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First Nations gather
The Gathering is the first-ever First Nations Christian Conference on Vancouver Island.
The event is scheduled for March 5 – 7 at Maranatha Foursquare Gospel Church and Island Life Discipleship Centre in Nanaimo.
Speakers include Richard Twiss of the Lakota Sioux Tribe, author of One Church Many Tribes: Serving Jesus the Way God Made You ; and Duncan pastor Mark Buchanan, author of Hidden in Plain Sight: The Secret of More.
Music is provided by award-winning artist Cheryl Bear of the Carrier First Nations, whose latest CD is The Good Road.
Info: maranathachurch.ca.
Epicure evening
It was a big evening February 9, as close to 200 hungry people ate the food produced in the Entrée-preneur Epicure ‘cooking challenge,’ a fund-raiser in aid of the Victoria Mustard Seed.
The idea of the event was to invite eight talented chefs to create dishes from food of the kind found at the Mustard Seed food bank, using microwaves, hot plates and toaster ovens to create their delights in 15 minutes or less.
The challenge took place at the Ambrosia Conference and Event Centre on Fisgard Street and was organized by a group of Royal Roads University commerce students.
All proceeds went to the Mustard Seed, which is accessed each month by some 7,200 Victorians – people facing lean periods or otherwise trying to cope with feeding their family.
Day of Prayer
World Day of Prayer events occupied the Friday schedules at four Victoria area churches March 5, with this theme: ‘Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.’
The churches were the Salvation Army, Cordova Bay United, Garden City United and First Metropolitan United.
This year’s service, conducted in thousands of churches in several dozen countries, was based on a text written by women from Cameroon.
A statement on worlddayofprayer.net reads: “In English, the word ‘praise’ has its root in the verb ‘to prize, to value.’ Our sisters from Cameroon remind us that, with every breath, we renew the gift of life – and for this, we praise God.”
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Denominations participating in Victoria included Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Anglican, Salvation Army and United. The events were coordinated by the Women’s Inter-Church Council.
Theatre for Haiti
Erica Chapman, a Pacific Christian School student from Haiti whose former orphanage home was destroyed in the January earthquake, was one of the cast members in this year’s dessert theatre put on by the school’s drama students.
Chapman turned out to be a bit of an encouragement to the rest of the cast, resulting in a decision to put on a second performance this year, January 20.
Proceeds from that event are going to the Red Cross for ongoing disaster relief in Haiti.
ReStore ready
ReStore, Habitat for Humanity’s new store at 849 Orono Avenue in Langford, is now fully open – after being a ‘work in progress’ for several months.
A ribbon-cutting took place February 28, with speakers including Habitat families, donors, volunteers, local officials – and Wynn Toronitz, runner up in the ‘Meaning of Home’ national essay contest.
This store is one of dozens throughout North America associated with HFH. Enabled by cash and in kind donations, often provided by people renovating their own structures, the store is able to assist people requiring affordable building material and furnishings.
Information about the store, Habitat ‘builds’ and other HFH projects – including hours of operation and items accepted for donation at ReStore – is found at habitatvictoria.com.
Henry online
So you’re a Bible study fanatic, and have a sudden uncontrollable urge to get a well-matured 18th century analysis of scripture. Well, look no further than Comox’s St. Peter’s Anglican Church website, stpeterscomox.ca.
By clicking onto ‘Read,’ the browsing buff is given several choices of biblical study aids – one of which is the Matthew Henry Commentary, originally written in 1706. The site is actually a link to christnotes.org.
– Lloyd Mackey
March 2010
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