Times-Advocate, 1988-01-13, Page 24Page 24 Times -Advocate, January 13, 198$
UCW meets
By MRS. WILLIAM ROHDE •
Vice-president Mrs. Don Richard-
son welcomed the ladies to the Jan-
uary meeting of the United Church
Women on Monday evening. She
opened the meeting with a poem "A
New Year Brings a New Begin-
ning".
Rev. K. Teddy Smits spoke about
the book "The Road to Bethlehem"
and asked if anyone would like to
read it. He also conducted the Instal-
lation service.
Mrs. Jack Hodgert opened the pro-
gram with a prayer for the new year.
We sang "Standing at the Portal".
Mrs. Lorne Ballantyne gave the
meditation "Your New Year" and
read Psalm 37:1&2. Mrs. Bill Rob,
de played a couple of'pieces on the
piano. Mrs. Hodgert read a poem
"For You I Dream". Shend Mrs.
Ballantyne received the offering.
Mrs. Jack Duncan gave the offertory
prayer. Mrs. Hodgert read Matthew
22:36,40.
Mrs. Ken Duncan introduced the
Study Book "Creation and Crisis".
She read the plight of a farmer, also
"Rural Life in Canada and Africa",
also about a man who moved from
city to farm, and "The Rural
Church", by Rev. Neil Leckie anal
Rev. Wilena Brown.
Mrs. Jack Duncan read "Christian
Cares In Christian Work, The Rural
Church In Rural Zambie". Rev. K.
Teddy Smits spoke a few words on
church life.
Mrs. Richardson conducted the
business. The roll call was answered
with "a gift money can't buy".
Cards of thanks were read.
The 21st annual meeting of the
Huron -Perth Presbyterial of the Un-
tied Church Women will be held in
Wesley -Willis United Church, Clin-
ton on January 25 with a storm date
of February 1'"
Mrs. Reg Hodgen gave the treas-
urer's report. The visiting commit-
tee for the next four months is
Group U. Mrs. Wayne Rowe,
Group C, Mrs. John Pym, Group.
W, a Reg Hodgert. We are enter-
tainingsin April. .
Prices were set for 1988. The
strawberry supper date was set for
June 20. Mrs. Richardson closed
with prayer. Group U served muf-
fins, jam, tea or coffee to bring an
enjoyable meeting to a close.
Church service
Rev. K. Teddy Smits was in
charge of, the regular church service
on Sunday mdrning. The children's
story dealt with the dream of a lady
who was very rich. She dreamed
that she came to Heaven. At the
gate St. Peter met her and simply
said: Follow me. They came to a
nice house and stopped for a brief
moment. She asked: "Who lives
there?" St. Peter replied "You know
him, he is your carpenter." The lady
was almost mad when she said'
"Such a nice and big house for him,
while he had only a little house in
the world".
Then they came to a small little
house, enough for one person, but
not big. The lady asked "Who lives,
here?. St. Peter replied "That's your
house." The lady was really mad and
said "In the world I had a big house,
many rooms, I cannot live in such a
small place". St. Peter shrugged his
shoulders and said "Sony lady, we
could not build anything bigger
with the little bit of material you
sent up
In the sermon Rev. Smits took as
his text St. Luke 2:49 "How is it
that you sought. nie?" One of the
real moments of crisis in the life of
many a parent is the time when a
teenager decides that he or she is no
longer going along with the par-
ents, but will try another path.
Many parents fear they have lost
their young offspring.
Mary and Joseph lived with that
crisis at the time of the confirma-
tion ceremony of Jesus, which was
held in the temple. Soon ,thereafter
Joseph and Mary left with the dele-
gation from Nazareth. It was only
in the evening that both Joseph and
Mary discovered that Jesus was not
in the group. •
They went back to Jerusalem, and
they did not find Jesus until the
third day. What hurt Mary the most
was the fact that Jesus was not in
the least bit anxious that he had
stayed in Jerusalem while his par-
ents had gone. Jesus replied: "Why
is it that you sought me? Don't you
know I want to be in my Father's
house?" -
Centralia
by Mrs. Tom Kooy
Sunday January 10 the service at
theUnited.Church celebrated the
baptism of Jesus and used the John
Wesley's Convenant Service in
which the congregation received
their personal commitment to
Christ. The United Church Annual
meeting will be held on Sunday Jan-
uary 24 following the service.
Owing to the storm January 4
both euchres were cancelled so,
weather meeting on January 18 the
Seniors of the locality will meet at
2:30 at Heywoods restaurant for
cards and Neil schoolhouse euchre
will be held at 8 o'clock the same
date.
a „Tom and I were Saturday dinner
guests with Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Noels, Lucan and on Sunday even-
ing Mr. and Mrs. Percy Noels of
Exeter visited with us.
at Thames Road
Jesus went back with His parents,
and He was a good Son.
There comes a time in the lives of
all parents when they must trust
thcir children and leave them to
God.
The flowers in The church on Sun-
day were placed there in memory of
the late Ethel Alexander. The com-
munion service took place with the
elders assisting.
Coming events
A period of six weeks of -one-
night weekly Bible study will be
taking place at the Thames Road
Church, starting in the week of
February 15. Some people have
asked for the Bible study.
The annual meetings are scheduled
for Elimville Sunday January 31
and Thames Road Sunday February
7. A pot luck dinner will be held af-
ter the worship service.
The next Explorer meeting will
_be held in Thames Road Church on
Wednesday, January 20 at 7 p.m.
Personals
The sympathy of the community
is extended to the family and rela-
tives of the late Ethel Alexander
whose funeral was on Wednesday.
Several ladies catered to the lunch
after the funeral.
Get well wishes are extended to
Mr. Ken Duncan who underwent
surgery on Thursday and came home
on Saturday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Rohde visited
Thursday evening with Mr. and
Mrs. Phil Johns of Elimville. On
Friday evening the Rohdes had Mr.
and Mrs. Elliott McRoberts of Ex-
eter and Mit and Mrs. Arnold Cann
for supper.
REACY FOR A SLIDE - Pamela; Stephanie and Jeremy Taylor get ready for a slide down a Morrison Dam hill,
Sunday afternoon.
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