"Last chance to join in on Vision 2019"

Last chance to join in on Vision 2019
Ali Symons, Anglican Church of Canada

September 30, 2009 - Tomorrow, Oct. 1, is the last day on which you can respond to Vision 2019 and help plan the Anglican Church of Canada's future priorities. Everyone is asked to answer the question, "Where is your church now, and where do you want the Anglican Church of Canada to be by 2019?" All responses will be heard and analyzed by a consultant and then a report will be presented at General Synod 2010.

I'll be brief in my answers.  I say answers because the question is really two questions, rolled into one to save punctuation marks, which are threatened with extinction because of polar ice melt.  As I was saying, in answer to the question "Where is your church now?", it is located in the west end of Edmonton, Alberta, where the overnight temperature dropped to -2 last night.  I scraped frost off my windshield this morning.  This of course points us all to the second question:  "Where do you want the Anglican Church of Canada to be by 2019?"  It is my sincere hope that the ACofC, with buildings sunk upon the vast ice shelves of this northern country, will experience a geographical shift, loosing its moors from the northern half of this continent and moving southward at the rate of 14 knots until we come to rest somewhere off the coast of Bermuda.

Thank you for taking my thoughts into consideration, and I anticipate seeing the General Synod's Geographical Action Planning Team implement this project soon.  Before it snows.  Next week.

Yours, etc,

The Reverend Joseph Walker, BA,MRel,MA,MA

ps - Nothing instills confidence like knowing that my answer will be "analyzed by a consultant".

Comments

[Mrs. Spit]

I can hear the call of the church missionary needs the steel drums now. . .

[Peter]

Joseph I think you may not be treating this with the gravitas it deserves ;-)

[ron cole]

Hey Joe, I think your answer will require more than one consultant, in fact may have to go to committee, and by that time there may well have been a geographical shift. Anyways, man...I'm sure you were serious, but thanks for the laugh. Peace...Ron+