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Windsor mission, minute topic
been placed in the
memory of Vietta
choir offered two
His life for all
the Christmas
related by Mr.
On Dec. 22 at Londesboro United
Church. Katherine Allen and Laura
Scott lit the fourth Advent candle,
the candle of hope for all children.
Neil Salverda delivered the
minute for missions about the
downtown Windsor mission,
entitled Through the Mission
Doors.
Flowers had
sanctuary in
Hoggart.
The senior
Christmas anthems O Come All Ye
Faithful and Born in a Manger.
During the children’s lime, Dave
Williams and the children decided
love means really caring for
someone. Dave told a story about a
six-year-old boy who agreed to give
blood to his three-year-old sister
even though he expected that to do
so meant his death.
Christ did give
sinners.
The legend of
Spider was also
Williams. Some spiders were so
excited about a Christmas tree that
they climbed all over it leaving
dusty webs. When Santa saw the
strands, he turned them all to silver
and gold tinsel.
Then Mr. Williams gave a spider
ornament to be hung on the
sanctuary’s Christmas tree.
In the New Testament scripture
passage. Luke 1: 26-38, the angel,
Gabrielle, visits Mary to tell her of
her impending pregnancy.
The responsive reading that
morning was Luke 1: 47-55, also
known as Mary’s Magnificat. Jesus
descended from the line of King
David and in Samuel 7: 1-11, 16,
the prophet, Nathan, reveals this
promise to David from God.
Mr. William’s message was titled
Love in a Box. It was based on the
story of how a little girl gave her
father what he thought was an
empty box. His daughter declared
that the box was really full of her
love and kisses.
Mr. Williams suggested that love
shows up in many boxes/ways at
Christmas time. Jesus, who is a
promise of hope, peace, love, and
joy, came in a Christmas box, a
manger.
The Sunday school played to a
full house at Londesboro United
Church on Christmas Eve. There
was a hushed atmosphere in the
sanctuary that evening for a very
peaceful and respectful service,
befitting the occasion.
Mr. Williams welcomed
everyone. He showed the children
the poster he had made from the
pictures they had brought to
storytime during the time of
Advent. The pictures were
examples of peace, hope, love and
joy.
He told the young folk the Legend
of the Little Donkey. Legend has it
that Joseph chose a blind donkey to
carry Mary to Bethlehem. But the
light of the star that appeared with
Christ’s birth took away the
animal’s blindness.
Matt Goodall, Tonya Drost and
Alex Stevenson lit the last candle in
the Advent wreath, the Christ
candle.
The teenaged Sunday school
helpers, Matt Goodall, Tonya Drost,
Alex Stevenson. Shawn Drost,
Terry Radford, Amanda Mitchell
and Amanda Falconer took turns
reading the Christmas story from
Luke l: 26-38, Luke 2: 1-20 and
Matthew 2: 1-12.
Kelsey Falconer took a solo part
in the junior
Behold That
service that
Christmas
Kindergarten
joined voices for Away in a Manger.
Shannon Scott, home from
Thailand for the holiday season
sang the solo lines in the senior
choir’s anthem, Mary Had a Baby.
Mary’s song was beautifully
rendered by Kelly Marks.
Recitations by Sunday school
classes, enjoyed by those gathered
that evening were, Just a Little
Baby, by the intermediate class, the
Shepherd’s Story, by the senior
class and The Baby of Christmas
from the junior class.
Accompanying the carol singing
were Jenn Elliott at the piano and -
Barb Bosman at the organ.
Rev. Ted Nelson, former
Presbyterian minister living in
Summerhill, will be conducting
services at Londesboro United
Church for several months.
For the first Sunday of Epiphany,
his message was entitled The
Courage to Speak. The happiness of
the godly was the theme of the
responsive reading. Psalm l.
The Old Testament scripture
passage. Isaiah 6: l-6 was the
Lord’s call to the prophet, Isaiah.
Matthew 2: I-12 and 16-18 is a
record of the visit by the Wise Men
to the Baby Jesus and Herod’s
subsequent killing of newborns in
Judea.
PEOPLE AROUND
LONDESBORO
By BRENDA
RADFORD
Call
523-4296
Doug Trewartha is the caretaker
for the month of January.
The senior choir will practise at
10 a.m. for the next two Sundays.
The greeters and ushers list for
2003 is ready for pickup on the
table in the church narthex.
It will soon be time for the annual
report. Committee heads are
reminded to be preparing their
reports.
number of Rileys, Hunkings and
relatives of Rileys and Hunkings in
the area.
To those relatives and his friends,
the community expresses sympathy
over .the passing of Ben Riley just
prior to Christmas.
Ben was married to the former
Marion Hunking. The
farmed along the 8th concession
Hullett and rived briefly
Londesboro before settling
Goderich.
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choir’s first number
Star. Later in the
choir also offered
Isn’t Christmas.
and junior classes
Staff and students at Hullett
Central School are considering the
virtue of loyalty this first week of
the winter term. They will discuss
the fact that loyalty means staying
true to someone or a belief.
The kindergarten classroom has a
student teacher assisting Mrs. Black
and Mrs. Kemp until the end of
February. Mrs. Brenda Young,
formerly Brenda Miller of
Londesboro, will feel right at home
in the halls of Hullett school.
One doesn’t live in the
Londesboro community very long
before recognizing that there are a
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