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Sunday School Picnic
Potluck & Swim
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Sunday 9:45 a.m. - Power Hour Circus
(Ring of Relationships)
11:00 a.m. - Worship Service
Mid-week Bible Studies
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Sunday, June 25
11:00 a.m. - Sunday Morning Worship
- Sunday School
9:30 a.m. - Sunday Belgrave Service
Wheelchair accessible
Nursery care available
Rev. Cathrine Campbell - 519-887-9831
Blyth United Church
Corner of Dinsley & Mill Street
Sunday, June 25
Worship Service, Sunday School & Nursery
11:00 a.m.
Minister: Rev. Robin McGauley
7veteame
Office: 519-523-4224
Sanctuary
BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Sandra Cable, Worship Leader
Church Office 519-887-6259 E-mail - bepc@wightman.ca
Sunday, June 25
Ethel United Church
9:30 a.m.
Brussels United Church
11:00 a.m.
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Sunday 9:30 a.m. - Family Bible Hour
10:30 a.m. - Morning Worship Service
7:30 p.m. - Evening Worship Service
Wednesday 7:00 p.m. - Adult Bible Study
There will be no Sunday School for July and August
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
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For more information call 526-1131
THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 2006. PAGE 15.
From the Minister's Study
Sharing some thoughts on 'Holy Days'
By Cathrine Campbell
Melville, Brussels
Knox, Belgrave
Presbyterian Churches
The time is coming (or past for
some) for holidays! The origin of
the word holiday is Holy Day and
you may wonder how, seemingly, the
most secular of times originated
from the practices of the church and
the commands of the Creator.
Well, the Creator makes good
things, and like all good things that
are a compendium of different parts,
there is a need for nurture and care
for the parts. The human, so
carefully made of heart and mind
and sinew, was not a perpetual
motion machine and it, any more
than an automobile of today, does
not run endlessly without fuel and
water and maintenance.
And that is where the holiday or
Sabbath comes in. (The information
about Sabbath comes from the
Presbyterian Church in Canada's
Sabbath website) and this is why the
church, from the beginning, listened
to the words of its Creator who
began that Creation with a Sabbath.
The word "Sabbath" from the
Hebrew verb, shabbath, means to
cease, rest, be completed.
Sabbath changes from time to time
in our lives. The weekend at Grand
Brussels
UCW
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The Evening Unit of the Brussels
United Church Women met at the
home of Rene Richmond on
Wednesday, June 7 for a potluck
luncheon. Betty Campbell said
grace before members enjoyed a
lovely meal.
The business portion opened with
the UCW Purpose. Nelva Scott gave
a reading What Have You Given
Away?
The treasurer's report was given
by Isabelle Wheeler and the minutes
were read.
Motions were passed to give the
stewards and Mission and Service
the proceeds from the garden party.
The treasurer was given authority to
pay bills over the summer and to
pay for the flowers from Foodland.
The UCW is in charge of the
church service on June 11.
Following the meeting flower
arrangements that Rene made up for
the shut-ins were delivered.
Bend is no longer a fun time, a book
at the beach in Goderich is a great
time - or vice-versa. Travel is great,
travel is to be avoided - our tastes
change and so do our sources of
enjoyment.
Sabbath is .,.covenantal work
stoppage. Sabbath reminds us to
pause from our ever-increasing
productivity and the anxiety which
often accompanies it and reflect on
God's higher purposes for us and our
world. (Isa. 58:13-14)
Everyone, both child and adult,
needs a time to do something
entirely different. Your job, school
or calling may have demands of time
or season but there is still a reminder
that you need to have a break.
As the first item said it can change.
As a young person it could be taking
the family camping, as a mature
person it could be having the family
treat you to a nice spa at one of
Ontario's Finest Inns.
Sabbath is a communal activity.
The Israelite community was called,
as a group, to rest and enjoy God.
The whole community did it
together. (Deut. 15:1-15) A holiday
is a time to be with others either
family or friends you have not seen
in a while or complete strangers who
will tell you with pride about their
place. The call is not to spend
money but to spend your time.
Sabbath is...a family time. If you
have seen the musical movie Fiddler
on the Roof you will recall the
family preparation for the Sabbath.
Sabbath is family-centred. (Deut.
16:7-8, 1I) Family is to be given a
very broad interpretation and this
time is to be spent with those you
love and care about and with whom
you will find reminiscences and
make new memories.
Sabbath is...a sacred anticipation
of the world's redemption. We look
forward, with hope, to God's
ultimate completion of the earth at
the end of time. (Ileb. 4: 9-11) We
lake time to think that we are not to
be cogs in a machine but rather parts
of a complex society that should
endeavour to do good and shun evil.
Sabbath is...a time for saving up,
storing up. (1 Cor.16:1-2) We are
called to lift our eyes from the daily
"grind" and savour what we have
and ensure that we are rested and
refreshed for the days ahead.
Sabbath is...a time to remind us to
love our neighbours as ourselves.
(Deut. 15:1-15) A healthy world is a
world that works and works well, it
is a world in which all look beyond
themselves and in that celebrate in
ways that may be very grand or very
modest some "holidays" that will
bring a neW time of wholeness.
The Bible gives us a kaleidoscope
Good News is that we ,worship a God
who not only creates and cares and
as our Saviour said in Mark 2:
verses 26-28." The Sabbath was
made for humanity not humanity for
the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is
Lord even of the Sabbath."
We give thanks for a God who
cares so much!
Have a safe and happy holiday
of meanings for Sabbath but the time.
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
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SUNDAY, JUNE 25
Trinity, Blyth
9:30 a.m.
St. John's, Brussels
11:15 a.m.
The Rev. Tom Wilson, BA., MDiv. 519-887-9273
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Sunday, June 25
Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m.
Evening Worship Service - 7:30 p.m.
BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
Pastor John Kuperus
it\ Hwy. 4, Blyth 519-523-9233
Wheelchair accessible