The Mail-Journal, Volume 26, Number 44, Milford, Kosciusko County, 16 December 1987 — Page 20
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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., December IS, 1987
Area churches to hold Christmas oroarams
Many area churches have again this year planned special programs and services for the Christmas season. In Milford The First Brethren Church of Milford will have a Christmas Eve service at 11 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 24, in cooperation with Bethel Church of the Brethren. The service will be a choral dialog about Christmas. United Methodist Church of Milford will hold its candlelight service at 11 p.m. on Christmas Eve Christian (Church of Milford youth invite all to come to a birthday party for Jesus on Sunday, Dec. 20. at 6 p.m. The church will also have a 9 p.m. candlelight communion service on Christmas Eve. Apostolic Christian Church of Milford will include a Christmas program in its 12:15 p.m. worship service on Sunday, Dec. 20. The program will include Sunday school children and choir music. There will also be caroling at 6:15 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 17, and a special worship service at 10 a.m. on Christmas Day. Wawasee Community Bible Church, east of Milford, will have a Christmas program at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday Dec. 20. Two children s choirs and the adult choir will sing. There will be a caroling party leaving the church at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 23, with a party afterward at the church. Guest speaker at the Christmas morning service at 9:30 a.m. will be Otto Beer, Jr., New Paris. The church will then have a New Year’s Eve service on Dec. 31. From 9 to 10 p.m. will be singing and special music; from 10 to 11:30 p.m. will be youth activities, snacks and fellowship; and from 11:30 to midnight will be music and the message. In Syracuse Wawasee Heights Baptist
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Christmas Programs
Church, Syracuse, will present a special Christmas cantata, “Angel Song,” at its Sunday 10:30 a.m. worship service on Dec. 20. There will also be a special “watch night” service on Thursday evening, Dec. 31. The Syracuse Church of the Brethren elementary and youth departments will present a Christmas program, “The Toy That Didn’t Know About Christmas, ” at 10:30 a m. worship service on Sunday, Dec. 20. At this service the annual Crismon hanging of ornaments on a tree will also take place. At St. Martin dePorres Catholic Church, south of Syracuse, there will be a children’s mass on Thursday, Dec. 24, at 5 p.m. Also, a midnight Mass has been scheduled for Christmas Eve. Then on Christmas morning there will be a mass at 10 a.m. Members of Grace Bible Church, north of Syracuse, will gather on Christmas Day for a church family dinner. Grace Lutheran Church, at 200 E. Main St. in Syracuse, will hold a Christmas Sunday school program at the 9:15 a.m. worship service on Sunday, Dec. 20. There will also be a candlelight service at 7:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Saint Andrew’s United Methodist Church in Syracuse will have two services on Christmas Eve. The first will be a 6 p.m. Christmas pageant. It will Lc followed by the traditional candlelight service at 11:15 p.m. Calvary United Methodist Church will have a special Christmas program on Sunday, Dec. 20. It will be highlighted by Christmas songs by the chancel choir and Calvary Kids choir. The Christmas Eve service will begin with communion at 9:30 p.m. Following this will be a music interlude at 10 and a candlelight service, with chancel choir, at 10:30 p.m. On Thursday, Dec. 31, Calvary
APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN MILFORD Jesse Beer, Nelson Beer Will Schieler and Walter Steffen, Ministers Morning Worship 10a.m. Afternoon Worship 12:15 p.m. CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH (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 6:15p.m. FILADELFIA EVANGELICAL SPANISH ASSEMBLY OF GOD, Milford Bi Lingual Services Pastor Alberto J imenez Sunday School 9.30a.m. Sunday Worship 11 a m & 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 10:30 a.m. WAWASEE HEIGHTS BAPTIST CHURCH (Across From High School) Jerry Walden, Pastor Ralph Bushong, S.S. Supt. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship 10:30a.m. and6p.m. Mid Week Wed. 7 p.m. AWANA Clubs Wed. 6:30 p.m. BETHANY CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN (USA) F. Wayne Lawson, Pastor Morning Worship 9 30 a m. Sunday School 10:30a.m. Wednesday Activity Night 7:30 ’ BETHEL CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN MILFORD Verne H. Leininger, Pastor Raymond Hoover, Bd. Chm. Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30a.m. NEW SALEM CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN (900NA200E) Kenneth & Helen Hollinger, Co-Pastors Sunday Bible Study 9:30 a.m. Worship Service 10.30 a.m. Evening Worship 7:00 p. m. Bible Study, 7:00p.m. Wednesday CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN NORTH WEBSTER Emery Kintner, Pastor Morning Worship 9:30a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN SYRACUSE D. Arnold Naff, Pastor Junior Blough, Supt. Sunday School 9:30a.m. Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. Sunday Bible Study 7 p.m.
church will host a community candlelight communion service at 7:30 p.m. This service will include music by Sounds of Hope, directed by Varner Chance. Also featured will be harpist Katherine Bracy. In North Webster Church of God will celebrate Christmas with a candlelight and carols celebration at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 20. Then on Wednesday, Dec 23, there will be a Christmas Communion service at 7 p.m. United Methodist Church of North Webster will present a children’s Christmas program, ‘The Toy That Didn’t Know About Christmas,” at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Dec 20. On Christmas Eve the church will have a family service with communion at 7 p.m. There will then be a candlelight service with a choir cantata at 11 p.m. The church will also hold a communion and watch night service on the evening of 12-31-87. In Leesburg Members of Grace Brethren Church and United Methodist Church in Leesburg will again combine their talents for a Christmas program in conjunction with the Leesburg Candleria, which will be held at 7 p.m. on Sunday evening, Dec. 20. The combined choirs will sing in the middle of Leesburg as thousands of candles throughout town are lighted and street lights are extinguished. The program will conclude in the Leesburg school gym, where refreshments will be served. In Other Areas Calvary Baptist Church in Oswego will have a Christmas program which will include a slide/tape presentation on Sunday, Dec 20, at 6 p.m. There will also be an all-church caroling service at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 23. Bethany Church of the Brethren, on US 6 north of
TURKEY CREEK CHURCH 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 MassS OOa.m. and 10:45a.m. Saturday Mass 5:30 p.m. Confession Before Masses Holy Days 5:30p.m., 7a.m. and 7:30p.m. OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CATHOLIC CHURCH (4th And Main Streets) MILFORD Bro. James Linscott, Administrator Sunday Mass 10:30 a.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 CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTISTS (175 N. Detroit) WARSAW Sunday School 10 a.m. Sunday Service 10 a.m. Wednesday 7 p.m. GOSHEN FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST Service 10:30a.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. & 6p.m. Wednesday 7p.m. BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH NORTH WEBSTER Lonnie Nlcholl, Pastor Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship 10:30a.m. &6p.m. CHRISTIAN CHURCH MILFORD Dale Kuhns, Senior Minister Bible School 9:00 a.m. Worship 10:00a.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. CHURCH OF GOD NORTH WEBSTER Stephen W. Fouts, Pastor Jim Davey, Associate Men's Prayer Breakfast 7:00 a.m. Worship 8:30 and 10:45a.m. Sunday School 9:45 a. m. Evening Service of Praise 6 p.m.
Syracuse, will have its special Christmas program included in the 9:30 a m. worship service on Sunday, Dec. 20. This will be a dramatization, “Following the Christmas Story.” The players will include adults and children. There will then be an all-youth caroling party at 6:30 that even-
Building gift to Zion chapel
I By GLEN LONG I Staff Writer The old schoolhouse south of Syracuse, now known as the House of Friendship and longer ago as the Guy Schoolhouse, was recently donated to Zion Chapel United Brethren Church by its owners, Bud and Edith Watkins. The solid brick building sits across Syracuse-Webster Road from Zion Chapel, which will continue to use it for Sunday school classes and family reunions as it has for many years. Ida Bell Strieby and James Dewart owned the building in 1931, after it was no longer used as a school. In 1938 Dewart deeded the property to Mrs. Strieby. Bethel members go caroling On Saturday evening, Dec. 12, 35 children and adults from Bethel Church of the Brethren in Milford enjoyed going caroling. Places visited were Lakeland Loving Care Center and eight other residences including one in Syracuse. The group was transported by a bus driven by Herb Reuter. After the caroling tour, a chili supper, sponsored by the Shalom class, was served.
CHURCH OF GOD SYRACUSE Rev. Michael Johnson, Pastor Paul Yeager, S.S. Supt. Sunday School 9:30a.m. Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. Junior Worship 10:30a.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 9:15a.m. Morning Worship 10.30a.m. BYC Sunday6p.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 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 rapakoochia 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 (ill W. Orange St.) CROMWELL Paul Clement, Pastor Sunday School 9:00a.m. Worship Service 10:00 a.m. GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH (200 E. Main St.) SYRACUSE Richard Dunning, Pastor Worship 9:15 a.m. Sunday School 10:30a.m. TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD LIGONIER Don Fischer, Pastor Divine Service 9a.m. Sunday School & Bible Class 10:30 a.m. MILFORD CHAPEL Mennonite (East Catherine Street) Arthur Hershberger, Pastor Amos Ramer, Deacon Sunday School 10a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Sunday Evening Service 7 p.m. Wednesday Service 7 p.m.
ing. Bible Christian Church, located on CR 850E southeast of North Webster, will have its Christmas program, “Why Do We Have Christmas?" at the 10:30 a.m. worship service on Sunday, Dec. 20. This will include Christmas music and children acting out the
Her estate left it to her daughter, Moscalene Strieby Deaton, who willed it to Bud and Edith Watkins. Eldon Clayton, North Webster, remembers the building when it was a school, having attended school there in grades one through four, beginning in 1919. He said while he was there the “kids from Vawtor Park” were transferred to the school, swelling the enrollment to about 20 students. “I’m glad the bld school can still be used,” he said. “It’s a landmark of the past. My initials can still be seen in a brick on the back of the building.” Teachers who taught Clayton at the school were Sherm Deaton, Virgil Mock, Alma Plew and Lottie House. “The building was heated by a wood stove,” he said. “When you went out io the rest room you had to bring back a stick of wood. I earned a dollar a week while in the fourth grade by sweeping out the school every afternoon and starting the fire in the morning.” Clayton said he and his brother and sister, Fred Clayton and Lucy Rogers walked a mile to "I will give thee thanks in the great congregation.’' - Psalm 35:18
WAWASEE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF THENAZARENE Ron Blake, Pastor Church School 9:30a.m Worship 10:30 a.m. Christian Living Studies 6 p.m. Wednesday Midweek Service 7 p.m. OEWART LAKE COMMUNITY FRIENOS CHURCH (500E and 900 N) DEWART LAKE Lou Herchenroeder, Pastor Sunday School 9:15a.m Worship 10a.m (Quaker Hall) ROCK CHURCH INTERDENOMINATIONAL (13-A* 1050 N, E. Lake Wawasee) Rev Sarah M. Tuttle, and Or. Gary M. Tuttle, Pastors Morning Worship Warn. Evening Worship 7 p.m, Wednesday Bible School 7 p m. SALEM COMMUNITY CHURCH (I'/a Miles Southeast Os Wilmot) Pastor Kurt B. Church Sunday School 9:45a.m. Morning Worship 10:30a.m. Sunday Evening Service 6 p.m. Prayer Bible Study Wednesday 7 p.m. BURR OAK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Lawrence Byrnes, Pastor Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30 a.m. CALVARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (SR 13 South) SYRACUSE David C. Malsh, Pastor Kim Conrad, Church School Supt Church School 9:30a.m. Worship Service 10:40 a.m. CLUNETTE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Stewart Carter. Pastor Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship Service 10:30 a.m. HASTINGS ISLAND CHAPEL UNITEDMETHODIST CHURCH David Wldmoyer, 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 9:30 a.m. Church School 10:30a.m. UNITEDMETHODISTCHURCH ~ MILFORD Robert Ellison, Pastor Dan Brown, Lay Leader Church School 9:15 a.m. Worship 10:30.0.m. UMYF Sunday 5:30p.m. I Bible Study Wed 7:00 p.m.
Christmas story. New Salem Church of the Brethren, at CR 900 N and 200E southeast of Milford, will have “Calling Helpers” as morning sermon topic and the lighting of the fourth advent candle on Sunday, Dec. 20. The 7:30 p.m. sermon will be ‘Gift of the Magi and
school. He added that discipline in that day was swift and effective, administered with a willow switch with the sanction of
\ Ml*. WJt < i/ „ ' * ine K ZION CHAPEL CHURCH ANNEX - The House of Friendship, which served years ago as Guy School, now belongs to Zion Chapel United Brethren Church. It is located south of Syracuse and was a gift from Bud and Edith Watkins. The building will continue to be used for Sunday school classes and other church and family gatherings. (Photo by Glen Long)
MORRIS CHAPEL UNITEDMETHODIST R. 1, Pierceton Dan Walcott, Pastor Bob Wine, Supt. Sunday School 9:30a.m Worship 10:30a m UNITED METHODIST CHURCH NORTH WEBSTER Rex Lindemood, Pastor Worshlpß:3oa m.and 10:45a.m Church School 9:30 am. Senior High Youth Group, Sun. 7:00p.m. SAINT ANDREW'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH SYRACUSE Rev. Lewis Hathaway, Pastor Church School 9:15 am. Worship Hour 10:30a.m. Bible Study Wed. Nlght6:3op.m. UMYF Sunday Nlght6:3op.m. SOLOMON'S CREEK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Brian Clear, Pastor Worship 9 a.m. Sunday School 10 a.m. WORDOF GRACE FELLOWSHIP Robert Lewis Drive Westside Irish Lake Allen & Peggy Giant, Pastors Sunday Worship Wa.m. B 7 p.m. Wednesday 7 p.m. prayer meeting ZION CHAPEL U.B. CHURCH (Corner Syr.-Web. Rd. and 1000 NI Don Merlllat, Pastor Vernon Sholtey, S.S. Supt. Sunday School 9 a.m. Worship 10a.m. SYRACUSE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH (Corner Harrison * Pearl St.) Ronald G. Looney, Pastor Sunday School 10a.m. Praise and Worship Sunday 6:30 p.m. Bible Study, Thursday 7:30 p.m. WAWASEE LAKESIDE CHAPEL Harlan Steffen, Pastor Mark Pleister, Supt. Sue Ganthorn, Primary Supervisor Worehlp Service 10a.m. Sunday School lla:m. WAWASEE COMMUNITY I BIBLE CHURCH I Milford Tom Speicher, Pastor Sunday School, All Ages, 9:30a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m.
the film, “Christmastide” will be shown. Then at 8:30 p.m. church members will sing Christmas carols to distant members and missionaries via a telephone conference call. Rock Church, located on the east side of Wawasee Lake, will include its children’s Christmas
parents. Clayton said the school was closed because a new school had been built in Syracuse for which payment was difficult. The
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program at the 10 a.m. service on Dec. 20. The children will participate in the program, “There’s a Star In the Sky,” which will include Christmas carols. The church will also hold a candlelight communion service called “Festival of Lights,” at 7 p.m. onChristmas Eve.
surrounding county schools were closed and the kids transferred to Syracuse so that school could be paid for.