The Mail-Journal, Volume 26, Number 28, Milford, Kosciusko County, 26 August 1987 — Page 19

I'll II jimulMiW! COMMITTED TO SINGING — The Calvary United Methodist Church in Syracuse has two different choirs for children, both groups are shown practicing for a special presentation. Children begin singing in the choir at the same time they start school and may continue through their high school years. r

Music in the church: Creating a lifetime commitment for children

(Bv CARLA GAFF _ I Staff Writer In most cases children enjoy music and attempt to sing several years before they’re actually able to carry a tune or remember the words to a song. So, it’s only natural for children to be interested in singing in a choir, and the more the better if it happens to be a church choir. Calvary United Methodist Church Children’s Choir Director Elaine Weiss starts working with children at a very young age and continues with them’up through their high school years. “You would hope that it would be a part of a lifetime commitment,” commented Mrs. Weiss. “It might be a commitment with some holes in it as their high school years are often overly busy, but you like to think they would continue on as adults.” She went on to explain that what often happens is they get into high school and are pulled in so many different directions that some end up dropping out of the church music program. “But, we think we’ve got a solution to that,” she stated, “as we now have choir rehearsals on Sunday mornings when they’d be likely to be already there.” At the Calvary United

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Methodist Church there are two choirs for children. One for children in the first through the fifth grade and another for junior high and senior high students. Though the children’s choirs are relatively new at the church, there are approximately 40 children involved. Kl ELAINE WEISS Mrs. Weiss became choir leader at the church two years ago and was asked at that time to develop and start the program. She had served as choir director in Lombard, 111., for 12 years prior to moving to the area and was a public school music teacher. “My feeling about church

APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN MILFORD Jesse Beer, Nelson Beer Will Schieler and Walfer Sfeffen, Ministers Morning Worship 10 a.m. Afternoon Worship 12:15 p.rr CALVARY BAPTISTCHURCH (Armstrong Road) OSWEGO Roderick V. Smith, Pastor Sunday School 9:30a.m. Morning Worship 10:30a.m. Sunday Evening Worship6p.m Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7 p.m AWANA Clubs Wednesday 6:15 p.m. Word of Life Club Wed 6 15pm FAITHWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Formerly Barbee Community Church (Kuhn Drive, Little Barbee Lake) William L. Hutchins, Pastor Sunday School 10a.m. Worship Service 11 a m ' Sunday Evening 6p m. Wednesday Bible Study And Prayer 7 p.m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF OSWEGO Rev. Roy Mickley, Pastor Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship Service 10 30a.m. WAWASEE HEIGHTS BAPTIST CHURCH (Across From High School) Norman E. McVey, Pastor Bob Burke, S.S. Supt Sunday School 9:30a m. Worship 10:30a.m. and 7 p.m. Mid Week Wed. 7 p.m. AWANA Clubs Thurs. 6:30 p.m. BETHANYCHURCHOF THE BRETHREN (US 6) F Wayne Lawson, Pastor Morning Worship 9 30a.m. Sunday School 10:30a.m. Wednesday Activity Night 7 30 BETHEL CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN MILFORD Charles Stouder, Pastor Raymond Hoover, Bd. Chm. Sunday School 9:00a.m Worship 10:00a.m. NEWSALEMCHURCH OF THE BRETHREN (900 N 200E) Sunday Bible Study 9:30 a.m. Worship Service 10:30 a in Evening Worship 6 30p.m. Wednesday AWANA Clubs 6:30 p m. Bible Study, Prayer 7:30 p.m CHURCHOFTHE BRETHREN NORTHWEBSTER Emery Kintner, Pastor Morning Worship 9:30a m. Sunday School 10:30a.m. CHURCHOFTHE BRETHREN SYRACUSE D. Arnold Naff, Pastor Junior Blough, Supt. Sunday School 9:30a.m. Morning Worship 10:30a m. Sunday Bible Study 7 p.m

music and especially in the case of children, can be summed up in a little Biblical phrase — make a joyful noise,” explained Mrs. Weiss. “They don’t necessarily have to sound like the Vienna Boys Choir. I just tell them that now they have a chance to give back to the church for all the thingsjt has given to them.” She continued with, “Numbers aren't that important but we would like to reach all the children in the church. We’ll be working in a set of chimes this fall which will really enrich the program and the children will get a chance to learn how to play them.” The Calvary children's choirs were recently honored by having a special church song dedicated to them. The song is entitled “Prayer Os The Norwegian Child” and was written by Ruth Artman. Mrs. Weiss concluded, “Working with the Calvary families is really satisfying because they’re very supportive and make sure their children are present for rehearsals and special nursing home outings. The kids get so much out of singing for the elderly. It seems to bring a new understanding to them that they haven’t had previously — it’s just our ministry to our church and our community,” she stated.

TURKEYCREEKCHURCH OF THE BRETHREN GRAVELTON Dorotha and Ivan Fry, Team Pastors Church School 9:30a m. Worship 10:30a m SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES CATHOLIC CHURCH SYRACUSE Father Robert Hammond Sunday Mass 7:15 a.m . 9:15 a m and 11:15a m. Saturday Mass 5:30 pm. Confession Before Masses Holy Days 5.30 p m.. 7a.m. and 7:30 p.m. OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CATHOLIC CHURCH (4th And Main Streets) MILFORD Bro. James Linscott, Administrator Sunday Mass 10:30a.m. FILADELFIA EVANGELICAL SPANISH ASSEMBLY OF GOD, Milford Bi Lingual Services Pastor Alberto Jimenez Sunday School 9:30a.m. Sunday Worship 11 a.m. &6:30p.m. Wednesday Bible Study 6:30p.m. FIRST CHURCHOF CHRIST SCIENTISTS (175 N. Detroit) WARSAW Sunday School 10a.m. Sunday Service 10a.m. Wednesday 7 p.m. GOSHEN FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST Service 10:30a.m. Sunday School 10:30a.m. Wednesday Service 7:45p.m. Reading Room open Monday. Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to3p.m. NORTHERN LAKES CHRISTIAN CHURCH CAMELOT HALL, NORTHWEBSTER Thorpe and Karen Mitchell, Pastors Worship Services Sunday 10a.m. & 6 p.m. Wednesday 7 p.m. BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH NORTHWEBSTER Lonnie Nlcholl, Pastor Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30 a.m. & 6 p.m. CHRISTIAN CHURCH MILFORD Dale Kuhns. Senior Minister Bible School 9.00a.m. Worship 10:00a.m. and 7p.m. Wednesday BibleStody7p.m ", CHURCHOF GOD NORTHWEBSTER Stephen W. Foots, Pastor Jim Davey, Associate Men's Prayer Breaklast 7 00 am Worship 0 30 and 10:45a.m Sunday School 9:45a.m Evening Service of Praise 7 p m.

Sunday School buses add to Church's outreach

Area churches use many methods to reach out to people in their communities. Included in these are door-to-door canvases to invite residents to attend church and Sunday School, newspaper ads, and Sunday bussring programs to provide transportation to and from the church. , While each outreach method used is valuable in its own way, the furnishing of transportation is a very practical way of showing that a church cares enough to help people, especially children who cannot drive themselves, get to Sunday School and church. Arthur Hershberger, pastor of Milford Chapel Mennonite Church, stated that the church’s big green bus is used primarily to pick up about 20 children and bring them to Wednesday evening Bible memory class, He said it is a valuable tool in their outreach efforts. He feels that all children should have the opportunity to come to Bible study class and the church should logically help get them there. The big Milford Chapel bus is also used to transport church groups to various group meetings and activities and for student transportation to Vacation Bible School in the summer. Brian Wilcox, youth minister at Christian Church of Milford, commented that he is very pleased with the Sunday School bus program at that church. He said that in addition to children who other members bring to church Seeds from the sower Late one night a man was discovered breaking into a church. “What are you doing?" asked an officer. “Looking for a place to pray,’’ he answered. But you can pray anywhere. Jonah prayed in the belly of a fish, Paul in a prison, and the penitent thief on a cross. You can pray anytime. The Psalmist said, “Evening, morning and at noon will 1 pray.” And you can pray in any way. Hannah prayed in silence, Nehemiah in secret, Mary in tears, and Paul in joy. Age doesn’t matter. Children like Samuel, youth like Daniel, and the aged like Moses prayed.

CHURCHOF GOD SYRACUSE Rev Michael Johnson, Pastor Paul Yeager, S.S. Supt. Sunday School 9:30a.m. Morning Worship 10 30 a m Junior Worship 10 30 a m ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH SHORE LAKE WAWASEE Vicar Rev David L Hyndman Holy Eucharist 9a.m. FIRST BRETHREN CHURCH * MILFORD Paul Tinkel, Pastor Church School 9 00 a m Morning Worship 10:00 a m BYC Sunday 6p.m. Mid Week Worship 7pm GRACE BIBLE CHURCH SYRACUSE Dr David R Haifley, Pastor Sunday School 9:45a m Morning Worship 11 a m Sunday Evening Service 7 p.m Wednesday Evening Service 7 p.m. GRACE BRETHREN CHURCH LEESBURG Art Bushen, C.E. Director Marlin Rose, Moderator Sunday School 9 30 10.30a m Morning Worship 10 35 a m Evening Worship 6 p.m Family Night, Wednesday 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 7 p.m. CALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH (111 W. Orange St.) CROMWELL Paul Clement, Pastor Sunday School 9.00 a.m. Worship Service 10:00a m t, GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH (200 E. Main St.) SYRACUSE Richard Dunning, Pastor Worship 9:15 am. Sunday School 10:30a.m. TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD LIGONIER Don Fischer, Pastor Divine Service 9 a.m. Sunday School & Bible Class 10.30 a m MILFORDCHAPEL Mennonite (East Catherine Street) Arthur Hershberger, Pastor Amos Ramer, Deacon Sunday School 10 am Worship Servlco 11 am. Sunday Evening Service 7 p.m. Wednesday Service 7 p m.

with them on Sunday mornings, the church van makes at least two trips to the church from the Milford and Dewart Lake areas to transport about 27 children to Sunday School each week. He added that, although the church is working toward carrying at least 40 children weekly by the end of this year, it takes a logical approach toward riders from outside the Milford area and attempts to match them with other church members for Sunday morning transportation. The young minister said the outreach program goes beyond those being carried as by attending they have an opportunity to witness to their friends and family members. He closed with the comment, “When it comes to getting people to church and Sunday School, we will hit the needs as they arise and provide transportation for all who need it.” Other area churches are finding their bussing efforts equally valuable in augmenting their outreach programs as they work to spread the gospel. Local ministers attend conference The four ministers of the Apostolic Christian Church in Milford, attended the annual confer en c e of their church brotherhood at Rockville, Conn., during the week of. August 17. After Elder Jesse Beer, Waiter Steffen. Nelson Beer and Will Schieler arrived there on Tuesday, Aug. 18, Jesse Beer flew back to Milford to preach at the Thursday funeral of his uncle, Elmer Haab. He then returned east for the remainder of the conference. Over 650 representatives of Apostolic Christian churches from all over the United States and Japan,' where outreach efforts are centered, attended this year’s conference. Jesse Beer said the committee meetings and general' sessions were well attended, worthwhile and very meaningful as church elders, ministers and the brotherhood of the church spent this time together. The 1988 annual conference will be held in Ohio, having convened in Illinois in 1986. The denomination also holds an annual midwinter conference for elders of its churches.

WAWASEE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE Ron Blake, Pastor Church School 9 30am Worship 10:30 a m Christian Living Studies 6 p m Wednesday Midweek Service 7pm QUAKER HAVEN FRIENDS CHURCH (500E and 900 N) DEWART LAKE Sunday School 9.15 a m Worship 10 a m (Quaker Hall) May Starting Lakeside Service, Memorial Day Labor Day, Every Other Sunday. 8 30a m ROCK CHURCH INTERDENOMINATIONAL (13-A & 1050 N, E. Lake Wawasee) Rev Sarah M Tuttle, and Dr Gary M. Tuttle, Pastors Morning Worship 10 a m Evening Worship 7 p m Wednesday Bible School 7 p.m SALEM COMMUNITY CHURCH (I'2 Miles Southeast Os Wilmot) Pastor Kurt B Church Sunday School 9:45a m. Morning Worship 10:30a m Sunday Evening Service6p m Prayer Bible Study Wednesday 7pm BURR OAK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Pastor Sunday School 9 30 a m Worship 10:30 a m. CALVARY UNITED METHODISTCHURCH (SR 13 South) SYRACUSE David C Mai§h, Pastor Kim Conrad, Church School Supt Church School 9.30a.m. Worship Service 10 40 a m CLUNETTE UNITED METHODISTCHURCH Stewart Carter, Pastor Sunday School 9:30 a.m Worship Service 10:30a m HASTINGS r ISLANDCHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH David Widmoyer, Pastor Kendall Biller, Supt Sunday School 9 30a.m. Worship 10.30a.m. Prayer Meeting Thursday 7 30 p m UNITED METHODIST CHURCH LEESBURG Donald C Lacy, Pastor Morning Worship 9 30a m. Church School 10 30a m UNITED METHODIST CHURCH MILFORD Robert Ellison, Pastor Dan Brown, Lay Leader Church School 9.15 a.m. _ Worship 10 30 a m UMYF Sunday 5:30p.m. Bible Study Wed. 7 00 p.m

“Ja. ’ f-V* r y'' Vr?/ ’*■£?■ '*■'*-*1 I t I i t i i *■- k W al >t —«., » - v< j THE BIG GREEN BUS — This large bus is used by Milford Chapel Mennonite Church, located on Beer Road, to carry Milford area children who need transportation to Wednesday evening Bibfe memory class at the church. (Photo by Glen Long)

■• ” jSWfraMB K&r -’' » READY TO ROLL — Brian Wilcox, youth minister at Christian Church of Milford, stands by one of the two vans his church has to transport children to and from the church. The Chistian Church also has a large school bus which is used for student and adult group trips. (Photo by Glen Long)

Which of us has "He that trusteth in his Living in a fool’s looked into his ° w . n h . eart is afo .°' : » paradise is great fathar’c ~ ,J t whoso walketh wisely fun until the rent Tamer s nean f shall be de | ivered - comes due - Thomas Wolfe Proverbs 2 8:26 Good Reading

MORRISCHAPEL ' UNITED METHODIST R. 1, Pierceton Dan Walcott, Pastor Bob Wine, Supt Sunday School 9 30a m Worship 10:30a m. o UNITED METHODIST CHURCH NORTHWEBSTER Rex Lmdemood, Pastor Worships 30a.m and 10:45a m Church School 9:30a.m. Senior High Youth Group, Sun 7 00 p m SAINT ANDREW'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH SYRACUSE Rev Lewis Hathaway, Pastor Worship Hour 9:30a m Church School 10:45 a m Bible Study Wed Night6:3op.m UMYF Sunday Night 6 30p.m SOLOMON'S CREEK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Brian Clear, Pastor Worship9a m Sunday School 10 a m WORDOF GRACE FELLOWSHIP Robert Lewis Drive West Side Irish Lake Allen & Peggy Giant, Pastors Sunday Worship 10 a m 47p.m. Wednesday 7 p.m prayer meeting ZION CHAPEL U B. CHURCH (Corner Syr. Web. Rd. and 1000 N) Don Merillat, Pastor Eric Kolberg, S.S. Supt Sunday School 9a.m. Worship 10a. m Evening Worship 7 p.m SYRACUSE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH (Corner Harrison & Pearl St.) Ronald G Looney, Pastor Sunday School 10 a m Praise and Worship Sunday 6 30 p.m. Bible Study, Thursday 7 30p.m WAWASEE LAKESIDE CHAPEL Harlan Steffen, Pastor Mark Pfeisfer, Supt Sue Ganshorn, Primary Supervisor Worship Service 10am Sunday School 11 a m WAWASEE COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH , Milford Tom Speicher, Pastor Sunday School, All Ages, 9:30a m Morning Worship 11 a m

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