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...
Nov 26, 2013 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
I’m not trying to be controversial here and don’t get me wrong, I love chocolate chip cookies just as much as anyone else, but don’t you sometimes wish cookie recipes would be a little more varied or interesting? Like “Scratch Me Back” or...
Nov 20, 2013 | AVEL, Christian Life & Growth
We stand on the threshold of Advent. We are getting ready for the Mystery of Christmas. This post will pull together a few of the resources on our website for Advent. We hope they will help with your planning. AVEL Resources for Advent and Christmas Advent Hymns by...
Nov 19, 2013 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
The archivist in me was super excited when I stumbled across the following document. And yes, the words archivist and excitement can occur in the same sentence… This is an inventory of the furniture of the Methodist manse in Liverpool in 1842 and was found in...
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