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Sunday 10:00 a.m. & 7:30 p.m.
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BRUSSELS UNITED CHURCH
Manse 887-9313
Morning Worship
"Blessed are the Merciful"
Church School/Nursery
St. Patrick's Day Pancake Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30 a.m. - Lower Hall
Ethel Morning Worship
Church School
"Joyful, joyful we adore Thee"
Welcome to Brussels United
Rev. Cameron McMillan
Church Office 887-6259
11:00 a.m.
9:30 a.m.
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1996 PAGE 15.
Guest speaker at Mennonite service
Norman Barlow from Vanastra
was the guest speaker at Brussels
Mennonite Fellowship on Sunday,
March 10.
The message was based on 1
Samuel 17. Just as David faced the
Giant, Goliath, Christians too, face
many giants in everyday life. They
may be conflicts with other people,
career choices, a battle with
disease, etcetera. Christians are not
immune to pain and tragedies of
life, but the Bible gives them the
way to approach these giants. Jesus
himself suffered on the cross, he
certainly did not lack faith.
People cannot always count on
family or friends to support them in
their problems, Barlow said. Iliab
did not support his brother, David,
when David faced the giant. David
offered to fight the giant even
though he was a small boy because
he had faith. He knew he had a God
greater than the problem and
remembered times in the past when
God had been with him. God can
do the impossible. God wasn't just
in the past; he's here now in the
It was the Third Sunday of Lent
with the seasonal colour - purple at
the service at Blyth United Church,
March 10. Greeters were Rick and
Ann Elliott. Ushering the many
worshippers were Diane and Jill
Walden, Vera Badley and Brenda
McDonald. Shirley Vincent was
organist.
Rev. Stephen Huntley, opened
the service with greetings. The call
to worship was followed with the
singing of the Introit, with Rev.
Huntley accompanying on guitar.
For the children's time, Rev.
Huntley had them participate in the
sacrament of baptism, having one
child hold the water, another the
towel and the other the candle.
Bryce Robert Wheeler, infant son
of Wayne and Julie was baptized in
an impressive ceremony with the
choral kids forming a circle
singing, Welcome to the Family.
Loma Fraser, clerk of session then
presented Bryce to the
present and will be here in the
future.
Barlow said, If we have a life in
which they walk with God they
know that God is there as they face
their giants, just as he has been here
for them in the past. Saul wanted
David to use armor or worldly
weapons, because he was walking
in the flesh, but David refused them
for he was walking in the spirit.
Sometimes God gives problems to
show His power. If he doesn't
deliver people he will develop them
through the problems.
Rod Steinman led the service,
and Mervin Lichty and Kathy
Procter were in charge of the
singing. Michelle Lichty played the
piano for the offertory. Following
Sunday School a potluck meal was
held in the fellowship hall.
The youth group have a busy
scheduled for March break. One
group will go to Hamilton from
March 11 - 16 as a mission service
project with the Welcome Inn
Community Centre and Church.
They will work with seniors and
congregation.
Following the baptism, the choral
kids, under the direction of Susan
Howson sang, We're Singing
Praises with Shirley Vincent
accompanying on piano.
The Old Testament lesson was
from Genesis and the New
Testament lesson from Romans,
read by Rick Elliott. The Gospel
lesson was from John, Chapter 3
and was read by the minister.
Rev. Huntley delivered a sermon
entitled "Born, Again?" He said,
"We have a physical birth and a
spiritual birth. How can this be?
We have trouble with the spiritual
and can relate better to physical.
After all we are physical beings and
like what we can see and touch."
Nicodemus, he said, saw the
evidence yet wasn't convinced of
the reality. Dr. David Suzuki of The
Nature of Things talks about global
warming, Rev. Huntley said. He
says we only react to what we can
see and don't take seriously of what
lead a children's program for three
mornings as well as help in a
variety of other ways. Terry
Pardys, Kristi Procter, Phailop
Larprom, Cindy Koch, Christine
Knorr, Tracy Goodland, Christine
Knorr, will go on this venture
under the leadership of Aaron
Cardiff and Bev Brown.
The other group, consisting of
Lyle Hemingway, Brandon Anger,
Darlene Hemingway, Sharlene
Keupfer, Michelle Lichty, Tobi
Farell, Sue Huigenbos, Ben Dett-
weiler, John-Eric Pardys, and
leaders Ray Martin and Wendy
Martin will go to Montreal where
they will be serving at the follow-
ing locations: Mason Benedict
Labre, Maison Juan Moreno, St.
Michael's Mission, Grace Dart
Hospital. The Montreal Group will
be away March 16 to March 23.
Saturday, March 16 from
9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Kids' Break will
be held at the church for
community children, kindergarten
to Grade 6. The Genesis Company
will present DINOSAUR DAYS.
we are not convinced. We have
evidence of global warming -
changed weather patterns and
flooding in the lower coastlines in
Australia, yet we are not
convinced. To believe in global
warming is a radical understanding,
an entirely new way of seeing."
In conclusion, Rev. Huntley said,
people see the evidence of God's
Kingdom yet they are not con-
vinced. "Look at the person of
Jesus and say 'Yes', like
Nicodemus. There is something of
God here. Our task is to lift up
Jesus, not by being perfect, but
allowing the Holy Spirit to work
with us, to renew us daily."
Among the announcements Bev.
Snell had from session were that
Harvey Snell will be conducting
the service March 24 and Lorenzo
Rameriz will be guest minister for
Anniversary Sunday.
The service closed with the
choral response, Go Now in Peace.
Brussels Mennonite Fellowship
9:30 a.m. Worship Service
Speaker: Paul Siemon
10:30 a.m. Sunday School (for all ages)
Everyone Welcome
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
You are wet-come ths Sunday
March 17 - Lent 4
Holy Eucharist - BAS
Rev. Nancy Beale
Trinity, Blyth St. John's, Brussels
9:30 a.m. 11:15 a.m.
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
Elliotts greet at United
Belgrave residents hear history I MELVILLE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BRUSSELS
Rev. Cathrine Campbell
11:00 a.m. - Morning Service
- Sunday School
9:30 a.m. - Belgrave Service
More than 60 people enjoyed a
delicious potluck dinner on
Tuesday, March 5 at the Women's
Institute Hall, following the
blessing, which was pronounced by
the Rev. John Roberts. A sing-song
was led by Dorothy Coultes
accompanied on the piano by Mary
Coultes.
Ada Taylor (the curator for the
Tweedsmuir History) introduced
Gladys Van Camp who spoke on
the early history of the Anglican
church until it closed this past
spring (1995).
In 1866, the first Anglican
Church services in this area were
held in the Orange Lodge Hall on
the Nethery farm, 2 1/2 miles south
of Belgrave, under the leadership of
Rev. Wm. Murphy.
A few years later an option on a
parcel of land closer to the village
was taken out, but soon the people
decided to purchase a lot in
Belgrave and a frame building was
erected in the 1870s. At that time
the Belgrave congregation was part
of a large parish consisting of
Blyth, Auburn, Dungannon, Port
Albert and Summerhill, with
services on alternate Sundays or
once a month.
In 1902 the church was jacked up
and a stone foundation put under it,
the chancel was built up and the
whole building covered with brick
veneer.
During this time the Ladies Guild
was organized. The ladies raised
money to buy furnishing for the
church and by 1909 were able to
purchase the Good Shepherd
window for $100 and have it
installed above the altar. The other
stained glass windows were
installed later.
Land was purchased behind the
church and a shed built there to
shelter horses. Mr. Jack Clark
bought the shed, had it dismantled
and re-constructed on his Morris
township farm, to replace his barn
which had been burned. The
leaders of the first Sunday School
were Mr. Charles McCrea and Mr.
Henry Johnson and the first Young
People's group was formed when
Rev. Streeter was rector.
In 1949 the first electric lights
were installed by the late Robert
Procter. The building was always
heated by wood fires in two iron
stoves and the music supplied by a
pump organ.
In 1995 the attendance had
dwindled to 12 active members, so
after much consideration it was
decided to close the church and
amalgamate with St. Paul's,
Wingham.
At the closing service on May 7,
Bishop Robert Townshend de-
consecrated the building and in
Wingham unveiled a new sign with
the name "St. Paul's - Trinity
Anglican Church".
The church property in Belgrave
was purchased by Mr. and Mrs.
Ken Cowan.
Mrs. Van Camp showed part of a
video taken of the two closing
services and had on display several
photos and documents.
Ada Taylor gave the history of
the Queen's Hotel at 13 Queen St.
Continued on page 19
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