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PAGE 12. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1995.
From the Minister's Study
Pastor shares memories of special friend
By James H. Carne, Pastor
The Missionary Church, Auburn
A vital part of my past died a
couple of weeks ago.
Leslie Freeman came into my
life, in a rather remarkable manner,
when I was nine. He was standing
with others in a circle in the grass
on a corner lot just down the street
from my house, "out in the sticks,"
in east-end Hamilton. The group
was singing hymns, Leslie assisting
them in his vigorous, but off-key,
way.
That group that day became my
introduction to vital Christianity.
When a Sunday School was
formed the next Sunday in the grass
on that same lot, I became a
Pastor Amsey Martin from New
Hamburg was the guest speaker at
Brussels Mennonite Fellowship on
Sunday, Aug. 13.
Matthew 6: 25 - 33, the main
scripture reading for the service,
was read by Paul Siemon. Rod
Steinman was worship leader, and
Mervin Lichty led the singing.
Christy Pardys was pianist and also
led the children's singing. Joanna
Steinman played for the offertory.
Amsey stressed the need to be
free to let the Holy Spirit work in
our lives, and the need to witness
for God daily.
Following the Christian
Education Hour, a pot luck meal
and time of fellowship was held in
the gymnasium.
Christy Pardys will leave on
Thursday for a two week volunteer
term in Albania, a small country
above the Mediterranean Sea which
has just recently been released from
Communist rule. The team of nine
youths and three sponsors will be
helping repair schools in Albania
during the day and engaging in
street ministry during the evenings.
Because of the language barrier,
much of the ministry will be done
in the form of music and mime.
The Youth and Grade 8 grads
were camping Friday to Sunday at
Sauble Falls. Twenty-three youths
and several sponsors attended the
expedition. They returned in time
on Sunday to join the rest of the
The gathering of people at Blyth
United Church on Sunday, Aug.13
was greeted by Joann McDonald
and Lenora Davidson. Ushering
was Lavern Clarke and family.
Candice Howson was in charge of
the nursery.
Call to worship was given by
Rev. Ian Diamond. It was followed
by hymn For the Beauty of the
Earth. Prayer of Confession was
repeated in unison followed by
silence for personal confessions,
and assurance of pardon.
The responsive reading was
Psalm 51.
The quartet of Bodie Craig,
Gayle Poore, Bev Snell and Garth
Walden sang Jesus and Me
accompanied by Phyllis Boak,
choir director.
Rev. Diamond's theme conversa-
tion with the children was using a
cob of corn. He remarked on how
impressed he had been driving
through the country this past week
and seeing such beautiful fields of
corn in the area. It reminds us, he
said, that God gives us so many
member and Leslie Freeman and
his brother, Stanley, became my
teachers. Fore more than 50 years
the Freeman brothers and their
wives, Annie and Hazel, as well as
others of that original group, have
been godly role-models for me.
Leslie was an unassuming sort.
He became the superintendent of
public schools for the city of
Hamilton; he was voted, once, by
his denomination the most
outstanding layman in all of
Canada and the United States, and,
while bishops and General Church
leaders were his associates, yet I
knew that I, too, was his friend.
He never had an opulent lifestyle,
although he was comfortable,
congregation at Martins' Landing
for a corn roast and campfire sing-
a-long.
Several members of the youth
group from Brussels Mennonite
Church and sponsors Wendy
Martin and Ray Martin attended a
convention in Wichita, Kansas,
July 25-30. The event was a joint
youth convention of the Mennonite
Church and the General Conference
of the Mennonite Church.
Approximately 4,000 youths
from as far north as Hunta, Ontario,
and as far south as Puerto Rico
attended the Youth Convention.
Four buses travelled from Ontario,
transporting 175 youth to Wichita.
The youths from Brussels
Mennonite Church who attended
were Terry Pardys, Brandon Anger,
Lyle Hemingway, Phailop
Larprom, Tim Goodland, Kristi
Procter, Christine Knorr, Christa
Knorr and Cindy Koch.
Morning and evening worship
services were held. Tony Campolo,
and Mike Yaconelli were two of
the keynote speakers. Yaconelli
stressed that Christian life is to be a
wild spontaneous adventure.
• Besides the worship services,
there were seminars, workshops,
late night activities, and
recreational activities for the youth
to enjoy.
Christine Knorr and Phailop
Larprom were part of a 200 youth
wonderful things and nourishes us
in so many ways. We live in God's
world and God continues to
provide for us.
Hymn The Wise May Bring Their
Learning was sung. The New
Testament Lesson, Hebrews 11,
v. 1-3, 8-16 was given by Rev.
Diamond. The gospel lesson, Luke
12, v. 32 - 40, was read by Erica
Clark.
The theme of the sermon was
"Faith is a Journey". Rev. Diamond
related it to his own experience.
Four weeks ago he would have
been in his church in Australia, in
crispy winter. Today he is here in
hot, humid summer.
After three years of planning,
what a journey he has been
privileged to make with excitement
and anticipation as well as a risk. It
is really a journey of faith, he said.
We all have special journeys in
our lives. Most of the Bible is full
of joumcys starting in Genesis.
Jesus latis us on a journey. Faith
journey continues with the remark-
able story of Abraham (whose life
financially. He drove nothing larger
than an Oldsmobile. He was
generous in his giving to a variety
of causes within the church. It was
he who instructed a tailor to inform
me, a financially-strapped teen in a
Christian boarding-school, that an
anonymous donor had provided
funds for me to be fitted for a suit.
When I picked it up there was
money there, also, for a hat and
shoes. It was many years later that I
learned from a friend the identity of
my benefactor.
Leslie and Annie were old-time,
radical, Christians. They never
became too sophisticated for
prayer-meeting. The older they got,
in fact, the greater "prayer-
choir, which sang for the group as a
whole.
Service projects were also on the
agenda. Ray Martin and Brandon
Anger helped with a 20 house blitz.
Twenty new homes were
constructed by volunteer labour
during the week.
Another highlight of the
convention was a "Ken Medema"
Concert. Ken has been blind from
birth, and is a talented musician
who composed words and music
spontaneously before the audience.
He plays the grand piano,
synthesizers and electronic
percussion machine. He challenged
the youth in their commitment to
walking with Jesus on the road of
life.
On Sunday, Aug. 6, the youth
shared their experiences and
spiritual excitement with the
congregation at Brussels
Mennonite Fellowship. Christine
Knorr was worship leader for the
service, and all the youth reported
on various aspects of the Wichita -
experience.
Phailop Larprom, Cindy Koch,
and Brandon Anger presented a skit
about letting Jesus carry your
burdens, which was adapted from
one performed at the convention.
Wendy Martin read the scripture,
Luke 24: 13-35.
The group sang the Wichita
theme song, With Jesus On The
Road.
was filled with faith), Isaac and
Sarah. In the New Testament, is the
story of the disciples following
after Jesus, listening to and living
out his teaching. Jesus said, "Do
not be afraid as you move along",
yet we sometimes are. We are
called to a mission not just existing
within ourselves. As we continue to
move on, God will come to us in
surprising ways when least
expected.
These are gifts of love and
assurance, providing for our every
need as well as guiding us how we
use what he provides and to reflect
Jesus' love as we relate to others.
Hymn Give me the Wings of
Faith to Rise was sung. Minute for
Missions was given by Bev Snell.
Though your Sins be as Scarlet was
sung by the quartet. Pastoral Prayer
and the Lord's Prayer were
followed by the closing hymn Ye
Servants of God, Your Master
Proclaim.
Prayers are with Ralph Caldwell
Continued on page 17
warriors" they became. They
prayed in intercession for their
family and for others with fervour
and with tears.
They believed in a loving,
sovereign God, who is pleased to
answer, supernaturally, one's
prayers.
It is a testimony to their
consistent, powerful praying that
their two daughters and their
spouses, all of their grandchildren
and great-grandchildren are serving
the Lord. It's quite an experience to
get together with the Freeman clan,
because all of the extended family,
brothers and sisters and their
spouses and most of their children,
are godly people, too.
When Annie died a few years
ago, God in His grace brought
Leslie and Cora together. The new
Mrs. Freeman was so akin in prayer
concerns and godly living to the
former Mrs. Freeman that they
could have been twins.
Leslie Freeman was a man who
cast a long shadow. His church, and
I, a son in the Gospel, can never
forget him and will be indebted,
eternally to him.
Are you living like that?
Mennonites hear guest speaker
Blyth United welcomes pastor