The McDowell United Church Trustee Board has set up a Special Fund to receive donations to replace the Church windows. Donations may also be made to this fund in honour of or in memory of. Please forward your donation to Mr. Berkley Sellars, Treasurer of McDowell United Church Trustee Board. Please indicate on the envelope “Window Fund Project” and if your donation is in honour of or in memory of.
The McDowell United Church Trustee Board is in the process of replacing the windows in the Church. A Window Fund has been set up and as a result the two windows for the front of the Church should be installed by early spring. The other windows in the Church will cost approximately $1000.00 each to purchase and install. We are continuing to raise money and look for support to get these in place. If anyone is interested in donating a window in Memorial or in Honour please contact any member of the Trustee Board.
The McDowell United Church Trustee Board gratefully acknowledges a donation to the “Window Fund” in memory of parents Lewis & Bessie Cole and Eben & Dorothy Slade by Roscoe and Isabelle.
The Ocean View United Church Trustee Board gratefully acknowledges a donation to the “Tile the Floor Project” in memory of parents Lewis & Bessie Cole and Eben & Dorothy Slade by Roscoe and Isabelle.
The Ocean View United Church Trustee Board gratefully acknowledges the following donations in memory of Phyllis Trickett from:
Ø Sophie Flight
Ø Herbert & Joyce Moores
The Blackhead Cemetery Committee gratefully acknowledges a donation in loving memory of Oscar and Elizabeth Moores from son Alec and family.
Congregational Contributions 1st Quarter (Re: Allocations – 2009)
Congregation 1st Quarter Allocation Amt. Realized Difference
McDowell $7,701.50 $5,853.52 - $1,847.78
Ocean View 8,548.50 7,597.00 - 951.50
April 12, 2009
Happy Easter from Overseas
Kathleen Stephenson is a United Church overseas personnel in Brazil. She is working with Coordenadoria Ecumenica de Servico (CESE) on a team helping to strengthen popular groups that engage in the struggle for political, economic, and social transformation. Although Stephenson has worked in Brazil previously, she is now beginning with a period of language study. She writes this letter:
Bom dia, meus caros amigos e Feliz Páscoa, she begins—that’s Portuguese for “Good morning, dear friends. Happy Easter.”
Your Mission and Service Fund gifts are supporting me here as a United Church overseas personnel in Salvador in Brazil. I was thinking of all of you during our Easter Sunday service. The service is in Portuguese, and I would be lost without my new Brazilian friend Mara, who interprets very well. Perhaps she delivers a sermon of her own especially directed at me. I can’t really be sure. But the messages have been particularly relevant for me, stimulating and comforting.
For a little while I am concentrating on learning Portuguese and I also spend some time each day at CESE, an ecumenical social service agency established 30 years ago. All the national churches of Brazil are United Church partners—Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Anglican, and Roman Catholic. I will be working to strengthen links among the partners and with individual churches throughout Brazil and to find ways to keep those links strong so that more can be accomplished.
Thank you for supporting M&S and the work I will do here on your behalf in Brazil. Together we love and serve our neighbours in Brazil; together we seek justice and celebrate God’s presence.
Easter blessings, Kathleen Stephenson
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