Angels Amongst Us
The retreat will be held on Friday, Sept 27, 2013 to Sunday Sept. 29, 2013.
The retreat will be held at Manitou Springs Resort and Mineral Spa.
For full retreat information and the retreat registration form, please click here
Painting by Edward Burne-Jones 1833-1898
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For Registration Forms and more information click ACW.
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The Good Food Junction Co-operative Grocery Store is now serving the residents of Saskatoon.
We extend a special invitation to you to visit us at the Good Food Junction during our Grand Opening, October 19-21. On Saturday, October 20, 12-4 pm, the Directors of the Board and General Manager, Ralph Winterhalt will be present to update you on the operations and progress of the store.
We thank you again most sincerely for the two ecumenical advent campaigns in support of the Good Food Junction Coop Grocery Store. They were important "building blocks" in the development of the store.
We look forward to seeing you.
The Board of Directors of the Good Food Junction Grocery Store
For more information on the Good Food Junction click
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Dear friends,
Since it began in Greater Manchester in 2004 Back to Church Sunday (BTCS) has become the largest single local-church invitational initiative in the world, taking place in churches across denominations worldwide. As an annual event in its own right, BTCS continues to have a significant impact on church attendance. Not only does it see tens of thousands of people come back to church on one Sunday in September, but we know that many have then become regular attendees and active members of their local churches.
I would like to encourage each of you to get involved this year with the Back to Church project. When we take the time and energy to invite someone to join us for worship we are true evangelists. Through the power of the Holy Spirit we are equipped for service, equipped to bear witness to the gospel where we live and work, equipped to support the church in its work by our prayers and gifts. When your congregation works together to invite past members and new friends to church and social time, you are letting them know God loves and cares for them. Back to Church Sunday is one of the opportunities we have for service; let it be our joy to do this ministry.
BTCS works best when churches join together as one big church on one big day: the last Sunday in September. The national date helps build momentum as churches partner together across the country and it is our hope that BTCS will become widely recognised as the Sunday in the year when church people will consider inviting their friends to attend church.
Let us pray together: Teach us, O God, that as members of your church we are all involved in its mission to share the Good News of Jesus. Forgive our past failures, rekindle our zeal, and enlarge our vision so that this Back to Church Sunday will bring the knowledge of your love to others in our community, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
+David
Back to Church Sunday is all about invitation - it reaches the people who are not yet in church through the people who are. We know from research that 3 million people would come back to church with an invitation.
Posters and invitation/prayer cards are available through the Diocesan Office
For other resources for Back to Church Sunday 2012 follow the links below.
Baja Mission Project June 2-14
For additional pictures go to
http://livedifferent.com/private-trips/diocese-saskatoon-2012/details
June 14
No Pictures, bus trip back to San Diego.
June 13
June 12
June 11
June 10
June 9
Joan and Cheryl
June 8
June 7
June 6
June 5
We had 75-80 people at the service at the Catheral
Joan & Cheryl
Here is another link that you can go to to follow the mission team.
http://livedifferent.com/private-trips/diocese-saskatoon-2012/details
Commissioning Service for the Mission Team
The Baja Mission team is making final preparations to leave for Mexico on June 4th. The commissioning service for the team will be held on Sunday (June 3rd) at 7:00 pm in St. John's Cathedral. Even though you may not be going to Mexico, plan to come out to the service to give prayer and spiritual support to the mission team.
The Baja Mission group is going to build two houses for two Mexican families. Here is a little information on the two families.
Angelica and her family
Angelica has three children, Victor (7), David (6) and Maria (5). Angelica works in the fields and makes about $50-60 per week. She also sells raffle tickets to help cover the medical bills the family incurred when David was run over by a water truck. While his one leg had to be amputated above the knee, David is an active boy like any boy his age is. They currently live with Angelica's mom and other extended family next-door to the property they own.
Antonio and Ana and their family
Antonio and Ana have two girls, Esmeralda (18) and Natividad (14) and one son, Jesus (17). They have owned and lived on their land for many years and currently live in a tiny concrete house with a small wood addition. Mom and Dad both work in the fields and make about $150 per week. Jesus has Down Syndrome so the girls coordinate their school schedule so that while one is in school in the morning, the other stays with Jesus and vice versa in the afternoons. On the weekends their daughters work at a market to help pay the bills.
The mission team will be sending photographs and news back every day so check this site every day to stay up to date on the progress of the work. Also, please pray every day for the mission team of 29 people who are going to Mexico and for the two families they are working with.
Loving Creator, it is your joy to call youth, women and men to serve you across the barriers of race and language and culture; equip the members of this diocese, that are representing us in Vicente Guerrero, Baja California, Mexico, with the skills necessary for this outreach project. As members of your church, may all we do at home and abroad, be a grateful response to your immeasurable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; to whom be glory now and forever. Amen.
Vicente Guerrero, Baja California, Mexico
Guerrero, lies 175 miles south of the U.S. border crossing at San Ysidro/Tijuana, in the center of the San Quintin (pronounced kin-teen) Valley. Ocean breezes help provide a temperate climate in Vicente Guerrero, which lies three miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The San Quintin Valley is a primary agricultural hub with farms in the area growing such crops as tomatoes, strawberries, onions and other vegetables. Farm owners hire agricultural workers at about $9-10 per day to work the fields, and they provide ground on which the workers and their families “squat.” A majority of these farm workers have migrated from the Mexican mainland state of Oaxaca, purchased land and built makeshift shelters for their families
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Saskatoon Prairieland Park
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada will host its fourth National Event in Saskatoon. This is an opportunity for all Canadians, both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, to learn more about and bear witness to the legacy of the Residential School system. For more information on the event check the TRC website.
In residential schools, student birthdays were not celebrated. As part of the closing ceremonies of the Saskatchewan TRC event, there will be a survivor birthday celebration. Anglican parishes across Saskatchewan are providing funding to purchase cupcakes for this celebration. Parishes are designating May 27th or June 3rd as cupcake Sunday. For more information, in the Diocese of Saskatoon, contact your parish office or the Diocesan Office.
At short notice the churches have been asked to sponsor one of the Pancake Breakfasts at the June Truth and Reconciliation in Saskatoon. These breakfasts cost $5.00 and are for survivors of the Residential Schools.
If you would like to donate to this sponsorship, please forward your gift to the
Diocese of Saskatoon, 1403 – 9th Av North, Saskatoon, SK S7K 2Z6. Please make your cheque payable to the Diocese of Saskatoon and indicate it is for the “TRC - Pankcake Breakfast”.
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