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Choral song composed to celebrate foundation’s 60th b’day By Michelle Hauser
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Rev. Michael Bruce blesses the backpacks with Holy Water, with Canon Susan Page assisting, during a service just before the school year began. Photo by Nigel Salway
Blessing of the backpacks By Nigel Salway REGINA – Parishioners and students were invited to bring their backpacks,
briefcases, bookbags and even diaper bags to be blessed at St. Luke’s on the last Sunday of August. Included in the blessing
were 10 backpacks filled with supplies, which were donated by parishioners. Susan MacPhail organized the project and
delivered the backpacks to Judge Bryant School, where they were distributed to students in need.
hat better way to celebrate six decades of giftgiving than by offering yet another gift? This is how Judy Rois, executive director of the Anglican Foundation of Canada, describes “I Will Give Thanks to the Lord,” the choral anthem composed in honour of the Anglican Foundation of Canada’s 60th anniversary. “It is the gift of a beautiful piece of music from the Anglican Foundation to the Anglican Church,” Rois says. The anthem is one of many commemorative projects developed during the foundation’s milestone year. “We chose the themes of gratitude and generosity, based on Psalm 9:1-2,” says Canon Rois, “because they are at the heart of what the AFC is all about.” Established in 1957 to ensure a generous flow of funding for infrastructure and ministry projects, the foundation’s legacy of grants and bursaries have Continued on page 3
Patience Lake holds open church event for families, visitors By Bonnie Lawrence PATIENCE LAKE (S’toon) – An open church event at Christ Church West Patience Lake, a landmark pioneer Bishop Lloyd church, attracted Saskatoon area visitors on Aug. 27. Close to 70 people attended, including several multi-generational family groups. Tisdale organist Margaret Mehler played the church’s reed (pump) organ throughout the two-hour event. She was accompanied by singers from Tisdale and
visitors who enjoyed the rare opportunity to sing in the small wooden church. Built in 1908, this heritage church (eight kilometres east of Saskatoon at Highways 5 and 316) has enjoyed close connections with several Saskatoon churches. St. Matthew’s, Sutherland has been linked with this church as part of a three-point charge with St. Helen’s, East Patience Lake (moved from its original site 13 kilometres east.) One young apprentice builder who worked on St.
John’s Cathedral, Alan Lawley, built the chancel for this church in 1913. (Coincidentally, the original manse for the cathedral was moved to an acreage near Christ Church). The reed organ was donated by St. George’s, Saskatoon after the theft of Christ Church’s original organ in 1958. For years prior to that the choir and organist of St. George’s, Jack Topping, would make a summertime excursion to this little pioneer church and fill the countryside with praise.
Tisdale organist Margaret Mehler played Christ Church’s reed (pump) organ during the two-hour open church event in August. Photo by Joan Vanderloos