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Caledonia Times The

Diocesan Section of the Anglican Journal April 2017, Edition Volume 49 Issue #4

Bags for Blessing go out in the North Peace

By The Rev. Enid Pow

Our community of Fort St. John has been suffering greatly over the last year, due in large part to a down turn in the oil industry. This in turn has led to increased family breakdown and hardship, including homelessness. This is a very young mobile community (average age 25) and many of the people living here are far away from extended family, and the support they might otherwise expect in such circumstances. Part of our response as churches here in the North Peace has been to try and help those in most need, by being salt and light in a very practical way. Following a successful food drive to provide money for the two food banks in town; we then decided to collect items throughout Advent, and provide blessing bags to the Women’s Resource Society. The Women’s Resource Society serves both Women and Men and their dependent families. They complement much of the work of the Salvation Army in this community.

The blessing bags are made up differently for men, women and children. For adults, they contain grooming necessities such as soap, shampoo, deodorant, razor, toothpaste, wash cloth and hairbrush. For children, we have in addition to toiletries, included a small toy such as crayons and a colouring book or playdough.

This is because, children who find themselves in these stressful situations, often have no familiar toys with them to provide comfort. We have also included such things as mittens, socks and a warm hat. We hope that by giving people a little dignity, we might give them hope for the future, and an understanding that there are people who care about what happens to them.

The ladies of St. Martin’s Fort St. John, assembling the Bags of Blessing for the men women and children of the Northeastern BC city who are adversely affected by the downturn in the local economy because of the Oil and Gas slump. - Photo Cred E. Pow.

Happy Easter, Caledonia!

A Note Concerning the Diocesan Archives Services (At St. Andrew’s Cathedral) Please be advised that as of April 1st 2017, the Diocesan Archives is closed until further notice.

The Rev. Enid Pow (Far left) and several members of the St. Martin’s congregation in Fort St. John showng caring hearts for those who are struggling in the community. - Ed.

If there are matters that need to be researched, please call the Synod Office and leave your name and contact information so that when it is possible for searches to be done, they will be done n the order in which they were received.

Thank you for your patience.

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The Archbishop Writes...

The Cycle of Dying and Rising again Dear Friends in Christ, Easter will soon be here and we will gather with Christians near and far to celebrate and respond to the great Easter proclamation, “The Lord is Risen!” But before we gather for the joys of Easter, we will also gather at the foot of the cross on Good Friday. It is a reminder to us that the Gospel is not simply about Jesus risen from the dead, but about Christ crucified and risen.

The cross of Jesus is both a sign of death and a place of victory over death. I am often struck by the difference in the number of people who attend Good Friday and Easter services. Easter Day is so much more popular than Good Friday. A popular song in the 1970’s had a line which went, “Everybody wants to get to heaven, but nobody wants to die.” It is a profound insight into the human condition. The cross however, reminds us that there is no resurrection without a death.

In the opening lines of the historical preface to the Book of Common Prayer Archbishop Thomas Cranmer wrote: “There was never any thing by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in the continuance of time hath not been corrupted:…” (page 715). In those words he points to the need for continual renewal in worship and in the church and gives the rationale for the introduction of a prayer book that was a tremendous change for 16th century England. Not only were the forms of prayer different but they were in the English language! We can forget what a huge departure that was from worshipping in the language of medieval Latin. There was no doubt a deep sense of loss which came like a kind of death for many of the people of the time, but there was also in the change a gift of new life for the church. Suddenly the words of worship were understandable and the Good News of the Gospel was expressed for a new era.

The cycle of dying and rising is central to our faith.

We know that in faith, we who have been joined to Christ will share his resurrection. That is true for the end of our days, and also for the many dai-

Gifts to the North from Toronto

Peterborough Anglican co-ordinates shipments for northern communities

An Anglican from Peterborough, Ont., is one of the organizers behind a recently developed program for shipping tons of donated items from southern Ontario to First Nations communities in the North.

John Andras is one of the directors of HIP: Honouring Indigenous Peoples, a charity aimed at teaching Canadians about Indigenous issues and helping schools in Native communities. Last year, HIP began a program for collecting in-kind donations and transporting them to northern communities. It started with a shipment of 1,500 articles of winter clothing to nine communities. Then, this January, HIP sent three transport trucks of donated hockey equipment and other items north to 11 First Nations communities.

The setting-up of the supply chain by which these materials reach their destinations was the work of

ly experiences of dying and rising.

Here is the heart of Christian faith.

Christ’s own death and resurrection has overcome the power of sin and death and opened to us the way of life. In our daily experiences of loss, of death and of sin we know that the one who has conquered, will also give us new life through the power of his Holy Spirit. This is the foundation of our Christian hope.

And yet we so often cling to what was. We hold on to old structures and familiar ways of doing things. We can be fearful of an unknown future.

It is in the hope that the resurrection gives us that we can face the reality of loss, change and ultimately death. The promise of Easter is that new life will arise out of death. As we face changes in the world, changes in the Church, and changes in our lives we do not lose heart, nor do we lose hope for Christ has died, Christ is risen and Christ will come again. As St. Augustine declared, “We are Easter people and Alleluia is our song”!

Important Dates for the Diocesan Calendar Please keep inmind that there is a lot coming up in the life of the Diocese. Here are some of the important dates that are are coming soon: March 31st: Synod Delegate Credential Forms are due to the Synod Office in order for the Credentials to be eligible for the Electoral Synod in April.

April 1st:

Deadline, Caledonia Times May 2017 Edition

April 9th :

100th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.

April 13th – 16: Holy Week Tridium (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Day) - Happy Easter, Caledonia!

April 21st -22nd: Electoral Synod @ St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Prince Rupert. The Opening Eucharist begins @ 7pm. All are welcome.

April 26th -28th: Diocesan ACW Conference, St. James’, Smithers.

May 1st:

Deadline, Caledonia Times, June 2017 Issue.

Delegates to the electoral Synod will soon gather in Prince Rupert to pray for wisdom and for guidance as they choose a new bishop for the Diocese.

The Synod will assemble only 5 days after Easter.

In the hope and promise of the resurrection, in the hope and promise of new life, in the hope and promise that God will lead us into the future, we will acknowledge all that has gone before, and in the knowledge that change will come with a new bishop we will in faith welcome a new day. Your continuing prayers are a blessing.

May Easter hope and joy be yours,

Archbishop John Andras and Laurie Siblock, residents of Cobourg, Ont. So far, the shipments have been free of cost, because the trucking companies and airlines involved—MGA International, Wasaya Airways and Thunder Air—have donated their services.

“I’ve found that the trucking industry has a huge heart and they’re aware of conditions in the North,” Andras says. “They have contacts with First Nations communities along their routes on the northern highways, so they’re aware of the issues and problems, and they want to help.”

Andras says the program has grown “far bigger, far faster” than he had thought possible. “It’s having a real impact in the North—not just by getting things up there that people need, but also making connections and having people realize there’s a lot of people of goodwill in the South who want to reach out and make things different.”

—The Anglican

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Skypilot Moments What questions do you ask at Easter?

If you have every had a chance to see the Bible that I use for sermon preparation and for writing things pastoral and spiritual, one of the things you will notice is how I have marked the pages of a particular Bible up and how I have scribbled and written in its margins. These markings in the Gospels especially, often ask questions for me and others to consider.

Questions like the following from my notes from the Gospel of John (Jn.20+21): What does waiting in the dark do to you and to your mind? What happens when you get disappointed? What keeps you from seeing and following Jesus?

I have often wondered how the Twelve and those who were with them, managed to deal with the quiet and the dark of that Saturday night and as the sun rose on that first Easter morning. The Light of the world died in darkness of that Friday afternoon. How were they handling their grief? Peter and Thomas had gone off, each of them their separate way from the rest of the group. Judas did as well but then chose to end his life because of the betrayal he had committed, thinking that there was no forgiveness for the choices he made including his own destruction. The rest of the disciples went back to the upper room where they had spent that last night with Jesus. They shuttered the windows and they locked the doors for fear that they were next for hanging or the cross.

It must have been awful to feel that you have to hide away and cower in fear and gloom of the Sabbath’s daylight. A day of worship, of giving and of healing turned to mourning, sackcloth and ash. It is possible that this is why the women in the group got up and left to finish their devotion to Jesus in terms of what was left undone on Friday. This was something they could focus on. They left that upper room not knowing how they would be able to access the body to finish the work or even if they would be able to, since the tomb had been sealed and a Roman guard was set at the tomb.

On his last visit to our parish Bishop Bill said a few words in praise of the Book of Common Prayer. When I thought about it I realized that he was right: that book was a great gift to the English people. King Edward VI and English church leaders were being practical when they made a book for all people in English out of the Latin prayer services used previously by priests, monks and nuns. This wise approach to religion pops up repeatedly in Joanna Hughes’ anthology A Book of English Belief: Bede to Temple. In her book Hughes chose 123 quotations to illustrate the history of English spirituality. She prefaces each quotation with a paragraph or two on the writer.

Christians of all stripes are included: Church of England, Puritans, Quakers, Roman Catholics, and Freechurchmen. Hughes has tried to show each person in a good light. No matter how they may differ in theology she shows each trying to do God’s will in their lives.

The book tells of kings, generals, saints; women as well as men; authors, politicians, priests, and bishops. We read about well-known people: The Venerable Bede, William the Conqueror, John Bunyan, Oliver Cromwell, Elizabeth I, William Wilberforce, John and Charles Wesley, and C.S. Lewis to name a few. There are as many others who we only get to know through the pages of the book. There are also articles on The King James Version of the BiCaledonia Times — April 2017

May this Easter you find your hand in his hand and that you walk together with him wherever he wishes to take you so that you might make it known: Jesus is risen. Christ is Lord!

Have a happy Eastertide!

Jason+ Editor, the Caledonia Times.

So when Jesus came to Mary Magdalene, it is more than a small wonder that she did not recognize him. After all, who looks for the living among the dead? And after a moment of worship, Mary finds herself returning to those who knew him best with the news “I have seen the Lord!” and then told them everything they had spoke about.

It is still possible to know the presence of him who went to the cross and to the grave. It is still important that we spend our time waiting for the presence of Him who is the Light of the world. But waiting for Jesus to appear does not mean that we are

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Books on the Way

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idle. No, we need to do more than sit on our hands and wait, we must actively seek out his presence even when it means looking for the living among the dead.. It is still possible to take hold of his nail scared hand and know his presence in our lives in this moment.

ble and The Agreement of the People (1649).

This latter written just after the execution of Charles I shows the aim of the Puritans to protect the faith in England.

Hughes, Joanna M. (ed.) A Book of English Belief: Bede to Temple. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1987.

While the history of England is central to this book there were a few articles which were especially meaningful to the reviewer. An article

by Sydney Smith writing around 1800 gives 20 pieces of advice to a woman suffering from depression. They are as valid today as they were in his day. Secondly, ten degrees of love of enemies written by Father Augustin Baker an English Roman Catholic priest shows the best of thinking that can come out of persecution. I was impressed by the quotation from Sir Winston Churchill who relates how he came to an adult faith through meeting adversity. He realized that when facing danger what helped him was not reason but prayer. Finally, especially poignant is the quotation from Richard Baxter a Puritan of the 17th Century who writes: “Except the case of the infidel world, nothing is so sad and grievous to my thought as the case of the divided churches” - certainly this could have been written today. The book ends on a positive note with a quotation from Archbishop William Temple: “There is no limit to what God will do by means of us if we train ourselves to trust Him enough.”

The compiler of this book has done a thoughtful job of showing England’s spirituality as related to its history.

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Calendar Intercessions List Updated April, 2017 Day 1 and every day) THE ARCHBISHOP: The Most Rev. John Privett, acting Bishop.

Day 2) PRINCE RUPERT: The Congregation of the Cathedral Church of St. Andrew. The Very Rev. Jason (Nova) Haggstrom, Rector and Dean of Caledonia, the Rev. Dr. Canon James Nuzzo, Honourary Assistant; The Wardens, Lay Readers, and Church Committee.

3) PORT EDWARD: The Congregation of Christ The King. The Rev. Sam Lewis, Priest in Charge, The Revs. Thelma Hill, Yvonne Hill, Anthony Adams, Associate Priests; for the Wardens, Lay Readers, and Church Army Officers.

4) KITKATLA: The Congregation of St. Peter’s; for The Rev. Matthew (Joanne) Hill, Priest in charge, the Wardens, for the Lay Readers and Church Army Officers.

5) OLD MASSETT, HAIDA GWAII: The Congregation of St. John. for the Wardens, Lay Readers and Church Army Officers. ST. PAUL, MASSET INLET MISSION: The Congregation of St. Paul. For the Wardens and Lay Readers.

6) KINCOLITH: The Congregation of Christ Church.

The Rev. Harry (Florence) Moore, Priest; for the Wardens, Lay Readers and Church Army Officers.

7) TERRACE: The Congregation of St. Matthew.

The Ven. Ernest (Corrina) Buchanan, Priest in charge and Archdeacon of Caledonia West; for the Wardens and Lay Readers.

8) STEWART: The Congregation of St. Mark’s. For the Wardens and Lay Readers.

9) AIYANSH: The Congregation of Holy Trinity. The Rev. Gary (Colleen) Davis, Priest in charge and for the Wardens and Lay Readers.

10) GREENVILLE: The Congregation of St. Andrew; for the Wardens, Lay Readers and Church Army Officers.

11) KITIMAT: The Congregation of Christ Church.

The Ven. Ernest Buchanan, Priest; for the Wardens and Lay Leaders.

12) HAZELTON: The Congregation of St. Peter. For the Wardens and Lay Readers and leaders.

13) BULKELY VALLEY PARISH: The Congregations of St. James, Smithers, St. Clements, Houston and St. John the Divine, Quick. The Rev. Jake (Kelly) Worley, Priest in charge; for the Wardens and Lay Readers.

14) STUART NECHAKO LAKES REGIONAL PARISH: The Congregations of Holy Trinity, Vanderhoof, St. Patrick’s, Fort St James and St. Wilfrid’s, Fraser Lake. The Rev. Roy Andrews, Priest in Charge; The Rev. Gwen Andrews, Associate Priest; for the Wardens and Lay Readers.

15) MACKENZIE: The Congregation of Hope-Trinity. The Rev. Henry Dunbar, Priest; for the Wardens and Lay Readers.

16) HUDSON’S HOPE: The Congregation of St. Peter. The Rev. Fay Lavallee, Deacon; for the Wardens and Lay Readers.

17) CHETWYND: The Congregation of Chetwynd Shared Ministry. for the Wardens and Lay Readers.

18) NORTH PEACE PARISH: The Congregations of St. Martin, Fort St. John, St. Mathias, Cecil Lake and Church of the Good Shepherd, Taylor. The Rev. Enid Pow, Priest in charge; for the Wardens and Lay Readers.

19) SOUTH PEACE PARISH: The Congregation of St. Mark, Dawson Creek; for the Wardens and Lay Readers.

20) Diocesan OFFICERS AND SYNOD OFFICE STAFF: Audrey Wagner, Secretary-Treasurer; Donna Demers Accountant; Cliff Armstrong, Diocesan Archivists. Deborah O’Leary, Chancellor 21) DIOCESAN EXECUTIVE, THE SEARCH COMMITTEE AND ALL OTHER DIOCESAN COMMITTEES 22) RETIRED CLERGY: Lance Stephens, Mike Monkman, Lorna Janze, Peter Hamel, Mary Parslow, Charlie Parslow, Fay Lavallee, Ray Fletcher, Bishop John Hannen, Bishop William Anderson.

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24) For those discerning calls to various kinds of ministry, especially those considering ordination and those who will discern them; for the Bishop, the Examining Chaplain, and local clergy.

25) CAMP CALEDONIA: The Camp Board, Camp Director and Staff, Volunteers and Campers.

26) BENEFACTORS AND CONTRIBUTORS OF THE DIOCESE. 27) BISHOPS OF THE PROVINCE OF BC & YUKON The Rt. Rev. Melissa Skelton New Westminster

The Rt. Rev. Larry Robertson Yukon The Rt. Rev. Logan McMenamie British Columbia The Most Rev. John Privett Kootenay and Metropolitan of BC-Yukon The Rt. Rev. Barbara Andrews, Bishop Suffragan to Metropolitan (Territory of the People) 28) THE PRIMATE & METROPOLITANS of other Canadian Provinces: The Most Rev. Gregory Kerr Wilson Rupert’s Land The Most Rev. Colin Johnson Ontario The Most Rev. Percy Coffin Canada The Most Rev. Fred Hiltz Primate of All Canada

29) ALL THEOLOGICAL COLLEGES AND TRAINING CENTERS – especially Wycliffe College, Trinity School for Ministry, Nashotah House and Regent College.

30) The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (pwrdf)

23) HONORARY CANONS: Lance Stephens, Peter

Surfing for the Lord

By Ruby McBeth

Hamel, James Nuzzo, Gary Davis; HONORARY LAY CANONS: Jennifer Davies, Camilla Haines, Eleanor Kustas, Audrey Barton.

Comic Life <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4> Try the video observation tests. The moral of the stories is... oh, I had better let you find that out by yourself. I don’t want to spoil your fun.

Happy surfing!

Caledonia Times — April 2017