Conestoga Valley SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
IN THIS ISSUE: GROUPS TO HOST RECOVERY DAY LANCASTER/RECOVERY ROCKS page 9
VOL LV • NO 42
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
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The Mission Committee of the Leacock Presbyterian Church,
GUEST SPEAKER
Lancaster Christian Women’s Club will host a luncheon at noon on Wednesday, Oct. 2, at the Bent Creek Country Club, 620 Bent Creek Drive, Lititz. Guest speaker Carol LeBeau will present “An Anchor for Life.” Also featured will be “Celebrate Life - Your Way” by Charles F. Snyder Funeral Home. There is a cost for the luncheon, which is all-inclusive. For reservations, call Pat at 717-951-0773.
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By Ann Mead Ash
“Our key words are accessibility, affordability, and adaptability as far as creating Gospel-rich materials and getting them out (to missionaries),” said Tom Luttmann, executive director of Bible Visuals International (BVI), 650 Main St., Akron. In employing those principles, Luttmann emphasized that the message is not compromised.
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“Jesus Christ - yesterday, today, and forever,” said Luttmann. “How we do what we do has changed, but not the message.” BVI will celebrate 60 years of supplying missionaries around the world with ways of delivering that message at the organization’s annual banquet at Shady Maple Smorgasboard, 129 Toddy Drive, East Earl, on Friday, Oct. 25, at 6 p.m. A gluten-free meal option will be available. A number of speakers will address the gathering, including Luttmann and Jerry Durston, director of Club DJ, headquartered in Saskatchewan, Canada, which holds up to 400
Bible clubs each summer. Elinor Young, a special guest, will share stories of her time serving as a missionary in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, where she helped translate the Bible into the language of the Kimyal people and used BVI literature to help explain the message of the Gospel. Although Young has been ordering materials from BVI for several years, Luttman was first inspired to ask her to speak at a banquet when he saw a video about her life at Lancaster Bible College’s mission week event. The World Team Missions display was showing a video called “Bad Legs,” which was the name the people had for Young in Irian Jaya. “(Young) had polio when she was a little girl,” explained Luttman. “(She
Sam Gunti from Good Life Ministries in Ieeja, India, uses Bible Visuals International (BVI) materials to teach vacation Bible school there. BVI will celebrate 60 years of ministry with a special banquet at Shady Maple on Oct. 25.
By Ann Mead Ash
“Science Fair,” by National Geographic,
The Patriotic Stitchers for Veterans do not meet on a regular basis. The two women who oversee the program, Jean Summers and Kathy Baker, coordinate picking up quilts and afghans from members and then see that the
A summer Bible school missionary used Bible Visuals International (BVI) teaching aids to instruct a Club DJ lesson in Glen Kerr, Saskatchewan, Canada.
comforters are delivered to one of four area hospice centers to be distributed to veterans. However, on a summer morning, 14 members of the group gathered at Our Lady of Lourdes in New Holland to get better acquainted and discuss a possible future fundraiser that is being planned with the Upper Leacock Township War Memorial Association (ULTWMA), which helps to support the group. See Patriotic Stitchers pg 5
Peter Passage (left photo), stewardship director at Fairmount, displayed amenities in one of the new apartments that will soon be completed at the retirement community. Mitchell Hanna (right photo), director of marketing at Fairmount, discussed the 11 different apartment layouts that will be available in the new 45-unit building as he led prospective residents through the apartments during Drop-in Hard Hat Tours on Aug. 13. By Ann Mead Ash
On Aug. 13, a number of area seniors braved the impending rain and the mud
Group members from the Patriotic Stitchers for Veterans met to get better acquainted and display the blankets they had made for veterans at four area hospices. More quilters, knitters, and crocheters are welcome to join.
to traverse the area between the Fairmount parking lot and the building under construction to take a Drop-in Hard Hat Tour. The new four-story, See Hard-Hat Tours pg 16
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and her family) never thought she would be able to go into the mission field, especially in a remote area, and See BVI pg 6
Creating Comfort And Warmth For Veterans
Fairmount Holds Hard-Hat Tours
AWARD-WINNING FILM
will be shown in the SciDome Theater at North Museum of Nature and Science, 400 College Ave., Lancaster, on Monday, Sept. 30, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Made possible by a donation from National Geographic, this showing of the award-winning 2018 documentary is free and open to the public. In it, filmmakers follow nine high school students from around the globe as they compete at the annual International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). This event coincides with the opening of registration for the North Museum Science and Engineering Fair (NMSEF). The NMSEF is Lancaster County’s only ISEF-affiliated fair, and the top two students will compete in the International Science and Engineering Fair in Anaheim, Calif., in May 2020. Call Tyler Barton at 717-358-4371 or visit www.northmuseum.org.
School Plans Fall Festival, Homecoming pg 14
BVI Schedules 60th Anniversary Banquet
ARTS AND CRAFTS
2813 Stumptown Road, Bird-in-Hand, will host a fall art and craft fair on Saturday, Oct. 12. Local crafters and artisans will sell handmade crafts from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Vendors will offer handbags, greeting cards, needlework, paintings, jewelry, and more. Table/vendor space is still available. Food will also be sold. Contact 717-656-7878 or office@stumptown.church for more information.
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