The Citizen, 1998-09-30, Page 16BLYTH UNITED CHURCH
Come Worship The Lord With Us
Sundays - 11:00 a.m.
Worship Service & Sunday School
Minister — Rev. Cecil Wittich
October 4 — Communion
HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL
MISSIONARY CHURCH
PASTOR JAMES H. CARNE AUBURN 526-7515
ASSOCIATE PASTOR - YOUTH - JEREMY SHUART 523-9788
Sunday 8:45 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
11 a.m.
8 p.m.
Monday 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
Friday 7:30 p.m.
- Morning Worship Service
- Family Bible Hour
- Morning Worship Service
- Evening Service
- New Hope Support Group
- Prayer & Bible Study
- Youth
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
BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Rev. Christine Johnson - Minister
Church Office 887-6259 Home 887-6540
Sunday, October 4, 1998
Worldwide Communion Sunday
9:30 a.m. - Ethel Worship - Communion
Collection of non-perishable food items for North Huron
Community Food Share
11:00 a.m. - Brussels Worship - Communion
Thursday, October 1 - 7 p.m. - Brussels Stewards meeting
Sunday, October 4 - 11 a.m. - Sunday School begins in
Brussels. All children are
welcome!
Sunday, October 4 - 2 p.m. - Rev. Chris Johnson leads the
Huronlea service
Monday, October 5 - 7 p.m. - Brussels Session meeting"
Tuesday, October 6 - 2 p.m. - UCW Afternoon Unit -
Maple Villa Apartments
COME AND PARTAKE OF GOD'S MEAL!
MELVILLE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BRUSSELS
11:00 a.m. - Morning Service
- Sunday School
9:30 a.m. - Belgrave Service
Wheelchair accessible
Nursery care available
We welcome you to come and worship with us.
Rev. Cathrine Campbell - 887-9831
Praising the Lord
A good crowd gathered at St. John's Anglican Church,
Brussels, Sunday evening to sing along with Bob
Heywood of Exeter, in front, and visitor Roy Dreaning
from Ireland as they performed gospel tunes.
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
%u are welcome this Sunday
Rev. Nancy Beale
OCTOBER 4 - PENTECOST 18
HARVEST
HOLY EUCHARIST
BRUSSELS - SPECIAL GUEST:
BISHOP BOB TOWNSEND
Trinity, Blyth
St. John's,
9:30 a.m. Brussels
Wheelchair accessible
11:15 a.m.
WAST:roa726;iV6W7f*
Brussels Mennonite
Fellowship
9:30 a.m. Worship Service
10:45 a.m. Christian Education
(for all ages)
Pastor Ben Wiebe 887-6388
"Enten gated with ilhanhagiving"
Everyone Welcome
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PAGE 16. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1998.
From the Minister's Study
Indifference, not a necessary evil
By Rev. Cathrine Campbell
Melville, Brussels, Knox,
Belgrave
This week in the lectionary
readings, we come to the story of
the rich man and Lazarus. This is a
familiar story to many and Luke
tells it well in relating his concern
for the poor.
The reaction of the rich man,
"Who me?" is one that will not
only apply to him. For he has, in
his opinion, and in the opinion of
many others committed no sin and
yet he is doomed to Hell.
He could argue that he has not
committed any of the seven deadly
sins — pride, greed, lust, anger,
gluttony, envy and sloth. He was a
model citizen, gave freely to
worthy charities, certainly was a
good host, was a good family man
and loved his brothers, all five of
them. In short, he was an upright
and valuable citizen so, perhaps,
there had been a celestial clerical
error.
There has not; for he committed
one of the deadliest and yet the
most preventable of sins — that of
indifference. His eyes gave him
evidence, daily, of the state of
Lazarus' existence, it would have
cost him absolutely nothing in time
or treasure to give Lazarus a life of
dignity and hope but he did neither
and we are told the results.
We may not live in palaces and
the poor may not be sleeping
outside our doors but we owe it to
ourselves to look at our lives and
see if we haVe not been sweeping
past the problems of society
because they were not our own
personal ones and therefore
indifference has been our way of
life not concern.
One of the many beauties of the
Bible is that it tells such human
stories. One of the many treasures
of the Bible is that it gives us hope
and direction as to how to live lives
that are pleasing in God's sight.
It need not be a grand gesture
that gives God satisfaction but a
caring one that gives hope to a
person on this earth and reflects the
God-given grace we have received.
MartinNiemoller wrote: "In
Germany the Nazis came for the
Communists and, did not speak up
because I was not a Communist.
Then they4same for the Jews and I
didn't speak up because I was not a
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Jew. Then they came for the trade
unionist and I did not speak up
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics
and I was a Protestant so I didn't
speak up. then they came for me —
by that time -there was no one to
speak up for any one."
We owe it to our forefathers to
ensure that what they worked so
hard to build for us is not destroyed
or demeaned by indifference or
neglect. We have been given many
gifts and even if our richness does
not manifest itself in material ways
we have it in heart, in mind and in
spirit. There is no need for
indifference, there is no use for
indifference and there is no future
for indifference.
Like Lazarus we can know a
glorious future through the
following of the teachings of our
Lord and Saviour, or we can join
the rich man. However, it is not a
matter of indifference to me or to
the Church of Christ.
You are WeCcome 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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Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m.
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BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
Rev. Adrian A. Van Geest
Hwy. 4, Blyth 523-9233
Wheelchair accessible