The Mail-Journal, Volume 22, Number 1, Milford, Kosciusko County, 2 January 1985 — Page 14

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., January 2, 1985

At Zion Chapel — Mosciline Deaton has been a teacher for over 60 years

By JO STURGIS Staff Writer A young man recently asked Mosciline Deaton of Syracuse, “How many summers have you lived?” while she was eating in a local restaurant. It is easy to see why the man would ask Mrs. Deaton such a thing after talking with her. ■ K. ■ Mrs. Deaton is a spry 83-year-old, despite her recent bout with sickness and an extended stay in the hospital. . She hasJgflTa member of the Zion Chapel United Brethren cflth at the corner of Syracuse-Webster road and all her life. She hasn’t just been a member, eiWer; she has been an active participator in the church’s activities. Don Ross is now serving as the pastor at the church. Through-out the years, Mrs. Deaton has served as a Sunday School teacher for over 60 years. She said she mostly taught the “little folks” and enjoyed them the most. She has also served as the church secretary and started playing the piano in the church at age 10. She retired from playing the piano in 1980. At that time her grahddaughter, Robin McCaula, took her placet the keys. Mrs. Deaton said it-would have been unbearable to give up playing the piano to anyone except her granddaughter. Her other activities have included serving as church librarian and on a host of committees. Mrs. Deaton is the oldest member of the church and said only a very few of the original families are left. “The congregation is completely new.” The church hasn’t really grown that much, though. Mrs. Deaton said they have added a few classrooms and remodeled, but that has been about the extent of the changes. Mrs. Deaton doesn’t think the church has changed

Baldwins report from Africa

A letter was recently received from Chuck and Debby Baldwin and their daughter, Julie, who are serving with United World Mission in West Africa. The Baldwins are originally from Syracuse. The letter reads as follows: [ “Life is fragile — handle it with prayer . It was a Friday night. Chuck had gone to bed early with an annoying head cold. Julie was asleep, too. I sat at my desk with the Mali Field’s financial books opened. As I stared out the window, I saw Greg’s pickup pull up in front of our nurse Shirley’s house. I saw someone set a lantern on her front porch. And I could see several youngsters in that dim light . When I heard Mary’s Honda 90 putting around, I realized someone was sick. I took our flashlight and headed down to see what the commotion was all about. Both nurses, Mary and Shirley, and five of the boys from the Boys’ School were standing over their little friend, Sambu. Sambu had fallen six hours earlier and hit his abdominal area on a cement bench. He had lain in his hut all afternoon in pain before anyone came to get a nurse. By 9 p.m., Sambu was dead. Perhaps a punctured spleen fr&m a b&ken rib caused the internal bleeding which killed him. Later, at 11 p.m, that night, we heard our group of pastors heading toward the graveyard behind the mission property. singing said it all. “Yesu sara, Yesu sara, an Matigi don. . Yesu kunuwa. .” (Jesus

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very much, either. “What is it we have that doesn’t change at all? But it is just like everything else,” she said. Mrs. Deaton’s life has always been very full and busy. She was on television for nine and a half years as a homemaker. The Syracuse Home Ec Club was organized in her home. She owns the House of Friendship, across the street from the church, and the home ec meetings used to beheld here. She and her father went to school in thehouse and she met her husband, Sherman, there when he taught her in school. Home for Mrs. Deaton has been in the same location all her life, also. She was born at home and in 1922, her mother, husband and she tore down the original home almost completely and built a new home. Now, she lives in the home with her son, Bud Watkins and his wife, Edith. Mrs. Deaton said, “I’ve never known anything else than to live with family and I wouldn’t have it any other way." When asked about an outstanding event that has happened at the church, Mrs. Deaton answered, “Everything that has happened at the church has been outstanding to me.” After a little more thought, Mrs. Deaton said her granddaughter’s wedding was one of the most outstanding things, she remembers. Her granddaughter, Robin, married another member of the church, Larry McCaula. Mrs. Deaton played the piano for their wedding. The only thing that worried Mrs. Deaton was whether she could keep from crying enough to play. “This community has been my life,” summed Mrs. Deaton. As for the future Mrs. Deaton said, “Whatever the Lord wants me to do, I want him to tell me and I will do it. I don’t plan on just sitting around, I want him to tell me. I don’t know exactly what it will be yet, but I'm sure I will.”

died. Jesus was raised. He is our Saviour.) Death is so uncomplicated out here. One minute you're working, playing, living. The next you’re gone. There’s not much in between waiting. And it’s accepted. The exciting part for us is seeing the Christians actually celebrate when a brother is taken home. The next morning I asked our houseboy, Fassega, if he knew Sambu was in heaven. He answered, ‘Oh, madame, Sambu came to school to learn of Jesus. I think he's with Him now.’ We are slowly learning how fragile life is; what a gift each day is to us from the Lord. Thank the Lord with us for these blessings we have experienced lately: Protection over Julie as she plays. We realized this week that the cement slab where Julie sits in the back yard has several holes under it. We killed two snakes there one day. The large debt for the airplane repairs in 1982 has at last been paid off. We don’t always understand why some things take so much time. In the past three months, Chuck has flown 6,541 miles. Thanks for praying him through thunderstorm weathker') In His Love, Chuck>Debby and Julie Baldwin The Baldwins’ field address is B.P. 15, Kenieba, via Bamako, Mali, West Africa.

CALVARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (SR 13 South) SYRACUSE David C Maish, Pastor Church School 9:30a.m. Worship Service 10:40 a m Church School Superintendent, Kim Conrad UNITED METHODIST CHURCH MILFORD Robert Ellison, Pastor Ruth Ann Stork, Lay Leader Church School 9:15a.m Worship 10:30 am. UMYF Sunday 5:30 p.m. Bible Study Sunday 5:30 p.m. WAWASEE LAKESIDE CHAPEL Harlan Steffen, Pastor John Groat, Adult Supervisor Sally Jaques, Primary Supervisor Worship Service 10 a m. Sunday School 9a.m. FAITHWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Formerly Barbee Community Church (Kuhn Drive, Little Barbee Lake) William L. Hutchins, Pastor Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a m. Sunday Evening 6 p.m Wednesday Bible Study And Prayer ,7 pm. TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD LIGONIER Don Fischer, Pastor Divine Service9a.m. Sunday School & Bible Class 10:30a.m. GRACE BRETHREN CHURCH LEESBURG Howard Downing, Pastor Tim Hood, Sunday School Supt. Sunday School 9:30 10:30a.m. Morning Worship 10:35a.m. Evening Worship 6 p.m. Prayer Service, Wednesday 7 p.m. SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES ? CATHOLIC CHURCH SYRACUSE Father Robert Hammond Sunday Mass 8 a m.and 10:45 a m Saturday Mass 5:30p.m. Confession Before Masses Holy Days7a.m. and7:3op.m. QUAKER HAVEN FRIENDS CHURCH (500 Ea nd 900 N) DEWART LAKE Sunday School 9:15 a.m. • Worship 10a.m. (Quaker Hall) MORRIS CHAPEL UNITEDMETHODIST County Roads ISON and 37SE) Charles Taylor, Pastor Don Conley, Supt. Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30a.m.

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ALWAYS BUSY — Mrs, Mosciline Deaton, She has been a member of the Zion Chapel United Syracuse, enjoys keeping busy and one way she does so Brethren church all her life ,and has always taken part is by crocheting. Mrs. Deaton also enjoys sewing. in the church’s activities,

!| Instead of marking time this year, make it count || H —r M he caiendar upon the wall < Lj jj Will give us reason to recall J ’’ The fact that time goes by so fast; I O Another year has joined the past. We can’t believe the old one’s gone, M M And yet it pays to look upon M The one that we have left behind; ki lp|i r For in all likelihood we’ll find gS “ That of the projects we’d begun, =z±/. —I ■„ : 5 s A great amount remain undone. ' 5 1 But first and foremost we should heed || The tenets of our chosen creed, > - |«j And starting out next Sabbath day, Wc4|F ' J lllf I & Sil Attend the services and pray; jvfcS ' I—j • “ I *’s While asking God, with all our might, - )WO[ ~ To help us start this new year right. ’I— IJJ/m. JjO —._J |j| — Gloria Nowak

NORTHERN LAKES CHRISTIAN CENTER NORTH WEBSTER Karen and Thorpe Mitchell, Pastors Worship Service 10 a.m. Adult Classes, Tuesday 7 p.m. CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH (Armstrong Road) OSWEGO Roderick ("Rick") Smith. Pastor Supday School 9:30a.m. Morning Worship 10:30a.m Sunday Evening Worship 6 p.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7 p m. Awana Clubs Wednesday 6:30 p.m. HASTINGS ISLAND CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH David Widmoyer, Pastor Mike Zimmerman, Jr., Supt. Kendall Biller, Supt. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship 10:30a.m. Prayer Meeting Thursday 7:30p.m. SAINT ANDREW'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH SYRACUSE Rev. Phillip Frew, Pastor Church School 9:15 am. Worship Hour 10:30a.m. UMYF6p.m. ZION CHAPEL U.B. CHURCH (Corner Syr.-Web. Rd. and 1000 N) Rev. Don Ross, Pastor Larry McCullough, S.S. Supt. Sunday 7 School 9a.m. Worship 10 a.m. Evening Worship 7 p.m. GOSHEN FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST Service 10:30 am. Sunday School 10:30a.m. Wednesday Service 7:45 p.m. ROCK CHURCH INTERDENOMINATIONAL (13-A & 1050 N, E. Lake Wawasee) Dr. Gary M. Tuttle, and Rev. Sarah M. Tuttle. Pastors Morning Worship 10 a.m. Evening Worship 7 p.m. ■ Wednesday Bible School 7 p.m. WAWASEE HEIGHTS BAPTIST CHURCH (Across From High School) ■Norman D. McVey, Pastor Jon Rumley, S.S. Supt. Sunday School9:3oa.m. Warship 10:30a.m. and 7 p.m. Mid Week W6d. 7 p.m. AWANA Clubs Thurs. 6:30 p.m. CLUNETTE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Karen Weaver, Pastor Worship Service 9a.m. Sunday School 10:20 a. m.

WAWASEE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE Ron Blake, Pastor Church School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30a.mi Christian Living Studies 6 p.m. Wednesday Midweek Service 7 p.m. SOLOMON'S CREEK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Brian Clear, Pastor Worship 9a.m. Sunday School 10 a.m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF OSWEGO Rev. Roy Mickley, Pastor Sunday School 9:30a.m Worship Service 10:30a.m. CHRISTIAN CHURCH MILFORD Carl Shearer, Minister Fred Walls, Associate Minister Bible School 9 a.m. Worship 10 a.m. Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. TURKEY CREEK CHURCH . OF THE BRETHREN GRAVELTON Dorotha and Ivan Fry, Team Pastors Church School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30a.m. CALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH (111 W. Orange St.) CROMWELL Frank Barcus, Pastor Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship Service 10:45a.m. NEW SALEM CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN (900N&200E) Glenn Byers, Pastor Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30a.m. Evening Worship 6 p.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7:30 p.m. « BURR OAK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Lawrence Byrnes, Pastor Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30a.m. SYRACUSE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH (Corner Harrison & Pearl St.) David Hudson, Pastor Sunday School lOd.m. Praise and Worship Sunday 6:30 p.m. Bible Study, Thursday 7:30p.m. UNITEDMETHODIST CHURCH NORTHWEBSTER Rex Lindemood, Pastor Worship 8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Church School 9:30 a. m.

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APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN MILFORD Dale Strassheim, Jesse Beer, Walter Steffen and Tom Speicher, Ministers Morning Worship 10 a m Afternoon Worship 12:30 p.m. CHURCH OF GOD NORTHWEBSTER Charles E. Towriss, Pastor Men's Prayer Breakfast 7:30a.m. Worship 9.30 am. Sunday School 10:45a.m. Evening Service or Praise 7 p.m. BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH NORTHWEBSTER Dean McFadden, Pastor Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30a.m. 6 p.m. Wednesday Services 7 p.m. OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CATHOLIC CHURCH (4th And Main Streets) MILFORD Bro. James Linscott, Administrator Sunday Mass 10:30a.m. CHURCH OF GOD SYRACUSE Rev. Michael Johnson, Pastor Tom Stiver, S.S Supt. Sunday School 9:30a.m. Morning Worship 10:30a.m. Junior Worship 10:30 a.m. FIRST BRETHREN CHURCH MILFORD Paul Tinkel, Pastor Church School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 10:30a.m. BYC Sunday 6 p.m. Mid Week Worship 7 p.m. BETHELCHURCH OF THE BRETHREN MILFORD Roger Eberly, Pastor Ruth Angle, Bd. Chm. Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30 a.m. 4 BETHANY CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN (US6) F. Wayne Lawson, Pastor Morning Worship9:3oa.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Activity Night 7:00 CHURCHOFTHE BRETHREN SYRACUSE John McFarland, Pastor Junior Blough, Supt. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 10:30a.m. Sunday Bible Study 7 p.m.,

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GRACE BIBLE CHURCH SYRACUSE , Dr. David R. Haifley, Pastor Sunday School 9:45a.m. Morning Worship 11 a m. Evening Service 7 p.m. Wednesday Evening Service 7 p.m. JEHOVAH'S WITNESS KINGDOM HALL (East Papakeechie Lake Drive) Sunday: Public Lecture9:3oa.m. Watchtower Study 10:30a.m. Tuesday, Study of Prophecy 7:30 p.m Thursday, Ministry School 7p.m. SALEM COMMUNITY CHURCH (l’/i Mile Southeast Os Wilmot) Pastor Elmer Miller Sunday School 9:30a.m. Morning Worship 10 30a.m. . Sunday Evening Service 7 p.m. Prayer Bible Study Wednesday 7 p.m. GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH (200 E. Main St.) SYRACUSE Olmey E. Eaton, Pastor Worship 9:15a.m. Sunday School 10:15a.m. CHURCHOFTHE BRETHREN NORTHWEBSTER Paul F. Shrider, Pastor Morning Worship9:3oa.m. , Sunday School 10:30a.m. CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY (Old SR 15) MILFORD JUNCTION Pearl Avalos, Pastor „ > Sunday Service 10:00 a m.-6:30 p.m. Mid Week Worship Wed., 6:30 p.m UNITEDMETHODIST CHURCH LEESBURG Dale Mendenhall, Pastor Morning Worship 9:30 a m. Church School 10:30a.m. FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTISTS (175 N. Detroit) WARSAW Sunday School 10 a.m. Sunday Service 10a.m. Wednesday 7 p.m. ** ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH SHORE LAKE WAWASEE Vicar: Rev. David L. Hyndman Holy Eucharist: 9a.m. .MILFORD CHAPEL (East Catherine Street) Naaman Martin, Arthur Hershberger, Pastors Sunday School 10a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Sunday Evening Service 7 p.m. Wednesday Service 7p.m.

Calvary circles hold Christmas meetings

The Calvary United Methodist Circles of Syracuse met for their Christmas meetings recently. The Martha Circle met at 9 a.m. at the Calvary United Methodist Church with 16 members present. A new member, Margaret Myle, was welcomed to the circle. Hostesses for the coffee hour were Helen Miller and Mary Jane Bowton. The tables were decorated in tune with the holiday season. Prayer was offered by Betty Eaton, circle leader. » The business meeting opened with a few comments from Rev. Maish. A Christmas wish was read by the leader. Lillian Disher gave the lesson, “Christmas”. Scripture and hymns were read and sung by the group and the meeting closed with the singing of “Silent Night”. The Lois Circle met in the youth room of the church with Wava Witmer and Pauline Fawley as hostesses. Millie Shively, circle leader, opened the meeting by reading an article about Jesus. Then she presented the lesson entitled, “Celebration of Joy”. Roll call was answered by 13 members. The report of the recent executive committee meeting was read. Prayer partners from the past year were revealed and gifts were exchanged. It was announced that the January meeting date has been changed to Jan. 16. Joan Sharp opened the Ruth Circle meeting and welcomed 12 members and two guests. Dorothy Thomas reported on Visions of Peace by Shirley Heckaman. Thomas studied at School of Missions. Reports were read from the different officers and a business meeting was held. The group decided to send money from their special offering fund to Mr. and Mrs. Marple of Cloumbia, Mo. This money is for place settings of dinnerware. Priscilla Juday read the Christmas Story from the scripture and the story “The Littlest Angel”. While listening to music, the group exchanged gifts and assigned Prayer Partners for 1985. The Ruth Circle’s next meeting will be Jan. 15.

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