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Pastor Jonathon Hoskin of St. George s Anglican Church in Brandon blesses a 1938 International truck on Sunday during the Blessing of Wheels ceremony.
There were 25 wheeled vehicles at the ninth annual Blessing of the Wheels in front of St. George’s Anglican Church on Fifth Street on Sunday morning.
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There were 25 wheeled vehicles at the ninth annual Blessing of the Wheels in front of St. George’s Anglican Church on Fifth Street on Sunday morning.
Father Jonathon Hoskin officiated as he blessed cars, motorcycles and bicycles. It’s his fourth year of involvement in the event, but Blessing of the Wheels has been occurring for the past nine years, according to organizer Diane Fontaine.
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God is being Zoomed, livestreamed, Instagrammed, tweeted, Facebooked and YouTubed into people’s homes across Brandon, Souris and CFB Shilo from at least five different churches since COVID-19 entered the province.
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God is being Zoomed, livestreamed, Instagrammed, tweeted, Facebooked and YouTubed into people’s homes across Brandon, Souris and CFB Shilo from at least five different churches since COVID-19 entered the province.
Ministers and pastors have adapted, accommodated, learned new skills, purchased new equipment, mailed cards and telephoned their flocks.
Jonathon Hoskin is the minister at St. George’s Anglican Church in Brandon and St. Luke’s Church in Souris. (Kimberley Kielley/Brandon Sun)
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Tobias Tissen speaks at a protest supporting the seven churches fighting pandemic restrictions in court in front of the Law Courts in Winnipeg on Monday, May 3, 2021.
Testing the limits of human morality, outlier religious leaders have banded together to fight the province’s COVID-19 restrictions in court.
Testing the limits of human morality, outlier religious leaders have banded together to fight the province’s COVID-19 restrictions in court. We have no authority scripturally based and based on Christian convictions to limit anyone from coming to hear the word of God, said Tobias Tissen, a minister at the Steinbach-based Church of God Restoration, according to The Canadian Press.
KITCHENER A New Hamburg church is hoping some lawn signs will start a conversation about diversity in Wilmot Township. The signs read: “We value diversity. Black lives matter. Indigenous lives matter. People of colour matter.” They were first created in Listowel and have now started popping up on lawns in New Hamburg after members of St. George’s Anglican Church agreed to help sell them. “Sometimes it can be difficult to actually voice it in a conversation with people, but to have the signs there, maybe opens an opportunity for a conversation,” said Reverend Margaret Walker with St. George’s Anglican Church.