New Website!

Greetings!

I know I have not posted in quite sometime. This is because I have been working on a website. My new website is http://krohnjoe.googlepages.com. This website contains several pictures, papers, notes, sermons, etc. The main purpose of this site is to function as my ministerial portfolio. I will be eventually posting a news section on that site and eventually this blog will cease to exist. I felt when Ribs gave up bloging it began to cause a decline in everyone elses desire to post.

So check out my new site and don’t forget to sign the address book!

Blessings,

Joseph Krohn, editor-in-chief, Canadian Perspective Inc.

Canada applies diplomatic pressure on N. Korea

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has sent Canada’s ambassador to South Korea to Pyongyang to help put pressure on North Korea to back down from its nuclear weapons program. The move came Saturday as Harper and other leaders attended the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Hanoi.

The media learned of the mission assigned to Marius Grinius from a briefing by South Korean officials after Harper met with their president, Roh Moo-hyun, earlier Saturday. Grinius is “now in North Korea and plans to deliver a strong message for the resolution of the nuclear issue,” Roh’s office said in a statement.

“The message he is delivering is frank and clear: give up the nuclear missile tests and return to the six-party talks,” an unidentified Canadian official told Reuters. Ottawa is urging Pyongyang to abide by a 2005 UN resolution to abandon its nuclear program in exchange for security and aid.

Navy ship to be sunk during target practice exercise

A Canadian warship that has been tied up at the dock at CFB Esquimalt since 2001 will be towed out to sea off the west coast of Vancouver Island next year and used for target practice. HMCS Huron was commissioned in 1972 and saw service in the Persian Gulf during the first Gulf War.

If it gets environmental approval, the navy will tow the decommissioned destroyer to a firing range 100 kilometres out in the Pacific Ocean next May. There the Canadian and U.S. navies will open fire and send the 34-year-old ship to the bottom, Cmdr. Stan Bates says. “We’re currently planning a surface-to-surface missile firing, using a missile fired from one of our frigates as well as strafing runs by aircraft and possibly a submarine firing as well.” The navy says this will be the first time it has used one of its ships for target practice. In the past, it’s sold old vessels for scrap or turned them into artificial reefs for divers.

Rob Huebert, a military historian at the University of Calgary, says a lack of parts and too few sailors sealed Huron’s fate. “We did not have enough personnel to properly man her, so that ultimately her systems deteriorated to such a point that economically it made more sense to get rid of her rather than keeping her on as one of the four destroyers.” Huron was officially retired from service last year.

Lest we forget… November 11 - Remembrance Day

Lest We Forget ~ November 11, 1918

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

The name of John McCrae (1872-1918) may seem out of place in the distinguished company of World War I poets, but he is remembered for what is probably the single best-known and popular poem from the war, “In Flanders Fields.” He was a Canadian physician and fought on the Western Front in 1914, but was then transferred to the medical corps and assigned to a hospital in France. He died of pneumonia while on active duty in 1918. His volume of poetry, In Flanders Fields and Other Poems, was published in 1919.

The Year of the War-Brides

More than 60 years ago, thousands of European war brides followed their hearts across the ocean in what was one of the most romantic stories to come out of the Second World War.
This week, they’re re-living that journey in a trip to Halifax’s Pier 21, where thousands of the women first came ashore to Canada.

More than 200 women boarded a special train Monday, which made stops from Ontario to Nova Scotia, to retrace their original journey to Halifax, where they will celebrate the Year of the War Bride beginning on Tuesday.

For many, Pier 21 marked the start of a new life in a faraway place. Some 43,000 war brides, originally from Britain and from many parts of Europe, first set foot in Canada between 1942 and 1948, with 21,000 toddlers and children in tow.

They were young European women who fell in love with Canadians soldiers, and left their families, friends and countries to follow their hearts to Pier 21 before shipping off to different points across the country.

All Saints Day - A Message from the desk of the Rev. Larry D. Smith

Let me remind you the historic Christian calendar observed around the world today, November 1, is All Saints’ Day. This is to remind us of the contributions of the saints who have winsomely and unselfishly lived the “Jesus life” throughout the centuries–in the Bible, in church history, and in our own lives. Few of us would be Christians today if we had not crossed the path of one or more of them. Below is an appropriate prayer and a hymn for today.

O ALMIGHTY GOD, who hast knit together thine elect in one communion and fellowship, in the mystical body of thy Son Christ our Lord: Grant us grace so to follow thy blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those unspeakable joys which thou hast prepared for those who unfeignedly love thee; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen.

For all the saints who from their labors rest, Who Thee by faith before the world confessed,
Thy name, O Jesus, be forever blest. Alleluia! Alleluia!

Thou wast their Rock, their fortress, and their Might; Thou, Lord, their Captain in the well-fought fight; Thou, in the darkness drear, their one true Light, Alleluia! Alleluia!

From earth’s wide bounds, from ocean’s farthest coast, Through gates of pearl streams in the countless host, Singing to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: Alleluia! Alleluia!