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254 Drummond St. E., Blyth
Saturday Night Mass
at 7:00 pm
Father John Johnson, Pastor
357-2435
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PASTOR DAVE WOOD - 523-4941
Sunday
Wednesday
9:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
7:30 p.m.
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
7:00 - 8:30 p.m. -
7:00 p.m.
Family Bible Hour
Morning Worship Service
Evening Worship Service
- Crusaders - JK to Grade 6
Youth
Adult Bible Study
Trinity, Blyth
9:30 a.m.
St. John's, Brussels
11:15 a.m.
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Meet in the basement
308 Blyth Rd. E.
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Sunday 9:15 a.m. - Prayer Meeting
9:45 a.m. - Sunday School
11:00 a.m. - Worship Service
Several mid-week events
Phone 523-4875 308 Blyth Rd. E. - Pastor Les Cook 523-4590
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FEBRUARY 1
FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY - MORNING PRAYER
TRINITY ANNUAL MEETING TO FOLLOW THE SERVICE
WITH POT LUCK LUNCH
The Rev. Tom Wilson, B.A., MDiv. 887-9273
BLYTH UNITED CHURCH
Corner of Dinsley & Mill Street
Sunday, February 1
Worship Service & Sunday School - 11:00 am
The New United Church Creed (2)
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Minister: Rev. Dr. Eugen Bannerman
Office: 523-4224
Blyth United Church is a welcoming community of faith.
We celebrate God's presence through worship and study, and through
responding to the needs and gifts of each other.
MELVILLE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BRUSSELS
11:00 a.m. - Sunday Morning Service
- Sunday School
9:30 a.m. - Sunday Belgrave Service
Wheelchair accessible
Nursery care available
Rev. Cathrine Campbell - 887-9831
BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Joan Golden - Diaconal Student Minister
Church Office 887-6259 E-mail - bepc@wcl.on.ca
February 1
Ethel United Church
9:30 a.m.
Worship Service & Sunday School
Brussels United Church
11:00 a.m.
Worship Service & Sunday School
We Celebrate the Season of Epiphany
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Sunday, February .0
Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m.
Evening Worship Service - 7:30 p.m.
BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
Pastor John Kuperus
Hwy. 4, Blyth 523-9233 Wheelchair accessible
9:45-10:30 - Communion
11:00 - 12:00 - Family Bible Hour and Sunday School
7:00 - 9:00 pm - Youth (ages 12 & up)
7:30 pm • - Home Bible Studies
John 14:6 - Jesus said, "I am the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE,
one comes to the Father, but through Me."
Call Pastor Andrew at 887-6123
Brussels Mennonite Fellowship
Sunday, February 1 - 9:30 a.m.
Coming this Sunday...
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From the Minister's Study
Living in God's World
By Rev. Dr. Eugen Bannerman
Blyth United Church
The opening lines of the New
Creed begins with a fabulous
declaration. "We are not alone, we
live in God's world."
And what a world it is! Let me talk
about this world.
God's world is a physical world.
It's a world of beauty, and atoms and
an expanding universe. It's a world
where the heavens declare the glory
of God, and the firmament shows
forth his handiwork.
Canada shares in some of the most
beautiful regions on earth. It has
only 0.5 per cent of earth's
population, but it has six per cent of
the world's top 50 beauty spots,
including Ontario's Niagara Falls.
God's world is a world of nature
we can see with our own eyes; an
expanding cosmos we can see
through the telescope; a microscopic
world of wonder we can examine
with an electron microscope.
This is God's physical world, and
we live in it. What a privilege.
God's world is also a spiritual
world. It is a world of mystery, and
marvel, and mental bonding. It is a
world where prayers are answered,
where people near death are given
visions of angels and spiritual
beings. It's a world of mental
bonding between people, between
parents and their children, between
teachers and their pupils, between
owners and their pets.
Emotions are one of the most
important tools for bonding. Grief
bonds people together more strongly
than laughter, we are told, and
sorrow bonds more tightly than joy.
But love is the strongest bond of
all:" it follows us to the ends of the
earth.
Researchers have recently
suggested that there is a physical
basis to mental bonding. When we
form attractions to people, or create
bonds of affection, we are creating a
type of invisible mental glue that
holds us together over distance. The
mind in not just in our head, these
scientific researchers argue, the
mind also extends physically outside
our heads and connects us to things
or people we are bonded to.
It used to be called, mental
telepathy, but it is now called,
morphic field. A morphic field is an
invisible field around us, a kind of
gravitational space that allows our
thoughts and intentions to remain
connected to those we love, even at a
distance.
Researchers found we can remain
connected even to our pets. For
example, how else can a cat lay idle
through a dozen phone calls, but
immediately get up when the
telephone rings and the owner is
calling home. One cat was
sufficiently aroused when the owner
called home that it learned to knock
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the telephone receiver off the hook,
but only when the owner was
calling.
How did it know when to do this
unless there is a kind of bonding
across the morphic field?
How else can a parrot, a bird who
calls out the owner's name when it
sees him, know the precise minute
its owner has decided to leave his
office by calling out his name 15
minutes before it sees him? Unless
there is a real mental connection
between owner and pet.
The morphic field theory also
explains why prayer is effective.
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"Pious, Prosperous, Prolific"
Pro-Life
Sunday
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10:30 a.m. - Contemporary Worship
at Blyth Public School,
corner of King & Mill 6,1
...ex-addicts spread
a message of faith & hope!
Don't miss this opportunity to hear the
personal stories of these young men — about
the new hope and freedom they have found
through the power of God!