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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 2010-07-22, Page 12PAGE 12. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010. Please join us for worship SUNDAYS Morning Service 10:00am Evening Service 7:30pm BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH Pastor John Kuperus Hwy. 4, Blyth Upcoming Events: Vacation Bible School will be at the Blyth CRC on July 26-30th 9 am - 12 noon Outdoor Service and Potluck Picnic will be on Sunday, August 1 at the Blyth Lions Park. YOU ARE WELCOME 9:45 a.m. Sunday School for all ages 10:30 a.m. - Sunday Morning Worship Mid-week Bible Study C H U R C H O F G O D ,ANDERS O N , I N D I A N A Timeless Truths For Today 308 Blyth Rd. E., Blyth Pastor Les Cook ~ 519-523-4590 Blyth Community Church of God Youre Invited to come worship with us Sunday, July 25 Brussels Arena at 10:30 a.m. and various homes at 6:30 p.m. Sunday School for children 4 to 11 years of age (mornings only) Childcare provided for infants and toddlers Coffee & cookies after the morning service For additional details please contact: Steve Klumpenhower 519.887.8651 Rick Packer 519.527.0173 Chris McMichael 519.482.1644 BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA Sandra Cable, Worship Leader Church Office 519-887-6259 E-mail - bepc@wightman.ca Celebrating our Christian Faith together in worship Outdoor Church Service July 25 at 11:00 a.m. at the Conservation Area. Potluck lunch. 119 John’s Ave.,Auburn 519-526-1131 www.huronchapel.org 10:30 a.m. Morning Worship Service Speaker: Rev.Eugene Neudorf No Sunday School for summer months ATHLETES IN ACTION SOCCER CAMP August 16th - 20th Room is still available, call the church office to register 519-526-1131 From the Minister’s StudySchool closure doesn’t spell town’s demiseBrent Kipfer, BrusselsMennonite Fellowship“Young families won’t move hereif the school closes.” “Businesses will suffer if people have one less reason to come into town.” “Property values are going to plunge.” “Without a school, we are a dying community.” Our fight to save local schools is not simply about education, but about the future of our rural communities. The school battle is not finished – and I do not want to downplay its ongoing importance; at the same time, I believe that our communities need to reject the idea that we face inevitable decline if our schools do close. We rarely understand how ourattitudes (and what we expect tohappen) powerfully shape the futurethat we create for ourselves. If we believe that our communities are in a slide toward an inevitable death, then we will tend to act in ways that make it a self-fulfilling prophecy. Imagine that a friend is thinking about starting a new business. He or she asks about the community where you live: “What’s it like?” If you accept the lie that there is no future here, you will likely not give an enthusiastic answer. Will your friend then consider opening up shop here? Not likely. I am not recommending Pollyanna positive thinking to pretend that closing schools makes no difference to us. It certainly does. I am, however, urging our communities toreject self-defeating assumptionsabout our future.Whether or not my children need to ride a bus to school, I believe our community can have a vibrant future. It can continue to be a wonderful place to raise a family, a great place to do business, an attractive place to have fun and an inviting place to worship God. We can continue to help neighbours in a tragedy and provide a place where people from diverse backgrounds and unique personalities can be valued and loved. I see good evidence that we continue to believe this. Would a service club invest more than $100,000 into refurbishing a ball diamond in a dying community? Not a chance! Would a longstanding main street business totally rebuildits office space, going the extra milewith top quality masonry if itbelieved there was no future here? No way. We do have to counter government policy, economic forces and cultural attitudes that favour cities over rural communities. We, who live here, though, do not need to be sold on our future. We know that our neighbourhoods continue to be exceptional places to live. The prophet Jeremiah lived at an incredibly depressing time in Israel’s history. The Babylonians had destroyed the city of Jerusalem. The temple lay in ruins. Many of the people were living in exile. In a time of hopelessness, God made a promise to his people, saying, “...I know the plans I have for you... plans to prosper you and notto harm you, plans to give you hopeand a future.” (Jeremiah 29:11)By faith, I believe that our communities can claim this promise for ourselves. What will our neighbourhoods be like in 20 years? That will largely be up to us – but we can trust God to lead us, building communities where anyone would love to live. getlivingwater.org Pastor: Ernest Dow ~ 519-523-4848 Living Water Christian Fellowship Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada July 25 - 2 Thess. 3 “Doing or Dawdling?” Shared summer services at Blyth Community Church of God at 10:30 am. July 26-30: Community Vacation Bible School at Blyth CRC Info/music/register at www.vacationbibleschool.com/blyth This Friday, between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Blyth will be hosting its second blood donor clinic in two years, with hopes of collecting nearly 100 units of blood to meet its quota. Achieving the quota, which is set by Canadian Blood Services, warrants a community hosting a clinic the following year. This quota was exceeded by Blyth in 2009. The clinic, which will be at the Blyth Community Centre was brought to the community by several enthusiastic members of the Blyth Masonic Lodge, with the help of Masons from around Huron County and all of southwestern Ontario. With the summer months being the time when blood is in its highest demand, Blyth Mason John Elliott said that this is a crucial time to hold a clinic, knowing that a healthy collection of donations could mean the world to many Canadians in coming months. When speaking of donations and how many units are collected, Elliott says, it is important to note that whole blood is not always what is utilized from donations. Many blood products can be extracted from the donation for very specific medicinal reasons. Things like plasma, red blood cells, platelets, cryoprecipitate and cryosupernatant plasma can all be taken from the whole blood for specific reasons for specific patients in need. Signs have been placed around the village to alert residents of the clinic and Elliott says he hopes to fill the quota again this year, helping to make the clinic an annual event in Blyth as it once was. THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA Welcomes you to come and worship with us Trinity, Blyth 9:15 a.m. 519-523-9595 St. John's, Brussels 11:15 a.m. 519-887-6862 Sunday, July 25 Corner of Dinsley & Mill Street Blyth United Church Office: 519-523-4224 Rev. Gary Clark All Welcome Sunday, July 25 Worship Service at 11 a.m. MELVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BRUSSELS SUNDAY, JULY 25 Wheelchair accessible ~ Nursery care available 519-887-2664 10:00 am - Sunday Morning Worship - Sunday School Blyth hosts second blood drive in two years Storms hammer local counties South Bruce and Huron County residents found themselves under the threat of a tornado late Sunday night and early Monday morning. A thunderstorm watch was issued for South Bruce and North Huron at 9:05 p.m. on Sunday July 18, followed by a tornado warning at 10:37 p.m. on Sunday night according to Geoff Coulson of Environment Canada. At 11:35 p.m., the tornado warning was extended to the rest of Huron County. Shortly after, the storms began at 11:20 p.m. The predicted storms then entered northern Huron County, and exited the southern end of the county at 2:40 a.m on Monday, July 19. During that time, the tornado warning was downgraded to a serious thunderstorm warning at 12:37 a.m. on July 19, and that warning was dismissed at 2:50 a.m. The storms knocked out power in Kincardine and Saugeen Shores, but no damage or severe power outages have been reported in Huron County.