The Citizen, 2001-03-14, Page 11Entertaining evening
More than 20 young people, members of Blyth United Church's Choral Kids, gathered at the
church Friday evening for a night of games, movies, music, crafts, fun and a sleepover. The-
Way Band, consisting of Ashley Howson, left, Rick Howson, Keith Dow and Allison Dow per-
formed for the Kids.
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
You cvte welcome this. Sundag
TRINITY, BLYTH ST. JOHN'S,
9:30 A.M. BRUSSELS
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE 11:15 A.M.
You are Welcome at the
BLYTH COMMUNITY CHURCH OF GOD
9:45 a.m. - Sunday School - for ages 3 to adult
11:00 a.m. - Morning Worship
Bible Studies - Wednesday morning 10 a.m.
Wednesday evening 7:30 p.m.
Phone 523-4590 308 Blyth Rd., Blyth
BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Joan Golden - Diaconal Student Minister
Church Office 887-6259 E-mail - bepc@wcl.on.ca
Ethel United Church
9:30 am
Worship Service & Sunday School
Brussels United Church
11:00 am
Worship Service & Sunday School
All are welcome to come and worship with us.
'Put
Brussels Mennonite
Fellowship
9:30 a.m. - Worship Service
10:45 a.m. - Christian Education
Elie-wane `tllelesme
Interim Pastor Art Byer
887-6388
BLYTH UNITED CHURCH
Corner of Dinsley & Mill Street
11:00 a.m. Worship
& Sunday School
Pastor: Ernest Dow 523-4224
We invite you to come worship the Lord with us!
League President, Vivian Bosch.
Her topic will be "The New
Evangelization - Renewal in the
League".
Later in the day there will be a
presentation by Bethany House,
London on Violence Against
Women.
Kidney disease strikes families,
not only individuals.
Please give generously.
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www.kidney.ca
HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL
MISSIONARY CHURCH
Auburn - 526-7555
PASTOR DAVE WOOD - 523-9017
Sunday 9:30 a.m. - Family Bible Hour
10:30 a.m. - Morning Worship Service
7:30 p.m. - Evening Worship Service
Wednesday 7:30 p.m. - Family Night
Friday 7:30 p.m. - Youth
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.
Adventure Club for children ages 4-12
Third Friday of each month - 7:15 - 9:00 p.m.
Ladies' Time Out - Last Thursday of each month - 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Guest speakers, special music & interesting features. All ladies invited.
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
MELVILLE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BRUSSELS
11:00 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
2tectat iain 114 fait utataliip, this Sunday.
Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m.
Evening Worship Service 7:30 p.m.
This is how we know that we love the children of God; by loving God
and carrying out his commandments
-- I John 5.2
BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
Rev. Adrian A. Van Geest
it\ Hwy. 4, Blyth 523-9233
Wheelchair accessible
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2001. PAGE 11.
From the Minister's Study
Lent a time to find what's been lost
By Rev. Joan Golden
Brussels United Church
Lent a time to find what we have
lost!
Lent is a symbolic journey we take
on the path towards Easter. Lent is
a time to look deep inside ourselves
to see the ways we hurt one another
and our world because of our own
hurt and by not living as God
intends. It is a time when we commit
ourselves to change and new begin-
nings, opening ourselves up to being
renewed in our faith through Christ.
A time to remember our baptismal
and/or confirmation vows or remem-
ber bible stories and readings that
have spoken to us. To remember,
helps us not to lose or forget why we
committed ourselves to Christ.
Have you ever had the the experi-
ence of going to get something you
wanted? Let's say it is a book. It's
been a while since you held it and
now you remember a chapter in it
you wanted to re-read and you
search but cannot find it.
You try to remember the last time
you had it and which bookshelf you
put it on or would have put it on. You
wonder if you lent it to someone.
You can't really remember where it
went. You had no idea it was miss-
ing until that very minute you want-
ed to have it.
It's so easy to lose what we once
valued.
This can happen with friendships
and relationships. It's so easy to
become so busy with our lives, our
jobs or other activities. We start to
lose contact with friends. We may be
so busy we never notice that this has
happened. You try to think how
could this have happened—and you
can't remember the last time you
even spoke to them.
That too, can happen to our rela-
tionship with God if we stop taking
time to spend in retlective medita-.
tion and prayer.
There are times in our lives we
may feel not right, maybe a little
restless— that something's missing
and we're not even sure what it is.
We can't really put our finger on
what that something is.
That's when we need to spend
some time searching in our lives.
In order to do that there are some
things we have to do. We have to
stop, take time to listen. We have to
open ourselves to God and let the
Holy Spirit work within us. We can't
do that on the move running here and
there—we need "Sabbath" rest time
and we need to let God and the Spirit
work in and through us, helping us
find what's missing, what we have
lost.
The Bible has many stories of lost
treasurers being found. The lost or
prodigal son who returns to a father
who waits for him. The shepherd
who searches for a lost lamb. The
woman who searches for a lost coin.
The woman who wanted her daugh-
ter's health restored. The blind who
searched for their sight to be
restored. All of these stories tell us of
patience, persistence and rejoicing
when the lost was found.
In our searching we should
remember God is continually search-
ing us out too and calling us to jour-
ney with Christ, reminding us that
Christ is teacher, companion and
guide. We are not alone.
May we remember to take time for
reflection and prayer every day, not
just when we are not busy with other
activities. We need to give God and
ourselves some of our "prime time",
not just left over time. Let Lent be a
time to reflect and grow in our faith
as we journey toward the promise of
Easter!
CWL Diocesan Council holds
81st convention in Chatham
The London Diocesan Council of
the Catholic Women's League of
Canada will hold its 81st annual con-
vention at the Best Western Wheel's
Inn, Chatham from Monday, April
23 to Wednesday, April 25.
The convention theme is The Open
Door with a sub-theme of
Experiencing God's Touch.
The convention will begin with an
open forum facilitated by life mem-
ber Muriel Murphy on Monday at
3:30 p.m.
Opening mass will be celebrated
by Diocesan Spiritual Advisor
Father Michael O'Brien at St.
Joseph's Church, Chatham on
Monday at 7 p.m.
This will be followed by
a mix and mingle back at the Wheels
Inn.
On Tuesday morning there will be
a Youth Panel, headed by Andrew
Bartley of the Diocesan Family, Life
and Youth Ministry Office speaking
about the World Youth Day in Rome
2000 and the upcoming•World Youth
event in Toronto 2002 and on
Tuesday afternoon our theme
speaker will be Father John
Comiskey.
. A mass of reaffirmation will be
celebrated at St. Joseph's Church by
Bishop John Michael Sherlock,
Bishop of London at 5 p.m. Tuesday
followed by a banquet at the
Kinsmen Auditorium, Chatham.
Sessions will resume Wednesday
morning with a workshop facilitated
by the National Catholic Women's