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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2013-01-17, Page 12PAGE 12. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2013. By Rachel Robinson St. Anne’s Catholic Secondary School welcomed back its students following a two-week Christmas holiday. It was so exciting to come back to school and see everyone again. There is lots of work to be done but the school becomes quiet this upcoming week so we can all focus on our upcoming exams. On Wednesday all Grade 11 students embarked on a retreat where they enhanced their understanding of the world’s religions by travelling to a mosque, synagogue and temple. We wore yellow on Tuesday to support the Alzheimer Society Huron County. On Friday, elementary students from various schools got the chance to experience St. Anne’s and its electric environment for a day. If you know a student in Grade 8 who would like to attend St. Anne’s in the fall, please call 519-482-5454 to set up a tour. By Rev. Dr. Peter Kugba-Nyande Duff’s United Church, Walton At the start of the new year, many people will make new year’s resolutions. But unfortunately, most of them will in no way pertain to the soul. Most resolutions are likely to focus on matters such as losing weight, getting out of debt, improving one’s career, making new friends, improving self, etc. And though there is nothing wrong with these resolutions, most of them will be made primarily out of selfish motives. The new year is both an enduring spiritual metaphor and a concrete opportunity...if we combine the right attitude with effective implementation. Resolutions allow you to make extraordinary feel good statements about how you’ll change your life for the better, but then stop after a few days weeks or months. Properly done, the new year is a wonderful time to effect some major change in our lives. In general, a new year’s resolution is a decision one makes to reform old habits or achieve new goals. This is also like actual religion. Many times one’s success in fulfilling his or her new year’s resolution(s) depends on the nature of the resolution and the determination of the person making the resolution. Dr. Henry Cloud of Fox News says “there are three areas in life where we make resolutions: clinical (how you feel), relationships (marriage, dating, family friends, work) and performance (dreams, goals, talents, accomplishments).” He claims the trick for keeping your new year’s resolutions is twofold: 1) a new energy source and 2) a structure or template to guide that energy. Three weeks into 2013 let me encourage you to add these two things to your “new me” list: 1) Recognize every day that God made you to matter. He made you to make a difference somewhere, somehow. 2) What you give, how you open your life up to others, is more fulfilling and more worshipful than what you consume. The Bible teaches that we were made in His image (Genesis 1:27) and our times are in His hands (Psalm 31:15). One of the most beloved of Psalms, Psalm 100 tells us, “Know that the Lord himself is God; it is He who made us, and not we ourselves” (v. 3). In other words, we were created and introduced into this world for God and His purposes. George Burger once put to pen and paper a resolution truly worth emulating. He wrote:”I will like Paul, forget those things which are behind and press forward; like David, lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help; like Abraham, trust implicitly in my God; like Enoch, walk in daily fellowship with my heavenly Father; like Jehoshaphat, prepare my heart to seek God; like Moses choose rather to suffer than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; like Daniel, commune with my God at all times; like Job, be patient under all circumstances; like Caleb and Joshua, refuse to be discouraged because of superior numbers; like Joseph, turn my back to all seductive advances; like Gideon, advance even though my friends be few; like Aaron and Hur, uphold the hands of my spiritual leaders; like Isaiah, consecrate myself to do God’s work; like Andrew, strive to lead my brother into a closer walk with St. Anne’s begins student tours 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 Sunday 11:00 a.m. 1025 Wallace Avenue N. Another Great Sunday Behind Us Anticipating A Great Sunday Before Us With You 10:30am @ Huron Chapel WWW.HURONCHAPEL.ORG Worship Service & Sunday School at 11 a.m. CORNER OF DINSLEY & MILL STREETS MINISTER Rev. Gary Clark, BA, M. Div. All Welcome MUSIC DIRECTOR Floyd Herman, BA, M. Ed.OFFICE: 519-523-4224 JANUARY 20th ~ Get the Scoop: Who Got Dunked and Who Got Drunk, pt. 2 JANUARY 27 ~ Guest Speaker Youre Invited to come worship with us Sunday, January 20 Brussels Business & Cultural Centre at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sunday School for children 4 to 11 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 519.887.8651 Rick Packer 519.527.0173 You’re Invited To Join Us In Worship SUNDAYS Morning Service 10:00 am Evening Service 7:30 pm BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH Interim Minister: Pastor Gary Klumpenhower 519-523-9233 Hwy. 4, Blyth 519-523-4743 www.blythcrc.ca MELVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BRUSSELS Rev. Elwin Garland SUNDAY, JANUARY 20 Wheelchair accessible ~ Nursery care available 519-887-9017 10:00 am - Sunday Morning Worship - Sunday School BRUSSELS Sandra Cable, Pastor Church Office 519-887-6259 E-mail - beunitedchurch@gmail.com SUNDAY SERVICE 11:00 am Sunday School Celebrating our Christian Faith together in worship United Church getlivingwater.org Pastor: Ernest Dow ~ 519-523-4848 Living Water Christian Fellowship Evangelical Missionary Church 10:30 a.m. ~ Worship & Sunday School Wingham Bible Study - Tuesdays 7:30 pm Youth Group - Tuesdays 7:30 pm (at CRC) Women At The Well - 1st & 3rd Wednesdays 7:30 pm at 308 Blyth Rd. (former Church of God) February 17: Special Guests - Teen Challenge Farm, London Jan. 20: Is. 62; Ps. 36 “Does God Really LIKE Me?” Jan. 18-25 Wk. Prayer for Christian Unity 250 Princess St., Brussels 519-887-6388 www.bmfchurch.com Pastor Jim Whitehead Guests Welcome Jesus Is Lord! Brussels Mennonite Fellowship Worship Service 10:00 am Sunday School 11:15 am From the Minister’s StudyKeep room for God in your resolutions Continued on page 16