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Stewart, Jean, 1908-1998
Person · 1908-1998

Jean Stewart (1908-1998) was born in Sackville, N.B. Her family later moved to Regina, Saskatchewan, where she completed Normal School, 1927 (aged 19). After some teaching and library work, she obtained her B.A. at Mount Allison University in 1931. Her interest in missionary work led her to attend the United Church training school, 1932-1933. She was appointed by the Women’s Missionary Society to West China in 1933 (aged 25), commissioned by the Saskatchewan Conference. After language study, she did both educational and evangelistic work for three five-year terms in four different cities (Chungking, Foochow, Tzeliutsing, Peh Deh). On her furloughs back in Canada, she studied 2nd year theology at Emmanuel College and five years later received her M.A. from Hartford Seminary Foundation. It was during her third term of service in China that all the remaining U.C.C. Missionaries were forced to leave the country in 1951 (aged 43). After a short furlough, Jean served on year in Montreal as a Port Worker, four years in Hamilton All People’s Mission Japanese Church and on year in community work at Gypsumville, Manitoba.

After her furlough in 1958-1959, Jean was appointed to Trinidad (aged 51). For the next 12 years, she worked primarily with women’s groups of the Presbyterian Church in Trinidad and Grenada in places such as St. Augustine, Biche, Princes Town, Rio Claro and San Fernando. Her last term on the Island was spent as Pastor of Tableland Pastoral Charge. Jean retired at age 64 and returned to Canada, where she settled in Toronto and continued work for the church in various volunteer capacities. She died in 1998. [Written by Penny Battle, Toronto Valley Presbytery]

Hickeson, Isobel
Person

Isobel Hickeson was a member of the Women’s Missionary Society and a volunteer with many Committees of the United Church of Canada with an interest in literature and educational materials. From 1934-1939, she was Treasurer, then President of the Evening Auxiliary in Newmarket. In 1942 she was President of the Afternoon Auxiliary, Leaside and organized the Evening Auxiliary. From 1945-1947, she was Secretary for Baby Bands for the Toronto Centre Presbyterial. From 1946-1949, she was a part of the Literature Committee of the Dominion Board, elected to the Executive in 1947. From 1949-1954 she was Secretary for Mission Circles, and in 1954-1955 was Chairman of the Literature Committee. In 1955 the responsibility for preparation and distribution of Missionary Education materials was transferred to the Board of Information. Up until that point, it had been the work of the W.M.S. Literature Department. From 1955-1961 she was Executive Secretary for Literature, and also a representative of the Board to the National Council of Churches of Christ (USA) Committee on Missionary Education from 1956-1961 and a member of the Executive and Sub-Executive of the Board of Information in 1959. From 1961-1966 she was on the Executive and Sub-Executive of the General Council as a representative of the Board of Information. Throughout these years she was also on many standing Committees; Adult Sub-Committee on Education for Mission (Board of Information), helping to set up the Distribution Centre for Literature, Staff and Salaries Committee, National and Regional Financing Agenda Committee for the General Council, Program Planning Committee of the Division of Congregational Life and Work, Literature and Communications Committee of the Board of Women. She was also a long-time volunteer with the North York General Hospital Auxiliary.

Kennedy, Joy
Person

Joy Kennedy worked for the United Church of Canada as the Program Coordinator for Poverty, Wealth, and Ecological Justice as part of the JGER Unit. Kennedy was also active in several other organizations (including ecumenical) in capacities as both staff and board member. In 2003, she became the Ecological Justice Coordinator for KAIROS, having previously worked as Ecology/Environment Research and Policy Advocate (Interim) from 2001-2002. Kennedy was employed by the Anglican Church of Canada, including as EcoJustice Coordinator, during 1999-2000. Kennedy also participated in the Ecumenical Coalition on Ecological Justice (ECEJ), the Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility (TCCR), and helped to develop Bench Marks for Global Corporate Responsibility as well as organize an annual general meeting of church shareholders with Talisman Energy Inc. and Imperial Oil companies. She also served as Chair of the Commission on Justice and Peace of the Canadian Council of Churches and a research assistant for the InterChurch Committee on Ecology (ICCE) with the Jubilee Climate Change Outreach Project. Kennedy was also an advisor to the Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (CBERN) and a board member for both the Climate Action Network (CAN-RAC) and Green Communities Canada.

Sparling, Edith, 1879-1965
Person · 1879-1965

Edith Plaxton Sparling (1879-1965) was born in Anderson, Ontario. She had some Business and Secretarial Training, and also graduated from the Methodist National Training School in 1909. She was appointed by the Women’s Missionary Society of the Methodist Church to West China in 1909. After a year of language study at Chengtu, she was appointed to Tzeliutsing for evangelistic work in 1910 and remained there for nine years. In 1919 she was transferred to Chungking for her next term of service. In 1924, she went to Fowchow and remained there for ten years. Then, in 1934 she was again appointed to Tzeliutsing and spent all the rest of her service there. Sparling retired on September 28, 1947 and lived in St. Mary’s and later Chatham, Ontario.

Person · 1887-1978

Alexander Murray Stuart (1887-1978) was born in London, Ontario. He attended school in St. Thomas and Albert College in Belleville, Ontario. Upon graduating highschool, he served two years on probation for the ministry at Orwell Circuit, which included Kingsmill and Crosspey-Hunter. He entered Victoria University, Toronto in 1912 and Victoria College in Theology in 1916. He was ordained in Kingsmill Methodist Church on June 4th, 1916. His first charge was at Amherstburg as Assistant to Rev. Abraham Walton Tonge in 1916. The circuits that followed were; Tupperville (1917-1920), Merlin (1920-1923), Petrolia (St. Paul’s) (1923-1927), Mitchell (Main Street) (1927-1930), London (Colborne Street) (1930-1953). Stuart retired in 1953 and served as Assistant to London (Dundas Street Centre) until 1960. In 1962 he was made Minister Emeritus. During his ministry he served on Presbytery and Conference Committees. He was chairman of the Conference Settlement Committee, 1942-1945. He was three times Commissioner to General council, and member of the Executive and Sub-Executive of General council. He was Chairman of Lambton and Middlesex Presbyteries and a member of the Board of Home Missions. He was President of London Conference from 1942-1943. In 1945 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Victoria University. He 1946 he was elected a member of the Senate of Victoria University.

In 1917 he married Eva G. Tonge, daughter of Rev. Abraham Walter Tonge. They had one son, Donald Murray Stuart.

Jamieson, Keith, 1929-
Person · 1929-

Ronald Keith Jamieson (1929 -) was a United Church missionary who first served in Angola before being sent to India where he continued to serve until he resigned his post. Jamieson was born in Nelson, B.C. and earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of British Columbia and later a diploma in Environmental Control from the London School of Tropical Medicine. After spending some time in Portugal learning the language, Jamieson began his missionary work at the Bailundo mission in Angola. Here he worked from 1961-1964 on school administration, evangelism and rural development extension programs. In 1965, his missionary work continued in Western India, at mission sites in Solapur, Osmanabad, Jalna, Vadala, and Pune.

In 1970, Keith married his wife Johanna (neé Macaulay) Jamieson, also a missionary for the Church of Scotland mission, while working in Jalna, India. They remained together for their missionary work in India until 1987 when they returned to Canada, and Johanna became Associate Secretary for Finance and Administration of the Division of World Outreach for the United Church.

Lawson, Margaret, 1922-2012
Person · 1922-2012

Margaret Lawson (1922-2012) was born in Toronto. She was a fervent volunteer with the United Church in many capacities and at many levels; church, conference, presbytery, and national.

Lawson worked in the office of Sainthill Levine during World War II and met her husband, Bill Lawson at Young People’s at St. Paul’s Avenue Road. The Lawsons moved frequently throughout Ontario for Bill’s work. Margaret volunteered for various groups (the Women’s Association, United Church Women, Pastoral Care, Executive and Advisory Committee, and various Councils and Committees) at the Conference and Presbytery levels while a member at Welland Avenue United Church (St. Catharine’s), St. Andrews United Church (London) and Rideau Park United Church (Ottawa), Emmanuel United Church (Ottawa), Marshall Memorial United (Ancaster), and Donway Covenant United Church (Toronto). Lawson volunteered with the U.C.W. of Hamilton Conference as secretary and later Chair (1968-1970). During this time, on behalf of the church, she traveled to Japan and met with Women’s groups there. She was also on the Toronto Area Presbytery International Affairs Committee from 1984-1985.

Nationally, Lawson volunteered on the Executive of the Board of Women, serving as their representative on the Board of Men and Chair of their Finance Committee from 1968 until 1971 when the Board of Women joined the newly created Division of Mission in Canada. She volunteered on the Executive of the Division of Finance and the Executive of the Treasury Department from 1968-1977. She was on the General Council Executive and Sub-Executive from 1974-1977, and served on the following committees: Church Extension, Budget Validation, Salaries, Investment for Social Purposes, Project Committee and the Task Group on Confirmation Resources. She volunteered on the Executive and Sub-Executive of the Department of Church in Society from 1972-1977, and was Chairman of the Outreach Ministries and various other ministries. She was on the Board of Directors of The Observer, and the Executive of the Treasury Committee, the Investment Committee and the Pensions Department. She served as Chair of the Division of Mission from 1979-1983, and was chair of their Mutuality in Mission Committee from 1991-1992. She also served as the Division’s representative to the Division of World Outreach, JNAC (Japan-North American Commission on Cooperative Mission) as well as their Committee on East Asia & Pacific DOM/NCCCUSA. She was a member of the Women’s Missionary Society Book History Committee, chaired the Office Committee of the General Council, and the Archives Management Committee from 1991-1993.

Person · 1940-

Rev. Donald Clifford Powell, was born in 1940, and started his career as a minister of the United Church of Canada serving in Prince Edward Island at the Hunter River Pastoral Charge, Charlottetown – Park Royal Pastoral Charge, then in Ontario at St. David’s United Church, Woodstock, Ontario. He served Conestogo United Church while also working as Area Manager with the Ministry of Correctional Services, in Waterloo, Ont. In 1998 he returned to ministry Bala-Port Carling, Muskoka Presbytery and retired from ministry in 2006. In the last number of years Don served as a court mediator with Family Court in Bracebridge.

He passed away on July 7, 2016 at Hospice Huntsville at the age of 76. He was the loving husband of Enid (nee Bowyer) and a father.

Milliken, Robert, 1861-1946
Person · 1861-1946

Robert Milliken (1861-1946) was a Methodist/United Church minister and educator. He was born in Ireland, and immigrated to the United States in 1882 and to London, Ontario, in 1885. He was active in the Young Men's Christian Association, and became a probationer in Western Canada in 1889. He studied at Wesleyan College, Montreal, and was ordained in 1894. He served charges primarily in Western Canada, and also in Ottawa. He was Principal of Regina College, 1914-1916. He retired in 1930.

Redmond, Christopher
Person

Christopher Redmond undertook the research of Reverend John Sommerville in the 1980s. The draft of his work was read by reviewers for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities. A paper on the topic was presented to the Canadian Society of Presbyterian History. The work remains unfinished.

Person

Dorothy Elizabeth Toye (1901-1990) was an administrator in women's missionary work in the United Church. She was born in Toronto, and studied at Victoria College, Bryn Mawr, and the University of Toronto (Ph.D.). She taught high school, and married Ernest Edgar Long in 1931. She was active in church school, Canadian Girls in Training, the Woman's Missionary Society, the Woman's Association, and the United Church Women. She sat on national Boards of the United Church, and served as President of the Dominion Board of the Woman's Missionary Society from 1957-1960. She was also involved in community organizations and national and international ecumenical organizations such as the World Alliance of Reformed Churches; and published numerous articles.

Gostonyi, Nicholas Ludwid
Person

Nicholas Ludwig Gustonyi was a United Church minister. He was ordained by Saskatchewan Conference in 1948 and served the following charges: Blaine Lake, Shell Lake, St. David’s in Saskatchewan Conference, Thessalon in London Conference, Baldur in Manitoba Conference and was probation office in Hamilton Conference.

McKim, Audrey, 1926-1999
Person · 1926-1999

Audrey M. McKim (1926-1999) was born in Toronto. She attended Eastern High School of Commerce and the Ontario Ladies College. She received her B.A. from Victoria University in 1953, and earned a diploma in Christian Education from Covenant College in 1954. At the United Church of Canada, she was an editor of “Discovery” and “World Friends” with the Board of Sunday School Publications, and was also the Director of Christian Education at two Toronto churches. McKim was one of the first United Church of Canada missionaries in Kenya, where she served for ten years. She initially went to Kenya as a Deaconess of the United Church, and part of the Canadian contingent to Operation Crossroads Africa in 1962. In 1963 she returned as a Christian Education Worker with the National Christian Council, and the Christian Churches Educational Association where she worked until 1967. From 1968-1972, she served as Administrative Secretary for the same organizations. In 1972, as part of the World Council of Churches’ Relief and Rehabilitation Team, she undertook a special assignment in Southern Sudan, launching a secretarial school for the government to train some of the first female governmental employees in Sudan. After returning home in 1973, McKim served as Mission Secretary of the Hamilton Conference from 1973-1974, Personnel Secretary of the Division of World Outreach, 1974-1977, Executive Secretary with Registrarial duties at Emmanuel College, 1979-1981 and Administrator at St. Matthew’s Bracondale House from 1981-1982. McKim was also a prolific writer and authored numerous articles and books, mostly for children. She was a founding member of CANSCAIP, the Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers.

Person · 1890-1952

John Norrie Anderson (1890-1952) was born in the Hebrides and died at Inverness, Scotland on April 29, 1952. Anderson received his education at Edinburgh University where he graduated with honours in History. He later studied at New College, Edinburgh and was ordained into Ministry of the Church of Scotland. Upon immigrating to Canada, he taught staff of Wesley College, Brandon, and afterwards held pastorates at Fort Massey Church, Halifax; St. Andrew’s Kirk, St. John and in 1948 came to Toronto, as Associate Minister in Old St. Andrew’s. Following the amalgamation of Old St. Andrew’s with Westminster-Central, he returned to Scotland and at the time of his death was minister of Laird, Sutherlandshire. While serving as a missionary in India in 1924, he married Elizabeth Finlay, a Canadian Medical Missionary, who predeceased him. Afterward, John married Isobel Constance Anderson.

Hershey Sydney James
Person · d. 2007

Sydney James Hershey was ordained in 1964. He worked in Waterloo Presbytery from 1986 until his retirement in 2007. Hershey died on Jun 28, 2007.

Whitehead, Rhea, 1936-2011
Person · 1936-2011

Rhea Hildegarde Menzel Whitehead (1936-2011) was a missionary in Asia, theological educator and General Secretary of the Division of World Outreach. She was born on January 22, 1936 in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her B.A. from Elmhurst College Illinois summa cum laude in 1956 and M.A. in Adult Education from the University of Toronto. In 1961, after undertaking full-time studies of the Cantonese language, she and her husband Raymond Whitehead moved to Hong Kong where she worked in various capacities with the Church of Christ in China and the National Council of Churches/USA. In 1975 they moved to Toronto where Rhea served as Coordinator of the Education Liaison Programme of the University of Toronto/York University Joint Centre on Modern East Asia for the next two years. She subsequently worked with the Anglican Church of Canada as Regional Mission Coordinator for Asia and the Pacific from 1979-1984 and thereafter, served The United Church of Canada until her retirement in 2005. She was Area Secretary for Asia, 1984-1992; General Secretary of the Division of World Outreach, 1992-1999 and overseas personnel 1999-2005, teaching at Siliman University in the Philippines and Nanjing Theological Seminary in China. Rhea was widely respected and recognized for her exceptional work in international justice and peace. Along with her solidarity and support work in the struggle against the dictatorships in South Korea and the Philippines, overseas partners point to Rhea's pioneering work in opening up the commitment to gender justice in the context of mission partnerships. Rhea and her husband Ray played critical roles in the ecumenical churches’ ongoing relationship with the people and churches of China. Rhea meticulously took down notes of her travels and observations, at workshops and worship which documents form a large part of her records. In 2010, Rhea and Ray were awarded the Katharine Hockin Award for Global Mission and Ministry by the Canadian Churches' Forum for Global Ministries.

Canada · Corporate body · 2014-2017

Huron Shores United Church was founded in 2014 through the amalgamation of Grand Bend United Church and Greenway United Church.

CAN · Corporate body · 1844-1930

Egmondville Presbyterian was formed ca. 1844 and joined the United Church at the time of union.

Corporate body · 1972-2001

The Division of World Outreach was created by General Council in 1972 out of the Board of World Mission and became operational in July 1973. The new Division promoted mutuality in mission and interdenominational cooperation; it divided its administrative framework into geographic areas, including Africa, Asia, Latin America, Caribbean, South Asia and Pacific.

In 2001 as part of a General Council structure reorganization, Division of World Outreach became part of the newly formed Justice, Global and Ecumenical Relations unit.