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One of the earliest “mini-crises” took place in the mid-sixties when Reverend G and Reuben Beuerle incurred a mild scrape with the law. They were enthusiastically erecting signs at the corner of Stadium Boulevard and Greenview Drive, as well as Main Street and Scio Church Road, directing wouldbe worshippers to the church. This proved to be an act of dubious legality and while the first sign was victim of an accident, the city requested removal of the second. A handsome lighted outdoor sign was erected on the east exterior of the building in 1978. In May 1981 an identifying sign was placed on the southeast corner of the property at the intersection of Greenview and Scio Church Road. In 1967 the Session had voted to destroy the “old loose-leaf church records” inasmuch as they had been recorded (“and Rev. Gensheimer proudly erects a sign directing visitors to the church. peaks and valleys—53
proofread”) in a new Church Record Book. (Session minutes are now being recorded in Book 4, having filled three and a half large volumes.) A safe was purchased for temporary storage of money as well as the record books. On one fateful Sunday night in 1971 Gil Thrane, from his home behind the church on Hanover Court, saw questionable lights burning late in the office. Police, upon investigating, found a broken basement window and a missing safe. The missing object was found within a day in a field at Scio Church and Zeeb Roads, door blown open. Crime did not pay for these disgusted burglers, however, as they found no Sunday collection, it having been banked, but only the record books. These, fortunately, had been protected from overnight rain damage by the slightly open door. An insurance claim was filed in connection with the theft and the large safe was replaced by a smaller donated one. This has been kept unlocked, with combination tumbler removed along with temptation, since a locksmith was summoned to open it in yet another mini-crisis when the records were inadvertently locked up and no one was able to open the combination. Only records of no interest to outsiders repose therein nowadays. On another occasion the gift set of silver tea service disappeared for some time. Months after replacement by a new service, the original set was discovered in the small storage area at the northeast corner of St. Andrews Hall, apparently having been dumped hastily inside the door by a “borrower.” Pastor’s Illness The nearest to a major crisis in the church occurred in summer 1978. Reverend G and Anne were spending a week of their vacation at a national Suzuki Violin Institute in Ithaca, New York, with their two youngest sons, Paul and Peter, who had been students of the instrument for some time. Late in the evening of Thursday, July 20, telephones of 54—the first twenty-five years
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Page 35 and 36: God moves in mysterious ways - and
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Page 43 and 44: After maturity to self-support and
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Page 53: Good Scotsman Lloyd MacDonald, surr
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Page 59 and 60: Assembly rules. In April 1957 a dra
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Page 71 and 72: Audio aids, installed in several fr
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Page 77 and 78: oard of deacons in 1978 however, Se
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Page 91 and 92: The Rev. Richard Miller was Westmin
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In June 2000 a Vacation Bible Schoo
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Westminster teens sort food they co
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Adult Ministries The spiritual grow
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led the choir in the performance of
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sition she had held since the churc
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as arrangements for our choirs. In
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gregational input was needed. Dr. J
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quet - all concluding with a celebr
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the concrete beams for the main flo
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Stephen Murray speaks at dedication
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130—the story continues In 1998,
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Kornfield (Brazil), Mark and Gwen P
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of adopting six needy area families
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The men have sponsored a Halloween
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The Session of 1986 gathers for a p
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Wherever the path leads, one consta
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