October 2009 Anglican Life

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Saving the world -One sheep at a time

Each year PWRDF Sun-day at St. Mark’s in St. John’smeans two things - Side bySide Sleepover and Feast orFamine. This year May 2-3we once again highlighted thework of PWRDF. In recentyears the Side by SideSleepover has involved a chal-lenge for the youth from ouryouth minister. This year thechallenge was parish wide andit was to raise enough moneyto purchase fifty sheep. Whysheep? First, sheep can makea great difference in the livesof families in developing coun-tries. Sheep provide freshmeat, wool for clothing, and

trade. Second, the gospelreading for the weekend wasthe Parable of the Good Shep-herd from John’s Gospel.

With the challenge issuedthe youth got to work rallyingparishioners to purchase asheep or two or three. Whenall was said and done weraised $3520 which will pro-vide approximately eightysheep for families in need.

To add to the day we ar-ranged for a local sheepfarmer to bring along some ofhis sheep to St. Mark’s onSunday for our 10:30am serv-ice. This provided a greatvisual reminder of our goal. Italso provided a great objectlesson for the gospel. Our chil-dren got to spend their Sun-day school time petting the

sheep and hearing from a reallife shepherd just what it takesto be a good shepherd.

The second part of ourweekend is the Feast or Fam-ine (aka Rich Man, Poor ManMeal). The purchase of aticket guarantees you a feastor a famine. Ten percent ofthe people will receive a deli-cious roast beef dinner withtea/coffee, and desert. Twentypercent get baked beans andapple juice to represent theunclean drinking water thatmost of the world has to drink.The remaining 70% receiveplain white rice with no drink-ing water. The meal represents

Article and Photos byRobert Cooke

Side by side: A young member of St. Mark’s Sunday School learns the value of how one younglamb can help change the world.

See: Side by SideStory continued on page 6

Lord of theharvest

Now thank we all our God,With heart and hands and voices,who wondrous things has done,In whom this world rejoices;Who from our mothers’ armshas blessed us on our wayWith countless gifts of love,and still is ours today.

O may this bounteous Godthrough all our life be near us,With ever joyful heartsand blessèd peace to cheer us;And keep us in His grace,and guide us when perplexed;And free us from all ills,in this world and the next!

All praise and thanks to Godthe Father now be given;The Son and Him Who reignswith Them in highest Heaven;The one eternal God,whom earth and Heaven adore;For thus it was, is now,And shall be evermore.

Words: Martin Rinkart, circa 1636(Nun danket alle Gott);translated from German to English byCatherine Winkworth, 1856.

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News & Announcements

The time is now!

Kevin Smith

stewardship

Kevin Smith is the giftplanning consultant for theAnglican Church of Canada.He can be contacted at(709) 739-5667 or by [email protected]

I begin with the words ofVictor Hugo:The future has several namesFor the weak it is impossibleFor the faint hearted, it isunknownFor the thoughtful andvaliant, it is ideal

That quote was containedin a presentation I made 9years ago. It was a call to ac-tion to clergy and laity – a chal-lenge to consider the benefitsof planned giving to theChurch. The bottom line: if wedon’t encourage our faithful pa-rishioners to get a will and leavesomething in that will for thechurch, someone else will.Mark my words, as a teacherI know used to say!

The consequence: we will

have lost a marvellous oppor-tunity to benefit our Churchthrough a planned gift andworse still, we will have notencouraged a generous act ofstewardship by one of ourown.

The time is now!As I have said repeatedly

over the past 9 years, our pa-rishioners have a choice as towhere their charitable dollarwill go. Belief in the missionof the Church and trust aretwo huge components.

Here are some statis-tics from the Canadian As-sociation of Gift Plannersaccording to a recent poll:

- Most Canadians(79%) feel they are familiarwith charities, yet few have

a high degree of familiaritywith them (17% very famil-iar).

- A majority of Cana-dians (77%) trust charities,with 27 percent trustingthem a lot.

- Trust in charities hasremained about the samesince 2000.

- Amongst those withonly some, little, or no trustin charities, the most com-monly cited reason for nothaving more trust in chari-ties is uncertainty aboutwhere the money is reallygoing (30%).

- Of the ten types ofcharities asked about in thestudy, Canadians are mostlikely to trust hospitals a lot

or some (88%), followed bycharities that focus on chil-dren/children’s activities(86%), health prevention/health research (85%), edu-cation (80%), social services(77%), protection of ani-mals (73%), and protectionof the environment (72%).Churches (67%),and otherplaces of worship (65%) arenext, followed by charitiesthat focus on the arts (63%)and international develop-ment (59%).

These are some disturb-ing numbers. One would havethought that Churches wouldbe number one on the list.

So, what do we have todo?

We must write our

Church’s mission. What arewe all about? Why do weneed money? Will these fundsfurther God’s work or simplyprop up our maintenance pro-gram? We must show that weare indeed all about God’swork and we are making adifference in this world. Wemust also talk about our workand why it is important andworthy of support. The lead-ership must lead the way per-sonally – that is, ensure wehave a will and that we haveleft a planned gift for ourChurch.

The challenge is urgent!The task is large! But, the timeis now.

Please feel free to contactme to discuss your planned giftor your parish’s planned giv-ing program.

A Teen’s Involvementwith the Church: NicoleBuffett, daughter of Rev. Nealand Beverly Buffett, and oneof the Sunday School teachersat All Saints attended a ten-daychurch leadership conferencethis summer at Huron Collegein London, Ontario called “Askand Imagine”. Nicole is alsoa youth delegate to ProvincialSynod being held in Gander.(Parish of Fortune-Lamaline)

Mission. Please pray forthe Healing Mission to be heldon Friday, October 16 – Sun-day, October 18. Rev. BrianCandow will be the leader forthe weekend. The theme forthe weekend is “Prayer, Medi-cine, and Sacraments.” Also,a Women’s Quiet Day for allladies was held on Saturday,September 19 from 10 a.m. to3 p.m. in the chapel. Rev. Eliza-beth Stewart, United Church

Minister, Windsor/BishopFalls, will be our leader.Men’s Retreat Day. HolyTrinity is sponsoring a RetreatDay for men on Saturday,November 14 from 10 a.m.– 2 p.m. Rev. Perry Cooperwill be the guest leader. Thetopic for the Retreat is “Godand Masculinity: What’s Ex-pected of Us?” (Parish ofHoly Trinity, Grand Falls)

Queen’s College In-tern Judi Phillips will be in theParish of New Hope for thenext three months learningministry. (Parish of NewHope)

St. Martin’s Cathedralwelcomes Mrs. Juanita Free-man for her internship session.The Biblical Studies programis continuing – all are wel-come. Celebrations for the50th Anniversary year willcontinue this fall – watch for

details. A big “Thank You” forall of the time and effort givenby the St. Martin’s Cathedralfamily to help with the Dioc-esan Synod in April, the 50thAnniversary CelebrationWeekend in May, the Provin-cial Synod and the Central NLDiocesan ACW Conferencein September. (Parish ofGander)

Bishop Cyrus Pitmanwishes to announce that TheRev. Chris Snow, has beenoffered, and has accepted, aposition in the Diocese ofNiagara as Rector of GraceChurch in Milton, Ontario.The Bishop has accepted hisresignation as Rector of theParish of St. Michael and AllAngels, St. John’s. The ten-tative start date of this newposition is November 1, 2009.(Parish of St. Michael & AllAngels)

The City of Mount Pearlhas responded favourably toour request to adopt the greenspace around us under its“Adopt-A-Park” program.This means that we will be re-sponsible to keep it neat andtidy and to care for a part ofthe community beyond our im-mediate property. We arelooking at the wooded area onthe corner of Old PlacentiaRoad and Richard NolanDrive as far back as the walk-ing trail behind the church. Thiseffort is part of our MinistryPlan and we hope to hold ourfirst clean-up of the area inearly fall.” (Parish of theGood Shepherd, MountPearl)

H1N1 (Swine Flu) pre-cautions: At this momentthere does not seem to be aserious outbreak of H1N1Virus in the various areas ofthis Diocese. Nevertheless,

we need to be aware of whatis happening. If there is wide-spread concern in your parishor among persons at risk, youmay decide to take action. Thisaction may be education andawareness by placing infor-mation in your weekly bulle-tin, making announcements,and increasing the awarenessof hand washing, particularlyamong Eucharistic Assistants.If the situation does indeedworsen, and infectionsspread, the Bishop may wellhave to issue further instruc-tions. Such instructions wouldbe implemented in consulta-tion with the parishes, as wellas with the other two Dio-ceses in Newfoundland andLabrador. However, in themeantime, take reasonablecare and keep informed bychecking the NL Governmentwebsite. (Diocese of EasternNewfoundland & Labrador)


Pop culture & faith youth voice

Allison Billard

Disclaimer: This pieceappeared in its original format: www.generation.anglican.caIt has been modified forlength, audience andmedium.

Part 2 - Contemporary idol worship

Welcome to part two inmy series on how pop cultureis distracting us from faith.

There is an issue here, thatmay even be greater than thebody image crisis fuelled bythe media: The concept of “ce-lebrity” has become synony-mous with “idolized.” We aremaking idols out of these popculture icons, and it is headinginto dangerous territory.

In addition to fuelling body

image issues, society’s obses-sion with celebrity and theneed to know everythingthey’re doing, highlightingeach destructive or damagingmoment is taking a toll on thefaith development of each in-dividual and the faith commu-nity as a whole. We don’thave time or space in our livesfor God and His Word. Wepractically worship these“idols”: Brittany Spears, MylieCyrus, Barack Obama just toname a few.

There are all sorts of rea-sons that we “worship” them,some are very legitimate: Iwould have voted for Obama,too, if given the chance be-cause the man is brilliant andhas the potential to enact some

serious change. But he is justone man, albeit with a power-ful position and a host of peo-ple around him who are ableto make important and pow-erful decisions that might ac-tually change the world. Buthe isn’t a superhero. Manypeople have unrealistic expec-tations of the man, he is onsuch a high pedestal that thepotential fall could be fatal.

Other obsessions are con-siderably less legitimate al-though still perfectly human.We want to have others tolook up to, we like to be en-tertained and it is in our na-ture to be curious (and evennosy) so when the gossip millstarts running it’s hard to stop.Suddenly we’re fascinated by

which stars are dating, marry-ing or divorcing and we can’tget enough of the gossip. It’slike a train wreck, you justcan’t look away.

But if I hear one more timethat Brittany Spears has put onweight so help me I think I’llscream. Personally I think it’sabout time the poor girl ate acheeseburger and put on a lit-tle weight, she was starting tolook a little gaunt.

We need to care lessabout the lives of the peoplewe see on TV and in movies.It’s as simple as that. Butwhere do we start? I’m notsure. I would start by tryingto find God in all the media weencounter. Is there a biggermessage here? How should I

feel about what I’m seeing orreading? How does it impactmy life and the life of those Iknow? If we think a little moreactively we might find we’reable to find room for God inall the media madness, andmaybe even come to under-stand our relationship with hima little better.

Discuss the things you seeand hear actively, always seekout the bigger picture, andnever stop questioning the va-lidity of what you read or seeor hear. Youth especially needto be reminded that just be-cause it’s in print or on TVdoesn’t make it true.

News from Stephenville parishOn 22 March 2009, the Rev Dawn

Barrett was inducted as rector of St Augus-tine’s Parish in Stephenville. Bishop PercyCoffin led the service accompanied by Arch-deacon Ed King, and Rev RobertaWoodman.Rev Dawn took up her duties asrector in December 2008. Originally fromNewfoundland, she and her husband Edwardcame from a parish in Wellsville, New York,USA. They were living there from 2002 to2008. We are thankful that she decided tocome to Stephenville when the opportunity toreturn home was available. We welcomedRev. Dawn Barrett and her husband with apotluck luncheon and a parish gathering afterthe 11am service.

In other Parish news, on 21 June 2009 atSt Augustine’s Church, the Religion and Lifecertificates were presented to three genera-tions of a grandmother, mother, and daughter. New Rector: Rev. Dawn Barrett (centre) at her Induction.

Three generations: (left to right) Heather T iller,Maureen Tiller, and Mae Lomond receive the Religion& Life Certificates.

Article & Photos byCaren Noseworthy


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ANGLICANLifein NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR

guest editorialA renewed image ofthe Godhead

The Venerable Ed KingExecutive Archdeacon

Diocese ofWestern Newfoundland

Recently I have read twovastly different books, vastlydifferent in content, yet verysimilar theological insights froma Christian perspective.

The first is the 1950’sTales of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis – an insightful an-thology that offers simple yetcomplex reflections onChristian doctrine and the-ology through the eyes ofchildren by travelling withthem into their imaginaryworld, and re-seeing reali-ties from their perspective.The themes of the realities ofthe Godhead, other realms,the thinness of the veil, spir-itual completeness, are buta few of the amazingly con-structed tales that hold withinthem the timeless tenets oftruth and awareness. Thecomplete anthology raisesnew questions about ouracceptance of half-bakeddoctrines and incompleteunderstandings of what weso glibly pass for ‘Christianideals’.

The second book is a2007 publication entitled TheShack by William P. Young.This book written from theperspective of one who hassuffered and lost, touches onmany of the same themes as

C. S. Lewis’ Tales of Narniaseries and, not surprisingly,perceives very similar insights.The manifestations of the God-head in Trinitarian splendourare truly amazing, and has sucha ring of truth and reality that

one stands and stares in aweat a reality that we seem tohave missed over and overagain. The thinness of the veilbetween realms, as visualizedin the book, can be seen andheard so often in the storiesand lives of those we counseland to whom we become pas-

tors.In an age and a time when

we seem to be ever more andmore enamoured of the visual,the visuals presented in thesetwo books are far more col-ourful and far more ‘full’ than

any images I have seen onthe TV or computer screen.Both of these books havehelped me understand morefully the complexities of thelives I touch in my ministryand through my person. Ithank God for the great giftof imagination that fills to thebrim the creativeness ofthose who choose to see theGodhead beyond the mistsof illusion and jaded hope.

For me, these twobooks have offered newhope for a renewed under-standing of the Godhead inthe midst of a confused andconfusing world view. Suchimaginings can get us out ofthe rut of ‘this is the only wayto see’, to a space and time

where we can envision moreclearly the unimaginable im-mensity of the God we wor-ship. May we learn to re-im-agine God in the image she in-tended rather than reciprocat-ing her bounty by ‘making herinto our image.’


Mission is not our idea - it is God’s bishop’s letter

Bishop Cyrus PitmanDiocese of Eastern

Newfoundland & Labrador

“Mission is not our idea;It is God’s”

When I came across thisline, I said “Thanks be toGod”. Much of what I see andread gives the impression thatMission is our idea and that ithas only occurred to us in thisgeneration. Additionally, it isconsidered by many to be oneof the programs of the Churchalmost like a side order ofFrench fries – an option. Ifwe read the Scriptures weknow that can never be thecase.

From Genesis to Revela-tion we come to the conclu-sion that our God is an awe-some God and the God of

Mission. As Tim Dearbornsays “it is not the Church ofGod that has a mission inthe world, but the God ofMission who has a Churchin the World”. The most im-portant thing is not the Churchbut the world. “God so lovedthe world that he gave hisonly Son, so that everyonewho believes in him may notperish but may have eternallife” (John 3:16). We are asent people in the name of ourLord - that is what the wordmission means in our context.

For some the Church is abuilding, a priest, and enoughlaity to pay the bills. We arecalled to be much more than

that. We are called to jour-ney with people so that to-gether we are empowered andequipped to do God’s workin the world.

We have heard a little bitabout what is called “FreshExpressions of Church”. Afresh expression of Church isa form of Church for ourchanging culture establishedprimarily for the benefit of peo-ple who are not yet membersof any Church. This can hap-pen in any community of New-foundland and Labrador. It isencouraging to see what is al-ready developing in severalparishes. This is exciting.

We hear more and more

about the New Testamentmodel of Church Planting.Church Planting has to do withaccompanying people as theyestablish a relationship withJesus Christ. It has little to dowith shifting established believ-ers around from one jurisdic-tion to another.

Mission is God’s workand plan. We are commis-sioned to share in that workwhich very often involveschange and transformation.This process for Christians isgrounded in the Cross of Je-sus. It includes grief, conflictand suffering. It always resultsin resurrection and new life.

We will always be chal-

lenged to work toward aChurch that cares passionatelyabout what God cares about.That needs to be at the heartof our response to sharing inGod’s Mission.

Do you know theseclergy?

In the photo above, theperson seated centre isBishop Philip Abraham.

Can you identify theother remaining fiveclergy?

Send your answers [email protected]

Photo courtesy of EasternDiocesan Archives

On Sunday, June 7 at Saint Michael and All Angels’ Church, Rose Blanche, ACW officerswere installed, Licensed Lay Ministers were commissioned, and two people were thankedand honoured for their service to the Church.

Back row (left to right): Edith Leamon, Lay Reader & Pastoral Visitor; Victoria Savoury,Lay Reader, Eucharistic Assistant & Pastoral Visitor; June Hardy, Pastoral Visitor; VeraClarke, Pastoral Visitor & ACW President; Joanne Savoury, Pastoral Visitor.

Front row (left to right): Father Andrew Nussey, Rector; Judy Francis (12 years of serviceas church treasurer); Sebina Keeping, ACW Secretary & Social Concern Officer; MarleneWilliams, ACW Treasurer; Sandra Hardy, ACW First Vice-President; Florence Parsons,Altar Guild President; Joan Durnford, Family Life Officer; Audrey Best, Family Life Officer;Walter Keeping (Lay Reader for 50 years at the church; 54 years in total). Absent: PhyllisParsons, ACW Second Vice-President. Photo: Brodie Thomas

Ministry in Rose Blanche


Article & Photo byKaren Hodder

First ever VBS a hit!

Swinging Safari: Happy children enjoyed their adventure at this year’s Vacation Bible School at St.Paul’s Anglican Church in the Goulds. Photo: Karen Hodder

When I made a suggestionfor a Vacation Bible School(VBS) for the children ofGoulds at our Annual Meet-ing in January, I thought it wasfood for thought for futureyears; however we held ourfirst “Kingdom of the Son” APrayer Safari, Vacation BibleSchool on August 3-7, 2009.

In May, a notice wasplaced in our Bulletin lookingfor volunteers to get the Va-cation Bible School up andrunning. Two parishioners(Suzanne McCormack andmyself) along with Rev. RobinBarrett showed up for themeeting. The VBS wheelswere set in motion!

At our next meeting wedecided on a date to hold theVBS, looked through VBSbrochures, and chose atheme. After numerous plan-ning and organization meet-ings; a generous loan of propsand materials from the Churchof Ascension, Mt. Pearl, do-nations from 24 businesses,organizations, and individuals

in and around the Goulds / St.John’s area, and a greatamount of help...St. Paul’sVBS was about to begin.

Eighteen children fromages 4 1/2 to 10 years old, 4junior and seven adult leadershad a blast each day during thefun filled week. Mrs. ClariceWilliams prepared our snacksand made sure we were fedon time. Every day had atheme: God Listens! God Pro-vides! God Forgives! GodProtects! and God Rules! Each day started off with Rev.Barrett and the Children gath-ering at the Praise Park tohave an interactive lesson bytaking a portion of the Lord’sPrayer and explaining whateach verse actually means.The children then went to theMarket Place where theymade a different craft everyday.

Next stop was a SingingSafari where the children andleaders learned new songsfrom Africa and even someSwahili words. At the Water-

ing Hole, theme centeredsnacks were served to all. The children ventured to theJungle Games Reserve nextfor a whole lot of fun and ex-citement. Each day closedwith a recap of the day’s les-son and a prize draw for fourlucky children. On the last dayof VBS the children weretreated to a Pizza party and anAnimal themed CelebrationCake.

Sunday August 9th, theparticipants of the “Kingdomof the Son” lead the Churchservice at St. Paul’s for ourVBS Closing. Each and everychild who attended VBS hasa special part to play and aReading during the service.

After Church, the congre-gation was invited to a lunch-eon at the Vacation BibleSchool to view pictures takenduring the week’s activities,and see how St. Paul’s audi-torium was transformed intoour African Prayer Safari.

global demographics and il-lustrates the unfair distribu-tion of wealth in our world.

The whole point of theweekend is to raise funds forand awareness about suchglobal issues. How can wewho follow the Good Shep-herd allow such injustice andpoverty to the rest of his

flock? How can we whofeast on the bounty of thebread of life week afterweek, allow hunger to per-sist on such a large scale?

Side by sideContinued from page 1

Side by side: An initiativefrom the Primate’s WorldRelief and DevelopmentFund has left a lastingimpression on these youngchildren from St. Mark’sChurch in St. John’s. Theyraised funds to help needyfamilies in Third Worldnations buy a sheep.

Photo: Robert Cooke.

St. Michael’sBoys Choirsing like angels

A small group of energeticyoung fellows have formed aBoys’ Choir conducted bymusician Robin Williams.

The Choir is a communitybased group consisting ofboys ages 7-14 who performregularly at a variety of ven-ues. The choir rehearsesThursday evenings at St.Michael and All Angels’ Par-ish Hall. Boys are instructedusing a standard curriculum asprescribed by Voices for Life,published by the Royal Schoolof Church Music. The firsthour of each meeting is de-voted to technique, musician-ship, and theory. The remain-der is allotted to recreation andfellowship.

They have performed atthe Kiwanis Music Festivaland in March they led the sing-ing at a Memorial Service atSt. Clare’s Mercy Hospital.

The choir are very atten-

tive and serious in their sing-ing acapella, especially theirchoice of Gregorian Chant.They added dignity and sa-credness to the memorial serv-ice and we were delighted bytheir youth and quality of theirperformance.

They also sang an anthemat the recent Confirmationservice held in early June atthe Parish of St. Michael & AllAngels.

We wish Mr. Williams andSt. Michael’s and All AngelsParish all the best with their“angels” and hope that theywill continue to grow in num-bers and skill.

The voices of angels: St. Michael’s Boys’ Choir perform at St.Clare’s Hospital Chapel during a recent worship service. Photocourtesy of The Loop newsletter.

From The LoopHospital Newsletter


Article byStella Walsh

50 years of praise and worshipSt. Martin’s Cathedral honours its past and looks forward to the future

St. Martin’s Choir raised their voices in beautiful and heartfelt worship during the St. Martin’s 50th

Anniversary Celebration Weekend Eucharist. Photo: Stella Walsh

(Left) The Reverend John Watton (current Rector) and (right) theReverend Jim Reid (former Rector 1970-1989) at the St. Martin’s50th Anniversary Celebration Weekend Eucharist.Photo: Stella Walsh

(Left) Children’s entertainer Terry Reilly calls on an assistant tohelp out during his show at the St. Martin’s 50th AnniversaryCelebration Weekend. Photo: Stella Walsh

During the St. Martin’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Weekend,one of the displays featured the Home Communion Set, Bible andprayer books of the late Father John Moss.Photo: Stella Walsh

All articles and photos for theDecember issue of Anglican Life are

due to the Editor by:November 1, 2009(Centre standing) Harold Collins, former provincial politician, was a member of the vestry at St.

Martin’s in 1959. He spoke at the St. Martin’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Weekend Banquet.Photo: Revd. Brian Candow

During the weekend ofMay 22-24, 2009 St. Martin’sCathedral held their 50th An-niversary Celebration Week-end. It was a time to look backand learn, to look at the presentand take stock, and to lookforward and prepare for futuregrowth in ministry.

Many invited guests camefor the weekend to take partin events such as a banquet, aBishop’s retreat, a family showby Terry Reilly, pre-teen andteen dances, a meet-and-greet, a Celebration Eucharist

and a farewell luncheon.The Anniversary commit-

tee prepared displays,slideshows and a commemo-rative booklet for several of the

events. These items sparkedmuch talk of days gone by andquestions that started with,“Do you remember…?”

All those who attended theCelebration Weekend de-clared it a huge success.Thank you to the AnniversaryCommittee and all those whoput so much effort into pro-viding an opportunity for St.Martin’s to celebrate its manyyears of growth as a Christiancommunity.

St. Martin’s Anglican Cathedral, Gander, NL


Straight Talk on ‘surplus’ buildings

The Rev. Greg Mercer

columnist

let us pray...

The Rev. Everett HobbsChildren & prayerReading a review of Help-

ing Teenagers to Pray (MarkYaconelli) caused me to reflecton the spirituality of children.How do we teach children topray? In the early days thiswas the task of parents and itrequired parents who wouldteach this and who prayedthemselves.

Usually children are taughtto say prayers at bedtime,learn mealtime graces, memo-rize the Lord’s Prayer, and afew other prayers plus somehymns. Those who attendworship and Sunday Schoolshould grow more into pray-ing, while Confirmation prepa-ration will offer some instruc-tions on prayer. According toYaconelli and others this mayhave little to do with how chil-dren develop spiritually.

He claims that we neitherrecognize nor respond to thechild’s capacity for a relation-ship with God. In our churchculture, knowing the answersis prioritised over living the

question. We need to trustthem with prayer rather thanimposing it on them - ‘to trusttheir capacity for God.’ Trustis a key word - ‘young peo-ple need the parent/teacher totrust their capacity for God.’One requirement for prayer isto be removed from ourceaseless activity. In her bookCreative Ideas for QuietCorners, Lynn Chamberspresents 14 visual ideas forquiet moments with children.She aims to show how multi-sensory spaces in church, thehome, school or elsewhere,can be places to help drawpeople into prayer.

Besides books, there areother resources for nurturingchildren and young people inprayer. The Association forChildren’s Spirituality(childrenspirituality.org) offerthe International Journal ofChildren’s Spirituality andsponsors the InternationalConference on Children’sSpirituality. Another organiza-

tion is Godly Play(godlyplay.org) which wasdeveloped by JeromeBerryman who writes about itin his book Godly Play.

Again, there are plenty ofbooks on the subject. Youcan find titles like Children’sSpirituality (Ed. DonaldRadcliff), The Spirituality ofChildren (Robert Coles) andThe Spirituality of the Child(David Hay and RebeccaNye). You can add Childrenand Spirituality (BrendaHyde) and Nurturing Chil-dren’s Spirituality (e. HollyAller). Spirituality & Practice(spiritualityandpractice.org)offers an e-course PractisingSpirituality with Children.

In essence in nurturing achild’s spiritually, a child’s re-lationship with God, we needto include the child’s perspec-tive and experience as part ofthe total effort.

Our congregations areblessed with many good andfaithful people who love theirGod, love Christ, and lovetheir church [building]. Simi-larly, we have wonderfulclergy who love their flock andwho attend to them relentlessly.But it is also fair to say thatmany of our clergy have neverbeen in a growing church intheir entire ordained lives, anddare I say, frustrated with evergrowing financial demands tokeep their church buildingsopen.

Let’s be honest here for amoment. We have too manychurch buildings both in ourcities and in our outports. Andnot only do we have a profu-sion of buildings, we no longerhave the “critical mass” of peo-ple or the necessary resourcesto keep many of those build-ings open. Not to mention thatan increasing number of thoseold structures are far too bigfor the present size of the con-gregation. As someone re-

cently said to me, “We havetoo much cloth for the gar-ment.”

The low birth rate is themajor factor contributing tocongregational decline andconsequently, an excess ofbuildings. Other major factorsthat are out of our control anddirectly affect congregationalstrength are: out migration,shifting demographics, multipledemands and activities onpeoples time (especiallyyoung families), and shiftingpriorities. So why aren’t wedoing anything about the sur-plus of buildings and combin-ing resources?

It seems to me that wehave to make some hard butnecessary decisions about let-ting go of some of our churchbuildings and looking at newways of delivering our minis-tries. It is simply bad stew-ardship to keep them open.Moreover, maintaining thesestructures robs us of the nec-essary resources to be vibrant

communities of faith with thepotential of offering criticalministries to those who hap-pen to grace our church doorson a Sunday morning or evento attract new people. I haveto commend places like Fogoand South River/Brigus inConception Bay North whohad the foresight and thegumption to pool their re-sources and come together ina single new dwelling with newand creative ways of beingchurch.

In the June 2009 editionof The Diocese of British Co-lumbia’s Diocesan Post, TheReverend Dr. Gary Nicolosi,Congregational Office for theDiocese, had this to say: “Thecrisis in the diocese is sys-temic... Systemic change re-quires a great act of faith onour part, including the mo-bilization of the entire dio-cese by the Bishop, DiocesanCouncil and Synod. Wehave to take some hard butnecessary actions, including

letting go of our buildings,finding out-of-the-box waysto fund ministry, exploringnew models of being church,developing leadership skillsin our clergy, expecting ourparishes to be centers ofspiritual transformation,and learning to be Anglicanin a culture that is no longerfriendly to the church.”

I would be the first to ad-mit that I have a great senti-mental attachment to my homechurch in Upper Island Cove.It is the place where my wifeand I was baptised, confirmed,married and had our childrenbaptized. Our youngestdaughter was buried fromthere. It was also the homechurch of our parents and gen-erations before them, as wellas the place where I waspriested. But if I am honest Iwould have to say that weAnglicans sometimes have anunhealthy attachment to build-ings.

Buildings are important

and we are not to diminishtheir role. But we must alsoand always be on guard of los-ing our focus. Our mission isto be disciple making commu-nities of which the building isa launching pad. Ourchurches continue to attractgood and faithful people, andclergy who dream of being aleader of a growing church.How can we mobilize our peo-ple and best pool our re-sources to ensure the continu-ation and proclamation of thegreatest story ever told?“Glory to God, whosePOWER, WORKING INUS, can do infinitely more thanwe can ask or imagine.”

Welcome improvementsin Howley

You know you never geta second chance to make a firstimpression. And current lit-erature tells usthat, if you wantyour church tobe seen as wel-coming and in-viting, one com-ponent of this isto improve theoutward ap-pearance of yourchurch buildingand grounds. Tothis end, the con-gregation of theChurch of the Ascension,Howley, undertook somecosmetic property projectsthis past summer. These in-cluded erecting a new “Wel-come” sign, spreading topsoiland seeding in the churchyard,

building a wheelchair ramp forthe main entrance and paint-ing the interior of the churchbuilding. All of these com-bined have served to reallyspruce up the look of ourproperty. Our church is abeautiful little old church and

the first one yousee when youenter the town.Now we have abuilding andgrounds that areas welcomingas our warm-hearted andfriendly churchfamily. We giveGod sincerethanks for thestewardship of

time, talent and treasure ofseveral individuals who facili-tated this work and helped tokeep the cost of this work toa minimum.

Article byThe Rev. John Meade

Rector


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David Davis

Parson Jackson - Part 2The DocumentOur

History

The document which isincluded with this and last is-sue’s article is set in the year1707 at the time of the French/English warfare in Newfound-land in the years leading to thepeace of 1713. Raids andcounter raids were carriedalong the coasts of Newfound-land by both countries.

It appears from otherdocuments which precede theone below in the Colonial Of-fice papers, Parson Jacksonwrote this document to an-swer the allegations in theseletters which have the appear-ance of a letter writing cam-paign organized by MayorLloyd. The flowing praise forMajor Lloyd is too good to betrue and it had the negativeeffect that Parson Jackson, inhis reply, has also to be justas praising about him.

The story of the officer’sparade on Sunday is a well-known one, the impetus isblamed on Major Lloyd, thosewere violent days when sol-diers’ lives were short andthey lived life to extremes. Mr.Jackson portrays his conductto the contrary.

The business at Benger’swhich is the core of the accu-sation against Mr. Jackson isinteresting. Benger and hiswife Mary were at that timeattempting to claim the Pooleplantation in Ferryland whichhad been settled by the Kirkefamily on land granted to

George Calvert, Lord Balti-more. From the document itwould appear that Bengerwas a planter and was enter-taining other planters includingMr. Jackson. The wine theydrank has a story; it had beenexchanged for Newfoundlandfish in Spain or Portugal thenshipped to England and someof it was brought back toNewfoundland to be sold bythe planters. This was highquality spirits, meant for theupper classes in England. Eve-ryone was probably happyand what happened about thewords that were spoken wasprobably subject to interpre-tation depending on your pointof view.

It appears that the JohnDavis mentioned may by haveenjoyed the excellent wine toomuch and he was taken ad-vantage of. Such a statementin wartime could be very seri-ous. The officers who heardthe matter had little choice butto stand behind Mr. Jacksonbut it would have done Mr.Jackson little good. In thosedays a chaplain would havebeen expected to be a pillarof the established order, any-thing to do with traitorousstatements would be serious.

As usual, the few words in text that could not be transcribed are indicated with thesymbol: (?). The reader will find obsolete spellings and some confusion in titles also.

3. And as to the neglect of my Duty in my Pastoral Cure, I take God towitness, I never omitted any part of my duty during my abode amongst them, forwhen the Officers rioted through the Harbor with their fiddler on purpose to get allthe profligate Wretches on Sabbath days to accompany them to break my Congrega-tion, I doubled my diligence & proceeded Three times every Sabbath, twice at yeChurch and once at the ffort in hopes to keep the post of Religion and some ChristianDecorum amongst them wth I thank God I did, not withstanding this Torrent of Vicesto oppose me: But in the last years service it pleased God to afflict me wth Such aSickness, that I was soon macerated & worne away & contracted in my limb to sucha degree that for 4 months together I was not able to rise out of my Bed or feed myself without help, and this they call a neglect of duty when God knows I was morelike to dy every day then live in ye Eye of all that saw me, but as soon as it pleasedGod to renew my Strength, nay, before I was well able, I discharged & performed myduty as formerly with diligence on my side and wth ye approbation of all (as ever Iheard) to the contrary and so I continued till Capt Lloyds arrival with his mewChaplaine to relieve me, to this likewise Cap Moody was a daily Eye witness.

4 As to the last infamous Accusation, that I should at a certain time in thehouse of one James Benger drank confusion & damnation to Capt Michael Richardsattended with Curses, Oaths & I do declare in the presence of God, it is such aEgregious falsehood as ever was invented bu men od devils and this sworn by oneJohn Davis agst me.

The business was plainly thus: I was at the said Bengers at a Repast with abouttwenty Masters and other people and after we had eaten some Bottles of wine weredrank and I stay’d about an hour & half with them & having a child to baptise in theHarbor, I went & did my duty there and some time I stay’d there and frome thence Iwent directly home & returned no more to them, but I must confess it was told me thenext day that the said Benger did drink confusion to Capt Richards, and this accusa-tion was brought wth other matters agst the said Benger, before Capt Graydon, thenflag in the Harbor, when on Board her majesty’s Ship Bonaventure.

I was to hear that tryall agst Benger and then it was fixed up on Benger, and Iwas accused for being there and did not reprimand him for it and proving my selfanother place when the words were Spoken both Capt Graydon Capt Richards weresatisfied and said they did not believe that I was there and if I had I would haverebuked him for it. That I was cleared then before ye flag & Capt Richards, and wasthe Capt here I am confident he would attest the same.

Now as to John Davis I believe he was at ye meeting at Bengers, being ye finish’d& last time I ever was in his Company who is a poor ignorant fellow, born in thatCountry & bord up there and how he came to be Master of a ship I know not but alashe knows not the nature of an Oath, and therefor is the more easily impressed on bythe Good Majors insinuations to swear agst me but it seems strange that he shouldpick out this fellow only amongst so many and that no one besides him should (?) upthis matter agst me, being above 20 in company: but I know, the Good Majors poweris absolute and at pleasure be can frowne those people to act and do as he shallcommand.

And as to cursing & swearing they have trumped up agst me, are those sins theyare so addicted to and as it happened, I always reprimanded them for it, and as Ithank God I never was guilty of such vaine practices. So it was and I hope ever willbe abominable to me . Now all this I have with reason to imagine is by the - ention ofa gentleman who has forced the Inhabitants & particularly this John Davis as hisInstruments to disgorge his malice agst me per-ding them by this means they willhave their fish wch is my real due.

Now I pray God give them Grace that they may have a true Sense of this theirforgery & lyes, as hainous Sins committed agst God & his Minister, and may theytruly repent from it is too late: and so I End these Answers with that (?) praises wchis taught us all, father forgive them for they know not what they do: wch is the hartypraise of

1707 March 28th John Jackson Minister


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We are not RomanCatholics. We are not mem-bers of the Eastern OrthodoxChurch. We are not Protes-tants. We are notCongregationalists. We arenot Pentecostals. But we areAnglicans.

The Anglican Communionis made up of 38 autonomouschurches in 161 countries. Itis arranged into dioceses,which are the basic units ofchurch administration and gov-ernance. The Archbishop ofCanterbury, the Lambeth Con-ference (since 1867), the An-glican Consultative Council(since 1968), and the PrimatesMeeting (since 1979) are theinstitutions known as the “In-struments of Unity” of the An-glican Communion. Thesefour institutions hold us to-gether since the AnglicanChurch has no central govern-ment.

The Anglican Communionembraces people of every col-our, language, economic andsocial status, and geographi-cal background throughout theworld. It continues to hold ina creative tension a variety oftheological positions. In ourcongregations we have Anglo-Catholics, Charismatics, Con-servatives, Liberals,Naturalists, Supernaturalistsas well as Universalists. Anglicanism always allow vari-ous viewpoints to co-exist.

In the letter of October14, 2007 to Bishop JohnHowe of the Diocese of Cen-tral Florida, ArchbishopRowam Williams of Canter-bury wrote: “... any Diocesecompliant with Windsor (Re-port) remains clearly in com-munion with Canterbury andthe mainstream of the Com-munion.... The organ of un-ion with the wider Church is

the Bishop and the Dioceserather than the Provincialstructure as such”. Ifthe Diocese is indeed the ba-sic unit of our church, does itmean that the Diocese of NewWestminster or the Diocese ofNiagara has every right tobless same-sex unions withoutthe approval from our GeneralSynod?

It is interesting to note thaton June 22, 2009 the Angli-can Church in North America(ACNA) was born in Bed-ford, Texas. ACNA includesAnglican Network inCanada, four dioceses andmany parishes that have left theEpiscopal Church, the Angli-can Mission in the Americas,the Convocation of Anglicansin North America, the Angli-can Coalition in Canada, theReformed Episcopal Church,and the missionary initiatives ofKenya, Uganda, and South

America’s Southern Cone. Also, the American AnglicanCouncil and Forward in FaithNorth America are foundingorganizations. ACNA repre-sents about 100,000 Angli-cans in 700 parishes. Tomany Anglicans including Pro-fessor J. I. Packer, the forma-tion of ACNA is simply Angli-can realignment, not schism. In March 2008, the Rev. Dr.Paul Gibson’s excellent articleseemed to favour schisms inthe church. But John Calvin(1509-64) did not believe inschisms.

After the 2009 GeneralConvention of the AmericanEpiscopal Church affirmedsame-sex relationships, in hisreflections on July 27 Arch-bishop Rowan Williams sug-gested two “tracks” of beingAnglican - interdependence inthe Communion or federalautomony (Paragraphs 23,

24). The American Churchhas its supporters in Canada,South Africa, New Zealand,Japan, Brazil, Scotland,Wales, and large sections ofthe churches in England andAustralia.

Christianity is one religionamong other world religions. Christians are in the minorityin today’s world. It is the re-sponsibility of all true believ-ers to bear witness to thetruth. Let us be faithful in min-istry in the local church. Letus stand firm in the true faith.

How things have changedsince the 1920’s! Boy, havethey ever!

Recently I re-discoveredan old box where grandfatherhad kept some of his “busi-ness” records. The contentswere, to say the least, inter-esting.

First, I found some of hismonthly bills and receipts. Justlook at some of the prices!

Butter (i.e. margarine) 22cents a pound

Biscuits 20 cents a poundTin of milk (160zs) 12

centsTin of condensed sweet-

ened milk 18 centsSalt beef 20 cents a poundSugar 7 cents a poundSack of flour (98 pounds)

$3.60

Tea (most expensive gro-cery item by far) 60 cents apound

And so it went!Grandfather bought

a nice rocking chair for$5.35. And he paid$20.00 for a large field.

As the church war-den grandfather tookcare of the church in-come and expenses. Thechurch then needed ex-tensive repairs, so a col-lection was taken fromthe settlement and somefriends outside. Dona-tions were from 5 centsto $1.00. Many werelow; few near a dollar,but $57.25 was raised.A subsequent “Tea”(supper) raised another$8.30. That coveredmost of the materials (af-ter all, 1000 shingles forthe roof cost only $1.70).

All labor, of course,was free. Every able-bodied man in the in the con-gregation was only too glad todevote several days to the re-pairs.

Though people of thosetimes had so little money, most

of them truly loved theirchurch.

Services were mostly con-

ducted by a layreader. Ourminister, with several churchesto serve, long distances apart,with few passable roads inbetween, came once a monthat the best of times.

The Layreader had a serv-ice at 11 a.m. on Sundays. Allthe males, all children, and all

women with smallfamilies or grownchildren attended.At 2 p.m., all wechildren were offto SundaySchool. The7:00pm servicebrought everyhealthy soul intothe church.

Lusty, joyfulsinging rattled thewindows!

Church peo-ple then were“family”. Thosewith plenty sharedwith those wholacked. Emergen-cies broughtspontaneous re-sponse.

If a man be-came ill, othermen, without be-

ing asked, rushed to help,tending his nets, replenishinghis firewood, etc. The womendid the same for ailing sisters.Brotherly/sisterly love- re-quired by Jesus Christ- was

freely, cheerfully given.People then, uneducated

and financially poor thoughthey were, lived basically goodChristian lives.

What about NOW???What about US???

How much have our pri-orities changed from theirs?Why can’t God, his church,and our neighbours be our pri-orities, as well as theirs???

These people had SOLITTLE – we have SOMUCH! Has our SOMUCH ruined our relation-ship to our God??? And topour neighbours???

With God’s help, youknow, we can change our pri-orities.

God wants us to!But, do we really want to

change?

The good old days: An old photograph of unidentifiedyoung teenagers at Brookland, Bonavista Bay at theG.F.S. camp. Photo: Stella Cumben


I love my job!Article and Photo by

R. John Hounsell-DroverLieutenant (Navy)

Chaplain

30 Roe Avenue, P.O. Box 348,Gander, NL A1V 1W7Telephone: (709) 651-4100Fax: (709) 256-2957email: [email protected]

“I love my job.” While Iwas facing some of the great-est physical challenges of mylife on Basic Training, thosewere the words uttered by theChaplain School’s Comman-dant every time he was aroundus. At first I thought he wasreferring to his role at theschool, but now I know ex-actly what he meant. I too“love my job.”

I have had a call to minis-ter to the men and women ofour Forces for many years, butshrugged it off as a pipe-dream. I mostly doubted myown ability to achieve thephysical requirements. I de-nied a real calling.

Though I have often saidthat Padres Baxter Park andJack Barrett were the oneswho convinced me that I could(and should) answer this call,the real answer is CTV NewsChannel. Every day that Iturned on the news to see an-other soldier killed or injured,another family devastated bytheir loved one’s call to duty,my heart convicted me moreand more: go, serve.

And here I am, one of twoChaplains based at 12 WingShearwater, one of 17 Chap-lains serving CFB Halifax, oneof more than 300 Chaplainswho answer the motto of ourmulti-faith branch – “Called toServe.” I purposely listedmyself as “one of…” in orderto highlight one of the greatestjoys of this calling: I am a partof a team that supports andstands by one another. I amnever without resources. I amnever alone.

Each day is a new adven-ture. Marriage counsellingand preparation, spiritual di-

rection, and advising the chainof command as to how wemight best help our membersand their families in their timesof crises make up most of myday. Ceremonies - religious

and military - punctuate theweeks and months as signifi-cant events are commemo-rated and celebrated. On topof all this, I have been able totake part in activities and ex-ercises with the troops by landand sea. (I will have had myfirst flight in a Sea King by thetime you read this.)

Do you feel called to sup-port the men and women ofour Canadian Forces?

Have you considered be-coming a Regular Force orReserve Chaplain yourself?Contact me - [email protected]. I maynot have all the answers, but Ican get them!

Have you considered of-fering support to “The Angli-can Bishop Ordinary Trust”through the Anglican Founda-tion of Canada? This grow-ing Trust fund ensures that wehave a Bishop who can pro-vide ongoing support for ourmore than 80 Anglican Chap-lains and the nearly 20,000Anglicans who form part of theCF family. For more informa-tion, please contact The VeryRev’d John Wright [email protected].

Have you made the con-scious decision to offer up inprayer the women and men ofour Canadian Forces and theirfamilies? If you or your par-ish would like a good re-source, check out http://www.anglican.ca/resources/mps/index.htm.

A few months ago, I hadthe honoured duty to accom-pany a Commander Officer tothe home of a young womanwhose father (a member) haddied. After absorbing her ini-tial shock and feelings of grief,she turned to me and said, “Itmeans so much to me that youcame here in person to tell me.Thank-you.” I freely offerthat thanks to God and pass italong to you as you determinehow you might best answer thecall to support the men andwomen of our CanadianForces.

Called to serve: Navy Chaplain the Rev’d Lt. John Hounsell-Drover (right) shares his experiences of serving God in the ArmedForces. Photo: R. John Hounsell- Drover.

On August 8th, 2009, St George’s Church, Petty Harbour held a boattour. It was organized by the Vestry and Wardens. It was a cool day, butthe fellowship was warm and friendly. A special thank you to fishermanKeith Chafe, Tom Best, Bill Chafe, Harry Everard and Larry Leamanwho volunteered their boats, time and fuel. Approximately 70 peoplepurchased tickets and joined in the fun for the two hour tour. As it wasduring the food fishery some fish were caught, Reverend Barrett waslucky enough to have fresh fish for his supper!!! After the tour some ofthe church ladies had BBQ’ed hotdogs, hamburgers and soft drinksready for all! Thank you to everyone for their support, a good time washad by all.......can’t wait for next summer! Submitted by Nancy Bungay.

Petty harbourboat tour

Terry Caines ordained

St. Martin’s CathedralParish extends congratulationsand prayerful encouragementto Rev. Terry Caines who wasordained on Friday, May 1,2009 at St. Martin’s Cathe-dral, Gander during the Dioc-esan Synod. Rev. Caines iscurrently serving the Parish ofFogo Island East. PhotoCredit: Rev. Brian Candow.

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