4 PONOKA NEWS
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Your Guide To Local Houses of Worship CHURCH DIRECTORY Associated Gospel Churches of Canada
CHURCH OF THE OPEN BIBLE Pastor Jerry Preheim • Pastor Matt Sealy 3704 - 42 St. Ponoka 403-783-6500 Worship Service 11:00 a.m. • churchoftheopenbible@telus.net
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH PONOKA
Sr. Pastor Paul Spate Erin Dirsten - Fac. Youth & Family Min. 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! phone: 403-783-6962 • www.baptistreformedponoka.org
PARKLAND REFORMED CHURCH South on 2A, West on Spruce Road 403-783-1888 Rev. Mitch Ramkissoon Worship Service 10:00 a.m. & 2:30 p.m. www.parklandurc.org
PONOKA ALLIANCE CHURCH 4215 - 46 St. Pastor Norm Dibben 403-783-3958 Sunday Service 11:00 a.m. The Christian & Missionary Alliance
PONOKA WORD OF LIFE CHURCH Pastor Rob McArthur
Sunday @ 10:30 a.m. www.wordoflife.ca
PONOKA UNITED CHURCH 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 • www.sonriseponoka.com
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 stachurch@shaw.ca
ST. MARY’S ANGLICAN CHURCH Rev. Donna Willer Rev. Jessie Pei 5120 - 49 Ave. Ponoka
May 22 in appreciation of their efforts. Here Trish Jones and practicum student Simone Saunders enjoys a burger. Photo by Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
403-783-5659
Corner of Hwy 53 & Hwy 2A (former Crossroads Restaurant)
Minister: Beatrix Schirner
Volunteer appreciation BBQ: Volunteers at the Ponoka Youth Centre were given a fun barbecue
403-783-4329
Sunday Service: Holy Eucharist 10 a.m. www.stmarysanglicanponoka.com
TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH 5501 - 54 Ave. Ponoka 403-783-4141 Sunday Service: 10:30am Sunday School: 10:30am Pastor Tim Graff • trinityponoka.ca
ZION CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP Pastor Fred Knip 9 miles east on Hwy 53 (403) 782-9877 Jr. Church during service for children Sunday Service 9:30 am
A few words for grads Over the next two weeklife’s decisions don’t have ends, Grade 12 students in to be made and executed Ponoka will be graduating. by age 18 or 22. Relax and For many, this event will be enjoy the gift of life and a milestone of epic proporhealth. tions. For others, it will be Step out with courage. a necessary evil. And for There will often be many about 25 per cent of stuoptions with similar pros dents it will not happen. and cons. Weigh these opWhether you graduate tions, but if there isn’t a or not, this is still a time of “best” one don’t be afraid transitions and decisions. to just step out and try A few know exactly what something. We can learn they want to do. Others feel and grow from any experiPastor Tim Graff pulled to go somewhere or ence. do something. A significant Learn from your misnumber of students don’t takes. After high school, I really know and feel conjoined the armed forces and fused and paralyzed by the pressure to be became a plane mechanic. I was a tersomeone and do something. rible mechanic, but that experience not The options and opportunities of an only taught me that fact, it also revealed affluent society seem endless, but that another direction. As the saying goes, also contributes to the problem of mak- “Mistakes are for learning.” ing decisions. So what is a young person Play short – plan long. Going four, entering adulthood to do? six or eight years to university may feel For what it’s worth, here’s my advice: overwhelming, especially right after high Relax. By this I’m not suggesting school. If you can’t see yourself running you spend your life partying. Instead, I a marathon right now, try a short-term want to encourage you to take one day at tech school or find a job for a year. Use a time. Life is a long journey and all of this time to prepare for a longer goal.
Money isn’t everything. We all know that we need money to pay for the basics of life. However, selecting a career because of its pay will not end up being very fulfilling in the end. The most meaningful work are those jobs where people experience they are contributing to making life better for others. Passion and work. Ideally, we would all love a job that we can be passionate about. Our passions may not, however, connect with our careers. Sometimes we need to just find work and find other ways to fill our passions. Stay connected. Work, school and careers are wonderful, but they can never replace the relationships we have with family and friends. The people closest to you are the ones who will support you through the good and especially the hard times of life. So stay connected. Trust God. For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11). Hold tight to this promise and let God unfold his will for you. God bless each of our grads as they walk faithfully and courageously around the next bend of life.
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