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PAGE 10, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 26, 1983, WHITBY FREE PRESS FORMS REGISTER, CONTINUOUS, CARBONIZED & MISC. Toastinstresses discuss By DOROTHY HART Whitby Toastmistress The Whitby Toastmis- tress Club held its regular meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 1983, at the Earl of Durham Restaurant. Members and guests were afforded a warm welcome by hostesses Marguerite Kulik and Myrna Picotte and a fine dinner and fellow- ship were enjoyed by all. President Lee Hewitt chaired the business portion of the meeting, the theme for which was "Panel Power", dealing with the intricacies of panel discussion. An education feature was conducted by Betty Du- bowski and a lesson on parliamentary proce- dure was given by Jean- nette Etter. Topic Mistress for the evening was Helen Hines. The nini-speech trophy was presented to our guest, Jill Clements, a student at Henry Street High School. The program portion of the meeting was con- ducted by Toastmis- tress Marguerite Kulik. Germaine Barr enter- tained with her pre- sentation of "Friends", a prepared speech, and the remainder of the program took the form of a panel discussion. Panelists were Althea Darwen, Shirley Mac- Donald, Betty Dubowski, and Jeannet- te Etter. Moderator was Marguerite Kulik. The panel discussion dealt "panel power" with the strengths, ef- a whole new experîence fectiveness and versa- awaiting you. tility of story-telling. The next meeting of The Whitby Toast- the Whitby Toastmis- mistress Club meets on tress Club will be held at the first and third Tues- the Earl of Durham, 227 day of each month and Brock Street South, gpests are always wel- Whitby, on Tuesday, come. If you are anxious Feb. 1, 1983 at 6 p.m. to gain self-confidence Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Cost or increase your ability for the evening is $8. For to communicate effect- further information con- ively, this may be the tact either Betty opportunity you are Dubowski, 668-86or seeking. Why not attend Shirley MacDonald, m- a meeaing - you will find 4817. The Church Speaks Sponsored by the WHITBY MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION By MARTY MacLEOD Ministerial Intern, Whitby Pentecostal Church Relationships are the backbone of our society. Some may find that hard to believe, but think about it. How many of you can still remember the first kiss, or the first time you said "I'm sorry" to a per- son you had fallen in "love" with? Of course you remember. Relationships are both important and inescapable. They*are the vehicles through which we communicate our love, hate, happiness, frustra- tion, joy and pain. Working with relationships is no different for any- one. Each of us has great potential to do either good or evil to those around us. Scientists have found cures to many life shortening diseases, but have also created the destructive atom bomb. We too have such a potential, simply expressed in the man- ner in which we deal with those around us. In our day it has become apparent that our society is having problems creating productive relation- ships. The marriage relationship has broken down, the Miami affair has revealed that deep racial ten- sions do exist, the economic crunch has helped in- crease frustrations in the employer-employee re- lationship, while child-parent relationships are un- dergoing tremendous upheaval expressed through child abuse and teenage suicide. The big question that we all ask is why? All of us want to have a good life with fulfilling relationships. No one would think these were bad goals, so where does the problem exist? Because we have enjoyed the exact opposite of what we desire, in our society in general, it must be the means we use to accomplish our goals which is less than adequate. This is where we can be in- ,troduced to the forgotten God, the missing link in our human relationships. Francis Schaeffer notes in his book, 'rue spirit- uality,: The trouble with human relation- ships is that man without God does not realize that all men are sinful, and so he hangs too much on his personal rela- tionships, and they crush and break. No love affair between a man and a woman has been great enough to hang every- thing on. There is no denying that we want a "happily ever after" in relationships, but we are unwilling to recognize that God can do anything to help us ac- complish our goals. Take enemies for example, most of us want nothing to do with people who seek to make life painful for us. When we turn our backs on God, and disobey Him, He expressed His love for us by sending His son to die for us. Instead of being punished we have the opportunity of enjoying a son's relationship with Him. God seems to be the person most interested in seeing relationships grow more full. Take another look at what Jesus really did inHils relationships. First of all He set some priorities to guide His relations to others. Throughout His minis- try He told people to put God first in their lives and, shortly before He died, while struggling with the decision asked that God's wishes and not lis own be carried out. Jesus also taught that as humians we express our- love to God by giving up our- lives for our friends. Christ also accomplished this when lie died on a cross. Sounds like a crazy way to make relationships work? Jesus has brought.healing to millions of relationships. Certainly lie has a better track record than oui- society has at the present time. Put God fir-st in your life and then give up your time, energy, hopes, and dreams for others as God asks of you. You will be surprised how much the method of Jesus works. Why? Because lie stated, "I have told you this so that your joy may be complete."