Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 102, Number 38, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 21 February 1979 — Page 8

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Nappanee Advance-Newt Wednesday. February 21, 1979

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The choir of the North Main Street Mennonite Church, Nappanee, will sine at their church, Sunday, February 25, in the 9:30 a.m. worship service. The sacred concert entitled "A Love Song" celebrates the love of Jesus in a blend of contemporary and traditional styles. In the last several years the group has sung in more than 30 churches in Indiana, Michigan. Illinois, and Ohio. The 31 member choir joins the North Main congregation in welcoming the public to this worship service.

Missionary Church to host workshops, services

Rev Howard Dunlap, well known pastor and family counselor, will conduct a series of Family Life Renewal workshops Sunday. February 25. through Wednesday. February 28, in Nappanee, On Sunday Rev. Dunlap will speak in the 10:30 a m and the 7:00 p.m services of the Missionary Church. 151 South Locke Street The Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday workshops will be held in the community room of the St. Joseph Valley Bank from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p m There will be a carry-in meal provided

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by those attending. The Monday session is designed especially for couples and singles up through age 35. The Tuesday session is for those age 35 and up. The Wednesday session is for all ages. Following these workshops there will be 7:30 p.m. services held in the Nappanee Missionary Church The church is located across from the bank on Locke street. The church services are for all ages. There is no charge for these workshops or services. A freewill offering will be received during the services. The pastor. Paul W. Loucks. states that all sessions are open to the public.

Pastors meditation. . .

PSALM 79 On a feeling level many of us can identify with this psalm. If a person breaks into our home and ransacks it, we know the feeling of wanting to plea to God that He would direct His rage upon the person. This psalm was probably written after the Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 B.C. Upon seeing the destruction and lack of respect for the dead < v. 2), the feeling of revenge was hot among the Jews. It would be for us, too, if we experienced similar destruction, or even if someone has done us wrong in some way. On a faith level as Christians, we need to remind ourselves that Jesus taught a different way to w alk. He said that we are to pray for our enemies, not against them This is a good test of one s love for God mentioned many times in the letters of Paul and in the Book of Revelation. If we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour, we will pray for our enemies and persecutors and accept our suffering as our cross to bear. Without a doubt this'is hard!

Guest speaker Sunday at First Brethren

The Rev. Arden E. Gilmer. Director of Home Missions for the First Brethren Church, will speak at both the morning and evening services at the Nappanee First Brethren Church, Sunday, February 25. The church is located at the corner of Locke and Walnut Streets. Times for the services are 10:30 a m. and 7:00 p.m. Arden E. Gilmer is the Director of Home Missions, having served the Missionary Board of The Brethren Church since October, 1975. His responsibility is fostering expansion of Home Mission church ministries and serving as resource leader in evangelism and Church Growth throughout the Brethren Church, and heading the new "Church Planting” program adopted by the Missionary Board; their plan being to build ten churches in five years. Gilmer is a graduate of Ashland College and Ashland Theological Seminary, and for seven years prior to this assignment at the Missionary Board, served as pastor of the Pleasant View Brethren Church, Vandergrift, Pennsylvania. During these years his church experienced substantial growth through evangelism, and at the same time developed lay leadership in all phases of the church’s ministries. He has developed and directed the "Layman Alive” program the Brethren Church, following extensive training with Campus Crusade for Christ. He has served as moderator of

ADEC loses three to Cardinal Center

Cardinal Center of Warsaw swept three basketball games from Association for the Disabled in Elkhart County (ADEC) teams last Saturday at Eastwood School in Elkhart. In the first game, featuring the men's team. Cardinal Center won 37-6. Leading scorer for Cardinal Center was James Grubb with 14 points. Brian Dixon scored all six points for ADEC. The second game featured the women’s team and Cardinal Center took a 20-11 victory. Leading for Cardinal Center were Marsha Burke with eight points, and Judy Tustison and Becky Man, each with six points. Leading the ADEC women was Melody Wise with seven points. Mary Quinlan and Donna Springer scored two points apiece. The final game was a/ematch of the men’s teams with Cardinal Center winning again, 26-12. Grubb scored 24

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However, with God, many things are possible. The beauty of God’s grace and love is that we can admit our feelings of angry revenge and with His help we can have a new heart of caring for our enemy. Praying for our enemy means we do more than just sit in our private closets and pray. The New Testament writers assumed that praying leads us to action. Thus, to pray for our enemy is to accept God's leading us to some helpful action towards our enemy. To pray for one who has robbed my home is to follow God’s leading of responding to the person in some helpful way. What an evangelistic tool for us! It certainly is much easier for a criminal to experience God’s love by our responding to the criminal with kindness and concern for his needs rather than striking back with revenge. And experience tends to show that in cases where victims of crime have established a caring relationship with the criminal, the effect is much more powerful than years spent in a cold cell with no one caring. By Gene Hipskind

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of Cardinal Center’s 26 points. Scoring for ADEC were Bob Daniels and Tim Rodino with four points, and Quinton Helmuth and Jim McDaniels with two apiece. McDaniels also blocked three shots. The next games for ADEC will be against Logan Center of South Bend this Saturday at 9:30 a m. at Eastwood School. Slides presented on trip through Europe Mark Blosseer will show his slides of a motorcycle trip through Europe, at the North Main Street Mennonite Church, March 4, at 7:00 p.m. The public is invited to attend.

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The Singing Hueni Family will give a concert at the Living Gospel Church, corner of Elm and Centennial Streets, Nappanee, Sunday, February 25, at 7:30 p.m. The public is invited.

Union Center

Thyra Keiser Mrs. Stanley Pippenger had surgery Monday at the Elkhart General Hospital. Sunday supper guests of the Andrew Masts were the Wayne Schrock family and the Lester Byler family. Mr. and Mrs. Olin Miller and Debra of Shoales were Monday overnight guests of the Homer Millers. The Bethel Mennonite Youth will go to the Bremen Home Sunday to sing for the residents. The Union Center Partnership Class will meet at 7:00 p.m. at the Union Center School with a pizza party at the church afterwards. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Miller visited Mrs. Maude Miller Sunday afternoon. Evangelistic meetings will be held at the Maple Lawn Church by Norman Swartzentruber of Abbeyville, South Carolina February 26 through March 4. Everyone is invited. Callers of the Cephas Yoders over the weekend were the Homer Millers, the Freeman Burkholders, the Fernandas Bontragers, Jay and Paul Yoder. Mrs. Dale Slabaugh had a Quilting Tuesday at her home. Mr. and Mrs. James Reed of Woodland and Mr. and Mrs. Randy Birk of Mishawaka called on Mrs. George Reed, Sr. Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Miller visited Freeman Miller Monday in the Goshen Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Roger Keiser and Dann visited Mr. and Mrs. Phil Keiser of Fort Wayne Saturday. The Union Center Church will have a "Special Council" meeting Sunday evening at 7:00 p.m.

World Day of Prayer to be observed World Day of Prayer will be observed March 2, from 9:30-11 a.m., in the Fellowship Hall at the North Main Street Mennonite Church. All women in the community are invited to participate in this observance. The program is sponsored through the Church Women United, a national organization.

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Obituaries

Claude Johnson Oct. 11,1905 —Feb. 17,1979 Claude (Jack) Johnson, 73, 701 S. Main St., Nappanee, died Saturday, February 17, at his home, after an illness of two years. He was born October 11, 1905 in Bourbon, the son of Harvey W. and Lucy (Miller) Johnson. He married Ruth Leer on January 21, 1931, in Plymouth, and she survives. Mr. Johnson, a veteran of World War 11, was retired from NIPSCO. He was a member of the Nappanee Church of the Brethren, and Nappanee American Legion Post 154. Surviving with Mrs. Johnson are a brother, Hobert Johnson, Tarpon Springs. Florida, and a sister, Mrs. John (Eva Mae) Pippenger, R. 1, Nappanee. Rev. Gene Hipskind conducted services Tuesday morning at the Wright-Yoder Funeral Home. Burial was at Rice Cemetery in Elkhart.

Ruth M. Doyle Mrs. Thomas C. (Ruth M.) Doyle, Sr., 82,127 N. Leßlvd. De La Pix, Park Jefferson Apartments, South Bend, died Monday in her home. She was retired from the Notre Dame Foundation at the University. Mrs. Doyle was born July 23, 18%, in Berwick, Ohio, and moved to South Bend in 1942 from Nappanee after living here 20 years. On May 6, 1922, she married Thomas C. Doyle, Sr.,in Berwick, Ohio. He died October 12, 1951. There are five sons survivingRichard D. Doyle, South Bend, a local State Representative, Rev. Charles E. Doyle, pastor of St. Anne of the Dunes Catholic Church in Beverly Shores, Indiana; Thomas C. Doyle, Jr., of South Bend: John T. Doyle of Indianapolis; and J. Patrick Doyle, Houston, Texas. 16 Grandchildren and three great-grandchildren also survive. Services were held Thursday morning, February 15, in St. Matthew’s Catholic Church, South Bend, with her son. Rev. Charles E. Doyle, officiating, along with the Most Reverend Andrew G. Grutka, D.D., bishop of the Gary diocese. Burial was in St Joseph Valley Memorial Park in Granger.