Convocation. Receiving their degrees: (Back Row) Brenda Simon, M. Div., Warner Bloomfield, M. Div., Jack Carr, D. D., Stanley McKay, D. D.

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1 Volume 21, Number 2, Spring 2012 The eleventh joint Convocation of the Theological Union was held on Friday, May 4th at St. John s Anglican Cathedral in. It was a well-attended celebration with 14 students receiving earned degrees from the three colleges (St. Andrew s College, Contact Convocation College of Emmanuel & St. Chad and the Lutheran Theological Seminary). From St. Andrew s College, the Master of Divinity degree was awarded to Warner Bloomfield and Brenda Simon. Sang Won Cha and JiHong Bae received recognition for the completion of courses for admission to the Order of Ministry of The United Church of Canada. Jack Carr and Stanley McKay were the recipients of an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. The evening s address was given by Dr. Roger Nostbakken, former President of the Lutheran Theological Seminary. Receiving their degrees: (Back Row) Brenda Simon, M. Div., Warner Bloomfield, M. Div., Jack Carr, D. D., Stanley McKay, D. D. Vision Statement St. Andrew s College will be a leader in theological education rooted in a radical vision of the gospel. In This Issue Principal s Pondering Ministry Residency You Gave Us A Lift First United Youth Fundraiser From a Faculty Bookshelf Reunion Update St. Andrews College 100th Anniversary....5 Honorary Anniversary Doctorates The Little Basket That Could Prairie Food, Music & Friends Rural Ministry? Yea Please! Amazing Gifts From Our Friends St. Andrew s College Donors St. Andrew s People Goals For Our Second Century From The Library Spoke & Word Alum News Mark Your Calendars

2 Lorne Calvert St.Andrew s College Principal s Pondering The faces in the alumni/ae photos of all of those who have graduated from St. Andrew s over the course of a century tell the story of this College. These women and men have touched thousands and tens of thousands of lives through their ministries and service following the years of study at St. Andrew s. They have made a difference in the lives of individuals, families, congregations, The United Church of Canada and other Christian denominations. They have served in pastoral ministry, in chaplaincy and spiritual care; they have given leadership in the courts of the Church; they have served in community based organizations, worked in public service and public office; in education, agriculture and commerce. They have shaped our communities and Church across Canada and beyond. They have made and are making a difference. Those whose photos will join the alumni/ae of St. Andrews, who today are engaged in study or residency, will equally make a difference in the lives they touch and the future they shape. Of this I have no doubt! And among the photos of our graduates are the photos of faculty who have taught at St. Andrew s over a century. Through their teaching and their counsel with students, through their writing, research and labour within and beyond the College, they have shaped lives in profound ways. The St. Andrew s faculty have also shaped our theology and our biblical understanding; they have interpreted and told our church history; expanded and deepened our understandings of the ethical, social, economic and political imperatives of the Gospel. The story of St. Andrew s is a story of people seeking to be faithful, seeking to make a difference in the lives of others and the life of the world. Today at the College we hear the summons of God to the future. We recommit to providing a justice driven education to equip women and men for Christian leadership. We recommit to serving The United Church of Canada, the ecumenical church and the communities in which we live. We recommit to a cutting-edge theology set in the context of our time. We recommit to our students and students yet to come. By the grace of God, and our labours together as the wide-spread community of St. Andrew s, this College will make a difference in the century to come. Lynn Bayne Ministry Residency Coordinator At the end of another term of getting to know and working on behalf of Master of Divinity students at St. Andrew s College, I am impressed with the richness of the diversity and creativity of these future ministers of The United Church of Canada. I am confident that these students are well served by the Master of Divinity programme at St. Andrew s College. The faculty and staff challenge and support our students to become the minister each is meant to be. Ministry Residency in St. Andrew s College Master of Divinity Programme One of the strengths of the program at St. Andrew s is that the number of students is small enough to allow for flexibility in programmes and for attention to individual students not possible with large numbers. That said, St. Andrew s is well equipped to serve many more students than we do at present. So I reiterate the challenge that my predecessor, Debra Berg, issued to you: Look around for those who show gifts for ministry and encourage them to seek out St. Andrew s College as the place to grow into the ministry. Another strength of the program at St. Andrew s is the integrated model of ministry practice and academic reflection. The Ministry Residency provides students with opportunities to integrate skills, knowledge, values and faith while engaged in the practice of ministry with a pastoral charge. Having come from a background in education of teachers, I can attest to the soundness of integrating theory and practice in the preparation of ministerial as for teacher candidates. One is called to be, not just to do, and that requires true integration of self and learning. During the Ministerial Residency, Educational Supervisors model the practice of reflection in action and act as sounding boards for the Residents development of faith and identity as ministers. Learning Circles conducted by faculty at St. Andrew s throughout the period of the twenty month Residency provide students with opportunities to reflect on their learning experiences with their peers while experiencing a supportive collegial network. As Coordinator of Ministry Residency, I feel both proud and humbled to be a small part of the work of St. Andrew s 2

3 The generosity of many has made a dream come true. An elevator has now been installed in St. Andrew s College to make the College more accessible to many for whom stairs are a barrier or challenge. We have already been able to welcome some people using wheelchairs who never have had the opportunity to enter the College. An accessible washroom has also been completed and the exterior concrete St.Andrew s College You Gave Us A Lift! work is now being finished. With a future alteration of the Reading Room of the library, all public areas of the College will be much more accessible than they have been in our first 100 year history. Your support of the Give Us A Lift campaign has brought us to within $20,000 of the $300,000 necessary to meet the costs of the elevator and washroom installations with the required renovations. It is our hope to have reached our goal and have our funding complete by the time of our official ribbon cutting during the Anniversary Weekend in July. The College offers many, many thanks to all who have already supported this project and will welcome the gifts that will finish the project. You gave us a lift! First United Youth Fundraiser The Youth Group from First United Church in Dryden, Ontario, held a 30 hour famine to raise money for the Give Us A Lift campaign. They raised over $750 for the accessibility project. 3

4 From a Faculty Bookshelf Christine Mitchell, Professor of Hebrew Scriptures If you ve scanned the cereal boxes at your local grocery or health food store lately, you might have seen a set of boxes labeled Ezekiel 4:9 Sprouted Whole Grain Cereal. The company that makes this line of cereals quotes the biblical verse, Take also unto thee wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet and spelt and put them in one vessel and make bread of it, and uses that verse as an authority for producing a high-protein, gluten-free cereal. I haven t tried the cereal, but I m sure that the scriptural citation is a much better marketing tag than Sprouted Whole Grain Cereal would be on its own. Perhaps you ve seen those cereals and wondered whether this combination of legumes and grains is really what the ancient Israelites ate. You might have wondered about the ancient diet more generally. A thoroughly informative and entertaining look at the food of ancient Israel can be found in Nathan MacDonald, What Did the Ancient Israelites Eat? Diet in Biblical Times (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2008). In about a hundred pages (plus notes and bibliography), all of your questions will be answered. The first section is an introduction to the issues of reconstructing ancient diets. The second section, entitled What Did the Israelites Eat, outlines the foods, from the basics of bread, wine and olive oil, through fruits, vegetables, legumes, meat and milk, before ending with a discussion of condiments. We learn that vegetables and legumes were probably not much consumed in the Iron Age, as much of the territory of ancient Israel and Judah was either terraced for fruit production or given over to grain farming. Domesticated animals were used for their meat, while milk came from goats and sheep, rather than cows. Milk wasn t consumed fresh, but was usually processed through fermentation or churning. Eggs were gathered from wild birds, not from domesticated ones. What is most surprising is the amount of archaeological evidence for widespread fish consumption, as the Israelites were an inland people. Along with evidence for local river-fish, there is evidence for dried fish being imported from Egypt. The third section, How Well Did the Israelites Eat, is an assessment of the diet that a typical subsistence farming family would have eaten. This section goes beyond just compiling a diet and looking at its nutritional value. Factors such as climate, famine, drought, access to meat, and food distribution are all carefully considered. Nutritional deficiencies such as iron-deficiency anemia were common. MacDonald concludes that, Our current state of knowledge suggests that the population of Iron Age Israel generally suffered from an inadequate diet, poor health, and low life expectancy (p. 87). The final section of the book summarizes the key findings of the earlier sections, and deals specifically with so-called biblical diets touted today which range from accidentally helpful through to dangerous. MacDonald s final sentence is a beautiful summary of the theological position held in the texts of the Hebrew Bible: The Old Testament presses for food to be grown responsibly, received with thankfulness and rejoicing, given generously to others, and enjoyed in moderation (p. 101). So what about the Ezekiel 4:9 cereal? MacDonald points out something that the makers of that cereal would surely rather we not know: that the combination of lentils, broad beans, and cereal grains was not the usual practice, but reflective of famine conditions suffered by those in besieged Jerusalem (p. 28). It was not a biblical ideal, but a warning about what one might be forced to eat when other options have disappeared. Greetings from the St. Andrew s Reunion Committee! We have been busy as bees this spring preparing for the Centennial Reunion. Registration packages were sent out earlier this year and we are excited with the strong response we received from our past residents & alumni. If you happened to miss out on registration or would like to partake in our celebrations on July 6-8th please contact the Main Office at (306) or by ing reunion.2012@usask.ca. We Reunion Update would be happy to have you with us for this momentous occasion. Our Event Committees have also been busy creating displays, decorations and activities for the weekend. We will look to highlight past memories and look at how far the College has come since its humble beginning in Entertainment, socializing, and walks down memory lane will be prominent throughout this weekend. Events include a Friday evening social; tours of the College, the residence, the University campus and The Old Barn ; a Gala Dinner that will be light on speeches and heavy on entertainment and visiting; and a special 100th Anniversary convocation and worship service on Sunday morning with the Moderator joining us to preach. We can t wait to celebrate a 100 years of history and will be sure to share snippets of the weekend in the Fall Edition. Have a safe and relaxing summer! 4

5 St. Andrew s College 100 th Anniversary Weekend July 6, 7 & 8 Join with our: Alumni/ae Former Student Residents Past and Present Faculty and Staff And Friends of the College EVENTS: Friday, July 6, Evening o Registration and Social o Class and Decade Get Togethers Saturday, July 7 o Faculty & Staff Reunion Breakfast o Informal gatherings o Tours o Elevator Ribbon Cutting o Reunion Banquet and Entertainment For our planning we need to know you are coming by June 27. You can register online at or by calling Sunday, July 8 o Special Convocation and Service of Thanksgiving 5

6 The Academic Committee of St. Andrew s College has created an honorary Doctor of the College (D.C.) to be awarded on the one occasion of the College s 100th Anniversary to be presented to two individuals in recognition of their long-service to The Regina Gala Dinner was a resounding success again with a full house. Shauna Powers was the scintillating host for the evening with Vianne Timmons, President of University of Regina, as our guest speaker and the rollicking Jeffery Straker provided the musical entertainment. Both Vianne and Jeffery picked up on a suggestion by Don Schweitzer, who brought greetings on behalf of the College, that we should all chip in something for the elevator fund. Vianne said she was going to drop something in the basket as she left and Jeffery encouraged people to give but couldn t see the basket. Then Don jumped up, found a breadbasket, shook out a few crumbs and left it at the door. When the basket retired for the evening it contained about eleven hundred dollars! It didn t even know it had been a star! On a cool and breezy evening in April supporters of St. Andrew s College gathered at the Western Development Museum for an evening of food, fellowship and entertainment. The occasion was the Annual St. Andrew s Gala Banquet and the friends of the College were not disappointed, too much. The only disappointment was that our much-loved friend, Principal Lorne Calvert, was not in attendance. With a bout of the flu, Lorne could not attend. We chose to continue the celebration without him even though it took the combined efforts of Chairperson Vic Wiebe, Professor Don Schweitzer and Planning Committee Chair Bill Unger to cover all the duties that usually fall to Lorne. Lorne was dearly missed (at least by those three people). Honorary Anniversary Doctorates the College and the College community. The committee has awarded the Honorary Doctor of the College degrees to the Rev. Jack Bray for his many years of service to the St. Andrew s Alumni/ae and to Martha Pankrantz for her long years of service in The Little Basket that could Prairie Food, Music and Friends After a wonderful Turkey supper, that included Berry cheesecake for dessert, the evening was placed in the hands of Connie Kaldor. The singer/song writer (who hails from Saskatchewan) along with her husband Paul Campagne and bass player Bill Gossage captivated the audience with music and stories. Connie s stories of growing up in Saskatchewan had a lot of people nodding their heads in agreement and laughing at loud. My favourite tidbit was when Connie reminisced about how all small town Saskatchewan girls knew how to get the lights turned down low during the Dine and Dance at the local Legion Hall: just plug in the coffee maker! The evening was a great success due in no small part to the efforts of the planning the College administration. The conferring of the degrees will occur at a special convocation in conjunction with the Sunday morning service of praise and thanksgiving, July 8th, at Knox United Church,. committee: Don Barss, Rowena McLennan, Lorne Calvert, Betty Calvert, Bill Unger and the tireless Melanie Schwanbeck. Many thanks to them and also to: Vic Wiebe, Don Schweitzer, Taylor Croissant and the folks at the Western Development Museum. By Bill Unger 6

7 I am currently serving at Knox United Church in Langham in my Residency at St. Andrew s College. My experience thus far has awakened me to the joys of rural ministry and Michele Rowe I am excited for its potential to transform my life, the surrounding community, the world and the church. Perhaps my strongest point of engagement in rural ministry right now involves celebration of the gifts of rural ministry, as evidenced in small yet vibrant churches strung like pearls across the graceful (or grace-full) neck of Saskatchewan. Like pearls, they are not in vogue at the moment, but are still classics. One of these gifts is its importance. The rural church is still relevant within a community, in a way that is not always evident in urban contexts. The church is for worship, but it is also a place of gathering for Girl Guides and garage sales and town St.Andrew s College Rural Ministry? Yes, Please! beautification projects. It is the place where volunteers come for all sorts of community events. The members of the church are wholly integrated into the broad life of the community, and the secular is rendered sacred through love. Efficiency is a hallmark of the rural church. Although many hands may make light work, there are not as many hands available. However, neither are there too many cooks to spoil the broth! (Please forgive the clash of clichés and metaphors). Perhaps the motto of the small rural church could be condensed into this: Get er done! Committees are, by necessity, pragmatic more than philosophic. Members are not lukewarm, but committed and engaged participants in all manner of church and community activities. In obedience to the wisdom of Mother Teresa, we may not do many great things, but we seek to do small things with great love! It is my belief that the rural church possesses wisdom gained through times of change and challenge that could benefit the wider church. We have seen not only our churches empty of young people, but our towns. We have shingled and patched and repaired our buildings through times of flood and drought. We have rejoiced with our neighbours when harvests were plentiful and livestock prices good, and lamented together through lean times. Much of the literature that is written about church renewal and decline focuses on urban contexts. I am suggesting that the larger church would benefit from the experience, strength and hope that rural churches could share. Think of it a paradigm shift whereby rural pastoral charges are seen as a source of inspiration rather than of pity, and as a place of aspiration for people in ordered ministry, rather than a stepping stone to bigger things! I could continue to identify and celebrate many other gifts of rural church life, from the food to the fellowship and beyond. But anyone who has worshiped in one knows it well. And those who haven t should plan a Sunday drive out into God s country. If the stars align, I can picture myself in retirement from active ministry, greeting friends at Saskatchewan Conference and signing copies of my new book, Get Er Done! Rural Church Wisdom for the Wider Church. Amazing Gifts from our Friends St. Andrew s College has received some amazing gifts over the past several months. The congregation of the Chinese United Church, in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, having made the decision to leave their historic church building provided a gift to the College of $20,000 from the sale of the building. The Chinese congregation provided their gift to support our Give Us A Lift campaign and the installation of our elevator. The congregation of Bethel United Church, in, Saskatchewan, also have recently sold their former church building and from the proceeds provided the College $225,948 to support our current students and the ongoing programs at St. Andrew s. At a special service of worship in the St. Andrew s Chapel we celebrated the Bethel congregation, their many years of support for the College and our students, and their gift that will serve our students for years to come. And very close to home, the St. Andrew s faculty have provided the College an important gift. At the time of our boiler crisis our faculty provided the College an emergency loan of $40,000 from the Faculty Fund to provide for the immediate replacement of the boilers while our fundraising began. The faculty have decided to forgive the loan in its entirety. To the people of the Chinese Church in Moose Jaw, Bethel United in and our own faculty the College extends our deep thanks. 7

8 THANK YOU TO ALBERTA AND NORTHWEST Pastoral Charges Grace United Church; Edmonton Grace United Church; Lloydminster McKillop United Church; Lethbridge Northminster United Church; Calgary Rolling Hills United Church; Rolling Hills Southern Alberta Japanese United Church; Lethbridge St. Paul s United Church; Milk River Other Donors K. F. Yamashita Professional Corporation; Lethbridge UCW s Airdrie UCW Nellie Pole Unit; Airdrie Barrhead UCW; Barrhead Bow Island UCW; Bow Island Bowden General UCW; Bowden Brooks UCW; Brooks Carstairs UCW; Carstairs Castor UCW; Castor Cereal UCW; Cereal Coronado UCW; Gibbons Fifth Avenue Memorial UCW; Medicine Hat Fort Saskatchewan UCW Agnes Forbes Unit; Fort Saskatchewan High River UCW; High River Holden UCW; Holden Innisfail UCW; Innisfail Knox UCW; Drumheller Knox UCW; Taber Lamont UCW; Lamont Lloydminster UCW; Lloydminster McClure General UCW; Edmonton Morrin UCW; Morrin Olds UCW; Olds Patricia UCW; Edmonton Pincher Creek UCW; Pincher Creek St.Andrew s College St. Andrew s College Donors November 8, May 21, 2012 Ponoka UCW; Ponoka Provost UCW; Provost St. John s UCW; Hines Creek St. Paul s UCW; Grande Prairie St. Paul s UCW; Trochu Strathearn UCW; Strathearn Strathmore UCW; Strathmore Trinity UCW; Cold Lake Trinity UCW; Fort MacLeod Vermilion UCW; Vermilion Wainwright UCW; Wainwright Westminster UCW; Medicine Hat Women s Friendship Group; Coaldale Individuals Bainborough, Ray; Lethbridge Becker, Marianne; Olds Bell, Murray; Medicine Hat Bessey, Stanley; Calgary Bruggeman, Viola; Edmonton Denton, Helen; Calgary DeVries, Jerry; Spruce Grove Doidge, Gertrude; Fort Saskatchewan Englot, Curtis; Edmonton Fedorak, Rose Marie; Edmonton Fennell, Austin and Jean; Lethbridge Ford, George; Edmonton Godley, Barry; Medicine Hat Gudlaugson, Fern; Grand Prairie Hemke, Gus and Shirley; Consort Hiller, Frieda; Medicine Hat Imgrund, Nicole; St. Albert Iwanicki, Lillian; Medicine Hat Kennedy, Catherine and Gerald; Camrose Knowles, Dawn; Medicine Hat Loewen, Carol; Edmonton Lovatt, Lloyd; Edmonton Malmberg, Clare and Margaret; Lethbridge McLeod, Sheila; Bow Island Mortin-Flemons, Isabel; Calgary Murray, Helen; Calgary Piotrowski, Alvin and Marilynn; Medicine Hat Pratt, Douglad; Red Deer Radway, Ruth; Strathmore Roberts, C. Barry; Edmonton Sasse, Joyce; Pincher Creek Schmidt, Kenneth and Brenda; WE WISH YOU WELL IN THE IMPORTANT WORK THAT THE COLLEGE DOES IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION AND PREPARATION FOR MINISTRY. DONORS TO THE College We are pleased to list the people and groups who have sent donations to St. Andrew s College during the above mentioned time period. We greatly appreciate the continuing support we receive from you. Edmonton Shillington, Terry and Mary; Lethbridge Summers, Margaret Jean; Calgary Wartman, Frances; Edmonton Zimmerman, Barbara; Castor SASKATCHEWAN Pastoral Charges Battleford Pastoral Charge; Battleford Bethel United Church; Bridging Waters; Nipawin Brora United Church; Regina Calvary United Church; Loon Lake Calvary United Church; Prince Albert Cupar United Church of Canada; Cupar Cut Knife Pastoral Charge; Cut Knife Davidson United Church; Davidson Delisle United Church; Delisle Elrose United Church; Elrose Goose Lake Pastoral Charge; Harris Grace United Church; Fillmore Grace United Church; Swift Current Grace United Church; Weyburn Grasslands Pastoral Charge; Mankota Grosvenor Park United Church; Knox Metrolpolitan United Church; Regina Knox United Church; Bengough Knox United Church; Lancer Trinity United Church; Portreeve Lang Milestone Pastoral Charge; Milestone McClure United Church; Meadow Lake Pastoral Charge; Meadow Lake Mortlach United Church; Mortlach Nipawin United Church; Nipawin Partners in Worship; Shell Lake Quill Plains Pastoral Charge; Watson Radville Pastoral Charge; Radville Rouleau United Church; Rouleau Southey United Church; Southey St. Andrew s United Church; Kinistino PLEASE ACCEPT THIS DONATION ON BEHALF OF OUR CONGREGATION. WE HAVE PERSONALLY BENEFITTED FROM MUCH OF YOUR TEACHINGS. St. Andrew s United Church; Lumsden St. Andrew s United Church; Regina St. Andrew s United Church; Yorkton St. David s Trinity United Church; St. James United Church; Regina St. Paul s United Church; Assiniboia St. Paul s United Church; Kindersley St. Paul s United Church; Oxbow St. Thomas Wesley United Church; Star City Pastoral Charge; Star City Strasbourg United Church; Strasbourg Wesley United Church; Regina Whitmore Park United Church; Regina Zion United Church; Regina UCW s Abernethy UCW; Abernethy Admiral UCW; Admiral Alsask UCW; Alsask Atwater UCW; Bangor Bethune UCW; Bethune Briercrest UCW; Briercrest Broadview UCW; Broadview Canora UCW; Canora Carievale UCW; Fertile Carlyle UCW; Carlyle Carnduff UCW; Carnduff Central Butte UCW; Central Butte Codette UCW; Codette Eastend UCW; Eastend Foam Lake UCW; Foam Lake Frontier UCW; Frontier Gainsborough UCW; Gainsborough Glad Hearts UCW; Webb Grace UCW; Macklin Grace UCW; Meadow Lake Grace Westminster UW; Grandview UCW; Moose Jaw Grenfell UCW; Grenfell Kamsack UCW; Kamsask Kinistino UCW; Kinistino Knox UCW; Shellbrook Lafleche UCW; Lafleche Lakeside UCW; Ituna Lancer UCW; Lancer Lanigan UCW; Lanigan Limerick UCW; Limerick Mary McLeneghan UCW; Hudson Bay Mayfair UCW; Melfort UCW; Melfort Melville UCW; Melville Milden UCW; Milden Minto UCW; Moose Jaw Mount Royal Emmanuel UCW; Naicam-Bethany UCW; Naicam Northminster UCW; Creighton Paradise Hill UCW; Paradise Hill Partners in Worship Women s Auxiliary; Shell Lake Perdue UCW; Perdue Quill Lake UCW; Quill Lake Richard UCW; Richard Semans UCW; Semans Spalding UCW; Spalding St. Andrew s UCW; Esterhazy St. Andrew s UCW; Fort Qu Appelle St. Andrew s UCW; Indian Head St. Andrew s UCW; Moose Jaw St. Andrew s UCW; Yorkton 8

9 St. Martin s UCW; St. Paul s UCW; Oxbow St. Paul s UCW; Tisdale Sunset UCW Fellowship Group; Regina Trinity UCW; Preeceville Unity UCW; Unity Watrous UCW; Watrous Wawota UCW; Wawota Wesley United UCW, Q.E.C.; Prince Albert Wesley United Vesper Unit; Prince Albert Westminster UCW; Humboldt Westview UCW; Yorkton Wolseley UCW; Wolseley Yellow Grass UCW Lilac Unit; Yellow Grass Zion Jubilee UCW; Moose Jaw Other Donors Action Office Interiors; Black & McDonald Ltd; Boyd Stewart Medical Professional Corporation; Weyburn Foam Lake United Church Pastoral Care Committee; Foam Lake Greva Electric Inc; Imagery Illustrations Ltd.; Martens Warman Funeral Home Inc.; Warman Funeral Home; Speers Funeral and Cremation Services; Regina St. Andrew Foundation; Moose Jaw St. Andrew s Outreach Fund; Eston Individuals Adamson, Bill; Anderson, John and Mary; Yorkton Arbon, Hazel; Vibank Bailey, W. Allan; Yorkton Baker, Rita; Regina Balas, Laura and Don; Aneroid Ballantyne, Mary; Barber, Rob; Moose Jaw Barbour, Mary Beth; Regina Barss, Don and Donna; Bater, Don; Rouleau Beal McKenzie, Carole; Star City Beardsall, Sandra; Beerling, Dennis and Toni; Bender, William and Kathleen; Bigsby, Floyd and Nina; Bittner, Alice; Kelvington Bjorndahl, Janet; Regina Blair, Kathleen; Moose Jaw Borgeson, Nora; North Battleford Bowman, Evelyn; Boyd, Jean; Kinistino Bray, John; Regina Bray, John; Regina Brick, Lorna; Lashburn Brinkworth, Roy; Estevan Bryska, Eileen; Foam Lake Buhler, Jake; Bumford, Carole; Burke, Judy; Gainsborough Butters, M. Isabelle; Weyburn Caldwell, Janet and Bill; Meadow Lake Caldwell, Margaret; Calvert, Betty; Calvert, Lorne; Cantwell Kunda, Snake; Carey, Tina; Swift Current Chalifour, Pauline; Shellbrook Chapman, Bill and Mary; Clarke, Harvey; Cleghorn, Doug and Bernice; Prince Albert Cline, Maureen; Coghill, Helen; Assiniboia Crawford, Margaret; Crone, Shirley; Radville Cross, Art and Marjorie; Yorkton Cutler, Terry; Domes, Helen; Assiniboia Dow, Jeannette; Moose Jaw Downey, Zene; Gull Lake Dryden, Keith; Dyck, Bernice; Assiniboia Edith; Assiniboia Erhardt, Perry; Regina Ermel, Jean; Assiniboia Filion, Gary and Merle; Bengough Ford, Faye; Fowke, Larry; Fredeen, Margaret; Gattinger, Fred and Irene; Moose Jaw Glover, Ken; Goudie, Allen and Frances; Regina Graham, Walter and Florence; Griffiths, Ruth; Prince Albert Gushulak, Ruth; Foam Lake Hain, Norma; Swift Current Hall, R.C. and B.J.; Halstead, Fay; Unity Hammel, Shirley; Kindersley Harper, Mildred; Regina Hass, John and Carolyn McBean; Regina Hayes, Robert; Prince Albert Herr, Helen; Watrous Hood, Jean and Don; Esterhazy Howse, Dorothy; Pangman Hryniuk, Jean; Borden Hurd, Linsell; Manitou Beach Irvine, Beverley; Shellbrook Iverson, Marilee; Meota Iwai, Hiraku and Michiru; Jackson, France; Swift Current Johnson, Dennis and Beth; Jones, Berna; Jowsey, Shirley; Saltcoats Kim-Cragg, HyeRan; Kindopp, Don and Lynn; Estevan Knouse, Wayne; Korpan, Edna; Krug, Patricia; Balcarres Kyler, Doris; Birch Hills LaRose, Vickie; Prince Albert Lavender, Sheila; Lawson, Laura; LeBlanc, Patricia; Assiniboia Leitch, Don; Unity Liberty-Duns, Jeanette; Lukey, Margaret; Weyburn How to Donate Malesh, Bette; Assiniboia Marlin, Stanley; Assiniboia Marshall, Bill; Prince Albert McConnell, Ron; McKenzie, Charles; Star City McLeod, Marion; McManus, Betty; Kindersley McMurtry, Ross; Weyburn McPherson, Bob; Melfort Mervold, Deborah; Shellbrook Miller, Margaret; Millis, Shirley; Prince Albert Mitchell, Christine; Mitchell, Kathleen; Lafleche Morrison, Dale and Mildred; Nightingale, Jeremy; Meadow Lake Olinyk, Lorraine; Borden Orr, Doreen; Swift Current Oussoren, John; Sturgis Pankratz, Martha; Parker, Joan and Stanley; Prince Albert Paul, Linda; Regina Paulson, Keith; Foam Lake Petrie, Dave and Marilyn; Regina Powell, Thomas and Betty; Powers, Ken; Regina Pulfer, Jim; Pullam, Eric; Estevan Quick, William; Regina Rawlake, Donna; Reed, Joy and Max; Davidson Reeve, Verne and Freda; Reynolds, Arlene; Robinson, Diane; Regina Robinson, Olive; Assiniboia Robson, Louise; Unity Rohrbough, Faith; Rowell, Lorne and Doreen; Ryan, Carol; Unity Sarauer, James; Muenster Saunders, Donna; Admiral Scott, Margaret; Moose Jaw Shank, Bill; Shirley, Jeff; Shortt, Thelma; Smith, Doreen; Limerick Sonntag, Patricia; Shellbrook Spence, C. Isobel; Lafleche Springer, Debbie; Leslie Sproule, Davis; Moose Jaw Stevens, Wendell; Tannahill, Grace; Taylor, G.M.; Pangman Thomas, Jean; Regina Thomas, Pam; Regina Thompson, G. Wayne; Regina Tolley, Marion; Moose Jaw Trembley, James and Noreen; Melfort Turner, Gayleen; Swift Current Unger, V.; Birch Hills Watanabe-Travis, Takako; Watson, Rod; Weyburn West, Alison; Watrous Westvelt, Rubie; Wettergreen, Ilene; North Battleford Wiebe, Vic and Bunny; Weyburn Wiig, Ursula; Wilson, Donna; You may send a cheque or donate by credit card. Please make cheques payable to St. Andrew s College. To donate by credit card please call Donations may be sent to: St. Andrew s College, 1121 College Drive,, Saskatchewan S7N 0W3 Please indicate clearly any direction for use of your donation. We encourage you to donate without restrictions. Please consider a bequest to St. Andrew s College in your Will or Planned Giving through insurance policies. If you have bequeathed money to the College in your Will we would like to know about it so that we are able to acknowledge this in the next issue of Contact. IN RECOGNITION OF YOUR VALUABLE WORK AS A THEOLOGY SCHOOL AND IN SUPPORT OF MAKING THE COLLEGE MORE ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL PEOPLE, WE ARE PLEASED TO MAKE THIS GIFT TO ST. ANDREW S COLLEGE! 9

10 St. Andrew s College Donors... continued Wilson, W. D.; Watrous Young, George; Assiniboia Zalinko, Barbara; Regina MANITOBA AND NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO Pastoral Charges Calvin United Church; Rathwell Carberry United Church; Carberry Central United Church; Brandon Ear Falls United Church; Ear Falls Glenboro United Church; Glenboro MacGregor Pastoral Charge; MacGregor Minto United Church; Minto Shoal Lake Decker Pastoral Charge; Shoal Lake St. Andrew s United Church; Keewatin St. Andrew s United Church; La Riviere St. Andrew s United Church; Swan River St. Paul s United Church; Gilbert Plains St. Paul s United Church; Souris Stonewall United Church; Stonewall Treherne Rathwell Pastoral Charge; Treherne Windsor Park United Church; Winnipeg UCW s Binscarth UCW; Binscarth Birtle UCW; Birtle Clearwater UCW; Clearwater Dauphin UCW; Dauphin First United Church UCW; Dryden Fort Frances UCW; Fort Frances Grandview UCW; Grandview Griswold UCW; Griswold Hartney UCW; Hartney Isabella CW; Birtle Kildonan UCW; Winnipeg Killarney UCW; Killarney Knox UCW Unit II; Russell La Riviere UCW; La Riviere Lyleton UCW; Lyleton Manitou UCW; Manitou Meadowood UCW; Winnipeg Miami UCW; Miami Miniota UCW; Miniota Neepawa UCW; Neepawa Nesbitt-Berbank UCW; Wawanesa North Kildonan UCW; Winnipeg Oak River UCW; Oak River Oakville UCW; Oakville Plumas UCW; Plumas Rivers UCW; Rivers Silverton UCW; Russell St. Andrew s UCW; Sioux Lookout St. Mary s Road UCW; Winnipeg St. Paul s UCW; Souris Transcona Memorial UCW; Winnipeg Trinity UCW; Brandon Trinity UCW; Portage La Prairie Whitemouth UCW; Whitemouth Other Donors Northland Presbytery; The Pas Individuals Ballantine-Dickson, Dawn and Jack; Winnipeg Chapman, Ann; Brandon Clark, June; Brandon Cross, Bill; Winnipeg Delgaty, Thomas; Minnedosa Dillon, Helene; Hamiota Fowke, Stan; St. Martin Freeman, John; Winnipeg Geib, Eleanor; Winnipeg Kristjansson, Margret; Wawanesa Lea, Heather; Gladstone Lowe, Roger and Norma; Brandon McKay, Stan and Dorothy; Gladstone Oliver, Gertrui; Winnipeg Stevens, Lynn; Winnipeg Thompson, Glen and Jesmondine; Gimli Tjaden, William and Isabell; Sperling Van Aertselaer, Janice; Virden Wenstob, Murray and Joy; Swan River Wotton, Patricia; Winnipeg Other Conferences Baker, Edward; Southwold, ON Estate of Robert Basil Bater; Ottawa, ON Foster, John; Ottawa, ON Fulton, L.; Nanaimo, BC Hummel, Ellie and Heather McClure; Point-Claire, QC Kreeft, Wim; Staynor, ON Laing, Don; Toronto, ON Lee, Leonard; Almonte, ON Lucyk, Stanford; Kingston, ON Manning, Harry; Kingston, ON McMurtry, Elizabeth; Delta, BC McMurtry, Joan; White Rock, BC Newman, Edith and Paul; Sooke, BC Rajotte, Nelson and Elizabeth; Harrison Hot Springs, BC Shank, Robert; Burnaby, BC Boiler Donations Spencer, Malcolm; Toronto, ON Thorpe, Brian; Gibsons, BC Webb, Paul; Guelph, ON Wotherspoon, Ken and Shirley; Hope, BC November 8, May 21, 2012 THANK YOU TO ALBERTA Houston, Clinton; Medicine Hat SASKATCHEWAN Diduck, Beverly; Gull Lake MANITOBA Calvin United Church; Rathwell Rathwell UCW; Rathwell We invite you to become one of our St. Andrew s Boilermakers. We hope and pray that you may be able to provide a gift to our Boiler Fund and consider a multi-year pledge so that together we might achieve the wonderful accomplishment of paying off our boiler loan by the College Centennial in Would you like the convenience of making pre-authorized monthly donations to the college? We would need you to fill out our preauthorized payment form and send it to us along with a VOID cheque. To obtain this form please contact the college or check the web site Our current monthly donors give amounts from $10 to more than $100. All amounts are greatly appreciated. 10

11 St. Andrew s Accessibility Donations November 8, May 21, 2012 THANK YOU TO ALBERTA DeVries, Jerry; Spruce Grove Estate of Kenneth V. Fisher; Edmonton Grace United Church; Wainwright MacLellan, Jean; Camrose McKillop UCW; Lethbridge McLeod, Sheila; Bow Island Muir, Jim and Sue; Wainwright Olson, Allan; Medicine Hat Smith, Margaret; Medicine Hat Vegreville United Church; Vegreville Vulcan UCW; Vulcan SASKATCHEWAN Abrahamson, Brian; Regina Adrian, Lietta; Prince Albert Ashwin, Wes; Bater, Don; Rouleau Battleford Pastoral Charge; Battleford Beerling, Dennis and Toni; Bell, Dawn; Bender, William and Kathleen; Berry, Dale; Beveridge, Dan; Regina Bjorndahl, Janet; Regina Blakeney, Anne; Bland, Lola; Prince Albert Bray, John and Elaine; Regina Brown, Helen; Brown, Marion; Buzowetsky, Judy; Weyburn Caldwell, Janet and Bill; Meadow Lake Calvert, Lorne; Carman, Kenneth; Carr, Jack; Chapman, Bill and Mary; Cleghorn, Doug and Bernice; Prince Albert Colonsay United Church Board of Stewards; Colonsay Cook, James; Crawford, Margaret; Cross, Art and Marjorie; Yorkton Diduck, Beverly; Gull Lake Dobrowolsky, Shelley; Drabble, Carolynn; Eatonia UCW; Eatonia Ellis, Helen; Elsom, Elizabeth; Moose Jaw Gardner, Maurice; Moose Jaw Greystone Managed Investments Inc.; Regina Griffiths, Ruth; Prince Albert Groat, Archie and Margaret; Melfort Gunningham, Robert; Swift Current Hackett, Eileen; Hadley, Amy; Prince Albert Hayes, Linda and Robert; Prince Albert Hennigan, Dorothy; Hurd, Sharon; Regina Johnson, Dennis and Beth; Kullman, Ruby; Lambert, Winona; Lanigan Nokomis Patoral Charge; Lanigan Leek, Ken and Mereda; Liberty-Duns, Jeanette; Loreburn Hawarden Pastoral Charge; Loreburn MacDonald, Leola; North Battleford MacFarlane-Sefton, Mar ; McQuarrie, Arlis; Meadow Lake Pastoral Charge; Meadow Lake Mills, Isabelle; Moore, Norma; Morrison, Dale and Mildred; Murch, Hewitt; Swift Current Northern Lakes Pastoral Charge; St. Walburg Osborne, Myrna; Pankratz, Martha; Pavo-Penny, Gladys; Abernethy Peacock, Shelley; Pennock, Lea; Philp, Shirley; Waldeck Piche, Judith; Moose Jaw Powers, Ken; Regina Robson, Louise; Unity Ruehlen, Jean and Don; Ryan, Carol; Unity Sadler, Dorothy; Shier, Gudrun; Colonsay Spirit of Hope Pastoral Charge; Wynyard St. Andrew s College Guild; St. Andrew s Outreach Fund; Eston St. Andrew s UCW; Lumsden St. Andrew s United Church; Moose Jaw St. James United Church; Wolseley Stevens, Wendell; Stoez, Anne; Thiessen, Nada L. Ritchie; Thomas, Jean; Regina Thompson, G. Wayne; Regina Timmons, Vianne; Regina Trembley, James and Noreen; Melfort Waddell, Helen; Walker, Deborah; Wallace, Don; Unity Weir, Patricia; Prince Albert MANITOBA Ballantine-Dickson, Dawn and Jack; Winnipeg Compton, Adel; Winnipeg Dutton, E. Patrice; Dryden First United Church; Dryden Gale, Scott; Dryden Holm, Jeannette; Brandon Hurren, Harvey; Brandon McKee, Sharon; Dryden Meadowood United Church; Winnipeg Minto United Church; Minto Morris United Church; Morris Shepherd, Evelyn; Dryden Simpson, Laurence and Bev; Manitou Sparling United Church; Winnipeg Wotton, Patricia; Winnipeg OTHER Estate of Rev. Charles F. Johnston; Pointe Claire, QC Jones, Teresa; North Bay, ON McLellan, Jonelle; Brentwood, BC McLeod, Isabella; Kingston, ON Mitchell, Jo-Ann and Richard; Chester Basin, NS Newman, Edith and Paul; Sooke, BC Did You Know?? You are now able to submit donations online by clicking on the CanadaHelps.org link found on our website. This secure online donation site allows you to quickly and easily donate money in a secure fashion 11

12 St. Andrew s People Christine Mitchell Christine has had a busy academic year. She gave two papers at the Society of Biblical Studies Annual Meeting in San Francisco in November: Servant/Slave or Loyal Follower? The Old Persian of the Behistun Inscription and Implications for the Study of Haggai-Zechariah and Reimagining Covenant in Malachi. Both papers also had test runs in her fall semester course on Prophetic Books, and the students asked lots of questions that will help in the revision of those papers for publication. Just before the meeting in San Francisco, she was a member of an accreditation visiting team, and gained valuable insight into the accreditation process. In the winter, she was working on Winter Refresher, bringing David Carr to campus from Union Theological Seminary in New York. Winter was also busy with working on the college s curriculum assessment plan and implementation. Over the next few months, she will be finishing a few book reviews, teaching a six-week summer Introduction to Biblical Hebrew, and giving a paper at the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Amsterdam. That paper, He s making a list and checking it twice: Aramaic lists from Elephantine and Malachi s Book of Remembrance, also came directly from work for the Prophetic Books course and the insights of the students in the class. Don Schweitzer In December of 2011, Wilfrid Laurier University Press published The United Church of Canada: A History, which I edited. Various authors contributed chronological chapters covering the United Church s history from its formation through to about 2002, and thematic chapters looking at key issues such as worship, ministry, changing mission goals in relation to First Nations peoples and theology. I contributed the concluding chapter entitled The Changing Social Imaginary of The United Church of Canada. A fun book launch was held for this during Winter Refresher. In February, Cascade Books, a division of Wipf and Stock, published Jesus Christ For Contemporary Life. This Christology interprets Jesus in terms of his person, work and relationships, as the Word of God who became incarnate to further expression God s beauty and goodness in history, and to enable others to do so as well. In addition to these larger projects, several articles I wrote were also published. Jürgen Habermas s re-assessment of religion appeared in The Ecumenist 48/4 (Fall 2011), 1-8. The Christology of John Dominic Crossan and an Alternative was in Touchstone 30/1 (January 2012), 25-34, and James Cone s interpretation of Jesus resurrection in The Ecumenist 49/1 (Winter 2012), At the end of April I attended the annual meeting of the Workgroup for Constructive Theology in Nashville, TN. HyeRan Kim-Cragg This term began with attendance at annual conference of the North American Academy of Liturgy in Montreal. Teaching for the J term course, PA 318, began upon my return. In March, I made loop to Vancouver for teaching, to Toronto for the research related to the McGeachy Grant, and to San Francisco to attend the North American Asian Women theologians conference (PANNAWTM). In April, I was pleased to receive a grant on behalf of our college from the United Church for Building up Korean Ministers and Young Adults Intercultural Leadership. Thanks to this grant Prof. Don Schweitzer and I will lead a group in 2013, hopefully continue to do so for the next three years. I am looking forward to teaching a one week intensive course with Prof. Lynn Caldwell this June, Race, Colonialism, Canadian Identities, and Intercultural Ministries, in conjunction with the Prairie Mosaic Intercultural Event, June 6-7 in. I am also happy to share that my first book, Story and Song: A Postcolonial Interplay between Christian Education and Worship will be published by Peter Lang in November Currently I am working with Mary Ann Beavis as an interdisciplinary collaboration on a publication on the letters to the Hebrews to be part of a series in Wisdom Commentaries (Liturgical Press, forthcoming). I continue to work on my McGeachy research project on the subject of Racialized Ordained Women Ministers in the United Church. Also, I continue to serve on the steering committee of The Association of North American Asian Theological Educators (ANAATE) as a treasurer. Lynn Caldwell Lynn Caldwell continues to combine her half-time work at St. Andrew s with various teaching contracts at the University of Saskatchewan and St. Thomas More College. In early June, Lynn and HyeRan are co-facilitating a workshop at the Prairie Mosaic Intercultural Ministries Conference in and late June, Lynn is presenting a paper at Directions West: The Third Biennial Western Canadian Studies Conference in Calgary. Nettie Wiebe For the past two years I have been serving as a resource person to the UCC food policy group. The group was established because the 40th General Council (2009) called for the creation of a study resource to increase awareness and involvement in local land-use issues, foster connections between local food producers and consumers, understand food production from seed to plate, outline possibilities for local food consumption, and ground this work in our call to live in community and be stewards of the Earth. As well, General 12

13 Council called for a vision to reconnect urban and agricultural communities; promote sustainable food production; and help communities become more selfreliant. After a great deal of discussion and analysis, including consultations with UC partners elsewhere in the world, meetings, conference calls and excellent work by national staff, the group has tabled a report called Toward Food Sovereignty for All: A United Church of Canada Food Policy. I m encouraged by the depth and breadth of the policy issues raised in the report. The UCC is bringing a faith based, life giving perspective to one of the most urgent topics of our times. The urgency of food and environmental issues will the focus of the upcoming United Nations Rio + 20 Summit. Twenty years after the Earth Summit in Rio, world leaders are meeting in the face of major ecological and climate changes that could challenge the future of human and many other forms of life on the planet. I am participating in organizing the parallel Peoples Assembly which will focus ion finding ways to effectively counter the next wave of industrial, capital takeovers [benignly called the green economy ] which includes everything from land grabs to agro-fuels to synthetic biology. The Rio + 20 meetings will take me back to Rio de Janeiro for several weeks in June. In the meantime, here on the prairies, spring rains and warm sunshine bear promises of sprouting seeds, renewed life and abundant hope. Goals for our Second Century Vic Wiebe Board Chair As we begin our second century as a College, I think we are in a number of ways at a watershed moment in the history of the church. The population of the world continues to grow, but involvement in most organized religions continues to decline. There is sense of a need for more meaning in life, which has traditionally been found through organized religion, but the search for these answers seems to be occurring mostly in spiritual practices outside of established religions. Within organized religions, there is a conflicting sense that we need to get back to the good old days while also sensing that we need to change in order to attract the younger generations. As a theological college, how do we prepare the future leaders of our church to function in this radically changing environment? We would like to have a clear blueprint for moving ahead, but that is not the reality we live in. The teachings of Christ and our history, however, do give us some guideposts: 1. We are to love God and our neighbors as ourselves. The increasingly individualistic and selfish ways of our world are not fulfilling and are part of the cause of the search for more meaning in life. The teachings of Christ and the legacy of the church in caring for others must be a foundation for the training of our future leaders. Can we do a better job of helping our future leaders focus on helping people become disciples of Christ in accordance with all of his teachings and examples and with less concern on just developing members of an organization that can keep the church structure functioning? 2. While the teachings of Christ and the legacy of the church provide guidance in what Christians are to do, the Pentecost story is all about experiencing the power of the Holy Spirit and then being able to use this power to carry out God s will for humankind; i.e. how we are to going to be able to do things. It is my observation that in the United Church we have shied away from talking about the Holy Spirit experience in favour of intellectualism, possibly out of discomfort with the born again claims of more evangelical denominations. So our future leaders need to have the academic training to explain and educate folks about the gospel and the practical ministry skills to help folks experience the power of Pentecost. It is only through both the knowledge and the power of the love of God that we can become true disciples of Christ in our daily lives. At the May meeting of our Academic Committee we struggled with defining the goals of our education programs so that we could measure the outcomes as required for accreditation by the Association of Theological Schools. The struggle was not so much with what the goals should be, but with the importance or balance there needs to be between solid academic learning and the development of the practical skills for ministry. It was a healthy and lively discussion which led us to a series of definitions that will stand us in good stead going forward. It is exciting to be involved in this time of change and to know that our goals are meant to be guidelines that can be adjusted based on the experiences of our students, and above all, on the experiences of the congregations who receive our students as their leaders. We may not have a clear blueprint of the future, but having a clear sense of our goals will help us adjust and change as needed and to continue to play an important role in The United Church of Canada through our second century. 13

14 From the Library Hoo boy. Well, if you haven t seen our new reading room, it s a must-stop on your summer itinerary. You will already know about the elevator project which has been one of the key themes of the college this past year. Some of you have visited, and seen just how much carving up of the building is involved, just how complicated it is to install something that seems simple a hollow shaft with a box which goes up and down and just how much of a mess it can make. We in the library have certainly found that out in the most direct way. For much of this year, we had black plastic sheeting taking the place of a couple of walls in our reading room. The requirements of the new elevator are such that the library has lost about a fifth of the room. Our library technician, Mallory Wiebe, worthy of the Longsuffering Technician of the Year Award, has admirably continued her work in spite of noise (concrete takes a lot of smashing), dust, weird smells, and depressing physical environment. There were a few days which were so unmanageable that we had to shut down, but for the most part we have carried on as much as usual as possible. All rather dreary. However: not only do we have a sparkling new elevator which I know you ll read about elsewhere but the bashing of the reading room has necessitated fixing it up again. Our carpet was ruined, and getting new walls meant getting a new paint job. We now have new flooring (not carpet, which by the way was so old it had its own weird smells) and new paint, which makes the space feel so much cleaner and more welcoming, I can t tell you. We re bringing over the refectory tables from Emmanuel & St Chad (longterm loan), and we ve installed cool new shelving to house the new International Society for Science and Religion collection, which I wrote about in my last article. And that should be the last of the fixing-up. It will be a huge relief to be all done. We re very grateful for the patience which all of our patrons have shown during this whole process. Finally, we have two new bikes! We will soon be offering them to current STU students, faculty, and staff to check out just like they do books. We purchased these in part because of the physical distance between all of the colleges, which is such that a longish walk can become a shortish bike ride, and also because we know that with parking at a spectacular premium on campus, access to a bike can make a huge difference for our patrons. They have spent the winter in the storage area behind my office, and I have so far resisted the urge to ride one down the hall. These are really comfortable cruiser-style bikes, and should be a breeze for anyone to ride. We hope that this will prove a popular programme, and will be able to add bicycles to other STU libraries in future. Let me remind you that the STU Libraries offer library cards for free to anyone, and you re always welcome! Phone, , or visit in person. Sarah Benson, Librarian Our web site: reindex.net/stu Our standrews.library@usask.ca Library Phone: (306) Spoke & Word In what may be unique in Canada, you can now borrow a book or a bike from the St. Andrew s Library. To provide the students of St. Andrew s and the Theological Union easy, environmentally friendly access to the four library collections of the Union (located on opposite sides of the campus and off campus) our head librarian, Sarah Benson, and library technician, Mallory Wiebe, have added two bicycles to the St. Andrew s library collection. Bring you library card and helmet and enjoy the Spoke & Word! Mallory Wiebe and Don Schweitzer 14

15 St Peter s Ecumenical Church, in Slave Lake, Alberta, one of the sites visited by Sandra Beardsall during her sabbatical and home to alumni Leigh Sinclair, celebrated Palm Sunday s parade with not only palms but also crayons, bibles, hymn books and chalices. They moved to their new worship and learning home (built next door to their previous one). Each member carried St.Andrew s College Alum News something that is essential to worship or education at St Peter s (except the piano and communion table that were heavy enough to need special attention the day before). They sang their Halleluia-s and were called into Holy Week in our new space - one that is fully accessible, much bigger and lit with sunshine or snowshine - depending on the day! The building has been ten years in the making with loans from all their founding denominations (Anglican, ELCIC and United Church) as well as the local Rotary Club and many, many households. It was untouched in the May 2011 wildfire and will be home to art, weddings, sacraments and many church meetings and youth events in the future! Leigh Sinclair Congratulations, Leigh, on your election as President-Elect of Alberta Northwest Conference! 15

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