The Citizen, 2002-03-27, Page 15March 29 GOOD
FRIDAY Service
7:30 p.m. -
"The Cost of Our Redemption:
Pilate — Control"
at B P S
March 31
EASTER
CELEBRATION -
Jesus is Risen!
10:30 a.m.
Contemporary
Praise &
Communion
at Blyth Public School,
corner of King & Mill
6:00 a.m.
"SonRise
Service"
at 211 North St followed
by Pancake Breakfast
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MELVILLE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BRUSSELS
8:30 a.m. - Sunrise Service at Knights on Maple
9:00 a.m. - Easter Breakfast - donations to support
our Foster Child
11:00 a.m. - Easter Service of Worship
- Sunday School
9:30 a.m. - Belgrave Service
Wheelchair accessible
Nursery care available
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.
Ladies' Time Out: the last Thursday of each month
7:30 to 9:00 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
Call Pastor Andrew Thursdays or Fridays at 887-6123
Celebrate the death and
resurrection of Jesus Christ with
Brussels Mennonite Fellowship
Good Friday Service 10:00 am
(includes communion & foot washing)
Easter Worship Service 9:30 am
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;caste le Witte!
Pastor Brent Kipfer 887-6388
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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
7:00 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.
Thursday, March 28 - 7:30 p.m. - Foot washing
& Communion Service
Phone 523-4590 308 Blyth Rd., Blyth
Come aunifiip, with to. at
HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL
MISSIONARY CHURCH - Auburn
10:30 am - Good Friday Service
Easter Sunday
9:30 am - Family Bible Hour
10:30 am - Morning Worship
7:30 pm - Evening Worship
Wednesday
7:00 - 8:30 pm - Crusaders & Youth
7:30 pm - Adult Prayer Meeting
Friday
7:30 pm - Youth
Pastor - Dave Wood 523-9017
Church - 523-7555
HOLY. WEEK SERVICES
Wednesday. March 27. 12:05 pm
Luncheon & Ecumenical Prayer Services a, Brussels United Church
Maundy Thursday. March 28
8:00 p.m. Ecumenical Communion Service at St. John's, E'russels
Good Friday. March 29
9:30 a.m. St. John's, Brussels - Prayer Service with Dramatic Readings on
tt.e passion of Christ
11:30 am Trinity, Blyth - Prayer Service with Dramatic Readings on
the Passion of Christ
Easter Saturday
6:45 pm Trinity, Blyth - Easter Vigil & First Communion of Easter Day
Easter Day
Holy Eucharist with Special Music and an Easter Egg Hunt for
children 12 and under after the Service in each community
9:30 am Trinity Anglican Church, Blyth & 11: i 5 am - St. John
the Evangelist Anglican Church, Brussels
BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Joan Golden - Diaconal Student Minister
Church Office 887-6259 E-mail - bepc@wcl.on.ca
Sunday, March 31
Easter Sunday
Ethel United Church
9:30 a.m.
Worship Service and Sunday School
Brussels United Church
11:00 a.m.
Worship Service and Sunday School
Sacrament of Baptism
Good Friday Service at 9:30 a.m.
Remembering, Celebrating, and Living Our Easter Faith!
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
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Sunday, March 31
Easter Sunday
Holy Eucharist
Trinity, Blyth St. John's, Brussels
9:30 a.m. 11:15 a.m.
The Rev. Tom Wilson, B.A., MDiv. 887-9273
BLYTH UNITED CHURCH
Corner of Dinsley & Mill Street
Sundays March 31
Easter Sunday
An Easter Cantata
Worship Service &
Sunday School at 11:00 a.m.
Ala Zeleteowe
Minister: Rev. Dr. Eugen Bannerman
Office: 523-4224
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2002. PAGE 15.
From the Minister's Study
Remembering and rejoicing as Easter people
By Joan Golden
Brussels-Ethel United Churches
As you read this we are well into
the Holy Week for Christians. Lent is
coming to a close and we are in the
final preparations for Easter.
This past Sunday we sang our
Hosannas as .we remembered Jesus
entering Jerusalem with the
excitement of welcome. We heard the
story of the disciples following
instructions in preparation for Jesus'
entry on a donkey. It becomes a
parade into the city, children waving
branches, shouting, people running
into the roadways putting their cloaks
down and laying palm branches to
welcome Jesus.
During Holy Week we are called
also to remember the last days of
Jesus, his disciples and followers.
The meeting in the upper room, Jesus
teaching his disciples about service to
the world as he washed their feet. At
the Last Supper Jesus reminded them
to "remember Him".
His prayer in the garden (John 17:
1-26), the torture, the Crucifixion, we
need to reflect on all these
happenings to fully "feel" that
wondrous Easter message of
Resurrection.
Jesus' prayer in the garden sums up
his teaching. This prayer for mission
focuses first on Jesus, next on the
disciples, and then on all who believe
through the word of the disciples.
Each part of this passage depends on
the one before it with Jesus being the
foundation.
This prayer witnesses to Jesus as
the One sent by God and tells of the
Love of God present in the lives of all
who believe.
The Passion story, a story of pain
and suffering remains. the same as we
hear of Jesus' trial, those shouting for
His death - but if we shut our ears
and tell ourselves it's too painful to
hear again, we fail to honour our
Christian story.
If we begin to skip what is
uncomfortable we are not being true
followers of Christ. We then start to
pick and choose considering our
Christian faith as no more than a
smorgasbord table - choosing what
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looks good to us.
Let's have some Christmas. I love
the carols and the atmosphere of
coining and singing of Christmas joy,
of seeing the baby in the manger and
the angels. Oh yes! let's have
Christmas, I am in fact, so tempted
for seconds.
Who can resist baptism - being
welcomed into the church, be they a
baby or an adult? The promise of new
life in baptism - lighting the flame
and carrying the light of God's love.
How can we ign are being marked
with the cross as we are claimed as
Christ's forever, if we want to skip
the "Cross" in this Holy Week?
Pentecost and perhaps the
celebration of a confirmation - of
someone making their own promises
of commitment to their faith and to
the church. We are reminded in
confirmation we are a child of God
and are empowered by the power of
the Holy Spirit.
On the smorgasbord table of
Christianity there are all the stories of
Jesus, we all want to hear a full
serving of the miracles and we do not
want to miss the stories of the
children being taken on His knee to
show the disciples and others how
important they are. How important
we are as children of God.
Further down on this table we see
the passion plates, the betrayal and
arrest howls, the trial of Jesus
surrounded by the crowds calling for
His Crucifixion, the mounds of
Golgotha, the pitchers of weeping.
We hesitate to even look at this part of
the table.
As Christians we give thanks Christ
chose not to avoid the rest of the table
that was set for Him. If Christ had
chosen only the ones we might -
there would not be an Easter to
celebrate. We could not look forward
to Easter Sunday and come to sing
and hear the message that Jesus
Chnst is risen for us - not for Christ
alone, not just for the disciples, not
just for our grandparents, parents,
children, or others in our world - but
for us! For ourselves - for the
children of God which we are.
This week may we contemplate our
passion for the story of ultimate and
perfect love for us. May we feel the
passion of Christ praying in the
garden, the passion of Peter at the
time of denial and after the denial.
So let us be passionate about all of
Holy Week, Palm Sunday, Maundy
Thursday and Good Friday and come
together as a faith community to hear
the Passion passages. May we never
lose our passion for our Christian
faith and the Cross.
Then we are ready to Celebrate the
Empty Tomb, the Resurrection and
the new life for all as the "Easter
People" we are. We are ready to sing
Hallelujah! And to continue singing
it, rejoicing each and every day of our.
lives!
Wishing you a Blessed Easier
Always!
Pastor: Ernest Dow
523-4848
www.tcc.on.ca/-dowfam
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