Induction
The Rev. Chris Hayes will be inducted as the rector of the Parish of Quispamsis at St. Augustine's Church, Quispamsis Road, Quispamsis, on Sunday, Feb. 7 at 7:00 p.m.

Electoral Synod in Moosonee
The Diocese of Moosonee will hold an Electoral Synod on April 10, 2010 to elect a successor to Bishop Caleb Lawrence, who retired earlier this year. The minimum requirements for a diocesan bishop according to the Canons of the Diocese of Moosonee are: clergy of no less than thirty (30) years of age, having been a priest for no less than seven (7) years. Visit the website of the Diocese of Moosonee to learn about the diocese. Information about the Electoral Synod, including a Memorandum for Prospective Candidates with Curriculum Vitae to be submitted, may be found under the "Documents and Forms" section.

"We have our inheritance"
From T.S. Elliot's Ash Wednesday

CHRISTIAN AND ANGLICAN: Growing in Communion with Christ
DIOCESE OF FREDERICTON LENTEN STUDY 2010
A Nicodemus Project initiative
Available for download.
It is a study for Ash Wednesday and each subsequent week of Lent
Built upon the Gospels appointed for the coming Sunday
Prepared by Members of the Spiritual Development Team of Diocesan Council

Chaplains for Camp Medley

Camp Medley seeks clergyand lay professionals to serve as chaplains for a week this summer. Previous experience is not required. The chaplain's week involves planning and leading chapel sessions in the morning and the evening as well as participating in day-to-day activities as able. Spend a week and have an impact on lives for a lifetime. Contact Shawn Branch <shawnbranch at me.com>.

Parish Returns

2009 Parish Return and 2010 Officers and Contacts working forms have been posted to the Diocesan web site, available for download as a package or as separate files in PDF format. Please remember that Returns are due by 15 March 2010. Visit the Diocesan Information Managment System (DIMS) login page for those links.

View An up-to-date list of diocesan appointments and announcements.

Temporal Transactions

View an up-to-date list of property transactions within the diocese.

Open incumbencies

* Appointment process status:
     H - On hold
     P - In parish profile preparation
     E - Accepting expressions of interest
     I - In the interview process
     A - Awaiting appointment

Diocesan openings

The Nominating Committee currently invites nominations for the following positions:

• Investment sub-committee (one member)

• Human Resources Committee (one lay position)
• Nominating Committee Member (one lay and one cleric)

See a current listing of Diocesan Roles, Elections and Appointments on the diocesan web site.

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RCL Lectionary (Year B)

Sunday, Feb. 7

Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany (Green) (Proper 5)
Propers 353; Isaiah 6:1-8 (9-13); Psalm 138; 1 Corinthian 15:1-11; Luke 5:1-11; Preface of the Lord's Day.

Cycles of Prayer
Pray for the Church of the Province of Central Africa

Visit these links:
Anglican Cycle of Prayer
Provincial Prayer Care
Diocesan Intercessions

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The Centre for Clergy Care and Congregational Health,
an ecumenical source of support and research for all clergy and congregations in Canada, presents:
• Take Care: Mid-Career Stretch, May 4-6 at Star of the North Retreat Centre, Edmonton, specifically for those experiencing mid-life issues.
• Starting Well, July 14-17 in Toronto, July 19-22 in Vancouver, open to clergy who have been ordained or commissioned within the last three years. Details and registration forms are on-line.

Anglican House

Now is the time to order your Lenten devotional supplies as well as bulletin covers and candles for the Easter season.
Anglican House

116 Princess St.

Saint John

PHONE (506) 693-2295 FAX (506) 635-8927
angbk@nbnet.nb.ca

"We have our inheritance"
From T.S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday
CHRISTIAN AND ANGLICAN: Growing in Communion with Christ
DIOCESE OF FREDERICTON LENTEN STUDY 2010
A Nicodemus Project initiative
Available for download.
It is a study for Ash Wednesday and each subsequent week of Lent
Built upon the Gospels appointed for the coming Sunday
Prepared by Members of the Spiritual Development Team of Diocesan Council


The Atlantic Seminar in Theological Education
June 13 to 18, 2010
On the campus of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro
Information and registration

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Feb. 2, 4:30 p.m.  Finance Committee meeting, Synod Office boardroom, Fredericton.

Feb. 2, 4:45 p.m.  Investment Committee meeting, Synod Office boardroom, Fredericton.

Feb. 4, 1 p.m.  Communications Committee meeting, Synod Office boardroom, Fredericton.

Feb. 6, 10 a.m.  Diocesan Choir School planning team meeting, St. Augustine's Church, Quispamsis.

Feb. 6, 10 a.m. Mothers' Union Diocesan Council, St. Mary's, York, Fredericton. (Meeting postponed from last week.)

Feb. 9, 10 a.m.  Bishop's Counsel, Synod Office boardroom, Fredericton.

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Donations for Haiti continue to pour into PWRDF
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
Jan. 27, 2010
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is sending $50,000 to the Episcopal diocese of Haiti, which has been caring for about 23,000 Haitians displaced by the powerful earthquake that struck various parts of the country on Jan. 12.

Read the story.

Visit the Diocesan PWRDF or PWRDF National

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Feb. 13, 10 a.m. Interim NB Cursillo Secretariat meeting, Christ Church Cathedral Hall, Fredericton.

Feb. 13, 4-6 p.m. Parish of Bright Annual Pancake Supper, parish hall in Zealand — buckwheat pancakes, sausage, eggs, baked beans, brown bread, ginger bread with whipped cream and layer cakes. ALL PROCEEDS TO HAITIAN RELIEF. There is no fixed cost, freewill donations accepted at the door. This is strictly a corporate initiative and is in no way intended to interfere with what you decide to do personally for Haitian relief. Pastor Arol Brewer and the congregation from the Stoneridge Pentecostal Church will also join in on this very worthy fund raiser. What a wonderful opportunity to work together as brothers and sisters in Christ! Tell all your relatives and friends to come for pancakes and support Haitian reief.

March 5-7, Work and Creativity Retreat led by retired Bishop Bill Hockin at Villa Madonna, Rothesay. Registration $168 single, $248 double, contact Canon John Cathcart <john.cathcart at anglican.nb.ca>. Bursaries are available (contact Canon Neville Cheeseman <neville.cheeseman at nb.sympatico.ca>.

March 20, 10 a.m. Mothers' Union DiocesanCouncil, St. George's Church, Parish of Carleton, Saint John.

April 20-22, 2010, Clergy Spouse's Conference, Villa Madonna in Rothesay. Please reserve these dates.

May 15, 10 a.m. Mothers' Union Diocesan Rally, St. Mary & St. Bartholomew, Saint John.

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Rupert's Land
The Bishop of Rupert's Land seeks a full-time priest for the Parish of St. Bartholomew in Winnipeg. A complete parish profile and application information are available from <ssuppes at rupertsland.anglican.ca>. Deadline for applications is March 5.

Sorrento Centre
The Sorrento Centre, a Christian-based conference and retreat centre in the interior of British Columbia, seeks an executive director. Further information is available from Kathie MacDuff of the search committee <sorrentocentredirector at gmail.com> until Wednesday, Feb. 3.

Job listings for the Canadian church.

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Long-term sustainability behind PWRDF re-structuring, says director
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
Feb. 1, 2010
The budget cuts and major restructuring at The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) are meant to ensure the organization’s long-term sustainability, said its outgoing executive director Cheryl Curtis. “What I would hope folks would see when they hear this news is…that there is a commitment to providing a program for expressing the PWRDF ministry that uses their resources very responsibly and in a very focused way,” said Curtis. PWRDF is the relief and development arm of the Anglican Church of Canada. Read the story.

PWRDF executive director resigns following staff restructuring
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
Jan. 29, 2010
Cheryl Curtis, executive director of The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF), is resigning effective end of February, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, announced today. Curtis’ departure was announced a day after a major staff restructuring was unveiled at the PWRDF, spurred, PWRDF’s executive committee said, by a 26 per cent cut in its budget for 2010-2011. Read the story.

Church of England loses $78 million in New York real estate deal
by Daniel Burke
Ecumenical News International
Jan. 29, 2010
Washington DC: The Church of England stands to lose about US$78 million in a New York real estate investment gone sour, according to Episcopal News Service. The Anglican church's investment was part of a record-setting $5.4 billion deal put together in 2006 by two New York-based firms to buy two massive apartment complexes in Manhattan, Religion News Service reports.
After defaulting on loan payments, the firms will cede the downtown properties -- Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village -- to its lenders. Read the story.

Diocese of British Columbia releases restructuring plan
by Leigh Anne Williams
Anglican Journal
Jan. 28, 2010
The diocese of British Columbia has announced a plan to close 13 churches in a dramatic restructuring. While the plan is a response to declining church attendance, Bishop James Cowan says it goes beyond cost-cutting, asking how the church can best focus its resources to carry out its mission as well as rebuild for the future. Read the story.

PWRDF slashes 2010-2011 budget by 26%
Anglican Journal
Jan. 28, 2010
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has cut its 2010-2011 operating budget by 26 per cent. In 2012, another 10 per cent will be cut in a bid to end deficit budgeting and replenish its monetary reserve. “As a result of the budget reductions, program delivery costs must be reduced,” said Cheryl Curtis, PWRDF executive director, in an email to staff at the Anglican Church of Canada’s national office in Toronto. Read the story.

"We are desperate but strong in faith"
Anglican Communion News Service
Jan. 28, 2010
These are the words of Bishop Jean Zache Duracin of the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti two weeks after the earthquake which has become known simply as 'La Catastrophe.' In his reflections posted on the website of the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti Bishop Duracin describes the devastation and present living conditions, and his own diocese's outreach to thousands of people who have been made homeless, including children and disabled people, and many who are wounded. He reflects that for Haiti the course of history has changed. He looks to the future, with prayer and in faith, for long-term partnership with others who might accompany the people of Haiti as they work to rebuild and restore. Read the story.

Donations for Haiti continue to pour into PWRDF
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
Jan. 27, 2010
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is sending $50,000 to the Episcopal diocese of Haiti, which has been caring for about 23,000 Haitians displaced by the powerful earthquake that struck various parts of the country on Jan. 12. The diocesan bishop of Haiti, Jean Zache Duracin, has set up a crisis commission to respond to the needs of victims who have turned to the church for much-needed support. Meanwhile, Canadian Anglicans continue to respond to the call for donations for the victims of the earthquake that killed nearly 200,000 people and leveled most of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Read the story.

Archbishop of Canterbury, Presiding Bishop address global concerns in UN meeting
by Matthew Davies
Episcopal News Service
Jan. 27, 2010
Global crises, such as those in Haiti and Sudan, were among pressing issues addressed at the United Nations headquarters Jan. 26 as Secretary General Ban Ki-moon welcomed Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori for a 45-minute meeting. The church leaders were joined by Anglican Observer at the U.N. Hellen Wangusa and U.K. Representative to the U.N. Sir Mark Lyall Grant. Read the story.

In Haiti's 'new era' Episcopalians around the world offer help
by Pat McCaughan and Mary Frances Schjonberg
Episcopal News Service
Jan. 26, 2010
In a letter titled "One is in the wilderness but safe in faith," Episcopal Diocese of Haiti Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin says the destructive Jan. 12 earthquake began a "new era" in the history of that impoverished nation. "This is also a new era in the history of humanitarian aid because the catastrophe has dealt a terrible blow to more than 10 million living beings -- inhabitants who have lost their homes and their way of life," the bishop wrote in a letter posted in French here (ENS received an English translation Jan. 24). "The capital [Port-au-Prince] is transformed into an immense refuge camp. They call desperately for water, food, and medicine." Read the story.

Theological students prepare for overseas plunge
by Ali Symons
Anglican Church of Canada
Jan. 26, 2010
"I smile every time I tell someone I'm going to Jerusalem," said Kerri Brennan, a theological student from the Diocese of Ottawa. Ms. Brennan is one of three students preparing to serve with an overseas diocese as part of the 2010 Theological Student International Internship Program (TSIIP), coordinated by General Synod's Partnerships department. Read the story.

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MinistryMatters winter 2010

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From stewardship inspiration prepared by the Ven. John M. Robertson, National Gift Planning Officer, Department of Philanthropy, Anglican Church of Canada

Lord Jesus Christ, you have taught us that what we do for the least of our brothers and sisters we do also for you: give us the will to be the servant of others as you were the servant of all, and gave up your life and died for us, but are alive and reign, now and for ever.
Common Worship – Services and Prayers for the Church of England

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Oops! Another bulletin blooper

The outreach committee has enlisted 25 volunteers to make calls on people who are not afflicted with any church.

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