The Mail-Journal, Volume 28, Number 29, Milford, Kosciusko County, 30 August 1989 — Page 14

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., August 30,1989

Church sign at Wawasee Heights serves a purpose

I By SCOTT DAVIDSON Staff Writer Words that convey a message on a sign can carry a great deal of significance and that’s what a lot of people can notice if they pay attention to the sign in front of the Wawasee Heights Baptist Church in Syracuse. “We try to be very careful and tasteful with the words that we put on our sign and our assistant pastor Jim Rodgers is the man responsible for the sign,” commented Pastor Jerry Walden of the Syracuse church. Walden, who became pastor at Wawasee Heights in September of 1987, said that the church tries to change the message on the sign once a month. “The sign gets changed more often in the summertime and also when we have a lot of special activities going on that we need to announce,” said Walden. Wawasee Heights, which was built at its present location in 1967, is located in a high traffic are.' 1 v hich affords a great number of persons the opportunity to see what is on the Wawasee

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Heights sign when they drive by. “We know that a lot of people are seeing our sign since we are located in a prime location right across from the high school but I'm not sure exactly what kind Os an impact the messages do have on people that see and read it,” commented Walden. “There are really three types of reasons for the different messages that we put up on our sign," remarked Walden. He explained that sometimes the sign contains welcomes or farewells as in the case when a family leaves the church (area). Another use for the sign is to announce upcoming special events that the church will be having that the community needs to know about. The final reason for a message on the church’s sign, according to Pastor Walden, is just to have an idea there that gives people something to think about. Walden stated that sometimes the sign carries a message that ties it into the specific principles that are being taught inside of the church. “We try to have themes that tie the message on the sign in

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 30 a m Sunday Evening Worship 6 p m Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7 p m AWANA Clubs Wednesday 6 15 p m Word of Life Club Wednesday 6 15 pm FILADELFIA EVANGELICAL SPANISH ASSEMBLY OF GOD, MILFORD Bi Lingual 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 AWANA Clubs Wed 6 30 pm FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF OSWEGO Rev Roy Mickley. Pastor Sunday School 9 30 a m Worship Service 10 30 a m WAWASEE HEIGHTS BAPTIST CHURCH (Across From High School) » Jerry Walden, Pastor Jim Rodgers, Youth Pastor Doug Smith, S.S Supt Sunday School 9 30a m Worship 10 30a m and6p m Mid Wet • *Ved 7pm AWANA Clubs Wed 6 30 p m BETHANYCHURCHOF THE BRETHREN (US6) 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 Naomi Waggy, Bd Chm Sunday School 9 00 a m Worship 10 00 a m NEWSALEMCHURCH OF THE BRETHREN (900 N A2OOE) Robert Rice, Jr , Pastor Sunday Bible Study 9 30 a m Worship Service 10 30 a m Evening Worship 7 00 p m Bible Study, 7 00 p m Wednesday CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN NORTH WEBSTER Ralph R Smith, Pastor Morning Worship? 30a m Sunday School 10 30 a m.

to different times of the year and sometimes the message is similar to what the lesson may be that we are studying in our church services,” said Walden. Well aware that his church’s sign is in a heavily traveled area (across from Wawasee High School), Walden knows that many people see the message on the sign day after day. “We have many different types of people that see our sign day in and day out and hopefully the repetition of seeing it will help them to pick something up off of it (a message),” said Walden. We see signs everyday as we drive throughout the area (billboards, business signs, etc.) and we hardly pay them a second glance. But the next time you happen to be driving on SyracuseWebster road and you go past the Wawasee Heights Baptist Church, take a glance at the sign in front, and to your surprise, there just might be a message on it that will enrich your life or at least make you think a little bit.

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. TURKEY CREEK CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN GRAVELTON Kenneth Swank, Pastor Church School 9 30 a m Worship 10 30 a m SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES CATHOLIC CHURCH SYRACUSE Father Richard Urbine Sunday Mass 7a m.,9a m , and 10 30 a m Saturday Mass 5 00 p m Confession Before Masses Holy Days 5 30 p m , 7 a m. and 7:3opm. OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CATHOLIC CHURCH (4th And Main Streets) MILFORD Bro James Linscott, Administrator Sunday Mass 10 30 a m FIRST CHURCHOF CHRIST SCIENTISTS (175 N. Detroit) WARSAW Sunday School 10a m Sunday Service 10 a m Wednesday 7pm GOSHEN FIRSTCHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST Service 10 30a m Sunday School 10 30 a m Wednesday Service 7 45 p.m Reading Room open Monday, Thursday and Friday, 11 a m to 3 p m NORTHERN LAKES CHRISTIAN CHURCH Located 14 cottages east of the Tip pecanoe Country Club, EMS 35, Country Club Lane, Lake Tippecanoe Thorpe and Karen Mitchell, Pastors Worship Services Sunday 10 a m & 6pm Wednesday 7pm BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH NORTH WEBSTER Lonnie Nicholl, Pastor Sunday School 9 30 a m Worship 10 30a m 8,6 p m CHRISTIAN CHURCH MILFORD Chris Mahan, Senior Minister Brian Wilcox, Youth Minister Sunday School 9 00 a m Worship 10 00 a m Wednesday Bible Study 7 00 p m. CHURCHOF GOD NORTH WEBSTER Stephen W Foots. Pastor James Davey, Associate Steven Clarke, Associate Men's Prayer Breakfast 6:30a m. Worship 8 00 a m Sunday School 9 30 a m Worship Celebration 10:45a.m. Evening Service of Praise 6 p.m

I/Kll ' WAWASEE HEIGHTS BAPTIST §jjjj wfm . ■ , • -7." CONVEYING A MESSAGE — Jerry Walden, pastor of the Wawasee Heights Baptist Church in Syracuse, stands beside the sign in front of the church which is used to announce upcoming events and to relate ideas that give passing motorists something to think about. (Photo by Scott Davidson) Rev . Rough to speak at Oakwood

Rev. Thomas Rough, pastor of the Muncie High Street United Methodist Church, will be the speaker at the Oakwood Center on Sunday, Sept. 3, at the 10:30 a m. service. His sermon title will be “Peak to Peak.” Rev. Paul Eppley will serve as liturgist and Don Gerig will be soloist. September 3 will be Commu-

CHURCHOF GOD SYRACUSE Terry Vanlaningham, Interim Pastor Paul Yeager, S.S. Supt Sunday School 9:30a.m. Morning Worship 10 30 a m Junior Worship 10 30 a m ALLSAINTS' EPISCOPALCHURCH SOUTH SHORE LAKE WAWASEE Vicar: Rev David L Hyndman Holy Eucharist 9a m FIRST BRETHREN CHURCH MILFORD Paul Tinkel, Pastor Church School 9a m Morning Worship 10 a m B YC Sunday 6 p m Mid Week Worship 7pm GRACE BIBLE CHURCH SYRACUSE Dr David R Haifley. Pastor Sunday School 9 45 a m Morning Worship 11am Sunday Evening Service 7 p m Wednesday Evening Service 7 p m GRACE BRETHREN CHURCH LEESBURG Jeffery Hoffard. Pastor Dennis Reed, Moderator Sunday School 10 50a m Morning Worship 9 30a m Fellowship 10 30a m Sunday Evening Worship 6 p.m Bible Study, S.M.M & Boys Club, Wednesday 7pm 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 Laraine Sundin, Pastor Sunday School 9 00a m Worship Service 10 00 a m GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH (200 E. Mam St.) SYRACUSE Richard Dunning. Pastor Worship 9 15a m Sunday School 10.30 a.m. TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD LIGONIER Don Fischer, Pastor Divine Service9a m Sunday School & Bible Class 10:20 a m MILFORDCHAPEL Mennonite < East Catherine Street) Arthur Hershberger, Pastor Amos Ramer, Deacon Sunday School 10 a m Worship Service 11am Sunday Evening Service 7p m Wednesday Service 7pm

nion Sunday. A boat-in brunch will be served at9a.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.

WAWASEE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF THENAZARENE Ron Blake, Pastor Church School 9 30 a m Worship 10:30a.m Evening Worship 6 p m Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7 p.m, FREEDOMCHAPEL NON DENOMINATIONAL Corner Benton & Harrison St. Syracuse Ray Shanklin, Pastor Sunday Worship 10a.m DEWART LAKE COMMUNITY FRIENDS 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 Dr. Gary M Tuttle, Pastors Morning Worship 10a.m. Evening Worship 7 p m. Wednesday Bible School 7pm SALEM COMMUNITY CHURCH (IVa Miles Southeast Os Wilmot) Pastor Kurt B Church Sunday School 9:45 a 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 30a.m. SYRACUSE CALVARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (SR 13 South) David C. Maish, Pastor Kim Conrad, Church School Supt Sherry Leedy, Youth Worker Church School 9 30a m Worship Service 8 30 a m and 10:40a m e CLUNETTE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH John Bell, Pastor Sunday School 9 30 a m Worship Service 10 30a m HASTING ISLANDCHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Gary Lewis, Pastor Kendall Biller, Supt Sunday School 9 30 a m Worship 10 30 a m Prayer Meeting Wednesday 7 0c p m UNITEDMETHODIST CHURCH LEESBURG Donald C Lacy, Pastor Morning Worship 9 30 a m Church School 10 30 a m

Fall programs at the Christian Church

By JEREMY BEER The Christian Church of Milford has set its calendar of events for the months of September, October, and November. The church is looking forward to activities such as the revival, Homecoming, and a church panel discussion. The Christian Activities Center near the church will also be busy during the next few months. During junior worship on Sunday, Sept. 10, youth minister Brian Wilcox will kickoff a new type of ministry with the youth called “SKlTuations.” According to Chris Mahan, the minister at the Christian Church, the youth will be divided into teams of five and then perform short skits relating to real-life situations. The youth will probably continue to do these skits on Sunday mornings. The church revival begins on Sunday, Sept. 24, and last until Thursday, Sept. 28, when Gene Higgins will give a night-long concert. Higgins, who on most nights will do a 15-minute preconcert, is a well-respected publisher, song writer, recording artist, and producer. The speaker at the revival will be Dale Holzbauer. Most of his message at the revival will be directed to adults, although Sunday night’s message, says Mahan, may be slightly bent towards the youth. Revival services will start at 6:45 p.m., with the exception of the Sunday and Thursday services, which begin at 6:15 and 7, respectively. Also in September, women’s aerobics sessions will be held every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9 in the morning. Mahan will kick-off evening services on September 10 that will focus on I Corinthians and will be slightly informal, in that the congregation may ask questions during the service. Mahan will begin a new preaching series during the morning service on the 24th about “Leadership.” A mother/son pizza and putt-putt golf outing is scheduled for Saturday the 16th, which is also the day of the monthly men’s prayer breakfast, and the youth will travel to Potato Creek State Park for their fall retreat on the 27th. All this ends a very busy month for the Christian Church. In October, the Christian Ac-

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH MILFORD Ben Whirledge, Pastor Dan Brown, Lay Leader Church School 9:15a.m. Worship 10:30a.m. UMYF Sunday 5:30p.m. Bible Study Wed. 7.00 p m. MORRISCHAPEL UNITEDMETHODIST R. 1, PIERCETON Rev. Christine Newman Jacobs Bob Wine, S.S. Supt. Ron Campbell, Ass't. S.S. Supt. Sunday School 9 30 a m Worship 10:30a m. i. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH NORTHWEBSTER Rex Lindemood, Pastor Worshipß:3oa.m. and 10:45a.m. Church School 9 30a.m. Senior High Youth Group, Sun. 7:00p.m SAINT ANDREW'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH SYRACUSE Rev Richard Bunnell, Pastor Church School 9:15 a.m. Worship Hour 10:25 a.m. Thursday Service 7:00 p.m. -* SOLOMON'S CREEK UNITEDMETHODIST CHURCH Harold North, Pastor Worship 9a.m. Sunday School 10 a.m. ZION CHAPEL U.B. CHURCH (Corner Syr.-Web. Rd. and 1000 N) Hubert Schmucker, Pastor Vernon Sholtey, S.S. Supt. Sunday School 9a.m. Worship 10 a.m. SYRACUSE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH (Corner Harrison & Pearl St.) Ronald Cox, Pastor Sunday School 10a.m. Praise and Worship Sunday 6:30p.m. Bible Study, Thursday 7 30 p.m. WAWASEE LAKESIDE CHAPEL Harlan Steffen, Pastor Mark Pfeister, Supt. Sue Ganshorn, Primary Supervisor Worship Service 10 a m Sunday School llam WAWASEE COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH MILFORD Tom Speicher, Pastor Sunday School, All Ages. 9 30a m Morning Worship llam WORDOF GRACE FELLOWSHIPCHURCH (CR 300E A Rook stool Rd.) Allen Giant, Pastor Worship Service 10a m Bible Study, 7pm Wednesday

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tivities Center (CAC), is formally reserved for use. On Tuesdays, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., the CAC can be used by children in grades K-6. Later that night, from 7:30 to 9, the junior and senior high members may use the center. On Monday evenings at 7, church members under the age of 30 can use the CAC, and on Thursdays at 7 the CAC is reserved for members over 30. This schedule will continue at least through November. On October 22, the church will have its “Homecoming”, which is an opportunity for missions that the church supports to send items and pictures so that they can be set on display. Each mission will have its own display set up in the CAC. Some mission representatives will also be present to speak to the church of their experiences and accomplishments. There will also

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be various activities and meals throughout the “Homecoming.” Later in the month, on October 29, Mahan will begin a preaching series on the salvation experience. The three main activities or programs scheduled for November are the Indiana Christian Senior High Youth Convention, the Michiana Christian Seniors Rally, and the church panel discussion. The Youth Convention is held in Indianapolis on November 10, and the Seniors Rally is for Senior Adults on the 16th. According to Mahan, the Panel Discussion is a chance for members of the congregation to ask questions of himself and the church elders. The questions can be about anything, and Mahan says that panel discussions are always fun because of the variety of inquiries.