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Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012
Your Guide To Local Houses of Worship CHURCH DIRECTORY Associated Gospel Churches of Canada
CHURCH OF THE OPEN BIBLE
Pastor Jerry Preheim 3704 - 42 St. Ponoka 403-783-6500 Worship Service 11:00 a.m.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH PONOKA Sr. Pastor Paul Spate 5109 - 57 Ave. Ponoka www.fbcponoka.org 403-783-5533 Bible Discovery Hour 9:30 a.m.
Worship Service 10:30 a.m.
NEW COVENANT BAPTIST REFORMED CHURCH
Currently meeting at Ponoka Christian School 6300-50 St. Worship Service Sunday 10:30 a.m. Everyone Welcome! www.baptistreformedponoka.org
PARKLAND REFORMED CHURCH South on 2A, West on Spruce Road 403-783-1888 Worship Service 10:00 a.m. & 2:30 p.m. Rev. Mitch Ramkissoon www.parklandurc.org
PONOKA ALLIANCE CHURCH
Buy lunch, help the church: Janet Merrett, Jo Basarsky, Pat Geary, and Hilda Stickel enjoy a hot summer lunch at the First Baptist Church. Funds went to the church’s building project. Photo by Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
When things go bad, dust it off In the 10th chapter of the book of Matthew, Jesus spoke to his disciples and gave them specific instructions on how they ought to conduct and prepare themselves when they visited different towns and villages. At the end of his instruction he gave them a direction about what they should do should they encounter opposition or failure. In the 14th verse Jesus said, “If any household or town re-
4215 - 46 St. Pastor Norm Dibben 403-783-3958 Sunday Service 11:00 a.m.
Wednesdays - 7:30 p.m. - Bible Study A loving, gentle, caring people - welcome you!
PONOKA RISING SUN CLUBHOUSE
PONOKA WORD OF LIFE CHURCH Pastor Rob McArthur 403-783-5659
Sunday @ 10:30 a.m. Corner of Hwy 53 & Hwy 2A (former Crossroads Restaurant)
PONOKA UNITED CHURCH Minister: Beatrix Schirner
ponokaunited@shaw.ca
Sunday Service 10:00 am. 5020-52 Ave. Ponoka
Phone: 403-783-4087
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH PASTOR DAVE BEAUDOIN 6230-57 Ave. Ph. 403-783-6404 Saturdays 9:30 - 12 Noon dsjjb@xplornet.com ponokaadventist.ca
SONRISE CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH Pastor W. Delleman Worship Service 10:30 a.m. ½ mile south of Centennial Centre for Mental Health & Brain Injury
403-783-6012
ST. AUGUSTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH Fr. Chris Gnanaprakasam, S.A.C. Mass Times: 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 9:00 a.m. Sunday
5113 - 52 Ave., Ponoka, T4J 1H6 403-783-4048
ST. MARY’S ANGLICAN CHURCH Rev. Alexandra Meek-Sharman
5120 - 49 Ave. Ponoka
403-783-4329
Community Blue Box Program For $12.00 per month We will pick up your paper, clean tins, glass, No. 1-5 plastic and cardboard. We also pick up cardboard from local businesses.
For more information on these programs please call
403-783-5810 Weekdays
fuses to welcome you or Our lives can quicklisten to your message, ly become like this shake its dust from your when we do not choose feet as you leave.” to quickly overcome The message was disappointment and simple. When you face failure. Dust on dust failure, dust it off. When that becomes crud. We things go bad, don’t let then have crud that oththat failure cling to you. Pastor Rob McAurthur ers can see and hear in Word of Life Church Dust it off. our lives through our Most of us face failactions, attitudes and Member of the Ponoka ure or disappointment speech. Ministerial Association almost daily. The severJesus had the answer ity of disappointment for his disciples then varies but it has the ability to cling to and he has the answer for people tous. It clings to our attitudes. It clings day. Dust it off. Forgive and forget. to our speech. It clings to our rela- Move on. Live life to the fullest. In tionships. If we don’t dust it off, it the book of John, chapter 10, Jesus will oftentimes cling to us for life. declared that the intention of “the I recently participated in a major thief” was to steal, kill and destroy cleaning project. I had to deal with but that He came so that we could every kind of imaginable dirt, grime live life to the absolute fullest. Free and crud. It is amazing what the ac- from guilt. Free from regret. Free cumulative effect of unattended dust from the dust that comes with failure can look like in a short time. Dust on or disappointment. dust on dust. In short time, I was well If you feel like you’ve got some beyond the level of feather duster dust on your life, I have good news cleaning. In some areas, a Shop-Vac for you. The good news for us is that didn’t even suffice. God became man in Jesus Christ. He lived a life we should have lived (dust free) and died a death we should have died in our place. Three days later He rose from the dead, proving he was the Son of God, forgiving us for all of our sins, offering the gift of salvation and eternal life through His name to anyone who would repent and believe. I would like to invite you to respond to that good news today.
Sunday Service: Holy Eucharist 10 a.m. www.stmarysanglicanponoka.com
TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH 5501 - 54 Ave. Ponoka 403-783-4141
Subway Fresh Try Our
Sunday Service: 10:30am Sunday School: 10:30am Interim Pastor Tim Graff
NEW!
Pulled BBQ-Pork
ZION CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP Pastor Fred Knip 9 miles east on Hwy 53 (403) 782-9877 Jr. Church during service for children Sunday Service 10:30 am Proud to support the Canadian Cancer Society