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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1998-11-04, Page 15in helping. Anyone. Anywhere. 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 Ytea6e join ads /a* uttmakip ti'u Sunday 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 Atk 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 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 7 j 4, • \OZ•IZi 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 523-4224 14 Welcome to Brussels Mennonite Fellowship on EIPLNDAY 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. 006101 Maw. 6-49044 Serving our Communities for over forty years 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.