When you turn 80 years old, there ought to be a big celebration. That’s what’s planned for Camp Medley, the diocesan camp which opened in 1945 as a place for kids to get out of the cities and back to fresh air and nature.

The 80th anniversary celebration is slated for Saturday, May 24 at the camp in Upper Gagetown. Everyone is invited, especially those with a link to the camp.

Tuesday, March 4, 4-6 p.m.  Shrove Tuesday pancake supper at Holy Trinity, New Maryland. Menu: pancakes, sausage, brown bread and gingerbread for dessert. Cost will be $15 or $50 for a family of four.

Tuesday, March 4, 4:30-6:30 p.m.  Shrove Tuesday pancake supper at the Kingston Parish Hall. Menu: pancakes, beans, sausage and gingerbread with whipped cream. Free-will offering at the door.

Get your Shrove Tuesday supper information in so it can appear in eNews. Send to gmcknight@diofton.ca

Walk, volunteer or support a walker to help the homeless and hurting in New Brunswick.  Check out this national fundraiser and/or the location nearest you at https://cnoy.org/

A Synod office team - Anglican Energy - is walking in Fredericton to support the John Howard Society and all their efforts to reduce homelessness and provide support to vulnerable persons.  Sponsor the team or a member here.

Let us know about your church or deanery based team.

Thinking about Lent? Join the diocesan Lenten book study.

We'll look at John Mark Comer's Practicing the Way

About the book: We are constantly being formed by the world around us. To be formed by Jesus will require us to become his apprentice. 

To live by what the first Christian disciples called a Rule of Life—a set of practices and relational rhythms that slow us down and open up space in our daily lives for God to do what only God can do—transforms the deepest parts of us to become like him. 

The series starts on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, and runs six sessions (until April 16, 2025) at 6:30PM for 60-90mins. Registration is required for the Zoom link. Participants will receive the reading schedule after they register.

Please purchase the book through your favourite book retailer (Bishop's Office copies have all been spoken for).

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593193822
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593193822

For more information on the study, contact Shawn C. Branch.

Join us for the Diocesan Lenten Retreat, March 28-29, at the Villa Madonna Retreat House. As we prepare for Holy Week and the Easter celebration, join others in taking 24 hours for teaching, reflection, and prayer.

Disciplines for a Holy Lent

Kurt Schmidt, Diocesan Director of Young Adult Formation and Cathedral Director of Christian Formation, will lead our retreat and provide teaching to help prepare us for the week ahead. All are welcome, but pre-registration is required.

Costs - Overnight: $140 | Couples: $215 | Commuter: $95 (meals included) 

Registration deadline is March 20, 2025; spaces are limited. (Some bursary funding is available.)

For more information, contact Shawn Branch: 506-459-1801 ext 1008.

Join leaders from the Anglican Church of Canada — Archbishop Anne Germond, Archbishop Linda Nicholls and Bishop Victoria Matthews — on Feb. 6 to reflect on questions of church outside the walls through the lens of church leadership.

More information here.

The deadline to share photos for consideration in the 2026 Canadian Church Calendar is just over a month away.

Submissions received after this date will be considered for the 2027 edition. Find submission guidelines and tips here.  

via Episcopal News Service

The final four minutes of Bishop Mariann Budde's sermon during a post-inauguration service at Washington National Cathedral on Jan. 20, where she directly addressed U.S. President Donald Trump, have sparked international headlines and drawn intense reactions, both positive and negative. 

Budde responded in a CNN interview: “I felt that he has this moment now where he feels charged and empowered to do what he feels called to do, and I wanted to say there is room for mercy.”

See her comments here.  

Watching her mother as she tried on her new fur coat, the young daughter said unhappily, "Mom, do you realize some poor dumb beast suffered so you could have that?"

The woman shot her an angry look, "How dare you talk about your father like that!"