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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 2012-09-20, Page 12PAGE 12. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2012. By Pastor Mark Royall Huron Chapel Evangelical Missionary Church, Auburn This past Sunday marked our first full year at Huron Chapel for me and my family and we are loving it. On Sunday I celebrated by giving everyone who came to church a small paper cup with a single coffee bean inside of it. You might be thinking sarcastically to yourself, “Wow, that Pastor Mark sure is a generous guy. He gave them a whole coffee bean.” The fact is the coffee bean in their cup wasn’t just any ordinary coffee bean. Their bean was the best of the best and most rare and expensive coffee bean in the world. It was a Kopi Luwak coffee bean costing at its peak around $1,000 a kilogram. Only about between 200 and 300 kilograms of this coffee makes it to the market every year. Kopi Luwak coffee comes from only one place on earth: the island of Sumatra in Indonesia in a region known as Java. This past week I bought and had sent to me in Blyth from Indonesia one-quarter pound of these rare coffee beans to share with our Huron Chapel people. You won’t find this coffee bean anywhere else in Huron County. In fact I believe there is only one store in Canada that sells Kopi Luwak coffee at about $10 a cup and it is in Vancouver. There was a reason I gave everyone a coffee bean but for you to understand why, I need to first share with you a little of what my message was about Sunday morning. We know Jesus’ story of the Prodigal Son. We know it well because it is our story. There is a word the Prodigal Son used when He came to His father that described how he felt about himself. That word is, ‘unworthy’. He said to his father, “I am unworthy to be called your son.” He is basically saying, “After all I have done against you, after all my dismal failures I am unworthy to have you do anything for me. My life has been like a trash can and I have filled with it trash and By Pastor Andrew Versteeg Brussels Community Bible Chapel “Where did the summer go?” That is a question that I have heard a number of times recently. I guess to answer that question we could say that it came and went at the same speed as every summer previous to this one. Generally we enjoy summer; the weather is warm, people are out, we have our vacations and family reunions and before long our children are back to their schoolwork. It has felt the same at church. A number of our youth served in camp ministries, some in our congregation travelled, and we were able to host a vacation Bible school. Now fall is here and we are beginning our fall programs again. One of the things that I enjoy doing is visiting with our seniors. I enjoy listening to them relate their life experiences. It is interesting to hear how life was in the past compared to how it is today. I enjoy listening as they relate how the Lord led them in their lives, how He led them through adversity, through challenges, and through joy. It often warms my heart to hear about how they came to know the Lord Jesus as their Savior and what the Lord has taught them along the way. I am at a point in my life now that I can talk about things I did 20 and 25 years ago. It seems kind of odd because it feels like it was just yesterday. The reality is that it was not that long ago. Though a lot of things have happened and a lot of water has passed under the bridge, time has moved by rather quickly. This past Sunday, we heard a message at church from Psalm 39. King David wrote this Psalm and in it he is asking the Lord to enable him to understand life, and in particular the length or extent of his life. He realizes that he is being tempted to think that life is long and that he need not think about his end. David is being tempted to live only for the moment and not to worry about the future because it seems so far away. He prays, “Lord, make me to know my end.” He is asking the Lord to help him realize that his days are short and there will be an end. Psalm 90:10 says, “the length of our days is seventy years – or eighty if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.” Our first reaction when we read Psalms like these might be to say, “this is kind of depressing, who wants to think about the length of our lives and death?” But this is not God’s intention. His intention is that we would be wise and live in reality. Again Psalm 90 says, “teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” It is wise to consider the length of our days. It is wise to think about these things. It is wise to ask questions like, why is there suffering and why is there death, why is life short? God gives us the answers to these questions in His Word, the Bible. Right from the beginning to the end the Bible gives us the answers to life. In a nutshell Jesus Christ is the answer to these questions. Life is short and full of trouble because we have ignored God and disobeyed Him. God is judging us for our sin, but in His mercy He sent His Son Jesus to take that judgment for us. Trust in Him and you will experience new life now and the promise of eternal life with Him forever. God transforms people: Royall 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. Youre Invited to come worship with us Sunday, September 23 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 Hwy. 4, Blyth 519-523-4743 www.blythcrc.ca SUNDAYS Morning Service 10:00 am Evening Service 7:30 pm BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH getlivingwater.org Pastor: Ernest Dow ~ 519-523-4848 Living Water Christian Fellowship tSept. 23: Is. 11:6; Lk. 10:25ff Evangelical Missionary Church Habitat for Humanity - Huron: “Theology of the Hammer” Coming Sept. 30 - Our 11th Anniversary! 10:30 a.m. ~ Worship & Sunday School at 308 Blyth Rd. (NEW LOCATION!former Church of God Building) 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 250 Princess St., Brussels 519-887-6388 www.bmfchurch.com Guests Welcome Jesus Is Lord! Brussels Mennonite Fellowship Worship Service 10:00 am Sunday School 11:15 am 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 SEPTEMBER 23 ~ Why People Look Up To You...Yes You! SEPTEMBER 30 ~ You Can’t Always Get What You Want! MELVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BRUSSELS Rev. Elwin Garland SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Wheelchair accessible ~ Nursery care available 519-887-9017 10:00 am - Sunday Morning Worship - Sunday School 119 John’s Ave., Auburn 519-526-1131 www.huronchapel.org Rev. Mark Royall, Sr. Pastor 9:25 a.m. Sunday School for all ages 10:30 a.m Morning Worship Service Olympians Begins September 26th at 6:30 pm!!! Our children’s program for kids JK-Gr. 6 begins iwth “Barefoot Olympics” Night. This is a night of games and fun that requires bare feet! It is also registration night so bring your parents!!! From the Minister’s StudyPastor talks to seniors, looks back at history 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 Continued on page 15