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Jay Burkholder, 77, passed away June 17, 2014, at his home in Chambersburg, Pa. He was a member of Crider’s UB church in Chambersburg. Here is the online obituary.
Jay is the father of Craig Burkholder, a cluster leader and pastor since 1989 of the UB church in Hudson, Ind. Notes of condolence can be sent to Craig at:
Craig Burkholder
516 N. Main Street
Hudson, IN 46747
Pastor Tim Hallman (fifth from left) with the baptism candidates and others who participated in the baptisms.
One of the baptism candidates reading her testimony.
On June 1, Anchor Community Church (Fort Wayne, Ind.) baptized six persons. Anchor has held an annual baptism since 2000 at the Stillwater Retreat just south of Fort Wayne. This year they switched to the new home of parishioners Carlos and Linda Palacio, which includes a large pond.
The day started at the church with the regular service, cut a little short. Then everyone headed to the Palacio home. There was a potluck, volleyball, swimming, canoeing, and lots of good fellowship.
The baptismal service was held at 1 pm. Each of the six persons read (or had someone read for them) their testimony of coming to faith in Christ. Then they were baptized in the pond by Pastor Tim Hallman, assisted by someone important to that person’s faith journey.
The Israel group.
A little clowning from the five UB senior pastors participating on the trip. Front: Tim Flickinger (Lansing, Mich.). Back (l-r): Josh Good (Grandvile), Randy Carpenter
(Sunfield), Darrel Bosworth (Woodland), and Mike Caley (Byron Center).
As reported on Monday, a group of 60 United Brethren from three Michigan churches are currently in Israel. Here are a couple photos they have posted on Facebook.
Tuesday 1:50 pm update from Jeff Bleijerveld, director of Global Ministries about the medical team in Nicaragua: “I just received a text from Donna Hollopeter. They are at the Ministry of Health offices and need to finalize a few things, but it appears they are ready to proceed. They hope to hold some clinics yet this afternoon if it doesn’t take long to wrap things up in Managua.”
That’s pastor Dan Van Arsdalen in the plaid shirt.
The Alvordton UB float.
The Alvordton UB church (Alvordton, Ohio) entered a float in a June 7 Gathering Parade in West Unity, Ohio. They made great use of the new United Brethren logo, as you can see in these photos. Dan Van Arsdalen is the senior pastor of this congregation, which has grown from 20 to 70 people since he became pastor in 2010.
The Nicaragua medical team is still without their medical supplies. Customs hasn’t released anything. The Nicaraguan government has laid out some hoops we must jump through, and Global Ministries is scrambling to comply. Meanwhile, the medical team is trying to keep busy with some other non-medical chores (like some painting). Pray that this situation can get resolved VERY quickly.
When Huntington College became Huntington University, a few changes were needed to the school’s theme song to keep the rhyming scheme intact. For instance, the song ends with, “Hail all hail HC.”
In this video, alums Bill Couch, Taylor Sharp, Russ Birdsall, and Don Betterly lend their harmonies to the new song. Enjoy.
The Bethel UB church (Elmore, Ohio) has a new and very attractive website. Check it out at ExperienceBethel.org. Tim Sherman is the pastor of Bethel.
Sixty people from three UB churches are currently in the Holy Land, June 13-23. The participants come from churches of the West Michigan cluster, which is led by Randy Carpenter, pastor of the UB church in Sunfield, Mich.
Half of the persons are from Homefront UB church in Grandville, Mich.; Josh Good, the senior pastor, is part of that group.
The remaining 30 are from:
Tim Flickinger, pastor of a church plant in Lansing, Mich., is also participating.
The trip is led by Mike Caley (right). This is his third trip to Israel, and the second one he has led since 2010.
“Josh Good and I have headed this up, and it has grown out of the enthusiasm generated by dozens of folks at Banner and now HomeFront church who have attended our Grow in the Word courses,” says Caley. Grow in the Word is a discipleship curriculum written by Dennis Miller, pastor of Emmanuel UB church in Fort Wayne, Ind.
The medical team consisting of 26 people from the United States arrived in Nicaragua on Friday, June 13. However, customs did not release the medical supplies they brought into the country. Everything has been confiscated.
Today, Monday, an appeal is going to a top official to get the supplies released. Pray that no governmental or spiritual obstacle will stand in the way of this mercy ministry. The team was scheduled to conduct five clinics in rural areas near Masaya.
