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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1987-03-18, Page 6PAGE ti-•(;QDERICH SIGNAL -STAR, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1987 THE CHURCH SAYS NO TO SCIENTISTS - WHY? This month a statement was made by the Catholic Church saying that there were moral limits on experimentations on humans... IS -THIS AN-EXAMPLE-OFTHE-CHURCH BLOCKING PROGRESS, OR iS THE CHURCH PROTECTING THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN RACE? This Sunday, March 22nd, Father Mike Prieur, Professor of Moral Theology at St. Peter's Seminary, will speak on the above topic at- St. -Peters _ Church, 156North St., Goderich. EVENING PRAYER, in the Chapel at 7:30 p.m. TALK & QUESTIONS, in the Hall at 8:15 p.m. — Alt Welcome; No Collection — MASSON CABLE12, 22nd at 10:30 A.M. • CHURCH DIRECT Free Methodist Church Goderich Lawn Bowling Clubhouse Picton Street West THE REVEREND. ARTHUR SCOTT 524-8800 Sunday. March -22 9:45 a.m. Children's`Sunday School 11,00 a,m. Worship Service Sunday Evening 7:00 p.m. Bible Study • Victoria Public School ALL ARE WELCOME COME WORSHIP WITH USS Knox Presbyterian Church MINISTER: THE REV. G.L. ROYAL Mat.,M. DIV.; Lorne H. Dotterer, Director of Praise North Street 'United .Church 56 North Street, 524-7631,'524.6951 Sunday; March 224 1987 11:00 WORSHIP .8, JUNIOR CONGREGATION THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT Ecumenical Prayer Service Wed. evening March 25 at 7:30 p.m - Cable 12 Telecast at 1 p.m. •-- REV. ROBERT O. BALL MINISTER Robert Blackwell Director of Music . Sunday;- March .22 Communit News • Loneliess is anong most common problems BY HEV. GERRY D. MeMILLAN, Streets, the elderly placed jn Nursery Him, but even His'own Father. BETHEL PENTECOSTAL ASSEMBLY horses, some' never seeing loved ones and Are you suffering from loneliness? 'Turn Some years ago, a high school student friends for months at a time. to Jesus Christ. Begin a relationship with took his life. What a tremendous shock to the The loneliness of suffering 77 loneliness Hitn by asking Him to forgive you of your school populace! It seemed he had it made. resulting from disease, or physi44ial ailments sins and allowing Him to become the Lord of He carne frorn.a good family, was financial isolating individuals from family` and your life. financial- ., ly secure, an honour student, good looking friends. • He lovesyou and has 'promised to be a popular, excelled in sports and never-seeitiThe loneliness•of-sorrow,-a-lorneliness.that—friend-who-is closer -than a -brother, a.friend ed short of friends.. comes from a tragic loss of a lowed one. who promises never to leave you nor forsake But the note he left behind, told another ('hen, there's the loneliness r Suiting front you, a friend who promises always to be story. A story of unhappiness, despair, and sin. No matter what some rnaysay , there is there. loneliness. a God, who has set down physical and moral In Revelation 3:20 we read that Christ in - A number of years ago, an attractive laws. When we break those laws, we vites us to Open our heart's door so that He Hollywood actress with all apparently a girl' alienate ourselves front Him. Because of may c•orne in and fellowship with us. would want ended her life. She left` a brief one mess. ut sin (disobedience to God 1 we are out of hi times -of loneliness, turn to God's word note with a simple explanati(r on- she wasCr Lenowship ube natab!y_1one!y. with Gad, therefore we suffer i the Bible is How His word brings comfort to loneliness. ` us in our Bute of need. H G W 11 id o his sixty,fifth birthday M k 1 d t f 'llowjship with one - "I am sixty-five and I'm lonely and I never had peace." A survey recently taken in U.S. University Campuses showed one of the greatest pro- blems facing students is loneliness. There are different kinds of Loneliness. The loneliness of solitude is described by Admiral Richard E. Byrd in his book, 'Alone'. He tells of spending five months in a shack at the South Pole. '1'he day's were black as night, no living creature of any kind existed within a hundred miles. Society brings its own kind of loneliness.. The poverty-stricken living alone on city an Inc yeas rna e 0 f another, and to fellowship wi h God. If we are out of fellowship with G 1(1 it doesn't (natter how many friends we 1 ave we'll suf- fer loneliness. Jesus understood !ouch' ess. Ile ex- perienced loneliness. In i Isai ih 53: 3-(i ) the prophet Isaiah predicted Jesds;Christ would be a Ulan of sorrows acquainted with grief. When ,Jesus prayed in -the -Garden of Gethsernanee, Ile experiencpcdloneliness. At the cross, Christ experienced the supreme loneliness. -When H cried out, 'My God, My Goch - why bast Thou forsaken roe'', it seemed that not only His riends had left Genealogical Society The Huron County Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society held its first meeting of 1987, its March session,'held in the board room of the Assessment Office in Goderich. Chairman Karen Harman welcomed the 29 members present.' The -Branch -is -holding -an open genealogical beginners', workshop at the , The Minister Will Preach 11:00 a.m. Divine Worship 11:00 a.m. Sunday School (Nursery F9cilities) Enter to Worship. Deport to Serve Wingham Ui ited Church on April 8 at 7:30 p.m. ,with Ruth Galbraith of Brussels in - charge. Visitors are welcome. ' The new executive for 1987 is: Karen Har-" man, Bayfield; chairman; . Anne Clark, of "- Walton and .Margaret MacLean, of RR 3, Seaforth,.. vice-chairman: treasurer,. Bill Clutton, of RR .5 Goderich; secretary, Wilma Oke of, Seaforth; membership, Ruth - Galbraith, Brussels; librarian, Yvonne Porter, Goderich; bulletin, Alison,Lobb,.RR 2 Clinton, also cemetery coordinator; and research; Nancy Kale, RR 5, Seaforth. Mrs. , Galbraith reported ' memberships paid in January at 177 'members and in February at 247. Mrs. Lobb said the branch bulletin is ready to go to the printer and will be mailed out to members when completed. Mrs. -Lobb explained the new directives from. the Ontario Genealogical Society, enlarging on, the„ruling that every branch member must join the 'provincial' society. She spoke of the large number of reports the provincial office is demanding which will be a burden for the volunteers to prepare on a regular -basis. -, - Mrs. Lobb has been asked to attend the • annual meeting at the Sheraton Hotel in --Niagara Falls on May 16 to-slieak on behalf; of the Branch to .explain the concerns: -She 'said several other branches have written to Albert. µ ” the Huron Branch ,expressing similar St. George's Church, Anglican - Episcopal North and Nelson Streets, Goderich RECTOR: THE REV. ROBERT J. CROCKER Organist -Choirmaster:' David Hamilton A.R.C.T. • THIRD SUNDAY -QF LENT March -22nd 8:30 a.m. Holy Communion 11:00 a.m. Morning Prayer, ., •--Sermon: Church History Series Sunday School and Nursery 2:00 p.m. Holy Communion at Christ Church, Port Calvary Baptist Church BAYFIELD ROAD AT BLAKE STREET PASTOR: TERRY WOODCOCK Phone -524:6445 tudi When my grandfather passed away, my grandmother often expressed the comfort and care C'hr'ist would share with her in her hour of loneliness. Not only do we need fellowship with' Christ, we need fellowship with one another. If vo`U are lonely, tell someone -,"a friend, a family member, teacher, your minister. During our life time we'll all experience loneliness. Let us always be willing to reach out, to be a friend, to bring conifort and en- cuurogement to those that are suffering from loneliness. s-cemeter-ies most Bost of his fortune to another, the: w didow ad - Mrs. Lobb was authorize o purchase a edj "Until We Meet Again". letter quality computer pre ter -from aLon- Children had their say too_.One was, "He don firm, which will be '''a 1e to serve the was a kindly father" and another A loving machine as needed. The" esti nated cost is mother lies at rest. And`this one, '''Ma loved • around $2,000. Pa. Pa loved Wimrnen. Ma caught Pa with Chairman Harntan•i•ea a lkt of enquiries twos in swinunin'. Here lies Pa." from people researching ie5. Mess -Campbell -concluded -her' -w'r'iting; Margaret MacLean, viam 1y histol :vice-12 ',esident, read "Who can now say th. old cemeteries are from a book of writings by I `,belle Camp- not interesting'.'" bell, Seaforth historian, „on the Stories i Cemeteries 'fell. Miss Campbell writes that old cemetery stones give a wealth of .information about - the people, the changing styles of the tinges, -, G the•advance that medicine has made and it I • some ways you learn•that the present -age f. NEWBORN-NE\A/S� ,, no worse than 'in the so called good of days', Miss Campbell said the pagans burie I their dead facing the west; the setting sur , GOMEZ . with darkness beyond but when Christ cam ' Oscar and Cheryl i nee Bell ) are delighted to the Christians buried theirs facing the eas , announce the birth of their daughter, Jen - the rising sun. • rifer Pauline, horn on February 21, 1987, at Miss Campbell ,writes,,, "ohy c::r\n t the " New Victoria Hospital, ` London, -wander through -old gr aveyrds wi houtb: - weighing 0 lbs. 3' ozs. Mg struck by the number of child en at d ' , ' WILLIS others who, died young,. young risen al` d . Kevin 'and MMarvLynn Willis are pleased to worsen from consumption 1 tuberculosis 1, suulounce the safearrivalof their first son, inflainmation"of the lungs i pneumonia I,'i - Shane on March 9, 1987.. We would like to' flammation of the bowels 1 aphendicrtis'r-aT 1 ..hank the staff at 2nd East for all their care young' mothers from childbirth, and thr and understanding. Mar yl.ynn and Shane. and -four small -slabs tell of family-tralgedi from fever, diptheria •etc. McCULLOUGH On one small tombstone "Mary Ann Fe r Julie and Kim are thrilled' to announce the Born :May 20, 1807, three' months and I ,s ife arrival of -their-little brother -Randy days. A father's hope, a Mother's pride. J s ,Howard on March 14,1987 at Clinton Public in_the:bud of life sic died.:'--_ ..-- i ,____Hospital weighing .6 lbs. 7.-ozs. Especially Among the many' writings on thefton b- pond parents are, Bob and Doreen. ,Special' stones -this one first read: ' "He rests in thanks to Dr. Baker and the nursing staff on Peace" but after learning that he had 'ft 2nd floor. ' Wednesdays in Lent: 10:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. ly communion, except March 25th evening ser- vice withdrawn-for_Unity Service at North Street Church at 7:30 p.m. .- You are always welcome — Nursery Facilities..,available Sunday School • 10:00 a.m. Morning Service • 11:00 o.m. Evening Service - 7:00 p.m. WORD OF LIFE • teens Tues. - 7:00 Mighty Mites • Ages 485 - Olympians - Ages 6-12 Wed. -6:30---8:00—p Prayer Meeting - Wed. 7:00 WELCOME TO THE FRIENDLY CHURCH Third Sunday in Lent The Sundays in the.season of Lent are not counted among ,the 40 clays of Lent between Ash - Wednesday (March 4, 1987) and Eoster Sunday if (April 19, 1987). The Sundays are set apart for worship and praise in the traditional manner, • and are not subject to the usual solemnity of the Lenten Season. The Mid -week Lenten services'held CO some churckes, provide preachers with a Unique op- portunity to dwell on the intense suffering of Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, as He hung dy- ing on the cross at Calvary for the sins of the whole world. Often, the Lenten.services feature a mean•• mgful series of-messages-such-as-the-seven— times Jesus spoke from the cross: the sights and sounds of Lent: the participants at the trial and crucifixion of Christ. rsonally Crafted Memorials Shop, Showroom andDisplay Display 293 Main Street, Exeter Our Work Has Our Personal Guarantee . Serving Huron & Surrounding Area Since 1919. See Doug Stevenson - Memorial, Counsellor for-'Goderich, Blyth, Lucknow, Kincardine and surrounding areas. 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