-Church News- Sunday, Aug. 8th – 11:00 am – service will be held at McDowell United Church, Western Bay. Please note for the summer months there will be no evening worship service. The 11:00 am services will alternate each Sunday between Ocean View and McDowell. We will resume to two services per Sunday on September 12th. Sunday, Aug. 8th – 2:00 pm – the Blackhead – Western Bay Men’s Fellowship Group will be conducting a service at the Interfaith Citizens Home, Carbonear. The McDowell United Church Choir will be raising funds to purchase a Digital Piano for the Church. Donations in memory of or in honour of loved ones will be gratefully accepted. The McDowell United Church Trustee Board will issue receipts for all donations to this fund. For further information please contact Debbie Sellars at 598-2738. The Ocean View United Church Trustee Board have set up a “Church Building Repair Fund” to receive donations to carry out some planned work on the Church building. Donations may 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 “Church Building Repair Fund” and if your donation is in honour of or in memory of. In the event of an emergency the following Clergy will be covering for Rev. Cole during his vacation: Rev. Brian Hannon – July 19th – July 31st …… 586-2285 Rev. Wayne Blackwood – August 4th – August 19th ……. 596-6439 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. Across the church many groups and members participate in both local and global outreach work. They are responding to our call to love and serve others. The Men’s Ministries Network of The United Church of Canada is a group working to alleviate hardship in foreign places. They chose Angola, a country that has suffered many years of civil war. Necessary social services for the well-being of the society are neglected or in ruins. The Men’s Ministries Network decided to help by building a school at Dondi, in the south-central part of the country. The cost of the project will be close to $1 million—not an easy amount to raise in times of economic crisis. The money will be raised by individual and group pledges and through educational events at Conference annual meetings. What makes this fundraising plan special is that the Men’s Ministries Network recognizes that a large part of our church’s response to the call to love and serve is the work done by the whole denomination through the Mission and Service Fund. They plan to give 10 percent of Dondi donations to the Mission and Service Fund. The men raising money for bricks and mortar for a new school in Angola will also be supporting United Church efforts to alleviate similar situations in other areas of the world. Please consider the example of the Men’s Ministries Network and include M&S in your outreach programs. We are a united church! This week, remember in your prayers of thanks
the denomination-wide groups who work for human rights and justice
around the world—groups like the Men’s Ministries Network and
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