While the Rev. Jasmine Chandra was born in Cambridge, Ontario, she had a rather unusual — and at times, charmed — upbringing when her parents joined the mission field.

It wasn’t just any mission field. It was Monaco. Yes, that Monaco, the tiny, two-square-kilometre city-state, playground of the rich and famous on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Of its 38,000 people, one in three is a millionaire.

Jasmine and her family were among the two of out three. They lived in an apartment and she and her brother, Aaron, attended a French-language public school. Jasmine was just one when they arrived.

As most of you know, the Parish of Lancaster and the Springthorpe family are coping with the sudden death of the Rev. Jonathan Springthorpe on April 13. Please be in prayer for his wife, Kristen, and their children:  Elijah, Jeremy and Olivia. Read his obituary here. 

Jonathan's funeral will be live-streamed on the Church of the Resurrection FB page. Thursday, April 21 at 10 a.m.

Archbishop David and Debbie Edwards are in the UK this week for the funeral of Janet's stepmother. As they were preparing to leave Canada last week, they got word that David's mother, Doreen, had passed away. 

The funeral for Janet's stepmother is Friday. It will be a few weeks, as is the custom in the UK, before Mrs. Edwards is laid to rest. 

Please be in prayer for David, Debbie, and Jack, David's father. 

All proceeds go to PWRDF's support of humanitarian aid in Ukraine. 

Etransfers welcome (please specify Ukraine):   ccapennfield@rogers.com

Donations also accepted onsite.

PWRDF is a trusted, Canadian and Anglican organization that meets needs at home and around the world. To donate to the humanitarian efforts during this war in Ukraine, you can do so here.

To watch a short video detailing their efforts in Ukraine and how your donations can help, click here. 

In solidarity with the Ukrainian Bishops of Canada we invite you to join with The Canadian Council of Churches on April 24, which is Pascha (Easter Sunday on the Julian calendar), to proclaim together that Christ is Risen, that love overcomes fear, and that life overcomes death and destruction.

We invite all worshipping communities to pray for peace and to ring your church bells at 12 noon your time (or offer some other liturgical action appropriate in your community) as a sign and celebration of hope.  

In addition to Ukraine and Russia, pray for peace in Yemen, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia, and all places there is armed conflict.

The Canadian Council of Churches event webpage 

Donations of gifts of securities for parishes, missions or the Diocesan Synod will now be handled by
PH & N Investment Counsel, transferred from Mandeville Private Client Inc., effective Friday, April 22. 

Please click this link to find the donation form and transfer instructions.  

We would like to thank Bruce Cooke at Mandeville  for all his work.

Say Yes! to Kids is a national peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising initiative of the Anglican Foundation of Canada (AFC) which is now in its second year. The 2022 campaign will run from Tuesday, April 19 until Thursday, June 30. AFC will support and mentor parish-based fundraising teams across Canada to:

• Help fund start-up programs.
• Establish a sustainable source of revenue for youth ministry.
• Substantially increase the Canadian church’s investment in young people.

In the Diocese of Fredericton:

• Parish of Salisbury and Havelock project

Thy Kingdom Come is a global prayer movement which the Archbishop of Canterbury invited people around the world to join. The wave of prayer runs for 11 days between the Christian festivals of Ascension and Pentecost. During this time, people are asked to pray in whatever way they want and with whoever they want for others to come to know Jesus Christ. 

Check the global Thy Kingdom Come site for resources, including the 2022 Prayer Journal.

The Bishop's Office has ordered 2022 resource packs - contact Cheryl if you wish to have some

Activities in the Diocese of Fredericton

Watch here for activities. Please let us know what your parish is doing.

Resources

• Thy Kingdom Come prayer booklet (or use this reformatted version)
• Thy Kingdom Come 2022 prayer journal
• Bright prayer ideas for your church

We believe in responding to Christ’s call to GO. But sometimes, getting started can be intimidating. That’s why we are inviting you to join the Ignite events. To walk alongside others who are just getting started, and go out on mission together. Will you be among the movement of believers who are mobilized to share the gospel right across the country?

God is on the move in Canada! This full-day event will help build confidence and prepare those who attend - no matter how experienced or new you are to evangelism - to walk out the door and onto the mission field in your own neighbourhood.

Spend the morning learning from Canadian leaders in relational evangelism and encouraging fellow brothers and sisters in Christ who are just getting started. Then put what you’ve learned into practice as, together, we reach out to local communities in the afternoon.

The events are free of charge - invite a friend to register too!

For more information, contact: info@sharewordglobal.com or 1.888.482.4253.

“We live in a fractured and divided world. Nationalism and political extremism are rife in the church, scandals involving well-known Christian leaders are on the rise, and ideologies and idolatries abound. Badge and brand are espoused more than servanthood and sacrificial love. … Frost and Hirsch get to the root of these issues, exposing the many ways we have formed Jesus in our own image and co-opted him for our own agendas. ReJesus is a clarion call to recenter our lives on Christ so that we might become a people who look, act, think, and sound like Jesus. Now more than ever, our world needs a church remade in our Founder's image.” 

 The book was originally written in 2008 and revised this year. The authors are Michael Frost (writer of Surprise the World: The Five Habits of Highly Missional People and Keep Christianity Weird) and Alan Hirsch (author of The Shaping of Things to Come and The Forgotten Ways). Both Frost and Hirsch are two of the top missiologists in the world today. 

This jointly-shared book club between the dioceses of Fredericton and Nova Scotia/PEI will be hosted on Zoom, Mondays from 7-8:30PM Atlantic, running April 25, May 2, May 9 and May 16. 

No charge to join. Purchase of the book is required.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ 100 Movements Publishing (Feb. 17 2022)
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1955142130
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1955142137

Register by emailing Shawn Branch.

Saturday, April 23, 1-3 p.m.  St. George’s Day celebration, Trinity Church, 115 Charlotte St., Saint John. Guides will show the two treasures donated by the St. George Society: the Bust of Queen Victoria and the Society’s banner depicting St. George’s battle with the dragon. Spencer Belyea will play background pieces representative of musical gifts from England. From 1:15-2:00 Tim Blackmore will present “Georgian Serenade,” a program of piano music from King George III’s time. Harold Wright will have a display of historical items from his collection as well as items loaned from the former St. George Society members documenting their activities from 1802 until the Society disbanded. There is no charge for this event, but freewill offerings for use in outreach programs are welcomed.

April 30, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.  Yard and bake sale, St. Luke’s, Gondola Point

For Godly Play storyteller training.

Click here for more information.

See the April edition of Launching Out for more information.