EnRicher November 2022

Volume 25 Issue 5

November 2022

Spooktacular Day in Richer

Between a kids Halloween gathering earlier in the day and a Halloween social later in the evening, this past Saturday was a busy one for the community. Thanks to all the groups who came together to put on and sponsor the day! It was a spooktacular day!

Zamboni Building Takes Shape The construction on the Zamboni and ice maintenance storage building is coming along in the Dawson Trail Park.

The Richer Community Club would like to thanks Gerry from Crosscut Solutions for taking on the project and Bob Laurin for the concrete work. Additionally, special thanks goes out to the dedicated volunteers who stepped up to get the work done!

Discover Our Past.

Dawson Trail Museum Celebrating Our Past.

Museum Thanks Volunteers Thank you to all who participated at our October 13th, annual AGM meeting at the museum at 1 pm. In recognition of the year’s success, we celebrated our volunteers with a Wine & Cheese.

Dawson Trail Museum 50/50 Winner Announced Congratulations to Olive Perreault from Ste Anne with the winning 50/50 ticket # 1621 for a sum of $3,000. We thank everyone who participated in purchasing tickets. We are all winners in supporting the Dawson Trail Museum as all proceeds go towards the maintenance of the facility.

2022 Museum Summer Project We thank Canada Community Revitalization Fund for their contribution towards the restoration of the front doorsteps, sidewalk partly replaced on the east side of the museum, concrete pad and a roofed pergola will house the Red River Cart which was contributed by the Richer Community Club. We are aiming to complete this project by mid-November. Thanks to Abel Bourgouin Construction for taking on this project.

MARK YOUR

CALENDAR!

The Dawson Trail Museum committee will hold our monthly meeting on Tuesday, November 8 at 7 pm at the Richer LUD Hall. There will be no meeting in December and January.

Richer Community Club meeting...

Nov 9, 7:30 pm at the LUD Hall.

DON’T FORGET...

Monday Night Bingos & Saturday Chase the Ace

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Christmas Craft Sale On November 19, the Ste Anne Lions Club will hold a Christmas Craft Sale at the Ste Anne Pointe- desChenes school from 10 am to 4 pm. The Dawson Trail Museum will be selling Hoodies, T-shirts with their logo and host a 50/50 draw during the sale. Hope to see you there.

Dinner and Dance...

Richer Young at Heart Club Dinner and Dance Saturday, Nov 19 with live music.

Cost is $25 per person and dinner is at 6 pm. Music till 11 pm. Call Ron @ 431 275 0874 for tickets.

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New Exhibit Up in Park

Next time you visit the Dawson Trail Park you can take a look at the new artistic exhibit on display.

The creation is a result of hard work by the Dawson Trail Arts & Heritage Committee with partial financial support of the Richer Community Club.

Local artists created the two sided piece representing the history of the region.

From The Pastor’s Desk...

Joy in Presence

By Pastor Ben Funk

Summer is gone, and fall is also almost gone, and we face the dreaded cold season and less sunlight. In some of our lives we become affected by the lack of sunlight. If you are one of those persons, you may be a person who struggles with joy in your life? Many of us seem to have difficulty in understanding the difference between joy and happiness. In the absence of either one there surfaces an environment that saps those qualities from us. How can we identify either and how can we retain happiness and joy in our lives. In short happiness is based on happenings in our lives. When those happenings are not present we return to our lives of maybe mediocrity. We might ask, what is joy, and maybe even, how do we define joy? We may even ask, how do we get joy? How is joy different from happiness? Walter Wangerin writes on the issues of faith and spirituality.

The difference between shallow happiness and a deep sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives happiness dies. It can’t stand pain. Joy on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. I do not mean to become philosophical. The Greek word for joy is “chara” and the Greek word for grace is “charis”. We see the close association of these two words help us to understand that joy is the ability to take good cheer from the gospel, rejoicing in one’s eternal identity in Jesus. It is the grace of God that brings us into a right relationship with God and establishes our identity in Jesus. The dispensing of His grace in our lives is what gives us great joy. It is amazing when joy becomes resident in our hearts and lives it is amazing how we can be liberated and liberating to those around us. When difficulty wants to set in it cannot remain because joy and grace are both present. As we get closer into the season of celebration let’s remember that sorrow may be there in the evening, but joy will be there in the morning.

Let’s all receive God’s grace and His joy in our heart.

Grace and joy to you from Richer Fellowship Church. 50 Southeast Drive in Richer. Where seekers are welcome.