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County Ec. Dev. Board,
HBDC may pool resources
Education never
stops says Royall
Time to count
Peter Mennie, magician extraordinaire, was at Memorial
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count. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
The newly-established Huron
County Economic Development
Board and the Huron Business
Development Corporation (HBDC)
have agreed to support one another
in their efforts to better the county.
At the March 18 Huron County
Council committee of the whole
meeting, HBDC Past-President Rick
Hundey spoke to councillors, asking
them to endorse a request for $3
million from the Federal Economic
Development Agency for Economic
Development on behalf of the
Western Ontario Community
Futures Development Association.
In addition to asking for council’s
moral support of the application,
Hundey also made several other
recommendations, including the
pooling of resources in order to
“increase the range and impact of
economic development programs
and services” in Huron County.
Councillors were very open to the
idea, citing a number of positive
projects HBDC has been involved
with over the years.
Hundey also suggested that
perhaps HBDC, with its years of
experience, could be brought on as a
not-for-profit partner to make
application requests. The group
could also pass along a short list of
its most promising opportunities to
the Economic Development Board
going forward.
Hundey said that he and the other
people involved with HBDC have
been “very encouraged” by the steps
being taken by Huron County to
help foster economic development
in the county.
He said that the HBDC would be
able to provide knowledge and
expertise, but doesn’t have quite as
much to offer on the monetary side
of things. He said that while HBDC
has been able to tap into government
resources when it comes to business
loans, as far as economic
development is concerned, the
organization is “kind of poor” when
it comes to money.
Chief Administrative Officer
Brenda Orchard said that she saw
the proposal as a partnership, but
that further consultation would have
to take place.
Central Huron Deputy-Mayor
Dave Jewitt was concerned that a
partnership with HBDC could
“water down” the pool of money, but
Hundey assured Jewitt that’s not
what the partnership would be
about – it would be about leveraging
funds to access more grant money
from upper tiers of government.
Bluewater Mayor Tyler Hessel
agreed that it was a good idea, but
suggested that consultation between
HBDC and the Economic
Development Board officially occur
before any decisions were made.
Council then made two motions:
the first provided moral support to
HBDC’s $3 million funding
application and the second set up a
meeting between the Economic
Development Board and HBDC to
discuss the potential partnership and
how it would work before returning
to council for further direction.
Both motions were approved.
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that? Because I know that when
people meet together throughout the
week in a small group community to
learn from God, they grow closer to
the Lord and they grow closer to one
another. What thrills me is how
much pastoral care is done in these
small groups. Instead of me, one
pastor, trying to do pastoral care to
200 plus people in our church, we
now have various members in small
group communities ministering and
helping each other.
5. “Healthy Churches emphasize
corporate prayer and church prayer
ministries.” I was ecstatic when I
read this because on my last trip out
the Southland Church this fact was
really made clear to me. So much so
that last Sunday night we held our
first corporate prayer meeting called
the Prayer Summit at Huron Chapel.
We spent two hours as a church
family praising God and praying
together. Believe it or not…the time
just flew by. I thought we could
easily have only a handful people
show up for our Prayer Summit.
Typically, prayer meetings tend to
only attract a small core group of
people, but praise the Lord, half of
the church showed up including
youth and children.
6. “Churches that are healthy take
membership seriously.” Rainer
found that unhealthy churches seem
to want to inflate their membership
lists with little or no accountability
for these members.
7. “The healthy churches are
highly intentional about
evangelism.” Rainer discovered that
healthy churches tend to have
ministries, programs and emphasis
that lead members to reach out with
the Gospel to their unchurch friends,
family, coworkers, etc.
So there you go. You are now a
little better educated, as I am in some
of the important insights of healthy
churches.
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