Articles tagged with: November 2011
by Lorna Hutchinson
The Boarding Homes Ministry was started in Toronto by The Rev. Rodger Hunter, who had worked in mission drop-in centres and recognized God’s call to reach out to the isolated people who live …
Don Muir, Associate Secretary, General Assembly Office
William Butler Yeats, the Nobel Prize winning Irish dramatist, author and poet, once stated, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
by Scott McAndless
Several years ago, Knox Presbyterian Church in Leamington, Ontario, considered how to enhance the way we present and receive the message of the Bible in our Sunday morning worship experience. We decided to …
Don Muir, Associate Secretary, General Assembly Office
Prayer: Book of Common Worship
Taken from Opening Prayers (p. 48)
Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known, and from you no secrets are hidden: cleanse the …
by Richard Anderson
Another year is quickly drawing to a close. As we look forward to a new year, there are a few financial things to consider. It may be time to reconsider how financial affairs …
by Stephen Farris
Not long ago, by historical standards, Presbyterians did not keep Lent; it was a “Papist” observance. For the most part, we no longer think that way, but before we dismiss our ancestors’ opinions …
by Don Muir
The 2011 General Assembly met at the University of Western Ontario in London from June 5 to 10. The Rev. Dr. Rick Horst, minister at St. Andrew’s in Barrie, Ontario, graciously moderated the …
by Dale McMillan
For more than 25 years, my husband, Reg, and I, along with the adults, youth and children we have been fortunate to minister with, have been telling The Story through drama. We do …
by Heather Vais
The annual meeting is coming up. Your board of managers (or your session finance committee) is madly scrambling to pull the financial records together for presentation. Reports are being written. The “big day” …
by Don Muir
What is a consent agenda?
A consent agenda is a way of adopting, all at once, a number of reports or recommendations that are anticipated to be readily and unanimously approved. The purpose of …
