Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 51, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 November 1984 — Page 6

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, November 2,1984

Seminar on second marriages INDIANAPOLIS-Roman Catholics marrying for a second time are invited to a special marriage preparation seminar sponsored by the Family Life Office of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. The seminar, “Pre-Cana II,” is scheduled from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. EST on Sunday, Nov. 11, at the Catholic Center, 1400 N. Meridian, Indianapolis. “The conference will focus on topics of particular concern where one or both partners have been married before,” explained Toni Peabody, Family Life Associate Director. Among issues to be covered are: attitudinal carry-overs from previous relationships, healing the past, how to blend families, money in second marriages, Christian marriage and blending religious faiths. Members of the conference team will include two couples in second marriages, a psychologist, a priest and a religious sister. “By the end of the day, we hope those attending will have recognized and reflected on the special challenges they face,” Peabody said. “Also, attendees will have had a chance to share with other couples who already have experienced success in second marriages.” Cost of the pre-Cana conference is sls per couple. Those who wish to register, or desire further information, should contact the Archdiocesan Family Life Office at (317 ) 236-1586.

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SAMPLE BALLOT 1984 GENERAL ELECTION

TO VOTE A STRAIGHT TICKET Vot. for on* only REPUBLICAN TICKET 4 DEMOCRATIC TICKET 8 AMERICAN PARTY TICKET 12 LIBERTARIAN PARTY TICKET 16 PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED BTATEB Voto for on* t**m only RONALD REAGAN GEORGE BUSH Rep 21 WALTER F MONDALE GERALDINE A FERRARO Dam 23 DELMAR DENNIS TRAVES BROWNLEE Amer 25 DAVID BERGLAND JIM LEWIS Lib 27 GOVERNOR AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF INDIANA Vof* for on* t**m only HOBERT D ORR JOHN M. MUTZ Rep 31 W WAYNE TOWNSEND ANN M DeLANEY Derr 33 ROCKLAND R SNYDER SHIRLEY M GEPHART Amer 35 JAMES A RIDENOUR E BENTON TACKITT, 111 Lib 37 ATTORNEY GENERAL Vot* for on* only LINLEYE PEARSON Rep 39 GREG HAHN Dem AO SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION Vot* for on* only HAROLD H NEGLEY Rep A 4 RAY H. SCHEELE Dem 45 LINDA K PATTERSON Amer 46 STEPHEN L DASBACH Lib 47 U.B. REPRESENTATIVE 7th DISTRICT Vot* for on* only JOHN T MYERS Rep 58 ARTHUR E SMITH Dem 59 BARBARA L J BOURLAND Lib 60 STATE REPRESENTATIVE 44th DISTRICT Vot* for on* only JOHN J THOMAS Rep 64 JOHN W TIPTON Dem. 65 COUNTY COURT JUDGE Vot* for on* only SALLY H. GRAY Dem 77 PUTNAM COUNTY AUDITOR Vot* for on* only MYRTLE MARGARET COCKRELL Rep 79 Alfred M. Heavin DEMO... so 0 PUTNAM COUNTY TREASURER Vot* for on* only WILLIAM 0 GRIMES Rep 82 WILMA L. ZIMM9RMAN Dem "*3 PUTNAM COUNTY CORONER Vot* for on* only PALE W OLIVER Rep 85 TYRELLW BITTLES Dem 86

Artist's conception of $368,000 church structure

Russellville Community Church raising funds for new building

The Russellville Community Church (Disciples of Christ and United Church of Christ) has begun a three-year fund-raising campaign to help fund construction of a new church building. Estimated cost of the structure is $368,577 with volunteer labor from the community expected to reduce the overall expense. The campaign now underway has a goal of SIBO,OOO to be pledged over a three-year period. Of this amount, $115,000 must be pledged and paid by the end of next March. Funds already in the church treasury also will be used to help finance construction.

Cloverdale

Nazarene plans

Nov. 6-11 revival

Rev. Barney Richardson will be guest speaker during revival services Nov. 6-11 at the Cloverdale First Church of the Nazarene.

Services will be at 7 p.m. throughout the week, then from 9 a.m. to noon and at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 11. A graduate of Mt. Vernon Nazarene College, Rev. Richardson has preached and served as a concert soloist at numerous events. His appearances have included the general assembly of the Salvation Army, Youth for Christ and district assemblies and conventions.

Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Benedictos of Jersualem met in the Holy Land in 1964 for the first meeting in five centuries between a Roman Catholic Pontiff and an Eastern Orthodox Patriarch.

PUTNAM COUNTY COUNCIL AT LARGE . Vot* for thr** only ROBERT W. EVANS Rep 88 THOMAS S GRAY Rep 89 JACK WALDRON Rep 90 LLOYD M ELLIS Dem 91 KENNETH W. HARRIS Dem 92 ELVINB. SMITH Dem 93 COUNTY COMMISSIONER 1 *t DISTRICT Vot* for on* only GENE fl BECK Rep 96 DICK 0. REED Dem 97 COUNTY COMMISSIONER 3rd DISTRICT Vot* for on* only DONALD K. WALTON Rep 100 LLOYD M. ELLIS Dem 101 AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF INDIANA Vot* for on* only SHALL THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF INDIANA BE AMENDED BY REMOVING OR RESTATING CERTAIN ANTIOUATED LANGUAGE OR PROVISIONS TO REFLECT TODAY'S CONDITIONS, PRACTICES OR REQUIREMENTS? YES 194 NO 195 AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF INDIANA Vot* for on* only SHALL ARTICLE 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF INDIANA BE AMENDED TO CLARIFY AND UPDATE PROVISIONS CONCERNING LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS AND THEIR ELECTORS? YES 202 NO 203 SUPREME COURT OF INDIANA Vot* for on* only SHALL JUSTICE RICHARD M. GIVAN BE RETAINED IN OFFICE? YES 212 NO 213 COURT OF APPEALB 11t DISTRICT Vot* for on* only SHALL JUSTICE JONATHAN J. ROBERTSON BE RETAINED IN OFFICE? YES 217 NO 218 COURT OF APPEALS 4th DISTRICT Vot* for on* only SHALL JUSTICE WILLIAM G CONOVER BE RETAINED IN OFFICE? YES 223 NO 224 Paid Pol. Ad. Paid for by Alfred M. Heavin

Pledges will be submitted and the total announced during a church dinner on Sunday, Nov. 4. As planned, the new church building will be a one-level structure whose main entrance will face the school parking lot. The sanctuary will seat between 220 and 250 and a fellowship hall will seat 140 to 150 with adequate space for recreation and church or community activities. A nursery for babies and small children will feature a window looking into the sanctuary and a sound system so those working in the nursery will be able to see and hear worship services.

The Singing Scamps of the Christian Campus Ministry, Terre Haute, will present a concert of contemporary praise music, traditional hymns and gospel songs Sun-

Rev. Goodrich to be guest at Bainbridge Christian

Howard B. Goodrich Jr., Regional Minister of the Christian Church in Indiana (Disciples of Christ), will be guest minister Sunday, Nov. 4, at the Bainbridge Christian Church. His sermon will highlight an important event in the life of the congregation, keynoting an emphasis on growth in spirit, growth in self, growth in service and growth in Christ.

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day, Nov. 4, at First Baptist Church in Greencastle. The 7 p.m. program is free and open to the public. A free-will offering will be taken.

The week of Nov. 4-11 will focus on personal stewardship for Christ During this week of stewardship emphasis, preparation has been made through the Stewardship Committee, chaired by Wil Maddox, to give important consideration toward each individual’s growth in a commitment to Christ. Continuing the stewardship emphasis on

church

Faith Assembly likely to endure in spite of Freeman's prosecution

WARSAW, Ind. (AP) - A theology professor says the prosecution of Faith Assembly founder Hobart E. Freeman probably will not weaken the religious resolve among members of the secretive faith-healing sect even if Freeman is convicted and sentenced. Professor John J. Davis said the church is tightly organized around members of Freeman’s family who could assume the mantle of his leadership in his absence. Davis teaches at Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake and is one of the few persons outside the church to have talked with Freeman at length. Son-in-law Steven Hill is among the family members holding key leadership positions, he said. “They already function from the pulpit,” he said. “I rather imagine it would

growth, the General Board of the Bainbridge congregation will meet with C. Thomas Steiner, minister of First Christian Church in Greencastle, at 6 p.m. Sunday for dinner at the Double Decker Restaurant. On the following Sunday, Nov. 11, Rev. Steiner will be guest minister for the morning worship service at 10:45 a.m. Bainbridge Christian will celebrate that morning with a Service Consecration. Following the service, a Victory Luncheon will be served in the church basement.

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continue, probably not with the same depth and stature it has under his leadership. “I don’t think it would collapse,” he continued. “If anything, it would deepen the commitment of some members who see this as a serious persecution.” Davis interviewed the reclusive minister in 1983 for a series of articles on the church and Freeman’s leadership. Freeman has since refused to meet with Davis or answer reporters questions about his radical dogma of faith healing. A Kosciusko County grand jury last month indicted 64-year-old Freeman on charges related to the death of a 15-year-old Pamela M. Menne from untreated chronic kidney failure. The grand jury also indicted the girls’ parents, James Menne, 37, and his wife, lone Menne, 44, of rural Warsaw. “I really doubt if any of this is going to make any substantive difference in his theology,” Davis said. Davis, a former seminary student of Freeman, said Freeman’s beliefs are “unnegotiable.” Freeman teaches members to spurn conventional medical treatment for illness and to rely instead on prayer. Believers who use medicine, or who even wear prescription glasses or hearing aids, supposedly lack faith in what he says is God’s biblical promise to heal the sick. The Mennes followed those teachings and withheld medical care from their daughter, causing her death, Prosecutor Michael Miner said. The Mennes were each charged with reckless homicide, criminal recklessness and neglect of a dependent. Freeman was charged with three counts of aiding and inducing the alleged crimes charged against the Mennes. Attorney General Linley E. Pearson agreed criminal prosecution may have little effect on the faith-healing practices of church members. But he said authorities have no alternatives to prosecution. “It’s never the best (way), but in this case it may be the only way when the child dies,” he said. “What else are you going to do? Are you just going to let it happen? ” Pearson supported an unsuccessful attempt by the 1984 General Assembly to modify a child neglect law that allows parents to substitute prayer for medicine in the “legitimate practice” of religious beliefs. Davis said the charges against Freeman and the Mennes, and the earlier convictions of two Indiana Faith Assembly couples on charges of reckless homicide and child neglect, are signs of frustration within the communities. “Some are thinking maybe if we punish some of them, the rest of them will fall into line,” he said. “That’s terribly naive.” The sect’s faith healing practices have been linked to more than 90 preventable deaths, including those of infants and pregnant women