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Canadian Bible Society – Rev. John Duff, a Presbyterian minister and president of the Newfoundland and Labrador district of the Canadian Bible Society, presented the Moravian Church in Labrador with the Inuktitut Heritage Bible at a ceremony in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland, in January.
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“Since I'm a relatively recent immigrant, some people may have felt I … wasn't here, didn't know what was going on,” Rev. Cheol Soon Park, moderator of the last General Assembly, says of his experience at the Truth and Reconciliation: Healing the Legacy of Residential Schools conference held in Edmonton in January. “But I feel this … is about the dignity of humankind and the dignity of living. It's about conscience and the next generation – our children and children's children. In that sense, it is my … history, and I was there and will be there and will learn with the aboriginal people.”
posted on March 1, 2009 in Called to Wonder
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posted on March 1, 2009 in News
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Congregations wishing to sponsor a refugee should first contact Presbyterian World Service & Development. Expertise will be invaluable as you walk a path strewn with paperwork and pitfalls.
posted on March 1, 2009 in Features
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At one o'clock in the afternoon, there is a knock on the door of the one-storey white house. Several men in their twenties and thirties walk in. They are dressed similarly, in jeans and white or light blue T-shirts. Carol Smith comes out of her office and greets the men with a wide smile. “Hi, guys,” she says. “Come on in.”
One of the men walks up to her. He is six inches taller than Smith and his chest is wide and thick. He wraps two muscled arms around her, the sleeves of his light blue T-shirt riding up to reveal heavy, colourful tattoos on his solid biceps. Without saying a word, he squeezes her. “It's good to see you, James,” she replies, hugging him back.
posted on March 1, 2009 in Mission Knocks
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Sam and Deborah's faces shone with such energy and excitement, it was hard to believe that just three days before they had travelled all the way from Uganda as guests of St. Cuthbert's, Hamilton, Ont. Somehow I had expected them to appear more careworn. Both were leaving behind heavy responsibilities – Rev. Sam Lwere is the minister of St. Stephen's Anglican in Mpererwe, Uganda, and Deborah Ssengendo is chair of the Good Samaritan Orphan Aid Project, which provides a stable environment for children orphaned by the AIDS pandemic. Yet here, at a party given in their honour, his face glowing, a compactly built Sam knelt on the floor, skillfully demonstrating to us an African game, while Deborah, dressed elegantly in a long fall-dappled gown, settled comfortably on the couch and chatted with our minister Cathy Stewart-Kroeker.
posted on March 1, 2009 in For the Journey
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A year or so ago, as in-country missionaries, Linda, Chelsea, Bud the Lab and I were asked to do two weeks of mission deputation to parts of Ontario. Our task was to share our mission work with the church and to promote Presbyterians Sharing. Not being one who relishes anything that smacks of a boondoggle in the name of Christ, I found the deputation tour ended up being a real eye-opener. I thought it might be time, in an attempt at being prophetic, to share my journal entry upon our return.
posted on March 1, 2009 in News
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Project Ploughshares – Project Ploug-shares, an ecumenical agency of the Canadian Council of Churches, is calling for more transparency regarding Canada's military exports.
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“Even if it fails horribly, its better that we try something,” says Rev. Kerry McIntyre, minister at St. Andrew's, Duncan, B.C., referring to two very different mission projects begun by the congregation. “We want to experiment and find out what works and what meets people's needs. Even if some things don't work out, somewhere along the lines we'll do something right.”
posted on March 1, 2009 in Features
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For many years, especially after performing the hajj in Saudi Arabia, I had a passionate desire to visit Jerusalem. For me, it became all the more urgent because in my interfaith work, I speak about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam flowing from the same source and that despite our differences and challenges, we are the children of Abraham.
And, when we ask, God answers. All of a sudden there was an opportunity to go. My husband and I decided that a visit to the Holy Land must be shared with those who have similar dreams. So we invited our dear friends Jim Evans, a United Church minister, and his wife Karen to come along.
posted on March 1, 2009 in For the Record
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It's all about relationships.
posted on March 1, 2009 in Progressive Lectionary
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March 1, 2009 (Lent 1): Genesis 9:8-17
Christians have wasted a lot of time arguing over supposed scientific proofs that stories like Noah's really happened. Whether or not they are factual by our measure, such stories are true. They communicate greater truth than anything we can prove.
Noah's story echoes other ancient stories. So, maybe, something happened thousands of years ago that wiped out the only world some people knew, in what is now Iraq and Syria. Maybe Noah's story answers the how and the why of a rainy-season flood of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Sudden climatic changes and extremes are nothing new. Noah's story, from the first time it was told, has invited people to look up from their everyday lives and see something of the mystery of God's ways with the world.
It tells us that, a long time ago, God voluntarily disarmed. No truce. Absolute surrender. Noah's story tells us that the violence humanity made on earth broke God's heart. In agony, God said, “I'm sorry I created any of them. I wish I hadn't made this world!” (Genesis 6:5-13) God chose the way of violence, to end human violence. And when God saw the results, God repented. God told Noah, “I've hung up my bow, and I'll never take it down again. Whenever I see it, I'll remember my promise.”
posted on March 1, 2009 in News
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Université de Montreal – A new course at the Université de Montreal's faculty of theology is casting light one of Canada's most popular religions – hockey.
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WARC – A Canadian United Church member, Kristine Greenaway, has been appointed executive secretary for communications by the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC). She began work at the organization's headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland in January.
posted on March 1, 2009 in From the Moderator
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“So, what do you do during weekdays?” He looked at me with a mix of curiosity and sympathy as he threw this question. He was new in town, opening a retail business and I was on my visitation – a kind of welcoming visit as the pastor. Obviously he was not a Christian.
posted on March 1, 2009 in Miscellaneous
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Missions Alive! $9,935! That’s how much the congregation at Renfrew, Ont., raised for the Jobat Christian School in India by selling “bricks.” A matching donation from their Dr. Margaret O’Hara Auxiliary of the WMS helped reach the goal. Back row: Mary-Lynn McConnachie, Cassie McGregor, Jane Roseboom, Joan Hilliaard, Peggy Putnam, Marion VanderPloeg. Seated: Betty Zwiers, Isabel Wallace (charter member). Missing from photo: Frances Lockwood (charter member), Scott Reynolds.
posted on March 1, 2009 in People & Places
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New St. Andrew’s, Dover, in Chatham Kent, Ont., remembered Dave Millard, who died too early from injuries suffered in an accident, with a pair of engraved brass flower urns. From left: Dave’s wife Janet Millard; brother Bob Millard; Pastor Mark Aarssen; along with other members of the Millard family.
posted on March 1, 2009 in People & Places
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Missions Alive! $9,935! That’s how much the congregation at Renfrew, Ont., raised for the Jobat Christian School in India by selling “bricks.” A matching donation from their Dr. Margaret O’Hara Auxiliary of the WMS helped reach the goal. Back row: Mary-Lynn McConnachie, Cassie McGregor, Jane Roseboom, Joan Hilliaard, Peggy Putnam, Marion VanderPloeg. Seated: Betty Zwiers, Isabel Wallace (charter member). Missing from photo: Frances Lockwood (charter member), Scott Reynolds.
posted on March 1, 2009 in People & Places
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The congregation at Graceview, Etobicoke held a party in January to celebrate Rev. Jan and Lynne Hieminga’s 40th wedding anniversary and presented them a limited edition of the painting of the Garden of Gethsemane by Thomas Kinkade.
posted on March 1, 2009 in People & Places
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Still serving: Rev. William Fairley has served the Lindsay presbytery as a catechist, student and minister for 53 years. On his 90th birthday, the congregations of Nestleton and Ballyduff, whom he is serving as interim moderator and pulpit supply, threw him a party. Nestleton made a donation to PWS&D on his behalf, and Ballyduff to the Record, whose board he was on 30 years ago.
