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May 10, 3:30 p.m. Human Resources Committee, Synod Office board room, Fredericton.
May 12, 1 p.m. Communications Committee, Synod Office board room, Fredericton.
May 12, 3:30 p.m. Nominations Committee, Synod Office board room, Fredericton.
May 14, 9 a.m.- 2 p.m. Every Member Visitation workshop, Christ Church Cathedral Memorial hall. Led by the Diocesan Stewardship & Financial Development Team.
May 14, 7:30 p.m. Classic Country Gospel Show in support of Canon Paul Jeffries and Bishop McAllister School in Uganda at St. Mary's Church Hall, 770 McEvoy Street, Fredericton North. A free-will offering will be collected at the door.
May 15, 2 - 4 p.m. Saint John Ultreya, Church of the Good Shepherd, Manawagonish Road.
May 15, 4 p.m. Monthly Integrity Eucharist and fellowship at Unitarian Fellowship Centre, 874 York St., Fredericton.
May 15, 8 and 10 a.m. In celebration of PWRDF Sunday, Diocesan PWRDF coordinator Anne Walling will speak at both services at St. Paul's Church, Rothesay.
May 15, 1 - 5 p.m. Camp Medley Open House. Friends, family and camp newcomers are all invited for a barbecue, camp tour, time with leaders and to enjoy the surroundings. A free-will offering for the Camp Scholarship Fund will be received.
May 16, 3 - 6 p.m. Administration Team, Cathedral Memorial Hall, Fredericton.
May 17-19 Clergy Spouse Retreat at Villa Madonna, speaker Liz Harding, Camp Medley director.
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May 20-23 TEC 19, Camp Medley. Registrar Karen Bent <4bents at nb.sympatico.ca>.
May 21, 3:30 - 6 p.m. Parish lobster supper, St. Clement's Church Hall, Dumfries. On the menu: lobster, potato salad, creamy coleslaw, sliced tomato and cucumber on a bed of lettuce, homemade rolls, lots of pie, tea/coffee. For those who don't want lobster there will be ham with all the fixins'. The lobster is $25/plate, the ham is $12.
May 21, 4 p.m., 5:15 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Salmon barbecue at All Saints Church, 150 Crock's Point Rd., Keswick Ridge — includes salmon, baked potatoes, fresh fiddleheads, baby carrots, special dessert, coffee and tea. Roast beef served to non-lovers of salmon. Reservations required for each sitting. $14 per person, children under 12 half portions for $7. For reservations please call either Lois Poore at 363-4229 or Eugene Price 363-4463.
May 25, 11 a.m. Annual meeting Church of England Institute at Anglican House, 116 Princess Street in Saint John.
May 28, 7 p.m. St. Luke's and St. John's (Parish of Prince William) Spring gala at the Nackawic Lions Centre — auction with Neville DeLong, musical entertainment with Noel Nason and Cora Morrison, the Soggy Mountain Boys, and church musicians; special guest Katie Pearl (rumoured to be a distant cousin of a very famous Grand Old Opry star); and a fabulous dessert buffet with tea and coffee. Admission $7.50. For more information call Shirley, 463-2749 or Jean, 575-2502.
May 29, 10:30 a.m. Archbishop Claude Miller will attend 200th anniversary celebrations at Christ Church, Bloomfield. Many will dress in period costume for the occasion.
May 30, 7 - 9 p.m. Miramichi Ultreya, St. Mary's Church, 507 Wellington St., Chatham.
May 31 Deadline for applications for Scott Clarkson Educational Scholarship.
May 31, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Spirituality and Healthy Aging, a conference presented by the Department of Spiritual and Religious Care, Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital, Fredericton. Information brochure
June 2-5 Women's Cursillo Weekend. Sponsor and Clergy Sponsor Forms available from Cursillistas. Send completed forms to Allen Gilliss, 479 South Napan Road, Napan, NB E6L 1N9 or Paul MacDonald, 118 McKeen Drive, Keswick Ridge, NB E1N 4W4.
June 4, 9 a.m. - noon Yard Sale at Trinity Church, 115 Charlotte St., Saint John. Bring your green friendly shopping bags and fill them with bargains. Coffee and muffins, $2. All proceeds to the church renovation fund.
June 4, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Diocesan Mothers' Union meeting, St. John's Church, Parish of Richmond - 3667 Route 540, Richmond Corner.
June 11, 2011, 9:30 a. m. PWRDF workshop, Trinity Church, Sussex.
June 12-17, 2011 Clergy College, Fredericton.
June 16-19 The Power of Caring through Shifting Tides, The Canadian Association for Parish Nursing Ministry (CAPNM) Annual General Meeting (Details and Registration), Crandall University, Moncton.
June 18, 12:30 p.m. NB Cursillo Secretariat Meeting, St. Andrew's Anglican Church Hall, 323 Main St., Route 8, Doaktown. Followed at 2:30 p.m. by a Grand Ultreya.
July 10-17 Diocese of Fredericton Choir School, RNS, Rothesay. Adult choristers join the program July 14-17.
August 19, Application deadline for Vaughan Park Anglican Retreat Centre 2012 Residential Scholarship in Auckland, New Zealand.
Sept. 23, 7 p.m. to Sept. 24, 3 p.m. Diocesan Mothers' Union overnight at Camp Medley.
Sept. 26-29 Men's Cursillo Weekend. Sponsor and Clergy Sponsor Forms available from Cursillistas. Send completed forms to Allen Gilliss, 479 South Napan Road, Napan, NB E6L 1N9 or Paul MacDonald, 118 McKeen Drive, Keswick Ridge, NB E1N 4W4.
Oct. 15, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Refreshing Youth Life in the Church, A Day of ideas and ‘how to’s’ for Sunday School Teachers and Youth Leaders at St. Mary and St. Bartholomew's Church, Saint John.
Nov. 13, 4 p.m. Public liturgical celebration of 40 years of dialogue between the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches in Canada, St. Joseph's Oratory, Montreal. Local worship resources available soon.
Nov. 30-Dec. 2 Reflecting the Light of Christ, the 35th Anniversary of the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood in the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Invitation Website Registration (deadline Oct. 1, 2011)
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Japan's churches urged to work together after disaster
By Hisashi Yukimoto
ENInews
May 9, 2011
Seoul, South Korea
Japan's churches and Christian councils should establish a consortium to respond to the devastating 11 March earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power plant accident, an ecumenical meeting said. In addition, the National Christian Council in Japan should "convene a forum of all the Japanese partners to facilitate the exchange of information and activities and explore avenues of cooperation," according to a statement released at the end of the Japan Earthquake/Tsunami Relief Ecumenical Solidarity Meeting hed here from May 6 to 7. Read the story.
Large oil spill threatens Lubicon Lake Cree Nation
By Diana Swift
Anglican Journal
May 9, 2011
More than 28,000 barrels of oil, leaked from a ruptured section of the Rainbow pipeline, are affecting air quality and are poised to spread throughout local waterways. The Lubicon community is reporting nausea and burning eyes as a result of the pervading petroleum stench, and some schools were closed. A few beaver, water fowl and migratory birds have been found dead. The Lubicon community is asking for clear information from the company responsible, Plains Midstream, the Canadian subsidiary of the U.S. firm, Plains All American Pipeline. Kairos, an alliance of Canadian churches and lay people for social and ecological justice, is asking concerned citizens to press the Alberta government and the oil company to release clear and timely information. For more information, visit the Kairos website.
Community leaders awarded honorary degrees
Anglican Journal
May 9,2011
On May 10, 2011, the University of Trinity College in Toronto will confer honorary degrees on the Rev. Canon John W.B. Hill (Doctor of Divinity), the Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes (Doctor of Divinity), and Stephen Otto (Doctor of Sacred Letters). Hill, an author and Anglican priest in the diocese of Toronto, received an honorary degree for his intellectual and pastoral work as an ecumenical theologian and pioneer in promoting catechumenal ministry. Hawkes, one of Canada’s leading gay rights activists and a Toronto pastor in the Metropolitan Community Church, was awarded an honorary degree in recognition of his advocacy for marginalized groups and championing for equality. Otto, a Toronto-based historian, received an honorary degree for his devotion to community service and exemplary heritage conservation work, including the Fort York National Historic Site. The Trinity College Faculty of Divinity is the oldest centre for theological study in the Anglican Church of Canada.
Japanese pastor fears "tsunami" of visitors during holidays
By Hisashi Yukimoto
ENInews
May 9, 2011
Tokyo: A Japanese church district leader has said that he wants to avoid a "tsunami of people," many of whom are well-intentioned volunteers, who want to visit the northeastern area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. "I would like to express my gratitude to those who bother to come to the affected areas," said the Rev. Muneo Ohara, moderator of Ou District of the United Church of Christ in Japan, the country's largest Protestant denomination. However, he added, clergy and congregations are being overwhelmed by volunteers. Writing on the district's official Japanese blog on May 2, he said, "the earthquake occurred, and the tsunami came. We could escape from the tsunami. We were saved. But after that, a tsunami of people surged. We cannot escape from it." Read the story.
Vintage Anglican church to vend vintage wines
By Diana Swift
Anglican Journal
May 8, 2011
See video at CBCnews.ca
If Christ turned water into wine, a watery journey has helped turn one of Christ’s churches into a wine store. On May 5, a converted ferry laboured along the treacherous Bay of Fundy and up the Avon River carrying 30-tonne, 19th-century St. Matthew’s Anglican Church from its original site in Walton, N.S., to Newport Landing in the Annapolis Valley. “St. Matthews had a journey lasting just over 24 hours riding tides that fell and rose over 43 feet,” says Stewart Creaser, the vintner who, with his wife, Lorraine Vassalo, purchased the church last year. St. Matthew’s had to wait out the winter by the bay before it was safe to move it. From the landing, the pale blue wooden house of worship, begun in 1837 and opened in 1844, will travel this week by flatbed truck about a kilometre down the road to its new home at the Avondale Sky Winery. Read the story.
Canadian mining companies called 'ugly' overseas
By Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
May 6, 2011
The image of Canadians as “peacemakers and builders of justice” is being sullied by reports of abuses resulting from large-scale mining activities of some Canadian companies in the developing world. At a recent ecumenical conference May 1 to 3 in Toronto, Bishop Tom Morgan (retired), said he felt shocked and embarrassed to see copies of Philippine newspapers, which carried stories about mining activities that bore the headline, “Ugly Canadians.” Canadians “are seen by many as perpetrators of rape and pillage, using both metaphorically and literally,” said Bishop Morgan, a member of the board of directors of the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF). Read the story.
Scholars chase Bible's changes, one verse at a time
By Bruce Nolan
ENInews/RNS
May 6, 2011
New Orleans: Working in a cluster of offices above a LifeWay Christian Bookstore, Bible scholars are buried in a 20-year project to codify the thousands of changes, verse by verse, word by word -- even letter by letter -- that crept into the early New Testament during hundreds of years of laborious hand-copying. Their goal: to log them into the world's first searchable online database for serious Bible students and professional scholars who want to see how the document changed over time, Religion News Service reports. Their research is of particular interest to evangelical Christians who, because they regard the Bible as the sole authority on matters of faith, want to distinguish the earliest possible texts and carefully evaluate subsequent changes. Read the story.
Attendance is growing at Church of England cathedrals
By Trevor Grundy
ENInews
May 5, 2011
Canterbury, England: Five days after one of Britain's great churches, London's Westminster Abbey, was seen on television by millions as the site of a royal wedding, the Church of England released statistics showing that weekly attendance at its 43 cathedrals rose by seven percent in 2010. "Attendance at services outside Sundays has grown more significantly by 10 percent over the past year ... Steady growth since the beginning of the millennium is encouraging cathedrals to explore the unique position they hold in the life of the nation and is restoring confidence in mission," commented the Rev. Lynda Barley, head of research and statistics at the Archbishops' Council, in a news release. Read the story.
Nairobi blast survivors meet bin Laden’s death with prayer
By Fredrick Nzwili
ENInews
May 5, 2011
Nairobi, Kenya: The killing of Osama bin Laden has united survivors of the 1998 terrorist attack on the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya who now say they find strength in faith in God and prayer. "Our faith has been giving us strength to soldier on in very difficult times. Our lives were changed forever,” Douglas Sidialo, who leads a group of Kenya terrorist attack survivors and families, told ENInews on May 3. He was speaking at a memorial park constructed at the site of where the embassy stood and where other survivors had converged following the news of bin Laden’s killing on May 1 in Pakistan at the hands of U.S. forces. Read the story.
Mining operations have evoked 'a spiritual warfare'
By Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
May 4, 2011
Anti-mining activists from Ecuador, Guatemala and the Philippines and more than a dozen countries met in Toronto recently and shared stories of how mining operations, including Canadian companies, have displaced indigenous communities, destroyed ecosystems and given rise to human rights violations. Some 150 representatives from 20 countries attended the ecumenical conference on mining held May 1 to 3. Kairos, a Canadian ecumenical justice group, sponsored the event in partnership with Norwegian Church Aid. “The key purpose of the gathering is to develop alliances between church leaders from the North and South in their efforts to achieve mining justice around the world,” conference organizers said in a statement. Read the story.
Guest reflection: Sharing Our Wounds
By The Rev. Dr. Gary Nicolosi
Anglican Journal
May 4, 2011
I once heard the comment that people in an Alcoholics Anonymous group feel more accepted by each other than they would in church. Why is that? In the gospel, we have a graphic story about the sharing of wounds. We find a group of frightened disciples hovering in a room with the door locked. They are dejected, dispirited people. They had high hopes that Jesus was the one to redeem Israel, but then he was arrested and put to death on the cross. When Jesus died, their dreams died with him. Now they are feeling anxious, confused and afraid. But on the night of that first Easter Sunday, something miraculous happens. Jesus appears in their midst, bidding them peace. He opens his hands, and shows them his side. The disciples rejoice, for they see the Lord. They know him by his wounds—they recognize him by those marks. Read the story.
A house for peace in Guatemala
by Ali Symons
Anglican Church of Canada Web News
May 4, 2011
In the busy Guatemalan city of Santa Cruz del Quiché, a Canadian Anglican priest, the Rev. Emilie Smith, leads a ministry of reconciliation known as Peace House. It is, by turns, a place of worship, a guest house, a garden, and a community centre where people come to learn worm composting or how to prepare healthy snacks. Ms. Smith sees opportunities for reconciliation all around Peace House. In the 1980s, people of this northwest Quiché region suffered serious violence in the country's internal armed conflict. Tensions still exist between various communities, including Roman Catholic and Pentecostal Christians, Indigenous Peoples and those of European ancestry. Read the story.
Inter-church communion the norm in future, predicts primate
By Diana Swift
Anglican Journal
May 3, 2011
Holding aloft a spade with a bright green pointed blade, Archbishop Fred Hiltz delivered a stirring May Day sermon at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Buffalo, N.Y. The service was one of two Canada-U.S. border services, the other in Fort Erie, Ont., celebrating a decade of full communion between Anglicans and Lutherans. He brought this horticultural prop to the pulpit in a salute to the April tree-planting ceremony last month at Queen of Apostles Renewal Centre in Mississauga, Ont. The maple tree now marks the 10th anniversary of the Declaration of Full Communion between the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada, made at Waterloo, Ont., in July 2001. Read the story.
Much beloved bishop and human rights activist dies at 85
By Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
May 3, 2011
Bishop Arthur Durrant Brown, retired suffragan bishop in the Anglican diocese of Toronto and strong advocate of multiculturalism in Canada, died Monday May 2. He was 85. Bishop Brown served as suffragan bishop of York/Simcoe from 1981 to 1985, and suffragan bishop of York/Scarborough from 1985 to 1993. During his lifetime, he was recognized for his contribution to the development of the Caribbean community in North America. His longest stint as rector was at the predominantly black congregation of St. Michael’s and All Angels in Toronto, where he served for 17 years (1963 to 1980). Here, he turned the parish into a “home away from home” for Anglicans from the Caribbean, according to a 1999 article from The Anglican, the monthly publication of the diocese of Toronto. Read the story.
Cautious, somber reactions to Bin Laden's death from religious leaders
By ENInews Staff
May 3, 2011
New York: Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders greeted the news of the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden with varying degrees of relief, regret and caution. Considered the mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. that killed nearly 3,000 people, bin Laden was killed by United States forces in Pakistan, U.S. President Barack Obama announced on May 1. Read the story.
Vatican removes Australian bishop who said he was open to ordaining women
By Eric J. Lyman
ENINews
May 3, 2011
Rome: The Vatican on May 2 announced that it relieved Australian bishop William Morris of his post, five years after he published a letter interpreted to indicate that he would be open to ordaining women and married men as priests if it were not prohibited by church rules. In an open letter released in his Toowoomba diocese, which is west of Brisbane, Morris said his 2006 letter had been "misread, and, I believe, deliberately misinterpreted." Morris said he was encouraged to resign but that he declined to do so on the grounds that doing so would "mean that I accept the assessment of myself as breaking communion [with the Holy See], which I absolutely refute and reject." He added that he was being forced into early retirement. Read the story.
All eyes on Anglican-Lutheran celebration
By Diana Swift
Anglican Journal
May 3, 2011
On May 1, four groundbreaking churches celebrated 10 years of full communion in joint celebrations on the U.S.-Canadian border. The four are the Anglican Church of Canada, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Two parishes, St. Paul’s Anglican in Fort Erie, Ont., and Holy Trinity Lutheran in Buffalo, N.Y., held simultaneous services at 3 p.m. to honour the call to a common mission first made in the Waterloo Declaration of 2001. Read the story.
Primate asks residential school staff to share experiences
by Ali Symons
Anglican Church of Canada Web News
April 29, 2011
On May 2, Archbishop Fred Hiltz will send letters to 20 former staff of Anglican-run Indian residential schools, encouraging them to share their experiences with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The Primate's letter is the first stage in the Anglican Church of Canada's focused effort to engage former staff with the TRC. "Any memories, no matter how simple or detailed, will be an important contribution to The invitation will be extended to more former staff as they are identified. Read the story.
Pastoral letter marks 10 years of Anglican-Lutheran full communion
Anglican Church of Canada
April 26, 2011
A new pastoral letter marks the 10th anniversary of full communion between Anglicans and Lutherans in both Canada and the United States. In 2001, the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) signed the Waterloo Declaration. In that same year The Episcopal Church (TEC) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) signed a similar agreement, Called to Common Mission. The new pastoral letter reflects on these full communion relationships and is signed by Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate of ACC; Bishop Susan Johnson, National Bishop of ELCIC; Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of TEC; and Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson of ELCA. Read the story.
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