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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 2015-07-16, Page 3THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2015. PAGE 3. JULY 25, 2015 12 PM - 5 PM Music Entertainment “Kiss the Pig” Challenge Food Artisans Vendors’ Market Antique Car Show Bring a Donation for Food Share Participate in our Silent Auction at the Lettuce Headquarters 432 Queen St., Blyth For more information please call Lorna Fraser 519-523-9687 A unique experience awaits you in our charming village. Welcome to our specialty shops, restaurants and galleries. www.blythnow.ca Food Share Donations Streetfest July 25 Blyth Cupcake Cook-off! To finish the Kids in the Kitchen camp at Blyth United Church last week, attendees paired up and tried to create the best cupcake they could. Shown focusing on that task are Emma Kerr, left, and Sarah Snell. (Denny Scott photo) For more information please call Lorna Fraser 519-523-9687 Saturday, July 25 Vote by donation at: Blyth Festival Theatre, Blyth Corner Café, The Citizen, Queens Bakery, Scrimgeour’s Food Market, CIBC Bill Knott Susie Elliott Shawn Loughlin Who’s Going To Kiss The Pig? Help us Decide! Participate in our Silent Auction! Lettuce Headquarters 432 Queen Street, Blyth Adoption is unconditional love Greeting worshippers at Blyth United Church on Sunday, July 12 was Gwen Papple. Ushering were Cliff Snell and Nicole Kerr. John McDowell was music director and David Onn ran the Power Point. Emily Phillips welcomed everyone to church and drew attention to the announcements printed in the bulletin with special mention that the service on July 26 will be an outdoor worship service by the Blyth and Area Ministerial Council at the Blyth Lions Club Park at 10 a.m. Rev. Gary Clark will be the speaker. Emily introduced guest speaker Angie Lannin from the Donegal area. Angie invited everyone to greet one another. The first hymn was “Come All You People” followed by the opening prayers. The first prayer was a prayer being said by all United Churches for the lead up to general council and the second prayer was Psalm 24 read responsively. The first verse of two of the favourite hymns “In the Garden” and “Softly and Tenderly” were sung. The scripture was from Ephesians 1:3-14. The choir sang the anthem “Wonderful Words of God.” Angie Lannin’s message to the congregation was “The Story of Bud.” Bud was a boy who had been adopted and Bud claims that his birth parents and also his adopted parents had unconditional love for him. His birth parents gave him up because they could not look after him and his adopted parents gave him the life his birth parents could not. In Bud’s story, Bud says that it must have been God’s plan for him to have both sets of parents. Statistics tell us that one in five children are adopted and most of us know someone who is adopted or know someone who knows someone that is adopted. We consider these children some of the luckiest children. It is unconditional love for a parent to give up a child so that people who can not have a child for some reason are able to raise a child. In the scripture Paul wrote a letter to the Ephesians from prison to express upon them that God will adopt anyone, no matter where they were from. God loves us because He chooses us. We become God’s own children no matter how often we fail. God shows us unconditional love. The next hymn “Amazing Grace” was sung. The offering was received followed by the offertory response “Grant Us God the Grace” the offertory prayer, the prayers of the people said responsively and the saying of the Lord’s Prayer. The last hymn “Come, O Fount of Every Blessing” was followed by the blessing and the singing of “Let Us Depart in Peace.” Everyone was invited for coffee and fellowship. Christ stands ready as a fire-escape “Behold, I am vile!” Job 40:4 (Arthur Pink) O how very few ever are savingly convicted of sin by the Spirit! As the Spirit continues His work in the soul, plowing still deeper, revealing the hideousness and heineousness of sin, producing a horror of and hatred for it--He next presses upon that awakened soul, the claims of Christ’s Lordship--set forth in such passages as Luke 14:26-33 and enlightens us to realize that Christ demands our hearts, lives, and all. Then it is that He grants grace unto the quickened soul to renounce all other “lords,” to turn away from all “idols”, and to receive Christ as Prophet, Priest and King. And nothing but the sovereign and supernatural work of God the Spirit can bring this to pass. Surely this is self-evident. A preacher may induce a man to believe what Scripture says about his lost and undone condition, persuade him to “bow to” the Divine verdict, and then “accept Christ as his personal Saviour.” No man wants to go to Hell, and if he is assured that Christ stands ready as a fire-escape, on the sole condition that he jumps into His arms (“rests on His finished work”), thousands will do so! But a hundred preachers are unable to make an unregenerate person realize the unspeakably dreadful nature of sin, make him feel that he has been a lifelong rebel against God, and so change his heart that he now hates his sin, and longs to please God, and serve Christ. Only God the Spirit can bring any man to the place where he is willing to forsake every idol, cut off a hindering right hand, or pluck out an offending right eye! Ah,a miracle of grace has been wrought when we give up ourselves to the Lord (2 Corinthians 8:5) to be ruled by Him. A Grace Gem Submitted by: Immanuel United Reformed Church, Listowel, ON 519-291-1956 By Marilyn Craig Call 523-9318 From Marilyn’s Desk Group name revealed In a report to the Blyth Business Improvement Area (BIA) during the group’s July 8 meeting, executive member Lissa Kolkman reported that the proposed garden group for Blyth had found a name. The group, which will replace the now-defunct Blyth Horticultural Society, will be called the Friends of the Village of Blyth Parks and Gardens. “The group is still a work in progress,” Kolkman said. “It will be a kind of a go-to for many volunteer groups for parks and gardens and beautification.” Kolkman reported that the group would liaise with North Huron Township staff to help keep the existing gardens in the village maintained. She brought the information to the BIA because, prior to the folding of the Blyth Horticultural Society, the BIA had expressed an interest in working with the group to make sure its mandate wasn’t forgotten. The group will not be a committee of North Huron Township Council according to Chief Administrative Officer Sharon Chambers, who said she thought the structure would allow the group to work with some autonomy. Volunteers with the organization will sign forms, however, to allow them to benefit from the township’s insurance while they work for the group. Watch The Citizen for updates on the organization. Happy birthday to Joan Chalmers who celebrates July 15; Janis Vodden, July 16; Ann Nesbit, Blyth and Barb Musty, Listowel, July 18 and Kim Hornyak (Craig), Strathroy, July 19. Happy Anniversary to Christa and Mike Haggitt who celebrate July 16. Blyth Community Vacation Bible School is July 20-24 at Blyth United Church. For free registration, contact Valerie Shortreed at 519- 523-4903. You can check out this year’s program at gospellightvbs.com/sonspark and you can also register online at tinyurl.com/blythvbs2015 Come out and enjoy a game of shoot (it is something like euchre) on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month at 1:30 p.m. in the Blyth Anglican Church Hall. Next shoot date is Tuesday, July 28. VBS set July 20-24 at Blyth United Church Read Rhea Hamilton Seeger’s Gardening column on the Huron Home and Garden Guide section of our website www.northhuron.on.ca