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The Citizen, 2001-09-19, Page 16HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH Auburn - 526-7555 PASTOR DAVE WOOD - 523-9017 Sunday Wednesday Friday 9:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. - 7:30 p,m. • 7:30 p.m. • Family Bible Hour Morning Worship Service Evening Worship Crusaders & Youth Adult Prayer Meeting Youth BLYTH UNITED CHURCH Corner of Dinsley & Mill Street Sunday Services at 11:00 a.m. Guest Speaker: Bruce Whitmore Office: 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 Rev. Cathrine Campbell - 887-9831 BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA Joan Golden - Diaconal Student Minister Church Office 887-6259 E-mail - bepc@wcl.on.ca September 23rd, 2001 Ethel United Church 9:30 a.m.- Worship Service & Sunday School Brussels United Church 11:00 a.m. - Worship and Sunday School September 21, 2001 at 8:00 p.m. there will be an informal time of prayer. All are invited for a time of reflection and prayers for peace. Come and worship with us! 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. Adventure Club: Thursdays for 10 consecutive weeks September 27 to Nov. 29, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Children ages 4 to 12 welcome. Ladies' Time Out: the last Wednesday of each month 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. beginning Oct, 31. 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 THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA Welcome/3, volt to. come and wo4/31iip, with 14/3, TRINITY, BLYTH ST. JOHN'S, BRUSSELS Worship September 23 at Trivitt Memorial Anglican Church, Exeter - 11:00 a.m. Iteaae u.a (o utacskip, aid, Sunday, Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m. Evening Worship Service 7:30 p.m. "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!" — Psalm 150:6 BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH Rev. Adrian A. Van Geest it\ Hwy. 4, Myth 523-9233 Wheelchair accessible You are WeCcome at the BLYTH COMMUNITY CHURCH OF GOD 9:45 a.m. - Sunday School - for ages 3 to adult 11:00 a.m. - Morning Worship 7:45 p.m. - Evening Worship Kids' Club - Tuesday - 3:45 - 5 p.m. Ages 6-11 welcome. Bible Studies - Wednesday morning 10 a.m. Wednesday evening 7:30 p.m. Phone 523-4590 308 Blyth Rd., Blyth PAGE 16. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2001,. From the Minister's Study' Minister says true power found in God's hope By Rev. Cathrine Campbell Melville Brussels Knox Belgrave Presbyterian Churches. Man's inhumanity to man stakes countless thousands mourn. The poet Robert Burns said this over 200 years ago and, sadly. it is still resonant today. Last week small children went to school. The pictures of their tear- stained and frightened faces are haunting as they ran the gauntlet of tormentors who hurled curses and abuse at them and their parents. They are little Catholic girls in Ireland who want just to go to school but adults have made them a focal point for hatred and another generation learns that violence brings results. In Jerusalem a father pulls the car up to the school to let his 12-year-old daughter out when a suicide bomber's bomb goes off. Twenty people are injured and the bomber is killed. Such is the way of life in Jerusalem these days that we are told "My car was splattered with pieces of flesh and blood. My daughter was also covered with bits of flesh and blood" (the father) said. "We saw the head of the suicide bomber rolling into the court- yard." Police quickly covered the head with an upended garbage can, but not before some of the children saw it. Classes went ahead despite the bomb- ing and the Jerusalem municipality offered psychologists to talk to the children." (Toronto Star Sept. 5, 2001) Life goes on in Israel and Palestine and by Sunday we have five more Israelis dead and three Palestinians killed in a day of bombings shootings and air strikes - violence begets vio- lence. In Washington two I I-year-olds are going on a special trip. Asia Cotton and Rodney Dickens board an air- plane, as do the Fallkenberg family with Zoe, aged eight and Dana aged three heading , for Los Angeles. Madmen take control of the plane which slams into the Pentagon. They are killed as are hundreds on the ground and many more injured. In Boston Christine Hansen and David Brandhorst, both aged three, board a plane to California too. They, too, face madness as the same story is repeated with two flights that are hurled into the buildings at the World Trade Centre in New York. Violence - senseless violence enters our homes as we watch our TV surrealistic scenes which are, painful- ly, all too real. In must confess that I had to over- come a feeling that this was just another Arnold Schwartzenegger film - things like that don't happen in real life. But it does and soon we are to learn that firefighters and police who have rushed to the World Trade Centre to help are themselves vic- tims. Violence, unimaginable, but real, touches us all. And we hurt - we hurt for those who have had friends and family killed, we hurt for a country that has never experienced, in nearly 200 years, aggression on its mainland, and we hurt that there are those who are so lost in their fanatical world view that they have no use for their fellow humans. What a contrast to Jesus Christ who cares for all, Jesus says, to the Man of Decapolis, who is possessed by demons - "What is your name?" My name is Legion, he replied, "for we are many". The demon possessed and the demons are many. We know the demons are many, ignOrance, greed, intoleranCe, fanati- cism, hatred, lying cheating - the list is long and the demons are strong and they are poisonous. Our world seems to be much like that man possessed for we too have many demons that have only one end in sight - death and destruction. And often this week, we have felt that they are so many and there is so little hope. But here is the Good News - there is hope and there is healing. Jesus, in the Gospel story, is in an alien place - gentile territory - and, if we had a Son of a lesser God he would have bowed to what was happening. The folks there were used to the situation - they were trying to contain the demons but success was riot long last- ing. Soon it would be "Well we tried but it is hopeless." And here is where the tertorists, the demons thrive, destroying in an atmosphere of "What is the use" - destroying hope and destroying humanity. And this is all they can do for what they have to offer is so bad, so antithetical to life, that the only way they can make their way happen is through fear. Look at bin Laden, who may, or may not, be the mastermind of those atrocities of Tuesday. Regardless, he has a way of life that he thinks all should follow. This is what he feels is good, and serves his god, (not the God of Islam). Bin Laden wants a world run by dictatorships, with no education, the complete subjugation of women, no arts, no literature, no tolerance, no beauty and definitely not a caring and creating God. Is there any wonder why he has to use force? In common with all megalomani- acs, he has found the only way you can have people embrace your sterile Noted author to Despite the difficulties occurring in the United ,States, noted author, minister and teacher Liberty Savard from Sacramento, California will still be arriving this week in Blyth to lead a three-day seminar, as sched- uled. The event, hosted by the Blyth Community Church of God and The Gift Chest in Wingham, is for Christian people who want to learn more about praying effectively and how to deal with issues in life that test them. Jackie Cook, wife of the church's pastor, said that Savard is a "power- ful speaker, who is fun and interest- ing to listen to." "She makes prayer do-able," said way of life is through terror. All of his flies in the face of a lov- ing God, who cries with us when his people are destroyed, who wants free- dom, hope, love, growth, for his peo- ple and a healthy planet to give our children. Because of God's desires for us we don't have to be fearful, for we have a Saviour that even in an alien place is still supreme - he brings hope where there was none and healing to the hopeless. And ours is an active God. No one asked Jesus to heal the demon-pos- sessed man Jesus took the initiative and exercises his power in total free- dom. This is true power - there is no need for guns or armaments. We do not want fear - we want peace and healing and we want growth. We want to live in harmony with our neighbours - and we know it is possible - for we have the Guide. Our prayers are answered, our tears are dried and our hope is restored by a Jesus who is so wise. And our healing starts humbly, in our homes as the Apostle tells us. When we shoW our children that vio- lence is not acceptable; that honesty and integrity are the very fabric of our lives and always the way to be fol- lowed and that tyranny, no matter what its form, is not to be accepted with resignation but resisted and repelled. We do not want an unhealthy home, country or planet and so we will find that we, who keep Christ close to our hearts, will continue to strive for peace and in that do what our Lord lead seminar Cook. "Her teaching helps you to let go of the things that are holding you back, keeping you from being every- thing you're destined to be." It focusses, she said, on unmet. needs, unhealed hurts and unre- solved issues. Savard is an ordained minister who has served as s singles pastor, associ- ate pastor and Bible teacher. She is a senior editor for Bridge-Logos pub- lishing of New Jersey. • Her seminar in Blyth Memorial Hall begins Friday, Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. and winds up on Sunday. Admission is $30, plus a freewill offering to Savard Ministries. For tickets call the Box Office at 523-9300. commands: "Love one another". We must and we shall, and in that is hope and healing. Discover the Keys to the Kingdom with =MT EOM Celebrated author of Shattering Your Strongholds Blyth Memorial Hall Friday, September 21, 7 p.m. through to Sunday, September 23 Admission $30 for the whole weekend plus Free Will Offering to Savard Ministries Sponsored by Myth Community Church of God and The Gift Chest in Wingham Limited Seating Available For Tickets Call: Blyth Festival Box Office 519-523-9300 Group Rates Available ACCIMICCOMMEKIN201116 d i i 8 3 8 ihN 1 Living Water G 10. I Cftritstivat 3 Tellathaip sd,Christ centred, Bible-believing. I ri - Fellowship-friendly. ‘ Growth-geared 8 9:30 a.m. - Sunday School im for all ages, 10:30 a.m. - Worship at Blyth Public School, 3 8 corner of King & Mill p Pastor: Ernest Dow 523-4848 3 www.tcc.on.ca/-dowfam NrairaPWWWWWWI