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FR,OM THE tr)ITORS Fnr nrzor oi ahl-rr \'6:15 "rgUndtt the Cq'nent ha m wcsf vr of vr Shi rryn_ Chris Yoder, Riyadh, Kingdorn of Saudi Arabia, Historical Ed.; shewana (Indiana) has been a landmark and a topic of Ben F. Yoder, Goshen lxl, Managing Ed.; Rachel Kreider, Goshen conversation. It was built in 1908 by Menno S. Yocler, a farmer IN, Senior Contributlng Ed.; FYed C. Yoder, Goshen fN.; Staff who was an engineer and builder at heart. cifted like hj-s Mernber, Jofrt W. Ycrler, l{iddlebtry IN, Staff Mernlcer. Other highly intelligent anri innovative father, Reuben (YR2337a Contribr-rtors: Richard H. Yoder, Bartelsvllle PA; ilubert A. in AAMG), I\4enno carefully drew up plans for a duoclecagon cernent Yo
(YODER, Lowe11 from P. 1) Bochenek held the Pol-ish builders accountable for every penny sent to thern for constructing the churches, said Yoder. Yoder recently saw the completion of a huge church in Jano\^/ice Poland. The church began in 1984 when Bochenek bought a pa.rk and an old brewery. He then turned the project over to Yoder to oversee. The peopl-e of the tovn, j-ncJ-uding kids, teenagers, and elderly, volunteered af1 the labor and the brewery was taken dovrn brick by brick and noved to the pa.rk. There it was rebuj-It into the deslgn of a beautiful church. The project took three years to complete and the building includes facilities for a sunrner youth camps. When Bochenei< died last July he was in his 70s and had conpleted 45 churches. Yoder is nor,r working from here in the states to help ful-fill his friend's goal in Poland. Complete his goal Although he is no longer doing concerts, Yoder is doing all he can to help raise the money and send every penny recelved on to Pofand for the cornpleti-on of his mlssion. They have recently purchased a property in ttre city of Kolo, Poland, whlch is no,; being renovated for church use. They have four churches to go to reach the goal of 50 [now 57]. Yoder would like to complete one church per year. Other aspects of Yoder's life are similarly interesting. 'l*rai]hlazing n:ns in the familv. Yoder's anqgsto-rg l^re!:e the first whi-te settlers in western F\:lton County. He collects hj-storical artifacts of F\rlton Cor:nty and is involved with the Historical Society. His_father, Ioran Yoder, was sheriff for 12 years in F\llton County. Loran and Vera raised eight chiJ-dren: four boys and four girls. I-owell, was the oldest. He was raised in the Mennonite Church and always dreamed of becoming a missionary. Yoder attended a one-rocxn school in Ottokee until the third grade, when the students went to Wauseon, After grraduating from Wauseon, he went to nredj_cal school but had to drop out in 1951 because of a bone disease which temporarily put him in a wheel chair. Sj-nce he had some business, accounting and typing classes in college, he decided to find a job in business. He fooked extensively, but was turned do,rn repeatedly because of hls handicap. Eventuaily, Yoder found work with Ray Carlson, who was 1n the metal-working business. Yoder earned $40 a week. That was where he nret his wife lr4aril-yn. They have raised thrree sons and two daughters of their own- By 1958, the Yoder's had started thej-r crvrn family business of buying and selling metal-working nachines . On March J_f, 1961 Lolvelt Yoder's Iife changed again. He suffered a heart attack. His religious experience at that time led a totaf change in his life, whj-ch opened the way for his missionary work' He Yoder is a co-founder of FOHO, an organization which v'ras part of the VISA prograrn. Through FOHO' Yoder has seen the buildlng of over 50 lnow 70] churches in Haiti. He has also brought a great many medical supplies to the people of Haiti. Ttrey also sponsor a radio statlon to bring Grristian music to Haiti's peoPle. Yoder's organizations have brought medicaf supplies to other countries as welf. Dorninican Republic, Guatamala, El Salvadort and Poland. Yoder explains that these countries don't even have aspirin available for its people, Iet alone antibiotj-cs. He enloys sharing a story of how he was not allonred to take $Ionol into Potand because of the scare a few years aqo. llhoLus Alan Yoder, Iowe11 's ofdest child, shcivring license The radio statj-on in Haitj- inspj-red Yoder to form the WPOS \^rith YODm 1 Ctrrlstian Radio station in Hottand, Ohio in 1965- He felt COULD THFRE BE ANCTIHER YODIR, CI{APH, IN ETIROPE "if that the non-drristians ln Haiti- could have a radio statj-on, then we should too." How does he accornplish so much "Hard workr" was his answer. ******J
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