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The Chronicles of St. George is the parish newsletter. It is published quarterly. Since the summer of 2008 it is published as an Acrobat (PDF) file. To read the Chronicles you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader (a free download from Adobe).
Chronicles #75 (July 2008). If you wish to have a copy of any issue of the Chronicles since July 2008, you may send a request to stgweb@shaw.ca. Issues since then include: November 2008, January 2009, April 2009, June 2009, October 2009, January 2010 and April 2010. If you wish, you may request to be put on a list to receive your copy automatically to your email address.
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World Day of Prayer
The North Langley churches gather together each year on the first Friday in March, to celebrate the World Day of Prayer as an inter church community - St George’s Anglican join St Nicholas Roman Catholic, Walnut Grove Lutheran and St Andrews United. In St George’s, the ACW take on this ministry.
Each year, the service is written by women of a different country - usually a third world nation. This year, the service is written by the women of Guyana. The service includes a video of the country, giving information and a view of a culture very different from our own.
World Day of Prayer is organized by the Women’s Inter Church Council, and started in the United States in 1920 - it has now spread around the world to 170 countries, which means that services are held through all time zones - so prayers are being said throughout the 24 hours of the first Friday in March. Over 2,000 services are held in Canada alone.
Guyana, officially named the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is the only nation state of the Commonwealth of Nations on the mainland of South America. Guyana lies north of the equator, in the tropics, and is located on the Atlantic Ocean. Bordered to the east by Suriname, to the south and southwest by Brazil and to the west by Venezuela, it is the third-smallest country on the mainland of South America. Culturally it is more associated with the Anglo-Caribbean countries than with Latin America and is the only English-speaking country in South America. It is one of four non- Spanish-speaking territories on the continent, along with the countries of Brazil (Portuguese) and Suriname (Dutch) and the French overseas region of French Guiana (French).
Guyana is an Amerindian word meaning "Land of many waters". Guyana can be divided into four natural regions: a narrow and fertile marshy plain along the Atlantic (low coastal plain) coast where most of the population lives, then a white sand belt more inland (hilly sand and clay region), containing most of Guyana's mineral deposits, the dense rainforests (Forested Highland Region) across the middle of the country, the grassy flat savannah in the south and finally the larger interior highlands (interior savannah) consisting mostly of mountains that gradually rise to the Brazilian border.
The present population of Guyana is racially and ethnically heterogeneous, composed chiefly of the descendants of immigrants who came to the country either as enslaved people or as indentured laborers. The population therefore comprises groups of persons with nationality backgrounds from Europe (especially the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Portugal), Africa, China, India, and the Middle East, with the Aboriginal Indians as the indigenous population. These groups of diverse nationality backgrounds have been fused together by a common language, i.e., English and Creole.
Politics of Guyana takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Guyana is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the National Assembly of Guyana. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature. The 2006 national elections were the first peaceful elections in recent times. The elections were free and fair and were a welcome departure from the turmoil of previous elections.
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