{"id":43911,"date":"2018-01-26T06:02:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T11:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=43911"},"modified":"2018-01-30T09:36:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T14:36:24","slug":"uncertainty-looms-future-rural-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/uncertainty-looms-future-rural-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncertainty looms over the future of more rural churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huntsville Town Council got a special visit from representatives of the Anglican Church of Canada at their January 22 meeting, who bore an unfortunate message about dwindling congregations and the difficulty facing small rural churches and cemeteries in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Pincoe, Lay Steward with the Deanery of Muskoka, Reverend Doug Prebble, Property Consultant with the Muskoka Deanery, and Archdeacon Dr. Harry Huskins with the Diocese of Algoma were before councillors to talk about \u201csomething that is a bit sad and unfortunate for us,\u201d said Huskins.<\/p>\n<p>He said similar conversations are taking place throughout the country as many smaller congregations in rural areas are struggling. \u201cMany are doing quite well, as a matter of fact, but some of the smaller ones, and you\u2019re only too familiar with this, face a challenge with aging members, declining revenues and a culture frankly in which much of the volunteer work done around cemeteries and church buildings, and so on, is done by those who grew up in the 50s, 60s and 70s, when you just volunteered for your community as part of what you did, and it\u2019s not quite the culture that we have now.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43932\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43932\" class=\"wp-image-43932 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2018\/01\/Churchreps-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2018\/01\/Churchreps-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2018\/01\/Churchreps-1024x618.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2018\/01\/Churchreps.jpg 1202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-43932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Archdeacon Dr. Harry Huskins with the Diocese of Algoma, Susan Pincoe, Lay Steward with the Deanery of Muskoka, and Reverend Doug Prebble, Property Consultant with the Muskoka Deanery, speak to council about issues facing rural churches in this area.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He said in many cases cemeteries and churches are being looked after by volunteers who have been doing the work for 50 years or so, and they are now in their 70s and 80s and are simply unable to continue doing the work. They&#8217;re also facing dwindling congregations and some are suggesting that the Bishop dissolve the congregation and close the church. Huskins said under those circumstances, and in consultation with the community, church representatives are in the process of figuring out what the best way of handling the property might be \u2013 especially as they were generally donated by the community to the church. He said consultations will continue on \u201chow to best either return the property to the community or use it for some other purpose. And that\u2019s really what we\u2019re here tonight to do, is to say that we\u2019re in this entire area of Parry Sound\/Muskoka in a series of consultations with congregations, with communities in which they\u2019re located (and) with the wider municipalities about the future of some of these congregations and there is just no template, cookie-cutter model about how to go forward. Each situation is different, each congregation is different, each property is different,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Huskins said the group was before council because as far as the cemeteries go, they are the &#8220;holders of last resort&#8230; But we don\u2019t want to go to that last resort if there are any other alternatives that are better for the community and the people involved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So which church properties are they talking about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The properties being addressed in the Huntsville area so far, according to Prebble, are: St. Mary\u2019s Anglican Church in Utterson on Aspdin Road, Christ Anglican Church on Christ Church Street in Port Sydney and St. George\u2019s Anglican Cemetery on Lancelot Road in Utterson.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"modern-quote full\"><p>When a church closes it\u2019s very, very hard on the people\u2026 there may only be eight or ten people (in the congregation) but a lot of times it\u2019s their parents that brought the place up and have been there forever. In my own parish, I\u2019ve got ladies in there in their 90s that went to Sunday school in that same church, so when we close it\u2019s a very, very sensitive issue. So we\u2019re working with them but there are times\u2026 that the buildings get old and it\u2019s just down to a point where they\u2019re too far out and people gravitate to the urban centres. <cite>Reverend Doug Prebble<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He left a copy of a booklet he put together with information about the properties for council&#8217;s review. Included among the church properties for discussion is information about St. Mary\u2019s Anglican Church in Beatrice, which has already been deconsecrated.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just kind of looking to people for some guidance and cooperation if we can get it here because the cemeteries have to remain in perpetuity,\u201d he noted, adding that more information is being compiled about the cemeteries, how many people are interred in them and how much money is available for maintenance of each, funds which would be transferred with the property, explained Prebble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one thing that we are not going to do is just stick a for sale sign on properties or, frankly, send a registered letter to the municipality declaring the cemetery abandoned. We are just not going to do that kind of thing,\u201d assured Huskins. He said if there is a community interest in the property, it would be considered before any sale.<\/p>\n<p>Huntsville Councillor Jason FitzGerald spoke of Madill Church and how the building had a cultural resonance with a community group who came together and took the former church over. \u201cWe may be able to find ourselves in a similar situation thanks to the creativeness of our Manager of Arts, Culture and Heritage and her Director. They were able to make that happen very efficiently,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Huntsville Mayor Scott Aitchison spoke of the importance of the cemeteries in the area. \u201cThere\u2019s no doubt that everyone around this table, and certainly in the community, is conscious of the importance of preserving the dignity of those who\u2019ve been buried in these cemeteries\u2026 I think that weighs on us heavily and\u2026 we obviously want to make sure our obligation is met,\u201d said Aitchison, adding that although related, the buildings are an entirely different issue. He wondered if the municipality was to take over the cemetery at a particular parish, whether the church itself may be able to continue functioning without that burden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there\u2019s a way for us to work with you and the local congregation to do that, I think that would be an important thing to do, just to keep those churches alive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions are expected to continue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler! Sign up for our free newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u>.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huntsville Town Council got a special visit from representatives of the Anglican Church of Canada at their January 22 meeting, who bore an unfortunate message about dwindling congregations and the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":43926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1651,1649,26,1650],"class_list":["post-43911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2018-january-council","tag-anglican-church","tag-breaking","tag-rural-churches"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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