The Mail-Journal, Volume 26, Number 52, Milford, Kosciusko County, 10 February 1988 — Page 16
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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., February 10,1988
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TAKING THE PLUNGE — Jared Beer (inset, lower right) is showing his high diving form as he and other youth from area churches have a great time in the Wawasee High School pool during the recent gym/swim night. (Photo by Rich Rhodes)
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By RICH RHODES The first activity for the newly organized area church youth
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church youth a great party
group was held at Wawasee High School on Sunday evening, Feb. 7. The area youth committee was pleasantly surprised, after planning for 130 people, when 154 young
people showed up. It worked out, though. When the 24 large pizzas were all gone they had popcorn, pop and assorted other foods to chow down on. A wide variety of games and activities were shared by all, including swimming, board games, basketball shooting contests, volleyball, and, of course, eating. The organization to make this and future events possible is the Syracuse-Wawasee Ministerial Association, with Harlan Steffen as coordinator. The area youth committee has not determined how often these social events will take place so young people are encouraged to watch for posted signs and newspaper articles for times and places. These events are not just for area young people. This is an outreach program, so anybody from grade seven through age 22 is invited to come out to have some good, clean Christian fun and fellowship with other people their age. The area youth committee deems this event a huge success and expects even more participation at the next get-together to be scheduled.
APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN MILFORD Jesse Beer, Nelson Beer Will Schlelerand 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 WorshipSp.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7 p.m. AWANA Clubs Wednesday 6:15 p.m. Word of Life Club Wed. 5:15p.m. FILADELFIA EVANGELICAL SPANISH ASSEMBLY OF GOD, Milford Bi-Llngual Services Pastor Alberto Jimenez Sunday School 9:30 a.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 J 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 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Mid-Week Wed. 7 p.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 7:30 BETHELCHURCHOF 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 (900NA200E) Kenneth & Helen Hollinger, 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 Klntner, Pastor Morning Worship 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m.
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I ByGLENLONG Staff Writer The ceremony or sacrament of baptism to admit a person into Christianity or a specific Christian church is a very important time to an individual. Being baptized is done in several ways, depending on the practices of the church being joined. These methods of baptism appear in Webster’s Dictionary as “dipping him in water or pouring or sprinkling water on him as a symbol of washing away sin and of spiritual purification.” The immersion method of baptism has a different meaning believed by many to be the true meaning of baptism. Father Hammond, pastor of St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church near Syracuse, referred to the Epistle of Paul, the Apostle, to the Romans in the New Testament to share this meaning. Romans 6:3-4 reads, “Know ye not, that so many of us that were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” A Syracuse couple privileged to share in the joy of infant baptism at St. Martin de Porres are
A time of love
By MARIETTA FULLER During special holidays such as Valentine’s Day, Easter, Christmas,, etc., and during special observances such as Mother’s Day, birthdays, etc., there seems to be a great deal of love being shown. What is love? It is being kind, unselfish, patient, not envying, and not being proud, thinking, saying, and doing only good things and rejoicing in the truth (1 Cor. 13); bearing one another’s burdens, (Galatians 6:2); showing hospitality (1 Peter 4:9); imparting some spiritual gift (Romans 1:11); in “edifying” (1 Thess. 2:13) — promoting spiritual growth; in inviting the “unchurched” to church; praying for all saints (Eph. 6:18) and others —for this is love on its knees; forgiving those who sin against us (Matthew 6:12); remembering those in need, and visiting the sick, shut-ins, ! ahd those in prison (Matthew
TURKEY CREEK CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN GRAVELTON Dorotha and Ivan Fry, Team Pastors Church School 9:30 a.m. Worship 10:30a.m. SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES CATHOLIC CHURCH SYRACUSE Father Robert Hammond Sunday Massß:ooa.m.and 10:45a.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. James Linscott, Administrator Sunday Mass 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. 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 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 9:30 a.m. Worship 10:30 a.m. 8> 6 p.m. CHRISTIAN CHURCH MILFORD Dale Kuhns, Senior Minister Brian Wilcox, Youth Minister Sunday School 9:00 a.m. Worship 10:00a.m. and6:3op.m. Wednesday 'BlbleStudy6:4sp.m. CHURCH OF GOD NORTH WEBSTER Stephen W. Fouts, Pastor Jim Davey, Associate Men's Prayer Breakfast 7:00 a.m. Worshlpß:3o and 10:45 a.m. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Evening Service of Praise 6 p.m. CHURCH OF GOD SYRACUSE Rev. Michael Johnson, Pastor Paul Yeager, S.S. Supt. Sunday School 9:30a.m. Morning Worship 10:30a.m. Junior Worship 10:30 a.m.
25:35,36). A car sticker said, “Have you hugged your kid today?” Our searching hearts should say, “Have I loved others today?” How do we love God and others? We love God by keeping His commandments (John 14:15); and one of them is to “walk not in sin” (Eph. 4:1-19) for we cannot be filled with the Spirit of Jesus unless the temples of our bodies are cleansed. Jesus said, “without me, ye can do nothing” (John 15:5); and therefore, we have no capacity to love (Romans 5:5). After being cleansed, we ask to be filled with the Spirit and show control by saying such things as “and please help me to live right; then we are greater filled by singing songs or speaking (reading) in psalms, and thanking God. (Eph. 5:18-20). In conclusion: “Beloved, let us love one another for love is of God, and knoweth God” and so every day should be a “Time of Love.”
CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN SYRACUSE D. Arnold Naff, Pastor Junior Blough, Supt. Sunday School 9:30 a m. Morning Worship 10:30a.m. Sunday Bible Study 7 p.m. ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH SHORE LAKE WAWASEE Vicar: Rev. David L. Hyndman Holy Eucharist: 9 a.m. FIRST BRETHREN CHURCH MILFORD Paul Tinkel, Pastor Church School 9:15a.m. Morning Worship 10:30 a.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 7 p.m. GRACE BRETHREN CHURCH LEESBURG Art Bushen, C.E. Director Marlin Rose, Moderator Sunday School 10:30 a.m. Morning Worship 9:30a.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 10:00 a.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 Servlcg9ajn. Sunday School 8. Bible Class 10:30 a.m. MILFORDCHAPEL Mon nonits (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.
John and Linda Hickey, who recently moved to Syracuse from Fort Wayne. They were almost immediately drafted by Sister Adele, who was moving from the area, to carry on the function of counseling parents bringing their children for baptism. “We prepare parents for the initiation of their child into the Christian community, which is baptism,” said Linda. “We meet in two sessions, optimally with one set of parents and Godparents. Because of numbers we have met with four families at onetime.” John added that they take their parental concern of the parents for the future of their child and help them see the dignity of baptism, which they are seeking for their child. He said they help the parents realize that the entire Christian community will be welcoming their child. “We help them to understand their responsibility to pass the faith on to their child and challenge them by word and action to do that,” Linda added. “It is exciting for us to be a part of this preparation. The excitement and enthusiasm of new parents are contageous. We even sometimes have the opportunity to hold the new babies.” John calls their preparation time “our opportunity.” He said the second session with parents includes a film of a baptism
WAWASEE COMMUNITY CHURCH OFTHENAZARENE Ron Blake, Pastor Church School 9:30 a.m. Worship 10:30 a.m. Christian Living Studies 6 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) FREEDOMCHAPEL NON-DENOMINATIONAL Ken Harkless Drive, Syracuse Ray Shanklin, Pastor Sunday Worship 10a.m. Tuesday Evening Worship 7 p.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 (V/i Miles Southeast Os Wilmot) Pastor Kurt B. Church Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. Sunday Evening Service 6 p.m. Prayer-Bible Study Wednesday 7 p.m. BURR OAK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Lawrence Byrnes, Pastor Sunday School 9:30 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 10:40 a.m. HASTINGS ISLAND CHAPEL UNITED METHOOIST 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 Ip:3oa.m. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH MILFORD Robert Ellison, Pastor Dan Brown, Lay Leader Church School 9:15 a.m. Worship Jo:3o*.m. UMYF Sunday 5:30 p.m. Bible Study Wed. 7:00 p.m.
because parents and god-parents may be anxious about the mechanics of the ceremony. “This lets them know who stands where and what will happen next.” he said. Special program at Bethel Bethel Church of the Brethren in Milford will host several missionaries as they join in a round table discussion on Sunday evening, Feb. 14, at 7 p.m. Blanche Sell and Dorothy Williams of Goshen will join John and Rosemary Rouch of Waubee Lake as featured panelists. V k ’wEBBBHBHEBI BLANCHE SELL The public is encouraged to attend and participate in the sharing of interesting information by these panelists with the Bethel congregation in an informal setting. Blanche Sell served 26 years at 1 Dhamtari Christian Hospital and its nursing school through the Mennonite Board of Missions and in Indore for the Christian Medical Association of India from 1976 to 1984. A native of Souderton, Pa., she is now retired and lives at Greencroft Retirement Center in Goshen. ''Dorothy Williams, a retired Milford junior high and senior high school teacher, served in Angola, West Africa, and also lives at Greencroft. John and Rosemary Rouch served in Nigeria, West Africa, with the Church of the Brethren Mission Board. John now teaches at Fairfield High School and Rosemary works in Warsaw.
MORRIS CHAPEL UNITEDMETHODIST R. 1, Pierceton Wilbur Workman, Pastor Ron Campbell, Supt. Sunday School 9:30 a m. Worship 10:30a.m. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH NORTH WEBSTER Rex Llndemood, Pastor Worship 8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Church School 9:30 a m. Senior High Youth Group, Sun. 7:00 p.m. CLUNETTE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Stewart Carter, Pastor Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship Service 10:30 a.m. SAINT ANDREW'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH SYRACUSE Rev. Lewis Hathaway, Pastor Church School 9:15 a.m. Worship Hour 10:30a.m. Bible Study Wed. Nlght6:3op.m. UMYF Sunday Night 6:30p.m. SOLOMON'S CREEK UNITED METHODIST 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 10a.m. & 7 p.m. Wednesday 7 p.m. prayer meeting ZION CHAPEL U.B. CHURCH (Corner Syr.-Web. Rd. and 1000 N) Don Merlllat, Pastor Dan Vandiver, S.S. Supt. Sunday School 9a.m. Worship 10 a.m. SYRACUSE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH (Comer 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 Pfelster, Supt. Sue Genshorn, Primary Supervisor Worship Service 10a.m. Sunday School 11 a.m. 1 WAWASEE COMMUNITY \ BIBLE CHURCH I Milford Tom Speicher, Pastor Suriw School, All Ages, 9:30a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m.
Both the Hickeys feel the informal setting of a home, the parents’ or their own, is important as they meet with parents. With a strong background in engagement and marriage preparation seminars while in Fort Wayne, they are a good choice to discuss baptism with parents.
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THEY ENJOY THEIR CHURCH — Linda and John Hickey pause in their cozy family room to discuss their function at St. Martin de Porres Church as counselors to parents bringing children to be baptized. Having moved recently from Fort Wayne, they consider it a real opportunity to get to know other families in the Syracuse area. (Photo by Glen Long)
'Have a Heart for family' is theme for Wawasee Heights
Pastor Jerry Walden reported that Wawasee Heights Baptist Church wants to offer help to area families through both spiritual and emotional support groups. Committed to the wellbeing of the family unit, whether as a single parent or a couple, WHBC is building a program that seeks to make attendees better Christians and better parents. , Any who may feel that their family is being pulled apart or have so much to do each day that they collapse at night will learn that they are not alone. Many people feel the same struggle. ■ , i “Have a Heart For Family will be the theme for a family day
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The Hickeys recognize that other churches also stress the importance of baptism in the life of a Christian and John said, “No matter what the church, the best thing parents can do as they bring their children into the fellowship of the church is to show them the love they have as a couple.”
scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 14. The purpose of this day is to demonstrate that everyone needs family. The day’s activities will include the Sunday school hour and morning worship service followed by a family fellowship dinner. The activities will conclude in the afternoon with a special family share time which will provide enjoyment geared to all ages. All area families are invited to come share in this time together to take part in this family atmosphere. Please call 457-4107 with any questions about this ministry or any othef Sfijlmi(y related ministry offered by the church.