“Approximately 15% of the population is practicing Christians,” Canon Mark notes. “A combination of European secularism and Soviet Communism has sapped the soul of so many people. Yet, there’s a great hunger. My hope is that as Christians come more fully alive in the Lord and are empowered and equipped to do God’s work this hunger will lead to real, genuine revival. I have been invited back in 2012 to build on the foundations just laid.”

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Over the years our Newsletter has featured a number of articles on Christmas themes and archived them right here. Check out:

* “Blue Christmas” (or, healing of the holiday hurts). For a whole variety of reasons Christmas is not pleasant for many people. What makes it worse is that everyone else around us seems so happy. What causes our Christmas to be blue and what do can we do about this? Or, perhaps your Christmas is not blue, but you know people for whom Christmas is an ordeal to get through or even a source of pain to endure. How can we help them?

* “Basic Christianity as Sung in Our Favorite Carols.” Christmas, of course, is much more than a Hallmark Moment of sentimentality, and it involves much more than the babe in the manger. This article walks us through verses of our favorite (and, perhaps, some not so familiar) carols, to give our Christmas celebration much needed fulness and depth.

* “Hanukkah for Christians.” Hanukkah is celebrated around the same time as Christmas. We want, however, to know about this Jewish festival not merely because such knowledge helps us know more about our Jewish friends. All believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, whether Jew or Gentile, have Jewish spiritual roots, so Hanukkah has spiritual relevance to us.

On Saturday, October 15, 2011 he gave a half hour organ recital just prior to the wedding of Rebecca Gilbert and Andre Blanchard in Midland, about an hour and a half north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Doesn’t it look like he’s having fun!

"Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them." Acts 2:3 NAB

This year plans on being even better than last year.  I had asked many to critique last year’s event and we took to heart the good suggestions that were made.

Specifics: 
DATE: Saturday, June 11
TIME: door open 8:15 for registration, coffee, book table.  Opening worship 9:00 a.m. 

Major talks, workshops, refreshment and lunch breaks, ending at 4:00 p.m. 

                                 GALA CLOSING WORSHIP at 5:00 pm.
PLACE: Christ the Redeemer Church, 188 Elliott Street (just off Route 128), Danvers, Mass.

LEADERS:  Anglican and CEC clergy and lay people from the northeastern part of the US.  CEC Bishop Gregory Ortiz to be the celebrant of the closing liturgy and preacher.

See the link at right for a full schedule of events, workshop descriptions, directions and other information.

If you’d like to help with the book table or prayer ministry while taking in some workshops, we’d appreciate it.

E-mail NANCY REMY if you can help with book table set up on Friday night / book table sales on Saturday.  Her email is icrremdawg@yahoo.com

We’ve kept all the things that worked so wonderfully last year and we’ve changed or eliminated those things that didn’t.  Canon Liias and I are so excited about this event and we’d love to see you there.

Blessings in Jesus,
Canon Mark Pearson

 *See the article from a recent Institute for Christian Renewal Newsletter by clicking on the Blue Christmas  article link on the sidebar.

*Purchase the teaching compact disc about “Blue Christmas.”   (click on the sidebar link  Canon Mark’s Books to order a single cd on this subject.)

 Upon invitation, Canon Mark will gladly lead a conference at your church.  Besides good teaching, there’s lots of ministry that will help you and all those who participate in the conference. 

Why should you or those whom you love continue to have a “Blue Christmas” ?  

There’s help available.

First was the Deacon Hedley Pearson Memorial Garden.  Deacon Pearson had served All Saints Episcopal Church in Leominster, Massachusetts for nearly 25 years.  When he died his family requested that, in lieu of flowers, money be given towards a memorial garden at the healing center his son, the Rev. Canon Dr. Mark A. Pearson, and his daugher-in-law, Dr. Mary Pearson, would be building in new Hampshire.    

Scripture reading by Jennifer Doherty - photo by Pamela Pearson

 Up stepped Patrick Ahern of Atkinson who donated hundreds of man-hours to build a stone wall around the garden and to make small centers for flowering shrubs within the garden.

 Second to be dedicated was the Philip Pearson bench.  Phil, Deacon Hedley’s brother and Canon Mark’s godfather,died recently and his family endowed a bench within the garden. 

In the photo below stands Canon Mark Pearson with three of Philip and Ellen Pearson’s surviving children, Kenneth, Pamela and Gary Pearson.

Philip Pearson memorial bench is dedicated

   Third was the Ten Commandments / Beatitudes Monument.  This project started with a telephone call from Derry otorhinolaryngologist Dr. Keith Jorgensen.  He noted that although the basis for the legal system in America is the Ten Commandments and the Judeo-Christian heritage, the Ten Commandments are actually being forced out of court rooms and the public squares in many communities, “but not from churches, non-profit organizations and peoples’ homes.”  He further informed Canon Pearson that a monument maker in Nebraska had been offering monuments with the Ten Commandments on one side and Jesus’ Beatitudes on the other, that he had helped buy one for his Roman Catholic congregation in Bedford, and that he wished to make an initial challenge donation so that New Creation would have one.  

A collation of sandwiches, salads and beverages was provided by staff of New Creation and parishioners of Trinity Church, Kingston. 

our new monument, dedicatory prayers offered by the Rev. Canon Dr. Mark A. Pearson

New Creation Healing Center is a Christian, non-profit ministry of wellness bringing together family practice medicine, massage, counseling and prayer ministry, presently serving a client base of 3,000 people in southeastern New Hampshire and northeastern Massachusetts.  Plans are under way for additional work on the grounds, a second building on the property, and additional staff. 

Patients and clients are welcome to see the Memorial Garden and Monument up close when they next come for a visit.  They and the general public are welcome to come visit any time by simply driving down the driveway. 

For further information call New Creation Healing Center at (603) 642-6700.

For more photos, see link at right. 

Her book is called And So It Was Just Because and with beautiful illustrations and a simple text it helps little children to understand God’s creation culminating in the creation of humans, because, as the book ends, “All along He wanted you.”

 During the sermon I.C.R. President Canon Mark A. Pearson interviewed Jessica as part of his sermon on “Hearing God’s Call for You.”  Jess heard God’s call at a young age to write a children’s book to help little ones come to understand and cherish God’s love for them.  She related various obstacles she had to overcome along the way to getting the book published, “including a large stack of rejection notices from publishers.”  But she also noted the many ways God worked to bring the book about, both direct interventions and help from others.

Jessica is from Sanford, Maine.  She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in May, 2009 from Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts and presently teaches English as a second language in Boston.

She believes God is calling her to write additional books.

Author Jessica Matt signing books after the service.

Institute for Christian Renewal is making available the book just in time for Christmas gift giving by parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, to young children.  Cost for the book is $12.99 per copy with shipping charges of $3.75 per order, irrespective of the number of copies ordered.  Checks may be sent to 80 Route 125, Kingston, New Hampshire 03848.  For faster service telephone orders may be placed Tuesday through Friday between 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time at (603) 642-3002.  Have your credit card ready.

You can combine your order for this book with other items offered on our web site.

Several years ago a man in Nebraska got fed up with the moral drift in America.  Every civilization that has ever lasted has had and kept a moral code and these moral codes were based on basic, foundational truths.  The code in Europe and North America has the Ten Commandments of the Old Testament as one of its bedrocks.  The Ten Commandments are not denominational, they’re Judeo-Christian, and basic Judeo-Christian beliefs are enshrined in the founding documents of our nation.  In addition, for three centuries many court buildings prominently displayed the Ten Commandments as did some city and town parks.

Until recently.  The foundations are being eroded, here and in other “First World” nations.  In many states court rulings have declared unconstitutional the display of the Ten Commandments in public places.  Should we be surprised that our nations are in trouble?

So that man in Nebraska got fed up.  He said, “Maybe they can force the Commandments out of the public arena but they cannot kick them off private property.”  So, with others, he started having large monuments made, making them available at cost to churches and private organizations. 

A few years ago one of the specialists to whom New Creation Healing Center refers patients wrote a note to the Rev. Canon Dr. Mark A. Pearson.  The good doctor informed Canon Pearson about this project, noted he had helped get one erected at his church in Bedford, New Hampshire, wondered if we might be interested, and enclosed a sizable check to get things going in case we were!

Rather than our holding a separate fund raiser, we approached a number of couples and individuals, asking if they would match that initial check.  Several did.  And, on July 13 the monument was erected on a concrete base.

That’s just  stage 1.  Soon there will be landscaping around the monument and a walk way so people can look more closely at God’s timeless words.  We had been wondering if people would take such an interest.  We did not have to wait long to find out.  The very next day, Mike Danis, General Contractor to the building project, came by to inspect various of the minor building projects underway.  While he and Canon Pearson were at adjacent part of the property, they looked over and watched as someone, waiting for his wife’s appointment to conclude, slowly walked around the Monument.

Next time you’re at 80 Route 125, and you’ve got a few moments, you can take such a walk, too.

Ten Commandments monument

Saturday, September 25, 9:00 a.m. to 4:10 p.m. with healing service at 4:30 p.m.  Our last Healing of Depression day was so well received we’ve been asked to repeat it.  We will look at causes of depression and offer helps to heal depression from a whole-person perspective: physical, emotional (psychological) and spiritual. 

Click on this link for a brochure Depression 9-25-10

* “BLUE CHRISTMAS” *

Saturday, November 13, 9:00 a.m. to 4:10 p.m. with healing service at 4:30 p.m.  The sounds, symbols and ceremonies of the run up to Christmas trigger so many happy memories and warm feelings in so many of us.  For others they bring back to mind loss, pain and even fear.  A “Blue Christmas” healing day is one way God can break this cycle and help the pre-Christmas season to be enjoyable once again.

LOCATION: 

Both events will be held at Newton Junction Baptist Church, 18 West Main St., New- ton Junction, N.H.  From the north, go down Route 125 to southern Kingston; pass our office; turn left at the next light (Newton Junction Road) and come ahead 1.3 miles.  From the South, take Exit 51-B on Interstate 495 in Haverhill, Mass., come 6.7 miles north on Route 125, turn right onto Newton Jct. Rd. and go 1.3 miles.) 

FOR MORE INFORMATION:  registration, local motels, etc.  Go to the New Creation web site: www.NewCreationHC.org  or call Marlene, our conference coordinator at (603) 642-6700 or email her at NCHCevents@yahoo.com.  Register early: the conference cost is reduced for those who advance register.

**ADVANCED NOTICE FOR 2011**

April 9, Intergenerational Healing;  May 14, Healing of anxiety; October 22, Healing of Obesity;; November 12, Blue Christmas. All four take a body-mind-spirit whole-person approach.  Specific locations in southeastern N.H. to be announced.