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T heWeeklyANCHOR
The unnecessary crisis of presumption
For the most part, my again. Eastern philosophies teach us not to worry
family enjoyed the deep We all have these stories, ones that in the midst because worrying is a form of desire, and desire
freeze. of the crisis seem so overwhelming, and then is the cause of all suffering- but the Bible tells
We live out of town, later, they hardly even seem worth sharing us to simply place our trust in God. He
and my wife and I both because it turns out it wasn't even really a big ultimately knows what you need and can
have jobs that allow us deal. Car accidents that almost happened, kids provide for those needs, so trust him instead.
to work from home who are lost for 5 minutes in a store, awkward You know who didn't worry at all when the
when we need to; so text messages that could be taken the wrong way water wasn't running? My kids; and why would
when the school buses and aren't responded to for a couple of hours ... they? They knew all along that I was going to
weren't running, it most of them turn out to be nothing, and yet in figure out what to do next and take care of
became a sudden the moment we create fictions for ourselves that whatever the solution required.
Pastor opportunity to sleep in have life shattering implications. "Therefore," Jesus concludes, "do not worry
Bryan Walter and hunker down for a Sometimes the crisis may last for days, or even about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about
few days in our cozy months, but the lesson is the same: don't try to itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own
little house. deal with data you don't have. It just causes a lot (Matthew 5:34 NIV)."
Things were going pretty well until Tuesday ofunnecessary suffering. "Maybe," and ''what
morning, when we woke up to no running water. if ... " most often just force you to go through the .u.•;;u.u;;~uLJ<;;J. to
Our attitude shifted instantly from bonus emotional turmoil of circumstances that may not your donations for the
holiday to high anxiety. The reason we got so even come to pass. EDSON FOOD BANK
stressed was because we couldn't find an obvious A subject that I see popping up more and more at Independent Grocer,
source of frozen pipes; we couldn't see any frost, in the realm of what we could call "non-religious Sobeys or the Edson Food Bank
and it seemed like the heat-tape on the water line spirituality" is what's known as "mindfulness"
beneath our modular home was powered up and which means acknowledging and accepting
running. things as they are in the present, not as they were The Food Bank will be open
This led us to start fearing that the freeze was or as they could be; in other words, dealing only 2 Thursday evenings,
somewhere underground, which we figured with the data that you have. the second and last Thursday
would mean either digging things up, or waiting Oddly enough, I think the Bible tends to agree
for the season to change and the ground to thaw! that this is a good practice, though with one of the Month 6:45-8:00 pm.
You know how googling physical symptoms major exception: the Bible teaches us to accept Open regular hours
almost always ends up suggesting the worst case that we don't know the future and that we don't every Tuesday from 9-1 I am.
scenario? Well I've found that the same is often have much control over it, because we are
true for the inexperienced homeowner! instead called to trust in the one who does.
All of a sudden it seemed like there was no Matthew 5:25-27 reads, "Therefore I tell you, do 780-723-1350
possible solution, and we were pondering how not worry about your life, what you will eat or Hours: Tues 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
we'd make it to May without running water in drink; or about your body, what you will Last Thursday of the month
the house. After the stress had settled in upon us wear ... Look at the birds of the air; they do not 6:45 p.m. to 8 p.m.
like a dull ache, I threw a propane heater under sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your Food Bank located at
the house near the water line just in case the heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much 4511 5th Ave., Edson
system needed a little boost, I figured it couldn't more valuable than they? Can any one of you by
hurt; and ten minutes later, we had running water worrying add a single hour to your life? (NIV)." Sponsored by The Weekly Anchor
CHURCH DIRECTORY for Edson & Area
EDSON • EDSON·PEERS CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH CARROT CREEK. NITON IUNCTION & PEERS
463Hth Ave .. Edson • Ph: 723·5242
BETHEL PENTECOSTAL FAMILY WORSHIP CENTRE Pastor Ken Douma CARROT CREEK CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
6350 • 13th Ave .. Edson. Phone 723· 3007 Worship: 10:30 a.m. Edson · Nursery provided Pastor Georqe Stone · Ph: 795·2132
(Office Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm) Sunday SChool: K through Grade 6 durinq a.m. service; Church in Peers, Alberta
Pastors John & Roberta Greiner Adult Sunday SChool: 9:30 a.m. Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.
Sunday service: 10:30 am Mominq worship. EDSON SEVENTH·DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH Non·denominlltlonel · Everybody Welcome!
Awene Kid's club wed. 6:15 to 8:15 pm. Aqes 3 to 12 years. 1133·55 St. Edson · Ph: 723-5490.
Youth: Fridays. Gr. 6 to 12 at 7:00 pm. Various mid week small qroup Saturday Mominq Service at 11:30 a.m. Sabbath School at 10:00 a.m. COMMUNITY COWBOY CHURCH
studies IIVIIilable. Niton Junction Hell
EDSON UNITED CHURCH Tuesdays, 7 p.m. 780·712·3502
BIBLE TALKS Sunday WOrship & Sunday School: 10:30 a.m. Rev. Kimberly Roy
Bible Talks every Sunday at 3:30, Lions Hell Edson. Regular Office Hours: Wednesdey·Friday 10 am · 2 pm GREEN GROVE UNITED CHURCH
Simple teachings of Jesus. No obligations whatsoever. Come & listen. 1214 Edson Drive, Edson, AB Phone: 723·3418
A. Fllrought end R. Priebe 780·667·1747 Website: www.edsonunltedchurch.com Niton Junction · Ph: 795·2568 Sunday Services
EDSON ALLIANCE CHURCH FAMILY OF FAITH CHURCH
5525·2nd Ave., Edson Ph: 723·5776 Pastor Bryan Welter 463 72 St., Edson (formerly Glenwood Hell), Telephone: 780·517-7558
9:30 a.m. Sunday School10:45 a.m. Worship Service Sunday: 10:00 em · Coffee and Donuts; 10:30 am • Moming Service EVANSBURG/ENTWISnEJWILDWOOD
Wednesday: 7 p.m. Preyer Meetlnq; Pastors: Ron end Bev Swenson
Thursday: 6:30 p.m. AWANA Boys and Girls fofcedson.com ADVENT LUTHERAN CHURCH • EVANSBURG
Club; Ladies Ministry 2nd and last Tuesdays of the month. Office Phone: 780·727-3594
Please cell for Youth Events. HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN/LUTHERAN CHURCH Sunday Worship Service end Sunday School at 11 a.m.
All services at 10 a.m. Sunday momings.
EDSON BAPTIST CHURCH 1st and 2nd Sundays lit St. Catherine's building (623 50 St.) 780·723·3157 ENTWISTLE COMMUNITY CHURCH
4719 ·9th Ave., Ph: 723·3982 Interim Pastor: Herald Fraise 3rd end 4th Sundays at Grace building (4407 7 Ave.) 780·723·4366 Pastor • Micah Brookhart
Sunday Services: 10:45 a.m. Adult Sunday School 9:30 • 10:30 a.m. 5th Sunday · cell for Location. Office: 780·727-2829
Children Sunday School offered during 10:45 service. ~ Sunday School for alleges 9:30 a.m.
Please cell for Sunday School, Bible Study, Youth activities end all other
various Mid·week small qroup studies IIVIIileble n enquiries. Sunday Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.
Visit our website for addition info edsonbeptist.com . , . 1 ~- ALL ARE WELCOME
1
EDSON BREAD OF LIFE MISSION ~ EVANSBURG BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor: Jeremiah Pierson
Office 780·727·2245
we ere open end qoinq strong E,;. H -,"":",_..., il SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH Sunday Bible Study for ell eqes at 9:45 a.m.
... :
Sunday Service 11am with lunch to follow ~ 4803 · 6th Avenue, Edson Telephone: 723·3661. Sunday WOrship (il n a.m.
Pastor Jim Findley 780·725·3743 5325 4th Avenue Pastor Father Verqhese Munduvelil "Where everybody's somebody and Jesus Is Lord"
Mass: Saturday: 5:00 p.m. Sunday: 10:00 a.m.
EDSON MENNONITE CHURCH Cell office for weekday Mass times.
6212 • 13th Ave .. Edson WILDWOOD CHAPEL
Telephone: 723·4922 (office)/728·8988 4820 4 Avenue, Wildwood, Alberta
Pastor Allron Kauffman Phone 780·325·3999
Office Hours • 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday. Sunday Service lit 10:30 a.m.
Sunday worship Service at 9:45 em. Sunday School at 11:00 a.m.
For eddltlonellnformatlon regarding Youth end Family events or other
activities contact Pastor Allron.
T heWeeklyANCHOR
The unnecessary crisis of presumption
For the most part, my again. Eastern philosophies teach us not to worry
family enjoyed the deep We all have these stories, ones that in the midst because worrying is a form of desire, and desire
freeze. of the crisis seem so overwhelming, and then is the cause of all suffering- but the Bible tells
We live out of town, later, they hardly even seem worth sharing us to simply place our trust in God. He
and my wife and I both because it turns out it wasn't even really a big ultimately knows what you need and can
have jobs that allow us deal. Car accidents that almost happened, kids provide for those needs, so trust him instead.
to work from home who are lost for 5 minutes in a store, awkward You know who didn't worry at all when the
when we need to; so text messages that could be taken the wrong way water wasn't running? My kids; and why would
when the school buses and aren't responded to for a couple of hours ... they? They knew all along that I was going to
weren't running, it most of them turn out to be nothing, and yet in figure out what to do next and take care of
became a sudden the moment we create fictions for ourselves that whatever the solution required.
Pastor opportunity to sleep in have life shattering implications. "Therefore," Jesus concludes, "do not worry
Bryan Walter and hunker down for a Sometimes the crisis may last for days, or even about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about
few days in our cozy months, but the lesson is the same: don't try to itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own
little house. deal with data you don't have. It just causes a lot (Matthew 5:34 NIV)."
Things were going pretty well until Tuesday ofunnecessary suffering. "Maybe," and ''what
morning, when we woke up to no running water. if ... " most often just force you to go through the .u.•;;u.u;;~uLJ<;;J. to
Our attitude shifted instantly from bonus emotional turmoil of circumstances that may not your donations for the
holiday to high anxiety. The reason we got so even come to pass. EDSON FOOD BANK
stressed was because we couldn't find an obvious A subject that I see popping up more and more at Independent Grocer,
source of frozen pipes; we couldn't see any frost, in the realm of what we could call "non-religious Sobeys or the Edson Food Bank
and it seemed like the heat-tape on the water line spirituality" is what's known as "mindfulness"
beneath our modular home was powered up and which means acknowledging and accepting
running. things as they are in the present, not as they were The Food Bank will be open
This led us to start fearing that the freeze was or as they could be; in other words, dealing only 2 Thursday evenings,
somewhere underground, which we figured with the data that you have. the second and last Thursday
would mean either digging things up, or waiting Oddly enough, I think the Bible tends to agree
for the season to change and the ground to thaw! that this is a good practice, though with one of the Month 6:45-8:00 pm.
You know how googling physical symptoms major exception: the Bible teaches us to accept Open regular hours
almost always ends up suggesting the worst case that we don't know the future and that we don't every Tuesday from 9-1 I am.
scenario? Well I've found that the same is often have much control over it, because we are
true for the inexperienced homeowner! instead called to trust in the one who does.
All of a sudden it seemed like there was no Matthew 5:25-27 reads, "Therefore I tell you, do 780-723-1350
possible solution, and we were pondering how not worry about your life, what you will eat or Hours: Tues 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
we'd make it to May without running water in drink; or about your body, what you will Last Thursday of the month
the house. After the stress had settled in upon us wear ... Look at the birds of the air; they do not 6:45 p.m. to 8 p.m.
like a dull ache, I threw a propane heater under sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your Food Bank located at
the house near the water line just in case the heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much 4511 5th Ave., Edson
system needed a little boost, I figured it couldn't more valuable than they? Can any one of you by
hurt; and ten minutes later, we had running water worrying add a single hour to your life? (NIV)." Sponsored by The Weekly Anchor
CHURCH DIRECTORY for Edson & Area
EDSON • EDSON·PEERS CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH CARROT CREEK. NITON IUNCTION & PEERS
463Hth Ave .. Edson • Ph: 723·5242
BETHEL PENTECOSTAL FAMILY WORSHIP CENTRE Pastor Ken Douma CARROT CREEK CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
6350 • 13th Ave .. Edson. Phone 723· 3007 Worship: 10:30 a.m. Edson · Nursery provided Pastor Georqe Stone · Ph: 795·2132
(Office Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm) Sunday SChool: K through Grade 6 durinq a.m. service; Church in Peers, Alberta
Pastors John & Roberta Greiner Adult Sunday SChool: 9:30 a.m. Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.
Sunday service: 10:30 am Mominq worship. EDSON SEVENTH·DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH Non·denominlltlonel · Everybody Welcome!
Awene Kid's club wed. 6:15 to 8:15 pm. Aqes 3 to 12 years. 1133·55 St. Edson · Ph: 723-5490.
Youth: Fridays. Gr. 6 to 12 at 7:00 pm. Various mid week small qroup Saturday Mominq Service at 11:30 a.m. Sabbath School at 10:00 a.m. COMMUNITY COWBOY CHURCH
studies IIVIIilable. Niton Junction Hell
EDSON UNITED CHURCH Tuesdays, 7 p.m. 780·712·3502
BIBLE TALKS Sunday WOrship & Sunday School: 10:30 a.m. Rev. Kimberly Roy
Bible Talks every Sunday at 3:30, Lions Hell Edson. Regular Office Hours: Wednesdey·Friday 10 am · 2 pm GREEN GROVE UNITED CHURCH
Simple teachings of Jesus. No obligations whatsoever. Come & listen. 1214 Edson Drive, Edson, AB Phone: 723·3418
A. Fllrought end R. Priebe 780·667·1747 Website: www.edsonunltedchurch.com Niton Junction · Ph: 795·2568 Sunday Services
EDSON ALLIANCE CHURCH FAMILY OF FAITH CHURCH
5525·2nd Ave., Edson Ph: 723·5776 Pastor Bryan Welter 463 72 St., Edson (formerly Glenwood Hell), Telephone: 780·517-7558
9:30 a.m. Sunday School10:45 a.m. Worship Service Sunday: 10:00 em · Coffee and Donuts; 10:30 am • Moming Service EVANSBURG/ENTWISnEJWILDWOOD
Wednesday: 7 p.m. Preyer Meetlnq; Pastors: Ron end Bev Swenson
Thursday: 6:30 p.m. AWANA Boys and Girls fofcedson.com ADVENT LUTHERAN CHURCH • EVANSBURG
Club; Ladies Ministry 2nd and last Tuesdays of the month. Office Phone: 780·727-3594
Please cell for Youth Events. HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN/LUTHERAN CHURCH Sunday Worship Service end Sunday School at 11 a.m.
All services at 10 a.m. Sunday momings.
EDSON BAPTIST CHURCH 1st and 2nd Sundays lit St. Catherine's building (623 50 St.) 780·723·3157 ENTWISTLE COMMUNITY CHURCH
4719 ·9th Ave., Ph: 723·3982 Interim Pastor: Herald Fraise 3rd end 4th Sundays at Grace building (4407 7 Ave.) 780·723·4366 Pastor • Micah Brookhart
Sunday Services: 10:45 a.m. Adult Sunday School 9:30 • 10:30 a.m. 5th Sunday · cell for Location. Office: 780·727-2829
Children Sunday School offered during 10:45 service. ~ Sunday School for alleges 9:30 a.m.
Please cell for Sunday School, Bible Study, Youth activities end all other
various Mid·week small qroup studies IIVIIileble n enquiries. Sunday Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.
Visit our website for addition info edsonbeptist.com . , . 1 ~- ALL ARE WELCOME
1
EDSON BREAD OF LIFE MISSION ~ EVANSBURG BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor: Jeremiah Pierson
Office 780·727·2245
we ere open end qoinq strong E,;. H -,"":",_..., il SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH Sunday Bible Study for ell eqes at 9:45 a.m.
... :
Sunday Service 11am with lunch to follow ~ 4803 · 6th Avenue, Edson Telephone: 723·3661. Sunday WOrship (il n a.m.
Pastor Jim Findley 780·725·3743 5325 4th Avenue Pastor Father Verqhese Munduvelil "Where everybody's somebody and Jesus Is Lord"
Mass: Saturday: 5:00 p.m. Sunday: 10:00 a.m.
EDSON MENNONITE CHURCH Cell office for weekday Mass times.
6212 • 13th Ave .. Edson WILDWOOD CHAPEL
Telephone: 723·4922 (office)/728·8988 4820 4 Avenue, Wildwood, Alberta
Pastor Allron Kauffman Phone 780·325·3999
Office Hours • 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday. Sunday Service lit 10:30 a.m.
Sunday worship Service at 9:45 em. Sunday School at 11:00 a.m.
For eddltlonellnformatlon regarding Youth end Family events or other
activities contact Pastor Allron.
