Resignation
The Rev. Kevin Cross will leave the Parish of McAdam on March 14 in order to become rector of Holy Trinity Church, Oxford, Maryland on March 21.

Condolences
Canon Geoffrey Jackson General Synod's senior development officer, died suddenly on Jan. 5. Canon Jackson was a valued friend of the Diocese of Fredericton as well as our skilled and able stewardship consultant. The Primate, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, noted he died on the eve of the Epiphany and linked the Magi's gift-giving to Canon Jackson's own desire to give good gifts to Christ through his work at the church. Sincere condolences to his wife, Elizabeth, their three sons, and four grandchildren. His funeral was held at 1 o'clock today (Jan. 12) at All Saints' Anglican Church, Waterloo, Ontario. Erb & Good Family Funeral Home were entrusted with the arrangements.

Installation of Canons and Collation of Archdeacons
On Sunday, Jan. 17 at 4 p.m., six new canons will be installed and two new archdeacons will be collated by Archbishop Claude Miller at a service of Choral Evensong at Christ Church Cathedral in Fredericton.
The Rev. Richard Steeves will be installed as a canon and collated as Archdeacon of Chatham and the Rev. Canon Patricia Drummond will be collated as Archdeacon of Fredericton.
The Rev. David Staples of Fredericton will be installed as an honourary canon.

The Reverends Kevin Stockall (Sackville), Keith Osborne (Pennfield), Patricia Craig (Saint John Hospitals) and Bruce McKenna (New Maryland) will be installed as active canons.

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 (two lay positions)
• Nominating Committee Member (one lay and one cleric)

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RCL Lectionary (Year C)

Sunday, Jan. 17
Second Sunday after Epiphany (Green)

Propers 349; Isaiah 62:1-5; Psalm 36:5-10; Corinthians 12:1-11; John 2:1-11. Preface of the Lord's Day.

Pray for Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil, the Most. Rev. Mauricio José Araujo de Andrade, Primat of Brazil and Bishop of Brasilia.

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

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The Anglican Pilgrimage  June 11-25, 2010

Every summer Canterbury Cathedral invites ordinands and newly ordained clergy from around the Anglican Communion to share their lives together, praying, studying and exchanging experiences and ideas. Guided by an international faculty, students live in the International Study Centre at Canterbury. They join the Cathedral community’s daily life which is centred on daily worship. Details and an application form are available on-line.

Mabel C. Dean Memorial Bursary
Applications for the $1,000 Mabel C. Dean Memorial Bursary in support of children of diocesan clergy at university, college or other post secondary institution will be accepted until March 31, 2010 at The Bishop's Office, 115 Church St., Fredericton, E3B 4C8.

Order of St. Luke International Conference Conference

OSL International Conference on healing for the person, the church and the world, June 21-25, 2010, at University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, BC. with speakers from Wales, Ireland, England, New Zealand, Australia, the United States and Canada. Membership in OSL is not necessary in order to attend. Register here.

New permanent home for Fredericton campus ministry
At last, Campus Ministry at UNB (Fredericton) has a new permanent home in the newly refurbished and renamed C. C. Jones Student Services Centre (formerly Jones House). The office is Room 016 (lower floor), the phone number remains 453-5089. The Anglican chaplain for both UNB (Fredericton) and Saint Thomas University, the Rev. Canon George Porter, D.Phil., is on campus most Tuesdays from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. He is available at other times through email at either <porter at unb.ca> or <george.porter at Anglican.nb.ca>, by phone at 506-459-1801 extension 4. (Please remember that the UNB Campus Ministry phone message service is shared by all chaplains and not confidential.) The grand opening of the new centre is Feb. 11 at 3:30 p.m. and an open house will follow on Feb. 12 February. BUT George will be in the office starting Jan. 13.

CLAY 2010
Registration for Hands On, the Canadian Lutheran Anglican Youth Gathering in London, Ontario, Aug. 19-22 has begun! Get your Home Teams together and send in your forms before capacity is reached! Everything you need is on the website.

Canadian Council of Christian Charities Seminars
CCCC will offer seminars on Ministry Employment Relationships and on Serving as a Board Member on March 25 at Lewisville Baptist Church in Moncton. The cost per seminar is $35 for CCCC members and $45 for non-members. Register here.

Work and Creativity Retreat
The Companioned Spiritual Formation Team invites you to this retreat led by retired Bishop Bill Hockin at Villa Madonna Retreat House in Rothesay March 5-7. Registration is $168 single, $248 double, includes six meals and lots of opportunity for fellowship and contemplation as well as learning — contact Canon John Cathcart <john.cathcart at anglican.nb.ca>. Bursaries are available (contact Canon Neville Cheeseman <neville.cheeseman at nb.sympatico.ca>. The event begins with supper at 5:30 p.m. on Friday evening and ends with lunch on Sunday. More details here.

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Jan. 13, 1 p.m.  Council Youth Team meeting, Church of the Resurrection, Grand Bay-Westfield.

Jan. 13, 2 p.m. Companion Diocese Committee meeting, Synod Office boardroom.

Jan. 14, 10 a.m. Council Stewardship Team meeting, Synod Office boardroom.

Jan. 14, 3 p.m. Human Resources Committee meeting, Synod Office boardroom.

Jan. 17, 4 p.m.  Monthly Integrity Eucharist and fellowship at Unitarian Fellowship Centre, 874 York St., Fredericton.

Jan. 19, 2 p.m. Council Episcopal Team meeting, Synod Office boardroom.

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Visionaries, healers and medicine people
A Voices of Hope Pew Bulletin Story
Our elders tell us of people who were gifted among all beings because they carried two spirits: that of male and female. These individuals were looked upon as a third gender in many cases, and in almost all cultures they were honoured and revered. Two-Spirited People were often the visionaries, the healers and the medicine people, respected as fundamental components of our ancient culture and societies. This is our guiding force, as well as our source of strength. This is the heart of the Two-Spirited People of the First Nations.

PWRDF supported the Two-Spirited People of the First Nations in organizing the Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week following the commemoration of World AIDS Day 2006. The campaign message was that HIV/AIDS does not discriminate; that it affects everyone. The World Health Organization has documented how stigma, shame, guilt, intolerance and discrimination prevent people from getting tested for HIV, which contributes to the spread of the disease. HIV rates among Canada’s Indigenous communities continue to rise at alarming rates. Meaningful prevention that is culturally relevant is more important today than ever. Two-Spirited People of the First Nations is a non-profit social services organization whose membership consist of Indigenous gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Toronto; it’s Canada’s oldest and first Aboriginal-specific AIDS service organization. The 2-Spirited People know that health is more than just the absence of illness; rather, it is a balance of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of a person’s life.

Visit the Diocesan PWRDF or PWRDF National pages.

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Jan. 30, 7 p.m. Dessert reception and silent auction fundraiser for the Cathedral Belize mission team at Cathedral Memorial Hall, Church Street, Fredericton.

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>.

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

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Camp Medley Director
The Bishop of the Diocese of Fredericton invites applications for the position of Camp Medley Director beginning 01 March 2010. This is a term contract position. Applicants please provide a detailed resume and covering letter outlining qualifications in reference to the Position Profile available HERE. 

Apply by e-mail <claude.miller at anglican.nb.ca> or in writing by 15 January 2010.

The Bishop of Fredericton
115 Church Street
Fredericton NB E3B 4C8

Camp Brookwood Counselors

The Board of Camp Brookwood is accepting applications for counselors. Four counselors to cover arts/crafts, nature/outdoors, activities/sports and lifeguarding are required. More information about Brookwood and applications for these positions are on the camp website.

Job listings for the Canadian church.

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'We just wish it would all go away'
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
Jan. 9, 2010
Chateauguay, Montreal: There is “general pessimism” among bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada about the potential for “any clear resolution” of the divisive issue of sexuality at the church’s upcoming General Synod in Halifax this June. This is one of the many observations recently made by two pastoral visitors from the U.K. who were deputized by the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. They were invited to attend the four-day meeting of the House of Bishops last November in Niagara, Ont., at the request of Archbishop Williams. Archbishop Williams is seeking ways to heal divisions among member provinces of the Anglican Communion.  Read the story.

Canon Geoffrey Jackson mourned
by Leigh Anne Williams
Anglican Journal
Jan. 8, 2010
Canon Geoffrey Jackson, senior development officer for the Anglican Church of Canada, died suddenly due to heart failure on Jan. 5. Canon Jackson, 69, had worked for General Synod since 2005, splitting his time between the Toronto offices and a home office in Waterloo, Ont. He was director of the national church’s Letting Down the Nets development initiative, travelling across Canada, assisting churches and dioceses in strategic planning, annual appeals, congregational development and stewardship. He also worked to cultivate major gifts for parishes, dioceses and the national church. Read the story.

ANiC trustees appeal court decision
by Leigh Anne Williams,
Anglican Journal
Jan. 8, 2010The trustees of four Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) Vancouver-area congregations have filed an appeal of Justice Stephen Kelleher’s Nov. 25 decision in the Supreme Court of British Columbia over four church properties in dispute between the ANiC congregations and Anglican Church of Canada’s diocese of New Westminster. Read the story.

Changing US demographics could make Latinos 'hosts of table'
by Chris Herlinger
Ecumenical News International
Jan. 7, 2010

New York: Roman Catholics in the United States are asking a question that touches on demographics and culture: what will the church look like in the coming years when at least 40 percent, and perhaps even a majority, of U.S. Catholics are Latino? At the very least, "they will not only have a place at the table, they will be the hosts of the table," said Peter Steinfels, a New York Times religion columnist and the co-director of the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture, at a recent forum that examined the impact of Latin Americans on the church and the U.S. religious landscape.  Read the story.

Tributes to religion journalist who could 'shoot from the hip'
by Stephen Brown
Ecumenical News International
Jan. 7, 2010

Geneva: Frances S. Smith, a former editor of the Ecumenical Press Service - the predecessor of Ecumenical News International - has died at her home in Claremont, California, aged 87. "Frances was one of the most respected of church journalists for her accuracy and her objectivity," said journalist Betty Thompson in a tribute quoted by the United Methodist News Service, where Smith held her final post before retirement in 1988.  Read the story.

Move to sideline Christianity in UK after teacher 'fired' says centre
by Trevor Grundy
Ecumenical News International
Jan. 7, 2010

London:  Britain's Christian Legal Centre says it has hired a human rights lawyer to represent Olive Jones, a 54-year old maths teacher who is being investigated by the North Somerset Council after she offered to say prayers in front of a 14-year old student suffering from leukemia. Worshippers at the Carmel Christianity Centre, a Pentecostal group in Bristol, said it will this week pray for the reinstatement of Jones who is the latest British Christian to have faced disciplinary or legal action for expressing their faith in public.  Read the story.

Copenhagen leaves vulnerable 'on their own' says Kenyan professor
by Fredrick Nzwili
Ecumenical News International
Jan. 5, 2010

Nairobi: Vulnerable communities have been left on their own to adapt to climate change or perish, with only God to count on, because of the failure of a United Nations conference in Copenhagen to agree legally-binding commitments, a Kenyan theologian and ecologist has warned. "They should not expect any significant help from the nations most responsible for historical emissions," Professor Jesse Mugambi, who teaches religious studies at the University of Nairobi, told Ecumenical News International on Jan. 4. "This became evidently clear in the political statements made by the heads of delegations at Copenhagen."  Read the story.

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Public theology: some concluding thoughts

On campus, Christmas is quiet but Lent’s a flurry

Christmas through new eyes

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1 Chronicles 29:10-11, 14

Blessed are you, 0 Lord, the God of our ancestor Israel, forever and ever. Yours, 0 Lord, are the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and on the earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, 0 Lord, and you are exalted as head above all . For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you. 

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

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