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Clergy Comment GeorgetownActon Wednesday Jan Christmas over a New Year is upon us and we will settle down to our own Individual routines that we carve out of the stuff of life for ourselves The Churches that were packed on Christ mas Eve will once again Indicate by empty pews that masse of people have made their annual symbolic pilgrimage to the Manger in Bethle hem and these same people will now get back to what they eel is important in I Many things cry out and de mand our attention In liie Someone has called it the tyranny of the urgent But someone else warns Don t let the urgent take the place of the important in your tire What is Important to you What do you con sider the top priorities in your life They are big questions and you may need time to really think them over In his first letter to the Church at Thcssalonica Paul tells us to be Scriptural when he says We had the boldness in our God to speak to you the Gospel of God amid much opposition When your spin is flavored with Hie words of the Lord your priorities will amazingly change The Letter to the Hebrews says The Word of God is living and active Sharper than any doubleedged sword it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit joints and marrow It judges thoughts and ttnti of the heart Nothing In all crea tion is bidden from Gods sight EverrUuns is uncovered and bare before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account In other words don t be phon be honest You cant con God Why not learn of Him by reading His Word The Church of Jesus Christ is challenged by the world to be relevant and honest and the Church made up of individual Christians George MacLeod preached that The cross of Jesus Christ must be raised in the centre of the market place Jesus was not crucified in a Cathedral on an altar between two candles but on a cross between two thrives on a town garbage heap at a crossroad of politics so cosmopolitan that they had to write His title In Hebrew and Greek the kind of place where cynics talk smut and thieves curse and sold iers gamble You see God was in His world with His peo ple and He still Is and always will be CI are also challenged to be in volved Webster dictionary states that being involved means to draw in as a par to relate closely to connect to include The Greek word Koinonla gives us some insight into being involved The root meaning of Koinonla is common In the early Church they had all Christianity freely shared among mem bers of Gods Family Someone has Dropin 3 monthly one evening monthly Theuardonccouncillors dropin will run at the Acton Social Services and Information Centre the first second and third Friday afternoons of each month from l to 3 p The fourth week each month an evening dropIn will be held probably at the Acton Library from to p Councillors hope to have special guests and members from the region and Town at the once a month evening dropins The four months of the year when there Is a fifth Fr day there won t be a drop- in Christian denominat ions are like a pack of P on a frigid wintry night The cold drivers us closer to gether into a tight hud dle to keep warm As we begin to snuggle really close our sharp quills cause us to Jab and prick each other a condition which forces up apart We cannot deny it we need each other yet we needle each other How can we break ye Porcupine syndrome By being authentic and showing true fellowship Many of us are saddened to hear that the Elders of one Church Acton have refused to participate In a pulpit exchange on January which will begin the Week of Prayer for Clirtstian Unity The significance of the Biblical word Koinonla is that Is never some thing done alone In other words God de sire for His people Is that we be personally and deeply Involved in each other lives It is not His will that we start looking for touchmenot autom covered over with a thin layer of shiny chrome Our superficial How ya and Peace brother and sis ter won cut it There was none of this lack of involvement In that group of firstcentury Cliristlans There a Porcupine among them Paul says in his letter to the Church at Rome Let love be without hypocrisy be to one another In brotherly love What is important to you in life Where does the authentic loving Christian faith fit Into your life Joanne Fay Is Ifae manager f the VMea Station M MM St In the Acton Mews 50th Video Station here The Video Station at Mill St Acton Hews In Acton offers over movie tapes and is the Video Station store in Ontario Brian from Milton la the owner of The Video Station and it is managed by Joanne Fay of Georgetown You can rent or buy RCA or Sanyo units In VHS and Beta modes and soon they will have games From Monday to Thursday you can rent a machine and get two free movies for 12 a day Friday to Saturday or Saturday to Sunday It tor a machine and two movies From Friday to Monday It costs for a machine plus four movies and one week with eight free movies The store is opened from I pm to Monday to Wednesday 1pm to 9 m to Friday and 10 am to p m on day You can rent movies like Rocky III Annie Star Trek II The Thing and Poltergeist at the Video Station JANUARY SPECIALS Coronet Savante FUurwit Nylofi now 22- Scoicbgard 9 BO Good Selection of CARPET RBHNANTS at Super Savings 12S Main St Acton Sheridan College Gerontology Program Semester weeks Trafalgar Road Campus If you are a graduate of a postsecondary social service p and deal with the elderly career or volunteer base this is for you Curriculum Theories of aging Problemsolving Counselling Program Planning Community Resources Health and Well being This certificate program may be completed full time one or part time over several Registration is I ted Foe more call Ron Martyn Water Continued from page l has been held up pending solving the sewer and water problems in Acton There are still some hurdles to be cleared before it will be smooth sailing for growth here Mow to service the new development must still be settled as well as storm drainage concerns noted It 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