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Top honour
Erica Clark (right) receives her Canada Cord, the top
award in Pathfinders from leader Pam Chalmers at a
ceremony recently. It was only the second earned by a
Blyth Pathfinder.
Kathy Procter, Lena Siegers lead
singing at Mennonite Fellowship
You are Welcome at
the
BLYTH CHURCH OF GOD
9:45 a.m. - Sunday School for Children and Adults
11 - 12:15 - Morning Worship
Bible Studies - Wednesday 10 a.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Phone 523-4590 McConnell St.., Blyth
BLYTH UNITED CHURC H.
Invites you to join them
in Worship
April 9 - 11 a.m. Good Friday Service
April 11- 6:30 a.m. Sunrise Service 1 1/4 mile 0
east of Blyth (Howson's Elevators)
April 11- 11 a.m. Easter/Confirmation Service
Rev. Lorenzo Ramirez Jr. 523-4224
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
You are welcome this Sunday
Maundy Thursday Service - 8:00 p.m. - Brussels
Good Friday Service - 11:00 a.m. - Blyth
April 11 - Easter Sunday
Holy Eucharist
Trinity, Blyth St. John's, Brussels
9:30 a.m. 11:15 a.m.
Rector, The Rev. E. Paul Acton, 887-9273
Why not break the old habit and attend church
this Easter Sunday!
BRUSSELS
MENNONITE
FELLOWSHIP
7:30 a.m. Easter Sunrise Service an
II
Breakfast
- hosted by MYF Youth
9:25 a.m. WORSHIP SERVICE
"Hosanna To the King"
by the Junior Sunday School
10:30 a.m. Christian Education Hour
Pastor Tom Warner Elder John Baan
887-6388 887-6967
EVERYONE TRULY WELCOME
BRUSSELS UNITED CHURCH
Rev. Cameron McMillan
Church Office 887-6259 Manse 887-9313
Good Friday Service
Dramatic Presentation
"The Face of Jesus"
Rev. Randy Banks - Rev. Cam McMillan
EASTER SUNDAY
"Imitate the Life of Jesus"
Family Worship Service
Ethel United Church
EASTER SUNDAY SERVICE
Church School
"Jesus Christ is Risen Today"
9:30 a.m.
11 a.m.
9:30 a.m.
MELVILLE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BRUSSELS
Rev. Carolyn McAvoy
HOLY WEEK WORSHIP
Maunday Thursday: 6:30 p.m. Ecumenical Potluck
Supper
7:30 p.m. Worship with music &
communion
Easter Sunday: 8:30 a.m. Sunrise service led by
youth at Doug Hemingway's yard
9 - 11 a.m. Easter breakfast at
Melville hosted by church school, pop in
and go. or be our guest at worship
11 a.m. Easter worship.
special music
We welcome you to share Easter with us!
HURON CHAPEL MISSIONARY
CHURCH
PASTOR JAMES H. CARNE AUBURN 526-7515
Good Friday Service -10:30 a.m.
Sunday -10 a.m. - Family Bible Hour
11 a.m. - Kubassek Male Quartet in testimony & song
8 p.m. - Evening Service
Wednesday - 8 p.m. - Prayer & Bible Study
Friday - 7:30 p.m. - Youth
BLYTH CHRISTIAN
REFORMED CHURCH
HIGHWAY 4, BLYTH--523-9233
GUEST MINISTER:
Rev. Gerrit Heersink
Sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
The Church of the "Back to God Hour" and "Faith 20"
Back to God Hour 10:30 a.m. CKNX Sunday
Faith 20 5:00 a.m. Weekdays, Global T.V.
Aft Visitors Welcome 'Wheelchair accessible
PAGE 20. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1993.
From the Minister's Study
Change doesn't come easy, says Reverend
By Peter D. Tucker
Minister of Calvin-Brick and
Belgrave United Churches
I feel a sense of sadness as I sit
down to write this brief article,
mainly because it is the last one I
shall write here because of a
pending move to a different
pastorate in Elliott Lake, Ont.
Change does not come easily to
any of us, and as we age change
becomes for most people more
difficult to accept. It is a fact
though that change is built into the
fabric of the human body, and we
are fools if we fail to face it.
Throughout our home there are
photographs of loved ones,
including a good many of my wife
Kathy Procter and Lena Siegers
were in charge of the congregation-
al singing at Brussels Mennonite
Church on Sunday, April 4.
Pastor Tom Warner preached
from the scripture lesson, John 12
1-19. Following the services, Sun-
day morning, several families from
the congregation participated in a
"guess who's coming to lunch".
That evening some of the mem-
bers sang hymns with the residents
of Maple Villa.
On Saturday the Venture Club
members enjoyed a swimming out-
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and myself. Each of these has been
taken at different stages in our
lives. Some belong to college days,
while others show us abroad in
mission fields, but the pattern is
obvious in each. The parade of
years looks out at us constantly and
will not be denied. Young fresh-
faced people with two tiny
children, older and more
responsible people with two lively
teens, grandparent types with
young newlyweds and their first
children; all of these pictures
remind us of the inexorable march
of time. Indeed, all I have to do is
look at the face which stares out at
me every morning to be reminded
of my own mortality.
ing at Vanastra.
The youth are planning for the
upcoming sunrise service on East-
er. The youth will be in charge of
this service.
For many people change is an
enemy, but for the person in tune
with God change is a present
friend. To deny change and the
necessity for change is to deny the
reality of God's plan for our lives.
Relationship with God starts with
change. God changes us by His
powerful Spirit from the self-
serving and self-seeking of our
natural humanity into the God-
serving and God-seeking life. We
slough off our old nature just as a
snake sheds its skin. Why does it
shed? Because it is growing! It has
literally outgrown its past life!
Does the snake then stop to bewail
what it has lost? Of course not, it
immediately glides off to fulfill its
life's mission under the guiding
hand of God.
I have never met Christians who
have spent any time complaining
that they missed the old life which
once they led. They are too busy
rejoicing in the new life which they
have found!
Relationship with God continues
with change. All of our lives God
leads us onward, away from
sameness and boredom into ever
new realizations of what He has
designed for us. Our ideas of His
nature will change as we get to
know Him. If you find yourself
stuck in a time warp and feel
incapable of further change, then
you are denying the fact that the
Spirit of God is living and active
now. The significant thing to
remember is not that God does not
change, but that you are not God!
Old attitudes of bias and
prejudice and lack of Christian love
for people in other groups and
denominations will change. It
always distresses me to see in print
bitter criticism of others who do not
believe exactly as I do. It is always
so much easier to find out what is
wrong in the lives, social attitudes
and worship patterns of others than
it is to look honestly at where the
Lord would have us change our
own.
It is a fact that without change we
are telling God that He has to work
with us as we are. This is a
declaration to God that any
adaptation which must be made,
must be made by Him. The God I
know does not respond to
ultimatums. In fact, He issues
them! He declares that we are
sinful and that we must change. He
declares that we must serve Him,
not as we decide, but as He
decides. That demands change.
Refusal to change is a refusal of
God.
The ultimate change is coming
for us all as we age. We are called
upon to relax our grip upon life
here and to reach out and grip
firmly the hand of God which calls
us on to fields of higher service.
We shall exchange our mortal
bodies for glorious bodies which
defy change and defy time. It is not
to be feared, for it is not an end but
a beginning, a mere manifestation
of change. That is one change to
which I am looking forward!