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New Medley building opened in glorious sunshine

Rooms filled with sunshine, fresh paint and some comfortable but basic camp furniture are ready for some Camp Medley staff members this summer. About 250 New Brunswick Anglicans and honoured guests gathered at the camp on the St. John River at Upper Gagetown last Saturday (June 19) to officially open Ferris Lodge, the beautifully refurbished administration building and staff house. The building is dedicated to the Rev. Royden Ferris who generously remembered Camp Medley with a bequest. With blue skies, warm temperatures and gentle river breezes, the opening was an idyllic as well as an exciting occasion.  Find a story and photos here.

Celebration of new ministry
The Parish of Parish of Prince William, Dumfries, Queensbury and Southampton will celebrate a service of new ministry with Holy Eucharist at St. Clement's Church, Dumfries, on Thursday evening, June 24, at 7 o'clock.

Paul Jeffries booking speaking engagements
The Rev. Canon Paul Jeffries will be “home” in the Diocese of Fredericton in September and October. He welcomes all invitations to speak about his life and ministry in Uganda. Book your event with him directly through canon.jeffries@bishopmcallistercollege.net

ENews summer schedule
ENews will be published on June 29 as usual. There will be monthly editions of ENews in the summer, July 6 and Aug. 3. ENews resumes its weekly schedule beginning Sept. 6.

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Risk Control: Ecclesiastical Insurance
A June 7, 2010 memo from Ecclesastical Insurance to its clients:  Lightning Strikes are an Ever-Present Threat to Places of Worship.
 
Provincial Council to meet in September
With Archbishop Claude Miller in the chair, the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada’s Provincial Council gather in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island September 23-26 to focus on mission, in keeping with Genereal Synod's focus on the Anglican Communion’s Five Marks of Mission. Dr. Ellie Johnson, the recently retired Director of Partnerships for the Anglican Church of Canada, will offer a series of reflections on the subject. Provincial Council will also continue its discussion around issues of governance in response to General Synod’s invitation to investigate “whether and how the diocesan, provincial and national structures need to be modified to support and enhance mission.” The Provincial Council’s 31 members represent the seven Anglican dioceses of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada: Montreal, Quebec, Fredericton, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, Western Newfoundland, Central Newfoundland, and Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador.

Clergy Conference
The 2010 Clergy Conference will be held August 30-Sept. 1 at Rothesay Netherwood School in Rothesay. Speaker is the Rev Dr. Gary Nicolosi, a Congregational Development Facilitator. Register on-line

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:

• Human Resources Committee (one cleric)

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 Jack Walsworth <jwals at nbnet.nb.ca>.

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RCL Lectionary (Year B)

Sunday, June 27

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 13) (Green)
Propers 364; 2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14; Psalm 77:1-2, 11-20; Galatians 5:1, 13-25; Luke 9:51-62; Preface of the Lord's Day.

Cycles of Prayer
Pray for the Church of North India (United), the Most Rev. Purely Lyngdoh, Moderator, CNI and Bishop of North East India.

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

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Climate Change
An open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury regarding climate change sent by the informal group of Anglican environmentalists that drafted the resolution on climate change that was adopted at General Synod.

Atlantic School of Theology Launches New Academic Program
Diploma in Youth Ministry
Designed for leaders of youth who wish to deepen and broaden their skills for ministry with young people. This program combines required and elective units of study with practical experience in the leadership of youth. The first unit of study for the new Diploma program coincides with AST’s Best Practices Institute on Oct. 1-2, 2010, and features workshop leader Rodger Nishioka, a specialist in the area of youth and young adults.
Information and application details.

AST Best Practices Institute workshop and cohort program

Atlantic School of Theology Beyond Games and Soup Kitchens, Nurturing a passionate spirituality in youth ministry, is available online.

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June 23, 3 p.m.  Nominating Committee, Synod Office boardroom.

June 24, 10 a.m. - 12 noon Diocesan Stewardship Team, Synod Office boardroom.

June 24, 7 p.m. A celebration of new ministry with Holy Eucharist at St. Clement's Church, Dumfries, in the Parish of Parish of Prince William, Dumfries, Queensbury and Southampton.

June 26, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Commission on the Diaconate, St. Luke's Church Hall, Woodstock.

June 27, 11 a.m. Farewell retirement service for the Revs. Karman and Valerie Hunt (Parishes of Cambridge and Waterborough and the Parish of Gagetown) at St. John's, Gagetown. A farewell open house will follow at the Gagetown Legion Hall from 2 - 4 p.m.

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

June 29, 2 p.m.  Council Episcopal Team, Synod Office boardroom.

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Le Tour de PWRDF

Follow the progress of Suzanne Rumsey's bicycle marathon from Halifax (the site of General Synod 2010) to Ste. Anne de Bellevue on the west end of the Island of Montreal, the site of General Synod in 1959 when PWRDF was officially created.

Since leaving Edmundston on Friday morning, I have crossed the border from New Brunswick into Québec, cycled over a mountain range and past Lac Témiscouata to Riviere du Loup, then turned left and travelled along the Fleuve St. Laurent (St. Lawrence River) to St. Jean Port Joli and arrived today in Charny, just across the St. Lawrence from Quebec City -- 339 km in total.  Read more of her blog.

Visit the Diocesan PWRDF or PWRDF National

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

July 8, 7 p.m. Mid-week Choir School Evensong, Trinity Church, Sussex. Everyone welcome to come and hear the wonderful sounds of young Anglican voices in worship. Offering will help defray Choir School costs.

July 11, 3:30 p.m. Choir School Closing Evensong, Trinity Church, Saint John. Everyone welcome to come and hear the wonderful sounds of young Anglican voices in worship. Offering will help defray Choir School costs.

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

Sep. 11, 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. NB Cursillo Secretariat meeting, St. Mary's Anglican Church, 207 Wellington St., Chatham (Miramichi)

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.

Nov. 20, 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., Diocesan Mothers' Union meeting at All Saint's Church, Marysville. 

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Western Newfoundland
Bishop Percy Coffin of the Diocese of Western Newfoundland seeks a rector for the parish of St. Michael and All Angels, Corner Brook. Contact the Synod Office <dsown at nf.aibn.com> for a parish profile. The start date for the position is negotiable. Deadline for application in July 9, 2010.


Job listings for the Canadian church.

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2010 World Religions Summit
Faith leaders gather to push G8, G20 nations for change
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
June 21, 2010
Winnipeg: Some100 world inter-faith leaders have gathered here to push their political counterparts --who will be meeting at the upcoming G8 and G20 summits in Huntsville, Ont. and Toronto--to seriously address poverty, climate change and armed conflict. “The current economic and political crises in the world weighs heavily on the poor,” said The Rev. James Christie, a minister with the United Church of Canada and one of the organizers of the 2010 World Religions Summit being held at the University of Winnipeg June 21 to 23. Religious leaders from the G8 and G20 nations have gathered to express their solidarity with the poor and to call for social change, said Christie in his opening remarks. Read the story.

TRC Special Report
Children of residential school survivors pore over archival material
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
June 21, 2010
Winnipeg: Flora Packo moved from one table to another getting as many brochures, posters, photocopies of photographs and other materials about Indian residential schools as she could. That done, she and two friends looked at photographs in the "learning tent" at the first national event of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission June 16 to 19. Read the story.

TRC Special Report
‘A movement that can’t be stopped’
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
June 21,2010
Winnipeg: National Indigenous Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald has called the first national meeting here of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) “a movement that can’t be stopped. This is a ceremony that’s just beginning.” He said his high hopes for the “extraordinary, miraculous” event, Jun 16-19, “were exceeded” and expressed his appreciation for the way the TRC organized the event. “It was not just truth-telling and hearings in the western sense, but ceremony in which the truth was told…Survival was celebrated as well,” he said. “God came and was here listening to the hurts and the pain.” Read the story.

SPECIAL REPORT: Truth and Reconciliation Commission
'A special, excellent start,’ says TRC chair of first national event
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
June 20, 2010
Winnipeg: The first national event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) concluded Saturday night with Justice Murray Sinclair, TRC chair, expressing satisfaction that it had been a “special, excellent start.” During the event held June 16 to 19, more than 1,000 residential school survivors spoke privately to TRC statement-takers and in some cases, during sharing circles witnessed by the public. The event achieved “remarkable acts of reconciliation,” Sinclair told a crowd gathered for closing ceremonies at the Oodena Circle of The Forks National Historic Site. “We know that this journey is far from complete.” Read the story.

SPECIAL REPORT: Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
‘We’ve only just begun’ work of reconciliation, says Archbishop Fred Hiltz
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
June 20, 2010
Winnipeg: Indian residential school survivors need more time to share their stories, says Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. Yesterday, on the last day of the first national event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) here, he supported calls made by survivors saying that the work of healing and reconciliation cannot be rushed. “What we’re hearing from survivors is, ‘Please don’t be driven by a government timetable…,’ ” said Archbishop Hiltz, who described the experience as “very, very humbling” and said he now realizes that “people are in different places in their capacity for healing. Read the story.

SPECIAL REPORT: Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
Bentwood box to store ‘gestures of reconciliation’
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
June 19, 2010
Winnipeg: The Anglican Church of Canada yesterday offered symbols of its commitment to support the healing journey of Indian residential school survivors and their descendants in a special ceremony held here at the first national Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) event. These symbols or “gestures of reconciliation” included a copy of the documentary, Topahdewin: The Gladys Cook Story as well as resolutions passed at the recent meeting of General Synod in Halifax recognizing the rights of indigenous people to self-determining ministry within the church. Read the story.

SPECIAL REPORT: Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
School survivors share stories of pain, abuse
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
June 18, 2010
Winnipeg They were known by their numbers at residential schools and to this day, Evelyn Omand, now in her 60s, still remembers hers: 38, 39, 43, and 45. She had gone to four different residential schools. “When I think about those numbers, I realized that to them I wasn’t a human being,” said Evelyn, who was taken to a residential school when she was 12. “I always tell people I did four years in residential schools. My only crime was that my mom died when I was seven, and my dad went to a sanatorium.” Read the story.

SPECIAL REPORT: Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
‘I have to remember I’m accepted by the Creator,’ says Presbyterian minister of Ojibway descent
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
June 18, 2010
Winnipeg “I’m no longer ashamed of who I am. I’m a strong Anishnabe woman and I’m a minister of the Christian faith.” The Rev. Margaret Mullin said it had taken her many years to say these words and to arrive at the understanding that native spiritual tradition is not in conflict with Christianity. Read the story.

The Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea elects a new Archbishop
Anglican Communion News Service
June 18, 2010
The decision making body of the Anglican Church of PNG (ACPNG), known as the Provincial Council has elected a new Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea. The election took place at the Provincial Council Meeting which was held in Port Moresby on 11th June 2010. Read the story.

A writers’ notebook
Good wishes on the wings of dandelion seeds
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
June 17, 2010
On the eve of the first national event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada they started coming. By this I mean dandelion seeds that were being carried away by the gentle wind like tiny white parachutes. It was as if a group of children together closed their eyes, and made a wish as they blew on dandelions, sending their seeds flying into the air. The symbolism isn’t hard to miss -- I thought them to be good wishes that were being sent for such a historic event as this. Read the story.

‘Dear Prime Minister’
Synod asks Canada to be "more constructive" about Middle East peace
Anglican Journal
June 17, 2010
Resolution A184, “Peace and Justice in Palestine and Israel,” was passed by members of General Synod 2010 on June 9. The resolution asks the general secretary of the Anglican Church of Canada to write to the prime minister to ask that Canada “take a more constructive and active lead in creating conditions for peace.” This would include “…ending the boycott of supplies and services to Palestinian Territories, and policy and aid in support [of] Palestinian infrastructure and economy.” Read the story.

Lambeth Palace tells presiding bishop not to wear symbol of office
[Episcopal News Service -- Linthicum Heights, Maryland]
EpiscopalLife on-line
June 16, 2010
When Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori preached and presided at a Eucharist June 13 at Southwark Cathedral in London, she carried her mitre, or bishop's hat, rather than wear it. She did so in order to comply with a "statement" from Lambeth Palace, the London home of Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, that said "that I was not to wear a mitre at Southwark Cathedral," Jefferts Schori told the Executive Council June 16 on the first day of its three-day meeting here. Read the story.

SPECIAL REPORT: Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
First national event ‘to educate all of Canada’
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
June 15
There is an air of anticipation, of history waiting to happen here, as Indian residential school survivors and their families, and representatives of churches and government began arriving in Winnipeg June 15 for the first national event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada. The historic event, which is expected to draw up to 8,000 attendees, aims to document and acknowledge the truth about a sad chapter in Canadian history that saw thousands native children being taken from their families and forced into mostly church-run schools as part of the federal government’s policy of assimilation. Read the story.

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General Synod Closing Eucharist: Homily by Archbishop Fred Hiltz

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Fund-raising destroys a good stewardship program. People need to give intentionally all year long and stick to it. Fund-raising nickels and dimes people to death. If we really do good stewardship teaching and people really get it, fund-raising becomes unnecessary.

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

Department of Philanthropy, Anglican Church of Canada

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Jews don't recognize Jesus as the Son of God.
Protestants don't recognize the pope as the Ruler of the Church.
Baptists don't recognize each other in a liquor store.

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