Jan 6, 2014 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
This is from a daily devotional book entitled “A Golden Treasury for the Children of God, Whose Treasure is in Heaven.” It was published by R. Spence in 1783 (i.e. a really long time ago!). Here’s the devotion for January 6. In case you are wondering...
Dec 31, 2013 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
To kick off 2014, here’s a page from a 1915 calendar which was produced by the Hampton (NB) Methodist Church. As you can see, the calendar has lots of inspirational quotes to get you through the first two weeks of the year:
Dec 17, 2013 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
Last week, I was very excited to receive an email from Brenda at St. Paul’s United Church in Sussex, NB. She sent me pictures of two delicious looking batches of cookies that she had made using the recipes from last month’s Archives Recipes of the Month....
Dec 10, 2013 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
The Archives receives a good number of photographs in the course of a year. Fortunately, many of these photographs are labelled. However, there are some photographs that have no identifying information on them and as you can imagine, it’s not exactly helpful for...
Dec 3, 2013 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
The Gospel Wagon Mission was organized on May 29, 1896 with the purpose of “sending the Gospel to the more isolated and neglected sections of Nova Scotia.” David Herd, Hanisworth, and Thomas Turnbull operated the wagon. The Wagon team visited communities...
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