Summary of April 10 table discussions.
The topic was “ What are the opportunities for growth and improvement in Ministry at St. Paul’s Cathedral at this time. (What can we do better).”
Group 1
Hold Taize services?
Hold services on another day or night.
Is Evensong a possibility?
Let’s celebrate our resources: children, youth, families, and seniors.
Let’s focus on people rather than “stuff”.
How can we attract more people?
How can we prevent burnout of our leaders?
Group 2
The church must appeal to youth, so we will have to make major changes. In 20 years, youth will not be attending as adults. Be more flexible in what we are, and be willing to accept change. Liturgy has less appeal to young people. Use modern technology – Facebook?
Be more involved with Outreach programs in the Community.
Be more involved with other Anglican churches in our area.
Put up or shut up. We need to move forward with our building.
Aging demographics.
Music leaves a lot to be desired. It is not uplifting.
Group 3
Do we need a formal way of recognizing new people and making them feel welcome?
Name tags would help those of us who forget names.
Do we give lots of praise to those who do ministry quietly or where we don’t see it?
Encouraging personal discussions of how our faith affects our life and our life affects our faith.
More contemporizing of liturgy and music, ie the written creeds.
Something to attract younger families. We could ask them what they need.
Hold a Sunday morning open house at St. Paul’s and get it out via the media.
Articles on various activities and ministries.
Group 4
More flowers.
More variety and choice in music – use new resources (Sorrento music, faster tempo, Voices United, John Bell, Taize)
More musical instruments.
There should be no age restrictions for joining the choir.
Handicapped access,
Make bulletin more colorful.
Hall access for the Youth Group, as more youth are attending.
Paint the outside of the church.
Have a suggestion box.
Braving into the community.
Young families.
Can be intimidating outside of the service.
More potluck dinners.
Frontier Fair.
Youth services, with youth music.
Team building activities with the whole church (icebreakers).
Asking opinions.
Group 5
Hearing in the Cathedral is difficult for some people. We need a wired sound system that would allow people to use headphones.
Tape sermons so that others may hear them.
Worship space needs to be consistent.
At worship, most of us are the same age. What is our future?
Change the music. Cursillo music would be better. We need music that makes us feel better and more uplifted. There is lovely music available. The words of many of the traditional hymns are not great and do not make much sense today.
Use more contemporary music.
Passing of the Peace at 10 AM sometimes becomes a bit of a zoo.
Group 6
Have a welcome package for visitors. Recognize visitors. Give them a personal invitation and take them to coffee.
Combine ministry displays with various functions to which community is invited.
Invite your friends and neighbors to church.
Increase amount of contemporary music. Ask young people to bring instruments to play.
Use music that we can sing – not pitched as high. Put music on a screen.
Try other ways of reconfiguration – eg in the round.
Make more use of Lay Ministers of Word and Sacrament. There could be a rotating preaching schedule.
Advertise what we do - eg Confirmation and Baptismal classes.
Invite those outside our church community to our parish events and activities, such as bible study, movies, community gardens, youth group. Make personal invitations, big color advertisments.
Vacation bible school in the summer.
We have an opportunity to increase our ministry at seniors’ residences – eg healing services.
We don’t know who in the community needs prayers, because at the prayers of the people the names in the basket are not shared.
Hold healing services at St. Paul’s.
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
Thursday, 7 April 2011
WORSHIP SPACE RE-CONFIGURATION
To complete the survey online for our Worship Space Re-configuration, please click on the highlighted area:
Survey Monkey.
Survey Monkey.
Thursday, 24 March 2011
EASTER SERVICES
Special services planned for Easter:
MAUNDY THURSDAY: Foot washing & Eucharist, 7:30 pm, April 21st
GOOD FRIDAY: Meditation on the Cross and the Passion, 11:00 am
HOLY SATURDAY: The Great Vigil of Easter and Confirmations, 9:00 pm
EASTER SUNDAY:
5:00 am - Sunrise Service at Beach Avenue & Schubert
8:00 am - Holy Communion, Chapel
10:00 am - Holy Eucharist, Cathedral
MAUNDY THURSDAY: Foot washing & Eucharist, 7:30 pm, April 21st
GOOD FRIDAY: Meditation on the Cross and the Passion, 11:00 am
HOLY SATURDAY: The Great Vigil of Easter and Confirmations, 9:00 pm
EASTER SUNDAY:
5:00 am - Sunrise Service at Beach Avenue & Schubert
8:00 am - Holy Communion, Chapel
10:00 am - Holy Eucharist, Cathedral
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
HOLY WEEK STUDY
Three Marys
Mother - Lover - Friend
HOLY WEEK STUDY: A TRINITY OF MARYS
April 18th
Mary the Mother; led by Sandra Sugden
April 19th
Mary Magdalene; led by Louise Peters
April 20th
Mary of Bethany; led by Isabel Healy-Morrow
Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday of Holy Week in the Cathedral
1:00 - 3:00 pm; repeated 7:00 - 10:00 pm
St. Paul’s Cathedral, 360 Nicola Avenue
phone: 250-372-3912 email: stpaulscathedral@shawbiz.ca
Mother - Lover - Friend
HOLY WEEK STUDY: A TRINITY OF MARYS
April 18th
Mary the Mother; led by Sandra Sugden
April 19th
Mary Magdalene; led by Louise Peters
April 20th
Mary of Bethany; led by Isabel Healy-Morrow
Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday of Holy Week in the Cathedral
1:00 - 3:00 pm; repeated 7:00 - 10:00 pm
St. Paul’s Cathedral, 360 Nicola Avenue
phone: 250-372-3912 email: stpaulscathedral@shawbiz.ca
Thursday, 24 February 2011
LENTEN LECTURES
Here is the series for 2011 Lenten Lectures beginning in March:
St. Paul's Cathedral Annual Lenten Lecture Series 2011
Imago Dei: Image of God
This year's series will explore how we view and imagine God, and how our perception of God influences our faith and life.
March 10: LeAnn Blackert
March 17: Louise Peters
March 24: Brian Puida Mitchell
March 31: Brian Krushel
April 7: Teri Meyer
April 14: Mary Dove
April 21: Wendy McNiven
Thursdays in Lent at 12:15 pm 360 Nicola St. Kamloops. Light lunch to follow. Free. All are welcome! For more info: 250-372-3912
St. Paul's Cathedral Annual Lenten Lecture Series 2011
Imago Dei: Image of God
This year's series will explore how we view and imagine God, and how our perception of God influences our faith and life.
March 10: LeAnn Blackert
March 17: Louise Peters
March 24: Brian Puida Mitchell
March 31: Brian Krushel
April 7: Teri Meyer
April 14: Mary Dove
April 21: Wendy McNiven
Thursdays in Lent at 12:15 pm 360 Nicola St. Kamloops. Light lunch to follow. Free. All are welcome! For more info: 250-372-3912
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
THE SEASON OF LENT
St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral is a very busy place during Lent.:
join us in Lent for five movies dealing with life and/or death themes. The March 16th movie starts at 5:00 pm.(all others start at 7:00 pm); supper will be provided - by donation - at 6:30 pm on March 16th only. Discussions will follow each movie
March 16th @ 5:00 pm in the Chapel
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett star in this 2008 movie which explores ageing as expressed through the case of a man who starts ageing backwards with bizarre consequences.
March 23rd @ 7:00 pm in the Chapel
One Week
This 2008 Canadian-movie, starring Joshua Jackson, chronicles a motorcycle trip from Toronto to Tofino, BC - a trip to find meaning in life, by a young man after he is diagnosed with cancer.
March 30th @ 7:00 pm in the Chapel
Truly, Madly, Deeply
This delightful British movie starring Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman, is about a woman grieving the death of her boyfriend and is visited by his ghost.
April 6th @ 7:00 pm in the Chapel
Pay It Forward
Haley Joel Osment, Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt star in this 2000 drama about a boy whose school project is about repaying good deeds, not with payback, but with new good deeds to three new people.
April 13th @ 7:00 pm in the Chapel
Baraka
Commonly interpreted as “blessing”, in Arabic languages Baraka means “spiritual wisdom and blessing from God” and in a Sufi context, “breath of life.” Director Ron Fricke’s 1992 non-narrative film shows us the world, with an emphasis not on “where” but on “what’s there.”
St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral, 360 Nicola Street, Kamloops, BC V2B 4M6
phone: 250-372-3912; email:stpaulscathedral@shawbiz.ca
join us in Lent for five movies dealing with life and/or death themes. The March 16th movie starts at 5:00 pm.(all others start at 7:00 pm); supper will be provided - by donation - at 6:30 pm on March 16th only. Discussions will follow each movie
March 16th @ 5:00 pm in the Chapel
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett star in this 2008 movie which explores ageing as expressed through the case of a man who starts ageing backwards with bizarre consequences.
March 23rd @ 7:00 pm in the Chapel
One Week
This 2008 Canadian-movie, starring Joshua Jackson, chronicles a motorcycle trip from Toronto to Tofino, BC - a trip to find meaning in life, by a young man after he is diagnosed with cancer.
March 30th @ 7:00 pm in the Chapel
Truly, Madly, Deeply
This delightful British movie starring Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman, is about a woman grieving the death of her boyfriend and is visited by his ghost.
April 6th @ 7:00 pm in the Chapel
Pay It Forward
Haley Joel Osment, Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt star in this 2000 drama about a boy whose school project is about repaying good deeds, not with payback, but with new good deeds to three new people.
April 13th @ 7:00 pm in the Chapel
Baraka
Commonly interpreted as “blessing”, in Arabic languages Baraka means “spiritual wisdom and blessing from God” and in a Sufi context, “breath of life.” Director Ron Fricke’s 1992 non-narrative film shows us the world, with an emphasis not on “where” but on “what’s there.”
St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral, 360 Nicola Street, Kamloops, BC V2B 4M6
phone: 250-372-3912; email:stpaulscathedral@shawbiz.ca
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
RECONFIGURATION OF SPACE
If you are a member of St. Paul's parish, you need to be aware of potential changes:
The Cathedral’s Facility and Ministry Committee has spent the last five years exploring our shared ministry at St. Paul's, as well opportunities for our facility. The mandate has been to look at:
• what our ministry is,
• how our ministry is supported or hindered by the present facility,
• what the future might hold for our Cathedral Parish in terms of our long range plans.
Last year presentations were made to the community which outlined three options to consider for our future life together. These options were:
• to stay as we are,
• consider rebuilding,
• renovate.
A survey was taken in the spring of 2010 with the results showing a high engagement in this process, but no clear decision as a community at this time. The survey results were shared in small group discussions with the community and from this came helpful input offering direction to the Facility and Ministry Committee for their future work.
The process of the Committee’s work continues, and will involve a number of monthly after church conversations looking at our ministry together now and into the future. You will receive more information about this before our first conversation in March.
The Worship Reflection Group, a sub-committee of the Facility and Ministry Committee, has been meeting for the last two years. This group has been evaluating our present worship space, exploring other models and researching designs and liturgical concepts and needs that can be supported by the physical structure of the worship space. They have worked with resources written by Richard Giles: “Creating Uncommon Worship”, and “Re-Pitching the Tent”. From this work and that of the Facility and Ministry Group, in addition to input from the parish conversations and input from the surveys, it has been discerned that it is time that we as a community together begin to explore and experience our worship space in a new way for a limited time period.
A trial reconfiguration of the present space will assist us as a community to consider possible changes, and provide the opportunity to reflect with actual experience in the context of our worship in the Cathedral building.
Reconfiguring the liturgical space of our worship will provide several opportunities:
• education – a chance to learn more about what we do in worship and why we do what we do
• experience – a new perspective that might reveal to us differently the challenges and blessings of the space we presently share as it is now
• open us to a new understanding – of our worship as Christian Anglicans nourished by Word, Baptism and Eucharist
The Cathedral worship space (the Narthex, Nave and Sanctuary) will be reconfigured for the Liturgical Season of Lent in 2011. From the period of March 13 – April 17, we will experience different seating and liturgical furniture arrangement in the Cathedral. A detailed plan of this reconfiguration will be shared with the community in mid February, along with tools to assist us in our evaluation of the experience. The proposal is to change the entrance way, place the holy table at the east end of the building and arrange the pews differently.
The committees working on this, in partnership with the Cathedral Committee, Rector and Wardens wanted to inform the Cathedral community well in advance so that we are all able to enter into these changes prepared. We know that change is challenging, and that changes of worship space will provoke numerous responses. We want to emphasize that this is not being proposed or done in a cavalier fashion, but with the intention of providing opportunities for engaged community education, reflection, and conversation about what we do when we worship and how the space in which we do this can best support our worship of God and our growth as the community of Christ's body in this place.
There will be more information about this coming to you over the next month.
The Cathedral’s Facility and Ministry Committee has spent the last five years exploring our shared ministry at St. Paul's, as well opportunities for our facility. The mandate has been to look at:
• what our ministry is,
• how our ministry is supported or hindered by the present facility,
• what the future might hold for our Cathedral Parish in terms of our long range plans.
Last year presentations were made to the community which outlined three options to consider for our future life together. These options were:
• to stay as we are,
• consider rebuilding,
• renovate.
A survey was taken in the spring of 2010 with the results showing a high engagement in this process, but no clear decision as a community at this time. The survey results were shared in small group discussions with the community and from this came helpful input offering direction to the Facility and Ministry Committee for their future work.
The process of the Committee’s work continues, and will involve a number of monthly after church conversations looking at our ministry together now and into the future. You will receive more information about this before our first conversation in March.
The Worship Reflection Group, a sub-committee of the Facility and Ministry Committee, has been meeting for the last two years. This group has been evaluating our present worship space, exploring other models and researching designs and liturgical concepts and needs that can be supported by the physical structure of the worship space. They have worked with resources written by Richard Giles: “Creating Uncommon Worship”, and “Re-Pitching the Tent”. From this work and that of the Facility and Ministry Group, in addition to input from the parish conversations and input from the surveys, it has been discerned that it is time that we as a community together begin to explore and experience our worship space in a new way for a limited time period.
A trial reconfiguration of the present space will assist us as a community to consider possible changes, and provide the opportunity to reflect with actual experience in the context of our worship in the Cathedral building.
Reconfiguring the liturgical space of our worship will provide several opportunities:
• education – a chance to learn more about what we do in worship and why we do what we do
• experience – a new perspective that might reveal to us differently the challenges and blessings of the space we presently share as it is now
• open us to a new understanding – of our worship as Christian Anglicans nourished by Word, Baptism and Eucharist
The Cathedral worship space (the Narthex, Nave and Sanctuary) will be reconfigured for the Liturgical Season of Lent in 2011. From the period of March 13 – April 17, we will experience different seating and liturgical furniture arrangement in the Cathedral. A detailed plan of this reconfiguration will be shared with the community in mid February, along with tools to assist us in our evaluation of the experience. The proposal is to change the entrance way, place the holy table at the east end of the building and arrange the pews differently.
The committees working on this, in partnership with the Cathedral Committee, Rector and Wardens wanted to inform the Cathedral community well in advance so that we are all able to enter into these changes prepared. We know that change is challenging, and that changes of worship space will provoke numerous responses. We want to emphasize that this is not being proposed or done in a cavalier fashion, but with the intention of providing opportunities for engaged community education, reflection, and conversation about what we do when we worship and how the space in which we do this can best support our worship of God and our growth as the community of Christ's body in this place.
There will be more information about this coming to you over the next month.
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