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Mission & Service Brochure 2013

Posted by Janice MacLean on May 21, 2013 in Stewardship | 0 comments

Wondering how the mission support grants are allocated in Maritime Conference? This brochure is a very valuable tool. Click here to download the 2013 M&S Fund brochure

Bideford Pastoral Charge

Posted by Sarah Wallace on May 21, 2013 in Archives Committee, Featured Congregations | 0 comments

Bideford Pastoral Charge is located on Prince Edward Island.  Preaching points are at Bideford (Bideford-Conway), Lot 14, and Tyne Valley. In 1925, Bideford Pastoral Charge consisted of Victoria West, Wellington, Union Corner, Inverness, and Bideford, and Tyne Valley and Richmond Bay East Pastoral Charge consisted of the preaching places of Richmond Bay East, Lot 16, and Lot 14. Bideford’s first organized congregation was Bible Christian in 1871 (an offshoot of Methodism) and it was part of the Egmont Bay circuit formed in 1873. Prior...

Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth

Posted by Laura Hunter on May 17, 2013 in Church In Action | 0 comments

Here is a printable copy of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth For more information contact the Environmental Working Group of Maritime Conference’s Church in Action Committee.

Alberton-Elmsdale Pastoral Charge

Posted by Sarah Wallace on May 14, 2013 in Archives Committee, Featured Congregations | 0 comments

Alberton-Elmsdale Pastoral Charge is on Prince Edward Island. Preaching points are at Alberton (Gordon Memorial) and Elmsdale. Presbyterian ministers were visiting the Alberton area as early as 1826. In 1829, Presbyterian families in Alberton petitioned Prince Edward Island Presbytery for regular supply and William McGregor began to visit the area twice year, covering five Sundays. In 1831, 14 families decided to organize themselves into a distinct pastoral charge and construction of a church began in that same year with the exterior of the...

Mount Stewart-Morell-St. Peter’s Bay Pastoral Charge (PEI)

Posted by Sarah Wallace on May 7, 2013 in Archives Committee, Featured Congregations | 0 comments

  Mount Stewart-Morell-St. Peter’s Bay Pastoral Charge is on Prince Edward Island. Preaching points are at Mount Stewart (St. John’s), Morell (Peter Gordon Memorial) and St. Peter’s Bay. Through the efforts of Rev. James MacGregor, the Presbytery of Nova Scotia set up the first official Presbyterian congregation on the island in 1806. Prior to this, services had been held here sporadically between since 1744. This pastoral charge consisted of Covehead, St. Peter’s, and Fortune. In this same year, Rev. Peter Gordon was...

Painting the Stars: Science, Religion and an Evolving Faith

Posted by Marilyn Burrell on Apr 30, 2013 in AVEL | 0 comments

“Mystery is a condition of awe, of resting precisely in an unknowing, long enough for the silence to have its way with us. The goal of this curriculum is to create some space for us to inhabit this mystery more deeply, and explore the relationship between science, particularly evolution, and religion. Perhaps most importantly, the hope is that each participant will feel from the inside what it is like to be the presence of all this creativity showing up after 13.7 billion years as him or her. Without this felt sense of being one with the...

Maritime Conference Ordinands, 1950

Posted by Sarah Wallace on Apr 30, 2013 in Archives Committee, Featured Congregations | 0 comments

Charlottetown: Spring Park Pastoral Charge

Posted by Sarah Wallace on Apr 29, 2013 in Archives Committee, Featured Congregations | 0 comments

Spring Park United Church is located in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The village of Spring Park became part of the city of Charlottetown in 1958. In the summer of 1959, a survey was conducted by Trinity United Church to determine the area in the Charlottetown district which would most benefit from the erection of a separate church building. It was found that there was a high number of United Church members in Spring Park who were interested in a church being built in that area. On December 6, 1959, a project to organize a Christian...

Hosting the Conference Executive

Posted by Janice MacLean on Apr 24, 2013 in Building Project 2011, Conference fundraising project | 0 comments

The new Maritime Conference Centre was a busy spot last week hosting groups as diverse as a local Naturalist Club to Chignecto Presbytery. The Conference Executive met on the weekend. A report will soon be posted on-line but we wanted to share the Report from Bermuda Synod. How did Bermuda Synod come to be part of Maritime Conference? Because of Commonwealth relations and the the American Revolution, the Methodist Church in Bermuda forged closer relationships with the Methodist Church in Canada than the USA. After Union in 1925, the Wesleyan...

Shediac Pastoral Charge

Posted by Sarah Wallace on Apr 24, 2013 in Archives Committee, Featured Congregations | 0 comments

  There was a Presbyterian congregation meeting in the Scotch Settlement area as early as 1849. The congregation originally started as the Church of Scotland, changed to the Free Church, went back as a Church of Scotland in 1865, and eventually switched back to the Free Church. The old meeting house at Scotch Settlement near the new Presbyterian church was totally destroyed by fire with all its contents on February 17, 1886. The present church building was dedicated on March 28, 1886. In the fall of 1891, the Presbyterians of Shediac,...