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The newspaper of the Dioceses of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon and Qu’Appelle • A Section of the Anglican Journal • December 2019
St. Giles buys the farm, and then some By Wendy Godfrey ESTEVAN (Qu’A) — Last year St. Giles Anglican Church decided to fundraise to buy a farm through the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) World of Gifts. The farm included a cow, a goat, two pigs, five sheep, 40 chickens, 20 guinea fowl, a 20-kilogram bag of seed and some farming tools — all items needed for people in Third World countries to be able to feed their families and make a living. The cost of a farm was $470. Once it was announced, the people of St. Giles stepped up to make it happen. A farm-yard collection box was made and through the generosity of parishioners the parish was able to purchase not one, but three entire farms, as well as one Continued on page 4
Hanging of the Greens
The Hanging of the Greens is a tradition in many Anglican parishes, and often features the children of the parish decorating a Christmas tree, while the religious significant of the ornaments is explained. Keira McIlmoyl places a dove on the tree at St. Luke, Regina, assisted by her sister, Lucy, behind her. Photo by Nigel Salway
Diocese sells synod office and moves to cathedral By Mary Brown PRINCE ALBERT — In 1998 the Diocese of Saskatchewan Synod Office was located in an old threestorey house on the West Hill in Prince Albert. In January of that year I started work as the bishop’s secretary in that office. By June of 1998 we moved to a new location on Fifth Street East. It was a big job to move years of stuff. We had an auction to sell off many items that had been stored in the basement. The auctioneer’s eyes lit up when he saw the dinky toys in their original box
that had never been played with, as they were in Christmas wrapping paper destined for children in the north in the 1950s. Before moving into the new office Don Smith, who was on the executive committee at the time, organized a crew to paint and fix up the new space. A few years ago, two members of the executive committee did a thorough
comparison between the synod office and St. Alban’s Cathedral office space. Their job was to investigate
the feasibility of moving the bishop’s offices and archives department into St. Alban’s. It turned out that there was not much difference between the two locations. The diocese has decided to sell the synod office as “One of Prince Albert’s Premiere Freestanding Office Buildings” and is asking $459,000.
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The description states: 5,689 square feet architecturally designed building, built in 1981 to provincial government standards, exceptional design, wheelchair accessible, large gracious reception area with adjacent secure storage, spacious functional boardroom for up to 15 to 20 people, seven existing offices on exterior walls all offering windows with natural light, spacious filing areas, loading dock from onsite partially fenced and paved electrified parking lot. It was an ideal office in which to work, from Continued on page 6