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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 2004-01-29, Page 13St. Michael's Et Roman Catholic Church It 254 Drummond St. E., Blyth Saturday Night Mass at 7:00 pm Father John Johnson, Pastor 357-2435 **I HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH SNG A SONG OF Auburn - 526-1131 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. ' A'vr,111," *".,MUNIII*UNZMUMMIMILIMUMMUltilr 7.7 Blyth Community Church of God Every Sunday night at 7:30 pm Meet in the basement 308 Blyth Rd. E. For information call 523-4590 Coffee House Community Church Of ri LrOci "The Church is not a oi 4, Building, -.. 1 It is People Touching People" 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 cop, ANDE4s0 THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA 7,Ve1easice4 you to &wise cued eckmatelt &Area ce.4 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) At& Weleauste 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 eeade 7:d(."(4 u4 Ai euevaiteft 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... THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2004. PAGE 13. d 9 O O O 0 0 9 4 7; 9 d n 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 44M6MWAIMMIMMM.L. 8 fiving, Water! 8 (titian, rellamiii p ma 11 a 8 ql 8 9 8 k 8Evangelical Missionary Church E g A Pastor: Ernest Dow - 523-4848 5 www.tcc.on.ca/-dowfam I luiliwwwwwww. 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. Continued on page 15 8 1°4 8 q "Pious, Prosperous, Prolific" Pro-Life Sunday 8 ‘ 8 4 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!