The Citizen, 2019-06-13, Page 21THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2019. PAGE 21.
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Menesetung a popular spot for Hullett class trips
Hullett Central Public School
pupils will be involved in many
activities which promote learning in
other form(s) during this last month
of schooling for the 2018-19 school
year.
The Kindergarten classes were the
first to leave the school building for
their year-end class trip. On
Wednesday, June 5 they enjoyed a
day at Camp Menesetung taking part
in outdoor physical activities. Mr.
Caldwell’s Grade 4 class will attend
that camp for their day outdoors on
June 14. Camp Kintail will host
pupils finishing Grades 1, 1/2 and
2/3 from Hullett on June 10.
On June 6, the Grade 3 class of
Mrs. Plumsteel held an in-school
bake sale to offset the cost of their
trip to African Lion Safari on June
13. Pupils from the classrooms of
Mrs. Middleton, Mrs. Gilroy and
Mrs. Crete are planning a day at The
Factory on June 21.
Then, to celebrate 10 years of
schooling at Hullett Central, pupils
graduating this year will be heading
to Camp Celtic on the Bruce
Peninsula June 21. Ms White and
Mrs. Plumsteel will chaperone the
students on that excursion. These
students have been fundraising
during the course of the year for this
adventure.
When every class gets back to the
school from all these short jaunts,
the Hawks Leadership Council will
hold the last school dance of the year
on June 20.
Perhaps in an effort to promote
reading in the lives of our young
folks, pupils in Grades 6, 7 and 8
will be bused to Brookside Public
School on June 13 to take part in a
living library event. This living
library will feature people of varying
backgrounds telling their stories.
In support of the Heart and Stroke
Foundation, the last two periods of
the day on June 24 will be devoted to
jumping rope.
Recently, four like-minded boys
tested their engineering and
computer knowledge by taking part
in a robotics challenge. Up against
many larger schools across the Avon
Maitland District School Board the
boys came home with the Character
Award.
By BRENDA
RADFORD
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PEOPLE AROUND
LONDESBORO
Gloria Wilbee, licensed lay
worship leader, based her service at
Londesborough United Church on
June 9, Pentecost Sunday, on the
book by W.O. Mitchell, Who Has
Seen the Wind.
In that book, a young boy learns
about life. By seeing the results of
wind he and we learn about faith.
We can feel God’s presence in the
wind.
Gloria brought along her guitar
and treated the congregation singing
Bob Dylan’s, “Blowing in the
Wind”. The choir offered a neat little
hymn, “Over My Head”.
On Family Sunday, Father’s Day,
members of the UCW will be
leading the service.
The UCW will gather for their
June meeting on Monday, June 17.
Avery Whyte will talk to the ladies
about her schooling experience in
Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
NEWS
FROM LONDESBORO
Wilbee leads service
And they’re off!
Excitement was high on Sunday as the Clinton Raceway hosted its weekly horse races. This
week was special, however, as volunteers from the Blyth Brussels and Seaforth Stars minor
hockey associations hosted activities at the raceway to raise funds for their respective
organizations. (Denny Scott photo)
Following the Spirit’s guidance
Continued from page 18
God’s work is being done. She can
also come upon us as a nudge, a
strong feeling, or a persistent
nagging in your soul, egging you on
towards a path or calling you to
come to faith and belief. The Holy
Spirit is a driving force: driving
change, providing love and comfort,
giving strength for the bringing
about of God’s Kingdom on earth.
You can choose to ignore the
Spirit’s presence, of course, many
people do. God seldom forces us, we
have been given free will to follow
God’s way or go off on our own!
Rather like those in our Pentecost
story who sneered and denied the
Spirit’s movement in the people,
blaming it instead on the effects of
strong new wine. And to be sure, not
every feeling, nudge or dream or
vision is really of the Holy Spirit.
Our own egos and desires can feel
just as strongly within us. It can and
does sometimes require prayerful
discernment to figure out what’s
nudging you on, is it of God or of
ourselves?
There will be some who will listen
for the Spirit’s voice and follow the
prodding and some who will deny
her, and maintain the status quo,
others may deliberately choose
another path. There is an undeniable
tension in deciding how to act,
moving with the free-flowing urging
of the Spirit or staying secure in
one’s comfortable ways or setting,
even if that comfortable way has you
just spinning your wheels, or
deciding to choose the way our ego
is telling us, regardless of the quiet
still voice’s promptings.
We need to discern what’s guiding
us, and if it is of the Spirit of God,
then just step out boldly and take a
chance, and see where the Spirit
leads us. Sometimes it happens that
the way we seemed so sure of
doesn’t work – and you think you’ve
failed – failed yourself and God’s
call, but you know, that apparent
“wrong way” may well lead you to a
new and different opportunity to
serve God, in a way that you would
never have seen had you not made
that initial step out to start with! We
don’t always get it completely right
the first time!
It is when are open to the
movement and direction of the Holy
Spirit, God’s own agent – the very
Spirit of the resurrected Jesus – that
we can do more than we could ever
ask or imagine. Now that doesn’t
mean it’s any easier to do it, or that
it will be problem free if it’s God’s
way. If you read the book of the Acts
of the Apostles, you know that Holy
Spirit by her very nature disturbs the
status quo, urging us on to doing
things differently and challenges us.
The Holy Spirit is still, today,
alive and well, and continues to be
an empowering force, drawing us
forward, pulling us on to bring about
of God’s kingdom, in this little
corner of the world. Our job as
Christians is to prayerfully discern
the direction of the Holy Spirit’s
call, and step out in faith and see
where she leads us! Amen.
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