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Sweet strains
Visitors and members of the Brussels Mennonite Fellowship Hall enjoyed the music of the
Gospel Echoes Harvest Team, on Aug. 1. The gospel group from the United States, ministers
to 43 states and five provinces.Team members, from left, Barry Maust, Kristi Bender, Lorna
Bender, Glendon Bender and Jordan Bender, take a "message of hope" to prison inmates
and local churches. The group is accompanied by Nanny Lois Seibel who cares for the two
older Bender children as well as young Sawyer Bender while the team performs.
From the Minister's Study
Recreation or Re-creation?
BRUSSELS UNITED CHURCH
Rev. Cameron McMillan
Church Office 887-6259 Manse 887-9313
11:00 a.m. - August Summer Worship Services
9:30 a.m. - Ethel Summer Worship Services
This Is my Father's world, He shines In all that's fair"
BRUSSELS MENNONITE
FELLOWSHIP
9:25 a.m. WORSHIP SERVICE
Guest Speaker and Singers Mark & Heide Hallman
10:30 a.m. Sunday School for All AGes
Potblessing Meal To Follow
Pastor Tow Warner Elder John Baan
887-6388 Welcome 887-6967
You Are Welcome
to the
Myth United Church
August 8
August 15
August 22
August 29
Rev. John Roberts
Muriel Coultas
George Cowan
George Cowan
Phone 523-4224
MELVILLE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BRUSSELS
Rev. Carolyn McAvoy
11:00 a.m. - Morning Service
- Sunday School
9:30 a.m. - Belgrave Service
We welcome you to come and worship with us.
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
You are welcome this Sunday
August 8 - Pentecost 10
Morning Prayer
Trinity, Blyth St. John's, Brussels
9:30 a.m. 11:15 a.m.
Rector, The Rev. E. Paul Acton, 887-9273
HURON CHAPEL MISSIONARY
CHURCH
PASTOR JAMES H. CARNE AUBURN 526-7515
Sunday -10 a.m. - Family Bible Hour
11 a.m. - Morning Service
8 p.m. - Evening Service
Wednesday - 8 p.m. - Prayer & Bible Study
Friday - 7:30 p.m. - Youth - Pastor Bob Lewis 526-7441
You are WeCcome at
the
BLYTH -CHURCH OF GOD
9:45 a.m. - Sunday School for Children and Adults
11 - 12:15 - Morning Worship
Bible Studies - Wednesday 10 a.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Phone 523-4590 McConnell St., Blyth
BLYTH CHRISTIAN
REFORMED CHURCH
HIGHWAY 4, BLYTH--523-9233
Sunday, August 8
10:00 a.m.— Dr. John Van Dorp (at the Blyth CRC)
7:30 p.m.— Dr. John Van Dorp
(at the Blyth Lions Park, weather permitting)
The Church of the "Back to God Hour" and "Faith 20"
Back to God Hour 10:30 a.m. and CKNX Sunday
Faith 20 5:30 a.m. Weekdays, Global T.V.
Aff Visitors Welcome Wheelchair accessible
By Pastor Tom Warner
Brussels Mennonite Fellowship
During this time of year we all
sense an urgency to have a bit of
time for ourselves and the ones we
love. It truly is important to get
away for a bit of recreation
vacation just to get in touch again.
But we just seem so busy that we
wonder if it will ever happen.
This business is often thought to
be unique to our time. But is it?
Consider our so-called labour
saving devices. Consider all the
time it takes to purchase, install,
learn to operate, maintain, have
repaired and finally junk it when
it's done.
So often we think that our older
generation was not as busy. But
have you ever asked them? They
would say that times were just as
busy for them. But when you and I
were children we did not see the
business. Maybe our older
generation had a better sense of the
value of work. The work was
maybe a bit more difficult but we
did not see so many people
suffering from low or no self
esteem then. Yet today the experts
tell us that low self esteem is at
epidemic proportions. Could it be
in our drive to vacation too often or
too long we in fact have hurt
ourselves?
We all know of someone saying
Auburn Missionary Church was
filled to capacity on August 1 as
visitors joined with the regular
congregation to hear The Gospel
Echoes Team from Goshen,
Indiana.
This group delighted the
congregation with many gospel
numbers including "Is That
Wedding Music That I Hear" and
"What On Earth Is Keeping You
From Heaven". This group travels
that they have such a good job,
based on the fact that they do not
do very much work. Recently we
needed a particular service
requiring a shop to make a custom
health item on a Friday. The owner
admitted that it was hard to get her
employees to do much on Friday or
even on Monday.
It just seems a bit strange to get a
full week's pay for only 60 per cent
work.
So where does this leave us in
terms of vacation. There was a
group of men at one time in history
that had tried to get away from
their tasks for just a bit of time. But
the people needed them so
desperately that they were followed
and the task was expected from
them. These men obliged by
serving them. They never
complained, they only served. No
orie spoke on their behalf. In fact
they found fulfillment in their task
that was rewarded with a retirement
scheme that could not be matched
by any other. Nor was their
retirement threatened by inflation,
government, war or depression/
recession.
Who were these men and what
did they do?
They were Jesus Christ and His
apostles. True, Jesus did die for our
sins. But that was His task. He did
throughout Canada and The United
States ministering in prisons
through counselling, Bible studies
and gospel music. There is a
Canadian office in Elmira for this
ministry. At the present time, there
is not a full time Canadian team to
go into the Canadian•prisons;
therefore the team from Indiana
travels into Canada.
The Canadian office in Elmira is
die and because of His death He
has enabled us all to have access
through personal faith in Him to
that retirement called eternal life.
As I see it, human need has not
diminished with all of our modern -
ways. If anything we need to return
to His way of serving. Our
hospitals needs us to serve without
pay as they enter the last days of
their lives. There are numerous
clubs and groups who need your
help to serve.
You may not connect with a
church, but do you connect with
Jesus Christ? Do we, as a country
really believe in Him and all He
says in His word? If in fact we do
then it is time to show what we are
made of as in Christ. It is time to
get a work ethic that produces
healthy self esteem rather than
couch potatoes. It is time to stop
our lives of careless ease and
become productive helpers of
human kind.
Christ and His ways are the only
hope for our land. We need to
return to Him and seek Him and
become like Him if we ever expect
to survive the days ahead of us.
Let's stop relying on handouts and
learn to rely on the outstretched
hand of God in Jesus Christ.
That is truly Re-Creation.
looking for people interested in
grading Bible correspondence
lessons for the inmates. If anyone is
interested in helping in this area
contact: Gospel Echoes Team, P.O.
Box 333, Elmira, Ontario N3B
2Z7.
Special thanks to the leaders and
helpers for the past week of
Vacation Bible School. It was a
very successful week with an
average of 67 children each day.
Auburn Church hosts gospel choir