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    Friday
    Dec302011

    Staging a Fine Christmas Pageant

    (Photo: Sophie Traub)

    By Cheryl Thornton

    I LOVE Christmas pageants and have been involved with many throughout my life. For seven years in a row, I wrote and directed pageants for a church in north Toronto. Each year as the Bethlehem dust settled on the manger scene

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    Friday
    Dec302011

    A Christmas Collection for Young Families

    By Ruth Flannigan & Manya Egerton

    CONSIDER GIVING some of these books this Christmas, either to your own children, grandchildren or godchildren, nieces or nephews, or to the children in your church through their Sunday school or children’s church library.

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    Monday
    Nov142011

    My Many-Coloured Days: Books about the Emotional Lives of Young Children

    By Beth Allen & Manya Egerton

    “AWAY IN A MANGER, no crib for a bed, the little Lord Jesus lay down his sweet head.” We sing this carol and others because December is the time in the church year when we remember the birth and early life of Jesus. The New Testament doesn’t tell us much beyond those first days and weeks, weeks full of trauma, heartbreak, glory

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    Monday
    Nov142011

    Moving Church

    By Julie Lane Gay

    After losing a court appeal, the largest Anglican congregation in Canada learned it must move church. One member of St. John’s Vancouver, formerly St. John’s Shaughnessy, tells how it felt.

    Rev. Daniel Gifford, Canon David Short and Canon Dr. J.I. Packer stand outside the church buildings after the final Sunday service at the Granville Street location on 18 Sept, 2011.  (Photo: www.stjohnsvancouver.org)

     

    THE PROSPECT of moving church felt like a mandatory road trip with ten children in a dilapidated minivan across endless dirt roads. While the actual distance would be only two kilometres

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    Monday
    Sep262011

    Grad Camp celebrates 50th anniversary

    The Lodge

    By Graham Gladwell

    FIFTY YEARS AGO, in the summer of 1961, Wilbur Sutherland, then President of Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship and a long-standing member of Little Trinity Anglican Church in Toronto, started Grad Camp. He did so in response to university graduates who wanted a conference at the graduate level to explore issues of faith. We have

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