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Caledonia TimesFebruary 2016 Volume 48 - Issue # 2

The Diocesan Section of the Anglican Journal

Local doctor prescribes art for the Cathedral roof

On December 19th there was an Art Show and Silent Auction held for the Cathedral Roof Fund. The Show was put n by local doctor and artist Ri-aan Van der Wart. The proceeds of the Auction went to aid the Cathedral’s “Raising our Roof” Fund. The Cathedral Parish has been working to raise the monies necessary to redo the Church’s roof since October of 2015 when it began to seri-ously leak. These were so bad at that point that a large blue tarp was erected in the nave of the Church to catch and direct water into buckets. In turn the buckets were taken out and dumped. This was done to protect the floor and the Hall ceiling which were replace about 20-25 years ago.

The idea for the Show and Auction came from the meeting of Dr. Van der Wart and long time parishioner Doreen Ridsdale who was one of his patients. During appointments there was time of sharing because the Dr. Van der Wart was taking time to get to know his patients through taking time to listen to them. A friendship came out of this and a sharing of what the Cathedral was try-ing to do.

The site of the Show and Auction was the Cere-monial Room at the Museum of Northern British Columbia. The Afternoon was given to the exhi-bition of the Art, which included a number of oil paintings and several sketches in India ink from a

Dr. Riaan Van Der Wart (rt) stands with long time friend and Cathedral parishioner Doreen Ridsdale. The friends came up with the idea of have an Art Show and Silent Auction of the Doctor’s art work. The proceeds of the sale were donated to the Cathedral’s Raise the Roof Fund. Dr. Van Der Wart a painting of the Cathedral, which he has subsequntly donated to the Church and used it as the core of his show. More of his work canbe seen onthe Diocesan Facebook Page. - Ed.

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Diocesan Executive Committee gives approval to the Cathedral Roof Project for 2016

voyage that Riaan did with a group of sailors who were testing the limits of human endurance, in seeing how long they could go without food and water. Riaan aka “Hollander” is a well known art-ist, having sold paintings in auctions in New York and has had art published in children’s books.

The Auction took place that night. There is no word yet on how much was raised at the auction. The painting of the Cathedral has been donated to the congregation by Dr. Van der Wart and he has also made a number of limited edition prints of the main painting of the Cathedral available for $25.00. These can be sought through contacting the Cathedral Parish Office.

In an electronic vote on December 18th, 2015 the Diocesan Executive Committee voted unanimous-ly in favour of a motion giving the Cathedral per-mission to rearmour and repair the church’s badly weathered roof.

The Project is estimated to cost approximately $83,000 plus $7000 in taxes leaving a contingency fund of about $5,000. There are other fundrais-ing efforts continuing to increase the contingency fund of the project’s budget. The project will see

the roof rearmoured with plywood, insulated and sealed and then 50 year shingles put on top of this.

The contractor to do the work will be chosen through an invitational bid process and the Parish hopes and is planning to do the work no later than May, 2016. Any monies leftover from this project will be given to the Parish Building Fund for the entrance way project; to protect the Church doors and the people entering and exiting the Cathedral

In addition to the work on the roof and the main-tenance of its budget, the Cathedral Parish has also paid back in full in 2015, a $4,000 loan that was made to the parish for repairs and work done on the rectory in 2014, that the parish has met its full operating budget including having paid in full, its Parish Ministry Costs for 2015.

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The other day a parishioner who is a senior com-mented to me that she was tired of all the work that had to be done in her parish church. “I’ve done my part over the years, and its time someone else took over this work,” she said.

It is a sentiment I actually hear fairly regularly around the diocese, and I confess I had a lot of sympathy for her view. As our congregations get older it is unfortunate that there aren’t more young families to take on the day to day work of keeping our churches clean and in good repair, as well as providing outreach into our communities.

But things are as they are, and all the wishing in the world isn’t going to turn the clock back to a time fifty years ago when most of our churches were full of young families. Our society and our culture have changed dramatically in the ensuing years and so also have peoples’ attitudes towards God and the Church.

The problem with reminiscing about “the old times” is that people usually remember mostly the good things, and not necessarily the reality of the way things were, or why they were like that. In any event, however pleasant a trip down memory lane might be, it doesn’t help deal with the current situation.

Which brings us back to the here and now – what do we do when we feel tired and discouraged by the work we are doing, often seemingly alone, and with no help on the horizon?

As someone who is now officially a ‘senior’ let

me suggest some things that I believe can make a difference, beginning with this. I have learned over my lifetime that one can rarely force others to change, but that it is more within a person’s ability to change themselves, especially when they ask for God’s help. Being less critical of others, and looking at better ways we, ourselves, can work in any given situation is a good approach to life.

We need to continue to cultivate an attitude of thankfulness. There is much for us to be thank-ful about though some things might escape our notice. As St. Paul so wonderfully expresses it, “Re-joice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice!” (Phil. 4;4). Rather than being annoyed that others don’t step forward to help with the work, perhaps we should be thankful that we still have the ability to get around and help with some aspect of the care of God’s House in our community? Perhaps the point of thankfulness is the opportunity to have some quiet time in the church while cleaning or repairing something, away from the noise and distractions of daily life. The thing is, if we stop and look, there is always something for which we can give thanks. We can give thanks for the rich experi-ences of our lives, and memories that flow from them, that God has given us over our lifetimes. But rather than focus exclusively on the past, we can look at each new day as a further gift to us, to be met with thanksgiving and excitement.

Many of us now have built up a significant life-time of experience in caring for others (which we learned raising our families), doing minor repair work (maintaining our homes), and a wide variety

Bishop’s Notes

Facing challenges with hope

Surfin’ for the Lord

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of other skills that we devel-oped during our work-careers. All of these are skills that God can use if they are of-fered to Him with a grateful heart and a true willingness to be guided by what God needs to have done

in our communities. So the question to ask is, “Where and how can I serve?”

How can we better care for our neighbours who are shut-ins and can’t get to Church? How can we organize our parishes so as to be more manage-able for seniors and attractive to younger folks? How can we help our priest understand our spiritual needs so that he or she might more ef-fectively minister to us?

And perhaps most important, how can we de-velop the humility to allow other people who, like us are seeking a meaningful way to contribute to their Church, to do things differently than we might do, so that they feel valued, engaged and appreciated? This can be more of a challenge than it seems because as we age we often can become set in our ways and views, and less toler-ant of how others approach tasks.

The year ahead will be full of challenges – every year is so there is no surprise in that. But just as there will be challenges there will also be daily opportunities to live out our Christian faith in ser-vice to others and in a spirit of hope and thank-fulness to our Heavenly Father.

+William Caledonia

by Ruby McBeth

Want to get involved in a faith-centered environ-mental movement? Go to <acen.anglicancommu-nion.org> the website of the Anglican Communion Environmental Network. A very well-developed site, the homepage includes a video of Desmond Tutu reminding us that we are “one human fam-ily with one shared earth.” Also on the homep-age an invitation to sign up for their newsletter.

Much much more on the environment and also other Christian items. The “Prayer Wall” which is found under “Community” contains heartfelt prayer requests. Join these people in praying for protection of family and friends against the evils in our society. This website is a positive contribution to the Christian way of life. Worth adding to your favourites.

Happy surfing!

Victoria cathedral reaches out to ‘tent city’

In response to a group of around 60 homeless people who had set up some 45 tents next to the diocese of British Columbia’s Christ Church Cathedral, in Victo-ria, the cathedral’s rector, Dean Ansley Tucker, gave an Advent sermon exhorting her congregation to be active in understanding and helping their new neigh-bours. “We need to inform ourselves and disabuse ourselves of assumptions and prejudices that have little or no basis in fact,” she said. “Secondly, we are called, as Christians, to respond to individuals with compassion—real compassion, not just warm fellow feeling. Thirdly, we are called to use our voices and connections to ensure that the systemic issues that create and sustain poverty and homelessness in our community are addressed.” People had begun pitch-

ing tents on a strip of land between the cathedral and the law courts of Victoria in August for a night or two at a time, but in November, numbers began to increase. As the tent city grew, neighbours began to complain about noise, alleged thefts, break-ins and minor vandalism, and while there was no damage to cathedral property, Tucker and the cathedral war-dens were aware of the situation.

Heeding Tucker’s words, parishioners have been providing clothing, blankets and food to those who have set up camp. The Rev. Nancy Ford, the cathe-dral’s deacon to the city, has been listening to the concerns of the campers and called for compassion. “Unless we change our response to those in the tent city, we will not see the changes needed to alleviate such economic and social inequalities in our society,” she said.

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Caledonia Times — February 2016 Page 3

Books on the Go

As I sit down to write, I am enjoying the beautiful sunshine that streams in my office window here at the Cathedral. I have noticed that the days are lengthening and the nights are shortening ever so slowly. By the middle of this month (February) we will be into another Lenten season and will be get-ting ready for Easter. And this is hard to imagine but from Christmas Day to Easter Day will be only something like 90 days in 2016. But in that time we get to see again the person of Jesus Christ (and he wonderfully transfigured) going from the glory of the cradle, to the glory of that mountain, to the glorious wonder that is the resurrection and as-cension.

I have been thinking about the Transfiguration (I was baptised into the Church on the Feast of the Transfiguration on August 6th 1969) and about transformations. A transfiguration is an unveiling of what is for us to see – a truth and a reality of what already is in this world. We see from the out-side, in. We are allowed into the radiance of the glory of our Master for a time so that we might see and know him for who he really is. And out of that then we have a glimpse of what it is that God will cause us to be some day. All the things that we say and do should lead people into moments where

Skypilot Moments Transfiguration to everyday transformations

together we encounter the transfigured Christ. Worship and all the programs and things that we do should lead all of us into his glorious presence. And out of such regular encounters, we should be moved to seek, to see and to serve God and our neighbours as we find Christ at work through the strength of the Spirit. Programs and Christian Edu-cation of different kinds are only a part of what it takes to be a brilliant example of what a follower of the Lord Jesus is going to look like.

The Transfiguration turns a super trooper light on to allow us to see Jesus for who he is. I pray that we would have that Isaiah experience of being completely undone, seeing who we are and what the world is like becuase that experience. We need to see Jesus at the Transfiguration and know that this is just the first of many moments of the everyday transformations that God wants to make in our lives – that we would not allow ourselves to be conformed to this world but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds by the Holy Spirit.

But lest there be the thought that it is all on us and all about us, it isn’t. Jesus himself has promised that he will build his Church and that not even the gates of hell shall prevail against it. What we need

to care about is the serving and loving of those whom God has placed and drawn into our paths. We are to fulfil the command that he gave to his disciples to love one another as he has loved us. Grow-ing a congregation is a matter of caring for the neighbour enough that

they believe that you want them to be with you in heaven. The numbers in terms of people com-ing to Church and in terms of the budgets of our Diocese and therefore the parishes are for God to look after. I would point out that those numbers are a reflection of whom God has given us to care for. Thus we must care for and look after each oth-er. By this (sign) all the world will know us to be his disciples, by our uncommon love (agapaos), one for another.

It is through this spotlight, this sign that the world around us is going to see that God is real and they are going to want to see and to know more about him and why we are so different from the rest of the world. Take time in this season of lengthen-ing light to let Christ light and life shine in you and through you.

Jason+

Editor, the Caledonia Times

By Ruby McBeth

On December 12, 2015 an accord was signed in Paris that agreed to limit carbon emissions. Elizabeth May’s reaction was “The climate and our grandkids have done very well.” I hope she is right. Achieving the goal, however, will depend on each country making changes, and that will only happen if people realize that our world really is in trouble. Naomi Klein has written a book which can help us understand the critical situation for our environment.

This Changes Everything gives us an encyclo-pedic view of environmental issues. Naomi Klein includes history, effects on life forms, ideas for fixing the problem, as well as politi-cal implications. Along the way we learn the vocabulary of the environmental movement. If this sounds like a textbook it is and it isn’t. While it is well documented - 58 pages of notes and acknowledgements- unlike a text-book it is written with passion.

Naomi Klein begins with the bad news -corpo-rate greed and environmentalist compromise contributing to runaway pollution and global warming. She gives detail on the loss of sea life from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The second part of the book “Magical Thinking” documents the ideas people have come up with to try to fix the problem of global pollution and warming. Here Klein shows that she has no patience with quick fixes or climate change deniers. The final part of the book: “Starting Anyway”

is amazingly hopeful. She gives detail about the oil extraction on the Niger Delta and its effects on the indigenous people. These were some of the first people to stand up for their environment in the face of powerful oil com-panies. Also, places like Germany set an exam-ple of green energy development. The book ends with the challenge to individuals to real-ize their power. She suggests that when peo-ple in control of fossil fuel industries and gov-ernments realize they lack the social license to continue their devastation, they could change their tactics.

Naomi Klein although very straightforward in giving her point of view is nevertheless not naive. She acknowledges that people keep using fossil fuels because their livelihoods are tied up with them. She explores the issues: providing alternative employment, breaking the stranglehold of the rich who benefit from extraction industries, and developing green power sources.

Klein believes that the world is at a tipping point regarding the health of the planet. She sees the present as the last chance we will have to make the changes necessary to save our world. The author appears to be excited at the possibility that this change can occur, and that we can not only save the environ-ment but also create a more just world.

Recommended generally for adults. If you read this book be prepared to have your mind changed. It is not a question of capitalism ver-

sus another ideology; it is a question of sur-vival.

Klein, Naomi. This Changes Everything: Capi-talism vs. The Climate. Toronto: Knopf Cana-da, 2014.

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Calendar Intercessions List - February 2016Day 1 and every day) THE BISHOP: William (Margaret) Anderson

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 (Bryann) Nuzzo, Honourary Assistant; The Wardens, Lay Readers, and Church Committee.

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

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

5) OLD MASSETT, HAIDA GWAII: The Con-gregation 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 Moore, Priest; for the Wardens, Lay Readers and Church Army Offi-cers.

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. Canon Gary (Colleen) Davis, Priest in charge and for the Wardens and Lay Readers.

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

11) KITIMAT: The Congregation of Christ Church. For the Venerable Ernest Buchanan Priest in Charge; for the Wardens and Lay Lead-ers.

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

13) BULKELY VALLEY PARISH: The Con-gregations 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. Roy Andrews, Priest in Charge; 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 Chet-wynd Shared Ministry. for the Wardens and Lay Readers.

18) NORTH PEACE PARISH: The Congrega-tions 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 Congrega-tions of St. Mark, Dawson Creek and Christ Church, Pouce Coupe. The Venerable Timothy (Bev) Johnson, Priest in Charge and Archdea-con of Caledonia East; for the Wardens and Lay Readers.

20) DIOCESAN OFFICERS AND SYNOD OF-FICE STAFF: Audrey Wagner, Secretary-Trea-surer; Donna Demers Accountant; Cliff Arm-strong, Diocesan Archivist. CHANCELLOR: Deborah O’Leary; A.C.W. PRESIDENT: Susan Kinney

21) DIOCESAN EXECUTIVE AND ALL OTHER DIOCESAN COMMITTEES

22) RETIRED CLERGY: Lance Stephens, Mike Monkman, Lorna Janze, Peter Hamel, Mary Parslow, Charlie Parslow, Fay Lavallee, Ray Fletcher, Lilly Bell. SPECIAL MINISTRIES: Brent Neumann,

23) THE CATHEDRAL CHAPTER: HONOU-RARY CANONS: Lance Stephens, Peter Hamel, James Nuzzo, Gary Davis; HONOURARY LAY

CANONS: Jennifer Davies, Camilla Haines, El-eanor Kustas and Audrey Bennett.

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 Chaplains, and local clergy.

25) CAMP CALEDONIA: The Camp Board, Camp Director and Staff, Volunteers and ESPE-CAICampers.

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. James Cowan British Columbia

The Most Rev. John Privett Kootenay

The Rt. Rev. Barbara Andrews, Bishop Suffragan (APCI)

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)

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