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HIGHLANDS: ; UNITED

Church has a new minister and

“ils minister has a new home.
By Layne Christensen
- Community Reporter

’ Rev, Deborah Laing, who tums 35
tomorrow, came-to Highlands in
August,

Laing is the granddaughter of a
Saskatchewan homesteader. She was
just 24 when she was first ordained.
‘While majoring in political science at

university she enrolled in a course, On

“the Oid Testament.’ ~*”

“L like irony, literature, poetry, soit
caught my attention,” she recalls, The
class sparked her interest in theology —
and she was hooked. '

Her first pastoral charge was three.
‘along. the.

small churches
., Saskatchewan-Montana border where

she “preached and drove, preached
- and drove, preached and drove...”

She met her husband Joe, a native |
of Vermont, while serving in Quebec. ©
A telecommunications researcher by ©

le, he stays horne to look after the
couple’ $ five-month-old baby Thomas

_while Laing goes to church six days a |

week.

_ ing ‘service, at 9:30 a.m., attracts: an
---exuberant bunch, “lots of young fam-

ilies,” and as many as 100 kids, The °°

_ TNS! am. service attracts an older,
“more quiet crowd. © °
“It’s ‘avery friendly church.” she
says, and a real change from her last
calling, a church in a Chicago suburb
“where she had to contend with gang
warfare. ..

‘jstering in the 1990s.
-’ “There's a sense that the. way
«we've been doing things isn't a draw-

ing card,” says Laing, scratching the |

ears of her bearded collie ‘Finnigan, an

~“SPCA foundling” who is enjoying a, :

- day at church with the reverend.
"Laing prepares sermons that.“con-
nect with the world,” ones that may
touch on abuse in the home or vio-
lence. in ithe, community. By raising
‘questions and encouraging feedback ,
from worshippers, she appears to be”
“ connecting ‘with’: her, , congregation,
<3, She’s drawing them in.

At Highlands she ministers to a”
congregation of 400 to 500 families. :
Between -200 and 300 are regular

: churchgoers, she says, The first mom-*

She offers afresh approach to min- -

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, OF HER r new minietry at Highlands United Church, Rev. Deboroh

Laing says “at feals like a good fit.”

FAST FACTS
| Namie: Rev, Deborah Laing
* Born: 1960 in ‘Saskatchewan

Claim to fame: New: minister
: at Highlands United Church.

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