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NOTICES: YOUTH
NOTICES: 2010 ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
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ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE BISHOPS’ OFFICE
The Rev’d Andrew Mortimer has been appointed Priest-in-Charge of the Parish of Port Hill as of December 1, 2009.
Services of Ordination
Marilyn Murphy will be ordained to the Diaconate by Bishop Sue Moxley on Monday, January 18, 2010, the Confession of St. Peter. The service will take place at St. Thomas’ Church, Musquodoboit, 7:30pm.
Gary Giles will be ordained to the Diaconate by Bishop Ron Cutler on Monday, January 25, 2010, the Conversion of St. Paul. The service will take place at St. Andrew’s Church, Cole Harbour, 7:30pm.
Clergy, Lay Readers and Postulants for Ordination are welcome to robe and join in the procession ... liturgical colour for both occasions is white.
Bishop Sue
Thurs., January 14th - Fri., January 15th (morning) = Appointments/Meetings in Office
Sun., January 17th = Parish of Musquodoboit
Mon., January 18th = Reading & Writing
Mon., January 18th, 7:30pm = Ordination Service for Marilyn Murphy
Tues., January 19th - Wed., January 20th = Out of the Office
Bishop Ron
Thurs., January 14th - Fri., January 15th = Appointments/Meetings in Office
Sun., January 17th = Parish of St. Andrew’s, Locks Road, Dartmouth
Mon., January 18th = Day Off
Tues., January 19th - Wed., January 20th = Appointments/Meetings in Office
There are no parish openings at the time.
Job site of Anglican Church of Canada: http://www2.anglican.ca/jobs/index.php
NET NEWS-Treasurers should have received the 2010 Treasurers Handbook by now-accompanying the Handbook was a sheet “Parish 2009 Allotment Information Sheet”-Calculation of 2010 Allotment. The sheet is a result of the ongoing Budget Calculations/Assessable Income. This sheet contained an error in typing ; it showed the Approved Allotment Rate as 18.00%. The Approved Allotment rate is 19.25% and the correct value was used in all calculations. The Parish Total and Monthly Allotment amounts are correct.
Attention Church/Parish Wardens and Parish Clergy
DIOCESAN ARCHIVES COMMITTEE 2010 PROJECT
The Diocesan Archives Committee’s project for the year 2010 is to create a Parish Heritage Mailing List of contact persons from each parish, each representing a Parish Heritage Committee or group. Ideally, this would be a contact person, not just for the year 2010, but also for years to come, and the list would be updated on an ongoing basis.
We ask the clergy and wardens to place this on their Annual General Meeting Agenda for 2010 to identify a “Heritage Contact” and encourage the formation of a “Heritage Committee”, if one does not already exist.
The annual Parish Information form will have a place to include this contact information, or you may send updates at any time to:
Lorraine Slopek, Diocesan Archivist
archives@nspeidiocese.ca (email); 902-425-0717 (fax);
or by mail to:
Diocesan Archives, 5732 College Street, Halifax, NS B3H 1X3
Thank you for your participation in this project and for your diligence in keeping your church records continuous and safe.
On Saturday, February 6th, youth, youth leaders and anyone interested in youth ministry are invited to gather together in Binney Hall at the Diocesan Centre to help develop a plan for youth ministry within our Diocese. If you are able to attend, RSVP by January 24th to Susan Naylor at youth@nspeidiocese.ca. All are welcome! (Storm date - February 13th)
The day will begin with gathering activities (and coffee!) at 9:30 for a 10:00 a.m. start. Lunch is included and will finish at 3:00 p.m.
TEC 16 - Teens Encounter Christ
Candidate Applications now being accepted
What: TEC is an Anglican based weekend for youth ages 16-21
to gather together for fun, learning and fellowship.
Through a series of talks, discussions,
and through lively worship we learn about and experience Jesus Christ.
When: May 22 to 24, 2010
Where: Anglican Diocesan Center, Halifax, Nova Scotia
How much: Fees for the weekend are $60 (including a $30 deposit that is due with the initial registration form)
More Questions Contact Carl Fraser (902) 794-7371 or cfgmf@eastlink.ca
Applications can be downloaded from the from the Diocesan Website
http://nspeidiocese.ca/min_prog/tec/documents/TEC16CandidateApplicationForm.doc
Please print out the application, fill it in and return it before May 7, 2010 with a $30 deposit to:
Sue Fung, 14 Stokil Drive, Lr. Sackville, NS B4C 2W5
email: susan.berryman@ns.sympatico.ca
Please make checks payable to Teens Encounter Christ.
The remaining payment of $30 is to be paid at time of registration.Applications will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis.
Please get your applications in quickly.
2010 ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION NOTICES:
2010 Service Music Workshop
From 10:00 A.M. - Noon
Anglican Church in Kingston
January 16, 2010
Storm date- February 13, 2010
For more information, contact Doug Wiseman at: d.wiseman@ns.sympatico.ca
300TH ANNIVERSARY EUCHARIST MEMORIALS
Anglicans throughout the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island will be pleased to know that they can offer (a) memorial gift(s) to the Glory of God and in loving memory of (a) beloved person(s) at the 300th Anniversary Eucharist on June 6, 2010; 3:00 pm at Exhibition Park, just outside the metro area of Halifax.
Please ensure that a completed 300TH ANNIVERSARY EUCHARIST MEMORIALS Form, printed clearly (block letters), accompanies your payment. Please print additional copies of the blank MEMORIALS Form, as needed. Cheques are payable to the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, with Eucharist Memorial(s) written in the memo line. Do not send cash in the mail.
To ensure your name, and that of the person(s) being memorialized, is included in the 300th Anniversary Service Bulletin, send the clearly printed, completed MEMORIALS form (linked here) and payment, no later than March 31, 2010 to:
The 300th Anniversary Committee thanks you in advance for your attention to this memorial opportunity and asks that you make it known within your parish and throughout the regions and diocese. We want to ensure that anyone wishing to make (a) memorial contribution(s) has the opportunity to do so. Deadline date is March 31, 2010.
Requests for additional information or questions can be directed to Faye Morrison (contact information above) or Cynthia Pilichos (902) 429-5945 or cynthia.pilichos@ns.sympatico.ca of the 300th Anniversary Service Arrangement Committee. |
Lieutenant Governor’s Faith in Action Award 2010
Atlantic School of Theology is pleased to announce that nominations are now open for the Lieutenant Governor’s Faith in Action Award 2010. This annual award continues Her Honour, the Honourable Mayann E. Francis's deep commitment to community development, by providing recognition to those whose religious faith has motivated them to significantly enrich the lives of Nova Scotians from the wider community of which they are a part. The award is open to people from any religious tradition. Recipients will be selected by a committee that includes representatives from Atlantic School of Theology and the Nova Scotia Interfaith Council. The 2010 award will be presented at AST convocation on May 1, 2010.
More information about the award and how to nominate potential recipients can be found on the AST website at www.astheology.ns.ca. All submissions must be postmarked by March 8, 2010.
On behalf of the MISSION TO SEAFARERS – we would like to extend our gratitude for all the donations of Christmas Boxes and items which we received from churches, groups and individuals. On behalf of the Seafarers, we thank you so much for you support and generosity, it is greatly appreciated. THANK YOU!!!
Xplore
& more !
Coming soon to the Cathedral Church of All Saints
Halifax ~ Nova Scotia
1910-2010
Centennial Festival for Children of the Diocese
Ages 6 - 12
Saturday June 19 2010
11.30 a.m. – 3.15
p.m.
Please watch for more details on net news !
Information via sunderwood@ns.sympatico.ca
Contact name – Kent Doe 
A VERY SPECIAL YEAR FOR THE PARISH OF ANNAPOLIS
The year 2010 is a very special one for the Parish of Annapolis and indeed for the whole Diocese. It is during this year that we commemorate 300 years of continuous Anglican worship in this place. Because of events that happened in Annapolis Royal, or Port Royal as it was named before that time, the Diocese in which we now live and worship came into being.
It is hard to imagine what it can have been like for those early people of our Anglican communion. They were few in number. The English were mostly soldiers drafted to fight in an ongoing series of battles far from their homeland. Around them in a land, vast and untamed were a small number of Acadian farmers and the Native peoples, who had hunted and fished here for hundreds of years. Far away in Europe the great powers made treaties and sent troops to enforce their rule and, as always happens, the ordinary people, soldiers, farmers and fishermen were caught in the middle. Money and provisions were scarce, tempers flared easily and there were deceptions, false promises and families divided.... Read the entire article here at: http://nspeidiocese.ca/2010/annapolis.htm
Celebration of a New Ministry
The Rev. Steve Laskey will be installed as rector of Christ Church, Dartmouth this Sunday, January 17th at 7pm. Everyone is invited to attend. Clergy and lay readers are invited to robe (alb and stole). The liturgical colour is white. Christ Church is at the corner of Ochterloney and Wentworth in Dartmouth.
AST is pleased to present the second sacred concert of the 2009/2010 season:
Music at the Ends of the Ages
Messiaen’s The Quartet for the End of Time
Tuesday, January 26
7:30 pm
Atlantic School of Theology
St. Columba Chapel
634 Francklyn Street
Halifax, NS
Tickets $20 (Seniors $10, Students $5)
Available at the door only (doors open at 7 pm)
The Quartet for the End of Time is one of the master works in the chamber music literature of the 20th Century. First performed on January 15, 1941, in Stalag VIIa in Görlitz, Germany, where Messiaen and his fellow musicians were being held as prisoners of war, the piece reflects the horror and fears of its time. To these realities it responds with an expression of the profound catholic faith that shapes all of Messiaen’s work.
Performed by world-class musicians Laura Veeze (violin), Norm Adams (cello), Eileen Walsh (Clarinet) and Barbara Pritchard (piano)
For further information about the AST Sacred Music Series, please refer to the AST website www.astheology.ns.ca/astarts/Music.html or call the AST Communications Office at 496-7943.
Upcoming concerts this season
Songs of Life and Death - February 16 at 7:30 pm
The Inspiring Hymn - March 23 at 7:30 pm
AST recognizes the support of the Province of Nova Scotia through the Department of Tourism, Culture & Heritage. We are pleased to work in partnership with the Culture Division to develop and promote our cultural resources for all Nova Scotians.
We would like to invite and encourage any whom might be visiting in the Annapolis/Digby area to join us in any of the following Services during the month of January 2010, at St. Edward the Confessor Anglican Church, 1650 Highway No 1, Clementsport, Annapolis County……
Sunday 17th January 1000 Hrs Holy Eucharist BCP Epiphany 2
Sunday 24th January 1000 Hrs Holy Eucharist BCP Epiphany 3
Sunday 31st January 1000 Hrs Holy Eucharist BCP Epiphany 4
Please check back next week.
The complete January through March Cycle of Prayer and Provincial Prayer Care are now available on the web site at: http://nspeidiocese.ca/diocese/cycle/cycle.htm
DIOCESAN CYCLE OF PRAYER
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND REGION
JANUARY 17
Milton, Rustico and Crapaud, Prince Edward Island
The Reverend Evelyn Knorr and Basil
The Reverend Ken Williams, Assistant Priest, and Norma Jean
St. John’s, Milton
St. Mark’s, Rustico
St. John the Evangelist, Crapaud
New London, Prince Edward Island
The Reverend Cathy Pharo and Chris
The Reverend Al Meloche, Deacon, and Londie
The Reverend Shirley Cole-McFadden, Assistant Priest, and Bill
St. Mark’s, Kensington
St. Stephen’s, Burlington
St. Thomas’, Spring Brook
St. Elizabeth’s, Springfield
Pray for all people and their ministries in our Companion Diocese of Moosonee, particularly: St. Philip’s, Chisasibi, Fort George Island The Reverend Clifford Bearskin The Reverend Samuel Bearskin The Reverend Abraham Cox The Reverend Annie Herodier The Reverend Jacob Sealhunter The Reverend Stephen Pepabano The Reverend Eliza Webb Beginning of Week of Prayer, Christian Unity |
PROVINCIAL PRAYER CARE
Ecclesiastical Province of Canada
17 January Diocese of Fredericton
Archbishop Claude Miller
January 15 Fresh Start gathering (WNL)
January 15-16 Cursillo Revista (CNL)
January 18 Ordination of Marilyn Murphy to the diaconate (NSPEI)
January 19 The meeting of Episcopal Council (MTL)
January 20 Meeting of Diocesan Council (FR)
January 20 Synod Executive (WNL)
January
Let Us Give Thanks For . . .
Please Pray For . . .
2010 Council of the North Prayer Cycle now available!
The Advent-Epiphany (November 29, 2009 – February 14, 2010) issue of Praying with our partners – a Canadian Supplement to the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, is now posted on the Anglican Church of Canada’s website for use in all parishes.
Please visit the website at http://www.anglican.ca/mission/resources/pwop/index.htm to download this resource.
We are sending this email to Dioceses, to ask that you share this information with your parishes.
We maintain a mailing list of about 70 Anglican parishes throughout the Church, who have requested hard copies because of their inability to access the Anglican Church of Canada’s website, and we do hope that parishes that are able to download Praying with our partners will find it useful to incorporate into their weekly intercessions.
Everyone IS Welcome
MISSION TO SEAFARERS – Our Monthly Luncheon will be held on January 29th, 2010. Time 12:00noon til 1:00pm. Cost $10, Seniors $7.50, this includes main course, dessert, (Tea/Coffee).
Our Monthly Luncheons are held the last Friday of each month, unless otherwise specified. During inclement weather, please call Mission to Seafarers at (902) 422-7790; in case the luncheon has been postponed.
Thanks For The Memories
All Saints Church, Kingston, NS is celebrating 50 years in ministry this year and hosting a variety of events throughout 2010, beginning with a Coffee House on Saturday January 23 from 7pm to 9pm at the church hall. A band from Atlantic School of Theology will be providing musical entertainment. There will be a free-will offering to offset expenses. In the event of stormy weather contact: www.parishofwilmot.com
The Fort Sackville Region of the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island is sponsoring a young puppeteers troop, aged 12 to 17. Saturday mornings from 9 AM to 12 PM, January 9 to April 10, and Sunday April 11, 2010, at Trinity Church, 321 Main Street, Halifax. All are welcome. For more information go to: www.LionandLamb.ca
Chowder Lunch St Francis by the Lakes
Friday, Jan 15, 2010 time 11:30-1:00pm
Fish Chowder (no shellfish) or hamburg soup
more info call Rose at 864-5577
PWRDF responds to massive destruction in Haiti
Action By Churches Together
January 13, 2010 - Hundreds, maybe thousands, of people were buried alive when a major earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, the capital of impoverished Haiti on Tuesday. The magnitude 7.0 quake sent panic-stricken people into the streets. Offices, hotels, houses and shops collapsed, and people were screaming "Jesus, Jesus", not knowing where to run. The presidential palace lay in ruins, and many churches have been destroyed. Members of ACT Alliance are already in place, assisting those affected by the earthquake. The ACT Secretariat in Geneva is coordinating the relief operations of its members, and more details will follow in the coming hours.
Massive destruction
The city is without electricity, the telephone network has broken down. The UN headquarter has collapsed. People are sitting in the streets with nowhere to go. The office of ACT member Christian Aid was destroyed, but staff were unharmed and are now responding to the emergency.
John Nduna, the General Secretary of ACT Alliance expresses condolences with the affected families and with UN and other organizations that have lost their people in the buildings.
World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, also expresses condolences and solidarity with the people of Haiti. "Once again they have experienced the great burdens of anguish, damage, and death because of a natural catastrophe. They have already carried many burdens of political instability and poverty," Fykse Tveit says.
Hit again
In 2004 more than 3,000 people died because of Hurricane Jeanne which passed over the northwest city of Gonaives. The same area was hit again in 2008 when four tropical storm systems passed through the region. In 2004 political instability led to the ousting of the President Jean-Baptiste Aristide.
Make a Donation:
On-line
At the CanadaHelps website.
By Phone
For credit card donations contact
Jennifer Brown
416-924-9192 ext. 320
1-866-308-7973
Please do not send your credit card number by e-mail or fax.
By Mail
Please make cheques out to "PWRDF",
mark them for "Haiti earthquake".
and send them to:
The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund
The Anglican Church of Canada
80 Hayden Street
Toronto, Ontario M4Y 3G2
PWRDF Donations Contact:
Jennifer Brown jbrown@pwrdf.org
416-924-9192 ext. 320
1-866-308-7973
PWRDF Humanitarian Response Coordinator
Naba Gurung ngurung@pwrdf.org
416-924-9192 ext. 321
A statement from the Primate on the disaster in Haiti
ARCHBISHOP FRED HILTZ, ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
January 13, 2010 — Haiti has been devastated by a terrible earthquake. Thousands are feared to have died and many more injured. The people in Haiti have suffered so much in the past 10 years. Hurricane Jeanne ripped through the island in 2004 and in 2008 tropical storms took a huge toll. Now a new disaster. Through the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund, our church has made an initial donation of $15,000 for emergency relief through Action by Churches Together (ACT).
The Anglican Church of Canada and especially the Diocese of Montreal has had a long relationship with the Anglican Church of Haiti, personalized in many respects by Canon Ogé Beauvoir, the dean of the theological seminary in Haiti. A graduate of Montreal Diocesan College, he went to Haiti in 1991 as a Volunteer in Mission. In 1996, he returned to Canada to serve as regional mission coordinator for Africa and the Middle East. He returned to Haiti, where he was born, in 2004. We are grateful to know that he and his wife Serette are safe.
Please pray for the people of Haiti as they struggle with such devastation and grief..
Please remember as well their relative in Canada and the Canadian Haitian community many of whom anxiously await news of friends, relatives and loved ones.
Please give generously to increase our support for relief efforts.
I make this appeal in the name of Christ in his compassion for all who suffer.
+Fred
JANUARY
For up-to-date revisions, check out the “Calendar of Events” at: http://www.localendar.com/public/diocese
If your meeting isn't listed, please have the committee/subcommittee chairperson book space with the Cathedral Office (423-6002; cathedralchurch@eastlink.ca) AND email the Synod Office at: office@nspeidiocese.ca with details to have it added to this calendar.
Dear fellow pastors:
Would you be kind enough to place a notice in your bulletin and make an
announcement in church about a course I am offering, I am giving a six
week course at Bedford United Church through their Great Harbor program
on Dreams as God’s Forgotten Language. The course runs for six weeks
starting Jan 18 7-9 pm. To register phone the church office at 835-5964.
This is a spiritual journey helping individuals connect with God’s voice
within through their dreams. We will be respectful, supportive and
caring. All are welcome. People who feel they do not dream and those
with night terrors are welcome.
Blessings,
Henry Sharam
Addendum
In addition, for your information I would be glad to come and give a
sermon, a two hour workshop, or an all day workshop at your church on
dreams as God's forgotten language. Interested? call Henry at 864-0410.
With thanks,
Henry.
Building an Ethical Economy – Theology and the Marketplace
Trinity Institute, live from New York City
January 27 - 29; Wed 7pm to Fri 5pm
Tatamagouche Centre
Does theology have a role in shaping a new economy? Are theology and economics two different worlds? Is Capitalism a belief system? What do we owe the future?
Join this live conference via interactive webcast, and respond to leading theologians and economists as they consider these questions. Rowan Williams is the Archbishop of Canterbury; Sir Partha Dasgupta is a Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge; Kathryn Tanner wrote Economy of Grace and teaches at the Chicago Divinity School; Bernard Ntahoturi is the Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Burundi. Each speaker will talk, followed by responses from the other speakers, and then any audience questions (including ours). Then, we will participate in our own facilitated reflections, with local leadership by Dr. David Deane. Dr. Deane teaches at the Atlantic School of Theology, and is presently working on a book "The Matter of the Spirit" which looks at Capitalism through a Pneumatological lens.
A compelling learning opportunity, and stimulating occasion to engage collegially in comfortable, supportive surroundings. Tatamagouche Centre is the regional partner of the Trinity Institute. See www.trinitywallstreet.org for more conference details.
Pre-conference DVD, featuring interviews with the speakers, is available to borrow through Tatamagouche Centre.
For more information, or to register, please contact Tatamagouche Centre at 1-800-218-2220 or www.tatacentre.ca.
For parishes on the Irving Oil Plan, the furnace oil price for the period of January 6th to 15th, 2010 is $0.6567 per litre. The Commercial Account Manager for the Diocesan Oil Program is Mr. Cory Hiscock. You may contact him by phone at: 902-798-3061, or by e-mail: cory.hiscock@irvingoil.com
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Until next Wednesday...
