The Mail-Journal, Volume 26, Number 51, Milford, Kosciusko County, 3 February 1988 — Page 16
THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., February 3,1988
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Satan's version of Beatitudes
By ROBERT ELLISON I Pastor Os The Milford United Methodist Church The Beatitudes of Christ found in Matthew 5 have done more than almost anything else to mold imperfect disciples into the Divine image. But even in the face of these positive images, we must be consistently aware that there is another opposing power that we call Satan or the Devil, who seeks to influence all of us with his own version of the Beatitudes. They might read something like this: 1. Blessed are they who are too tired and busy to go to church on Sunday, for they are my best workers. 2. Blessed are they who are bored with the minister’s mannerisms and mistakes, for they get nothing out of the sermon. 3. Blessed is the church
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LOCAL GOSPEL GROUP — God’s Own, a gospel singing group from Nappanee, will be performing during a gospel concert to be given Saturday, Feb. 6, at 7 p.m. The concert will be held in the North Wood High School Auditorium, located on SR 19, north of Nappanee. Other groups featured on the program will be the Schwartz’s and Gospel Harmony, both from Sturgis, Mich.; plus a special guest. A freewill offering will be taken during the evening.
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member who expects to be invited to his own church, for he is part of the problem instead of the solution. 4. Blessed are they who gossip, for they cause strife and divisions that please me. 5. Blessed are they who are easily offended, for they soon get angry and quit. 6. Blessed are they who do not give their offerings to carry on God’s work, for they are my best helpers. 7. Blessed is he who professed to love God but hates his brother and sister, soy he shdll be with me forever. } 8 . B 1e s s e (Ta r e the troublemakers, for they shall be called the children of the devil. 9. Blessed is he who has no time to pray, for he will be easy prey. This gives us all something to thinly about, doesn’t it?
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IN CONCERT — Surrender, a local Gospel music group, will present a concert at New Paris Church of the Brethren, on Fourth Street in New Paris on Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. There will be no admission charge. The group includes, from front left: Vicki Martin, Goshen; and Kathy Carpenter, Goshen; and standing, Reed Juday, Wakarusa; and Steve Martin, Goshen. Steve Martin is Vicki’s husband and Kathy Carpenter’s brother. Surrender has been singing together for about one year. With the men playing guitars, Vicki Martin adds the music of a synthesizer. * Surrender offers contemporary Gospel music. Most of their music is original.
ABS says Russians will not have to pay for Bibles
Russian Baptists, who are awaiting the arrival early this year of a gift of 100,000 Bibles from Baptists in the United States and the Bible Societies, may go to their local churches to obtain copies. Furthermore, churchgoers will not have to pay for them, says Dr. John D. Erickson, an officer of the American Bible Society and also of the global United Bible Societies fellowship, which is producing and shipping the Bibles in partnership with the Baptist World Alliance. The costs have already been borne by the partnership. Christians who receive the Bibles will be asked only to give an offering of thanks for receiving the Scriptures, but this is entirely voluntary. Because they are a gift, the Bibles may not be offered for sale, says Dr. Ulrich Fick, general secretary of ÜBS. That would go against regulations. The only possible distribution channel is through the churches, adds Dr. Fick. Bookstores or
APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN MILFORD Jesse Beer, Nelson Beer Will Schleler and Walter Steffen, Ministers Morning Worship 10 a.m. Afternoon Worship 12:15 p.m. z CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH (Armstrong Road) OSWEGO Roderick V. Smith, Pastor Sunday School 9:30a.m. Morning Worship 10:30a.m. Sunday Evening Worships p.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7 p.m. AWANA Clubs Wednesday 6:15 p.m. Word of Life Club Wed. 5:15 p.m. FILAOELFIA EVANGELICAL SPANISH ASSEMBLY OF GOD, Milford Bi-Llngual Services Pastor Alberto J imenez Sunday School 9:30 a. 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 Mlckley, Pastor Sunday School 9:30 a.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 10:30 a.m. NEW SALEM CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN (MON B MOE) Kenneth 8. 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 Klntner, Pastor Morning Worship 9:30a.m. Sunday School 10:30a.m.
similar outlets of Scriptures do not exist in the Soviet Union, as is also the case in many of the more than 180 countries where the Bible Societies are active; nor is there the same access to the media. This pattern of distribution is identical to the one followed two years ago for a shipment of 10,000 Russian Bibles which the Bible Societies and the Baptists sent to Moscow, the American Bible Societyreports. At that time regional superintendents of the All-Union Council of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (AUCECB) traveled to the capital from other parts of the Soviet Union to collect their allocation, which was based on local church membership. The Bibles were handed out by pastors to members of their congregations. The current coasignment, which consists of 98,000 Bibles in Russian and 2,000 in Ukrainian, were scheduled to leave Stuttgart, West Germany, by road at
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 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., 7 a.m. and 7:30p.m. OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CATHOLIC CHURCH (4th And Main Streets) ’ MILFORD Bro. Jam<“Xi,nscott, Administrator Sunday Ma ssro: 30 am. FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTISTS (175 N. Detroit) WARSAW Sunday School 10 a.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 7:45 p.m. Reading Room open Monday, Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m.to3p.m. NORTHERN l/KES CHRISTIAN CHURCH Located 14 cottages east of the Tippecanoe Country Club, EMS 35, Country Club Lane, Lake Tippecanoe Thorpe and Karen Mitchell, Pastors Worship Services Sunday 10 a.m. 8, 6p.m. Wednesday 7 p.m. BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH NORTH WEBSTER Lonnie Nlcholl, Pastor . Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship 16:30a.m. & 6p.m. CHRISTIAN CHURCH MILFORD Dale Kuhns, Senior Minister Brian Wilcox, Youth Minister Sunday School 9:00 a.m. Worship 10:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study6:4sp.m. CHURCH OF GOD NORTH WEBSTER Stephen W. Fouts, Pastor Jim Davey, Associate Man's Prayer Breakfast 7:00a.m. Worship 8:30 and 10:45a.m. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Evening Service of PralseAp.m. CHURCH OF GOD > SYRACUSE Rev. Michael Johnson, Pastor Paul Yeager, S.S. Supt. Sundey School 9:30a.m. Morning Worship 10:30a.m. Junior Worship 10:30 a.m.
the end of January and are expected to arrive in the Soviet Union about a week later. Announcement of the availability of the Bibles will be made by the churches. Their arrival will coincide with the celebration of the baptism of the first Christian in Russia 1,000 years ago. The authorities have also given the Russian Orthodox Church permission to produce 10,000 Bibles in observance of the millenial celebration. Praise the Lord! Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands: Sing forth the honor of his name: make his praise glorious. Psalm 66:1,2
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. ALLSAINTS' 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 Sunday 6 p.m. Mid Week Worship 7 p.m. GRACE BIBLE CHURCH SYRACUSE Dr. David R. Halfley, 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 9:30-10:30 a.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 10:30 a.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. GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH (200 E. Main St.) SYRACUSE Richard Dunning, Pastor Worship 9:15 a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. ? TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD LIGONIER Don Fischer, Pastor Divine Service 9 a.m. Sunday School & Bible Class 10:30 a.m. MILFORD CHAPEL Mon nonite (East Catherine Street) Arthur Hershberger, Pastor Amos Ramer, Deacon Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Sunday Evening Service 7 p.m. Wednesday Service 7 p.m.
WAWASEE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE Ron Blake, Pastor Church School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30a.m. Christian Living Studies 4 p.m. Wednesday Midweek Service 7 p.m. DEWART LAKE COMMUNITY FRIENDS CHURCH (500Eand900N) DEWART LAKE Lou Herchenroeder, Pastor Sunday School 9:15 a .m. Worship 10a.m. (Quaker Hall) FREEDOM CHAPEL NON-DENOMINATIONAL Ken Harkless Drive, Syracuse Ray Shanklin, Pastor Sunday Worship 10a.m. Tuesday Evening Worship 7 p.m. ROCK CHURCH INTERDENOMINATipNAL (13-A & 10S0N, 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 (1 >/ 2 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. BUkROAK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Lawrence Byrnes, Pastor 1Sunday School 9:30 a.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 9:30 a.m. Worship Service 10:40a.m. HASTINGS ISLAND CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH David Wldmoyer, Pastor Kendall Biller, Supt. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship 10:30 a.m. Prayer Meeting Thursday 7:30 p.m. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH LEESBURG Donald C. Lacy, Pastor Morning Worship 9:30a.m. Church'School 10:30 a.m. UN ITED METHODIST CHURCH MILFORD Robert Ellison, Pastor Dan Brown, Lay Leader Church School 9:15 a.m. Worship 10:30 a.m. UMYF Sunday 5:30 p.m. Bible Study Wed. 7:00 p.m.
North Webster church ‘ ■ a youth group is busy
I ByGLENLONG Staff Writer Jim Davey, associate pastor at North Webster Church of God, and his family have resided in North Webster close to two years. He said he is happy to report that there has been good growth in the youth group of the church, spiritually as well as in number. “Our overall objective in working with our youth is to help them grow in Jesus Christ to build a relationship with Him,” said the pastor. “We try to help the youth catch a vision as to what they can accomplish as a group and get them unified too work together. We’re still not where we want to be, but we’re moving in the right direction.” He added that by helping the youth become unified he hopes to build a sense of unity in the parent group and also help parents work with their children. Davey said involvement in the youth group can help with the ongoing challenge to reach out to parents who do not themselves attend a church. “I have been in youth ministry for about eight years and the objective of Jesus Christ is solid, it never changes even thougtf He continues to teach me more things,” he added. “We see this as a total ministry and want to teach youth wherever they are. The main thing is to get youth involved where they are. I’m concerned to see the churches in the community working together. I admire the efforts of the Syracuse-Wawasee Ministerial Association in their new Teen Youth Fellowship. Maybe we can pattern after this.” The pastor said a proper balance is important and he tries to balance what the youth group is doing by constant evaluation. He tries to make sure that too much emphasis is not being made on either fun things or Bible study and observed that there must be a Christian purpose for all the youth group does. “I’ve received so much support from Pastor Steve (Fouts), church leadership and parents,” he said. “It’s great to be a part of a church where members have so much love for each other. ” The Church of God youth group is a very energetic group. They recently completed an all-church auction fund-raiser at which they raised $2,100. At the end of February a ski trip to Michigan is planned for both the junior high
MORRIS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST R. 1, Pierceton Wilbur Workman, Pastor Ron Campbell, Supt. Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30a.m, UNITED METHODIST CHURCH NORTH WEBSTER Rex Lindemood, Pastor o Worship 8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Church School 9:30a.m. Senior High Youth Group, Sun. 7:00p.m. CLUNETTE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Carter, Pastor Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship Service 10:30 a.m. SAI9(T ANDREW'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH SYRACUSE Rev. Lewis Hathaway, Pastor j[. Church School 9:15 a.m. Worship Hour 10:30a.m. Bible Study Wed. Night4:3op.m. UMYF Sunday Night6:3op.m. SOLOMON'S CREEK UNITEDMETHODIST CHURCH Brian Clear, Pastor Worship 9a.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. & 7 p.m. Wednesday 7 p.m. prayer meeting ZION CHAPEL U.B. CHURCH (Corner Syr.-Web. Rd. and 1000 N) Don Merillat, Pastor Dan Vandiver, S.S. Supt. Sunday School 9 a.m. Worship 10 a.m. SYRACUSE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH (Corner Harrison A 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 Pfelster, Supt. SueGanshorn, Primary Supervisor Worship Service 10 a.m. 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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IT’S LUNCH TIME, DAD — The family of Jim Davey, associate pastor at North Webster Church of God, went to the church pick him up for lunch on Tuesday, Feb. 2. Shown with the pastor are his wife, Mary; his son, Joshua; and, on her dad’s arm, daughter Jessica. (Photo by Glen Long)
and senior high youth groups and the senior high group is focusing on going to Winnipeg, Canada next summer to the Church of God International Youth Convention. The junior high group will study in February a course called “God’s View of Sex” from the series, “Sex is for Marriage.” In a few weeks there will be a friendship banquet featuring oriental food prepared by church members Huong Tran and Wanda Mickley. A “planned famine” is scheduled in March. This is a 24-hour experience for the purpose of raising money to combat wond hunger. In addition to these special activities, the youth group meets
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after church on Sunday evening for a social event and there is a separate meeting of the junior and senior high groups on Wednesday evenings. “This busy group never sits still,” added the pastor. “We have a ‘Challenge’ group at Wawasee High School which meets on Wednesday morning from 7:30 to 8 a.m. We’re praying for revival in the high school and hope others will want to join in this time of devotions.” Davey closed with the comihent that it sure is fun working with all the energy and idea? the young people have. He added that all young people in the North Webster area are welcome to join in this loving fellowship.