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THAT WAY Tyler Hamilton (front row, middle) and John Stephenson (front row, third from right) join cyclists at the beginning of a bike-a-thon at All Saints, Sherbourne Street in Toronto. The riders are pointing to Kennisis Lake in the Haliburton Highlands, their destination. For story, see Page 10. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON Anglicans Tax cuts taking toll: speaker urged er,” he says. health care costs than at any time Canadians He says years of tax cuts from since the universal health care all levels of government and every system was created. to vote political stripe have taken too Tax cuts have also hobbled gov - need to much money out of the public cof - ernment’s ability to pay for new fers, undermining the country’s and existing infrastructure. “We BY RYAN WESTON ‘change the ability to maintain services and haven’t invested in infrastructure make investments for future gen - and we’re paying the price now,” CANADIANS go to the polls on Oct. erations. he says. “We’re standing on the 19 to elect Members of Parliament conversation’ For example, reductions in the shoulders of previous generations and choose the country’s next GST have taken $14 billion annu - who were more than willing to pay government, and Anglicans are BY STUART MANN ally out of the national treasury taxes. They made the investments being encouraged to reflect care - since the cuts were made in 2006 from which we benefit today. fully on how their values are be - ALEX Himelfarb, the keynote and 2007. Estimates have put the What are we paying forward?” ing addressed in the policy pro - speaker at the upcoming Out - total amount of all tax cuts made Shrinking treasuries are lead - posals of the various parties. reach and Advocacy Conference, at the federal level over the past ing to policies of austerity, he says, “I never tell people who to vote says tax cuts have eroded Cana - decade at about $300 billion. the consequences of which are for,” says Archbishop Colin John - da’s ability to pay for health care, Mr. Himelfarb says Canadians falling hardest on the most vulner - son, “but I do remind them that social programs and infrastruc - have accepted the cuts without able. “So we justify cutting out es - we have a duty, as Christians, to ture and have created a meaner asking what they have to give up sential health services for refugee vote. In Jeremiah, the prophet society. Alex Himelfarb in return. “If we decide we don’t claims; we shortchange rehab pro - calls us to pray for the cities in Mr. Himelfarb was the Clerk of want to pay taxes, then we better grams for prisoners; we don’t let which we live and to participate in the Privy Council and Secretary of “What concerns me most is that be clear about what we’re giving migrant workers pull out benefits, their wellbeing.” the Cabinet for three prime minis - our collective-action problems – up. We better stop pretending tax even though they pay into our sys - The Baptismal Covenant and ters. He is the director of the Glen - those problems we can only solve cuts are free.” tem; we don’t come near to reduc - the Five Marks of Mission similar - don School of Public and Interna - together such as climate change He says tax cuts have resulted ing child poverty, even though ly “indicate that we have a respon - tional Affairs and the Centre for and inequality – are probably in higher personal expenses on we’ve made a commitment to end sibility to work for justice, peace, Global Challenges at York Univer - more challenging than they have everything from home insurance it; fewer unemployed Canadians and the dignity of all,” he says. sity. He is the co-editor of the book ever been, but our collective tool to health care. For example, Cana - have access to employ ment insur - Continued on Page 12 Tax is Not a Four Letter Word . kit has probably never been weak - dians now pay more out-of-pocket Continued on Page 10
TAKING THE TOXIC TOUR – SEE PAGE 5 2 The Anglican N E W S October 2015 Church plants new ministry in complex Grant provides funding
BY STUART MANN ments. About 15 people take part, with the number swelling to 25 for WHEN Wycliffe College student special occasions. Michelle Yeung started her sum - In addition to worship services, mer placement at St. Paul, the ministry organizes events L’Amoreaux in Scarborough, she and workshops for the local com - had no idea of the pleasant sur - munity, which is comprised of prise God had in store for her. “I about 1,000 people living in three think the opportunity that God apartment buildings and eight has given me is truly a blessed townhouses. Most of the resi - Michelle Yeung gives the sermon one,” she says. dents are immigrants from South at the Silversprings Chapel serv - Working with St. Paul’s incum - Asia, the Philippines, Ethiopia, ice. At right, Johannah Jayakumar bent and a faithful group of Kenya and mainland China. speaks to her brother, Joshua parishioners, Ms. Yeung has St. Paul’s has received a $60,000 Jayakumar, who plays the key - started a chapel ministry at Silver grant from the diocese’s Our board at the service. PHOTOS BY Springs Park, a large housing Faith-Our Hope campaign to fund MICHAEL HUDSON complex about a block away from Ms. Yeung’s work over the next the church. three years. The ministry is housed in a The ministry provides a vital OUR FAITH recreation room on the ground link between St. Paul’s and the floor of an apartment building in housing complex. The church is OUR HOPE the complex. A service of Evening one of the most multicultural Prayer is held every Sunday at parishes in the diocese, so its In this series, we look at how the 5:15 p.m., followed by refresh - members are able to welcome diocese’s Our Faith-Our Hope campaign is helping individuals ȱ and parishes re-imagine the 6W-2+1·6&(0(7(5< church. To date, the campaign has raised $41 million. $QJOLFDQ3DULVKRI6W-2+1·6&+85&+(DVW2UDQJHYLOOH ȱ ȱȱȱȱȱȱȱȱdzȱ people of similar backgrounds start a homework club in October. hearts to this,” he says. and provide important assistance The Rev. Canon Dr. Dean Mer - The church is already thinking ȱȱȱ ¢ȱ¢ȱ ȱȱȱ such as translation. Residents al - cer, incumbent of St. Paul’s, says about planting similar chapel ȱȱŗŞŗŘǰȱǯȱ Ȃȱȱȱ¢ȱ so have access to St. Paul he is delighted with how quickly ministries in other nearby loca - ȱȱȱȱȱǰȱǰȱȱȱ L’Amoreaux Centre, one of the the ministry has taken root. “On tions. “We’re hoping that it can largest providers of care for sen - something like this we can never occur elsewhere because it ȱȱǯȱ ior citizens in Scarborough. see much more than three doesn’t cost much and it can be )25,1)250$7,213/($6(&217$&77+(&+85&+ The ministry also focuses on months down the road, but we’ve led by laity,” says Canon Mercer. +,*+:$< &$/('2121/.* youth. It held a basketball pro - had enough encouragement that “If it’s on the main transportation &!8 ANGLICAN BELLNETCA WWWSTJOHNSHWYCALEDONCA gram in the summer and plans to we’re full of optimism and hope lines, the central campus remains ȱ ȱ and really quite excited about the church and people are en - what has happened.” couraged to become involved in He credits not only Ms. Yeung the church as much as they see but the parishioners who have fit. My joke is that I want every - helped her get the ministry up one at St. Paul’s going to evening and running. “They’ve given their prayer all over Scarborough.” -ARY ' 'RIFlTH "! -"! *$ -ACLAREN #ORLETT ,,0 "ARRISTER 3OLICITOR /NTARIO "LOOR 3TREET %AST !TTORNEY #OUNSELOR AT ,AW .EW 9ORK 3UITE 3OUTH 4OWER 4ORONTO /. -7 2 7ILLS 4RUSTS %STATES "USINESS 2EAL %STATE 4EL &AX WWWMACLARENCORLETTCOM % MAIL MGRIFlTH MACORLAWCOM
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Remember the editor or the publisher. girl, now living in Ajax, galva - ples in the parish to sponsor a refugee family that it was only after private citizens organ - Canon Stuart Mann: Editor nized support of a shocked from Vietnam who had fled their homeland ized and advocated for a more compassionate generation to end a war. along with millions of others because of ongo - response that the government’s approach to Address all editorial material to: The Associated Press photograph of the ing conflict. Our small-town group was just the Southeast Asian refugee crisis of the The Anglican lifeless body of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, one of thousands across the country that had 1970s and 1980s shifted. As Anglicans, we can 135 Adelaide Street East washed up on a Turkish beach, is another organized to make use of provisions within come together with fellow parishioners and Toronto, Ontario M5C 1L8 such disturbing image. 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Our policies enact our values. has committed to resettling 10,000 Syrian I ask people in the diocese to sponsor a fami - In the Anglican Communion: Canada must take a greater leadership role refugees by the end of 2017, relying on private ly, if possible, or to contribute to a group A global community of 70 in dealing with this massive migration so sponsorships for many of these. We must ad - that can; to advocate for better policies; to million Anglicans in 64,000 that fewer children and their families face vocate to accelerate this timeline. Remove welcome the stranger in our midst; to pray congregations in 164 countries. the same tragic fate as Alan Kurdi. We Angli - barriers that hinder the approval process. De - for justice and peace. For ways to help, visit Archbishop of Canterbury: cans must do our part. velop a special process for Syrian refugee ap - AURA’s web site, www.auraforrefugees.org The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Justin Welby , Canadians have rallied together in the past plicants: put more resources – including visa or PWRDF’s website, www.pwrdf.org. Lambeth Palace, to respond to a global humanitarian crisis. officers – into overseas offices dealing with Cut out the picture of the boy face down on London, England SE1 7JU. We must do so again if we hope to stem the high volumes of Syrian applicants, and re - the beach. Post it on your fridge. Look and tide of suffering so many families are experi - move onerous proof of refugee status docu - ask yourself if our refugee response is ade - In Canada: encing today. mentation for community sponsorships. quate. If you answer “yes,” look at the photo A community of about 600,000 members In 1979, while serving the parish of I hope that all political parties, during this again. in 30 dioceses, stretching from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland and north to the Arctic Ocean.
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t was the last. Twice a lessons, took place outside the church. In the Diocese of Toronto: week, on schedule, a horse BISHOP’S OPINION Sunday sports for children were banned A community of 254 congregations in 210 parishes covering 26,000 square kilometers. drawn wagon made its during the “Divine hour of worship,” the I BY BISHOP PHILIP POOLE Of the nearly 5 million people who live way up Charlotte Street, Lord’s Prayer opened the school day, and one within the diocesan boundaries, 376,000 then home to the rectory of drugstore and one gas station opened in rota claim to be affiliated with the Anglican All Saints, to deliver milk. for the mailman to deliver the black and on Sunday. Sunday was a quiet day; there Church, with about 80,000 people Every other milk route in white photos of NHL hockey players sent to was a different feel to it. It did not have the identified on the parish rolls. The diocese town was operated by trucks, me in exchange for the bottle collars on cans busy, frenetic pace that Sundays have today. is home to many ethnic and language- but this was the last horse- of Bee Hive corn syrup. Of course, part of the The church is no longer the social centre based congregations, including African, drawn milk wagon in Peterborough. My sis - thrill for a young person then was receiving of many communities and certainly not the Caribbean, Chinese, Filipino, French, ter and I – my brother had yet to make his a letter in the mail with your own name on it. social center for youth. Hispanic, Japanese, and Tamil. The City of appearance in the world – would often greet I am certain we never consumed all the corn Some look back to those days with great Toronto has the largest population of the kind milkman by the curb in front of 460. syrup my parents purchased so that I might nostalgia, longing for “the good old days,” aboriginal peoples in the country. My sister loved horses, and the milkman, collect those photos. which in fact were formerly known as “these The Archbishop of Toronto: from time to time, would offer her a penny Well, times have changed. Bottled milk is trying times.” This was post-war Canada. The Most Rev. Colin Johnson with the words, “Save this up and one day no longer delivered to our doors and, for Many lived a transient life seeking work. you might have a horse of your own.” most, mail is not either. But we still have Men would show up at the rectory door look - York-Credit Valley: Milk came in the old-style metal contain - milk and we still receive mail. ing for an always-offered sandwich or drink The Rt. Rev. Philip Poole ers or the somewhat newer glass version. It The church in those days was very differ - of milk. Affluence was not so obvious and was placed in a small exterior unlocked cup - ent from what it is today. It was the centre of certainly nowhere near reflective of the over - Trent-Durham: board, common to houses of the era, which social life for many in our town. My friends all wealth of our society today. The Rt. Rev. Linda Nicholls also enclosed an envelope for payment. Milk joined me in the 65-voice men and boys choir Archbishop Johnson is fond of reading the York-Scarborough: did not have a long shelf life in those days, that practised Tuesday and Thursday nights diaries of former Bishops of Toronto. He will The Rt. Rev. Patrick Yu and just writing this article brings back the and sang Morning Prayer and Evensong read aloud a description of a church that was terrible taste of sour milk – fortunately not most Sundays at All Saints. The Diocese of facing declining attendance, whose level of York-Simcoe: something I have endured in the past few Toronto was not yet the primarily Eucharis - stewardship was not what it could be, that The Rt. Rev. Peter Fenty decades. That milk wagon was the last. tic community it is today. Those same friends was not attracting youth, that could not find The Diocese of Toronto: The mail was also hand-delivered to each were also members of the All Saints Cub capable Sunday school leaders, that was re - 135 Adelaide St. E., home by the postman twice a day. Those Pack and played both church league hockey sistant to change. Listening, you could be - Toronto, Ont., M5C 1L8 were the days when I waited not so patiently and church league softball for All Saints. Not lieve that the passage was written last 1-800-668-8932/416-363-6021 (sadly, still a trait I have from my childhood!) much that we did socially, aside from piano Continued on Page 5 Web site: http://www.toronto.anglican.ca June 2015 C O M M E N T The Anglican 5 This tour is not a pretty sight
BY THE REV. MAGGIE HELWIG other, to share with each other. That’s what the Creator gave us. If we do that, An eagle hovers we can do more than build a movement. over the intersec - We can create a life.” Ation as we gather. The Toxic Tour is neither the beginning Around us, high nor the end of the work in Aamjiwnaang. smokestacks, overhead Lindsay and her sister Vanessa, with as - pipelines, huge corroded sistance from some settler activists in storage drums – the land - Sarnia and elsewhere, are spearheading a scape of an industrial wasteland, Cana - project of comprehensive soil and water da’s “Chemical Valley.” testing, something no company or govern - Home to 40 per cent of Ontario’s petro - ment has yet been willing to do; they and chemical industry, with more than 60 ma - others are involved in the campaign jor industrial facilities concentrated in against the reversal of Enbridge’s Line 9, one small area, Chemical Valley, near which runs by their community and will, Sarnia, is also situated directly beside the if Enbridge has its way, soon carry highly Aamjiwnaang First Nation Reserve, and toxic and corrosive diluted bitumen from it is the youth of Aamjiwnaang who have the tar sands. This February, a group of taken the lead in organizing today’s Toxic Aamjiwnaang residents filed a suit Tour. Lindsay Beze Gray, an extraordi - against Shell for a documented 2013 spill nary young activist, tell us what it is like that released mercaptan, benzene and hy - to live in a community where chemical drogen sulfide, making many of the chil - spills and the blare of warning sirens are dren in the daycare ill and potentially part of everyday life, where whole classes causing long-term effects that won’t be of children are sent home from daycare visible for years. with rashes and burning eyes, and where But we cannot leave this struggle to the rare cancers are frequent causes of community alone. As Bishop Mark Mac - death. Protestors on the Toxic Tour walk beside smokestacks across from the Aamjiwnaang First Donald reminds us, “We now see human There are few more obvious examples Nation Reserve near Sarnia. PHOTO BY THE REV. ANDREA BUDGEY culture organized toward a new Tower of of what Bishop Mark MacDonald, writing Babel, a denial not only of God’s design, in the Anglican Journal , has call ed the flows into our lake. This is our water, too.” beautiful area, and that it could be again. but in its moral presumption – that eco - “second phase of colonization ... vast eco - Through smothering humidity and “I feel sorry for white people,” Kelly goes nomic life rules all other life – a denial of nomic, cultural and environmental con - scorching sun, during the world’s hottest on. “I mean, what can you do with your the sovereignty of God. We cannot toler - trol.” Aamjiwnaang residents have had no summer ever recorded, we pass facilities lives? The economy controls everything. ate a faith that calls itself Christian and choice about the industries eating up the belonging to Suncor, Hydro One, Dow You have to pay to live on the Earth. separates our salvation, our morality and land all around them; but they are acting Chemicals; we pass huge gravel pits and Think about that. We’re the only species our world, a faith that is silent in the face now to protect their people, their culture towering chimneys. Lindsay tells us that that has to pay to live on the Earth. We of such injustice.” The Toxic Tour was one and their land, and part of the responsibil - Aamjiwnaang residents are used to con - have a very big crisis, we have a very big small act of solidarity, one small way of ity of the church in restoring right rela - stant flares from these chimneys, and that change to make. I don’t know what’s go - recalling ourselves to our responsibilities. tionship is to walk with them. So we have they hardly pay attention to the sirens ing to happen for these kids if we don’t. There must be many more. come today to do that, for a very short any more. And what it’s going to take is us here, all time, in the literal sense; nearly 500 peo - Between the Styrolution facility and of us. We not only have to learn to stand The Rev. Maggie Helwig is the incumbent ple, we estimate, have journeyed from the Cyeco facility, near where the village up, we have to learn to be kind to each of St. Stephen in-the-Fields, Toronto. Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, Montreal, of Blue Water used to be, where a histori - Kitchener-Waterloo and elsewhere. Most cal plaque commemorates its now-erased of them are young activists, but there are existence, Kelly Kiyoshk of the Aamjiw - also families with small children, some naang community gets onto the back of a older people, some walking with difficulty. flatbed truck to speak. “I wasn’t expect - TH 2EGULAR 3ESSION OF THE 3YNOD Anglican, United, Mennonite and Roman ing to say anything today,” he tells us, but Catholic congregations are represented. then delivers one of the most eloquent .OTICE OF -EETING “We were driving along the river on our speeches of the day. “These plants, these 4O THE CLERGY AND LAY MEMBERS OF 3YNOD OF THE $IOCESE OF 4ORONTO way here,” says Alicia Good, a Mennonite animals – they’re still carrying on the pastor in North Leamington, “and we got way we’re meant to carry on. The laws of 4HE !RCHBISHOP OF 4ORONTO THE -OST 2EV #OLIN 2 *OHNSON HAS CALLED ALL 3YNOD to those industrial plants, discharging in - creation haven’t changed.” It is still possi - MEMBERS IN THE $IOCESE OF 4ORONTO TO ASSEMBLE AT THE 3HERATON 0ARKWAYn4ORONTO to the river, and we realized that river ble to see that this could have been a .ORTH (WY % 2ICHMOND (ILL /NTARIO FOR THE TH 2EGULAR 3ESSION OF 3YNOD STARTING ON THE MORNING OF &RIDAY .OVEMBER AND ENDING AT MID DAY ON 3ATURDAY .OVEMBER %PISCOPAL AREAS WILL HOLD 0RE 3YNOD -EETINGS TO PREPARE FOR THE UPCOMING 2EGULAR Times have changed 3ESSION OF 3YNOD !GENDA ITEMS WILL INCLUDE /RIENTATION FOR NEW 3YNOD -EMBERS 0RIORITIES AND 0LANS INCLUDING THE !SSESSMENT 2ATE AND ELECTIONS FOR Continued from Page 4 $IOCESAN #OUNCIL !TTENDANCE AT 0RE 3YNOD -EETINGS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AS THIS month, but it was actually written at the adapt to our new circumstances. Going IS THE SETTING FOR 3YNOD MEMBERS TO ENGAGE IN DISCUSSION AND DEBATE ON ITEMS BEING turn of the 19th century! forward, our buildings may not look the BROUGHT BEFORE 3YNOD FOR APPROVAL You would have to be from another same, our liturgies and music may planet not to be aware that being church change, parishes may amalgamate, 3ATURDAY /CTOBER today in our anti-institutional, anti-reli - parishes may close – but faithful Chris - 4RENT $URHAM n AM TO AM AT 3T 4HOMAS "ROOKLIN gion, secular and humanistic society is tians will continue to do the hard work of 9ORK 3CARBOROUGH PM TO PM AT 3T !NDREW 3CARBOROUGH flat-out hard work. It is not easy to be being church in a society longing for Good church today, if indeed it ever was. News. That’s what disciples of Jesus do, 3ATURDAY /CTOBER Like the milk company and the post of - and that’s what they have always done. fice in Peterborough, the church today is I am proud of the work we are doing to - 9ORK 3IMCOE n AM TO AM AT 3T 'EORGE !LLANDALE seeking to reimagine itself, reclaim its gether throughout our diocese. We are 9ORK #REDIT 6ALLEY n PM TO PM AT 3T 3TEPHEN $OWNSVIEW missional ministry, seeking to try out new making a difference for good in the name &OR UPDATES ON 3YNOD VISIT THE DIOCESAN WEBSITE AT things in an effort to faithfully proclaim of Jesus Christ as the church of each era is WWWTORONTOANGLICANCAUPCOMINGSYNOD the Good News of Jesus Christ in this so - called to do, and for that I say thanks be to ciety and to better serve the marginal - God. The journey ahead may not always be &OR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT 0AMELA "OISVERT ized. We are making progress. 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The Rev. Christian Harvey is a deacon at to faith. I love that youth make me look at St. John the Evangelist in Peterborough. every theological concept that I learn and He is the Area Youth Social Justice Coordi - ask, “Does this matter to my 15-year-old nator for Trent-Durham and the Coordina - friend? How can I explain this in a way tor of the Youth Ministry Apprenticeship that they will understand?” I won’t leave a Program for the diocese. concept until I can do that.
Every week is different, but this week I I came to be passionate about justice will be planning a campaign with some through Jesus, as I was introduced to agencies in town to make homelessness him by figures like Martin Luther King and housing an issue in Peterborough Jr. and Desmond Tutu. They introduced during the upcoming election. I will help me to a Jesus that I wanted to give my life plan an all-candidates meeting on social to – not because if I didn’t I would go to issues for Peterborough. I will plan a serv - hell, but because he was showing a way of ice for Peterborough Pride Week. I will life that was life, that was truth! When I hang out with some of my homeless hang out with my homeless friends, when I friends and do some pastoral care with engage in social action, to me it is like a some great 20-somethings. I will write a spiritual practice, and I feel closer to Jesus. sermon for Sunday. I will work with the program manager of the Warming Room, I would love the Anglican Church to be Katelyn James, to make sure we are ready on the forefront of challenging income to open beginning in November. I will re - inequality in our country and in our The Rev. Christian Harvey and friends in Peterborough. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON cruit some people for the Youth Ministry world. We don’t just have a poverty prob - Apprenticeship Program and finally re - lem in our country – we have a wealth spond to a lot of emails. adults, questioning old adults, city offi - so loved that people were involved in more problem. As the gap between rich and cials, and all in between. So much of my than just one-time mission trips but in poor continues to grow, our country will The Warming Room, an emergency job is being in the community and talking long-term commitments to challenging be less and less at peace. We as a church shelter for those who can’t or won’t use to people, I love that. The worst part is systemic roots of poverty. I was also in - are exceedingly rich; how do we as an in - the current shelter system, is probably dealing with bureaucracy and keeping up credibly lucky to be mentored for the last stitution respond to Jesus’ commands to what I am most proud of recently. The with emails! I am pretty sure that the devil 13 years by the Ven. Gordon Finney. “sell all we have and give it to the poor” to reason is that we have been able to bring created emails. “take up our cross” and follow Jesus? How people together who haven’t normally My journey to the diaconate was long. I do we respond to the early church model worked together to make something awe - We moved around a lot as a child, but I had always felt called to work in the of holding “everything in common”? In re - some happen. We have created a place moved to Peterborough when I was 13 church, whichever church it was I was in. I gards to youth ministry, I think we need to where our guests and our over 150 volun - and have been here ever since, mostly kept going to start the process towards the allow youth to have a voice in reforming teers are building real, community-chang - because it is the best city in the world. I priesthood, but it just never felt the church. Currently we call for youth to ing relationships. We are breaking down grew up in the Pentecostal Assemblies of right. Then I read what the diaconate was, join us, but on our terms. We want them to barriers between churches as we work Canada at various churches. I am grateful and I thought to myself, that is me! I feel come and fit into the spaces we have made closely with a Baptist Church (where we for the passion for faith and knowledge of very strongly that as we pursue being for them. What if we trusted them to actu - are located), a Brethren Church (that scripture that growing up Pentecostal af - more missional we need to rediscover the ally transform our church? That would be looks after our food) and many other forded me, but as I grew I knew I was diaconate. I honestly think that it is one of exciting. churches that have supported us financial - searching for a place where I could ask the the keys to the future of the church. Often ly and with volunteers. We work with the questions I needed to ask. After losing my when I talk to young adults working in the Five years from now, I hope I will be City of Peterborough and many other job as a youth minister at a Pentecostal church and I explain to them that a deacon faithful to my call of connecting the agencies as well as anti- poverty advocates church, I knew I needed to go somewhere is a minister who works as a bridge be - community with the church and the in the city. Through these relationships, else. I was approached by a man I greatly tween the community and the church, church with the community, so that to - we have been able to encourage people respected, the Rev. John Stephenson, who they get really excited about it. They feel gether we can make a better neighbour - who haven’t done so before to ask ques - asked if I had ever thought of becoming that is what they are called to as well, but hood, a better Peterborough, a better tions about what the systemic issues are Anglican because he was looking to hire a often they are discouraged by the impres - Canada and a better world. that allow for homelessness in our city youth worker at St. John’s. I said I would sion they get from many that a deacon is and country to grow and inspire them to consider anything if they were willing to “not quite a priest.” I want to be a part of My favourite passage of Scripture is get involved in trying to make our city a hire me, and that is how it started. I soon changing that. Matt. 25:31-46. It motivates me and haunts place where all can live in peace. fell in love with Anglican Church because me; it empowers me and calls me to repen - of its diversity of ideas and its commit - I had a really great youth pastor who in - tance. This passage reminds me that if I The best part of my job is building rela - ment to justice. I loved that within St. spired me in so many ways and invested want to know where Jesus is, if I want to tionships. I love that I get to hang out John’s there were people who were very a lot in me, and I think I got involved in meet him, I need to be among the margin - with such a diverse group of people, home - theologically liberal and conservative, and youth ministry because I wanted to do alized, I need to listen to them, learn from less friends, community advocates, ques - they could argue and then still worship to - what he did. But as the years have gone them and remember that my salvation is tioning teenagers, questioning young gether. This had a huge impact on me. I al - on, I love the joy and fun that youth bring wrapped up with them.
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ministries build their capacity to Millions serve their communities, and help each ministry achieve a greater level of sustainability.” raised for For example, a newly-estab - lished partnership with World Vi - outreach sion’s Child Well-Being Network will provide training and network - ing opportunities in areas such as ministries volunteer management, fundrais - ing events, grant writing and proj - BY SUSAN MCCULLOCH ect sustainability. W. Clayton Rowe, director of World Vision’s In 2016, FaithWorks will celebrate Canadian Programs, is enthusias - 20 years of supporting Anglican- tic about the partnership. “We ap - affiliated ministry in the Diocese preciate FaithWorks’ commit - of Toronto and beyond. Since its ment to churches and local min - inception, FaithWorks has raised istries,” he says. “Through a spirit more than $25 million on behalf of partnership, FaithWorks seeks our partner ministries. to steward resources to transform The name FaithWorks was orig - the lives of those hidden by injus - inally suggested by Ward Mc - tice. World Vision Canadian Pro - Cance, a parishioner at St. Peter, grams anticipates great results Cobourg, and a long-time support - through our work together.” Girls in the Youth Unlimited After- er of diocesan outreach. Faith - We are also optimistic about School Program at St. John the Works was created in response to the potential for partnering with Baptist, Lakefield. At right, Rene shrinking budgets – at the diocesan the Toronto Halo Project to un - Jacobson, a staff member at and provincial levels – at a time derstand the economic impact of Couchiching Jubilee House in Oril - when the fabric of Ontario’s social FaithWorks ministries on the lia, welcomes homeless and vul - safety net was becoming frayed. communities they serve. Dr. Mike nerable young women. Both min - Within three years, FaithWorks Wood Daly, Toronto Halo Proj - istries are funded by FaithWorks. came to be embraced by 85 per cent ect’s executive director, explains: of parishes as our shared diocesan PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON. “The Toronto Halo Project is de - appeal for outreach ministry. signed to assess the tangible as In 2014, FaithWorks raised $1.44 past two decades. Long-time min - well as intangible services and re - million, of which $1,067,892 was istry partners are experiencing sources that communities of faith distributed to partner ministries; higher demand for services than provide to their surrounding $84,927 was retained by parishes ever before. New ministry oppor - neighbourhoods. The simplest for their own outreach ministries; tunities have emerged in commu - way of thinking about this is as and $39,518 supported area min - nities where there is no Faith - of FaithWorks well into the future. gent faith, godly worship, and com - follows: If a community of faith istry grants. Works presence. All the while, This will require an adequate level passionate service.” The second were to cease to exist, what would Parishes continue to provide the challenges faced by the most of support for existing ministries, message is that organizations re - it cost the City of Toronto to re - the largest percentage of Faith - marginalized members of our but will also create the potential to ceiving funding from FaithWorks place the services and resources Works funds raised each year. communities have increased, as assist ministries in parts of the dio - must be committed to investing in they provided to their surround - Parish commitment remains cutbacks increasingly force non- cese not currently served by Faith - the ongoing development of their ing neighbourhood?” strong; however, it would be un - profit organizations to shoulder Works. The committee believes board, staff and volunteers, their In addition to the powerful sto - wise to rely solely on our parish - an ever-larger share of the bur - that an important focus of this re - governance and management ries of lives transformed that es for support. This is why, in den for meeting their needs. view is to ensure that FaithWorks structures, and their own fundrais - have always touched the hearts of 2004, the FaithWorks corporate As a result, the competition for is more intentionally aligned with ing to support their ministry. donors and inspired them to gen - appeal was launched. Since then, charitable dollars has grown diocesan missional priorities. The Allocations Committee chair erosity, these impact assessments the corporate community has fierce. Donors have many options process has included dialogue with Shelagh McPherson, a parish - will enable FaithWorks ministries contributed more than $3 million. for “doing good,” and they expect the College of Bishops and key ioner of St. Martin in-the-Fields, to share their stories in new ways, Other sources of support now in - a greater level of accountability diocesan staff members. Toronto, is excited about emerg - appealing to a new generation of clude foundations, individual ma - from the organizations they The committee’s work is ongo - ing opportunities for FaithWorks. donors who want to understand jor donors, online giving, and two choose to support. They want to ing, but two messages have clearly “The committee members believe how their gift to FaithWorks is direct mail campaigns each year. know exactly how their financial emerged. The first is that Faith - that there are many ways that we making a real difference in ad - We are redoubling our efforts to support is making an impact in Works will continue to support the can support our partners; some dressing the root causes of pover - seek a broader base of financial the community. work of ministries that understand are financial and some are not. ty. Visit www.faithworks.ca to support to ensure that Faith - Last fall, the FaithWorks Alloca - that the funding they receive from We believe that creating strategic make a secure online donation. Works will have the resources it tions Committee began a strategic the church is helping to further the partnerships is one way that we requires for many years to come. review process through which it diocesan mission, which is “to might be able to offer a variety of Susan McCulloch is the Much has changed over the seeks to ensure the sustainability serve Jesus Christ through intelli - resources to help our partner FaithWorks campaign manager.
at 416-499-6774 or Sonia Perrin at Former MPP to site, www.toronto.anglican.ca, Justice Camp BRIEFLY 416-757-3909. speak at fundraiser or call Jennipher Kean at 905- to visit Cuba 833-8327. All invited on Holy Christine Elliott, former MPP for The first international Justice Whitby-Oshawa, will be the Camp will bring together a di - Dinner raises funds Land pilgrimage keynote speaker at the Bishop's New Testament verse group of Anglicans in Cu - for Caribbean Bishop Linda Nicholls and the Company Regional Dinner, held course free online ba in May 2016. Through a week- The Rt. Rev. Claude Berkley, the Rev. Claire Wade are leading a on Nov. 18 at St. Thomas, Brook - Wycliffe College is offering a long program of directed immer - bishop of Trinidad and Tobago, Trent-Durham pilgrimage to the lin. There will be a reception at 6 free online course called “Jesus sion experiences, biblical reflec - will be the guest speaker at the Holy Land, Feb. 21 to March 3, p.m., followed by a dinner and at the Turning of the Ages.” tion, worship and relationship annual Arthur Brown and Basil 2016. The trip will include visits silent auction at 7 p.m. Tickets Open to everyone, it will help building, participants will devel - Tonks dinner to raise money for to well-known biblical and ar - are $75 per guest or $420 for a participants read the books of op skills to become effective so - outreach to Anglicans in the chaeological sites in the context parish table (six guests). Funds the New Testament as they cial justice leaders within their Caribbean. The dinner will be of prayer, worship, on-site learn - raised from the dinner support would be read in light of Jesus’ own communities. Twenty-five held on Oct. 24 at the Church of ing and fellowship with local An - the bishop’s emergency fund, resurrection, in the context of Canadians over the age of 18 will the Ascension, 33 Overland Dr., glicans. The tour costs $3,195 per which helps clergy and their the first century and with an eye be chosen to participate along - Don Mills. The evening will be - person (double occupancy). Par - families in crisis. The fund also to today’s world. The course can side 25 Cuban participants. Ef - gin with a Eucharist at 5 p.m. ticipants from all episcopal areas helps with travel emergencies, be used for adult education, in forts will be made to ensure par - celebrated by Archbishop Colin are welcome. For registration school support for the children group or individual study. It runs ticipants reflect the Anglican Johnson, followed by dinner at forms or more information, con - of clergy, bursaries for religious from Sept. 28 to Dec. 18. Regis - Church of Canada’s diversity. To 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $60 per per - tact the Trent-Durham area of - scholarships, curacy training for tration opened Sept. 21. For more learn more about the camp or son and a tax receipt will be is - fice at 905-668-1558 or trent - the newly ordained and emer - information, visit the Wycliffe submit an online application, sued. To buy tickets or for more [email protected] be - gency medical expenses. To buy College website, www.wycliffe- visit www.justicecamp.ca. information, contact Ken Holder fore November. tickets, visit the diocese's web - college.ca. October 2015 P A R I S H N E W S The Anglican 9
KEEPING WARM A cross called a “Warming Cross” stands in the yard at St. David Angli - can-Lutheran Church in Orillia. Knitters are producing scarves that will be placed on the cross starting in October. They will be available for anyone passing through to take so they can keep warm in the winter. The knitters plan to make 500 scarves.
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Receiving the St. Paul’s ZZZQKLKHDOWKFDUHFRP Youth Achievement Scholarship were: Ariel Gilmore, who is tak - ing a Bachelor of Science (Hon - ours) degree at Queens Universi - #SJOHJOH)FBMUI$BSF)PNF ty; Rachel Leck, who is enrolled in the theology program at Mas - ters College and Seminary; Pauline Marcial, who is taking a Bachelor of Commerce degree at Ryerson University; and Tobias Pushparajah, who is enrolled in the Mathematics and Chartered Professional Accountancy pro - Residents of Clarkson and Lorne Park watch the opening ceremonies of gram at the University of Water - the Pan Am Games at St. Bride’s. loo. St. Paul’s also awards bur - saries to students who live and dren’s craft-making. Three hun - when the Rev. T.H.M. Bartlett study abroad. This year, the re - dred hot dogs were served and conducted the first services and cipient of the Arcela Hunte Me - Pizza Nova, the local pizzeria, preached the first sermon in a WORLD morial International Bursary generously donated party-sized newly constructed church build - went to Francin Safe Abd El pizzas to help feed the hungry. ing on the hill on Berczy Street. LEPROSY Mesiah, who is studying at the The main attraction was the For a year prior to that he trav - Alexandria School of Theology big-screen viewing on the eled to Barrie by horseback, ca - in Cairo. church lawn of the opening cere - noe and on foot, baptizing, mar - DAY St. Paul’s has presented 24 monies from the Rogers Centre rying, and holding Anglican scholarships to post-secondary in Toronto. Many local residents services in a log house. JANUARY 31, 2016 students from Pickering and came with garden chairs, while Trinity will be celebrating its Ajax since 2008. In addition, it others were happy to sit on blan - 180th anniversary in October. has given eight bursaries to stu - kets, watching, listening, chat - Parishioners will be celebrating dents in Tanzania, Guyana, ting and cheering for their lifelong friendships and shared ROCK OF REFUGE Uganda, Guatemala, Kenya, favourite countries as they experiences. Archbishop Colin South Sudan, Ethiopia and marched into the Rogers Centre Johnson will conduct a service “In you, LORD, I have taken Egypt. Scholarships and bur - with their flags in the parade. on Oct. 4, and the church will refuge; let me never be put saries awarded to date total Over 200 people attended the hold a Heritage Homecoming to shame. Be my rock $16,000. For more information fiesta. More than half were from Dinner on Oct. 17. The dinner of refuge…” Psalm 71:1,3 about the scholarships, visit the the community, while 60 mem - will feature a traditional meal church’s website, bers of the church volunteered to from the 1830s, with serving staff www.stpaulsonthehill.com. run the events. Local businesses dressed in period costume. Tick - and churches supported the fies - ets for this event are now on sale Church holds fiesta ta by posting advertising flyers, at the church office and it is and the local newspaper covered hoped that Anglicans who have at start of Games Twitter: #WLD2016 @WorldLeprosyDay the event and published an arti - spent time at Trinity will come Facebook: “World Leprosy Day” page St. Bride, Clarkson hosted a spe - cle about St. Bride’s in its August out and enjoy the fellowship and YouTube: User: effecthope cial evening for residents of issue. The congregation also sup - entertainment that evening. Clarkson and the nearby com - ported the event with prayer and The ladies of Trinity are also www.worldleprosyday.ca munity of Lorne Park on July 10. financial donations, enabling the putting together a 180th anniver - The event was called the PanA - event to be free for everyone. sary quilt, and all church mem - mazing Fiesta to coincide with bers have been encouraged to 200-90 Allstate Parkway, the start of the Pan Am Games. contribute to the design. The Markham, ON L3R 6H3 Barrie church 905-886-2885 1-888-537-7679 The fiesta began at 5 p.m. with quilt will be permanently dis - community games for everyone, celebrates anniversary played in the parish Hall upon and sports and children’s games One of the oldest Anglican completion. For more informa - To sign up or to learn more, please for the youngsters. There was churches in Ontario – Trinity, tion, contact the church office at contact Lynda at [email protected] face painting, tattoos and chil - Barrie – was founded in 1835 705-728-2691. 10 The Anglican L O O K I N G A H E A D October 2015
To submit items for Looking Paul's. Admission is $40 for adults NOV. 14 - Christmas bazaar and Ahead, email [email protected] - and $25 for those under 25. (Regis - luncheon, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., glican.ca. The deadline for the ter before Oct. 1 for $35). For de - Grace Church, 19 Parkway Ave., November issue is Oct. 2. Parishes tails and to register, contact Markham. Call 905-294-3184. can also promote their events on [email protected]. NOV. 14 - Spirit of Christmas the diocese’s website Calendar at bazaar, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., St. Paul on- www.toronto.anglican.ca. Reading the-Hill, Pickering, 882 Kingston Rd. Worship & Music OCT. 24 - “Seeing the Word with NOV. 14 - Christmas bazaar, 9 a.m. New Eyes: An Introduction to Vi - to 2 p.m., Holy Family, Heart Lake, OCT. 24 - Gemini Pan Groove pres - sio Divina.” The ancient Christian Brampton. The church is on the ents “Pan in Harmony” at St. Dun - practice of lectio divina (divine west side of Kennedy Road, north stan of Canterbury, 56 Lawson Rd., reading) is adapted into visio div - of Bovaird Drive, south of Sandal - Scarborough at 6:30 p.m. Tickets ina (divine seeing), prayer involv - wood Parkway. are $20 and include soup and ing the contemplation of images NOV. 14 - Christmas fair, 11 a.m. to dessert, followed by the concert. rather than words. Learn about 2 p.m., St. Cuthbert, 1399 Bayview Call 416-283-1844. Gemini Pan this form of prayer in a workshop Ave., Toronto. Call 416-485-0329. Groove is a program that uses the led by the Rev. Anne Crosthwait of NOV. 14 – Christmas bazaar and Former Tour de France rider Tyler Hamilton (third from left) leads cy - steel pan as a medium for commu - Contemplative Fire Canada, from café, 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., St. Timo - clists outside All Saints, Sherbourne Street. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON nity development and as a founda - 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at St. Mary Magda - thy, Agincourt, 4125 Sheppard tion to advance the art form. lene, 477 Manning Ave., Toronto. Ave. E. Call Pat Williams, 416-299- OCT. 26 - Gloucester Cathedral 7767, ext. 228. Choir in concert, 1 p.m., St. Mark, Sales NOV. 14 - 70th Annual Christmas Riders raise funds King Street, Port Hope. Tickets $20 bazaar, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Christ in advance or at the door. For in - OCT. 16 - Riverdale Art 2015, 27th Church, 4 Elizabeth St. N., Bramp - formation, email [email protected]. Annual Show and Sale, St. Barn - ton. Call 905-451-6649. NOV. 11-14 - The Canterbury Play - abas, 361 Danforth Ave. (at NOV. 21 - Festival of Christmas, for those in need ers present Avenue Q, a musical, Chester Subway), entrance off 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Holy Trinity, at 8 p.m. at St. Dunstan of Canter - Hampton Avenue, Toronto. Open - 140 Brooke St., Thornhill. Call 905- bury, 56 Lawson Rd., Scarborough. ing reception Oct.16, 6 p.m. to 8:30 889-5931. BY MARTHA HOLMEN ton, 230 kilometres away. Tickets $25. All seats reserved. p.m. All welcome. Show and sale NOV. 21 - Bazaar, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. “You have to have trained all For audiences 14 years and above. OCT. 17, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free ad - St. Dunstan of Canterbury, 56 ON a cool morning in late August, summer. We were on our bikes for Call 416-283-1844. VISA accepted. mission. Wheelchair accessible Lawson Rd., Scarborough. Call 24 cyclists gathered at All Saints, seven and a half hours,” said Mr. via Hampton entrance elevator. 416-283-1844. Sherbourne Street in downtown Stephenson. Anniversary OCT. 17 - Fall rummage sale, 8:30 NOV. 21 - Nutcracker Fair, St. Mar - Toronto to hop on their bikes for a This year, the riders were joined a.m. until noon, Grace Church, 19 tin in-the-Fields, 151 Glenlake worthy cause. by Tyler Hamilton, a well-known OCT. 17 - St. John, Blackstock is Parkway Ave., Markham. Call 905- Ave., Toronto, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. “It started as a challenge among retired professional cyclist. Mr. celebrating its 175th anniversary. 294-3184. NOV. 21 - Bazaar, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., family to ride from Toronto to our Hamilton, who travelled from On Oct. 17 there will be an an - OCT. 24 - Fall rummage sale, 9 Church of the Resurrection, 1100 family cottage,” said John Montana to participate, is a former niversary fall tea from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. to 12 p.m., Holy Trinity, 140 Woodbine Ave., Toronto. Call 416- Stephenson, All Saints’ former Olympian and Tours de France p.m. with entertainment at noon Brooke St., Thornhill (Yonge 425-8383. manager of outreach to the nearby competitor. by the Suburbanaires, a senior Street and Centre Street). Call NOV. 21 - Christmas fair, 9 a.m. to Dan Harrison housing complex. Mr. Stephenson thought to in - men’s choir. 905-889-5931. 1 p.m., Christ the King, 475 Rath - “The first year, we had three peo - vite Mr. Hamilton after reading his NOV. 7 - Christmas bazaar, 10 a.m. burn Rd., Etobicoke. ple. The second year, we thought it book, The Secret Race , in which he Conferences to 1 p.m., Our Saviour, 1 Lauren - NOV. 21 - Hollyberry fair at St. would be a good way to raise mon - shares details about the mental tide Dr., (off York Mills), Don Luke, East York, 904 Coxwell Ave., ey for All Saints.” health challenges he overcame as OCT. 16-18 - Prayer, Praise & Heal - Mills. Call 416-385-1805. 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. This year’s ride on Aug. 29 a professional cyclist. ing, a conference on mental NOV. 7 - The Market, 10 a.m. to 3 NOV. 21 - Bazaar, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., raised $3,400 for All Saints from “Tyler struggled with depres - health at St. Paul on-the-Hill, Pick - p.m., St. Barnabas, 361 Danforth St. James the Apostle, Brampton, donations included in the riders’ sion through his career, and we ering, featuring guest speaker Ave. (at Chester Subway), Toronto. 3 Cathedral Rd. Call 905-451-7711. entrance fees. Mr. Stephenson knew he’d be able to connect with Joanne Goodwin, an expert on the NOV. 7 - Poinsettia bazaar, 10 a.m. NOV. 28 - St. Timothy’s Christmas hopes the funds will help support many of our clients’ stories,” said topic of mental illness. The confer - to 2 p.m. St. Matthew, 135 Wilson Kitchen, 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., 100 Take This Bread bakery, where Mr. Stephenson. “He also volun - ence begins with a service on Fri - Rd. S., Oshawa. Old Orchard Grove, north Toron - they would cover nearly a year’s teers with his local homeless shel - day night, followed by a fellowship NOV. 7 – Bazaar, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., to. Call 416-488-0079. worth of ingredients for Toronto ter and understands the work All hour. Saturday starts with conti - St. Joseph of Nazareth, 290 Bal - NOV. 28 - Bazaar, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Community Housing tenants Saints is doing.” nental breakfast, a morning and moral Dr., Brampton. Call 905- St. John, Bowmanville. Call Shirley learning to bake and sell bread to While organizing the ride is a afternoon session with the speak - 793-8020. at 905-697-0380. the local community. big undertaking, Mr. Stephenson er and lunch midday. On Sunday NOV. 7 - Craft sale and bazaar, 10 NOV. 28 - Bazaar, St. Andrew, Scar - In addition to raising money, the hopes to do it again in another two morning, Ms. Goodwin will speak a.m. to 2 p.m., St. Peter, Erindale, borough, 2333 Victoria Park Ave., cyclists also hoped to raise aware - years. at all three Sunday services at St. 3041 Mississauga Rd., Mississauga. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Call 416-447-1481. ness of the challenges facing “All Saints is near and dear to Toronto’s homeless population. my heart,” he said. “This is a way “Mental health issues can be a big for us to say that these issues are part of life for the homeless, some - still important. And there are Correction Send your times hand-in-hand with addic - enough people willing to ride tion,” said Mr. Stephenson. “Pro - across the province to make that SANDY Richmond is a member of grams like the ones offered at All known.” St. George, Allandale, in Barrie. Saints are needed and important.” To learn more about the pro - Incorrect information was pub - PARISH NEWS The ride is a serious undertak - grams offered by All Saints, Sher - lished in last month’s issue. ing for amateur cyclists. In one bourne St., including Take This day, the cyclists rode from All Bread, visit www.allsaintstoron - www.toronto.anglican.ca to editor @toronto.anglican.ca Saints to Kennisis Lake in Halibur - to.com. Shrinking treasuries leading to austerity: speaker
Continued from Page 1 ance than ever before since the challenge the status quo. He laud - of their power collectively; and in faith groups, often when it’s not will close with a time of worship development of the system.” ed the Pope’s recent statements they also understand the limits of happening elsewhere.” and fellowship. He says Canadians need to on climate change and the econo - what they can do in the communi - The Outreach and Advocacy Cost for the conference is $25 “change the conversation” on tax - my and also President Barak Oba - ty and they start pushing and de - Conference will be held on Oct. 17 per person ($10 for students and es and the meaning of poverty. ma and Warren Buffet’s com - manding more. I think both of at Holy Trinity School in Rich - the unemployed) and includes “We’ve got to challenge the poor- ments on tax reform. those things are worth exploring.” mond Hill. In addition to Mr. lunch and childcare. To register people-blaming that has somehow Working from the bottom up, He says Anglicans and other Himelfarb’s keynote speech, con - online, visit the diocese’s website infected our culture. We’ve got to local community groups can also faith groups understand the is - ference attendees will be able to at www.toronto.anglican.ca. For call some of that out. We’ve got to change the conversation about sues and are already playing a attend interactive workshops on a more information, contact Ryan change the poetry.” taxes. “What we’ve discovered is role in bringing about change. “I number of key social justice is - Weston, the diocese’s Social Jus - He says that can happen with a that when people engage in mak - have spoken to groups of Angli - sues such as reconciliation with tice and Advocacy consultant, at top-down and bottom-up ap - ing their community stronger, two cans and find that the kind of big First Nations, environmental re - [email protected] or proach. 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The Finance Department of the Synod them as well as attending the lo - Thessalonians 3:6-13.) This was a 11. Foodbanks and food sharing ministries Office cal synagogue each week. After very different response, as he 12. The Momentum Program FOR OCTOBER 22. Project Enabling Monitoring Group a brief time, the Jews drove Paul tried to keep them theologically 13. The Fresh Start Program 1. St. Simon-the-Apostle, Toronto 23. Church of South India (CSI), Toronto from the synagogue, so he and correct and morally responsible. 14. Provincial Synod 2. Trinity East (Little Trinity), Toronto 24. Parish Administrators his new friends started to con - We do not know the day or the 15. Administration and Finance Department of 3. Chaplain to the Hospital for Sick Children 25. North Peel Deanery vert the Gentiles there, especial - hour when Christ will return. the Synod Office 4. Diocesan Hospital Chaplains 26. Christ Church, Bolton ly the God-fearers. The early church believed it was 16. Congregational Development Department 5. Chaplain to Mount Sinai Hospital 27. Christ Church, Brampton Timothy and Silas caught up imminent, but as time passed of the Synod Office 6. Chaplain to Sunnybrook Hospital 28. Holy Family, Heart Lake (Brampton) with Paul in Corinth. Timothy and Jesus did not return, it be - 17. Supporting Congregations Volunteer Corps 7. Chaplain to St. John’s Rehabilitation 29. St. James the Apostle, Brampton reported on the state of the came evident that the second 18. Bishop’s Committee on Healing Hospital 30. St. James, Caledon East church in Thessalonica. Remem - coming was a future event, and 19. Lay Pastoral Visitors and Anointers 8. Chaplain to Toronto East General Hospital 31. St. Joseph of Nazareth, Bramalea ber, Paul was in Thessalonica for would remain a future hope for 20. The Archives of the Diocese of Toronto 9. Chaplain to Markham-Stouffville Hospital only a brief time and was con - most believers. cerned for the church’s welfare. Paul’s concern in these letters The church in Thessalonica con - was primarily pastoral. The Gen - IN MOTION Towers in Toronto. He served tinued to grow and thrive, but it tile Christians in Thessalonica York – Scarborough for a number of years on had a major problem: trying to needed to be assured that Jesus Appointments • St. Timothy, North Toronto Toronto City Council and understand the second coming would accept all who lived and • The Rev. Dawn Gilby, Hon - Metro Council and was elected of Christ. The followers were died in Christ, and that although orary Assistant, St. James the York – Simcoe Member of Provincial Parlia - grieving their dead and felt that we must always be ready to ac - Apostle, Brampton, Sept. 1. • St. Margaret of Scotland, ment for High Park-Swansea, the deceased would miss out on cept the risen Christ, we should • The Rev. David Bryan Hoopes, Barrie serving from 1995 until he was this important part of their life not avoid living useful, produc - OHC, Interim Priest-in- • All Saints, King City appointed to St. Hilda’s. He with Christ. This was an essen - tive lives. Charge, St. Hilda, Fairbank, • St. Mark, Midland served as a Toronto Police tial doctrine for Paul and the You can read about Paul’s mis - Sept. 1. • Trinity, Aurora (Associate Commissioner, president of early church, so he proceeded to sion in Corinth in Acts 18. When • The Rev. Theo Ipema, Interim Priest) the CNE and chair of the O’ - write the first epistle to the he left this important city after Priest-in-Charge, Church of Keefe Centre (now the Sony Thessalonians, addressing the one and a half years, he took the Atonement, Toronto, Sept. Retirements and Centre for Performing Arts) issue that the dead will be raised Priscilla and Aquila with him 1. conclusions among many other ways in up with Christ. Here we see the across the Aegean Sea to Eph - • The Rev. Mary Bell-Plouffe which he contributed to the beginning of Paul’s correspon - esus. Timothy and Silas may Vacant Incumbencies concluded her ministry at St. life of the wider community. dence, usually addressed to have stayed in Corinth. Aquila Clergy from outside the diocese Luke, Peterborough on Sept. The funeral took place on Aug. churches or individuals dealing and Priscilla remained in Eph - with the permission of their bish - 27. 22 at St. Hilda, Fairbank. primarily with pastoral con - esus to work in building up the op may apply through the Dioce - • The Rev. Canon Peter Gratton cerns. 1 and 2 Thessalonians are church in there. Paul would re - san Executive Assistant, Mrs. Deaths died on Aug. 30. Ordained in probably the oldest Christian lit - turn to Ephesus during his third Mary Conliffe, mconliffe@toron - • The Rev. Canon Derwyn Shea 1956, he served as Assistant erature that we possess, dating journey and would spend more to.anglican.ca. died on Aug. 15. Ordained in Curate at St. Paul, Bloor from 51-52 CE – about 20 years than two years there. 1966 in the Diocese of Street, Rector of St. Peter, after the crucifixion. I have often wondered if Paul’s Trent Durham Saskatchewan, he formally Erindale, Incumbent of St. These two epistles should be church in Ephesus was still in • Lakefield College School transferred into the Diocese of Timothy, North Toronto, Inter - read together. Some scholars be - existence a few years later, when • St. Mark, Port Hope Toronto in 1979 from the Dio - im Priest of the Church of the lieve that the second epistle may John and Mary, the mother of Je - • Newcastle & Orono cese of Algoma. He was Priest- Messiah, Toronto, and was not have been written by Paul, sus, arrived there having fled in-Charge at St. Clement, Honorary Assistant at St. Tim - primarily because Paul’s re - Jerusalem during the persecu - York – Credit Valley Riverdale, from 1971 until he othy, North Toronto during his sponse to the issue of the second tions of the late 80s or early 90s • St. Olave, Toronto became Incumbent at St. Hil - retirement. His funeral was coming is very different from his CE. It is probable that the Gospel • St. John the Baptist, Dixie, da, Fairbanks, in 1999 and the held at St. James Cathedral on answer in the first letter. I think of John was written in that city, Mississauga chair and CEO of St. Hilda’s Sept. 2. there is an easier explanation to but I can find no connection be - this problem. tween the Pauline Church and Let us look at Paul’s initial re - the Johannine Church. This is SHARE YOUR PARISH NEWS AND PHOTOS. Send to [email protected] sponse to the problem of escha - Continued on Page 12 12 The Anglican N E W S October 2015 Farm Day spurs Paul’s missionary journey continues CANADA talk about food EDMONTON – Families and Continued from Page 11 youth from the Diocese of Ed - BRIEFS monton braved unseasonably an interesting question. I must Paul’s letter to the Corinthians. cool, drizzly weather as they set do more research on the early The first epistle to the Corinthi - The Rev. Canon Don Beatty is out on a trip to Campbellton Ephesian Church. ans is Paul’s second longest and the honorary assistant at St. Family grateful Farm in Rosalind, Alta., in June. Next month we will look at the probably the second most impor - Luke, Dixie South, Mississauga. Dubbed Diocesan Farm Day, it first council in Jerusalem, the tant letter next to the epistle to for fresh start was a family event in which third missionary journey, and the Romans. Enjoy the dialogue. REGINA – In early 2014, Sirley members of various local church - Sanchez and her three children, es were able to experience a brief Valeria, Valentina and Adriana, glimpse of farm life and explore were living together in a single the issues of food and hunger. room in a house in Ecuador. Ms. Abbey Marshall, who attends Sanchez and her children had Christ Church in Edmonton, been forced to flee their native called it an “eye-opening and em - Venezuela after her husband’s powering day in the presence of murder at the hands of extortion - God.” Among the more poignant ists. Having applied for refugee lessons she took from the status, they were hoping for the group’s discussions on food was opportunity to begin a new life. the fact that “we have an over - That opportunity presented it - abundance of food here in Cana - self when PALS (Presbyterians, da and most of us don’t under - Anglicans and Lutherans in stand the value of our food and, Service) – which includes Re - sadly, lots of it goes to waste.” deemer Lutheran Church and St. The group also shared an in - Paul’s Anglican Church in Big - formal outdoor Eucharist on the gar, Sask. – submitted a refugee banks of Battle River, an experi - sponsorship application in Au - ence that resonated with the Rev. gust 2014, with the assistance of Elizabeth Metcalfe of St. Mary’s, Klaus Gruber, the Diocese of Edmonton. “Sharing the bread Saskatchewan’s refugee co-ordi - and the wine while standing nator. within sight and sound of the wa - PALS held a variety of ter flowing gently over a beaver fundraisers in anticipation of the dam reminded me of the impor - family’s arrival, including a tance of water in both our spiri - spring garage sale and a jukebox tual and physical lives,” she said. concert. The Sanchez family ar - The Messenger rived on Sept. 24, 2014, to a fresh - ly painted, washed and furnished Soccer helps with house in Biggar. Almost a year after the fami - reconciliation ly’s arrival, Cindy Hoppe, who VICTORIA – In July, Naden Field helped out throughout the in Esquimalt, B.C., played host to process of sponsorship, wrote, the second annual Thunderbird “Sirley’s gratitude for her home, Soccer Association Fun Day. The for the opportunity of school for event aimed to strengthen ties her children, for the beauty of a between the Indigenous commu - Canadian winter, is a gift and a nity and its neighbours through model for the rest of us.” a day of friendly soccer scrim - Saskatchewan Anglican mages. Election resources available online )TTAKESAVILLAGE
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