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1. Friday, January 30, 1998 Stevens Point (Wis.) Journal 9 Area Church Services ALBAN-ROSHOLT St. Adalbert Catholic Church The Rev. Joseph Konopacky, pastor. Wednesday and Friday: 8:15 a.m., Mass.

Saturday: 8 p.m., Mass. Sunday: 10:15 a.m., Mass. ALMOND St. John Lutheran Church Sunday: 10 a.m., worship service. St.

Maximilian Kolbe Parish The Rev. Charles J. Hiebl, pastor. Worship sites at Guardian Angel Church, Almond; St. John Church, Belmont (Heffron); St.

Martin Church, Buena Vista; and St. Patrick Church, Lanark. Saturday: 7 p.m., Mass, St. Martin Church. Sunday: 8 a.m., Mass, St.

Patrick Church. 10 a.m., Mass, Guardian Angels Church. Seventh-Day Adventist Donovan Davis, pastor. 1340 Elm 366-4691. Saturday: 9:15 a.m., worship service.

10:30 a.m., Sabbath school. Wednesday: 7:30 p.m., prayer. United Methodist Church The Rev. Paul Peterson, pastor. Sunday: 9 a.m., worship, 10:10 a.m., Sunday School, 6:30 p.m., Bible study.

AMHERST Peace Lutheran The Revs. Gretchen and Dwight Anderson, pastors. Sunday: 8 a.m., service at Nelsonville Evangelical Lutheran Church. 9 a.m., Sunday school at Nelsonville Evangelical Lutheran Church. St.

James Catholic Church The Rev. Robert Pedretti, pastor. Saturday: 7:30 p.m., Mass. Sunday: 8:30 a.m., Mass. St.

Olaf Episcopal Church The Rev. Wilson Roane, rector. Saturday: 5 p.m., service. St. Paul Lutheran Church The Rev.

Kelly Smith pastor. Sunday: 10:30 a.m., worship service with fellowship hour following. Last Monday of the month: 8 p.m., study, fellowship and dartball. Tuesday: 7:30 p.m., Lifelight Bible study. Second Wednesday of the month: 2 p.m., ladies aid.

Wednesday: 10:30 a.m., Lifelight Bible study. 6:30 p.m., FINK catechism for sixth- and seventh-graders. 7 p.m., adult choir. United Methodist Church Pastor: Susan Gaul; home phone, 345- 0029. Sunday: 9:15 a.m., Sunday school and choir practice.

10:30 a.m., worship. (Child care provided.) Third Tuesday of each month: 7 p.m., administrative council. Fourth Thursday of each month: 7 p.m., United Methodist Women. BANCROFT First Baptist Church (Independent) The Rev. Denny Freeze, pastor.

Sunday: 9:30 to 10:15 a.m., Sunday school. 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., worship. 7 p.m., worship. Wednesday: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Bible study. BEVENT St.

Ladislaus Catholic Church The Rev. Rex Zimmerman, pastor. Sister Mary Ellen Diermeier, pastoral associate. Saturday: 7:30 p.m., Mass. Sunday: 10:10 a.m., Mass.

Weekdays: 8 a.m. BLENKER St. Kilian Church The Rev. John Wisneski, pastor. Saturday: 8 p.m., Mass.

Sunday: 10:30 a.m., Mass. BUENA VISTA United Methodist Church Pastor: Susan Gaul; home phone, 345- 0029. Sunday: 9 a.m., worship. Second Thursday of each month: 2 p.m., United Methodist Women. CUSTER Immaculate Conception Catholic Church The Rev.

Steven Kachel, pastor, and Sister Annette Johnson, pastoral associate. Sunday: 8 and 11 a.m., Mass. Student rethinks prayer lawsuit JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Christopher Edward Childs, a ninth-grader who once sued Poplarville city schools for access to the school intercom for prayer, now wants to ban public prayer at high school football games. Though Childs acknowledges the contradiction, he insists he's not arguing for the sake of argument.

He says he is "totally in favor of constitutionally acceptable prayer" but wants the school district to "follow federal law and state law precisely as it is." Superintendent James Hutto says Childs' complaint is the first about prayers at games. The 15-year-old student has already lost some lawsuits. "I learned my lesson that it was wrong to pray on the intercom, that it was unconstitutional," he said. In a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Childs says a 1994 ruling bans prayer at football games.

District Judge Henry, T. Wingate struck down a newly enacted state school prayer law, he says. A minister or school official now leads prayer at the start of Poplarville High home games, Childs says. But he hopes all Poplarville schools will switch to a minute of silent reflection before each game. A bill advocating a silent minute to start each school day is pending in the state legislature.

Silver trinkets add up to chalice WILLIAMSBURG, Va. Phyllis Caro wanted to donate a silver chalice to her church in memory of her husband, but she needed the silver. Once word spread, parishioners at Saint Matthew's Anglican Church in Newport News offered little treasures: a candy dish, earrings, candlesticks. Now, six months later, church members will gather at a shop in Colonial Williamsburg to bless Jimmy Curtis, a master silversmith, and the keepsakes he will melt: William and Angela Welch's silver bowl from Tiffany Rita Hubbard's sorority brooch, Ernestine Cooper's baby spoon. "I'm just overcome, I guess," said Caro, whose husband, William, died two years ago of a stroke.

"It's so generous. And so meaningful. I know, of course, that some of the things were things they didn't need, but some were very precious to them." In colonial times, parishioners donated old silver to make chalices, just as Saint Matthew's has done, Curtis said. And, he said, Caro's request was a perfect way to demonstrate the craft to visitors to Williamsburg. If the church had wanted a chalice made by hand using 18th-century techniques, it would have cost about $15,000, Curtis said.

Colonial Williamsburg is doing the work for $2,500, less than the cost of the labor. The church supplied 60 ounces of silver, or a little more than five pounds in troy weight, a system of measure for precious metals and stones. Ex-nun helps promote Baha'i faith SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) A former nun and a retired professor are helping to bring a new faith to Michigan. "I'm a Mother Teresa in a way," said Margaret Wegs, a 66-year-old former Franciscan nun from Dubuque, Iowa.

"She founded a new order to serve the poor in India. I found a new way with the Baha'is." Her calling has developed into a mission that so far has attracted about 55 Michigan residents. The Baha'i philosophy promotes unity of all races, nations, genders, classes and religions under one God in whom all believe. Members worship in homes and follow the teachings of prophets of all religions, believing each delivered God's message relevant to the age. Wegs was attracted by a notice PREGNANT and 3 The Help DIRTHRIGHT DISTRESSED? Number 341-4357 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

evenings 4-9 p.m. DANCY St. John Lutheran Church LCMS church. The Rev. Stephen M.

Mueller, 457-2405. Sunday: 9 a.m., worship. 10 a.m., Sunday school. FANCHER St. Mary of Mount Carmel Catholic Church The Rev.

Robert Pedretti, pastor. Saturday: 5 p.m., Mass. Sunday: 10 a.m., Mass. GALLOWAY St. Joseph Catholic Church The Rev.

Rex Zimmerman, pastor. Saturday: 4 p.m., Mass. Sunday: 8:30 a.m., Mass. Holy days: 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Mass.

HANCOCK Grace Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod) The Rev. Kenneth Martin, pastor. Phone: 249-5146 Sunday: 10 a.m., worship. Communion on first, third and fifth Sundays. HULL St.

Casimir Catholic Church The Rev. Don Walczak, pastor. Sister Catherine Kielisewski, pastoral associate. Saturday: 4 p.m., Mass. Sunday: 8:30 a.m., Mass.

IOLA Hitterdahl Lutheran Church The Rev. Daniel Somers, pastor. Sunday: 9 a.m., Sunday school. 10:45 a.m., worship. Northland Lutheran Church The Rev.

Daniel Somers, pastor. Sunday: 9 a.m., worship. 10 a.m., Sunday school. Our Savior's Lutheran The Rev. Albert E.

Houts and the Rev. Bruce Falksen, pastors. Sunday: 8 and 10:15 a.m., worship. 9:15 a.m., Sunday school. Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church ELS in fellowship with Wisconsin Synod.

The Rev. Harold R. Vetter, pastor. Sunday: 9 a.m., worship. Medical scribes prayers along with drugs.

He and wife Gianna Talone-Sullivan, a Catholic pharmacist who says she founded the mission on God's direct orders, believe in "healing through love," the mission's slogan. "That is what makes us different from every other primary health care out there," said Sullivan, 47, formerly an internal medicine specialist with Pennsylvaniabased Geisinger Health System. "Many of our patients have lost their dignity, lost their self-respect. Far greater than anything we do for them medically and dentally is to make them feel they are worth something and that people care about them," he said. The traveling clinic, a 34-foot recreational vehicle, visits seven By DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press Writer WESTMINSTER, Md.

(AP) The waiting room is the size of a walk-in closet. The examining room isn't much bigger. But to Nancy McAvoy, this medical clinic on wheels is a godsend. She and her three young children walked nearly 2 miles through Westminster to reach the Mission of Mercy van and its mostly volunteer staff of doctors, nurses and a dentist. With no health insurance and scant money from her husband's job as a laborer, McAvoy is grateful for the free health care.

"We're just lost without them," she said as dentist Daniel Stewart worked on 8-year-old Joshua's cracked front tooth. Mission of Mercy, a nonprofit organization based in Emmitsburg since 1993, aims its primary medical care at the lost and lonely, the uninsured jobless and working poor, and those impoverished in spirit as well as funds. Dr. Michael Sullivan, the only paid physician, sometimes pre- sites at least twice a month in Frederick, Carroll and Baltimore counties and Gettysburg, Pa. Last year, the mission launched similar services in Mesa and Phoenix, where Talone-Sullivan lived before meeting her husband in 1992.

They also plan to create a home for HIV-positive single mothers and their children in Baltimore. The Maryland van averages 70 United Methodist Church The Rev. Thomas J. Dunham, minister. Sunday: 9 a.m., worship.

10 a.m., Sunday school. Restoration Bible Fellowship (Nondenominational) The Rev. Tedd Lees, minister. Sunday: 9:30 a.m., worship. 10:30 a.m., Sunday school.

Tuesday: 7 p.m., youth group and prayer. JUNCTION CITY New Hope Community Church The Rev. James E. Johnson, pastor. Sunday: 10 a.m., Sunday school.

11 a.m., worship. Monday: 6:30 p.m., AWANA Club. St. Michael Catholic Church The Rev. John Wisneski, pastor.

Sunday: 9:15 a.m., Mass. St. Paul Lutheran The Rev. Stephen M. Mueller, pastor, 457-2405.

Sunday: 9:15 a.m., Sunday school. 10:30 a.m., worship. KNOWLTON St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church The Rev. Joseph Grassl, pastor.

Saturday: 7 p.m., Mass. Sunday: 8 a.m. and 11 a.m., Mass. LANARK Badger Community Church Sunday: 9 a.m., Sunday school. 10 a.m., worship.

7:30 p.m., Gospel service. Tuesday: 9:30 a.m., women's Bible study. Wednesday: 6 p.m., Challenge Club. 7:30 p.m. Bible study and prayer.

MEEHAN Community Church Fred Herr Sunday school superintendent. Sunday: 10 a.m., Sunday school. Women's missionary meeting 1 p.m. every third Wednesday of the month. Service at the Portage County Home at 7 p.m.

every second Wednesday of the month. MILLADORE St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church The Rev. John Wisneski, pastor. Saturday: 4:30 p.m., Mass at St.

Wenceslaus. Sunday: 8 a.m., Mass at St. Wenceslaus. MILL CREEK St. Bartholomew Catholic Church The Rev.

Dennis J. Lynch, pastor. Saturday: 4 p.m., Mass. Sunday: 9. a.m., Mass.

MOSINEE Our Savior's National Catholic Church Sunday: 10 a.m., Mass. Friday: 5 p.m., Mass. United Methodist Church The Rev. Richard Hartlerode, pastor. Sunday: 9 a.m., worship.

10 a.m., fellowship; church school. Episcopal The Church of St. James The Rev. Walcott W. Hunter, Vicar.

Telephone 536-8853. Sunday: 8 a.m., Sunday school. 8:30 a.m., Mass followed by coffee hour. Nursery care provided. Healing service once a month.

Wednesday: 5:30 p.m., Mass, followed by potluck supper and Bible study. NELSONVILLE Lutheran Church The Revs. Gretchen and Dwight Anderson, pastors. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Sunday school.

10:30 a.m., worship. NEW HOPE Our Savior Lutheran Church The Rev. William Mack, pastor. Evangelical Lutheran Synod (in fellowship with the Wisconsin Synod). Sunday: 11 a.m., worship.

Bible study second Sunday of the month. NORTH NEW HOPE Lutheran Church The Rev. Tim Housholder, pastor. Sunday: 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. 10:30 a.m., worship.

PLAINFIELD First Baptist Church (ABC) The Rev. Robert L. Newberry, pastor. Sunday: 8:45 a.m., Sunday school. 10 a.m., worship.

Public welcome. United Methodist Church The Rev. Paul Peterson, pastor. Sunday: 10:30 a.m., worship. Monday: 7p.m., Bible study.

St. Paul Catholic Church The Rev. Michael E. Betley, pastor. Saturday: 4:30 p.m., Mass.

Sunday: 8 and 10 a.m., Mass. Assembly of God The Rev. Gary Shanahan, pastor. Sunday: 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. 10:45 a.m., worship.

6 p.m., service. Wednesday: 7 p.m., family night, adult Bible study, Youth Royal Rangers and Missionettes. POLONIA Sacred Heart Catholic Church The Rev. Joseph Konopacky, pastor. Phone 592-4221.

Saturday: p.m., confession. 4 p.m., Mass. Sunday: 8:30 a.m., Mass. Monday-Friday: 8:15 a.m., Mass. ROSHOLT Faith Lutheran Church The Rev.

Tim Housholder, pastor. Sunday: 9 a.m., worship; fellowship hour. 10 a.m., Sunday school. The Village Church Non-denominational For more information, call Jim Beckland, 677-4806. Sunday: 6 p.m., worship.

7 p.m., Bible study. SCANDINAVIA Lutheran Church John E. Holten, pastor. Sunday: 9 a.m., Sunday school. 10:15 a.m., worship.

TORUN St. Mary Catholic Church The Rev. Don Walczak, pastor. Sister Catherine Kielisewski, pastoral associate. Saturday: 7:30 p.m., Mass.

Sunday: 10 a.m., Mass. Confessions before the Saturday evening Mass. clinic on wheels helps poor DR. MICHAEL SULLIVAN (right) finishes his examination of William Malone inside the of Mercy Mobile Medical the nonprofit service which patients a day, mostly by appointments made through the churches and social services offices play host to Mission of Mercy. staffers, many of them from Baltimore area, run the clinic practiced efficiency in cramped quarters that still have room kindness.

"Most of the people who here are very broken, hungry love and acceptance," Talone-Sullivan said. "We try to treat person as if they're the most portant person that ever existed." Craig Glick, 40, a recovering drug and alcohol abuser from timore, says the Sullivans pointed him toward salvation. "The people here treat you like a real person," Glick said. "I have sworn to myself that when I am finally able, I am going to become one of the contributors to this program because this program works." Individual donations of less than $5,000 cover about two-thirds of the mission's costs of about $300,000 per year, executive director David Liddle said. Other fund- 3 DAYS ONLY 3 DAYS ONLY Thur Thur Briar a Bargain Basement Sale to OFF' items assorted gifts accessories, Hours: 1157 Main St.

DOWNTOWN 10 to 8 Stevens Point Sat. 10 to 4:30 715-341-8869 price Sun. 12-4 Mission Clinic in Westminster, recently. Sullivan and his wife operate provides medical care in three Maryland counties. (AP photo) ing comes from foundations, in- need of each patient but the cluding the Foundation for Spiritu- tients are often asking and open ality in Medicine in Baltimore.

precisely this issue." Religion isn't pressed on the Stewart, who closes his dental the patients but it is constantly on practice in Columbia one day view aboard the van. There is a month to volunteer, said Virgin Mary statue on the dash- doesn't discuss spirituality with for board, a portrait of her on one wall his mission patients. and a crucifix on another. "Actions speak louder than "The patients know it's OK to words," he said. "In practicing for talk about spirituality with us," what you preach, it rubs off Liddle said.

"We must respect the people." imVirginia looks for new anthem RICHMOND, Va. (AP) The song seems a sure bet to become the state anthem it's easy to sing, it praises Virginia and it's not offensive. "Virginia" is being touted by state lawmakers who say it is the best tune to replace "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia," which was retired to state song emeritus status after critics said its references to "darkey" laboring for "old massa" were racist and glorified slavery. "Virginia" is among five contenders before lawmakers this year. JESUS CHRIST Has an abundance of joy, love and life He's purchased for you! Do you know how to receive the treasures of His riches in your life? Jesus has provided a way to: Have joy, even when my life is difficult Be free from guilt, worry and depression Be free from activities, beliefs and practices that destroy me Overcome sickness and infirmity Know God's promises concerning my future and my eternal home Know the purpose for my life HELPING PEOPLE KNOW; HELPING PEOPLE GROW RACE Ministries Sunday services 9:00 A.M.

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