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Being the middleman between
client and bureaucrat sometimes
has its advantages, too, he chuck
les. ‘ ‘If we find out that the reason
the guy is not getting his unem
ployment cheque is that he’s not
holding up his end of the bargain,
we can tell him that, and our heads
are not going to roll for it.”
Brian says thatat least 80 per
cent of the calls he and Brenda get
are of a financial nature, with
finances as either the major reason
for the crisis, or as the underlying
reason for a crisis of an emotional,
marital, health or even spiritual
nature.
Brian and Brenda, both survi
vors of crisis situation themselves,
are well equipped to handle many
of the distress calls they get
themselves. But if more in-depth
legal, financial, psychological or
spiritual counselling is required,
they can put the caller in touch with
the proper resource person.
The offers of assistance from
government agencies, self-help
groups and individuals has been
tremendous, Brian says, with all of
them “bending over backwards to
help us.”He has even, he said,
been able to talk a professional
consulting firm into donating its
services in a situation in which the
caller hadn’t the financial resour
ces to pay for it; and, he says, the
ministry has a lawyer who has
offered to donate his services at a
very minimal fee “when the right
precedent-setting case comes
along.” Most lawyers, Brenda
says, won’t take on a farm-versus-
bank case, for the simple reason
that * ‘90 per cent of them in rural
Ontario get their fees by drawing
up mortgages between the farmer
and his bank. ‘‘Do you think they
are going to hazard their living just
to save your farm?” she asks.
Both Queen’s Bush counsellors
work very well as a team, Brian
says, with Brenda, the survivor of a
bitter divorce from a previous
marriage, handling the majority of
personal and emotional problems,
while he takes on those of a more
financial or business-oriented na
ture, using the experience he has
gained as a member of the original
Grey-Bruce Farm Debt Review
pilot project in the early 80’s, a
Farm Survivalists, a provincial
director of the Ontario Federation
of Agriculture, and as a private
debt consultant, a business he has
had to suspend for the time being.
Another advantage to having two
people involved, both counsellors
say, is that it gives each of them
some time away from the tele
phone, which can ring at any time
of the day or night, although most
calls come in between 7 and 9 a.m.
and between 7 and 11 p.m.
Stress is the largest personal
problem both Brenda and Brian
have to contend with, the obvious
result of the type of calls they
handle. But Brenda says she finds
support and great personal com
fort in having Rev. Bain nearby to
talk with in confidence, as well as in
being able to work out her own
feelings at her piano at home; while
Brian says that the knowledge that
the ministry is able to help nearly
everyone that calls in a very
positive way is reward enough for
him. He adds that his wife Giselle,
the well-known author and
humourist, plays a major role in
answering the office phone, hand
ling many of the information calls
on her own.
Ongoing funding for the
Queen’s Bush Rural Ministry is
alsoamatter of concern to those
involved. The sponsoring United
Church Presbytery had originally
donated $20,000 as funding for the
first year, but the unexpected
response and the need for more
than one staff member has already
begun to strain the budget.
However, Brian says he under
stands that another United Church
presbytery has contributed a fur
ther $3,500, while the organiza
tion’s fund-raising committee is
engaged in dialogue with clergy of
other denominations, as well as
with other groups and farm
organizations in an effort to
continue to finance the project.
Part of the ministry’s mandate,
Brian says, is to promote the
organization through speaking
engagements, as he and Brenda
are doing at about the rate of two
each per week. They are not
permitted to ask for donations at
these times, but Brian says that
many groups and organizations
have been generous in their
donations to the speakers, all of
which goes directly back into the
project’s coffers.
‘‘Anyway, no matter what hap
pens, we’ll always be here,”
Brenda says. ‘‘Society hasn’t got
the right to put rural people
through the hell they’ve been
facinginthepastfewyears. It’s
just not right.”
The Queen’s Bush Rural Mini
stry may be contacted at 519-392-
6090 or at 519-357-2149. All calls
are strictly confidential.
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