From the Pastor’s Desk – Sep 30 2017

“We welcome you warmly to the Bronte Church family for another enriching day of study, worship, and fellowship. Today we celebrate our women and their many roles in ministry, service, and care. I recall an English teacher demonstrating the use of punctuation when referring to a lady when he wrote: “Woman, without her man, is nothing” and then rewrote, “Woman: without her, man is nothing.” I believe our women who are mothers, wives, workers, homemakers, and in their countless roles, deserve to be honoured, valued, respected, and celebrated. We often don’t realize how much strength and stamina a woman has in the doing their tasks, taking on responsibilities and their loving duties. I always admire my mother, an incredible woman of character, strength, and purpose. She knows how to multi-task and juggle so much work and yet be successful and also make time to be there for my family and I. I believe when God created woman, he endowed her with an extra-special capacity to bear much (let alone bearing a child) so it seems to me that this is a gift from God. Is it any wonder Jesus had to remark, “woman, great is thy faith” (Matthew 15:28) and then also say “wherever this gospel shall be preached in all the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman has done, be told for a memorial of her” (Matthew 26:13). What a woman, Jesus says! If our Lord regards woman with such dignity and honour, I know we should only exclaim the same thing. Thank God for our woman of God!”

— Pastor Daniel D. Saugh