HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1998-04-22, Page 15Young voices raised
Music filled the air at Knox church in Cranbrook on Saturday night as a variety of talent
entertained with inspiration and popular song. Members of the Lucknow Youth Choir
performed several numbers.
Alzheimer speaker at Braemar
MELVILLE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BRUSSELS
11:00 a.m. - Morning Service
- Sunday School
9:30 a.m. - Belgrave Service
7:30 p.m. - Tuesday Bible Study
2:00 p.m. - Wednesday Bible Study
Wheelchair accessible
Nursery care available
We welcome you to come and worship with us.
Rev. Cathrine Campbell - 887-9831
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
You are welcome this Sunday
Rev. Nancy Beale
APRIL 26 - EASTER 3
MORNING PRAYER
Trinity, Blyth
St. John's,
9:30 a.m. Brussels
Wheelchair accessible 11:15 a.m.
HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL
MISSIONARY CHURCH
PASTOR JAMES H. CARNE AUBURN 526-7515
ASSOCIATE PASTOR - YOUTH - JEREMY SHUART 523-9788
Sunday
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
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
7:30 p.m. - New Hope Support Group
7:30 p.m. - Prayer & Bible Study
7:30 p.m. - Youth
You are `Welcome 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
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BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Rev. Christine Johnson - Minister
Church Office 887-6259 Home 887-6540
Sunday, April 26, 1998
9:30 a.m. Morning Worship
Ethel
11:00 a.m. Morning Worship
Brussels
Guest Minister: Rev. Todd McDonald of Monkton United Church
as part of the Huron Perth Presbytery Pulpit Exchange.
Monday, April 27 - 5:30 p.m. - Confirmation Classes
COME AND DISCOVER OUR CHURCH!
Please join us for worship this Sunday
Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m.
Evening Worship Service - 7:30 p.m.
(But the wisdom that conies from,yearen is first of all
pure, then peace loring, considerate, submissive, full of
mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.
peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harrest of
righteousness.
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BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
41.
Rev. Adrian A. Van Geest
Hwy. 4, Blyth 523-9233
Wheelchair accessible
W998.1446.A.
From the Minister's Study
Belonging, more than having a place to be
Pastor Ben Wlebe
Brussels Mennonite Fellowship
To belong is much more than to
have a place to be.
Though in our day the list is long
of those people who have been
"displaced": millions of footsore
exiles from Guatemala, Congo,
Cambodia, Laos, Afghanistan and
elsewhere have had to flee and seek
new places to settle. Perhaps just
about as difficult is the migration
taking place within the boundaries
of a single nation. Work is no
longer available in certain areas
(like fishing on the east coast), or
the assertion of one ethnic group
leads to the exclusion of others.
Nor can we leave out here the
many who have continued to live in
the same place but who have lost
contact with other people because
of the many changes around them.
A public education forum will be
held on the topic of "Coping with
Alzheimer's Disease" at Braemar
Retirement Centre in Wingham on
Wednesday, April 29 at 7 p.m. Mrs.
Shelley Rodgers-Bedard, the guest
speaker, is the administrator of the
Huron County Alzheimer's Society.
Alzheimer's Disease is one of the
leading diseases to affect the
elderly and often requires complete
nursing care eventually. It can be
You could have Osteoporosis and
not even know it.
OsteUporosis strikes one in four
women and one in eight men over
50. It causes bones to weaken and
break leading to disability and the
loss of independence.
knowing your risk factors and early
diagnosis can keep you from the
breaking point.
For more information call the
Osteoporosis Society of Canada.
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1-800-463-6842
Children have moved away. The
various demands of work have
further scattered people. One
person reflecting on modern life
writes:
Contemporary reality ... is a
chaos of disconnections, a blizzard
of noise ... voices on telephones,
intercoms, radios, TV, movie sound
tracks ... the broken poetry of
drunkenness and nervous
breakdown — all interrupting
each other.
In responding to change itself a
natural response is for people to
withdraw and become more
isolated. There is a loss of
connection: they no longer belong
anywhere. Homeless, their "place"
is wherever they happen to be at
the moment. •
What are the wounds inflicted by
such isolation or rootlessness?
devastating to the patient and his or
her family without correct
information and available support
systems.
Mrs. Rodgers-Bedard will be
giving an overview of: practical
care-giving tips, new coping
strategies, safety issues, caregiver
relief, ethical guidelines and library
resources.
Bring questions to this important
night of information and
There is deep irony here. Our
means of movement and
communication can take us almost
instantly to any place but more and
more we are home in no place. At
the same time we are like the
nomad wandering the desolate
sands, hoping intently that an oasis
will appear on the horizon. A place
with resources for living, a place
where we belong.
Without a connection to the past
to help us know what that means
and without the hope to move
toward it, how can we go on?
Without the horizon of hope, how
cad life be more than a zig-zag
going nowhere?
There is no point in
underestimating the challenge here
for us. In the "blizzard" of
possibilities presented here for us
by advertisers and others, what is
worthwhile?
discussion.
'This free forum is part of an
informational series hosted by
Braemar'Retirement Centre for
families and friends of residents of
the Retirement Centre. The public
is also cordially invited.
Refreshments will be provided.
Braemar Retirement Centre is a
combined Retirement Centre and
licensed Nursing Home. It is
located just North of Wingham.
This is not a question about the
short term, but about the long haul.
To settle for fantasy instead of
authentic hope is no solution.
Without some true sense of
beginning and end, the origin and
goal of life, it becomes impossible
to get our bearings. We become
mere slaves of momentary desires
and apathies. This is a recipe for
conflict and futility.
The testimony of the Bible is
clear that access to any true sense
of origin or goal for life is possible
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only in relation to God. How to live
with meaning or how to live with
hope? This can only be established
with reference to what is ultimate,
that is God.
As the apostle testifies, to be
without God is to be without hope
in the world (Ephesians 2:12). But
in the truth and the love actualized
in Jesus Christ there is a foundation
for life and hope.
So that "whether/ we live or
whether we die, we are the Lord's."
(Romans 14:8)
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Welcomes You
9:30 a.m. Worship Service
10:45 a.m. Christian Education
(for all ages)
Pastor Ben Wiebe
887-6388
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