#156 The Journal of the Anglican Diocese of Yukon Spring 2010 He Lives: Hallelujah, Jesus Lives! page 2 Northern Lights Spring 2010 Day 1 & 16 Day 10 and 25 Parish of Whitehorse: Christ Church Mayo: St. Mary with St. Mark. Cathedral. The Rev. Susan Titterington. and the Lay The Ven.... Dr. Sean Murphy; The Rev. David Ministry Team Pritchard & family; Rev. Martin Carroll, Ruth Pelly Crossing: St. James the Lord’s Brother. Carroll & family; Licensed Lay Ministers-in- Licensed Lay Minister: Betty Joe. Training: Gaya Tiedeman, Beverley Whitehouse, Anne Bernard Day 11 & 26 Dawson City: St. Paul’s. Moosehide: St. Day 2 & 17 Barnabas. The Klondike Creeks; The Dempster Fort Nelson: St. Mary Magdalene. Hwy. Toad River, Alaska Highway, mile 150-506 The Rev. Dr. Lee Titterington, The Rev. Dn. The Rev. Dn. Don Thompson, Lana Thompson Percy Henry. The Ven. Ken Snider (Honorary and family; Licensed Lay Ministers: Glen Gough, Assistant) and Aldene Snider. Licensed Lay Jeanie Arva and Mark Tudor. Ministers: Mabel Henry; Shirley Pennell, Betty Davidson. Day 3 & 18 Watson Lake: St. John the Baptist Day 12 & 27 Lower Post, Swift River. Old Crow: St. Luke’s. Telegraph Creek: St. Aidan. The Rev. Susan Titterington, The Rev. Dn. Dease Lake; Glenora. Marion Schafer, Esau Schafer & family. and Lay Licensed Lay Minister: Tim Liverton Ministry Team. Day 4 & 19 Day 13 & 28 Carcross, Tagish, Johnson’s Crossing The Rev. Dn. Sarah Usher: Diocesan St. Saviour’s. The Rev. David Pritchard and Administrative Officer. family Members of the Diocesan Executive Teslin: St. Philips Committee.. Diocesan Prayer Partner: Diocese The Most Rev. Terry Buckle and the Ministry of Fredericton. Team Day 14 & 29 Day 5 & 20 Patti Tetlichi, Yukon Apostolate: Communities of: Carmacks & Keno, Bishop’s School of Yukon Ministries. PWRDF Diocesan Representative: Day 6 & 21 Diocesan ACW President: Gloria Hockley and Atlin: St. Martin. all ACW members. The Rev. Dn. Vera Kirkwood & family. Licensed Lay Minister: Dorothy Odian. Day 15 & 30 Those retired from Missionary Service: Day 7 & 22 The Rev. Dorothy Thorpe. Communities of Faro and Ross River The Rev. Bruce Aylard & Audrey Aylard. The Rev. Don Sax & The Rev. Dn. Lee Sax. Day 8 & 23 The Rev. Dr. Ellen Bruce OM. Haines Junction: St. Christopher’s. The Ven. Ken and Aldene Snider. Beaver Creek: St. Columba. The Rev. Geoffrey & Rosalind Dixon Alaska Highway: mile 918-1202 The Rev. Canon David & Alice Kalles The Most Rev. Terry Buckle and Lay Ministry The Ven. John & The Rev. Dn. Carol Tyrrell Team The Rev. Fred & Marcia Carson. The Very Rev. Peter & Barbara Williams Day 9 & 24 Marion Carroll. Parish of Whitehorse: The Rev. Mary & Lino Battaja Church of the Northern Apostles. The Ven. Dr. Sean Murphy (Archdeacon of Day 31 and daily: Liard); The Rev. Dn. Sarah Usher, Len Usher & The Most Rev. Terry Buckle, Blanche Buckle & family family. Northern Lights Spring 2010 page 3 Our Bishop Writes...... On Wednesday February 3rd I shared in officiating along with The Rev. Susan Titterington and three Deacons, Marion Schafer of Old Crow, Hanna Alexie and Mary Teya of Ft. McPherson NWT and Lay Leader Joanne Snowshoe of Ft. McPherson, at the funeral service of a dearly loved Gwitchin elder and well known member of St. Luke’s Anglican Church in Old Crow. Miss Edith Gertrude Josie died on January 31, 2010. Edith was a licensed Lay Leader at St. Luke’s Church in Old Crow, Yukon Territory. Edith touched many lives, even internationally, with her efforts to communicate for n the year 2011 the Diocese of her people and to serve her community. Yukon will be celebrating 150 years Edith left a long list of accomplishments. Iof ministry in Yukon Territory. In I believe that her accomplishments and many ways the Diocese of Yukon still her wonderful laughter and sense of continues to be a frontier mission area humour were largely motivated by her in northern Canada. What began 150 strong Christian faith. years ago as a mission venture to a On that occasion St. Luke’s Church was distant northern frontier within Canada full of people. Government dignitaries continues with a degree of excitement, of Yukon and the Northwest Territories as we seek to creatively face the were present. The RCMP provided a challenge of changing times. colour guard for Edith, comprised of One very significant change that I have current and former RCMP officers who noticed, since beginning my ministry served the community of Old Crow. as Bishop of Yukon in 1995, is the loss Hymns were sung in the language of of many loved and respected elders the people and prayers were prayed in among our First Nations People. I think the warmth of the log church with its I am correct in saying that the emerging wood burning stove. The congregant’s elders of today in Yukon carry a much long walk to the cemetery in the different life experience than that of bright sunshine of the day, with the those who over the past years have left temperature in the minus forties and us. They too, the emerging elders of the lowering of Edith’s body into a today, have entered a new time, a new frozen grave was an experience to be day, with new challenges confronting remembered. The finality of death was them in the on-going life of their made real but the brilliance of the low nations. setting sun brightly shinning in our page 4 Northern Lights Spring 2010 faces filled us with light and the hope The Diocese of Yukon can learn from of life to arise even out of death for Edith Josie and the people of Old Crow. those who die in the Lord. The fond We can learn to really live by faith in and loving memory of a dearly loved our Lord, to pray, to love, to care, to Christian mother, friend, elder, servant, reach out to others and to laugh, and gave hope in the stillness of that frozen laugh a lot, for we serve a risen Saviour moment. It too, I am sure, inspired as we journey on together facing the those gathered among us who are the challenge of changing times. emerging leaders of their people, to face the challenge of changing times, In Christ’s love, to pray, to follow our Lord, to laugh, to laugh a lot like Edith did and to live always in the hope that Jesus gives. Around The Diocese St. John the Baptist. Watson Lake: The congregation of St. John the Baptist we will be opening up our church for continues to accept the hospitality of the Summer services. Here in Town, St. Ann’s Catholic Church. We are one of our earliest signs of Spring is pleased to be able to hold our Sunday the question “When is the Thrift Shop services there following their own opening”--so that establishment will service, thus enabling us to cut back be opening its doors at the same time. on fuel costs for our own building. Meanwhile, our inter-congregational However, the general consensus of events remain strong within our five opinion in December was that it would churches: first -of -the- month services not feel like Christmas unless we were on a rotating schedule continue to be back in our own church; as a result, we well attended; our monthly Ladies turned the heat back on, pulled out our Breakfasts are enjoyed by all; and now decorations, and held the Christmas our local Ministerial are making plans services back in St. John’s. It was a for our traditional Sunrise Service- short-lived hiatus, but it made us realise -at which time all congregations how much we do miss our own church. participate before attending their own In time, Spring will be upon us, and services. We at St. John’s continue to learn to adapt! Diocesan Synod: May 13-14, 2010 Electoral Synod: May 15th, 2010 Please keep these two important Synods in your prayers and that God will lead and direct all that is said and done. Continued on page 14.......... Northern Lights Spring 2010 page 5 Well Done, Good and Faithful Servants: Ben and Nancy Hall You will remember in our last issue, that mention was made of the passing of the Rev. Ben and Nancy Hall. As promised in that issue, here now is a portrait of their lives and ministry Rev. Ben S. Hall: Oct. 27th, 1918 to Oct. 31st, 2009 ver a remarkable lifetime, filled with Oadventure and service, Ben left friends and fond memories in his wake. His journey time Rachel and Sarah were born. In the ended in Grande Prairie, Alberta, summer of 1963 he moved the family surrounded by his wife, Nancy and two of seven, in a Volkswagen Beetle, daughters, after a short period of illness. to a parish in Hay River, Northwest He moved to the Grande Prairie area Territories. after his retirement from the ministry, In 1970 Ben exercised an emerging to support Nancy in her career. artistic talent and attended the Alberta His adventures started in his father’s College of Art in Calgary for five years. pub in Huddersfield, England. He After graduation he returned to ministry joined the railroad after he finished in the Diocese of Calgary. During this school. His travels took him to France time, he answered a second call to the before the war and to South Africa North and continued his ministry in during the war. He survived the crash of Teslin, Yukon until his retirement. his Halifax bomber in Germany, where He remained active by chauffeuring he was captured and remained a POW Nancy on her business trips until she until the war ended.