EnRicher December 2019

CELEBRATING OVER 20 YEARS OF RICHER NEWS!

Volume 22 Issue 7

December 2019

Christmas Greetings...

Richer Fireside Youth...

Fireside Youth Christmas Party We will bid farewell to another year and wrap up with a Christmas Party on Dec 6.

The message of Christmas will remain the same, timeless and new as we remember the birth of Jesus Christ. Richer Fireside Youth wish you a very Merry Christmas and God’s best in the New Year 2020.

Youth will resume on Friday Jan. 10 and Friday Jan.24 in the Richer School gym from 79 pm. For more info please text Michelle at 204 371-8021, call 204 424-5216 or email richerfiresideyouth@gmail.com.

Indigo Program Benefits Richer School Library The students at Richer School have a little more reading material in their local library thanks to the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation’s 2019 Adopt a School program.

From September 14 – October 6, the program united Indigo, Chapters and Coles stores, employees, and customers to raise funds on behalf of local schools. In Manitoba, the Adopt a School program enriched the lives of 7 schools including the Richer School through the program’s fundraising efforts.

After a couple of weeks from program start, all of Richer Schools books were purchased. Further, the Indigo store which adopted Richer School has raised over $1,500 more that will towards the school library.

Volunteers Needed

Seine River Services for Seniors Inc. is in search of volunteers who can help older adults with transportation. Please contact the resource coordinator, Mélanie Brémaud at 204-424-5285 or labseinerss@ gmail.com if this interests you.

Thank you for your support!

Museum Closed for Season

The Dawson Trail Museum is closed for the season and we will resume our monthly meeting on February 10th, 2020 at 1pm at the LUD Hall.

From The Pastor’s Desk...

Anonymous Charitableness

By Pastor Ben Funk Well, Christmas time is upon us once again!

For most of us it is always such a wonderful time of year as we begin to make a conscious effort to turn our attention to Jesus our Lord. It is He that introduced humanity to the idea of gift, giving Himself. It has been a pleasure over the years to observe the various stages of development in children as they go through the phases of eagerness for what gifts they were going to receive, a eagerness for the gifts they were going to give, to realizing that the gifts actually are not really that important. This speaks of a steady realization that Christmas is really about others in our family, our community, and beyond. In the Christian world it is a steady realization that Christmas is really still about others, God’s gift, the Lord Jesus Christ and Him coming among us. As we begin to take His example in relating with others, in deeds of kindness and forgiveness, we realize that life really is happy and joyous.

Jesus did model ways of doing charitable deeds that have particular application at Christmas time: Jesus gives the following instruction in Matthew 6:1-4 “Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.

So when you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be honored by people. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. But when you give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving will be in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.”

(NASB) Even though Jesus’ gift to humanity was not anonymous, yet anonymous giving is a significant blessing to the recipient of the gift giver. There is a tremendous joy in receiving anonymously, particularly when the gift arrives completely unexpected.

My wife and I have been at both ends of anonymous giving, recipient and giver. To be a recipient of an anonymous gift at the right time has a powerful impact on one’s life. Giving from that perspective is a gift from the heart with no thought of reward, glory, or recognition. To be a recipient of an anonymous gift stimulates a motivation to want to pay it forward to someone else. At Christmas time there are various charities that we can participate with, which would imply giving anonymously to others who are truly in need.

This Christmas we need to be mindful of the gift of life that God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ provided through the gift of His only begotten Son so that each of us can receive life, life eternal.

Here we celebrate the arrival of the child Jesus, and commemorate it by the giving of gifts and nice

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The charity that we engage in this Christmas season, may it indeed be an internal affection of the heart reaching out to those around us. May your hearts be warmed by selfless acts of charity, goodwill, and service to others, even as Jesus did by coming to serve and not to be served. I would suggest, may all your charitable acts be done in secret and be rewarded only by the Lord Jesus in the inner sense of peace and joy. Merry Christmas from Richer Fellowship Church.

Christmas Hamper Drive

The museum committee will continue to support the Christmas Basket drive for the needy in the town of Richer. We thank Accueil Kateri Centre for organizing and distributing the baskets for our area. If any one wishes to donates towards the Christmas Baskets please make cheque payable to Accueil Kateri Centre ,132 Central Ave, Ste. Anne, MB R5H 1C3 or call 204-371-4984 for more information.

Birthdays! Special Days!

Garage Sales! Classified Ads are $5 each up to 25 words, extra words are 20 cents each.

For ads or news stories contact Dan at enricher@simplyconnected.ca

or (204) 355-8798.

The EnRicher is published as a service by the Richer Community Club Inc.

MARK YOUR

CALENDAR!

The Richer Community Club monthly meeting is Wednesday, December 11, 7:30 pm at the LUD Community Hall.

Saturday, December 14 and 28: Recycling Collection.

9:30 am - 12 noon. 1st stop Burnell’s, 2nd stop Richer Inn, 3rd stop Tibeauville, 4th stop Timberline, with the 5th stop at the Richer Husky where the recyclers will remain until noon. Recycling can also be dropped off in the recycling shed located in the Richer Husky parking lot at your convenience.

Young at Heart Dinner and Dance – On Saturday, December 21 from 5 – 11 pm at the Young at Heart hall monthly Dinner & Dance. Cash bar at 5 pm, supper at 6 pm followed by Dance. Cost $20. Contact to reserve ticket Irene at 204-422-5932 or Gisele at 204-422-8605.

Monday, December 30: Deadline for submissions for the January issue of the EnRicher.

Monday Night Bingos - To raise funds for Stacey Pchajek Memorial Foundation Inc. The foundation provides scholarships, bursaries and prizes to students graduating grades 8 and 12. Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult to be on premises and

must play bingo. Doors Open at 5:30 pm at the Young at Heart Club. MGCC License # BI/BO4164. Contact Doreen Pchajek at 422-5243 or doreen@spmf.ca.

Richer Fellowship Church at 50 Southeast Drive service is Sundays at 10:30 am with Pastor Ben Funk.

Everyone is welcome.

Richer Recovery AA - Group meets Monday from 7:30 - 8:30 pm at LUD Hall in Richer. Contact Paul at 204422-7673.

See you all in 2020!!