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Te BEST of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong><br />
Summer<br />
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Features<br />
Top 10 Drive-Ins and Ice<br />
Cream Joints • 8<br />
Northside on Oak<br />
10<br />
up, up and AWAY • 18<br />
Exclusive Coverage:<br />
Faces of HOPE • 24<br />
An Unforgettable Year • 28<br />
A March to Remember • 14<br />
Dare to Care • 30<br />
Stephenson’s General Store:<br />
Ice Cream, Sodas and a Little<br />
Bit of Everything • 32<br />
Snapshots • 17<br />
Chicks in the Kitchen • 36<br />
Regulars<br />
Flashback Photo • 40<br />
Everyday Adventures • 44<br />
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<strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> has loads of great places to go for good food and great ice cream!<br />
Check out the locations included here. (listed in alphabetical order)<br />
A.J.’s Gyros To Go<br />
(Georgetown)<br />
An amazingly wide selection<br />
of both food (including their<br />
famous gyros) and ice cream<br />
makes A.J.’s “the little place<br />
with the big menu.”<br />
Berry Twist<br />
(Floyds Knobs)<br />
In a beautiful new location,<br />
Berry Twist is still offering the<br />
food, ice cream and sherbert<br />
that has made them a favorite<br />
for over 30 years.<br />
Emery’s Ice Cream<br />
(Corydon)<br />
An old-fashioned ice cream shop<br />
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premium ice cream as well as sodas<br />
and nostalgic candies.<br />
Polly’s Freeze<br />
(Georgetown)<br />
In business since 1952, Polly’s has<br />
an extensive selection of ice cream<br />
and food. Try the homemade<br />
Orange Sherbet twisted with Vanilla!<br />
Chillers Ice Cream<br />
(Sellersburg, Scottsburg,<br />
& Jeffersonville)<br />
A franchise born right here<br />
in <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> with 12<br />
different homemade hand dip<br />
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& cakes and other various ice<br />
cream creations.<br />
Stephenson’s General Store<br />
(Leavenworth)<br />
Step back into time at<br />
Stephenson’s and peruse the<br />
diverse selection of goods,<br />
including preserves and candy<br />
galore. Enjoy an old-fashioned<br />
soda, ice cream or a slice of madefrom-scratch<br />
pie.<br />
Curb-ette Drive-In<br />
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In business for over 50 years,<br />
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Salem Apothecary<br />
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Homemade Ice Cream<br />
& Pie Kitchen<br />
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Caramel Iced Dutch Apple<br />
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Zesto<br />
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Featuring a wide selection of<br />
premium homemade hand-dip ice<br />
cream products, Zesto has<br />
something for everyone.<br />
May/June <strong>2012</strong> • 8
A.J.’s Gyros To Go<br />
The little place with the big menu!<br />
6 different types of Gyros in 3 sizes,<br />
Handbreaded & Greek Style Pork Tenderloins,<br />
Philly Cheese Steaks, English Style Fish ’n’ Chips<br />
plus much more!<br />
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NORTHSIDE ON OAK:<br />
Reaching out to make a difference<br />
It started in 2008 with a once-a-month outreach<br />
called “Saturday in the Park,” but the Northside<br />
Christian Church leadership and those involved<br />
in local missions quickly realized they wanted to do<br />
more to give back to their city, particularly in the<br />
downtown New Albany area.<br />
Story // Sam C Bowles<br />
Photos // Abby Laub<br />
It was the vision of Northside’s Senior<br />
Pastor George Ross to “have a lasting impact<br />
on the community” rather than being<br />
known simply for “[creating] a traffic jam<br />
on the weekends,” says Gary Norman, one<br />
of the church’s elders.<br />
Because Northside was already working<br />
in the downtown area, partnering with S.<br />
Ellen Jones Elementary School, they knew<br />
the need was great. They were able to purchase<br />
a building on the corner of 15th and<br />
Oak streets that formerly served as a machine<br />
shop, and the “Northside on Oak”<br />
campus was born.<br />
A different kind of church<br />
Brian Combs, the campus pastor, joined<br />
the team in January of last year, and says<br />
he’s right at home in this unique ministry.<br />
“We are a church, but it looks very different,”<br />
Combs says. “We’ve taken the shape<br />
of the neighborhood we’re trying to reach.”<br />
For example, the Northside on Oak campus<br />
does not meet on Sunday mornings for<br />
a “typical” church service. Instead, the primary<br />
outreach time is on Monday nights,<br />
when people from the neighborhood come<br />
together for a short time of corporate worship<br />
and teaching — usually a few songs<br />
and devotion from Combs — followed by a<br />
free meal and a time of teaching, including<br />
an adult Bible study and kid’s classes.<br />
On Thursday mornings, the church does<br />
a café, serving breakfast and giving ministers<br />
and volunteers a chance to interact with<br />
people very personally and informally.<br />
And on Monday and Tuesday evenings,<br />
Northside operates a food pantry out of the<br />
main campus on Charlestown Road. It’s<br />
mostly volunteers from the main campus<br />
who prepare and serve the meals on Monday<br />
nights, serve as the teachers and leaders<br />
for classes, and help make other events and<br />
outreach efforts possible. In fact, Combs<br />
says, the ministry on Oak could not exist<br />
without volunteers from the main campus.<br />
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Campus Pastor Brian Combs said the<br />
ministry is all about personal relationships<br />
and sharing the love of God.<br />
Focusing on kids and families<br />
“We’ve taken the word ‘OAK’ and<br />
developed our strategy around that<br />
[acronym]:” Combs explains, “Outreach,<br />
Assistance, and Kids.”<br />
And children are certainly a focal<br />
point of the ministry.<br />
“The focus of what we do here is on<br />
the next generation…our goal isn’t to<br />
come down and solve all the issues of<br />
poverty,” says Combs, “but to bring the<br />
love of Christ to this neighborhood.”<br />
Volunteers offer homework help<br />
and tutoring to children on Mondays<br />
leading up to the main gathering time<br />
and meal.<br />
Once a quarter, Northside on Oak<br />
does a large community outreach event,<br />
almost always focusing on children and<br />
their families, and the largest event of<br />
the year is a Summer Vacation Bible<br />
School for kids of all ages. Approximately<br />
100 kids attended last year.<br />
“This year we’re studying Daniel,<br />
which is basically how to stand firm<br />
in your faith in a hostile area,” Combs<br />
says. “The connections to what kids<br />
experience in this neighborhood are<br />
just abundant.”<br />
Another exciting project is the community<br />
garden the ministry is facilitating,<br />
including a few raised beds for<br />
those in wheelchairs, which is giving<br />
locals a chance to get their hands dirty<br />
and see the fruits of their labors.<br />
“At the end of the summer, we’re<br />
actually going to have a celebration<br />
and supplement our Monday night<br />
meal with the garden,” Combs says.<br />
Restoring dignity, sharing love<br />
One of the main goals of the ministry<br />
is restoring and instilling dignity<br />
in those it is trying to serve.<br />
“What we want to do is reshape the<br />
way we try to help so that we’re actually<br />
elevating people’s dignity, giving<br />
them resources and opportunities to<br />
be able to care for themselves,” Combs<br />
says. “We’ve got the Biblical mandate<br />
to care for those who need help.”<br />
According to Combs, the area is a<br />
statistically high-crime, high-poverty<br />
area that in 2010 ranked in the top five<br />
percent of the most dangerous neighborhoods<br />
in the nation. Consequently,<br />
it’s a neighborhood that can use all the<br />
love and assistance it can get.<br />
“No program or service is going to<br />
fix the problems of this area,” Combs<br />
says. “It’s really about getting into the<br />
mess of personal relationships and<br />
sharing the love of God with people<br />
on a relational level.”<br />
One shining example of this approach<br />
is Ronnie Reinhardt, someone<br />
from the neighborhood with an admittedly<br />
rough past who has had a pretty<br />
incredible transformation through his<br />
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interaction with the Northside on Oak<br />
ministry. Reinhardt has evolved from<br />
merely a local being served by the<br />
ministry and has now become a key<br />
“I feel now that I can<br />
give back, and that’s<br />
what God wants me to<br />
do, and I feel so much<br />
better about myself.”<br />
-Ronnie Reinhardt<br />
volunteer leader within the ministry<br />
himself.<br />
“I love this place. This community<br />
is so lost: you’ve got divorce, alcoholism,<br />
and the kids need the<br />
love.” Reinhardt says.<br />
“I didn’t get to do it when<br />
I was young, so I feel now<br />
that I can give back, and<br />
that’s what God wants me to<br />
do, and I feel so much better<br />
about myself,” he added.<br />
Northside on Oak is making<br />
a difference one meal,<br />
one child, and one relationship<br />
at a time, as Combs<br />
and his associate minister<br />
Preston Searcy lead volunteers<br />
in outreach efforts that<br />
meet physical and emotional<br />
needs in tangible ways, all in<br />
an effort to share the love of<br />
Jesus Christ.<br />
“I meet lots of folks who’ve<br />
come to believe they don’t<br />
matter,” Combs says. “They<br />
believe God couldn’t love<br />
them, and when they show<br />
up at a traditional church they feel out<br />
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A march to remember<br />
Photos courtesy Angie Glotzbach<br />
Story // Angie Glotzbach<br />
When most people think about World<br />
War II, they envision the attack on Pearl<br />
Harbor, European and U.S. troops fighting<br />
the Germans, the Holocaust and the<br />
dropping of the first nuclear<br />
bomb, but a great portion of<br />
the war was also fought in<br />
the South Pacific. Many servicemen<br />
lost their lives in that<br />
tropical setting.<br />
One horrific event that took<br />
place during the battle in the<br />
South Pacific was the Bataan<br />
Death March.<br />
After valiantly defending<br />
the main Philippine island of<br />
Luzon and the harbor defense<br />
forts of the Philippines with<br />
no naval or air support, approximately<br />
70,000 to 75,000<br />
U.S. and Filipino troops retreated<br />
to the Bataan Peninsula,<br />
and on April 9, 1942,<br />
surrendered to the Japanese<br />
army.<br />
“There aren’t many surviving WWII<br />
vets left and we need to take the<br />
time to thank them for their service<br />
and contributions to our freedom<br />
before it’s too late.”<br />
-Dr. Howard Pope<br />
For six agonizing days the troops were forced to<br />
march an estimated 65 miles up the hot, dusty peninsula<br />
toward prisoner of war (POW) Camp O’Donnell.<br />
The already malnourished and diseased captives were<br />
subjected to inhumane treatment during the crucible.<br />
They were denied food and water, tortured and executed<br />
at the whim of their Japanese<br />
captors along the way.<br />
Although springs ran<br />
along the roadway, the prisoners<br />
were denied water,<br />
and bayoneted or shot if they<br />
ran to drink from the stream<br />
or disease-ridden puddles.<br />
There are several WWII letters<br />
from survivors that tell<br />
of POWs being stabbed,<br />
beaten, shot, disemboweled<br />
and beheaded. Prisoners<br />
were routinely killed for<br />
not being able to walk, and<br />
were tortured or murdered<br />
by their captors for trying to<br />
help fellow prisoners.<br />
When the men arrived<br />
in San Fernando they were<br />
packed into boxcars and tak-<br />
May/June <strong>2012</strong> • 14
en by train to Camp O’Donnell, but<br />
those who could not fit into the boxcars<br />
were prodded another five miles<br />
to the camp. The railway cars were<br />
packed so tightly that many died from<br />
the sweltering heat and suffocation,<br />
right where they stood. The majority<br />
of the men remaining on the march<br />
later perished in transit aboard “hell<br />
ships” bound for Japan, in forced labor<br />
or POW camps. Some POWs were<br />
held captive in the camps for several<br />
years before being released.<br />
There are still a handful of survivors<br />
of the Bataan Death March, and thousands<br />
of military and civilian supporters<br />
meet each year in New Mexico to<br />
remember those soldiers who died<br />
during the horrific WWII event, by<br />
traversing a trek of rough, desert terrain<br />
that spans 26 miles across the<br />
White Sands Missile Base.<br />
One Sellersburg man was<br />
among those marching to honor<br />
the fallen and living veterans.<br />
Dr. Howard Pope, family physician<br />
for Floyd Memorial Medical Group<br />
in Georgetown and retired Brigadier<br />
General in the U.S. Army Reserve,<br />
made the trip to White Sands on<br />
March 25, nearly 70 years after the<br />
World War II atrocity.<br />
He joined his daughter, Dr. Jennie<br />
Ellen, Occupational Medicine, PM&R,<br />
who is a graduate of New Albany<br />
High School and now lives in Phoenix<br />
serving as a Regional Medical Director<br />
for Concentra in Tucson, Phoenix<br />
and central California. Pope asked<br />
her to cover those miles with him as<br />
a bonding experience and laughingly<br />
admitted, “With her being a fellow<br />
physician I figured she could help me<br />
if I croaked.”<br />
Getting in shape for the grueling<br />
course took some time. Pope explains,<br />
“I trained for over a year with a personal<br />
trainer in order to get in good<br />
enough condition to cross the desert.”<br />
He added, “There are many teams<br />
and individuals who make a race out<br />
of it. Different military corps and units<br />
use the Memorial March as a chance to<br />
not only remember fallen fellow soldiers,<br />
but to compete against each other<br />
for bragging rights. I just wanted<br />
to make it through the tough course,<br />
Dr. Howard Pope and daughter, Dr.<br />
Jennie Ellen, train together.<br />
and I was able to do it.”<br />
Before leaving on his trip to New<br />
Mexico, Pope was given true inspiration<br />
from recent Medal of Honor<br />
recipient, Marine Sergeant Dakota<br />
Meyer. Sgt. Meyer let Pope borrow the<br />
bracelets of two of his friends and former<br />
marines who died in Afghanistan<br />
while serving our country.<br />
Pope noted, “I was so honored that<br />
Sergeant Meyer allowed me to carry<br />
the bracelets with me. They gave me<br />
the inspiration I needed to finish the<br />
26 miles. I shared the story of the<br />
bracelets with other walkers and runners<br />
and they were all touched by his<br />
gesture.”<br />
This Memorial Day will be a special<br />
one for Pope.<br />
“I will always look back on my<br />
Bataan Memorial Death March experience<br />
as a humbling and inspiring<br />
time,” he reflected. “I’m proud to honor<br />
all of our veterans, especially those<br />
from World War II. There aren’t many<br />
surviving WWII vets left and we need<br />
to take the time to thank them for their<br />
service and contributions to our freedom<br />
before it’s too late.<br />
“We also need to applaud all who<br />
have served in the past and those<br />
serving now for their personal sacrifices<br />
and patriotic efforts to protect<br />
our country,” he continued.<br />
Happy Memorial Day, from <strong>Southern</strong><br />
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up, up &<br />
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Story & Photos // Sam C Bowles<br />
Meet the man who’s flown a semi-truck, a giant<br />
whiskey bottle and the Michelin Man<br />
Photo courtesy Jerry Copas<br />
Jerry Copas has loved<br />
hot-air balloons since the<br />
first time he saw one as a<br />
child.<br />
He and his wife, Kathy, have turned their passion<br />
into a career and business, travelling<br />
the world doing what they love.<br />
Fortunately for <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong>, they have<br />
always been more than eager to share their<br />
unique craft with anyone who is interested.<br />
Copas’ love of things that fly started at an<br />
early age. “I was the little kid that was all the<br />
time drawing pictures of helicopters, airplanes,<br />
jets,” he says.<br />
But his favorite piece of aviation technology<br />
has been his aircraft of choice for nearly 30<br />
years, the hot air balloon.<br />
When the Kentucky Derby Festival began<br />
its hot air balloon race in the mid-1970s, they<br />
promoted the event with balloons on display<br />
at various locations around the area, providing<br />
a 12-year-old Copas with his first up-close<br />
experience with the aircraft.<br />
“My mother drug me along, and I got to see<br />
the thing up-close,” he says. “From that point<br />
on I thought, ‘This looks like a lot of fun.’”<br />
Copas continued to learn more about ballooning<br />
and started getting to know local pilots. As<br />
soon as he was able to drive, he began making<br />
the trek over to Louisville to volunteer as a crew<br />
member whenever he could.<br />
Hot air balloons fall under the jurisdiction of<br />
the Federal Aviation Administration, and piloting<br />
a balloon requires a license.<br />
“I took my first flying lesson when I was 16,”<br />
Above: The Copas family flies over Louisville.<br />
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Copas says. “And I learned<br />
to fly on the cheap. I would<br />
help people with their balloons…and<br />
I started trading<br />
in my ‘sweat equity’ with<br />
these pilots in exchange for<br />
lessons and flights to get<br />
my license.”<br />
Copas was commercially<br />
licensed by the time he was<br />
19 years old.<br />
“It was a pretty big deal<br />
back then, when I was a<br />
teenager with a pilot’s license,”<br />
he says. “I was very<br />
proud of that.”<br />
Following high school<br />
Copas says he “annoyed”<br />
his father long enough that<br />
they found and purchased<br />
a used balloon and started<br />
building a small business<br />
enterprise around the hobby<br />
he loved.<br />
“There are really only a<br />
few ways you can make<br />
money ballooning,” Copas<br />
explains. “Chartered flights<br />
(where you take people up<br />
for a balloon ride), teaching<br />
people to fly, or doing it<br />
commercially for advertising.<br />
So I got into that right<br />
away.”<br />
Copas partnered with<br />
various businesses including<br />
a local car dealership,<br />
Dominos Pizza and others,<br />
establishing credibility and<br />
giving him experience as a<br />
commercial pilot, and continued<br />
to fly for various corporations<br />
as he completed<br />
his college degree.<br />
He married his high<br />
school sweetheart, Kathy,<br />
who earned her pilot’s license<br />
within the first five<br />
years of their marriage.<br />
“I’m proud to say that I<br />
taught her how to fly,” he<br />
says.<br />
In 1992, after losing his<br />
job as an art director for a<br />
large company that was<br />
sold overnight, he and his<br />
wife began ballooning fulltime.<br />
“I told Kathy I’d make a<br />
Top: Jerry, Kathy and<br />
Spencer Copas.<br />
Bottom: Copas lands in a<br />
local’s back yard, only after his<br />
crew (usually his wife and son)<br />
secure permission from the<br />
homeowner.<br />
few calls, and we would see<br />
if we liked it, and within a<br />
week we were on the road,”<br />
he says.<br />
For the next 13 years Copas<br />
and his wife worked as<br />
full-time commercial hot<br />
air balloon pilots, flying<br />
all over the United States<br />
and the world representing<br />
numerous corporations<br />
in such varied locations as<br />
the Australian Outback, the<br />
Swiss Alps, and the Las Vegas<br />
strip.<br />
Much of his corporate flying<br />
involved special shape<br />
balloons, popular promotional<br />
tools for many large<br />
corporations.<br />
“An older, more experienced<br />
pilot once told me if<br />
I was going to fly commercially<br />
and for a living then<br />
I was going to get to know<br />
these special shape balloons,<br />
and boy was he ever<br />
right,” Copas says.<br />
He has flown a giant<br />
paint bucket for Porter<br />
Paints, a bottle of Jack Daniel’s<br />
for Brown-Forman,<br />
the Michelin Tire Michelin<br />
Man, a United Van Lines<br />
semi-trailer, and many<br />
other custom-made special<br />
shape balloons.<br />
Copas said the unique<br />
shapes stand out, particularly<br />
at events where most<br />
of the other entrants are<br />
standard balloons. “You<br />
talk to people after the fact.<br />
They are going to remember<br />
those special shape balloons,”<br />
he says. In fact, Copas<br />
still vividly remembers<br />
the first such balloon he<br />
Story continues on page 23<br />
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saw: a balloon promoting KFC,<br />
which was shaped like a giant<br />
chicken.<br />
In 1999, their son Spencer was<br />
born, but having a child did not<br />
slow them down and Spencer<br />
spent the first few years of his life<br />
on the road with them, taking his<br />
first flight when he was only six<br />
weeks old.<br />
As Spencer got older, the Copas<br />
family decided to settle down<br />
so he could attend school, and<br />
they opened their New Albany<br />
business Fine Signs and Graphics,<br />
Inc.<br />
The family, including Spencer,<br />
who is now 13, has never stopped<br />
flying as they continue to balloon<br />
part-time with their other<br />
company Images Aloft, offering<br />
charter flights, instruction (both<br />
Jerry and Kathy are licensed instructors),<br />
and promotional work<br />
for various businesses including<br />
regular flights for the French Lick<br />
Resort and Casino.<br />
In addition, the business is a<br />
dealer for Cameron Balloons,<br />
representing and selling the<br />
popular company’s balloons and<br />
equipment.<br />
Copas serves as President of<br />
the Balloon Society of Kentucky,<br />
leading the organization as its<br />
members make a concerted effort<br />
to get more young people interested<br />
and involved in ballooning,<br />
and he continues to participate in<br />
multiple balloon races each year.<br />
Balloon races are not about<br />
speed, but accuracy. A lead balloon<br />
takes off and the racers follow.<br />
The lead balloon lands and<br />
sets out a large target that the racers<br />
try to hit with a beanbag. The<br />
closest to the center of the target<br />
is the winner.<br />
In addition to the target, many<br />
races also include what’s called a<br />
“key grab” where a set of keys is<br />
attached to a 15- to 20-foot long<br />
pole. If a pilot can bring his balloon<br />
in close enough to reach<br />
over and grab the keys, he can<br />
win what is often a very substantial<br />
prize.<br />
“It’s essentially the equivalent<br />
of golf’s hole-in-one,” Copas explains,<br />
noting that in many ways<br />
balloon racing is a lot like golf<br />
in that it is very, very difficult<br />
to perfect. But it’s “those times<br />
when you come into a target from<br />
5 miles away and put it right on<br />
the nose that keep you coming<br />
back for more.”<br />
One of the highlights of Jerry’s<br />
balloon racing career came only<br />
a year into his marriage when<br />
he successfully pulled off a “key<br />
grab” at a race in Evansville, winning<br />
a John Deere tractor.<br />
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pilots to better plan and execute<br />
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Faces of HOPE<br />
St. Francis Xavier Church<br />
When Father Steve Schaftlein drove into<br />
town immediately after the storm he saw<br />
the steeple and knew the St. Francis Xavier<br />
Church (pictured on right hand page) still<br />
stood as a beacon of hope to the community.<br />
The church became a “place of refuge” and<br />
a “visible place to come and gather” Father<br />
Schaftlien said. He estimates that at it’s peak,<br />
nearly 8,000 meals where served each day in<br />
the area surrounding the church.<br />
RICH CHEEK<br />
Rich Cheek (pictured above) is pastor of the Henryville<br />
Community Church, which opened its doors immediately<br />
following the disaster and has become a major<br />
hub, feeding as many as 1,500 people at its peak in<br />
the days following the disaster, coordinating hundreds<br />
of volunteers and sorting and distributing literally millions<br />
of dollars of items that have been donated.<br />
In addition, the church has committed to rebuilding<br />
upwards of 100 homes at no costs to the homeowners.<br />
“We’re restoring dignity to these residents…not just<br />
getting them back to where they were but even better,”<br />
Pastor Cheek says.<br />
Anna Morgan<br />
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Henryville native Anna Morgan<br />
teared up as she recalled her days<br />
spent growing up in the now-destroyed<br />
town she once called home.<br />
It was the close connection to so<br />
much destruction that brought the<br />
mother of four back to help with<br />
relief efforts. She busily sorted<br />
food and supplies at the Henryville<br />
Community Center.<br />
Morgan said people are “coming<br />
out of the woodwork to volunteer”<br />
and that it was “really cool to see”<br />
her kids also get involved in the efforts.<br />
Morgan added that she was<br />
amazed at the upbeat attitudes of<br />
the people coming for help at the<br />
community center.
HOPE<br />
We talked to the people busy<br />
bringing life back to the<br />
tornado ravaged region.<br />
Stories & Photos // Abby Laub & Sam Bowles<br />
Te volunteers highlighted here are only a small sampling of the thousands of people and organizations<br />
from all over the world who have come to the aid of the tornado ravaged towns in<br />
<strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong>. In preparing this piece we heard time and time again of the great generosity<br />
and continued outpouring of support particularly from those in neighboring communities<br />
and counties. While we mourn the loss, we celebrate the resilient spirit of those affected and the<br />
faces of hope who are helping rebuild and restore the lives of those in need.<br />
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Faces of HOPE<br />
KELLY KINZER and FAMILY<br />
When the tornadoes struck <strong>Indiana</strong> and Kentucky, Kelly Kinzer (second from right) and her husband and three children<br />
knew they needed to help.<br />
The family is from Joplin, Mo., and knew first hand the devastating effects of a major tornado. Kinzer said it was<br />
spring break for her teenage children and they took the initiative to head to <strong>Indiana</strong> to help with the relief efforts.<br />
Boisey Beverly/<br />
Duane Phillips<br />
Duane Phillips (left) of<br />
Memphis, Ind., has become<br />
an almost full-time volunteer<br />
in the relief and recovery<br />
effort has no plans of<br />
stopping anytime soon.<br />
Pat Werner &<br />
Barb Pieper<br />
Sisters Pat Werner of Greenwood,<br />
and Barb Pieper of Brown County<br />
drove down together because they<br />
“wanted to give something back.”<br />
“You would like to think if this happened<br />
to you, people would do the<br />
same thing,” Pat said.<br />
Boisey Beverly (right) of<br />
Baton Rouge, La., saw the<br />
difference volunteers made<br />
when Katrina ravaged his<br />
home and church. His ministry began serving people immediately after<br />
Katrina and saw nearly 150 homes rebuilt in a 3 year period following<br />
the disaster. Now Boisey is giving back to other communities when<br />
disaster strikes.<br />
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Faces of HOPE<br />
Above: Utility crews worked around the clock to restore power to the community.<br />
Below: Signs of hope were prevalent around the community in the storm’s aftermath.<br />
Jose Ortega<br />
Pastor Jose Ortega, with the<br />
National Association of Christian<br />
Churches Disaster Action Team, is<br />
helping organize and operate the<br />
ad hoc warehouse just outside of<br />
Henryville that is being operated<br />
in cooperation with the Henryville<br />
Community Church.<br />
Pastor Ortega says serving is<br />
“the most satisfying thing you<br />
can do. All of us have it in us and<br />
when the opportunity presents itself<br />
it brings out the best.”<br />
Janetta Coley<br />
Janetta Coley of Cordon grew up in the area. “This is my community<br />
too…I grew up here,” she said. She came to Henryville on<br />
day one and put her past experience operating a café and managing<br />
restaurants to good use, serving three meals a day at the Henryville<br />
Community Center (also a major distributor of food and groceries to<br />
those in need) for two weeks following the storm.<br />
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An unforgettable year<br />
The students and staff of<br />
Henryville schools roll<br />
with the punches<br />
Story // Darian Eswine<br />
When spring’s<br />
tornado spawning<br />
storms destroyed<br />
Henryville<br />
Elementary<br />
School and High<br />
School, around<br />
1,200 students<br />
plus their<br />
teachers and<br />
staff were left<br />
without a place<br />
to finish the<br />
school year.<br />
“The school is in total devastation,”<br />
said PTO president and parent<br />
Melinda Coats. “The top floor<br />
is gone, the gym is missing a wall.<br />
There are cars inside the school.<br />
Buses were thrown everywhere. It is<br />
completely unrecognizable.”<br />
Though cleanup began at the<br />
school and in the community immediately<br />
after the storm, it was<br />
instantly obvious that the students<br />
and teachers of Henryville would<br />
have to finish the year<br />
somewhere else.<br />
Photo // Abby Laub<br />
The main objective was to keep the students together, and that has been<br />
accomplished by moving the elementary students to the Graceland Christian<br />
School, the junior-senior high students to the Mid-America Science Park and<br />
pre-kindergarten to Silver Creek Primary.<br />
Junior-senior high counselor Renee Eckart said “the kids all cheered”<br />
when they learned they would be back in school and in it together.<br />
Music teacher Amanda Lochner said she is not concerned about the building.<br />
“The students are what make the school. It’s like the people make the<br />
home; the kids make the school,” she said.<br />
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Routine is important in times of instability.<br />
Getting back into the everyday<br />
schedule of school will provide the students<br />
and staff with a sense of solidarity.<br />
“I think it’ll be good. I’m glad they<br />
are keeping them together. It’s good to<br />
get back to some type of normalcy,” said<br />
PTO treasurer Meradith Eickholtz.<br />
Belfor Property Restoration, the<br />
company overseeing both the cleanup<br />
and reconstruction of the schools, took<br />
care of cleaning out the buildings and<br />
moving supplies. The Belfor employees<br />
went room by room to retrieve<br />
any salvageable materials. They then<br />
boxed, labeled, and moved the materials<br />
to the new locations.<br />
“We still feel like the school is salvageable<br />
and we want to get back in as<br />
soon as we can,” said West Clark Community<br />
Schools Superintendent Monty<br />
Schneider.<br />
Schneider said it usually takes 18<br />
months to build a school and it will be<br />
a hard goal to accomplish. The plan is<br />
to be back in the new building in time<br />
for next school year.<br />
“It will be tough to achieve, but it’s<br />
a good possibility,” he said. “That is<br />
our goal; to be back in our school<br />
in the fall.”<br />
Meanwhile, the transition between<br />
buildings will be hard as<br />
students and staff struggle to<br />
cope with the changes.<br />
“The most important thing is<br />
to make the kids feel safe and let<br />
them know we are here,” said elementary<br />
counselor Karen Epley.<br />
She added that crisis counselors<br />
will be available for students and<br />
staff.<br />
“We’ll have counseling professionals<br />
and they will talk to the<br />
teachers and the students for the<br />
next few months,” Eckhart added.<br />
Even after school has started in<br />
these new buildings, there will be<br />
continuing long-term emotional<br />
issues to deal with.<br />
“We’re going to have some<br />
panicked kids and parents the<br />
next time we have a thunderstorm.<br />
We’ll need to plan for tornado<br />
drills and things like that,”<br />
said sixth grade teacher Kyle Riggins.<br />
Epley said overall it is a mat-<br />
students.<br />
“I think it’s important to keep<br />
“We still feel like the school is everyone as close as we can. A lot<br />
salvagable and we want to get of people really have nothing, and<br />
it’s important to keep the community<br />
together and the student body<br />
back in as soon as we can.”<br />
-West Clark Community Schools<br />
together [with these events],” said<br />
Superintendent Monty Schneider Harrell.<br />
No matter the destruction, the<br />
community continues to stay<br />
ter of encouraging the students and strong and come together to work<br />
staff to talk about what happened, through this difficult time with not<br />
letting them know they have support only those at Henryville Elementary<br />
and making the transition smooth and School and Henryville Junior-Senior<br />
comfortable for the students.<br />
High School, but also those around<br />
Although the entire community was them, as they recover and look towards<br />
affected, this tragic turn will make “senior<br />
year” that much more unforget-<br />
“Thank you to everybody for keep-<br />
the future.<br />
table for high schoolers.<br />
ing us in your thoughts and prayers,”<br />
“Now that everything has sunk in, Eckart concluded. “It is overwhelming.<br />
I think it will be a memorable year. I Please do not forget about us. People<br />
can’t say it’ll make it better or anything will move on, but don’t forget.”<br />
but I think it will bring us closer as a Out of all of this wreckage, Harrell<br />
class and it will definitely be memorable,”<br />
said senior Jenna Harrell. to her own life.<br />
has learned a lesson and now applies it<br />
Prom and field day, even with the “Love and respect what you have because<br />
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DARE<br />
to<br />
CARE<br />
HElping<br />
SoutHERn inDiAnA<br />
onE mEAl At A timE<br />
Story // Lisa Greer<br />
Photos // Kim Greer<br />
When we think of hunger, we think of far-away<br />
places and third world countries or city living<br />
in, but we seldom think of it as being in<br />
America’s suburbs or our next door neighbor’s<br />
home in rural southern <strong>Indiana</strong>.<br />
The disturbing trend, according to Dare to Care Food<br />
Bank Executive Director Brian Riendeau, is that people who<br />
wouldn’t normally fall into the at risk group are now becoming<br />
part of these statistics.<br />
Not long after Riendeau began working with Dare to<br />
Care, he received a call from someone desperate to feed her<br />
children.<br />
“It was someone in the community who was well educated,<br />
with a good job and the resources to provide for her<br />
family,” he said. “Except that she’d had a series of dominos<br />
fall in her life that included massive medical bills, divorce<br />
and job loss.”<br />
After receiving assistance from Dare to Care, Reindeau received<br />
a call to say the woman found a job, was back on her<br />
feet, and planned to pay back the organization.<br />
“That’s the face of hunger that we are seeing now. It’s very<br />
different than a few years ago,” Riendeau said.<br />
While scenarios like this are all in a day’s work for Riendeau,<br />
it’s an act that can make the difference between life<br />
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and death to someone, as in the instance of 9-year-old Bobby<br />
Ellis who died on Thanksgiving Eve in 1969 from starvation.<br />
“Bobby’s death was tragic, but it started a spark in this<br />
community causing people to come together,” Riendeau<br />
said.<br />
From that heartbreaking event 42 years ago, and the efforts<br />
of Father Jack Johns, the Dare to Care food bank was<br />
born.Johns began by collecting food and storing it in his<br />
church basement, then delivering it out to people in need in<br />
the community from the back of a pick-up truck.
Though Dare to Care is a Louisville based organization, their<br />
reach in <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> is immense, covering a 13-county<br />
service area that includes eight in Kentucky and five in <strong>Southern</strong><br />
<strong>Indiana</strong>.<br />
“This year we will distribute 16.3 million pounds of food,”<br />
Riendeau said. “That equates to about 14.5 million meals dispensed<br />
into the community.”<br />
That’s up from about 12 million pounds of food three years<br />
ago, as the organization has been growing dramatically in the<br />
last few years trying to stay ahead of the expanding need. In the<br />
Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison and Washington alone, about<br />
2.5 million pounds of food is currently distributed annually.<br />
The organization currently has 69 agency partners and is<br />
looking for more to help reach those in need. Partnering agencies<br />
are a critical part of food distribution. When someone<br />
comes to Dare to Care seeking food assistance, they try to connect<br />
them with an agency near them, as the agency can often<br />
provide other services as well.<br />
To ensure the needs are being met, Dare to Care did a study<br />
to take a closer look at the number of people hungry and where<br />
they are located.<br />
In the last 12 months, Dare to Care has assisted 192,000 individuals.<br />
That’s a 68 percent increase over the last four years.<br />
The biggest driver behind the need for food assistance right<br />
now is employment. In addition, Dare to Care has other programs<br />
to assist with hunger, such as Kid’s Café, a safe place<br />
to go after school, where kids can receive tutoring and a hot<br />
meal five nights a week. Another program, Back Pack Buddies,<br />
addresses weekend hunger by providing a backpack full of<br />
nutritious, kid friendly food items to sustain kids through the<br />
weekend.<br />
One of Dare to Care’s biggest<br />
challenges now is dealing with<br />
perishables like fruit, meat and<br />
other chilled products. Of the 16<br />
million pounds of food Dare to<br />
Care distributes, about 4.5 million<br />
is fresh fruits and vegetables<br />
that have to go out to the community<br />
very quickly.<br />
There also is a mobile pantry<br />
for areas where there may not<br />
be an agency. At least two trucks<br />
full of food, produce, boxes and<br />
tables are sent out daily to distribute<br />
food on location.<br />
In addition, raising awareness is<br />
critical in this fight against hunger.<br />
“It’s one of those issues that<br />
remains largely invisible,” Riendeau<br />
said. “The sad part is that<br />
people don’t understand the<br />
magnitude of problem.”<br />
Food, dollars and volunteer<br />
time are critical to this organization,<br />
and there are numerous<br />
ways to help. For more information,<br />
call 502-966-3821, or visit<br />
www.daretocare.org. •<br />
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Stephenson’s GeneralStore is here to stay<br />
Story & Photos // Sam C Bowles<br />
Stephenson’s General Store in<br />
Leavenworth opened in 1917.<br />
Originally located in a building<br />
close to the Ohio River, the flood<br />
of 1937 forced the move to its current<br />
location where it has been ever since.<br />
But when the Stephensons closed the<br />
doors of their family business in 2008 and<br />
sold the contents at auction, many in the<br />
small town of Leavenworth feared that was the end of the general store which had<br />
been a staple of the town for more than 90 years. And for a few years it looked like<br />
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“We still have the old counters and shelving,<br />
the squeaky wood floor, and we’ve tried to<br />
build on that hometown, nostalgic feel.”<br />
-Owner Grant Jones<br />
they were right.<br />
But in May of<br />
2010, locals Tony<br />
and Judy Gallina<br />
and Grant<br />
and Tara Jones<br />
bought the store.<br />
“I’ve just loved<br />
this place over<br />
the years, and it had always been<br />
an idea in the back of my mind that
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Pictured at left are Tony and Judy Gallina, and at right are Grant and Tara Jones with three of their children.<br />
it would be nice to have it,” Owner Grant Jones says.<br />
When they learned that the Stephenson’s were ready to<br />
sell, the two families purchased the property.<br />
“And then,” Jones says, “the real work began.”<br />
They completed all of the necessary structural improvements<br />
and repairs necessary to restore the historical building<br />
to useable condition in just a few months, reopening on<br />
September 1, 2010.<br />
“We look back at photos of our opening day and just<br />
laugh,” Jones says. “We had so little inventory, but there’s<br />
only so much four people can do.”<br />
But when they opened at six in the morning, there were<br />
people waiting at the door, by seven there were already several<br />
people eating breakfast in the restaurant, and the business<br />
has just continued to grow from there.<br />
A step back in time…<br />
Stephenson’s is a true “general store,” featuring an array<br />
of nostalgic toys & candies, preserves & old-fashioned sodas,<br />
locally made crafts, food, and, well…a little bit of everything.<br />
The store feels like it’s from a forgotten era and is a<br />
delight to peruse both for locals and those passing by.<br />
“We still have the old counters and shelving, the squeaky<br />
wood floor, and we’ve tried to build on that hometown,<br />
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The building’s history has made for<br />
at least one very memorable day, as<br />
an interesting episode ensued when<br />
the new owners discovered a very old<br />
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“So we made the news that week<br />
for sure,” Jones says.<br />
The small restaurant in the back of<br />
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and those who might be camping or<br />
staying in the area, and in another<br />
part of the building the two couples<br />
also operate a coin laundry, the only<br />
one around.<br />
The final phase of their business<br />
plan included the addition of a hardware<br />
store in the building’s basement.<br />
And the reopened and reimagined<br />
Stephenson’s General Store has been<br />
a hit so far.<br />
“We knew it would be a success.<br />
People love the store and the concept…<br />
but we immediately exceeded<br />
our projections and have every<br />
month,” Jones says.<br />
Locals are very supportive of<br />
the store, stopping in regularly for<br />
this or that, but the store is equally<br />
popular with the many people<br />
who travel through the area.<br />
“People are glad we’re here…<br />
and we’re amazed at the visitors to<br />
this area,” Jones says. “And it’s a<br />
congregating point for the town.”<br />
In fact, some regulars even have<br />
their own coffee mugs.<br />
“It’s hard work, of course,” Jones<br />
says, “but the best part of it are the<br />
people we’ve gotten to know. It’s
not like they are just customers;<br />
they are our friends.”<br />
The new owners of Stephenson’s<br />
General Store have already<br />
exceeded their own expectations<br />
and plan to continue to grow<br />
their business.<br />
“We want to build on what we<br />
have here…and I think the restaurant<br />
still has a lot of growth,”<br />
Jones says.<br />
The Jones and Gallinas knew<br />
they wanted to help protect the<br />
history of this small town they<br />
think is very special.<br />
“The longer the store stayed<br />
closed, the more likely it would<br />
never come back,” Jones says.<br />
“So we saw this as an opportunity<br />
to contribute to the history<br />
of the town.”<br />
They hope to see others opening<br />
businesses in the area.<br />
“This downtown area would<br />
lend itself very well to some<br />
small shop owners opening little<br />
specialty businesses,” Jones says.<br />
In addition to Stephenson’s,<br />
Leavenworth already boast the<br />
popular Overlook Restaurant<br />
with its stunning view of the<br />
Ohio River’s horseshoe bend, a<br />
beautiful bed & breakfast called<br />
The Inn, and The Dock, a riverside<br />
restaurant scheduled to reopen<br />
soon.<br />
“Because of its location on the<br />
Ohio River Scenic Byway, the area<br />
really has great potential with all<br />
the tourists,” Gallina says.<br />
If not for the Jones and Gallina<br />
families, a small-town treasure<br />
might have faded into a distant<br />
memory, but thanks to them, Stephenson’s<br />
General Store has only<br />
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the people of Leavenworth<br />
and those who pass through the<br />
town. •<br />
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chicks in the kitchen<br />
Spring in the Kitchen<br />
Mother Daughter cooking column by Julie and Brooke Garrison<br />
What a busy time of year! May is full of great events starting<br />
with the Kentucky Derby, Mother’s Day and finishing<br />
out with Memorial Day. Since it’s a time of pitch-ins we<br />
thought this potato casserole would be a big hit, and it’s<br />
versatile enough for breakfast or dinner. My grandma made the best<br />
mashed potatoes, but there’s no recipe for that. My cousin Nathan is<br />
getting close to replicating them though!!<br />
Strawberries will be in season here in southern <strong>Indiana</strong>, so we picked an<br />
easy to make dessert. You can add other fruits if you like, just omit the<br />
glaze and place sliced fruit on top of the cream cheese mixture.<br />
Happy cooking!<br />
Grandma Luda’s Potato Casserole<br />
1 (2 lb.) package frozen hash browns, slightly thawed<br />
( cup melted butter or margarine<br />
1 tsp. onion powder<br />
1 can cream of chicken soup<br />
1 pint sour cream<br />
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese (I use mild cheddar)<br />
Salt and pepper to taste<br />
Crushed potato chips (for topping)<br />
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt butter in the 9 x 13 baking<br />
dish. Stir together all the ingredients, pour butter from<br />
the dish into the mixture. Spread in pan. Top with crushed<br />
potato chips. Bake for one hour.<br />
Strawberry Pizza<br />
1 pkg. sugar cookie dough<br />
8 oz. cream cheese<br />
1 cup sugar<br />
1 tsp. vanilla<br />
1 qt. strawberries stemmed and sliced<br />
1 pkg. strawberry glaze<br />
Cut cookie dough in circles and place on pizza pan. Bake<br />
at 325 degrees until cookies are light brown around pan<br />
edge. They should bake together to form the crust. Mix together<br />
cream cheese, sugar and vanilla. Spread on cooled<br />
cookie crust. Mix the strawberries and glaze together and<br />
spread on top of cream cheese mixture. Keep refrigerated<br />
before and after serving.<br />
For the little chicks –<br />
Mom’s Play Dough<br />
2 cups flour<br />
2 cups water (add food coloring<br />
to water)<br />
1 cup salt<br />
2 tsp. cream of tarter<br />
2 Tablespoons oil<br />
Cook over medium low heat<br />
and continue stirring till dough<br />
gets very sticky and thick.<br />
Knead like bread.<br />
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Pictured are Brooke (left) and Julie<br />
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May/June <strong>2012</strong> • 42<br />
If you want to get kids fired up,<br />
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I’ve taught kids in church for the past<br />
sixteen years, and without fail, whenever<br />
I’ve asked for someone to come up<br />
front and help tell the story, I’ve seen<br />
nearly every hand in the room shoot<br />
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white, preschool or fifth graders, kids<br />
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On the flip side, ask a crowd of adults<br />
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You can take the most rambunctious<br />
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or answer a question, and you’ll<br />
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of awkward minutes, with much hesitation,<br />
the first brave soul will raise their<br />
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others may follow suit - mostly motivated<br />
out of guilt or pity for the guy asking<br />
for volunteers.<br />
Just as kids are wired to participate,<br />
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thousands of seats in the stands and<br />
room on the floor for only a handful to<br />
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with chairs, while the silver screen is reserved<br />
for only an elite few. That’s why<br />
we have 500 channels of cable TV, and<br />
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If you think about it, it’s kind of<br />
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and put ourselves out there, vulnerable<br />
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connoisseurs.<br />
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face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;<br />
who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes<br />
short again and again, because there is no<br />
effort without error and shortcoming; but<br />
who does actually strive to do the deeds;<br />
who knows great enthusiasms, the great<br />
devotions; who spends himself in a worthy<br />
cause; who at the best knows in the end the<br />
triumph of high achievement, and who at<br />
the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring<br />
greatly, so that his place shall never be<br />
with those cold and timid souls who neither<br />
know victory nor defeat.<br />
So, what’s the deal? How do we end<br />
up as “cold and timid souls?” What happens<br />
in those years between third grade<br />
and 30 to rob us of our courage? What<br />
steals our desire to jump up in front of<br />
our peers and be right in the center of<br />
the action?<br />
I believe it’s because on the way to<br />
adulthood we all learn the fine of art<br />
of fear. We become self-conscious and<br />
afraid of getting the answer wrong,<br />
dropping the ball or performing poorly.<br />
We watch others blow it and see the<br />
ridicule that is their reward. It’s like<br />
a bunch of prisoners who’ve seen too<br />
many of their friends getting shot trying<br />
to scale the wall in the prison yard.<br />
As we grow older, we learn to keep our<br />
heads down and play it safe.<br />
That’s why I love working with kids.<br />
Kids don’t care what everyone else<br />
thinks. Kids just want to have fun. Kids<br />
just want to act and play and move and<br />
do. Maybe that’s one of the reasons Jesus<br />
said we should have faith like a<br />
child, because a child has the guts to act<br />
on what they believe to be true. Adults<br />
just talk it to death.<br />
Life is not a spectator sport. God did<br />
not make us to sit back and watch others<br />
live. He made us to do the living<br />
ourselves.<br />
The more I read the Bible, the more<br />
I realize it’s a book of action. Jesus said<br />
anyone who hears His words AND<br />
puts them into practice is like a wise<br />
man who builds his house on a rock,<br />
a rock that survives even the strongest<br />
of the storms. The Bible also says that,<br />
“Anyone, then, who knows the good he<br />
ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.”<br />
I remember the first time I read that<br />
verse thinking, “Are you kidding me?<br />
Following God isn’t just about avoiding<br />
bad stuff? I actually have to do something<br />
too?”<br />
The fact is I can I say I believe all<br />
kinds of things about God until I’m blue<br />
in the face, but unless I’m willing to put<br />
it into practice, I’m just another guy in<br />
the stands watching a great game.<br />
Ever notice how much a church looks<br />
like a theater? There are plenty of people<br />
in the audience, with a paid professional<br />
up front under the lights. It’s just<br />
one more place we can sit back, offer<br />
our critique and enjoy the show.<br />
Unless, of course, you’re a kid. Then<br />
you’re next door in children’s ministry,<br />
your hand stretched high in the air, saying,<br />
“Pick me! Pick me! I want to play.”<br />
Who knows? Maybe some of them will<br />
forget to outgrow it. Those, of course,<br />
will be the ones who will change the<br />
world while the rest of us applaud<br />
them. •<br />
Jason Byerly is a writer, pastor, husband and<br />
dad who loves the quirky surprises God sends<br />
his way every day. He believes life is much<br />
funnier and way cooler than most of us take<br />
time to notice. You can catch up with Jason on<br />
his blog at www.jasonbyerly.com or follow him<br />
on Twitter at www.twitter.com/jasondbyerly.
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