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Emily Wierenga

Kenya's Crisis

Emily Wierenga

Dr. Richard Allen is frustrated. “Canadians have the means and opportunity to learn and keep current about the situations of various countries and peoples in the world, but unfortunately they often remain uninformed,” says the Sarnia, Ont., native who has been working with the Presbyterian Church in East Africa since 1994. “One would hope that the fairly wide reporting in the media of the present Kenyan crisis will encourage Canadians and others in the future to follow similar world problems more closely.”

Maybe like BoP 348

Jim Nelson<br>Owen Sound, Ont.

I have just arrived home from church. The sermon was great, the celebration of the sacrament was reverent and pertinent … but I miss the old hymns that were always a joy when I was singing in the choir and being inspired by the energy that evolves from the transformation of spirit into word and notes. This is what we miss in the current service that mandates this new kind of music. I think it is time to reintroduce the old hymns that inspired and raised the spirits and rafters. We want to go to church to be spiritually uplifted, not to feel that we have just attended a funeral wake.