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Solanco DECEMBER 12, 2018
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LV • NO 37
TOY DRIVE
The Solanco and Donegal girls’ basketball teams will team up to support the Solanco Toy Drive. On Friday, Dec. 14, any fan who brings a new, unwrapped toy to the Solanco-Donegal girls’ junior high, junior varsity and/or varsity basketball games will receive free admission. The toys will be donated to the Solanco Toy Drive, which will make them available for families to pick up on Saturday, Dec. 15. This is the fourth season that Solanco girls’ basketball has partnered with the toy drive. Those who are unable to attend the game on Dec. 14 who would like to donate in advance may email Coach McDowell at chad_mcdowell@solancosd.org. LIVE NATIVITY
Union United Methodist Church, 321 Fremont Road, Nottingham, will host a live Nativity on Saturday, Dec. 15. The Nativity will be featured from 6:30 to 8 p.m. JINGLE BELL RING
The Central Pennsylvania Handbell Festival will sponsor the Jingle Bell Ring on Saturday, Dec. 15. Handbell musicians will play holiday favorites during the festive Visit With Santa event hosted by Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square and Lancaster County Convention Center, 25 S. Queen St., Lancaster. Ringers will perform for 30 minutes at 11:15 a.m. and 1 p.m. There is no admission fee, but nonperishable food items will be collected to benefit Autumn’s Food Pantry. Ringers interested in participating can contact Jeff Clouser at centralpahandbellfestival@gmail.com.
The Mennonite Children’s Choir of Lancaster (MCCL) will hold auditions for the spring 2019 semester. Auditions include matching pitch, singing in tune, using one’s head voice, maintaining a melodic line while another line is being sung, and singing one prepared piece of music. MCCL’s performing choirs involve singers in Carol Choir (grades two through five), Concert Choir (grades six through eight) and Chamber Choir (grades nine through 12). The choirs practice on Tuesday evenings through early May, and they are led by artistic director Rosemary Blessing and director Sarah Wingard. Prospective singers should schedule a 15-minute audition by contacting Wingard at 540-383-9986 or carolandconcertchoir@lancaster mennonite.org.
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Dance To Benefit Dean Innerst pg 8
Wesley Church Launches New Network Center By Dayna M. Reidenouer
The past six years have been momentous at Wesley Church. The congregation, having outgrown its chapel at 7 Wesley Road, Quarryville, moved into a new facility at 1104 Kirkwood Pike, Quarryville, in 2012. Three years later, Wesley left the United Methodist denomination and began operating as an independent church. In 2016, Wesley Church launched La Cosecha, a Spanish-speaking congregation. The following year, the new group moved into the chapel. At the end of 2017, members of what was once Colerain Baptist Church, 1923 Noble Road, Kirkwood, approached the leaders of Wesley Church and asked to merge with the larger congregation. The adoption was finalized this year, and Wesley now
has a Colerain campus. Colerain’s pastor, Bryce Wendler, has teamed with Wesley’s director of operations, Rich Stevenson, to lead the young adult ministry. 2018 also saw the opening of the Wesley Network Center. Located in the same building as the Daily Grind coffeehouse, 221 W. Fourth St., Quarryville, the center now houses pastors’ offices and offers space for individuals and groups to meet. Lead pastor Blake Deibler explained that as Wesley has grown, the church considered adding a new Sunday school wing to its main facility but opted instead to move the offices into the network center, creating more space for classrooms and opportunities to reach the public in new ways. “ We’re looking to impact our community,” Deibler explained. See Wesley Network Center pg 4
Sadsbury Friends To Host Christmas Eve Service
Wesley Church leaders (front, from left) Tim Wilgus, Lester Davis, (back) Craig Deibler, Blake Deibler, and Rich Stevenson are excited to announce the opening of the Wesley Network Center in downtown Quarryville.
Reiki Office Opens In Quarryville
By Francine Fulton
The fourth annual contemplative Christmas Eve service, featuring music, readings, candlelighting and a time of silence, will be held on Monday, Dec. 24, from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Sadsbury Friends Meeting House, one of the oldest houses of worship in Lancaster County. The event is designed to John Walton (left) and Tim Kirk light candles offer a deeper, quieter and during last year’s contemplative worship service more solemn celebration held on Christmas Eve at the Sadsbury Friends of the Christmas holiday. Meeting House in Gap. This year’s event will People of all faiths are take place from 4 to 5 p.m. on Dec. 24. welcome to attend. “As the service begins, we will still be in congregation member Miriam Blank. “We daylight, but during our hour together, will be lighting candles throughout the the day will grow dark outside,” said evening, bringing light into the darkness.” See Sadsbury Friends pg 6
Reiki practitioners Claudia Kirk and Jennifer Buttriss opened an office in Solanco Office Suites, 215 W. Fourth St., Suite 108, Quarryville, in June. Kirk provides services through her business, Southern End Reiki, from noon to 4 p.m. on Mondays through Fridays. Buttriss’ business, Reiki by Jenn LLC, offers flexible hours. Reiki - pronounced “RAYkey” - was developed by Mikao Usui of Japan as an ethical approach to life and a way to utilize the energy of loving compassion to support the Reiki practitioners Claudia Kirk (pictured) body’s innate or natural healing and Jennifer Buttriss (not pictured) offer abilities. It is not a religion and services at an office in the Solanco Office does not aim to endorse or Suites, Quarryville, which they opened in oppose any faith. The ethical June. cornerstone of reiki is embodied in the five principles of its founder: devote yourself to your work, and show do not anger, do not worry, be humble, compassion to yourself and others. See Reiki Office pg 5
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