ANGLICAN JOURNAL Since 1875 vol. 143 no. 7 september 2017 Caledonia accepts ruling Tali Folkins STAFF WRITER The diocese of Caledonia decided May 26 to accept the provincial House of Bishops’ ruling to block the consecration of the Rev. Jake Worley as bishop, its adminis- trator says. Worley was elected bishop of the diocese April 22, but on May 15, the House of Bishops of the ecclesiastical province of Brit- Worley ish Columbia and Yukon announced its objection to his election, citing ministry he had performed in the U.S. for the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda. As specified in provin- PHOTO: ANDRÉ FORGET cial canons, the bishops said, their decision When Harima Mkitage’s family received a cow from the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund four years ago, her parents used was final. some of the money from the sale of the cow’s milk and calves to pay her school fees. Now she wants to become a livestock specialist. Ministry Worley once performed in the U.S. for the Anglican Mission in America (AMiA) was “under license from the Province of Rwanda” and did not have Changing lives, one cow at a time the permission of The Episcopal Church, the bishops said in a statement. (In 2007, André Forget program supported by the Primate’s World Worley, who was born and raised in the STAFF WRITER Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF), U.S., planted a church in Las Cruces, New has affected their lives. Mkumba, Tanzania See ‘Shocked, p. 16 The Canadians are representatives from Seventeen-year-old Harima Mkitage runs PWRDF, the relief and development agency her hand gently down the back of a doe- of the Anglican Church of Canada. They eyed Friesian cow chewing on fresh are in this village in southern Tanzania’s grass while a calf pulls at its teat. CoGS hears Lindi Region as part of a weeklong visit Harima smiles and exchanges to learn more about All Mothers and a few words in Swahili with the Children Count (AMCC), a $17.69-million of slavery man leaning against the railing of the PWRDF program to increase health and cow pen. He is asking her what she wants nutrition for mothers and young children horrors to do when she finishes school. in Eastern Africa. “Harima wants to be a livestock officer,” Mkitage and Salumu received their cow Tali Folkins he tells me. “She is living at boarding through another PWRDF initiative, known STAFF WRITER school, but when she comes back, she locally as CHIP, or the Community Health learns how to care for the cows.” Improvement Program, which ended this Siobhan Bennett, a youth member from It is, perhaps, fitting that Harima is year. But because CHIP served as a model the ecclesiastical province of Ontario, had considering a career working with cows; it for AMCC, the visitors are meeting some tears in her eyes even before she started was cows—these cows, in fact—that made of its beneficiaries to get a sense of what addressing the other members of Council it possible for her to pursue an education. AMCC might accomplish by the time it of General Synod (CoGS). It wasn’t long On the other side of the cow pen, wraps up in 2020. before they knew why. a cluster of Canadians take pictures Mkitage and Salumu are telling the Bennett had asked if she might share and listen as Halima’s parents, Hasan visitors that they got lucky: their cow has something from her own life at a ses- PHOTO: ANDRÉ FORGET Mkitage and Nuru Salumu, talk through given birth to twins, which they will soon sion on human trafficking June 24. As Most of Liviki’s milk is sold, but some goes an interpreter about how the cow they be able to sell. In Tanzania, a calf can fetch she fought to speak through her tears and to older villagers for free. received in 2013, as part of a development See ‘Pay it forward,’ p. 12 See CoGS, p. 6 Thank you for donating to the Anglican Journal Appeal Dear Good Canada 4 Editor, 5 disagreement 17 PM# 40069670 + 2 anglican journal • september 2017 BRITISH COLUMBIA4 Anglicans among those affected by wildfires Tali Folkins and André Forget of others in Prince George, where evacuees STAFF WRITERS are being registered and housed. The Primate’s World Relief and Devel- On July 12, 14,000 people, including an opment Fund (PWRDF), the Anglican estimated 1,000 Anglicans, were forced to leave their homes because of the wildfires Church of Canada’s relief and develop- raging in B.C.’s Central Interior. “Every ment agency, is making an immediate con- community within the Central Interior… tribution of $5,000 to help the Territory of has a fire near the community,” said An- the People (formerly the Anglican Parishes drews. “As far as we know, we’ve had no of the Central Interior) provide relief to loss of property, and no loss of life, but it people affected by wildfires in the territory, is affecting every Anglican in the Central PWRDF announced July 19. Interior of British Columbia right now.” The money, together with another Andrews noted that even those who To access stories $5,000 from the territory itself, will sup- have not had to flee their homes are deal- exclusive to the web, go port ongoing wildfire relief in the Territory ing with heavy smoke, the threat of evacua- to www.anglicanjournal. of the People, located in British Colum- com/more “All of the people of 100 Mile House tion and, in some cases, loss of livelihood. bia’s Central Interior. More grants may be 5 Smoke and Williams Lake, as well as smaller com- On July 19, B.C. Premier John Hor- • Indigenous forthcoming in the future if requested by billows near munities along the Cariboo Highway, have gan extended a previously-declared state of bishops visit flood- the territory, PWRDF communications co- 100 Mile House, been evacuated,” he said. “Most have come emergency in the province by two weeks to stricken Split Lake ordinator Janice Biehn said. B.C., where all to either Kamloops in the south or Prince cope with the effects of about 140 wildfires • Kingfisher Lake Gordon Light, bishop of the territory 2,000 residents George in the north. Most evacuees left raging in the province. At the time, about ‘stabilizing’ after until 2008, has been appointed by the ter- were evacuated in July. their homes with very little, and we don’t 45,000 people were under either evacua- state of emergency ritory’s current bishop, Barbara Andrews, tion order or evacuation alert, with at least photo: instagram/ know how long it will be until they get to oversee how the PWRDF funds will be @CLINTTRAHAN 41 homes lost to the fires. home.” spent, PWRDF said. The territory’s relief Donations to PWRDF’s emergency fund In the long term, Light said, more efforts are currently focused on providing can be made online (choose “Emergency food vouchers, toiletries, bus fare, cloth- money will likely also be needed for post- Response” from the drop-down menu), by ing and other practical help to people who trauma assistance and to support projects phone (toll-free at 1-866-308-7973) or by have had to leave their homes because of aimed at helping people and communities mail. Mailed cheques should be payable to the fires, Light told PWRDF. that have lost homes or facilities. “PWRDF, Emergency Response,” and sent The funds, Light added, will likely be Clergy and lay volunteers, Light said, to: The Primate’s World Relief and Devel- “quickly depleted,” given the number and are working at three major wildfire relief opment Fund, 80 Hayden Street, Toronto, needs of evacuees. centres in Kamloops, as well as a number ON M4Y 3G2. g I T I O N R A N E D L U T H E I C A N / A N G L Canadian Church Calendar 2018 On sale now! Only $5 (plus tax) Meeting the Holy The 2018 Canadian Church Calendar presents Each image invites us to return to it again and again. images and texts that tell us of the abiding presence And each text invites us to consider the witness of of the Holy in the life of the world. our ancestors. Phone: 1-800-263-2664 • Fax: 1-800-461-8575 PO Box 9855 Woodslee Ave., Paris, ON N3L 3E5 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.parasource.com anglican journal • september 2017 3 CANADA4 Campus chaplains often lack ‘peer support’ André Forget STAFF WRITER Anglican university chaplains play a vital role helping young adults adjust to the strains of navigating higher education. But many face unique struggles, without resources found in traditional parish posts. Most chaplains are asked to serve as counsellors or wellness advisors, some- times for students who are not Anglicans or Christians. They often lack the peer We are the support other priests have. Even the most group in the remote priests get a chance to talk to other “ ministers at clergy meetings, but most church, at the dioceses (Huron being an exception) have moment, that only one university chaplain position. deals with Their ministry can also be precarious, young adults. and chaplains are often called on to justify —Canon Megan their work, or to help raise funds to cover Collings-Moore, the cost. 5 Chaplains pose ecological justice, also attended the gath- chaplains. chaplain, Renison “It’s quite different [from parish min- ering to see where he and the chaplains However, no list exists of all Canadian University College istry]…it’s also a very stressful situation,” with Anglican the Rev.