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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Lecturn Resource, April 2007
2007 Manning Deadwood Shared Ministry, Manning, Alberta.5 Years ago
Mark and Kathleen had left us in the Fall 2002 and for almost two years we were without a minister. We remember our lay-ministry that took all the services or arranged for folks to come in and lead our worship.
Two years ago now, we did a Celebrate Stewardship Program which increased our offerings that year. We learned about how our Time, Talent and Treasure are all pieces of a larger picture called stewardship and how God called us all to be stewards right from the beginning in Genesis.
Our roof is being fixed and we are getting new windows for our church in Manning.
In 2004 Pastor Allan and Teresa Gairns arrived. Coincidentaly, in 2007, they celebrated their third year in Manning and Deadwood Shared Ministry and their own 30th wedding anniversay at the same time we celebrate our parish's 30th anniversary .
10 years Ago
January 1998 we came together around our new Mission Statement:
"We are a shared ministry, living our faith through our common Christian beliefs and with respect for the diversity and richness of our traditions. Our mission is to worship God and to share the Good News of Jesus Christ in our comunity through word and action."
Kathleen and Rev. Mark Osbourne arrived the Fall of 1996. We celebrated our 18th anniversary in Novemberwith a special service and potluck lunch.
At a congregational meeting on September 17, 1997 two major decissions were made
(1) Our official new name: The United Anglican Parish.
(2) Sell St. Bridget's A nglican Church and move to the Battle River United Church with minimal renovations and the remainder of money placed in a trust for a new building.
1998 brought about more makjor changes. on the vening of June 23 a service of deconsecration of St Bridget's was held. Shortly after on July 13 St Bridget's was moved to a new home at the Battle River Museum. This was a very emotional time for many of our parishoners. We still hold one to two services a year at St Bridget's every summer.
The congregation was asked for suggestions for a new name for our one worship building and a final decision was made on St. John's United Anglican Parish. Our new name was chosen for the Apostle and Evangelist and because the Anglican Church was St. John's when it was located in North Satr, hence taking some history with us. Renovations to the church were completed and included a new , accessable, bathroom upstairs, a ramp installed outside and the nursery converted to a coffee room.
The list of renovations included: Basement windows; finish basement; siding of house and garage;eavestroughing; painted main floor of house; drywalled and painted walls going downstairs; shingled roof on house; 2 new front windows installed; updated electrical, 2 new ceiling fans, wired garage; updated plumbing & heating; blinds for 2 new windows; LANDSCAPING WAS COMPLETED--DIRT HAULED IN / GRASS PLANTED, CLOTHESLINE, GRAVEL UNDER STEPS, GARAGE SIDEWALKS; WINDOWS INSTALLED 2 KITCHEN/ 3 BEDROOM/ 1 DORMER; BLINDS PURCHASED FOR NEW WINDOWS; AHINGLED GARAGE ROOF.
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In 1999 a vote was held regarding worship time in Manning and the result was changing our worship time to 10:00 am from 10:30am.
Pauline Avery, Rev. Marks mother-in-law, had a table from St. Bridget's refinished and has donated it to the church. It is in the front entrance of our church.
15 YEARS AGO
Helen Belcher and others on a road trip to Rosebud Theatre. Many people young and older got together to take a bus trip and go to Rosebud and the Rosebud Theatre group in Alberta. This included stops at various historic and tourist sites, including The Tyrrel Museum. Many folks from other churches and around the Manning community filled out the trip.
20 Years Ago
In August of 1986 we were blessed with the arrival of a husband and wife ministerial team: Reverands Helen and George Belcher. In their first year weekly services were held at all theree churches with Sunday School held at one church only, and an ecumenical service held every fourth Sunday. In the Fall of 1988 a major decision was made to hold one Sunday service in Manning. From September to Easter the services were held at Battle River and at St Bridget's the remainder of the year. These services alternated Anglican and Unietd with a joint Sunday school. Deadwood United retained their 110:30am Sunday service. Helen and Gorge left June 1992.
25 Years Ago
Reverand Mark Steinacher and wife Brenda joined our parish in June 1983. Alernating services between Battle River and St Bridget's continued with the 5 th Sunday being an ecumenical service. In January 1985 weekly services were held in St Bridget's and Battle River and Deadwood, still, every other Sunday and the 5 th Sunday rotated. In October of 1985 Rev. Mark Steinacher moved on. This left services up to lay people once again. At St. Bridget's there were lay led services every 2 weeks and once per month someone from the diocese would come up and do a service of Hol Eucharist. At Battle River, Howard Cameron, was leading services every week.
Q/A What year did we get our beautiful stained glass windows?
Answer: Rose Bieraugle, an active member of our United Church Women, was a motivating force in the creation of the stained glass windows in the Manning Church.(1982-85) The pictures were created by Gerri France of Peace River. The funding for the windows came through the UCW Memorial Fund. Molly Hansen was the first to donate money in the memory of Roberta Lees (Delores Lawrence's sister)
30 Years Ago
In the early 1970s there was a discussion regarding the possibility of a shred ministry between Anglican and United churches in Manning and a questionaire was ent out to Anglican and United households in about 1976. At a meeting in May of 1977, representatives form Deadwood and Battle River United Churches, St. Bridget's Anglican, plus, Archdeacon Owen and Bishop Crabb from the Anglican Church; and W. McDougall, Rev. Harper and Rev. Beal of the United Church were in attendance.
It was agreed at this meeting to move toward a cooperative parish. There wouold be a parish council with members from all three churches. Each congregation was to discuss their own concerns and hold meetings before the next meeting of the combined group. In June the combined groupf met again and agreed to enter a cooperative arrangment. It was agreed that the ministers were to be alternating Angl;ican and United clergy; the congregations would remain separate, and retaiin their own pattern of worship. Sunday services in Manning alternated between the Battle River and St. Bridget's and held bi-monthly in Deadwood.
In November 1977 it was agreed upon to call Reverand Andy Hoskin to the new cooperative p[arish. Rev. Hoskin and wife Mary Lou wre with us until November 1982. (The Hoskin's son was ordained to priesthood of Anglican Church in 2005)
Manning Deadwood Shared Ministry / St John's Parish
Way Back
St John's Anglican Church The first recorded service of the Anglican church in Battle River area was conducted August 8, 1929 bt Reverend Canon R.K. Naylor of Montreal. Canon Naylor came to the Clear Hills and Battle River area under the sponsorship of the Fellowhsip of the West, a group of Montreal businessmen, who gave financial support to themissionary work of their church. A considerable period of time elapsed before the area had a permanent ministry.
In 1935 another group of Anglican churchmen in London, England, known as the Fellowship of the Maple Leaf, sponsored the Reverend F.E. Smith from southern England as rector at Cedar Hills and also of the area as far north as Keg River. By 1936 the Reverend Smith paid regular visits to the Battle River area and with the assistance of Bill Hills and Mr. Clough, who were summer students, got an active group of Boy Scoputs organized.
In January 1937, also under sponsoreship of F.M.L., Miss Kay Phipps,an assistant to the Rverend Smith, arrived at North Star. Miss Phipps, unknown to the congregation at that time, was actually Lady Kathkleen Phipps, daughter of the Earl and Marquess of Normamby. Miss Phipps boarded at the Nord home and held services in the house the Nords vacated when they moved into a new home. In additiona to a Sunday school, Miss Phipps organized a girls group which evolved into Girl Guides. To attend Scouts and Guides, boys and girls walked four and five miles. During the time miss phipps was at North Star, she and the Reverend Smith started a library that served the church and community for a number of years.
In 1937 the F>M>L> supplied the funds for the Reverend Smith to purchase a car making his ministry less strenuous but no less demanding. It was during this year that woprk was begun on the church at North Satar. The building was the gift of ananonymous donor, a lady from Duncan, British Columbia, and was built on one and one half acres of land on NW 33-90-23-W5, purchased from Oscar Nord. The donor chose the name St. John's for the church. The church was consecrated August 17, 1937 and six young people were confirmed at the same service.
Before Miss Phipps left in 1937, she was joined by Miss Sylvia Steward. Miss Steward loaned the diocese the money to build a rectory beside thechurch and her rent was applied as repayment on the loan. She received no interest. Nellie Schroot, under a three year sponsorshipby the F.M.L. came to assist Miss Steward. Nellie played the piano or organ for services and assisted with Sunday school.
Miss Steward led church services and was Girl Guide leader. Holy Communion was administered monthly by the rector located at Clear Hills. Miss Steward ministered not only to the spiritual needs but often to the financial needs of the people from her own funds.
World War II stopped finds from Britain and for some time the church at North Star was served by young women known as Bishops Messengers who were sponsored by the Canadaian church. These young women held church services, taught Sunday school, worked with church groups such as the Women's Auxiliary, Anglican Young Peoples Association and choir and visited the sick.
For many years the ministry of the church was carried on not only from St John's church at North Star but also from the schools in the surrounding area: Jim Creek, Stowe Creek, Noptikewin, Simpson, Woodburn, Deadwood, Battle River Prairie. Occasionally, impassible roads made it impossible to hold service in these outlying areas.
In 1949 the Fellowship of the West sent the Reverend E.N. McColl as full time rector at St. John's. North Star and the Fellowship continued to support the ministry until 1957.
When the church first began ministry in the are it was dfuring the depression years and at a time when settlers had not been long in the area. People wre poor and nio offerings wre taken for the congregation. Needy settlers wre helped to clothe their family from clothing supply supplied by the church through the help of people in Eastern canada who sent bales of clothing to be used for this purpose.
By 1957, the Fellowship of the West and the church vestry felt the congregation was well enough established to bear a large portion of the financial support of the church itself, so the Fellowship could put their financing in another frontier area. The Women's Auxiliary was contributing financially toward the work of the local church.
Witht he coming of a resident priest in 1949, regular services were held in manning, then a new town. The congregation there chose the name St. Peter's. When the hope of buyilding a church in the town was not realized, it became clear to the Bishop that the best thing to do was to move St. John's church to Manning. It took sometime before the congregation of St. John's could agree with him and it was 1964 before the church was moved. On January 3, 1965, it became known as the church of St. Peter's and St. John's. This rather cumbersome name was changed to St. Bridget's when the churhc was dedicated November 27, 1966.
In 1977, the congregatiopns of the United Church of the Battle River area agreed to have one minister serve both churches. Those who served the church are:
Battle River United Church
Betwenn 1925 and 1928 the RTeverend T.F. MacGregor, a Presbyterian minister from Fort Vermilion, occasionally hjeld services at the home of Christian Robertson. This was the origin of the Battle River Unitred Church. During this period there were three student ministers who held services in Notikewin. they were Jimmy Mertz from the United States during the summer of 1927, F.H. Stevens from VCancouver in 1928, and F.G. Meek from Toronto for the summer of 1929. Each was stationed at Clear Hills in the early days of the Presbyyterian Church there.
In the Fall of 1929 the United Church Presbytery asked for a grant of $6,000.00 from the Home Mission Board to build a church and manse in Notikewin. Jim Schamehorn donated the northeast corner Section 9-92-23-W5 for this purpose. Ed Sharp hauled lumber from Grimshaw and Slim Jackson's sawmill supplied rough lumber. The contractors were Carl peterson, Nels Nilson, and Charlie Simcoe.
The church was dedicated on August 17, 1930 and the first minister was the Reverend H.E. Parker who arrived in April 1930. His induction service was August 18, 1930, and on August 30, 1931, in a special service, ten adults became members of the Battle River United Church.
The Ministers who followed Revrend H.E. Parker are:
In August 1949 Miss Henrietta Campbell arrived, having been sent here by the Women's Missionary Society of Toronto. She remained for six years and resided at the nurses' Residence, as the Hospital was at that time a Women's Missionary Society Hospital.
On December 19, 1949 the church was moved from Notikewin to Manning and remained on skids until August 1952 at which time it was placed on a basement.
In August 1955 Miss Marion Hodgins from Ontario replaced Miss Campbell. It was during her time that the foundation was laid for the manse in the summer of 1956.
From the time Miss Hodgins was transferred to Edmonton in 1957, Batle River United Church has had the leadership of Ordained ministers. They are in the following sequence:
