posted on March 1, 2006 in News
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Hungary's reformed church has welcomed a decision by Russia to return a valuable Calvinist book collection, six decades after it was seized as war booty by the Soviet Red Army.
posted on March 1, 2006 in News
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Congregations gave generously to Presbyterians Sharing in 2005, with a total of $8,672,720 received. Presbyterians Sharing is the fund that supports the ministries and mission of the church. As is tradition, a large percentage of the givings for the year is received during the first two weeks of January. This year was no exception, with 21 per cent or about $1.8 million collected by this time.
posted on March 1, 2006 in News
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(ENI) – "Love is a single reality with different dimensions", Pope Benedict XVI stated in his first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est (God Is Love), issued in January. "Yet when the two dimensions are totally cut off from one another, the result is a caricature or at least an impoverished form of love."
posted on March 1, 2006 in News
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(ENI)- The leaders of two worldwide Reformed church groupings have proposed the creation of a new global body called the World Reformed Communion to unite the more than 80 million Protestants in their two organizations.
From Abner’s store to praise bands
The Presbytery of Oak Ridges grows in numbers and mission
posted on March 1, 2006 in Presbytery Profile
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Flanking the ever-growing Yonge St. corridor, northeast of Toronto, Oak Ridges presbytery is an anomaly in the Presbyterian church. "I think we're in a growth mode," said Rev. Sam Priestley, minister at St. Andrew's, Markham. "Many communities have a large number of young families and couples moving in, and we endeavour to minister to them."
posted on March 1, 2006 in Features
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Environmental stewardship is a God-given duty. Last year, General Assembly endorsed Covenanting for Justice in the Economy and the Earth, a document from the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, and endorsed a clean water initiative of KAIROS (Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives) and the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace.
Equipping the saints for ministry
Identity is a key to how we interpret the Bible
posted on March 1, 2006 in Missionaries
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The mission era is over, the partnership era is upon us. But what does partnership mean when one church no longer sends missionaries and the other no longer sends students for training? Last August the colleges of The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan and the colleges of The Presbyterian Church in Canada tried something new. Students and staff from the Canadian colleges went to Taiwan for a consultation with students and staff of the Taiwanese colleges on biblical interpretation. The professors from each college made presentations and professors from the other country responded. It made for lively and stimulating discussion.
Seeking the frightening answers
Old-fashioned virtues not more social programs will heal the killing fields of Toronto
posted on March 1, 2006 in Michael Coren
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Toronto is still writhing after a series of fatal shootings in its black community and still in shock that a white teenaged girl became a Christmas victim of the slaughter. But if truth be told it doesn't really make very much difference if the shootings are in Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton or anywhere else in Canada and it shouldn't matter if the communities in question are black or not.
posted on March 1, 2006 in News
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(ENI) – Pope Benedict has given his support to a gathering of Europe's main Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches in 2007 saying he hoped it would help promote awareness of Europe's spiritual roots.
Finding the Holy Spirit in the community
A church on the perpetual verge of extinction reaches out to its neighbours
posted on March 1, 2006 in Mission Knocks
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What's for dinner?
posted on March 1, 2006 in Features
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A few ways a congregation can more Earth-friendly.
Equipping the saints for ministry, Part 2
A volunteer does mission work in the storied Jane and Finch neighbourhood of Toronto
posted on March 1, 2006 in Missionaries
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Between July and December of 2005, four international missionaries were stationed at one of Toronto's most troubled and racially diverse neighbourhoods, Jane and Finch. As members of a Joint Action Mission Team, which is sponsored by the Caribbean North America Council for Mission, the four lived, worked and played with the community. The Presbyterian Church is a member of CANACOM. The lone Canadian, Chelsea Masterman, is a United Church member from High River, Alta.
Messing up the picture
This sin-crinkled life of mine is imperfect without Christ
posted on March 1, 2006 in For the Journey
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Last summer while camping at Horn Lake in the Chilcotin, I dragged myself out of bed at dawn to go and photograph Whitesaddle and Blackhorn mountains. This pair of spectacular peaks tower to 3,000 metres above sea level. The early morning sun spotlighted the peaks perfectly and the lake was absolutely calm leaving a stunning mirror image on its surface.
posted on March 1, 2006 in News
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A Catholic church in Toronto is slated to become the first Canadian church certified for its eco-friendly design by the Leadership in Energy and Environment Design rating system. LEED was developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, a volunteer organization that promotes high-performance sustainable buildings.
posted on March 1, 2006 in News
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This year's recipient of the Dr. E.H. Johnson Award will be Karuna Roy, coordinator of the HIV/AIDS Program of the Church of North India. The award honours those "on the cutting edge of mission," and will be presented to Roy at a special luncheon during the 2006 General Assembly in St. Catharines, Ont.
Doors to significant dialogue
Three books explore the spirituality of the earthy
posted on March 1, 2006 in Books
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The Spirituality of Gardening
Cool heads needed for green debates
Free speech: because one can doesn't mean one should
posted on March 1, 2006 in For the Record
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In the first creation story in Genesis, God puts responsibility for creation in the hands of humans, the creatures fashioned in the divine image. It is an awesome responsibility and one that we haven't always done well. . Over the next 50 years Canada is set to become one of world's largest exporters of crude, the Alberta tar sands being the second-largest known oil reserves on the planet. Western oil is Canada's pension-plan portfolio. There's just one problem: global warming.
Keeping four hundred bosses happy
A church secretary looks back on 30 years of sorting rolls and other memories
posted on March 1, 2006 in Features
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I'm about to close the door behind me when I take one last look into the room. It holds a million memories. Memories of days spent with people I loved, doing a job I truly loved.
posted on March 1, 2006 in Features
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The Mocha Mission Fair Trade Choir is:
Stephen Kendall, Assembly Office, guitar and vocal
Don Muir, Assembly Office, vocal
Guy Smagghe, Presbyterian World Service & Development, percussion, guitar and vocal
Annemarie Klassen, Stewardship and Education for Mission, vocal
Heather Chappell, Stewardship and Education for Mission, vocal
Sheila Lang, Ministry and Church Vocations, vocal
Marg Henderson, Ministry and Church Vocations, vocal
Herb Gale, Planned Giving, vocal
David Harris, Presbyterian Record, piano and vocal
Andrew Faiz, Presbyterian Record, vocal
4th PLACE
The Fair Trade Coffee Song
Lyrics and music by Henrietta Beattie
on behalf of St. Columba, Belleville, Ont.
Click here to hear the Fair Trade Chorus sing this song. (2.9MB MP3 file).
HONOURABLE MENTION
In Praise of Fair Trade
(sung to the tune of While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night)
by Rev. Wendy Paterson, Windsor, Ont.
Click here to hear the Fair Trade Chorus sing this song. (2.9MB MP3 file).
HONOURABLE MENTION
Thirsty Presbyterians
(sung to the tune of Three Blind Mice)
by Heather Darch
Click here to hear the Fair Trade Chorus sing this song. (1.5MB MP3 file).
posted on March 1, 2006 in Speaking Up
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Jesus: "Turn around, and believe the good news"
