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THIS WEEK'S NOTICES

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Notices (20 February 2012):

Friends all,

A note from the Wardens: As we as a chapel community embark on the mission trip to Saint John and prepare to enter the Lenten season, please take the time this week to pray with those participating in the mission. Let us as a community support and uphold them in the faithful hope that they, and we with them, might be transformed by means of witness, good work and God's grace. When Saints Andrew and Philip sought for the dwelling place of the Lord, Jesus answered them: "come and you will see." We pray that together we may also go and seek for him in whom we find our dwelling place.

Below is information about the Saint John Mission/Retreat which happens this week, Reading Week. Please keep all those on retreat in your prayers. Thank you!

SAINT JOHN MISSION/RETREAT: "Seeking the eyes to see, the ears to hear, the tongues to speak, and the hearts to Love." The Challenge of the Streets in Saint John, New Brunswick.

All students at King's and Dal very welcome to participate - regardless of religious affiliation, faith struggle, or humanist perspective.

If you have already decided not to come on this year's Retreat Mission, perhaps you will re-consider.

Please take the time to read the following and sincerely open your heart to consider that you might be called to participate in this focussed four-day event.

Please let me know before Monday at 6 p.m.

Retreat Mission to Trinity Church Parish, Inner City Saint John, New Brunswick, 18 -23 February 2012.

Guides:
James Mosher and Father Thorne Logistics: Shannon Parker and Gavin Keachie

Cost:
Transportation costs fully covered by Chapel.
Accommodation and several meals at billets fully covered by Trinity Church Parish.
Meals must be purchased by participants. Financial assistance available if required - speak quietly to Father Thorne.

Intent:
1. To witness how a parish attempts to lives out its mission in a older urban core.
2. To come to a better understanding of poverty and isolation in a specific urban community.
3. To participate in the prayer of an inner city parish.
4. To appreciate the struggles of 'being community' and to encourage parishioners of Trinity Parish.

Comment:
1. There will be 2.5 hours each day set aside for study for those who wish. During this time others will have activities available, and opportunity for walking the streets.
2. In advance, participants should read A Portrait of Homelessness in Greater Saint John, published in 2008. Read online at http://www.humandevelopmentcouncil.nb.ca/APortraitofHomelessnessinGreaterSaintJohn.pdf

SATURDAY, 18 Feb
We leave on Saturday at noon. (morning for study time). Arrive in time to get sorted out with billets and to attend Bruce Cockburn concert. After the concert a time together to debrief the concert, then to your billets.

SUNDAY, 19 Feb
Morning Observe the parish in its prayer.
12.30 p.m. Lunch and orientation to the next few days. Father Ingalls.
2 p.m. Walking orientation to down town - relaxed.
Talk by David Edwards: 'The challenge of the streets in Saint John - having the eyes to see, the ears to hear, the tongues to speak, and the hearts to Love'.
4.30 p.m. Evening Prayer
5 - 7 p.m. Community Dinner at Grace Presbyterian Church Hall
7 - 9 p.m. Orientation to the 'Out of the Cold Shelter' by Fern Bennett. Opportunity to volunteer. (option for study).
9 p.m. Compline followed by debrief at local pub.

Monday to Wednesday:
Opportunities to visit an Out of the Cold shelter, food banks and missions (Out Flow, Romero House, Salvation Army, Teen Resource Centre, Chaplaincy Centre, etc.), and to make friendly/pastoral visits to people in their homes (optional).

Example of a day (not final schedule):
MONDAY, 20 Feb
8.30 a.m. Morning Prayer, with reflection by Father Ingalls: 'That the scales may fall from our eyes.'
9.30 - 11.30 a.m. Visit to Romero House and orientation talk by Carolyn McNulty of ROMERO HOUSE (Soup Kitchen 365 days a yr, 9.30 a.m. - 1 p.m. / nightly street mobile ).
12 noon Lunch for Teens at Trinity Church
1 p.m. - 4 p.m Visit to Salvation Army and presentation of the Services provided by SALVATION ARMY, with profile of clients served.
Visit to INNER-CITY YOUTH HOUSE, and talk by Paul Ranson/Colin McDonald.
Option: visit community chaplaincy Centre. 4.30 p.m. Talk at UNBSJ by Eli Diamond (Classics Prof at Dal), 'University Chaplaincy'.
6 p.m. Supper
7.30 p.m. Talk at Trinity Church by Chaplain, King's College, Hfx: 'Anglicanism as a way of living a life fully alive'. (optional study time).
9.30 p.m. Compline followed by debrief at local pub. Out of the Cold Shelter option?

TUESDAY, 21 Feb
8.30 a.m. Morning Prayer, with reflection by Father Ingalls: 'That our ears may be opened.'
9 a.m. Breakfast
9.45 a.m. Orientation to Services of OUTFLOW by Jayme Hall, and 'day on the street'. Option: visit community chaplaincy centre.
12 noon Neighbourhood Soup Lunch
1 p.m. Continuation of 'day on the street', or visiting a shut-in, or visit to 'Food Basket' programme. Option: visit community chaplaincy centre.
4.30 p.m. Evening Prayer
5 p.m. Annual Community Pancake Supper
7.30 p.m. Parish Bible study (optional study time)
9.30 p.m. Compline followed by debrief in local pub.
Out of the Cold Shelter option?

On Wednesday we shall have discovered places in which individuals might want to spent this day.
Youth House, Romero House, community chaplaincy, Salvation Army programme, walking the streets, doing a home visit, etc. (optional study time).

WEDNESDAY, 22 Feb
8.30 a.m. Morning Prayer, with reflection by Father Ingalls: 'That our tongues may be loosed.'
No food is eaten today from Sun-up to sun-down. Water may be taken.
4.30 p.m. Evening Prayer
7.50 p.m. Holy Communion for Ash Wednesday
9.30 p.m. Compline followed by debrief in local pub.

THURSDAY, 23 Feb
8.30 a.m. Morning Prayer, with reflection by Father Ingalls: 'That our hearts may be softened.'
9. p.m. Breakfast
10-12 noon De-brief
12 noon Leave for King's College, Halifax. Arrive in Quad at 5 p.m. Study time in evening.

OUTFLOW
Outflow exists to share Christ's love!

We are a charitable acts of kindness ministry that longs to reach the needs of the poor and oppressed. When we gather we believe it is important to share a meal, to break bread, offering our lives as a genuine friend. We don't want to be anything that we aren't. While we sit with people, we discover a peace, a compassion, and a love that can only be explained by a genuine encounter with Christ.

We love being a gathering place that shares the pulpit. The stage is always open for anyone in the room. Often a message is prepared , but many times it is superseded by God's awesome presence within the room. God moves at the table, from the kitchen, and from within the most unlikely.

As Christ lovers we are discovering that Jesus is within the poor. Some call us a church. Some call us a mission. Some call us a safe place to meet with friends. We want to be all of those things! What we do isn't complicated...most do it everyday. We prepare a meal, wait for Jesus to show up, then eat with HIM!

We strongly believe that the #1 thing missing in ministry today is someone willing to build a relationship.

So we sit. We eat. We listen. And we use words when necessary.

Under the Mercy, Father Gary Thorne