-Church News- Sunday, Aug. 23rd – 9:45 am – service will be held at McDowell United, Western Bay. This service will be conducted by the McDowell U.C.W. Sunday, Aug. 23rd – 11:15 am – service will be held at Ocean View United, Broad Cove. This service will be conducted by the McDowell U.C.W. The Ocean View United Church Trustee Board has a Special Fund set up to receive donations to tile the Church basement floor. Donations may also be made to this fund in honour of or in memory of. Please forward your donation to Mr. Eric Slade, Treasurer of the Ocean View United Church Trustee Board. Please indicate on the envelope “Tile the Floor Project” and if your donation is in honour of or in memory of. The McDowell United Church Trustee Board has a Special Fund set up 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 the 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 windows in the Church will cost approximately $1,000.00 each to purchase and install. We are continuing to raise money and look for your support to get these in place soon. Rev. Cole will be on vacation from Aug. 7th – Sept 7th. In the case of an emergency, please call the Clerk of Session Beverley Butt at 598-2532. Rev. Stephen Matthews will be covering for Rev. Cole during vacation. The Pastoral Charge annual barbecue will be held on Sunday, September 13th following the 11:00 am service at Ocean View. Please invite family and friends to this event, everyone is welcome. Deadline for tickets is Sept. 7th Tickets are available at no cost from the following representatives: Ochre Pit Cove ……………………Violet Gillingham 598-2619 Western Bay North (to Church)….Elvira Glover 598-2833 Western Bay South…………………Sophie White 598-2595 Adams Cove………………………. Loretta Diamond 598-2157 Blackhead & Broad Cove North…George Penney 598-2945 Broad Cove & Small Point……….Eric Slade 598-2949 The Ochre Pit Cove Cemetery Committee gratefully acknowledges a donation in memory of the Crowley family from Olive Crowley. Please forward items for Church News to Darryl Butt by Thursday of each week. For information concerning our Food Bank you may contact: Bonnie Crummey 598-2803 Sophie White 598-2595 Rev. Cole 598-2943. August 16, 2009Extreme ChurchFirst United Church in Fort McMurray, Alberta, might be called an extreme church. Fort McMurray is a city of extremes. It has lots of pluses—a community college, a nursing program, recreation centres, and some top-notch sports programs, including competitive skating. Its cultural programs and shopping facilities are still expanding for an 80,000-plus population. But this is also a community where a basic three-bedroom home rents for $3,500 to $4,000 a month—if you can find one—and costs $650,000 or more to purchase. There are people who do make the big bucks, but not all of them do. Many don’t earn the big dollars of the oil company executives or others in the booming commodity industry. Some residents may have come far from their homes to Fort McMurray looking for high-paying jobs. But the high salaries can come with a price of loneliness and lack of family support. This makes many vulnerable to influences that they might well resist at home. At First United, a dedicated few have kept the doors of the church open in a challenging community. With a message of hope, the Mission and Service Fund helps First United offer help for those who seek it. It is a community of faith where all are accepted. The core of this congregation is active and committed. But the challenge is huge. The volunteers and a minister have organized a church school, produced musical skits with local children and youth, and offer free meeting space for Alcoholics Anonymous and rental space for a multicultural society. Most importantly, they offer Sunday worship where young oil workers who are missing families and sometimes coming off a 19-day stretch of work can worship and find community before going home to sleep. Please continue to give generously through the Mission and Service Fund so that this community can continue to love and serve! A lot of people in Fort McMurray are blessed by your M&S gifts! © 2008 The United Church of Canada/L’Église Unie du Canada. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike Licence. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca. Any copy must include this notice.
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