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BY STUART MANN
JOY , relief and a sense of accom - plishment filled Snell Hall at St. James Cathedral, Toronto, on Sept. 23 as bishops, clergy and lay leaders celebrated the end of the parish phase of the diocese’s Our Faith-Our Hope campaign, the largest fundraising endeavour in the history of the Anglican Church of Canada. “I’m very, very proud to be an Anglican,” said Archbishop Colin Johnson before announcing that $40 million has been pledged to - ward the goal of $50 million. “It’s a remarkable amount of money, and it only happened because of Archbishop Colin Johnson hugs his granddaughter during the party to celebrate the end of the parish phase of the Our Faith-Our Hope campaign. your commitment, your faithful - PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON ness and your prayers. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all that you’ve done to make this such a wonderful, suc - cessful time. May God bless you and strengthen the life of the church so that we can proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ.” With the last four parishes just starting their campaigns, and with large individual donations still being considered, Archbish - op Johnson said, “I think we real - ly do have a chance to raise $50 million.” The campaign has lasted 21 months and has involved 210 parishes. Here are some of the highlights: • 798 families or individuals Dean Douglas Stoute, co-chair of the campaign’s leadership team, is Bishop Patrick Yu with the Rev. Canon Peter Walker and Don Cranston have pledged $10,000 or joined by Blake C. Goldring and his daughter Serena. of Grace Church on-the-Hill, Toronto. more. • Nearly 200 donors gave more asked 17 major donors, who diocese. “Not only will the funds than $25,000. have pledged $6.3 million, allow parishes to invest in some • 78 parishes met or exceeded with another $11 million be - serious capital upgrades, they their fundraising goal. ing considered. will allow parishes to dream • San Lorenzo Ruiz, Toronto, • Five clergy—the Rev. Canon about new possibilities for min - raised 316 per cent of its Stephen Fields, the Rev. istry that they never thought pos - goal, the highest of any Claire Goodrich Dyer, the sible.” parish. Rev. Kevin Robertson, the About $3.5 million has already • Grace Church on-the-Hill, Rev. Victor Li and the Rev. been sent back to the parishes, Toronto, pledged $1.06 mil - Gary van der Meer—have with more on the way over the lion, the highest of any run two campaigns because next five years as pledges are ful - parish, followed by St. John, they have moved to another filled. If the campaign raises $50 York Mills, at $1 million and parish during the campaign. million, parishes will receive a to - Christ Church, Deer Park, at Archbishop Johnson said funds tal of $17 million. $846,000. from the campaign will be used to The Rev. Canon Stephen Fields, one of five clergy who ran two parish • Archbishop Johnson has strengthen ministry across the Continued on Page 2 campaigns.
WE’RE CALLED TO PUBLIC SPACES – SEE PAGE 5 2 The Anglican N E W S November 2012 Church open after school Grants Program available includes in 2013
‘God talk’ Continued from Page 1
BY CAROLYN PURDEN Parishes will also be able to ap - ply for grants from the remaining ST. John the Baptist, Lakefield, is funds beginning next spring. hosting an ecumenical after- The Rev. Munroe Scott tests the Grants will be made for the fol - school program that is the only math skills of a student during lowing areas: leadership develop - one of its kind in the community. tutoring time. At right, students ment, pioneering ministry, com - The program provides tutoring, share stories during a party at municating in a digital world, games and crafts for children in Lakefield Youth Unlimited’s Hub - adaptive reuse of parish facilities, elementary and junior high ble House. and enabling parishes to become school. It also offers them a time multi-staffed. to talk about the Christian faith Ten per cent of the money and how it can impact their lives. from all different denominations raised will be given to others be - The Rev. Munroe Scott says the to be part of it. We just want to be yond the diocese. This includes en - program grew out of a concern a Christian presence in the com - dowing the office of the Anglican that there were no after-school munity and in the lives of chil - fact there is a growing population Now two years old, the after- Military Ordinariate to the Cana - activities for younger children in dren, no matter what denomina - that is younger and less well off. school program takes in about 20 dian Forces and giving money to Lakefield. “We want to be the tion they might come from or The under-18 population exceeds children from grades 2 to 8 one the Council of the North. place where people say we’re where they might end up.” the over-65. day a week, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Peter Misiaszek, the diocese’s making a difference,” he says. Mr. Scott explains that Lake - The local high school has some Volunteers collect them from the director of Stewardship Develop - “Even though it’s at St. John the field has a reputation as an afflu - after-school activities, but until school and their parents pick ment, said it’s important for parish Baptist, we’re welcoming people ent retirement community, but in St. John’s started its program, them up from the church. priests to tell their congregations there were none for children in el - The program includes meeting when they’ve received a cheque ementary school. In 2008, the individually with volunteers for from the campaign and how it will church started a popular four- tutoring or working on home - be spent. “When people see how week program called Come Cook work, and a “God talk.” The talk the money is being put to work, With Us. Advertised in schools, it is built around principles of char - they will fulfil their pledges, which invites 15 children from grades 2 acter and behavior, says Mr. Scott. is absolutely essential.” to 6 to prepare a meal with volun - “There’s an opportunity to ex - Bishop Philip Poole, area bish - teers once a week and serve it to press faith issues and allow chil - op of York-Credit Valley, thanked their families. There is no spiritu - dren to respond to those and to Archbishop Johnson for his lead - al content. ask questions about all kinds of ership. “Archbishop Johnson Out of that, St. John’s has things in a very safe environ - gave us a vision,” he said. “I want formed a relationship with local ment.” Some of the children have to say how deeply grateful we are schools and also with Lakefield no church connection. for his ministry, his leadership " ) ) Youth Unlimited (LYU), a branch The program is proving suc - and his faithfulness.” of Youth for Christ. In 2010, the cessful, says Mr. Scott, with some Dean Douglas Stoute, chair of $%"( % ($ '#$ ! LYU leaders told Mr. Scott that children expressing faith. “This a the campaign’s leadership team, " ( $%"(& '#$ ! they saw a need for an after- very good opportunity to get chil - echoed those words. “I think the %"#( % (& '#$ ! school activity with a spiritual dren when they’re young enough campaign has been a tremendous component, but this could not be not to have solidified their ap - success. It has taken vision, drive advertised in the schools. Howev - proach to the world, and to be en - and discipline. I’m absolutely de - er, word of mouth could spread gaged with their families who see lighted at the generosity of peo - ($" $($ " $ " through the cooking program. who we are and what we repre - ple. It’s wonderful and I congratu - The parish decided to act. sent.” late the archbishop.”
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&)("0$-#-# !)&&)0$(", +/$ , 6OLUNTEER WITH THE 0HILIP !ZIZ #ENTRE WWWPHILIPAZIZCENTRECA WILLIS PHILIPAZIZCENTRECA November 2012 N E W S The Anglican 3 Clergy invite passers-by BRIEFLY Occupy garden plowed under The Occupy garden at Queen’s New faces Park was uprooted on Sept. 27 by City of Toronto workers and all the on Sunday plants were destroyed, apparently as the result of a complaint about the illegality of the garden from a BY STUART MANN member of the public. The veg - etable patch has been covered over IT was a small touch, but it meant with sod. An article and a photo - a lot to the pedestrians who were graph about the garden were pub - hurrying off to work and school in lished in last month’s issue. the morning rush-hour on Sept. 27. As they received an invitation to church from the Rev. Kevin Bishop’s dinner has Robertson and the Rev. Julie new date, location Meakin, they also got a small gra - The Bishop’s Company Dinner in nola bar. Trent-Durham, originally sched - “It was a gesture of goodwill,” uled for Oct. 17 at the Peterbor - says Mr. Robertson, the incum - ough Golf & Country Club, has bent of Christ Church, Deer Park. been postponed to Nov. 19 at St. “We would do that again, for Paul, Lindsay, beginning at 6 sure.” p.m. Funds raised by the dinner Mr. Robertson and Ms. Meakin, The Rev. Kevin Robertson and the Rev. Julie Meakin (at left in pink jacket) invite people back to church support the Bishop’s Discre - the assistant curate, handed out outside Christ Church, Deer Park in Toronto. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON tionary Fund, which is used to about 175 invitations outside the come to the aid of clergy and their church on the Thursday before “One of the things that surprised vited their friends and neigh - and about 900 have stayed. The re - families in emergencies. In addi - Back to Church Sunday, held on me was how many people in their bours, as did some of the adults. sults for this year will be pub - tion, the fund has assisted with Sept. 30. The church is located on 30s and 40s were in the communi - As a result, there were new faces lished when they are available. travel emergencies, bursaries for Yonge Street, just north of St. ty. But it was also sobering. We in the congregation on Sunday, The diocese hopes Anglicans religious scholarships, curacy Clair Avenue and one block away have a number of young profes - says Mr. Robertson. can develop the skill and habit of training for the newly ordained, from a subway station. sionals in our church, but we saw Back to Church Sunday is a inviting people to church through - native ministry and emergency Mr. Robertson said the invita - a lot on Thursday who are not worldwide initiative for Christians out the year. It is launching a pilot medical expenses.Tickets are $65 tions and granola bars were well with us. It’s exciting that there’s to invite their friends and family project with six parishes this fall each or $480 for a table of received. “There was a lot of en - this untapped potential, but we’ve members back to church. This called Seasons of Invitation. eight. The evening features a pres - gagement. People asked about got some work to do.” was the fourth year that it has Parishioners will be encouraged entation by noted area playwright what we do here, the building, the It was the first year that the been held in the diocese. In the to invite people for six occasions and author Dan Needles. For more music—everything.” church got involved in Back to past three years, about 6,000 peo - during the fall, Advent, Christmas information, see the diocese’s He said handing out the invita - Church Sunday. The young people ple have come to church in the and into the new year. website, www.toronto.anglican.ca. tions was a learning experience. in the church’s Sunday school in - diocese as a result of an invitation, Music strikes right note Tots, parents introduced to Gospel
BY HENRIETA PAUKOV
ON Friday mornings, the base - ment of Trinity, Streetsville, rings with little voices. A curious visi - tor will find a group of toddlers and their parents and caregivers in a circle, singing songs like Go Around . “They are all teaching songs, really,” says Julie Wormald, director of children’s From left, Drew Brown, Adam Feltmate, Julie Wormald, Kerlan McLean ministry. “The kids are learning and Freya Leach rehearse for Mainly Music at Trinity, Streetsville. PHOTO different words and they are do - BY MICHAEL HUDSON ing the actions at the same time. And within every set of songs, best way.” ly Music, and how it fit into Trin - we’ll do a few songs about God.” Most Fridays, more than half of ity’s vision for growth, that it Mainly Music, as the program the people who attend are not awarded the program a grant of is called, is a fun way to introduce church members, but some show $3,900. They used the money to kids and their parents to the an interest in talking about the buy large toys, like a bouncy cas - Gospel, as well as an opportunity Gospel. “We had one grandma tle and hockey sticks. “We had a for the kids to play and the adults come last year with her grand - lot of craft supplies and smaller to socialize. Ms. Wormald has daughter every time, and it was toys,” says Ms. Wormald, “but we made a point of inviting commu - just nice to be able to talk about needed some bigger toys to help nity members who are not God and about prayer with her,” the kids learn gross motor skills churchgoers, putting up fliers in says Ms. Wormald. “She was real - and get them excited.” the Christian bookstore, the hock - ly open to hearing about Jesus.” For the adults, she is planning ey rink, Starbucks, and advertis - One of the parents who started to invite speakers on topics like ing in The Mississauga News . coming to Mainly Music now nutrition and kids’ yoga. She says People also learn about it from comes to church. “It’s exciting, that the program, now in its sec - friends. “I had one mom from the and that’s what’s supposed to ond year, is “still at the starting church who invited all her happen,” she says. point, but it did grow last year, friends,” says Ms. Wormald. The diocese’s Reach Grants and we are really hoping for it to “Word of mouth seems to be the panel was so impressed by Main - grow again.” 4 The Anglican C O M M E N T November 2012 A great and humble man The Anglican t the end of December, ARCHBISHOP’S DIARY world presenting the Gospel, representing the The Anglican is published under the Archbishop of Communion and interpreting the events of the authority of the Bishop of Toronto ACanterbury, Rowan BY ARCHBISHOP COLIN JOHNSON the day in the light of the Gospel. One of the and the Incorporated Synod of the Williams, will step problems with the role is the expectation. He Diocese of Toronto. Opinions expressed in down from his position and cannot intervene directly. He cannot solve is - The Anglican are not necessarily those of assume a prestigious academ - presented three presidential addresses over sues by making a definitive statement. Unlike the editor or the publisher. ic post as Master of Magda - the course of the next three weeks, each word the Pope, he has no juridical role in the Angli - Stuart Mann: Editor lene College, Oxford. His scrutinized by bishops and the world media. can Communion. He functions rather like the decade-long tenure as leader of the Church He attended Morning Prayer with the reli - Queen in relation to the government of one of Address all editorial material to: of England and titular head of the Anglican gious orders at 6 a.m. every day, the daily 7:30 the Commonwealth nations that is a republic, The Anglican Communion has been remarkable not only a.m. Eucharist and daily Bible studies (where say India or South Africa: he is a symbol. But 135 Adelaide Street East for the controversies that have marked the he joined a group of eight bishops as a “nor - symbols have significant informal power. His Toronto, Ontario M5C 1L8 period but also for the man himself. One of mal” participant). He held a daily press con - role is to convene gatherings, which actually Tel: (416 ) 363 -6021, ext. 247 the most widely travelled of the archbishops, ference, hosted 100 for lunch and another 100 is more important than you might think! He Toll free: 1 -80 0-66 8-8932 he has been to Toronto several times, most for dinner almost every day, gave a major ad - brings people together, and, in the process of Fax: (416 ) 36 3-7678 recently to receive honorary doctorates at a dress on poverty and social justice with the those conversations, understanding can de - E-mail: [email protected] rare double convocation of Wycliffe and Trin - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, hosted velop and consensus grow. He cannot make or Circulation: For all circulation inquiries, ity colleges, and to lead a retreat for the a garden party and luncheon for 3,000, chaired remove bishops, alter decisions of independ - including address changes, new Canadian House of Bishops. He is one of the plenary sessions of the three-week confer - ent ecclesiastical provinces or enforce resolu - subscriptions and cancellations, most profoundly learned men to sit on the ence and the major evening presentations, tions. He can use diplomacy and persuasion, call the Circulation Department at cathedra of St. Augustine, who founded the participated in the writing group that articu - offer counsel when asked, share his wisdom (416) 924-9199, ext. 259/245, or email see of Canterbury in AD 598. Some have com - lated the consensus of the gathered bishops, as a teacher, and, of course, pray. He calls and [email protected]. pared him with St. Anselm (Archbishop of and met informally with countless delegates. presides at the meeting of the 38 Primates of You can also make changes online: Canterbury, 1093-1109), the leading theolo - What my wife remembers most vividly is the the Communion representing the au - visit www.anglicanjournal.com gian of the new scholastic movement that Archbishop and his wife walking hand in tonomous but interdependent Anglican and click Subscription Centre. came to dominate the theological discourse hand through the university campus where churches in 165 countries. He calls together Carol McCormick of medieval Christendom, culminating in the the conference was held, stopping and cooing the 800-900 bishops of the Communion in the : Advertising work St. Thomas Aquinas, which has shaped over the carriage of an infant brought along Lambeth Conference every decade. He is the Address all advertising material to: Catholic teaching for the last 800 years. by the wife of a young African bishop. He had president of the Anglican Consultative Coun - Fenn Company Inc. That’s quite a compliment! He was the first a pleasant word for everyone. cil, which meets roughly every three years 2130 King Road, P.O. Box 1060 person to hold the post of the Professor of Di - The role of Archbishop of Canterbury has with bishops, clergy and lay representatives King City, Ontario L7B 1B1 vinity at both Cambridge and Oxford since become a next to impossible one. He is bish - of every part of the Communion. Tel: (905 ) 833 -6200, ext. 25 the 16th century. op of a large diocese and spends time doing A new Archbishop of Canterbury is now Toll free: 1 -80 0-209 -4810 Rowan Williams is a poet, philosopher, ecu - the usual work of a bishop: baptizing and being chosen. A Crown Nomination Commit - Fax: (905 ) 833 -2116 menist, mystic, teacher, writer, diplomat, bish - confirming, presiding at worship and preach - tee meets to consider possible candidates. E-mail: cmccormick @canadads.com op, family man. Above all, he is a man of ing, ordaining deacons and priests, providing Two will be nominated to the Prime Minister prayer; it is perhaps this that has most de - leadership to the diocese and administering of the United Kingdom, who will send the The Anglican Church fined the shape of his episcopacy and kept the its functions. In addition, he is the Metropoli - names to the Queen, in order of preference, Communion from fracturing more than it has. tan of the Province of Canterbury, where he for her selection. In accordance with ancient In the Anglican Communion: He garners enormous respect in spite of a bel - provides leadership, adjudicates issues of but arcane custom, Her Majesty issues a de - A global community of 70 ligerent press that mangles in headlines the conflict, presides at Convocation (Synod), cree to the Chapter of Canons of Canterbury million Anglicans in 64,000 nuance of his words. and consecrates bishops for the 30 dioceses. Cathedral, who formally elect her nominee. congregations in 164 countries. I have had the privilege of meeting him a Then he is the Primate of All England, and The man so chosen (and for now, it will be a Archbishop of Canterbury: dozen times, including a dinner in Canterbury presides at General Synod and House of man) will then be installed as the 105th Arch - The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Rowan Williams, just a few weeks ago. I continue to be amazed Bishops and takes the senior role in the gov - bishop of Canterbury sometime in the New Lambeth Palace, at the scope of his intellect, the range of his ernance of the Church of England. As the Year. London, England SE1 7JU. interests, and the humility of this great man. head of the Established Church, he also sits Whoever he is, he will need and deserve He has amazing stamina. At the Lambeth in the House of Lords, advises the Queen and our prayers. And pray, too, with thanksgiv - In Canada: Conference in 2008, he gave three monumen - government, and speaks frequently on issues ing for the 104th Archbishop, the Most Rev. A community of about 600,000 members tal addresses to the 750 gathered bishops at a of the day in the Lords, at public events, at and Right Hon. Rowan Williams, who has in 30 dioceses, stretching from Vancouver retreat in the two days prior to the conference universities and in the media. served well, and for his wife, Jane, and for Island to Newfoundland and north to the Arctic Ocean. proper. He then presided at the historic open - The Archbishop is the focus of unity of the their children as they move into new avenues ing Eucharist for several thousand people and Anglican Communion. He has travelled the of ministry. Primate: The Most Rev. Fred Hiltz, Church House, 80 Hayden St. Toronto, ON M4Y 3G2 Live what you believe In the Diocese of Toronto: A community of 254 congregations in 210 parishes covering 26,000 square kilometers. Of the nearly 5 million people who live went to camp this sum - BISHOP’S OPINION in society, we were called to practice it in our within the diocesan boundaries, 376,000 mer! It has been many group in each activity. claim to be affiliated with the Anglican BY BISHOP LINDA NICHOLLS Iyears since I could say In the same way, we can let church become Church, with about 80,000 people that. In August, I joined 90 something we “do” rather than remembering identified on the parish rolls. The diocese people for Justice Camp in Pe - tempting to dive into the area of concern that that to be the church is to live as the church is home to many ethnic and language- terborough. Since 2005, six most deeply touches our heart and soul and everywhere and in every relationship. based congregations, including African, dioceses of the Anglican neglect the practice of justice in every part of Church can become the activities we engage Caribbean, Chinese, Filipino, French, Church of Canada have spon - our lives, including our life during camp. We in—worship, Bible study, rummage sales, or Hispanic, Japanese, and Tamil. The City of sored a Justice Camp on a theme selected by were repeatedly reminded that justice is not youth group—in which the doing is more im - Toronto has the largest population of their planning team. In 2012, the theme of simply a “project” that we learn about, exam - portant than the relationships. We can be - aboriginal peoples in the country. “Shalom—Uniting Us All, Rural & Urban” ine, dissect and advocate for but is a way of come so focused on the activity that we lose The Archbishop of Toronto: was chosen by our diocesan team. Partici - living in all aspects of our lives. Whether we its purpose. Jesus remained clear about his The Most Rev. Colin Johnson pants from Alberta to Newfoundland gath - were on the bus, in the cafeteria of the uni - purpose in each encounter, listening intently ered at Trent University to immerse our - versity, in the sanctuary of the church or to the people he met and seeking to say and York-Credit Valley: selves, both theologically and practically, in walking together, we were called to live the do what would connect them to God’s life- The Rt. Rev. Philip Poole issues of justice and wholeness of life. I could “shalom” we desired in our daily relation - giving power, willing to break conventions tell you about the immersion experiences as ships. Immersion groups discovered that the and rules to give hope. He lived what he Trent-Durham: we divided into the theme groups, but there issue being studied was not an abstract con - wanted to share, whether needing a drink of The Rt. Rev. Linda Nicholls are others in the diocese who will be glad to cept but a living reality when a member of water beside a well or being interrupted by a York-Scarborough: talk about their passion in those areas! I the housing group indicated that they were sick woman or besieged by large crowds. The Rt. Rev. Patrick Yu hope you will invite them to share their in - not sure where they would be living soon, or Going to camp is an intensive immersion sights in your parish. when visiting a foodbank discovered that into community life. Gathered for a purpose, York-Simcoe: I want, rather, to reflect on the whole expe - some in the group were foodbank clients we discovered again the importance of living The Rt. Rev. George Elliott rience as a mirror to our life as a church. The themselves. The conversations changed what we believe—not just studying it—and of The Diocese of Toronto: participants in Justice Camp all came be - when we listened to “us” and not just about listening to those around us so that we share 135 Adelaide St. E., cause they have a deep passion for justice in “them.” Justice is not something we “do for Gospel living with them as a way of life and Toronto, Ont., M5C 1L8 our relationships with each other, with cre - others:” it is the way we listen and support not a project. Our daily living of the Gospel 1-800-668-8932/416-363-6021 ation and with God. However, it can be and live daily. When we spoke about issues is to be equally all-encompassing! Web site: http://www.toronto.anglican.ca November 2012 C O M M E N T The Anglican 5
EDITOR’S Called to CORNER BY public STUART MANN Go in the spaces stream BY THE REV. MAGGIE HELWIG looked upstream and saw my son n a summer night, a circle of peo - kneeling down, his hand in the water. ple stand around a large, flat rock IAt first I thought he was washing Obeside a skateboard park, just worm guts off his hand, but something down the lane from a garden, in about this was different. one of Toronto’s poorest small neighbour - The bread and wine await during a Lammas Day service in Alexandra Park, Toronto. “Dude, what are you doing?” I called. hoods. Bread, made by a parishioner of St “You’ll scare the fish.” Matthias, Bellwoods, is baking in the joint services, working to develop closer as a welcoming place.” “No I’m not. Look.” park’s wood-fired oven. Nearby, parents relationships with each other. When the To become a people who can do this, I trudged up to him, a bit angry. He was push their children in the creaky old chaplain of Trinity College and I proposed who can live in a space of defenceless - breaking our No. 1 fishing rule: Don’t go in swings, and a circle of tattooed, grime-en - that one such service might be a Lammas ness, means changing ourselves deeply, the water (unless it was to retrieve an ex - crusted young people sit with dogs on Day celebration in Alexandra Park, we for our society trains us to guard our ter - pensive lure). Putting even one foot in the strings and a bottle of something alco - knew that it would be about food and com - ritory, to compete for space and re - water would chase away the fish, ruining holic. Just to the north, near Toronto munity and the possibilities of sharing sources. It means giving up much of what all our efforts. My Dad had taught me that Western Hospital, ambulance sirens both. Lammas Day, an ancient feast cele - we understand as safety. We must learn and I had passed it along to my son. It was break through the traffic. To the west is brating the early harvest, has been little to use our spaces—the buildings we in - good advice. We had caught a lot of fish the troubled, fiercely creative Alexandra observed since the Reformation, although habit—differently than we have done, that way. Park housing project. the Church of England has recently seen opening doors, taking risks. But we are al - But today was different. We hadn’t Gathered in a circle under the trees, we it revived. With climate change and im - so called to be present in those most vul - caught anything. In fact, the whole sum - are a group with no clear definition—peo - pending food shortages threatening, it nerable, least defended, public spaces— mer had been bad. ple from the surrounding downtown seemed like a good opportunity to reflect our streets and parks; to come into them I stood beside him and looked down into parishes, from intentional Christian com - on our relationship to growth and harvest in peace and humility and mutual human the water—and there, lined up in front of munities, gardeners, bakers, cyclists, and the natural world, and how these weakness, to share our time, food, music him, were three or four smallmouth bass, monks, anarchists, an autistic teenage things connect to our faith. and words. mesmerized by his dangling fingers. I’d girl, and me with hay fever and a broken But the gathering was also, I think, a That this service “belonged” to no par - never seen anything like it. These weren’t tooth. “O Christ, who holds the open more profound experience of public space ticular parish, that people came for rea - pond fish, used to being fed by humans. gate,” we sing. On the flat rock, covered than we had anticipated. In one of his es - sons often uncertain, that there was mild They were wild. with a ritual cloth from East Timor, bread, says, Archbishop Rowan Williams talks comedy in wheeling a chalice and paten I stood still, transfixed by the sight. They flour and wheat are blessed, and a small about the work of the church as preserv - around on a plastic serving cart, that were young fish, to be sure, only four or loaf of bread from the oven is consecrated, ing “a space where humanity as such is some people went afterwards to sit with five inches long, but they were old enough broken and given. After the Eucharist, we welcome ... (a space which) is not defend - the tattooed kids and eat lentil hummus to know danger. We were on one of the spread food on another nearby rock for a ed against anyone; it exists because of the and talk about pagan/Christian syn - most heavily fished streams in southern potluck and take almond butter, apricot defencelessness of God in the crucified Je - cretism—all these things matter. Ontario, located deep in suburbia. These jam and corn tostadas to the circle of sus. Those who occupy it are not charged “And when the field is fresh and fair,” fish and their parents had had everything young people and their dogs. with marking it out as a territory sharply we sing in the park, “thy blessed feet shall thrown at them—worms, lures, baitfish. The smaller parishes of Parkdale Dean - defined over against territory that is the glitter there.” Christ holds the open gate, But they had never seen this before. ery have begun to organize occasional property of others; they are to sustain it and we walk through it, as we can. I didn’t know what to say. I was going to remind him of our sacred rule, of sticking to the tried and true. But I had to face the truth: he had fish and I didn’t. “What made you think of that?” I asked. Can we be led by the Spirit? “I don’t know. I just thought I’d try.” His whole countenance had changed, from a steely-eyed fisherman to a playful boy. ave you ever no - MUSINGS they would rather not be, and forbids them Even the fish seemed to enjoy it. They ticed that you find to go to places they wanted to go. darted back and forth, communicating Hyourself facing the BY THE REV . H EATHER MCCANCE In today’s world, which is not Christian, I their excitement to others in the shadows same spiritual tend to adopt the ways of business, govern - that came out for a look. challenges and personal is - leagues, I know that I’m not alone in this ment and other secular organizations in On the drive home, I thought about sues? There’s the person struggle. how I lead a parish church. I have learned something I had heard at a conference a who continually battles low This fall, a number of us at St. Andrew’s a lot from people in these areas, and the couple of years ago and had been turning self-esteem, or, on the other will be involved in a study series on the church has been blessed with folks who over in my mind ever since. Bishop Steven hand, the person who thinks too highly of Acts of the Apostles. Those who follow the help us conduct our own business and gov - Croft, the keynote speaker, had been talk - themselves. As St. Paul wrote, we know BAS daily office lectionary have been read - ernance. ing about motivating the church for evan - what we ought to be doing, we know that ing Acts in the early part of this fall. In my On the other hand, seeking, waiting for, gelism and growing new communities of these are issues we want to overcome, but reading, I have noticed just how many and obeying the guidance of the Holy Spir - faith. The church, he said, needs to “catch we keep finding ourselves behaving in ex - times the guidance of the Holy Spirit it is scary. It’s uncertain. It’s completely in - again a fresh vision of Jesus Christ. We actly the opposite way time and again. specifically determined the action of those tangible. Looking at five-year plans and need ourselves to be re-evangelized, and For me, one spiritual challenge I continu - in the early church: budget projections and the like feels a lot then we will be ready to hear God’s call ally confront is my drive to be in control in more “real.” We Anglicans tend to be far (and to respond).” my own life. To “let go and let God” is very The Spirit said to Philip, “Go...” (Acts more comfortable with this kind of deci - I always wondered what he meant by hard for me. I’m like a preschooler who in - 8:29) sion-making than with what feels like a that, and how we could do it. Maybe, like sists on tying her own shoes, even though The Spirit said to Peter, “Look...” (Acts nebulous, “Let’s wait for the Spirit to lead my son, it was a matter of putting aside it takes twice as long and is so much hard - 10:19) us.” I know of parishes where there is a the fishing pole and tackle box for a mo - er than if the parent were allowed to come “The Spirit told me to go...” (Acts 11:12) great deal of discomfort if there is “too ment and trying something completely in and help. So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit... much” prayer in a “business” meeting. new. By doing this radical act, he had At a Diocesan Prayer Conference several (Acts 13:4) Yet I am forced to wonder, and again I changed everything—himself, me, the fish. years ago, Sister Constance Joanna, SSJD, ... having been forbidden by the Holy suspect that I’m not alone, if my adopting He had changed our reality. gave an address in which she introduced Spirit to speak the word in Asia. (Acts 16:6) the ways of this world is really my way of Can we do that? Can we see through the me to a phrase I’ll never forget: “functional They attempted to go, but the Spirit of avoiding “letting go and letting God.” As eyes of a child and respond in a playful atheism.” That is, we believe in God, we Jesus did not allow them. (Acts 16:7) our churches move into the future God has way? Can we see ourselves and each other pray and we worship and we study scrip - Thus says the Holy Spirit... (Acts 21:11) in store for us, I wonder whether the exam - like that? Or will we be like the Pharisees, ture, and yet in the day-to-day of many of ple of the early church might be taken as hounding Jesus because he wasn’t doing it our lives, we are functionally atheists, liv - In a world that was not Christian, the seriously as the latest insights of behav - the “right” way and was “going against ing as if God were not there. early followers of Jesus coped by allowing ioral scientists and government think tradition” and would spoil everything? One might think (or hope!) that a priest themselves to be guided by the Holy Spirit, tanks, so that in addition to being effective I think the answer was in that stream, would be immune to this. Sadly, this is not a Spirit who by all accounts is unpre - in ministry, we can strive even more to be with a little school of fish mesmerized by a so. Having spoken with several of my col - dictable at times, calls people into places faithful to the leading of the Spirit. boy’s dangling fingers. 6 The Anglican C O M M E N T November 2012
This read is a marathon THE STEWARD BY THE REV . B ILL WELCH
BY RYAN PAULSEN that are, for better or worse, gen - ly a 10-15 minute time commit - erally ignored. ment, it’s shockingly easy to fall ack in There are some very interest - behind, and for every day you March, I ing things that come from explor - fall behind, it’s that much more Bwrote a ing the canon in its seemingly ar - daunting to pick it up again, column bitrary order, though. First off, which just continues the cycle. Stewardship reflecting on the you get the constant variation of So, to recap briefly, we’ve got first steps of a “old standards,” familiar pas - moments of brilliant exhilara - year-long journey to read the sages and stories, the revisiting of tion and new discovery, periods whole Bible, cover-to-cover, read - which is like spending time with of warm familiarity, droughts of elicits strong ing a little bit at a time every old friends again after a long ab - the mundane and tedious, and day. sence, and in brand new territory. times when you’re just tired and The idea was (and is) that I Second, despite the apparently would rather play video games would follow a canonical pro - rigid and pragmatic sorting of or watch Seinfeld reruns than gram, which splits up the whole books into categories of “histo - devote the energy to the matter feelings 66-book book into 365 portions, ry,” “law,” “wisdom,” etc., the at hand. one to tackle every day. By the Bible does have its own internal That’s where, I think, the time a year is up, you’ve read the flow and continuity. whole exercise becomes a micro - Bible, cover to cover. It’s also extremely rewarding cosm for the Christian walk, and first became interested in the what I have after I say I believe.” At the time, back in the heady to be able to go pretty deep into indeed relationship in general. concept of stewardship in For example, when I say in the days of the narrative excitement books that almost all of the time There are those who might I1988, when I was a curate at creed that I believe in God who that is Genesis and Exodus, it exist only as a name in a verse say that to deny the unblem - St. John the Evangelist in is the Creator of heaven and felt like it would be a walk in the reference. Numbers, for in - ished joy of immersing yourself Kitchener, Ont. I attended a earth, I am making a bold state - park. Looking back now, more stance, is vastly more interesting in scripture is blasphemy, but I workshop run by the Diocese of ment about who owns creation than two-thirds through the than its name implies. Very cool think those people A) may not Huron’s stewardship officer at and who does not. This acknowl - project, I’d classify it less as a book—will read again. have actually tried it; and B) are the time, the Rev. James Dugan. edgement has implications for walk and more as a marathon. On the other hand, Leviticus actually missing some of the I am not sure what aspect of how I conduct my whole life. It The endurance factor is in - and Deuteronomy (and to an on - richness of our faith. Ours is a stewardship caught my imagina - is the adoption of a worldview creased by the decision to just ly slightly lesser extent, Chroni - religion of personality, communi - tion, but from that point on I was which centers on the care of cre - plow through from front to back, cles) prove, upon closer examina - ty and relationship, and the hooked. What intrigued me most ation, the cultivation of generosi - which now seems like the kind of tion, to fully merit their, shall we Bible embodies that amazingly was that it gave me an avenue to ty and the practice of hospitality. decision I’d recommend some - say, insomnia-curing reputations. well, not only by its contents, but work out my own feelings about What is more important than one take only if they specifically Doing a program like this is by the experience of reading it. money and possessions, and the this? want to stretch their ability to very much an exercise in en - There are highs and lows ways in which I used my time I watched a humorous video stay awake and really wade durance, and it’s difficult. Even throughout, bits that affirm and and talents. about this many years ago. A through those bits of scripture though each day’s reading is on - uplift, and others that give seri - Over the years, I have both at - person dressed as a clown is ous, sombre pause, challenging tended and led many presenta - walking into the front of the you to really think about what tions on stewardship education, church and reaches the offertory you believe about God, the world planned giving and capital cam - plate. Since it is a silent video, and yourself. paigns. It never ceases to get old the clown puts her hand to her ( for me. There have been times ear, points at herself and then $ # ) Ryan Paulsen studied theology when it would have been much puts in a dollar bill. She then at - at Wycliffe College, Toronto, and easier to become involved in a tempts to proceed into the currently works as a multimedia more popular ministry endeav - church. She stops, cups her ear, journalist at a daily newspaper our that carries more cache and points at herself, and then puts in Pembroke, Ont. His mother, less frustration. But I have stuck in a larger dollar. She attempts the Rev. Judy Paulsen, is the with it, or perhaps it has stuck to go in again. This scene plays incumbent of Christ Church, with me. I have learned a lot itself out twice more. In the final ! "# Oshawa. Ryan’s blog is at from the journey and I hope to scene, she cups her ear, points at $%% & ' http://ayearofbible.blogspot.com. learn even more in the future. herself, looks upward sheepishly Stewardship is important in and then climbs into the plate. the life of the church. We can’t By now, you know the mean - do God’s ministry in our various ing of the illustration. God does - PLEASE RECYCLE parishes and communities with - n’t want only our financial re -
out money, people and all the re - sources: God wants us. To me,
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!" ings in people. Not many are than committing my whole life to neutral on the subject. I think God. Being a steward is covenan - this is, in part, because examin - tal in scope. I am reminded of ing the use of our time, talent the vow two people recite in the and treasure is not a task we marriage ceremony when they readily embrace. It is a deeply each give and receive a ring: “I personal thing. We don’t neces - give you this ring as a symbol of sarily like someone telling us my vow. With all that I am and how to spend our treasure or use all that I have, I honour you in our time or talents. Yet doing so the name of God” (BAS p.545). is a vital part of our Judeo-Chris - For me, this is what I pledge to tian heritage as it pertains to God and others as a steward. what God has asked us to do and There is no half way. who we are called to be. Living as a steward has been One misconception is that hard work. I have made many many people see stewardship as mistakes along the way. But a euphemism for “fundraising.” overall, it has offered me the op - For example, when we need portunity to listen, watch and cash, we hold a stewardship learn from some very knowl - campaign to make up the short - edgeable and faithful people. For fall in the parish so that we don’t that I am grateful. I will continue go into debt or close our doors. to toil in God’s vineyard and in Even people who have only a the end will be able to give a vague idea of church think that good accounting for what I have all we do is ask for money. Yet done with the gifts I have been stewardship is much more holis - given. tic in nature. The Rev. John Westerhoff, an Episcopal priest The Rev. Bill Welch is the former and theologian, once defined incumbent of St. James the stewardship as “what I do with Apostle, Sharon. November 2012 N E W S The Anglican 7 Group turns church into housing units
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BY STUART MANN Ms. Merriman says it was a thrilling but daunting moment. A small but determined group of “We started with faith, vision, church members and community community—and no money,” she activists in a west Toronto neigh - says. That soon began to change, bourhood have seen their dream however, as donations started to come true—the opening of Mona - come in from churches, individu - co Place, a 20-unit affordable als, foundations and the episcopal housing complex built inside a area of York-Credit Valley. They former United Church. received a transformational gift “It seems almost like a mira - of $150,000 from Fairlawn United cle,” says the Rev. Canon Kate Church, which had been holding Merriman, an Anglican priest the funds from the sale of another who led the fundraising drive. church that had been earmarked “When I look back, I really appre - for affordable housing. They also ciate how much widespread sup - received grants from the provin - port we received.” cial and federal governments. Ms. Merriman and her col - Eventually, they reached the The Rev. Canon Kate Merriman, leagues first met a decade ago to goal of their capital campaign— centre, stands with architect discuss how they could increase $350,000—and construction be - Ellen Vera Allen and James Smith affordable housing in the St. Clair gan. Along the way, they trans - in front of Monaco Place. At right, West area. They weren’t making ferred ownership and manage - Miguel Ruiz relaxes in his new much progress until a member of ment of the property to St. Clare’s apartment. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL the group, the Rev. Irene Ty, Multifaith Housing Society, a non- HUDSON learned about a small United profit organization that develops Church on Ossington Avenue, and operates transitional, sup - Of the 20 units, five will be set just north of Dupont Street, that portive and affordable housing in aside for use by victims of domes - was closing. Toronto. tic violence and two are fully ac - When no other United Church The residents moved in at the cessible to disabled people. All of congregation expressed interest end of 2011 and the official open - the units are energy efficient. The in the building, the group sought ing was held on Sept. 27, with units are for people on low to out and received seed money Canon Merriman and members of modest incomes. from numerous sources, then the original group in attendance. Canon Merriman, who was the hired a project manager and an The building may be the only one incumbent of nearby St. Mark architect. They pitched their of its kind in Toronto, with the and Calvary, which closed last plans to the Presbytery of West housing units built right inside year, said the opening of Monaco Toronto and the Toronto Confer - the former church’s chancel and Place is a resurrection story. “St. ence of the United Church of sanctuary. The building’s foot - Mark and Calvary and the United Canada, and were allowed to pur - print and exterior have also re - Church (St. Paul-Pietro Valdo chase the building for $500,000, mained the same, preserving the United Church) closed and Mona - about 50 per cent of its market church’s history in the neigh - co Place took off. There’s life after value. bourhood. death.” Café gives parents a break from routine (% ($$" & " #(& ##!& '&
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To submit items for Looking about the Book of Common Prayer Ahead, email hpaukov@toron - and the Book of Alternative Serv - to.anglican.ca. The deadline for ices.” Light refreshments, potluck. the December issue is November Call 416-977-4359. 1. Parishes can also promote their events on the diocese’s website Educational/Conferences Calendar, at www.toronto.angli - can.ca. NOV. 3 – If you are involved or in - terested in children’s ministry, Worship don’t miss “Making it Easier to Serve – Children’s Ministry Confer - NOV. 1 – St. Olave, Swansea, 360 ence” at St. John, York Mills, 8:30 Windermere Ave., Toronto, invites a.m. to 4 p.m. The conference in - all to an evening entitled Prayer cludes worship, lunch and ministry Book at the Margins. All Saints resources. Keynote speaker David Evensong at 6 p.m., followed by Csinos will speak on children’s light supper at 6:30 p.m. From 7 to spirituality, church and culture, 8 p.m., Desmond Scotchmer, a key and spiritual formation. 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Caledon, will hold its Annual NOV. 10 – Christmas Bazaar at ough, 2333 Victoria Park Ave., S.E. brighton.ca. NOV. 3 – St. Nicholas, Birch Cliff, Bazaar & Silent Auction from 9 Christ Church, Scarborough Vil - corner of Victoria Park and High - invites all to its Christmas a.m. until 2 p.m. Baking, sewing, lage, 155 Markham Rd., from 9:30 way 401. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Crafts, Social Bazaar, from 12 until 3 p.m. Shop knitting, candy, Christmas crafts, a.m. until 1 p.m. Bake table, knitting, jams, gourmet gift bas - for crafts and Christmas decora - books, treasure table. For more crafts, preserves, silent auction, kets, shortbread, collectables, gifts NOV. 17 – St. Stephen, Downsview, tions, ‘lavender and lace,’ baked information, call 905-838-1623. Granny’s Attic, vintage jewellery, for shut-ins and handicapped, jew - presents an Evening of Elegance, goods, candies and preserves, NOV. 10 – St. James the Apostle, books and lunchroom. Everyone ellery, international food, silent to be held at the Pine Point Ban - books, attic treasures and much Brampton, 3 Cathedral Rd., will welcome. Call 416-261-4169. auction, tea room and so much quet Hall, 15A Grierson Rd., Etobi - more. Call 416-691-0449 or visit hold its annual Holly Bazaar from NOV. 10 – Christmas Market at St. more. For more information, call coke. Tickets $60 person. Cocktails www.stnicholasbirchcliff.com. 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Lunch room Olave, Swansea, from 10 a.m. until 416-447-1481. at 6:30 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. To re - NOV. 3 – Christmas Bazaar at featuring home-made soups and 1:30 p.m. Luncheon, silent auc - NOV. 24 – Holly Berry Bazaar at St. serve tickets, contact the church at Church of Our Saviour, 1 Lauren - sandwiches, a silent auction, can - tion, raffles, home baking, gift Dunstan of Canterbury, 56 Lawson 416-241-4639. tide Dr., Don Mills, from 10 a.m. un - dy house raffle, penny auction, items, Christmas crafts, treas - Rd., Scarborough, from 9 a.m. to 2 NOV. 17 – St. John, West Toronto, til 1 p.m. Baking, jams, preserves, vendors, craft table, surprise ures, toys, books, white elephant p.m. Vendors, crafts, bake tables, invites everyone to its 4th Annual soups, knitted items and crafts, packages for children, and the sale, bottle table, and much more. raffles, lunch room, Santa Claus Junction Gala, at 7:30 p.m. Silent jewellery, gingerbread house raffle ever-popular bake table. For more For more information, call 416- and much more. For more informa - auction, dancing, hors d’œuvres, and hostess baskets raffle. For information, call 905-451-7711. 769-5686 or visit www.stolaves.ca. tion, call 416-283-1844. cash bar. Tickets $25 at more information, call 416-385-1805 NOV. 10 – St. Cuthbert, Leaside, NOV. 17 – The Belles of St. Timo - NOV. 24 – Nutcracker Fair at St. www.sjwt.ca or at the door. A por - (church) or 416-449-3878. will hold its Christmas Fair from thy, Agincourt, 4125 Sheppard Martin-in-the-Fields, 151 Glenlake tion of proceeds will go to The Stop NOV. 3 – St. John, Bowmanville, 11 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Christmas Ave. E., are ringing in Christmas Ave., Toronto, from 10 a.m. to 2 Community Food Centre. Temperance St., will hold its an - crafts and gifts, knitting, sewing from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Unique p.m. Silent auction, bake table NOV. 24 – Propitiation, a fellowship nual Snowflake Bazaar from 10 and quilt raffle, silent auction, crafts, one-of-a-kind snowperson, with homemade pies and pre - for LGBT Anglicans and their a.m. to 2 p.m. Baked goods, attic home baking, plum puddings and preserves, jewellery, festive bak - serves, gifts, knits, crafts and friends who prefer the Book of treasures, knitted goods and candy, cheese, kitchen items, jew - ing, glass/brass/silver, treasures, more. Start your day with a Common Prayer, will hold its next crafts, white elephant table, book ellery, boutique and treasures, Christmas décor and fashion ac - peameal bacon brunch from the meeting at 34 Little Norway Cresc., nook, silent auction, and the fa - gift baskets, church calendars cessories. Free admission. Lunch barbeque and stay for the Unit 117, at 7:30 p.m. Said evening mous Martha’s Lunch Room from and paperbacks, Ted’s art gallery, tickets $10; available at the door. Lunchtime Cafe serving home - prayer (BCP). Meeting discussion 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more infor - toys and the infamous odds and For more information, call 416 made soups and sandwiches. topic “What are the Best Things mation, call 905-623-2460. ends. For more information, call 299-7767, ext. 228. Continued on Page 9 November 2012 C A N A D A B R I E F S The Anglican 9
Iconic cathedral opens, Kitchen for hire 5 bringing tears 1 St. Paul’s in South Porcupine, Ont., is renovating its church Nearly seven years after an ar - kitchen, so that it can be rented sonist destroyed St. Jude’s out to small food businesses, Cathedral, Iqaluit, the new, icon - 1 groups and individuals. The idea ic building with the white dome was sparked when a young was officially opened again with woman asked to rent the kitchen a dedication service on June 3. to start a baking business. The “This is indeed an awesome and kitchen didn’t meet health and glorious moment for all of us,” safety standards, but vestry said the Rt. Rev. Andrew Atago - members applied and received taaluk, bishop of the Diocese of from the Timmins Venture Cen - the Arctic. The new building will tre a grant of $5,000 for renova - cost about $8 million, of which 4 tions. The church has also raised $5.5 million has been raised. The 2 $3,500 from private donors. The igloo-shaped roof is made of fire- kitchen will provide the church resistant steel beams and metal with a small income and help lo - cladding. The church seats about 3 cal food businesses grow. St. 350 people, twice the capacity of 5 Paul’s members hope it will also the original structure. Many of 6 help the church play a more ac - those taking part in the service tive role in the community. on June 3 could not contain their Northland joy. When Bishop Atagotaaluk used his shepherd’s staff to knock three times on the cathe - Group races to save dral’s door to open the cathedral, Quebec Lodge camp 6 some members of his procession burst into tears. In 2010, the Diocese of Quebec Nunatsiaq News focused on the risks of the pro - perts. “If you want to learn these people in the Diocese of Buye in sold a portion of the Quebec posed new pipeline. They were things, it’s hard to find someone Burundi. “We were greeted Lodge camp to a developer for followed by a spirited question who can teach you, so our idea warmly and hospitably every - $3.2 million. It held on to a piece Churches hold meeting and answer session with views was to give the community a where we went,” said Archdea - of the land and gave a group of on proposed pipeline 2 expressed on both sides of the is - chance to spend time with people con Alan Perry. “The people ex - people determined to re-open sue. The churches plan more who are knowledgable,” says the uded great joy and faith.” In the camp until the end of 2012 to A group of Anglican and Luther - public meetings. Rev. Trevor Freeman, incumbent. 2009, the two dioceses pledged to raise $1.5 million and demon - an churches hosted a public dis - Dialogue About 10 people attended each “walk alongside each other” in strate the camp’s long-term via - cussion in North Vancouver in workshop, with the most popular partnership. The Diocese of bility. With two months left, the July on the issue of oil pipelines being on gardening and compost - Buye has 28 parishes. Burundi Quebec Lodge Foundation is con - and oil tankers and their impact Car maintenance ing. The church planned to offer has a population of nine million, tacting Quebec Lodge alumni for on British Columbia’s wilder - part of outreach 3 more workshops in the fall. of whom 900,000 are Anglican. donations. “Our goal is to create ness and coastline. In May, the Christ Church, Fernie, located in The Highway The trip included a worship an ecologically friendly facility Synod of the Diocese of New the Diocese of Kootenay, held a service at All Saints Cathedral in on the shores of Lake Masaswip - Westminster passed a motion series of workshops in May and the city of Buye and visits to a pi where people of all ages and opposing the Northern Gateway June on car and home mainte - Edmonton Anglicans hospital, schools and rural backgrounds will engage in life- pipeline project. More than 80 nance, personal finances and tax travel to Burundi 4 parishes. transforming activities while people attended the public dis - preparation, plumbing and other Three members of the Diocese of The Messenger building awareness of the endur - cussion and heard from a num - life skills, taught by members of Edmonton travelled to Africa in ing value of the natural,” she ber of speakers. Presentations the congregation and local ex - May to deepen relations with said.
LOOKING AHEAD Tea Room at St. Leonard’s, 24 Cathedral, St. George’s Chapel, (students $10). Call 905-451-6649. Church is wheelchair accessible. Wanless Ave. (Yonge & Lawrence). Windsor Castle, and Westminster NOV. 24 – An Out of the Cold fund- For more information and tickets, Continued from Page 8 Baked and frozen foods, crafts, ar - Abbey. Tickets ($20, $15 students raiser, supported by the Kingsway email christmasstory@holytrinity - tisan tables, Christmas decora - and seniors) at the door. The BIA, featuring The Trillium Brass toronto.org. Wheelchair accessible. For more tions, silent auction, and Tea church is located at 383 Huron Quintet, massed choir, soloists, DEC. 9 – St. Martin in-the-Fields, information, call 416-767-7491 and Room. Call 416-485-7278 or visit Street. Call 416-979-2323 or visit and the Kingsway Conservatory 151 Glenlake Ave., in Toronto, will leave a message, or visit www.stleonardstoronto.org. www.stthomas.on.ca. Choir. This concert, which starts hold its annual Advent Carol Serv - www.stmartininthefields.ca. DEC. 1 – Christmas Fair at Christ NOV. 9 – A Concert of Remem - at 1:30 p.m., will be directed by ice at 8 p.m. Music by composers NOV. 24 – Holy Trinity, Thornhill, Church , Deer Park, Toronto, from brance at Christ Church, Deer Shawn Grenke, Music Director at such as Cleobury, Martin, Mc - 140 Brooke St. (Yonge St. & Centre 10:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. Gifts, tea Park, in Toronto, at 7:30 p.m. Music All Saints, Kingsway, and will take Dowall, Part, Skempton and St.), will hold its Festival of Christ - room, treasures and collectibles, by Bach, Vaughan Williams, Elgar, place in Our Lady of Sorrows Ro - Wilberg will be presented by the mas from 10:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. decorations, knitted, sewn and and George Butterworth’s Six man Catholic Church. Freewill of - choir of St. Martin’s with organ Hand-made gifts, decorations, a craft items, jewellery, baskets & Songs from “A Shropshire Lad.” fering. and instrumental accompaniment. large bake sale, raffle, and festive tins, home baking, jellies, jams Special guest Geoffrey Sirett, bari - DEC. 1 – The Anglican Churches of Collection will be taken and donat - luncheon will be available. For and preserves, and more. Call tone. Featuring Brendan Cassin, Port Hope—St. John the Evangel - ed to a charity in the parish. Call more information, call 905-889-5931. 416-920-5211 or visit www.theres - trumpet; Lark Popov, piano; with ist, Port Hope; St. Mark, Port Hope; 416-767-7491. NOV. 24 – Merry Jubilee Christmas lifehere.org. George Vona, piano; Matthew and St. Paul, Perrytown— are DEC. 16 – “Never a Brighter Star,” Bazaar at Trinity, Aurora, 79 Victo - Coons, organ. Soloists and choir of pleased to sponsor the 1st Annual at All Saints, Kingsway, 2850 Bloor ria St., from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Art/Music/Theatre Christ Church, Deer Park, with Er - Christmas show “Christmas with St. W., Toronto, featuring the ma - Bake table, knits, attic treasures, ic N. Robertson, music director. the Aces” at St. John the Evangel - jestic Gloria by Mark Hayes and collectibles, books and toys. Pro - NOV. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 – Lunchtime Admission free; donations wel - ist at 135 Pine St. at 7:30 p.m. Every - other seasonal favourites by Hal - ceeds to ACW outreach projects Chamber Music, Thursdays at come. For more information, visit one is welcome; tickets are $15 ley, Daley, Rutter and Sirett, at 4 and the parish. Call 905-727-6101. 12:10 p.m. at Christ Church, Deer www.christchurchdeerpark.org or each or $45 for a family of four. To p.m. Celebrate the Christmas sea - NOV. 24 – Christmas Kitchen at St. Park, 1570 Yonge St., Toronto. Nov. call 416-920-5211, ext. 25. order tickets, call 905-885-4071 or son with Chamber Orchestra, Timothy, North Toronto, 100 Old 1, Matthew Ross on trumpet; Nov. NOV. 14, 28 – Jazz Vespers at email [email protected]. massed choir and audience Orchard Grove, North Toronto, 8, Kathleen Long on cello; Nov. 15, Christ Church, Deer Park, 1570 DEC. 7 & 9, 14-16, 20-23 – The singing of carols. Shawn Grenke, from 10 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. Book Rebecca Lim on viola; Nov. 22, stu - Yonge St., Toronto, at 4:30 p.m. Christmas Story nativity play, a conductor; Margaret Bárdos, mez - sale, silent auction and much dents from U. of T. Faculty of Mu - Scripture reading, prayers and a Toronto tradition since 1938, cele - zo-soprano; Shawn Mattas, bari - more. Home baking, tourtieres, sic; Nov. 29, Amahl Arulanandam, brief reflection. Call 416-920-5211 or brates its 75th season. Professional tone; Krista Rhodes, piano. Tickets preserves, lunch. For kids: Santa, cello. Admission free; donations www.christchurchdeerpark.org. musicians and a volunteer cast are $20. Call 416-233-1125. shopping, cookie-decorating. Call welcome. For more information, NOV. 15, 16 & 17 – The Canterbury present this hour-long pageant. DEC. 21 – Messiah with Ontario 416-488-0079 or visit www.sttimo- visit the music page of the church’s Players of St. Dunstan of Canter - Friday and Saturday evenings, 7:30 Philharmonic, at 8 p.m. at Christ thy.ca. website, at www.christchurchdeer - bury present The Comedy of Ter - p.m. Saturday and Sunday mati - Church, Deer Park, 1570 Yonge NOV. 24 – Christmas with St. park.org. rors! by John Goodrum at 8 p.m. nees, 4:30 p.m. Thursday and Sun - Street, Toronto. The world tradi - Mark, Port Hope, with arts and NOV. 9 – St. Thomas, Huron Street, All seats reserved. Tickets are $25. day evenings, 7:30 p.m. Final week - tion of Messiah continues with the crafts exhibition and sale, from in Toronto, presents a concert by Dinner option available for the end only. Suggested donation: $20 Ontario Philharmonic featuring 9:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. Gift basket its choirs, including music for Re - Nov. 16 and 17 performances. To adults, $5 children. To reserve, vis - the Amadeus Choir and Jennifer raffle of items donated by arti - membrance Day, at 7:30 p.m. It will purchase your tickets, contact the it www.holytrinitytoronto.org or Taverner, soprano; Leigh-Anne sans. Free admission. “Cookies be directed by organist and choir - church office at 416-283-1844. call 416-598-8979. American Sign Martin, alto; Zachary Finkelstein, for Christmas” sale. The sale master John Tuttle and organ NOV. 18 – Handel’s Messiah with Language interpretation at select - tenor; Justin Welsh, baritone. takes place at the Lions’ Centre, scholar Elizabeth Anderson. This the Georgetown Bach Chorale, at ed performances. The Christmas Tickets are $25-$45. Call 416-443- 29 Thomas St., in Port Hope. is a fundraiser for the summer Christ Church, 4 Elizabeth St. N., Story takes place at Holy Trinity, 9737 or 905-579-6711 or visit NOV. 24 – Christmas Bazaar and 2013 choir tour to Canterbury Brampton, at 4 p.m. Tickets are $30 10 Trinity Square, Toronto. The www.ontariophil.ca. 10 The Anglican P A R I S H N E W S November 2012
Church’s film festival draws large crowd St. Hilary, Cooksville, in Missis - sauga, literally rolled out the red carpet for guests at the first St. Hilary’s Film Festival on Sept. 21. As visitors got out of their cars and walked down the red carpet, they could have their pictures taken by two members of the parish, acting as paparazzi. They could also receive a bag of pop - corn and a bottle of water on the way in. “There was a real buzz to the place,” says the Rev. Paul Walker, incumbent. About 110 people, in - cluding many who do not attend the church, turned out for the event. Two films were screened, with a question-and-answer session PLAY TIME after each. The first film, Parent- Parents and kids gather around the toys at the Tuesday Play Group at Christ Memorial Church in Oshawa. ‘While the group includes three young Teacher Night , is a comedy made parents who are connected to Christ Church, the majority of parents and kids previously had no connection here,’ writes the Rev. Judy Paulsen, by the husband and wife team of the incumbent. The Tuesday Play Group has received a Reach Grant from the diocese. Steve Roscoe and Lucy Filippone, members of the church. The movie is a satirical look at an ele - mentary school parent-teacher interview. The second film, Saving Face , is an Academy-award winning documentary about two women in Pakistan who are on a journey of reconciliation and healing af - ter having acid thrown on their faces by their husbands. The film night was put on by St. Hilary’s Amnesty Action Cir - cle, a group in the church that builds awareness of human rights issues. The group held a write-a-thon last Christmas when parishioners wrote a brief note of solidarity with people who are in ALL TOGETHER prison. Mr. Walker says the film festi - Kids and youth leaders from the Vacation Bible School at St. Peter, val was a great way of engaging Melva Graham, director of music at St. John the Baptist, Norway, con - Churchill, gather for a picture. The program ran July 9-13 under the the community on timely and im - ducts the choir. PHOTO BY STOREY WILKINS leadership of youth leader Sandy MacNeil. portant subjects. “We’ve got to be out there addressing issues that are pertinent to people’s lives,” he says. “This is one small cre - CONFIRMED ative way of doing it. People love stories, and films are a great way Young people and adults from all to tell them.” three congregations of the Parish Beth Berton-Hunter, a member of Minden-Kinmount—St. Paul, of the Amnesty group, says other Minden; St. James, Kinmount; churches can put on similar and St. Peter, Maple Lake—gath - movie nights. “You just need a er for a photo with Bishop Linda team of people with some expert - Nicholls (back row, right) after ise to set up the equipment, like being confirmed at St. Paul, Min - the screen and the projector,” she den, on Sept. 9. says. “Find a film you want and ask the producer for permission. With the Internet, it’s very sim - ple to do.” interested in singing with the The St. Hilary’s film festival group, call 416-691-4560. raised $700 for FaithWorks. With the McCain matching grant, the total given to FaithWorks was Young people create $1,400. mural for church The narthex of St. George on Choirmaster Yonge in Toronto was brightened this spring with a mural created revitalizes music by the Youth Class of 2011 out of program pieces of coloured glass, includ - ing glass from the windows of the Choirmaster Melva Graham be - former sanctuary. gan a new ministry at St. John Under the direction of parish - the Baptist, Norway, last Septem - ioner Elizabeth Beecham, a spe - ber, after 25 years as music direc - cialist in glass design, and the as - tor at Grace Church on-the-Hill. sistance of Youth Class leaders She has conducted the Dalhousie Janet Kirk, Stephen Powell, and Chamber Choir in Halifax, the Jennifer Ferdinands, the young Hart House Singers at the Uni - people planned the mural, pre - versity of Toronto, and the pared drawings, and learned Toronto Camerata Chamber techniques for cutting, shaping Choir. During her year at St. and gluing the pieces together. John’s, she has expanded the Each panel speaks about the adult choir and is now developing young people’s faith experience, a choir group for children seven while reminding them of their The young people of St. George on Yonge in Toronto gather around a mural they created out of pieces of to nine years old. If your child is former church home. coloured glass, including glass from the windows of the church’s former sanctuary. November 2012 A n g l i c a n C l a s s i f i e d s 11
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Christmas Eve younger brother Benjamin were much weeping and some fear that 2. Samaritan House Community Ministries, 16. Raising up of vocations 25. Christmas Day the only sons of the beloved wife, he may try to take his revenge. Barrie (FaithWorks) 17. Diocese’s Mission Strategy Group 26. Church of the Incarnation Rachael. Jacob even made a rich - This famine forced Jacob and his 3. Lakefield College School 18. Diocese’s Working Group on Justice and 27. Ascension, Don Mills ly ornamented robe for Joseph, whole family to move to Egypt 4. Trinity College School Corrections 28. Our Saviour, Don Mills which he wore to annoy his under the protection of Joseph. 5. Officers of the Diocese of Toronto 19. Campaign Against Child Poverty (Justice 29. St. Christopher, Richmond Hill brothers. Joseph was a bit of a Jacob died in Egypt and the 6. Havergal College Partner) 30. Chaplains to police and firefighters spoiled child who provoked his Egyptian leaders accompanied 7. Kingsway College School 20. Bishop’s Committee on Prayer 31. For the homeless brothers with delusions of Joseph and his family as they 8. Royal St. George’s College 21. Postulancy Committee grandeur. He frequently recited took Joseph back to Canaan for dreams to his brothers in which burial in the cave where his wives they would all bow down to him. and his forefathers were buried. IN MOTION Second Phase - Parish Dec. 16 at St. Mary Magdalene You will find the Joseph saga in This story is one of the most Selection Committee Receiving in Picton. He was ordained for Genesis 37-50. magnificent psychological dra - Appointments Names (via Area Bishop): the Diocese of Rupert’s Land at One day when Joseph had been mas in scripture. It has all the • The Rev. Steven Smith, Region - • Church of the Advent, Toronto the Church of the Transfigura - sent to find his brothers, they emotions of family relationships. al Dean, Peterborough, Sept. 1. (York-Credit Valley) tion in Toronto on Dec. 21, saw an opportunity to rid them - It contains the restoration of the • The Rev. Jeff Hall (Montreal), • St. Simon the Apostle, Toronto 1952. After serving in the Dio - selves of this nuisance. As they family, with the brothers and Interim Priest-in-Charge, (York-Scarborough) cese of Rupert’s Land and the were about to kill him, they were Joseph being reconciled. It was Christ Church, Roche’s Point • St. Martin, Bay Ridges Diocese of Ottawa, he served interrupted by a passing caravan. also laying the stage for God’s and St. Paul, Jersey (Keswick), (Trent-Durham) in the Diocese of Toronto, as Judah suggested that they sell redemption of his people (Gene - Sept. 15. • St. Barnabas, Chester rector at the Church of the Joseph to the caravan and make sis 45:7). • The Ven. Stephen Nduati (York-Scarborough) Resurrection from 1971 to a little profit on the transaction, We date Joseph’s entry into (Kenya), Interim-Priest-in- 1980, as priest-in-charge at St. and thus not have to kill their Egypt about 1700 BCE. In 1720 Charge, Holy Spirit, Dixie Third Phase - Parish Selection Saviour from 1980 to 1981, and brother. They took Joseph’s cloak BCE, a group of Semites, called North, Sept. 23. Committee Interviewing as incumbent at Christ of many colours, dipped it into the Hyksos, conquered the north - (not receiving names): Church, Woodbridge, from goat’s blood and showed it to Ja - ern part of Egypt, setting up their Vacant Incumbencies • All Saints, Whitby 1981 to 1990, when he retired. cob, saying that some animals dynasty, which lasted for about Clergy from outside the diocese had killed his favourite son. 200 years. This would help ex - with the permission of their bish - Conclusion Death Joseph ended up in the house plain the easy way in which op may apply through the Ven. • The Rev. Stephen Shaw has an - • The Rev. Canon Frederick of Potiphar, the Captain of the Joseph moved into a position of Peter Fenty. nounced his resignation from Cross died on Sept. 22. Or - Guard to Pharaoh in Egypt. Here authority in Egypt. He was also a First Phase - Parish Selection St. George-on-Yonge, Toronto. dained in the Diocese of he quickly rose to take charge of Semite. About 1500 BCE, the Committee in Formation His last Sunday in the parish Toronto in 1959, he served as the household, but he had one Egyptians rebelled and threw out (not yet receiving names): will be Dec. 30. Assistant Curate at St. problem: Potiphar’s wife wanted the Hyksos. They established a • All Saints, Peterborough Clement, Toronto; Incumbent him. He deftly avoided her until dynasty which did not know • Epiphany & St. Mark, Parkdale Retirement at St. Joseph of Nazareth, Bra - she trapped him, accusing him of Joseph and his people. The • St. Luke, Dixie South, • The Rev. John Coulman an - malea, and St. Hugh of Lin - defiling her. Joseph was thrown Pharaoh with whom Moses did Mississauga nounced his retirement in July. coln, Malton; Rector of St. into prison. Here he also rose to a battle was probably Ramses II, • Parish of Elmvale His last Sunday in the Parish of Christopher-on-the-Heights; position of leadership and was who was a builder and governed • St. Thomas, Shanty Bay Roche’s Point was Aug. 26. and Incumbent at St. Leonard, soon in charge of all the prison - in the land of Goshen. This is in • Parish of Roche’s Point Toronto. After his retirement ers. A cup bearer and a baker northern Egypt and was the dis - • Parish of Penetanguishene & Milestones in 1998, he served as Honorary from Pharaoh’s household ended trict where the Hebrew people Waubaushene • The Rev. Stanley Whitehouse Assistant at Trinity, Barrie. up in prison with him and each had lived (Genesis 45:10). The He - • All Saints, Collingwood will mark the 60th anniversary His funeral was held on Sept. had a disturbing dream, which brews were enslaved to this • Church of the Nativity, of his ordination to the priest - 26 at St. Leonard, Toronto, Joseph correctly interpreted for pharaoh, helping him to rebuild Scarborough hood at a celebration organized with interment at St. John, them. (One man was released his cities. We will look at Moses by his family and friends on York Mills. and the other was hanged!) and his story in a future column. Upon his release, the cup bear - He was the instrument of God to er went back to Pharaoh’s redeem his people and is the books on religion and spirituality, household. A couple of years lat - most important character in the will lead a workshop for clergy Correction er, his master had a disturbing Hebrew Bible. It is another great BRIEFLY and laity on “Emergence Christi - The Diamond Jubilee Medal com - dream, so the cup bearer told drama. anity” at St. John, York Mills, on memorates the 60th year of Her him about Joseph, who could ac - Once again, we see God at Nov. 16 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Majesty’s reign as Queen of Cana - curately interpreted dreams. work in the history of his people, ‘Emergence cost is $15, which includes re - da, which began on Feb. 6, 1952 on Joseph was brought to Pharaoh fulfilling his promises to the pa - freshments and lunch. To regis - the death of King George VI. In - and told him that Egypt was triarchs. The Tanahk is a fasci - Christianity’ discussed ter, visit the diocese’s website, correct information appeared in about to undergo seven good nating book, helping us under - Phyllis Tickle, lecturer and au - www.toronto.anglican.ca. last month’s issue. years followed by seven years of stand a little more about the God thor of more than two dozen famine. He even offered Pharaoh we worship and follow. 12 The Anglican F E A T U R E November 2012 NCD gives churches ‘reality check’
they weren’t living out their mot - Tool measures to. “The penny dropped in the room when somebody said, parish’s health ‘That’s our motto but we’re not doing it,’” says Mr. Kern. “The motto had been over the heads of BY STUART MANN the congregation but not owned and actualized.” bout 105 churches in the Since then, the church has diocese have used Natu - been working on a programmat - Aral Church Development ic response to the findings and is (NCD), making it the considering a new motto, Just most widely used tool to measure Share It. The church scored a parish’s health. For some, it has highest in “holistic small led to numerical growth, greater groups,” so it plans to help small participation in the life of the group leaders learn and articu - parish, stronger outreach and late their own spiritual journey even higher financial giving. to their groups. The hope is that “It’s been really helpful in get - everyone in the small groups ting us to think seriously about will begin to feel comfortable who we are and where we need and confident in sharing their to go,” says the Rev. Gordon faith with others. Sheppard, the incumbent of St. Mr. Kern says that NCD is not Paul, Newmarket. an onerous undertaking. “I was After completing its first NCD concerned about the workload survey, St. Paul’s learned that it this would bring to me—a new needed to work on “passionate incumbent with a huge learning spirituality,” a common finding curve. But there’s been only among Anglican churches. The Rev. Gordon Sheppard speaks at The Forum, a Christian education class for adults at St. Paul, New - about seven evenings worth of “That’s how you speak about market. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON work.” your faith and how you utilize it He says the time has been well daily,” explains Mr. Sheppard. est in Bible study, and the church “It’s just crying out to me for the congregation thinks the com - spent. “I would certainly recom - After thinking it over, the con - has started an adult Christian ed - outreach and evangelism,” says munity’s needs are). This was a mend it. I don’t know of any tool gregation launched a campaign ucation class on Sunday called the Rev. Stephen Kern, who surprise, because the church’s that gives such a comprehensive and came up with a slogan— The Forum, which has seen high started as the church’s incum - motto was “Growing in faith, inventory of congregational Take Time for God. “We promot - turnouts for some topics. The bent last May. sharing our hope in Christ.” health as this. It gave us a reality ed that in everything we did—all church’s Vacation Bible School Rather than diving in with At a meeting to discuss the re - check about where we really our printed material and even attracts a large number of kids, evangelism and outreach pro - sults of the survey, parishioners were and, more importantly, our advertisements,” he says. and Messy Church is held once a grams, however, Mr. Kern decid - pondered the realization that where was the way forward.” “We encouraged people to start month. The church has also start - ed to do an internal review of the reading their Bibles, to think ed a comtemplative prayer group. church. “I wasn’t sure that we about their faith more and how Mr. Sheppard says the NCD had done the prior work of figur - that gets worked out in their surveys gave the congregation a ing out what we would be invit - day-to-day lives.” clear view of itself. “It was like ing the new people to,” he says. When the church completed its holding up a mirror,” he says. “What was our common life and second NCD survey the next year, “You got to see yourself in an ob - what were our core values? it found that “passionate spiritu - jective way.” What about the parish would ality” had shot up dramatically, The results of the surveys jive with the needs of the local even bringing up other areas of were not only illuminating but community? So I felt we needed parish life with it. That’s when gave the congregation a boost of to do an internal audit of our the church decided to start think - self-confidence and energy, he common life before we began ing seriously about growing. says. “We saw that we were do - inviting people in.” “We decided that the best ing a lot of things right. It made After its first survey, held last course of action was to staff for us feel good about ourselves. It June, the parish learned that it growth, so we started thinking made us feel that we’re a good scored lowest in “need-oriented about expanding our quota of parish and we’ve got the poten - evangelism” (which means minis - clergy here,” he says. “It gave us tial to be better.” tering to the local community ac - the courage to tackle that issue: As St. Paul’s finishes its third cording to its needs, as opposed could we do it?” year of doing NCD, St. Philip on- to doing ministry based on what The church applied for and re - the-Hill, Unionville, is just start - ceived an assistant curate, the ing its first. St. Philip’s has a Rev. Pam Trondson. Since then, rare opportunity: about 1,000 the church has expanded in many new houses are being built di - ways. There has been more inter - rectly across the street from it. How NCD works
atural Church Develop - teristics to address their areas of ment (NCD) focuses on weakness. NCD is cyclical—that Neight characteristics or is, it provides a way of checking “marks” of healthy, constantly (usually annually) growing churches: empowering how the parish is moving to - leadership, gift-based ministry, wards health and viability. passionate spirituality, effective In the Diocese of Toronto, structures, inspiring worship there are 18 trained volunteers service, holistic small groups, and one staff member who guide need-oriented evangelism, and parishes through the NCD loving relationships . process. To run NCD in your Congregations can gauge their parish, contact Dave Robinson, overall health by using NCD the diocese’s director of Congre - evaluation tools— usually an an - gational Development, at drobin - nual survey completed by 30 [email protected]. More church members—to identify ar - information is also available at eas of strength and weakness, www.ncdcanada.com. and to use their stronger charac -