain brush sculpture while studying at the commissions to her name. In addi - visit the ROM’s website, lished an article about her and stroke was achieved with a tool Ontario College of Art in 1922. She tion to St. Olave’s, she created win - www.rom.on.ca, and click on the even nominated her for the Order called a badger softener, and how graduated first in her class with dows for the former All Saints An - “What’s On” tab and then “For of Canada. As we walked through the artistic composition enhanced honours and then took a job at the glican Cathedral in Aklavik, Adults.” Tickets for the tour cost St. Olave’s sanctuary on a sunny the biblical message. studio of F.J. Hollister, a promi - N.W.T., St. Patrick’s Roman $110, lunch included. Diocese provides matching grants for refugee sponsorship
BY STUART MANN $500,000 may apply for up to 35 Although consideration was Parishes wishing to access the plications. The initial round of ap - per cent of the total cost; and given to the possibility of direct - funds will be asked to demon - plications is due by March 15, PARISHES can now apply for parishes with income greater ing some of the funds to support strate that, apart from lacking ad - 2016. Following this, if funds re - funds from the diocese to help than $500,000 may apply for up to overseas work with refugees, equate funds to fully fund a spon - main, a second round of applica - them sponsor refugees. The dio - 15 per cent of the total cost. such as through the Primate’s sorship, they meet all other basic tions would be invited, with a cese, which has earmarked For parishes with income above World Relief and Development requirements set out by AURA, deadline of May 15, 2016. Applica - $500,000 for refugee work, will $500,000, the amount of financial Fund, it was felt that the exten - including the existence of a steer - tions are available on the dio - make the money available in the assistance requested from the sion of the federal government’s ing committee, proper screening cese’s website, www.toronto. form of matching grants. diocese should be for a more am - matching funding for donations for all volunteers, and participa - anglican.ca. Completed applica - Diocesan Council approved bitious sponsorship – in particu - to programs in Syria decreased tion in AURA’s training pro - tions should be emailed to rwest - how the funds will be disbursed lar, the number of family mem - the potential impact of the tithe, grams. [email protected] or by at a meeting on Jan. 16. The funds bers being sponsored – than and that the limited amount of The funds will be used to assist mail to the attention of Ryan We - are a tithe from the diocese’s Min - would otherwise be undertaken funds would be better directed to refugees not only from the Middle ston, Diocese of Toronto, 135 Ade - istry Allocation Fund. by the parish. the practical engagement offered East but from other parts of the laide St. E., Toronto, Ontario M5C The maximum grant a parish The matching grants and fund - through refugee sponsorship. globe, such as Africa and Asia. 1L8. can receive will be based on its ing formula are intended to pro - The diocese will work closely While the focus may be primarily As of Jan. 9, 59 parishes in the annual revenue. Parishes with to - vide opportunities for the great - with AURA (the Anglican-United on Syrian refugees, there are diocese were taking part in or in - tal annual income of less than est number of parishes to actively Refugee Alliance,) a FaithWorks refugees throughout the world terested in taking part in refugee $250,000 may apply for a grant of participate in refugee sponsor - ministry and the official sponsor - who are eligible to come to Cana - sponsorships. Parishes were in up to 50 per cent of the total cost ship while also ensuring that the ship agreement holder for the da if local groups are prepared the process of sponsoring 37 of the sponsorship; parishes with greatest number of refugees are Diocese of Toronto, in implement - and able to sponsor them. refugees, of which four families income between $250,000 and being assisted to come to Canada. ing the matching grants program. There will be two rounds of ap - had already arrived. March 2016 N E W S The Anglican 9 A safe Churches place to team up pray to bring WHEN The Bridge Prison Min - istry opened its community cen - tre in Brampton in 2012, the hope was that it would be a welcoming refugees and safe place for everyone, not just former inmates who use its services. FOR Petra-Ann Asfaw, helping That vision became a powerful refugees come to Canada has a reality on Jan. 16, when it hosted personal dimension to it. Ms. As - a clothing drive for refugees and faw’s late husband, originally about 40 women from a local from Ethiopia, was a prisoner of mosque showed up to help. conscience in Somalia for five “They asked for a place to pray years during the 1970s until a at 1 p.m., so we made space in our group of Dutch Reform churches centre,” said Garry Glowacki, ex - in North York was able to bring ecutive director of The Bridge. him to Canada. “I know how “When Muslim women feel safe much that meant to him,” she to pray in a fairly Christian cen - says. tre for prisoners, I think we have Ms. Asfaw represents her achieved our original lofty goal. church, St. Saviour, Toronto, on Frankly, it was the most moving the East End Refugee Committee, moment of an already wonderful which has been sponsoring day.” refugees for two decades. Last About 80 people, including ex- fall, it brought an Ethiopian fam - prisoners and the homeless, ily – a mother, father and their worked alongside each other to two children – to Toronto. sort and label more than 250 bags Ms. Asfaw says St. Saviour’s is of donated clothes, shoes, boots a good example of how a church and other items for refugees that cannot afford to sponsor a coming to Canada. refugee family on its own can still The clothing drive, called Zubaria Mir, a religious get involved in refugee sponsor - Stranger to Stranger, was organ - teacher with the Brampton Sun - ship. By connecting with a group ized by The Bridge and Regener - natal Islamic Community, said it like the East End Refugee Com - ation Community Outreach, an was important to help out. “We mittee, which has the experience agency serving the homeless. are here as part of the communi - and fundraising ability, church The Bridge is partially funded by ty. Most people talk big when it members are able to give what FaithWorks, the diocese’s annual comes to religion, but when they can without being over - outreach appeal. there’s an actual moment, so few whelmed. A former inmate who helped walk the talk. We are here be - “We try to help out the best we out said it was a chance for him cause we wanted to help.” can but not to over-commit our - to assist others. “I want to do this People came from as far away selves,” she says. “It’s an oppor - because I have always been a tak - as Guelph and Toronto to pitch tunity for the parish to do its er, and after being incarcerated I in. Mr. Glowacki said the clothes Women from the Brampton Sunnatal Islamic Community sort clothes and part.” sometimes felt like a stranger in would not just benefit Syrian pray at The Bridge Prison Ministry in Brampton. Above left, executive di - Ms. Asfaw acts as a conduit be - society. I just feel this is an oppor - refugees but also some homeless rector Garry Glowacki and a volunteer. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON AND THE tween the church and the com - tunity to give and not take.” and First Nations people. BRIDGE mittee, relaying information from the committee back to the church and helping parishioners who want to respond. “Everybody wants to do something,” she says. Parishioners have donated bed - Families share house ding, clothes and household items. In addition to St. Saviour’s, two other Anglican churches in the Busy week includes lots of talking and new food city’s east end, St. John the Bap - tist, Norway, and St. Aidan, are BY STUART MANN life in Canada while Ms. Gray and faithful and hopeful. I was amazed family. The congregation had dis - represented on the committee. other members of the refugee at their bravery.” cussed sponsoring a refugee fam - There are nine churches in total, KATHRYN Gray has had a week committee worked on things like A highlight of the week took ily several years ago but started in from the Anglican, Baptist, Pres - she’ll never forget. setting up a bank account for place shortly after the family, who earnest in 2014. The congregation byterian, United and Unitarian In the middle of January, Ms. them and arranging health cover - are Armenian Orthodox Chris - learned last October about the Universalist traditions. Gray opened her house to an Ar - age. tians, arrived. “They landed on family but had to wait until Jan. 14 Since its inception in 1995, the menian refugee family that had One of the most poignant mo - the Friday and I assumed they for them to arrive. group has sponsored 15 refugee been sponsored by her church, St. ments happened soon after they would want to go to their own The sponsorship effort was sup - families and individuals from all Matthew’s on First Avenue in arrived at the house. “As we sat in church, but they wanted to come ported by parishioners of St. Au - over the world. “We do one case Toronto. The family – a mother, fa - our living room in the first hour, to St. Matthew’s to say thank gustine of Canterbury, Toronto, at a time, slow and steady,” says ther and their two young daugh - Aroush and Marika expressed you,” says Ms. Gray. who gave funds and were active in Joanne Hincks, one of five people ters – had been living in Lebanon that they did not wish to be a bur - It was a moment she’ll never the resettlement. from St. John the Baptist who is before coming to Canada. den on anyone,” recalls Ms. Gray. forget, as the family and the con - “It’s been great seeing it all un - on the committee. Instead of putting the family in “I looked the translator in the gregation met in the church for fold,” says Ms. Gray, adding that Ms. Hincks took a meal – pre - temporary housing while they eyes, my own welling up with the first time and expressed she would do it again if the oppor - pared by a former refugee helped waited for permanent accommo - tears, and said, ‘You need to tell words of thanks and welcome. tunity arose. “I feel that I’ll be in - by the group – to the Ethiopian dations, Ms. Gray, who is the chair them that we have waited a long “People were overjoyed,” she volved in refugee rights over the family shortly after they arrived of St. Matthew’s refugee commit - time for them to come and we are says. “I don’t think I’ve ever felt long term. I’ve learned a lot and in Toronto. “They were very tee, invited them to live with her so happy that they are here.’” that much joy in a church.” It was I’d like to use that knowledge.” moved,” she says. family. “We felt it would be easier During their week together, Ms. made all the more special because She praised the congregation Ms. Hincks says one of the for them, especially with the Gray bought Armenian food, in - Aroush and Marika’s four-year- for its efforts. “We were given the most important outcomes of kids,” she says. cluding lots of pita bread, and the old daughter celebrated her birth - chance to reach outside of our - refugee sponsorship is that it The week involved a lot of talk - two families shared meals togeth - day the next day. selves and our church walls and raises social justice issues like af - ing, as the husband and wife – er. Bit by bit, she pieced together Ms. Gray says the congrega - do something that not only fordable housing. “More people Aroush and Marika, who speak their story. “They had left every - tion’s outpouring of emotion was brought new life to a family, but are understanding how expen - some English but often need a thing and had no idea what their due, in part, because it had breathed a tremendous amount of sive it is to live in Toronto,” she translator – asked about their new future would hold, but remained worked and waited so long for the life into us.” says. “It’s not easy for people.” 10 The Anglican N E W S March 2016 A man of ‘quiet piety, deep wisdom’
look to it as a model and are ex - in Canada, Canon Riggs dis - bishop Johnson to a second, six- Canon Riggs amining ways to include it in their cerned the appropriate applica - year term as Metropolitan (senior canons. tion of human rights legislation bishop) of the province during a While crafting the procedure on clergy and parishes and ad - service at St. Simon-the-Apostle, served and other revisions to Canon 10, vised the church and government Toronto, in October 2015. Canon Riggs met with every cler - about laws and regulations that Archbishop Johnson described diocese, icus (a gathering of clergy in a impacted the ministry of the Canon Riggs as “understated, deanery) in the diocese – 18 in to - church and other faith groups. A gentle, humble, wise – and ex - tal, spread over a wide geograph - partner in the Toronto law firm traordinarily well read.” He re - province ical area. “He sat down and lis - Hicks Morley, he was noted as a called visiting him in the hospital tened to the clergy,” recalled mentor to young lawyers and won shortly before his death. “I said, BY STUART MANN Archbishop Johnson. “It was a judgements at the Supreme Court ‘What are you reading?’ and he huge commitment of time to do of Canada. proceeded to list a huge array of CANON Dr. Christopher Riggs, QC, this, especially for someone work - A parishioner of the Church of books that he had read, with a cri - a former vice-chancellor of the ing full-time in a major law prac - the Redeemer, Bloor Street, tique of each of the books, plus Diocese of Toronto whose contri - tice. That was the sort of careful Canon Riggs served as vice-chan - two or three newspapers a day.” butions to canon law benefitted listening he did.” cellor of the diocese (a volunteer During another visit, Canon the church across the country Canon Riggs played a key role position) from 1992 to 2007. He Riggs looked through a book of and in the other parts of the An - Canon Christopher Riggs. PHOTO in the development and ongoing was named an honorary lay hymns and remarked on the faith glican Communion, died in BY DIANA RENELLI revision of the diocese’s Sexual canon of St. James Cathedral in expressed in them. The hymn, Toronto on Jan. 13 after a long Misconduct Policy, which has 2003 and was awarded an hon - “All My Hope in God is Founded” struggle with cancer. He was 73. new procedure for the non-disci - been used as a template for simi - orary Doctor of Laws from the stood out for him. “That one line “Chris was a man of great intel - plinary termination of clergy in lar policies in other dioceses, oth - University of Guelph in 2013. expresses it all,” he said. lect, quiet piety and deep wis - situations where an appointment er denominations and non-profit Canon Riggs served as the Canon Riggs is survived by his dom,” said Archbishop Colin needs to come to an end for a organizations across Canada. In chancellor of the Ecclesiastical wife, Erica, three daughters and Johnson, who as Bishop of Toron - range of circumstances. The pro - addition, his counsel was vital for Province of Ontario from 2009 to grandchildren. One of his daugh - to and Metropolitan of the Eccle - cedure, found in the diocese’s the development and application 2015. The province is made up of ters, the Rev. Julie Burn, is the as - siastical Province of Ontario Canon 10, formed the basis of a of screening policies for both cler - seven dioceses and contains more sociate priest at the Church of the worked closely with Canon Riggs change to the canons of General gy and volunteers working with than half the population of the Resurrection, Toronto. for many years. Synod and was adopted by many children and vulnerable adults in Anglican Church of Canada. In A Requiem Eucharist was held One of Canon Riggs’ significant dioceses in Canada. Other dioce - the diocese. one of his last duties as chancel - at the Church of the Redeemer on achievements was authoring a ses in the Anglican Communion One of the top labour lawyers lor, Canon Riggs installed Arch - Jan. 23.
READY TO PERFORM Members of the Toronto Children’s Concert Choir & Performing Arts Com - pany get ready to perform at St. Hilary, Cooksville in Mississauga on Jan. 17. The company is renowned for its work with African-Canadian and ur - ban youth through music. The company is inviting youth to join its choir for a special performance at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Toron - to in June. For more information, contact the Rev. Jacqueline Daley at [email protected]. PHOTO COURTESY OF ST. HILARY’S
church offered the “drive-thru” prayer and ashes service. In pre - WORLD vious years, the church has served everybody from truck drivers to waitresses, said Mr. Wisniewski. BRIEFS Anglican Communion News Service WEDDING BELLS Church offers The Rev. Canon Jennifer Reid and ashes for drivers Charity names most the Rev. Canon Paul J. Walker UNITED STATES – An Episcopal dangerous places speak to visitors at the Diocese of church in New Jersey offered UNITED KINGDOM – The chari - Toronto’s booth at the National drivers who were too busy to go ty Open Doors, which has been Bridal Show in Toronto on Jan. 23. to church on Ash Wednesday an supporting the persecuted Over three days, six clergy and a opportunity for prayer and the church since it was founded 50 layperson, Judy Hutcheson, hand - imposition of ashes without leav - years ago, has published its an - ed out about 650 cards promoting ing their cars. While the tradi - nual World Watch list of the top weddings in the Anglican Church tional services of Holy Commun - 50 most dangerous countries to and had countless conversations. ion and Imposition of Ashes took be a Christian. It is, once again, Photos by Michael Hudson place inside the church and topped by North Korea. Open chapel at the Church of the Holy Doors rates the level of persecu - Spirit in Tuckerton, the Rev. tion as “extreme” in nine coun - Rich Wisniewski offered drive- tries. For the 14th year in a row, by prayer and ashes on the North Korea is top of the list. It church’s driveway as part of an is followed by Iraq, Eritrea, “Ashes to Go” service. This was Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, So - the third year in a row that the malia, Sudan and Iran. March 2016 A n g l i c a n C l a s s i f i e d s 11 TO PLACE AN AD CALL 905.833.6200 ext. 22 OR EMAIL [email protected]
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Wednesday in Holy Week pecially now when the region is We don’t know who the outsiders 1. St. Dunstan of Canterbury 12. St. Peter, Scarborough 24. Maundy Thursday in the midst of a devastating civil were, but they were probably Ju - 2. St. John the Divine, Scarborough 13. North Peel Deanery 25. Good Friday war. I try to visualize what it daizers, Jewish Christians who 3. St. Jude, Wexford 14. Christ Church, Bolton 26. Holy Saturday must have been like in that first maintained that all converts 4. The Anglican Fellowship of Prayer (National 15. Christ Church, Brampton 27. Easter century with Paul and his mis - must obey the Jewish laws – even Director - The Ven. Paul Feheley) 16. Holy Family, Heart Lake (Brampton) 28. St. Jude, Bramalea North sionaries, returning to be re - the law of circumcision – to be al - 5. St. Timothy, Agincourt 17. St. James the Apostle, Brampton 29. Trinity Church, Campbells Cross freshed and renewed and then lowed into the Christian church. 6. Scarborough Deanery 18. St. James, Caledon East 30. St. George, (Clarke) Newcastle setting out on yet another jour - The Judaizers had plagued Paul 7. St. Margaret in-the-Pines 19. St. Joseph of Nazareth, Bramalea 31. St. George, Grafton ney. It would be interesting to throughout his ministry, even 8. St. Margaret Tamil Congregation 20. Palm Sunday write an account of Antioch’s though the Council of Jerusalem early Christian fellowship. in 50 CE had said that Gentile On their third missionary jour - converts did not need to accept IN MOTION ney, Paul and his team set out the Jewish laws and did not need and St. Martha, Toronto on York – Scarborough from Antioch overland through to be circumcised. Feb. 20. • St. Luke, East York Tarsus and the mountains and 2 Corinthians 6:14 to 7:1 seems Appointments • The Rev. Christopher D’Ange - • Church of the Redeemer, then into the province of Galatia to be an intrusion in the text. • The Rev. Susan Climo (Evan - lo will be ordained a priest at Bloor Street and Phrygia. He revisited the This fragment could have been gelical Lutheran Church in St. George on-the-Hill, Toron - churches he had established on part of an earlier letter. (1 Canada), Incumbent, Holy to on March 6 at 4 p.m. York – Simcoe his first journey almost five years Corinthians 5:9 mentions an ear - Spirit of Peace, North Dixie, • All Saints, King City earlier, strengthening and en - lier letter from Paul.) Also in 2 Mississauga, Jan. 1. • St. Mark, Midland couraging the young churches in Corinthians (chapters 10 to 13) • The Rev. Susanne McKim, In - Vacant Incumbencies • Trinity Church, Bradford Asia Minor. Scholars generally we see Paul’s most serious attack cumbent, Trinity-St. Paul, Clergy from outside the diocese, date this journey between 53 and on those who preached a false Port Credit, Jan. 1. with the permission of their Retirements 57 CE. Gospel. He reprimands the • The Rev. Canon Dr. Eric bishop, may apply through the • The Rev. Canon Dr. Murray In Acts 19, we learn that Paul Corinthians for listening to these Beresford, Incumbent, St. Diocesan Executive Assistant, Henderson’s last Sunday at went to Ephesus, the capital of false teachers. This part of the Timothy, North Toronto, Feb. Mrs. Mary Conliffe, mconliffe@ Christ Church St. James, Asia and the fourth largest city in epistle contains Paul’s most pro - 1. toronto.anglican.ca. Toronto will be June 26. the Roman Empire. Here he met found statement on his apostolic • The Rev. Gordon Sheppard, some disciples and asked if they calling, as these outsiders had Priest-in-Charge of the Parish Trent Durham Conclusions had received the Holy Spirit. challenged his position. It is of Elmvale and Incumbent of • Parish of Newcastle & Orono • The Rev. Kenute Francis will They replied, “No, we have not these Judaizers who are causing the Parish of Penetan - • Parish of Bobcaygeon, conclude his ministry at St. even heard that there is a Holy this disunity, and for Paul, the guishene and Waubaushene, Dunsford & Burnt River Stephen, Downsview on April Spirit!” They had been baptized unity of the body of Christ was Feb. 1. • St. George Memorial, Oshawa 3. He will be taking up an ap - in John’s baptism, so they were essential. This section is proba - • The Rev. Robert Sweet, Inter - York – Credit Valley pointment as Rector of the probably Jewish. Paul baptized bly another fragment inserted in - im Priest-in-Charge, Trinity, • St. Olave, Toronto Parish of St. Matthew, Bay them in the name of Jesus Christ to his epistle. It is often referred Bradford, Feb. 1. • St. John the Baptist (Dixie), Roberts and St. John the and laid hands on them, and they to as the “letter of tears.” • The Rev. Keith Todd, Interim Mississauga Evangelist, Coley’s Point in began to speak in tongues and In 2 Corinthians, Paul empha - Priest-in-Charge, St. Luke, • St. Paul the Apostle, Rexdale the Diocese of Eastern New - prophesy. sized that his apostleship was East York, Feb. 1. • St. George the Martyr, foundland and Labrador be - Paul stayed almost three years subservient to the Gospel, which • The Rev. William Bryce Sang - Parkdale ginning mid-April. in Ephesus, his longest time in was God’s saving activity effect - ster, Incumbent, the Parish of any of the missionary cities. ed through Jesus Christ and ap - Campbellford, Hastings and From Ephesus he wrote a num - propriated through the Holy Roseneath, March 1. ber of letters, including the prob - Spirit. (See especially 2 Corinthi - able three letters that make up ans 3:1 to 4:6, and also 5:19 – “In Ordinations 25*$1,67',5(&7252)086,&0,1,675< the second epistle to the Christ, God was reconciling the • The Rev. 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BY MARTHA HOLMEN
“CHURCH doesn’t just happen on Sunday morning inside the build - ing; church is what happens the rest of the week.” This idea is guiding the efforts of the Parish of Minden-Kinmount, a three-point parish north of Peterborough comprising St. Paul, Minden, St. James, Kinmount and St. Peter, Top, outside St. Paul, Minden. Maple Lake. Above, Ms. Cavanaugh-Clark and The parish’s urge to connect her husband with churchwardens with people outside the church Ila Kellett (far left) and Daisy walls was sparked not long after Downs inside the parish hall, the Rev. Joan Cavanaugh-Clark which will be renovated and ex - arrived. She had been serving as panded with the help of a grant incumbent for just two months from Our Faith-Our Hope. when a census worker told her about the area’s high poverty Above, the Rev. Joan Cavanaugh- rates, particularly among chil - Clark (right) and churchwarden been to church, and whose par - dren. Daisy Downs helps Tess pick out ents have since started asking “I was taken aback, because the items in the Thrift Shop at St. Paul, questions about the parish. The poverty in the community is quite Minden. At right, Ms. Cavanaugh- kids also get involved in a month - hidden,” she says. “It started me Clark and her husband Al Clark ly Messy Church service, a hand thinking about what we could do.” outside the Thrift Shop. PHOTOS BY bell choir that plays at local events To start discovering what the MICHAEL HUDSON and the Kool Kids Kooking Klub, surrounding community needed which is planning to host its own from the parish, Ms. Cavanaugh- community dinner. Clark took to the streets. “I shop’s operations. “We’re only limited by the walked and I prayed,” she says. “I “Our income last year com - amount of space we have,” says walked with parishioners through pletely surpassed our expecta - Ms. Cavanaugh-Clark. the community, and we stopped tions,” says Ms. Cavanaugh-Clark. To accommodate its ideas, the and prayed along the way.” “In this tiny little portable, in this parish is currently renovating the Over time, the parish used its tiny little village. It’s amazing building at St. Paul, Minden to add newfound insight to develop a what God’s doing up here.” space for more programs. Some of host of programs designed to In addition to members of the the plans for the new addition in - reach out to its neighbours. One parish, the shop is supported by clude haircuts by donation, bicy - of its most successful projects is other parishes, Christian church - cle clinics, after-school tutoring, its thrift shop, based out of St. es and faith groups, as well as vol - parenting and budgeting classes, Paul, Minden but supported by all unteers with no religious affilia - Children in Toronto and other ples and change our community,” music and art lessons, and pro - three congregations. tion. churches’ refugee sponsorship ef - she says. grams for kids on PA days. The shop, where no item costs “It brings people into the com - forts. That idea has been embraced As the Parish of Minden-Kin - more than $8, was a response to a munity of the church who other - “We share from the abundance by the whole parish, including its mount continues to pursue its pressing need in the area. Despite wise wouldn’t be here,” says Ms. that God has provided for us as a younger members. Children often countless ideas for the future, Ms. high poverty rates, residents had Cavanaugh-Clark. “They become missional church and people,” attend advisory board meetings, Cavanaugh-Clark says she is in - nowhere to buy used goods. “It’s a the hands, feet and voice of God says Ms. Cavanaugh-Clark, and they have started an entirely credibly grateful for the work of win-win. It speaks to God’s grace, without coming on Sunday morn - adding that the parish gave kid-led church service on the last the volunteers in her congrega - to rebirth and stewardship, while ing.” $24,000 to various causes in 2015. Sunday of any month with five tions and the wider community. filling a real need in the communi - The parish uses funds raised in Under her leadership, these ef - Sundays. “I couldn’t do this without my ty,” says Ms. Cavanaugh-Clark. the thrift shop to support many lo - forts to look beyond the church “Kids read the lessons, lead the parish. Almost everyone has a The thrift shop opened about cal causes, such as stocking food walls are consciously encouraged prayers, take up the offertory and ministry,” she says. “The church’s four years ago and started to out - banks and sending children to among the members of the parish. read a story for the sermon,” she future will be very different and grow its home in a small upstairs summer camp. It also supports “I talk at church a lot about how says. “They even help administer involve everyone in our society. room almost immediately. In Oc - ministries beyond the parish attending on Sunday morning is the cup at communion.” It’s important to form communi - tober 2014, the parish added an bounds, including the Council of about gathering the strength to Many of the children bring ties where people can belong and old school portable to expand the the North, the Hospital for Sick empower each other to be disci - friends whose families have never feel safe.”
East. This is a joint fundraising ice, 10 a.m., St. James, Orillia, 58 Ave. Bargains on clothing, linens, 416-283-1844 for details. LOOKING AHEAD event for “Zipline” and the Acces - Peter St. N. household goods and more. Call APRIL 8-9 – Annual Monks Cell To submit items for Looking siblity Project of the Balmy Beach JUNE 3 - Organist Sarah Svend - 905-294-3184. dinner, St. Theodore of Canter - Ahead, email [email protected] - Club. Tickets are $30. Call the of - son, 3 p.m., St. Paul, Bloor Street, bury, 111 Cactus Ave., Toronto. glican.ca. The deadline for the fice, 416-691-2222. 227 Bloor St. E., Toronto. Admis - Talks, Food & Workshop Dinner includes New York Strip April issue is March 3. Parishes MARCH 20 - Mozart’s Requiem, sion free. steak or chicken cooked over our can also promote their events on 7:30 p.m., St. Peter, Erindale, 3041 MARCH 2, 9, 16 – Talks on the fu - open hearth by professional the diocese’s website Calendar at Mississauga Rd. Mississauga. $20 Rummage Sales ture of the Prayer Book, St. Olave, chefs, potato, apple pie, wine and www.toronto.anglican.ca. per person. With choir, soloists Bloor and Windermere streets, more. Tickets are $40. For tickets and orchestra. MARCH 17-19 – A craft sale by St. Toronto. Evening begins at 6 p.m. and seating times, call 416-222- Music & Worship APRIL 3 - Thomas Bell: Music by Jude, Wexford will be held in the with Evensong followed by light 6198 or email monkscell@hot - Bach, Boelmann and Widor, 3 Parkway Mall during mall hours. supper and guest speakers. mail.com. MARCH 5 - The Cellar Singers at p.m., St. Paul, Bloor Street, 227 The mall is located at 85 MARCH 7 - PWRDF fundraising APRIL 23 - 175th Anniversary Cel - St. James, Orillia, 58 Peter St. N., Bloor St. E., Toronto. Admission Ellesmere Rd., Toronto. Starts at dinner at St. Dunstan of Canter - ebration Banquet at St. James’ in celebration of the church’s free. 10 a.m. on March 17-18 and 9:30 bury, 56 Lawson Rd., Scarbor - Orillia, 58 Peter St. N. 175the anniversary. APRIL 9 - Handel’s Messiah a.m. on March 19. Call 416-755- ough. Guest speaker will be Arch - APRIL 23, 30 - Lay Pastoral Visi - MARCH 19 - The Toronto Welsh Singers at St. James’, Orillia, 58 5872 for more information. bishop Fred Hiltz, Primate. Tick - tor workshops, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Male Voice Choir performs at 7:30 Peter St. N., which is celebrating APRIL 16 - Semi-annual rummage ets $50 each with tax receipt is - St. Paul, 227 Bloor St. E., Toronto. p.m. at St. Aidan, Toronto, 70 Sil - 175th anniversary. sale, 8:30 a.m. to noon, Grace sued for the charitable Bring a bag lunch. For more, call ver Birch Ave. at Queen Street APRIL 24 - 175th anniversary serv - Church, Markham, 19 Parkway portion. Call the church office at Shelley Tidy, 416-425-3205.