Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 127, Number 41, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 7 October 2004 — Page 4

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• Advance News • Thursday, October 7, 2004

Church Briefs K.W. Kids First Church of God, CR 7 and CR 54. Nappanee. invites children to F.W. Kids where fun and friends come together! The church is beginning a new mid-week program for kids age 3 through fourth grade. Every Wednesday between 6:45 and 8:15 p.m., the group will sing songs, play teamwork-building games, create special projects and explore Bible stories in wild and wacky ways. A kick-off fiesta will be held Wednesday. Oct. 13 at 6:45 p.m. Parents and kids can come and find out more information about F.W. Kids, register for the program, enjoy snacks and have some fun. For more information, call 773-7743. Harvest Meeting The Turkey Creek Church of the Brethren. 72906 CR 13, Nappanee. will be holding their annual Harvest Meeting on Friday. Oct. 15 at 6:30 p.m. The Scott Arnold & Christian Center Praise Singers will perform. A cany-in supper will follow the program. For more information, call Ruby at 773-33%. Holiday Bazaar The New Paris Church of the Brethren, located at the comer of Fourth and. Division Streets. New Paris, will be holding a Holiday Bazaar. Saturday. Oct. 23. The bazaar begins at 10 a.m. with a Youth Slave Auction at 5 p.m. A hog roast is also planned from 5 to 7 p.m. The bazaar will feature homemade baked goodies, holiday decorations and handcrafted items. There will also be face painting and entertainment. All proceeds will benefit needy families and mission activities. Day Care Openings Union Center Day Care currently has openings in 2-5 year-old classes. The day care is also accepting applications. For more information contact. 773-2221

Letter to the editor

Dear Editor, I want to personally thank Mr. Dwayne Borkholder of Borkholder Companies-Borkholder Furniture, Dutch Village, and Building Supply- for his support of the Nappanee Apple Festival and its Laser Light Show. The show was a highlight of the Festival weekend. 1 also want to thank Steve Wagner of LJ Wagner Home Interiors for his support of the Nappanee Apple Festival Laser Light Show. These two businesses contributed a major portion of the funding so that the festival could bring this exciting entertainment to our community. In addition, I want to thank all of the Wings and Wheels, at the airport, raffle sponsors, and the pilots and other volunteers that made the event successful. A total of 111 young eagles (children ages 8-18) were given free airplane rides the afternoon of Saturday, Sept. 18. Fifty-four beautiful cars, trucks, and motorcycles were part of the airport event. Our committee and volunteers deserve a hearty “thank-you” for their hard work. ' 1 can hardly wait till next year. Mike Sheetz Edward Jones Wings and Wheels event chairman Ball State announces dean’s list Nicole Miller and Caleb Schafer of Nappanee have recently been named to the 2004 summer semester dean's list at ball State University. Students on this list have earned at least a 3.5 grade point average on a 4.0 scale, while enrolled for at least nine credit hours.

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Anew definition for ‘rich’

It happened. I'm embarrassed to say that Jeff and I got sucked into the new show. "Wife Swap." Just last week, we were making fun of the show and those who watch it, plus, declaring we would never be caught dead watching that kind of trash. Well, that high and mighty attitude ended last night. I was innocently working on my computer, when Jeff came in and announced that "Wife Swap” was on. I asked. Are you sucked in?” He answered, “yes,” and proceeded to fill me in on the first 20 minutes of the show. For some reason. I had to follow him into the family room and check out the remainder of the show. I did expect to see conflict and screaming matches carefully orchestrated to please the mass audience. What I didn't expect was to team a lesson. But I did. In this episode, a wife from a “rich" family in Manhattan was placed with a “hillbilly” family in rural New Jersey. The "hillbilly" mother went to live with the family in New York City. The country bumpkin mother was immediately horrified to find out that in the “rich" family there were two nannies hired to take care of three children (two of which were in school all day). The mother didn’t work, exercised three hours a day and shopped for four hours - every day. The father had a high-powered job, drove a Porsche and saw his children one hour each day. On the flip side, the city mother was horrified to leant that she was expected work as a wood splitter, that housecleaning was part of her wifely duties and that her new husband supported a far more traditional viewpoint of marriage. Then came the strange twist to the show. The visiting mother was allowed to make up a few new ground rules for her new family while she was there. The country mother chose to dismiss the nannies and require the husband to be home by 6:30 p.m. to eat one meal with his family. He was also asked to read his children a bedtime story. This father acted like this was a chore. He came home once for dinner, then went back to work an hour later. The next evening he didn’t come home at all, but instead, went to work out. All the time his children were waiting at home for a bedtime story. The “rich" mother chose to require her traditional husband to help with the wood-splitting business and perform all the “wifely" duties for the household. At first he was furious, then something beautiful happened. The husband realized how much his wife worked each day, how good of a marriage he had and how empty he felt without her. He realized that he was the one who was truly “rich," and he didn't even know it. And trust me, his wife found out how “rich" she was, too, after spending time with the other husband who thought he truly had it all, but didn’t have a thing. The weird thing about this whole story is that earlier on the same evening of this show, my son blurted out a strange question. Out of the blue Cooper asked, “Mom,

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are we rich?” This was obviously a time during my parenting career that 1 could have dismissed the question, or I could make it a teachable moment. Fortunately, this time, 1 chose the latter. I responded to him with a question, “What do you mean by rich?” He responded. “Do we have a lot of money?"

I told Cooper that when it came to money, we were right in the middle. But in other things, we were rich. We were rich with love, rich in family and rich with God. I could see the wheels turning in his head. Now. I admit that I’m just like everybody else gnd there have been times when I questioned our decision to have me stay home for five years - especially when we couldn’t pay the bills. I gave up a big paycheck, a “high-powered” job and notoriety. Plus, I want things, lots of things. I want a new car, I want a trip to the Caribbean and I want a massage treatment every week. But. it’s just not going to happen - not with our plan. So, did I tell Cooper the truth? Is he rich? Let’s see. He has two parents who still love each other, and even like being around each other. Those same parents chose to leave jobs in the city to move their family to a community w ith high morals and low crime. His house is twice the size as it was in Minneapolis, because we moved out of the big city. He has a huge yard at the end of a dead-end street where he can ride his bike safely. He even has neighbors who passed down unused playground equipment, so he and his brother could enjoy it. He lives in an area with libraries better than downtown Indianapolis. He will attend a school system with new schools, high team spirit and teachers that care. And he’ll grow up in a community where service and volunteerism is commonplace. He attends church regularly. He leaves the house each day with God’s Laws “tied on his finger.” And he's so familiar with Jesus Christ that he thinks he’s a guy that hangs around our house all the time, but we just can’t see him. So, just like many years ago when Virginia was told that there was a Santa Claus. Cooper, I tell you now, you are rich - truly, truly rich.

Nappanee United Methodist Church launches new campaign

NAPPANEE Fourteen thousand churches in America and 40 other nations have participated in "40 Days of Purpose,” the spiritual growth campaign launched by one of America’s largest churches, Saddleback Church, two years ago. This fall, hundreds of those churches will take step two in what Saddleback Church founding pastor Rick Warren is calling a “trilogy of campaigns” designed to move churches into implementing God’s five purposes in the world. Warren, author of the best-selling book, “The Purpose-Driven Life,” calls/this follow-up campaign, “40 Days of Community.” The Nappanee United Methodist Church is making plans to participate in the campaign that begins Oct. 9 and runs through Nov. 21. Warren said 40 Days of Community moves people from focusing on God’s purposes in their personal lives “What on earth am I here for?” to focusing on God’s purposes in their church and community “What on earth are WE here for?” “The campaign will water the seeds of the purposes that were planted in people’s lives, through 40 Days

Wandering Wa-Nee By Stephanie Middaugh

(!) daysoT community of Purpose,” Warren said. “It’s a necessary step for maintaining healthy, balanced, purpose-driven lives. “The primary focus of this campaign is on fulfilling God’s five purposes together by deepening the sense of community within the church and reaching out to the community around the church.” The Nappanee United Methodist Church will kick-off this campaign at 9 a.m. on Oct. 9. Before you were bom God chose you to be a difference-maker, and to make an impact for good with your life. He has a purpose for you in His community. Are you willing to take the next step in growing a life of purposes and meaning? For more information about this campaign, contact the church office at 773-4183. Small groups are being formed now. Don't miss this exciting opportunity!

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ADVANCE NEWS PHOTO STEPHANIE MIDDAUGH Doctor Robert and Betty Abel were name "Hometown Heroes' at the Wakarusa Business and Community Appreciation Banquet was held Sept. 20.

Abels named ‘Hometow n Heroes’

By Nadine Lengacher Special to the Advance News WAKARUSA The Wakarusa Business and Community Appreciation Banquet was held Sept. 20. At that time, this year’s “Hometown Heroes,” Dr. Robert and Betty Abel, were honored. Tonight we honor two very special people two who have impacted the Wa-Nee Community for well over 50 years. Two who never want recognition, but two who so richly deserve to be honored! Dr. Robert and Betty Abel. I want to begin with Betty! Betty was a nurse until she became a fulltime mom to four children - Nancy. Bob, Sandy and Mike. She on many occasions was both mom and dad to those four because of Doc’s long hours away from the home. Betty’s life has had more disruptions than anyone I know. How many of us would sound so gracious when awakened at all hours of the night, many nights more than once? 1 remember calling for help when both Jack and I and the four toys all hacj the stomach flu and our daughter was only a few months old. Doc came out and upon arriving back home, he called to see if we wanted Betty to take our daughter - she had offered to help us out even with children of her own to care for. She is a very devoted grandma to seven lovely grandchildren. ’ Her home has always been open to her children’s friends, and now to her grandchildren’s friends. She’s done lots of entertaining on the spur of the moment and has sat through many banquets and awards programs. Betty, tonight is your night. A chance for the community to say thank you for all that you’ve done. A chance to recognize you for the wonderful person that you are. A chance to say, “Betty, you are truly our

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Hometown Hero!" The other honoree is Dr. Bob. How can .he Wa-Nee Community ever repay you for all that you have done for all of us? You have given countless hours in service to the >. immunity, not only medically, but as school board member. 4-H director, chamber director, medical director for Millers Merry Manor and Assisted Living, board director at seve.ul colleges, business owner, sports team doctor and the list goes on and on. Plus, you're still a husband, father, grandfal ar and friend to all. When Jack and I moved here in 1%5 from the small (own of Leo, we were expecting Wakarusa to be like any other small lown. Then we met Doc and Betty and realized how unique Wakarusa really was. Where else in Smalltown USA do you find a team like Doc and Betty? Where we grew up, the doctor was in from 9to 5 period!! We were in awe that there was a doctor who would ac. sally come to your home when you were so sick you felt you were dying! There was also the time in the blizzard of ‘7B when we were snowed in with our five children and my sisters three children. Jack called to see what he could give me as I had come down with the flu. Doc had m> brother bring him out on his snowmobile and being always one step ahead Doc brought us three gallons of milk. He figured we'd need it with eight kids under our roof for who knows how long! This is only the tip of the iceberg as to all he has done for not just us. but for all of you and many others. He has sacrificed so much to be the servant that he is and we're so grateful to be a part of a community that has Dr. Roo„rt Abel in it! Doc, we salute you as our Hometown Hero!