The Citizen, 2001-12-12, Page 21MELVILLE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BRUSSELS
11:00 a.m. - Morning Service
- Sunday School
9:30 a.m. - Belgrave Service
6:59 p.m. - December 16, 2001 Sunday School
Christmas Concert
7:30 p.m. -.Qecember 24 Christmas Eve Service
8:00 p.m. - December 31 New Year's Eve
Communion Service and
Family Games Night
Wheelchair accessible
Nursery care available
Rev. Cathrine Campbell - 887-9831
BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Joan Golden - Diaconal Student Minister
Church Office 887-6259 E-Mail - bepc@wcl.on.ca
December 16, 2001
Ethel United Church
9:30 a.m.
Worship Service and Sunday School
December 24 Christmas Eve Service at 7:30
Brussels United Church
11:00 a.m.
Worship Service and Sunday School
Come worship and celebrate with us!
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.
Ladies' Time Out: the last Wednesday of each month
7:30 to 9:00 p.m.
(Returning to last Thursday of each month beginning Jan. 31)
John 14:6 - Jesus said, "I am the WAY, the I RUTH and the LIFE, no
one comes to the Father, but through Me."
Everyone Welcome
For more information call 887-6665
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
7:45 p.m. - Evening Worship
Kids' Club - Tuesday - 3:45 - 5 p.m. Ages 6-11 welcome.
Bible Studies - Wednesday morning 10 a.m.
Wednesday evening 7:30 p.m.
Phone 523-4590 308 Blyth Rd., Blyth
BLYTH UNITED CHURCH
Corner of Dinsley & Mill Street
December 16
Worship Service &
Sunday School at 11:00 a.m.
Guest Speaker: Bruce Whitmore
Christmas Eve Service: December 24 - 7:00 p.m.
Office: 523-4224
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
We/came/A ivit to. come and waysitip, with to,
Sunday, December 16
Trinity, Blyth St. John's, Brussels
9•30 a.m. 11:15 a.m.
Holy Eucharist
3rd Sunday in Advent
The Rev. Tom Wilson, B.A., MDiv. 887-9273
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Plan to come to our
CHRISTMAS CONCERT
Sunday, December 16, 7 p.m.
at Blyth Community Church of God
The children, youth and adults of our Sunday
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School program, as
well as the children •
of "Kids' Club" will
entertain you.
Refreshments and
treats to follow
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HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL
MISSIONARY CHURCH
Auburn 526-7555
PASTOR DAVE WOOD - 523-9017
Sunday 9:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m. -
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday 7:00.8:30 p.m. -
7:30 p.m.
Friday 7:30 p.m.
Family Bible Hour
Morning Worship Service
Evening Worship
Crusade's & Youth
Adult Prayer Meeting
Youth
2temse join 14.1 (L% macslip, tate Sunday
Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m.
Evening Worship Service - 7:30 p.m.
"Do not be afraid, I bring you
good tidings of great joy!"
— Luke 2:10
BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
Hwy. 4, Blyth 523-9233
Wheelchair accessible
Come celebrate
the advent of Jesus Christ
withwith
Brussels Mennonite Fellowship
250 Princess Street
Sunday, December 16
Worship 9:30 a.m.
Coffee Break10:45 a.m.
Sunday School 11:00 a.m.
Pastor Brent Kipfer 887-6388
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY,DECEMBER 12, 2001. PAGE 21.
From the Minister's Study
in Minister asks, `Are angels ourlives?'
promised Messiah - what kind of a
fool did she think he was? Poor peas-
ants such as themselves are not visit-
ed by archangels, nor are they likely
to be the parents of the one who
would sit on David's throne and save
his people from oppression!
Well, a man in his situation had
two options. Engagement was as
binding as marriage so could only be
dissolved by divorce. He could take
Mary to court and have her charged
there, but Joseph knew she would
likely be stoned if he did that. He
did not want her harmed, he still
loved her even though . . . Well, he
would have to ask two of his friends,
men who could be trusted to keep
quiet, to be present when he handed
her the piece of paper stating he was
divorcing her. He would take this
informal route and divorce Mary
quietly so she would not be subject-
ed to public disgrace and certain
death.
Having settled on a course of
action, Joseph wrapped his cloak'
around himself and lay down for the
night. He really didn't expect he
would be able to sleep but he did
need to get what rest he could.
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when we know there is one who
believes in us; when we hear the
words of encouragement as we face a
difficult task, we have been visited
by an angel, God's messenger, who
brings words 'of hope to our situa-
tion. "Do not fear" for God is in con-
trol.
By Rev. Ethel Miner Clare
Knox United, Belgrave
It was getting dark when the car-
penter put his tools away. He had
worked later than usual that day. A
conversation with his girlfriend had
upset him and working with wood
had calmed his troubled thoughts.
She had told him she was going to
have a baby. His girl was pregnant
and he knew he was not the father of
the child she was expecting.
He had looked forward to the day
when they would be married, when
she would come to live with him in
his house. Her gentle laughter would
brighten his days, would make his
house a home. They had talked abut
the children that would bless their
home. But they were to come later,
not now.
How had this happened? He had
never expected Mary would be
unfaithful to him, would bring this
disgrace on him and on herself. He
couldn't believe she had been with
another man. She was his girl. Had
been his girl, or so he thought.
She had told him a fantastic story
about being visited by the angel who
had told her not to be afraid. She
was going to become the mother of
"the son of the Most High" who
would sit on the throne of his ances-
tor David.
Right! It was bad enough for Mary
to be pregnant but to claim she was
going to become the mother of the
WMS meets
The December meeting of the
Women's Missionary Society was
held at the home of Mary Huether on
Monday, Dec. 3.
Helen Elliott welcomed everyone
and read a poem Jesus is the Reason
for the Season. She also read Isaiah
64: 1-8.
The secretary's report was read by
Mary Huether followed by the trea-
surer's report by Leona Armstrong
showing a balance of $727.56 in the
general-fund with $24.64 more need-
ed for the allocation.
Mrs. Elliott said that in the new
year the WMS will be combined
with the Women's Guild. Any
money collected for missions will be
sent to them. There will be no allo-
cations.
There will be one missionary
meeting a year. Members hope to be
still involved in missionary activi-
ties. Jan. 21 is the annual meeting in
Wingham Presbyterian Church.
Six members answered the roll
call by telling about their most
unusual Christmas and reading a
Christmas story or poem.
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- Pt. 3 Isaiah's Sin-
- bearing Servant
1 Holy Communion
9:30 a.m. - Sunday School
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for all ages,
10:30 a.m. - Worship
at Blyth Public School,
corner of King & Mill
Pastor: Ernest Dow
523-4848
www.tcc.on.ca/-dowfam
Later in the night, Joseph had a
dream. An angel came to him and
said, "Do not be afraid. The child
Mary is expecting is God's child.
When the baby is born, you are to
name him Jesus because he will save
his people from their sins."
That dream sent Joseph on a dif-
ferent course of action. If the child
Mary was carrying was God's child,
the promised one, then God had
selected him, Joseph, to be a father
figure for that child. Mary's baby
would need a father who would
encourage him to learn the scrip-
tures, who would love him, and gen-
tly teach him the right way to live.
That was a very large responsibility.
But the angel said, "Do not be
afraid."
"Do not be afraid." In this season
of advent as we prepare our hearts to
welcome the Christ Child, like Mary
and Joseph we need to hear the
angel's words of hope for we, too,
know fear - fear of cancer, fear of job
insecurity, fear of terrorism, fear of
being alone.
Are there angels in our lives?
When someone reaches out when we
despair; when a friend comforts us;