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HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL
MISSIONARY CHURCH
526-7555
ASSOCIATE PASTOR - YOUTH - JEREMY SHUART 523-9788
Sunday 8:45 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
11 a.m.
8 p.m.
Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
Friday 7:30 p.m.
- Morning Worship Service
- Family Bible Hour
- Morning Worship Service
- Evening Service
- Prayer & Bible Study
- Youth
Getting a nibble
Jessica Sparling gets hold of a pretzel when the Choral
Kids of Blyth United Church held a Halloween party, Oct.
29. Hailey Hulzebos, left and Stephanie Sanderson wait
their turn.
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
You are welcome this Sunday
NOVEMBER 8 - PENTECOST 23
MORNING PRAYER
Trinity, Blyth St. John's,
9:30 a.m. Brussels
Wheelchair accessible 11:15 a.m.
Rev. Nancy Beale 887-9273
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Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m.
Evening Worship Service - 7:30 p.m.
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith -
and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not
by works, so that no one can boast.
Ephesians 2:8, 9
BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
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Rev. Adrian A. Van Geest
H wy. 4, Blyth 523-9233
Wheelchair accessible
MELVILLE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BRUSSELS
11:00 a.m. - Morning Service
- Sunday School
9:30 a.m. - Belgrave Service
Wheelchair accessible
Nursery care available
2 p.m. Wednesday - Bible Study
9:30 a.m. Thursday - Optimum Wellness Programme
Nov. 8, 1998 11 a.m. - Joanne King Anniversary Celebration
We welcome you to come and worship with us.
Rev. Cathrine Campbell - 887-9831
Cornerstone
Bible
Fellowship
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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
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BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Rev. Christine Johnson - Minister
Church Office 887-6259 Home 887-6540
November 8, 1998
9:30 a.m. - Worship, Ethel United Church
11:00 a.m. - Worship, Brussels United Church
Wednesday, November 4 - 8 p.m. - UCW Evening Unit
Thursday, November 5 - 7 p.m. - Stewards Meeting
BLYTH UNITED CHURCH
Come Worship The Lord With Us
Sundays - 11:00 a.m.
Worship Service & Sunday School
Minister — Rev. Cecil Wittich
ALL ARE WELCOME
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Welcome to
Brussels Mennonite Fellowship
on
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November 8
9:30 a.m. Worship Service
10:45 a.m. Christian Education
Pastor Ben Wiebe 887-6388
Christ promises peace for a world of conflict
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
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1998. PAGE 15.
From the Minister's Study
A meaningful journey, a worthwhile destiny
By Ben Wiebe
Brussels Mennonite Fellowship
We are on a journey. Many of us
travelled this summer, taking a trip
perhaps to a scenic park or to some
place on the other side of the
country. We make sure we have a
book of detailed maps and that we
have food and clothes that we will
need for the trip.
It is a journey with various points
of interest along the way. The town
with the wonderful family
restaurant, the islands and boats in
the St. Lawrence River and so on.
A journey like this can help us
reflect about a larger journey — the
journey of life. The journey itself is
interesting and worthwhile. But
without a destination the journey
soon becomes confusing and
pointless. Without a destination we
cannot even choose a direction: do
I go on the road east or west, north
or south?
Like one who is lost the person
may go one way and end up going
around to the place where he
began, simply going in circles.
Those familiar with Ernest
Becker, the young writer and
student of human nature, know
these were among the questions
over which he struggled and.
thought. He died in the middle
1970s. If, as Becker thought and
feared, this world is simply a planet
spinning meaninglessly in space
and we are simply weak and
frightened creatures holding off the
fear of death by trying first one
thing and then another, choosing
one or another hero-role and that is
all, what is life more than illusions?
He confronted the question but
could never resolve it. The thought
is: life is not going anywhere —
there is no destination. There is no
point in seeking for what is true
and good. There are no maps to
guide us in the search.
So Becker feared, in attempting
to resolve the question within the
limits of human reason and
abilities.
Unless there is one who is
responsible for the world's being
and becoming can we still speak
truly about life or the world as
good? The world and our life then
exists in a void, without meaning or
purpose. Then we face this choice:
we can try to follow what is true
and seek the good, but this has no
Meaning, the world is simply a
void.
Or we give up, renounce the
effort to seek the good, drift into
the now seductive patterns of self-
indulgence. A person ends up in
moral failure and cut off from the
good desired in the inmost self.
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The dilemma is resolved only if
there is one who, with good
purpose, is responsible for the
world's being and becoming. Then
the world, far from being simply a
void, is marked by the many
splendored goodness of God. To
discern the true and to seek the
good has meaning.
Life is on the side of those who
hunger and thirst for righteousness.
The effects of wrong or faulty
choices are all around us. We are
not simply compelled. Our choices
count — choices determine destiny.
In discerning the truth of the
gospel we come to trust Jesus
Christ. We know that "if we live,
we live to the Lord, and if we die,
we die to the Lord; so then,
whether we live or whether we die,
we are the Lord's" (Rom 14:7).
A meaningful journey and a
worthwhile destiny.