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Allen Memorial Baptist
Church in Grover will pres-
ent the movie, “Road to
ili ” August 25 at
8:15 p.m. at the Allen
v Memorial ball field. Take a
lawn chair.
~ The senior adults of
Antioch Baptist Church,
839 Antioch Rd., Grover,
will present the musical
“Homeward Bound”
‘Saturday, Aug. 26 at 6 p.m.
© in the church fellowship
"hall. The public is invited.
! Church,
Miracles of Fellowship
1199 Earl Rd.
Shelby, will present its 2006
Women's Conference
© “Women Thou Art Loosed”
~ August 31-September 2.
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session at 7 p.m. is Sister
Cruceta Jeffeirs of House: of
Refuge, Shelby. Speaker at 7
p.m. September 1 will be
Minister Marlene Jefferies of
House of Refuge, Shelby. A
workshop will be held at 11
a.m. Saturday, Sept. 2 with
Minister Janet Banner of
Hoppers Chapel Shelby. The
worship service will be at 6
p.m. For more information
call Pastor Betty Goforth at
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Miracles of Fellowship
Church, 1199 Earl Rd.
Shelby, will present “Naked
and Not Ashamed,” a praise
and testimony service,
Saturday: Aug. 26 at 6 p.m.
For more information call
Sister Carla Ellis at 739-1261. .
St. Matthew's Lutheran
Church will begin a
Kindermusik program
September 7. The program
uses unique teaching meth-
ods to help children learn
about music, how to sing,
and how to play instru-
ments. A ten-week program
will cost $50. For more infor-
mation call Nickie Paulson
at 730-9793. Students will be
grouped by age in three dif-
ferent classes to be held each
Thursday between 4-7 p.m.
Classes will be from 30 to 45
minutes.
St. Matthew's Lutheran
Church, 201 N. Piedmont
Ave., is sponsoring a self
. defense class for women
September 12 at 6:30 p.m.
Women of all ages may
attend. For reservations, call
Cathy Stark at 482-6107 or
Chris Lovell at 739-7866
after 6 p.m.
Women on the Move 2006
Gathering “No More
Obstacles, No More Chains,
We are Free to Move with
God,” will be presented at
Rose of Sharon Ministries,
406 Suttle Street Shelby,
September 15-17. On Friday
September 15 at 7 pm the
speaker will be Sister
Cruceta Jeffeirs from the
House of Refuge Shelby;
Saturday, September 16
from 9-1pm there will be an
Empowerment Workshop
Registration is free; and at 6
pm the speaker is Pastor
Sirander Allen of
Redsprings Baptist Church
in Sanford, NC. On Sunday
at 6 pm the speaker will be
Pastor Danielle Duncan of
Grace United Methodist
Church in Kings Mountain.
For more information con-
tact Minister Billie Jefferies
704-739-4776
East School
to begin
More at 4
East Elementary School
will begin a More at Four
Preschool Program.
Four-year-old children in
the Kings Mountain area,
especially those in the East
Elementary School area,
~ may participate.
More at Four is a free pre-
school program for four-
year-old children wanting a
jump on kindergarten. The
child must be four years old
on or before October 16,
2006.
For more information call
476-8064.
As I prepare with my fam-
ily to’ start another school
year, I am aware of the fact
that my family is changing.
Our sons are growing up and
new steps are being taken
every day. Our youngest son
is begin-
ning at
Kings
Mountain
High
School
this year,
which is
hard for
us to
believe,
but even
harder to
believe is the reality that our
oldest son is now a college
student.
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“ EMILY WEAVER
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Jeff Hensley
Meditation
Boyce Memorial ARP
(Associate Reformed
Presbyterian) Church on the
corner of Edgemont Dr. and
King St. celebrated its 150th
anniversary this past March.
The church was organized in
1782, with direct historical
ties (or lineage) -to the
Church of Scotland founded
by John Knox and to the
Reformation of the historic
Christian Church led by John
Calvin in the 1500s.
Pastor of the church, Doug
Petersen, has been with the
congregation at Boyce
Memorial for 11 years, this
November. He said that there
“is a lot of love within the
doors of their sanctuary.
“Our congregation is chang-
ing. We have a lot of new
people joining us and some
without an ARP back-
ground,” he said. “New peo-
ple are warmly received
here. We are an open church
and very friendly.”
“We firmly believe the
word of God is what it is and
that’s our rule for faith and
practice, that’s the way we
conduct our worship servic-
es and the way we conduct
our church government, in.
particular. A lot of our forefa-
thers were killed for their
faith and a lot of them fled
from Scotland over here,”
said Boyce Memorial's
Minister of Music Terry
Williams. He said that the
When we left our son on
the university campus, I
found myself filled with a
mixture of emotions. On the
one hand, I was excited for
him. College was a wonder-
ful time for me, and I'm con-
vinced that those formative
years can help define a per-
son’s future. On other hand,
I found myself wishing that
it wasn’t necessary to push
the bird out of the nest.
Of course, we all know that
young people have to grow
up, and an important part of
being a parent is helping that
growth to take place, which
means that we sometimes
have to encourage our chil-
dren to do things that are dif-
ficult. The only problem is
that we parents also have to
love’
church gets its name from Dr.
Ebenezer Herskin Boyce,
who was the first pastor in
1782.
The Director of Youth and
Family Ministry Brad
Anderson, was in charge of
the youth summer camps at
Bonclarken, the denomina-
tion’s conference: center, in
Flat Rock, NC. A lot of week-
end and week-long confer-
ences are held at Bonclarken
for adults and children in
ARP churches across the
United States and Canada.
“When our general senate
meets, we'll have well over
200 churches join there,”
Petersen said. Dozens of
their church members joined
their distant religious fami-
lies for camps and confer-
ences, this summer. A music
and drama camp was held at
the end of June and a music
conference was held in July.
The conference brought in
talented music directors and
conductors from all over to
work with different choirs.
Camp Bonclarken was held
during July and lightened
the summer for many young
ones, praising God in the
‘sun.
“We have a pre-school that
operates during the school
session, Monday through
Friday from 9 am to 12
noon,” Williams said. “We
have four-year-olds that
meet Monday, Wednesday
and Friday and the three-
year-olds come on Tuesday
and Thursday.”
deal with the grief that
comes with watching our
children begin to disengage
and step out into the world
on their own. What a strange
feeling that is! Having said
all of this, I have to confess
that I am also grateful for the
opportunities my son has
had and will have, and I am
praying for him to find and
fulfill God’s unique plan for
his life. :
Kevin Vanhoozer is.a the-
ologian and musician who
understands this desire to
find God’s unique plan for
one’s life. A gifted pianist,
Vanhoozer longed to find
some way to use his musical
talent in his Christian wit-
ness without turning it into
something that is gimmicky.
Students, look for divine leadership
As a result, Kevin spent a
year in France developing an
evangelistic program that
revolved around his playing
of classical music concerts.
Using the analogy of music
and the theme of “the joy of
music,” Vanhoozer was able
to introduce to people the
idea that God is the compos-
er or conductor of our lives.
Furthermore, he was able to
extend the metaphor and
teach people that life comes
with many different quali-
ties, and this mixture of qual-
ities — some easy to face and
some hard to face — is essen-
tial if our lives are to have the
beautiful harmony that
makes them enriching and
wonderful.
Kevin also noted that in
music, as in life, there are @-
occasional wrong notes, [-
some passages that make us --
weep, and certain bits that -:
are so beautiful that listening -:
to them hurts. Clearly, Kevin -*
Vanhoozer is onto something
here, and because of God's ©:
leadership in his life he has -
been able to teach people --
about the nature of our
Creator and the life we are
given. This is the kind of
divine leadership that I am
praying will be evident in
my own son's life as he
makes his way through col-
lege.
Jeff Hensley is pastor of
Kings Mountain Baptist
Church.
at Boyce Memorial
Boyce Memorial has a fel-
lowship supper on
Wednesday nights, followed
by Bible Study, prayer serv-
ice and adult choir. “I'm
responsible for all of the
music activities and pro-
grams and things of that
nature. I'm also responsible
for senior adults, lay min-
istry training and develop-
ment,” he said.
The church participates
with St. Matthew's Lutheran,
Resurrection Lutheran,
Central United Methodist
and First Presbyterian in
their Vacation Bible School
program, combining stu-
dents and teachers and rotat-
ing locations. Classes and
lessons were held during the
evenings between Sunday,
July 23rd, and Thursday, July
27th.
Over the past few years
they have sent young mis-
sionaries from the church to
areas along the Appalachian
Mountains, for what is called
the Appalachia Mission Trip.
During the summer, youths
and adults from the church
bring vacation bible school-
type programs to the moun-
tain communities.
trips are sponsored by their
denomination headquarters
in Greenville, SC. “Last year
we had some youth that
spent some time in Wales,”
Williams said. “They did
some bible teaching, fellow-
ship games, that sort of
thing. They were part of a
larger group and had their
St. Matthew's Lutheran
to offer Kindermusik program
. EMILY WEAVER
"| eweaver@kingsmountainherald.com
St. Matthew's Lutheran
Church at 201 N. Piedmont
Avenue in Kings Mountain,
will be offering
Kindermusik, labeled the
“World's #1 young child-
hood development program
for 19 years,” beginning
Thursday, September 7.
Classes, separated by age
groups, will be held every
Thursday at the church and
will be instructed by Thai
Gay, a licensed teacher from
Lincolnton. The Village class,
for newborns to 18-month-
olds, will be held at 4 pm.
Our Time and Imagine That,
for ages 1 to 4, will be held at
4:45 pm and Young Child,
ages 5 to 7-year-olds, will be
held at 5:30 pm and at 6:30
pm. All children, including
those with special needs,
from the Bessemer City and
Kings Mountain regions
must sign up by September
7th to participate. The ten °
week program costs $50 per
child and must be paid at or
before the first day of class.
“There will be a discount for
members of St. Matthew's,”
said the pastor’s wife Jinger
Jeffcoat.
“Music and movement
from a very early age helps
to open up brain develop-
ment in any child, installing
a love of music and helping
them to be better learners in
school,” said owner of Grace
Studios of Lincoln County
and Kindermusik official
Sharon Atkinson. “Research
has proven that a child who
stays in Kindermusik from
birth to around age 7 will
perform an average of 43
percent better in school.”
Atkinson was recognized
by the president of
Kindermusik, International,
located in Greensboro, for
her work at A Place to Grow
day care in Lincolnton.
While there, she started
working with 39 special
needs children, ranging in
physical abilities. Within a
few short weeks she noticed
a transformation in the chil-
dren and in one young man
especially. Stevie, a five-year-
old, suffering from cerebral
palsy spent the first couple of
weeks in class on his moth-
er’s lap, not participating.
But shortly after those first
few weeks, Atkinson said it
was “miraculous.” “He start-
ed walking in our class. He
started singing and he start-
ed doing all of the things that
his therapists had been
working with him on, and he
just accomplished it,” she
said. Now at the age of 13, he
goes around to different
churches praising the Lord
through song and speech,
with a little bit of confidence
from the program.
Atkinson's work at A Place
to Grow, made company
owners see what their curric-
ula can do for special needs
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own areas that they went
into with different responsi-
bilities.” Anderson and his
wife accompanied three kids
last year, Petersen said.
“Our church also supports
missionaries in several coun-
tries, specifically = Russia,
Pakistan and Mexico,” he
said.
They have a special
Thanksgiving service on
Thanksgiving morning. “We
have a very short worship
service at 7:30, followed by a
breakfast that the men pre-
pare. We have a lot of our for-
mer folks that come back
because they're visiting their
families and stuff like that.
It’s a special time,” Williams
said. During the
Thanksgiving holiday, the
congregation collects canned
goods for the Crisis Ministry,
combining efforts and pool-
ing resources with other local
churches, to help the com-
munity. The church also con-
ducts a candle-lit commun-
ion Christmas Eve service at
7 pm, where they read scrip-
ture, sing carols, form a circle
within the church while
lighting candles and singing
“Silent Night” a capella. The
choir and members of the
church have gone caroling to
certain places in the commu-
nity, like White Oak Manor.
They provide support "to
Relay for Life, having a lot of
parishioners that have bat-
tled cancer.
Sunday sermons are
recorded for members of the
church who may not be able
to come, due to illness or
other conditions.
Communion service is held
the first Sunday of every
month.
The church recognizes the
congregation’s graduating
high school seniors with a
supper, gifts and praising
words. “Then during the
worship service they march
in, in their caps and gowns
and sit together and they're
recognized by our pastor and
they're presented with a gift
during the service,” Williams
_ said. “Then at the end of the
service, they march out
together. It’s recognized as a
very important milestone in
their life.”
According to their website, .
they accept “the Westminster -
Confession of Faith and
Catechisms as its doctrinal
statement and holds to the
inerrancy and infallibility of
the Bible, the sovereignty of
God, the virgin birth, deity
and lordship of Jesus Christ,
‘salvation by grace through
faith in Jesus Christ, and the
other fundamental doctrines
of the historic Christian |
faith.” Their Sunday School
starts at 8:45 am, fellowship
at 9:30 am, morning worship
at 10 am and the youth meet
at Director of Youth and
Family = Ministry = Brad
Anderson’s house at 6:45 pm
each Sunday.
For more information, visit
the church's website at -
www.boycememorial.org or
call (704) 739-4917.
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