[Love at Work]
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/official5116
- Date
- 1972 April 24
- Source
- Anglican News Service
- Type
- Press Release
- Text of motion
- Prostitutes, drug addicts, alcoholics and parolees are among persons who were interviewed in a new religious series of one-minute radio announcements entitled, "LOVE AT WORK" to be broadcast daily on Toronto radio station CKFH.
- The spot announcements were produced by the Communications Division of the Anglican Church of Canada for the Toronto diocese.
- "It's part of our effort to develop new formats and models for religious broadcasting," said Al Bestall, supervisor of media planning for the Church.
- "The series highlights the work of Anglicans in the community with actuality interviews with people who have been helped by someone who cared," Bestall explained.
- "We consider the series a pilot or model which we expect other dioceses throughout Canada will adopt to tell the story of their involvement with people in their particular communities," he added.
- The "LOVE AT WORK" series will be heard daily at 9:50 am on CKFH beginning May 1. Latest BBM Bureau of Measurement figures indicates the spots will reach 75,000 persons each week.
- Each seven-day series of spots will deal with one of the more than 80 Anglican-supported services and institutions in the Toronto area, including the Street Haven Drop-In Centre, Yorklea Children's Home, Beverley Lodge, the Seamen's Mission, prison chaplaincies and Jewish-Christian dialogue.
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- For additional information, please contact:
- Michael O'Meara
- Director of Communications
- Anglican Church of Canada
- 600 Jarvis Street
- Toronto, Ontario
- 924-9192
- or
- Al Bestall
- Communications Consultant
- "LOVE AT WORK" - RADIO SPOTS
- Some of the comments to be heard during the broadcasts:
- "If there wasn't a Street Haven, the first place I'd head for is the hotel. Just drown my trouble in beer." - Street Haven
- "On drugs, there's no such thing as you can't go any further. You keep going until you're dead or you find an agency where you can get help." - Street Haven
- "The 85 and 95-year olds seem to be an age-group that nobody sort of wants to be bothered with and they need us very, very much." - Anglican Church Home for the Aged
- "Some families are glad to push their older people into homes. But if they push them into a home like this they're lucky." - Anglican Church Home for the Aged
- "In 1971, over 300 suicide deaths were recorded. That's the number they've recorded. I would anticipate it's much more than 300." - Distress Centre
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of Toronto
- Mass media in religion - Anglican Church of Canada
- Radio in religion - Anglican Church of Canada
- Religious broadcasting - Anglican Church of Canada
- Advertising - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Church and social problems - Canada