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Clergy Spouses build community

By Eva Morton

Clergy spouses from throughout the diocese met at Villa Madonna in Rothesay April 20 – 22 for our annual retreat and to focus on community. We enjoyed three community building sessions with Judith Davids of St. Stephen’s University, a presentation by Heather Miller and the Rev. Jasmine Chandra on ways to help our Companion Diocese community in Ho, and time with Archbishop Claude Miller to discuss our own diocesan community.  Read the story.

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Chaplain for Camp Medley
Camp Medley seeks one more individual to serve as a chaplain for the week of July 18-23 (Junior Teen II). This is a great opportunity for you to invest the lives of our youth. Contact the assistant director Shawn C. Branch <shawn at campmedley.ca>.

May ordination anniversaries
May 5    Ranall Ingalls, 20 years deacon
May 6    Andrew Fraser, 20 years priest
May 7    John Mills 40, years priest
May 8    Don Routledge, 35 years deacon
May 14  John Cathcart, 15 years priest
May 14   Leo Martin, 15 years priest
May 17   John Sharpe, 40 years deacon
May 18   Bill MacMullin, 35 years deacon
May 24   Vicars Hodge, 20 years deacon
May 26   Reg Stockall, 50 years priest
May 26   Roy Embley, 50 years priest
May 29   Alvin Westgate, 35 years deacon
May 30   Arthur Gregg, 45 years deacon
May 31   Richard McConnell, 30 years priest

Prayer for Clergy College 2010

Prayer for Availability and ability to attend Diocesan Clergy College
O Lord Jesu Christ, who in thy boundless compassion for all humanity felt compassion for them, because they were weary and worn out, like sheep without a shepherd; And dost set thy pastors to tend, feed and care for thy flock and to seek out the lost; as thou didst withdraw to quiet places to commune with thy Father and to pray with and teach thy holy Apostles; grant to the pastors of thy Church in this Diocese respite from their daily burden, the care of the churches, and a hearty desire to come apart, to be refreshed and grow in the knowledge and love of thee our Saviour and one another; who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. AMEN.

Download the brochure. Apply to register online.

Appointments and Announcements
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)

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

To make a nomination or express interest in a position, contact committee chair chair Jack Walsworth <jwals at nbnet.nb.ca>.

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RCL Lectionary (Year B)

Sunday, May 30

Trinity Sunday (PF) (White)
Propers 346; Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Psalm 8 ; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15, (25-27); Preface of the Trinity.

Cycles of Prayer
Pray for the Church of the Province of Melanesia, the Most Rev. David Vunagi, Archbishop of Melanesia and Bishop of Central Melanesia.

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

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Choir School
Reminder: Choir School planning team will not mail printed registration forms to junior choristers for the 2010 Choir School session. Junior choristers are encouraged to download the forms. It would also be helpful if parishes could include this notice in their bulletins until Sunday, June 6:
Registration forms (four pages) for the 53rd Annual Diocesan Choir School — July 4-11 at Rothesay Netherwood School are available for download now! <www.choirschoolsite.com>. Junior choristers please print, fill in, and send all four pages to the registrar. Adult choristers need only complete page one, and add page two if appropriate.
It would also be kind of parishes to print a supply of forms to have available to interested choristers who lack Internet access.

Advance notice of the annual Clergy Conference
Rothesay Netherwood School
August 30, 31 and September 1
Speaker: The Rev. Dr. Gary Nicolosi, Diocesan Congregational Development Facilitator, Anglican Diocese of British Columbia.
Please reserve these dates, this is a conference well worth attending.

Health Care Encounter: A Place of Moral Meaning
With Dr. Nuala P. Kenny at Fredericton Inn, June 1, 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. This workshop, sponsored by the Spiritual and Religious Care Department of the Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital in Fredericton, will focus on understanding the notion of spirituality in health care, and the challenges to palliative end of life care and assisted death. General registration $30 by May 21 ($40 after); spiritual and religious care department member registration $25 before May 21, $35 after; student registration, $10. Information available from <spiritual.religiouscare at horizonnb.ca>.

Clergy College
10th Annual Clergy College featuring Eric Beresford, Brian Walsh and Gary Thorne

June 13-10, Hugh John Flemming Forestry Complex, Fredericton. Brochure.   On-line registion.

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May 29, 7th annual Fiddlehead and salmon barbecue at All Saints Keswick Ridge, 150 Crock's Point Rd. Salmon, baked potatoes, fiddleheads, baby carrots, dessert, coffee & tea, with roast beef for those who don't love salmon. $14 adults, half-portions for children under 12, $7. Sittings at 4, 5:15, 6:30. Reservations required, call Lois Poore, 363-4229 or Eugene Price, 363-4463.  There will also be a bake table.

May 30, 2 - 4 p.m. Saint John and area Ultreya, Church of the Good Shepherd, 688 Manawagonish Rd.

May 30-June 2 The Atlantic Theological Conference for 2010 — Knit together in one communion: Anglican Identity and the Challenge of Diversity, St. George’s and St. Philip's Churches, Moncton.

May 31, 7 p.m. Rothesay-Kings Rotary Girls Choir anniversary concert, “Celebrating 20 Years of Song,” Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Gondola Point Road, Rothesay. Tickets $10, children (12 and under) $6 at the door or in advance through <rkrgc at yahoo.ca>. Concert guests Sea Belles, Fourth Avenue, Jillian Bonner and Lauren Estey, as well as former members of the Rothesay-Kings Rotary Girls Choir.

June 1, 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Health Care Encounter: A Place of Moral Meaning with Dr. Nuala P. Kenny at Fredericton Inn. Sponsored by the Spiritual and Religious Care Department of the Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital in Fredericton, the workshop will focus on understanding the notion of spirituality in health care, and the challenges to palliative end of life care and assisted death. General registration $30 by May 21 ($40 after); spiritual and religious care department member registration $25 before May 21 ($35 after); student registration, $10. Information available from <spiritual.religious care at horizonnb.ca>.

June 1, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Transformational Leadership for Mission and Ministry, a conversation with George Kovoor, principal of Trinity College, Bristol, UK. Registration $15 (includes lunch) through <info at taylorcollege.ca>. Presented by Anglican Communion Alliance (formerly the Anglican Essentials Federation) & Taylor College.

June 1, 4:30 - 7 p.m.  Finance Committee, Synod Office board room.

June 1, 7 - 9 p.m.  Fredericton Archdeaconry Greater Chapter meeting, St. John the Evangelist new church hall, Main Street, Fredericton (Nashwaaksis).

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Four Stages of Emergency Response
May 20, 2010
by Simon Chambers
Whenever a disaster occurs, most people’s first reaction is to want to help. One doesn’t have to look far to find many examples of humanitarian relief efforts undertaken by the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund. In fact, PWRDF was founded in response to a disaster which took place in Springhill, NS in 1958. Since that time, Anglicans in Canada have responded generously to disasters around the world- most particularly the 2004 Tsunami and the 2010 Haitian earthquake. Read the story.

Visit the Diocesan PWRDF or PWRDF National

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June 5, 6 p.m. Barbecue chicken dinner & silent auction at St. Luke's Church Hall, corner of Metcalf St. and Lansdowne Ave., Saint John. Special guests: Kara and Nelson Mejia. Dinner provided and prepared by Saint John Y's Men. Tickets $20 each - phone 693-4152 or email <stlukesportland at rogers.com>. All funds raised will support the Mejias ministry in Honduras.

June 6, 7 p.m. U2 - Horizons, a church service using the creative work of the rock band U2 in worship at St. Augustine's in Quispamsis. Details.

June 12, 10:30 a.m. NB Cursillo Secretariat meeting, small hall, Church of the Good Shepherd, 668 Manawagonish Rd. Saint John.

June 13, 1- 5 p.m. Camp Medley open house to see the new facilities, talk to management and some staff, swap Medley memories and enjoy the free-will offering barbecue.

June 18-20, Weekend Spring Retreat at Villa Madonna, Rothesay, and led by the Rev. Philip Chircop, an internationally known retreat master, public speaker and artist. The theme is Sacred Presents: Simple Gifts for Living with passion, Purpose and Grace. Registration $190 single, includes meals and accommodation; $115 for commuters (meals only). Non-refundable deposit of $75 required by May 15. Register on-line.

June 19, 6:30 p.m. Camp Medley Staff House/Administration Building Grand Opening at the camp on Gunter Hill Road, Upper Gagetown. A barbecue will follow the opening. Everyone is welcome. Free will offering for the barbecue appreciated.

June 27, 2 - 4 p.m. Miramichi Ultreya, St. Mary's Church, Willington Street, Chatham.

July 4-11 Choir School 2010, at Rothesay Netherwood School. Watch this page for registration and job application forms.

Aug. 30- Sept. 1  Clergy College at Rothesay Netherwood School featuring the Rev Dr. Gary Nicolosi, Diocesan Congregational Development Facilitator, Anglican Diocese of British Columbia.

Sept. 21, 10 a.m. St. Andrews Archdeaconry Clericus, Campobello.

Sept. 25 & 26 Diocesan Mothers' Union overnight meeting at Camp Medley.

Oct. 5, St. Andrews Archdeaconry Clergy Retreat Day, St. Andrews.

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Student Employment
Trinity Church, Saint John, seeks summer students to act as tour guides and possibly do some historical research. Candidates must be graduating from high school this June or already in university. Students should be friendly, outgoing and comfortable working with the general public. Contact trinsj@nb.aibn.com.
 
Job listings for the Canadian church.

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Honorary degrees awarded
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
May 20, 2010
This spring, a number of Anglicans received honorary degrees from three Canadian universities.Archbishop Caleb Lawrence and Nina Burnham received honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees at the convocation ceremony for Huron University College in London, Ont. on May 6.  Read the story.

Former treasurer dies
Anglican Journal
May 20, 2010
Robert Armstrong, former treasurer and chief financial officer for the Anglican Church of Canada, died unexpectedly on May 13, 2010. Armstrong worked for the national church from 1993 to 1996. Previously, he worked for Volvo GM Canada Heavy Truck Corp., BP Canada and as corporate controller for Robin Hood Multifoods. He was a member of St. Jude’s Anglican Church, Oakville, Ont., where he had also served as treasurer and warden.

Considering sexuality—once again
Anglican Church of Canada
May 20, 2010
At General Synod next month, Canadian Anglicans will again consider issues of human sexuality. Learn about the conversation format in the latest General Synod web forum post , written by Janet Marshall, chair of the Faith, Worship and Ministry Committee. "This will mark our next step in the now 34-year journey of debate, study, and discernment," she writes. Read the story.

Bishop Larry Robertson elected to the diocese of Yukon
by Leigh Anne Williams
Anglican Journal
May 19, 2010
On Sat. May 15, Bishop Larry Robertson was elected the bishop of the diocese of Yukon. His installation will take place Sept.18 at Christ Church Cathedral in Whitehorse.Bishop Robertson has served as suffragan bishop in the western region of the diocese of the Arctic for 11 years. “It’s an exciting time and I’m looking forward to it,” he said. He and his wife, Sheila, will move from Yellowknife to Whitehorse. “It’s going to be a vast learning time for me…,” he added. Read the story.

Punishment without the requisite crime
Guest opinion
by Michael Thompson
Anglican Journal
May 17, 2010
Michael Thompson is the Rector of St. Jude’s Church, Oakville, in the diocese of Niagara
In the work that bears his name, Gilbert and Sullivan’s wonderfully imagined Mikado purports “To let the punishment fit the crime, the punishment fit the crime.” In their guest opinion column in the Anglican Journal (May 2010, p. 5), Catherine Sider-Hamilton and Dean Mercer have, on the other hand, already decided the punishment– “a second-tier status in the larger Anglican Communion.” It remains only to conjure up the requisite crime. Read the story.

Bishop Coffin’s Visit to 17 Wing Winnipeg A Very Full Week
Military Ordinariate Website
by Padre Gordon Mintz
The Chapel of the Good Shepherd, the military chapel at 17 Wing Winnipeg was very pleased to welcome Bishop Coffin to preside at a service of Confirmation for three of its young members on 18 April 2010. The service may have been unique in that it was a combined confirmation of a candidate from the Presbyterian tradition and two young Anglicans. Read the story.

Bishop’s Visit to 14 Wing Greenwood
Military Ordinariate Website
On 21 March, 2010 Bishop Coffin visited the community at St Mark’s Protestant Chapel and the people of 14 Wing Greenwood, Nova Scotia. The Bishop preached and took an active part in the worship for the Fourth Sunday of Lent. Read the story.

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Update on national TRC event, day of prayer, and more

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Maybe 'enabling generosity' is a better term than 'stewardship.' Most people want to be remembered as "a generous person."

From the Ven. John M. Robertson, National Gift Planning Officer

Department of Philanthropy, Anglican Church of Canada

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Opportunity may knock once, 
But temptation bangs on the front door forever. 

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