The Mail-Journal, Volume 26, Number 42, Milford, Kosciusko County, 2 December 1987 — Page 16

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Teaching young marrieds of the church, Rev. Hathaway

f By GLEN LONG I __ Staff Writer | -?**• Lewis Hathaway, pastor « SL Andrew’s United Methodist S® Br * l m Syracuse, stated that me young married couples are important to the total life of »"y church. He said this is "'cause they are the ones who “*** yc* 11 * children who need to be involved in church activities an early age. “We have an active young a< ~^. c^ass at St- Andrew’s which ■ active in making church important for this group,” said the pastor. “While the attendance is sometimes a little erratic, we co*>tinue to try to challenge the young married members to grow * n their faith. It is important to their small children that young married members live their faith all week long . Children are sharp They can see double standards of adults when these are present. ” The pastor said he tries to teach young people that life takes on little meaning until a proper relationship with God is felt He added, “It seems many peonle

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are not very serious about life anymore We re in a day when there is much discontent. This seems to be why there is a large increase in suicides and drug and alcohol abuse.” —: " One of the biggest problems we have is that we don’t get enough opportunity to teach young marrieds.” he continued. “This is basically the fault of parents who did not help teach them when they were young of the strong fulfillment of serving God in church. "We have come through an age when kids had the choice of going to church. So now some young adults have little commitment to the church. We in the church need to make attending church such an exciting and interesting experience that kids want to come. ’ ’ Rev Hathaway said he takes special joy in counseling couples planning to be married. “I tell them that there are bound to be some arguments in a marriage I then tell them that couples need to learn (o <j handle these arguments in a creative and pro-

rion sparkles in the night Where all the brightest stars abound, Above the great expanse of white That blankets all upon the ground And decorates the barren trees. Where icicles will start to form When everything begins to freeze; Suspended relics of the storm. So bundle up and go to pray; Then tell the Lord you understand That we will see. another day. The waking of the sleeping land. But first enjoy the snow so bright, This dormant cycle of the year; For God provides a dazzling sight Whenever wintertime is here.

APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN MILFORD Jesse Beer, Nelson Beer Will Schieler and Walter Steffen, Ministers Morning Worship 10 a.m. Afternoon Worship 12:15 p.m CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH (Armstrong Road) OSWEGO Roderick V. Smith, Pastor Sunday School 9 30 a m Morning Worship 10:30a.m. Sunday Evening WorshipAp.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7 p.m. AWANA Clubs Wednesday 6: 15p.m. Word of Life Club Wed 6:15p.m. FILADELFIA EVANGELICAL SPANISH ASSEMBLY OF GOD, Milford Bi Lingual Services Pastor Alberto Jimenez Sunday School 9:30a.m. Sunday Worship 11 a m. 8.6:30 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. If you need any help. please call 894-4481 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) Jerry Walden, Pastor Ralph Bushong. S.S. Supt Sunday School 9:30 a m Worship 10 30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Mid-Week Wed. 7p m AWANA Clubs Wed 6 30 p.m. BETHANY CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN (US 6) F Wayne Lawson. Pastor Morning Worship 9 30 a m. Sunday School 10 30 a m Wednesday Activity Night 7 X BETHELCHURCHOF THE BRETHREN MILFORD Verne H. Leininger. Pastor Raymond Hoover, Bd. Chm Sunday School 9:30 a m Worship 10 30 am NEW SALEM CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN (900NA200E) Kenneth & Helen Hol linger, Co Pastors Sunday Bible Study 9:30 a.m. Worship Service 10:30a.m. Evening Worship 7:00 p.m. Bible Study, 7.00 p.m Wednesday CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN NORTH WEBSTER Emery Kintner, Pastor Morning Worship 9 30 a m Sunday School 10:30a.m. CHURCH OF THE 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.

ductive fashion. We discuss how to handle conflict and the side of sex. including the need for trust and commitment from both the husband and wife. ” The pastor said one of his unique methods is to tell the couple. "You must have come to me because you want to have God in your marriage. I’d like to be your pastor, but to make this happen you need to continue to come to church.” He said he then offers the couple a deal. He agrees to marry them without accepting any payment other than a pledge that they will come to church five Sundays in a row. He firmly believes that with this pledge fulfilled, he and the church will be a part of their lives long after the wedding ceremony is over. The pastor concluded, "We are now in the season of Advent, which means something is about to happen. If young married members as well as other members come to church expecting something to happen, it will happen.”

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TURKEY CREEK CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN GRAVELTON Dorotha and Ivan Fry, Team Pastors Church School 9:30 a m Worship 10:30 am SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES x CATHOLIC CHURCH SYRACUSE Father Robert Hammond Sunday Mass 8 00 a m and 10.45 a.m. Saturday Mass 5:30 p. m. Confession Before Masses Holy Days 5; 30 p.m ,7a m and 7:30p.m. fc OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CATHOLIC CHURCH (4N» 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 30 a m Sunday Worship 11 a m 8>6:30 p.m Wednesday Bible Study 6 30 p m FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTISTS (175 H. Detroit) WARSAW Sunday School 10 a m Sunday Service 10 am Wednesday 7 p.m. GOSHEN FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST Service 10: X a.m. Sunday School 10:30a m Wednesday Service 7 45 p.m. Reading Room open Monday. Thursday and Friday, 11 a m. to3p.m. NORTHERN LAKES CHRISTIAN CHURCH CAMELOT HALL. NORTH WEBSTER Thorpe and Karen Mitchell, Pastors Worship Services Sunday 10 a.m. 8> 6p.m. Wednesday 7 p m. BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH NORTH WEBSTER Lonnie Nkholl, Pastor Sunday School 9:38a.m. Worship 10:30a.m. &6p.m. CHRISTIAN CHURCH MILFORD Dale Kuhns, Senior Minister Bible School 9 00am Worship 10:00 a.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. CHURCH OF GOO NORTH WEBSTER Stophen W. Foots. Pastor Jim Davey, Associate Men's Prayer Breakfast 7:00a.m. Worship 8:30 and 10:45a.m Sunday School 9:45 am. Evening Service of Praise 6 p.m.

Ml ' r , fl: SYRACUSE PASTOR IN STUDY - Rev. Lewis Hathaway, pastor of St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church in Syracuse, has a warm, friendly atmosphere in his study. He believes that church should be made so interesting and exciting that people of all ages "can’t wait to come back each week.” (Photo by Glen Long)

CHURCH OF GOO SYRACUSE Rev. Michael Johnson, Pastor Paul Yeager, S S. Supt. Sunday School 9 30 a m Morning Worship 10:30a 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 9:15 a m Morning Worship 10:30a.m. BYC Sunday 6 p.m. Mid Week Worship 7 p.m. 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 7p.m. GRACE BRETHREN CHURCH LEESBURG Art Bushen, C E. Director Marlin Rose, Moderator Sunday School 9:XlO:Xa.m. Morning Worship 10:35 a m Evening Worship 6 p.m. Family Night, Wednesday 7 p.m JEHOVAH'S WITH ESS KINGDOM HALL (East Papakeechie Lake Drive) Sunday: Public Lecture9:Xa.m. Watchtower Study 10:Xa.m Tuesday, Study of Prophecy 7: X p.m. Thursday, Ministry School 7 p.m CALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH (111 W. Orange St.) CROMWELL Paul Clement, Pastor Sunday School 9:00a m Worship Service 10:00a m. GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH (MOE. 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 » e.m Sunday School & Bible Class 10:30 a m MILFORD CHAPEL (EestcXerimStreet) Arthur Hershberger. Pastor Amos Ramer. Deacon Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m Sunday Evening Service 7 p.m. Wednesday Service 7p m

To travel within

t By LUCILE BRANDT Guest Writer The above phrase comes from a quotation by James Allen. Says he, “You cannot travel within and stand still without.” He is suggesting that the best way by which to change your present circumstances, which you may find disappointing and uncongenial, is to change,your inner condition. Why not travel within? Even for the person who is not consciously unhappy, the suggestion is an excellent one. For, of course, there is no inactivity so dangerous as the inactivity of the mind. In these days of public libraries and relatively inexpensive paperbacks, few are so situated that they cannot get books. The wprks of the ancients are available in translation and we may travel in time and space almost anywhere we choose if we have learned to read, to travel within. Do you want to insist that such traveling is a poor substitute fore the real thing? On the contrary, traveling to distant places is not in the least a substitute for traveling within. It may start a person on such genuine development of the mind, but that is not inevitable. < Consider the dreary evenings you have spent looking at the apparently inexaustible supply of slides someone brought back from his latest trip abroad and listening to the debates between husband and wife over the height of a certain Swiss mountain or the time it took to get from the downtown hotel to the ship at a certain seaport in Greece. The traveler with an alert and informed mind comes back from foreign travel the richer for his experience, but traveling without is never a substitute for traveling within. If we stop to think, we know that the man who talks about the local election with a background knowledge of Plato, or who tends his garden with the words of Wordsworth or Thoreau in his mind, can be an infinitely better companion than the person who has circled the globe. The individual with love and imagination and the gift of words will tell of experiences as an aide in the local school or as a member of the Aid Society or of his work in a garage or factory

WAWASEE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE Ron Blake. Pastor " Church School 9:Xa.m. Warship 10:30a.m. Christian Living Studies 4 p.m. Wednesday Midweek Service 7 p.m. DEWART LAKE COMMUNITY FRIENDS CHURCH (SME and MON) DEWART LAKE Lou Herchenroeder. Pastor Sunday School «:lSa.m Worship 10a.m. (Quaker Hall) ROCK CHURCH INTERDENOMINATIONAL (13-AAIMON. E. LakeWawasee) Rev Sarah M. Tuttle, and Dr. Gary M. Tuttle. Pastors Morning Worship 10a.m. Evening Worship 7 p.m. Wednesday Bible School 7 p.m. SALEM COMMUNITY CHURCH (l’ i Miles Southeast Os Wilmot) Pastor Kurt B Church Sunday School 9:45 am. Morning Worship 10:30a.m. Sunday Evening Service4p.m. Prayer Bible Study Wednesday 7p.m. BURR OAK UNITEDMETHOOIST CHURCH Lawrence Byrnes. Pastor Sunday School 9:30a m Worship 10:30 a.m. CALVARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (SR 13SwM) SYRACUSE David C. Maish. Pastor Kim Conrad. Church School Supt. Church School 9:Xa.m Worship Service 10:40a.m. CLUNETTE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Stewart Carter, Pastor Sunday School 130 am Worship Service 10 Xa m HASTINGS ISLAND CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH David Widmoyer, Pastor Kendall Biller. Supt. Sunday School 9:Ma.m. Worship M):3Ra.m. Prayer Meeting Thursday 7:Xp.m. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH LEESBURG Donald C Lacy. Pastor Morning Worship 9:Ma.m. Church School K):Xa m UNITED METHODIST CHURCH MILFORD Robert Ellison. Pastor Dan Brown. Lay Leader Church School 9 15 a m Worship lOXam UMYF Sunday S:Np.m. Bible Study Wed. 7: M p.m.

and make it all interesting, even exciting. Bunyan, in his “Pilgrim’s Progress,” mentions briefly “a young woman, her name was Dull.” She turned away from the narrow path and never did reach Mount Zion. Perhaps there is some danger in being dull, in refusing to travel within? Sophocles and Shakespeare, St. Thomas a Kempis and John Bunyan, Dante and Milton — what regions there are for exploration! And no one demands from the reader money, or a college degree, or a certain kind of position or social standing. The author requires simply a humble heart; a persistent, patient, alert mind; a willingness to learn. Who would not be such a traveler? Os course, the best place of all for this traveling is our Bible. Here we find not only strange places, but interesting people and stirring events. We find, in addition, the Word of God, a lamp for our feet and a light for our path in all our traveling, both without and within. Why not claim this light and start traveling within? Mrs. Bryant is a free lance writer who resides in Goshen. She is a former Milford resident. ■4 SEEDS | « FROM \T/ THE I W SOWER J By Michael A. Guido _Metter, Georgia One night a mother said, “Johnny, run outside and get me the mop.” “I’m afraid of the dark," he sobbed. “Don’t be afraid,” she replied, “Jesus is there.” Timidly little Johnny opened the door and, looking into the black night, said, "Jesus, please hand me the mop.” But Jesus won’t do kx you what you can do for yourself. He will, however, give you faith for your fear, wisdom for your problems, strength for your weakness, and power for your temptation - if you ask Him. Then you’ll be able to say with St. Ffeul, "I can do everything God asks me to do with the help of Christ who gives me the strength and power.”

MORRIS CHAPEL UNITEDMETHOOIST Dan Walcott. Pastor Bob Wine. Supt Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship 10: Mam UNITED METHODIST CHURCH NORTH WEBSTER Rex Lindemood. Pastor Worship4:3oa m and 10:45a m Church School 9:30a.m. Senior High Youth Group. Sun 7:Mp.m. SAINT ANDREWS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH SYRACUSE Rev Lewis Hathaway, Pastor Church School 9:15a.m. Worship Hour 10 30a m Bible Study Wed. Night 4:30p.m. UMYF Sunday Night 4:30p.m. SOLOMON'S CREEK UNITEDMETHOOIST CHURCH Brian Clear. Pastor Worship 9a.m. Sunday School 10 a m WORDOF GRACE FELLOWSNIP Robert Lewis Drive West Side Irish Lake Allen «, Peggy Giant. Pastors Sunday Worship 10a.m. A 7 p.m. Wednesday 7p.m. prayer meeting ZION CHAPEL U.B. CHURCH (Cantor Syr.-WM. Rd. and IM0N) Don Merillat. Pastor Vernon Shottey. S > Supt. Sunday School 9a.m. Worship Wa.m. SYRACUSE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH •Cantor INrrlun B P»art st.) Ronald G. Looney, Pastor Sunday School 10 a.m. Praise and Worship Sunday 4:30p.m. Bible Study. Thursday 7:Xp.m WAWASEE LAKESIDE CHAPEL Harlan Stetten. Pastor Mark Pleistor. Supt. Sue Ganshora. Primary Supervisor Worship Service 10 a.m. Sunday School II a.m. WAWASEE COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH Tom Speicher, Pastor Sundsy School. All Ages, 9:30 o.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m. 5

1 W ■- RF t 3 SOLOIST — Mary Lu Cannon, soprano soloist, will present a ] concert of Christian music beginning at 7 p.m. on Sunday evening, > Dec. S, at the First Baptist i Church of Pierceton, 302 W. Market St. Cannon enjoys a wide ministry, singing before church ! congregations, women’s groups t and community gatherings. She ; is now developing a Christian concert ministry. Cannon studied voice at Greenville College, a Christian liberal arts college in Greenville, 111, where she traveled for the college in small groups and was a I member and soloist for the CapI pella choir. Earlier she toured I Europe with the School Chorus of I America. A featured soloist in communiI ty choral groups in Illinois, Colorado and most recently in Warsaw. she has been featured at women’s retreats, and been invited to give full concerts in churches of many denominations. Coming from a musical family, Cannon has sung in public since childhood and loves to share her testimony of Christ in gospel and sacred music. “I firmly believe that whenever God bestows a gift, whether in music, art, literature, or any other area, along with that gift comes a responsibiiiiy u> devewp share it with others for His glory, ” she explains. “Whenever I sing, I want most of all to communicate the love of Jesus Christ and the joy I receive in praising him.” Cannon is the daughter of Bishop and Mrs. Robert F. Andrews of the Free Methodist Church, and now lives in Winona Lake with her husband Robert, who is a computer specialist; and their two sons, Jason and Weslev.

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