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May 2001 News Archive

May 18, 2001

Dimondale, Mich. West Windsor UB of Dimondale, Mich., is looking for a fulltime youth director whowould also give direction to the church's Christian Education programs. Contact: Pastor Richard Thorp, 7275 Windsor Highway, Dimondale, Mich. 48821. Office Phone: 517-646-6812.

Hillsdale, Mich. The Hillsdale church is looking for an associate pastor. Responsibilities include leadership of educational ministries and helping to provide pastoral care to 250+ adults in congregation. Giftedness in computer-generated creative arts is desirable, but not required. Interested candidates may send resume to: Rev. Lester Smith, Hillsdale United Brethren, 240 S. Hillsdale Rd., Hillsdale, Mich. 49242

VBS Project for 2001. Every year, money raised by children in UB Vacation Bible Schools goes toward a need on one of our overseas fields. This year, the project involves the Copan area in western Honduras, near the border with El Salvador. Copan is famous for the ruins of an ancient Mayan city. This area of Honduras is still populated by the families of Maya Indiana.

Honduras Conference is working with two pastors who want to start churches in Copan. The pastors need to have more education and money.

Funds raised through VBS this summer will help start churches in an area where there are currently no United Brethren churches.

Interim Pastors

  • Rev. Bob Lust will be the interim minister at First UB of Columbus, Ohio, starting May 20. The previous pastor, Roger Martin, passed away a few weeks ago. Bob also served as the interim minister at Monticello prior to Marc Nelson's arrival there.
  • Rev. Wayne Carnes will be the interim minister at Rugby (Hope, IN), beginning June 1.

Major Work Project in Honduras. This summer, five UB youth groups are cooperating on a major work project in La Ceiba, Honduras, at the Bethel School. From June 16 through early August, each group will go to Honduras for about ten days, one after the other, to help build a gymnasium at the school. Isais Rivera, a Huntington College student who is from La Ceiba, will be on hand to help each group and to coordinate the total project.

Here is the schedule:

  • June 16-27: College Park UB (Huntington, Ind.), led by Roger Vezeau.
  • June 26-July 7: Emmanuel UB (Fort Wayne, Ind.), led by Patrick Rowland.
  • July 6-July 17: Devonshire UB (Harrisburg, Pa.), led by Derek Thrush.
  • July 16-July 27: King Street UB (Chambersburg, Pa.), led by Brian Kramer.
  • July 26-August 6: Fowlerville UB (Fowlerville, Mich.), led by Bill Blue.
May 11, 2001

Director of Youth and/or Children's Ministries. GraceNow! Ministries is "a church for people who don't like church." We're new, we're nontraditional, we're even a bit odd! We value creativity, joy, and, more than anything, grace. We're very kid-friendly and want a good person to provide leadership for either or both of these important ministries. This person would need to serve bivocationally (which means that it's a part-time position at the moment). Would love to hire a female or a minority, but all applicants happily considered.

Death of Roger Martin. Central Conference Superintendent Roger Martin sent this note: "Rev. Roger Martin, pastor of First United Brethren Church (Columbus, OH), passed away on the morning of Thursday, May 10. He had just celebrated his 73rd birthday on April 29. He had initially been diagnosed with cancer about a year ago. The past year has been a series of ups and downs as the Martin family has been through multiple tests and treatments.

"Funeral arrangements are as follows:

  • On Sunday (May 13), there will be a viewing at First United Brethren Church (496 S. Wheatland Avenue, Columbus, OH) from 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. with a memorial service at 3:00 p.m.
  • Following this memorial service, Roger's body will be transported to the Weir Funeral Home (located on Second Street) in Chillicothe, OH, where another viewing will be held from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. A second funeral service will be held at the funeral home on Monday, May 14 at 10:30 a.m. Rev. Mike Brown will be officiating."

Port Orange, Fla. Dennis Rowe, pastor of Faith UB, sent this report on May 9: "Last week's National Day of Prayer was an awesome experience, as more than 100 pastors and churches from across Volusia County came together to pray and worship on Thursday night at the Daytona International Speedway. In fact, we had to delay the service for 15 minutes to allow the people to get through the traffic (most of it heading into the Prayer Service)! We had many different branches of the Christian Church represented at the service, but we stood hand in hand at the foot of the cross to confess, repent, and seek God on behalf of our community!.

"God is doing some wonderful and mighty things in our county in bringing the Body of Christ together to make a difference in this County. I have seen and been a part of seeing God's Spirit work among His people in other locations. But God surely seems to be doing something special in Volusia County. Church prejudices are being torn down, and divisions are being healed. There is a sweet spirit of humility and unity being birthed that is transcending the traditional racial and economic divisions found in church."