G. Baker                                  J..F. Hagen                       A.W. Safken

W. Baker                                 P. Hennessy                    H.B. Stoner

R. Baker                                    W. Hilborn                     F.L. Tanfield

C.J. Beattie                              A. Hunter                      J. Trueman

A.A. Boyd                               W. Isnardy                     F.N. Warlow

G.M. Box                                 G. Jensen                        W. Weetman

P. Brennan                             N. G. Kenny                    R. Wiley

D.J. Callanan                        D. Kitchen                        N. Yurray

E. Cameron                          F.V. Knox                         C. Hanson

J.D. Craig                              F. Mayant                         N. Copping

E. Carlsen                             J. McLeese                       A. Dunn

R. Davis                                E. Middleton

R.J. Davidson                    J. Muir

G. Dehaney                       J. Murphy

J. Durston                        A. Neveu

J. Duckworth                 A. J. Pickup

H. F. Denton                  E. A. Pope

J.H. Ellis                         J. Proffitt

E. English                      W. Reader

P. Farly                        J. W. Richards

W.L. Fowlie                 R. Ritchie

G. Fryer                       F. Ross

J. Graham                   B.D. Saucier

A. Gibson                     A. Shand

W. Gibbs                    E.P. Snider

J. Guy                         F. Smith

Nov8      Special Rememberance Day Service   NO WORSHIP TEAM

Nov 15   Tony   Tyler   Holly  Katie  Jen  Leslie  Beth

Nov 22   Tony   Tyler   Nat  Andrea  Jen  Sean  Naomi

Nov 29   Stew   Holly   Andrea  Patty   Leslie

Dec 6      Tony   Tyler  Holly  Andrea  Jen   Sean   Leslie

Dec 13    KIDS CHRISTMAS  PLAY        NO WORSHIP TEAM

Dec 20    Tony  Tyler  Nat  Katie  Jen  Sean  Patty

Dec 27     Stew  Nat  Katie  Jen  Patty  Leslie

Jan 3        Tony  Tyler  Holly  Katie  Beth  Sean

Please replace yourself if unable to attend as scheduled and notify your leader of the change.

Practice every second Thursday of the month @7pm.

Practice  Sunday am.  Tony   team @8am

Jan     team  @ 8:30am

We really appreciate your continued service to the Lord and to this family of believers. We believe you will be abundantly blessed as you serve together in unity.

You stay on your side of the room, I’ll stay on mine!” Mine.

It’s an ugly four-letter word that expresses our sinful, selfish nature.  Like two-year-olds playing tug of war with a favorite toy, we scream, “It’s mine!”  “No, it’s mine!”  “It’s mine!”  Those harsh words are not limited to the tongues of toddlers alone.  Haven’t you heard yourself saying,  “It’s my life, my body, my rights, my money. . .” and “I want it done my way.  It’s all about me!”  Psalm 24:1 tells us, The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world and all who live in it.  God our Maker says, “It’s all mine!”  He is the Creator, Sustainer, and Owner of the whole world.  Everything you see – including you and me – belongs to God.  It’s all His!

In Psalm 8:6, God in His unbelievable love and generosity invites us to be stewards of all of his belongings.  “You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet.”  Stewardship is a sweet partnership between God, the Creator and Owner of all, and us, his stewards.  We get to carefully care for and use all of His belongings.  It’s not a right; it’s an incredible privilege.  It’s not a miserable duty; it’s a high calling that we must joyfully embrace!

What an incredible gift from God!  What has God put into your care?  What time, spiritual gifts and abilities has He given to you?  What money and possessions has He trusted you with?  How are you taking care of His creation?  How are you caring for His temple, your mind and body?

Consider what God has placed under your personal stewardship, and then ask this important question: Am I handling all of God’s stuff with care?

Today after our meeting join with us downstairs

for fellowship and refreshments

Tues.    NO Evening Bible Study this week. Starts Nov. 24th – Dec. 15th.  Stew teaching about “Heaven & Hell”.

Wed.     KUWL ladies – (mature) Study – 9:30 am. Host: Kathy Turner (1380 Picard Ave.) 250-992-3995

Leader: Marilyn Gibson.

Young at Heart Ladies –  9:30 am. Leader:  Sarah

Pearson, meeting at the church for the next few weeks.

Wed. Manly Man Nov. 4th at 7pm. Open to boys ages 10 yrs and up.

Thur. Join Pastor Stew in the sanctuary for prayer 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. each week (come for a few minutes or the full hour).

Sunday Nov. 8th – Special Remembrance day service.

TODAY!

Potluck Dinner at the church @5:30 pm

Spotlight on Missions!

THE KITCHEN IS IN NEED OF GOODIES,

COOKIES & CAKES FOR COFFEE TIME AFTER THE SERVICE. PLEASE PUT YOUR

DONATIONS IN THE LARGE FREEZER.

Parenting Seminar

Saturday Nov. 14th 9 – 4 pm

“Have a new kid by Friday”

-44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep

• In 1967, the IMAX film system was invented by Canadian Ivan Grame

Ferguson to premier at Expo 67

- Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining

- The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.”

- The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long

- Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone

- No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times

- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes

- A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs

- Not all polar bears hibernate; only pregnant females polar bears do

- Macadamia nuts are not sold in their shells because it takes 300 pounds per square inch of pressure to break the shell

- In 1631, two London bible printers accidentally left the word “not” out of the seventh commandment, which then read, “Thou shalt commit adultery.”

- This legendary book is now known as the “Wicked Bible.”

- The dot that appears over the letter “i” is called a title

OCT 4                       PATTY & RON

OCT 11                     JEAN & PAULA

OCT 18                     MARILYN & KEN

OCT 25                     EV & SHARON

NOV 1                       DIANE & RON

NOV 8                       PAULA & BEV

NOV 15                     JEAN & KEN

NOV 22                     PATTY & SHARON

NOV 29                     EV & RON

DEC 6                       PAULA  & MARILYN

DEC 13                     KEN & BEV

DEC 20                     PATTY & DIANE

DEC 27                     JEAN & SHARON

SUB:  JAN MOTTERAM & JENNIFER MOORE

If you are away please trade with someone above or call a sub.

Thanks for all your help!

This Sunday after our meeting join with us downstairs for fellowship

and refreshments

Tues.       7 – 8:30 PM Evening Bible Study “Grace and Works” Stew

teaching.

Wed.       KUWL ladies – (mature) Study – 9:30 am. Host: Kathy Turner (1380 Picard Ave.) 250-992-3995 Leader: Marilyn Gibson.

Young at Heart Ladies –  9:30 am. Host: Julie Giesbrecht (3228 Boesem Rd.) 250-747-2701 Leader:  Sarah Pearson.

Thur. Join Pastor Stew in the sanctuary for prayer 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. each week (come for a few minutes or the full hour).

CSI – Christian Sisters Inc. ~ Ladies meeting at 7 pm

THIS SUNDAY: Home fellowship 6:30 – 8

Hosted in various homes (Reeves, Schmitkes, Motterams & Persons)

A chance to strengthen relationships and build new ones

If you are willing to open your home please contact the info desk

REGRETABLE – CANCELLATION:

THERE WILL BE NO HARVEST CARNIVAL ON HALLOWEEN

NIGHT THIS YEAR.

Community Christmas Carol Sing: If you would like to be part of the choral group or band that will lead the congregation in singing Christmas carols – please – fill out a response card and leave it at the info desk.  You will be contacted.  There will be one or two practices before the event.

C.LA.S.S. 101 & 301 – Sunday Oct. 25th 1 – 4:30 pm. Coffee & refreshments will be served. Sign up at the Info Desk.

Sunday Service 10 a.m. – child care and Sunday school during service

-fellowship / coffee time after service in lower fellowship room

Tuesday:            E.B.S.  (Evening Bible Study)  7 – 8:30 P.M. in lower fellowship room

-check E.B.S. brochure for exact dates classes are held

Wednesday: KUWL Ladies (mature) Study – 9:30 am.

Host: Kathy Turner (1380 Picard Ave.)

250-992-3995 Leader: Marilyn Gibson

Young at Heart Ladies Study – 9:30 am

Host & Leader: Sarah Pearson (834 Pine Rd.)

250-747-3934

Thursday: Music Practice – in upstairs meeting room – check with song leaders for dates

Monthly Events:

Sundays: 1^st – Potluck fellowship and service

5:30 – 7:15 P.M.

2^nd – Communion during service

3^rd – Home Fellowships – see info desk         for locations

4^{t h} - Ministry Spotlight

5^th - Baptisms

Wednesdays: 1^st – Manly Man  7 – 9 P.M. – meet in lower fellowship room

3^rd – C.S.I. (Christian Sisters Inc.) 7 – 9 P.M. – meet in lower fellowship room

Thursdays: 2^nd – Prime Timers (Seniors)  noon –

2 P.M. – potluck lunch, singing, sharing

THIS SUNDAY!

ECU/ DUNROVIN: 2 PM

POLTLUCK AT 5:30PM

for my hope is from him.

(Psalm 62:5 NRSV Bible)

In his book, THE LIGHT WITHIN YOU, John R. Claypool relates the very painful story of the loss of their young daughter to acute leukemia. Very quickly upon diagnosis of this dreaded disease, his daughter had been given a medicine that enabled her to go into a remission. For some time she was almost perfectly normal. Naturally, this created many hopes for her family. Had the diagnosis been a mistaken one? Had she experienced the miracle of divine healing for which her father and so many others had prayed?

It was not to be. All of these hopes came to an abrupt end, ironically, on Easter Sunday morning, when the old pains reappeared and she went into a severe relapse that involved hospitalization for some two weeks. Part of the time both of her eyes were swollen shut, and pain racked every part of her body. John Claypool reports that moving with her through those two weeks was an unspeakably draining experience. He found myself stretched in every way–physically exhausted, emotionally dissipated, his faith itself challenged as never before.

The worst moment of all, however, came one night when his daughter could get no relief, and she asked him, “When will this leukemia go away?” He answered, “I don’t know, darling, but we are doing everything in our power to find an answer to cure it.”

There was a long silence, and then she asked in the darkness, “Have you asked God when the leukemia will go away?” Her pastor/father hedged a bit and said, “You know, darling, how we have prayed again and again for God to help us.” But she persisted: “Have you asked God when it will go away? What did He say?”

Claypool asks, “How do you respond to such childlike directness at a time when the heavens seem utterly silent…?”

There are some questions without an answer. When I as a minister go to the hospital or at the funeral home in an hour when someone has experienced a great tragedy, I do not go with ready-made answers. I will go to remind people of God’s love and hope. I will pray with them, but I will not have all the answers. God’s ways are not our ways! Some questions have no answers. Such times demand a measure of silence.

Dear Jesus, help me to walk faithfully in your footsteps, especially when God seems to be silent. I pray in your name. Amen.

Belief systems are changeable. When we discover that something we have believed, even for a long time, is no longer valid, can we not simply change our mind and fully embrace the new? If you are crying out “Why me, God?” you must believe there is a God out there who hears you and you have hoped He would answer you. Maybe there was a time when you didn’t believe there was a God at all. If you changed your mind and opened your life to God, then you can also change your mind about judging events as being bad for you.

When we choose to believe that ALL the events in our life are good for us, even the ones that seem frustrating and painful for now, we are agreeing with God! When we choose to believe and trust God that there will always be a good outcome, we are trusting Him! Only God knows why we are going through these circumstances. Our new dialogue with God will be, “God, this is going to be an interesting journey. I’m excited to see how you are going to bring good out of this one. I trust you will!”