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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 1999-08-18, Page 13THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1999. PAGE 13. From the Minister’s Study Message describes a farmer’s faith By Rev. Cecil Wittich Blyth United Church "God and I raised 50 acres of com this year. He created the soil, laid deep reservoirs of moisture beneath it. and changed leaves and Kids laugh, Every afternoon last week 70 children from the Brussels area lined up outside the Brussels Mennonite Fellowship church waiting for the door to open for the Vacation Bible School. By l p.m., when the 18 group leaders and helpers were at their stations in the gym, Chairperson Yvonne Dettweiler welcomed the children who quickly found their group leaders and received their name tags. After practising their “group cheers”, which were created by the children, everyone moved to the chapel to learn action worship songs led by the Troupe, five university students hired by the Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada for their special talents in music, drama, crafts and working with children. grass into plant food. "I plowed the land, harrowed it and buried grains of corn in neat rows. "Grains of corn! They would have been as pebbles had not God breathed the breath of life into each grain. "I left the planted field in His care. The warmth of His sunshine played upon it. Tiny green shoots appeared. "I cultivated the ground as God worked by my side. If he had not learn at Kid’s Corner MARY AGNES EARL Mary Agnes Earl passed away suddenly on Sunday, Aug. I, 1999 at the Guelph General Hospital. She was 43. The former Mary Druar was the beloved wife of Rick Earl, and dear daughter of Margaret Druar of Kitchener and the late Alex Druar. She was the daughter-in-law of Chester and Ruth Earl of Atwood, and loving sister of John Druar and his wife Donna of St. Clements, Peter Druar and his wife Margaret, Paul Druar and his wife Pam, all of Kitchener; Theresa Pagnan and husband John of Guelph; and Ann Klundert and her husband Jack of Windsor. She was the much loved sister-in-law of Dennis and Joan Earl, Sault Ste. Marie; Gary and Beth Earl, RR2, Listowel, and Judy Earl of London. Funeral mass was held on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 1999 at Holy Rosary Church, 175 Emma St., Guelph at 10 a.m. Interment was in Merrymount Cemetery, Guelph. Mary will be sadly missed by all of her patients and staff at The theme for this year’s Kids’ Corner was “Simon Peter - from fisherman to follower”. Each day the Troupe enacted a short drama showing how Simon Peter learned to follow Jesus and how he grew in faith, 'loyalty, courage and acceptance. The volunteers and group leaders who made Kids’ Corner happen came from every church in Brussels. Each church also donated enoug-h money to allow the children to attend without paying a fee. The children brought an offering each day which was used to make school kits to provide valuable supplies to school-age children in places such as Bosnia, Egypt, Haiti, Iraq, Laos, Nicaragua, Russia, Sudan and the West Bank. Offerings for the week totalled Homewood Hospital where she nursed for 23 years, as well as by her nephews, nieces and many, many friends. ARDYSS CAROLINE JOHNSTON Mrs. Ardyss Johnston of Wingham passed away at London Health Sciences Centre, London on Friday, Aug. 13, 1999. She was 79. She was the beloved wife of the late Clark Johnston who predeceased her in 1989 and dear mother of Linda Rutherford of Fisherman’s Cove and Janette and John DeMedeiros of London. She was the beloved sister of Gertrude Tiffin of Wingham. Mrs. Johnston $397 which will supply 60 school kits consisting of four spiral notebooks, four unsharpened #2 pencils, one ruler, one chunky pink eraser and one box of 16-24 crayons. Midaftemoon, the children sat in a large circle on the gym floor where they were served snacks and juice. Then it was on to craft or drama time or a nature study. Children who were vacationing in Brussels also came to Kids’ Comer, some from as far away as Prince Edward Island. On Friday afternoon parents and family were invited to a half hour celebration time when the children demonstrated the actions songs and Bible verses they had learned. The Troup performed one of their dramas about Simon Peter. Refreshments were served. is also survived by seven grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. She was predeceased by her parents Ethel (Bell) and William Brown. Visitation was at the McBurney Funeral Home, Wingham on Sunday from 2 - 4 and 7 - 9 p.m. Funeral service was held at the McBurney Funeral Home on Monday at 1:30 p.m. Rev. John P. Vaudry officiated. Interment was in Brandon Cemetery, East Wawanosh Twp. Memorial donations to Huron- Perth Lung Association would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy. done His work well, I should have failed. If I had not done my work well, He would have failed. "With my two horses I drove up and down the long rows. God used 121,000 horses in the field - 2,420 hp units of e-nergy per acre every moment that the sun shone. "Throughout the long summer, He watered the growing crop, not like the meagre dripping of a garden hose; He distributed 165,000 tons of water over the 50 acres of earth. "He fed the corn from His abundant store of carbon dioxide, little green chlorophyll bodies in the blades received the hot rays of the sun and sifted out the energy the plants needed to digest nitrogen as they sucked it up from God’s pantry underground. "I worked 500 hours on our 50 acres. "God worked more than six hours to my one - 24 hours a day all summer without passing a minute. "Even after I had finished my work, laid the com by and left the field, He stayed on. He still had to put rich pollen in the yellow tassels, and send His breezes to scatter it over the silky stamens that curled from 4 million green husks. "In this He worked alone. He was performing a miracle beyond the skill of any human hand or the understanding of the most scientific mind. Without a miracle I should have had no com for my labour. "Each grain I planted in May became a thousand grains in September. "God packed each grain with potential bone and sinew for my family and my cattle. "He endowed each grain with the germ of life so skillfully wrought, so delicately specialized, so exact in every ingredient that it could reproduce in corn and nothing but corn. "The corn we raised is His and mine, for we are fellow workers." BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA Rev. Christine Johnson - Minister Church Office 887-6259 Home 887-6540 Services for the month of August are being held at Melville Presbyterian Church ALL ARE WELCOME FOR OUR SUMMERTIME WORSHIP SERVICES! Blyth United Church Come Worship The Lord With Us Blyth United Church welcomes their new pastor Rev. Ernest Dow on Sunday, Aug. 22 at 11 a.m. Minister ~ Rev. Ernest Dow ALL ARE WELCOME 523-4224 ‘J'ou are. ‘Wetcome at the BLYTH COMMUNITY CHURCH OF GOD 9:45 a.m. - Sunday School for Children and Adults 11:00 a.m. - Morning Worship Bible Studies - Wednesday 10 a.m. & 7:30 p.m. Phone 523-4590 McConnell St., Blyth THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA you are welcome this Sunday AUGUST 22 - PENTECOST 13 MORNING PRAYER Trinity, Blyth St. John's, 9:30 a.m. Brussels Wheelchair accessible 11:15 a.m. Rev. Nancy Beale - Rector - 887-9273 J Join Us for Worship at Brussels Mennonite Fellowship each Sunday in August at 9:30 a.m. (no Sunday School in August) Everyone Welcome! Pastor Ben Wiebe 887-6388 HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH Auburn - 526-7555 PASTOR DAVE WOOD - 523-9017 ASSOCIATE PASTOR - YOUTH - JEREMY SHUART 523-9788 Sunday 8:45 a.m.- Morning Worship Service 10:00 a.m.- Family Bible Hour 11 a.m.- Morning Worship Service 8 p.m.- Evening Service Wednesday 7:30 p.m.- Prayer & Bible Study Friday 7:30 p.m.- Youth frtea&e join u& fat uiai&hip Sunday Morning Worship Service ~ 10 a.m. Evening Worship Service - 7:30 p.m. "Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus." Colossians 3:17 BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH Rev. Adrian A. Van Geest Hwy. 4, Blyth 523-9233 Wheelchair accessible MELVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BRUSSELS - Morning Service - Sunday School - Belgrave Service Wheelchair accessible Nursery care available We welcome you to come and worship with us. Rev. Cathrine Campbell - 887-9831 11:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Cornerstone Bible Fellowship Ethel Communion - 9:45 - 10:30 Family Bible Hour and Sunday School 11:00 - 12:00 Prayer & Bible Study Tuesday 8 p.m. John 14:6 - Jesus said, "I am the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE, no one comes to the Father, but through Me." Everyone Welcome For more information call 887-6665