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Duffs, Bluevale welcome new minister
Newest minister
Walton and Bluevale United Churches welcomed Joan Tuchlinsky to their congregations as
their new minister.
By Janice Becker
Citizen staff
The congregations of Duff’s
United and Bluevale United wel
comed a new minister to the commu
nity recently.
Diaconal minister Joan Tuchlinsky,
originally from Kitchener-Waterloo
was pleased when she learned she
would be placed in the rural commu
nity.
“I loved the sense of community
life my family had in Kitchener and I
have already experienced it here.”
Tuchlinsky along with husband
Brian Black and three of their five
children moved into the Walton
manse last week.
Jeffery, 14, Laura 11 and Bethany,
nine, will be attending Seaforth
Public School in the fall. Seventeen
year-old Steven will be staying with
family friends in Kitchener to com
plete his high school education and
19-year-old Jennifer lives on her
own.
Specializing in education, pastoral
care and service and community out
reach, Tuchlinsky says she hopes to
help the community heal after the
closure of the Walton Public School.
She was involved in a similar fight to
keep her son’s Grade 7/8 school open
and understands the feelings.
After speaking with parents and
Walton Public School principal Alice
McDowell, Tuchlinsky says the com
munity has made a “healthy start to
move on.”
Tuchlinsky has been studying for
the past six years, five at the Centre
for Christian Studies for theological
training for diaconal ministry. She
will also be working towards a bach
elor of theology degree through the
University of Waterloo.
“My job is to empower the lay
ministry to do the work, to help and
support them,” she says.
She was a lay minister for some
time before answering the call to the
ministry. She worked 10 hours per
week as a pastoral minister at Trinity
United in downtown Kitchener as
well as for Family and Children's
Services.
Having studied social work at
Conestoga College, she found the
faith element was missing. It was this
realization which took her into dia
conal training because it encompass
es community work as well as the
faith aspect. /
Husband Black will be leaving
Manulife Financial after 14 years,
but he is looking forward to the
change. An avid tenor singer, he
hopes to expand his involvement in
that field as well as use his computer
experience to benefit the community,
she says.
Tuchlinsky gave her first services
at Duff's United and Bluevale United
this past Sunday.
Laughter,
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Alberta on cross-country skis We
split up as our son and daughter went
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clothes. When we finally rejoined
the kids, our fashion conscious
daughter eyed her approaching
father warily. Bill was a cacophony
of colours, topped off with a huge,
outdated toque and sunglasses he
had bought ten years earlier. "Now 1
know why it took you so long," my
daughter said. "Dad had to go back
to the '70s to get his outfit."
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