Dec 9, 2014 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
As I often like to tell people when I get on my archives spiel, church records are important not only for the stories they tell about specific churches but also for the stories they tell about our broader community and society. According to the minutes of the January...
Dec 6, 2014 | United Church Women
Child poverty is clearly a problem across Canada. The “Child Well Being Initiative” (CWBI) is the National UCW project for the next four years. This initiative began in Alberta North-West Conference five years ago, and has been able to increase the awareness of the...
Dec 3, 2014 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
I’ve lost track of the number of times I wished I could go back in time to meet someone whose records we have in the Archives. William Fisher Partridge is one of those people. Just from the little I read about him, it seems like he was a wonderful man and one...
Nov 18, 2014 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
The Archives just recently received a cookbook from the Covenanter Church in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, and it’s got some real gems in it. It’s always hard to choose which recipes to post every month but today the theme is rather unusual but super awesome...
Nov 11, 2014 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
Although the following order of service for a War Memorial Sunday is specifically from Wesley Memorial Church in Moncton, the situation it describes is representative of many churches in Maritime Conference who had/have members who fought in a war and/or were killed...