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BEAR LAKE, B.C.
(CP) — Volunteer labor is
the life blood of this smail
community and volun-
teers are coming cut of
the woodwork now that
the town has obtained a
new fire truck.

The $50,000 truck.
arrived earller this week,
with much of the money
put up by The Pas Lum-
ber and Polar Forest In-
dustries, the major
employers in this com-
munity of 450, about 90
kilometres
Prince George.

The balance of the
funds -.were raised
through a slight increase
in the community's tax

rate. :

John Elmquist, one of
three town com:
missioners, said the fire
truck is ‘pretty darn good

north of .

VOLUNTEERS TURN OUT

for a community this
size.”

“We have the two mills
to thank for that,”

Elinguist said about 35
adulta turned out on a
cold and wet Monday
night to get instruction on
how to operate the new
truck's equipment, |
Another 10, including
housewives, showed up
Tuesday, eager to learn
how to operate the pump
and control the high
pressure hoses.

Elmquist said more
than 30 residents, in-
cluding eight women,
already have enlisted as
volunteers,”

The interest is not
unusual in this close-knit
community, which used
volunteer labor to build a
firehall last fall. Cost of
the materials was met by

the two lumber com-
panies and the
emergency health ser-
vice. ’ .

The Prince George fire
department has provided
some used equipment and
will give volunteers in-
struction in firefighting
methods,

Cliff Falkowsky,
another Bear Lake
commissioner, said the

_ hew truck will provide
better fire protection and
will lower fire insurance
rates for the 10
homeowners in the
townsite,

The only protection in
the past was a pump
truck owned by Polar,
which did not meet
standards set by Un-.
derwriters Laboratories
of Canada.

Charismatic sect

out in the open

MONTREAL (CP) —
Roman Catholic
“charismatics” in Quebec
have come a long way since

. they met in kitchens and

rumpus roams, speaking
unintelligible languages and
wondering what the village
priest was thinking

The ‘‘prayer groups,"
where Christians gather to
pray and seek spiritual gifts
such a3 healing powers or
speak in unknown tongues,
have multiplied many times
over.

Last weekend 21,000
Frenchspeaking
charismaties tmok over the

who live on the fringe of
society,” said the chain-
smoking priest, dressed in a
blue summer suit with
matching clerical collar,

e the Jast convention,
held in the Stadium two
years ago, this year’s tried to
have a more open stance
towards noncharismatics
and. even
Catholics,

In fact, a keynote speaker
to the main assembly on
Sunday was an evangelical
Protestant minister. The
title of his sermon? The
Virgin Mary in the Christian
community.

non-Roman

One of the thousands who
participated — in the
gatherings at the open-air
stadium and took in some of
eight workshops was a tall,
lean captain in the Montreal

police force.
Jean-Paul Marcotte
belongs toa group of about 40

persons who meet in his
parish church at Boucher-
ville, just east of Montreal.

He described himself as a
“rather lukewarm Catholic”
when one of his sons con-
vinced him to attend the
prayer group five years ago.

His conversion ‘came’
very gradually,

Noted evangelist

speaks in Terrace

Dr. T.V. Thomas, born’
‘in Malacca,

Malaysia,
will be conducting an
evangelism seminar at
the Alliance Church in
Terrace beginning at 8:30
a.m, on Saturday.

He will
speaking during Sunday
worship at 11 a.m. and

7:15 p.m,

Everyone is invited to
come out and. hear this
international evangelist.

After completing his

- high school education in

his hometown, Dr.
Thomas attended Madras
and Nagpur universities
in India, graduating with
his B.A. and B.S, degrees
at Nagpur, where he was
president of the student
union representing the

also be.

32,000 member student

y.
In 1970 he was the
recipient of the univer-

sity’s best student of the ~

year award. |

In: 1971 Thomas began
his theological studies. at
Canadian: Theological
College, where he was
student body president in
his final year.

Following his
graduation in 1974 ‘he
spent three years as team |
leader and evangelist of
the denomination's
gospel group, Sound
Alliance.

Thomas earned ‘his
‘doctor of ministry degree
in 1978 and he is presently
werking toward another
doctorate at Fuller
Theological Seminary.

DR. THOMAS

‘He is an active research

associate of the Canadian
Church Growth Centre in
Regina, © Saskatchewan
where he makes his
home. His deep com-
mittment to. world
evanelization’ calls for

extensive travel.

eager nee ee

Birthright opens
a Terrace office

Birthright,
couraging women to continue their pregnancy as an
alternative to abortion, has opened an office in
Terrace,

The office, located. at 3-4621 Lakelse is currently
open Wednesdays from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and 4p.m, to5
p.m. and will be expanding the hours in the near
future, Birthright can also be reached by calling 635-
‘3164 or = 35-6136 += anytime,

-On May 26, a Birthright workshop was held, which
hosted. several guest speakers, including Dr. Peter

Van Herk, Dr, Arturo. Aranas, Daye McVicker from.

Human Resources, Father Jim Jordon from the
Sacred Heart Church, ‘and Laura Radzanowski; the

director of the Kitimat Birthright. Question periods ;

followed each speaker and coffee and lunch breaks
Heals participants with a chance to exchange
. ideals .

’ The local chapter of Birthright welcomes donations
of baby or maternity clothes, or baby or office fur-
hiture, It encourages anyone interested in becoming a
Birthright worker _— to contact

The Canadian

La Société canadienne.
Red Cross Society ‘de la Croix- Rouge

friends for life

la vie nous concerme

“NOW.
10 NUMBERS

an organization. interested in en-.

them,

Olympic Stadium for their
third congress in five years,
and 60,000 attended the final
mass celebrated by Msgr.
Dom Helder Camara, a
Brazilian bishop.

But the biggest change
within the movement is its
relation to the mother
church, At first the Roman
Catholic hierarchy looked
askance at the lively hal-
lelujah-type prayer groups,

first imported from
Protestant Pentecostal
churches.

Today the hierarchy —
from Pope John-Paul II
dawn — has welcomed the
movement into the bosom of
the church, although con-
vention organizers grumbled
aside about the lack of
bishops at the gathering,

“We've matured a_ lot,’
Rey. Jean-Paul Regimbal,
the founder of the French-
speaking movement here,
said at a news conference
just before convention
opening.

“We didn't know how to
use the spiritual gifts. In-
stead of regarding ‘speaking
in tongues,’ as St. Paul calls
it, as the gift, as the Pen-
tecostals do, we regard it as
a sign, & gift among others.”

Regimbal said that chari-
smatics now belleve that
“the most perfect gift is
prophecy.’ This involves
teaching and encouraging
fellow Christians. :

Infact, spokesmen told the
two reporters present, “you
can be charismatic without
speaking in tongues,”

A charisma is a divinely
given gift, and in thia case
has nothing to do with the
personality of the persons
dubbed charismatic.

Regimbal said that the
movement has also begun to
have a social conscience,
after it had been criticized
for lacking one.

“It looks like the Lord is
pushing us towards those

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