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August 21, 2025 – Weekly News
Download the PDF August 20, 2025Having spent last week in Prince Edward County on the shores of West Lake, I am stunned, every year that I am there, how close to God I feel. The sheer beauty of nature, of the sunsets (as seen above), of the quiet, one cannot avoid the feeling that God is all around and that he has produced these wonders so that all who see them cannot help but feel his presence. Hymns kept popping…
July / August 2025 – Graceview
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One Bowl Chocolate Cake
Ingredients Chocolate Frosting (Optional) Preheat oven, prep pans, and combine dry ingredients: Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter or spray and dust with flour two 8-inch round cake pans. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add wet ingredients: Whisk in eggs, buttermilk, water, vanilla, and oil. Move batter to pans and bake: Divide batter evenly between prepared pans. Bake until tops spring back when lightly pressed, about 30 minutes.
You Have Voice Male – a Review
Oh, what a night!!! Nothing prepared me for the initial sight of the curtain rising and the stage being filled to the brim with row upon row of men prepared to sing their hearts out. With the first notes of the first selection, I was wrapped in the warmth of those wonderful voices as they sang one of my all-time favourites, Homeward Bound. After performing 3 pieces “en masse”, we then got to hear each choir individually. They were not…
Clara Barton, Angel of the Battlefield
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed individuals can change the world. In fact, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead With help from an essay by Joanna Strong and Tom B. Leonard, from The Book of Virtues, edited by William J. Bennett. The year was 1862. The Civil War was raging in America. In the battlefields of the country, men were dying, left maimed and bleeding on the field until the battle was…
Happy Canada Day!
Since you-know-who took office you-know-where, Canadian patriotism has been soaring. In honour of Canada Day 2025, and in honour of Simcoe Day, celebrated in Ontario on the first Monday of August every year, let’s find out just who Simcoe was. John Graves Simcoe was a British army officer, politician and colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (Ontario) from 1791 to 1796. He founded York, now Toronto, and was instrumental in introducing courts of law, trial by jury,…
Morning Has Broken – Eleanor Farjeon
Kathy Twynam Morning has broken, like the first morning;Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird.Praise for the singing, praise for the morning,Praise for them springing fresh from the Word. (Interesting note: I looked up the lyrics on the internet in two different places, and in both cases the last word of the first verse was “world”. Our hymnbook uses “Word”, which I believe is the correct version, but requires some knowledge of Christianity to understand.) At our May Outreach meeting,…
Outreach – May & June
On Monday, June 2, Outreach had its final meeting before the summer. The short “wrap-up” meeting was preceded by a pot-luck supper at the church – a first for our Outreach Committee. It featured great food, as all pot-lucks do, great conversation, and general good fellowship among its hard-working members. Our esteemed leader, Sheila Thomas, celebrated her birthday that week, and to mark the occasion Jean Ross made a birthday cake, which was our dessert. The cake was magnificent, so…
The Witch and the Wardrobe – But No Lion
On May 21, Bob and I went to Niagara-on-the-Lake to see the Shaw production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first book in C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia series. I went with trepidation, because the Narnia series is very dear to my heart and I was afraid the stage production would ruin it for me, just as the Mirvish production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child managed to ruin Harry Potter. (My opinion only –…
One Bible Prayer to Help You Get Through Doubt
Bob Hostetler When your faith is flagging, these eight words can reconnect you with God. Do you wish you had more faith? Less doubt? If you’re anything like me, you have my sympathy. In those moments of doubt your faith may flee, you may question nearly everything and feel as if you’re holding onto faith by a thread. And that’s exactly when prayer can seem harder than usual. We might wish for some kind of treatment or trick that will…
May / June 2025 – Graceview
Minister’s Message
This was my second time returning to Guatemala for a mission trip, with my first being in 2019. Though the destination was the same, the journey felt fresh, stirring, and deeply personal in new ways. One thing that stood out right from the beginning was the rare…
Fee Fie Faux Fried Chicken (oven fried chicken)
From The Looneyspoons Collection Janet and Greta Podleski Ingredients 1 cup corn flake crumbs ¼ cup grated parmesan cheese 1 tsp paprika 1 tsp dried marjoram ½ tsp dried thyme ½ tsp seasoned salt ¼ tsp each garlic powder, onion powder, and black pepper 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper 1 cup buttermilk ½ cup whole wheat flour 4 large chicken thighs 4 large chicken drumsticks 2 tbsp butter, melted Method Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray. Rinse chicken and pat…