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The Citizen, 2001-12-24, Page 32A CHRISTMAS WISH FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS May peace and good fortune visit your home this holiday season. It's always a pleasure to serve you. CALDWELL CONSTRUCTION Blyth Gary Caldwell 523-9354 BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA Joan Golden - Diaconal Student Minister Church Office 887-6259 E-mail - bepc®wcl.on.ca December 30, 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 ust You are WeCcome 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. 0 Phone 523-4590 308 Blyth Rd., Blyth lita# tite 6e.e4usla94 4 Wed, 44 Kota jilt vtuor 444e earx /tut etad love der.fage,. eivriatocout Sea444 (toed aleacus„ HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH invites you to worship with us this Christmas Mon. Dec. 24 • 7:30 pm - Christmas Eve Candlelight Service Sunday 9:30 am - Family Bible Hour 10:30 am - Morning Worship Service 7:30 pm - Evening Worship 741441 you a lltevui e44/A4.44 aea a waadealat Ilea, *can Auburn 526-7555 Peeam 7:ob..t ea Oft coold4qt Tuesday, December 25 Christmas Morning Service - 10 a.m. Sunday, December 30 Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m. Evening Worship Service - 7:30 p.m. Monday, December 31 New Year's Eve Worship Service - 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 1 New Year's Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m. "...and He will be called Wonderful, Counselor Mighty God, Everlasting Father Prince of Peace." — Isaiah 9:6 BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH zt, Hwy. 4, Blyth 523-9233 Wheelchair accessible BRUSSELS LIVESTOCK Division of Gamble & Rogers Ltd. UPCOMING SALES TUESDAYS 9:00 a.m. Fed Cattle, Bulls & Cows THURSDAYS 8:00 a.m. Drop Calves, Veal, Pigs, Lambs, Goats & Sheep FRIDAYS 10:00 a.m. Stockers Visit our webpage at: www.brusselslivestock.ca email us at: infoebrusselslivestock.ca Call us 519-887-6461 Thanks to Bank of Montreal CAMPAIGN 2001 Our Thanks to the Following Donors: CORPORATE / BUSINESS SPONSORS Ruttan Aluminum Ltd. Lafarge, Teeswater ORGANIZATIONS Belmore Social Committee Bluevale United Church Women Wingham Sportsmen Association Teeswater United Church Women Teeswater Senior Citizens Happy Gang Lucknow District Co-op Belmore Womens Institute Belmore Chamber of Commerce Auxiliary to Wingham and District Hospital IMPROVING OUR TECHNOLOGY -- HELP US HELP you Contribute today by sending your donation to: THE WINGHAM AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION 270 Carling Terrace, Wingham, Ontario NOG 2W0 MELVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BRUSSELS - Morning Service - Sunday School - Belgrave Service - December 24 Christmas Eve Service - December 31 New Year's Eve Communion Service and Family Games Night Wheelchair accessible Nursery care available Rev. Cathrine Campbell - 887-9831 11:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 7:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. 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 TRUTH and the LIFE, no one comes to the Father, but through Me." Everyone Welcome For more information call 887-6665 BLYTH UNITED CHURCH Corner of Dinsley & Mill Street December 24 Christmas Eve Service - 7:00 p.m. December 30 Worship Service & Sunday School at 11:00 a.m. Guest Speaker: Bruce Whitmore Pot Luck Luncheon / Canadian Landmines Foundation January 6 Minister: Rev. Eugen Bannerman rite Welcosce Office: 523-4224 THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA Wee-came:I. voa to come and coevratefr coca u4 Sunday, December 24 Christmas Eve Services 7:30 p.m. - St. John's, Brussels 10:00 p.m. - Trinity, Blyth Sunday, December 30 Trinity, Blyth St. John's, Brussels 9:30 a.m. 11:15 a.m. Morning Prayer 1st Sunday of Christmas Sunday, January 6 Holy Eucharist - The Baptism of the Lord with renewal of Baptismal vows. The Rev. Torn Wilson, B.A., MDiv. 887-9273 THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2001. PAGE 33. Agriculture From the Minister's study Angels found in many places, says minister available in spring SCAP applications Acre T challenge This is just some of the 3,000 pounds of food donated by employees at Acre T Farms during the annual Terpstra family challenge. It will be matched by an equal amount of packaged pork donated by the Terpstra family. Preparing to move the food to the local foodbanks are: stand- ing from left; Betty Burns and Maja Dodds, both from Seaforth Foodbank, Ed Richards, Goderich-Clinton foodbank, Gary Ford and Don Newman, North Huron Food Share. Kneeling: Ron MacEachern. Goderich-Clinton foodbank and Keith McMillan, Acre T Farms" (David Blaney photo) Acre T employees, owners donate to foodbanks The Spring Credit Advance Program will be renewed for the 2002 growing season, making way ;for an expected $700 million plus in interest free loans to help farmers who struggled with this past sum- mer's drought. The Spring Credit Advance Program or SCAP provides interest- free loans of up to $50,000 to help individual farmers across the coun- try. Payments to producers under SCAP come in the form of loans guaranteed by the Government of Canada and are administered through local producer groups and the Canadian Wheat Board. Producers repay loans at the end of the season or may transfer the bal- ance into an advance under the Advance Payments program once their crop is in storage. SCAP applications will be avail- able in early spring and producers should receive loans by mid-April. By Rev. Cathrine Campbell Melville Presbyterian Church, Brussels Knox, Belgrave Have you ever seen an angel? I nean a real one - not the one on the ree or in the store window or in iooks or on television - a real live ingel. Most would say no - angels are omething that we know of but we lon't actually know them, or even me, in person, and most would be vrong. Geoffrey Bromley in "Baker's )ictionary of Theology" tells us that The term aggelos from which angel lerives, is in itself a fairly colourless vord, like its Hebrew equivalent vhich can be used equally for human it heavenly messengers." And the nessengers have a powerful men- age for all the ages - For God so wed the world that he gave his one nd only Son, that whoever believes a him shall not perish but have eter- nal life. (John 3:16) So then, who are the messengers, the angels ? They are to be found in many places, I know, but the place I, and all other ministers, find the largest concentration is in the churches we are privileged to minis- ter to and in. The following list is not complete, for each minister will have unique circumstances and there are always new challenges and new talents to meet them, but it will give you a flavour of what we are blessed with. There are those who lead and teach Guild holds festive meeting The Christmas meeting of Melville Women's Guild met at the home of Leona Armstrong on Dec. 18 with 11 members present. Mrs. Armstrong welcomed every- one and opened the meeting with a reading, Father in Heaven, which included the following hymns, The First Noel, Away in a Manger, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, 0 Little Town of Bethlehem, We Three Kings and Joy to the World and ended with a Christmas prayer. The correspondence included sev- eral thank yous for the poinsettias the Guild gave to the shut-ins. A donation of $500 will go to the boiler fund. The January meeting will be a potluck in the church parlour Jan. 15 at 6:30 p.m. Each member gave a Christmas reading or poem. Mrs. Armstrong gave out the Christmas gifts decked in a Santa hat and accompanied by Christmas music. A Ell2MIM gabli2OKIEMIN'il 8 3 8 • • 3 'fwuriff Water . g Chastian Teilawdup Dec. 24 3 7:30 p m. - Christmas Eve Worship / Pageant 0 "Born Bound to Free Forever"Pr Dec. 30 Yuletide Worship - 10'30 am 9:30 a.m. - Sunday School 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 in the Sunday School, organize the children's activities, play the organ, the piano, the flute, the guitar, the drums, sing in the choir, make the sound system work, balance the books, look after the finances, take up the collection, organize the greeters, clean the floors, rugs and the pews, decorate the church, fix the things, that need fixing, type the bul- letin, read the lesson, take the young people bowling, visit the shut in, visit the sick, be a leader in parish nursing, give counsel to the con- cerned, give of their time to make desserts for the lunches and suppers, give money for supplies, organize the meals, make the meals and then serve them; help at funeral teas, plan the mission study, lead the prayers, take their turn on committees, lead groups, come to Bible Study, organ- ize Bible Study and, as well, make their minister very happy when they are in church on Sunday and singing lustily to the praise of our Creator God. These "angels" come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and all walks of life but what makes them so special is that they have taken the words of Jesus to heart. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest com- mandment. And the second is like it" Love your neighbour as yourself' (Matthew 22:37-39). This love gives them the wish and the willingness to share of their time, treasure and tal- ent and they have done this with joy in their hearts. The message of this time of year peace, hope, joy and love are echoed in the actions of many and I thank God that I have the privilege to know so many angels. you tidings of comfort and joy To all at this joyous season: I give Jesus is born! eft ,tiattnatt Ette Come celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ with Brussels Mennonite Fellowship 250 Princess Street, Brussels Monday, December 24 7:30 pm Cantata: Touched by a Child - Touched by a King Refreshments to follow Pastor Brent Kipter 887-6388 All of the employees of Acre T Farms many enterprises rose to the challenge again this year raising over 3,000 pounds of canned and packaged food for the area's food- banks. Each Christmas, Joe and Miriam Terpstra and family challenge their employees to raise as much food as possible for foodbanks in the area in which the firm does business. The Terpstras then match the donations, pound for pound, with packaged pork. The combined donation, of over 6,000 pounds, will be shared by foodbanks in Wingham, Goderich, Seaforth and Mitchell. PAGE 32. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2001.