Canada news briefs: Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert’s Land

Summer Bible program cancelled

The popular Vacation Bible School program in the Diocese of Calgary, which has enabled two-person teams of young Anglicans to offer week-long summer Bible programs in rural parishes, has been cancelled, and the future of the program is in serious doubt. The church committee that operated the program says it had become too small to do the job and raise necessary funds. The committee had been reduced to so few members that it couldn’t ensure a well-run summer effort this year. With new volunteers, the program could be back in 2000, but this is not guaranteed. Sower