The Citizen, 2012-06-28, Page 7THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 2012. PAGE 7.
The morning service at
Londesborough United Church was
conducted by Jill Ten Hag, director
of Camp Menesetung, and the camp
counselors for this summer. All
aspects of the service had a camping
theme, the communion with God one
finds in nature and worshiping out of
doors together. A power point
presentation was ongoing during the
service with slides of campers and
camp activities.
Jill explained that this year they
want to convey the message to all
young campers that everyone needs
to think a little more of others and
less of one’s self. Congregants
learned campers will be hearing
things like, pay it forward, be a
blessing, do nice things for
others and be nice to one’s self as
well.
One of the interesting songs the
camps will learn speaks of how
although a stone thrown in the water
disappears, the circles of ripples go
on and on. The children’s story was
another example of this. Several
counselors passed amongst
themselves a ring with singing
spinning beads. As the ring was
passed the beads continued to spin
and sound. In the same way a kind
deed done is a blessing that has a
ripple effect and a smile is
contagious.
Scripture passages read were from
Luke 21: 3-6, the story of Jesus
helping some of His disciples fill
their empty nets with fish and Gal. 5:
22-23 lists the traits of nature
produced by the Holy Spirit.
The message was a children’s
story read by Jill titled “How Full Is
Your Bucket?” that the campers will
hear and talk about. The bucket in
the story was invisible/ imaginary
over everyone’s head. Grandpa told
Felix that the bucket is responsive to
the good and bad things that happen
to each of us. One day Felix got
sadder and sadder as his day started
off badly - no time for breakfast,
bullied by boys on the bus, etc and
his bucket lost water. Later his
bucket began to fill with good things
- good project, compliments, etc.and
he got happy. Then he realized that
his own actions could affect the
water in his bucket - helping others,
playing with his sister, etc.
The senior choir sang a medley of
camping songs. This was the last
service at Londesborough United
until Aug. 5.
Rev. Allan Livingstone of St.
George’s Anglican Church in
Goderich will conduct the Ball’s
Cemetery decoration service on
Sunday, July 1 at 3 p.m. There will
be special music by the Goderich
Harbouraires.
The program at the
Londesborough UCW meeting on
Monday, June 18 was led by Lynda
Horbanuik and Bev Riley. The UCW
is celebrating 50 years of existence
in the organization of the United
Church of Canada. As Bev and
Lynda explained the UCW began as
the union of the WA, the Women’s
Association and the WMS, the
Women’s Missionary Society.
The WA focused on supporting
local church and community while
the WMS was involved in education
and world mission.
Taking the best from these groups
and expanding on their works, the
UCW established a four pillar
purpose repeated at every UCW
meeting. The four pillars are
Christian witness, study, fellowship
and service. The UCW organization
across Canada and in individual
churches has evolved and changed
over the years along with
the changes in society as a
whole while keeping true to these
pillars.
Individual churches have come to
value the work and support the
women of their congregation bring
to their faith community. A poem,
“We’ve Come a Long Way, Women”
was an interesting record of the 50
years.
Bev and Lynda read several UCW
stories submitted by women across
Canada and published in “Ordinary
Heroes”. The experiences recorded
are humorous, heartwarming and
encouraging and similar to
experiences in any UCW group.
These stories chronicled leading
church services, serving meals,
raising mission awareness, quilting,
donating to the needy, etc.
Barb Bosman taught us a new
hymn, true to women’s character in
the faith community, “A Tapestry of
Love” by Diana Chappell.
During the business part of the
evening it was decided to have a pie-
making session prior to
Thanksgiving. The Londesborough
UCW will meet formally again on
Sept. 17.
John and I both wish to thank
everyone who expressed their
concern and best wishes during
John’s recent enforced “holiday” in
the hospital. He is not bouncing
quite like Tigger yet but there is a
renewed lightness to his step.
My ‘roses’ for this week is
somewhat of a reversal. TheLondesborough Happy GangSeniors were in charge of the Junebirthday celebrations at Huronlea in
Brussels on June 19. Three ladies
from that group supplied the treats
for the afternoon. The seniors’ group
asked the Londesborough United
Church choir to provide
entertainment. Choir director Barb
Bosman arranged the little program
of choral singing, solos, violin
playing, dancing, recitations and
stories. I would like to think the
afternoon brought some
enjoyment/roses to the residents
there. And as we are often reminded,
charity brings warmth to both the
giver and receiver. Those of
us involved enjoyed the time as
well.Another little event that smelled ofroses for me last week as wellhappened the same day, last
Tuesday.
The Grade 1 class from Hullett
Central Public School was studying
maps, I assume. The children
accompanied by teacher Traci
Thompson, some parents and Grade
8 pupils took a walking tour of the
village. They visited the homes of
children in their class, stopped for a
cool treat at Bosman’s and dropped
in on the businesses in the village. It
was my treat to tour them around
Radford’s Farm Equipment and
explain a little about the post office.
On their personal maps of the
village they marked each of their
stops.On June 30 several students fromSt. Anne’s Catholic SecondarySchool in Clinton are bound for
Ecuador. These students fundraised
for the two-week trip organized by
the “Me to We” organization.
The group will volunteer within
the community of Gulahuayco in the
Andes Mountains to help build a
Free the Children school. The
students will also have an
opportunity to do a little sightseeing
and visit the Amazon rainforest.
They will participate in leadership
activities.
Mikayla Allen is one of the
students headed to Ecuador and I am
hoping she will bring us a report on
the trip for a future column.
North Huron Council announced
that Central Huron Councillors’
concerns over the fire agreement
between the two municipalities were
unfounded.
The concerns came in the form of
a letter from Central Huron Council,
worried about what would happen to
the agreement if Morris-Turnberry
pulled out of its agreement with
North Huron.
Central Huron councillors were
concerned that Morris-Turnberry’s
decision to explore building their
own fire service could result in
higher prices for Central Huron.
As a reaction to the belief that they
may end up paying more, Central
Huron’s representatives felt that all
municipalities affected, including
Morris-Turnberry, North Huron,
Ashfield-Colborne Wawanosh and
themselves, should be involved in
any negotiations.
Councillor Alma Conn stated that
Central Huron’s fire protection costs
will not change regardless of how
Morris-Turnberry council chooses to
provide fire service.
“The only increase that we have
ever asked for is the cost of living
increase,” Reeve Neil Vincent
explained. “North Huron is on the
hook for providing fire service once
we sign a contract regardless of
whether it costs us money.”
Representatives from North Huron
and Morris-Turnberry councils held
a public meeting last night at the
Knights of Columbus Centre to
discuss the future of fire protection
between the two municipalities.
Grade 1 class tours Londesboro
United Church holds final service until August
Central Huron fire concerns
unfounded says North Huron Feature
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