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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.
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
WeicasneA you ti come and welt/ship, with UA
Trinity, Blyth St. John's, Brussels
9:30 a.m. 11:15 a.m.
Holy Eucharist with Baptism Holy Eucharist
Nastteat Sewiceo,
Seaaanal Ylecematiams.
Deacon in charge, The Rev. Tom Wilson, B.A., MDiv.
You are Welcome 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 - - 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
Meade gain tits, fat 0046Aill Oils Sunday
Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m.
Evening Worship Service 7:30 p.m.
"Find rest, 0 my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from Him.
He alone is my rock and my salvation.
He is my fortress: I will not be shaken
— Psalm 62:5 & 6
BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
Rev. Adrian A. Van Geest
ZI\ Hwy. 4, Blyth 523-9233
Wheelchair accessible
HURON 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
BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Joan Golden - Diaconal Student Minister
Church Office 887-6259 E-mail - bepc@wcl.on.ca
Ethel United Church
9:30 a.m.- Worship Service & Sunday School
Brussels United Church
11:00 a.m. - Worship and Sunday School
October 5th. 2001 at 8:00 p.m. there will be an informal time of prayer.
All are invited for a time of reflection and prayer.
Come and worship with us!
BLYTH UNITED CHURCH
Corner of Dinsley & Mill Street
Sunday Services at 11:00 a.m.
Guest Speaker: David Williams
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
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From the Minister's Study
Questions have hold on us
By Brent Kipfer
Brussels Mennonite Fellowship
The terrorist attacks on New, York
and Washington raise questions of
the heart that grab hold of us and will
not let go.
Questions of the head are easy to
satisfy. They are like tourists who
sail through town, pick up some
information, and leave again.
Questions that arise out of our
hearts are different. They cannot be
answered by a well-researched news
report or a carefully reasoned essay.
They come from deep within us -
from our disorientation, insecurity,
anger, sadness and fear.
People in sixth century Jerusalem
could have identified with these gut-
wrenching questions. Their beloved
city was destroyed. Parents had lost
children and children had lost par-
ents. The temple was burned to the
ground.
Like the World Trade Centre or the
Pentagon, the Jerusalem temple was
a symbol much larger than bricks
and mortar. The temple was a sym-
bol of God's presence with the peo-
ple. Now it was gone.
Like many suffering people, Israel
felt godforsaken. They had a sharp
sense that God was absent. I am sure
they could identify with this cry
from Psalm 22 - a cry of deep aban-
donment: "My God, my God, why
have you forsaken me? Why are you
so far from -helping me, from the
words of my groaning?"
It is an agonizing prayer, a heart-
piercing question. How many people
in New York have uttered a similar
prayer? How many in the Middle
East? How many in Huron County?
Maybe you can identify with this
prayer - when God seems remote, far
away - unaffected by your problems.
As I think about the suffering of
the past weeks, I think about the way
that God has responded to the prayer
of the psalmist.
In answer to why, God did not dic-
tate a lecture about the meaning of
suffering. God did not argue about
mind over matter. God did not stay
silent. Instead, God took on Roman
flesh, a carpenter from Nazareth.
And one day on the hill of Golgotha,
outside the gates of Jerusalem, he
was nailed to a cross.
The Gospel of Mark describes the
way that Jesus identified with the sin
and the pain of the world. God him-
self entered into our suffering - and
understood what it is like to feel god-
forsaken. -
At noon, Mark says that "...dark-
ness came over the landtintil three in
the afternoon. At three o'clock Jesus
cried out in a loud voice, 'Eloi, Eloi,
lem sabachthani?' which means, 'My
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en me'?' "
Jesus Christ entered into the full
agony of human suffering. And he
took the agonizing prayer of the
psalmist on his own lips. Jesus
expresses the cry of a person who is
completely devastated. God does not
answer why by dictating a memo;
God comes in person.
We can be sure that Jesus has been
present and has been weeping over
victims of violence these past weeks.
Detroit sportswriter Mitch Albom
once had a memorable conversation
with his favourite college professor,
Morrie Schwartz, who was dying of
Lou Gehrig's disease.
I -i his book Tuesdays with Morrie,
Albom tells how he asked Morrie
why he bothered following the news
since he wouldn't be around to
see how things would turn out any-
way.
In response, Morrie said this: "It's
hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm
suffering I feel closer to people who
suffer than I ever did before. The
The September meeting of the
Melville Women's Guild was held in
the church parlor on Monday
evening, Sept. 17 with 10 members
present.
Helen Elliott opened the meeting
with a poem, Have You Ever Met
God in Summer? Psalm 104 was
read in unison.
The topic, Psalm for Summer
Savouring, was read by Mrs. Elliott.
Rev. Cathrine Campbell led in
prayer, then read a poem, Leisure.
President Leona Armstrong
presided over the business. She read
a poem, Eat Lots of Chocolate.
other night on TV I saw people in
Bosnia running across the street, get-
ting fired on, killed, innocent victims
... and I just started to cry. I feel their
anguish as if it were my own. I don't
know any of these people. But - how
can I put this'? - I'm almost drawn to
them."
Jesus understands suffering
because he himself has suffered. And
he continues to draw near when peo-
ple are in trouble, when they mourn,
when they are afraid. Jesus draws
near and Jesus weeps.
Still, that's not the end of the story.
Violence and death do not have the
last word with Jesus. When a group
of women went to visit his tomb on
the third day, they were surprised to
find it empty...
Theologian Jiirgen Moltmann
lived through the destruction of the
Second World War. Commenting on
the cross of Jesus, he wrote, "God
weeps with us so that we may one
day laugh with him."
God indeed hears our questions
and our prayers.
The minutes of the June meeting
were read and approved and the trea-
surer's report was read. Decorating
the church for the Thanksgiving
service and the anniversary service
was discussed. The correspondence
was read.
The Guild has been asked to do the
Presbytery dinner after their meeting
on Nov. 28. Kathleen Semple volun-
teered to convene.
The Guild Will join the WMS for
the meeting to be held on Oct. 15 at
2 p.m. in the church parlour.
Lunch was' served by Mrs. Elliott
and Re.v. Campbell.
Special guest
Noted author Liberty Savard, left, led a three-day seminar in
Blyth this past weekend hosted by the Church of God .and
The Treasure Chest. With her are Treasure Chest owner
Eleanor Kuyvenhoven and church pastor Les Cook. (Vicky
Bremner photo)
Pastor: Ernest Dow
Melville Women's Guild
to decorate for Thanksgiving