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Salisbury, Md. THE DAILY TIMES Saturday, February 20, 1999 7 Return of old-fashioned moms By George R. Plagenz Newspaper Enterprise Association wonder whether there are any mothers around today like Leonard Stone's mother. Every day she would wrap Leonard's lunch in the sports section of the previous day's Cleveland Press so I could read it in the school cafeteria at lunch time. Like a lot of families, we could afford only one paper and my father liked the Plain Dealer.

I preferred the Press, which had a better sports section. One day in the cafeteria I noticed that Leonard's lunch was wrapped in the Press sports section. I devoured it more eagerly than my peanut butterand-marshmallow-whip sandwich. I asked Leonard whether his mother would mind packing his lunch in the sports pages every day. Well, she did it.

It must have been a nuisance for her. There was another kid Billy in the family to pack a lunch not to mention Mr. Stone. It had to be a pain to hunt for yesterday's sports section every morning on top of everything else. Do you know any mother today who would go to all that bother for the neighbor boy? Most mothers, I bet, wouldn't do it for their own sons.

For one thing, they are too busy getting ready for work themselves. But I am living in the hope that the old-fashioned mother is coming back. There are signs. "Smart women do stay at home and love it," said the co-founder of Women at Home. "They are surprised to find out how much they use their education and creative abilities raising children." Women in foreign countries are even more devoted to their kith and kin at home.

The daughter of Anwar Sadat, the slain Egyptian leader, once told a group of American businesswomen: "You can take a few lessons from Moslem women. Go back to being good mothers. You get so busy with your work that you forget your basic role. You are responsible for that child." In Japan, when a child is sick, the mother shows up for class and takes notes that she brings home for her child to study. The popular magazine writer Judith Viorst said she never felt more fulfilled than while "sitting in the big stuffed chair in the living room sewing seams and replacing lost buttons.

I recall the lost luxury of lingering over simmering pots and child's play and mending." She and Leonard Stone's mother would have gotten along well. I am not so sure about Katie's mother. Fifteen-year-old Katie was listening as her mother and I were talking about working mothers and how it affects their children. "You don't mind that I'm not here when you get home from school, do you?" Katie's mother, a bank executive, asked. "I guess it would be nice if you were home," said Katie.

"But you have my phone number at the office," said her mother. "You can always call me if you need me." "Oh, I don't need you," said Katie. "I just said it would be nice if you were here." What those of us with oldfashioned mothers probably remember most about them is that they were always there when you came home from school. Sometimes all we said to them were things like, "Ma, where's my catcher's mitt?" Maybe she didn't know, but she would help you look. Most of all, she was there for you, or in the case of Leonard Stone's mother, for the kid next door who could count on her like his own mother.

But that was a long time ago, when we still used the Old Reliable and before the New and Improved came along. As we later learned, the Old Reliable was better. Including mothers. BAPTIST: Churches find symbolism in unity BAPTIST, from page 5 adding things to the calendar." Graves is convinced many people in Protestant pews would welcome a chance to find symbolic ways to deal with sticky issues such as sin, repentance, forgiveness and their own mortality even if the "new" rites are really centuries old. After asking a few tough questions, his flock has accepted Ash Wednesday as a chance to face "the dark side of their souls," he said.

"For those of us who are new at this, it is awkward, much like aur confessed sins," he wrote in an article in Baptists Today, a national newspaper for those in the moderate wing of Baptist life. "However, the shared, solemn occasion has left a mark on us like the dark ashes we carry on ZION CHURCH UNITED METHODIST Zion Road, Salisbury, Maryland AM Sunday 11:00 AM Rev. Ike Ledger Welcome! Office 410-860-9711 SALISBURY CHURCH OF CHRIST 3322 Old Ocean City Road Salisbury, MD 410-742-4831 SUNDAY SERVICES 9:30 A.M. Bible Study 10:30 A.M. Worship Service 6:00 P.M.

Worship Service WEDNESDAY SERVICE 7:00 P.M. Bible Study our foreheads." First Baptist in Gretna located about 38 miles south of Lynchburg hasn't based its rites directly on a Catholic liturgy or the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Instead, Graves said he adopted a very Baptist approach to tiptoeing into ancient traditions. He went to a mainline Protestant bookstore and bought a copy of "The New Handbook of the Christian Year." Then his church started experimenting. Graves suggested that churches that want to try Ash Wednesday services should start with their own frameworks of scriptures and familiar music about sin and repentance such as "Amazing Grace." For some peo- ST.

ANDREW'S U.M. CHURCH 400 E. Vine St. Salisbury, MD Sunday Church School 9:45 A.M. Sunday Worship Service 11:00 A.M.

(Nursery Provided) Wednesday Choir 6:30 P.M. Bible Study 7:30 P.M. Rev. Bo Painter Phone 410-749-8607 Church Parsonage 410-742-0388 "CALLED TO FOLLOW COMMITTED TO LEAD" ple, this more formal approach to worship may seem like "going through the motions," he said. But for many others, it will provide a chance to form ties to believers in the past.

"Sometimes you just have to pull some stuff from here and some stuff from there and then give it a shot," he said. "Because, I'm a Baptist, I'm free to pick and choose. I'm free to choose the parts of a liturgy that I'm comfortable with and to avoid the parts that I know will make my people uncomfortable. You have to find out what works for your people." Salisbury Community Church of the Brethren Meeting at Salisbury Christian School 807 Parker Road, Salisbury, MD Study Time 9:30 A.M. Worship 10:30 A.M.

Continuing the work of Jesus Peacefully, Simply, Together For information please call: (410) 219-5949 HIS WORD AND WORSHIP CENTER WELCOMES YOU Sunday morning meeting 10:00 Wednesday Evening Worship Service 7:00 p.m. Sunday Evening Men's Bible Study 7:00 p.m. Alternating With Sunday Evening Youth Night 6:00 p.m. Joann and Jim Laws 410-548-4752 HIS WORD AND WORSHIP CENTER 237 Chestnut Way, Salisbury, MD CROSSROADS Church of God Currently meeting at County Board of Education The (next to Wicomico High School) Church 101 Long Avenue Salisbury, MD That 10. A.M.

Sunday School 11 A.M. Sunday Worship LOVE Guest Speaker, 11 A.M. Service: Is J. Martin Taylor Building! 6:30 P.M. Evening Worship Philip C.

Morris, Jr. Pastor Ann Downing IN CONCERT Sunday, February 21, 1999 11:00 a.m. Parkway Church of God U.S. Route 50 at Ward Street Salisbury, MD 21802 9428 Elmer Davis of St. Mark United Methodist Church in Oaksville; and March 30, the Rev.

Alan Gould of St. Paul AME Church in Crisfield. The Rev. Carroll Burke is the host pastor. Covenant Players give workshop SALISBURY Living Stones Church located on Winter Place Parkway here will host the Covenant Players of Oxnard, Calif.

A workshop for those interested in drama and mime will be held today from 9 a.m. to noon, followed by a light luncheon. The workshop focuses on the basics of drama, and is unique in that the audience is involved from the beginning through participation exercises, improvisation, demonstration and discussion as they introduce the seven basics of drama. The workshop techniques will help participants quickly develop skills necessary for professional-style performance to take back to their churches. The Zionnaires will mark their 45th singing anniversary Sunday.

Zionnaires mark throughout the country, appearing on the Gaither Homecoming 45th anniversary Video Series, and on TBN, TNN and the Family Channel. PRINCESS ANNE The Zion- For more information, call 410- naires of here will celebrate 749-9428. their 45th singing anniversary Sunday at 5 p.m. at Mt. Hope AME Zion Church in the Green- Special speakers wood section here.

During the early to mid-50s, for Lenten series four young men active in Mt. WESTOVER St. James UnitHope AME Zion Church formed ed Methodist Church will hold a quartet named The Zionnaires Lenten services special every and began singing together. Tuesday through March 30. say they are The congregation will fast The members guided by the words of King Tuesday, breaking it with a every David, "I will sing praises to my fellowship meal to be served God while I have my being" from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m.

The meal (Psalms will be followed by a teaching The Zionnaires are the oldest actively singing Gospel quartet on the lower Eastern Shore. Ann Downing in concert Sunday SALISBURY Gospel singer Ann Downing will be in concert at Parkway Church of God here Sunday at 11 a.m. William A. Reid is the pastor. A free will offering will be received for Downing's minAnn istry.

Downing Downing has received several awards, including the Dove Award for Female Vocalist of the Year and Southern Gospel Music's Queen of Gospel Music. Downing has performed RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) Meeting For Worship 11:00 A.M. Carey Avenue at Glen Avenue Call 410-543-4343 or 410-957-3451 Everyone Welcome Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at Salisbury "The Law The Right To Privacy" Lay Leader: Michael Simpson UU Fellowship Member Service: 11 a.m. Sunday School: 10:30 a.m. Childcare available All are welcome! 2812 Old Ocean City Rd.

410-749-0264 THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH Welcomes You CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, 10001 Coastal Ocean City. .10:00 a.m. ST. PAUL'S BY THE SEA, 302 N. Baltimore Ocean City .8:00 a.m.

10:00 a.m. ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, 3rd Street, Pocomoke 8:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. ST.

ANDREW'S, Washington Princess Anne 10:30 a.m. ST. ALBAN'S, St. Alban's Mt. Hermon, Salisbury.

a.m. 10:30 a.m. ST. PETER'S, 115 St. Peter's Salisbury.

a.m., 9:15 a.m. 11:00 a.m. GRACE CHURCH, Mt. ..9:15 a.m. ALL HALLOWS, 109 W.

Market Snow Hill. ...9:30 a.m. ST. PAUL'S, 3 Church a.m. 10:30 a.m.

ST. PAUL'S at Old Spring Hill, Rt. 50 347. 11:30 a.m ST. PHILIP'S, Main .9:00 a.m.

CHRISTIAN LifE CENTRE Salisbury AN AssEmblies of God CHURCH Sunday Worship Celebration 10:00 AM Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 PM Dorsey Marshall, Pastor (410) 749-LIFE A Place For You Court Plaza Shopping Center Salisbury, Maryland service from 7 to 7:45 p.m. and a worship service at 8 p.m. Guest speakers will be: Tuesday, the Rev. Lewis Watson, First Baptist Church in Salisbury; March 2, the Rev. Charles Baugh, St.

John AME Church in Pocomoke City; March 9, the Rev. Barbara Harmon of Pocomoke United Methodist Charge; March 16, the Rev. David Hackett of Trinity United Methodist Church Worship Center in Mt. Vernon; March 23, the Rev. BIBLE DIGEST "He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." (Proverbs 29:1 AV) Do not take God's patience for granted.

Today may be your last opportunity to respond to God's call on your life. The Rev. Gordon Dean Thomson News Service Park Seventh Dau Adventist Church 31525 John Deere Drive SALISBURY, MARYLAND Sabbath School 9:30 A.M. Worship Service 11:00 A.M. Prayer Meeting Tues.

7:30 P.M. Pastor O. Kenneth Scheller 410-546-1225 Christian School K-8 Grade 410-546-6981 Open Enrollment Deliverance center open for services PRINCESS ANNE God's Way Deliverance Center, an outreach of New Bethel Ministries will open its doors in the Greenwood section of Princess Anne on Route 13 and Stewart Neck Road. Services will be held Thursday: and Friday at 7:30 p.m. The Gloria Jenkins will be the host pastor.

Weekly services will be held Sunday at 10 a.m. Prayer and Bible study will be held Tuesdays at 7 p.m. CHURCH DEADLINE The deadline for church news to be published in the Saturday edition of The Daily Times is the previous Tuesday at 5 p.m. Press releases can be mailed to Terri Ryan, Church News, The Daily Times, 115 E. Carroll Salisbury, Md.

21801-5421; or faxed to 410-749-7290. The Salvation Army. 400 Elmwood Street Salisbury, Maryland Sundav 9:45 THE ON Morning 11:00 Evening ARMY Bible Praver Tuesdav. Study Meeting and PM Captains Gene Rebecca Hogg COME WORSHIP WITH US. 410-749-7771 VA VA Need a brake? Join us! VA Saturday Nite Lite Worship 6:00 PM VA Sunday Informal Worship 8:30 AM HA Omni 21 9:45 AM VA Celebration Worship- 11:00 AM VA Sunday School for all ages 9:30 AM VA Christ VA VA United Methodist Church 211 Phillip Morris Drive Salisbury 410-742-5334 Pastor Norma O.

Bailey Wheelchair Accessible Nursery Come as you are DELMARVA'S EVANGELISTIC CHURCH 407 E. Gordy Road, Salisbury, Maryland Dr. Ray Chamberlain, Pastor Phones 749-1719, 749-2637: Sunday ..10:00 a.m. Children's .11:00 a.m. Morning 11:00 a.m.

Sunday ...7:00 p.m. "The Second Coming" Y2K Information Rev. Ray Chamberlain Wednesday Evening. .7:00 p.m. Adult Study Youth Bible Study Royal Rangers- Missionettes Christian Community Center For Appointments Activities General Use Use above Phones Denise Hopkins, Sect.

COMING MARCH 14th 11:00 a.m. JUNE EVANS Gifted Bible Teacher and Seminar Speaker The Evangel Hour Dial-A-Prayer WBOC-TV Channel 16 410-546-3924 Sunday 6:30 a.m. Pastor's Prayer Service Saturday 7:00 p.m..