Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 109, Number 34, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 15 January 1986 — Page 5

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Gospel concent

Pastor's meditation...

Jesus speaks on worry

Read; Matthew6:2s-34 Pastor Dortha Winger Fry Turkey Creek Church of the Brethren What is Christ telling us in these passages of Matthew 6:25-34? What message does He want us to get? Is He saying not to plan for the future, lead a carefree life and never think ahead? No. Jesus is not knocking good common sense, foresight, wise and intelligent planning. No, He is not advocating a shiftless, thriftless, reckless, thoughtless attitude to life. What He is forbidding is a care worn, worried fear which takes all the joy out of life. His opening statement in this Matthew passage is “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life...“( Matthew 6:25a). After six verses illustrating what He means with nature-birds, flowers, fields - He concludes with “Therefore do not be anxious...”( Matthew 6:31 at. One of the most disabling characteristics of a person is worry. No matter what happens there are some people who will always find something about which to worry. Worry saps your energy and strength. Jesus is not talking against a caring concern for life and its people. He is talking about undue worry which debilitates one-wears out one’s soul and body. Worry brings disease to your well being. Worry refuses to learn lessons of life. “We are still alive and our heads are still above water; and yet if someone had told us that we would have to go through what we have actually gone through, we would have said that it was impossible. The lesson of life is that somehow we have been enabled to bear the unbearable and to do the undoable and to pass the breaking point and not to break. The lesson of life is that worry is unnecessary.” (William Barclay) In the same set of circumstances, one person can be absolutely serene and another can be worried to death. Both worry and serenity come, not from circumstances, but from the heart. I am impressed with the Way the Nicaraguan people with whom I lived and worked for two weeks in October 1984, face a real threat to their life. There is not a family that had not suffered. The U.S. backed contras perform terrible atrocities on the youth, women and children of that small country. The people face death and torture, but they rest in the Lord. Their faith is in Christ. So, they live life fully. They weep, laugh, read, study the Scriptures, pray and celebrate each moment of life. They are doing what Christ taught in the last part of this passage. Jesus gives a positive statement on what can be done about worry. Center on God. Get your priorities straight. Take time to rest and observe “Sabbath Time” as Tilden Edwards calls it. Get into the rhythm of life which God started when He rested on the Sabbath. This rhythm of working and resting in God provides peace and strength to carry on life. Harry Emerson Fosdick wrote this poem which I leave with you on which to ponder: O God, in restless living we lose our spirits peace. Calm our unwise confusion, Bid Thou our clamor cease. Let anxious hearts grow quiet Like pools at evening still, Till Thy reflected heavens All our spirits fill. Teach us, beyond our striving the rich rewards of rest. Who does not live serenely is never

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“The Florida Boys” entertain a large crowd during a special concert last Thursday, in the North Wood High School auditorium. The gospel concert also featured “The Carpenter’s Tools”, a popular gospel group from Wakarusa. (AN photo by Ron Reiser)

deeply blest. 0 tranquil, radient Sunlight bring Thou our lives to flower. Less wearied with our effort, More aware of power. Receptive makes our spirits. Our need is to be still; As dawn fades flickering candle so dim our anxious will. Reveal Thy radience through us. Thine ample strength release. Not ours but Thine the triumph in the power of peace. We grow not wise by struggling; we gain but things by strain. We cease to water gardens, when comes Thy plenteous rain. 0 beautify our spirits in restfulness from strife. Enrich our souls in secret with abundant life. (Permission to use the above poem was granted from the Brethren Hymnal, copyright 1951).

Hostetter named to peace delegation

Earl Hochstetter, of New Paris, will depart for Costa Rica and Nicaragua on January 21, 1986, as part of a National Delegation sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation and Witness for Peace. The delegation will assess the impact of U.S. policy in the troubled region and gather first-hand information about the crisis in Central America in order to promote informed public debate and policy making here in the U.S. In both countries, the delegation will meet with a wide variety of church, government, human rights and labor representatives. In addition, in Nicaragua,

Turkey Creek tales...

by tbe Church Mouse The Turkey Creek congregation participated in communion during the morning worship hour January 5. The members went forward and knelt down to partake of the bread and cup, as they prayed for one another. The Women’s Fellowship met January 7, to make home-made noodles and share a carry-in lunch. The Koininia Sunday School Class was served dinner on January 11, at the Methodist Church, by the Come Join Os Class. The group then went to the home of Brad Blosser for dessert, games and fellowship. The youth group went tobogganning at Echo Valley on Sunday, January 12. The congregation has welcomed back members who recently took their winter vacation in FloridaLester, Carolyn, Lynae and Lori Krull, Roy and Ruby Slagle. Pastor Dorotha Fry is spending this week in Florida, visiting with relatives and church members. The Circle-of-Hands organization drew names for the yearly secret prayer pals. You are reminded to think of your secret pal often with prayers and cards. The Turkey Creek Church family has been experiencing a lot of sickness and chicken pox among members. The Church Mouse would like to take this opportunity to hope

Community Center

Mrs. Walter Miller The Active Ladies Club is to meet with Evelyn Mikel Saturday morning, January 18, at 9 am. The scheduled lesson by ■Marialyce Moore is “Eating and Sleeping Out” and the roll call topic is “My Favorite TV Commerical.” Mr. and Mrs. Merl Mikel celebrated their 31st wedding anniversary January 2, with a chicken dinner at the LuAnn Nursing Home where Mr Mikel is a patient. The annual congregational meeting of the Mt. Tabor Church is to be held Sunday, January 19, immediately following a carry-in meal at the noon hour. All members are urged to be present to take part in this important meeting. Nan Appleman was transferred from Bremen Community Hospital to Miller’s Merry Manor, Wakarusa. Bemeice Klotz has been receiving treatment at Elkhart General Hospital.

delegates will participate in the ongoing Witness For Peace, which has maintained a continuous nonviolent presence in the war zones there over the last year and a half. Witness For Peace is a religiouslybased. national organization seeking to end all U.S. support for the counter-revolutionaries who are attempting to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. Witness For Peace is in Nicaragua at the invitation of Nicaraguan church leaders and is not under the auspices or financial sponsorship of any government or political party. The delegation will return to the U.S. on February 8,1986.

everyone gets well soon The Sunday School attendance has been down. The father-son banquets planned for February 1. More details will be announced at a later date.

Union Center...

Thyra Reiser Friday callers of Mrs. George Reed, Sr., were Mrs. Lowell Kuhn, David Reed, James Reed and Mrs Tim Stump. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Miller visited Mr. and Mrs. Cephas Yoder, Sunday afternoon, at the Loving Care Nursing Home, Milford. Friday evening the Bethel Mennonite Church will have its business meeting at the church. Mr. and Mrs. Roger Reiser were among the dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs Donn Kesler, Milford, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ka Rettinger Nathan, Jonathan and Rebecca, Bourbon, and the Frank Reeds, were Sunday afternoon callers of Mrs George Reed, Sr. Mrs. Eileen Mishler is spending some time at the home of her sister, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pletcher.

DID YOU KNOW We will be honoring the Inservice Education Department Jan. 13-17 Miller's Merry Manor, Inc. 300 N. Washington P.O. Box 710 Wakarusa, IN 46573 219-862-4511

Pulpit exchange planned Sunday

Seven Nappanee area churches will cooperate in the celebration of Christian Unity Sunday. January 19, with a pulpit exchange The exchange is part of the annual observance of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, January 18-25, which was begun in the United States in 1908. This year’s theme “You Shall Be My Witnesses” (Acts 1:6-8), reminds all Christians of their individual and corporate responsibility to proclaim the Good News throughout their community and the

1986 WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY

Quartet promotes chamber music

The Deknatel Quartet, a chamber quartet from Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas, will perform Thursday, January 16, at 7:30 p.m., in College Mennonite Church, Goshen College. The quartet’s primary objective is to promote chamber music. Their program will include J.S. Bach's “Lobe den Herren” from Cantata 137, Tocatta in F Major, and “Jauchzet Gott in alien Landen. The quartet will also perform G.F Handel’s “Let the Bright Seraphim” from “Samson”, and Sonata in D Major. G.P. Telemann’s Sonata in G Minor and H. Purcell’s Sonata in D Major are also to be performed. Members of the quartet are Dwight Beckham, trumpet; Donald Kehrberg, Oboe-bassoon; Shirley Sprunger King, organ; and Lorraine

Brethren participate in activities

Members and friends of the Nappanee Church of the Brethren congregation are looking forward to participation in the upcoming Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. A 12-hour prayer vigil has been planned by the church Worship & Music Commission, for Saturday, January 18, from 7a.m.-7p.m. Special week-long activities for the Week of Prayer begin on that day. Church famify members have been asked to set aside at least a 15minute portion of their day for prayer emphasis. Sunday, January 18, Pastor Roy Stem will participate in a pulpit exchange being sponsored by seven area churches. He will speak at the North Main Street Mennonite Church, while Thomas H. Schat tauer from St. John Lutheran Church, will speak at the Church of the Brethren. A Head Start pre-school class is

Elkhart, after spending several days in Elkhart General Hospital last week. Sunday, Union Center will participate in the pulpit exchange to celebrate the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, January 18-25. Rev. John King, from the North Main Street Mennonite Church will be at Union Center, and the Rev. George Snyder will be at the United Methodist Church.

The Reno Gang was the first to hold up a moving train on the night of October 6, 1866. Gang members got on the Ohio and Mississippi line at Seymour, and took $15,000 from the Adams Express man. Two years later, their take in a one-car train robbery at Marshfield in Scott County was $96,000.

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world. Pastor Jay Morris, of the United Methodist Church, and coordinator of the observance, has announced that the following pastors are participating in the exchange: Pastor Brent Farmer, of the First Church of God. will speak at the Brethren In Christ Church; Pastor John King, North Main Street Mennonite, at Union Center Church of the Brethren; Pastor Thomas Schattaur, of St. John Lutheran, at Nappanee Church of the Brethren; Pastor Jay Sisco, Brethren in Christ.

Webb, soprano-flute, Beckham is district coordinator of music instruction and performance for the Newton, Kansas, school system, and a former instructor at Witchita State University, Butler County Community College and Bethel College. Kehrberg is associate professor of music and head of the music department at Bethel College and serves as an advisor to the Kansas Arts Commission. King is associate professor of music at Bethel College and harpsichordist-organist for the Witchita Symphony. She has played solos with the Denver Community Arts Symphony and sung solo parts with the Witchita Camerata Musica. A free-will offering will be taken at the performance.

being held at the Nappanee Church of the Brethren, with two members, Phillies Stern and Sheila Shaw, serving as the teachers. The program is new to Elkhart County, and the church family approved a request from the program’s officials to supply classroom space. There are 15 children enrolled in Nappanee’s class, which meets Monday through Friday, in the morning. In addition, the church facilities also supply meeting places for a weekly Weight Watchers session, Tuesday, and for the local REAL Services program, which operates Monday through Friday. Plans are underway for a new Bible study class to form, beginning Monday, January 20. The group will meet from 6-Bp.m., to study a book of the New Testament. Group sessions will continue through the first of June. Sunday School classes at the Church of the Brethren begin each Sunday morning at 9:30, with the morning worship following at 10:30. Those who are seeking a church home are especially invited to attend. *

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at Nappanee Church of God; Pastor Laurence Smith, United Methodist Church. St. John Lutheran; Pastor George Snyder, Union Center Church of the Brethren, at United Methodist Church, and Pastor Roy Stem, Nappanee Church of the Brethren, at North Main Mennonite. These cooperating churches ask that, during this 1986 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Nappanee Christians pray that Jesus’ prayer “.. that all may be one that the world may believe." (John 17:21) be fulfilled.

Obituaries... tester O. Rep/og/e Nov. 30,1908 - Jan. 7, 1986 Lester 0. Replogle. 77, Mishawaka, died Tuesday. January 7. at the St Joseph’s Medical Center, where he had been a patient for two weeks. Born November 30. 1908, in Elkhart County, he was the son of Marian and Florence Replogle. He had lived in the Elkhart-St. Joseph County area all his life. He married Feme Buss on February 9, 1947, at Nappanee, and she survives. Mr Replogle was an Army veteran and a 1929 graduate of Middlebury High School He had worked as an electrician, and was a member of Madison Twp. Lions Club. Elkhart Moose Lodge No. 599 and AFL-CIO. Surviving with Mrs. Replogle is a sister, Mrs Howard <Leta) Geerts. Phoenix Arizona. Two brothers and a sister preceded him in death The Rev. Robin Laßue. pastor of the First Mennonite Church, Nappanee, conducted services Thursday afternoon, at the Thompson & Yoder Funeral Home. Burial was at Grace Lawn Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer society.

Cora M. Miller April 14,1894 - Jan. 8,1986 Cora M. Miller, 91, 502 E. Centennial St., Nappanee. died Wednesday, January 8, at the LuAnn Nursing Home, where she had been a patient since June 25,1985 Born April 14. 1894, in Nappanee, the daughter of the Emanual Weltys, she was a lifetime resident of Nappanee. She married Atlee F. Miller on February 22, 1921, in Warsaw, and he died May 3,1981. Mrs. Miller was a member of the Nappanee Church of the Brethren, and had worked at the former Uline Manufacturing in Nappanee Surviving are a son, Raymond Miller, Syracuse; three grandsons and two great granddaughters. A brother, Clifford Welty, and two sisters, Hazel Lay and Ruth Thomas, preceded her in death The Rev Roy Stern, pastor of the Church of the Brethren, conducted services Friday morning, at the Thompson & Yoder Funeral Home, with burial at Union Center Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association. Film showrv The Aid Association for Lutherans branch at St. John’s Lutheran Church and St. Paul’s Lutheran PTL, will co-sponsor a movie on Friday, January 24, at 7p.m. The program will take place at St. Paul’s Lutheran School, 605 S. Center St., Bremen The 20-minute film, entitled “The Impact of Television” should help brighten one’s awareness of how to watch television, and how television affects us.

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