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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1998-11-11, Page 16• BLYTH UNITED CHURCH Come Worship The Lord With Us Sundays - 11:00 a.m. Worship Service & Sunday School SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15 - Fellowship luncheon following church. Proceeds to the two Sr. Youth Groups Minister - Rev. Cecil Wittich ALL ARE WELCOME 523-4224 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 We welcome you to come and worship with us. Rev. Cathrine Campbell - 887-9831 Yteac‘e lain uo, fat utatikip, die, Sunday Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m. Evening Worship Service - 7:30 p.m. For you created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. Psalm 139:13, 14 BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH Rev. Adrian A. Van Geest HwV 44 tlyth 523-9233 accessible THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA You are welcome this Sunday NOVEMBER 15 - PENTECOST 24 BLYTH - BAPTISM BRUSSELS - HOLY EUCHARIST Trinity, Blyth St. John's, 9:30 a.m. Brussels Wheelchair accessible 11:15 a.m. Rev. Nancy Beale 887-9273 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 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 BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA Rev. Christine Johnson - Minister \ Church Office 887-6259 Home 887-6540 November 15, 1998 9:30 a.m. - Worship, Ethel United Church 11:00 a.m. - Worship, Brussels United Church Sunday, November 15 - 7:15 p.m. - Youth Sports Night at Brussels Public School Monday, November 16 - 7 pm. - Brussels Session Tuesday, November 17 - 8 p.m. - Official Board in Brussels Sunday, November 22 - 3 p.m. -Dedication of Project Uplift Brussels Mennonite Fellowship Sunday, November 15 9:30 a.m. Everyone Welcome fit From lives of desperation and despair... - • so to dynamic testimonies of God's delivering power! , PAGE 16. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1998. From the Minister's Study A time of remembrance, lest we forget why By Les Cook Blyth Community Church of God As a veteran's child I suppose that I have an advantage over my children when it comes to understanding what Remembrance Day is all about. I heard war stories, I saw the scars and I often, as a child, played with the crutches that my father used after being wounded during World War IL I think that I probably had as much awareness of the cost of my freedom as other children my age. I hope my wife and I will be able to instill the same awareness in our two children. In fact now that I. have grown up somewhat and see things a little differently, I wonder if perhaps this next generation may develop an even better understanding of `Time for Christmas' On Sunday, Nov. 29 at 3 p.m. Brass Rings and William O'Meara will perform Time For Christmas in the Lucknow Presbyterian Church. This is the third stop of their 1998 Ontario tour. Tickets are available at Ernie King Music (Wingham/Goderich), Finlay Decorator, McDonagh Insurance & Keith Filby Photo- graphy. They are $12 for adults and $6 for children up to 13 years. For further information call 528- 3214. Time For Christmas is a heart- warming afternoon of music and words evoking the delight and wonder of the Season. The Victorian-flavoured concert casts the performers as mummers who have been let in from the cold and who show their gratitude to those assembled by giving a performance. In explaining how they know when it's time for Christmas, the musical wanderers illuminate, in turn, six traditional elements of the Yuletide - bells, snow, food, gifts, trees and angels. They achieve this illumination primarily through their musical arrangements, some of which were created especially for them. Strengthening the glow of their music will be favourite holiday poems and well-loved prose of the season. Knox news Continued from page 9 his grandfather's medal. Scripture was read from Micah 4. In this it was prophesied that swords would become plow shares and nations would be at peace. Rev. Ross continued with scripture from Luke 22. Jesus stated that nations should sell their belongings and buy swords as they Would be needed. The sermon for the day was "Now, it's our turn". Rev. Ross compared the prophets predictions for the future and Christ's. Christ knew that there must be some protection services planned in order to maintain peace in this world. God says when people learn to think of others and give help to those who need it there will be a much better and safer world. He closed with Mother Teresa's prayer for peace . The altar was dt honour of Rernetn Welcoming everyone 1. that morning were to 411(1 ran tok. k. Remembrance Day. It would be something if "we", the direct beneficiaries of the freedom that was bought at such a horrible price, could teach our children to remember WHY their grandparents and great- grandparents were willing to sacrifice so much. For us it was of upmost importance to remember the cost. Knowing that war takes lives and livelihoods, that it destroys everything it touches and that many of the negative effects will last for generations is one thing that has enabled us to avoid this avenue in our generation. "Those who refuse to learn from their past are doomed to repeat it". However just remembering or knowing what happened is not enough. We need to continue to grow and develop a vision of unit until our fears of war are replaced with the knowing that we are one with all mankind. That to destroy others is to destroy ourselves. A long time ago there was a great battle between good and evil, right and wrong, freedom and bondage. Ultimately the "good guys won" but shortly after the great victory the liberated people became complacent and began to take their freedom lightly. In the book of Hebrews, chapter 10:23, the water, during a call to persevere, challenged those people to "hold unswervingly to the hope they claimed to have and to consider ways to spur one another on to love and good deeds" the very things that were fought for and the things that were paid for by the Blood of Christ (verse 19). We too need to remember what happened in the wars. We also need to remember why it happened. We need to remember that our freedom was a gift paid for by the blood or of our forefathers so we could be free. Free to learn and grow, free to worship as we please, free to prosper and free to enjoy and appreciate the fruits of our labour and free to do the right and good things in life. The same things Christ died for years ago and the same things good men and women always have and always will be willing to fight for. I hope and pray that you and I will not only remember but also hold unswervingly to the hope of peace and the freedom it brings. That we can focus on encouraging one another and supporting each other toward love and good deeds. By doing so we will never lose our willingness to stand and fight and maybe die for our freedom and the freedom of others and at the Cornerstone Bible Fellowship Ethel same time develop an understanding that will make it unnecessary to ever have to do so. 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 COMING SOON...