Anglican Life - December 2008

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A Servers Workshoptook place at All Saints’Church, Fortune on 26 Oc-tober. All Saints’ is fortunatein having such a largenumber of young peopleserving at the altar.

In preparation for the2009 Guatemalan Mission,the Mission Team from theParish of Bay Roberts/Col-ey’s Point held variousfundraising activities tosupport the cost. The grouphopes to travel to Guate-mala in April 2009.

The Diocese of CentralNewfoundland sponsoreda Men’s Weekend at MintBrook from 31 October to 2November. A large numberof men attended the confer-ence, especially from St.Alban’s Church in GrandBank.

All Saints Parish inConception Bay Southhave contracted a VisitationMinister. This position,which was funded by ourparish, received a substan-tial amount of positive feed-back. This new contract willbe funded through the gen-erosity of an anonymousdonor. The Rev’d Ed Samsonwill be the Visitation Minis-ter.

Bishop Philip Wrightfrom the Diocese of Belizewas in the Diocese of Cen-tral Newfoundland from 7-9 November. He was theguest preacher at St. Mar-tin’s Cathedral, Gander.

On 29 November, St.Martin’s Cathedral in Gan-der held an information anddiscussion session regardingthe past, present and future

of the same sex blessing de-bate in the AnglicanChurch.

The Parish of St.Michael & All Angels inSt. John’s held a special“Roast Dinner” in Novem-ber. The “main course”was the Rector, Fr.Christopher Snow! Thegood-natured eveningwent extremely well andproceeds helped benefitPWRDF.

Bishop David Torravillehas turned the sod for thenew church in the Parishof Fogo Island East. Con-struction will begin imme-diately.

Central Diocesan Ap-pointments:

Rev. Gerald Colbourne(Protem) - Parish ofLewisporte - Effective 15October.

Rev. Graham Hill - Par-ish of Harbour Breton -Effective 15 September.

Rev. Gail Williams - Par-ish of Twillingate - Effec-tive 1 September.

Rev. Joan Antle(Protem) - Parish ofBuchans - Effective 14 No-vember.

Rev.Valerie Gillam -Parish of Port Rexton – 1November.

Bishop Cyrus Pitman ispleased to announce theappointment of the Vener-able Geoff Peddle to the po-sition of Priest-in-Chargeof the Parish of the GoodShepherd Mount Pearl,effective January 1, 2009.In this new position, Arch-deacon Peddle will workfull-time in the Parish ofthe Good Shepherd but re-

tain the role of Archdeaconas he continues some of hiswork in ministry develop-ment and congregationalrenewal in the diocese.During 2009 he will com-plete Ph.D. studies in theU.K. in the field of Congre-gational Studies and it isBishop Pitman’s desire thathe establish at the Parish ofthe Good Shepherd somefresh and innovative mod-els of ministry that will en-able new and sustainedgrowth for the parish andalso provide creative mod-els for parish growththroughout our diocese.

All Saints’ Church,Corner Brook held a Pas-toral Visitor Training ses-sion in November. Thetraining event was for any-one who is interested inpastoral visiting, whetheror not already licensed bythe Bishop. Visiting in par-ishes happens to the sick,elderly, shut-in, bereaved,lonely, as well as manyother reasons.

When people who aremal-nourished begin tak-ing anti-retroviral drugsfor AIDS, their bodies areoften so weak that theycannot tolerate the medi-cation. PWRDF assists peo-ple in growing gardens sothey can improve nutritionand be able to take thedrugs that will help themlive. On World AIDS Day(1 December) the congre-gation of St. David’s in theParish of Pasadena/Cormack invited people toput an envelope on theTree of Hope with a dona-tion for PWRDF, specifi-cally for HIV and AIDSwork. A candlelight vigil

was also held.

The South AmericanMissionary Society(SAMS) held its annualconference in St. John’s inNovember. Manymemebrs of the SAMSBoard were guest speakersat numerous parishes inthe diocese. At the Parishof St. Augustine’s in St.John’s they welcomedTracey Larter as the guestpreacher. Tracey is a mem-ber of SAMS Canada andis the Chair of our Promo-tions and Awareness Com-mittee. She offers imagina-tive leadership to all thatshe undertakes. Tracey re-sides in Richmond, BritishColumbia.

The Parish of the Res-urrection held an AdventQuiet Day on 29 Novem-ber. Father Everett Hobbs ledin the Advent reflections to

help pariohioners to spir-itually prepare for the realjoy of Christmas.

The Parish of St. Tho-mas’ in St. John’s held aseminar entitled “WalkThru the Old Testament.”It was facilitated by MajorLorne Pritchett from the Ca-nadian Bible Society. Ma-jor Lorne, in a highly enter-taining and educationalway took the participantsthrough every book of theOld Testament, helpingthem to remember all thebooks in order, while fol-lowing the thread of eachmajor theme from Genesisto the New Testament.


The Bishop of Belize,the Right Reverend PhilipWright was the specialguest of the CLB at a din-ner held in his honour on6 November 2008.

The Dinner was hostedby the Diocesan Bishop,the Right Reverend CyrusPitman. A number of di-ocesan clergy along with alarge number of parishion-ers from the various con-gregations, attended thedinner at the CLB Armoryin St. John’s.

The CLB was repre-sented by the Governorand Commandant KeithArns. The mission team ofofficers and youth who aregoing to Belize were alsoin attendance. ColonelArns gave an overview ofhow the mission ideastarted and outlined whathas been happening sinceDecember 2006.

There are 35 youngadults and 15 officers fromthe following CLB Compa-nies going next year: Up-

per Gullies, Foxtrap, St.Augustine’s, St. Michael’s,St. Mark’s, St. Mary’s,Mount Pearl, Bay Roberts,Harbour Grace,Carbonear and Upper Is-land Cove.

Colonel Arns said thathe was grateful of the sup-port of the parishes in ourDiocese.

Mr. Frank JohnsonMain brought greetingsfrom the South AmericanMissionary Society(SAMS). He outlined thework of SAMS in Canadaand expressed the impor-tance of the CLB Missionto Belize.

Bishop Pitmanbrought greetings fromthe Diocese and said howpleased he was with thecooperative effort of theCLB and the Diocese inthis mission venture.

After being introducedby Bishop Pitman, theLord Bishop of BelizeBishop Philip Wright gavea very inspiring and pas-

Bishop of Belize guest at CLB Dinner

sionate address, outliningthe need for such a Missionto help theunderpriveledged in Be-lize.

Sgt. Major Dara Taylorof Upper Gullies Com-pany was the emcee for theevent and did an outstand-ing job.

WO2 Jarrod Sharpefrom Upper Island CoveCompany opened the din-ner with prayers, grace andthe Brigade prayer.

Over 220 people at-tended the fundraisingevent. The gathering wasgiven an outstanding per-formance by the CLB Regi-mental Band led by BandDirector, Major WalterLearning.

The dinner concludedwith prayers by the Rever-end David Pilling, Battal-ion Chaplain and ViceChairman of SAMS.

Submitted byBruce Tilley

CLB

“Not by Bread Alone” was the Harvest FestivalTheme at St. James’ Church, Gillams, Bay ofIslands. 12 October. Standing among the autumnleaves, left to right, Samuel Park, Warden, theRev’d Malcolm Palmer, Rector, and Richard Park,Warden. Photo:Spencer House.

The Vestry and congregation of St. James’Anglican Church in Port aux Basques joined thefamily of Mrs. Susie Savery on 18 September2008 to celebrate the auspicious occasion of her100th birthday. A special Eucharist was held andfollowed by a pot luck dinner with well over 100people in attendance.

Photo and article submitted byKay Short

St. James’ VestryPort aux Basques

Bishop Philip Wright of Belize prays with students and teachers at Holy CrossAnglican School in SanPedro. In the Summer of 2009, the CLB will help build aclassroom at this school in Belize. Photo: Francis Wilson


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editorialeditorialeditorialeditorialeditorialA home for Christmas The Rev. Sam Rose

Recently studentsfrom Memorial Univer-sity were building ahouse through Habitatfor Humanity. Their goalwas to have a deservingfamily in this new homeby Christmas. Througha partnership with PetroCanada and the supportof many churches, theUniversity studentsworked hard to realize adream that many peopletake for granted – havinga home for Christmas.The mother of the familyof six children said that,“This home is a blessing anda gift from God!”

Usually our churchbuildings get quite a fewmore worshipers whenthe Christmas seasonrolls around. Mostchurches are filled to ca-pacity for the ChristmasEve liturgies with whatsome call ‘ChristmasChristians.’ Quite oftenfamilies still view goingto worship at Christmasas being an importantpart of the celebration. Itis rather unfortunatehowever, when theseseekers who comesearching for a spiritualhome for Christmas endup being treated morelike visitors than Chris-tian family members.

Some preachers willtake to the pulpit thisChristmas in thesepacked churches and ex-tol not a message of hopebut a message of guilt.Sermons filled with sub-tle criticisms of ‘whydon’t people come toworship more often?’ or‘why can’t every Sundaybe like Christmas?’ donothing to welcome theseseekers. ‘ChristmasChristians’ who want toknow the Incarnate Christand find a home forChristmas end up feelinglike Mary and Joseph be-ing told “there is no roomat the inn.”

Instead of makingthese ‘Christmas Chris-tians’ feel guilty, can theChurch act like those Uni-versity students buildinga home for that motherand her six children?That family had a basicneed that the studentshelped meet. It is thesame in the Church.Many people come to uswith basic needs and weoften turn them away.Instead of being the In-carnate Christ in ourwords and actions, weend up being a stumblingblock. When a familywalks through yourchurch doors on Christ-

mas Eve, they have thesame joys and pains,hopes and fears. Christ-mas usually brings themout because they need toknow that God is real andthat God is love.

The message of theIncarnation is that Christcame into the world tosave sinners. That’s all ofus, not just those whomay drop by a church onChristmas Eve. These arenot visitors or tourists butfamily members. Theyhave a place in God’sKingdom. They have ahome for Christmas.

Wouldn’t it be a greatjoy to have a ‘ChristmasChristian’ say as theyleave a Christmas lit-urgy, “This church is ablessing and a real gift fromGod!”

You never know, theymay want to come backmore often.

guest editorialguest editorialguest editorialguest editorialguest editorialThe Rev. Brian CandowRomancing the world

Alister McGrath in hisrecent book, “Christiani-ty’s Dangerous Idea,” ex-plains that the “radicalidea that individualscould interpret the Biblefor themselves,”spawned the cultural andspiritual revolution ofProtestantism. He givesa thorough exposition ofthe religious, spiritual,and sociological factorsthat contributed to solascriptura and the Refor-mation. This Reforma-tion spilled over to theBritish Isles, which hadits own unique culturaland sociological traits;leading to the formationof the social, spiritual,cultural, and institutionalentity we call the Angli-can Church.

The Anglican Churchhas long understood it-self to be somewhere be-tween Roman Catholi-cism and Protestantismin its doctrine and wor-ship, but I believeAnglicanism inherited afundamental flaw that is

manifesting itself today.The Reformation was, inmany ways, an excessivecorrection of the theologi-cal errors and moral cor-ruption that had enteredWestern Christianity un-der the Papal authority ofRome. I say excessive be-cause the principles ofsola scriptura beg the ques-tion of who has the finalauthority of the interpre-tation of the Scriptures.Indeed, the history ofprotestant disunity andthe current crisis of Bibli-cal interpretation andfragmentation inAnglicanism reflects thisproblem.

In understanding ourcurrent crisis, we mustadd to the Reformationprinciples of the 16th cen-tury, the modern settingof radical individualismand relativism in amulticultural society. Itis these principles andinfluences that are ‘au-thorizing’ new render-ings of Holy Scripture,the person of Jesus, the

Nature of God, and Chris-tian holiness. These‘culturalized authorities”embraced by liberal re-formers seem reasonableand acceptable to themajority of us living inthe West because we aresaturated with the ideasof individualism andrelativism that dominateour society.

The Reformers justi-fied their authority withthe principle of solascriptura, leading to thedivided witness of Prot-estant Churches. Todaythe Anglican Church, asare many other mainlinedenominations, is beingfurther fragmented anddrawn into deeper errorby the new cultural influ-ences and authorities.

If Martin Luther,Archbishop ThomasCranmer, and the otherreformers were seen asrebellious in their ‘pro-testing,’ by the Roman

Please see “Romancing”on page 13


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The title of thisChristmas greetingcomes from GrenfellChristmas Cards. Thefront of the card bear-ing this greeting depictsa feast attended pre-sumably by Dr. andLady Grenfell, bears, ot-ter, seal, hare, thehousehold pets and ourfeathered friends. Thereis food, candlelight andeach hand, paw, fin andbeak holds a carollerssong-sheet. The crea-tion, as revealed in theNorth, rejoices.

At a recent gather-ing of the House of Bish-ops we had the privilegeof hosting the AnglicanCouncil of IndigenousPeople for a meetingand lunch. Among thespeakers was FredaLapine from the Dio-cese of Brandon inManitoba. Freda is a co-ordinator with FirstNation Employmentand Training. She beganher address with theSeven Sacred Teach-ings: Respect, Humility,Love, Truth, Honesty,Courage and Wisdom.To respect is to treat allyour relations as youwish to be treated. Weare all related —thefour-legged, the two-legged, the winged ones,the ones that crawl, theplant nation, the rocknation...all my rela-tions.

The opening lines ofSt. John’s Gospel, oftenproclaimed at Christ-mas, say that “all thingswere made by God.” St.

John reminds us thatthe central subject of theBible, and therefore ourfaith, is God. Christianssometimes forget ourTrinitarian nature. Godsent the Son and Godsends the Spirit. God,through the Word is

Creator and Godthrough the Word is Re-deemer so that wemight become childrenof God.

The broader contextin which the Christmasstory takes place iscreation and thatprompts two observa-tions: (1) Because theOne through whom weare redeemed is the sameOne through whom allthings were created thensalvation is not to be

seen over against theworld or out of theworld, as though thecreated order were eviland foreign to the life ofGod’s children. Evil ispresent but it is there bychoice, not by nature.(2) All creation is in-volved in God’s re-demptive effort.

Dr. Grenfell’s paint-ing and Freda’s quota-tion has the whole ofcreation entering thescene to give the Christ

child the adulation andadoration the incarnateGod deserves. As theawesome story unfoldsthere is not much roomfor individualism andbursting egos. Againthis is a time to let Godcome to us. I invite youto reflect on the storyand be reminded thatwe are all participantsin God’s great drama.Begin by worshippingHim for:

This is he whomseers in old timechanted of with

one accord,whom the voicesand the prophetspromised in their

faithful word;now he shines,

the long-expected;let creation

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+Percy, Monica,David, Andrew, Johannaand Laura


On 21 September2008, the Rev’d NealBuffett was inducted asRector of the Parish ofFortune/Lamaline byBishop David Torraville.

The Rev’d LochlieFiander preached a won-derful sermon exclaim-ing how excited the par-ish was about having ayoung family living in

the rectory for the firsttime in years. He feltthat Neal, Beverly andtheir children Nicole,Nathan and Nicholaswould definitely change

Induction of the Rev’d Neal Buffett

the dynamics of the par-ish. Already Nicole is aSunday School teacherand reader, Nathan is aServer and SundaySchool helper andNicholas is a Server.

In his sermon, Rev’dFiander made three sig-nificant points. First,through baptism we areall made a member of theBody of Christ in thechurch. God calls usand we are expected tobe responsible membersof the church. We allhave a ministry to per-form and we should doit to the best of our abil-ity. It could be lay min-

ister, server, altar guild,choir, vestry, SundaySchool, ACW, and so on.

Secondly, the or-dained ministry of thechurch is not an inven-tion; we learn that in theNew Testament Jesushimself appointedtwelve apostles. AfterHis resurrection theseapostles began to exer-cise a special ministrywithin the priestly bodyof the faithful. This hascontinued to this veryday through apostolicsuccession. Our bish-ops, the orders of thepriests and deacons aredependent on the apos-tolic ministry.

Last ly , he ta lkedabout the duties of theparish priest and howwe as members of theBody of Christ shouldsupport him in his min-istry.

Rev’d Fiander wasgiven an honorable men-tion by Bishop David forhis dedication and serv-ice as an Honorary as-sistant of the parish forthe past 40 years. TheBishop said, “the mostdifficult position to playin the orchestra is ‘sec-ond fiddle.’ This is a rolethat Rev. Fiander hasplayed f lawlesslythroughout the years.”

After the service, ameet and greet of thenew Rector and his fam-ily was held. There wasan astonishing variety ofdelicious finger foodsprepared by the congre-gation for all to enjoy.

Submitted byBeverly Buffett

Parish of Fortune/Lamaline

New Rector for the Parish of Fortune Lamaline. (left to right) The Rev’d Lochlie Fiander, preacher and HonoraryAssistant; the Rt. Rev’d David Torraville, Bishop of the Diocese of Central Newfoundland; the Rev’d Neal Buffett,Rector. Photo: Beverly Buffett


guest columnist

Bishop David TorravilleSome thoughts...on Singing

Those of you whoknow me well can stoplaughing now! Singing isnot one of those things Ido well; however, I amnot so much interested, inthis short reflection, onthe musical quality ofcongregational singing,as in the text of what isbeing sung. I do enjoyhearing a good singer ora good choir, and I lovehaving my voicedrowned out by goodcongregational singing.However I am muchmore concerned withtrite theology being sungreally well. Many mod-ern pieces are laden witha sentimentality whichturns the triune God intoa “Good Buddy Jesus.”This turns our attentionfrom the awesome gloryof God toward our needfor a personal entertain-ment experience.

That is not to say thatolder hymns are, neces-sarily, much better. Per-haps the most outlandishexample of truly bad sen-timental silliness isWilliam Blake’s “AndDid Those Feet in An-cient Time”. Based on anold English legend thatthe young Jesus visitedEngland with Joseph ofArimathea, Blake posesthe questions “And didthose feet in ancient timewalk upon England’smountains green? Andwas the holy Lamb ofGod on England’s pleas-ant pastures seen? Thequestions are silly, theanswer to both questionsis an emphatic “No”,and how this hymn evermade its way to an An-glican Hymn book,speaks to the depth of ourhistoric attachment tosentimentality over the-

This is the third in aseries of articles writtenexclusively for AnglicanLife by Bishop DavidTorraville of theDiocese of CentralNewfoundland.

ology. In truth, it speaksof our willingness to ac-cept sentimentality overhistoric and biblical ac-curacy.

When we choosehymns and anthems weneed to choose piecesthat reflect the AnglicanChurch’s teaching andcommunicates thatteaching to the congrega-tion. A catchy tune doesnot necessarily commu-nicate sound theology.Neither does a 17th cen-tury text necessarilycommunicate effectivelyto a 21st century congre-gation.

When we choosehymns and anthems,they need to suit the con-gregation and the con-gregation’s musical style,however, the text alsoneed to fit with the read-ings, the occasion, andthe liturgical season.

Hymns and musicalpieces need to be chosenfor what they will add tothe liturgy, what theywill bring to the worship.The text of the piece mustbe theologically soundand central to the wor-ship.

While the self right-eous, self pity in eachverse of “Farther Along”may reflect the emotionalstate of a person “feelingso hard done by,” it is nota text that reflects thepromised resurrection ofJesus Christ, who, fromthe cross, forgave a thief.Indeed, Jesus on the crossforgave one such as“Farther Along” con-demns and prayed for allof us who have notearned forgiveness “For-give them, they know notwhat they do”

The choosing ofhymns, anthems and

supplementary praiseand worship pieces mustbe done carefully withan eye to the text and towhat we want to sayabout God and our rela-tionship to God, and notmerely based on a tune.

Disclaimer: This pieceappeared in its original format generation.anglican.ca ithas been modified for length,audience and medium.

About 25,000 peopledie every day of hungeror hunger-relatedcauses, according to theUnited Nations. Not be-cause there isn’t enoughfood, but because theylive in such an extremestate of poverty they can-not afford to buy thethings they need to sup-

port themselves. 25,000is a lot, that’s about 1every three sec-onds. 25,000 is also morepeople than live in theentire town where I grewup. That’s how manypeople die every day. And it’s not just in for-eign countries, there aremany people living inpoverty in our own coun-try, in our cities andtowns, in our own neigh-bourhoods.

But governments andorganizations around theworld are trying to un-

derstand and trying towork to fix a growingproblem. The UN(United Nations) passeda resolution in 1992 thatessential lytold theworld thatpoverty wasa violation ofh u m a nrights. Nowthat is astand I canget behind,because at itsmost basiclevel, humanrights arethose thingswhich wemust have tolive, food,shelter, cleandrinking wa-ter. If a fam-ily cannot afford thesethings, then yes, it is aviolation of their humanrights and we need to dosomething about it.

October 17 was In-ternational Day for theEradication of Poverty. One initiative that tookplace was called “StandUp and TakeAction Against Pov-erty.” “Stand Up” is aglobal movement of peo-ple who “refuse to stayseated or silent in the faceof poverty and brokenpromises to end it!” Peo-ple around the world or-ganize events where they

“stand up” and get no-ticed and have theirvoices heard. The “TakeAction” side of thingswas new this year and it

meant essentially youjust had to do somethingto show that you standup and take action to endpoverty. This year 116993 629 people stood upand took action!

I also read and articleabout this year’s themefor the InternationalDay. It was “Humanrights and dignity of peo-ple living in poverty.” Itdid a great job of explain-ing the human rights per-spective on poverty andwhat it means to be poorin this world. It also pro-vided an example of

what is happening in Pa-kistan, where there existonly two classes of citi-zens, the very rich andvery poor. Poverty has

become so extremethat families haveresorted to “sellingtheir own children”in order to sur-vive!! It goes on totalk about a meas-ure being taken bythe Pakistani gov-ernment to try andimprove the situa-tion, such as restor-ing economicgrowth and im-proving access tobasic necessitieslike primary educa-tion and healthcare.

It is certainlygood that govern-ments are taking

action against poverty. It is good that people arestanding up and takingaction. But everyoneneeds to help!

There are lots ofthings we can do, justfund raising or having afood drive can help thepoor in areas where welive, food banks are al-ways in need of dona-tions of time, money andfood, so there are lots ofways to help!

What will you do tohelp eradicate poverty??

Let’s end poverty! youth voice

Allison BooneAnglican Life welcomes Allison Boone, a youth bloggerfor the National Church website: generation.anglican.ca


From October 18-28Memorial Universitypartnered with PetroCanada and CabotHabitat for Humanityto build a new housefor a deserving family.As part of this projectUniversity Chaplaincywas pleased to organ-ize the food for thismassive project. Over11 days chaplaincy or-ganized morning andafternoon snacks, andlunch for over 500 hun-dred volunteers. It was

MUN students partner with Habitatfor Humanity

truly an inter-religiousendeavour with con-tributions from all ofthe major Christian de-nominations, plus helpfrom the Hindu, Sikh,and Muslim communi-ties.

Anglican MUNChaplain Rob Cookewould like to thank theCathedral of St. Johnthe Evangelist, and theparishes of St. Augus-tine’s, St. Michael andAll Angels, and St.Mark’s (Logy Bay Rd.)

for contributingsnacks, and the Parishof the Ascension forhosting lunch. The endresult was a new housefor the eight-memberAnthony family inMount Pearl.

Article and photosubmitted byRobert Cooke

Anglican MUNChaplain

The Queen’s College Gospel Group held a concert at SaintLuke’s Homes, St John’s, for the residents during PastoralCare Week.Left to Right Back: Juanita Freeman, Paul Rideout, TerryRose, Judi PhillipsLeft to Right Front: Louise Richards, Beatrice Hope,Madonna Boone, Marie Rose, Paulette Budgell, GerriPoirier Photo: Pamela Tucker

Queen’s College studentsserenade seniors

A simple requestwent out to all ACW Pri-mary Branches of the #7District Branch whichincludes the parishes ofBelleoram, Bayd’Espoir, Hermitageand Harbour Breton -bring a basic cosmeticitem to the fall meeting.

Items were intendedto fill thirty-six cos-metic bags for women

and children at CaraHouse in Gander (atransition home forabused women andchildren). Enoughitems came in to fill ahundred bags or more.It was an overwhelm-ing and touching mo-ment as, those whobrought and those whowill use these items,were lifted up in prayer

at the Holy Eucharist atthe District Branchmeeting on 27 Septem-ber 2008 held in St.Bartholomew’s Churchin Harbour Breton. Inaddition to these items,over 240 preemie hatsfor the hospitals and 37pneumonia vests and57 teddy bears for distri-bution in Afghanistanwere collected.

The ladies of Har-bour Breton parish haveto be commended fortheir hospitality and or-ganization of the lunchserved after the serv-ice.

The remainder of theafternoon was fun. Welistened to encouragingwords from the regionalclergy.

We presented

eleven of our faithfulmembers, eighty yearsof age and older withhand made bags. Weremembered our sisterswho have passed on.

Article and photossubmitted by

Wayne Hallett

Overwhelming response for Cara HouseItems donated to Cara House overfill theircontainers.


Historic agreement signed between Anglicans and MoraviansA Special Labra-

dor Mission Confer-ence was held on Oc-tober 22 to 23, 2008in Goose Bay, Labra-dor.

At this conferencethere was the sign-ing of a “Memoran-dum of Agreement”between the Angli-can Diocese of East-ern Newfoundlandand Labrador andthe Moravian Boardfor Labrador.

Bishop CyrusPitman signed on be-half of the AnglicanDiocese and Mrs.Joan Anderson

signed on behalf ofthe MoravianChurch.

The Rev’d BrianBurrows (father ofDavid Burrows, Rec-tor of the Ascensionin Mount Pearl) hasbeen appointed to theMoravian congrega-tion in Hopedale andis welcomed to the di-ocesan family.

Article and photosubmitted by the

Venerable Geoff PeddleEastern Diocesan

Synod Office

Every priest has spe-cial moments thatstand out in his and herministry.

This past Thanksgiv-ing I went to Hopedaleto spend some time withour daughter Charlotte,a social worker in thecommunity.

My first day there Iwent to the MoravianMission site that wasestablished in 1782. Icould not help but feela real sense of awe, rev-erence and history as Ientered the currentchurch that has servedthe people of Hopedalesince 1860. Its simplic-ity was its beauty.

I had the opportu-nity to lead the Thanks-giving Sunday worship

Happy Harvest memories in Hopedaleand this will be one ofthose very special mo-ments for me. The bakeditems, berries and wildgame surrounding thecentral pulpit would beauctioned on Thanks-giving Monday.

The Children’s choirwarmed our hearts asthey sang ‘Thank youGod for giving me ears,eyes, mouth etc.’ andthen sat around in frontof the pulpit as wetalked about “thanksgiving” and how im-portant it is to say thankyou to each other andmost importantly to saythank you to God for hisblessings.

After the childrenleft for Sunday School,we continued with wor-

ship from the MoravianPrayer and Hymn Bookwith chapel servantsand lay people sharingin the proclamation ofthe word. The warmthand welcome of the peo-ple in the communityand church will indeedbe a part of my ‘specialmoments’.

Article and photossubmitted by the

Rev’d John CourageChaplain to the Health

Sciences Centre andJaneway Hospital.

The Moravian Mission church has served the people of Hopedale since 1860.Photo: John Courage

The Rev’d John Courage stands behind the gifts ofthe Harvest at the Moravian Mission Church inHopedale, Labrador. Photo: John Courage

The Moravian Church is a Christian organi-zation with more than five hundred and fiftyyears of history. As the oldest Protestant de-nomination in the world, their focus is on peo-ple. Of the Moravians you could say that theyhave a heartbeat for God, and a passion forpeople.

The Moravians believe in basic religiousprinciples, and think everyone matters; regard-less of their background, their race, their cul-ture.

The Moravian Motto:• In Essentials, Unity• In Non-Essentials, Liberty• In All Things, Love

For more information on the MoravianChurch in Canada visit: www.moravian.ca

Moravian Facts


The Document

Henry Gordon’s Labrador Christmas our historyDavid Davis

In the 1970’s it cameto the attention ofFrederick BurnhamGill, Provincial Archi-vist of Newfoundlandand Labrador, that thejournal of the ReverendHenry Gordon, a mis-sionary in SandwichBay, Labrador wasavailable in St John’s.Mr. Gill had begun a se-ries of publications, un-der the auspices of theProvincial Archives oflong forgotten New-foundland documents.He approached thethen Bishop of New-foundland, the RightReverend Robert L.

Seaborn, in 1972, for hissupport which wasreadily given.

It is well to letBishop Seaborn take upthe story of the Rev. Mr.Gordon, in his ownwords, from his fore-word to Mr. Gordon’sjournal.

“The Rev. HenryGordon was born inEngland in 1887, gradu-ating from Keble Col-lege, Oxford, in 1909.He was ordained thefollowing year andserved two Curacies inthe Diocese of Liverpoolbefore volunteering, in1915, to come to Labra-

dor.He was a young

priest, twenty-eightyears old, with no expe-rience of the hardships,the deprivations, theisolation and thestrenuous travels whichawaited him. But hecame in quiet faith andcheerfully began his lifeas an itinerant mission-ary, with responsibilityfor the spiritual care ofa few hundred peoplescattered in tiny settle-ments along two hun-dred miles of ruggedcoastline from Batteauin the south, rightaround Sandwich Bay

to Cape Harrison in thenorth. A journeythrough this Missionmeant about one thou-sand miles of travel.

His Journal reveals aloving heart and astrong will, an observ-ant mind, and a greatskill in describing peo-ple, places and condi-tions. His ministry tothe people of that coastduring the influenzaepidemic of 1918-1919is an epic in itself. Hisinitiative in finding away to care for the or-phaned children whichresulted from that terri-ble winter, and the prac-

tical steps he took in thefield of education, markhim as a person of com-passion and compe-tence. His friendshipand association with Dr.Wilfred Grenfell pro-vide interesting side-lights on the great Lab-rador Doctor.”

The following quota-tion from Mr. Gordon’sJournal is for ChapterVI: MY SECOND WIN-TER (1916-17), whichcovers the period fromHarvest Festival to thefirst week of Januarywhen began his itiner-ant missionary travels.

“One very inter-esting and novel eventwhich I instituted thisFall was the holdingof a Harvest FestivalService. I am afraid itwas somewhat lack-ing in those season-able decorations thatare so much in evi-dence at our EnglishCelebrations, but wedid our best with wildberries, tree branchesand a plentiful displayof sa l t cod andsalmon. Large num-bers packed theChurch, and we actu-ally had a collection,which amounted tonine dol lars! In acommuni ty wherepeople barter still wasthe basis of exchangethis represented a lotof money.

In marked contrastto last year, winterconditions began toset in by early No-vember and we wereable to drive acrossthe frozen bight be-fore the end of themonth. It came there-fore almost as a shockwhen, one morning,in the first week ofDecember, a ship’s si-ren sounded a t theback of the Point, anda few minutes later asmall gun-boat camecrashing her waythrough the harbourice. So coated withice was her super-s t ructure that shelooked very much likean iceberg. Of coursethere was much ex-citement and specula-

tion in the settlement,but no one was allowedto go near her, and af-ter hosing herself freewith a spraying ofsteam she took her de-parture. It was not tillthe following summerthat we heard the rea-son for the visit. Shehad been sent down toinvestigate what, I be-l ieve, were well-au-thenticated reports of asecret oil fuel depot,somewhere in the re-gion of Hopedale . Idoubt , however,whether German sub-marines could havemade much use ofsuch a source of sup-ply without being soonobserved. It is surpris-ing how little escapesthe a t tent ion of thekeen-eyed Labradorhunter.

By mid-December,the f reeze-up wascomplete everywhere.Dog teams were com-ing in to Car twrightf rom the head ofSandwich Bay andfrom severa l p lacesalong the outs idecoast . I was sore lytempted to get going onmy first winter expedi-t ion , and thus gaintime for more leisurelytravelling, but the nearapproach of Christmasdissuaded me. For thislooked like being anextra special Christ-mas. With ice condi-t ions so wel l es tab-lished, crowds of visi-tors could be expected,and this would enableone to af ford them

ample oppor tuni t iesfor the religious ob-servance of the festi-val . Then there wasalso a more than usualabundance of goodthings for their mate-rial enjoyment. It maybe remembered that onmy visit to St John’slast July, the people ofSt Thomas’ had packedseveral large barrelswith clothing and foodand toys, to be distrib-uted a t Chr is tmastime. I only wish theycould have seen thepleasure which thesegave, not only to theyoung, but to the olderfolks as well.

By the time that theactual ce lebra t ionstook place Cartwrightwas almost too packedto be comfor table .Every house had i tsfull complement, andeven one of the Com-pany’s stores had to becleared to accommo-date the overflow.

With the var iousChurch services, theoutdoor sports and theindoor concerts, therewas plenty to keepeveryone busy andsend the visitors homewith something to talkabout for weeks.”

From the Journal ofthe Rev’d Henry Gordon

The Rev’d Henry Gordondressed in sealskin clothing andmukluks circa 1918. Photocourtesy of the DiocesanArchives of the Diocese ofEastern Newfoundland &Labrador.


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The Rev. Greg MercerStraight talk on reconciliation

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The Rev. Everett Hobbs

“I applied my mindcarefully for the rest ofthe day, even duringmy work, to the pres-

ence of God, whom Iknew always to be nearme and closely unitedwith me.”

These are the wordsof Brother Lawrencecontained in a bookletcalled The Practice ofthe Presence of God. Itconsists of conversa-tions, letters and max-ims on how we shouldlive, with the intentionof cultivating thissense of the presence ofGod in us, and in theworld about us.

Brother Lawrencewas a seventeenth-cen-tury Carmelite monkand for thirty years hetoiled in the monastery

kitchen. He had littleformal education buthe possessed an unu-sual spiritual wisdomgained from his every-day encounter withGod. He wrote nobooks but after hisdeath, a friend gath-ered a few short lettersand remembered con-versations and had thecollection published.

Brother Lawrencewrote that to be withGod it is not necessaryalways to be in churchbut we may make achapel in our heartwhere we may go fromtime to time. The timeof prayer was no dif-

ferent for him fromany other time in thathe was equally awareof God in activity. Inhis words, ‘I turn thecake that is frying onthe pan for love ofGod.’

This way of prayinghas a long traditionand over the centuriesseveral ‘methods’have developed to as-sist those who want tohave this awareness. Itrequires practicewhich begins byputting aside sometime each day forprayer, scripture read-ing and similar disci-plines that require in-

The practice of the presence of Godteraction with God.Outside of these timeswe can train ourselvesin certain practices -pause for a minuteeach or repeat a phraseabout God while other-wise engaged. Whilewe do believe that Godis always present, weneed the practice aidedby grace to be in tunewith his presence. Youmay find Brother Law-rence helpful in thisundertaking.

For further study:The Practice of the Pres-ence of God by BrotherLawrence or visit :practicegodspresence.com

I recall one of ourprofessors at Queen’stelling us that if youcould sum up the wholeof our Lord’s ministryin one word it would bereconciliation. As theapostle Paul tells us inhis 2nd letter to theCorinthians, “God wasin Christ reconciling theworld to himself.”

This makes senseand explains way ourLord in his teachingtook such a strong posi-tion on matters of loveand forgiveness. “Bemerciful just as your[heavenly] Father ismerciful” (Lk 6:36). “Ifyou do not forgive oth-ers, neither will your

[heavenly] Father for-give you” (Matt 6:15).“Love your enemies, dogood to those who hateyou, pray for those whopersecute you” (Lk6:35). Scripture tells usthat as followers ofChrist, if we love onlythose who love us howare we any differentthan the next person. Itis clear in our Lord’steaching that he was se-rious, VERY seriousabout the exercise oflove and forgiveness.And conversely, Jesusnever ever taught us toforgive in order to feelgood – even though thatmay very well be theproduct of forgiving.

Anytime Jesus taught usto forgive it was AL-WAYS to restore abrother or sister to com-munity, i.e., reconcilia-tion.

Now the questionremains, can we say weare reconciled to Christif we are not reconciledto our neighbour? Jesustold us to love God andlove neighbour – both ofthem go together.Hence, we can’t say thatwe are reconciled toGod if our hearts arestill askew with ourneighbours. We haveno claim on God’s graceand forgiveness if our

hearts are not INTENTon making peace. Iwould go as far as say-ing that since the wholeof Jesus’ ministry can besummed up in oneword, RECONCILIA-TION, we have no rightto be called ChristianUNLESS we are seriousabout reaching out tothose who are estrangedfrom the life of thechurch. To me, thewords Christian andReconciliation mean thesame thing. Now thatmay be a rather BOLDstatement on my part,and I stand to be chal-lenged, but the fact re-

mains that Jesus DIEDin order that the worldmay be RECONCILEDto himself – nothing canchange that.

One of the best defi-

Please see “Reconciliation”on page 15


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The following articlewas preached at St. Au-gust ine ’s Angl icanChurch in St. John’s atone of our weekly earlymorning services enti-tled, “Have you triedwine before breakfast?”– a service geared to-wards the students andfaculty of the Univer-sity during which weinvite members of thefaculty to preach. Thissermon is based onIsa iah 12:2 – 6 ,Ephesians 3:2 – 12 andLuke 12:39 – 48. Theservice is followed by abreakfast and discus-sion between students,clergy and the facultymember(s) who arepresent.

In this morning’sreadings we hearIsaiah anticipate, andPaul rei terate ,Christ’s call to meetthe Eucharistic dutythat everyone has: “todistribute the food al-lowance at the propertime”. Sharing thefood “at the propert ime” is the task,Christ says, on whichall will be judged. Hisresponse to Peter ’squestion (Lord, is thisparable meant for usor for everyone?)makes i t c lear thatfood-sharing is notjust the responsibilityof the ordained, oreven of those whowill come to be called“Christians”. Chris-tians, Jews, and Gen-tiles alike, all acceptthat responsibility inaccepting life itself.That is the cross thatall take up. But whydoes Christ speak ofthis food-sharing asoccuring “at theproper time?”

All food is toxic ifit isn’t cooked or pre-pared properly, or if itis served in ways thatcause it to spoil, orserved to those un-prepared for i t be-cause of their custom-ary diets. Only if the

food i tsel f , and al lwho eat it, are prop-erly prepared, is thetime “proper” for it tobe served. Preparingfor that “proper time”is what Isaiah andPaul and Christ aretalking about. Isaiahprepares by singing a

sort “grace beforemeals’, praising “theLORD for his gloriousachievement” that islife itself. For Paul,the preparation is hiswork to bring to lightfor all the revealedplan of the mystery ofall things.

And for Christ thepreparation is stayingalert in expectation ofradically unexpectedevents : “You alsomust be prepared, forat an hour you do notexpect , the Son ofMan will come”; andhe tells us elsewherethat the Son of Mancomes, himself , asfood for all. That foodcertainly needsproper preparation;

and servers and din-ers too need to be pre-pared, if it is not to betoxic.

We have heard alot about toxicity overthe last few weeks.Stock market expertskeep talking abouttoxic assets and toxic

debt for which, theykeep saying, nobodywas prepared. Butwho could be pre-pared for such anevent, and how couldpreparat ion reduceits toxicity?

This church standsacross the street froman institution that isactually designed toprepare people of allages, colours, persua-sions, or culturalbackgrounds to ex-pect the unexpected.That is preciselywhat a universi tydoes. It develops thepersonal, cultural, in-tellectual, and spir-i tual capacit ies ofthose who will helpthe community se-

Launch out into the deepcure, prepare, andshare all its essentialfoods.

Memorial is a non-sectarian institution,designed to serve, asSt. Paul says, all whoare capable of learn-ing. It teaches how toexpect the unex-

pected, to encounternew people and ideasand events coura-geously. Memorial’sown motto claims itsjob is to respond tothe call Christ madeto his f ishermenfriends. Rememberhow, early one morn-ing, He told them tohave fai th andProvehito in Altum, to“Launch out into thedeep”, dangerous wa-ters of the unknown.That same faith sus-tains any real univer-sity’s work.

At the end of De-cember, I will be re-tiring from Memorialafter 42 years of re-search and teaching.I am very proud of

Memorial, and of mywork there; but I of-ten worry that Memo-rial needs broadersupport if it is to re-main true to its ownfaith- based missionof preparing its com-munity to face theunknown, unex-pected, unfamil iarfoods it needs to try.

That support isavailable from withinthis faith communityhere this morning asi t l is tens to Isaiah,and Paul, and Christ.Memorial can f indthat support by hear-ing your own experi-ences of a faith that is,like Memorial’s, in-clusive of al l andopen to all.

Christ’s call, ech-oed by Paul, is to de-velop a disciplinedunderstanding of theworld that Isaiahsings about as theLord’s “gloriousa c h i e v e m e n t ” .Christ ’s feast , towhich all are invited,is the mutual under-standing that re-sponds generouslyand effectively to theneeds of the worldand al l i ts people .That is the prepara-tion we pray for, ur-gently, today. It is the“proper time”.

Thank you for in-vit ing me to shareyour timely celebra-tion of our nourishingfaith.

Sermon byJohn A. Scott,

Ph.D.

THE MIRACULOUS DRAUGHT OF FISHES painted by RaphaelSouth Kensington Museum, London


Church, then how are weto understand the rebel-lious protestations andinterpretation of the radi-cal liberal reformers?

I would suggest thatthe influence of today’sradical individualismand relativism have noplace in the Church. Thatthe liberal reformers jus-tify their interpretationsand actions on the basisof these cultural influ-ences is enough to say,

‘No.’ Indeed, it is obvi-ous that Jesus, the Apos-tles, the Church of His-tory, and the Holy Scrip-tures of the Church testifyto a radical move fromme to Him, and thus fromme to us. The façade ofunity that is agree-to-disagree makes a mock-ery of the command thatwe be one in Jesus andthat we should be trans-formed into His likenessthrough the renewing of

Romancing the worldContinued from page 4

our minds. Our bishops,clergy, and laity must re-consider their romancewith the World and re-new the romance that isto be for Christ and HisBride, the Church.

The Rev’dBrian Candow

is the Associate Priestin the Parish of Gander

stewardshipKevin SmithLife Insurance: a renewed interest

Frank Minton andLorna Somers, authorsof the prestigious,“Planned Giving forCanadians”, suggestthat Life insurance issaid to be the mostcommon deferred giftreceived by CanadianCharities. While thatmay be true in the restof the country, I havenot seen evidence ofthis in this province.That’s not saying thatit doesn’t occur, itmeans that few insur-ance gifts for theChurch have comeacross my desk...untilrecently.

In the last twomonths, I have beeninvolved with twopolicies; one, a $35,000policy for St. Thomas’and another $50,000policy for St. Mark theEvangelist. There wasalso an inquiry fromthe Burin Peninsula.

With this renewedinterest in mind, I amincluding some infor-mation from the Angli-

can Church of Canadaabout life insurancethat has served us wellin years gone by butcan serve us in an en-tirely new way whenwe make it a charita-ble gift. Here are somepossibilities:

Give the death pro-ceeds. MarvinHolcomb no longerneeds the $25,000death benefit from thepolicy he took out yearsago when his familywas young. So he de-cides to have GeneralSynod of The AnglicanChurch of Canada re-ceive the proceeds pay-able at his death. Whenhe dies, his estate willreceive a donation re-ceipt for the amount ofthe death benefit, re-sulting in significanttax savings on his finalreturn. If the donationreceipt exceeds 100%of his income in thatyear, the excess can becarried back to the pre-vious year, and the100% limitation will

apply to that year’s in-come as well.

Give the policy it-self. Nancy Helm, age75, had almost forgot-ten her paid up$50,000 policy untilshe began thinkingabout establishing anendowment with theDiocese in memory ofher husband. She de-pends on the incomefrom her other invest-ments, but the insur-ance policy makes anideal gift. Because shemakes the Diocese thebeneficiary and alsothe owner of thepolicy, her gift is ir-revocable, and she re-ceives a donation re-ceipt for the cash valueof the policy, credit-able up to 75 percent ofher income (excesscredit may be carriedforward up to fiveyears). Nancy’s policyis paid up, but if pre-miums were still owingand she continued topay them, she would

receive donation re-ceipts for those pay-ments as well.

Give a new policy.Ralph Swanson, in hismid-40’s, would like tomake a significant giftto The Anglican Foun-dation of Canada. Hehas no existing policyor assets to contributebut he does have somediscretionary income,so he purchases a new$40,000 policy namingthe Foundation as bothowner and beneficiary,and pays for it in fiveannual payments of$1,200 each. He re-ceives a donation re-ceipt for each paymentand, assuming a com-bined federal/provin-cial tax credit of 48 per-cent, his annual taxsaving is $576. Thus his“net cost” for each pre-mium is $624, and hemakes a $40,000 futuregift for only $3,120.

There are severalthings worthy of note:

1) You can desig-nate your parish, yourdiocese or some otherministry within thechurch to be the ben-eficiary of your policy.

2) There are imme-diate tax savings onpremium payments.

3) The provisionscannot be changed bythe courts.

4) Life insuranceallows you to leveragea larger charitable giftrelative to the pay-ments required.

5) The gift bypassesthe donor’s estate andprobate process.

I encourage you toconsult with a finan-

cial planner about sucha gift to your church.Or, if you require somehelp in this area, I’mconfident that I canput you in touch withsomeone who will beonly too pleased to as-sist.

As I enter my 9th

year in this ministry,my wife Kay and Iwould like to wish allyou dear readers awonderful and holyChristmas season.

“We make a livingby what we get, wemake a life by what wegive.” - Sir WinstonChurchill

Kevin Smith is a giftplanning consultant

with the AnglicanChurch of Canada. He

can be contacted at 709739-5667 or by email:

[email protected].

Above is a picture of the newly elected Diocesan ACW Executive for the Diocese ofCentral Newfoundland. The annual meeting was held in Lewisporte and the themewas “Called To Serve.” Pictured in the photo left to right - Bishop David Torraville,President - Judy Peddle; Vice-President - Eileen Colbourne; Treasurer - PatriciaRideout; Secretary - Shirley Walters. Photo submitted by Jacqui King


The greatest promise columnist

The Rev. Michael Li

John 3:16 is the bestknown verse in the Bi-ble. The apostle Johnwrote: “For God soloved the world that hegave his one and onlySon, that whoever be-lieves in him shall notperish but have eternallife” (John 3:16). Mar-tin Luther (1483-1546)called this verse “theGospel in miniature”. It reveals the extent ofGod’s love. Salvationhas its origin in God,but God is under no ob-ligation to save us.

There are differenttypes of love. There islove within the family. There is love between a

man and a woman. There is love betweenfriends. Then there isdivine love, for “God soloved the world”. It isan unconditional love. God loves us in spite ofus. It is His nature tolove.

God loves the world,and that includes thewhole of humanity, notjust the world of theelect. Why does Godlove us? God loves usbecause we are Hiscreation. We are a spe-cial creation of God. Toknow God’s love is in-deed heaven on earth.

God “gave his oneand only Son”. The

apostle John tells usthat God’s love is shownin the gift of His Son. God gave Jesus by send-ing Him into the world,but He also gave Jesuson the cross. It isthrough Jesus that wecome to know God’slove and love God. When God gave Jesus,He gave the best gift inthe universe. The deathof Jesus on the crossshows us the love ofGod.

We all have needs. We need to know God. Jesus brings us theknowledge of who Godis, and what He is like. If we want to know

what God is like, look toJesus. We will find Himin the pages of the Bi-ble. Also we need a Sav-iour. Jesus died on thecross to save us from sinand from ourselves. Weneed to repent of oursins and believe andtrust in the person andwork of Jesus in order tobe saved. But, God doesnot force us to acceptHis offer of salvation.

We all want to live,but we all will die. Je-sus is the answer to thatproblem, for He giveseternal life to all whobelieve on Him (John3:16). We can trust Je-sus. We have confi-

dence in Jesus. Eternallife is life in Jesus. Bythe grace of God, wecan live according to thewill of God, loving Godand our fellow humanbeings in words and indeeds.

Ronald Clarke

columnistToo soon for Merry Christmas?How fast and furi-

ous the whole worldmoves today! And howchangeable and unpre-dictable everything hasrecently become!

Consider October,for example. Suddenly,unpredictably, ourstocks, our finances, vir-tually collapsed. Plung-ing stock marketsthreatened theeconomy of the wholeworld. Suddenly manyof us lost much of oursavings. We werestripped of our “secu-rity blanket,” i.e. ourmoney. A collapse of theglobal economy wouldcreate traumatic condi-tions that stagger theimagination- a world inhopeless turmoil.

Perhaps, please God,everything will be

cleared up by Christ-mas. If so, glory be toGod! Even if there is amiraculous recovery,our confidence in oureconomy- and in ourwhole financial system-will be severely shaken:will there be anothercollapse soon? Willthere be a total, irrevers-ible, financial crash? In-deed, our whole worldsystems seem so vul-nerable today, and,whether we like it ornot, our world is a“family”, totally inter-dependent. Calamitythat affects one affectsus all.

The October crisisclearly demonstratesthat we no longer haveany real global security,financially, militarily,or otherwise, in our

man-centered, man-di-rected world. Our totalreliance on human re-sources is frighteninglyfragile. Since there isabsolutely no REAL se-curity in humanity,where can we turn forREAL security?

TO GOD, of course!We have a glorious,

almighty Father- Godwho made us, and ALLthings, wonderfully. Heis, Jesus Christ assuresus, in charge of ALL hiscreation. No earthly, orheavenly, situation-however colossal, how-ever disastrous, andhowever traumatic- istoo big for God to han-dle. And handle it hewill, if we believe in himand put our whole trustin him.

Oh, yes, it helps

sometimes to turn togovernments, or toworld organizations,for help and solutions.But, the ultimate, infal-lible solutions to allworld problems comefrom the God whomade the world. He’sthe ONLY ONE bigenough for the job.

So, Christmas is al-most here, and, onceagain we are dramati-cally reminded of God’sgreat love for us, a lovethat gave us his ONLYSon to redeem us. Thatson Jesus, born a help-less infant became, andstill is, the Saviour of thewhole world. WithGod’s Omnipotent helpso readily available tous, why doesn’t thewhole world turn tohim through Jesus his

Son?This Christmas let us

all rejoice at the birth ofJesus Christ. Let’s telleveryone else around usthat God is truly incharge of all things.Let’s tell everyone that,NO MATTER WHAT,God is in control, so wehave nothing to fear.Your witness, and mine,and everybody else’scan really help to bringthe world to God.


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St. Matthew wrote,“I was sick and you tookcare of me, I was in prisonand you visited me.”These words from scrip-ture are lived out dailyby the chaplaincyoutreach of many par-ishes in theArchdeaconry of Lab-rador.

The Happy Valley-Goose Bay area servicesnot only its own com-munity; it is the hub formany people needingservices from the Labra-dor coastal areas.Therefore chaplaincy inthe Lake Melville areareaches out to manycommunities, familiesand individuals.

Chaplaincy is sharedby both ordained andnon-ordained alike.The Labrador HealthCentre (hospital) re-ceives visits three timesa week by the clergy ofthe Parish of LakeMelville. The pastoralcare given at the hospi-tal allows the local

church to care for thewider church who mayhave been air-lifted toHappy Valley GooseBay from othercommunities.

Outside thehospital settingchaplaincy oc-curs at the Dr.Harry PaddonSeniors Home.At the PaddonHome, the sacra-ment of HolyCommunion iscelebrated thelast Friday ofeach month.This Eucharisticfeast is shared bymany of the resi-dents and fromtime to time theliturgy is trans-lated intoInuktutuk forour Moravianbrothers and sisters.The clergy also visit thePaddon Home on aweekly basis to chat andshare in the life of thehome.

The Praise Bandfrom St. Andrew’sChurch in the Parish ofLake Melville share in

chaplaincy ministry bysharing their gift of mu-sic. On a rotating sched-ule, afternoon Sundayservices are held at thePaddon Home, Pine

Lodge Personal CareHome, Headlands Sen-ior’s Apartments andthe Labrador Correc-

tional Centre.These servicesconsist of hymnrequests, scrip-ture readings, re-flections andprayer requests.These servicesare conducted byboth clergy andlaity. In the ab-sence of a priestor deacon theseservices are stillconducted bydedicated layministers andmusicians.

Chaplaincyin the “BigLand” is not con-fined to theHappy ValleyGoose Bay area.

On Labrador’s southcoast, the clergy of theParish of Battle Har-bour minister to theresidents of the Har-bour View Manor in

Mary’s Harbour. InLabrador West, pastoralcare is given to CaptainWilliam Jackman Me-morial Hospital by theparish priest in the Par-ish of Labrador West.

Chaplaincy by theAnglican Church inLabrador is as vast as itsgeography. The clergyare on call 24 hours aday and seven days aweek to cover the pas-toral needs of the manycare centres in theArchdeaconry. It is thededication of the clergyand the support of thelaity that makes chap-laincy happen in Labra-dor. Together we heedJesus call to show careand love for the sick andimprisoned around us.

Submitted byThe Ven. Charlene Taylor,

Archdeacon of Labrador

nitions I ever cameacross for the churchgoes something likethis: a community ofpeople whose way oflife TOGETHER isLIVING PROOF of aLOVING GOD to awatching world. TheChurch in its fellow-ship HAS TO BE LIV-ING PROOF OF ALOVING GOD. Buthow can we do thatif our hearts are notset on doing the workof reconciliation, i.e.,to be a community ofpeople who is seriousabout forgiving andloving and the exer-cise of grace. Is it anywonder why peopleget so upset whenthere is division andfactions in Church?The Church is ourLord’s “sacrament”to the world, a bea-con of light – loving,forgiving, reconcil-ing, and building upcommunity. Any-thing less is nothingmore than a “SLAP”in the face to JesusChrist.

ReconciliationContinued from page 11

The ladies of Holy Trinity ACW (Parish of Meadows) take a break before serving hot roastbeef suppers as part of their Fall Fund Raising Event. The Rev’d Malcolm Palmer was notashamed to admit that he put on an apron and greatly hindered them!Back Row, left to right- Estelle Davis, Francis Han, Susie Anderson, Lorraine Gooney.Front Row - Whyona White,Nina Warren, Anna Pitman, Jean Head, Avril Harris, Francis Brake. Kneeling - The Revd.Malcolm Palmer.


Canadian Primate visits Central Diocese

Archbishop FredHiltz, Primate of the An-glican Church of Canada,spent September 29-30visiting the Diocese ofCentral Newfoundland.

The Primate spoke tothe clergy and laity fromall over the Diocese. Be-ing from Nova Scotia, hestated it was always goodto return home to theEast Coast, to see the At-lantic Ocean and to enjoythe beautiful scenery. Hesaid the greatest joy forhim in the past year hasbeen his diocesan visits.

Archbishop Hiltz out-lined his role as the Pri-mate. One of his manyduties is to visit all theCanadian dioceses. In hisfirst year, he has been to19 out of 30 Dioceses inCanada and he has vis-ited some dioceses morethan once. He considersit important to exercise

his pastoral role as chairof the House of Bishopsby visiting all EpiscopalOrdinations and Conse-crations. Primates arealso invited to DiocesanSynods and Anniversa-ries. The Archbishopsaid, “I have witnessedsigns of vitality and re-newal in variouschurches across Canadabecause of very strongand capable clergy lead-ership and very strongand capable lay leader-ship. Leadership in aparish is very crucial, andwill make a parish rise orfall.”

He explained the fivemarks of a healthy Parish:(1) the members knowwho they are before God;(2) they know what Godis calling them to do as aChurch; (3) they have theresources to do the work;(4) the people are really

experiencing the powerand joy of the Gospel, intheir worship and in theirfellowship; (5) and thechurch is making a sig-nificant difference in thecommunity and theworld. The Primate con-cluded, “If you havethose five marks in eachchurch of your diocese,that makes for a healthydiocese and 30 strongdioceses will make astrong and vibrant Na-tional Church.”

The Primate said thathe enjoys the contrast ofhis experiences. Illustrat-ing this, he said, “Every-thing from (worshippingwith) nine thousand peo-ple in an arena in Ottawato celebrate the 150th An-niversary of that dioceseto a gathering with sevenpeople in a little logchapel way up north viaan ice road where a lone

lay reader looks after thechapel.”

The Primate also seesan amazing contrast inthe liturgy of our church.“A lot of people out theredescribe our church asweary, worn out andsad,” he said. “Weary ofthe residential schools,worn out talking aboutsexuality, and sad be-cause of brokenness anddivision, and, in part,those are some of our re-alities, but there are otherrealities as well thatmust be consideredalongside. These are allthe signs of renewedhope, renewed sense ofmission, and renewedsense of our place in theAnglican Communion.”

Archbishop Hiltz alsodelivered the sermon atthe Service of HolyEucharist at St. Alban’sChurch in Grand Falls-Windsor . He mentionedthat God wills nothingbut good for His peopleand for His Church if wegive ourselves over com-pletely to the mission inwhich we are called, asthose signed by the crossand marked as God’s ownforever.

Using the readings forSt. Michael & All Angelshe spoke at length aboutthe Angels of God. He ex-plained three things thatangels do - they worship,they carry messages, andthey guard us. He left uswith the question, “Imag-ine that there is an angelof the Lord tending theAnglican Church, what isthat angel seeing as shegoes through the Angli-can Church of Canada?What kind of message isshe going to deliver tous? I think,” he said, “thatpart of the message thatangel might have for ourchurch would be some-

thing like this. Move on.Move on with being thechurch. Move on withproclaiming the gospel.Celebrate the faith. Cel-ebrate the gospel. Keepworking at bringing peo-ple to Christ and nurtur-ing that experience withus. That angel would sayto our church, treasurewhat you have - your her-itage, your diversity, be-cause in these things isyour very hope for thefuture. I think that angelwould say to us, ‘in allyour stress and strain,nationally and interna-tionally, don’t forget thethings that draw you to-gether. your companiondioceses, your prayer cy-cles, your experience ofthe Eucharist, every expe-rience being a reminderto us that we are onebody under one Lord.’Finally, that angel mightsay to us, ‘Who are youas a church guarding?My hunch is that angelwould be pointing to thepoor, to those who longfor Gospel, who long fora renewed experience ofjustice. Are we guardingtheir rights, their dignity,as people made in God’simage? Are you advocat-ing for them? Are youholding out for them a vi-sion of God’s justice? Areyou enabling them toknow that their hope willnot perish?’”

There was an hour offellowship and refresh-ments following the serv-ice provided by the St.Alban’s ACW.

Submitted byArch Parsons

Parish of Windsor-Bishop’s Falls

Archbishop Fred Hiltz, the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada spent sometime visiting all three dioceses in Newfoundland & Labrador in October. He is seenpreaching here at St. Alban’s Church in Grand Falls-Windsor Photo: Arch Parsons

Servers Inducted at St. John the Divine, Port Saunders(left to right) Terry Sooley, Rev. Tanya White, Gavin Pinsent,Heather White, Jeremy Barry. Photo: Denise White

Four young servers wereinducted on 28 September2008 by Rev’d Tanya White,known to these young peopleas “Revy”.

They have been takingturns assisting Rev’d Tanya onSundays and are eager to help.To show her appreciation,“Revy” gave the servers theirown crosses. Gavin has beenserving for a few years now,but Terry, Heather and Jeremyare new to the job. Gavin sayshe will teach them as he is “thesenior one now”. His olderbrother guided him and is no

longer serving on the altar butstill reads and plays music onoccasion.

Not only do these kids actas servers in the sanctuary butthey sometimes take up collec-tion, help with welcoming,and doing whatever little jobsthere are to be done. They arenot there every Sunday butwhen they are they don’tmind helping in anyway.

It is so good to see youngpeople involved in the life ofthe church. Encouragingthese young people now, in-volving them in the life of the

church, is a sure way, at leastwe hope, that they will alwaysbelong to their church com-munity wherever they go.

And I must give thanks aswell, for the encouragementprovided to these youth byRev. Tanya – she has been apositive influence on them.We pray that they will serveGod in many ways in the yearsto come.

Submitted byDenise White

Parish of Port Saunders

Port Saunders welcomes new servers

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