HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1989-03-01, Page 15From the Minister's Study THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1989. PAGE 15.
Christians need help and inspiration to follow Him
BY REV. CHARLES
CARPENTIER
BRUSSELS AND ETHEL
UNITED CHURCHES
TV commercials are driving
crazy!! I’m not a TV critic, but the
messages they’re sending out have
me quite confused.
I’ve tried that after-shave lotion
Reverend Warren H. Lammers is the New Blyth Christian Reformed Church
minister. He and his wife, Jobje, and three of their four children have moved
here from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Rev. Lammers and his family are
enjoying the pace of life here and are looking forward to getting to know the
families in his parish.
Blyth Christian Reformed
welcome new pastor
and I didn’t turn into a sexy sailing
captain. In fact on the first Sunday
morning in church people took one
whiff and quickly moved to the
back of the church, where they still
are!
When I tried feeding the cat the
special gourmet stuff in a crystal
glass, she bit me. Or what about
the guy, who is climbing some rock
mountain by the roaring ocean and
he opens a container of margarine.
Why didn’t the dodo make his
sandwiches before he started out, I
keep wondering? Are we supposed
to carry margarine with us every
where? Doesn’t it spoil?
But what do I know. I’m just as
much a victim as the average
viewer. My laundry has never been
whiter than white. When 1 take the
garbage out my trash bags split. I
even flunked the Pepsi challenge!
But there is one commercial, I can
count on. Made by John the
Apostle of Love: ‘‘God loved us so
dearly that he sent his only Son
into the world, so that we might
have life through Him, and who
ever loves is a child of God and
knows God.” (John 4: 9-10).
People who know God are people
who realize that their love and the
love of God can illuminate the
loneliest and darkest night. Can
shed light in the darkest cave. Can
make safe the most dangerous and
precarious of paths. People of love
are people who are not afraid to
bear the paschal candle, knowing
that those to whom they bring it
may well attempt to extinguish it.
Thank God for John’s commercial,
because it has produced people of
love, who are not afraid to get their
hands dirty. Who do not attempt to
kick while down ... even by gossip
... but rather are not afraid to be
seen lending an uplifting hand, and
who can sing with Mary: ‘‘My
spirit delights in God my Saviour.”
(Luke 1:47). Did you ever make this
statement?
If the Christian Church wants to
be Christian, it irust follow its
Master and not be ashamed to be
associated with the px>r, the
alcoholic, the offender, the deviate.
Of course, we who are Christians,
need help and inspiration to do
that. But we have an example:
Jesus Christ. He came, we are told,
not to condemn the world but that
the world through him might be
saved. Are we his followers?
Melville
Presbyterian Church
BRUSSELS
CAROLYN McAVOY
[Candidate for a Call]
Sunday, 11 A.M. MORNING SERVICE
March 5 SUNDAY SCHOOL
9:30 A.M. BELGRAVE SERVICE
' Taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man
who takes refuge in him. ' [Psalm 34:8]
WANT TO BE PART OF A NEW
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP?
COME TO BRUSSELS PUBLIC SCHOOL
Sundaysat11:00a.m. Rev. Victor Jamieson 887-6858
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March 5/89 Holy Eucharist
Lent 4 Theme: God Forgives
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BRUSSELS UNITED CHURCH
King Street
Minister - Reverend Charles Carpentier
Sunday, 11:00 a.m. Morning Service
March 5 Sunday School - Nursery Care
Minister’s Subject: “The Spirit of Forgiveness”
The God who created all is love.
“I honestly feel that you can’t be
a good pastor unless you know your
people.” This is the immediate
goal of the Blyth’s new Christian
Reformed minister, Rev. Warren
Lammers.
‘ ‘ I want to get to know the people
and the struggles they have; the
pastoral needs they have!” Rev.
Lammers said last week.
Rev. Lammers, his wife Jobje,
and three of their four children;
Sarah 16, Ruth 13, and Rachel, 11,
moved to Blyth in January. (The
couple’s oldest child, son, Paul, 17
had to remain behind in Grand
Rapids, Michigan to complete his
education.)
Ironically it was six years ago
when the family camped at Point
Farms and worshipped in the
Christian Reformed Church here on
a Sunday morning, never thinking
that one day they would take up
residence here. Then this past
August he was contacted followed
closely by an official letter of call on
September 4.
‘‘We enjoy the pace of life here.
It is a much healthier lifestyle than
the one we were accustomed to.”
Reverend Lammers was born
and raised in the middle of Ameri
ca’s farm country, Wisconsin. He
assumes that perhaps that is why
he ‘‘seems to plug in O.K. here.”
He received his seminary training
at Calvin Theological Seminary,
graduating from there in 1976. The
39-year-old minister is currently
working on his Doctorate of Mini
stry, from Westminster Theological
Seminary in Escondido, California.
Jobje Lammers is jokingly referr
ed to by her husband as ‘‘My
Gypsy.” She was born in the
Netherlands, then at the age of 5
came with her family to the
Mississauga area. She met her
husband while they attended the
Trinity Christian College in South
Chicago.
Reverend Lammers and his wife
share the belief that the basic unit
of society is the family and not the
individual. “The world is becoming
more alert to the fact that the
family unit needs to receive more
protection within society,” he said.
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a settlement.
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