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‘Why’ of church more crucial than the ‘how’ United Church Moderator of Canada visits Kootenays, holds service in Cranbrook B A R RY CO U LT E R
The Cranbrook United Church was packed full on Sunday, April 27, with regular congregation members and visitors from all over the East Kootenay, to meet the Right Rev. Gary Paterson, Moderator of the United Church of Canada. The Moderator is the voice, face and spiritual leader of Canada’s largest Protestant church. He or she is elected to three-year terms. Rev. Paterson, from Vancouver, is halfway through his term. Rev. Paterson, who is also the first openly gay Moderator in the Church’s almost 90year history, sees his mandate as helping the church deal with the challenge and change of the times — such as aging congregations, declining attendances, and increasing secularism. As Moderator, he sees these challenges close hand in his travels around the country. “You can almost choose what narrative you’re going to privilege,” he told the Townsman in an interBARRY COULTER PHOTO view after Sunday’s The Right Reverend Gary Paterson, Moderator of the United Church of service. “Clearly there Canada, at Cranbrook United Church, Sunday, April 27.
are challenging times right across the country. “I’d say about 20 per cent of our congregations are looking to the future and saying, ‘We’re probably going to close.’ But there are another 20 per cent that are saying, ‘Actually, we’re growing and thriving, and we’re really excited about our future.’ There are 60 per cent in the middle, and they have a choice. Some will probably find different ways of being church, and others will thrive and grow.” Paterson, who took the pulpit Sunday in Cranbrook, touched on the subject in his sermon, which was based around Isaiah 43 (“Behold, I am doing a new thing”), along the way referencing E.E. Cummings, Mark Twain and Leonard Cohen. It was couched in a pseudo-mathematical equation — MC = FP x FV x FS (motivation for change equals felt pain times future vision times first steps — “if any one on the one side of the equation is zero, the ‘MV’ will be zero too”).
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Sgt. Dave Dubnyk
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Commander calls move a ‘homecoming’ Sgt. Dave Dubnyk has spent 14 of his 24 years of RCMP service in Cranbrook and Kimberley S A L LY M AC D O N A L D Townsman Staff
Cranbrook RCMP has a new top man in charge. Sgt. Dave Dubnyk has been appointed Detachment Commander of the Cranbrook RCMP. It’s a return to Cranbrook for Sgt. Dubnyk, who spent eight years here from 1991 to 1999 on his first posting. He then spent three years with the district’s
Major Crimes Unit, before transferring to Kimberley from 2002 to 2005. He was promoted to Corporal with Kamloops Major Crimes in 2006, before he transferred to the Elk Valley, where he was Sergeant in Charge of Operations from 2008 to 2012. Then he took the detachment commander position at Sicamous RCMP.
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