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Beginning a new ministry. The Rev’d Paul Rideout (left) and The Rev’d Robert Cooke (right) wereordained to the Transitional Diaconate on 31 May 2010 the Feast of the Visitation. Deacon Rideoutwill be serving in the Parish of Port de Grave and Deacon Cooke is the Assistant at the Parish of St.Mark the Evangelist in St. John’s. Photo: The Editor.

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New deacons ordained Queen’s CollegehonoursFrancis Buckle

My Lord Chancellor,You would certainly be fa-

miliar with Jesus’ words toSimon - “Henceforth you willbe catching people”. (RSV,slightly adapted) This indeedwas the type of fishery ourhonorary graduate, Archdea-con Francis Buckle, was des-tined to pursue primarily in hisnative Labrador.

Francis was born inForteau, Labrador to John andMary Ann Buckle. He grew upthere and his first nine years ofschooling were on Buckle’sPoint, one of the three partsmaking up Forteau. In fact, hisfirst three years of schoolingwere in a porch. He finishedhis last year of high school inSt. Anthony where he lived atthe Grenfell Orphanage andworked part-time in the barn -a barn, of course, holds a spe-cial meaning for Christians.Despite that meaning, Franciswas somewhat taken abackupon arriving in St. Anthony forhe had understood the Englishnurse, who encouraged him togo, with her pronounced ac-cent, to say that he wouldwork at the Bond (Customs),which naturally meant a paperjob. When Francis saw theshovel, he realized it was notpaper he would be pushing.

From St. Anthony, Franciswent on to a teacher trainingsummer school, at the end ofwhich he became the principalof the two-room school atL’anse au Loup for three years.At the school for the first twoyears he had a wonderful as-sistant, Gertrude Webb. Shewas so wonderful that theysubsequently became life-longassistants to each other.

Following L’anse au Loup,Francis attended MemorialUniversity, and Queen’s Collegewhere he earned a B.A. and

Licentiate in Theology, respec-tively. He later obtained aBachelor of Divinity throughGeneral Synod. In addition, hespent a fall term at CuddesdonCollege (Oxford) and a sixweek sabbatical at VirginiaTheological College, coupledwith numerous continuing edu-cation events Francis wasmade a deacon in 1962,priested in 1963, and ap-pointed Archdeacon of Labra-dor in 1983 by Bishop MartinMate.

Archdeacon Buckle spentthirty-four years in the or-dained ministry in Labrador:five at Cartwright, fourteen atLake Melville and fifteen atLabrador West. He also servedas an assistant priest for threeyears at the Cathedral of St.John the Baptist and was in-cumbent of the parish of BellIsland for three years. It wasduring their parish ministry thathe and his wife Gertrude raisedtheir three children - Andrea,David and Paul.

Initially, Francis wanted tofish further north, namely in theArctic. As early as 1961, whilea student at Queens, he metwith the Bishop of the Arcticwith that in mind. Bishop JohnMeaden, Francis’ own bishop,was most interested in his de-sire and calling to the north butnot at all enthused that it wasbeyond the northern bounda-ries of his own diocese. “I haveother plans for you, Buckle“,the good bishop exclaimed.“It’s north to be sure -Cartwright“. Thus, followingordination and a short stint inthe parish of Trinity, the Rev-erend Mr. Buckle set out forCartwright, “ill-prepared”, so

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ACW pyjama party

On March the ACW of St. Aidan’s Church, Port Blandford, had a Pyjama Party night at their meeting.Members came dressed in pyjamas, some bringing a favourite toy and blanket. There was theusual meeting and then some fun games with a visit from a fan of the Olympics 2010. The ladiesshared a lovely cup of tea and sat around and told stories. There was even a poem and picturestory of some of the ladies when they were in grade school. It was a fun and relaxing evening.Submitted by: June Holloway.

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he states, to take on the respon-sibility of the cure of souls butby God’s Grace he wouldpreach of His Love and show itin action”.

Despite what he only per-ceived as his lack of prepara-tion, Rev. Mr. Buckle occupiedthe Church’s fishing premises atCartwright and prepared to sethis nets around Sandwich Bay.At the time, Sandwich Bay hadabout 700 Anglicans scatteredalong 100 miles of coastline.None of the communities wereconnected by a road. Moreo-ver, there was no parish boat.Consequently, transportationwas by whatever means camealong.

From Cartwright it wasback to the Island for six yearsafter which it was off to theMission of Lake Melville. It wasthere that he would fish for afurther fourteen years beforemoving on to Labrador City foranother fifteen.

With respect to the Arch-deacon’s love for and commit-ment to ministry in Labrador,one could not find either a bet-ter or more persistent advocate.In a way, he embodied the callof St. Paul to Macedonia thatSt. Luke describes in the Actsof the Apostles and which themajority of New Testamentscholars interpret as autobio-graphical. Be that as it may inthe Archdeacon’s case, the callwas not to Macedonia but tocome across the Strait “to helpus.” In that regard, it is impor-tant to note that he was notasking others to do what he wasnot prepared to do himself.During his years in Labrador, hehad numerous opportunities toserve the Canadian church else-where. Like Jesus himself, how-ever, the Archdeacon resistedall temptations, only in his casethere were more than three.

St. Luke seems to have hadother influences on the Archdea-con’s life. Luke was a writer, amissionary, a medic and wasconcerned with the wholenessof people. Archdeacon Buckleis also a writer, a missionaryand, upon entering Queen’s, wasgiving serious thought to thestudy of medicine. He later didseveral courses in that discipline.As well, the Archdeacon al-ways found ways of enteringmore fully into the lives of hispeople. One summer, while atCartwright, for example, hisfamily moved to Spotted Islandswhere he spent the ‘holiday’ fish-ing commercially for salmon.Even when you see a photo ofhim removing a salmon from thenet, you know full well that isnot really what he is fishing for.

Long before his own fish-ery in Labrador, the Archdea-

con was well aware of the fish-ery of the Anglican Churchthere. His family roots datedback to the 1790s. Again, hewas born, raised, went toschool and taught there. Hewas certainly familiar with thefact that the Church of Eng-land’s work in Labrador beganofficially with Bishop EdwardFeild’s during the summer of1848. During a three weekperiod that summer the Bishoptravelled in the Church’s boatfrom Forteau in the south toSandwich Bay in the north. Asa result, he put in place imme-diate plans to establish threemissions along the coast.Forteau was operational asearly as 1849 with the fishingpremises at English Point (an-other part of Forteau), origi-nally owned by an English mer-chant, becoming the headquar-ters of the Forteau mission.The next year, Battle Harbourbecame operational. Financesand recruitment problems de-layed the opening of SandwichBay until 1885. Moreover, atQueen’s, Francis had read someof the writings of Canon J.T.Richards who was a priest innorthern Newfoundland andsouthern Labrador for 40years. As well, at Queen’s hehad read about the ReverendMr. Henry Gordon and Mrs.Clara Gordon. He even cop-ied on some old typewriter ac-counts of Reverend Mr.Gordon’s trips around Sand-wich Bay.

Notwithstanding the sig-nificance of each of the aboveto the Archdeacon‘s ministry,collectively they no doubt pre-pared him for what is one ofhis greatest ministries, that is hispublished writings, these being:The Anglican Church in Labra-dor 1848-1998 (written on theoccasion of the AnglicanChurch‘s 150th anniversary inLabrador); Labrador Diary1915-25; The Gordon Jour-nals; Labrador Teacher: ClaraGordon‘s Journals; My OwnMother‘s Son: Stories MyBrother James Stewart ToldMe along with various articlesin Anglican Life.

In the Forward to TheAnglican Church in Labrador,it is pointed out that “the booktraces the history of the Churchfrom the time of formal estab-lishment in 1848“. The For-ward notes as well that ̀ `it isa story of faith, hope, dedica-tion, determination and re-sponse. And above all, it is astory of triumph, often overoverwhelming odds“. Whenyou see the photo of Canon J.T. Richards wearing hissou’wester, the truth of thatdescription is easy to accept.Likewise, the Forward to theGordon Journal describes that

book as not “just a story ofmissionary work but also ofhuman endeavour and endur-ance in an isolated and hostileenvironment“. Again, the im-agery found in the words ofReverend Mr. Gordon is some-what startling. “I woke atdawn to find myself buried un-der snow - the snow was sim-ply showering through theroof”. Likewise, ClaraGordon’s description of whatwas called her ‘coach box’,lashed to a komatik, is equallydescriptive of the expectedchallenges ahead. My OwnMother’s Son, the title of whichthe Archdeacon says came tohim while praying the psalms,is a booklet of his brother Jim’sincredible memory of the his-tory of the Church, the Buck-les, and other families ofForteau. Not yet published butcertainly in progress is theArchdeacon’s autobiographyentitled One Pilgrim’s Journey.“As the title suggests, this is sim-ply the story of one, who fromtime to time, has been encour-aged to share something of life’sjourney“, both its calms and itsstorms. Both the Church andLabrador figure prominently inthis book. After all he has beena priest for 47 years. Moreo-ver, the Archdeacon states inthe preface “that the misrep-resentation of Labrador and themisuse of its resources haveweighed heavily on his soul“.

Mr. Chancellor, my verybrief comments certainly donot do justice to the Archdea-con’s writings. A careful studyof his books and articles re-veals that they are far morethan just an account of theChurch’s past but rather arebuilding on the foundation/cor-

nerstone of the apostles andprophets including earlier clergy.This theme is so apparent thatit causes one to recall St. Paul’smessage to the Ephesians: Youare built upon the foundationlaid by the apostles and proph-ets, the cornerstone beingChrist Jesus himself. He is theone who holds the whole build-ing together and makes it growinto a sacred Temple dedicatedto the Lord. In union togetherwith all the others into a placewhere God lives through hisspirit. That is the message thatpermeates the Archdeacon’swritings. That is the messagehe has personified the whole ofhis ministry.

Mr. Chancellor, the audi-ence would be aware I am sureof Jesus’ words: “That aprophet is not without honoursave in his own country….”

With the very greatest of re-spect for the words of Jesus, Ibelieve that standing in front ofyou this evening is an excep-tion to that statement. For theArchdeacon was truly hon-oured and indeed loved in Lab-rador as he served the Angli-can Church of Canada and rep-resented Queen’s College.

Members of the Corpora-tion, the faculty, the studentsand all of those assembled ex-press their most sincere grati-tude to the Archdeacon andoffer him their heartiest con-gratulations on a most success-ful Labrador church fishery.

Mr. Chancellor, I nowpresent to you the first recipi-ent of the degree, Doctor ofSacred Letters from Queen‘sCollege (honoris causa) Arch-deacon Francis Buckle.

The Venerable Dr. Francis Buckle (left) and Dr. Tom Pope (right).

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Nova Scotian praises Queen’s CollegeArticle

Allison Billard

Judi Phillips went back tochurch because the Lord toldher it was time.

Having been away fromthe church for 20 years, shetried to ignore Him at first,when he called to her in 1999.But five months later, one Sun-day morning, there He wasagain, and she decided that itwas indeed about time.

Despite having grown upSalvationist, she felt compelledto attend the Anglican churchclose to her home. Immediatelyshe knew that this is where shewas supposed to be.

Her first year as an Angli-can was pretty quiet. She wentto church on Sundays and be-came a part of the community.However, soon she felt sheshould be doing more, so shebecame a lay reader and gradu-ally she got to be very activein the church, leading services,preaching, assisting in theEucharist, and conducting theprayers of the people.

Her minister, Rev. Mat-thew told her in no uncertain

terms that she should enter intofull time ordained ministry, thatshe had more to offer than thepart time, non-stipendiary layministry al-lowed for. Heconvinced herthat neitherher age, hereducation norher financialsituation madeany difference- this is whereshe was meantto be, her spir-ituality wouldnot be bound.

In 2005she and herh u s b a n dmoved toHalifax, so shecould attendSt. Mary’s Uni-v e r s i t y(SMU), withthe intention of attending At-lantic School of Theology(AST). Her husband was verysupportive of her call and herintention to go into full timeministry. Sadly, he passed

away from lung cancer thatsame year.

Armed with 18 creditsfrom SMU, Judi did her research

and realized that Queens Col-lege just might be a better fitfor her than the closer AST.

“This was the perfect placefor me,” said Judi. “It is a morespiritual school, and a better fit

for me academically. Sure it wasbusy, and very challenging attimes, but the community wasvery rewarding and you learn

how towork withall differentkinds ofpeople andpersonali-ties, just asyou will inparish life.

“Hav-ing onlybeen anAnglicansince 2000attendingschool atQueens re-ally taughtme a lotabout thetradition.The spirituallife was the

best part of the program - eightworship sessions a weekhelped me really understandand appreciate the traditions ofthe Anglican faith.”

Uprooting herself and

moving to St. John’s may havebeen lonely at times, but Judidoesn’t regret it for a second.The region wasn’t totally for-eign, as Judi’s parents were bothfrom Newfoundland. Andwhile she did live in St. John’sduring school, she went homeeach summer to work in herhome diocese. She has noth-ing but positive things to sayabout her experience in New-foundland.

“Queens College is the bestkept secret in Newfoundland,”said Judi. “Anglicans definitelydon’t recognize what a prizeinstitution it is. I was blessedto be able to study here.”

Judi will be working in par-ish ministry in the Greater GlaceBay Pastoral Unit in CapeBreton, a five point parish. Shewill be ordained deacon onMay 13th and will work withthe Rev. Vernon Reid, a nativeNewfoundlander who workedin Newtown and Greenspond,NL until a few years ago. Inaddition to parish ministry, Judihopes to be involved inoutreach and social justice.

Bishop Sue Moxley (left) of the Diocese of Nova Scotia & PEI rejoiceswith Queen’s College graduate Judi Phillips (right) at Convocation2010

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A few years ago, with agroup of students, I was privi-leged to visit a magnificentestate at Versailles in France.The estate consisted of a pal-ace and very extensive gar-dens. The whole thing wasbreathtakingly extravagant.

The palace was richlyornamented. The acres andacres of property consisted ofplots in various shapes anddesigns filled with plants andflowers in a variety of col-ours. It was fantastic.

“Who put this together?”one student asked. Veryskilled architects and garden-ers we all agreed.

It is summer now, andall of us will soon be sur-rounded by a landscape farmore extensive and far more“fantastic” than any Frenchpalace.

Our summer landscape istruly wonderful. The blue

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God’s Versaillessky, azure waters, lush greenhills and valleys, and brilliantwildflowers create a palettethat Versailles can neverequal.

Could it be that like Ver-sailles some wonderful ar-chitect and very skilful gar-dener designed and created itall?

Does it make any senseto declare that all this devel-oped by chance initiated bysome Big Bang a long timeago?

Of course not! Our won-derful landscape was surelydesigned and created by ourloving and omnipotent God.

Many of us will spendmuch of our time this sum-mer out in the country enjoy-ing God’s creation. Shouldn’twe be so grateful to God thatwe thank him and praise himevery day? Or do we just takeit all for granted?

And since our Father godloves to see us, his belovedfamily worshipping him to-gether, shouldn’t we find achurch somewhere nearby onSunday? There we can thankhim and share an hour or sowith some new friends.

Let us all have a trulyblessed summer!

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Jesus taught us that when-ever we give the hungry food;the thirsty something to drink;welcome the stranger; clothethe naked; or visit the sick andthe prisoner; that,whatever we do tothe least of these, wedo it for him. OurChristian Outreachprogram provides avariety of rewardingways for us to get in-volved in the greatercommunity. Throughour baptism we arecalled to see and serveChrist in all people,love our neighbour andstrive for justice andpeace among all peo-ple, while respectingthe dignity of everyhuman being. We areforever reminded atthe end of our worshipthat our Christian life service toothers continues.

At St. Michael’s, ourOutreach Committee is activelyinvolved in a number of minis-tries which we highlight duringthe Lenten season and we arealways seeking ways to betterthe world in the name of ourLord Christ.

For the last number of

years our church communityhas been an advocate for theelimination of landmines, resto-ration of mine infected land, andproviding much needed assist-ance for landmine victims. Wehave done this by hosting a“Meal for a Mine-Free World”.

The global landmine crisisis one of the most pervasiveproblems facing the world to-

day. It is estimated that thereare between 45 and 50 millionlandmines in the ground in atleast 70 countries.

When wars end the surviv-ing soldiers go home – not sofor landmines – they stay in theground. They are ready; theyare waiting. They don’t knowthe difference between warand peace. They don’t know

the difference between thefootsteps of a soldier and thefootsteps of a child. Whenthey are activated they blowoff their victim’s feet, legs, toesand hands. They fir shrapnelinto their faces and bodies andblind them or disfigure them. They kill.

It is a horror beyond beliefthat a child’s innocent curiosity

about a strange objectcould lead, not to abroadening of their ho-rizon, but to a lifetimeof disability, or evendeath; where a parenttilling the field to pro-vide food for the fam-ily does so under perilof injury or death; andwhere large tracts offertile land lay fallow,because of the threatof landmines.

A focus for us atSt. Michael’s is on thehope for life in JesusChrist and the strug-gle for a better qualityof life. De-mining is anopportunity for us to

make the environment safer forall people who are endangereddaily by landmines all over theworld. God bless the workbeing done to eradicate thepresence of the landminesthroughout the world and tothat end, God bless the coun-tries that have made the “Ot-tawa Treaty” law.

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Ministry in Parish of Port de Grave

St. Luke’s Anglican Church,Port de Grave, formed aPrayer Shawl ministry group inMarch.

The group was started byFlorence Morgan-Thorn to sup-port those suffering from caneror any other illness. The com-fort shawls made by the groupwill be given to the CancerHouse in St. John’s,

‘Prayer Shawl Ministry’

O’Shaughnessy Shelter inCarbonear, and the women ofour community where there isa need.

Their first meeting, held inFlorence’s home saw ninewomen in attendance and at thesecond meeting twelve womenattended.

Meetings are held the 1st &3rd. Tuesday of each month.

Prayer Shawl Group. (Left to right): Mona Petten, Pearl Dawe,Rita Dooley, Florence Morgan-Thorn, Elsie Yetman, Pauline Lear,Effie Boone, Vera French, Margaret Dawe. Submitted by FlorenceMorgan-Thorn.

‘World Day of Prayer’

Port de Grave children participate in the World Day of Prayer service. Submitted by Florence Morgan-Thorn.

An Ecumenical service washeld at St. Luke’s Church,March 5th, at 7:30 p.m. Thetheme “Let everything that hasbreath praise God”, written bythe World Day of Prayer Com-mittee of Cameroon, washosted by the members of St.Mark’s Church and assisted bySt. Luke’s.

The Republic of Cameroonis a diverse country with over200 ethnic groups. Although theofficial languages are Frenchand English, 240 local languagesare spoken.

The country is located inWest Africa, just north of theequator. Unlike many otherAfrican countries Cameroonhas a relatively high standardof politics with social stability.There is much poverty, espe-cially in rural areas, where the

people still seek out a living onthe land, as their ancestors did.

Most children attend freegovernment schools. The coun-try has one of the highest at-tendance rates in Africa. Un-fortunately, due to culturalstigma, the attendance of girlsis lower than for boys .

Christianity, Islam and Kirdi[Animist - belief that souls/spir-its also reside in animals, plantsetc.] beliefs are practicedthroughout the country. Ruralareas also practice their indig-enous beliefs.

The members of the Par-ish of Port de Grave, led byMarguerite Boone of St.Mark’s, took part in this mean-ingful African service. The sing-ing of a song, telling how it takesa village to raise a child wassung by Rose. Guest members

of the community also tookpart by taking their place in theChancel as their occupationswere named.

Guest speaker, Rose An-drews of Carbonear, gave adetailed description of life in oneof the tribal villages of Ghana.She also spoke about the schoolthat her son, Curtis, founded.A slide presentation allowed usto understand what life is likein a West African village.

The church altar and Chan-cel was transformed by usingcolourful African cloth. Thechildren of the Parish, wearingGhana clothes, were a delight-ful addition to the service. Allreaders and participants in theservice were clothed in Africanmaterial.

Refreshments were servedfollowing the service.

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June/July 2010 ANGLICANLife6STEWARDSHIP

The ‘S’ word

The Most Rev. DouglasHambidge – former Bishop ofNew Westminster, Caledoniaand British Columbia and the Yu-kon is a recognized expert onstewardship. Recently Arch-bishop Hambidge, author of TheS Word, spoke to a Diocesancommittee in Corner Brook. Thefollowing is a summary of someof his enlightening thoughts.

For decades church folk haveheard “stewardship is not aboutmoney” and in the next momentthey are confronted with a par-ish budget or a stewardship pro-gram that revolves around theparish budget.

If there is to be reality andintegrity about stewardship, wehave to lay the biblical founda-tion. We need to say, “No mat-ter what has been said in the past,

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this is what Jesus says aboutstewardship.”

Using the parable of thethree servants, it is written thatthe slave belonged to the owner,everything they had belonged toGod and the word for trustedslave was steward.

Three questions need to beasked:

1. What has been entrustedto me by God?

2. What are you doing withwhat has been entrusted?

3. In what way does Godbenefit?

Discussion of these questionshas several effects:

1. It says that I rememberthat I belong to God – my wholelife is in God’s hands.

2. It begins to teach that thisis something bigger than thebudget or making a pledge.

3. It shows that I am ac-countable for what I do with allthat God has put in my hands.

4. It reminds me that Godtrusts me.

This is a basis on which tobuild a parish attitude to stew-ardship.

Clergy should encourage thewhole congregation to have somesay in the running of the church.

They should help the people re-alize that they are trusted stew-ards and that consulting with themhelps to restore the lost dignity

of the lay people – often re-garded as consumers rather thanparticipants.

For example, vestry minutesshould be talked about. The con-gregation should be informedabout the minutes and asked theirthoughts. The message: we areall servants of God.

Other thoughts:1. The stewardship program

should begin following the AGM.2. It is a mistake to start af-

ter the summer.3. The stewardship

committee should consistof people who are com-mitted to stewardship.

4. The committeeneed to see themselves asstewards – not merely amember of the steward-ship committee.

5. The committeedoesn’t necessarily needto include the priest.

6. It should not in-clude the treasurer.

7. Avoid link be-tween parish finances andthis group.

8. Key is developingan understanding of stew-ardship to the member-ship.

9. Need to choose the com-mittee carefully.

10. Begin the teaching withthe stewardship committee – usea bible study at the beginning ofeach meeting.

11. Some bad messages in-clude: a) Not putting the offeringplate on the altar. b) Taking

money out during the service tobe counted.

12. Until the congregationshows signs that they share anownership in the church, do notdo a financial campaign. Other-wise, you will derail the steward-ship process.

13. The process of yearround stewardship will onlywork if the people feel there hasbeen genuine consultation andthat their voices have been heardwhen discussions were takingplace about what God is callingthe Church to do.

14. They will see this as theirprogram, their vision and they willrespond.

15. Messaging is really im-portant a) You don’t want peo-ple giving to a budget; b) Youwant people to give to vision.

Archbishop Douglas HambidgeKevin Smith is the gift

planning consultant forthe Anglican Church of

Canada. He can becontacted at (709) 739-

5667 or by [email protected]

A labour of love at St. Peter’sin Upper Gullies

Nails, hammers andsaws were abuzz at St. Pe-ter’s, Upper Gullies duringthe months of March andApril when men of the par-ish answered a call to reno-vate existing washroomsand build a wheelchair ac-cessible washroom as partof the parish’s continuingeffort to accommodate allwho use the Church and Par-ish Hall.

Last year, as part of anaccessibility upgrade, an el-evator was installed to serv-ice all levels of the ParishHall and Church, makingentry to the building possi-ble for those who havephysical disabilities. Theproject has already made asignificant difference toseveral parishioners andwill be of great benefit toothers who may want to at-tend St. Peter’s.

The two existing restrooms were upgraded to amodern standard, includinga change table in the ladiesroom, making it easier andmore convenient for babiesin their care. A third, wheel-

chair washroom, comply-ing with provincial code,was constructed to accom-modate persons with physi-cal disabilities.

Chairman of the build-ing committee, Herb Dawe,says whenever there’s a needat St. Peter’s, all he has todo is make a few telephonecalls. “These are a greatbunch of guys—fellowswho do what they can forthe betterment of theirchurch. We had carpenters,plumbers, electricians,painters and other help im-mediately available to takeon the job. They workedtheir hearts out, and turneda difficult job into an enjoy-able ‘labor of love’.

Of course, the labor wasfree of charge! Dawe esti-mates that St. Peter’s savedat least $6000 in laborcharges, a saving the parishcan channel to another of itsministries.

St. Peter’s Rector, Fr.Mark Nichols, continues tobe extremely impressed bythe efforts of the faithfulservants of the Church. “The

wheelchair accessiblewashroom was the finalphase of our accessibilityproject. Now all levels ofour church and parish hallannex are accessible to allregardless of physical abil-ity. I can’t say enough aboutthe dedication of these men.They were in every day forseveral weeks trying tocomplete this project assoon as possible and withvirtually no disruption toparish events–and freelabor to the church.”

A few days after com-pletion, The St. Peter’sACW served a lunch to allmen involved in apprecia-tion of the splendid workthey had done.

Article & PhotoJack Morgan

The handymen of St. Peter’s, Upper Gullies. Submitted by JackMorgan.

7ANGLICANLife June/July 2010COLUMNIST

Everyday Christians

Allison Billard

I’ve heard it said that “Idon’t have to go to church tobe a good person.” That istrue. Going to church has verylittle to do with how “good”you are. But then, we don’t goto church to make ourselvesgood people.

If all it took to be a good

person was to go to church, wewould likely have more peoplein attendance on Sunday morn-ing. Most people want to be“good”. While part of being aChristian is caring for others andputting others before our-selves, which may be consid-ered “being good”, that is notwhy we have church services. It is just another part of aChristian’s everyday life. If weconsider ourselves “everydayChristians” then attending aworship service is just anotheraspect of what it is to be Chris-tian. It is a place for fellow-ship, where we can be withother believers, praising God,and generally coming together

as part of the Christian com-munity.

I use the term “everydayChristian” as separate from theoccasional or Sunday Christian. The everyday Christian issomeone who lives their wholeweek/month/year as a Chris-tian. Someone who shares thegood news with others, andshows through their actionswhat it is to be Christian. Theoccasional or Sunday Christianplaces more emphasis on thevalue of being at church. ”See?I went. Happy?” It is more su-perficial - a faith of conven-ience.

I won’t pretend that I’malways an everyday Christian.

Sometimes I feel it is decidedlyinconvenient to attend churchor take part in some of thethings that I should be doing toreally be living a Christian life. I, too, am a sinner. I, too, getsucked in by consumerism andthe misconception that life issupposed to be easy. Some-times I just want things to beconvenient, and comfortable,and I want to stay right insidemy comfort zone.

But that is not what we arecalled to do. Church, faith,spreading the word, all of thesethings may at times be incon-venient, or ask more of us thanwe are prepared to give. Wewill be afraid. It is at precisely

those times we should reachout to Jesus and ask for help. Take His hand and let Himshow you the way.

We aim to live our livesaccording to God’s laws. Wehelp others, we repent whenwe fall into sin and try harderto avoid sin in the first place. We care for our families, loveour neighbours and share thegood news with others, inhopes of helping them find thelove and comfort in God thatwe ourselves have found. Nowhere does it say we have togo to church to accomplish anyof these things. But of course,that’s not why we go to churchnow is it?

Peace has to begin at homeMany times I remember,

when my children were small,the peaceful feeling of gettingup early and “sneaking out” tomy church. There were timesas a young mother of six chil-dren, that I needed the peace-ful feeling of sitting in a quietchurch. I dared to raise myeyes to the cross asking Godto forgive me, strengthen me,and bless me. Then, I wouldpray for each one of my chil-dren for their confidence, theability to do well in school, tobe healthy and adjusted. Iasked God to instil in them thefaith I have and to give theminner peace. Satisfying theirbodies with the best foods,keeping them healthy, and their

filling minds with the best edu-cation was important to me.But I knew I needed to give tothem a little soul nourishmenttoo and that was my biggestchallenge. Every after schoolactivity was scheduled for Sun-day mornings but because Ilived in a smaller community Iwas blessed to have the priestand parish there to influence.To be able to see them, kneel-ing, with their little handsclasped in prayer, was my goal,so in life, even if I were gone,they would need nothing morethan to turn to HIM and theirfaith would be their greatestasset. I knew that the tempta-tion of the devil was what theyhad to rebuke and there wasonly one way they could dothat.

Today, our children are

taller and stronger than theyever were and they lack noth-ing in their materialistic needs,they have the best of clothesand shoes, and food and edu-cational supplies, good schoolsand colleges, but what they arelacking in my view, that makesthem turn to this world’s of-fered evils……is spiritualstrength and faith. One of thescenes that brought tears to myeyes was to see my rebelliousteenager snuggled into thebosom of an 80 year old atchurch and then to see him as-sist her with getting to the Lord’stable. Where else would theylearn this compassion, and it allbegan with MY sneaking out togo to church early in the morn-ing. I would go home and feelso good inside, get breakfastand teach prayers and before

long, they were accompanyingme to church. I depended onGod to speak to their little soulsand the whole parish makethem feel they “belonged” tothis parish family.

I remember I took a neigh-bour’s little girl to church withus for the Children’s service.She was always unruly andplaying in the mud when wepassed her to go to church. Thisparticular week, I asked myneighbour if I could take her tochurch with my children. Themother seemed so grateful.Well, do you know, this littlegirl walked up to sit at the chan-cel steps with the minister andlistened to the children’s talk forthe first time in her little life, andshe walked TALL, she lookedso proud of herself and thebounce in her step was one of

KNOWING she was in God’shouse where she was loved.She had the prettiest little dresson and a buckle in her hair anddidn’t even look like the littlegirl in the mud puddle. She hadthe prettiest smile, as shewalked back down throughchurch after being told that Godloved every hair on her littlehead, her eyes scanned thecongregation and she KNEWshe was loved there. What adifference in the attitude of thislittle girl! Her little soul was fedthat day and she sang with allher heart “this little light of mine,I’m going to let it shine”.

As parents, we have torealize that to get this little lightglowing, we need Jesus in ourchildren’s lives. He said “let thelittle children come unto me”and we have to obey.

In this troublesome worldwe live in, our children needmore than good clothes toweather the storms they face.As parents, if we give themspiritual health, a strong faith,they themselves will TURN TOHIM and it’s at the foot of thecross that their salvation lays.The enemy has no power overthem then.

Our youth need PEACE intheir lives and this PEACE canbegin at Home, spread into theschools, into the communityand with all their little lights shin-ing, yes, they can bring PEACEin this world of darkness, andmaybe then, we could all livetogether in God’s PEACE, sideby side.

ArticleOlive M. Grunert

June/July 2010 ANGLICANLife8 GUESTEDITORIAL

My 680 kilometre sabbatical

Archdeacon Sandra Tilley hikesto Santiago de Campostela in Spain

My pilgrimage of walk-ing the Santiago trail acrossNorthern Spain actuallystarted before leaving homeas everything needed forseven weeks in a foreigncountry waspacked intoa knapsack.T w e n t y -five poundswas all Iwould haveand it had tobe carriedwherever Iwent. Thisleft me withsome cru-cial ques-tions: whatdo I take,what do Ileave be-hind? Theprocess in-v o l v e dm a n ychanges be-fore the fi-nal decisionwas madeand even af-ter thewalking be-gan moreitems wered i s c a r d e dalong theway! It’smuch like the journey oflife: What do I want? Whatdo I need? What do I ulti-mately choose?

The pilgrimage in-volved walking 680kilometers from Estella toSantiago de Compostela andthe Cathedral of St. Jamesthe Apostle (Santiago, in

Spanish). The end of eachday saw us presenting ourcredential in order to gainaccess to one of the bunk

beds in the many alberguesalong “the way” (Camino, inSpanish). One night pre-sented us with the reality ofno bed so with twenty oth-ers we pitched our sleeping

bags on the floorof a publicbuilding andgave God thanksfor each otherand a roof overour head! I mustconfess that thise x p e r i e n c eopened my eyesin a differentway to “no roomin the inn”. In anew a differentway I was awareof: Jesus’ birth inBethlehem andthe homeless ofour own day

The weatherwas varied –sunny, windy,rainy, cold,warm and hot.The terrain wasvaried – flat,hilly and moun-tainous. The peo-ple were wideranging fromplaces such asNew Zealand,Mexico, Ven-ezuela, Ger-

many, Holland, Spain andCanada. With time the spe-cifics maybe forgotten butthe journey will live on and

Encountering the Divine. Archdeacon Sandra Tilley takes time to reflect and observe the beautiful landscape on her pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela inSpain. Submitted by Archdeacon Sandra Tilley.

the blisters will be gone butthe encounters will perme-ate to the core: Encoun-ters with self, Encounterswith others, Encounterswith God.

As I said earlier, my pil-grimage actually began be-fore I left home - this wasevident in our weeklyEucharist in the Chapel ofthe Annunciation at SynodOffice just days before I leftfor Spain. With knapsackin hand (or more accurately‘on back’) I attended wor-ship with all my coworkersas Bishop Cy offered spe-cial prayers for the journey.I was particularly aware ofGod’s presence, of the com-munity’s support and the in-tentional venture I was un-

Sore Feet! Archdeacon Sandra Tilley takes care of her sorefeet after hiking 680 kilometres. Submitted by ArchdeaconSandra Tilley.

Snowy Spain? It wasn’t all hot sun in Spain as Sandra makesher way through a snowstorm on her pilgrimage to Santiagode Compostela. Submitted by Archdeacon Sandra Tilley.

dertaking with the follow-ing words: Pilgrimage is anopportunity to travellightly, to walk free of dailyroutine, to meet people, tomake friends, to enjoy andcelebrate God’s creation.An opportunity, too, in thetraveling, the conversationsand the silences to reflect onthe journey of our lives andon our journey homewardsto God.

I give thanks for mytwo-month sabbatical towalk “the way” (Camino inSpanish). To travel lightlywas an education in itselfand to walk free of routineallowed for an amazing en-counter with the Divine.

9ANGLICANLife June/July 2010 CHURCHLIFE

All Saints, Corner Brook Honour Seniors. The OutreachCommittee of All Saints Church in Corner Brook has beenhonouring the seniors of the congregation with a cold plateluncheon since the early 1980s. This year was no exception. OnSaturday, May 15th, approximately 145 seniors and guestsgathered at the church. Everyone enjoyed the meal and thesing-a-long that followed. Pictured here are some of the eldestseniors in attendance: L-R: Mrs. Annie Russell, Mrs. Flo Keating,Mrs. Elizabeth Hayden, Mrs. Bertha Fradsham and Rev. DerekThomas. Submitted by Janet Spurrell.

Phyllis Hill, formerly of New Perlican, now living in Dildocelebrated her 90th birthday on May 16th. The variousorganizations in Dildo threw Phyllis a Surprise 90th birthday party.Phyllis was presented with several certificates of recognition. In the picture she is presented with flowers and a certificate ofrecognition on 78 years membership in St. Augustine’s ACW, NewPerlican. Phyllis still helps out with St. Augustine’s ACW andattends as many events as possible. Pictured L-R: ChristineChislett, Betsy Hefford and Phyllis Hill. Submitted by EileenMatthews.

The 45th Cursillo weekend held at the Lavrock Centre was asuccess where twelve new Cursillistas experienced love,fellowship and training in a Christian setting. John Carter waschosen to lead this weekend and with a lot of prayer and thelove of a Christian community in action it was a beautiful Spiritfilled time for all.The new Cursillistas will now return to theirParishes to continue their Christian journey with a greater lovefor Jesus and a clearer meaning of living a Christian life as ourtheme says “ONE DAY AT A TIME”. Submitted by Joyce Bryant.

First Godly Play Core Training held in Newfoundland. Twelve participants representing 7 parishesin the Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador were trained as Godly Play Storytellers atthe Parish of the Good Shepherd in Mount Pearl April 29 to May 1. Amy Crawford, the NationalDirector of Godly Play Canada, along with her husband, Andrew, led the event and the Parish ofthe Good Shepherd that adopted the Godly Play method in 2009 hosted the training. Developedover the past 30 years, the Godly Play program is directly inspired by the Montessori approach andbelieves that children learn through all their senses and not only through sight and sound. Thereis no classroom; there is a rich interactive learning environment designed to provide both childrenand their parents with a deep experience of God. Submitted by Parish of the Good Shepherd,Mount Pearl

Server’s Camp atServer’s Camp atServer’s Camp atServer’s Camp atServer’s Camp atMint Brook CampMint Brook CampMint Brook CampMint Brook CampMint Brook Camp. Withthe theme: “Who is yourFriend?” Servers from theDiocese of Central NL gath-ered at Mint Brook camp onMay 7th – 9th, 2010 to attendthe annual Server’s confer-ence. There were 52 youthservers (7 of which wereSITS) in attendance agingfrom 10 to 18. Friday nightstarted with supper and get-ting acquainted with eachother. Then we went to theGreat Hall for a few icebreaker games, which wereprepared by Rev. Neal andBeverly. Our music teamconsisted of three youthLuke, Owen and Kayleneand three adults Rev.Shawn, Jeff and Sandra.

They were great throughoutthe weekend with lively andspirit filled music. A shortworship service clued upour evening and the youthhad canteen and settleddown around midnight.Saturday was a wonderfulday starting with a worshipservice with Rev. Neal andfour sessions prepared byRev. Shawn and Sandra.The sessions focused onGood Friends, Bad Friends,God’s Friends and Jesus’Friends. Each session had adiscussion period and mu-sic appropriate for thetheme. There was also apresentation on the leader-ship youth program, “Askand Imagine,” which is of-fered at Huron College in

London, Ontario. The pre-senter for this session wasNicole Buffett, a youth whoattended the program inAugust 2009. Nicole cluedup her session with a craft(fancy Mother’s Day card)which each youth couldtake home. As usual thehighlight of the weekend isa dance on Saturday nightthat is enjoyed by all. Sub-mitted by Beverly Buffett.

Server’s Camp


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

CHURCHLIFE

Growing in God’s GardenGrowing in God’s Garden

is one of the themes that willbe explored when the newlyappointed Director of SSJDAssociates in Eastern Canadamakes her first visit to New-foundland, in June. After at-tending General Synod in Hali-fax, Sr. Sue will also explore thethemes of Deepening One’sPrayer Life, and ClergyWellness – Who Pastors thePastor? She will also preach atSunday liturgies and offer infor-mation sessions on her Commu-nity, the Anglican Sisterhood ofSt. John the Divine, as well ason the various ways one canenter a relationship of mutualsupport with the Community -

whether as a Sister, Associate,Oblate, or friend.

Sr. Sue’s journeyto Christian commit-ment has not followedthe common patternshared by most of us– the pattern by whichwe are baptized as in-fants and brought intothe Faith Communityto be nurtured in Faithby our families, God-parents and theChurch Community.Rather, she was bornto atheist parents andraised as an atheist,becoming a theist atage 34, through one ofthe 12-Step programs.At the Cathedral Church of St.John the Divine in New York

City, she was baptized a Chris-

tian at the Easter Vigil, 1990.Ten years later, she was admit-

ted to the Anglican Sisterhoodof St. John the Divine asa postulant, making herlife profession in the Or-der on October 18, 2006.Along the way, Sr. Suehad worked as a secre-tary, medical editor andhigh school teacher. Shealso earned a PhD in An-cient History from theUniversity of Pennsylva-nia and taught at the uni-versity level for threeyears in Utah. Now atage sixty, Sr. Sue comesto yet another significantmilestone on her journeyas she begins this newministry in EasternCanada.

Men and women across theNewfoundland Church are in-

vited to avail themselves ofthese opportunities to explore,with Sr. Sue, ways by whichwe can enhance our lives as wejourney on in Faith. Times andvenues will be announced invarious media. Please pray forSr. Sue as she prepares for hertime with Associates and theChurch in Newfoundland.

For further information,you may contact AssociatesRev. Trudy Gosse at 368-3313, or Rev. Karen Laldin at785-5055. For information onSSJD, you may visitwww.ssjd.ca or contact Sr.Sue at 416-226-2201, ext 308,or by email at [email protected].

Article and Photo byNancy French

Sister Sue of the Sisterhood ofSt. John the Divine

St. Philip’s launch financial appealOn Sunday, March 14,

the sun filled our beautifulchurch as the congregationgathered for the celebrationof the Eucharist. Parishionersthen gathered in fellowshipfor a tasty potluck luncheon.After lunch, everyone assem-bled for the parish’s AnnualMeeting which was called toorder with prayer at 1:45pm.

Following the adoptionof the minutes of the previ-ous year’s Annual Meeting,Reverend Edward Keeping,the parish rector, presentedhis report which focused onthe three points of interest.Firstly, he looked back on thepast year praising parishion-ers for their commitmentboth spiritually and finan-cially. On a very positivenote, the parish experienced34% increase in overall do-nations. While this is, indeed,very encouraging the rectorindicated that parishionershad to be mindful that thelarge mortgage on the newlyconstructed church is an is-sue that needs to be addressedin a serious way in the com-ing year.

Secondly, the rector an-nounced that on July 01,2011, the Parish of St. Philipwill be celebrating its 25thAnniversary. In an effort toreduce the debt owing on themortgage and to celebratethis happy occasion in the lifeof the parish, Reverend Keep-

ing announced the launchingof a financial appeal leadingto 2011 to meet a goal of

raising $140,000.00 in ‘new’money to be applied againstthe mortgage. He pointed out

that this ‘new’ money in com-bination with access to mon-ies already in the Anglican

Joint Investment accountfrom the sale of the rectorywill assist in paying down the

Article & PhotoCanon Bert Cheeseman

debt on the church. A recentchange in diocesan policywill enable the release of this

investment to the parish uponthe completion of theupcoming financial appeal.

Thirdly, Reverend Keep-ing spoke to the congregationabout the incredible stressand amount of time and en-ergy that has been used updealing with the issues sur-rounding the former churchbuilding in the community.Having updated the gather-ing on this matter, a motionwas moved to request thecongregation to endorse theVestry’s plan with regard tothe old church building. Themotion was carried,

Reverend Keeping con-gratulated the congregationfor their support in 2009. Heencouraged parishioners tocontinue showing theirThankfulness to God throughongoing support for thechurch’s operating and mort-gage needs. On a final note,he added his hope that, to-gether, everyone wouldwork to continue to buildupon what has been accom-plished in the past year andto continue God’s work inour parish!

11ANGLICANLife June/July 2010 CHURCHLIFE

The Rev’d Glenn Small inductedThe Anglican Parish of

Windsor - Bishop’s Falls whichincorporates St. Alban’s Churchat Grand Falls - Windsor andSt. Andrew’s Church at Bish-op’s Falls welcomes its NewRector... The Rev’d Glenn Smalland his wife Shirley.

Rev’d Small has come to uswith about 25 years of minis-try experience having served inmany areas of the province. Hisfirst parish being Rose Blancheon the South Coast, from therehe went on to Burgeo and thento Cox’s Cove - McIvers, toSt. Anthony and Corner Brookthen to the east coast at Har-bour Grace. Prior to hisacceptance to the Parish ofW-BF he served at the HolySpirit Parish in the Arnold’sCove / Come-by-Chance ar-eas. Rev’d Small was born atJackson’s Arm in White Bayand even at a very young agehad a feel for calling to the An-glican Faith Ministry. He is edu-

Article and Photo byEugene Toope

cated with an undergraduatedegree from MUN and aMaster’s in Divinity fromQueen’sCollege.

R e v .R o yMartin, amembero fSt.Alban’sC h u r c hhas beenappointedto the po-sition ofHonoraryAssociatewith theP a r i s h .R e v ’ dRoy aka“The Sing-ing Priest” is retired from ac-tive Clergy duty and he and hiswife Daphne reside at GrandFalls - Windsor.

March 15th was a RedLetter day indeed for this Par-ish of Windsor - Bishop’s Falls,in that we had what can be

termed as “An Induction forThree”. The Rev’d Glenn asRector, Rev’d Roy as Honor-

ary Associate and The Vestriesof both Churches. The Induc-tion Ceremony with both con-gregations in attendance washeld at St.Alban’s Churchand officiated by The Rev’dRandy Lockyear of the Dio-cese of Central Newfoundland.

Pre-Service Music was pro-vided by St. Alban’s Men’sMusic Group. Choirs were in

a t t e n d -ance fromb o t hChurchesunder thedirectionof EdwinPhil l ipsa n dGeraldinePomeroy, music se-lectionswere alsoprovidedby localsM i k eCarey andP h i l l i pGrimes.

The Covenant in Ministrywas shared and presented andaccepted. Representatives ofboth congregations presentedsymbols of Ministry to theClergy i.e. The Holy Bible, Ves-sel of Water, Oil, The Canonsof the Diocese, The Keys of

the churches, Prayer Booksand The Bread and Wine.

The Induction of both Ves-tries then followed. A veryinteresting Homily was givenby The Rev’d Russell Small,United Church Clergy at Har-bour Grace, President of TheUnited Church Conference ofEastern Newfoundland andLabrador and a close friend ofThe Rev’d. Glenn Small. Theoffering was received by jun-ior sidespersons: Dillon Coole,Kianna Hale, Brennah Reid andBrianna Saunders. The Serviceof Holy Eucharist followed. Guests in attendancewere: Rev’d William Rice,Rev’d Walter Hammond,Rev’d Larry Chatman, Rev’dJoan Antle, Rev’d Ray Cole,and Mr. & Mrs. William Guy,MHA Ray Hunter, and MrsDoreen Tremblett the DeputyMayor Bishop’s Falls. Theevening concluded with a veryenjoyable fellowship function inthe Church Hall with lunch pro-vided by the ACW.

Happy 99th Birthday

Lucy Rowe celebrated her 99th Birthday on October 1, 2009. AuntLucy, as she is fondly called by everyone who knows her, is awoman of great strength and character. Lucy is and has been anexample by which we can all fashion our lives - a woman of faithwho has dedicated most of her life to her church. She has beenan organist in the former St. John the Evangelist Church Joe Batt’sArm and the former St. Augustine’s Church in Seldom for thepast 84 years. She has provided music for many weddings andfunerals some of which have been for loved ones, close to herheart. Like a lot of women and men her age, she has knownheart ache and sadness but through it all she has remainedfaithful. On Sunday morning October 4, 2009, Aunt Lucy onceagain rose to the occasion and provided the music for this veryspecial service whereby honour was bestowed upon her by theSunday School and the Church as a whole. The children presentedher with a huge Birthday card and recited words of congratulationsto her. The Wardens of the Church of the Holy Spirit presentedher with a cake which was made and decorated by Lucy Hart ofIsland Harbour. After the service her daughter Beth helpeddistribute it to the entire congregation. On Thanksgiving Day,women of the A.C.W. along with Rev. Terry visited at her homeand enjoyed a pot luck supper. We pray that God will continue tobless her in the years ahead. And we thank God for her valuableministry. Submitted by Blanche Bennett.

ACW ST. PATRICK’S DAY SOUP AND DESERT SUPPER. On March 17, 2010, the St. Augustine’s ACW held asoup and dessert supper to fund-raise for the Primates World Relief and Development Fund for Haiti. Therewas a variety of soups (including green soup!) and delicious desserts- yes green ones too! A special thank youto the ACW and those who came and supported the event. Submitted by Caren Noseworthy & Sandra Lewis

Mrs Dorothy Rector recently retired after approximately sixteen dedicated years as Sunday SchoolSuperintendent. She was presented with flowers from the ACW and a gift certificate from the congregationof Holy Spirit Church in Isle aux Morts. Many thanks Dorothy from all the children, parents,teachers andcongregation. Submitted by Pam Granter


EFM (Education For Ministry)seminar group in Corner Brook2009-2010: Front row (l to r):Deborah Howe, GlyndaSeaborn, and Loretta Park.Back row (l to r): CynthiaParsons, David Taylor,Archbishop Stewart Payne(mentor), Shirley Frost, RegWoodman, and Jim Day.Submitted by Archbishop S.Payne.

CHURCHLIFE

News from Parish of Cow HeadParishioners in the Parish of

Cow Head participated enthu-siastically in a variety of activi-ties this past winter and earlyspring. Here are some ofthe highlights.

Reverend JeanBrenton-Hickman joinedus as Parish priest in Au-gust of 2009. In Febru-ary, parishioners fromCow Head, St. Paul’s, Par-son’s Pond and Sally’sCove went through theframework for developinga Covenant in Ministry.Each of the two occasionsbegan with dinner at thechurch hall in Cow Head.Afterwards, lists werecomplied of things our par-ish does well and wants tocontinue, challenges facingthe parish, ways we could im-prove, and ways to support theparish in its work. The firstmeeting was conducted byRev’d Canon RobertaWoodman and Bishop PercyCoffin, and the second byRev’d Roberta and Archdea-con Ed King. The covenantbecomes official at Rev’dJean’s installation as Rectorlater this year.

The LifeCycles programhas been flourishing both in Par-son’s Pond and in Cow Head.At a meeting in February, onthe subject of exploring the the-ology of the cross, the partici-pants in Cow Head used pho-tos of the Stations of the Cross

for meditation, walking fromone station to the other. Peo-ple agreed that it was an emo-tional experience to walk withChrist to Calvary. In Parson’sPond, the LifeCycles groupspearheaded the “Hanging of

the Greens” near Christmas andduring Lent presented the pro-gram, “A Cross for a Crown.”

The choir of St. Mary theVirgin Church in Cow Headheld a song-filled night titled,“Sing to Mary.” While a slideshow presented pictures rep-resenting the Mother of Christ,the choir sang, one selectionbeing, “Mary Laid Her BabyDown.” The women narratorswore veils and read poems asthough Mary spoke the words.

At the annual St. Mary’sQuiet Day in March, Rev’dJean’s activity was to have thewomen make Anglican prayerbeads. They strung small col-oured beads between the larger

cruciform beads, and attacheda cross in the centre. They re-ceived booklets of prayers tosay with the beads, such as “AnEvening Prayer,” and “ComeLord Jesus Prayer.”

Last Year, St. Mary’sACW dividedinto twoteams and col-lected over$ 1 0 0 0 . 0 0worth of pen-nies forPWRDF. In-spired by thepositive re-sults, the la-dies countedcoppers againthis year, andmade over$2000.00 forD a f f o d i lPlace. To cel-ebrate, the

team with the least penniescooked a turkey dinner with allthe trimmings for both groups.A rewarding evening, indeed!

For several years, St.Mary’s ACW has chosen Se-cret Sisters. Each womandraws a name and for oneyear, she becomes a special butunknown “sister” to anotherwoman, sending her cards orperhaps a small gift on occa-sion, and remembering her inprayer. In February, at a Val-entine’s Day dinner, the secretwas out! Sometimes the ladiesguess correctly the name oftheir sister, other times theyhadn’t a clue. All in good fun,to honour and bless a friend.

Article & PhotosKaren Bennett

To save money on heatover the winter, St. Alban’s inSally’s Cove and St. Paul’s con-gregations have alternatedservices. St. Paul’s Church, to-gether with Our Lady of theCoast Roman Catholic Church,held a joint fund raiser, and inOctober 2009, there was aBlessing of the Pets service atSt. Paul’s. All four Parish of

The LifeCycles Program explored the Stations ofthe Cross

St. Mary The Virgin Church ACW in Mary’s Harbour held a PancakeSupper . Pictured front row L to R - Rev. Irene Sutton, IreneSimms, Shelia Pye, Doretha Rumbolt, Stephanie Sooley, DonnaSmith, Roslind Rumbolt. Back row L to R - Stephanie Rumbolt,Ivy Moss, Bella Samson, Bessie Acreman, Joyce Acreman, EllaSimms Mary Rumbolt, Joan Rumbolt, Patsy Rumbolt, GeorginaLunnen and Mary Stevens. Submitted by Jennifer Rumbolt.

Cow Head churches were in-volved in the Lenten devotionalprogram, “Silent Witness.”

So, much has been goingon, and many blessings havebeen given and received in theparish. Many thanks to Rev’dJean, those who prepared andparticipated in the services andto Our Saviour who inspired allthat happened.

Helping to build a new Covenant in Ministry in Cow Headwas one of the events held recently in the parish.

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Teething & Tithing

The Rev. Greg Mercer

STRAIGHTTALK

Teething and tithing – forfew people both are painless.However, for most people itcan be a very frustrating andpainful event. Tithing, liketeething, is a process and get-ting there can sometimes makeus cranky, irritable, and evendrooldrooldrooldrooldrool.

Tithing is an Old Testamentconcept expressed in percent-

age terms, more specifically, 10percent. Deuteronomy 14:22,“Set apart a tithe of all the yieldof your seed that is brought inyearly from the field.” That isto say, you are to proportion atenth of the fruit of your labourto the Lord. Today this is usu-ally expressed in monetaryterms since money is how weare paid. The New Testamentexpresses it a little differently.In the parable of the ‘Widow’sMite,’ Jesus holds up this poorwidow as an example of some-one who gave out of her pov-erty. And then the apostle Paulteaches us that we are to giveby grace. Regardless of howyou look at it, giving in biblicalterms is meant to be a costlycommitment. It was Harold

Percy who said in his book,Following Jesus, First Steps onthe Way,“we giveuntil ithurts.”

Angli-cans aregreat giv-ers when itcomes tothe givingof theirtime andtalents tothe workand ministry of the Church. Idare to say that you will notfind more committed kingdomworkers anywhere. In a reportreleased a number of years agoit was also noted that Angli-

cans are among some of thebest givers in the country when

it comes togiving andsupportingother chari-ties. Andrightly so,Christiansshould sup-port otherworthwhilecauses. Butwhen itcomes to sup-porting the

church financially, Anglicans areamong those toward the bot-tom of the list. Very few An-glicans tithe. The truth beknown, most Anglicans giveless than one percent to their

church.Let me suggest to you that

it is not about giving ten per-cent. It is about costly com-mitment, and what is costly dif-fers from person to person, andcomes at different times in theirlife. For a small minority, giv-ing ten percent comes at nopersonal cost at all. They caneasily give ten percent and thensome. For others, reachingtwo, or three, or four percentis a realistic effort. The ques-tion is, “are you making effortto grow in your financial com-mitment; are you drooling?” Ifyou are still giving the same$5.00 a week you were givingfive years ago, then probablyit is time for a root canal.

Mint Brook Boys CampMint Brook Boys camp is

a fun-filled week each year.The boys are looking forwardto returning again this year. Forthe past eight years Director,Rev. Neal Buffett and a groupof leaders head to Mint BrookCamp for a full week. Theylook forward to their timespent with a group of boysages 8-13.

Each year there are manyevents planned to attract andentertain the boys. Over thepast few years we have hadvolunteers come into the campto provide workshops. Aftermany months of searching forthe right presenters and fittingthem into the daily schedule wewere blessed to have had pres-entations from: forestry, searchand rescue, dance studio,woodworking, public healthnurse, police detachment andcanoe instructor to name a few.During the week the boys havemany activities planned by theleaders and SITS (youth staff-in-training), for example, skitnight, movie night, scavengerhunts, treasure hunts, spotlight,campfires, dodge ball, volley-ball, water fights, water balloon

fights, canoeing, swimming,hiking, and a sports day on Fri-day then a banquet on Fridaynight.

Since MintBrook is consid-ered a Christiancamp we pre-pare a biblicaltheme for eachcamp. Some ofour past campshave beencalled: Follow-ing in JesusFootsteps, TheWhole Armourof God, David& Goliath BibleSchool, TheParables of Je-sus and Questfor Truth. Eachmorning we be-gin with raisingthe flag andchapel. Atchapel time thedaily bible storyis read then wesing a song dealing with thetheme. A shape is given toeach camper (footprint, sword,key etc.) with the daily bibleverse on it for a total of 6shapes. This shape is put onthe necklace with their name on

it, when they go home theyhave 6 verses to take withthem. After chapel we go to

the great hall and prepare forour craft. A variety of craftsare completed each year for thecamper to take home. Somehave been with paper mache,popsicle sticks, paper and glit-ter glue, handprint banners,

cloth pin bracelets, cross neck-laces, sew and paint their ownbackpacks, find and paint pet

rocks, tin can crafts, Noah’s arkmobile, nature crafts, wood-working crafts and many more.

There is more to our campthan just fun, the boys are alsoexpected to follow a few ruleslike being respectful to others

Article & PhotoBeverly Buffett

and they are put in groups forchores. Each day the groupshave set chores to complete,which include: washing dishes,

cleaning the field andgathering firewood,cleaning the bathroomsand cleaning their owncabins for cabin in-spection. After a fullday and night ofchapel, crafts, games,swimming, presenta-tions, canoeing andchores the boys areready for a good nightsrest. They work sohard during the daythat they sleep wellduring the night. Wehave always had agreat team of leaders,SITS, and campers.When the campershead home they haveall of their crafts plus acamper’s certificate, agift dealing with thetheme (wooden crossnecklace, compass

and light key chain, WWJDbracelets etc...) and other itemsinclude handouts that the pre-senters leave for us to distrib-ute.

This year Boys camp willbe held on August 7th – 14th,2010 and our theme is “God’sCreation Story/God’s Gift tous.” We are in high hopes ofhaving another successfulcamp. Hope to see you allagain this year, plus any newcampers who would like tocome and enjoy a week of fun.You can get your applicationsfrom the Diocesan Synod Of-fice in Gander at 256-2372 orfrom the Anglican Minister inyour community.


David Davis

Fishing on theLabrador

The Document

OUR HISTORY

The establishment of thesummer fishing stations alongthe Labrador coast has somesimilarities to the creation of thefirst settlements by Europeansalong the coast of the island ofNewfoundland. These settle-ments were very tiny and themain purpose for the peoplestaying on the coasts of New-foundland was to maintain theseasonal fishermen’s premisesand do new building of struc-tures such as stages and smallfishing boats. Both these fish-eries, early Newfoundland andcoastal Labrador, were yearlycycles which left in the springand returned home in the fall.Both the cycles had to dealwith the presence of ice on ar-rival at the fishing grounds in thespring. Both of them had thefishermen living in temporaryshelters during the fishing sea-son.

There are a number of listsof these fishing stations on theLabrador coast, none of themcomplete, as some stationswere used for a long time (twohundred years) and some forsporadic periods of time. It isnot possible to be all inclusivein any list so the writer hastaken the decision to use a listfrom the Harbour Grace Stand-ard newspaper of 1868. Har-bour Grace being the principalport for the Labrador fisheryin Newfoundland just as Poolein Dorset was the chief port forthe Newfoundland fishery inEngland.

Another intention of thewriter was to make commentson some of the summer fishingstations. The stations men-tioned in the Standard weregrouped and the writer willcomment on one station in eachgroup to give the reader someinformation on its history. Forthis material the writer is heav-ily dependent on the excellent

community histories in theNewfoundland Encyclopedia.It would be a wonderful labourof love if someone would un-dertake to collect as many sta-tion names and histories as pos-sible into a book because thememory of many of these sta-tions is fading. It is hardly cred-itable that these tiny stationscontinued to exist right up tothe end of the twentieth cen-tury.

One of the main difficultiesof working with these stationsis looking backward to locatethem. Many of the newer mapsonly identify road and ferrysites so one needs a map thatwas created before the reset-tlement program started to biteinto traditional Newfoundland.In this light the Department ofMines and Resources LabradorProvince of Newfoundland,1960 (Scale: 16 miles to 1 inch),in conjunction with the Gazet-teer of Canada- Newfound-land are indispensable guidesfor identifying settlements in thepast. Also the gazetteer willgive map co-ordinates for thestations.

At present the writer islooking at a colour image ofBattle Harbour. This commu-nity has been saved by thework of the Battle HarbourFoundation and is having itssurviving buildings stabilizedand/or restored to their condi-tion at the time they used bysummer and permanent fisher-men. There is not a tree or anyform of vegetation other thangrass in view. If this was thecase in earlier times then it musthave been a challenging loca-tion in which to live, even in thesummer, let alone when thegales of autumn came. Thosewho lived there year roundmust have been filled with thepioneer spirit.

As has been noted, this list was developed from the one in the Standard newspaper, theNewfoundland encyclopedia, the gazetteer, and the 1960 map. Many knowledgeable readerswill be able to add to the names of stations and the details of their histories.1865

Brig Bay, Holton, Ice Tickle, Indian and Emily Harbour were a group of fishing stations atthe north side of the mouth of Groswater Bay. Most of the fishermen there were from ConceptionBay Newfoundland; see Indian Harbour with premises by Charles Cozen of Brigus and fishermenfrom the same community.Packs Harbour and Long Island were fishing stations near Huntington Island, mouth ofSandwich Bay; Pack’s Harbour was connected with the old Devon and Carbonear firm ofPack, Gosse and Fryer. In latter years, like many of these stations, they were used by the localpeople from the coast of Labrador.Curlew, Grady, Black Island, Indian Tickle, Domino and Batteaux were a group of fishingstations stretching southeast from the southern entrance to Sandwich Bay to Spotted Islands.Grady was a major fishing station for a long time for English firms but then it passed to JohnMunn and Co., of Harbour Grace; some of the writer’s ancestors shipped to Grady from HarbourGrace.Griffins Harbour was a fishing station on Spotted Islands.Seal Island, Comfort Bight, Bolster Brook, Styles and Hawkes Harbour were a group offishing stations south of Batteau. Bolster’s Brook or Rock as it is more commonly known wasa tiny station of c.24 permanent inhabitants.Venison Tickle or Venison Island was a fishing station south of Hawke Harbour. It wasfounded in the eighteenth century by George Cartwright and Slade & Co. of Poole England.Eventually it passed to the Rorke firm of Carbonear which was there for many years. Thedecline of the fishery and the increase of wage labour killed most of these tiny fishing stations.Dead Islands, Triangs (Triangle) and Snug Harbour, Square Island these fishing stationswere gathered around St Michaels Bay (Charlottetown). Snug Harbour was part of the Munnorganization of Harbour Grace, Conception Bay with the Ward family as permanent residents.It continued to be used for a long time.Occasional Harbour was a fishing station just south of Cape St Michaels. It became a summerstation for fishermen from Bay Roberts and Port de Grave in Conception Bay and later itbecame a summer station for Port Hope Simpson.Fishing Ship Harbour and Francis Harbour were fishing stations adjacent to present dayPort Hope Simpson. Francis Harbour, named after the cape of the same name, was founded byEnglish merchants then came to the Rorke firm of Carbonear. An early church was establishedthere in 1850.Merchantman Harbour was a fishing station on the east side of Debigh Island, next to FrancisHarbour. This station is most associated with the Carbonear firm of Duffs.Murray’s and Little Harbour fishing station here followed the usual history: founded fromEngland, frequented from Conception Bay and then a summer stations for Port Hope Simpson.Spear Harbour was a fishing station just north of Cape St Louis. Mary’s Harbour is NorthWest. Jeremiah Coghlan had a station here in the eighteenth century but he went bankrupt andthe area was peopled by fisher families from Carbonear. There may have been 50 permanentinhabitants at one time.Battle Harbour, Cape Charles and Chimney Tickle were fishing stations together in StLouis Sound near Battle Island. Battle Harbour was the uncrowned capital of the Labradorcoast being the headquarters of the Baine Johnson firm of England and St John’s for manyyears.Henley Harbour and Chatteaux these were fishing stations at the entrance to the LabradorStraits and opposite Belle Isle. Henley Harbour was associated with English firms such as Nobleand Pinson and Hunt and Henley. It lasted a long time but the permanent population was nevermuch more than three dozen persons.Red Bay goes back to the Basque (Spanish) whaling summer station during the second half ofthe sixteenth century. There was a summer fishing station there for a very long time, especiallyby the Penneys from Carbonear.L’Anse au Loup brings us down almost to the border with Quebec and in the vicinity of thegreat lighthouse at L’Anse Amour. This is a more typical permanent settlement which hadBasque, French, American, English and Newfoundland connections, Stabb, Row and Holmwoodmerchants of England and St John’s were predominant for a period.

The historic fishing village of Battle Harbour, Labrador


The New Jerusalem

The Rev. Michael Li

COLUMNIST

The world is now morecomplex and interconnectedthan at any stage of our humanhistory. Global communica-tions allow us to see atrocitiesas they happen. A decade ago,nobody asked you to be theirfriends on Facebook becauseit did not exist. There were noMySpace or YouTube either. Many people have cell phones,Blackberries, or IPods. It hasbeen estimated that the numberof text messages sent and re-ceived every day now exceeds

the total world population. Thismeans our thinking can be in-fluenced by a lot of availableinformation and opinionsaround us.

I believe that the MiddleEast remains the top troublespot in the world. In the OldTestament times, the Jews hadagain and again misjudged andkilled God’s messengers. Godwas very patient with His cho-sen people. Finally God al-lowed the Babylonians to dis-cipline the Jews. (Perhaps,God is allowing a few extrem-ists to discipline the “Christian”West today). Jerusalem, thecity of David, was captured in597 B.C. and then destroyedin 586 B.C. by the paganBabylonians and most of theinhabitants killed or trans-ported. The city was rebuiltlater. Then it was destroyedin A.D. 70 by a pagan Romangeneral.

From the early fourth cen-tury on, Jerusalem became a“Christian” city and the site ofmany churches and monaster-ies. There has been no lastingpeace in Jerusalem. Successiveoccupiers - Persians, Arabs,Turks, Crusaders, British, Is-raelis - all have left their reli-gious and cultural stamp on thecity. Nevertheless, for thou-sands of years, Jews and Ar-abs lived in relative peace andindifference towards eachother in the Middle East. Thecreation of the modern state ofIsrael in 1948 in the land at thattime primarily inhabited by Ar-abs (the Palestinians) changedeverything. Since 1967 Jerusa-lem has been unified under Is-raeli military might. On March9, 2010 the Israeli governmentannounced the new settlementof 1,600 housing units in thedisputed territory of largelyArab East Jerusalem, while U.S.

Vice-President Joe Biden wasvisiting the country. This insult-ing announcement does notpromote peace in the MiddleEast. We need a two-statesolution in Palestine.

Today’s nuclear weaponcommunity includes UnitedStates, Russia, China, France,Israel, Britain, India and Paki-stan. No wonder, North Ko-rea, Iran, Syria, and Egyptwant to join the exclusive nu-clear club too. On April 8,2010 U.S. and Russia agreedto reduce their missile stock-piles, but our world can still bea very dangerous place to live. Arabs and Jews are descend-ants of Abraham. Please notethat not all Arabs are Muslims,and not all Muslims are Arabs. I believe that the earthly Jeru-salem belongs to the Jews,Muslims, and Christians. Theconflict in Jerusalem is affect-ing the Middle East and the rest

of the world. As Christians we should

continue to pray for justice andpeace in the Middle East, jus-tice and peace in the wholeworld. With God’s help, wecan make the world a betterplace to live. As we live on thisearth, we are preparing for lifeon God’s new earth. God willbring heaven to earth in theNew Jerusalem where He willdwell with His own (Revela-tion 21). We look forward toliving in the New Jerusalem,which shall not pass away. Theholy city will be the centre ofthe new earth. It is paradise,God’s goodness made fullymanifest. There will be no tem-ple in the New Jerusalem (Rev-elation 21:22), since we willhave direct fellowship withGod. On the new earth thenations will live together inpeace (Revelation 22:2).

Carrying a heavywooden cross thoughoutthe town of Carbonear, Fa-ther Timothy Parker, Rec-tor at St. James’, brought thetrue meaning of Good Fri-day, not only to his owncongregation, but to thewhole town. The 7.7kilometer trek began at 10a.m. and ended two hourslater, perfectly timed forhim to begin the three-hourGood Friday service.Those who walked withhim and those who wit-nessed the walk were hum-bled by the sight. It drovehome part of what Jesusmust have gone through onthe first Good Friday somany years ago. Many whowitnessed the walk may nothave given our Lord a pass-ing thought that day, butthanks to the determinationof Father Tim, He wasbrought into the minds ofso many and was remem-bered for the sacrifice He solovingly made for us.

Following the walk, Fa-ther Tim entered the Churchand walked up the centeraisle bearing the Cross onhis back. He laid it againstthe railing in front of theAltar and kneeled in silentprayer before beginning the

three-hour service with thepowerful theme…“IS ITNOTHING TO YOU, ALLYOU WHO PASS BY?ALL YOU WHO PASS BYTHIS CROSS?”

What would you say ifyou were there? What doyou say to Him now? Whatdo you say about Him toother people? Do you knowthat He hears every wordyou say and every word youdo not say? Do you knowthat it is because of whatyou say and what do you notsay that He died on thecross? Do you know that itis for your sake that He wasnailed naked to a cross? What would you say if youwere there? What do yousay to Him now?

On Easter Sunday,young and old of St. JamesChurch in Carbonear weredelighted by the specialguests Father Tim broughtto Church on Easter Sun-day. The message? Thatmost animals are born inthe spring of the year as anannual springtime reminderthat every Easter is an invi-tation to humanity to begina new life in Christ.

Carrying the cross in CarbonearArticle

Wendy Coulas

Good Friday Journey. The Rev’d Timothy Parker carries a large wooden cross throughoutCarbonear on Good Friday. Parishioners made the seven kilometre trek behind the cross.Photo courtesy of The Compass.


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St. James’ Youth Bowling. On Thursday, April 15, 2010 the youthof St. James Church, Botwood were treated, by the ACW & BAC,to an evening of bowling, followed by lunch at McDonalds. Nineteen young people of the congregation, ranging in age from3 - 17 took part and by all accounts everyone had a great time.Submitted by Myles & Daphne Parsons. Photo by MarilynChatman.

For over 25 years, the GA of St. Lawrence Parish have been distributing Easter baskets to theseniors citizens of Portugal Cove, this includes all seniors 70 years of age and older, not just ourparishioners. They start on Thursday evening after the Maundy Thursday service by making thebaskets, the next day they meet following the Good Friday service to fill the baskets. Later in theafternoon they deliver the baskets. Seniors are presented with cookies, fruit, and an Easterpamphlet with an Easter message and of course a little treat of Easter chocolate. This is just one ofthe many contributions from the GA girls to the community. This year’s group consist of 14 girlswho prepared and delivered approximately 140 Easter Baskets. They had more fun than work.Presentation of one of the Easter Baskets to long time parishioner Beatrice Somerton. Submittedby Jocelyn Miller

On Sunday, March 28, 2010, St. Martin’s Cathedral in Gandercelebrated Palm Sunday with a Sunday school program andprocession around the church. The children presented aninspirational piece celebrating Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem.Combining the culture of Jesus’ time with the culture of today,the children waved palms and balloons as they paraded aroundthe church and sang, “He’ll Be Riding on a Donkey.” The balloonswere donated by Bishop David Torraville in loving memory of hismother, Nita Torraville. The overall effect was one of colorfuland joyful celebration of Our Lord. Submitted by Stella Walsh

Bay L’ Argent Confirmation

On Sunday 2 May 2010 Bishop David Torraville visited the Parish of Bay L’Argent to administer theSacrament of Confirmation on three classes of candidates prepared by the Rev’d Ken Abbott. Thefirst group to be confirmed in the faith was from St. Thomas church in Grand La Pierre with 11candidates receiving the “laying on of hands”. After the service the congregation and newlyconfirmed were treated to a pot luck dinner in the church hall. After the dinner Bishop David along with the parish choir and band went to St. Mark’s church inBaine Harbour for a second service of confirmation at 3:00 pm where 8 candidates were confirmed.After service the congregation, the candidates were treated to a cold plate supper at the communitycentre in Baine Harbour. After supper Bishop David , Rev Abbott and the choir and band were on the road to St. Mary’schurch in Harbour Mille for yet another service of confirmation at 7:00 pm to confirm six candidates.Another pot luck supper at the Harbour Mille Fire Hall was served. All candidates were beautifully attired and presented themselves in an outstanding manner. Ateach service the candidates sang for the congregation and Bishop David gave a sermon on makingchoices with regard to “right and wrong”. The parish showed great pleasure in seeing the bishop visit and are looking forward to his nextvisit. Submitted by Clayton Johnson.

Confirmation at St. Thomas in Grand La Pierre

Confirmation at St. Mary’s in Harbour Mille

Confirmation at St. Mark’s in Baine Harbour

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June/July 2010