The Annual General Meeting for the past year took place on Sunday, May 7, 2006.

Attached is the annual report compiled for the meeting...

• 2006 Annual Report

My Dear Friends,

It was a long and hard struggle for me to decide to become a Deacon. In finally doing so I pledged to serve the church wholeheartedly. Half way through the 4 -year training period I learned that I have a progressive and irreversible brain disease called Frontal temporal Dementia.

Our Bishop, Marcel Gervais was extremely compassionate, telling me that even if I only had one year to serve after ordination, that he would still ordain me. And so we carried on.

For a long time I didn’t have many symptoms and sometimes we even wondered if the diagnosis was wrong. But gradually the condition has progressed as you have probably noticed. From the beginning Mary has supported me in living out my ministry of service to the street people and here at Holy Cross.