Rekindling a passion for reformed Christianity
By John Tamming: There are many ways to get fired up again for the muscular reformed Christianity of my youth. I did not think that a scotch at the Toronto Sheraton bar would be one of them.
Young and Old Alike
The AACS/ICS family conferences of the 70s and 80s fed on the youthful verve of young and old alike, and now, after all these years, the aging conferees, like their once-youthful selves, can still proclaim, in their hearts and minds, that the Kingdom is coming.
Photos & Stories Wanted
AACS/ICS Niagara Summer Conferences website looks for pictures and stories: You are invited to visit the website, nose around and remember, and then add your comments, greetings and even updates of where you are in God's Kingdom, 30 - 50 years later, perhaps because of these AACS/ICS gatherings. Then dig
Collaborators Wanted
Collaborators Wanted: I'd love to have some people to collaborate with me in this venture. In addition to simply putting their name to it, there would be some need for the following: Comment moderation,
Text editing, Research, Writing/Comment/Reflection,
Photo scanning
Photo Credits
Photographs are from the following sources: GLB – George Langbroek GVDZ – George & Ann Vandezande JJ – John Joosse SDJ – Stiny & Herman de Jong If you have photographs you would like to contribute please contact Square-Inch for advice and to make arrangements. We will gladly scan your
Quoteables
The original reports on conference keynote speeches, reproduced in this Square Inch website, remain a fascinating read. Here are some quotes, with links to the full report. Dr. C.T. McIntire: “We Christians must ourselves experience a spiritual disaffiliation from the American way of life. Until we have done this we
50th Anniversary of AACS Niagara Family Conferences
It’s hard to convey the experience of these conferences to those who have never been. For twenty years, starting in 1970, people of all ages got together on the August long weekend, staying in dorms, camping on the lawn of the Niagara Christian College or across the road at Miller’s
Alberta Conferences
Names were not collected for those in our pictures. I would not know who most of the people were and the addresses, phone numbers are even harder to find out. Many of the older people will have passed on. Before family conferences, student conferences were held where sleeping space and
Watermelon Rinds
Rinds were an unavoidable bi product of conferees’ copious consumption of watermelon. In the spirit of recycling, the conference children were in the habit of arming themselves with rinds and pelting each other, as practice for kingdom work. Share some of your stories about these engagements. Perhaps your parents never
Mickey Rooney and the AACS
1977 was a memorable conference for anyone whose attention was not consumed by its theme, “The Work of Our Hands”. Right under their noses, the Niagara Christian Collegiate buildings were being used as a set for the movie “The Black Stallion”, starring Mickey Rooney. Some of the curious nosed around