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Buddy Mullins will present a concert on Sunday, October 22, at the Lake View UB church of Camden, Mich. The concert will be held at 2:30 in the afternoon. For directions, go to the church website. You can also call the church at: (517) 567-8529.
Buddy has a rich heritage in Christian music. His father was a traveling evangelist who traveled with the Gaither Vocal Band in the early 1990s and also participated in Gaither Homecoming events.
The Mount Morris UB church in Mount Morris, Mich., has changed its name. It is now called Mount Morris Chapel.
Emmanuel Community UB church in Fort Wayne, Ind., will host a national Christian college fair on October 5, from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. The event will bring together representatives from about 30 other Christian colleges and university from across North America to answer questions and provide information to students and parents. Huntington University will host the event for the North American Coalition for Christian Admission Professionals. Approximately 30 other Christian colleges and universities from across North America will be present to answer questions and provide information to students and parents.
Parents and students will be able to attend sessions at 6:45 and 7:45 designed to inform them about the financial aid process. these workshops will provide parents with the latest information on making the college experience feasible and affordable. Senior students will also have the opportunity to register to win a $500 NACCAP scholarship.
The NACCAP headquarters ranked the 2005 Fort Wayne fair first out of 100. Each fair is ranked on overall attendance, number of colleges and universities that sign up, and overall satisfaction of attendees.
For more information about the fair, visit www.naccap.org, or contact Amy Mattox, the coordinator, at 260.359.4013. This event is free and open to the public. Emmanuel Community Church is located at 12222 U.S. Hwy. 24 W. on the southwest side of Fort Wayne.
George Rhodifer reports on the results of a fundraiser held Saturday, September 16, to benefit the Park Layne UB church of New Carlisle, Ohio, which was destroyed on June 6 by an arson fire. He writes:
“The fund raiseer was very successful and was attended by about 100 people. The music was great and the people enjoyed it under a tent with the sides rolled up. They had crafts and much food for a donation. One of the music groups sold their CDs but donated the money to the church even though they were not getting any money for there participation.
“The donations reached $795. That money was given to the Park Layne Rebuilding fund. The congregation plans to break ground the first week of October.”
The Cumberland Times-News of West Virginia carried a September 15 article about Mark Elliott, son of Pastor Daryl and Ruth Elliott of Fountain UB Church in Keyser, W. Va. Mark excels in academics (now a semi-finalist in a national merit scholarship program, plus various other honors), sports (regional doubles tennis champ), and music (third-chair trumpet in the All-State band).
The Olivet UB congregation (New Lebanon, Ohio) and the Park Layne congregation of New Carlisle, Ohio, are holding a Gospel Sing to help raise funds for the rebuilding of the Park Layne church, which was destroyed by arson fire. The two churches are working togather under the leadership of Cluster Leader George Rhodifer.
Four gospel groups are donating there talent to help raise funds for this project. The groups are Air City Quartet, The Barns Family, Beracah & Valley (a bluegrass group), and The Williams Family (also bluegrass).
The sing will be held on the church site on Saturday, September 16. It will be held in a tent being used for revival September 13-15 (Wednesday through Friday).
Pastor Roland Albert is the pastor of the Park Layne Church.
PraisePoint UB church of Willshire, Ohio, will dedicate its new building on Sunday, September 17, 2006. They sent this announcement and invitation:
“We are beginning a new journey in God’s work with a renewed commitment to show God’s love to the Willshire community and surrounding area.
“In January 2003 the Zion UB Church on Winkler Road and the Willshire UB Church on State Street joined together to become the Willshire Zion UB Church. As a result of that new venture and God’s generous gift, a new facility has been constructed just west of the intersection of Ohio route 81 and US route 33 at the edge of Willshire. The congregation held the first worship service in the new facility as Praise Point UB on January 1, 2006.
“The church family would like to extend a special invitation to you to be a part of this momentous day. Events will begin with the dedication service at 9:30 am, followed by a carry-in dinner, tour of the building 12:30 – 1:15pm, and an afternoon concert featuring ‘Trinity’ at 1:30 pm.”
The Van Wert Times-Bulletin published an interesting article about the gym floor which has been installed at the Praise Point UB church in Willshire, Ohio. The floor came from the old Parkway High School in Rockford, Ohio. Parkway was demolished earlier this summer, but not before the parquet gym floor could be removed.
Praise Point hosted an appreciation dinner on August 12 for the volunteers who helped move and install the parquet floor in the church’s gym.
Praise Point bought about two-thirds of the gym floor for $150. The other 18 feet were bought for a new fitness center in Columbus, Ohio.The floor was actually fairly new, having been installed in the school just a few years ago.
The wood floor was cut into sections 45 inches wide, with lengths ranging up to 72 feet (teams of nearly 30 volunteers were needed to carry the long sections). The pieces were then hauled to the new Praise Point building. They were short some volunteers for the last few loads, so they recruited a baseball team to help.
Altogether, over 60 volunteers spent two weeks cutting out the pieces in Rockford, moving them to Willshire, and reassembling the floor at Praise Point. The church event took the wall plaques which thanked the people who donated money for the Parkway floor; the plaques now hang at Praise Point. Each free throw lane includes big black panther paw prints.
The Lansing State Journal’s online website has an article about a homeless mission opened by Jim and Tammy Watson, who attend the Trenton Hills UB church in Adrian. Mich. The Watsons have spent 18 years living with their children in inner cities and working with homeless persons, and persons with drug and alcohol addictions.
When a mission they started in Toledo, Ohio, closed because of a lack of funds, they moved to Adrian to “rest up” before moving to the South Bronx to start a new mission. But in Adrian, they were surprised to find a need for a permanent homeless shelter. In May, they opened a rehab program called LifeChange and opened an emergency homeless shelter with bunks for six men. Some of the board members for this new organization come from Trenton Hills.
On April 30, 1989, Rev. Robert Pelley didn’t show up for church. Eventually, two men went over to the parsonage, where a grisly scene awaited them. Robert Pelley (38), wife Dawn (32), and two of Dawn’s daughters from a previous marriage, Janel (8) and Jolene (6), were found dead. They have been killed with a shotgun. Jeff’s sister Jacqueline and stepsister Jessica were not home at the time.
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Jeff Pelley (center) with sister Jacqueline and private investigator Scott Campbell
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Seventeen years later, Jeff Pelley was convicted of the murders. The case was reopened four years ago, and after a six-day trial which included nearly 40 witnesses, jurors returned a guilty verdict after deliberating for 34 hours. Jeff, the son of Robert Pelley, is now 34 and has been living in Florida with his wife.
The evidence was mostly circumstantial. No murder weapon has been found, and no fingerprints linked Pelley to the crime itself. Rather, the prosecution relied on a carefully constructed timelime which put Jeff Pelley at the parsonage during a particular 20 minute period. After murdering his parents and stepsisters, the prosecution contended, Pelley went to high school prom with his girlfriend. The motive, argued the prosecution, concerned arguments with his father over weekend restrictions which would allow Jeff to go to the prom, but to no other activities. Police located him at the Great America theme part with friends the day after the murders.
After spending a few minutes with his wife and sister, Jacqueline, Pelley was led away in handcuffs. Sentencing is set for September 15.
