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January
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Whalley, Surrey, B.C., is growing and here’s the photographic evidence: Back, from left: Kristine Stewart, Gina Larmour, Rev. Emery Cawsey, Sharon Higgens, Diane Burton. Front: […]
This is a story in three parts. Part One: St. Andrew’s, Welland, Ont. turns 172 years old. So, we have Fred and Mary Ellen Forsyth, […]
They’ve been a team in many ways for more than half a century. Mary and Wyman Waddell have been secretary-treasurer at North Tryon, P.E.I,, for […]
Rev. James Nesbit established St. Paul’s, Prince Albert, Sask., 140 years ago. The present church building is 100 years old. This great legacy was celebrated […]
Tuesday June 19, 1894. The 20th General Assembly of The Presbyterian Church in Canada, meeting in St. John, New Brunswick:
There are about 1,200 congregations in The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan. Presbyteries are generally arranged along tribal lines, although the larger tribes occupy several presbyteries […]
The former minister of a four-point charge in Prince Edward Island who claimed she was fired because she is a woman had her claim upheld by the P.E.I. Human Rights Commission when it ruled in her favour in August.
Evangel Hall, a ministry of The Presbyterian Church in Canada since its inception in 1913, opened its new building in February. The $13-million six-storey facility in downtown Toronto includes 84 low-income housing units, as well as a medical clinic, commercial kitchen, counselling space, thrift store and a chapel. Between 50 and 200 people drop in for meals daily, with more attending special events and outings, addiction support groups and numerous outreach programs. The 130 residents are encouraged to get to know their neighbours, making the building a safe place to live. The building was funded by the federal government, the city of Toronto, the province, the PCC and individual donors.
ENI – A German Catholic bishop has lashed out at the rise of top management salaries by up to 30 per cent at the same time as companies are plunged into bankruptcy and jobs are cut.
ENI – China is developing as a global leader with potential to help solve the world's problems, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, said in Nanjing during his first visit to the People's Republic.
In a growing region that has several universities and colleges, it's no surprise that children and youth ministries are the focus for numerous churches in the Waterloo-Wellington presbytery. Sunday schools are being renewed and some congregations are offering innovative mid-week family programs.
“Angels we have heard on high / Sweetly singin' o'er the plains.”
Big city, big problems. Living amongst the wealthy and powerful of Toronto are the poor and helpless. According to the City of Toronto's homelessness report card in 2003 nearly half a million households had incomes below the poverty level. Over 30,000 individuals, including almost 5,000 children, stayed in a housing shelter at least once. Over 70,000 households were on the waiting list for subsidized housing.
Some stopgap. Some band-aid.
ENI – Many church leaders do not understand what journalism is all about, while secular media are often suspicious of religion, says Portuguese journalist Antonio Marujo, this year's winner of the John Templeton Prize for the European Religion Writer.
130 years ago:
In July 1959, some friends and I decided to form a folk song circle to further interest in traditional folk music from different countries. We welcomed anyone who wished to sing, play or listen. It was a great success. Soon our house became too small and we moved into a local hall where we met every first and third Wednesday of the month. Performers usually were limited to three or four songs as closing time came quickly. Forty-six years on we are still meeting.
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It is Advent! Everyone in the Webber household who lives on the shores of Lac La Hache is hoping for fire and ice. Fire and ice is a tradition that goes all the way back to my own childhood, and in some form or other, back to most rural Canadian childhoods, I expect. When I was a kid, about the beginning of Advent, if the local slough could get a good freeze on it before any snow came, it became a sea of glass. Every kid in the lumber camp would work his or her tail off scrounging wood and dragging it onto the ice. Anything that would burn and wasn't nailed down was fair game, which once caused an outhouse to mysteriously disappear. All of the wood was stacked to form a huge bonfire. At night, whole families would gather for the ritual of fire and ice. The bonfire was lit, skates were strapped on, and soon blades were flashing and sizzling on the virgin ice. You could skate around on the edge of the dark for miles. It was the most liberating experience I have ever had in my life. All the time, the pillar of fire was both a beacon and warmth. All the time, the pillar of fire guided us with its blaze, warmed our very beings and was the centre for hot chocolate fellowship. The pillar of fire provided for our freedom on ice. It was absolutely wonderful.