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THE WEEKEND OUTLOOK Friday ll Religion Two stories reflect on the Body of Christ By JIM RYAN Corpus Christ June 1991 Mark 14 12 1C 22 Two stories about the Body of Christ 1 In the film A Trip to tiful Academy Award winner Geraldine Page plays an old woman who goes on a journey m search of salvation She gets on a bus named Corpus Christi which is destined for Corpus Chnsti Texas A man at the bus stop tells her and her fellow travellers that Corpus Christs means Body of Christ On the bus she sits with a young woman and talks about her She has no illusions she is honest about her disappointments she faces the reality of her life I never loved my husband Oddly enough she is now prepared to receive the fullness of life When she returns to the work aday world with her ly she does go transformed with a sense of serenity and new hope 2 George Thompson wandered out of the hardware store on Euclid Avenue and looked up and down the street Another gray day another rejection another day without work He walked back down to Bloor Street the tavern would be open by now George hadn t worked since last year In fact it was a year ago today but George t remember that George remember much these days He blamed it on the scar above his left eyebrow others might have blamed it on the ten to twelve beers he drank in the afternoons and early evenings the tavern on Bloor Street But something nagged at him There was something but he couldn t quite grasp it If George had grasped it he would have walked with a firmer step he would have looked about him at the houses at the melting snow the January thaw he would have heard the birds who were anticipating spring For it was a year ago that it had happened the scar was proof of that And sometimes when Religion and Reality by Jim Ryan George dned his face on a towel in the mornings before the mir some fragmentary image came back to him of that day George was known at Queen St at the mental hospital he was known at the welfare office and down at the police station He had a sheet as long as your arm and even the greenest social worker out of university even the youngest chaplain out of theology school would not have given George more than a second United Church of Canada relocating national offices A year the General Council Executive approved the lion of the national offices of The United Church of Canada somewhere within the region of the communities of Kitchener Waterloo and Now we are one step closer to actually knowing where the move might be says The United Church of Canada s General Secretary the Reverend Dr Howard Mills Mills comments followed approval by the General Council Executive to authorize the senior management team the General Council Secretaries to proceed to the final negotiation stage for quiring a site and building of a new nation office facility for The United Church of Canada We h wen t identified the specific site by name but we do have three contenders says Dr Mills He The complexity and sensitivity of the next stage of negotiations make it necessary to maintain confidentiality until there is some conclusion to these negotiations Finalist developers from the four Ontario communities of Cambridge Guelph Kitchener and Waterloo submitted pro- Bible Digest How shall we escape if neglect so great salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him Hebrews 3 How can you continue to ignore the fact that Jesus died on an old rugged cross for you Look to Jesus today and ask for His forgiveness He loves you For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness but unto us which are saved it is the power of God I Corinthians 1 18 Have you put your faith in the Christ of Calvary To accept Him is life eternal but to reject Him is an eternity Hell The choice is yours to make A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will 1 put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you a heart of flesh The Lord is the master physi of real heart transplants He can heal an old tough hardened heart and make it tender and compassionate Let Him give you a new heart and a new life Trust not in oppression and become not vain robbery if riches increase set not your heart upon them Psalm 10 Do not fall into the trap of trusting riches Place your trust in the Lord He never changes But God commandeth his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us Romans 8 Jesus loved you before you ever thought of loving Him The love of God is truly great and amazing Clothing Mens Childrens ALTERATIONS REPAIRS 8771598 These pnpposals rated according to ten major criteria In the fin report of the ch consultants Office Building Consultants In one of four proposalb was effectively eliminated from further serious consideration Of the remaining three proposals all met in varying degrees the project s major criteria The Executive has now given the goahead to proceed toward signing a development agree ment with one of the contenders Failing a successful agreement with that developer the Ex ecutive has authorized that the other two proposals be actively pursued The General Council Secretaries will also proceed to negotiate a firm sale of the pre sent General Council properties in Toronto A condition for the sale of those properties is that the selling price provide a surplus sufficient to ensure the self financing of the relocation pro ject Offers to purchase from five potential buyers have already been selected as finalists in the sale of the General Council pro perties at St Clair Avenue East in Toronto The proposed timeline for the sale and purchase of properties is for contracts to be signed by July 1991 and relocation to happen on or about September 1 1993 If the General Council Secretaries are unable to meet either the financial or timeline objectives authorized by the Ex ecutive the General Council Sub Executive will oversee and authonze any changes to the relocation goals OFFICE MAGIC FOR AU YOUR OFFICE STATIONERY NEEDS 136C St Georgetown chance George had what you would call a history and all of it bad The psychiatrist who saw George after his assault charge ten years ago said that George was plagued by many dragons and that he would have to learn to live with them He said that it would have taken a miracle to begin to sort out the dragons and kill them one by one But a year ago that miracle had taken place and George s dragons had been slain neatly and cleanly The had been unexpected as miracles are and George history had been changed from bad to good All of this had been done very simply and in an unspectacular fashion by what one of those chaplains from theology school might have called an act of love The only thing was George remember The psychiatrist might have said that what happened was so foreign to George that he had no way of ac or understanding it This is what happened One year ago today George had been beaten up by a couple of fellows whom he had been drinking bud dies with for years They had stolen his cheque and left him in an alley just north of Bloor and Christie They had beaten him badly and had given him the gash that was now the scar above his left eyebrow BOOK WITH MARY AND RECEIVE 10 OFF I FULL HAIR SERVICE Acton J Guelph St Georgetown As George lay there helpless unable to move or cry out he remembered a long history of re jection and betrayal and as helpless and silent as he was he hardened himself There was nothing new here what did he ex pect from life This was when the miracle had taken place Someone had come along someone that George t see because of the blood in his eyes and that someone had loved George As simple but as unexpected as that Someone had taken George to a room above a tavern on Bloor Street and cleaned his wounds That same someone had left money with the tavern keeper and had continued to pay the rent of the room during months George had also received an anonymous cheque each month from a bank on Ossington Avenue When George got back to his room above the tavern about p on the first anniversary of that miraculous day he found an envelope waiting for him In side was a sheet of paper on which was written Hope you re feeling better Love from so meone who cares George wept touched the scar his eyebrow and prayed the prayer of ing that he had uttered almost consciously every in the past year Raining SAVING J BRING THIS AD AND SAVE purchase of ANY SHOWER CURTAIN EMERALD ISLE I BEDROOM GALLERY BRIDAL 8732753 food stores target OPEN 24 HRS 7 DAYS A WEEK 51 GUELPH ST GEORGETOWN STEVEN C FOSTER BA B BARRISTER SOLICITOR 37 MAIN ST SOUTH GEORGETOWN ONT 873 fax 873 FREE DAY PASS ice I tub I Comptmin lit me ft DENOMINATIONAL PENTECOSTAL ALL PEOPLES CHURCH DELIVERANCE CENTRE Bld Bra ma lea SW Corner Bible Study Worship Deliverance Sunday 10 30 am 7 Wednesday 8 m Wo Provide Children s Church Nursery Service Translation Pastor George A 2176 CHURCH OF ST THE MARTYR Church of 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