Local Event

St Paul's Anglican Church
4 Church Avenue Rothesay, NB

Suzanne Rumsey, PWRDF Public Engagement Coordinator is visiting THE ARCHDEANCONRY OF MONCTON And we are pleased to announce St Andrew's , Sunny Brae is sponsoring a BBQ on Friday, June 11th at 6.00 pm to welcome Suzanne to our area. There will be bicycle safety quizzes and tips for the children, A scavenger hunt, PWRDF game, prizes and free give aways. All the churches in the Deanery are invited and bring your friends. Free will offering, all for PWRDF.
We will end with an outdoor Compline
For more information, email pwrdfnb@gmail.com or go to:
http://www.pwrdf.org/our-work/le-tour/

The ACW in the Parish of Plum Point dedicated an entire day to learning about PWRDF, including presentations on the 50th anniversary, the work of PWRDF, work with HIV/AIDS and ending with a drama on Fair Trade Coffee. Attached is a picture of two women working on a banner for that day with the quote “The leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nation” Participants put their name on the leaves and put them on the tree.

Diocesan coordinator, Cynthia Haines Turner made pies as ‘commissioned’ with the recipients making a donation to PWRDF in return. All pies were made from ‘scratch’, using fresh ingredients (with the exception of the partridge berry pies as this Newfoundland delicacy had been picked earlier in September and frozen). All requests were honoured as to the kind of pie - they ran the gamut of pecan, pumpkin, lemon, coconut cream, apple, partridge berry, although my signature pies are lemon meringue and coconut cream. Over $320.00 was raised over the fall and spring.

Kay and Henry Hounsell held a garage sale in June, 2009 and raised $200.00

In order to mark the 40th birthday of our rector, the Rev. Edmund Laldin, we asked people to bring in 40 of something on September 20 (his birthday was in August) - money or goods to sell. Following the main worship service, at coffee hour, items were sold and the money counted with a final total of $412.15.

On September 27, 2009, the parish of White Bay held a special service at the Church of the Epiphany in Hampden to highlight the 50th anniversary of PWRDF. Coin boxes were distributed in the parish earlier in the year and were returned on that evening. The diocesan coordinator was invited to speak. It took several young people to hold the box laden down with boxes laden down with coins - enough to equal more that $1,000 in fact!

A PWRDF slide show was presented at the meeting of the ACW District Branch. A donation of $100.00 was given to the ACW at that meeting.

PWRDF's diocesan refugee coordinator was invited to speak during the service. Present at that worship service was the District Branch of the ACW. Music was provided by Double Vision.

On May 23, the ACW District Branch invited the Diocesan Coordinator to speak at their meeting. Following a slide show presentation and a sing-a-long with ‘Double Vision’, the ACW made a motion to donate $500.00 to PWRDF. ‘Double Vision’ is the name used by Gerard and Mona Edwards who exercise a music ministry in the Diocese. They are long time supporters of PWRDF and have made recordings of their music and sold the CD’s, giving half of the cost to PWRDF, giving over a total of $1500.00.