Weekly Letter from Ron & Mary Kernohan

October 02, 2026

GREETINGS TO ALL!

We come into the month of October and get to see nature in ways that rival the beauties of spring. On Facebook and Instagram, one can see magnificent scenes of trees of reds, golds, oranges, and yellows. Calling up “October scenery” on Google can be a marvellous experience. May you find ways to enjoy these brief weeks of beauty with friends and family, especially with our seniors’ community at Brentview.

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WEEKLY and UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

FITNESS WITH FRIENDS continues to meet each Monday from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. except for statutory holidays. We welcome you to join a community of interested friends who are working together to build a lifestyle of fitness.

Pickleball is on Thursdays at 9:00 am in the church gym as usual. All ages welcome.

DISCOVERY CLASS is at 9:30 am on Sundays in the church gym as usual. Come for a wonderful hymnsing, orchestra led, and a lesson from Scripture!

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PRAYER REQUESTS‍ ‍

• Pray for Rose Martins who is recovering from a fall.

• Pray for Ron Maxwell who is in hospital at this time.

• Pray for Bob and Sheila who are at home but facing a lot of medical challenges. We rejoice that Bob is back from the hospital, but people continue to uphold him in your prayers.

• Pray for: the bereaving, the suddenly single, the shut-ins, the caregivers, the convalescing, and those facing or passing through great challenges.

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Meditation

This month will feature some information about the top hymn writers we get to enjoy Sunday after Sunday. More importantly, their lives point to the fact that these outstanding writers endured much, turning sorrows into joys and laments into praise and prayers.

At various seasons in the Church year, the hymns of Isaac Watts appear. On Remembrance Day, in some churches, “O God, Our Help in Ages Past” is reverently sung, while during Christmastime, “Joy to the World” reverberates throughout the world.

Even as a youth, Isaac Watts had a skill with rhyme and rhythm. Over his lifetime, at least 750 hymns have been attributed to him. Because of his contribution to church music—particularly the singing of hymns that were not mere re-settings of Psalms—he is called “The Father of English Hymnody.”

Even as his hymns are noted for their poetical beauty, they were also profoundly solid theologically, despite the controversy they created. For one of the first times in hymn singing, the singer and the songwriter shared a common condition: “Would He devote that sacred head for such a worm as I?” You may be shocked by the word “worm,” but that was not the controversy. The true shock was the shift to the personal—singing not “we” or “our,” but “I” and “me.” Watts made it remarkably clear: Jesus’ death concerned every single soul on earth. It was my sin that put Jesus on the cross. What a profound revelation that was.

So, as we sing these hymns, may we find in them a way to express our hearts to God: in gratitude for His gifts of grace, in joy for sins forgiven, and in celebration of our lives made new!

Blessings on you all.

…by Paul Miller, 

Ron Kernohan, pastor of Seniors