HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1986-11-12, Page 27THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1986. PAGE 27.
Auburn Pastor Janies Came combines the ministry with more worldly
experiences like driving 18-wheelers.
McKillop starts planning
McKillop township council will
begin preparing for a zoning
by-law for the township in January,
it was decided at the November
meeting of council held Nov. 4.
Council met with Scott Tousaw,
Huron County Planner to discuss
the schedule for the by-law’s
preparation and set the date for
January for another meeting with
the planner.
Council endorsed two resolu
tions from other municipalities at
its November meeting, Nov. 4.
First council endorsed a resolu
tion from the town of Onaping
Falls, calling for the Ontario
government to allocate lottery
funds to other areas than the
present ones.
In the second resolution, council
endorsed a resolution from the City
of Brampton, calling for the
province to increase the present
allocation of grant funds for
fitness, sports, recreational and
cultural facilities in an amount
equal to the existing profits from
Wintario and Lottario pro
grammes, or alternatively, in an
amount sufficient to finance all
eligible grant applications submit
ted to the Ministry of Tourism and
Recreation.
In other business, clerk-treasur
er Marion McClure was authorized
to attend the Huron County Clerk’s
and Treasurer’s meeting on Nov.
21 and the “agenda, meetings and
by-laws seminar” on Nov. 13.
Reeve Marie Hicknell was auth
orized to attend the Voices for
Choices, Profiles of Community
Needs, workshop on Nov. 20 at
Huronview, Clinton.
Eugene McAdam, chief build
ing official was present to answer
questions about various current
building projects in the township.
In drainagebusiness, council
voted to accept the petition of
Robert E. Hulley and to appoint W.
E. Kelley and Associates to make
an examination of the area in
question.
Estimate wanted
BY BOB MURPHY
The Huron County Library board
has authorized its chief librarian,
Bill Partridge, to prepare a list of
estimated costs for equipment
needed at the Wingham Branch.
News of this decision was
received by Huron County Council
during presentation of a library
board reportto the regular Novem
ber session of council at Goderich.
At the board’s Oct. 16 meeting,
Mr. Partridge had submitted the
list of equipment needed for the
Wingham branch and recommend-
An amendment was approved to
the by-law covering the Branch No.
1 of the Dodds Drain because the
amount of money to be raised had
decreased.
Reeve Hicknell and Brian Camp
bell reported on the workshop they
had attended to assist municipali
ties in development of a municipal
emergency plan.
Councillor William Siemon re
ported that the final site report for
the proposed sanitary landfill site
will be sumitted to the Ministry of
the Environment in November for
review.
Road accountsof $16,445.02 and
general accounts of $274,876.11
were approved for payment,
on equipment
ed that a cost estimate be obtained
from a library supplier. The list is to
be submitted for board approval at
a future meeting.
Wingham Town Council, at its
November meeting, approved the
architect’s proposal for the new
Wingham branch library. Related
to the action was a council decision
to direct Clerk-Treasurer Byron
Adams to inform the library board
of that approval in order that the
board will be able to provide
equipment and furniture for the
new library by the anticipated
spring 1987 opening.
Auburn pastor
keeps on truckin'
A pastor who adopts as his motto
for ministry the philosophy of the
Apostle Paul, as statedin 1 Cor.
9:22, “I have become all things to
all men so that by all possible
means I might save some,” finds
his schedule both busy and varied.
The Rev. James Came is the
pastor of Huron Chapel Missionary
Church in Auburn, but he hasn’t
been home much this fall. Near the
end of August he received a call
from a transport company at
Clarksburg, Ontario, for which he
had worked briefly during the
summer of 1985, asking if he could
do some driving for them during an
extremely busy period.
What the truck-driving pastor
thought might involve an occa
sional trip has developed into a
schedule that sees him based for
most of the week at Clarksburg,
with hurried, 100-mile runs home
on Wednesdays for prayer-meet
ing and on weekends for preach
ing. He now has the approval of his
church’s official board for a
temporary leave of absence in
order to “minister” in this way.
The pastor’s tractor-trailer trips
usually involve an overnight run to
Sudbury, Sturgeon Falls, North
Bay and Gravenhurst where he
delivers boxes of apples to stores
and warehouses. Other loads of
bulk apples go to juice plants at
Chatham and St. Jacobs.
“The travelling preacher,” as
he is known over his C.B. radio,
came by his transport driving
experience when he took a year off
in 1971 for a change of pace from
the professional ministry and
learned to drive a former parish
ioner’s flat bed rig, hauling travel
trailers, snowmobiles and motor
cycles. It was then that he
discovered the ministry that a
pastor in the guise of a trucker
could have in counselling hitch
hikers and witnessing of Jesus
Christ to warehouse workers.
A year ago this past summer,
after a 13-year stint as pastor of his
home church in Hamilton, he
intended to spend another year
driving truck - it was then that he
worked for the transport company
in Clarksburg - but the year was cut
to four months when he responded
to a call to minister in his present
church.
Pastor Carne’s versatility in
cludes also, “enough knowledge to
be dangerous, ’ ’ in the fields of auto
mechanics, electrical wiring and
general construction, particularly
in the area of cement work and
block-laying, which he learned as a
teenager from one of his former
pastors. He has helped to build a
church in Haiti and has made three
trips to Brooklyn, N.Y., to help
reconstruct a century-old church
there.
It was after his experience in
Haiti, where it became apparent
that, if a missionary could not do
everything, he could do hardly
anything, that he enrolled in night
school and took four years of auto
mechanics, and a year each of
electrical wiring and cabinet mak
ing.
When he pastored in the econo
mically depressed east end of
Hamilton it was not uncommon for
him to start out on his pastoral
calling rounds with his tools and
coveralls in the car and to come
home with grease under his
fingernails from having fixed
someone’s car or washing ma
chine. Since he considers such
service as “part of the ministry,”
he makes no charge for his labours.
When he does accept remunera
tion, as in the case of his current
truck driving employment, he
directs the money into ministry-
related fields.
Since coming to the rural church
at Auburn he has discovered that
his early experience on an uncle’s
farm near Wingham has stood him
in good stead and he is becoming
familiar again with ploughing,
haying and manure spreading in
his efforts to * ‘become all things to
all men.” One day his wife quipped
that, while other preachers were
out spreading the Word, “you’re
just out spreading!”
In addition to his prodigious
ministerial efforts, the Apostle
Paul laboured attent making in
order to further the gospel. Pastor
Carne believes in getting his hands
dirty, too, so that he might “by all
possible means save some.”
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