Zurich Citizens News, 1976-10-20, Page 16Page 16 -Citizens News, October 20, 1976
Moderator says church has great future
The United Church is not dead
and it has a great future, ac-
cording to its moderator Dr.
Wilbur Howard, who told a crowd
of 450 people at Main Street
United Church, Mitchell last
Wednesday that "it all depends
on your point of view."
Dr, Howard was speaking at a
rally in the church that capped
his day long tour of the Huron -
Perth presbytery. Delegates at-
tended the rally and preceding
"Moderator's Barbecue" from
Mitchell, Exeter, Zurich, St.
Marys, Clinton and districts.
Dr. Howard suggested the
church was far from dead, but
had to seriously re-evaluate its
goals and take a more global
view of the world. He concluded
his 30 minute, anecdote -laden
sermon with a call for more
action on the part of the United
Church members.
"Churches don't plan to fail but
they fail to plan" he said, and
added that each year the goals of
individual churches should be re-
evaluated, so theycontainplenty
of action on everybody's part. If
you evaluated your church how
would it stand up? Let's be honest
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to focus attention on the fact
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Babies don't know instinct-
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During pregnancy, NUTRI-
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The foods you eat can deter-
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and realize God has given us a big
role,"
The thrust of his call to action
on the part of the United Church
was to ask that its members take
a more global view of the world
around them and how they fit into
it. "We are a global church" he
said "and when you wake up and
realize we have so much and they
have so little, and they don't want
our charity they want our help."
"We've gone on too long just
talking in the church and we must
put it into action," Dr. Wilbur
said, "I'm optimistic , I think
we'll go far."
To go far, Dr. Howard said, the
lay people of the church will have
to become involved in the
workings of the church. He added
that there was nothing wrong
with lay people visiting the sick
or talking about their faith.
Decrying statistics that showed
membership in the United
Church dropping, Dr. Howard
said the church was far from
dead. He felt that it was all in the
way people viewed the church.
Dr. Howard compared the
dropping enrollment in Canada's
largest protestant church to a
business. Some would see it as
going out of business while he
preferred to think it was
"business as usual during
alterations,"
The statistics, Dr. Howard,
said, were misleading in the first
place, because enrolment hasn't
really dropped, but the church
was just "throwing away the
deadwood. What service club
would keep you on the enrolment
list" he said "if you were absent
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five years and hadn't paid your
dues?"
Dr. Howard contends that the
people still attending church are
those interested in the church.
There is "a real message just
from a group of people being
together" he told the crowd.
Dr. Howard was born in
Toronto, and attended
Emmanuel College there. He was
ordained in 1941, and went on to
graduate work in New York
state.
He has received two honourary
degrees; from Emmanuel
College, a Doctor of Divinity and
from the University of Alberta, a
Doctor of Law degree, He was
appointed moderator of the
United Church of Canada in 1974.
Dr. Howard's tour of the
presbytery began in Mitchell at
9:30 Wednesday when he opened
the Christian Resource Center
here. The center is the first
storefront resource library in the
London Conference.
A bus tour took Dr. Howard
throughout the presbytery in-
cluding Zurich so he could ac-
complish one of his main goals, to
"meet the people of the church."
The tour, Dr. Howard said, took
him through the presbytery and
included "Londesboro, Blyth,
Londesboro, Blyth, Londesboro,
Blyth and Londesboro again."
Following the tour, Dr. Howard
returned to Mitchell for the
Moderator's Barbecue at the
church and the rally.
Before he spoke, the Main
Street United Church choir led
the congregation in singing
hymns and the McMillan Family,
from Goderich entertained the
cr owd,
The McMillan Family, a
Goderich family quartet, consists
of two saxophones, a trumpet,
trombone and an organ. They
regularly entertain at church
gatherings.
Don Deas, minister to Main
Street United, described the day
as "an event that has already
turned into a happening, It's a
glorious occasion."
Dr. Howard has spent the
entire week in the London con-
ference participating in rallies,
services and tours throughout the
area.
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