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Todav Lansing State Journal Saturday, Nov. 21, 1992 2D Chewing tobacco is as risky as smoking People in Worship 75 years for local church The Rev. John E. Breck of Rockford, 111., will return to this weekend for a 75th anniversary celebration at Grace ANN LANDERS Dear Ann Landers: Please print the enclosed article again. I clipped it years ago.

Someone in my home needs to read it. Another Turned Stomach in S.C Dear Turned Stomach: With pleasure. Many people need to see it again, especially some of those sports heroes who are setting a very poor example by chewing and spitting on TV. Here it is: Dear Ann Landers: For years, you've had the courage to speak out on subjects that were sure to anger some folks. Here's another one chewing tobacco.

My husband feels very pious about having given up smoking, but now he is almost never without a chunk of tobacco in his mouth. He claims it is harmless, but I can't believe a person can soak his gums and teeth in that awful stuff night and day without doing some damage to his system. I admit I have strong feelings against chewing tobacco because it looks so unappetizing. I can't for chewers of the brown stuff. There is irrefutable evidence that tobacco, In any form, is bad news and anyone who thinks differently is kidding himself.

Dear Ann Landers: This is for "Dead Serious in L.A.," the person who confessed that stubbornness was the trait that ruined his life. Couldn't many of the world's problems racial hatred, religious intolerance, self-righteous wars, parentchild fights be attributed to that same characteristic? Whenever a person or a group latches onto an idea and closes the mind to all other possibilities, conflict is inevitable. When I was 17, 1 wrote a poem to remind myself to reflect on my fallibility. It helped me a lot and maybe it will help "Dead Serious." It was originally published anonymously in the May 1972 Lindbergh' High School paper in St. Louis.

Nancy Gates Meyer, Buffalo Grove, III. Dear N.G.M.: Of all faults, stubbornness may be the most self- defeating. The Old Testament calls it "stif f-neckedness." If people only knew that to change one's mind is not a sign of weakness, but of strength. Here's your poem: I MIGHT BE WRONG Age, skin color, sex and creed, I know, Put me on top, the rest below. Those unlike me don't count Although I might be wrong.

Apologize? Why? All the blame Is surely his, and so the shame. Let HIM ask pardon. All the same I might be wrong. I must not change. I can't upset The way I've always done things.

Let It stay the way it's always been. And yet I might be wrong. Have a problem? Write to Ann Landers, Creator's Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Suite 700, Los Angeles, Calif. 90045.

Her column appears daily. Evangelical Lutheran Church, 528 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.North Logan St. Breck, pastor of Grace Church from 1944 to 1959, will preach at the 10:30 a.m.

Sunday Festival of Holy Communion. A reception honoring Breck and his wife, Dagmar, will be held in the fellowship hall following the service. Grace Church was organized as the Evangelical Lutheran Scandinavian Church on Nov. 25, 1917, in the Macabee Hall on North Washington Ave. The Rev.

August P. Sater was the stand to talk to a person who has tobacco juice running out of the corners of his mouth and spits every few minutes. When the stuff spatters, I become nauseated. What do doctors say about this? Is there any evidence that chewing tobacco produces undesirable side effects? Turned Stomach in the Carolinas Dear Turned: The incidence of tongue, gum and mouth cancer is much higher among those who chew tobacco than those who don't. Gastritis is another bonus first pastor of the congregation.

The name Breck was changed to Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1939. The congregation will have a 75th anniversary dinner celebration this evening at St. Stephen Lutheran Church. The speaker will be Reginald HoIIe, bishop of the NorthWest Lower Michigan Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The Rev.

Alan Kamens is pastor of the Grace congregation. 'i i 1 in in in mini 1 1 in mi I ii i hi i i i.i mi 1 1 milium milium i iiimimmi i ippmijtgimiiiiMiiiiii pi hiwiii iii mm ii mi in in in 1 111 im inn i mi iinniin i ni SPECIAL EVENTS Faith Wesleyan to dedicate organ Faith Wesleyan Church, 2300 Lake Lansing Road, will dedicate its new sanctuary organ at 2:30 p.m. Sunday as part of the church's annual Homecoming Day celebration. The Rev. John R.

Kirkman of Grand Rapids will perform works by Bach, Boyce, Pachelbel, Stanley, Purvis, Walther and Young. The organ was built for the church by Associated Organ Builders of Auburn, Wash. It was a gift from the estate of Marjorie Christie, a former member. Sunday's Homecoming Day program also includes an adult fellowship service at 10 a.m., morning worship at 11 a.m. and a Thanksgiving dinner in the fellowship hall at 12:30 p.m.

Visitors are welcome at all services. Special Thanksgiving services set Christian Science churches will hold special Thanksgiving services in Lansing and East Lansing at 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Thanksgiving falls during National Bible Week. The special service will include readings from the Bible and from the denominational textbook of Christian Science.

Time will also be given for testimonies of gratitude by Christian Scientists. Call 482-6421 for more information. Celebration 1 50! kicks off A special Thanksgiving service "in the manner of the Pilgrims" will kick off Celebration 150! at 10 a.m. Sunday at First Congregational Church of Christ, Portland. The governing board will be drummed in and two choirs will provide special music.

The Rev. Robert Nixon will deliver the message and the congregation will ask questions in the manner of the pilgrims. The church was founded Feb. 4, 1843 and several events are planned through the year to celebrate the 150th anniversary on Feb. 14.

The kickoff Sunday will include a Pilgrim-style pot-luck dinner in the church dining room for church members and friends with reservations. Stew, corn bread and pumpkin pie. Bruntons in concert at Berean Bob and Becky Brunton of Eaton Rapids will sing in concert at 1 1 a.m. Sunday at Berean Baptist Church, 6121 S. Waverly.

The Bruntons, who use piano, synthesizers, violins and taped accompaniments to their duets, have been on syndicated television. The concert will include familiar songs frrm thfir ioht alhumc ac WM AS LA State-of-the-Art Sound Projection Including Dolby Stereo Sound in Every Auditorium IMS well as their own compositions. Bruntons They were married in 1963 and held jobs in education until 1979 when they began a full-time singing ministry. Baha'i World Congress begins Monday The 1 992 Baha'i World Congress will draw 30,000 Baha'is from around the world to New York City Monday, including about 25 from Lansing. The congress will celebrate 100 years of a unified faith, free from sectarian division.

The Congress will feature lectures, music, audio-visual presentations and devotions. A four-hour satellite broadcast Thursday will link Baha'is around the world. The broadcast is available to people with satellite dishes, starting at 8 a.m. Thursday. For more information call 332-3250.

Documentary tapes about the Baha'i faith will be shown on Channel 37, Continental Cablevision on a regular basis. Tapes will be repeated at 7 p.m. Fridays, 3:30 p.m. Saturdays and 3 p.m. Wednesdays.

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HONEyMOON, i ii i ai-iir a IN VtOAb I 1:30 4:20 75 I 9 50 12.15 4A AND MORE A rededication of the four manual Casavant Pipe Organ at the First Baptist Church of Lansing will be at 4 p.m. Sunday. The concert organist will be Janice Beck, organist at First Baptist Church of Ann Arbor. The church is located at 227 N. Capitol Ave.

The National Women's Church of God in Christ Convention will be held May 25-31 in Nashville, Tenn. Round-trip transportation will be provided from Lansing. The $300 fee includes hotel accommodations and baggage handling. Deposits are due Jan 30. For more information, call Mary Thomas, 752-9214.

The Adult Forum at Edgewood United Church, 469 N. Ha-gadorn, East Lansing, will discuss "What Has God Got To Do With Evil?" at 9:45 a.m. Sunday. Do you have something to contribute? We'd love to hear about it. News about upcoming speakers, special volunteers, successful fund-raisers all are welcome in this column.

Call Karen Douglas at 377-1063, Sheila Schimpf at 377-1261, or write: People in Worship, Lansing State Journal, 120 E. Lenawee Lansing 48919. Karen Douglas' regular People Etc. column runs in this space Sunday through Friday. 1:30 3:30 5:30 7:40 10:00 12:00 1:00 3:00 5:00 7:10 9:35 11:30 stsPftsn Idrr3k 1 4 00 OF THEIR OWN lJJ 5S I Ain 7-i I 12:45 3:05 5:15 7:35 9:55 12:00 IfSfTl 1:15 3:15 5:15 L-ii 7:15 9.15 11:15 9:4012:10 10:10 12:00 JI GLENGARRY STEVE GOLDIE MARTIN HAWN People In the news GLEN ROSS Enchanted rtljmi A film by Mil NmU Housesitter 1:00 3:00 1:10 3:10 5:10 7:30 9:40 11:50 1:15 3:15 5:15 7:20 9:25 11:30 1:00 3:15 5:25 7:45 10:00 12:15 5 OO 7:35 LANSING'S FEWEST ND OST LUXURIOUS gARGAIN.pRICE glNEMA CDCP13CD Farmers need more help than ever.

Nelson says Willie Nelson, preparing for his sixth Farm Aid concert, said rural America needs help more than ever. "The situation is worse than it's ever been," he said Thursday from Nashville, Tenn. "Agriculture is just the bottom rung on the economic ladder. Once the farmers go under, then everyone over them starts," Nel- son said. Next year's 12-hour marathon concert is scheduled for April 24 in Ames, Iowa.

Nelson said it's not difficult to persuade fellow performers to keep showing up. Neil Young, John Conlee and John Mellencamp have been with Nelson since the first concert in 1985 and will be back again next year. Compiled from Associated Press reports. 4 GnvamtMlsma AUK FOCUS QSKma wW WiWl. Rv 5W5 I 3 1.