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BLYTH COMMUNITY CHURCH OF GOD
9:45 a.m. - Sunday School - for ages 3 to adult
11:00 a.m. - Morning Worship
Bible Studies - Wednesday morning 10 a.m.
Wednesday evening 7:30 p.m.
Phone 523-4590 308 Blyth Rd., Blyth
HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL
MISSIONARY CHURCH
Auburn - 526-7555
PASTOR DAVE WOOD - 523-9017
Sunday 9:30 a.m.- Family Bible Hour
10:30 a.m.- Morning Worship Service
7:30 p.m.- Community Christmas Service, Blyth Memorial Hall
Wednesday 7:30 p.m.- Family Night
Friday 7:30 p.m.- Youth
In the spirit of the season THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
Duff’s United Church choir performed Bom in Bethlehem and The Little Drummer Boy tor those
assembled at Brussels United Church on Sunday evening for the Christmas choral concert.
(Vicky Bremner photo)
From the Minister's Study
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DECEMBER 17- ADVENT 3
HOLY EUCHARIST
Are you ready to accept
the greatest gift, asks pastor
Trinity, Blyth St. John's,
9:30 a.m. Brussels
Wheelchair accessible 11:15 a.m.
Rev. Nancy Beale - Rector - 887-9273
By Rev. Dave Wood
Huron Chapel Evangelical
Missionary Church, Auburn
Little Frannie was all ready for
Christmas. She had busied herself
with shopping, baking and decorat
ing and could now avoid the throngs
of last minute shoppers.
Her sister, Little Annie had spent
her time glued to the TV and as the
realization of the approaching day
dawned upon her, she was seized
with a panic.
Little Frannie enjoyed quite a few
chuckles as she watched Little Annie
race around in a dither trying to find
the gifts she had neglected to pick
up.
Next year, vowed Little Annie, she
would not be caught unprepared and
so avoid the unnecessary strife.
There is something to be said
about being prepared! Are you ready
for Christmas?
How many times have you heard
this line so far this year? It would
seem that with the season upon us
we are once again thrust into the hol
iday mode whether we like it or not.
Lights are twinkling and cedar
boughs are displayed in decorative
fashion as houses are transformed,
inside and out, in honour of the yule-
tide season.
As for me, I got into it and strung
up a few bulbs here and there and
even managed thus far to avoid elec
trocution. But am I ready for
Christmas ...!
It is easy to decorate the outside. It
is relatively easy to prepare the
external spaces but I have found it is
much more difficult to look to the
heart. The hustle and bustle, the
“spirit” of the season can keep us so
busy and preoccupied that we often
crowd out and neglect the “Reason
for the Season”.
Christmas is about the birth of
Jesus Christ. Christmas is about
“Good News that is for all people, a
Saviour has been bom and He is
Christ the Lord”.
But I wonder, is there any room
for Him today? The people of the
time of Christ longed for a Saviour
but was the world ready? Rome, the
power of the day did not even
acknowledge His birth. Herod, the
usurper of His throne, tried to
destroy Him. To top it all off, there
was no room for Him at the inn and
the world left the welcome, of the
visitation of God to some shepherds
in a manger!
Was it ready for Christmas? Was
the world ready to receive the King?
They needed Him. They longed
for Him but they could not see that
the need of the heart was the intent
of His Advent. He came to His own
but His own would not receive Him.
The hope of the ages had come but
for so many this hope had been sti
fled and they were not ready for
Christmas.
Almost 20 centuries have passed
and the world is still in need. The
Christ of Christmas remains the
answer to this need. Jesus takes us
beyond the externals and He does a
work in the heart. Good news, baby
grew up, He became a man and died
on a cross to give to you and me the
greatest gift of all, hope that springs
eternal!
Are you ready for Christmas? Not
just on the outside, but on the inside?
Are you ready to accept the Greatest
Gift, Jesus, Who is Christ the Lord?
Plan to join us
Sunday,
December 17
for our
Community
Church Service
7:30 p.m.
Christmas Message
by:
Rev. Dave Wood
Special Music by:
Men of Note
BRUSSELS ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Joan Golden - Diaconal Student Minister
Church Office 887-6259 E-mail - bepc@wcl.on.ca
Ethel United Church
9:30 am
Worship Service & Sunday School
Brussels United Church
11:00 am
Worship Service & Sunday School
All are welcome to come and. worship with us
Cornerstone
Bible
Ethel
Communion - 9:45 - 10:30
Family Bible Hour and Sunday School
11:00 - 12:00
Prayer & Bible Study
Tuesday 8 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
For more information call 887-6665
MELVILLE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BRUSSELS
11:00 a.m. - Morning Service
9:30 a.m.
- Sunday School
- Belgrave Service
Wheelchair accessible
Nursery care available
We welcome you to come and worship with us.
Rev. Cathrine Campbell - 887-9831
Blyth United Church
Corner of Dinsley & Mill Street
Come Worship The Lord With Us
Sundays -11:00 a.m.
Worship Service & Sunday School
Dec. 17,11 a.m. "God's Joy & Delight in the Humble"
Community Christmas Service ■ 7:30 p.m. Memorial Hall
Minister ~ Rev. Ernest Dow
ALL ARE WELCOME
523-4224
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Elder: Don Procter 357-3557
You are welcome at
Brussels Mennonite Fellowship
9:30 a.m. Worship Service
10:45 a.m.Christian Education
/aift ua [m, uimfup Sunday
Morning Worship Service ~ 10 a.m.
Evening Worship Service ~ 7:30 p.m.
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...The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son,
and they will call him Immanuel - which means, "God with us".
Matthew 1:23
BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
Rev. Adrian A. Van Geest
A Hwy. 4, Blyth 523-9233
*■+* Wheelchair accessible