St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral Kamloops

Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Parish Update: November 6, 2015

Hello St. Paul’s Family

Here are a few things you may need to know.

Soup

Thank you to all who gave soup this week – the upstairs freezer is full – let’s fill up the basement freezer!

The visitors requiring soup have not slowed down with the change of the season and even with the generous additions from the Sorrento Centre kitchen we are completely out!! If you can please refill the freezer with soup. There are empty yogurt containers in the kitchen.

Thank you SO much!

DUE SUNDAY!!! - ST. PAUL’S 9^th ANNUAL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST 2015

THEME: FOOD FOR THE JOURNEY

Photos depicting who, what, where or how you are/have been inspired in faith and hope on your journey through this year of change at St. Paul’s.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: NOVEMBER 8^TH

RECIPIENTS AWARDED: NOVEMBER 22^ND

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS:

Entry is open to all of God’s people.
Entries are to be submitted by the photographer
Entries are to have been taken within the current year – 2015.
Entries are limited to four (4) per person.
Please include your name, phone number on the back of the photo.
A title and/or comments as to why the entry depicts FOOD FOR THE JOURNEY are encouraged.
Please indicate if you wish your photographs returned.
First, second and third place will be acknowledged with a certificate.
Two “Honourable Mentions” not already placed in top 3 will also be acknowledged with a certificate.
All acknowledged photographs will appear in St. Paul’s Circular.
All photographs will be displayed in the cathedral
4 x 6 prints may be dropped off at 360 Nicola Street.
Prints may be sent by email (jpeg) to: stpaulscathedral@shawbiz.ca

GIVE IT YOUR BEST SHOT!

Remembrance Day – Nov. 11 – there will be no 10am Holy Eucharist at the church. We invite you to join the Remembrance Day @ Riverside Park

Ceremony starts at 10:30am and there will be a Fly past by aircraft from 419 Squadron, Cold Lake Alberta at approx. 11:00am.

Here is some important information that we will be going over on Sunday. It is time to review the fire drill plan.

Here it is

EVACUATE via the nearest safe exit (point to the 2 doors). ASSIST persons requiring assistance.

CHILDREN IN SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS will evacuate from the basement with their instructor and gather in front of the YMCA at 4^th and Battle. Parents will meet them there.

ALL OTHER ADULTS ASSEMBLE kitty corner from the church in front of The Windsor, 411 Nicola Street PHONE 9-1-1 to report a fire in the building.

Deadline for submissions for the next issue of the Circular is Wednesday, November 18th; the theme is tradition. What traditions are in your family and church lives?

Parish members are welcome to November 10th Peace & Justice lunch meeting to be held at Painted Pony Restaurant @ 11:30 followed by tour of Boys and Girls club , John Tod Centre, 150 Wood St, North Kamloops. The Boys and Girls club was our May Outreach and we are following up with them for a tour of their new facilities. RSVP Joy Gothard 250-372-5594.

Friendship Friday.........Nov 20th
Guest speakers: Dr. Mark and Margaret Hyslop who have been working in Health in developing countries will share their story.
10 A.M. ALL welcome

Remains: First Nations Churches of BC

Art show by Brian Kipp

November 21 – 1-6pm

St. Paul’s Cathedral Hall

360 Nicola st

Prints will be available for sale, all proceeds to St. Paul’s Cathedral

For more information please contact Elaine Parkes – 250-374-2316

Kamloops Artists presents:

Fine Arts Show & Sale

November 20, 21, 22 from 10am – 4pm

@ the Japanese Cultural Centre – Vernon Ave Kamloops

PIT stop is a hot meal program which serves a nutritious dinner, without charge to people in our community who are less fortunate than ourselves.

It is happening at St. Paul’s on Dec 6th from 1-5. Volunteers needed for 4 hours or 2 hours either 1-3 for meal prep or 3-5 for serving and clean up.

If you are interested in volunteering please email Kathy Moore atkathymoore@telus.net

PWRDF 2015 Christmas Cards Available in packs of 12 and may be ordered directly from PWRDF by calling: 1-866-308-7973 FREE or 416-924-9199, ext. 318

A Poster of card images & verse and ordering details are on the Peace 7 Justice bulletin board in the hall.

Creating Trustworthy Communities - “A Workshop on Interpersonal Relationships, Boundaries and Communication Skill Development”

DATE: Saturday, November 28, 2015.

TIME: 9 am – 5 pm

PLACE: St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral, 360 Nicola St., Kamloops, BC

Lunch will be provided. Please bring a notebook and pen.

There is NO CHARGE to attend; this event is open to anyone who is interested.

Clergy, Wardens, Pastoral Elders, Lay Ministers of Word & Sacrament, Youth Leaders, Sunday school teachers, and Parish Volunteers should attend this workshop. Certificates will be issued to all participants at the end of training day; the certificate is valid for three years. Please pre-register by calling 250-376-3243 (St. George's.) Thank you!

National Church news - http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=d120aa8efc4112c7cae41108e&id=88b67ab07b&e=847b23ccdd

Chant, Chart, and Converse Workshop

“Behold what you are, Become what you receive”

Saturday December 5 – 9:30-1:30

St. Paul’s Cathedral – 360 Nicola

Light lunch provided

To register please call the office @250-372-3912 or emailstpaulscathedral@shawbiz.ca

Participant are limited to 25

Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Report from APCI Assembly Delegates, 2015

APCI Assembly attendees from St. Paul's Cathedral

Report from the APCI Assembly as given at St. Paul’s Cathedral on Sunday June 21, 2015

by Cathy Shether

I attended the APCI Assembly as part of the team from St. Paul’s. This was the first for me. I was elected as an alternate and when I was called to attend a week before the May 1-3 meeting, I really didn’t know what it was all about. I received and read all the pre-reading materials, but I was still a bit apprehensive, but I went trusting and praying I would learn what it was all about and what my role as a delegate was.

Here is part of what I learned. The assembly is a gathering of the parishes of the central interior that happens every 2 years and in many ways it is like any general meeting:

Previous minutes are reviewed and adopted
Reports of the work of committees are received and accepted
Resolutions are discussed and voted on (there were 7)
There were interesting guest speakers
Election of delegates to other meetings were held (Provincial Synod, General Synod and APCI Coordination Council)

Different from a secular general meeting, there was worship including the introduction of a new music resource for small communities – a sing-a-long video featuring among others Gordon Light. Our final worship service was held at the Valemont Church and we filled it to capacity!

At assembly, I met people from many of the parishes in APCI. I enjoyed chatting with them at coffee breaks, going for walks together at lunch, hearing about the unique problems and programs of their parish and working with them during our working session on “Ministry Need for the Future”.

There was lots of serious thinking about serious issues, but there was also lots of laughter and fun. On Saturday evening following a delicious dinner prepared by the local parish, there was entertainment by a local band and we danced and rejoiced.

I still have more to learn about APCI and the cathedral’s role in it. This was a good experience for me and I would encourage you to consider being a delegate at the next meeting to be held in 2017 at Merritt and Shulus.

Now Melissa will tell you about some of the important resolutions passed and interesting guest speakers.

APCI Assembly Report to St. Paul's Cathedral: June 21, 2015

By: Melissa Green

It is rather timely that information and sharing from the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior (APCI) Assembly is being shared this morning on the National Aboriginal Day. The First Nations People of APCI had, and will continue to have, a strong presence at the Assembly.

First, some history: APCI was formed in 2001 after the Diocese of Cariboo ceased operations. The closing of the Diocese of Cariboo was done as an entry into a process of reconciliation with the First Nations Peoples over the residential school situation. APCI came into being as a movement of “birth from death” into new life and into a “new creation” from what was before. We left the diocesan “status” behind and became an independent entity under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of BC and Yukon. This meant changes:

No more synods but an assembly to govern the work of APCI
No elections of a Bishop but a nomination by the APCI people of a Suffragan Bishop to the Metropolitan which would then require an election by the Province.
No canons but the development of polices and practices

And these changes that we got used to meant some flexibility around who we were… the people of APCI made a number of important decisions in the midst of this shift, including:

making a commitment to our First Nations brothers and sisters by placing the needs and considerations of our indigenous members first, followed by the needs and considerations of the non-indigenous parishes and finally the administrative needs and functions of the ecclesiastical province.
Indigenous members of APCI have 15 delegate seats, with voice and vote, in addition to those already held by delegates from parishes at Assembly. Our parishes send the same number of delegates, it’s not based on the number of parishioners on the parish roll. And each parish can send two youth delegates!

Some major motions from the Assembly came from this reality of our story and life together.

Becoming a Territory

A resolution was unanimously passed asking the Ecclesiastical province to recognize APCI as a territory with the right to elect its own bishop. This would give APCI the autonomy of a diocese without taking on the structure of a diocese.

The term “territory” was appealing for a number of reasons… we heard from our Indigenous family that the word ‘church’ or ‘Anglican church’ still today has an affect on the survivors of the residential schools. It is believed that the term “territory” would carry less baggage than “diocese”. And Archbishop John Privett reminded us that within the provincial canons there is a provision for dioceses, regions, or territories, and so he said, “in some ways it’s going to fit in well”.

Being defined as a territory allows us to continue to honour those the Anglican Church has hurt in the past by our corporate activities. It invites us to intentionally continue to journey together on the path of healing and reconciliation. It would allow us to have greater independence over the day to day affairs of APCI but not jump back into the category and story of the diocesan structure and our history that took place within that structure. “Territory” defines a geographic area… which is what we currently are as the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior, this will allow greater independence over the governance and decisions.

This motion goes to provincial synod this fall where it will be voted on by the community gathered.

Election of a Bishop

Connected to this, members of the Assembly voted in favour of electing future bishops of APCI independently and that those bishops engage in ministry here in APCI would function independently: without direct oversight by the Metropolitan of the Province (as is our current structure) We would have our own nomination and election processes which would be in line with the Provincial Synod canons.

APCI has lived since its creation without a clear picture of the jurisdictions of the Suffragan Bishop and that of the Metropolitan. More and more the people and parishes of APCI have seen the elected Suffragan Bishop as “our bishop” and after the confusion around the election of Bishop Barbara steps were taken for further exploration of electing our own bishop and functioning independently.

Ministry

We engaged in and asked questions around ministry and our ministry work together.

We asked questions like:

How will we support and uphold our smaller congregations and their leadership?
How will we ensure sacramental ministry for those who do not live within the major centers of the Central Interior?
How does our parish work collaboratively today?
How might our parish continue in collaborative ministry more intentionally in the future?

We had conversations around adopting principles of collaborative ministry… ministry that grounds ministry leadership in baptism and affirms and encourages the gifts of all. Ministry that moves from being centred around one person to a team of leaders who all bring their gifts and vocation to the table.

The Assembly approved a motion to support the funding of a position in APCI that will help us to ask the questions and seek guidance and direction in the answers.

Closing

APCI Assembly is of course much more than the motions and business. It’s about community, about relationships, about sharing experiences we have as individual disciples called into ministry and as congregations called to gather and worship and be in the world together.

We celebrated the ongoing partnership with our sister diocese, The Diocese of Montreal. We sent Bishop Barry best wishes on his upcoming retirement and now celebrate with the diocese on the election of their new bishop, Mary Irwin-Gibson.

We heard about the good work of the Anglican Foundation and were graced by their presence and stories of ministry work in the world. We are one of the only regions/dioceses where every parish has a membership with the Anglican Foundation!

Mary and Gordon Dove championed the Assembly Prayer Vigil which invited people from across APCI and beyond to join the vigil and sign up for any of the 50 hours of the Assembly. And so the Assembly was “prayed through”… we were held in prayer from the time our travel to Assembly started until we arrived home: and we, as delegates, felt that care and love. It was wonderful to welcome Mark Perrin from the national Anglican Fellowship of Prayer to the Assembly and hear from him about the work of that part of our Anglican Church.

It was exciting to hear in Bishop Barbara’s address that Sandra and Tom Sugden will be installed as Canons as recognition for their many years of dedicated service that they have shared so very faithfully with APCI.

We continue to be grateful for our own Dwight Oatway who serves APCI as the Financial Officer. He is a steady hand in all aspects of the life of APCI and beyond and oversees all day-to-day financial operations. Dwight gives over and above and I know how much this means to our Bishop and we too need to not forget the service Dwight provides to our community of APCI.

Elections took place for Coordinating Council, Provincial Synod and General Synod: gatherings locally, provincially and nationally to engage in the work of ministry in those areas and make governance decisions. From the Cathedral delegates two elections to General Synod took place: Dale Drozda as our youth delegate and myself as a lay delegate.

The people and community of Valemount welcomed us with open and generous arms… they supported us, welcomed us, fed us, entertained us and make our work possible by covering all of the logistical details of our stay.

We listened to our First Nations elders speak, we listened to our young people speak, and we listened to one another. We listened intently, we shared in silence and we celebrated in applause.

I close with Bishop Barbara’s closing words from her address, “Journeying into a new creation will call on all our gifts and talents to embrace the future, trusting with faith and courage in the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of God is working within us, amongst us and is drawing us forward to engage in God’s mission and ministry in the Central Interior as a new creation – God’s dream for us as God’s faithful family in the Central Interior.”

Saturday, 31 October 2015

Parish Update: October 30, 2015

Hello St. Paul’s Family

Here are a few things you may need to know.

Day light savings time – Saturday Night!

Fall back people – fall back! Turn your clocks back 1 hour J

Soup- OUR FREEZER IS EMPTY!!!!!

Thank you SO much!

Congratulations to The Reverends Tom and Sandra Sugden on their recent installation as Canons.

St. Paul's Artists bring you images from Ordinary Time. In a two phase exhibit (October and January) during the seasons of Ordinary Time, we explore the holy in the everyday and everywhere. We invite you to consider life between the highs and lows and how it is that we find God in those spaces. From Oct 17 -Nov 21 and from Jan 11- Feb 9 creative works on this theme will hang in the sanctuary. For more information contact Jennifer Ste Marie (250-578-7595)

Out of the Cold - The out of the cold program will operate this year on both Sunday and Wednesday nights. We are going to need more volunteers to help run this extra day. Volunteers are needed in the following areas: making beds, cooking, making breakfast, morning clean up and more! If you are interested please contact Bud Forbes @ 250-573-3430 or Christine Jeffries @ 250 318-0236 or come to the

REMEMBRANCE DAY MEMORIES

Join us for a delicious dinner, followed by Songs and Stories from the War

Years. All are welcome. Sunday November 8, at 5 pm.St. Paul’s Cathedral,

360 Nicola Street.

Adults $12.00, Children $5.00, Family $35.00. For tickets please call the Trish at 250-374-1484, the Cathedral office at 250-372-3912, or Roger at 250-374-2316.

Please buy your tickets early or call to reserve, as we hate to turn folks away the night of the dinner.

The Moose Dinner – Friday November 6 at St. George’s Parish hall – 308 Royal Ave. Doors open at 5:30 and dinner is at 6pm. Tickets are $15 for adults or $5 for kids. Call for tickets Eloise @250-374-4276 or Shirlee @250-828-2619 or the office @250-376-3243