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will hold its
Annual Meeting
Thursday, January 26
7 pm at the Blyth Inn
Please RSVP to
raelliott@tcc.on.ca
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Please plan to attend this short meeting
to socialize and to discuss upcoming
plans for the planting season.
Profiting from the Scriptures
by J.C. Ryle
(7) For another thing, read the Bible fairly and honestly.
Determine to take everything is its plain, obvious meaning--and regard all forced
interpretations with great suspicion. As a general rule, whatever a verse of the Bible
seems to mean--it does mean! Cecil’s rule is a very valuable one, “The right way of
interpreting Scripture is to take it as we find it, without any attempt to force it into any
particular theological system.”
(to be continued next week)
A Grace Gem
Submitted by: Immanuel United Reformed Church,
Listowel, ON 519-291-1956
Live well by helpingand loving others
Greeting worshippers at Blyth
United Church on Sunday, Jan. 22
were Gwen Papple and Shirley Fyfe.
Ushering were Rob Mason, Nancy
Hakkers and Nicole Kerr. Floyd
Herman was in charge of the music
and Fred Hakkers ran the power
point. Caden Mason lit the candles
at the front of the church.
Rev. Gary Clark welcomed
everyone to church on this bright
sunny day. He drew everyone’s
attention to the announcements in
the bulletin with special mention
that the ladies will be making turkey
pies on Feb. 8.
Keep in mind that the annual
meeting is on Feb. 19. The singing
of the call to worship, “Come All
You People” was followed by the
prayer of approach said
responsively. The first hymn, “Come
and Find a quiet Centre” was sung.
The children were asked to come
to the front for their story time. Rev.
Clark had a long balloon in his hand
and he asked the children how he
should blow it up. He blew at it but
that didn’t work and the children
told him to put it in his mouth and
blow and behold a long balloon
appeared. He explained to them that
we are all the same as the balloon.
The balloon holds the air when we
breathe into it and we hold the
breath that God breathes into us. He
then proceeded to make the balloon
into the shape of a dog, explaining
that God makes us in all shapes and
sizes. God helps us to become theperson we are. If we don’t know
what to do sometimes we should ask
the adults for help. The children
went downstairs for their time of
fellowship. Braidon Abell-Rinn
carried the Christ Candle down to
Sunday School.
The scripture was from Mark 1:
21-28. The next hymn was “Jesus
Keep Me Near the Cross”. Rev.
Clark’s message to the adults was
“Health Care Tips”. We turn to Jesus
for a healthy soul (faith).
The scriptures tell us that Jesus
began His teachings very simply. He
went to the synagogue in
Capernaum. The people there were
amazed at His teaching and He
taught with authority, commanding
the evil spirit leave the man with the
unclean spirit.
The people thought this was a new
way of teaching. In the movie The
Bucket List the two characters make
NEWS
FROM BLYTH
By Marilyn
Craig
Call
523-9318
From Marilyn’s Desk
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Grade 6 class excited for flight
Sunday morning breakfast
The Blyth Legion and the Blyth Legion Ladies Auxiliary held a Sunday morning breakfast over
the weekend at Memorial Hall in Blyth. (Jim Brown photo)
We are glad to hear that Jim
Wilson is recovering at home after
having surgery. We wish him a
speedy recovery.
Happy birthday to Fred Hakkers
who celebrates Jan. 27; Doug
Howson, Jan. 31 and Brenda Edgar
of Clinton, Feb. 1.
Will Willie see his shadow on Feb.
2. Six more weeks of a winter like
this and it will not be too much of a
hardship. We have had a very mild
winter so far. Today while I am
writing this column it is 5°C and
raining. The rain has taken most of
the snow away and there is bare
ground showing up outside my
window.
By Phaedra Scott
This past week, the Grade 7/8
students started a new unit in
science on fluids, no doubt hoping
to see more tubes and experiments.
The Grade 6 students are actually
excited to do their science
homework for a change. They have
started a new unit on flight and their
homework is to make a paper
airplane which will be used next
week to help them understand how
increasing mass will increase the
force of gravity acting on their
planes.
The Grade 6/7 and 7/8 classes are
continuing to recreate their favourite
Van Gogh paintings in art.
Reminder that those Grade 8
students planning on going to
Central Huron Secondary School
need to return their course selection
forms to school.
Grade 6/7 students are busy
preparing for their acting debuts. In
groups, they chose a current event
and wrote a script to depict a scene
as a news broadcaster. Soon they wil
be “going live from the studio” to
present their news segment to the
rest of the class.
By Hunter Dale
In the Grade 1/2 class, the
students are learning about 2-D
shapes.
Using their knowledge of each
shape’s attributes, they have created
winter pictures to show how
geometry is reflected in their
environment.
The students have enjoyed
scavenger hunts about the
classroom to locate shapes and can
successfully record their learning
through pictures and words. As a
next step, students will explore 3-D
shapes and compared similarities
and differences. During language
activities they continue to explore
the virtue of responsibility and think
about ways to be responsible in the
classroom, at school, at home and in
the community.
Of course with the arrival of
winter and snow, students are
enjoying a variety of cross
curricular learning opportunities to
explore snow. The Junior
Kindergarten students learned about
the various parts of a train as part of
their unit on transportation – the
locomotive, tender and all the
different kinds of train cars –
hopper, tanker, flatbed, box, cattle
and gondola cars. They made a
sorting train with their Grade 3/4
buddies and moved about the
classroom like a train. They are
looking forward to reading about
Groundhog Day coming,
will winter continue?
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