From the Hope Standard:
After 16 years of ministry in Hope, the Rev. Dr. Archie Pell will retire effective May 1.
The Rev. Pell first came to Hope in July of 1994 as priest for Christ Church Anglican. He held that position until February 1, 2006, when he took an early retirement from the Anglican Church of Canada. However, he did not retire from ministry.
When the Anglican Church of the Resurrection started in February 2006, he soon joined with them, and became a member of the clergy of the newly formed Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC). In November 2006, Archie became the first priest licenced by Bishop Donald Harvey, moderator of the Anglican Network in Canada. At that same time, the Church of the Resurrection became the first Parish in the ANiC.
At that time, the Church of the Resurrection was holding services in North West Harvest’s facilities. However, in January 2009 the Church moved to 335 Raab St. where Rev. Pell will be preaching his retirement sermon on April 25th
Many members of the Church of the Resurrection have worshiped with Rev. Pell as their priest since he first came to Hope in 1994. He is most loved and will certainly be missed.
Rev. Pell will be retiring from active parish ministry at the Church of the Resurrection but will still be very involved with ANiC as Examining Chaplain. He will also continue as a instructor of Anglican Studies at Regent College (on the UBC campus in Vancouver). He is also writing another book for Dr. J. I. Packer’s Anglican Agenda Series. The new books title is ‘Taking Marriage Seriously’. An apt title as on April 24th Rev. Archie Pell and Caron Cave were married by Bishop Donald Harvey. It was the first wedding to be held at the Church of the Resurrection. We congratulate Caron and Archie and wish them many blessings in their “new chapter of life.”
On June 1, Mr. Doug Beattie will be installed as the new minister of the Church of the Resurrection. Mr Beattie will be ordained by Bishop Trevor Walters, the Anglican Network in Canada suffragan bishop for Western Canada, on May 16 at 4 p.m. in Grace Baptist Church, Hope.
All are welcome to join us for services, for friendship and for prayer. The Church of the Resurrection meets for services on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 345 Raab Street.
Sigh. I wish there was a place like Regent in Ottawa.
I doubt you would want to live in Hope, though.
I already live in hope, every day, Warren!
Anybody who has ever been to Hope, BC wouldn’t really argue against living there, at least I wouldn’t. Best Wishes to Archie Pell and to Doug Beattie…..Onward and upward, Amen!
Ah, but Warren knows me pretty well, and knows I’m a city person. (I’m assuming Hope is a small town?)
Gerry (#4), I grew up in BC and will be retiring back there in a few years. I’ve been through Hope many times. The area is beautiful, but Kate is right – I don’t see her as a small town girl.
Nope. Tried it, didn’t like it. Ottawa is just the right size for me.
For people in British Columbia or who know the location of Hope, one might say if you are in Yale you are beyond hope!! Sincere apologies for those living in Hope.
I always thought that way of Spuzzum.
…and if you go a few kilometres farther beyond Hope you get to Hell’s Gate…
Seriously? LOL Costal communities have way more interesting names than we do here in Upity Canada.
Last time I stopped at Hell’s Gate was during my honeymoon. I better shut up before I get into really big trouble.
Only if your wife reads the blog…
I have a good friend who came to Christ many years ago while travelling between Hell’s Gate and Hope (on that highway, really!)
ROFL What a great story! Our Lord has a sense of humour….
Interesting thought….. Hope IS a small town and lies at the start of the “Hope-Princeton” pass which goes to the okanagan Valley. I guess when people finally came through from the Okanagan Country to where Hope is located, they likely said – There is Hope at last…….
I cannot find a town called “Yale” but I think Princeton will suffice.
I had a friend drowned while white water rafting through “Hell’s Gate” many years ago….. A picturesque but not peaceful place. This place is located on the OLD Trans canada highway between Hope and Boston Bar.
Just a bit of geography to add on.
Oh yes, kate…… Hope is not a coastal community, n’or is it close to being one. I guess maybe you are meaning BC being a coastal Province then everything in it is coastal? No, you don’t mean that.
It’s a darn sight nearer the coast than I am!
Gerry (#16) having grown up in the north Okanagan, I have a different perspective. When heading east, Hope is about where I sigh a breath of relief that I have finally escaped the greater Vancouver influence (kind of like leaving the GTA).
Gotta say sumpin – Warren, on my journeys back to upity Canada (with Kudos to Kate) from my beloved West Coast it was in Hope that I would pause and tearfully pray to be allowed to return.
So, ye be from the Salmons Arm boyo?
Stuck (#20), you got it. Any my wife grew up in Vernon. We’re planning to retire on the Island, though. Technically, Salmon (with no ‘s’ at the end) Arm is just a few miles north of where the Okanagan valley ends. The terrain and vegitation changes noticeably in those few miles.
thats what makes the shuswaps so interesting. When I visit there I tease the locals by calling it “Salmons Arm” I actually have gotten the response “Hey man salmon don’t have arms” To which I resond My Point exactly. But its actually a lead into my favorite all time joke….Well they may not have arms but I know for a fact they can talk…………….
thats what makes the shuswaps so interesting. When I visit there I tease the locals by calling it “Salmons Arm” I actually have gotten the response “Hey man salmon don’t have arms” To which I resond, my point exactly. But its actually a lead into my favorite all time joke….”Well they may not have arms but I know for a fact they can talk…………….”
Stuck (#22 & #23), if you knew a little more about the area, you would know that there is a simple and quite logical explanation for the name – and it has nothing to do with aquatic vertebrates with appendages (hint – the shape of the Shuswap lake is a big clue). I guess it is a hopeless cause to point out to you that it is Shuswap sans ‘s’ at the end.
Notwithstanding hopeless causes of which surpisingly you are normally quite involved in, I was referring to both Shuswap Lake and Little Shuswap Lake hence the “S”.
It has become increasingly obvious that you are just looking for argument and in this cas it is evident from your missing my “But its actually a lead into my favorite all time joke….” to think it got put in twice
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In #25 Stuck said:
I thought that would have been obvious about a year ago. Oops, there I go again. Mind you, I’m usually smiling when I write comments addressed to you. So you think you got me hook, line and sinker?
The Little Shuswap is in Chase territory. We Salmon Arm dupes don’t think of it as a local lake.
OK I’m going to try and take you less seriously. I used to have a job catching fisherman, mybe that’s what you sense.