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September 15 Cornerstone
Bible
Fellowship
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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.
Ladies' Time Out - The last Thursday of each month
7:30 - 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
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BLYTH UNITED CHURCH
Corner of Dinsley & Mill Street
Sunday, September 15
Worship Service 11 a.m.
Sunday School resumes Sept. 15th at 11:00 a.m.
Theme is: "United Church Alumni"
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Minister: Rev. Dr. Eugen Bannerman
Office: 523-4224
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Sunday, September 15
HOLY EUCHARIST
SUNDAY SCHOOL RESUMES
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
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
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
You are invited to an
Alpha
Celebration Meal
- an opportunity to tind out more about the Alpha Course
- a practical introduction to the Christian faith.
Friday, September 20, 6:30 p.m. at
Brussels Mennonite Fellowship
6:30 7:20 pm Dinner
7:20 - 7:50 pm What is Alpha?
7:50 - 8:30 pm Video presentation: "Christianity: Boring,
Irrelevant, Untrue?
8:30 - 8:45 pm Questions
There is, no cost for Alpha Course events. Donations are accepted.
RSVP to Brent Kipfer (887-6388)
by Monday, September 16.
Alpha
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BLYTH COMMUNITY CHURCH OF GOD
9:45 a.m. - Sunday School for ail ages
11:00 a.m. - Morning Worship
(Junior Church during service)
7:30 p.m. - Evening Worship
Bible Studies - Wednesday morning 10 a.m.
Wednesday evening 7:30 p.m.
Phone 523-4590 308 Blyth Rd., Blyth
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Sunday, September 15
Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m.
Evening Worship Service - 7:30 p.m.
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he that followeth me shall not walk in dot knPss, but shall have, the light
of life. — Joh' 8;12
BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
it Hwy. 4, Blyth 523-9233 •
Wheelchair accessible
BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Joan Golden - Diaconal Student Minister
Church Office 887-6259 E-mail - bepc@wcl.on.ca
September 15, 2002
Ethel United Church
9:30 a.m.
Worship Service and Sunday School
Brussels United Church
11:00 a.m.
Worship Service and Sunday School
Remembering --- Celebrating --- Living Our Faith!
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2002. PAGE 15.
From the Minister's Study
Thresher Reunion reminds of ag roots
By Rev. Eugen Bannerman
Blyth United Church
Blyth has hosted another very
successful Pioneer Thresher
Reunion. More than 10,000 people
passed through the gates on each of
the three days. They came from all
over the province and the United
States, to see antique machines,
tractors, old-fashioned threshing
demonstrations, sheep herding dogs,
and many other shows and
demonstrations.
The Thresher Reunion reminds us
that Blyth is firmly rooted in the
agrarian landscape of Huron County.
There has never been any question
_of the primacy of farming in the
community. But it is important,
every once in awhile, to be reminded
of the high value placed on those
who work the land.
The farmer who understands his
business is of great importance to
society, and is entitled to high
honour. He or she is more than the
Less than a year after an idea for a
commemorative garden at the Blyth
Community Greenway was initiated,
the project is now in the beginning
stages.
An area at the east end of
Drummond Street (beside the old
CPR rail line) has been set aside for
the Blyth Green way Memory
Garden.
Donations can be made to the
Memory Gardens to commemorate
deceased loved ones, to celebrate
weddings, anniversaries, or births.
Donation cards will be available at
the Beattie-Falconer Funeral Homes
in Clinton and Blyth and at various
businesses throughout Blyth.
An enlarged and coloured
landscape design by Carol Reinink is
displayed in the store window beside
Carol's Candies and Collectibles on
Queen Street.
Donations will be accepted for
trees to be planted on the Greenway
(tree choice will be at the discretion
Of the Greenway Committee),
inscribed bricks for pathway or
sitting area and engraved leaves on
the Tree of Life.
Benches will be placed in the
garden with engraved plaques. There
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10:30 a.m. - Contemporary Worship'
at Blyth Public School, p2
a corner of King & Mill
Pastor: Ernest Dow - 523-4848
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salt of the earth; they are its bread
and butter, probably the most
essential members of the
community.
The average Canadian farmer
produces enough to feed himself and
120 others. And if all the corn grown
in Canada were stacked end to end, it
would reach the moon several times.
There are few countries on earth
with such an abundance of food as
North America.
We should feel good about
farming, whether we cultivate a few
acres, or operate mega-farms. There
is ample biblical precedence for all
types of farming.
In the Hebrew scriptures we read
that the first man, Adam, was also
the first farmer. Even in the bliss of
Eden, there were chores to be
completed. Adam was not left to loaf
but to tend the garden, "to cultivate it
and guard it." The two sons of Adam
were also farmers. Abel Was a keeper
of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the
will also be stones at the base of the
Tree of Life which can be engraved.
For fee schedule and more
ground.
The patriarchs of ancient Israel
tilled the soil, raised cattle, and
traded in gold and silver and cultural
artifacts. Abraham was a prince in
his day, and raised thousands of
sheep and cattle, and maintained a
private army of trained servants to
protect his flock and possessions.
Job farmed on a large scale few of
us can even imagine. He had 7,000
sheep, 3,000 camels (think of
trucks), 500 yoke of oxen, and 500
female donkeys.
Throughout Western history,
nobility affirmed their position in
society through the possession and
use of lands, the proudest patricians
and most illustrious citizens lived on
their farms, built large houses, and
worked with their own hands.
In England to this day, titled
nobility shrunk from the trades and
manufacturing jobs, but viscounts,
earls, dukes, even princess and
princesses cultivate lands, preside at
information contact Bev Elliott 523-
9187, Doug Scrimgeour 523-4581
or Donna Taylor 523-4210.
agricultural fairs, breed animals,
compete for prizes at agricultural
exhibitions, and write treatises on
the rotation of crops. The term
"landed gentry" refers to the honour
ascribed to "gentleman farmers"
with an abundance of land.
We 'once met an honourable lady
at her country manor house. She was
dressed in farm boots, jeans and a
shirt. she excused her appearance by
describing herself as "a working
farmer." Her aristocratic daughter
was once half an hour late for a
wedding where she was a
bridesmaid, because she had tO
attend a cow that was calving at that
very inconvenient moment.
Tilling the ground is the first
employment assigned by God to the
first human being. It most closely
resembles the activity of the divine
creator, who gives to the earth its
fertility and adorns it with beauty.
Let us thank God for his gracious
gift, the blessing of a farm.
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