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posted on April 1, 2006 in News
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The Presbyterian Church's work in tsunami-hit areas was highlighted on Vision TV in February. Day by Day, Step by Step documents what the Presbyterian, United, Mennonite and Anglican tsunami rehabilitation project is accomplishing. The documentary follows the impact of the tsunami on the fishing village of Indintakarai in south India, and shows how the churches are helping the community rebuild and the challenges that still exist.
posted on April 1, 2006 in News
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Moderator Rev. Jean Morris received the Alberta Centennial Medal at a surprise presentation in January. "Jean's contribution to the church, community, the province and our country are insurmountable," said Harry Chase, Member of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Varsity. The medal celebrates Alberta's centennial and is presented to Albertans whose achievements have made a significant contribution to their fellow citizens, their community and their province.
posted on April 1, 2006 in News
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ENI – Roman Catholics in Japan are celebrating the 500th anniversary of the birth of St. Francis Xavier, the Catholic missionary who brought Christianity to Japan in 1549. The saint was born on April 7, 1506.
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ENI – Thousands of residents in Aceh — the area hardest hit by the December 2004 tsunami — remain in tents and other temporary shelter provided by the United Nations and international aid agencies. Such tents are common in the neighbourhood of Lampaseh Kota, a particularly affected area of the provincial capital of Banda Aceh.
posted on April 1, 2006 in Presbytery Profile
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The Presbytery of Essex-Kent is at a crossroads. In the midst of the heartbreak that comes with closing congregations, it must forge ahead, nurturing remaining parishioners and pushing through the comfort levels of healthy congregations that can cause stagnation. Rev. Scott McAndless, presbytery clerk and minister at Knox, Leamington, understands this challenge. At 80 per cent of its capacity, the presbytery must expand to make room for newcomers. "We are as full as we can be given the present structure," said McAndless. "We like how we are though, so any discussion about changing to allow for real growth will be difficult."
posted on April 1, 2006 in Features
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Greta loves to garden, take pictures of her grandchildren and dance in her living room. A church-going woman all her life, she is a widow, and loves any opportunity to help others. She is 70 years old and a retired school teacher who travelled the world during summer vacations. Her growing congregation is always in need of volunteers, but Greta has only been asked to bake her famous lemon pound cake for Sunday coffee time and knit blankets for the church's mission project in Malawi. She wants to do something where her talents and knowledge would truly be put to use, but is hesitant to ask, believing the younger folk don't need an old biddy like her.
posted on April 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 Rev. Wendy Paterson, Windsor, Ont.
Click here to hear the Fair Trade Chorus sing this song. (2.9MB MP3 file).
posted on April 1, 2006 in Michael Coren
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Every few years or so the culture presents us with another empty mantra, intended to dismiss opponents of the status quo and ridicule their arguments. Not long ago we had the racism fetish. Conservatives and everybody else on the assumed right were racist and their policies based on racism.
posted on April 1, 2006 in News
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ENI – Slovakian bishops have welcomed a drop in viewing figures for TV reality shows, after Christian groups accused them of eroding moral values.
posted on April 1, 2006 in Mission Knocks
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Some congregations support food banks. Others raise funds for HIV/AIDS programs. St. George's, London, Ont., does both. The congregation has partnered with the AIDS Committee of London for the past eight years, helping the agency operate its Country Cupboard food bank for people living with HIV.
posted on April 1, 2006 in Features
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Practical concerns like making the building wheelchair-accessible, offering hearing aids, seat cushions and large-print Bibles and hymn books and providing free transportation to and from Sunday worship and church events are no-brainers, but there are other things that can be done to help seniors feel valued, involved and welcomed.
posted on April 1, 2006 in Missionaries
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My wife, Irene and I (and two young children) returned to Canada in 1960, having lived and worked in India for five years. Not the mystic land of Rimski-Korsakoff's "Song of India" but village India, hot, dry, just one monsoon failure away from famine. The barren hills on the north side of the Narboda river are the home of tribesmen known as Bhils: Rudyard Kipling knew them as wild and independent people of the forest. They were our neighbours, our seat mates at church, our nursing and technical staff and our patients.
posted on April 1, 2006 in For the Journey
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It was a dark, wet and lonely night. The taillights winked at us from the creek bottom deep in the canyon as we wound our way along the road above. There was no road down there. It didn't look good. I was terrified, but as we eventually drove our pickup truck along the Salmo-Creston highway to a point directly above those little twinkling lights, I knew I was going to have to go down there and look. I stopped, got out of the pickup and weakly asked Linda to pray. I could see the skid marks on the pavement. I gingerly clawed my way down the deep canyon. The trail of destruction left by whatever had gone over the edge was awful. I could see the red taillights and eventually I was able to scale the cliff down to what was left of a pickup truck. The body of a teenage girl lay in the shallow water of the creek, some of her clothes and both of her shoes torn off from impact. A teenage boy was holding another male teenager beside the truck. The boy was dead in the arms of his weeping brother, who had a broken hip. The two dead bodies in the beam of my flashlight unnerved me, but oddly they did not freak me out. In fact, they seemed to capture my attention. Eventually the weeping and groaning of the lone survivor shocked me into action. I found some articles of clothing, covered the bodies as best I could, especially their faces, and went to work trying to help the survivor. Thank God an ambulance arrived sometime after that to take charge.
posted on April 1, 2006 in News
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ENI – Church leaders in Malawi, disturbed at the rate of domestic violence underlined by the recent case of a wife having both arms chopped off by her husband, are joining hands across denominational lines to find ways to halt the scourge for their society.
posted on April 1, 2006 in News
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Congregations, individuals, study group leaders and educators have a new resource thanks to a website launched in February. The site offers more than 50 adult study units on topics ranging from The DaVinci Code to same-sex marriage to stem cell research. See www.TheThoughtfulChristian.com.
posted on April 1, 2006 in For the Record
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It takes an Internet search engine a quarter of a second to locate more than 32,000 references to the phrase “crisis or opportunity,” probably about the same time it took Henry Kissinger to come up with the quip, “There cannot be a crisis next week; my schedule is already full.”
posted on April 1, 2006 in Features
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Jack, 80, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease three years ago. His 75-year-old wife, Agnes, is finding it increasingly difficult to care for him. He is starting to get his days and nights reversed, sleeping during the day and remaining wide awake at night. He slipped out of the house on one occasion and couldn't find his way home; Agnes had to call the police to help find him. She can no longer leave Jack alone for even a short time.
posted on April 1, 2006 in News
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Kenneth Kim will be the new director of Presbyterian World Service and Development. He succeeds Rev. Rick Fee, who became the general secretary of the Life and Mission Agency last year. Kim will officially assume the position on Aug. 1. Kim said he is looking forward to working with the staff and "contributing to one of the most dynamic programs within the church."
posted on April 1, 2006 in News
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Project Ploughshares, an ecumenical peace centre sponsored by the Canadian Council of Churches and based in Waterloo, Ont., is accepting applications for six-month internships with peace and security non-governmental organizations around the world.
posted on April 1, 2006 in From the Moderator
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I remember one year in Sunday school we made a papier-maché tomb with a stone that covered the entrance. It stood in the corner of the room for a few weeks in Lent as a reminder of what was to come. On Easter Sunday we were stopped in our tracks as we observed the stone pushed away from the entrance and the empty tomb exposed for our viewing. I don't remember the lesson that day – but I'm pretty sure what it was. What I do remember is the stone rolled away. Like the angels at Jesus' tomb, our teacher had come early in the morning to roll away the stone.
