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The newspaper of the Dioceses of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon and Qu’Appelle • A Section of the Anglican Journal • June 2018
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Seminary students help in Saskatchewan this summer By Jordan Draper PRINCE ALBERT — Six students will be working in the Diocese of Saskatchewan from May to August. You may encounter them helping run a Vacation Bible School in your town, putting a fresh coat of paint on your church, visiting your home for a cup of tea and conversation, preaching Sunday’s sermon, serving in a liturgy, or praying the daily offices in your parish. Four are current students or recent graduates from King’s College in Halifax: Hannah Fisher, Andrew Griffin, Sam Landry, and Karis Tees. Two are also graduates of King’s College and are currently in seminary, preparing to receive Holy Orders: David Butorac, and me, Jordan Draper. Both of the seminarians have worked as summer students in the diocese previously. All six of them met Bishop Michael Hawkins, Fr. Wilfred and Theresa Sanderson (Parish of Fort La Corne) last winter, when they visited King’s College at the invitation of chaplain Fr. Gary Thorne. Concerning the purpose of the visit, Fr. Thorne said, “When the terrible
tragedy of six teenage suicides — involving a ‘pact’ — happened in Saskatchewan in October of 2016, I was determined to bring to King’s an Indigenous person or two from these communities so that the students at King’s might sit quietly in conversation with those of First Nations culture so different from our western ways. “Not to understand or to ask ‘why’ or to ask ‘how can we help,’ but simply so that students might be in the presence of the ‘other’ and be humbled.” The visitors from Saskatchewan made a great impression on students in Halifax, sharing from their own experiences as Indigenous people in a land where encounters with pioneers of modern day Canada have left a very devastating legacy. At one point Theresa Sanderson said, “Every time you share your story you give a part of yourself, and you heal. Tears are healing. You’re cleansed, relieved.” The six students will be challenged to practise the same openness and attentiveness with those in Saskatchewan who receive us this summer.
Jordan Draper, right, with Sunday school teacher Mike Cuvelier, at St. Margaret of Scotland Church in Halifax. Draper is one of several seminary students working in the Diocese of Saskatchewan this summer. Photo by Annette Kelly
Luncheon thanks volunteers who work with youths By Julie Moser Youth and Children’s Missioner MOOSE JAW (Qu’A) — We live and worship in a diocese that is dependent on volunteers. Even many of our parish priests work as volunteers. Without such commitment, our mission to bring the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ would be slower, harder and less effective. On April 14, at St. Aidan, Moose Jaw, Bishop Rob Hardwick held a lunch to specially thank the leaders involved in youth and children’s ministry for their Photo by Catherine Crawley
dedicated work in ministering the gospel in parishes across our diocese. The 16 volunteers who attended the lunch are involved in a variety of ministry roles from across six parishes. Some had stepped out in faith and pioneered new ministries. Some had been in longerterm, more developed ministries. Some, from smaller churches with no youth or children had, with patient vigilance, been ready to welcome the one visiting grandchild or small family to provide them with a real and special ministry on a Continued on page 3