Nov 20, 2012 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
The Bethany Players, a drama group at Bethany United in Halifax, posing for a photograph, c. 1939. Front row (left to right); Lillian Farwell, Jack Mont, Nan Geizer, and Nita Geizer. Back row (left to right): Olin Gardner, Fred Feeney, Lillian MacKinnon,...
Nov 13, 2012 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
William John McKenzie was born on July 15, 1861 at South Side West Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He was the third child of Robert McKenzie and Flora MacRae. According to an anonymous biographer, William “grew to be of great stature, a man of 6’3’’ tall and of unusual...
Nov 12, 2012 | Christian Life & Growth
Tending the Light – Advent E-Retreat Janice MacLean Advent is a season of “dark shining.” Full of desiring and seeking, fearing and chaos, risking and shaping, and witnessing and trusting, it is a season rich in metaphor and image speaking to the...
Oct 30, 2012 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
Polly Ervin was born in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. She married Rod Ervin in Halifax and they eventually moved to Moncton in 1956. Polly was active in the UCW, serving as UCW president for her local church from 1964-1965 and 1982-1983. She was president of...
Oct 3, 2012 | Building Project 2011, Conference fundraising project
Maritime Conference Centre Dedication: September 29, 2012 In the name of Jesus, the Word made flesh, And by the authority of the Maritime Conference of the United Church of Canada, I declare this place to be Maritime Conference Centre, dedicated to the glory of...
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