The Citizen, 2004-07-08, Page 12July 11
Special Guest
Speaker:
Mark Pittock
EN angelical Missionary ( hurt%
of Canada
Liviv Water
Oitictin Telltudip
10:30 a.m. - Contemporary Worship
Sunday School during Sermon
at Blyth Public School,
corner of King & Mill
Pastor: Ernest Dow - 523-4848
www.fcc.on.ca/-dowfarn
HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL
MISSIONARY CHURCH
SING A SONc OF Auburn - 526-1131
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Sunday
tWednesday
9:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
7:30 p.m.
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
7:15 p.m.
Family Bible Hour
Morning Worship Service
Evening Worship Service
Youth
Adult Bible Study
PASTOR DAVE WOOD - 523-4941
MELVILLE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BRUSSELS
For the month of July we will be worshiping
with our friends at the United Churches
in Brussels and Belgrave.
Services resume at Knox, Belgrave and Melville,
Brussels on August 1st
Rev. Cathrine Campbell - 887-9831
St. Michael's
Roman Catholic Church I)
254 Drummond St. E., Blyth
Saturday Night Mass
at 7:00 pm
Father John Johnson, Pastor
357-2435
Trinity, Blyth
9:30 a.m.
St. John's, Brussels
11:15 a.m.
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
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SUNDAY, JULY 11
The Rev. Tom Wilson, B.A., MDiv. 887-9273
Cornerstone
Bible
Fellowship
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Sunday: 9:45-10:30
11:00 - 12:00
Tuesday: 7:30 pm
Wednesday: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
- Communion
- Family Bible Hour and Sunday School
- Prayer & Bible Study
- Youth (ages 12 & up)
John 14:6 Jesus said. "I am the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE, no
one comes to the Father, but through Me."
Call Pastor Andrew at 887-6123
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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
BLYTH UNITED CHURCH
Corner of Dinsley & Mill Street
Sunday, July 11
11:00 a.m.
"The second temptation of Jesus"
Service led by Lorna Fraser
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Minicter: 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
BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Joan Golden - Diaconal Student Minister
Church Office 887-6259 E-mail - bepc@wcl.on.ca
July 11
Ethel United Church
9:30 a.m.
Worship Service & Sunday School
Brussels United Church
11:00 a.m.
Worship Service
We welcome our neighbours from Melville Presbyterian Church
Come and celebrate the Season of Pentecost with us!
Pee to 7:04ea ea, Oft eiterzalto
Sunday, July 11
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
PAGE 12. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 2004.
From the Minister's Study
Keeping God in your summer vacation
and Pentecostal traditions; and that
they always come to church when on
vacation. These people didn't care
that it was an Anglican Church, they
wanted to gather to give thanks to
God for the week that had passed,
and to ask for God's blessings fo`r the
week that was to come.
What a wonderful model for us to
emulate!
I find when I am on vacation, it is
a great time for me to attend services
in other churches that have different
styles 'of worship. Each
denomination offers different styles
of worship, preaching and music and
they all help to build up my faith in
the family of Christ.
I even sometimes attend worship
services in non-Christian traditions.
Certainly Christians have a common
heritage with the Jewish and Islamic
faiths, and can learn much from the
Buddhist, Hindu, and other world
religions, as well, counterpoise to the snow, cold and
ice of our Canadian winter. God
bless you this summer and may you
enjoy your vacation time and still
take a bit of time each week to give
thanks to God as well.
By the Rev. Tom Wilson
Trinty and St. John' Anglican
Blyth, Brussels
Summer is upon us. The hot,
humid, and sometimes lazy, days are
leading us towards vacations.
When on vacation, it can be very
seductive to think we are able to get
away from our obligations to God.
This can be even more so, when our
own church's minister is away and
there is someone filling in for them,
or our church is closed for a month
and we are asked to worship with
another congregation.
But this is just plain wrong! We
don't expect God to take a vacation
from watching over us, so why
would we ever think that God would
want us to not give thanks while on
vacation.
Part of the discernment process to
become an Anglican priest is that the
candidates are expected to complete
a ministry as the student minister in
charge of what are described as
"summer parishes." These parishes
are located in resort areas or
campgrounds, where there is a
significant population in the
summer, but very few people in the
winter.
I was assigned to Grace Anglican
Church, which is located within the
boundaries of Rondeau Provincial
Park on Lake Erie. The apartment
that went with the position was
attached to the church and a door
from the kitchen connected it to the
sanctuary of the church. Having
grown up in an Anglican Church
(and having worshipped in a United
Church when my family moved to a
small farming community when I
was in my late teens) I expected only
a very small congregation on Sunday
mornings at Grace Church since it
was summertime.
After all, this was the middle of a
provincial park, with a long beach of
white sand and blue water; walking
trails under the cool arches of the
mixed forest, and all sorts of other
temptations to draw people away
from worship on Sunday mornings.
Well, I was pleasantly surprised
when I opened the sanctuary door
ss. and stepped into the church on the
first Sunday. The church was almost
full, and later on in the summer, it
actually had overflowing
congregations that had to sit outside
and listen to the service through the
open windows.
Now I wish I could claim it was
my dynamic worship leadership,
wonderful preaching etc. that filled
this church, but the reality was that
people who had cottages in the park,
and those using the campground,
came to church faithfully. When I
asked the Anglican lay leadership of
the church about this huge
congregation, they informed me that
Rondeau Park is a favourite with
people of the Christian Reformed
in or near
every community in North America
and I have found that they all
welcome visitors and will go out of
their way to make us feel at home.
We are able to worship God with
them, to give thanks for the week
that is past, to be nourished in
prayer, strengthened in our faith
through the sermon, encouraged by
the scripture readings and prepared
for the week to come.
So, as you travel on vacation this
summer, or your home church is
closed for a month, don't turn your
face away from God, instead regard
this time as giving you the
opportunity to experience the wider
Christian Church, to perhaps even
get ideas that you could suggest be
tried in your home church; and give
thanks to God for giving us the
beauty of the summer, as a
There are churches
Sunday, July 11
Outdoor Worship Service
lo:oo a.m.
at
Howard & Alice Martin's, Brussels
Brussels Mennonite Fellowship
Weecentea, Yea to. Janney Dav
featuring The Chalmers Male Quartet
Noon Potluck Meal
No service at the church
Pastor Brent Kipfer 887-6388
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