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Holy Trinity 150th Anniversary 2013
The Vestry of Holy Trinity, Parish of Hammond River requests present and past parishioners to lend pictures and/or histories of the church to be used as part of the 150th anniversary celebrations in 2013. Please e-mail vestry clerk Terry Jardine. <tjardine@atlantic.caa.ca>.
Fresh New Sounds for Church
Allison Lynn and Gerald Flemming - the husband and wife duo of Infinitely More - want to create a fresh new sound for the church and leave their audiences encouraged, uplifted, and knowing they are loved by God. They will be in New Brunswick the first week of August and want to take their music and ministry to your church. They do everything they can to make it easy for you to host a concert and are available to sing in sanctuaries of all sizes, community halls, or even backyards and living rooms!For more information check their website, facebook page or get in touch with Allison <Allison@InfinitelyMore.ca>.
Cuba is more than a vacation destination!
The town of Jesus Menednez in Cuba reinvented itself and ignited a local food and gender revolution in the process. Learn more about the Oxfam experience in Cuba at a free public event at the Hub, 1673 Barrington St., Halifax on July 6 from 7 - 9 p.m.
Commemoration Gathering & Conference
Shingwauk 2112
August 3-6, Algoma University. Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Healing & Reconciliation through Education
Children of Shingwauk Alumni Association & Algoma University
invite all Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians to attend
Container gardening
If you have a large living room window, balcony or even a back yard where a bag could sit and grow vegetables, it ’s easy to start a garden in a small space. Take a reusable fabric bag, fill it half full with earth and decide what you need to plant. If you want to grow potatoes lay down the eyes of seed potatoes in the earth, cover with more soil and then “hill” them by adding more earth as they grow and rise up in the soil of the bag. You could just as easily plant carrots, radishes, beets, lettuce or any vegetable that grows below the soil or doesn’t get too tall. If you prefer peas, beans, or even cucumber use a large flower pot with a stick, pole, or small trellis. Cucumbers will climb eight to 10 feet if given the room. Gardens can be planted in recycled (perhaps even cracked or broken) laundry baskets (line them with an old sheet or some wall paper) or invest in a plastic tub with holes drilled in it. All you need is any container that has drainage. The fabric bags are just less work and can be placed anywhere in the sun and watered easily. Let your imagination soar. (A notice in the NS/PEI Net News from the diocesan Green Team)
Diocesan Choir School
July 8-15
Rothesay Netherwood School
A residential summer camp, day students welcome.
For children from 8 to 18 as well as adults (who join from July 12-15)
Plan to join them for Evensong on Thursday, July 12, 7 p.m. at St Paul's, Rothesay and in the presence of His Honour Graydon Nicholas, Lt. Governor of New Brunswick on Sunday July 15, 3:30 p.m. at Trinity Church, Saint John.
Details and registration on-line
All Saints' Keswick Ridge Sesquicentennial
June 29 - July 1
Join in this 150th anniversary celebration
Friday, June 29 7 p.m. Evening Prayer with special music and guest speaker Canon Walter Williams who was rector from 1978 until 1982.
Saturday, June 30 2-4 p.m. Church is open for public visitation and light refreshments.
Saturday evening (6 p.m.) Banquet for the church family and special invited guests (due to limited seating) with speaker the Rev. Canon Ross Hebb and special music by Seventh Wave Quartet from Nova Scotia.
Sunday, July 1, 10 a.m. Eucharist with guest preacher Archdeacon Geoffrey Hall, followed by fellowship and refreshments in the Medley Room.
Kids With Voices
July 30 - August 3
A one-week day camp
Trinity Church, Charlotte Street, Saint John
This year it is a Medieval Adventure finishing with a feast and performance the campers learn and create together.
To make this wonderful musical experience accessible, please consider the Adopt-A-Kid program. $125 sends one deserving child to camp, and any amount will help.
Donate on-line (search “The Corporation of Trinity Church) OR by cheque made out to Trinity Church and sent to
Trinity Church
115 Charlotte St.
Saint John, E2L 2J2
Got questions? Need more information on registration or donations? Contact the camp directors <kwv.trinity at gmail.com>.
Camp Medley
Register on-line
Camp Brookwood
2012 camp registration forms available on-line
Anglican House
Anglican House/Ten Thousand Villages
116 Princess Street
Saint John
506/693-2295
<angbk at nbnet.nb.ca>
Open Monday through Friday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
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July 4, 7 p.m. The first of special July/August mid-week services at St Mark's church, Jackson Falls, in the parish of Richmond. Preacher: Dean Keith Joyce.
July 8, 2 p.m. Miramichi area Ultreya, St. Mary's Anglican Church, Wellington Street, Chatham.
July 11, 7 p.m. Special July/August mid-week service at St Mark's church, Jackson Falls, in the parish of Richmond.
July 12, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. Human Resources Committee meeting, Synod Office board room, Fredericton.
July 12, 7 p.m. Evensong at St. Paul's Rothesay with members of the Diocesan Choir School. Everyone welcome.
July 15, 3:30 p.m. Evensong at Trinity Church, Saint John, in the presence of His Honour Graydon Nicholas, the Lt Governor of New Brunswick with the members of the Diocesan Choir School. Everyone welcome.
July 18, 7 p.m. Special July/August mid-week service at St Mark's church, Jackson Falls, in the parish of Richmond. Preacher: Dean Keith Joyce.
July 22, 3 p.m. The Bishop's Commission on the Diaconate will hold the annual Service of Celebration and Thanksgiving for the Life and Ministry of Deaconess Mary Nameria Jacob at St. Mark’s Chapel of Ease, Kings Landing in Prince William, west of Fredericton. A lemonade social at the Kings Head Inn will follow.
July 25, 7 p.m. Special mid-week service at St Mark's church, Jackson Falls, in the parish of Richmond.
August 1 , 7 p.m. Special mid-week service at St Mark's church, Jackson Falls, in the parish of Richmond.
August 8 , 7 p.m. Special mid-week service at St Mark's church, Jackson Falls, in the parish of Richmond.
August 15 , 7 p.m. Special mid-week service at St Mark's church, Jackson Falls, in the parish of Richmond.
August 22 , 7 p.m. Special mid-week service at St Mark's church, Jackson Falls, in the parish of Richmond.
August 26, 3 p.m. Recital by Sally Dibblee (soprano) and Steven Peacock (guitar) at St Mark's church, Jackson Falls (Parish of Richmond). Admission by donation. All donations go to Camp Brookwood.
August 27-29 Clergy Conference, Rothesay Netherwood School.
August 29 , 7 p.m. Special mid-week service at St Mark's church, Jackson Falls, in the parish of Richmond.
Sept. 24, 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. Fredericton Area Cursillo Ultreya, Christ Church Cathedral, Church Street, Fredericton.
Sept. 8, 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. NB Cursillo Secretariat meeting, Christ Church (Parish) Church, Fredericton.
Nov. 26, 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. Fredericton Area Cursillo Ultreya, Christ Church Cathedral, Church Street, Fredericton.
Nov. 29 - Dec. 2 Canadian Youth Workers Convention 2012, Toronto. Get info.
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'I never learned how to be a mum’
By Diana Swift
Anglican Journal
June 25, 2012
One Mother's Day, Shirley Gamble's children gave her a gift. "What good have I ever done as a mother to deserve this?" she asked them, weeping. As a young First Nation child in Manitoba, English-speaking Gamble had been wrested from her parents and sent to a Roman Catholic residential school, where she was taught by French-speaking nuns." I was never around my own parents, so I never learned how to be a mum," she said tearfully at the recent hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission event in Saskatoon. In her testimony, the regal-looking woman, her hair in a French braid, admitted that she had put her three children through some bad times. After three children from different fathers, she completed a degree in education at the University of Brandon, became a teacher and later went into child welfare work and foster parenting. Her second son is a corrections officer. Read more.
Ecumenical council active at Rio climate summit
ENI News
June 25, 2012
The World Council of Churches (WCC) has been playing an active role in the two major events taking place in Rio de Janeiro from June 12 to 23: the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), also known as Rio+20, and the People's Summit. According to a WCC news release, the People's Summit is an open-invitation event that is gathering thousands of representatives of movements working to create a common voice to advocate for human rights and effective commitment of the world's leaders to the care of the planet. An official delegation of the WCC has been following the activities and negotiations at Rio+20 and promoted a side event on 22 June in cooperation with the Lutheran World Federation, Religions for Peace and Caritas Internationalis. Read more.
Lutheran council speaks out on Central America, Rio+20
ENI News
June 25, 2012
The Lutheran World Federation's (LWF) governing Council, during its June 15 to 20 meeting in Bogota, Colombia, appealed to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to establish an office in Honduras and to strengthen its presence elsewhere in Central America. The Lutheran group also urged the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to "hear the cries of their people" by protecting human rights and ending impunity for those committing violence, particularly against women and girls, according to a news release from Lutheran World Information (LWI), the LWF's news service. Turning to the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development (also known as Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro, the Council called for "a clear and future-oriented outcome document." Council members said environmental decisions should be in the interests of people rather than transnational corporations, according to LWI. Read more.
TRC inducts new honorary witnesses
By Diana Swift
Anglican Journal
June 22, 2012
SASKATOON – The June 22nd sessions of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s National Event here saw the induction of five new honorary witnesses, including two youth witnesses. As TRC Commissioner Marie Wilson explained, honorary witnesses are prominent people from all walks of life whose commitment to the common weal and informed opinions are respected. Importantly, they can spread the message of truth and reconciliation and the work of the TRC in the widest circles. “We need help to face the facts of the past and the potential of the present and the future,” Wilson told those assembled. “You are here to bear witness to what will happen in the coming days. We need helpers to…commit to taking this forward and teaching others and spreading the word.” Read more.
Bishop Stanley Ntagali elected Uganda’s new primate
Anglican Journal
June 22, 2012
The Rt. Rev. Stanley Ntagali has been elected eighth archbishop of the Church of Uganda. The election was held during a meeting of the House of Bishops on June 22 at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Namirembe. Bishop Ntagali was elected with a more than two-thirds majority, as per the requirements of the Ugandan church’s constitution, according to the announcement released by the Church of Uganda. Consecrated as a bishop 2004, he has served as bishop of the diocese of Masindi-Kitara for eight years. Read more.
Martha Alexander to stand for election as House of Deputies president
Episcopal News Service
June 22, 2012
Martha Bedell Alexander, a trustee of the Church Pension Fund https://www.cpg.org/global/about-us/board-of-trustees and a North Carolina state legislator, had announced that she will stand for election as president of the House of Deputies. “I see it as a wonderful opportunity to serve God and His Church — and to make a difference,” Alexander, 72, said in a June 20 press release from the Diocese of North Carolina. Saying the idea of her standing for election originated through conversations with others, Alexander added, “I gave the possibility of the nomination a lot of prayerful, thoughtful and careful consideration.” Read more.
Presiding bishop proposes alternative 2013-2015 budget
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
Episcopal News Service
June 22, 2012
In a somewhat unusual step, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on June 21 proposed an alternative budget for consideration by the upcoming meeting of the Episcopal Church’s General Convention.The proposal is “more clearly based on missional strategy than the current draft proposed budget” approved in January by the church’s Executive Council, Jefferts Schori said in an eight-page message that accompanied the proposed budget. She said that “the heart” of the Episcopal Church is mission “in partnership with anyone who shares that passion” and her proposed budget “is intended to help us reorient ourselves to that passion.” “The strategic and spiritual principle of this budget proposal is that the church is most truly itself, the Body of Christ, when it lives and breathes mission,” she said. When asked by Episcopal News Service, the Rev. Canon Gregory Straub, General Convention secretary and the church’s executive officer, said that to his knowledge this was the first time a presiding bishop had proposed a budget after Executive Council had sent its draft budget to the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget and Finance. Read more.
Volunteer treasurer oversees Foundation finances
by Ali Symons
Anglican Church of Canada
June 22, 2012
The Anglican Foundation is managing finances in a whole new way. Dr. Daphne Rixon, accounting professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, has been appointed as the foundation's first external, pro bono treasurer. Ms. Rixon, a fellow of Certified Management Accountants Canada, began in May. She will oversee the foundation's finances and guide foundation staff Jonathan Marshall and Kavitha Gunaseelan as they take on more day-to-day financial work at the Toronto office. Read more.
Seventy-Five Things To Do Before You Turn 12
By Sue Careless
The Anglican Planet
June 22, 2012
BRITAIN’S NATIONAL TRUST, an organization that preserves outdoor spaces as well as historic buildings in the UK, has developed a clever campaign to encourage children to better connect with nature and wildlife.
It has come up with a ‘bucket list’ of fifty things to do before you turn 12 years old. All the activities occur in the great outdoors but the list of challenges is found on a computer website for the electronically-savvy child. The Trust’s Director General Fiona Reynolds said children need freedom to discover nature for themselves. She claims more children go to hospital from falling out of bed than from falling out of a tree. Read more.
Fourth TRC national event opens in Saskatoon
By Diana Swift
Anglican Journal
June 21, 2012
Mr. Justice Murray Sinclair opened the fourth national event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Prairieland Park, Saskatoon, by thanking the leaders of Treaty 6 for inviting the commission into their lands He also thanked all those, from survivors to commissioners and organizers, who have participated in the TRC’s work to date. Saskatchewan, the chair of the TRC commissioners noted, has one of Canada’s highest numbers of survivors of the residential schools system—some 30,000 First Nation and Métis people have applied for compensation under the class-action settlement agreement. Sinclair reminded the audience that the TRC’s aim is “to put on record the true story of residential schools to ensure that future generations have the opportunity to know what happened. We take it as a sacred responsibility to create a national memory around the residential schools so that no one will ever be allowed to say that it never happened.” Read more.
Cathedral marks anniversary of Vancouver hockey riots
By Randy Murray
Anglican Journal
June 21, 2012
June 15th, 2011: the Vancouver Canucks lost Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final series to the Boston Bruins. Minutes after the game ended, a riot broke out amidst thousands of people gathered in Vancouver’s downtown core. Several hours of violent destruction followed in which dozens of windows belonging to businesses were smashed. In the aftermath, most were boarded up with sheets of plywood. All through the night, clean-up crews worked to restore the city. The next day, citizens of the lower mainland, many of them hockey fans, gathered to help clean up. As they cleaned, they wrote thousands of messages on the boards. Most were in reference to hockey saying that true hockey fans would never behave in such a way. Others condemned the violence and looting and spoke of deep feelings for the city. Now, on the one-year anniversary of the riot, the Museum of Vancouver has opened an exhibit of 15 of the boards in the Museum of Vancouver Studio. In all, it received 86 of the boards for its permanent collection. Read more.
Canadian teaches hope along with the recorder
By Diana Swift
Anglican Journal
June 21, 2012
Last year, Jen Hoyer, an Edmonton librarian, was wondering what to do next after her research contract with a local social justice think tank expired. Hoyer, a parishioner at Edmonton’s Holy Trinity Anglican Church, is also a pianist and an expert musician in the recorder. “There aren’t many opportunities for professional recorder players, so when the chance to teach recorder in South Africa came up, I decided to do it,” she told the Anglican Journal on a recent visit to Church House in Toronto. What seemed at the time like an interesting professional opportunity turned into a chance to live the Marks of Mission. Since August 2011, Hoyer has been music director at the Keiskamma Music Academy in Hamburg, a small coastal town of 3,000 people on the Eastern Cape, about 1,100 kilometres from Johannesburg. Read more.
Interfaith fast protests solitary confinement
By Diana Swift
June 21, 2012
On June 19, interfaith leaders in the U.S. joined the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) to mark the end of a 23-hour nationwide fast. Held to protest the widespread use of solitary confinement in American state and federal prisons, the 23-hour fast followed "Reassessing Solitary Confinement: The Human Rights, Fiscal and Public Safety Consequences,” a congressional hearing exploring the economic, psychological and ethical aspects of a practice that typically holds inmates in isolation for 23 hours a day. Participants, including lay people and leaders from the Jewish, Muslim and Christian faiths, fasted from June 18 at 1:00 p.m. to 12 noon the following day. According to a statement on NRCAT's website, the U.S. is a world leader in holding prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement. There are 44 state-run super-max prisons and one federal super-max prison, each of which holds inmates exclusively in solitary confinement, it said. At least 80,000 people in the U.S. criminal justice system are held in solitary confinement on any given day and the practice is on the rise. From 1995 to 2000, the growth rate of segregation units significantly surpassed the prison growth rate overall: 40 per cent compared with 28 per cent. The Rev. Richard Killmer, a Presbyterian minister and NRCAT's executive director, said that the end of the fast did not mean the end of NRCAT's efforts to end solitary confinement, with its high economic and human costs.
Donations to U.S. religious institutions decline
By Lauren Markoe
ENInews/RNS
June 21, 2012
Washington, D.C. — Post-recession America is beginning to open its wallet to charities again, but is not giving as generously to religious institutions. While charitable donations from individuals rose nearly four percent overall in 2011, according to the annual "Giving USA" report, donations to houses of worship and other religious bodies dropped by 1.7 percent -- a decrease for the second year in a row, Religion News Service reports. The report, compiled by the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy and released June 19, shows that individual Americans gave nearly $218 billion last year, $96 billion of which went to religious organizations. The proportion of the charitable donations going to religious groups has been falling steadily for decades, said Robert Evans, of Giving USA's editorial review board. Evans offered several reasons for the decline, including increased competition from a proliferating number of non-religious organizations, a decrease in church attendance, and a general lack of sophistication within religious institutions regarding fundraising. "Clergy in America have not been sufficiently trained as CEO's of institutions to be comfortable and conversant with contemporary fundraising technology and techniques," he said. The report shows that charitable giving is a priority for Americans, said Eileen Heisman, CEO of National Philanthropic Trust. "People were giving even during the lowest points of the recession, but as we make an economic rebound, donors feel more comfortable gifting their dollars -- especially when they support a cause or organization that's important to them."
U.S. nuns have difficult meeting in Rome
By Diana Swift
Anglican Journal
June 20, 2012
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), the umbrella body that represents some 45,000—80 per cent of—U.S. Catholic nuns, met with Vatican officials on June 12 to express their concerns about the recent doctrinal assessment report on the LCWR. The report, released on April 18 by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), criticized the sisters for having radical feminist tendencies and showing insufficient fidelity to church teachings on such issues as abortion, women’s ordination and homosexuality. It demanded sweeping changes to LCWR’s leadership and activities. Led by Sister Pat Farrell, a Franciscan nun and LCWR president, the organization issued a June 18 press statement about the Rome meeting, which seems to have been an uncomfortable one. “While the LCWR officers…were able to express their concerns during the meeting with openness and honesty, they acknowledged that the meeting was difficult because of the differing perspectives the CDF officials and the LCWR representatives hold on the matters raised in the report,” the release said.
Christian-Muslim peace summit underway in Beirut
By Eileen White Read
ENInews/ENS
June 20, 2012
A three-day Christian-Muslim peace conference is underway in Beirut, with delegates citing chaotic Egyptian elections, armed conflict in Syria and tension between Israel and Iran contributing to a sense of urgency. Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri, the highest ranking clergyman among Iran's representatives, urged the dozens of religious leaders, representing nearly all strains of Christianity and Islam, to envision "the heaven and passion of coexistence," adding that "dialogue was born with humanity itself." The conference opened on June 18, Episcopal News Service reports. It is the second Christian-Muslim peace summit organized by the Episcopal Washington (D.C.) National Cathedral, former diocesan bishop John Chane and the Rev. John L. Peterson, director of the cathedral's Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation. Read more.
Bishop: "African clergy being denied entry to the UK because of their sacrificial stipends"
Anglican Communion News Service
June 20, 2012
Some African clergy are having their UK visa applications turned down simply because of their low income, according to the Lord Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The Rt Revd Nigel Stock, speaking in the House of Lords yesterday, said that despite having endorsements from senior English bishops, Africa Christians responding to invitations to enter the country are failing to get the required visa. He said, "It seems that a new economic test is being applied to them. Able, well qualified Africans are being invited to conferences in this country and endorsed even by bishops and the Archbishop of Canterbury, but are being turned down because their personal income is low. As most African clergy live on sacrificial stipends that are intermittently paid, we are wondering whether we can ever invite anyone again from Tanzania." Read more.
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