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On March 20, 2011 the Aylmer Christian Reformed Church congregation will be asked to vote on extending a call to Rev. Dirk Miedema. An 80% majority will be required. Signed proxy votes will be accepted by the clerk anytime before March 20, 2011. The Senior Pastor Search Committee is unanimous in their recommendation and is confident that Rev. Miedema has the strengths in ministry that match the priorities set by our congregation. Please pray that God’s will be done as we seek His leading and guiding.

On Tuesday, March 15, 2011 an informal evening is planned by the Senior Pastor Search Committee to give everyone an opportunity to meet Rev. Miedema and his wife, Grace. The evening is being held in the Fellowship Hall of the church. There will be desserts and refreshments available at 7:00pm with an introduction and time for questions and answers with Rev. Miedema and Grace starting at 7:30pm. Following this, at around 8:30pm, the evening will close with a time of fellowship for those who want to stay to finish off the refreshments and desserts. We encourage everyone, teenagers to seniors, to try to make it out, especially if you have any questions.

Derrick Drover gave the message to a large group of young people and old people. Derrick challenged all of us (ordinary though we be) to be open to be powerfully used by God to do His work.

After the service we all had an excellent opportunity to celebrate our oneness in Christ by sharing together hot soup and buns. A big thanks to the many, many individuals who pitched in, in so many various ways, to make the entire service and supper run so smoothly.

You can listen to Derrick’s message by clicking here or by viewing the Sermon Archives

Read more about Derrick on his website

“Greetings, brothers and sisters in Christ. My wife Debora and I and our three girls (Lexa, Paige, Erin) arrived safely on June 5th and received a warm Aylmer welcome. We look forward to serving you and worshiping with you this summer. Even after a few days, we have been blessed by the body of Christ here and we thank you for that. A special thanks to the Board of Administration for putting us up in a “sweet” house in the country. It will be difficult to go back to Grand Rapids in the fall! Email: jmoelke5@calvinseminary.edu. God’s blessings, John, Debora, Lexa, Paige & Erin”

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Yesterday was Rev. deLange’s last Sunday to preach the word as the senior pastor of Aylmer Christian Reformed Church.

We wish Rev. deLange and his family God’s Blessings as he begins his new position shepherding Trinity Christian Reformed Church in Edmonton, Alberta. It certainly is difficult to part ways, and Rev. deLange’s passion for his work will certainly be missed.

Below are a couple of brief last comments from Rev. deLange

“Dear Aylmer Congregation,

It’s been a great decade among you. Today was a wonderful end to a wonderful time here. Thank you for everything, including the beautiful clock we were presented this morning!

Thank you for your partnership in ministry…

God bless you all.

There a few pictures of the day attached.

We love you all!

–Pastor Rich & Patsy deLange

Adrian deLange is in the youth ministry and theology program at Dordt College. Adrian would like to thank Rev. Norman Jones for providing some assistance in completing his message.

We love you. Aylmer CRC has been so good to us for the past 9 ½ years. We offer our sincerest thanks for your love and thank you for the ways you have forgiven us for our failings. We praise God from whom all blessings flow for we have surely felt a steady flow of love—encouragement, cards, gifts, visits, support, time away, hugs and prayers. We have felt God’s grace through the trials and experienced the power of your prayers. We are thankful to have been part of this church for the past decade. I’ve enjoyed great cooperation and fun with all of the staff and council over the years (Phil. 1:5).

As we prepare to leave Aylmer, I want to encourage you to continue to love one another deeply (1 Peter 1:22). Our mutual love for the Lord is bigger than any of our personal issues or problems. Life is too short to hold grudges and our place in the body of believers is too important to waste time alienated from one another or alienating one another. The body of Christ is diverse but united in Him. She is beautiful in her diversity (1 Cor.12). This church—and every other one—has growing pains. But better to have the growing pains than to have no growth.

I have grown through struggles in the past decade, grown to see how great God’s grace is (2 Cor.12:9). I’m thankful to God for His providence and grace. As we leave Aylmer, it is part of God’s plan for you to seek a new pastor. He may be very different from me. He may have some similarities. Whoever he is, remember that God sent him to you. Love him and his family as you have loved us.

Carry on the vision you have adopted. Support one another in fulfilling it. Love your neighbours as yourself. Show them the love of Christ. Let the community see how much this congregation loves Jesus and each other so that they want to know Jesus and be a part of this church (Mt. 5:16).

We are on the brink of a new year, the beginning of a new decade. Does it seem like ten years already since we were being warned about the potential problems with Y2K? Time goes quickly. But our time is in God’s hands. You can count on that. No matter where we live, we are united in Christ and continue to be part of His growing family.

Thank you once again for being such a blessing to our family in the formative years of most of our children. It has been a good thing to be part of this covenant community. We thank God for all you’ve done to shape us and our children into what God is calling us to be. Aylmer will always hold a special place in our hearts. God bless you!!

The deLanges—Pastor Rich, Patsy, Rachel, Adrian, Erik & Jessica

PS If you come to Edmonton, stop in for a visit.

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Twenty three individuals did one or more of the rides with an average of 10-11 participants each time. The ages of the riders ranged all the way from fourteen to seventy eight. Many of the participants began the season with limited previous riding experience. Most had never journeyed the average 32 km. distance in one sitting before and were somewhat apprehensive, not to mention intimidated by the prospect. By season’s end, however, that distance was “just the norm.”

While an interest in cycling may have been the initial, prime motivator to join in the rides, fellowship with each other quickly became a huge part of the experience as well. Riding and talking together with people that you don’t necessarily “hang out with” on a regular basis, provides a wonderful venue for new relationship building. Throw in a breakfast at the halfway point, where you can pray, talk and eat together over a meal that includes a mixture of eggs, egg casseroles, bacon, toast, hashbrowns, muffins, pancakes, coffee, juice, etc., and you’ve got the makings of a warm, family type atmosphere.

Of the twelve cycling “outings” this past season, eight breakfasts were hosted by members of the congregation, many who were not participants in the rides themselves but were very willing to open their homes and share a meal with us. A BIG thank you goes out to Harry and Hilda Broer, Wilf and Joanne Saarloos, Dave and Leslie VandenBrink, Chris and Al Helder, Kor and Lia Smit, Rev. and Patsy deLange, Tesse and Alice Kuipers at Port Bruce Manor (Ted was too busy cycling with us to help cook), and Corry and Kor VanTil for being such generous and gracious hosts.

Three of the trips, including two to London to ride on the cycling paths along the Thames to enjoy the fall colours, saw us head to Tim Hortons that just “happened to be” at the halfway point of our journeys. For the remaining cycling journery, the 54 km. trip to Wildwood on the July long weekend, a cooler full of drinks and snacks more than amply sufficed our needs at the “pit stops” along the way. (Thanks to Herman Bremer for driving with us and being our ride back home).

What about next year? Just listening to the cyclists themselves, most of them are already talking about next season, and perhaps even participating in a fundraising cause as a group. Two possibilities in that regard, cycling the astoundingly beautiful path along the Niagara River, as well as doing the “Ride For Refugees” north of London, have been mentioned as possibilities to consider. From that, it would appear that the cycling bug has not only “caught” but is here to stay, at least for a while yet. If the truth be told, that is just fine by me.

Pastor Bosma

The year 2009 marks 500 years since the birth of John Calvin. Calvin’s writings were extremely influential in developing the doctrine of the Reformed Christian Faith that churches such as the Christian Reformed Church and Presbyterian Church use today.

Sermons by three different pastors at Aylmer Christian Reformed Church were recently preached to contemplate on a small amount of John Calvin’s teachings. The first sermon was preached by Rev. deLange, Aylmer CRC Pastor, on November 1, 2009. The second sermon was preached by Rev. Norman Visser, Ingersoll CRC Pastor, on November 8, 2009. The final sermon was preached by Rev. Bob Loerts, Covenant Woodstock CRC Pastor, on November 15, 2009. They can be downloaded and listened to below, or on the Sermon Archive page.

Picture sourced from Wikipedia.