-Church News- Sunday, June 21st – 11:00 am – service will be held at Ocean View United, Broad Cove. Sunday, June 21st – 7:00 pm – service will be held at McDowell United, Western Bay. Tuesday, June 16th – 7:30 pm – the Session will meet downstairs at Ocean View United. Thursday, June 18th – 7:30 pm – the Music Forum will meet downstairs at McDowell United to practice for the upcoming service of music to be held on June 21st. The Western Bay North Cemetery Committee gratefully acknowledges a donation in memory of Eva Sellars from Alma and Max Adams. 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. For information concerning our Food Bank you may contact: Bonnie Crummey 598-2803 Sophie White 598-2595 Rev. Cole 598-2943. Please forward items for Church News to Darryl Butt by Thursday of each week. June 14, 2009M&S Builds Bridges to HopeIt’s a myth that people want to stay on social assistance. Sometimes they simply need a hand to help them move on. A man in his mid-40s had been coming to Bridges to Hope to receive a food hamper for many years. Bridges to Hope is a food aid centre in St. John’s, Newfoundland, that receives funding from the Mission and Service Fund. However, the centre does more than just offer food. When staff asked the man who had been coming to the centre for food donations if he thought he would like to work, he became very excited. He said, “I’d give anything to get a job and get off of social assistance.” Together with staff help, he wrote a good résumé and took it to several stores and businesses in the city. Each time he came back to Bridges to Hope, he would report how things were going. Finally, one day, he arrived ecstatic with the news that he’d been offered two jobs. One was with a supermarket and one with a church. Though he was thrilled, there was a hitch. Each one asked him to provide a letter from his doctor stating that he was well and physically able to do a certain amount of lifting. His doctor wouldn’t do it. It was only then that he told staff about a hit-and-run accident that happened 15 years ago. That’s why he hadn’t been able to work. Although he had been given a cheque for $1,100 in compensation, he had not signed any papers. Staff at Bridges to Hope made an appointment for him with a lawyer. After a court hearing, this man won his case. He was awarded a generous allowance each month, as well as the retroactive money for 15 years. This individual will be eternally grateful to Bridges to Hope for turning his life around and to your gifts to Mission and Service for helping to make it happen. © 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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