Archive for April, 2007

Presbyterian Record publisher David Harris reported an astonishing response to the 2006 fundraising effort, with an increase of 17 per cent over the 2005 effort. About 2,000 of...

Presbyterian World Service and Development recently received an additional $200,000 from the Canadian International Development Agency for new projects. Along with more than $66,000 from PWS&D, the funds...

Editor notes: The image was taken from a graphic designers' stock resource. The photographer, who identified himself only as Bernd, wrote from Germany to explain, "It was a...

Ple-e-e-ase give credit where credit is due. It would appear that the Good Shepherd and the Lamb is a bronze statue. I would like to know more about...

Re By The Numbers, JanuaryBe it a large or small congregation the standard of excellence to which all Christians must aspire is Jesus Christ. I don't recall reading...

It is normally thought, certainly was by Mel Gibson, that Christ spoke Aramaic, the Semitic tongue believed to have displaced Hebrew as the Jewish vernacular. Latin is usually...

Rev. August Basson of Lesotho is working in a rural area, among the people with the Africa Inland Mission. The ability of the people there to sustain themselves...

This writer continues to suffer grievous pain, resultant from my beloved wife's death and fond memories of a marriage of 50 years' duration. Philip of Macedon gave a...

Andrew Faiz responds: It doesn't. But, it is common practice in the PCC for elders to serve the bread and the wine to the congregation, and to the...

Re The Opinionated Masses, JanuaryWhere in The Book of Forms does it say, "lay members can serve the...

Thanks for an excellent issue on The Path to Healing: Sharing the Pain of Residential Schools (February). I appreciated the comprehensive historical overview and the detailed descriptions of...

Out of his five decades in ministry Rev. Fred H. Rennie served St. John's, Cornwall, Ont., for 27 years, from 1975 - 2001. In January the congregation dedicated...

On the 17th anniversary of her ordination, Rev. Lynne Donovan was inducted into St. Andrew's, Picton, Ont., surrounded by friends with whom she had served in the Presbytery...

They asked, they waited (a while), they received. St. Andrew's, Hastings, Ont., and St. Andrew's, Warkworth, Ont., were pleased to welcome Rev. David G. Cooper as their long...

The M&M's of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, a newly formed group for service and study, have taken on the School Breakfast Program for...

On January 11, Ernest (Ernie) MacPherson, the oldest living resident of Prince Edward Island, celebrated his 108th birthday. He is a member of West Point, P.E.I, where he...

She hasn't lost anything - certainly not her sense of humour. Elsie Maddock of St. Andrew's, New Liskeard, Ont., turned 100 last November. She told a local newspaper,...

Hugh Lloyd is well past counting the candles on the annual cake, and that was why staff at church offices had to surprise him into celebrating his birthday...

Celebrating Successful Ministry Past, Present and Future at the Induction Service for Rev. Michael J. Marsden OAKVILLE, Ontario - February 19, 2007 - It was a full house as...