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Sunday 9:15 a.m. - Prayer Meeting
9:45 a.m. - Sunday School
11:00 a.m. - Worship Service
Phone 523-4875 308 Blyth Rd. E. - Pastor Les Cook 523-4590
BLYTH UNITED CHURCH
Corner of Dinsley & Mill Street
Sunday, September 19
Worship Service & Sunday School
11:00 a.m.
Guest: Gloria Wilbee
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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
: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
Celebrating 150 years of Christian Witness and Service!
"L'hrist-centred, Groytth-geared"
10:30 a.m. — Contemporary Worship & Sunday School
at Blyth Public School, corner of King & Mill
Pastor Ernest Dow - 523-4848
www.getlivingwater.org
BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Joan Golden - Diaconal Student Minister
Church Office 887-6259 E-mail - bepc@wcl.on.ca
Sunday, September 19
Ethel United Church
9:30 a.m.
Worship Service & Sunday School
Brussels United Church
11:00 a.m.
Worship Service & Sunday School
Celebrating together our Christian Faith
HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL
MISSIONARY CHURCH
,
- Auburn - 526-1131
case
PASTOR DAVE WOOD - 523-4941
Sunday
Wednesday
9:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
7:30 p.m.
6:30 p.m.
7:15 - 8:30 p.m.
7:15 p.m.
Family Bible Hour
Morning Worship Service
- Evening Worship Service
Crusaders for grades JK-6
- Youth
- Adult Bible Study
SING A SON of
Trinity, Blyth
9:30 a.m.
St. John's, Brussels
11:15 a.m. 6,1
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
Service of Healing with Laying on of Hands & Anointing - 7 pm
First Thursday of the month at Trinity
Third Thursday of the month at St. John's
All are welcome to participate
it is People Touching
The Rev. Tom Wilson, B.A., MDiv. 887-9273
Good eats
The Trinity Anglican Church cooks were busy at the grill
preparing a delicious meal for visitors at the 43rd annual
Thresher Reunion in Blyth this past weekend. (Elyse De8ruyn
photo)
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Sunday, September 19
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
254 Drummond St. E., Blyth
Saturday Night Mass
at 7:00 pm
Father John Johnson, Pastor
357-2435
PAGE 16. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2004.
Rev. Ethel Miner Clare
Knox United, Belgrave
Forgive, not seven times, but, I tell
you, 70 times seven.
Remember the day when a four
year old asked you. "What's the
biggest number in the whole world?"
You might have respe,r.dcd,"Tterc.
is no biggest number because if you
add one to any number you can
name, the result is a bigger dumber."
A former math teacher has decided
that he will tell his young son that he
doesn't know what the biggest
number is. but he does know of two
huge numbers. One is called a
googol and another is a googoplex.
You can look those words up in a
dictionary. They are actual words
and actual numbers even if my
computer spell-check doesn't
recognize them!
A googol is the number one
followed by a hundred zeros. A
googolplex is '1' followed by a
googol of zeroes. That is an awfully
big number!
There is a story in the gospels in
which Peter is concerned with
numbers. Jesus has told the disciples
how to forgive but Peter wants to
know how often he is to forgive.
We can imagine Peter asking
Jesus. "Suppose I am out fishing
Celebrate
rural
women
Oct. 15
Help celebrate women around the
world on Oct. 15 as Women Today
of Huron hosts an open house in
honour of World Rural Women's
Day.
The open house will be held at 45
West St. in Goderich and everyone is
invited to come enjoy autumn treats
and hot drinks while learning about
rural women's vital contribution to
communities everywhere.
World Rural Women's Day, which
takes place each year on Oct. 15,
was launched in 1995 by the
Non-Government Organizations at
the fourth United Nations
Conference on women in Beijing.
China.
The day provides rural women
and their organizations with a focal
point to raise the profile of rural
women, sensitize both government
and public to their crucial, yet
largely unrecognized roles, promote
action in their support, fight
inequalities and prejudices against
rural women and obtain recongition
and support for the multiple roles
of rural women who are
,mostly farmers and small
entrepreneurs.
Rural women across the world
play a major role in ensuring food
secruity and in the development and
stability of the rural areas. Yet, with
little or no status, they frequently
lack the power to secure land rights
or to access vital servcies such as
credit, inputs, extension, training
and education.
World Rural Women's Day aims
to change this by bringing rural
women out of obscurity at least once
a year.
Of Canada's 346,200 farm
operators, 26 per cent are female
which is about the same proportion
as five to 10 years ago.
with Thaddeus. Thaddeus gets so
excited when our net is full of fish
that he stands up in the boat and we
tip over losing our catch. Now I can
understand how he could make that
mistake the first time. We right the
boat, retrieve our nets, and cast our
nets into the water again. But what if
he should continue to stand up and
tip the boat over? Do I keep
forgiving him even if he does this
seven times?"
To Peter's generous seven (three
was the accepted number of that
time), Jesus simply answers. "Even
seven times is not enough. You must
forgive seventy times seven." Jesus
might as well have said a googol of
times, for forgiveness is beyond
calculating.
The word forgive in English is a
combination of two words, fore and
give - to give in advance, just the
way a loan can he forgiven before all
the payments are made. This kind of
forgiveness means entering a
relationship recognizing the
humanity (limited, sinful nature) of
others and self, so that behaviours
which might otiltrw!5,- hP 12,1,,,r, as
slights or offensive are not taken as a
personal attack. Instead they need to
be, seen are evidence of the person's
humanness, and, as the saying goes,
we "love them anyway."
Unfortunately this is not easy for us
but I think it is the attitude that God
has towards us, "For while we were
yet sinners God gave..."
The amazing grace is that God
continues to seek reconciliation and
to love us into fulfillment in spite of
ourselves. The challenge is that we
are called to do the same both for
others and ourselves. May God
empower us to fore-give.
From the Minister's Study
A lesson on fore-giving