The Ocean View United Church Trustee Board has a Special Fund

setup 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 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 Blackhead Cemetery Committee gratefully acknowledges the following donations in memory of Florence Baggs from:

Wendy Parsons                                   Pearl & Garry Rose

Christine & Gary Butt                         Melvin & Daisy Peach

Dave & Bernice Hollett                       Edna King

Ralph White                                         Robert Hudson

Julie & Clayton Smith                         Tony Peach

Aire McNamara                                  Warren & Jeanette Hudson

Winslow & Gen Loveys                       Chester Powers

Maxine Stanley                                    Carter & Judy Powers

Dianne & Frank Manstan                   Linda Bailet

Bertha White                                       Joan Sellars

Evelyn Janes                                       George & Myrtle Kennedy

Gloria Delaney                                   Marie Hollett

Linda Oliver                                        Aiden & Mary Moriarty

Rendall & Shirley Baggs                     Murray & Pamela Hudson

Ray & Betty Baggs                              Grayson & Clarice Crowley

Cornelia Coish                                    Wade & Lena Crowley

Paul Barr                                            Margaret Rice

Helena Drodge

Margaret Baggs & George Kelloway

May 3, 2009

M&S and ARI

If you visited Nasu-Shiobara, a rural area just south of Sendai in Japan, you would find a ministry rooted in the love of Jesus Christ. Here is a school and residence run by the Asian Rural Institute (ARI). Their goal is to build an environmentally healthy, just, and peaceful world. The ARI wants to assist people particularly from the most economically marginalized areas of the world and looks for students to whom they give scholarship assistance. These students are trained in the best ways to enhance local rural resources, to help marginalized people create their own development projects, and to find ecologically sustainable ways of working and living.

When they go home, these new community leaders provide training in soil fertility and crop diversification. They also teach small business development and organize women’s workshops on income, nutrition, health, and vocational education. They have programs for the disabled, for young adults, and for abandoned children that teach income-generating skills. These new leaders also host interfaith dialogues with other denominations and faith groups in their area.

The work done in Nasu-Shiobara is made possible through the Mission and Service Fund of our church, one example of the work our church does outside of Canada. United Church pastor, George Takashima, visited the ARI recently. He urges us, and especially ethnic congregations, to be more supportive of such work. “I am even more convinced that the best way to do the work of the church in the field of evangelism—building churches, education, service—is to support our Mission and Service Fund.” Please give generously.

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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 the Church News to Darryl Butt by Thursday of each week.