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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2017-12-07, Page 19THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2017. PAGE 19. From the Minister's Study Feeling lost isn't the end of the world: Royall By Rev. Mark Royall Huron Chapel Evangelical Missionary Church, Auburn Well, it happened. I knew it would one day. On Saturday, Nov. 18 at approximately at 6:30 a.m. in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts (Cape Cod) it became official...I am old. I stopped in at the donut shop to get a coffee on the way to watch the sun rise up over the ocean. A young teenage girl behind the counter took my order and then she spoke these words for which will always be etched in my memory. She looked at Auxiliary donates $11,000 The Auxiliary to the Wingham & District Hospital has been supporting the hospital for 110 years. Most recently it has donated $11,000 for the purchase of four pressure relief mattress on the in- patient floor. The new mattresses are well -loved by medical staff and patients alike for their improved comfort and benefits for healing and long-term care. The Auxiliary intends to fund the purchase of an additional two mattresses. The Auxiliary to the Wingham & District Hospital raises funds by hosting events throughout the year. Their events include the spring and fall fashion shows, rummage sales and the popular poinsettia tea. The 2017 Poinsettia Tea and Bake Sale was held Dec. 6 in the new Terrace Room (former doctors' clinic) at the Wingham & District Hospital and all proceeds will benefit the purchase of equipment for the hospital. Since its inception 110 years ago, the Auxiliary has contributed $108,000 to the hospital. For more information about Auxiliary activities or to join, contact Trudy Thomson at 519-357-2349. Get information on Huron County attractions on the Stops Along The Way section of our website www.northhuron.on.ca me and said, "So, I will give you the senior discount with that?" Timed stopped. I had never been asked that question before. This couldn't be happening...to me. Believing, really hoping, she had made a great mistake I asked her, "How old do you have to be to get a senior discount?" She said, "55 years old" Disillusioned I responded, "I am 55 years old." She gave me the senior discount. It wasn't worth the 17 cents I saved on my coffee that day. About 50 years earlier at a grocery store about an hour away from this donut shop was the first time I remember feeling young and admittedly dependent. I was grocery shopping with my mom. Feeling brave, I wandered down an aisle to check out some Pop Tarts or something. I was exploring the boundaries of my independence and left my mother's side. Arriving at the Pop Tarts, I turned around and to my horror, my mom was gone. I panicked. I was lost. The lostness I felt in that grocery store aisle was not a geography problem. I knew the grocery store. It was familiar to me. I also knew the neighbourhood the store was in. The store was less than a mile from my house and it would have been easy for me to direct someone back to my home. The lostness and the panic 1 felt that day was not a geography problem... it was a relationship problem. I knew where I was... but I didn't know where my mom was. What mattered to me in that grocery store more than anything else was my relationship with my mother, and in the moment...I didn't have that. She was gone. I was alone. I was lost. There are probably some of you reading this now who feel lost. Your lostness isn't a geography problem. You know where you are... BRUSSELS United Church Welcome to Sunday morning worship & Sunday School at 11:00 am Hillary MacDonald (905) 246-7386 Macdonald.hillary@gmail.com Everyone welcome % re Jiii !e(I0j join t,/S S'0 L(+T.SktJ SUNDAYS Morning Service 10:00 am Evening Service 7:30 pm BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH • Minister: Pastor Gary van Leeuwen Hwy. 4, Blyth www.blythcrc.ca 519-523-4743 You're Znvitec( to come worsh p with us Sunday, December 10 at 10:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. 650 Alexander St. (former Brussels Public School) Sunday School for children 4 to 12 years of age at 9:30 a.m. Childcare provided for infants and preschoolers during the sermon. Coffee & cookies after the morning service. For additional details please contact Pastor Andrew Versteeg 519.887.8621 Steve Klumpenhower 519.292.0965 Rick Packer 519.527.0173 SAME HURON CHAPEL SERVICE TWO TI ES 9ain, o}c Ilam Every Sunday in Auburn - huronchapel.com geographically speaking. However, you feel lost because you do not know where you are in relation with your Heavenly Father. Just like the panic I felt when I lost my mom in the grocery store, you have these moments of panic because you do not know where you are in relationship to God. The truth is, my mom did not abandon me it that grocery store. I was the one who had wandered away. The Bible tells us how we have done this as well with our Heavenly Father when it says, "All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God's paths to follow our own. (Isaiah 53:6) However, the good news is this, He doesn't want you to be lost to Him. We also read in His Word to us, "Seek the Lord while you can find Him. Call on Him now while He is near" (Isaiah 55:6). ANGLICAN PARISH OF NEW BEGINNINGS B LYT H Trinity 6, 9:15 am Church Office 519-357-4883 BRUSSELS St. John's 11:15 am Church Office 519-887-6862 Everyone Welcome! COME WORSHIP WITH US! MELVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BRUSSELS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10 We invite you to join our church family in: Worship & Sunday School - 11 am Coffee & Snacks following the service Come out and meet our new minister, Rev. Charmila Ireland Fridays 11:30 am - 1:00 pm - Soup & More 2 - a free community meal held in Melville's basement, and made possible by the Brussels churches working together. Nursery care available 519-887-6687 Blyth United Church Est. 1875 Worship Service at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, December 10 Celebrating the 2nd Sunday of Advent & Holy Communion All are Welcome Hillary MacDonald OFFICE: 519-523-4224 THE CATHOLIC PARISHES OF NORTH HURON AND NORTH PERTH CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO ATTEND HOLY MASS. OUR SUNDAY LITURGIES ARE AS FOLLOWS: Brussels: St. Ambrose Saturday 6:00 p.m. 17 Flora Street Wingham: Sacred Heart Sunday 9:00 a.m. 220 Carling Terrace Listowel: St. Joseph's Sunday 11:00 a.m. 1025 Wallace Avenue N.