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Sandra Cable, Worship Leader
Church Office 887 .6259 E-mail - bepc@wightman.ca
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THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2006. PAGE 15.
From the Minister's Study
Sharing some thoughts on role models
By Sandra Cable
Brussels and Ethel United
Churches
Has your life been influenced by a
role model? Is there a special person
or persons in your life whom you
look up to?
With Mother's Day fast
approaching and Father's Day not
far behind in June, many of us think
particularly about our parents as role
models. Certainly, my parents were a
great influence in my life but there
are others who made as great an
impact.
In her book, entitled Sharing Faith
with Children, Sara Covin Juengst
states that socialization is the
process of interaction with others by
which a child becomes a responsible
member of society. Through
socialization, children develop
language and relational skills,
judgment and self control. It is the
process by which they learn about
the traditions and values of their own
culture.
The persons who have the greatest
impact in early childhood are those
in the child's immediate family,
especially parents. Through
discipline and role modeling, parents
help shape the child's growing
personality. Studies have indicated,
however, that it is the quality and not
the quantity of this parental care that
determines healthy development.
As children grow older, their
horizons of social awareness expand
to include schoolmates, playmates,
other significant adults, and the faith
community. The impact of all these
increases as the child begins to look
outside the home for role models and
new ideas of behaviour and values.
As a child my role model was my
grandmother Ida McKinlay.
Grandma was everything I wanted to
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supply these.
The cookies are to be at the
church on Friday, May 26 for pick
up on Saturday morning. Isabelle
Wheeler distributed tickets for the
UCW garden party to be held
Sunday, May 28. Tickets are $10 for
adults.
Mrs. Cable advised that the
church would be closed on June 4
for Ethel church's anniversary
services and asked if the UCW
would help with the June 11 service
when she would he away.
The next meeting will be held at
Rene Richmond's on Wednesday,
June 7 at noon. Members may bring
sandwiches or dessert. After the
meeting they will be delivering
flowers to the shut-ins. The meeting
closed with the UCW Benediction.
Group leaders remained and
planned the garden party.
be. She was a stay -at -home mom,
the norm in her time, who cared for
her chickens as if they were her
children. Her culinary skills were
demonstrated not in some exotic
creation but in the tastiest roast beef
and gravy dinners. Her renowned
butter tarts could not be copied yet I
use her recipe.
Her thriftiness came from living
through the Depression and she
saved all scraps of paper as they
might be needed to write down a
recipe or two.
Church attendance was a must for
everyone in her family and she lived
her faith daily. Raised in the
Presbyterian traditions, I often
wonder what her reaction would be
to know her granddaughter is now a
lay pastoral minister in-training in
the United Church of Canada? I can
hear her now "It doesn't matter, we
all serve-the same Master don't we?"
Why did rchoose my grandmother
as a role model? In his book, A
Theology of Children's Ministry,
Lawrence Richards suggests four
factors that contribute to why one
chooses a particular role model: a
long-term close relationship .marked
by warmth and affection,
opportunities to observe the model
in a variety of life situations, having
the model explain his or her
behaviour and having the model
reveal the values associated with that
behaviour.
My grandmother was full of love
and kindness and we had a special
relationship exemplified by those
first two factors.
For the last two factors, John fits
that role model. Back in the 60s,
John was my first employer in a shoe
store where I was a sales clerk. John
taught his staff to treat their
customers with respect and in turn
they would be treated the same way.
He took time to teach us his
business. By his example we learned
valuable life lessons.
Recently, I told John, now in his
80s, how much I valued his
friendship and how he has
influenced my life. I commented that
every young person entering the
work environment for the first time
should have a boss -like him.
I once asked a group of children
who they wanted to be most like
when they grew up? One little girl,
who always had the same right
answer for all my questions, piped
up "Jesus". She wantql to be like
Jesus.
What is wrong with that? Maybe
Jesus lost his temper once in a while;
he associated with the marginal; and
he defied the laws of the land. But
she knew Jesus to be kind and
gentle. She knew Jesus as a loving
man who cared for her as a shepherd
cares for his sheep. Even at her
young age, she discerned that all the
goodness displayed by Jesus was her
reason for him to be a role model to
her.
I am not so naive to believe all role
models are good ones. In this article,
I chose to share with you only those
people who had a positive influence
on my life. We can model our lives
to that of others but what is
important is that we live our lives in
a good and righteous way that we
become models for others.
After all, that is what Jesus did.
Time to visit
The area's suppers aren't just the place to be for good
wholesome down-home cooking, but also provide an
excellent opportunity for socializing and catching up with old
friends. (Vicky Bremner photo)
Garden party tickets on sale