us __ Castlegar News pri20, 190s SHSS Report By Cathy Paszty A special event once again took place Tuesday night for seven of Stanley Humphries’ students. In cooperation with municipal awareness week, there was a mock council-for-a-day. The students learned about the local level of govern ment and how it works. They also participated in debates about topics of interest — just like real council members. This was a great learning experience for the council persons of the day, and they also had a lot of fun. On Friday, April 15 Premier Bill Vander Zalm visited Stanley Humphries to answer questions that the stu dents had. Almost immediately Mr. Vander Zalm was lived in a s heated di i about edu cational cutbacks. The topics discussed ranged from abortion to priv atization of the local highways department. On the topic of abortion two SHSS students questioned Mr. Vander Zalm's right to “impose his moral and religious beliefs upon the province,” dealing with the overruling of the supreme court's decision on abortion. Also standing in the corner were two women protesting the abortion overrule, which was clearly stated on their sign which said: “Suffer the children says Vander Zalm.” Another issue brought up dealt with the privatiza. tion on the local highways department. One of the afford to pay overtime for road maintenance after one of the many snowstorms Castlegar receives in the winter. One of the last topics discussed was child support for single mothers who work yet can not afford to support their children adequately. Even though Mr. Vander Zalm was involved in many heated debates concerning several issues, the students appreciated his visit and many wished that he could stay at least a bit longer before having to rush off to his next stop. Thank You To All! FOR THE HONOUR OF BEING CHOSEN CITIZEN OF THE YEAR Spetial thanks .. . t . .to the Kiwanis Club, Robson Women's tn- stitute and all who nominated me and wrote let- ters of praise on my behalf. . to my friends and family who attended the banquet. - . - to those who sent flowers telephone calls and good wishes Your thoughtfulness will be always. gifts, cards remembered Thank you one and all! ROBERTA ZUREK Auxiliary holds Sixteen members of the South Slocan Hospital Aux- iliary gathered at the home of Estelle Barton for the April meeting with vice-president Ida Kosiancic presiding. Three topics were dis. cussed: to send delegates to the provincial conference; the annual garage sale; and the purchasing of an LV. pump for the Nelson hospital. Sadie Hammond. will\ re. present South Slocan at the provincial conference slated for May 30 to June 1 in Pen. tieton. meet The annual garage sale will be held at the Ray Kosiancic Farm May 23 and 29. Don- ations are being aceepted and work committees will be as- signed at the May 12 meet- ing. The highlight of the meet ing was Hazel Varney's fin ancial report enabling the auxiliary to purchase its second I.V. pump this year at a cost over $2,000. Rose Rilkoff offered her home for the May 12 meet ing. Famous artist to show works Well-known B.C. artist Shirley Ann Avril will show her recent work at the Lang ham Galleries April 24 and "25. There will be a reception with the artist Sunday. A full-time painter, Avril is ommitted to speaking from he heart through her work. £mphasizing color and dream imagery, she uses her subject matter as a vehicle to evoke a spiritual and emotional sense of the world around us. Avril's ideas and concepts are often influenced by the environment. Around the shape comes the vision and the painting is created ex. pressing that life is much more than what we see. Each painting encourages ~ the viewer to look deeper, be. yond what is visible, past the subject matter and into his or her own heart. Avril participates actively in the community. In addition to her painting, her art includes weaving, ceramics and copper enamelling, as well as art education. Her activities in the wo- men's movement and com- munity education parallel her belief that arts and artists should be integrated into Cais Spruce Up Your Home for Spring -.. Inside and Out! See our Displays at Our Home Improvement Show! social and political life. She has been the Victoria Wo- men's Center coordinator and community programmer and has completed her Master of Arts degree at the Uni versity of Victoria. A recent development in Avril's work has been to collaborate occasionally with the jazz entertainer, Louise Rose. Each woman finds the art of the other a source of inspiration. The collaboration includes working in response to each other's art and jointly presenting — concert/exhibi- ~ tion events. Rose will be in concert at the Langham Theatre on April 24. Born in Norristown Pen. nsylvania, Rose began her formal piano studies at age three. At age nine she ex- panded her musical studies to include pipe organ and at 13, she began her formal vocal training. Today she enjoys a true range of 38 notes. As an adult she furthered her piano studies with Oscar Peterson, arranging and composition with ‘Duke’ Ellington and conducting with Leonard Bernstein. APRIL 21-23 Thursday & Friday 9:30-9:00 Saturday 9:30-5:00 NELSON Over 30 Stores to Serve You! April 20, 1988 Castléit News BEAUTY QUEEN CANDIDATES . - A dessert meeting was held at the Sandman Inn last week to introduce the candidates and Sponsops for the Miss Castlegar competition. (Back row ftom lett) Todd was not at the meeting. Mrs. V. Maida, Dwayne Mills and Dale Bobby. (Front row from left) Miss Arrow Building Supply, Helen Fehrenberg; Miss Avenues, Tracy Josephson and Miss Canada contestants and their Dale Verhaeghe of Gyro club. Judy Closkey, Miss Gyro, 9 Na, Ria PAGEANT CANDIDATES . . . Pictured here are four Sponsors for the Miss James Moore. Safeway, Tanya Dahli. Wilson, Leo and Castlegar pageant. (Back row from left) Theresa Donaldson, Pl. d (Front row from left) Miss Century 21, Stacie Batchelor; Miss Rotary, Sandra Renwick; Miss Selkirk Lions, Heidi-Lyn Mann and Miss Royal dian Legion, Lisa Dodds. ST. PETER LUTHERAN Office 365-3664 Rev. Glen Backus Worship Service 9. a.m Sunday School 10:15..m Youth Group, Sunday, 6:30 p.m Bible Study, Wed., 8 p.m ANGLICAN CHURCH 1401 Columbia Avenue Sunday Services 8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m ¥ Sunday School 10 a.m Rev. Charles Balfour 365-2271 Parish Purpose: “To know Christ and make Him known JiK PENTECOSTAL NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY 602 - 7th St. © Ph. 365-5212 Near High Schoo! — SUNDAY SERVICES Christian Education 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m Evening Service 6:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY 7:00 p.m. Bible Study — Prayer Crosstire for Youth FRIDAY 7:00 p.m. Youth Meeting WOMEN ASTO! Rev. Kenneth Smith Coo DAG 365-581 Pastor Stuart Lourie 365-3278 Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 a.m Nursery & Children’s church provided min vou D Mid-week Service & Study Av. Wednesday 6:30-8:00 p.m Bible teaching for all ages A Non-Denominational Fomily Church, Preaching the Word of Faith FULL GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP (A.C.0.P.) Choral society performs The Nelson Choral Society and the Selkirk Chamber Orchestra will combine tal ents on April 30 and May 1 at the newly-restored Capitol Theatre in Nelson for the production of Elijah. This dramatic oratorio was written by Felix Mendel- ssohn and will feature solo- ists Soprano Linda Hunt, Alto Beryl de Jersey, Tenor Jack Steed, and Bass Al Hie- bert. The chorus of 50 voices in harmony and the orchestra of 25 ici will be con is Tomi} EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH CALVARY BAPTIST a4 - wav 809 Merry Creek Road Past Fireside Motel Sunday School 00 a.m Morning Worship 00 a.m VW : Evening Service dren's Program Kindergorten to Grade 8 WEDNESDAY NIGHT Study & Prayer 8 p.m Church 365-3430 or 365-7368 Robert C. Lively, Pastor CHURCH OF GOD 2404 Columbia Avenue Church School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship lam Pastor Ira Johnson Phone 365-6762 914 Columbia Ave. Sunday School 9:45 a.m Family Worship Service 11:00 a.m. Ladies Bible Study Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. Youth Ministries Discipleship Ministries PASTOR: Ed Neufeld Phone: 365-6675 “A CHURCH THAT LOVES THE CASTLEGAR AREA!" ROBSON COMMUNITY 2nd, 3rd and 4th Sundays, 10a.m. No service 5th Sunday GRACE PRESBYTERIAN 2605 Columbia Ave. Rev. J. Ferrier Phone 365-3182 Morning Worship :00 a.m. Below Castleaird Plaza Phone 365-6317 Pastor: Barry Werner Phone 365-2374 — SUNDAY SERVICES — Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 10:30 Evening Fellowship 6:30 Wednesday: Home Meetings 7:00 p.m. Friday Youth Ministries 7:00 p.m. HOME OF CASTLEGAR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 365-7818 UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA 2224-6th Ave. 1% Blocks South of Community Complex 10 a.m. — Worship and Sunday School Mid-Week Activities for all ages. Phone for information. Rev. Ted Bristow 365-8337, or 365-7814 ~~ SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 1471 Columbia Ave., Trail 364-0117 Regular Saturday Services W Sunday School Pastor Cliff Drieberg 11:00 a.m. 365-2649 ducted by Bruce Hunter. Elijah is a passionate story of a struggle for truth. -— EE) NeED To KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR NEW COMMUNITY? Vea Higon Connie 365-7601 ‘eal danger among clery involved in the development of new churches. This is the last in a series of articles on problems confronting churches in Canada. By STEPHEN NICHOLLS Canadian Press It sounds like a religious variation of an old beer commercial: Every week, John and the boys get together for some Bible study and a little clerical camaraderie. But for Rev. John Mash the Tuesday afternoon sessions with some fellow Anglican priests in southeast Edmonton have been a godsend. “You vent your anger and frustration, you get a syt ipathetic ear, and you get built up,” says Mash, who has been struggling for six years to establish a new chureh against enormous odds. “I guess facing those problems is what the ministry is. Unfortunately, most clergy in developing countries don’t have a support system like Mash’s group. Instead, they struggle along as the strained linchpin is an often foundering organization of inexperienced laymen trying to get a new church off the ground. TOLL OF STRESS At best, the stress is taxing; at worst, it can lead to marriage upheaval or emotional breakdown. In church cirles, it's call clergy burnout. It is particularly severe among clergy at new churches, although other ministers experience it as well. On top of the burdens any cleric carries, a minister in a new church faces the demoralizing prospect of preaching temporarily in a school cafeteria, rounding up new members, riding shotgun over construction crews, organizing neophyte church workers into committees and refereeing squabbles that inevitably arise. The strain on the clergy is a major concern as Canadian churches continue to expand into areas with growing populations at a time when overall membership is shrinking and the faithful are scattered over wide regions. So critical is the burnout problem that the United Church is considering a $500,000 project to study church development and come up with training programs for ministers and laymen in the launching of new churches. CAN'T GOON “Something like this has to be done,” says Rev. , Garth Mundle, principal of St. Stephen's College, the University of Alberta's theological school which was asked by the United Church to put together a proposal. “Some of the new church developments are absolute catastrophes . ... We can't go on as if it's business as usual.” Mundle defines clergy burnout as ministers “having lost their vision, their motivation.” Jim Taylor, editor of the clerical journal Pratice of Ministry in Canada, considers burnout “a serious but often unacknowledged problem. “In most’ new church development-situations; the pastor rarely lasts longer than three or four years,” says Tayler. “In many cases, ministers feel they are out on a limb and constantly being sawed off.” KNOWS THE WOES Rev. Gordon Hume, who headed church development in the United Church for most of the '80s, knows well the woes of starting up a new church and the toll it can take. When he did a cross-country survey of ministers in 1986, four of the 45 ministers he was to interview were off the job because of burnout. Two left the ministry permanently. Now, Hume is getting a first-hand taste of development as pastor of a growing church in Missi ssauga, Ont. His congregation meets in the somewhat drafty confines of a pair of linked mobile homes. The new church won't be built until 1990. “Studies show that about 12 per cent of church clergy are really effective new cash oie a says Hume, sipping coffee in the cramped quarters of his church office. “The toll is heaviest on those who are not really fitted for it,” he says. “We get some very good ministers who are intrigued by the idea of developing a new congregation and\y new church. Unfortunately, they find themselves square pegs in round holes. “Maybe they're very innovative, intuitive, intro- verted people who are great at writing sermons... but they just can't stand going knocking on doors of strangers. Well, the name of the game is to get out and meet people who are not going to darken your doors unless you go out to them.” WHO CAN DO IT Just what does jt take to be a minister in a new church? Hume offers a list: “They need to be adaptable. They need to be able to function without a lot of close personal support. They need to be extroverts or very close to it. They need to like people and be able to get out with people. They need to be well organized. They need to be good administrators.” Adds Mash of Edmonton: “He needs all the patience in the world. He has to have expectations that are tempered with reality. For Mash, 47, it’s been a disheartening struggle. After eight years, including two before his arrival, his congregation of 100 families is still meeting in a local school. When Alberta's economy soured several years’ ago, the church not only faced a shortage of cash, it also experienced a turnover of members as parishioners left the province to find work. “You'd build a congregation by four or five people, then you'd lose another four or five people,” says Mash. QUICK GROWTH Growing pains, not numbers, was the problem faced by Rev. John Ambrose of Mississauga, Ont. In seven years; his flock swelled to more than-400 families from 46, and his Eden United Church relocated three times. “It's both very exciting but a very draining respon sibility,” says Ambrose. “Even as the congregation grows, and members take more responsibility, the minister is like glue holding everything together.” Originally meeting in-a red-brick country church, Eden started to grow when subdivisions sprang up around it. In 1980, it moved into a modern ecumenical centre, sharing the building with Anglican, Lutheran and Presbyterian congregations. Eden soon outgrew that setting, and after several years managed to persuade the United Church to approve a new $3.5-million church. In 1986, the congregation moved out of the centre and started meeting in a high school auditorium. The church was finally finished last year. “You're always running behind,” says Ambrose. “You never really get ahead of it. Most people are learning as they go. Most are not coming in with extensive church backgrounds.” Ambrose, in his early 50s, says he wouldn't do it again. “It was a much greater challenge than I ever expected.” West Coast Amusements WS ‘e, APRIL 21 - 24 Hi Arrow Motor Inn, Castlegar THERE: . 2 4 Hours 3 BUSINESS DAYS THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY 12 APRIL 21, 22, 23 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. I’m offering one of the largest inventories of Furniture, Furniture Items, Major Appliances, in B.C. Interior at the most Staggering Discounts Ever! You Won't Know The Price Until You Ask Ignore The Warehouse Sale Price and get from me your 24-Hour Price! 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