Caledonia Times May 2012 Edition

Caledonia TimesA Diocesan Section of the Anglican Journal • May 2012

“Now faith is the substance of this hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”

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Camp Caledonia readies for another yearIT WON’T BE long now, as Camp Caledonia be-

gins to get ready for another season of camping. There are lots of activities: canoeing, hiking, ar-

chery, soccer, basketball, swimming volleyball and of course the perennial favourite, the campfi res. The Camp is looking forward to another summer of faith fun and fellowship. As part of the experience camp-ers will also be participating in the newly designed Christian Education program that will be lead by the Chaplains. As well as being a great time with lots of things to do and experience, is an opportunity to share one’s faith.

CAMP DATES AND FEES:New this year to help out campers and their families there are bursaries available through the Camp, to assist with the registration fees for the week long camps. When registering for the camp please make note that you would like to apply for the bursary as well. The fees for the youth camps this year are $200.00 and for the teen camp, $210.00. The dates for the camps this summer are as follows:Teen Camp: July 7th – July 14thYouth Camp I: July 16th – July 21stYouth Camp II: July 23rd - July 28th

STAFFING FOR THE CAMPStaff training will start @ 7:00am on July 3rd 2012. All staff should plan to arrive the night of the fi rst by 9pm. Staff Training will concluded on the morning of July 7th. The dates of the camps are as follows: Staff and volunteers are required to be there for 10:00am on the fi rst day of camp and will be allowed to leave at 2pm on the last day except where noted. There will be an afternoon of Post Camp Clean-up after the campers leave on the 28th. Staff will fi nish work at 4 pm. There are still a number of positions to fi ll for the staff of the Camp this summer both for staff and volunteers. In terms of the volunteers, the Camp needs Dishwashers, Cook’s Helpers, a janitor for the evenings, nurses and Craft helpers. The Camp also needs chaplains for the two youth camps. For staff, the Camp male and female counselors, a head cook and a lifeguard. For more information, or to apply for any of these positions, please send your resume Amanda Veil-lette, 2330 Omineca Place Houston BC, or con-tact Amanda at registrar@campcaledonia.com or amanda_bvhome@bulkley.net.

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“One of the great problems of Caledonia, is the providing of motor cars, at the present time there are four needed, but our funds available for this purpose are at their limit capable of purchasing not more than one. [these were very expensive the cost of $840.00]

In December of 1930, Rev. Oliver stone and his family made a trip to the Queen Char-lotte Islands on one of the worst weather days recorded by the captain of the vessel. Every-one was sick, the boat heaved its way through Dixon Entrance and of course the ride back to Prince Rupert was as calm as a mill pond!!

The St. Patrick Van, which worked this summer in the Diocese from Prince George to Hazelton, Terrace and Kispiox, was the gift of the Mother’s Union in England. This van took the place of the St. Andrew Van which worked in the district in 1928 and 1929, but which is now in the Peace River Block.

In December of 1930 Bishop Rix was in London, England and while crossing a street there was run down by a motor car.. “I had several ribs broken and severe shock, from both

of which I am quickly recovering.” said Bishop Rix.

Rev. Capt. O.T. Hodgson made a 200 mile trip from Telegraph Creek to Atlin in blizzards, deep snow and high winds by dogsled and team.

During the winter of 1931-1932 nearly 53 feet of snow fell at the Premier Mine in the Stewart area. Rev. G.H. Moody of Stewart suspended his walking trips to the site until the weather improved..

The Colonial and Continental Church Society (1931) in England fi nanced two clergymen to work in the Peace Ricer block on the south side of the river. Services would be held in about 12 different places and three churches were built at that time with more being planned for the summer.

In late 1931 the Railway from Alberta had fi nally reached Pouce Coupe, BC. Next Spring the railway is expected to reach Dawson Creek, where the Rev. Rural dean T.D. Procter is located.

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Fort St. John lay reader noted as a heroTHERE WAS A recent note put up on Face-

book about a member of the Parish of the North Peace that deserves a bit of attention. The note on Facebook, from Bev Flint Nickolson says:“I would like to publicly acknowledge and thank the Wal-Mart greeter who got out of her wheel-chair threw off her hook, performed CPR and saved the life of my highschool friend’s brother yesterday. Sorry I do not know her name. The young man involved is now recovering in Ed-monton after having a stent inserted. I can tell you how happy and grateful the family is. I hope Wal-Mart does something wonderful for her!” The Wal-Mart greeter’s name is Darlene Thomas. There is a remarkable story behind all this. Darlene was once a volunteer fi refi ghter and taught classes in how to perform CPR. She worked for the Provincial Ambulance Service and was a member of the Vancouver Island Search and Rescue Team. So it is not unusual for Darlene to be ready to help and to save a life. What is so remarkable to most people is that because of an illness Darlene suffered in her own life, she is now a triple amputee. She works at the local big box store as a greeter and is looked for and anticipated by the local residences, especially the children. They look for Darlene and her hellos and goodbyes. The children receive stickers when they come in and never fail to say goodbye when they leave. And this most recent incident is not the fi rst time that

Darlene has helped stricken shoppers. So one day recently when a 43 year old man had a cardiac event coming into the store, it is not so surprising that Darlene immediately sprang into action. Her quick thinking and the help of other staff saved the man’s life and enabled the man to get to medical care in a hospital. Members of the community are trying now to help out their local life saver by raising aware-ness of her needs to make her home and vehicle wheelchair accessible as a way to say thank you for the ways in which she has helped members of the community. So here is a bouquet for a lady who teaches us how it needs to be done and how we should love our neighbours. Thanks Darlene.

From around Caledonia:

St. Clement’s, Houston

St. Clement’s, Houston

WHAT A BUSY year it has been for us so far! We hope this fi nds everyone en-

joy some spring sunshine and melting(or no) snow! St Clements celebrated Shrove Tuesday with Bishop William. A huge thank you to our cooks, Jerry and Sue, for the wonderful food and to all who came out for the fellowship. With school resuming in January it also meant the start of Sunday school again. Pictured above is the Sunday school class decorating fl ower pots. As Easter Sunday get’s closer we begin talking about new life, and the resur-rection in Sunday school. Just as the seed in buried in the soil, after a few days it makes its way out into the world, the same as Jesus did when he left the tomb. St Clements also started a bottle drive for Camp Caledonia and wishes to encourage all parishes in the diocese to do the same! Hope everyone has a wonderful summer!

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LONG AGO, there was a king who placed on one of his highways, a boulder. Then he hid himself nearby to wait and see if anyone

would come along and remove the boulder from the roadway. Some of the wealthiest among his sub-jects, merchants and courtiers came to the boulder and simply walked around it. Many people loudly blamed the kings for not minding the condition of the roadway and keeping it clear, but did nothing to remove it themselves. Then late in the day a peas-ant, pulling his load of vegetables comes and stops at the large stone. After struggle and toil the farmer fi nally moves the boulder out of the highway so that he could pass with his cart and load of vegetables. After he picks up his load to continue on his way, he notices a purse on the side of the road with a note attached to it. Again he puts down his load and goes to the bag, retrieves the note and reads it. The note tells the peasant that this bag contains many pieces of gold which the king himself gives to him, because he took the time to remove the stone from the road. The peasant discovered that day what many of us need to learn: every obstacle presents an opportu-nity to improve his condition.

Editorial: A thought or twoPerhaps by now many in the diocese will have heard that the amounts of money coming to the di-ocese from beyond our church walls and borders is going to be reduced yet again and will be reduced further incrementally over at least the next four years. I think many of you would look at that kind of news as a kind of boulder that is in our road. I know that it has been a challenge that the leader-ship of the Diocese has had to grapple with for a while now. It has been hard and a struggle. Now we are faced with the reality that we are going to have to look at how we do ministry in this diocese and how we can do it differently. In the short term at least the reality is that we are going to have to consider personnel cuts as a measure to be able to keep doing what we are already doing. Perhaps that is another stone that we encounter. We need to consider carefully how we are going to work together to remove the stones that are in our paths to building our ministry across the dio-cese. One of the things I deeply appreciated about the recently held Clericus was the opportunity to actually pray with my brother and sister clergy in this diocese for the life of this diocese. We were able to talk with one another and be with one another and agree in prayer with one another. The time sent us away from the Cathedral fi lled with hope and joy and a real sense of belonging to each other. And most of all in prayer, we began to see that God was moving stones out of our road. At the most recent gathering of the Diocesan Executive Committee in March, each of the mem-bers talked a little bit about what was going on in their parishes in terms of ministry and what we as parishes were doing and how we were and are reaching out to people in the parish and beyond. In one parish there is a running group looking to

BY REGINA SILVA ROBINSON

QUEEN Elizabeth II could be arguably the world’s highest-profi le Anglican.

Her face is familiar to most Ca-nadians for we see the Queen not only on television and in the papers; we also carry her likeness on our stamps and on the coins and bills in our pockets. Yet to some, her role as our Head of State seems rather ambiguous, while her position as Supreme Governor of the Church of England largely unknown. Elizabeth became next in line to the throne, after her popular uncle Edward VIII abdicated to her father who became George VI in 1936. Edward abdicated so that he could marry the twice divorced American, Wallis Simpson. George VI along with Queen Eliza-beth (the Queen Mother) reigned 15 years, including the years from 1939 to 1945. George VI died peace-fully in his sleep at the family home of Sandringham in the early hours of Feb. 6th, 1952 while his elder daughter, Princess Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip, were on an offi cial royal visit to Kenya on his behalf. Elizabeth became the fi rst monarch in modern times to ascend to the throne while away from Brit-ain. After the mourning period for the late king was observed, plans proceeded for the Coronation which occurred on June 2, 1953 at Westminster Abbey. The 16-month gap between the death of one sovereign

promote health amongst the members of the com-munity while another parish is having a meal and raising monies to help Camp Caledonia. A third parish is running a soup kitchen and helping needy families in the community in which they minister. Perhaps where we have lacked in our com-mon life as a diocese is in the fi nancial support from within, for the frontline people who lead and administer all the great things that the parishes can do when they have such leadership. We have be-come dependent on the grace and gifts of others to make our own ministry happen. This is the biggest stone in the road. This Diocese has benefi ted great-ly from the generosity of givers from Great Britain in the beginning and from our fellow Canadians even now. There are farmers in Saskatchewan, professional people in Ontario and fi shermen in Newfoundland, who every time they put money in the plate to support their own churches, are helping us to do what we do as well. The hard work that we have ahead of us is to learn how to make the ministry of our Diocese and our parishes truly ours. We need to work to learn how to support the ministry of our parishes and our Diocese so that we can be effective in sharing the good news of God in Christ were we are: from Masset to Fort St. John, from Pouce Coupe to Kit-katla and all the points in between. And there is one thing more that we need to keep in mind: God is in all this! God is enabling us to be his people, in his way with his blessing. May we take the risk of faith and move forward in the strength of our risen and ascended Lord and Saviour as the early apostles did, making it known that Jesus lives and he reigns!

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The Queen: a faithful servant

and the crowning of another is not unusual, given the vast amount of planning and organization that goes into such an undertaking. Already the new Queen was slowly initiating changes within the monarchy when she approved the televising of the ceremony,

over objections from Winston Churchill and the gov-ernment of the day. During this ancient and beautiful ceremony, Elizabeth was seen at prayer. At one point the cameras turned away (to ensure the sacredness of the moment) as Elizabeth removed her crown and her husband, Philip, removed his coronet in order to take Holy Communion. This act of humility signifi ed that before God, she, like her spouse, was just as any other person in that great abbey, and was subject to the laws of God. Simply stated, she recognized and affi rmed a higher authority than that given to her as a queen. Her faith was and remains the cornerstone of her life. Before a monarch is crowned, affi rmation must be undertaken to ascertain that he or she is a faithful and communicant member of the Church of England. To Elizabeth this was no mere token assent. She con-tinues to attend church services faithfully each week and in her annual Christmas message espouses the Christian virtues and traditions seen in the Gospels. She closed her 2011 Christmas Day message by say-ing: Although we are capable of great acts of kindness, history teaches us that we sometimes need saving from ourselves – from our recklessness or our greed. God sent into the world a unique person – neither a philosopher nor a general (important though they are) – but a Saviour, with the power to forgive. Forgive-ness lies at the heart of the Christian faith. It can heal broken families, it can restore friendships and it can reconcile divided communities. It is in forgiveness that we feel the power of God’s love. It is my prayer

The Diamond Jubilee Prayer reads:God of time and eternity,whose Son reigns as servant, not master;we give you thanks and praisethat you have blessed this Nation, the Realms and Territorieswith ELIZABETH,our beloved and glorious Queen.In this year of Jubilee,grant her your gifts of love and joy and peaceas she continues in faithful obedience to you, her Lord and Godand in devoted service to her lands and peoples,and those of the Commonwealth,now and all the days of her life;through Jesus Christ our Lord.Amen.

See Jubilee Celebration on p. 4

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Surfin’ for the Lord ~ Ruby McBeth

ON THE STREETS of Fort St. John I some-times see Japanese girls

walking hand in hand. These foreign exchange students have a willingness to show friendship that in our culture we see only in children. Perhaps we cannot change a social custom but we “girls” can learn to value the friendship of women. Joan Chittister in her book The Friendship of Women: The Hid-den Tradition of the Bible gives us a female-centered view of friendship. This small book be-gins with a contents list followed by an introductory essay. At the end of the introduction Chittister says: “Women themselves tell us now what they look for in friendship — and scripture shows us instances where these very qualities in women have changed the world. It is time to honour both of them.” That is what the author does in this book. The core of the book is twelve articles on the friendship of women. Each of the 12 articles zeroes in on one aspect of women’s companionship using a Biblical woman to illustrate the trait. The fi rst chapter is entitled “Lydia - Growth.” This is followed by Prisca—Self, Deborah—Wisdom, Phoebe—Support, Esther—Leadership, Mar-tha of Bethany—Truth, Veronica—Presence, Elizabeth—Acceptance, Ruth—Availability, Anne—Nurturance, Miriam—Joy and the last Mary Magdalene—Trust and Love. A page at the end of the book gives scripture references for the women in the book.

From the introduction through the 12 essays this book is about friendship; it is not a traditional Bible study. Chittis-ter gives quotes from classical and modern writers to make her points about women’s friend-ships. Each essay begins with a few pages of comments on the theme, and only then is the Biblical woman introduced to back up the theme. We are left pondering the potential of women’s friendships in a world which has been dominated for so long by the thinking of men. In reading the comments on the Biblical women we see the author emphasizing the posi-tive. This is especially notice-able with Martha of Bethany. Martha has been memorialized as the woman who complained

to Jesus about her sister not helping out in the kitchen. This is not the author’s take on her. She reminds us that Martha told Jesus she knew he was the messiah. She sees Martha as a truthteller. The author’s thoughts on friend-ship and on these Biblical women encourage the reader to think outside the box - to do some creative imagining. Her approach is change. Joan Chittister is a co-chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women. This is a partner organization of the UN. She is a Benedictine Sister of Erie, Pennsylvania.

Recommended generally for women and specifi cally as readings for women’s retreats or conferences.

Learn all about John Sentamu the frontrunner to replace the Archbishop of Canterbury by going to <www.archbishopofy-ork.org>. A link from the homepage takes you to biographi-cal information on Archbishop John and his wife as well as examples of his articles and speeches. “Latest photos” brighten the homepage. You can also connect to a news article on the Archbishop of Canterbury’s plan to leave the job with a picture of Sentamu and Williams together. At the end of that article is a link to Williams’ website. Also included on the Archbishop of York’s site is a video with connections for more videos as well as a link to a photo gallery. For a front seat view of the Church of England check out this website. Happy surfi ng.

—Ruby

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THE FRIENDSHIP OF WOMEN: The Hidden Tradition of the Bible. By Joan ChittisterNew York: Novalis, 2006

that on this Christmas Day we might all fi nd room in our lives for the message of the angels and for the love of God through Christ our Lord. Between the two positions, that of Head of State and Supreme Governor of the Church of England, some parallels may be drawn. Where-as it is well known that Her Majesty opens Par-liament as Queen, she also opens the General Synod of the Church of England, in her capac-ity as the Supreme Governor. This event oc-curs every fi ve years after the elections in the dioceses have taken place. In her capacity as monarch, the Queen appoints the Archbishop of Canterbury on the basis of names given to her by the British prime minister, who in turn has been given a list of candidates’ names from a Church Commission. She is entirely free to choose which candidate she feels would better serve the Church of England. During her long reign of sixty years, she has seen thirteen prime ministers come and go in Britain, eleven in Canada and her warm relationship with the United States has led to her meeting with eleven of the twelve sitting

presidents. Duty and service to her people has been the watchwords of her reign, this having been in-stilled in her at a young age by her grandmother, Queen Mary. It has not all been one long garden party – although she has hosted many over the years. From accrediting ambassadors to her Court, holding investitures, attending Privy Council meetings, seeing the prime minister on a weekly basis and doing her “boxes” (docu-ments and bills needing to be read and signed by her before being accepted as laws), undertak-ing approximately 300 engagements per year in Britain, not to mention State Visits both to and from Britain, Elizabeth II does well for a senior citizen in her 25th year after the normal retirement age of 60 for women in the United Kingdom. As an international fi gure, her resolve and dedication have given faithful witness to the strength of a life lived in God’s service.

Regina Silva Robinson is a freelance writer and long-time member of the Monarchist League of Canada. TAP – edited by Staff, Caledonia Times.

Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee CelebrationContinued from p. 3