Times Advocate, 1992-03-25, Page 7"Grandparents Day" In Thames Road
By Rhoda Rohde
THAMES ROAD - Irene Richardson, lay minister,
was in charge of the regular church service on Sun-
day morning. The congregation sang the opening
doxology "Morning Has Broken". The choir sang
"Holy Saviour" accompanied by the organist Agnes
Bray. The congregation sang the children's hymn
"Pan of the Family" and Richardson gave the chil-
dren's message "We Do Have a Choice", and then
read the scripture lesson Exodus 3:"1-15 and 1 Corin-
thians 10:1-13 and the tit] ; of her sermon was "Test-
ing, Testing, One, Two, Three".
Coming events
The E.T. Loonie Tunes, Thursday meet March 26
at 5:30 p.m. at Thames Road Church with a pot luck
supper at Ehmville for the main course and at
Thames Road for dessert.
The Sunbeams will have "Grandparents Day" on
Thursday, -April 2 at 9:30 a.m. at Thames Road
Church.
Saturday, April 4 the adult fellowship party will
meet for bowling at Zurich Bowling Lancs at 7;30
p.m. and then to the Throe AAA See Restaurant. Sign
up sheets are on the bulletin boards at each church.
Please sign up by Sunday, March 29.
Sunday, April 5, following the church service will
be a get together to honour Agnes Bray for 40 years
of service as an organist of Thames Road Church.
Monday, April 6 the Thames Road U.C.W. will
meet at 8 p.m. Bring your husband or a friend. in
charge of the program are Marilyn Pym, Margaret
Stewart, Jean Duncan, Helen Hodgen. The guests
speaker will be Jack Hodgert with slides and a talk
on his trip to China.
Personals
Sympathy of the community is extended to Paul
and Darlene Passmore and Rob in the recent_ passim
of Dariene's father the late Cecil Carsen of Ottawa.
Bill and Rhoda Rohde were Wednesday supper
guests with Elliott and Audrey McRoberts ot'1xeter
and Friday evening visitors with Phil and Marjorie
Johns of Elimville.
Foreign aid: We can't afford not 'to
By Wallace Beaton
Canadian Council for
International Cooperation
TORONTO - Starving children
in Ethiopia. Massive flooding in
Bangladesh. _Cholere epideiftiics 'in
South America. The nightly -news
is filled with endless images of
Third World dicuster and despair. It
can make one wonder if, in spite of
all the money Canada has spent on
foreign aid, nothing has been ac-
complished.
But is this really the case? News
reports aside, tremendous progress
has been made in alleviating the
plight of the world's poorest. In de-
veloping countries between 1960
and 1987,
- average life expectancy rose
from 46 to 62 years,
- adult literacy increased from 43
to 60 percent
- 55 percent of the publication
gained access to safe drinking wa-
ter.
Today, the lives of three million
children are saved every year
through simple immunization and
oral rehydration programs. And
since 1979, the scourge of small
pox has been eradicated.
These are impressive achieve-
ments, proof that development as-
sistance from Canada and other
countries does work, that condi-
tions in the Third World are im-
proving. The federal government
spends about $3 illion a year on
development as e. To the av-
erage, person, it seems. like a huge
amount but in fact it represents less
than three percent of total govern-
ment spending.
But the federal government does
not work alone. Tens of thousands
of ordinary Canadians are involved
in • assisting the Third World
through almost 240 non-
governmental organizations (or
NGOs) as well as major.C>lnadian
churches and other religious
groups. Together they raise almost
5250 million per year for develop-
ment projects, research, and educa-
tion.
The names of many national
NGOs are familiar - OXFAM,
CUSO, Foster Parents Plan. But
rights here in Ontario there are oth-
er, lesser-known groups including
Salvaide, The Jesuit Centre, Share
Agricultural Foundation and the
Third World Resource Centre.
The work of most NGOs focuses
on long-term permanent solutions
to underdevelopment, working in
partnership with Third World or-
ganizations. They seek to meet pri-
mary human priority needs - educa-
tion and literacy, health, shelter,
adequate food production - so that
the poor in developing countries
can achieve self-sufficiency and a
better quality of life now and for
the future.
The week of February 3 9, is In-
ternational Development Week in
Canada with special events and ac-
tivities right across the country. It's
a time for all of us to salute the ef-
forts of these NGOs and the people
of the Third World.as they strive to
confront and overcome the prob-
lems of underdevelopment. Infor-
mation on International Develop-
ment Week activities in your area
can be obtained by contacting the
Ontario Council for International
Cooperation, 815 Danforth Ave-
nue, Suite 405, Toronto, Ontario
M4J 1L2, 416-469-5324.
In these tough economic times,
some question the money Canada
spends on foreign aid. With a reces-
sion and high tmernployment, it is
easy to forget the plight of the
world's poorest in favour of "look-
ing after our own'. But a simple sta-
tistic: may put our own difficulties
into perspective: according to
World Bank estimates, one billion
people in the Third World live on
less than one dollar per day, a stan-
dard of living that Canada reached
200 years ego.
In this increasingly interdepen-
dent world, we cannot ignore the
misery of so many of the Third
World's people; their problems
soon become our problems. During
the 1980s, the debt crisis in South
American coated a decline in im-
pons that cost an estimated 130,000
jobs in Canada Global environ-
ment problems like the destruction
of the tropical rainforest are caused
in part by poverty. And poverty is
at the root of many of the 125 wars
fought tri the Third World since the
late 1940s.
Foreign aid has also been Grana-
da's ticket to an important feat at
the table of many international bod-
ies. Whether in the United Nations,
Commonwealth, Francophonie, or
G-7, Canada has pursued a proud
tradition of internationalism, bol-
stered by its positive image among
many developing countries. An im-
age, due in large part, to our. on-
going commitment to development
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Youth retreat
Centralia Faith Tabernacle news
CF.NTRALIA - The London
Faith Tabernacle hosted a three
day, two night Youth Retreat with
youth coming from Grimsby, Sar-
nia, London and Centralia Youth
groups. Those from the Centralia
group who could not attend the en-
tire retreat, took the Blue Goose
and attended the final evening ser-
vice on Friday night.
The guest speaker was Frank
Tomlinson who used the young
1 ople To act out scripture, and de-
livered a super message. A quick
stop at McDonalds finished off a
great evening. Those who attended
the entire retreat still looked a little
tired on Sunday moming, but re-
ported that many new friends were
made and good Christian teaching
was enjoyed.
Friday night the Youth group is
hosting a Family Movie Night at
the church. The movie, "Norman -
Lives Forever" will be shown at
7:00. The bus will stun its route
throughout Huron Park at 6:30.
Refreshments will be served fol-
lowing the movie. There is no ad-
mission, just a freewill offering,
with all monies going to the Build-
ing Fund. Everyone is welcome.
Only -two-Stmdaysyeft Ind -our
Bible Contest will be coming to a
close. Sunday, April 5 will be the
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