The Mail-Journal, Volume 28, Number 10, Milford, Kosciusko County, 19 April 1989 — Page 16

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL —Wed., April 19, 1989

National Day of Prayer May 4

j ByGLEN LONG Staff' riter On Thursday. May 4, the 37th consecutive observance of the National Day of Prayer will reach into cities and towns throughout the United States. This year marks the beginning of a new era for the National Day of Prayer, whose origin dates back to the First Continental Congress Acknowledging its long tradition and growing vitality, a bipartisan coalition in Congress last year passed legislation to give the National Day of Prayer the honor of its own permanent date on the nation's calendar President Reagan signed a bill on May 5, 1988. making the National Day of Prayer the first Thursday of every May. Rex Lindemood. pastor of the

e/ / it/ r j ■ 1 ■rx .w r I x * "✓ P Wk ' BP UPHOLDS NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER — Rex Lindemood, pastor of the United Methodist Church in North Webster, enjoyed the chance to discuss this nation's history as he remembered some of the facts he has read about the upcoming National Day of Prayer observance on May I. He said he feels strongly that people should be thankful for the schools as well as those who serve well in government. < Photo by Glen Long)

Lakeland Churches . APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN ALL SAINTS' WAWASEE COMMUNITY CHURCH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH MILFORD SYRACUSE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE MILFORD I ««”r ———— * AUUIHVUI J fc WARSAW Jesse Beer Nelson Beer D Arnold Naff, Pastor SOUTH SHORE LAKE WAWASEE Ron Blake, Pastor Ben Wh.rledge, Pastor Kemoaellnfl 411 ■ nil A. HHIWnfl W,nsch,eler and Walter Steffen, Jun,or Blough. Sup! Vicar Rev David L Hyndman Church School 930 a m Dan Brown, Lay Leader |Ii:KSIIRI/ * Insurance Bflpair fl 111 fl Uli B CVDAPIICr Ministers Sunday School 930 a m Holy Eucharist 9a m Worship 10 30a m. Church School 9 ISa m WnVMaVAII . . Sfor — «J-_ v|lll|UV dlnnvUOE Mornmg Worship 10a m Morning Worship 10 30 am Christian Living Studies 6p m Worship 10 30 am I CONSTRUCTION DICI I • 1 > ■■■• ■ ■■F UADTU U/CDCTED Alternoor Worsh.p 12 >5 p m Sunday Bible Study 7p m Wednesday Midweek Service 7pm UMY F Sunday 530 p m I ! ’J [457-5417 NUKIH WtDdltn ■ FIRST BRETHRENCHURCH Bible Study Wed 7 00 pm L MILFORD General Contractor Syracuse, IN 46567 TURKEY CREEK CHURCH Paul Tinkel, Pastor FREEDOM CHAPEL -x— CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH ‘ OF THE BRETHREN Church School 9 ISa m , NON DENDMINATIONAL UNITED METHOdKt I Armstrong Road) GRAVELTON Morning Worship 10:30 am Syr. Web. Road, S. of CR 1100 N I TED METHODIST - OSWEGO Kenneth Swank Pastor BYC Sunday 6pm. Ray Shanklin, Pastor wiihur wA 1/ d ° N , ' Roderick V Smith. Pastor Church School 9 30 a m M.d Week Worship 7p m Sunday Worship 10 a. nr Ron CamobeTTunt I Ffll Attend The Church ks.’ssss.. / M n, OSKO printer? Sunday Evening Worship 6pm GRACE BIBLE CHURCH . Vr\l ir L-\ IO r\ Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7p m SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES SYRACUSE DEWART LAK E COMMUNITY MlB P.0.80x 446 Milford, IN 46542 I J J | f) IJ | v>IIC? ICj AWANA Clubs Wednesday 615 p m CATHOLIC CHURCH Dr David R Hattley, Pastor FRIENDS CHURCH VI I V7LJI word Os L-fe Club Wednesday 6 15pm SYRACUSE Sunday School 945 am (500E and 900 N) UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (219)658-4180 Father Richard Urbine Morning Worship 11 a m nru/APTiAKF UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Sunday Mass 800 a m and 10 30 a m Sunday Even ing Service 7p m im. Pastor NORTHWEBSTER Saturday Mass 5 OOp m Wednesday Evening Service 7 p m ChnnioiSAm Rex Lindemood. Pastor BRUCE'S MARATHON /jjjTk '«■ J s H ” ( Aiw.y,K«po.r (**>) ■ FFtFsF ~r.7===., VILLAGE PLUMBING & HEATING 658-9113 It wy. 15, minora AWAN4r [ llh Aw „ m P .TT L .." D - Fellowships 30a:m Morning Worship toa.m < Rev R.rhard Bonnell, Pastor ■— — H B r o James Linscott, Administrator Sunday Evening Worship 6p m Evening Worship 7p m Church School 9is a m Sunday Mass 10 30 am B.bie Study SM M & Boys Club, Wednesday Bibie Schoo, 7pm “pHo“ to 30 a m Wednesday 7p, m Communion Wed Nights 45 pm kmM| FIRST CHURCH OF Bible Study Wed Night 6 00 p m Cfi • EBKO FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH rmo IST sr i FNTKTS ee UMYF Sunday Night 6 30 p m TT O ▼▼ VV UV<H • CORRECT CRAFT XR < OTITTITiI ? nPOSWFC.O CHRIST SCIENTISTS JEHOVAH'S WITNESS SALEM COMMUNITY CHURCH y y h • BOSTON WHALER glllllUlO w e.yRoyM.X, p* E ,®° "" N Detroit) KINGDOMHALL (1 ,, Miles Southeast Os Wdmot) Rinker Century. Americon Skier. J.C. Pontoon • HARRIS FIOTBOTE W2W3SBB Sonda, Srhnni 9 30a m WARSAW ( East Papakeechie Lake Drive) Pastor Kurt B Church „ MacGregor Sailboots. Johnson Motors • HARRIS FIOTDECK Ml m»»rin«s Wo-shm Ser wee :0 30 a m Sunday S hooi 10 a m Sunday Public Lecture 9 30 a m Sunday School 9 45 a m SOLOMON'S CREEK No Sole Is Complete Without Service" • manna *os,pse«eo» s , , 0 a m Watchtower Study TO 30 am Morn,ng Worsh.p .0 30 a m UNITED METHODIST CHURCH p . CVPAriICC •EZ LOADER TRAILER QCC *)*)OC Wednesday 7.pm Tuesday Study of Prophecy 730 p m Sunday Evening Serviced pm Hernia North Pastor “1 457-4404 SYRACUSE • TRAILMASTER TRAILER UdOZZOU Family Owned Since 1 946 Thursday Ministry School 7p m Prayer Bible Study Wednesday 7p m Worship9am WAWASEE HEIGHTS OOSHFN FIRST CHURCH » Sunday School 10a m BAPTIST CHURCH (Across From High School) OF CHRIST SCIENTIST CALVAR Y LUTHERAN CHURCH BURR OAK | ■ fMRIA/illfP Jerry Wa’den Pastor mTO a m (111 W Orange St.) UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ZION CHAPEL UB CHURCH fIQ jljfl KUBBtR J," Rodgers Youth Pastor Doug Srr ith. S S Supt Wednesday Se vice 45 p Laraine Sundin Pastor Sunday School 930 a m DonMerillat Pastor PRODUCTS, me. — r = =4”"" Pacific Molasses Company 457-3141 M,d Week Wed 7pm Worsh.plOam SwTAC-lIREs . AWANA Clubs Wed 6 30 p m DyraCUSe R 1135 South Sycomore northern lakes grace Lutheran church calvary united . LammaßMM eJ CHRISTIAN CHURCH METHODIST CHURCH BETHAN Y CHURCH OF Located 14 cottages east of the T,p (SRBSouth) . SYRACUSE UNITED THE BRETHREN pecanoe Country Club. EMS 35. Country SYRACUSE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH ,us “ Club Lane. Lake Tippecanoe Worsh,o9lsam Dav,d C Maish. Pastor (Corner Harnson 4 Pearl St t [Oft A kl MON U MINT fO F Wayne Lawson Pas Tor Thorpe and Karen Mitchell. TuTiLy Siamund A* Inc. Morning Worship 9 30a m Pastors D,ane Wh.tacre. Youth Worker Sunday School 10 a m MONIIMPNT DISPI AY ’ Sunday School 10 30a m Worship Services Sunday 10a m 4 Church School 9 30a m Praiseand-Worship Sunday 6 30p m rfWMFN Wednesday Activity N.ght 730 6 P m TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH Worship Services 30a m Bible Study. Thursday 730 p m IN CrUbHtN GOSHEN nd.o~u.n-s. ELKHART Wednesday p “‘“XnieV °° andioroam Phone Goihen 533-21 • 1 Open Doily 9 A.M. To 5.30 P.M. BETHEL CHURCHOF BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH Don F,«her. Pastor CLUNETTE UNITED Ha**n*s*Hen plstw' 06 CHAPEL ——— THE THE BRETHREN NORTH WEBSTER BibleOass ft) 30a m METHODIST CHURCH Mark Pfeister Supt MILFORD Lonnie Nichol I. Pastor John Bell. Pastor Sue Ganshorn. Primary Supervisor 7ern * H Leininger. Pastor Sunday School 930 a m Sunday School 930 a m Worsh.p Service 10 am W 3 W3C Oil QoM/IPO PAfrfOF 1 ▼Lit* I rrODIIDP* D AMI/ Raymond Hoover Bd Chm Worship 10 30 a m A6 p m rHAPEL Worship Service 10 30 a m Sunday School 11 a m < PWtUPS f fIOWdOVV Wvl f IvV VvlllUl THE LttSBUHb BANK )r3F3\ Full 4 Self Service Worship 10 30am _ fWfira M Mpmhpr CHRISTIAN CHURCH (East Catherine yreert K *A*Jil Diesel IP Gosolme K 1 Keros«n« umcew Memoer MILFORD Arthur Hershberger Pastor 4C7 1717 Mini Mort Hrst National Bank NEWSALEMCHURCH Chris Mahan senior Minister Amos Ramer Deacon HASTINGS WAWASEE COMMUNITY Wittl FDIC OF THE BRETHREN Brian Wilcox Youth Minister Sunday School 10a m ISLAND CHAPEL BIBLE CHURCH SR 13 Across From Bow/mg Syracuse Os Warsaw UIPUW ,mM47OOE> SundayS<hool9 ooam Worsh.p Service 11 a m UNITED METHODIST CHURCH * MILFORD Ui———tn^^— Pob-r. Rice Jr Pastor Worship 10 00a m Sunday Evening Service 7p m Gary Lewis. 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United Methodist Church in North Webster, said. "The National Day of Prayer is a time when all of us, whether we believe in the church or whatever we believe, should ask God to remember us as a people It's a day when church bells will ring. It calls us as a people to hold up our nation before God. All world concerns should be held up by even non-Christians in fairness to America.” The pastor said our founding fathers wanted us to be a Godfearing nation for all. not just Protestant Christians "Everyone ought to offer up a prayer for the Schools as well as those who govern us." -he said "Workers should even pray for their bosses in the factories " Abraham Lincoln, who Pastor Lindemood feels is the greatest theologian to have been in the presidency, said in a proclama-

tion of a "day of humiliation, fasting and prayer" in 1863, "It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God. to confess their sins and transgressions.. .and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.... The National Day of Prayer Task Force and its parent, the S'ational Prayer Committee, urge all Americans to become personally involved in the observance. "Now that the National Day of Prayer is a specific day that can be anticipated and found on our calendars we trust that many more Americans will join in thanking God for His many blessings upon this land and in praying for the future of our nation,” stated Vonette Bright, cochairman with entertainer/author, Pat Boone, of the National Day of Prayer Task Force. Milford church youth to hold cut-a*thon The Christian Church of Milford will be a busy place on Saturday, April 22. The youth of the church, who will be going on a mission trip to the American Indian Christian Mission in Show Low. Ariz., will be holding a cut-a-thon. A cut-a-thon is a time in which members of the community can go to the church fellowship hall to receive a haircut. The Christian Church is fortunate to have two beauticians who are members of the church. Robin Stiffler and vJaciele Rumfelt These two ladles will cut as much hair as they can in a six-hour period from Ba.m to2pm This event is donations only. There will be no charge for the services All proceeds from the cut-a-thon will go toward the youth mission trip this summer

Jesus said: Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Matthew 5:5

—- 2 ‘ \ - * **• ‘ —***». \ ■— - 'A—. — — —■ — . x. NkuMl _ - -.-— a I: - ’ v iCT ~ V - — I'' 2 -- C?-~~~77~2~ : '-<7. BY QUIET WATERS — This cross stands on the hill above Lake Wawasee, where the noisy activities of summer have not yet begun. Behind the cross, on the south shore of the lake at Vawter Park, is All Saints' Episcopal Church. Rev. David L. Hyndman, vicar of the church, is president of the Syracuse/Wawasee Ministerial Association. (Photo by Glen Long)

Meditations on flowers

By MARIETTA FULLER Guest Writer The florists have a slogan. "Say it with flowers.” When given at weddings, birthdays, Mother's Day, anniversaries, other celebrations or at funerals or to the sick and shut-ins, flowers are a testimony of love and joy. They are a special token of Jesus (Y'shua), who commanded that we love one another. We have all heard the saying. “April showers bring May flowers.” A hike or drive through the woods, parks, countryside or around town, mountains or lakes in the spring brings joy to the heart as one sees God’s glory in the various flowers and flowering shrubs and trees. In Luke 12:22-29 we are told to consider. . the lilies for they toil not. neither do they spin; yet Solomon in all his glory was not

arrayed like one of these. It speaks to Christians to have faith in God for He will supply their needs. When we think of lilies, however, we remember the song, "The Lily of the Valley," for it\ speaks as did Solomon 2:1 of the Lord. It says that "He is everything to me. He’s the fairest of ten thousand to my soul" and it goes on to list the wonders of Him. In the Song of Solomon 2:1, the bridegroom, who is likened to Christ (Y’shua) says, “I am the lily of the valleys. Dr. J. Vernon McGee glorifies Him. "He is pure. He is lovely. He is beautiful; therefore His bride, the Church is a lily also because she bears the image of His loveliness and reflects it to others.” This is what the church is to do today. We are to reveal to a world that is filled with the sins of

thorns, briars and thistles, the beauty of Christ. Flowers have a fragrance and Dr. McGee«says the third ingredient of the meal offering which refers to Jesus Christ (Y’shua) was frankincense, which only gives forth its fragrance under pressure and fire. This is a beautiful picture of our Lord as He manifests the fragrance of His life under the fires of tension, pressures and persecution. He is never more lovely than yonder under the cross. His life has given out a fragrance that has filled this world. He is lovely in death as He was lovely in life.” Like flowers, our lives need the water of the Word of God and the light and sunshine of the presence of Jesus as He lives His life or else we would wither and die. We would be dead in trespasses and sins.

Rural church welcomes all

David R. Haifley, pastor of Grace Bible Church, north of Syracuse, invites all to come worship with his congregation with the following: "Jesus said, ‘I am the light of the world; he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.' And this is what we desire for all with whom we come in contact. “As you walk down a dark path you would be glad to have a

Bible Class plans social

Mrs. Bob Wolfe, Syracuse, was hostess to eight members of the Syracuse Church of God Bible Class Thursday evening, April 13. in the church fellowship hall. Mrs. Arnold Grindle was in charge of the program and conducted several quizes. Jack Elam, vice president, con-

v SI W w f. / ■ * V xi'Wlr Wvr L Cfr IN CONCERT AT LEESBURG CHURCH — Frank and Debbie Hargreaves will be at the Leesburg Grace Brethren Church, located at the corner of Pearl and Church streets in Leesburg, on Sunday, April 30. In the last year of their ministry, the Hargreaves have traveled around the world. Their concert tour has taken them throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain, the Philippines and Hong Kong. Mixing sacred hymns and contemporary Christian music with equal capabilities, they provide a varied program of music, testimony of God's love and evidence of the happiness which all can find by knowing Jesus Christ. Pastor Jeffery Hoffard invites all to hear this excellent musical ministry at Grace Brethren Church. The concert will begin at 9:30 • a.m.

lantern or a flashlight, wouldn't you? Apd that is only to keep from falling into pitfalls that can hurt you physically. But Jesus is the Light’ that leads along the pathway to heaven. "We preach ‘The Word of God' without apology here at Grace Bible Church, for it is the ‘light’ which leads to Jesus. Will you hear? If you cannot come to us, would you like for someone to come to you? Call us at 457-4572.”

ducted the business meeting and Mrs. Paul Yeager gave devotions reading from “Our Daily Bread.” Lloyd Kammerdiener closed the meeting with prayer. A social hour followed the meeting. The group will be eating out for the May social.