Lucknow Growing Project

The crop for this year’s Lucknow Growing Project has been harvested. The field, located on Hawkins Road near Dungannon, was planted with corn. Under sunny skies, Byrne Burgsma and Gerben Wynja took in the crop. The 18 acre field yielded 3013 bushels of grain corn (167 bushels/acre) which will be sold and then multiplied four-fold by the Canadian government. The funds will then be used by the Canadian Food Grains Bank to address poverty and hunger worldwide.

Enduring Scorn

"Have mercy on us, O Lord, hae mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt." Those words come from Psalm 123:3. This Sunday, October 28, guest pastor Tom Van Milligen preaches on this text while I lead worship in Guelph. May God be worshiped wherever we gather.

Happy 60th to us!

This Sunday the Lucknow Community Christian Reformed Church celebrates its 60th anniversary. Our worship service will be one of celebration and we will look at Psalm 66. In that Psalm we are invited to "come and see" what God has done and how he turned our sea into dry land. The psalmist remembers the people of Israel passing through the Red Sea. But every one of us can read this psalm as our own, remembering how God has taken us through some tough times. We have been "through fire and water, but [God] has brought us to a place of abundance" (66:12). Come celebrate God's goodness with us, Oct 21, 10 a.m.

World Peace

It's the classic beauty pageant response to, well, everything: World Peace. So when Jesus says, "blessed are the peacemakers," we don't really take it too seriously. But Jesus is serious. God is going to bless peace makers. World peace can be a reality - Jesus ushers it in now and we'll know God's shalom completely when Christ returns. We worship as peacemakers, this Sunday, October 14, at 10 a.m.

Why do we celebrate birthdays and anniversaries anyway. Is it just to mark another milestone in life or should there be more to it? Jesus would likely tell us that these special days (and any other day for that matter) are good times to reflect on the past, to remember. Jesus would have us remember especially the times of abundant overflowing blessing so that we can recognize that He is at work in our lives and in our world. Sunday, Oct 7, 10 a.m., with Ken deBoer in the pulpit.

Dedicated to her memory

Last Sunday we gathered outside after the service to dedicate a tree planted in memory of Syke Sutherland. Syke's husband Jim, with help from their six grandchildren, placed the plaque as their church family looked on.