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The Citizen, 2002-07-03, Page 20MELVILLE 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 Sunday Wednesday Friday 9:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 7:30 p.m. 7:00 -13:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. • 7:30 p.m. • Family Bible Hour Morning Worship Service Evening Worship Crusaders & Youth Adult Prayer Meeting Youth THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA 'Xeicemsced veta to came cued wevraefr -60a4 6(4 Sunday, July 7 HOLY EUCHARIST Trinity, Blyth 9:30 a.m. St. John's, Brussels 11:15 a.m. The Rev. Tom Wilson, B.A., MDiv. 887-9273 HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH Auburn - 526-7555 PASTOR DAVE WOOD - 523-9017 BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA Joan Golden - Diaconal Student Minister Church Office 887-6259 E-mail - bepc@wcl.on.ca Sunday, July 7 Ethel United Church 1 1:00 a.m. Worship Service and Sunday School Brussels United Church 11:00 a.m. Worship Service We welcome our neighbours from Melville Presbyterian Church Remembering -- Celebrating -- Living Our Faith! BLYTH UNITED CHURCH Corner of Dinsley & Mill Street Sunday, July 7 Worship Service 11 a.m. Guest speaker: Rev. John Roberts pia 74,'etexwoce Minister: Rev. Dr. Eugen Bannerman Office: 523-4224 You are Welcome at the BLYTH COMMUNITY CHURCH OF GOD Summer Schedule 10:00 a.m. - Adult Sunday School 11:00 a.m. - Morning Worship (Junior Church during service) 7:30 p.m. - Evening Worship Kids' Club Every second Tuesday beginning July 9, 2 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 Pteeuie 7 jrcor, wow/to Sunday, July 7 Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m. Evening Worship Service - 7:30 p.m. "A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity." — Proverbs 17:17 BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH A\ Hwy. 4, Blyth 523-9233 Wheelchair accessible i 1 ) 111 ) i il il il a ( 11 .7,actude qed in putt fickeidav peatted You are invited to Worship Brussels Mennonite Fellowship P Summer Summer Worship Time 10:00 a.m Fellowship Time 11:15 a.m. EtwAy.ane Weeconte Pastor Brent Kipfer 887-6388 ii.......,,......,......,,/.0,,...., Cornerstone ' Bible Z4g irt.,:c.4-. ;. 1A-1Mr'4*' ,......,- vb..3 4, ----• Fellowship - --- -- - --, ,* ___ _ ___ Ethel Communion - 9:45 - 10.30 Family Bible Hour and Sunday School - 11:00 Prayer & Bible Study - Tuesday 8 p.m. Vacation Bible School - July 8 - 12 9:30 - 11:30 am, Ages 4-12 John 14.6 - Jesus said. "I am the WAY, the TRUTH and the one comes to the Father, but through Me." Everyone Welcome Call Pastor Andrew Thursdays or Fridays at 887-6123 % - . ',,..,..., - 12:00 LIFE, no PAGE 20. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2002. From the Minister's Study Christians called to be the hands of God By Joan Golden Brussels/Ethel United Churches Each one of us as Christians is given an awesome and sacred trust. We are called to be the hands of God. Our hands are all different, each carrying a unique imprint of who we are. Each of us was created with different fingerprints that reminds us we are all made just a little differently. Each is called to do the work of God with different tasks, different callings, different gifts to offer because we are all truly unique children of God. What we have in common is that God is within us and we are truly the hands of God in our world. There's a way of praying in a group that is so special and meaningful to me. It's where we gather and place one hand up towards another and our other hand down on another's hand reminding us that as we give to others and we receive from others. So often it's easier for us to give to help, we give to the food bank, we give to the Women's Shelters, we give to our church, we give to our community needs to help out. In this season of weddings we go through "receiving lines" to greet and congratulate the happy couple. They receive us as their guests, they receive our blessings, they receive the gifts we offer to them. We in turn open to receive the hospitality they offer. We too are called to receive others, to stretch out our hands in welcoming others. To take time to listen and receive the stories of Lodge installation to be held Sept. 24 The regular meeting of Morning Star Rebekah Lodge, Brussels was held on Tuesday, June 25. Sister Lorraine Edwards is home again from hospital. The installation of officers will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 24. The lodge is invited to Huronic Lodge, Clinton for their installation on Monday, Sept. 16. If anyone has a wheelchair, walker or any other equipment belonging to the lodge, which they are not using, please contact a lodge member or phone 887-9340 or 887- 6591.- Equipment is always in demand. ACKIMM101102M1063216. g iirthlg TVater 3 g Cfiristian 3 I . '4 Tellataup July 7 3 3 8 God 3 M llfills y 1 10:30 a.m. - Contemporary Worship I 1 at Blyth Public School, I e a corner of King & Mill 02 rA a Pastor: Ernest Dow ig 0 523-4848 www.tcc.on.cat-dowfam .....„060wwwwpror others for in our listening we truly receive who they are. It's when we listen to hear other's stories and needs we then really find out what is needed to be offered. We respond very quickly to an immediate need such as the food banks, providing cans of food or supplies from a list of needs. But we need also to receive and reflect on the stories of the people who have the need. We need to listen in order to learn how to alter the conditions that created the need. The differences are needed in our society that can bring change into the lives of those we help. We can help with our reflections and voices, when the voices of those not in need seem to be heard and listened to more readily than those who are quickly silenced from the margins. How do we receive those who need us? There's a book called Practising our faith, edited •by Dorothy Bass. It has short essays from various authors about how we as Christians practise our faith and how we can do better to put our Christian faith into practice in the everyday world. There is a chapter that talks about hospitality and it tells of an Advent ritual in a Hispanic neighbourhood in San Francisco. Each advent season, young and old alike re-enact the story of Joseph seeking lodging for Mary. For nine nights in a row, children and adults assume the identity of the weary couple or the innkeepers. For nine nights the doors in this district are tapped on asking for shelter because they need a safe place to rest. Eight nights there are excuses given why they cannot open their doors to the Josephs and Marys who come to them. On the ninth night - Christmas Eve they are given posada (shelter). The author explains that it is a beautiful, engaging ritual, the reality it addresses is a painful one; the reality of human need and exclusion. This is very real to the people of this district because many of these _people were refugees themselves and remember so well their own experience as strangers. Through the re-enactment of -this ritual the community affirms the goodness of taking people in, and those who once needed posada (shelter) are reminded of it, and to offer it to others. Throughout human -history, people have been uprooted, dislocated from the safety of their homes, becoming vulnerable as they seek shelter. Sometimes they are received and cared for but there are times they are not welcomed and face discrimination. In our western world we think of the "hospitality industry" of hotels as we travel, we hear of young- people being trained in colleges taking courses in hospitality that will give them education to work in the hospitality industry. But hospitality is a Christian practice, a faith practice. One of the quotes from this essay that really speaks to me is "Hospitable places where guests can disclose the gifts they bear come into being only when people take up this practice and grow wise, by experience, in doing it well. We too need to remember to both offer to help and to be ready to receive from others their, stories that teach us so much. We need to think about how we can do this as children called by God to offer to others as Disciples of Christ - even a cup of cold water. In closing 1 want to give you the words of Ann Weems in her poem, This Church. We see this Church as a circle of persons Holding hands ... and dancing ... supporting each other, • Accepting each other, loving each other. Each person in this dancing circle is facing outward ... Reaching into God's world, Listening for the whimpering Watching for the hurting. Willing to offer a cup of cold water In Christ's name. Sometimes they need the water; Sometimes you need the-water; Sometimes I need the water. Being a part of the Church Means knowing that The cup is always filled in Christ's name. Amen.