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Craigs host IPM meeting
Brussels Mennonite Fellowship
9:30 a.m. Worship Service
10:45 a.m. Beginning fall Sunday
School Classes
for all ages
Pastor Ben Wiebe 887-6388
Everyone Welcome
BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Rev. Christine Johnson - Minister
Church Office 887-6259 Home 887-6540
Sunday, September 13, 1998
Due to renovations at Brussels United Church, our service
will be held jointly with Ethel United Church
9:30 a.m. - Worship, Ethel United Church
Sunday School begins.
LET'S WORSHIP GOD TOGETHER!
Cornerstone
Bible
Fellowship
Ethel
Communion - 9:45 -10:30
Family Bible Hour and Sunday School
11:00 - 12:00
Prayer & Bible Study
Tuesday 8 p.m.
John 14:6 - Jesus said, "I am the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE, no
one comes to the Father, but through Me."
Everyone Welcome
For more information call 887-6665
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
You are welcome this Sunday
Rev. Nancy Beale
SEPTEMBER 13 - PENTECOST 15
HOLY EUCHARIST
JOINT SERVICE AT
ST. JOHN'S, BRUSSELS AT 11:15 A.M.
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MELVILLE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BRUSSELS
ii:oo a.m. - Morning Service
- Sunday School
9:30 a.m. - Belgrave Service
Wheelchair accessible
Nursery care available
We welcome you to come and worship with us.
Rev. Cathrine Campbell - 887-9831
MEM
HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL
MISSIONARY CHURCH
PASTOR. JAMES H. CARNE AUBURN 526-7515
ASSOCIATE PASTOR - YOUTH - JEREMY SHUART 523-9788
Sunday 8:45 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
11 a.m.
8 p.m.
Monday 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
Friday 7:30 p.m.
- Morning Worship Service
- Family Bible Hour
- Morning Worship Service
- Evening Service
- New Hope Support Group
- Prayer & Bible Study
- Youth
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Evening Worship Service - 7:30 p.m.
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BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
Rev. Adrian A. Van Geest
Hwy. 4, Blyth 523-9233
Wheelchair accessible
You are Welcome at the
BLYTH COMMUNITY CHURCH OF GOD
9:45 a.m. - Sunday School for Children and Adults
11:00 a.m. - Morning Worship
Bible Studies - Wednesday 10 a.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Phone 523-4590 McConnell St., Blyth
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1998. PAGE 11.
Blind obedience, theme of Duff's United sermon
Steve and Kathy Huether were
greeters at Duffs United Church
Sept. 6. Rev. James Murray
welcomed everyone. He reminded
all that next Sunday children are
invited to attend Sunday School.
The UCW will meet Wednesday
night this week at 8 p.m. The board
will meet next Sunday night at
8 p.m.
Rev. Murray called the children
forward and showed them how to
make a dinosaur out of clay. Well it
sort of looked like a dinosaur, but
he quickly changed it into
something else. He said, "We are
With the 1999 plowing match
only a year away, a picnic and a
brief meeting was held at Helen
and Graeme Craig's place for the
200 people from various
The board of directors of the
Huron United Way announced the
appointment of Bruce Shaw to the
position of general campaign chair
for the 1998 fall campaign.
As a former mayor of Exeter for
18 years and principal of four -
county high schools, Exeter,
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executive positions and the many
obligations that come with those
jobs, it seemed necessary to gather
the 'troops' and assess the situation.
Seventy letters were sent out to past
and present volunteers and other
area agencies that have supported
us in the past and an announcement
of the meeting was placed in all the
area newspapers.
From those letters and announce-
ments three were returned with
incorrect addresses, five calls of
support came in to the office, but
they were unable to attend the
meeting, and two people other than
the executive or relatives actually
were present, bringing the grand
total in attendance to 14. It was
very disappointing to note the lack
of support for such an important
service as HCHAN.
AIDS is not going away. There is
no known cure for the disease at
this time. There are still new cases
every year, yes, in Huron County,
too.
Without HCHAN educating the
schools in our county and
surrounding areas, those numbers
will grow. Without funding to
support the education and support
groups that are offered, HCHAN
will not survive, and most
importantly, without the people to
educate and fundraise and support
other individuals in these endeavors
like clay in God's hands. He can
mold us and help us change but he
never just tosses us aside."
Rev. Murray's sermon was
called, "So what are we to give up
here?"
He had a joke about a soldier
following orders-blind obedience to
the rules makes life easy.
Blind obedience, he said, means
people don't have to think about
what they are supposed to do next.
Someone else will tell them what to
do, what to think, what to believe.
But being blind, people don't get
to see what all their options arc.
committees. I had no idea that there
were that many people involved in
the planning committees but
Graeme said that by next year there
will be around 1,000 people.
Goderich, Blucwater and Seaforth,
Shaw brings a wealth of knowledge
and experience to the United Way.
He is committed to his community
and all of Huron County,
demonstrated by his involvement in
several organizations and projects,
aimed at the improvement of our
communities.
there will be no HCHAN.
Please consider this option and
what it will mean to our county as
we approach Sept. 27 and the
WALK for AIDS. It would be great
to see your support in pledges
and/or walkers for this important
day.
More information can be
obtained from calling the office
482-1141 and leaving a message as
we also have no funding for staff.
Someone will return your call right
They don't get to see what else is
possible, or ask the right questions.
"Being blind, we don't see that
we are truly free."
While on holidays this summer
Rev. Murray attended a conference
for a week which looked at how
philosophy, science and religion
could come together. One person
that he met was Dimitri Spivak,
who works at the Human Brain
Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia.
He has been studying the effects of
religious experiences on the human
brain.
One of his findings is that the
human brain never does anything
the same way twice. He says the
brain is hardwired for creativity. It
is designed to exercise free will.
People are made for making
choices. They are not meant to be
blindly obedient.
Centuries ago the church often
thought it would be best if
everyone would be blindly obedient
to the church's authority, Rev.
Murray' said. The church thought
children could be taught to become
Christian by getting them to
Sorry, our
mistake
Huron Chapel Missionary
Church was incorrectly named in
the cutline under the picture of Pas-
tor and Mrs. Jim Carrie in last
week's issue of The Citizen. It was
correct in the story.
We regret any confusion this may
have caused.
There was an error in the Hope
Chapel Cemetery's decoration ser-
vice cutline last week.
Guest speaker Rev. Willis Hunk-
ing was introduced by Ken Hunk-
ing, who was introduced by
cemetery board Chair Tom Cun-
ningham.
We apologize for the error.
away.
By the way, those 14 devoted
people have decided that AIDS is
too important an issue to let the
agency die so we are going ahead
for another year, but we would so
like to hear from others who would
give of themselves and their time
for such a worthy cause. Please call
the office if you see yourself able
to contribute in 1998/1999.
Sandra Bechtel
Chair — Huron County
HIV/AIDS Network.
memorize Bible verses.
The Christian teachings arc far
too important to be reduced simply
to a group of memory verses, he
said. Faith is something which
develops through living, it. "Think
it through and use it in your daily
life," he said.
Faith can't grow simply by
reciting the names of the books of
the Bible. "These are not magic
words with special powers. You
have to know what is in those
books of the Bible if they arc to be
of any help. For Christian faith to
be meaningful today, you have to
be able to apply it to your daily
situation," Rev. Murray said.
B. Shaw chairs UW campaign
Writer seeks support for walk