Editorial

A Time of Gratitude

By Kathy VanLoon
November/December 2008

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On November 9 this year, Scarboro Missions celebrated its 90th anniversary with a packed house of nearly 300 people including Scarboro members, staff, relatives, and friends. It was a time of reunion as well as a time to meet and get to know other members of the Scarboro family.

In this special issue, you will read more about this anniversary event and hear from many Scarboro missioners who have honoured this milestone by writing about their call to mission and their walk among people of other cultures and lands. Fr. Mike Traher reflects on mission today and Scarboro's journey into the future, still guided by the missionary spirit of its founder, Monsignor John Mary Fraser.

Scarboro Missions is deeply grateful for such a long and rich history. And we are especially grateful to our benefactors and friends whose prayers and generosity have made this 90-year journey possible.

So we look to the coming of Christ with hearts lifted in gratitude. And we remember you in our prayers as you remember us.

We pray that amid the hustle and bustle at this time of year, we will experience the stillness and peace of Christmas. We pray that in this season of giving, we will give the gifts of love and forgiveness, and give of ourselves to help make the world a better place for all. And may we be ready to rejoice when we hear the words: "Do not be afraid. Listen, I bring you news of great joy. A joy to be shared by the whole people...A saviour has been born to you" (Luke 2:10-11).

Wishing you a merry and blessed Christmas.

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