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From the Minister's Study
Being our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers
By Cathrine Campbell
Melville Brussels, Knox Belgrave
Presbyterian Churches
"Am 1 my brother’s keeper?”
(Genesis 4:9b)
The whiny humph you can hear in
Cain’s voice is both a clue to the
right answer and a sound that has
echoed throughout the millennia.
Cain tries to distance himself from
the wrong he has committed by try
ing to put the blame on Abel; giving
the impression if Abel had been
smarter or quicker he would not have
died. But Abel did die and because
of Cain. This was the most preventa
ble death in the history of humanity
but pride, malice, anger and self-
centredness ensured that Abel would
die and Cain would try to .weasel out
of his responsibility.
Responsibility is a word with
many nuances but the most impor
tant is an assenting to accept one’s
Morning
Star
to host
inaugural
Morning Star Rebekah Lodge,
Brussels, regular meeting was held
on Tuesday, June 13 with Vice
Grand Sis. Mary Elliott presiding.
Past Noble Grand Sis. Lorraine
Edwards and Noble Grand Sis. Elva
Brown attended Rebekah Assembly
of Ontario sessions in London June
12, 13, 14.
The inaugural meeting for Huron
District #23 will be Thursday, June
22 at 8 p.m. in Brussels. It is hoped
there will be a good attendance of
Past Noble Grands to show support
for the member Sis. Elva Brown
who will be District Deputy
President for term 2000-2001.
Sunday, June 25 the Oddfellows
and Rebekahs will be worshipping at
Brussels United Church for their
annual church service.
Several members visited with Sis.
Marguerite Crawford who celebrat
ed her 95th birthday on May 31.
Donation was made to Brussels
Agricultural Society.
Wheelchairs, walkers, commode,
etc. are available from the Lodge for
loan to the public. Just contact a
Rebekah or Oddfellow.
share of involvement in this world.
We are to make home, community
and country a good and pleasant
place to be. Failure to do that means
we all suffer. We all suffer when par
ents fail and their children (of what
ever age) feel it is OK to drive across
someone’s lawn. We all suffer when
institutions fail and illness strikes
young and old causing needless
death and suffering. We all suffer
when we fail to recognize that right
and wrong are just that and choose
the wrong because it is expedient,
attractive or just seems more com
fortable.
Self-centredness can seem to be a
pleasant thing, perhaps, even a justi
fiable state, but the price can be high.
Broken relationships, broken dreams
and broken promises do not make for
a good place to be and the reality
emerges that the centredness of self
becomes the repudiation of others.
From this has come the ills of
humanity, war, poverty, slavery, and
the death of millions.
It is a sad reality that often this
state is justified under the heading:
“It is good for the economy,” or
“You have to break a few eggs to
make an omelette”, or “What do a
bunch of religious nuts know? look
at their leader, he never even owned
a house!”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a
pointed come back to those who felt
the every man/woman for him/her
self way was the only way when he
said: “We have always known that
Father’s Day breakfast
Shae McLean and his father Keith of Grey Twp. enjoyed
breakfast together when the Brussels Fire Department host
ed a breakfast Sunday morning.
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UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Joan Golden - Supply Minister
Church Office 887-6259 E-mail - bepc@wcl.on.ca
June 25
Ethel United Church
9:30 a.m.
Brussels United Church
11.00 a.m.
All are welcome to come and worship with us
HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL
MISSIONARY CHURCH
Auburn - 526-7555
PASTOR DAVE WOOD - 523-9017
Sunday 8:45 a.m.
Wednesday
10:00 a.m.
11 a.m.
7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
Friday 7:30 p.m.
- Morning Worship Service
- Family Bible Hour
- Morning Worship Service
- Evening Service
- Family Night
- Youth
heedless self interest was bad
morals; we know now it is bad eco
nomics. (First Inaugural Address
1933)
Jesus may not have owned a house
or a good stock portfolio but he
knew the value of each living soul
and he tells in the most clear way in
the story of the Good Samaritan
(Luke 10:25-37). The Samaritan did
not review what was the best course
of action for himself but what was
best for the man lying bleeding in-the
ditch. The Samaritan takes responsi
bility, he invests his time and his
money to bring healing for the man
and asks nothing in return.
In so doing the Samaritan demon
strates, most clearly, that he is his
brother or sister’s keeper. He does
not beggar himself, he enriches him
self with his actions that confirm that
he is privileged to be able to give
such aid and that he is free to do so.
We draw much from this story and
the end is one we should all pay
close attention to: “Jesus told him,
“Go and do likewise”. (Luke 10:37b)
For we all are to be our brother’s and
sister’s keepers.
Brussels Mennonite
Fellowship
9:30 a.m. Worship Service
10:45 a.m. Christian
Education
Everyone Welcome
Pastor Ben Wiebe
887-6388
"...but I have called
you friends."
John 15:15
fou are ‘Welcome at the
BLYTH COMMUNITY CHURCH OF GOD
9:45 a.m. - Sunday School for Children and Adults
11:00 a.m. - Morning Worship
Bible Studies - Wednesday 10 a.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Phone 523-4590 McConnell St., Blyth
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
IJcti aw welcome tfiiy Sunday
JUNE 25 - PENTECOST 2
MORNING PRAYER
Trinity, Blyth St.John's,
9:30 a.m. - Brussels
Wheelchair accessible 11:15a.m.
Rev. Nancy Beale - Rector - 887-9273
MELVILLE
^PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BRUSSELS
- Morning Service
- Sunday School
- Belgrave Service
11:00 a.m.
9:30 a.m.
Wheelchair accessible
Nursery care available
We welcome you to come and worship with us.
Rev. Cathrine Campbell - 887-9831
/aia a& (c* tfli& Sunday
Morning Worship Service ~ 10 a.m.
Evening Worship Service ~ 7:30 p.m.
uIf you confess with your mouth, fesus is Lord, and
believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved.
Romans 10:9
BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
Rev. Adrian A. Van Geest
Hwy. 4, Blyth 523-9233
Wheelchair accessible
Cornerstone
Bible
Fellowship
Communion - 9:45 - 10:30
Family Bible Hour and Sunday School
11:00 - 12:00
Prayer & Bible Study
Tuesday 8 p.m.
Ethel
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
For more information call 887-6665