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Internship
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The End of the Word as We Know It
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St.Andrew’s College
I have discovered something quite different. Through the diligent work of the Search Committee, chaired by
Lloyd Lovatt; the reaching out of our
Board, chaired by Vic Wiebe; the gentle, but persistent voice of our former
Principal Laura Balas; and the voices of others deeply committed to St.
Andrew’s College, I received a ‘call’ to the Principal’s Office. God very often has a way of calling us that only in hindsight can be seen. Now, even after just these few short months in the
Office, I am deeply thankful for the call.
These first few months into the call have been for me a baptism by reimmersion into the life of the College and wider life of our United Church. I have met at the College a marvelous and dedicated group of women and men who are today’s student body.
They are a diverse group of people preparing for servant leadership.
Some are preparing for ministry as a
first career, others as a second or third career. They come from across Canada and now, from across the globe. They bring their diverse backgrounds and passions, but consistent is their commitment to study and preparation as they make ready to serve our Church and world. Our Church and communities will be well served in the days ahead.
My re-immersion has also introduced me to a deeply committed, passionate and talented group of teachers who are the faculty of St. Andrew’s.
Our faculty is a rich resource for our students; a rich resource for biblical, theological, historical and ethical exploration; and they are a rich resource for our Church and community. Rich and diverse also is the experience our students gain through their internship work in congregations and pastoral charges across Western
Canada.
St. Andrew’s places a high value on the integration of academic study and experiential learning. I am told that we are the only College of the
United Church that includes the internship experience as a prerequisite to the Master of Divinity degree.
It is to provide for the intersection and the encounter between student, teacher, church and world that St.
Andrew’s exists.
It is through that encounter we prepare servant leaders.
This is the core of our mission and ministry being lived out daily at St.
Andrew’s.
But my re-immersion in College and Church has also highlighted our arenas of need.
If we are to fulfill our mission we need to lower the current barriers to accessibility to our College for both our current and potential students.
The financial challenges and demands that face our students, and often their families, are great. For some they may be an insurmountable barrier.
And our
College home itself presents to others its own insurmountable barrier. If you are in a wheelchair, or live with other mobility issues, you cannot enter St.
Andrew’s College, you cannot worship in our Chapel, study in our library, enter our classrooms, live in our residence or share in our community life.
To open the doors and floors of our
College and to better support our students will require of us a major financial campaign.
Your Development
Committee of the College is now engaged in the planning for just such an accessibility campaign.
Our other arena of great need is to expand the number of students at St.
Andrew’s. We have now regained the stability and capacity to welcome many more into our community of learning.
Our Church and our world need servant leaders who are deeply rooted in the faith and well equipped to serve.
Most all who have come to St. Andrew’s have responded to a ‘call’. And most often that ‘call’ has come from someone they knew respected or loved. In the circle of each of our lives there is someone who may hear that ‘call’ if God may use our voice to speak it. It is not for the sake of the College, but for the sake of the Gospel, the sake of the Church and our communities that I encourage you to be God’s voice of ‘call’ to St.
Andrew’s. Twice in my life I have heard the ‘call’ to St. Andrew’s and I can tell you this is a good place to be!
As we now enter into the darkest time of the year, into Advent and
Epiphany, into Christmas and the New
Year, we at the College hold you in our prayers and ask that you hold us in yours.
May the light of Christ shine upon us and through us to our Church and our world!
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The Academic Committee of St.
Andrew’s College, Saskatoon is pleased to announce the two nominees who have been selected to receive the
Degree of Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa at the Spring Convocation. The
Committee makes its choices from nominations received from the Church and community at large. The degree is conferred upon persons for distinguished service in ministry, especially pastoral or missionary services, theological scholarship, church leadership, and community responsibility and concern.
The 2010 recipients of the
Honorary Doctorate will be the Rev.
John Haas of Regina and Ms. Zarqa
Nawas , also of Regina.
From his nominator’s comments,
John Haas, currently serving as order of ministry at Wesley United Church,
Regina has had “a remarkable story of involvement in the United Church of
Canada at the local, regional, provincial and national levels.” Coming to the
United Church of Canada from the
Presbyterian Church of the United
States, John has contributed significantly to the inter-church/ inter-faith work of the
Church at
P r e s b y t e r y ,
C o n f e r e n c e and General
Council levels.
John’s nominators from his
Rev. John Haas
P a s t o r a l
C h a r g e s describe him as “a creative and imaginative liturgist, an outstanding preacher, a passionate advocate of justice and right relationship” and as “a caring pastor.”
John Haas is an “intentional part of community life”, has a “wonderful sense of humour” and has given a “lifetime career to pastoral ministry.”
Zarqa Nawas is best known as the creator of “Little Mosque on the
Prairie”. Zarqa’s nominators point out that “Little Mosque” simply represents her “continuing commitment to justice and multi-faith dialogue which fosters peace, inclusion and respectful understanding amongst people of faith. Her particular witness on behalf of Muslim women has been courageous and r e m a r k a b l e .”
“Zarqa Nawas’ i n f e c t i o u s e n t h u s i a s m helps others perceive the dignity and divine within
Ms. Zarqa Nawas and around us all.” Zarqa has had a long career in radio and television journalism, much of it with the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and now has an award winning career in film and video. One of Zarqa’s nominators observed that “because of her articulation of such truths she and her family have faced ridicule, attempts at isolation and even threats of harm from some segments of her faith community. But Zarqa Nawas continues to pursue her ultimate desire for the emancipation of Muslim women, and their equal treatment she believes her faith demands.”
When Rev. Heather Lea approached her congregation at St. Andrew’s United
Church in Creelman about the new
Extra Measures initiative of
Saskatchewan Conference, they decided to tackle something that was practical and close to home; that is, to raise money to purchase three windows for
St. Andrews College. Although they had set a goal of doing this within a year, they were able to raise the entire amount of $1836.00, above their regular
M&S donations, within six months.
The presentation to St. Andrew’s
College Board Chair, Vic Wiebe, was made at Heather Lea’s last worship service with this congregation before she moved to Manitoba. This contribution is a tribute to both the congregation and to Heather Lea, a graduate of St.
Andrew’s College. Pictured left to right are John Horner, making the presentation on behalf of the congregation, Heather Lea and Vic Wiebe.
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Sermon preached by the Rev. Lorne Calvert
At the Covenanting Service of St. Andrew’s College, October 28, 2009
“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?”
Matthew 5:13
On occasions of installation and covenanting, the preacher is expected to provide an abundance of wisdom with an economy of words. This is a challenging task when the covenanting speaker is a preacher, turned politician, turned principal.
(Although after twenty-three years in the
Legislature, if someone is provoked to shout from the pew, I will feel quite at home!)
Tonight I return to the Chapel where once I prayed and studied.
There will be those who would argue that those 36 years ago I spent too much time in this
Chapel….at least too much time in contemplation of the second panel from the bottom, left hand side of the Chapel window above us.
Some of you may be able to make out the inscription in that panel. It reads, “Go ye therefore…politics.”
Let me say that I do not regret a moment of having heeded the injunction of that window, not a moment.
And to those whose futures in public life are being counted at City Hall and in Council
Chambers across the province, tonight…and to those from elected office who are with us in the
Chapel; contrary to all you might hear, I say, “We honour your commitment to serve our community and our neighbours.”
From my own walk in public life I have taken a storehouse of memories. One of those memories came on this campus shortly after I became
Premier.
On behalf of the Province and people of
Saskatchewan, even though the heavy lifting had been done in government by Roy Romanow and
Janice Mackinnon, I had the joy as Premier of sharing in the ribbon cutting at the completion of the
Canadian Light Source Synchrotron.
When the ribbon was cut and the tea was being served a dear, elderly soul approached me to say how disappointed she was in the ribbon cutting ceremony. She said, and I quote, “I thought we would see the light!”
I tried to patiently explain that had we seen the light, it would have been the last light we’d seen this side of heaven.
I had the privilege, as Premier, of hosting her
Majesty Queen Elizabeth on a tour through the
Synchrotron.
In Paris France, I toured the Soleil, the French
Synchrotron, and, in the voice of its Executive
Director I heard envy when she told me that our synchrotron in Saskatoon has something that theirs does not. She called that something “the big wiggler” – I have no idea what she was talking about but apparently we have one and they do not.
I thought a ‘big wiggler’ was a fish hook or something else. I’m glad Her Majesty did not ask me to explain the ‘big wiggler’.
In one corner of our campus stands the
Canadian Light Source Synchrotron, a third generation synchrotron; a tool with the potential of great good; a pinnacle of our secular science; an achievement of our secular world of which we may be extremely proud.
But on another corner of our campus stands a seminary. In fact, on our campus, there stand several seminaries.
The one on this corner is called St. Andrew’s, a seminary yet visible from the street but more and more hidden from the world of the campus.
In the juxtaposition of seminary and synchrotron is the very juxtaposition of the spiritual and the secular in our time.
I have had the rare opportunity to have both feet in both places…to walk the corridors of the secular and the corridors of the spiritual.
From this corner of the campus it is now that
I ask, “What has seminary to say to synchrotron?
What has the spiritual to say to the secular in a 21st century prairie context?”
My text is the salt metaphor from Matthew.
To his people Jesus said, “You are the salt of the earth. But if the saltiness is lost, how shall it be restored?”
Luke repeats a form of the metaphor; Mark repeats a form of the metaphor but each at a different point in the narrative. Matthew combines the metaphor of salt with the metaphor of light.
Mark and Luke do not, suggesting to some that the origin of the metaphor is from the Q documents.
If I were to paraphrase this metaphor of
Christ for our context, I might just say, “You are salt for a synchrotron…..you are salt for a
Saskatoon….you are salt for a secular world.”
In this gospel I hear three things. I hear what we are not to be. I hear a warning . And I hear something of what we could be.
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What we are not to be is simple. If we are to be salt for the earth, then we cannot be the whole earth.
This is a particularly vexing gospel for we who have sprung from colonial Christianity. It is a bitter pill for those of us whose understanding of faith and church arose from the period which
Graeme Smith has called Victorian Christianity.
He defines that period as falling between the mid nineteenth and mid twentieth centuries when particularly mainline Protestant churches flourished on this continent like never before. In that period of Victorian Christianity we saw 7,500 people cram the Mutual Street Arena, which became
Maple Leaf Gardens, to celebrate the formation of the United Church of Canada. In that period we were building churches of sandstone and brick to seat a thousand people; when our churches sprang up in the suburbs, every one of them with a CE wing attached and hundreds in our Sunday
Schools; it was an age, when on this prairie, there were more United Churches alone, then ever there were wooden grain elevators…never mind the
Lutheran churches, the Anglican churches, the
Roman Catholic, the Pentecostal and Evangelical churches in our prairie communities. It was our glory age. We built this building in that age.
And the whole world seemed to look like and us and the whole of our world was becoming us.
And we liked it. And some of us long for it again.
It’s a bitter pill to hear. “You are not called to be the whole earth. The earth is God’s. You are called to be the salt of the earth.”
As every prairie farmer will tell you, too much salt and the land is ruined. Too much salt and the earth is poisoned. As every prairie cook will tell you too much salt and the stew is ruined.
Too much well-intentioned salt gave us residential schools.
Too much well-intentioned salt and we came to confuse our culture with our faith, thinking our culture was our faith.
“You are not the earth, but salt for the earth.
You are not the stew, but flavor for the stew.”
From this text, what we are not is simple, painful perhaps to some of us, but pretty simple.
We are not the whole earth.
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And in this text there is a warning.
At some risk, let me say the warning may be particularly applicable to the very church and faith community in which I have found my spiritual home, the United Church of Canada. “If the salt has lost its flavor, how shall its saltiness be restored?”
Let me ask the pointed question. Are we of the United Church of Canada losing our flavor?
In our headlong rush to expediency, in our headlong rush to preserve what we think we may be losing, in our headlong rush to survival are we losing the very elements that should make us salty?
Now Paul was pretty clear about one of the elements that preserves the saltiness of a
Christian flock.
Listen again to what he wrote to the Romans:
“How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without
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St.Andrew’s College a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent?”
Servant leaders in the church are essential if our saltiness is to be maintained.
Well educated, well trained, servant leaders for the body of Christ; servant leaders deeply rooted in the scriptures, deeply rooted in theology, our history and story, equipped with the tools of a critical understanding of our world; and servant leaders who are deeply rooted in their own spirituality, are the leaders required if we are not to lose our saltiness and be worth our salt.
In our march to egalitarianism have we lost the Biblical sense of servant leadership?
When is the last time the United Church of
Canada actually went out in a concerted recruitment effort to draw women and men to ordained ministry, or for that matter to ministry in any of our recent configurations. I think the answer is never. And then we wonder why we are losing our saltiness!
The preparation of those who will be our servant leaders, who will bring us to the experience of the holy, who will make us salty (dogs) for the earth; that preparation is not the study of a “How
To” Manual!
That preparation takes academic rigor, it takes work, it takes time, it takes the formation of spirituality, critical thinking and knowledge; it takes the integration of experience and reflection in the context of teachers and colleagues.
Lose our well prepared servant leadership and we lose our saltiness. That’s my view.
And just while I’m at it….I am told that there is a movement about and within our Church and elsewhere that some describe as “progressive
Christianity”.
I’m told that it this “progressive
Christianity” is somewhat described in the title of a recent book called With or Without God .
Now I don’t know much about this, and I may be speaking a little out of turn (but I did lots of that in public life so nothing new here)but if it is suggested that “progressive Christianity” can be a Christianity “Without God” it is an oxymoron.
If I used to say to my good friend Danny
Williams, Premier of Newfoundland Labrador, that “progressive conservative” is an oxymoron then even more so is some notion of Christianity without God.
Make no mistake about this: at St. Andrew’s
College we go “with God”. We believe we are not alone. We believe that we live in God’s world.
Tonight I covenant in the presence the holy whom I know, the God whom I have seen through the life of Jesus, the God whose Spirit once in a rare while, breaks in and confirms my faith when perhaps I least expect it.
You don’t have to believe this. Many of my closest friends do not. I respect and love them deeply. But they don’t go around calling themselves Christian.
If we who call ourselves Christian, in our
Colleges or our Churches are not deeply rooted in
God, then we have lost the saltiness that makes us different.
If we are not rooted in the God we have known in Jesus then we are no different a peace movement, a green movement, the Rotary, the
Legion or a wanna-be political party.
There is a warning in this Gospel. A warning that I fear comes close to home.
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We are not the whole earth.
ness.
There is always the risk we may lose our salti-
So what could we be?
What salt can we share with a synchrotron, and bring to a secular world? What can our spirituality offer to the bowl of a university, or the bowl of earth’s stew that we share?
Here I lean on the writing of William Slone
Coffin….who suggested at least these three:
(and I go quickly)
To the ancients who first heard these words of
Jesus, salt meant preservative.
What then shall we seek to preserve in secular science, in secular world? Well, how about seeking to preserve a childlike sense of wonder?
When we pierce the molecule with a beam of light, can we be those who preserve a sense of wonder at the creation. Can we be those who preserve the sense of wonder that leads to reverence in the creation?
You know the spiritual leaders of First
Nations and the elders of their people, do that all the time…..they remind us of the Creation and the creator and teach a sense of wonder. They teach us to walk gently on creation and wonder at its gifts.
Huston Smith said, “the larger the island of knowledge the longer the shoreline of wonder.”
To preserve a sense of wonder may just be the preserving salt our creation demands.
To the ancients who first heard these words of
Jesus, salt meant the cleansing agent, the medicine applied to the wound, the sting that stopped infection and fostered the healing.
There are deep wounds in our community, there is racism abroad; there are the wounded beside us and among us; there are those who are wounded by our secular society and economies.
Who will expose the injustice that causes the wound?
Someone said, “We are long on charity but short on justice.”
Who will put the salt in the wound? Who will cleanse the oppression and set about the healing process?
Who else but those who are called to be salt for the earth?
St. Augustine said “Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.” The salt of anger, the salt of courage is salt in God’s name we can bring.
We have had a long tradition in this College and Church of ours as seekers of social justice.
Pray God that we never lose that saltiness.
And, finally, to the ancient and to the modern, who hear these words of Jesus, salt is flavor.
What flavor may we bring to a secular world?
Jesus, again, made it simple. Love God and love your neighbor.
To the Corinthians Paul said,
“These three remain: faith, hope and love; and the greatest of these is love.” In his very next sentence, the one we never read, Paul said “And make love your aim!”
In a secular world where gracious love, accepting love, forgiving love is a rare commodity, the salt of love is flavor for the earth. Our world longs for that flavor.
To be the spice of love in the stew; to be the world’s greatest lovers; is to be the salt of the earth!
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We the old alumnae of St. Andrew’s used to receive a mailing once and while from the College and from our alumni colleagues. It was called the
“St. Andrew’s Life and Times” or SALT for short.
May I be a salty principal;
May we be a salty College;
May we send forth salty servants;
May we live with wonder, justice and love
That we may we be a salty Church worthy to bear the name of the One who sends us!
Jesus said, You are the salt of the earth!
And to this may all God’s people say, Amen.
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Christine Mitchell enjoyed her sabbatical during the 2008-2009 academic year.
She went to conferences in New Zealand,
Boston, and Ottawa, and presented papers at all three. She worked on her sabbatical project of a post-colonial reading of
Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. As part of that project, she learned the ancient language of Old Persian. She is continuing to work through her research gathered during the sabbatical. As well, she is completely re-doing her introductory course and her course on prophetic books.
In May and June I led a workshop on
Ecumenical Shared Ministries and served on a panel on the “present state” of ecumenism at the annual Canadian Summer
Ecumenical Institute, held this year at
Queen’s House in Saskatoon. I contributed a chapter for the book Trinity: Going Deep with God , edited by Rob Fennell and Ross
Lockhart, and to be published by UCPH. I facilitated a workshop at the
“Rediscovering Calvin” conference in
Toronto, held in commemoration of the
500th anniversary of Calvin’s birth, and attended, with Don Schweitzer, the
Touchstone journal editorial board meeting.
In September I led a weekend retreat called “Discovering our Spiritual
Worldviews” for the congregations of
McClure United Church and Holy Spirit
Roman Catholic parish, held at St. Peter’s
Abbey, Muenster. I traveled to Washington
DC for the annual meeting of the North
American Academy of Ecumenists, where I led Sunday worship.
My profile of Clifford Elliott appeared in the September issues of Touchstone , and
I continued to write short articles for publication in the United Church Observer .
At the college, I began work with the
“Phase Three Evaluation Committee,” which is undertaking a comprehensive evaluation of the internship/final year portion of the St. Andrew’s M.Div. curriculum.
With the rest of the college community, I have been pleased to welcome our new principal, as well as our new and returning students.
On July 1 I completed a manuscript on contemporary Christologies and sent it off to a publisher. Since then I have begun work on another book on Christology, as well as a few other writing projects. In April
I was the external examiner for a Ph. D.
defense at the Toronto School of Theology, and also attended the annual meeting of the Workgroup for Constructive Theology in Nashville. In July Leslie and I went sailing along the North shore of Luke Huron with Cathy Taylor and her partner Lorne.
Lynn Caldwell continues to work halftime in the area of Church and Society. She recently presented a paper, “Resisting
Common Ground: Race, Nostalgia and
Spaces of Pedagogical Encounter” at a
Saskatoon Theological Union seminar and also continues to work as a sessional lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan.
In July, I attended the pre-tenured faculty workshop of Wabash Center in
Crawfordville, Indianapolis. It was an exciting and challenging workshop since the participants brought their different interests into the group and discussed pressing issues on teaching dynamics, pedagogy, and power.
In August, I offered a week intensive course on the interplay between Worship and Religious Education from a postcolonial perspective. Our students included a
Lutheran, an Anglican, and a graduate. We had a great time in learning and engaging in the topics that are critical to our pastoral ministry.
In September, I attended the New
Comers’ Event organized by the
Saskatchewan conference as a partner of
David Kim-Cragg in Calling Lakes Centre.
It was good to meet new faces in this province and re-connect with our graduates who have embarked upon their ordered ministry.
In October, I attended the
Consultation on Returned Overseas
Mission Personnel, organized by People in
Partnership within Justice Global and
Ecumenical Relation Unit as a planning team and a panelist. This consultation with the group of 30 people who have gone overseas raised the question, “what does it mean to be in mission in the time of
Empire and how do we build up intercultural churches?”
In November, I am planning to attend the Intercultural Regional meeting, River
Running, in Winnipeg. I hope this meeting provides some wisdom for the team-teaching course that Lynn Caldwell and I plan to offer next summer, “Critical Race Theory and Postcolonial Intercultural Ministry.”
I am planning an affirming service with the worship committee and the
Integrity group in the Anglican Church on
December 3rd during our chapel. Other affirming ministry churches are invited to join this service. This is our commitment to carrying out our affirming ministry.
As one of the organizers of the
“Rooted in Faith: Celebrating Rural
Churches in Community” conference, I was very pleased with the sessions and discussions that took place in Lloydminster,
October 15- 17/09. Theme speakers and participants engaged in lively, interesting dialogue, sharing lots of inspiring, helpful stories as well as critical analysis and concerns.
Our CiRCLe-M group is already looking forward to a sequel!
I spent my reading week as the
University of Windsor Women’s Studies’
“Distinguished Visitor”. It was an intense
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St.Andrew’s College week of speaking at community events, luncheons, receptions and banquets, media and teaching – all focused on the themes of feminist activism on food issues. Given that talking about food and eating are among my favourite activities, my week in
Windsor was great fun, as well as being an unforgettable honour.
As the problems of hunger, food versus fuel production, global agricultural trade and access to land intensify in many parts of the world, the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) is holding a World Food Summit in Rome in mid-
November. I am working on the steering committee which is organizing a parallel forum for civil society organizations. This will be a space for participants to work on real solutions to the food crisis from practical, progressive, justice perspectives. We will present our position document to the official forum in the hope of affecting change in the agriculture policies of governments and international agencies.
Meanwhile, our own harvest is finally nearly completed, as winter looms on the prairies.
(Back row) Sandra Beardsall, Professor of Church History and Ecumenics; Nettie Wiebe,
Professor of Church and Society; Alison West, Internship Coordinator; HyeRan Kim-Cragg,
Professor of Pastoral Studies; Christine Mitchell, Professor of Hebrew Scriptures
(Front row) Jack Carr, Pastor-in-Residence; Don Schweitzer, McDougald Professor of
Theology; Lynn Caldwell, Professor of Church and Society
(Left to Right) Sarah Benson, STU
Librarian; Melanie Schwanbeck,
Executive Assistant to the Principal;
Margret Hernik, Accounting and
Administration Clerk; Mallory Wiebe,
Library Technician; Maureen Smith-
Windsor, Accountant; Colleen Walker,
Registrar; Carolina Castro, Building
Management; Moe Roberts, Building
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UCW’s
Bow Island UCW ; Bow Island
McKillop UCW ; Lethbridge
Rainy Creek UCW ; Bentley
Robert McClure UCW ; Calgary
Stettler UCW ; Stettler
Trinity UCW ; Coronation
United Church Women of Olds ;
Olds
Individuals
Allan, Robert, Calgary
Anderson, Shirley and Bob ;
Lethbridge
Bike, Joy ; Medicine Hat
Block, Frances ; Edmonton
Campbell, Alex and Wendy ; Calgary
Chambers, Lois ; Medicine Hat
Coates, Cathy ; Lethbridge
Dulle, Leanne and Kas ;
Medicine Hat
Fennell, Austin and Jean ; Lethbridge
Findlay, Don and Margaret ; Olds
Ford, George ; Edmonton
Forsythe, Edna ; Medicine Hat
Godley, Barry ; Medicine Hat
Henderson, Larry ; Medicine Hat
Hirsch, Beatrice ; Medicine Hat
Hobbs, Eileen ; Lethbridge
Hubbard, Rose ; Medicine Hat
Iwanicki, Lillian ; Medicine Hat
Jackson, Norman ; Medicine Hat
Kozbial, Elizabeth ; Lethbridge
Lovatt, Lloyd, Edmonton
Mayne, Don and Helen ; Edmonton
May 23, 2009 - November 13, 2009
Pastoral Charges
McKillop United Church ;
Lethbridge
Westminster United Church ;
Medicine Hat
McDougald, Alex ; Medicine Hat
McEwen, Doug and Heather ;
Edmonton
McFarlane, Patricia ; Medicine Hat
McKercher, Vivian ; Calgary
McLellan, Joelle ; Red Deer
Mitchell, Edith ; Medicine Hat
Murray, Helen ; Calgary
Olson, Allan ; Medicine Hat
Pearson, Velma ; Medicine Hat
Riddell, Sandra ; Taber
Senft, Elpha and Ron ; Stettler
Smith, Margaret ; Medicine Hat
Summers, Margaret Jean ; Calgary
Wiedemann, Betty ; Medicine Hat
Wilkinson, Sean ; Medicine Hat
Wyatt, Harold ; Calgary
Other Donors
Pastoral Charges
Cabri-Hazlet-Pennant Pastoral
Charge ; Cabri
Calvary United Church ; Loon Lake
Goose Lake Pastoral Charge ; Harris
Lafleche United Church ; Lafleche
Lancer Trinity United Church ;
Portreeve
Lang Milestrone Pastoral Charge ;
Milestone
McClure United Church ; Saskatoon
Meadow Lake Pastoral Charge ;
Meadow Lake
Sceptre United Church ; Sceptre
Westley United Church ; Regina
Westminster United Church ; Regina
Whitmore Park United Church ;
Regina
UCW’s
Carievale UCW ; Fertile
Carrot River UCW ; Carrot River
Creelman UCW ; Creelman
First UCW ; Swift Current
Foam Lake UCW ; Foam Lake
Gainsborough UCW ; Gainsborough
Grace UCW ; Meadow Lake
Grace Westminster UCW ; Saskatoon
Knox UCW ; North Portal
Limerick UCW ; Limerick
Loreburn UCW ; Loreburn
Melfort UCW ; Melfort
Parkbeg UCW ; Parkbeg
Perdue UCW ; Perdue
Radville UCW ; Radville
Raymore UCW ; Raymore
Saltcoats UCW ; Saltcoats
Sceptre UCW ; Sceptre
Trinity UCW ; Watson
Westminuster UCW ; Humboldt
Wynyard United Church Women’s
Association ; Wynyard
Other Donors
Saskatchewan Conference Office ;
Regina
St. Andrew’s Outreach Fund ; Eston
Tamarack Presbytery ; Nipawin
Twin Valleys Presbytery ; Wolseley
University of Regina Employees
Donations ; Regina
Individuals
Adamson, Bill ; Saskatoon
Aitken, Donald and Doreen ;
Eyebrow
Atkinson, Patricia ; Saskatoon
Balas, Laura and Don ; Aneroid
Barbour, C. Lind and Mary Beth ;
Regina
Barss, Don ; Warman
Beardsall, Sandra ; Saskatoon
Bell, Joan ; Saskatoon
Belton, Florence ; Saskatoon
Birch, Duncan ; Saskatoon
Blair, Katheleen ; Moose Jaw
Boegeson, Nora ; North Battleford
Bray, John and Elaine ; Regina
Bridger, David ; Loon Lake
Brinkworth, Roy ; Estevan
Brown, Marion ; Saskatoon
Burton-Leeson, Mary ; Unity
Carr, Jack ; Saskatoon
Cawood, John ; Balcarres
Chapman, Harold ; Saskatoon
Clark, Etta ; Kelvington
Crawford, Margaret ; Saskatoon
Cumming, G. Ray ; Unity
Currie, Ralph ; Saskatoon
Fawell, Annie ; Unity
Gilmer, William and Dorothy ;
Saskatoon
Glover, Ken ; Saskatoon
Gottschalk, John ; Unity
Graham, Walter and Florence ;
Saskatoon
Grimes, Aurelia ; Saskatoon
Gushulak, Ruth ; Foam Lake
Harper, B. E. ; Moose Jaw
Harrison, Bernice ; Saskatoon
Horpestad, Beverlie ; Meadow Lake
Hurd, Linsell ; Watrous
James-Cavan, Kathleen ; Saskatoon
Jobling, David ; Saskatoon
Johnson, Carol ; Saskatoon
Joss, Cornellya ; Saskatoon
Kim-Cragg, HyeRan ; Saskatoon
Kiss, Josephine ; Saskatoon
Komar, James ; Saskatoon
Liberty-Duns, Jeanette ; Saskatoon
Lowndes, Gladys ; Kelvington
MacDonald, Leola ; North Battleford
Maitland, Brian ; Big River
McConnell, Doug and Sophie ;
Saskatoon
McIntyre, Donald ; Saskatoon
McKenzie, Gladys ; Moose Jaw
McKinnon, Melvin ; Regina
Mills, Isabelle ; Saskatoon
Moynes, Delmer ; Yorkton
Newman, Leslee ; Saskatoon
Nordlund, Hough and Lorna ;
Prince Albert
Olinyk, Lorraine ; Borden
Petrie, Dave and Marilyn ; Regina
Potter, Joyce and Norman ; Unity
Powell, Thomas and Betty ;
Saskatoon
Powers, Ken ; Regina
Purdie, Ray ; Saskatoon
Quick, John T. ; Unity
Quick, William ; Regina
Reid, Ralph and Bonnie ; Saskatoon
Reynolds, Arlene ; Saskatoon
Robertson, Phyllis ; Kincaid
Robson, Louise ; Unity
Russell, Miles and Anna ; Preeceville
Ryan, Carol ; Unity
Saunderson, Dorothy ; Vanguard
Shank, Bill ; Saskatoon
Shaw, Eleanor ; Lafleche
Shortt, Thelma ; Saskatoon
Skelton, Shirley ; Saskatoon
Smith, Doreen ; Limerick
Stevens, Wendell ; Saskatoon
Surine, Barbara ; Unity
Teed, Carol ; Saskatoon
Thomas, Bruce ; Saskatoon
Thomas, Pamela ; Regina
Thompson, Wayne ; Regina
Thorpe, Vivian ; Saskatoon
Tolley, Marion ; Moose Jaw
Unseth, Arne ; Regina
Walker, Deborah ; Saskatoon
Wartman, Bruce and Frances ;
Saskatoon
Wartman, Mark ; Saskatoon
Weiss, Janet ; Langham
West, Alison ; Watrous
White, Marjorie ; Foam Lake
Wilson, Donna ; Saskatoon
Wright, Thelma ; Balgonie
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Westworth United Church, Winnipeg
Winnipeg Beach United Church ;
Gimli
Knox United Church Lunch
Committee ; Roblin
Mckenzie UCW ; Portage La Prairie
Pilot Mound UCW ; Pilot Mound
Rivers UCW ; Rivers
Rosser UCW ; Rosser
St. Andrew’s UCW ; Swan River
Transcona Memorial UCW ;
Winnipeg
Young United Church UCW ;
Winnipeg
Pastoral Charges
Brookdale United Church ;
Brookdale
Glenboro United Church ; Glenboro
Pine River United Church ;
Pine River
Sparling United Church ; Winnipeg
Starbuck United Church ; Starbuck
UCW’s
Birtle UCW ; Birtle
Boissevain UCW ; Boissevain
Clearwater UCW ; Clearwater
Crystyal City UCW ; Crystal City
Gladstone UCW ; Gladstone
Hamiota UCW ; Hamiota
Isabella UCW ; Birtle
Killarney UCW ; Killarney
Other Donors
Northland Presbystery ; The Pas
Oak Lake United Church Activity
Group, Oak Lake
Individuals
Campbell, Mary ; Winnipeg
Cross, Muriel ; Winnipeg
Elder, Margaret ; Oak Lake
Fifi, Vicki ; Brandon
Gardner, Beth-Elaine ; Winnipeg
Geib, Eleanor, Winnipeg
Kristjansson, Margret ; Wawanesa
Maguire, Beryl and Larry ; Virden
McMurtry, Doug ; Winnipeg
Riddell, Alistair ; Winnipeg
Stevens, Lynn ; Winnipeg
Thompson, Glen and Jesmon ; Gimli
Wayte, Lena ; Glenboro
Wight, Maisie ; Napinka
Other Conferences
Avery, A. I. and Minnie ; Victoria
Hummel, Ellie and McClure, Heather;
Point-Claire
Laing, Don ; Toronto
McLachlan, Jack ; White Rock
McMurtry, Cliff ; Delta
Mitchell, Jo-Anne ; Chester Basin
May 23, 2009 - November 13, 2009
Alberta
Houston, Clinton; Medicine Hat
Saskatchewan
Cook, Elizabeth; Saskatoon
Please indicate clearly any direction for use of your donation. We encourage you to donate without restrictions.
Please consider a bequest to St. Andrew’s College in your Will or Planned Giving through insurance polices.
If you have bequeathed money to the College in your Will we would like to know about it so that we are able to acknowledge this in the next issue of Contact.
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A Message from The Rev. Alison West, Internship Coordinator
At the present time Phase III of the St. Andrew’s College programme or the Internship lasts for 16 months. As far as possible a student begins an internship on September 1 of one year and ends on December 31 the next year.
I say as far as possible because sometimes the internship begins a few weeks or sometimes months later because of health concerns, or the student is not yet a candidate for ministry and has yet to meet with the Conference Interview Board.
I would be glad to answer any questions about the internship part of our programme and can be contacted here at St. Andrew’s College at 306 966-8974 or at home at 306 946-4091 or by e-mail at standrews.internship@usask.ca
or acdwest@sasktel.net
.
Any of these numbers or e-mail addresses may be used at any time.
Currently we have four interns coming toward the end of their internship:
Jordan Cantwell at Delisle, Adam Hall at Theodore-Springside, Laura Machin at Quill Plains Pastoral Charge and Sue Fleming at New
Ventures Pastoral Charge.
We also have interns in the early stages of their internship just about to attend their first learning circle: Henriette Kelker at Two Hills,
Alberta, Neal Palmer at Trinity United Church in Edmonton, Brenda Simon at Marengo Pastoral Charge and Dale Breitkreutz at Langham.
Dale will begin on the first Sunday of Advent and the other three are already in their appointed Pastoral Charges.
During the internship each candidate has a faculty advisor to whom they send a monthly theological reflection; they attend over the period of the internship 4 learning circles, and do other reading, research and written work to help them in the integration of their work in the Pastoral Charge with the academic or theological studies they are undertaking.
Any questions about internship can be directed to me: The Rev. Alison West as noted above.
I
Candidate am a for ordained ministry from Mill Woods
United Church in
Edmonton, Alberta.
I am currently in
Phase 3 of my
Master of Divinity studies at St. Andrew’s College. That part of the program involves a 16-month internship and I feel extremely fortunate to have been placed at Trinity United Church in
Edmonton. Initially, I was delighted because
Jini and I wouldn’t have to relocate (just yet).
But as time has come and gone, I’m quickly realizing there are many more blessings here than that. Kathy Hogman, the minister, not to mention my supervisor, has been awesome!
She prefers treating us as team ministry first and supervisor/student second. Jo-Ann
Wilson-Symonds, the part-time diaconal
minister, with whom I share an office, has been great too, as has my Lay Supervision
Team and the congregation itself. Everyone has been so very, very welcoming—to both
Jini and I. There’s no question in my mind that this placement will be a tremendous learning experience for not only me, but for each and every one of us here, and I look forward to the coming (14) months with a wealth of excitement—not to mention an equal portion of gratefulness. God is good—
Believe it!!!
I’m Brenda
Simon and, in
October, I began my internship at the
Marengo Pastoral
Charge. Officially this is a two point charge, including the communities of Alask and Loverna. In practice,
Alsask is the only community that has services. The people from Loverna and from some other small communities join us in Alsask.
I’ve had a really lovely introduction to the the community; an overwhelming welcome, in fact. This community keeps it’s ministry going by training interns and they’re quite familiar with the internship process and proud of their role as a learning site.
I have had a nice introduction to pastoral care, delivering cards signed by the parishioners to people who are ill or bereaved and hosting “Get to Know You” suppers in my home. I have also enjoyed working with a supportive supervisor and lay supervision team. Already, they are comfortable letting me know not only when I’m doing well, but what they wish I’d do differently and both forms of feedback are helpful. As you can see from the photo, I also enjoy the preaching part of my ministry.
For fun, I’ve joined a bowling league and a knitting club.
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by Timothy K. Beal
Dr. Timothy K. Beal is the Florence Harkness Professor of Religion at Case Western Reserve
University in Cleveland, Ohio. He has published widely on the cultural history of the Bible, religion and popular culture, and relations between critical theory and academic religious studies. He has also published essays on religion and American culture for The New York
Times , The Chronicle of Higher Education , and The Washington Post . He has been featured on national radio shows in the USA including NPR’s All Things Considered and The Bob Edwards
Show .
7:30 p.m.
Public Worship Service , Location TBA
8:30 - 9:00
8:45 - 9:00
Registration & Gathering
Singing (Main Lounge)
9:00 - 10:15 Timothy K. Beal, “The End of the Word as We
Know It”
10:15 - 10:45 Refreshments
10:45 - 11:30 Questions & Discussion
11:45 - 12:15 Worship (Chapel)
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (Main Lounge)
1:30 - 3:30 Facilitated discussions: Join with others to talk about topics that interest you the most
5:00 Movie, Meal, and Good Conversation
(all are welcome)
8:45 Singing (Main Lounge)
9:00 -10:15 Timothy K. Beal, “The End of the Word as We
Know It”
10:15- 10:45 Refreshments
10:45 - 11:30 Questions & Discussion
11:45 - 12:15 Worship (Chapel)
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (Main Lounge)
1:30 - 3:30 Facilitated discussions
4:00 St. Andrew’s Alumni/ae Meeting
8:45 Singing (Main Lounge)
9:00 - 10:15 Timothy K. Beal, “The End of the Word as We
Know It”
10:15 - 10:45 Refreshments
10:45 - 11:30 Questions & Discussion
11:45 - 12:30 Closing Worship (Chapel)
12:30 Lunch in the Main Lounge
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As a new contributor to this section, I had to think hard: what book do I want to share first? Wising Up:
Ritual Resources for Women of
Faith in Their
Journey of Aging , edited by Kathy Black and Heather Murray
Elkins (Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2005) caught my eye for several reasons. It is about liturgy, making meaning out of the ordinary; it is about narrative, sharing the stories of women through prayers and poems; and it is about awareness, honouring the aging body and celebrating life and loss.
All of us, regardless of our gender, are on a journey of aging. It is frightening and exciting; it is painful and joyful. The journey of aging is also happening in our congregations and communities. This journey is the one that nobody can miss. All must take and walk in it. Grey haired folks are an important part of Canadian society and of the church. I have noticed recently a few grey hairs on my own head and wondered what to do. I struggled with the idea of colouring my hair. Would this be artificial, a way of hiding my reality and identity?
This book challenged me to consider another perspective, that dyeing can be an act of resistance and wising up (100).
Indeed, aging, as argued, can give one the power to claim one’s identity.
The 13 contributors of this volume are all feminists; most are liturgical scholars with the exception of a musician and a writer. What they argue in this volume is that aging involves emotional, physical, and spiritual cycles of change—transition, loss, and transformation. This book helps the readers to pay attention to their body, family dynamics, and the change in their relationships. The book is personal, yet speaks to the communal dimensions and public domains around the issue of aging, accessibility, and disability. This book is especially worth reading for those of us who believe in the power of rituals. The symbols, the repetitions of certain and communal acts and behaviors in the form of ritual allow us to encounter the Holy, while experiencing healing and blessing. The contents are full of the experiences of the middle-aged women, yet the insights are not exclusive to this particular group at all. They invite the reflection on the experiences of male, young and old, people of different faiths and of no faith.
While the authors are racially and socially homogenous, European decent, living in the USA, their stories are diverse, ranging from needing a walker while still in the 40s, coping with a mother giving up driving, menopause, croning, becoming orphaned, losing a part of the body, making a will, and dying.
Wising Up provides pastoral, liturgical, and feminist insights to those of us who are called to accompany people who are aging.
It would be a good resource for any congregational studies, including feminism, ritual, embodied spirituality, and rites of passage.
Let us wise up!
At the end of this past spring, our head librarian, Laureen Marchand, announced her intention to retire at the end of the summer. I was hired in her stead, and we spent part of this summer training me to take over as the new head librarian. I had been working as the assistant librarian at
Emmanuel & St Chad for about a year, so the transition was not as difficult as it would have been had I been a new arrival, but it’s still a pretty steep learning curve!
September First, my first day, was both exciting and sad: I look forward to my new role at the STU, but Laureen went out of her way while I was at ESC to be a mentor to me, and has become a good friend. We’ll miss her very much indeed.
Also in the summer, Brittany Dove, our library technician at St Andrew’s
College, moved on to another position. We were sorry to lose her, but I’m pleased to tell you that a new graduate of SIAST from their Library and Information Technology programme has taken up the reins.
Mallory Wiebe is a great addition to the library system and St Andrew’s College.
We’re delighted to have her with us.
Welcome, Mallory!
We are in a bit of a mixed-up time in the library system: in the past year, every member of our staff has at our three libraries has moved on to other positions or retired. Anna Gersher returned to
Emmanuel College, so some of our institutional memory has been regained, but the
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St.Andrew’s College system we use is brand new to her. Mallory began at St Andrew’s in August, and I started as head librarian in September. Leif
Steiestol, our library technician at Lutheran
Seminary, has been at LTS since May, and that makes him our longest-serving staff member!
This means that effectively, everyone at the library is new. This of course presents challenges (to use the polite term), but it also means that we’re all learning our way together. It is, in its way, a great blessing.
As Laureen chronicled in previous articles, we recently updated our online catalogue and circulation system. This first went live in January, and since then we have been tweaking the system and adding new features. It makes a great difference for our users to be able to see what items are available, to renew their items, and to get access to our databases, all from the same place.
We now also have online access to many of our journal subscriptions, and we also use our web site as a portal for free open-access peer reviewed journals. We feel very 21st-
Century. We’ve received some great input from our users about the new system.
Thank you!
People have asked me if the library is suffering from the financial difficulties that are currently troubling the world. The answer is both no and yes: No, because our budget has thankfully not had to be cut.
Yes, because some publishers have responded to the financial crisis by raising their prices, sometimes dramatically, which means that our buying power has dropped.
One of our journals, for instance, quadrupled in price! We are fortunate in having the whole STU library system in place, as we can share resources easily. One library can maintain its journal subscription and share with the other two, and that’s what we have done in the past and will continue to do.
So, though we’ll have to be extra careful, we’re still doing well. We’re running
‘quite tickety-boo,’ as I unthinkingly blurted out at a Very Important Meeting last week. I’m still learning the ropes.
We always enjoy hearing from people.
Do look us up!
Our web site: reindex.net/STU
Sarah Benson and Mallory Wiebe
The following was written by the Wawanesa Pastoral Charge and performed at a St. Andrew’s College Sunday service.
To be sung to the tune for “Morning Has Broken” VU 409 (Burnessan)
St. Andrew’s College, school of great learning
Seeking to follow, the ways of the Lord
Praises we’re singing, praise every morning
Praising and learning fresh from the Word
Working together, all in the Lord’s name
Seeking and striving for all we can be
Feeling compassion and seeking justice,
Teaching and learning Theology
Gifts from the Spirit, gifts of the people,
Talents and riches that we possess,
We’ll use to further, work of the Spirit
Helping the needs of those who have less
The grace of God will further our work, here
As we seek answers for every quest
Our prayer remains that we will be strong and
St. Andrew’s College, be ever blessed.
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are feeling quite refreshed after a time of
Sabbatical. The precious time was used to visit close relatives and friends in Ontario, some we hadn’t visited in person for several years. Also, we did some camping and visiting of spiritual places in Saskatchewan.
Sabbatical time is highly recommended!
I am a member of the Affirming
Ministries Committee at Grosvenor Park
United Church (GPUC). We have had a most exciting year — in May, we celebrated our new status as an Affirming Ministry.
Marnie Deighton is our Chair and presented an excellent History of our five year journey to achieve this new status. My suggestion is that GPUC’s journey might inspire other United Churches to follow.
The Rev. Don Mayne of Edmonton was awarded the Msgr. Bill Irwin Award of
Excellence by the Edmonton Catholic
Social Services. The award was present to
Mayne at the agency’s 47th annual general meeting on June 16, honouring his exceptional community service and his leadership in forwarding the causes of ecumenism and social justice.
Named after the agency’s founder, the
Msgr. Bill Irwin Award of Excellence is presented to organizations or individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the well-being of the community.
The Rev. Dr. Hiraku Iwai was ordained
50 years ago in Hyogo Conference of the
United Church of Christ in Japan, at Kobe,
Japan. And at a request of The United
Church of Canada, moved to Canada in
1963 with his wife Michiru and a daughter
Nobuko (who students at St. Andrew’s
College after she finished 7 years at
Northern Lakes Pastoral Charge), to serve among Japanese Canadian churches.
Hiraku joined The United Church of
Canada in 1964.
Hiraku Iwai
Hiraku and his wife Michiru went back to Japan last June to celebrate the publishing of a Japanese book “KANSHA
NO SUZUNARI (Full Produce of
Thanksgiving).” This is the book of his
Christian family history, starting from
Hiraku’s grandfather, Jitsujiro Iwai (born in 1867), who is the grandson of a Shinto
Priest. The photo is of his four brothers and a brother-in-law, and their surviving wives with Hiraku and Michiru (front row, left). Five of six brothers are in Christian ministries, and the “lay” brother, Ken, has been working with the Panasonic
Company as its “pastor.” Ken worked hard to publish the book, which includes a CD of the family singing their favourite hymns.
The book has been added to the St.
Andrew’s Library.
As an Affirming Ministry within the United Church of Canada, we are welcoming and inclusive of people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
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The chapel of St. Andrew’s College needs your attention!!
Some of you know that our communion table is an oval shape surrounded by the pews that are facing the table. It is a beautiful setting and it has been served well for our different services throughout the year. A beloved member of the worship committee has dedicated her time and energy to make several liturgical coloured table cloths in the past. However, we no longer have her in our midst and we do not have a white cloth for our communion table.
So I want to kindly ask you if you are able and willing to make or donate a white coloured cloth (with golden in it so that it can be used in covenanting and celebratory services). It should be sufficient with 5 feet square width and length. Any other coloured cloths with different textures would be also appreciated.
Other items that we need include offering plate sets and communion chalice, cup and plate sets. If any congregations have extra sets of these to donate, we would be very grateful.
Please contact Melanie for further information and arrangements.
Your prayers for and participation in the well-being of the college reach out farther than what we can comprehend!!
Thank you for your support!
HyeRan Kim-Cragg (Chair of
Worship Committee)
The transition in the
Prin cipal position from Laura
Balas to Lorne
Calvert has gone very smoothly, thanks largely to the commitment of both to maintain the momentum that had been established during Laura’s term.
We are faced with many challenges, but we are confident that, with Lorne’s leadership and with the on-going support from all of our valuable constituents, St. Andrew’s College will continue to make a positive contribution to the church, especially on the prairies, as well as to the lives of our students and to the campus of the University of
Saskatchewan.
One of our major challenges is enrolment. The need for trained clergy is great and getting greater. United
Church data indicates that half of the current ministers in the church across the country will be eligible for retirement within the next ten years. This makes it obvious that without increased enrolment, the clergy situation could reach crisis proportions in the very near future. The good news is that at St. Andrew’s College, we have the capacity within our present complement of faculty, staff and other resources, to double the number of new students enrolling each year. Most of our students indicate that they were prompted to consider ministry as a career because someone tapped them on the shoulder and indicated that they seemed to be suited to ministry work.
We are developing a number of approaches to reaching out to potential students, but we need people in the pews to do the tapping on the shoulder.
A second major challenge is finances. Over the past two years we have made significant strides in reducing costs and increasing revenue, particularly from our building rentals.
While we appreciate the generosity of our donors, our revenue from this source appears to have reached a plateau. With the Mission & Service fund not meeting its target for several years, our funding from this source has been decreasing as a proportion of our total needs. The value of our endowment fund, managed by Guardian
Capital, has decreased by approximately 10% during the economic downturn of the past year, but this is very good in comparison to the values of most portfolios. The bottom-line, however, is that we will need additional support from our donors if we are to maintain our balanced budget status. As well, we need to make a number of improvements to our building, especially regarding issues of accessibility. We would welcome additional contributions from any and all of our regular supporters and from new supporters.
We would also welcome ideas and suggestions for fundraising options that we might pursue.
We know these and other challenges will be met. In 2012 we will be celebrating the 100 years of the
College’s existence. In this time many challenges have been faced and overcome. God has been with us and we are confident that as we continue to trust in this Grace, we will not be disappointed, but will find new ways of being of service.
Vic Wiebe
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Florence Harkness Professor of Religion and Director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University
St. Andrew’s College Convocation will take place next spring as part of a larger event of the Saskatoon Theological Union, as we join with our partners the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad (Anglican) and the Lutheran
Theological Seminary in the eighth joint Convocation.