The Mail-Journal, Volume 28, Number 28, Milford, Kosciusko County, 23 August 1989 — Page 18

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THE MAIL-JOIRXAL —Wed.. August 23, 1989

Spanish services held at Our Lady of Guadalupe

By MARY J ANE LORTON Staff II rfter In Sept’e mb e r o f I 9 7 2 parishioners at T»or Lady of ’Guadalupe Catholic Church in Milford celebrated the first mass in their church on the,corner of Main and Fourth streets The history of this community goes back before this time and sket ches a story of a unrted people, committed to slay mg together Around 1969 "we gathered on the top of'Campbell's, at the old store.' says Carmen Perales of Goshen As members of the United Mexican- Amer i c a n Association, people came together to "help people." Be it addressing material or spiritual needs. Carmen says they did "whatever they could to help peopleout. ’ ’ They soon got together with other area Hispanic groups, and Carmen says these groups reallyguided them to the bishop Before approaching the bishop they were looking for a church l , they held a lot of dinners and dances to raise money for the purchase of a bigger building So when they approached the bishop. Carmen tells, and he saw that they were serious about finding a bigger place, he told them that if they found the right place, the diocese would buy it." They did find the right place, but had to do some work on the building before it was ready for use With Father Eugene Zim merman officiating, the first mass was held in 1972 and the parish has continued to celebrate their community up to today Primarily Spanish-speaking. Our Lady of Guadalupe conducts all services in Spanish The CCD classes for the youth are in English, while adult classes are taught in Spanish A large community, there are approximately 298 registered parishioners, and a number of unregistered parishioners Those who come to be a part of this com mumty ' travel some distance every Sunday as very few parishioners are strictly from Milford They come from Elkhart. Goshen. Ligonier Warsaw. Pierceton. Bremen. Tippecanoe. Plymouth.'' says Brother James Linscott, ad mimstrator Br. James came to the parish in December of 1979 and does "practically everything." From

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MEXICAN INFLUENCE — The Mexican serape behind the altar at Our Lads of Guadalupe < atholic Church indicates the strong influence of the Mexican culture at the Milford church. The first mass u as celebrated here in September of 1972.

translating documents to pro vidmg transportation for the elderly to writing the Sunday bulletin. He loves the community and it is obvious that the parishioners love him Primarily, a young, family parish! Carmen comments that this tact insures a great future" tor i >ur Lady of Guadalupe The pastor lor the church is Father Paul Bueter He is also pastor at St John's Catholic Church in Goshen Carmen says they are very grateful to have Ft" Bueter especially since they have not always 'had a priest." 1- or many years they had to rely on borrowing" priests from

APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN MILFORD Jesse Beer Nelson Beer Will Schieler an J A-l ’er Steffen Ministers Morning Worship ’0 a m A”om0on Worship 'J spm CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH (Armstrong Road 1 OSWEGO Roderick 7 Smith Pastor Sunday School 9 30 a m Mommg Worsh ip '0 30 a m Sunday E venmg Worship 6pm Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7pm A WANA Cubs Wednesday 6 'spm , Word of Life Cub Wednesday 6 'spm FILADELFIA EVANGELICAL SPANISH ASSEMBLY OF GOD. MILFORD Bi Lmquai Services Pas’or Alberto Jimenez Sunday School 9 30 a m > ,nd(iy Worship ' ’ a m _ 4 6 30 p m Wednesday Bible Study 6 30 pm AWANA Cubs Wed 6 30 p m FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF OSWEGO Re/ RoyMickley Pas’or S jr'day Schoo, 9 30 am Worship Ser/ice '0 30 a m wawa'see heights BAPTIST CHURCH 'Across From High School) JnrryWaiden Pas’or J rn Rodgers Youth Pastor ■ Doug Smith > s Sup’ ' School 9 30 a m Worship IQ 30 a m and6p rn Mid W*e» w*d 7pm A WANA Clubs Wed 6 30 p m BETHANY CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN (USA) F Wayne Lawson Pastor Mor' n g Worship 9 30 a m S >nday School ’0 30 am Wednesday Acti yyty Nigh* 7 30 BETHEL CHURCH OF the brethren MILFORD ✓erne M Leininger Pas’or Naom Waggy Bd Cnm S >n<Ja-y Schoo' 9 00 a m Worship 0 00 a m NEW SALEM CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN iwniwE). Robert R.ca Jr Pastor Sunday B'b'e Study 9 30 a m Worship Ser/'Ca.’O 30 a m E /er Ing Worship 7 00 p m 8 b* S’udy ’ Xp ~ y CMURCHOF THE BRETHREN NORTH WEBSTER ®a pr R Smith Pastor Mor* ng WO<Vh.p 9 30 4 m S >**day Sc hc©4 ’0 30 • m

other churches When they came tFr Bueter and Br James l it gave us some continuity, we felt like we belong ed somewhere." Carmen says She credits the United Mexican American Organization and the Cursillo. Movement with really pulling the community together The spirit of the community, their singing, their pray ing, and the strong sense of community are things that have always impressed visitors says Br James Before mass, parishioners will gather together in the hall next to the church and socialize When mass time roils around, someone rings a bell to signal to

. CMURCHOF THE BRETHREN SYRACUSE D Arnold Na’s Pas’or Junior Blough Sup’ Sunday School 9 30 a m Morning Worship 10 30 a m Sunday B'blr S’udv 7 p m TURKEY CREEK CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN GRAVELTON Kenneth Swank Pas’or Church School 9 JOarn Worship 10 30 a m SAINT MARTIN DF PORRES CATHOLIC CHURCH SYRACUSE F a’hnr R ichard Urbmr SR Sunday Mass 7 a m 9 a m sßnd ’0 30 a m Saturday Mass 5 OOp m Confession Before Masses Ho'yDaysS 30pm 7am and 7 30 p rn OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CATHOLIC CHURCH '4th And Mam Streets) MILFORD' Bro James L mscoff Administrator Sunday Mass 10 30am' FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTISTS (175 N Detroit) WARSAW S mday S< hooi >0 a m Sunday Ser vice 10 a m Wndnnsda y 7 p m GOSHEN FIRST CHURCH Os CHRIST SCIENTIST Service io 30 a m Sunday Schooi 10 30a m Wednesday Service / 45pm Reading Room op*“ r Monday Thursday and Friday Ham ’o 3 p m NORTHERN LAKES CHRISTIAN CHURCH Located 14 *as’ o’ the Tip prranoe Country C'ub EMS 35 Country C'ubLane Lake Tippecanoe Thorp* and Karen Mitch* Pas’ors Worship ServicevSunda/'oa m 4 6pm Wedneida y 7 p m BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH NORTH WEBSTER Lone.* NiChO'l F>as’(X‘ Sunday Schoo l 9 30 a m Worship '0 30am 4 6pm CHRISTIAN CHURCH MILFORD Cnns Manar See..or Mm -s’*” Briar W CO* Youth Mir st*r Suhda y Sr hoo' 9 00 a m Worship '0 Orta m Wedresda y 8-b'e Study 7 X p m CHURCH OF GOD NORTH WEBSTER S’epe*** w Foufs Pas’or >amws Davey Assor’afe S*ever C'arte. Associate Mee s Prayer Break fas’ 7 00 a m Worship 8 30 and 0 45 a m Sunday Schoo 9 45 a m E /er.ng Ser ,>ce o* Pra-s* 6pm

parishioners that it is time to find a seat in the church And finding a seat is not alway s an easy task "We re getting too big for the building." says Br James Following mass, people again gather tn the hall to socialize and to eat Carmen says although mass starts around 10:30-a m many times the last person will not leave the hall until around 5 pm "We are the church." Carmen explains, "we know one another and love one another " "It wasn't always easy." Carmen admits, "but the good times compensated and gave us theenergy to keep going "

CHURCH OF GOD SYRACUSE Terr y Vanianmgham interim Pas’o' Pau l Yeager S S Sup’ Sunday Si.hoo l 9 30am Mommg Worship '0 30 a m Junior Worship 10 30 a m ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH SHORE LAKE WAWASEE V'rar Re/ David L Hyndman Holy E uchans’ 9 a m FIRST BRETHREN CHURCH MILFORD Paul T >nkei Pas"’o’ Chgrch School 9am Morning Worship 10 a m B YG-S u-nday 6pm Mid Week Worship / p m GRACE BIBLE CHURCH SYRACUSE Dr Da/idR Hatfiey Pastor Sunday School 9 45a m Morning Worship 1 ' a m Sunda y E venmg Ser /ice 1 p m Wednesday E /enmg Service 1 p m GRACE BRETHREN CHURCH jptfer y P'ittor Dennis,Reed Modn'-i’or S>nday School 10 50 a m Mo s nmg Worship 9 30 a m Fellowship 10 30a m Sunday E zenmq Worship 6 p m Bib e Study SMM 4, Boys Club Wednesday 7pm JEHOVAH S WITNESS KINGDOM HALL (East Papakeechie Lake Drive) Sunday Pub ' L*-'’ure 9 30 am ( We’ch’ower S’udy • 30am Tuesday Study of Prophecy 730 pm Thursday 7/y Sr hooi 7 p rn CALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH (’ 11 W Orange $f v ) CROMWELL Larame Srjpdir Pastor Sunday S'hry, 9 00 a m Worsh p Ser y ,r». 0 00a m GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH (200 E Mam Sf ) SYRACUSE R 'rardDgnruCQ SundaySchooi - tOam TRINITY LUTHF RAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD LIGONIER O>e F srher Pas’O* o z ne Ser /it* 8 a m 4 10 30 a m .Sunday Srnoo’4 H-MeClA** 9 15 a m MILFORDCHAREL Mennonrfe (East CaVhenee Street) Arthur Mershberg*' Pa*f<X Amos Ramer Dearon Sundey S' eoo 0 a W'//Sh>p',er /re am Sunday F /enmg Ser /t ce 7pm Wednesday '■*' / re 7 p m

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Children important at Turkey Creek Church

By JEREMY BEER Children are very important at the Turkey Creek Church of the Brethren, as they are in every church This year the children and teens at the church have participated in various activities, including Vacation Bible School, church camp, and others According to Kenneth Swank, pastor of the church. Turkey Creek really gets behind and supports the kids Sunday School for children at Turkey Creek is divided as such toddlers; preschool; first aid second-graders; third through fifth graders; sixth through eighth graders. high-schoolers The youth advisors for this group of young persons are Butch and Jo Hammond, and Bob and Jean Cross Swank says that those two couples do Am exceptional job'' with thechuA’h's youth This year, the junior high and high school youth met separately when the rest of the church was having Vacation Bible School Youth Encounter' was a new concept this year for the junior high and high schoolers as they met in the evenings for one week to play games, have Bible study, and take in refreshments The theme for Vacation Bible School this year was "Joy-Trek." Swank claims that the church has a "strong VBS" as the church "pulls people from around the community " This year about 60

WAWASEE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE Ron Blake Pastor Church School 9 30 a m Worship 10 30 a m Evening Worship 6pm, Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7 p m FREEDOMCHAPEL NON DENOMINATIONAL Corner Benton A Harrison St Syracuse Ray Shanklin, Pastor Sunday Worship 10a m A DEWART LAKE COMMUNITY FRIENDSCHURCH (500E and 900 N) DEWART LAKE Lou Herchenrpeder Pastor Sunday School 9 15am Worship 10am 'QuakerMalh ROCK CHURCH INTERDENOMINATIONAL (13A41050N.E Lake Wawasee) Tuttle and Dr Gary M Tuttle Pastors Morning Worship 10a m E /enmg Worship 7pm Wednesday Bible School 7 p m SALEM COMMUNITY CHURCH (1 • 1 Miles Southeast Os Wilmot) Pastor Kurt B Church , Sunday School 9 45 a m Morning Worship 10 30 a m Sunday E venmg Service 6 p m Prayer Bible Study Wednesday 7pm BURR OAK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Lawrence Byrnes Pastor ’ Sunday School 9 30 am Worship 10 30 a m SYRACUSE CALVARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (SR 13 South) David C Maish -Pas’o' Kim Conrad Churc,h' 001 Sups Sherry Leedy Youtr- Wu'ker Church School 9 30a Worship Service 8 30 am and 10 40 a m clunettf united methodic church John Bell Pastor Sunday School 9 X> m Worship Service tOttm HASTING ISLANDCHAPEL UNITED ME THODIST CHURCH Gary Lewis Pa'.‘->r Kendan Biller • , p t Sunday School > 'j)a m Worship 10 30 a m Prayer Mee’irq W*dn*sdwy 7 00 p m UNITED METHODIST CHURCH LEESBURG Donald C ia'y Pas’or Morning W'zsh p 9 30 am Church S'*'r/>i 10 30 a m

kids attended VBS and Swank says that the church really supports it and helps out In the fall, children the same age as the ones that attended VBS also can participate in the Children's Olympics. which is a day devoted to gamesand races Besides these programs, the older kids raised money this year by holding a chicken barbecue in Milford. The money they made went towards financing a sum mer trip to Cedar Point. Also. 11 of the kids from Turkey Creek went to church camp this sum mer at Camp Mack Swank has been pastor at Turkey Creek for one year now. as he is currently in a ministry training program given by the Church of the Brethren As a part of this program, he is taking college and seminary courses at Goshen College, and at AMBS in Elkhart Swank pastored in Goshen for three years before coming to Turkey Creek, and before that he and his wife owned a sign business in Oklahoma During the summer. Sunday School starts at 9 a m and the worship service at 10 a m But that will change, as the church will soon revert to its normal schedule, pushing Sunday School and worship service back a half hour Swank says that Turkey Creek is "excited about being a community church" and tries to give everyone who attends there "a sense of being appreciated "

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Pianist-vocalist to appear on September 3

Gerald Wolfe, former pianist and soloist with the Cathedrals Quartet, will be appearing in concert on Sunday. Sept 3. at 7 p m in the Nappanee MissionaryChurch The church is located two miles north of Nappanee on SR 19 Although his background is common with many of contemporaries in Southern Gospel Music, 25-year-old Wolfe is an uncommon talent and his meteoric rise in Christian music is nothing Rev. Lane to speak at Oakwood Rev Charles Lane, retired pastor. North Indiana Conference. will be the speaker at the Oakwood Center on Sunday. Aug 27, at the 10:30 a m service His sermon title will be "portrayal of Moses" from Exodus 2; 1-10. Rev Harold Harold Hazenfield will serve as liturgist and Steve and Patty Swartz will sing, "For Those Tears I Died " A boat-in brunch will be served at 9a m All are welcome to attend the service and the brunch. Oakwood Center is a retreat and family center owned and operated by the North Indiana Conference of the United Methodist Church It is located on Lake Wawasee

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0 less than phenomenal The pianist-vocalist for the renowned Cathedral Quartet began to carve out his own niche in Christian music in April 1988 during the Gospel Music Association Week. Wolfe was born and raised in the East Tennessee city of Morristown. His mother, Mary, was a long-time piano player at the x Calvue Baptist Church, where the Wolfe family attended church After a year of piano lessons. Wolfe abandoned the restrictions the lessons placed on him and • began to teach himself His first break in gospel came shortly after he graduated from high school The Dumplin' Valley Boys were set to play at Wolfe's home church, but they were unable to go on until they found a piano player Wolfe volunteered to fill in on the keyboards Group leader. Kyle Underwood was so impressed that he offered him a full-time position with the group After several years of performing with the Dumplin' Valley Boys. Wolfe joined the legendary Cathedral Quartet in December 1986 Cathedrals leader George Younce gave the young Tennessean his own 15-minute blocks of the show to sing or perform solo on the keyboards It was these performances which were the inspiration for Wolfe's solo ministry

cannot help someone else up the hill without getting closer to the top yourself. It would be much nicer if everyone who is tempted to point a finger would instead hold out a helping hand. For in helping others you always do yourself a good turn. There is no better exercise for the heart than reaching down and lifting others up. And the Lord helps those who help others. Let us resolve today and every day that instead of stepping to hurt, we will stoop to help.