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Rev. Tom Wilson of Brussels and Blyth's Anglican Church
put his hair on the line when the churches undertook a
fundraising venture this year. Here, he gets buzzed by
George Langlois. (David Blaney photo)
BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Joan Golden - Diaconal Student Minister
Church Office 887-6259 E-mail - bepc@wcl.on.ca
Sunday, April 7
Ethel United Church
9:30 a.m.
Worship Service and Sunday School
Brussels United Church
11:00 a.m.
Worship Service and Sunday School
BLYTH UNITED CHURCH
Corner of Dinsley & Mill Street
Sunday, April 7
Worship Service &
Sunday School at 11:00 a.m.
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Minister: Rev. Dr. Eugen Bannerman
Office: 523-4224
You are Wei-come at the
BLYTH COMMUNITY CHURCH OF GOD
9:45 a.m. - Sunday School - for ages 3 to adult
11:00 a.m. - Morning Worship
7:00 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 Cornerstone
Bible
Fellowship
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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 Thursday of each month
7:30 to 9:00 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
Call Pastor Andrew Thursdays or Fridays at 887-6123
HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL
MISSIONARY CHURCH
Auburn - 526-7555
PASTOR DAVE WOOD - 523-9017
Sunday 9:30 am.
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
Crusaders & Youth
Adult Prayer Meeting
Youth
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
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Sunday, April 7
Trinity, Blyth St. John's, Brussels
9:30 a.m. 11:15 a.m.
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The Rev. Tom Wilson, B.A., MDiv. 887-9273
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Sunday, April 7
Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m.
Evening Worship Service - 7:30 p.m.
"We know that in all things God works for
the good of those who love him."
— Romans 8:28
BLYTH CHRISTIAN
REFORMED CHURCH
4s, Hwy. 4, Blyth 523-9233
Wheelchair accessible
MELVILLE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BRUSSELS
11:00 a.m. - Morning Service
- Sunday School
9:30 a.m. - Belgrave Service
VVheelchair accessible
Nursery care available
Rev. Cathrine Campbell - 887-9831
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2002. PAGE 15.
From the Minister's Study
Easter message needs to be heard, says minister
By Rev. Ethel Miner Clare
Knox United, Belgrave
Alleluia, Christ is Risen! God's
love has triumphed over death!
This is the Easter message that was
proclaimed in Christian churches
around the globe this past Sunday, a
message we still need to hear two
thousand years after the event.
A modern Easter story was told in
the Whole People of God a few years
ago. It goes like this:
Philip was a young boy who was
born with Down's syndrome. He was
happy, but he knew that he wasn't the
same as the other children. He went
to church each Sunday with his mom
and dad and was in a Sunday School
class with nine other eight-year-olds.
Like adults, children are not
The Rev. Tom Wilson, St. John's,
Brussels, and Trinity Anglican
Church Blyth sacrificed his hair for
a good cause last Saturday. As his
part in a challenge he issued to his
congregations Wilson had his head
shaved, in his own words, "as bald
as an Easter egg."
As their part of a fundraising
campaign in the Anglican Diocese
of Huron, Rev. Wilson had
challenged the two congregations to
raise $2,000 between the fall of
2001 and Easter. When parishioners
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Sunday School
at Blyth Public School,
corner of King & Mill
Pastor: Ernest Dow
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always very friendly to someone
who is different from themselves.
That's hiiiw it was for Philip. The
teacher worked hard to include
Philip in all the activities, and the
children did try hard, but Philip was
not really part of that group. Philip
did not choose to be different, he just
was.
At Easter the teacher gave each
child a plastic egg. It was a beautiful
spring day and the children were told
to go outside and find a symbol for
new life on the church grounds and
to put it in their eggs. They were to
bring it back to the Sunday school
room and each would be opened so
they all could share the new life
symbols.
Well, the children did this and it
exceeded the goal he fulfilled his
part of the bargain by allowing
was glorious; it was confusing; it
was wild. They all ran around
gathering something to put in their
eggs then returned to the Sunday
School room.
The eggs were put in a basket and
the teacher opened each in turn. The
first one held a flower so they all
ooed and awed. There was a bud off
a tree in another. One had a little rock
inside it. Some children laughed and
said, "That is crazy. How is a rock
suppose to be like new life?" But the
girl whose egg this was, spoke up.
She said, "I knew all of you would
get flowers, and buds, and leaves,
and butterflies, and things like that.
So I got a rock because I wanted to
be different, and for me that's new
life."
George Langlois to shave his head.
The local fundraising is part of the
Huron Diocese' Episcopal Make-
Over Madness Campaign'. The
Anglican Diocese of Huron covers
an area from Windsor to Brantford
and from T-ake Erie to Tobermory.
The campaign is designed to raise
$100,000. The money will be used
to support the Huron Church Camp
near Bayfield, retire the mortgage
on the Huron Church House, the
Diocesan offices in London and
support new church development in
the area.
The campaign began in May of
2001. According to Wilson, the
Bishop of Huron, the Right Rev.
Bruce Howe has agreed to sacrifice
his hair if the $100,000 goal is
reached.
On April 15, Bishop Howe will be
visiting Brussels to celebrate a
special communion service with
residents of Huronlea. He will then
attend a dinner in Blyth prior to, an
evening meeting in Clinton.
The local visits are part of a four-
day tour of Huron County beginning
with a service for all the county's
Anglicans at St. George's Anglican
Church in Goderich on Sunday
April 14.
The teacher opened more eggs.
Then he came to the last egg. When
he opened it, there was nothing in it.
Some children said, "That's silly.
Somebody didn't do it right."
Then the teacher felt a tug on his
shirt and looked down. Philip was
standing beside him. "That's my
egg," Philip said. All the children
said, "You don't ever do things right,
Philip. There is nothing in there."
"I did so do it," Philip said. "I did
do it. It's empty. The tomb is empty."
Everyone was silent. Then Jason
spoke up, "What a terrific idea." The
other children joined in. "Philip had
the best surprise."
From that time on, Philip became a
real part of the group. The whole
class discovered new life because
they discovered that every person
has something special to give. It
didn't matter any more that Philip
was different. They all knew they
belonged there.
Philip died the next summer. His
family had known since the time
when he was born that he would not
live out a full life span. Many things
were wrong with his little body. He
was buried from the church And on
that day at the funeral, nine 8-year-
olds paraded up to the front, not with
flowers but with an empty plastic
egg. They placed it on the
communion table in celebration of
Philip's new life.
And that my friends is East9r. The
foundation of our faith is that:
Death is not the end. The tomb is
empty.
Christ has conquered death.
And because he lives, we will also
live. Thanks be to God!
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