Last month we celebrated the beginning of a new year and a new decade. Anglicans were also celebrating the beginning of a new decade 40 years ago, and PWRDF (with the newly minted "D" in its name for "Development") was reflecting on its first 10 years of providing emergency and disaster relief, helping refugees, promoting sustainable development, and advocating for change. Our 1970s gallery, now online, reminds us of the work around the world that Anglicans in Canada, through PWRDF, supported during that decade.

During the 50th anniversary year of PWRDF, the Church of the Good Shepherd in Calgary, AB set up a display to bring environmental attention to the need for clean water in the world. A large water container was set up in the narthex with photos and statistics about water (eg. There are 884 million people in the world without a safe water supply and unsafe drinking water is a leading cause of death in children under five.) People bring their change, rolled pennies and other coins to deposit.