Sudbury Christian Messenger for July 2009
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Sudbury Christian Messenger for July 2009
The shortened
summer version of the -
SUDBURY CHRISTIAN MESSENGER
Editors: Karen Marcotte and Diane Ikonen
Webmaster: Dan Thomson www.sudburychristian.ca
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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LOCAL NEWS AND EVENTS
1. Employment Opportunity – Christian Horizons
2. Workplace Fatalities Families Bill of Rights
3. Love and Respect Marriage Workshop
4. Horaire des activités-Activity schedule 2009 Grotte Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes / Our Lady Of Lourdes Grotto, Sudbury
5. Summer GospelFest Series Sept. 5
6. Prayer Canopy over Sudbury Starts June 30th
7. St. Mary’s Men’s Club Golf Event July 12
8. Christian Concert August 19 Glad Tidings
9. Women’s Retreat Theme: “The Cross” September 11-13
10.Check out DeoWeb for information from the Catholic Church in mid-northern Ontario
11. Check out 4MYC (For My Canada) for all the latest on hot button issues
12. Sudbury Ministerial Resumes in September with new day and location
13. Elgin Street Mission seeking volunteers
14. Door-to-Door Ministers
15. Dinosaur Valley Mini-Putt is open for the Season
16. Help us keep the Church Directory and Sudbury Christian Messenger database up-to-date
Report from First Steps Ministry
Giving Hope to those with Addictions By Jane Ansamaa
NATIONAL
Editorial: Archbishop Weisgerber is Wrong - Vatican Stopped its Donation to UNICEF in 1996
INTERNATIONAL
Swedish Parents Won't Tell if Child is Boy or Girl as Gender Experiment
Amnesty International Tars Poland over Abortion Access
MEDIA ALERT
1. Help us update our Sudbury Christian Messenger distribution list and Church Directory database at www.sudburychristian.ca <</span>http://www.sudburychristian.ca>
DAILY CHUCKLE
Local News & Events
1. Employment Opportunity – Christian Horizons
Employment opportunity: Looking for employment with meaning? Christian Horizons, a trans-denominational evangelical Christian organization that provides a variety of support & services for persons with developmental disabilities, is currently seeking relief/casual staff to work within our residential homes in Sudbury.
For more information please contact Karen Festing (Recruitment Manager) at Christian Horizons North District Office (705) 789-1725 x3.
2. Workplace Fatalities Families’ Bill of Rights
Hello to all
Faye Campeau lost her husband in a workplace fatality two years ago. Throughout the investigative process and up to the time of the inquest she and her family were denied information concerning the accident. In fact she only learned of the details of her husband's death as she sat through the coroner's hearing. Gerry Lougheed Jr. along with Faye and representatives from labour, police and a former Workplace Safety Insurance Board member have formed a committee whose purpose is to establish a Workplace fatalities family bill of rights.
Kathy Snow and her colleague Cindy Benoit were also killed in a workplace fatality. What you may not know is that Kathy’s family did not obtain the detailed accident investigation report (TTCIR) until 17 months after the accident. Nor were they able to access witness statements until more than five years later and only, incidentally, after the family initiated judicial proceedings against a Minister of the Crown!
A letter is included at the bottom of this email. Faye, Gerry and the rest of the committee are asking that you send a copy of this email to Premier McGuinty whose address is attached. It would also be worth sending it to the Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services, Rick Bartolucci @ rbartolucci.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org and to the Minister of Labour, Peter Fonseca @ pfonseca.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org.
There is also a postcard campaign underway. They may be picked up at Lougheed's funeral home or at the new temporary Steelworkers hall at the corner of Pine street
Workplace Fatality Family Bill of Rights Committee
Postcard Campaign to:
Dalton McGuinty Premier of Ontario
Rick Bartolucci Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services
Peter Fonseco Minister of Labour
In the tragedy of a work place fatality, the bereaved family has not been included in legislation. They often do not get information about the investigation in a timely fashion to help deal with emotional and practical issues. Please have your government adopt a Workplace Fatalities Family Bill of Rights with immediate emphasis in particular, “ The Minister of Labour shall review its practices and rationale concerning the inspector’s role in communicating with family members when investigating fatalities and critical injuries”.
Translate the words of Workers Memorial Day;
“Remember the Dead, Fight for the Living”
Into a more progressive and compassionate inquest process.
We ask for your support and request you email the above and your local MPP’s and all family members, friends and associates to do the same.
EMAIL to: dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
Thank you sincerely.
3. Love and Respect Marriage Workshop
Facilitated by Rev.’s Richard and Gaetane Males & Rev. Irvin and Fran Osborne.
Open to everyone married or thinking about getting married. A wonderful video teaching
Series by Dr. Emerson & Sarah Eggerichs.
Material covers: The key to building a strong, lasting relationship.
Expressing heartfelt commitment to your mate.
Building marriage before it begins.
Skills for building strong foundations for a healthy marriage.
Starting Monday September 14 for 6 Mondays, 6:30-9:30 pm., Discussion Guide is $15,
No charge for the workshops but seating is limited. Location: Sudbury Celebrate Jesus
Church behind the Montrose Mall.
Call to register by Sept. 1st: 566-1219 or 670-0110.
ENHANCE YOUR MARRIAGE IN 18 HOURS
Love and Respect workshop is a great video teaching series by Dr. Emerson and Sarah Eggerichs.
Starting Monday Sept. 14th/09 for 6 weeks.
Time: 6:30 to 9:30.
Location: Sudbury Celebrate Jesus Church (Montrose Mall)
Free: only a $15.00 fee/couple or single for the discussion guide.(purchased at the workshop)
Facilitated by: Rev’s Richard & Gaetane Males & Rev Irvin Osborne
Call to register by Sept.1st/09 @566-1219 or 670-0110
4. Horaire des activités-Activity schedule 2009
Grotte Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes / Our Lady Of Lourdes Grotto, Sudbury
271 rue Van Horne Street, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
www.grottosudbury.ca <</span>http://www.grottosudbury.ca/> pour plus de renseignements/for more information
Le terrain de la Grotte est ouvert du samedi 16 mai au lundi 7 septembre, 2009.
The Grotto is opened from Saturday May 16th to Monday September 7th, 2009.
CHAPELET (en groupe ou seul) - Lundi au vendredi à 18h30
ROSARY (group or individually) - Monday to Friday at 6:30 p.m
CHEMIN DE LA CROIX - Le vendredi à 18h30 *exception Messe/Mass
WAY OF THE CROSS - Friday nights at 6:30 p.m. *exception Messe/Mass
AOÛT/AUGUST 14, 19H/7 PM -Vendredi/Friday
Veille de la fête de l’Assomption de la Vierge Marie - messe présidée par Mgr Jean-Louis Plouffe
Eve of the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary -Mass presided by Bishop Jean-Louis Plouffe
AOÛT/AUGUST 21, 19H/7 PM - Vendredi/Friday
Fête de Marie Reine du Monde – messe présidée par le père Jean Legault Feast of Mary Queen of the World – Mass presided by Father Jean Legault
Pour réservé et pour tout groupe qui n’est pas rattaché à une paroisse doit communiquer directement avec :
For reservations and for groups outside of the parish you must contact:
Rév. /PèreJean Legault
Coordonnateur des activités pastorales, Secteur francophone
Coordinator of Pastoral Activities, French Sector
(705) 969-9339
ou/or
Rév./ Père Sam D’Angelo, CPPS
Coordonnateur des activités, Pastorales Secteur anglophone
Coordinator of Pastoral Activities, English Sector
(705)855-2525
5. Gospel Fest Summer Concert Series August 8 September 5
Location: Bell Park Amphitheatre (Rain alternate: All Nations Church 888 Prete Street)
Make this the summer you attend Gospel Fest ………Coordinated by Amy St. John who has a ministry/mission to bring together musicians, singers, artists from different Christian churches in Sudbury to worship Jesus.
August 8 concert features: All Nations Worship Team, Ron Whitman & Friends, Amy St. John & Liisa Tyers, John Felsman, Rick & Julie Lamoureux, Gene Dubreuil, and guests.
September 5 concert features: New Life Christian Centre Worship Team, Sarah Craig & Jim Matte, Ingrid & Brian Guse, Into the New (Melanie, David, Lauren Carlson), Lee Ray Canucky Bluegrass Boys, Steve & Shannon Anderson, and guests.
For details please go to www.gospelfest.ca <</span>http://www.gospelfest.ca/> <</span>http://www.gospelfest.ca/>
6. Prayer Canopy over Greater Sudbury starts June 30th
Prayer Canopy for
The city of Greater Sudbury
1 Timothy 2:1 I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them. 2 Pray this way for kings and all who are in authority…. 3 This is good and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants everyone to be saved and to understand the truth.
Praying a Canopy of the Presence of the LORD over The City of Greater Sudbury …
Pray for an awakening of the Church by the Holy Spirit.
Pray for a renewed vision of the spiritual harvest in Canada.
Pray that in His kindness the Lord will lead many to repentance.
Pray for a revival across Canada that will transform lives.
Pray for our Mayor and municipal government for divine wisdom and blessing.
When: Tuesday Evenings from 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Duration: Tuesday, June 30th through to Tuesday, August 25th
Where: Strategic “Hilltops” overlooking our City (outdoor locations)
North… Grace Family Church… 468 Antwerp Ave.
Leaders: Josey and Diane Frescura
South… Glad Tidings Tabernacle… 1101 Regent Street
Leaders: Pastor Kevin and Linda Joy Serviss
East… The Grotto… 271 Van Horne Street
Leader: Anna Burton
West… Dynamic Earth… 122 Big Nickel Road
Leaders: Rev.’s Jim and Sue Craig
This prayer initiative will conclude with a Concert of Prayer
on Tues. 01 September 09 at 7:00 p.m. in Glad Tidings sanctuary.
Who: All Churches of Greater Sudbury invited to participate
This initiative has received an official approval and blessing from
Mayor John Rodriguez.
7. St. Mary’s Men’s Club Golf Event Sunday, July 12
1:00 pm at Pine Grove
RSVP by July 3rd
For more information, please call Bill Evanochko at 222 5312 evanochkobill@yahoo.com
8. Christian Concert August 19 Glad Tidings
Building 429 with Downhere
Tickets are available from CJTK.com
9. Women’s Retreat Theme: “The Cross” September 11-13
Place: Camp Norland in Verner
Do you need a time away to be with God, to focus on His Way, to be nourished by the fellowship of other women who are on the spiritual journey of life?
Guest Speaker is Cathy Ciaramitaro from Windsor Christian Fellowship. Cathy is the author of The Cross. www.milestonesintl.com/thecross.htm <</span>http://www.milestonesintl.com/thecross.htm>
This Retreat is casual, comfortable and low cost. Cost $75.00 to stay in the Retreat Centre and $70.00 to stay in a cabin.
For more information, please call Eta Martin 525-7922
To register, contact Kipling Baptist Church rjcmac@true802.ca
10. Check out DeoWeb ….portal to the Catholic Church in mid-northern Ontario
Empowering everyone to communicate online
http://www.diocesessm.org/DiowebDocument.2008-12-09.5251994304/en?cl=en
11. Check out 4MYC (For My Canada) for all the latest on hot button issues
http://www.4mycanada.ca/
12. Sudbury Ministerial Association Tuesday, September 15
Sudbury Ministerial Association
at St. James (1815 Paris Street)
(the third Tuesday [rather than Wednesday] from 11:30-1:00).
Blessings,
John
Rev. John Harvey (Ph.D.)
Thorneloe College School of Theology, Registrar
13. Elgin Street Mission is seeking Volunteers
Elgin Street Mission is in need of volunteers during the following times:
Monday - Friday from 7am - 5pm
Saturday - 5pm - 9pm
Sundays 11am - 9pm
Volunteers are asked to work the hours they are available and not expected
to fill an entire shift. If you are a available a couple hours a day or day
a week. We are flexible!
Volunteers will be expected to assist in the kitchen area helping the
daytime facilitator serve breakfast and/or helping the cook later on in the
day prepare that evening's supper.
Please contact the volunteer coordinator Eva Lachapelle at 673-2163. We look
forward to having you become part of the team!
14. "Door to Door Ministers"
Reverend Michael & Karen Marcotte are excited to announce their new marketplace ministry, "Door to Door Ministers".
We officiate wedding ceremonies, offer Marriage Preparation Sessions and Marriage Follow-up - because "Marriage Matters!"
Michael provides Baby Dedication Ceremonies, Itinerant Pastoring Services to Churches, and is available for Funeral Services.
Contact us at:
doortodoorministers@persona.ca
705-919-8138.
15. Dinosaur Valley Mini Golf is Open for the season
Dinosaur Valley Mini Golf is Open for the season. Josephine’s Vegetables is also open.
New Dinosaur Pass for this year.
People can buy it online.
www.dinosaursudbury.com <</span>http://www.dinosaursudbury.com/> <</span>http://www.dinosaursudbury.com/>
jrainville@can.rogers.com <</span>mailto:jrainville@can.rogers.com>
Josee Rainville
owner of Dinosaur Valley Mini Golf
& Josephines Vegetables No Herbicide since 1982
16. Help us update Church List on ACES site and Sudbury Christian Messenger Database
If you haven’t already checked out the ACES (Active Christians Engaging Society) website, www.sudburychristian.ca <</span>http://www.sudburychristian.ca/> <</span>http://www.sudburychristian.ca/ <</span>http://www.sudburychristian.ca/> > <</span>http://www.sudburychristian.ca/ <</span>http://www.sudburychristian.ca/> > <</span>http://www.sudburychristian.ca/ <</span>http://www.sudburychristian.ca/> > , why not do it now. Once on the website, please click on 'CHURCH DIRECTORY'. This will bring you to the list of churches we are assembling, and need your help to maintain, for the Sudbury area, along with contact information for each church. If corrections or additions are needed for your church, click on 'CONTACT US', type in the changes and press send. This website is for the benefit of everyone, so please help us maintain it by sending us corrections whenever necessary. Thank you!
As well, in order to keep reaching you, when you change your e mail address, please let the Sudbury Christian Messenger Editor, Diane Ikonen, know your new address, so that our database can be maintained, and you can continue to be an important link in our Sudbury Christian network chain.
For more events that might interest Christians, please go to www.cjtk.com <</span>http://www.cjtk.com/>
Report from First Steps Ministry
Giving Hope to those with Addictions By Jane Ansamaa
“Help me” the first words he/she said as he walked into my office “I want to die. I can’t do this any more!” and so the story goes on and on and on client after client. But who is there to give them help. If I didn’t help him or her, he/she would die on the street. Today he/she didn’t, I’m not sure about tomorrow. Every time they come through the doors, I will listen. A Pastor who worked with me at the mission said to me, Jane that could have been Jesus.
42For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' Matthew 25:42-44 NIV
Who is there out there to give them hope?
Jesus said. “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”
John 13:34
I wish that was the way that our world thought. Some do, mind you but most don’t. Whether it is the homeless man or woman on the side of the road or the person suffering from mental illness wandering aimlessly along the street talking to the voices so clear in their head, most of us will step aside, out of the way, out of pity, out of fear, out of indifference. But there are those amongst us who stop, those who have been called by his name to serve.
My client was one of many looking for hope in a sea of criticism and condemnation. His parents don’t understand why he can’t just quit. Her/his husband or wife doesn’t understand the pain they endure. Real pain, physically crippling, brought on by poor choices, and desperation.
Romans 7:18-20 (New International Version)
18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. This is how they think. Their pain is real, their feelings are confused and there efforts are sure for the moment. This is addiction. They need someone who cares, someone who will listen.
How do I describe this to those who do not understand? I try in my own simple way to show God’s love and compassion to those in need. To help them understand as best I can, this illness, this mess, this new kind of normal that has become their life. I work as a Community Chaplain and an Addictions Intervention Counselor. I work alongside Rev. Brad Hale who is a pastor and a Community Chaplain for Corrections Canada, we work for the I Believe Network and our ministry is called FirstSteps to Freedom, in Sudbury Ontario. If we can’t give them Hope who can?
National News
Editorial: Archbishop Weisgerber is Wrong - Vatican Stopped its Donation to UNICEF in 1996
Editorial by John-Henry Westen
OTTAWA, June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Seeking to justify the giving of Catholic monies to groups that do not follow church teaching on abortion and contraception, Archbishop James Weisgerber recently used as an example the Vatican's yearly contribution to UNICEF. Ironically, however, the Winnipeg archbishop, who is currently the head of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), only managed to disprove his own point, since the Vatican actually halted its yearly donation to UNICEF in 1996, precisely because the organization was found to be promoting abortion and contraception.
Journalist Michael Swan reported Monday in both Catholic News Service and The Catholic Register that Archbishop Weisgerber said it is not necessary that Development and Peace work only with groups that espouse Catholic moral teaching. Reported Swan: "Weisgerber used the example of yearly Vatican contributions to UNICEF, the United Nations agency for children with which the Vatican has disagreed on contraception and abortion policy. Vatican donations are earmarked for specific programs or projects which reflect Vatican priorities."
However, the problem with the example is that in 1996, the Vatican announced that it would suspend their yearly contribution, and LifeSiteNews.com has confirmed with the Vatican that, as of yesterday, the donation has not been reinstated.
In announcing the decision to suspend the "symbolic contribution" to UNICEF, the then-Vatican representative to the United Nations, Archbishop Renato Martino, explained that the decision was based on four concerns:
1. The failure of UNICEF to provide accountability for funds which donors have 'earmarked' for specific and morally unobjectionable child-related programs despite numerous requests by the Holy See for such assurances;
2. The participation of UNICEF in the publication of a United Nations Manual advocating the distribution of abortifacient 'post-coital contraceptives' to refugee women in emergency situations;
3. Evidence of UNICEF involvement in advocacy to alter national legislation regarding abortion; and
4. Credible reports that UNICEF workers in various countries were distributing contraceptives and counseling their use.
Hence, Archbishop Weisgerber's error served to disprove rather than prove his point. The Vatican decision regarding UNICEF is thus an example of the Vatican taking exactly the opposite stance to Development & Peace - of cutting off Catholic funding for groups found to be promoting abortion and contraception.
The Vatican's stance on UNICEF bears even more resemblance to the Development and Peace situation than what is reported above.
Just as the funded partners of Development and Peace have stated repeatedly they do not engage in activities opposed to Church teaching - so too did UNICEF with the Vatican, in the face of incontrovertible evidence.
Archbishop Martino related in 1996 that the Vatican "has had an on-going dialogue with UNICEF for a number of years regarding its concerns. During that time UNICEF has assured the Holy See that, while UNICEF does advocate child spacing, it does not promote any particular family planning method. Further, the Holy See has been assured that UNICEF would never be involved in abortion or abortion-related activities."
The difference between the Vatican's take on UNICEF and D&P's take on their pro-abortion partners seems to be that the Vatican accepted hard evidence over the misrepresentations of UNICEF, while D&P is still rejecting the evidence.
"However, in spite of such statements, the new involvement of UNICEF in the areas of concern outlined above has forced the Holy See to take this visible step," explained Archbishop Martino.
International News
Swedish Parents Won't Tell if Child is Boy or Girl as Gender Experiment
By Hilary White
June 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In an interview with newspaper Svenska Dagbladet in March, a Swedish couple said they are refusing to disclose whether their two-and-a-half-year-old child, called "Pop" in the media, is a boy or a girl. They said that their decision, made at the time of the child's birth, was based on the feminist theory that "gender" is a "cruel" "social construct" that forces children into artificial roles.
"We want Pop to grow up more freely and avoid being forced into a specific gender mould from the outset," Pop's mother said. "It's cruel to bring a child into the world with a blue or pink stamp on their forehead." The parents say they never use personal pronouns, referring to him or her only as Pop.
"I believe that the self-confidence and personality that Pop has shaped will remain for a lifetime," said the mother.
Swedish English-language paper The Local, quoted "gender equality consultant" Kristina Henkel who justified the parents' action, saying if they are doing this "because they want to create a discussion with other adults about why gender is important, then I think they can make a point of it."
But critics say that similar experiments with children have had tragic consequences. In 2004, David Reimer, a man who had been raised as a girl in childhood, committed suicide at the age of 38. Reimer's parents had been convinced by Dr. John Money, a gender studies specialist at Johns Hopkins University, to impose "gender reassignment therapy" on their son after a botched circumcision.
Reimer became widely known after the publication of a book about his life titled, "As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl." He appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show in order to prevent other such experiments.
Starting in the 1960s, the topic of "gender roles" and "sex stereotyping" became one of great interest to radical feminist theorists. At that time, the concept of a "psychological" gender was popularized, leading to the concept in "queer theory" and "gender theory," of the "transsexual" - a person who believes he is born in the "wrong body" and whose "congenital defect" can be corrected with surgery and hormone treatments. Gender theorists have posited as many as eleven "psychological genders."
Christian family advocates have identified these developments as among the most serious threats to the continuation of the natural family and its legal protections in the west, particularly in Europe where these theories are more widely accepted in government than in the Americas.
Critics of "gender theory" have included Pope Benedict XVI who has called for the development of an "ecology of man" "based on respecting the nature of the person, and the two genders of masculine and feminine." In December 2008, the pope warned that radical feminist gender theory is a form of "contempt" for God that "will lead to the self destruction of humanity."
"It is not outmoded metaphysics," Benedict XVI said, "when Church speaks of the nature of the human being as man and woman, and demands that this order of creation be respected."
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
"Gender Study" Victim Boy Raised as a Girl Commits Suicide
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/may/04051010.html
Interview With Babette Francis on the UN's Destruction of the Concept of Gender
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/mar/040323a.html
Radical Feminism and Political Correctness
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005_docs/PC5.pdf
Media Deception: "Miraculous" Pregnant "Man" is Really a Woman
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/apr/08040407.html
Amnesty International Tars Poland over Abortion Access
By Piero A. Tozzi
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Amnesty International recently issued its 2009 survey of what it considers to be the state of human rights throughout the world. Of particular interest to social conservatives is Amnesty's continued campaign to advance a "right" to abortion globally. In its entry on Poland, Amnesty raps the country for its alleged "Denial of access to abortion for eligible women," citing criticism that Poland received from the Human Rights Council (HRC) in May 2008. It further faulted the government for failing to implement a 2007 ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Tysiąc v. Poland, concerning a purported "duty to establish effective mechanisms for ensuring women have access to abortion where it is legal."
To read the entire article, please go to
http://www.c-fam.org/publications/id.1258/pub_detail.asp
Media Alert
1. Help us update Church List on ACES site and SCM Database
If you haven’t already checked out the ACES (Active Christians Engaging Society) website, www.sudburychristian.ca <</span>http://www.sudburychristian.ca> <</span>http://www.sudburychristian.ca/> , why not do it now. Once on the website, please click on 'CHURCH DIRECTORY'. This will bring you to the list of churches we are assembling, and need your help to maintain, for the Sudbury area, along with contact information for each church. If corrections or additions are needed for your church, click on 'CONTACT US', type in the changes and press send. This website is for the benefit of everyone, so please help us maintain it by sending us corrections whenever necessary. Thank you!
As well, in order to keep reaching you, when you change your e mail address, please let the Sudbury Christian Messenger Editor, Diane Ikonen, know your new address, so that our database can be maintained, and you can continue to be an important link in our Sudbury Christian network chain.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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LOCAL NEWS AND EVENTS
1. Employment Opportunity – Christian Horizons
2. Workplace Fatalities Families Bill of Rights
3. Love and Respect Marriage Workshop
4. Horaire des activités-Activity schedule 2009 Grotte Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes / Our Lady Of Lourdes Grotto, Sudbury
5. Summer GospelFest Series Sept. 5
6. Prayer Canopy over Sudbury Starts June 30th
7. St. Mary’s Men’s Club Golf Event July 12
8. Christian Concert August 19 Glad Tidings
9. Women’s Retreat Theme: “The Cross” September 11-13
10.Check out DeoWeb for information from the Catholic Church in mid-northern Ontario
11. Check out 4MYC (For My Canada) for all the latest on hot button issues
12. Sudbury Ministerial Resumes in September with new day and location
13. Elgin Street Mission seeking volunteers
14. Door-to-Door Ministers
15. Dinosaur Valley Mini-Putt is open for the Season
16. Help us keep the Church Directory and Sudbury Christian Messenger database up-to-date
Report from First Steps Ministry
Giving Hope to those with Addictions By Jane Ansamaa
NATIONAL
Editorial: Archbishop Weisgerber is Wrong - Vatican Stopped its Donation to UNICEF in 1996
INTERNATIONAL
Swedish Parents Won't Tell if Child is Boy or Girl as Gender Experiment
Amnesty International Tars Poland over Abortion Access
MEDIA ALERT
1. Help us update our Sudbury Christian Messenger distribution list and Church Directory database at www.sudburychristian.ca <</span>http://www.sudburychristian.ca>
DAILY CHUCKLE
Local News & Events
1. Employment Opportunity – Christian Horizons
Employment opportunity: Looking for employment with meaning? Christian Horizons, a trans-denominational evangelical Christian organization that provides a variety of support & services for persons with developmental disabilities, is currently seeking relief/casual staff to work within our residential homes in Sudbury.
For more information please contact Karen Festing (Recruitment Manager) at Christian Horizons North District Office (705) 789-1725 x3.
2. Workplace Fatalities Families’ Bill of Rights
Hello to all
Faye Campeau lost her husband in a workplace fatality two years ago. Throughout the investigative process and up to the time of the inquest she and her family were denied information concerning the accident. In fact she only learned of the details of her husband's death as she sat through the coroner's hearing. Gerry Lougheed Jr. along with Faye and representatives from labour, police and a former Workplace Safety Insurance Board member have formed a committee whose purpose is to establish a Workplace fatalities family bill of rights.
Kathy Snow and her colleague Cindy Benoit were also killed in a workplace fatality. What you may not know is that Kathy’s family did not obtain the detailed accident investigation report (TTCIR) until 17 months after the accident. Nor were they able to access witness statements until more than five years later and only, incidentally, after the family initiated judicial proceedings against a Minister of the Crown!
A letter is included at the bottom of this email. Faye, Gerry and the rest of the committee are asking that you send a copy of this email to Premier McGuinty whose address is attached. It would also be worth sending it to the Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services, Rick Bartolucci @ rbartolucci.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org and to the Minister of Labour, Peter Fonseca @ pfonseca.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org.
There is also a postcard campaign underway. They may be picked up at Lougheed's funeral home or at the new temporary Steelworkers hall at the corner of Pine street
Workplace Fatality Family Bill of Rights Committee
Postcard Campaign to:
Dalton McGuinty Premier of Ontario
Rick Bartolucci Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services
Peter Fonseco Minister of Labour
In the tragedy of a work place fatality, the bereaved family has not been included in legislation. They often do not get information about the investigation in a timely fashion to help deal with emotional and practical issues. Please have your government adopt a Workplace Fatalities Family Bill of Rights with immediate emphasis in particular, “ The Minister of Labour shall review its practices and rationale concerning the inspector’s role in communicating with family members when investigating fatalities and critical injuries”.
Translate the words of Workers Memorial Day;
“Remember the Dead, Fight for the Living”
Into a more progressive and compassionate inquest process.
We ask for your support and request you email the above and your local MPP’s and all family members, friends and associates to do the same.
EMAIL to: dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
Thank you sincerely.
3. Love and Respect Marriage Workshop
Facilitated by Rev.’s Richard and Gaetane Males & Rev. Irvin and Fran Osborne.
Open to everyone married or thinking about getting married. A wonderful video teaching
Series by Dr. Emerson & Sarah Eggerichs.
Material covers: The key to building a strong, lasting relationship.
Expressing heartfelt commitment to your mate.
Building marriage before it begins.
Skills for building strong foundations for a healthy marriage.
Starting Monday September 14 for 6 Mondays, 6:30-9:30 pm., Discussion Guide is $15,
No charge for the workshops but seating is limited. Location: Sudbury Celebrate Jesus
Church behind the Montrose Mall.
Call to register by Sept. 1st: 566-1219 or 670-0110.
ENHANCE YOUR MARRIAGE IN 18 HOURS
Love and Respect workshop is a great video teaching series by Dr. Emerson and Sarah Eggerichs.
Starting Monday Sept. 14th/09 for 6 weeks.
Time: 6:30 to 9:30.
Location: Sudbury Celebrate Jesus Church (Montrose Mall)
Free: only a $15.00 fee/couple or single for the discussion guide.(purchased at the workshop)
Facilitated by: Rev’s Richard & Gaetane Males & Rev Irvin Osborne
Call to register by Sept.1st/09 @566-1219 or 670-0110
4. Horaire des activités-Activity schedule 2009
Grotte Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes / Our Lady Of Lourdes Grotto, Sudbury
271 rue Van Horne Street, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
www.grottosudbury.ca <</span>http://www.grottosudbury.ca/> pour plus de renseignements/for more information
Le terrain de la Grotte est ouvert du samedi 16 mai au lundi 7 septembre, 2009.
The Grotto is opened from Saturday May 16th to Monday September 7th, 2009.
CHAPELET (en groupe ou seul) - Lundi au vendredi à 18h30
ROSARY (group or individually) - Monday to Friday at 6:30 p.m
CHEMIN DE LA CROIX - Le vendredi à 18h30 *exception Messe/Mass
WAY OF THE CROSS - Friday nights at 6:30 p.m. *exception Messe/Mass
AOÛT/AUGUST 14, 19H/7 PM -Vendredi/Friday
Veille de la fête de l’Assomption de la Vierge Marie - messe présidée par Mgr Jean-Louis Plouffe
Eve of the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary -Mass presided by Bishop Jean-Louis Plouffe
AOÛT/AUGUST 21, 19H/7 PM - Vendredi/Friday
Fête de Marie Reine du Monde – messe présidée par le père Jean Legault Feast of Mary Queen of the World – Mass presided by Father Jean Legault
Pour réservé et pour tout groupe qui n’est pas rattaché à une paroisse doit communiquer directement avec :
For reservations and for groups outside of the parish you must contact:
Rév. /PèreJean Legault
Coordonnateur des activités pastorales, Secteur francophone
Coordinator of Pastoral Activities, French Sector
(705) 969-9339
ou/or
Rév./ Père Sam D’Angelo, CPPS
Coordonnateur des activités, Pastorales Secteur anglophone
Coordinator of Pastoral Activities, English Sector
(705)855-2525
5. Gospel Fest Summer Concert Series August 8 September 5
Location: Bell Park Amphitheatre (Rain alternate: All Nations Church 888 Prete Street)
Make this the summer you attend Gospel Fest ………Coordinated by Amy St. John who has a ministry/mission to bring together musicians, singers, artists from different Christian churches in Sudbury to worship Jesus.
August 8 concert features: All Nations Worship Team, Ron Whitman & Friends, Amy St. John & Liisa Tyers, John Felsman, Rick & Julie Lamoureux, Gene Dubreuil, and guests.
September 5 concert features: New Life Christian Centre Worship Team, Sarah Craig & Jim Matte, Ingrid & Brian Guse, Into the New (Melanie, David, Lauren Carlson), Lee Ray Canucky Bluegrass Boys, Steve & Shannon Anderson, and guests.
For details please go to www.gospelfest.ca <</span>http://www.gospelfest.ca/> <</span>http://www.gospelfest.ca/>
6. Prayer Canopy over Greater Sudbury starts June 30th
Prayer Canopy for
The city of Greater Sudbury
1 Timothy 2:1 I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them. 2 Pray this way for kings and all who are in authority…. 3 This is good and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants everyone to be saved and to understand the truth.
Praying a Canopy of the Presence of the LORD over The City of Greater Sudbury …
Pray for an awakening of the Church by the Holy Spirit.
Pray for a renewed vision of the spiritual harvest in Canada.
Pray that in His kindness the Lord will lead many to repentance.
Pray for a revival across Canada that will transform lives.
Pray for our Mayor and municipal government for divine wisdom and blessing.
When: Tuesday Evenings from 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Duration: Tuesday, June 30th through to Tuesday, August 25th
Where: Strategic “Hilltops” overlooking our City (outdoor locations)
North… Grace Family Church… 468 Antwerp Ave.
Leaders: Josey and Diane Frescura
South… Glad Tidings Tabernacle… 1101 Regent Street
Leaders: Pastor Kevin and Linda Joy Serviss
East… The Grotto… 271 Van Horne Street
Leader: Anna Burton
West… Dynamic Earth… 122 Big Nickel Road
Leaders: Rev.’s Jim and Sue Craig
This prayer initiative will conclude with a Concert of Prayer
on Tues. 01 September 09 at 7:00 p.m. in Glad Tidings sanctuary.
Who: All Churches of Greater Sudbury invited to participate
This initiative has received an official approval and blessing from
Mayor John Rodriguez.
7. St. Mary’s Men’s Club Golf Event Sunday, July 12
1:00 pm at Pine Grove
RSVP by July 3rd
For more information, please call Bill Evanochko at 222 5312 evanochkobill@yahoo.com
8. Christian Concert August 19 Glad Tidings
Building 429 with Downhere
Tickets are available from CJTK.com
9. Women’s Retreat Theme: “The Cross” September 11-13
Place: Camp Norland in Verner
Do you need a time away to be with God, to focus on His Way, to be nourished by the fellowship of other women who are on the spiritual journey of life?
Guest Speaker is Cathy Ciaramitaro from Windsor Christian Fellowship. Cathy is the author of The Cross. www.milestonesintl.com/thecross.htm <</span>http://www.milestonesintl.com/thecross.htm>
This Retreat is casual, comfortable and low cost. Cost $75.00 to stay in the Retreat Centre and $70.00 to stay in a cabin.
For more information, please call Eta Martin 525-7922
To register, contact Kipling Baptist Church rjcmac@true802.ca
10. Check out DeoWeb ….portal to the Catholic Church in mid-northern Ontario
Empowering everyone to communicate online
http://www.diocesessm.org/DiowebDocument.2008-12-09.5251994304/en?cl=en
11. Check out 4MYC (For My Canada) for all the latest on hot button issues
http://www.4mycanada.ca/
12. Sudbury Ministerial Association Tuesday, September 15
Sudbury Ministerial Association
at St. James (1815 Paris Street)
(the third Tuesday [rather than Wednesday] from 11:30-1:00).
Blessings,
John
Rev. John Harvey (Ph.D.)
Thorneloe College School of Theology, Registrar
13. Elgin Street Mission is seeking Volunteers
Elgin Street Mission is in need of volunteers during the following times:
Monday - Friday from 7am - 5pm
Saturday - 5pm - 9pm
Sundays 11am - 9pm
Volunteers are asked to work the hours they are available and not expected
to fill an entire shift. If you are a available a couple hours a day or day
a week. We are flexible!
Volunteers will be expected to assist in the kitchen area helping the
daytime facilitator serve breakfast and/or helping the cook later on in the
day prepare that evening's supper.
Please contact the volunteer coordinator Eva Lachapelle at 673-2163. We look
forward to having you become part of the team!
14. "Door to Door Ministers"
Reverend Michael & Karen Marcotte are excited to announce their new marketplace ministry, "Door to Door Ministers".
We officiate wedding ceremonies, offer Marriage Preparation Sessions and Marriage Follow-up - because "Marriage Matters!"
Michael provides Baby Dedication Ceremonies, Itinerant Pastoring Services to Churches, and is available for Funeral Services.
Contact us at:
doortodoorministers@persona.ca
705-919-8138.
15. Dinosaur Valley Mini Golf is Open for the season
Dinosaur Valley Mini Golf is Open for the season. Josephine’s Vegetables is also open.
New Dinosaur Pass for this year.
People can buy it online.
www.dinosaursudbury.com <</span>http://www.dinosaursudbury.com/> <</span>http://www.dinosaursudbury.com/>
jrainville@can.rogers.com <</span>mailto:jrainville@can.rogers.com>
Josee Rainville
owner of Dinosaur Valley Mini Golf
& Josephines Vegetables No Herbicide since 1982
16. Help us update Church List on ACES site and Sudbury Christian Messenger Database
If you haven’t already checked out the ACES (Active Christians Engaging Society) website, www.sudburychristian.ca <</span>http://www.sudburychristian.ca/> <</span>http://www.sudburychristian.ca/ <</span>http://www.sudburychristian.ca/> > <</span>http://www.sudburychristian.ca/ <</span>http://www.sudburychristian.ca/> > <</span>http://www.sudburychristian.ca/ <</span>http://www.sudburychristian.ca/> > , why not do it now. Once on the website, please click on 'CHURCH DIRECTORY'. This will bring you to the list of churches we are assembling, and need your help to maintain, for the Sudbury area, along with contact information for each church. If corrections or additions are needed for your church, click on 'CONTACT US', type in the changes and press send. This website is for the benefit of everyone, so please help us maintain it by sending us corrections whenever necessary. Thank you!
As well, in order to keep reaching you, when you change your e mail address, please let the Sudbury Christian Messenger Editor, Diane Ikonen, know your new address, so that our database can be maintained, and you can continue to be an important link in our Sudbury Christian network chain.
For more events that might interest Christians, please go to www.cjtk.com <</span>http://www.cjtk.com/>
Report from First Steps Ministry
Giving Hope to those with Addictions By Jane Ansamaa
“Help me” the first words he/she said as he walked into my office “I want to die. I can’t do this any more!” and so the story goes on and on and on client after client. But who is there to give them help. If I didn’t help him or her, he/she would die on the street. Today he/she didn’t, I’m not sure about tomorrow. Every time they come through the doors, I will listen. A Pastor who worked with me at the mission said to me, Jane that could have been Jesus.
42For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' Matthew 25:42-44 NIV
Who is there out there to give them hope?
Jesus said. “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”
John 13:34
I wish that was the way that our world thought. Some do, mind you but most don’t. Whether it is the homeless man or woman on the side of the road or the person suffering from mental illness wandering aimlessly along the street talking to the voices so clear in their head, most of us will step aside, out of the way, out of pity, out of fear, out of indifference. But there are those amongst us who stop, those who have been called by his name to serve.
My client was one of many looking for hope in a sea of criticism and condemnation. His parents don’t understand why he can’t just quit. Her/his husband or wife doesn’t understand the pain they endure. Real pain, physically crippling, brought on by poor choices, and desperation.
Romans 7:18-20 (New International Version)
18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. This is how they think. Their pain is real, their feelings are confused and there efforts are sure for the moment. This is addiction. They need someone who cares, someone who will listen.
How do I describe this to those who do not understand? I try in my own simple way to show God’s love and compassion to those in need. To help them understand as best I can, this illness, this mess, this new kind of normal that has become their life. I work as a Community Chaplain and an Addictions Intervention Counselor. I work alongside Rev. Brad Hale who is a pastor and a Community Chaplain for Corrections Canada, we work for the I Believe Network and our ministry is called FirstSteps to Freedom, in Sudbury Ontario. If we can’t give them Hope who can?
National News
Editorial: Archbishop Weisgerber is Wrong - Vatican Stopped its Donation to UNICEF in 1996
Editorial by John-Henry Westen
OTTAWA, June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Seeking to justify the giving of Catholic monies to groups that do not follow church teaching on abortion and contraception, Archbishop James Weisgerber recently used as an example the Vatican's yearly contribution to UNICEF. Ironically, however, the Winnipeg archbishop, who is currently the head of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), only managed to disprove his own point, since the Vatican actually halted its yearly donation to UNICEF in 1996, precisely because the organization was found to be promoting abortion and contraception.
Journalist Michael Swan reported Monday in both Catholic News Service and The Catholic Register that Archbishop Weisgerber said it is not necessary that Development and Peace work only with groups that espouse Catholic moral teaching. Reported Swan: "Weisgerber used the example of yearly Vatican contributions to UNICEF, the United Nations agency for children with which the Vatican has disagreed on contraception and abortion policy. Vatican donations are earmarked for specific programs or projects which reflect Vatican priorities."
However, the problem with the example is that in 1996, the Vatican announced that it would suspend their yearly contribution, and LifeSiteNews.com has confirmed with the Vatican that, as of yesterday, the donation has not been reinstated.
In announcing the decision to suspend the "symbolic contribution" to UNICEF, the then-Vatican representative to the United Nations, Archbishop Renato Martino, explained that the decision was based on four concerns:
1. The failure of UNICEF to provide accountability for funds which donors have 'earmarked' for specific and morally unobjectionable child-related programs despite numerous requests by the Holy See for such assurances;
2. The participation of UNICEF in the publication of a United Nations Manual advocating the distribution of abortifacient 'post-coital contraceptives' to refugee women in emergency situations;
3. Evidence of UNICEF involvement in advocacy to alter national legislation regarding abortion; and
4. Credible reports that UNICEF workers in various countries were distributing contraceptives and counseling their use.
Hence, Archbishop Weisgerber's error served to disprove rather than prove his point. The Vatican decision regarding UNICEF is thus an example of the Vatican taking exactly the opposite stance to Development & Peace - of cutting off Catholic funding for groups found to be promoting abortion and contraception.
The Vatican's stance on UNICEF bears even more resemblance to the Development and Peace situation than what is reported above.
Just as the funded partners of Development and Peace have stated repeatedly they do not engage in activities opposed to Church teaching - so too did UNICEF with the Vatican, in the face of incontrovertible evidence.
Archbishop Martino related in 1996 that the Vatican "has had an on-going dialogue with UNICEF for a number of years regarding its concerns. During that time UNICEF has assured the Holy See that, while UNICEF does advocate child spacing, it does not promote any particular family planning method. Further, the Holy See has been assured that UNICEF would never be involved in abortion or abortion-related activities."
The difference between the Vatican's take on UNICEF and D&P's take on their pro-abortion partners seems to be that the Vatican accepted hard evidence over the misrepresentations of UNICEF, while D&P is still rejecting the evidence.
"However, in spite of such statements, the new involvement of UNICEF in the areas of concern outlined above has forced the Holy See to take this visible step," explained Archbishop Martino.
International News
Swedish Parents Won't Tell if Child is Boy or Girl as Gender Experiment
By Hilary White
June 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In an interview with newspaper Svenska Dagbladet in March, a Swedish couple said they are refusing to disclose whether their two-and-a-half-year-old child, called "Pop" in the media, is a boy or a girl. They said that their decision, made at the time of the child's birth, was based on the feminist theory that "gender" is a "cruel" "social construct" that forces children into artificial roles.
"We want Pop to grow up more freely and avoid being forced into a specific gender mould from the outset," Pop's mother said. "It's cruel to bring a child into the world with a blue or pink stamp on their forehead." The parents say they never use personal pronouns, referring to him or her only as Pop.
"I believe that the self-confidence and personality that Pop has shaped will remain for a lifetime," said the mother.
Swedish English-language paper The Local, quoted "gender equality consultant" Kristina Henkel who justified the parents' action, saying if they are doing this "because they want to create a discussion with other adults about why gender is important, then I think they can make a point of it."
But critics say that similar experiments with children have had tragic consequences. In 2004, David Reimer, a man who had been raised as a girl in childhood, committed suicide at the age of 38. Reimer's parents had been convinced by Dr. John Money, a gender studies specialist at Johns Hopkins University, to impose "gender reassignment therapy" on their son after a botched circumcision.
Reimer became widely known after the publication of a book about his life titled, "As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl." He appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show in order to prevent other such experiments.
Starting in the 1960s, the topic of "gender roles" and "sex stereotyping" became one of great interest to radical feminist theorists. At that time, the concept of a "psychological" gender was popularized, leading to the concept in "queer theory" and "gender theory," of the "transsexual" - a person who believes he is born in the "wrong body" and whose "congenital defect" can be corrected with surgery and hormone treatments. Gender theorists have posited as many as eleven "psychological genders."
Christian family advocates have identified these developments as among the most serious threats to the continuation of the natural family and its legal protections in the west, particularly in Europe where these theories are more widely accepted in government than in the Americas.
Critics of "gender theory" have included Pope Benedict XVI who has called for the development of an "ecology of man" "based on respecting the nature of the person, and the two genders of masculine and feminine." In December 2008, the pope warned that radical feminist gender theory is a form of "contempt" for God that "will lead to the self destruction of humanity."
"It is not outmoded metaphysics," Benedict XVI said, "when Church speaks of the nature of the human being as man and woman, and demands that this order of creation be respected."
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
"Gender Study" Victim Boy Raised as a Girl Commits Suicide
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/may/04051010.html
Interview With Babette Francis on the UN's Destruction of the Concept of Gender
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/mar/040323a.html
Radical Feminism and Political Correctness
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005_docs/PC5.pdf
Media Deception: "Miraculous" Pregnant "Man" is Really a Woman
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/apr/08040407.html
Amnesty International Tars Poland over Abortion Access
By Piero A. Tozzi
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Amnesty International recently issued its 2009 survey of what it considers to be the state of human rights throughout the world. Of particular interest to social conservatives is Amnesty's continued campaign to advance a "right" to abortion globally. In its entry on Poland, Amnesty raps the country for its alleged "Denial of access to abortion for eligible women," citing criticism that Poland received from the Human Rights Council (HRC) in May 2008. It further faulted the government for failing to implement a 2007 ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Tysiąc v. Poland, concerning a purported "duty to establish effective mechanisms for ensuring women have access to abortion where it is legal."
To read the entire article, please go to
http://www.c-fam.org/publications/id.1258/pub_detail.asp
Media Alert
1. Help us update Church List on ACES site and SCM Database
If you haven’t already checked out the ACES (Active Christians Engaging Society) website, www.sudburychristian.ca <</span>http://www.sudburychristian.ca> <</span>http://www.sudburychristian.ca/> , why not do it now. Once on the website, please click on 'CHURCH DIRECTORY'. This will bring you to the list of churches we are assembling, and need your help to maintain, for the Sudbury area, along with contact information for each church. If corrections or additions are needed for your church, click on 'CONTACT US', type in the changes and press send. This website is for the benefit of everyone, so please help us maintain it by sending us corrections whenever necessary. Thank you!
As well, in order to keep reaching you, when you change your e mail address, please let the Sudbury Christian Messenger Editor, Diane Ikonen, know your new address, so that our database can be maintained, and you can continue to be an important link in our Sudbury Christian network chain.
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