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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2002-04-17, Page 15Visiting Rt. Rev. Bruce Howe, the Anglican bishop for Huron, right, visited Brussels and Blyth this week. With him is Rev. Tom Wilson of the local Anglican Churches. (David Blaney° photo) BLYTH UNITED CHURCH Corner of Dinsley & Mill Street Sunday, April 21 Worship Service & Sunday School at 11:00 a.m. Sermon: "This Amazing Place" Special Guest - Trumpeter: Garry Page 2 pm - Covenanting Service for Rev. Bannerman )4117Veleo‘sex Minister: Rev. Dr. Eugen Bannerman Office: 523-4224 HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH Auburn - 526-7555 PASTOR DAVE WOOD - 523-9017 Sunday 9:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. Wednesday 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Friday 7:30 p.m. Family Bible Hour Morning Worship Service Evening Worship Crusaders & Youth Adult Prayer Meeting Youth 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 7:30 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 THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA Welcome/ vocc to come eutd amoral* eoet4 Sunday, February 21 Trinity, Blyth St. John's, Brussels 9:30 a.m. 11:15 a.m. The Rev. Tom Wilson, B.A., MDiv. 887-9273 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 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 Sunday, April 21 Ethel United Church 9:30 a.m. Worship Service and Sunday School Brussels United Church 11:00 a.m. Worship Service and Sunday School April 20th Youth Group Talent Night & Mini Auction Begins at 5:00 p.m. with a hot dog supper Please come join us in our Journey of Easter P€eade iceo ea Apt eteeprdt4fr Sunday, April 21 Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m. Evening Worship Service - 7.30 p.m. "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hear.s my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him and he with me." — Revelations 3:20 BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH Hwy. 4, Blyth 523-9233 Wheelchair accessible Yam us for Worship °r4 at ,v1 Brussels Mennonite Fellowship SUNDAY, APRIL 21 9:30 A.M. €37t Speaker: Elwin Garland 'Worship will include a Messing and commissioning for Elwin Gariardand his family as he prepares to begin his pastorate at Bergthaf Mennonite Church, Didsbury, Alberta 10:45 a.m. - Coffee Break 11:00 a.m. - Sunday School Noon Potluck Meal Informal time with the Garland family Everyone Welcome! Pastor Brent Kipfer 887-6388 THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2002. PAGE 15. Anglican bishop gets out and learns in Huron By David Blaney Citizen staff The Rt. Revd. Bruce Howe, Anglican bishop of Huron has been spending some time getting to know his congregation in north Huron County. On Monday he visited Goderich, then celebrated a service at Huronlea in Brussels before visiting Blyth. A priest for 33 years Bishop Howe was consecrated as the 11th Bishop of the Diocese of Huron in October 2000. His charge ranges from Windsor in the south to Tobermorey in the north and goes from Lake Huron to Kitchener-Waterloo. He describes his trip as "getting out and learning." He said that part of a bishop's role is to provide "oversight" and "be out and accessible." Bishop Howe felt he needed to get out to know his parishioners and for them to have a chance to know him. During a conversation Bishop Howe touched on the Anglican Church's problems with lawsuits stemming from some of their former residential schools. He said the schools were a well meant attempt to provide an education for First Nations peoples in co-operation with the federal government. He pointed out it was done in a 410P2M0110r411.2M011.21M. fie* Water auistian Teilearlekp "Worship, Up Close & Personal" \P4 ILP4 3 kql 8 3 10:30 a.m. - Worship & Sunday School at Blyth Public School, corner of King & Mill Tid a Pastor: Ernest Dow r 523-4848 g www.tcc.on.ca/-dowfam `150rAatirAarielrageralINJI cases where those attracted to teach in the schools were guilty of child abuse. In many cases he felt the remoteness of the locations and the residential nature of the facilities made supervision very difficult. On a happier note he talked about the agreement on Full Communion which had been reached in July with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. The agreement will allow priests from either denomination to serve with the other if local congregations express a desire to have it happen. He noted it has also served to promote co-operation in many informal ways which he feels may prove to be more important. Bishop Howe said the Anglican Church already extends the right of communion to any baptized Christian. He suggested the established churches had converged in many ways since the 1950s. "If you went into a Lutheran Church in Kitchener-Waterloo on a Sunday, then down the road to an Anglican service you would see no big differences." He commented that the established churches grew accustomed to the people coming to them and perhaps lost the drive to go out to the people. "Our pattern has been more reactive than pro-active. We got complacent and must learn to reach out." He says this is one of the things he wants to work towards as the bishop of Huron. It is an attitude he once practised to the extent of spending 10 days as a junior deckhand on a fishing boat out of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia when he had a parish in that community. "I hope to help call people to the faith community," he said, .,and strengthen that community to recei c them 4:5 time when "we wanted everyone to be like us - European and middle class in outlook. We made a mistake taking away native culture," he said. "The Indian population was "deprived of their own culture and not given another." He acknowledged that there were April 21