[Anglican Youth Work Tour to the West Indies]
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- Date
- 1968 May 29
- Source
- Anglican News Service
- Type
- Press Release
- Text of motion
- Christian fellowship will take on a new meaning for a party of young Canadian Anglicans undertaking a work-tour this summer that will involve a 3,000-mile flight to South America, followed by a 250-mile, 15-hour trek by steamer and motor-truck into the Guyana hinterland.
- Together with a number of other young people going to Jamaica, they make up a group of 33 participating in a scheme which links two sister churches of the Anglican communion - the Church of the West Indies and the Anglican Church of Canada.
- In promoting the work-tours, the churches aim at stimulating a sense of vocation among West Indians and Canadians who work, learn and live together for a six-week period from mid-July until the end of August. Last year, Canadian groups went to Jamaica and Antigua.
- In Guyana, the 10 Canadians will be jointed by a similar number of young Guyanese. Nearly three weeks will be spent at Issano, a mining town in the interior, where they will build a schoolhouse. Later they will live in Guyanese homes in various parishes and conduct vacation schools.
- Jamaican church leaders plan a 10-day work project in the Tower Hill area near Kingston in which 18 Canadians and their West Indian counterparts will work together. For the rest of the tour the group will also participate in vacation school activities.
- Nearly 400 inquiries about the Canadian church's 1968 project were received and 70 were selected for interviews and screening. From these, 28 were approved of whom four boys and six girls were chosen to go to Guyana, while eight boys and ten girls make up the Jamaica group. Five leaders, two for Guyana and three for Jamaica, will be in charge of the party.
- The work groups range in age from 18 to 24, all having expressed willingness to do physical work and to assist in educational and recreational programs. The cost for each is $500 to be shared by the applicant, his parish, his diocese and the national church.
- Before leaving for the south on July 12 the party will attend a three-day briefing course at Canterbury Hills, the Anglican Conference Centre near Hamilton, Ontario.
- Group members and leaders going to Guyana:
- Chesley Skinner, St. John's, Nfld.; Richard Westall, Colborne, Ont.; Miss Jane Reymes, Cobourg, Ont.; Miss Marie Crosson, Downsview, Ont.; Miss Linda Parsons, Burlington, Ont.; Miss Kathleen Standish, Port Colborne, Ont.; Jack Brown, London, Ont.; Peter Dalziel, London, Ont.; Miss Susan Latimer, London, Ont.; Miss Mary Rossiter, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Leaders - Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Gardner, Courtenay, B.C.
- Group members and leaders going to Jamaica:
- Miss Mary Tanton, Charlottetown, PEI; Robert Rick, Lennoxville, Que.; Robert Hall, Lakeport, Ont.; David Payne, Whitby, Ont.; Miss Susan Doy, Unionville, Ont.; William Reynolds, Toronto; Miss Barbara Tweddle, Toronto; Keith Leonard, Willowdale, Ont.; Timothy Taylor, Oakville, Ont.; Miss Beverly Bowlby, New Hamburg, Ont.; Hugh Carson, Kitchener, Ont.; Douglas Mathias, Gravenhurst, Ont.; Miss Helen Locke, North Bay, Ont.; Miss Joan Northan, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.; Miss Sandy Smith, Port Arthur, Ont.; Miss Wendy Tolboom, Winnipeg; Miss Lily Humphries, Maple Creek, Sask.; Miss Susan Hampson, Penticton, B.C. Leaders - Miss Joyce Simmons, Toronto; Miss Jean Mitchell, Guelph, Ont.; Timothy Belford, Niagara Falls, Ont.
- EDITORS: Pictures of tour personnel in your area available on request.
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada - Relations - Church in the Province of the West Indies
- Guyana
- Jamaica
- Exchange of persons programs - Anglican Church of Canada
- Exchange of persons programs - Church in the Province of the West Indies
- Youth in the Anglican Church of Canada
- Youth - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Work tours