24 — Sunday, October 28, 1990 - North Shore News

SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING
New deacon leaves for Saskatchewan

This week Spirituaily Speaking
concludes a two-part feature pro-
filing women in the ministry.

AT A time in life when some people are winding down a
lengthy career, 62-year-old Doreen Becker is just embark-
ing on the adventure of her lifetime.

The Rev. Doreen Becker, a
newly ordained Anglican deacon,
has just left her three-year posi-
tion as pastoral assistant at St.
John the Evangelist Church in
North Vancouver to become the
minister responsible for a three-
church parish in Leask, Saskat-
chewan.

Although the appointment will
mean leaving friends and family
members in Vancouver — ‘“‘S'll
miss them like the very Dickens,"
— and taking on the job of con-
ducting three services every Sun-
day morning at churches each
separated by an hour's drive,
Becker says it never occurred to
her to turn down the offer.

“The word ‘no’ never came into
my mind,’’ she says. ‘‘I’ll go and
do the best I can.... I’m not
afraid of the cold, but I do hope !
don’t get lost too often.

“Everything I’ve done up to
now has led up to this,'’ noted
Becker. ‘‘It’s very hard work, but
it’s the only work that captivates
me. | would not be passionate
about anything else.”

Becker wasn’t always a chur-
ch-goer, let alone a _ minister.
While she was heavily involved in
her church when her children were
growing up, she gradually
withdrew and studied different
approaches to spirituality, through

By Peggy Trendell-Whittaker
News Reporter

reading and meeting a variety of
people.

“Out of all that { came back to
the church, because it had another
dimension to offer that other
(avenues) did nov."*

She returned, ‘‘with new ears
and cyes,”’ at a time when the
church was undergoing its own
changes.

“*It was using the vocabulary
and idiom of our present day,"
recalls Becker. ‘‘That was very
exciting.”

As she once again became in-
volved in the church, Becker
gradually became aware that she
felt driven to serve the church as
more than a layperson. She made
the decision to take a degree at
the Vancouver School of Theolo-

‘“‘My ignorance was abysmal,
but it was very exciting.’” Becker
remembers. ‘‘At least [ learned
the questions. Before, I didn't
even know the questions.’

Her class was composed of a
wide variety of students.

**Women of my age were not an
oddity,’’ she says. ‘‘There were
very few people who had cv..ie
straight out of an undergraduate

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ages, and we were valued for what
we were.”"

As part of her training for the
ministry, Becker did work at
Riverview Hospital, a 10-month
internship at the North Shore
Counseiling Centre, and a *‘prac-
ticum"' at St. John’s Chureb.

Having earned her degree, how-

ever, she was nor able to be or-
dained in the Diocese of New
Westminster because there was no
position available.

“They don't want ordained
people floating around without
work ,"" she said.

Recently being offered the
parish in Saskatchewan meant that
Becker could be ordained three

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years after finishing her schooling.
She was ordained as a deacon on
Thursday, Oct. 18 at St. John the
Evangelist: church, at a commu-
nion service that was followed by
a reception and a gift presentation
from the congregation.

Today is Becker's first Sunday
in her new churches in Saskat-
chewan.

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