Times-Advocate, 1988-04-06, Page 11Missionaries off to Poland
by Eugene Fox
"She's no more a missionary than
I am!" That was the initial reaction
of Linda Hendrick of Zurich when
she learned that her best friend
Rosemary Scott is planning to go
to Poland this summer. Rosemary
and her husband Allen will be tak-
ing -their -three sons, Andrew, Justin
and Darcy, plus 27 other teens to do
renovation work on the buildings of
a "Church of the Free Christians"
in the town of Zywicc in the south -
em mountains of Poland.
It did not take Linda long to
change her opinion. Her apprecia-
tion for the venture grew quickly,
so that now she is heading up the
fund-raising for it, with a goal of
S9,000. She says, "It almost stems
like I am going."
The project got its start at the
suggestion of Rev. Bob Sinesac:
minister of the United Churches in
Dashwood and Zurich. The Scotts
and the Hendricks arc members of
the Zurich church. •
The -Scotts project is part of a
huge annual international undertak-
ing organized by the intcrdcmonina-
tional. ,group, Teen Mission, of
Florida. They send teams of 30
teens, fellows and girls, with four
adult leaders for summer work all
over the world. With slogans like
"Get Dirty for God, and "Go Lay a
Brick," the teams do building and
maintainance-types of work in sup-
port of other mission agencies.
This year the nearly 2,000 teens
will be formed into 56 teams like
the Scotts, working in such places
as Egypt, Kenya, India and Fiji.
Because these mission projects
arc done to help people who cannot
help themselves, the teams pay all
their own expenses. This includes
theirtravel, food and even the build-
ing materials they use. As well,
they take the tools they will need
with them. "Have shovel, will trav-
el, " quips AI Scott.
Final preparation for the venture
will take place at the military -type
"boot -camp" operated by Teen Mis-
sion in Florida. In only two -and -a -
half weeks the teens from all over
the United States and Canada have
to get to know each other and whip
themselves into highly -organized,
well -disciplined working units. The
Scotts are obviously a bit apprehen-
sive about this, but they are finding
i:'an exciting challenge.
Somewhat more daunting is the
prospect of international travel with
30 teens. The Scotts explain that
when they travel by train on the
continent they will have as little
as 10 minutes to board. That will
test the coordination and discipline
of the team to the limit, since they
will be carrying 200 pieces of lug-
gage! Practice for that sort of thing
is done at the Florida boot camp.
The Scotts and Hendricks stress
this is a venture in faith. As well
as expressing genuine Christian
concern through the building side
of the project, as they travel and
during the six weeks at Zywiec,
they will share their faith in Christ
through literature distribution and a
puppetshow backed by a dialogue
taped in Polish:
The trip is not all work. The-'
team will be sightseeing in Krak-
ow, one of Poland's oldest cities,
and will visit Auschwitz, the Nazi
death camp. They will see other
tourist sights on their way home,
particularly in West Germany.
Raising the $9,000 is quite a
task, but Linda reports it is com-
ing in. There will be a benefit din-
ner at the Zurich arena on April 9.
A choral evening is planned at the
Zurich United Church May 6,.fol-
lowed by a lawn and bake sale,
. May 20 and 21, a joint cffort of
the Dashwood and Zurich congre-
gations. The date for a community-
wide canvass of Zurich will be an-
nounced soon. Linda is confident
of good support from her fellow
villagers.
All donations are tax-deductable.
Cheques should be made payable to
TEEN MISSIONS, and sent c/o
Linda Hendrick, Box 132, Zurich,
Ontario. NOM 2T0.
Skating banquet Tuesday
The figure skating club season
end banquet and awards night will
be held at the Zurich Community
Centre on Tuesday April 12 begin-
ning at 6:30 p.m. with a. pot luck
supper. Mortis arc please asked to
bring along a hot dish for the main
course and something for dessert
also.
C.W.L.
A day of recollection for C.W.L.
members will be held on Wednes-
day, April 13 at Immaculate Con-
ception Church in Stratford. A bus
is leaving from St. Peter's Church
at 8:30 a.m. and from St. Boniface
at 8:40 a.m. for a ride phone Rose
(Joe) Regier at 236-4777. Cost is
$3.00 for a scat on the bus. Ladies
are to bring a brown bag lunch. Re-
freshments will be available.
Z.urich
Mrs. Carmel Sweeney 236-4702
ZPS WINNERS- Jason Erb and DeAnn Foreman of Zurich Public
School's grade seven class will be representing their school at the area
science fair in Clinton on April 16. Jason's project tests food wrap and
DeAnn's examines the relationships between age and the five senses.
Cougar Column
Zurich Publk &Wel
Kindergarten
Spring has finally arrived and kin-
dergarten has been noticing the dif-
ferent signs of spring. The children
brought in all kinds of different
seeds to .count, classify, sort and
some to plant. What a mystery gar-
den we are going to have!
March is nutrition month and the
children sampled nutritious green
foods on "green day".
Grades 1 and 2
Our class is waiting for some
winds, so we can fly our kites. Un-
til then we can skip and ride our
new bikes that some of us got for
Christmas.
Our primary choir is already start-
ing to practice singing for our
spring concert. We won't tell you
what it's called. You will have to
come and sec!
We have a new studcnt in our
class. We welcome Jocy Byclis. He
has just come from the Grand Bend
Public School.
Grades 3 and 4
This month grades 3 and 4 would
like to welcome Bobbi -Jo Meunier
to our class and say farewell 'to '
Mary -Ellen Arsenault who moved
to Vanastra.
Everyone enjoyed the French pro-
gram presented by Tanglefoot at
McCurdy Public School on March
ninth. We also have learned some
new French songs.
Grades 5 and 6
Tho school is adopting an owl
from the Vineland, Ontario Reha-
bilitation Center.
Mr. Sturgeon came to our school
to teach the grades 5-8 students
about habitat and the environment
the animals need to live.
Five people from room 7 went to
a mini -course for computers. There
• they learned how to run the Icons.
We are weaving in art class.
Grades 7 and 8
This month we will be making
T-shirts in art. Mrs. Graham will
be helping us to create our own
special crests for our T-shirts.
Our Magazine sales started on
Friday, March 25 and are continu=
ing till April 12. At the end of the
sales, the class with the most mon-
ey gcts a six metre sundae to de-
molish it we reach our 8000 dollar
goal. So remember "Save the fuss.
Renew with us."
- On Saturday, March -26, the re-
gional Foul shooting contest was
held in the Clinton High School.
Attending the competition was Ja-
. mit Ramer who placed third. Jamie
shot 15 out of 25 baskets to earn
this place. The first place 'winner
shot 19 out of 25 baskets.
At noon hour, for the past two
weeks the girls and boys basketball
teams have been practicing for the
tournament on April 8.
This month we have a new stu-
dent named Chris Meunier. Wel-
come Chris!
The students in grades seven and
Martin and Cheryl Gelinas and
their five children moved over the
weekend to their new, bigger home
on Main street formerly home of
Harvery Hohner who has taken up
residence at the Maple Woods
Apartments.
June Fisher attended a bowling
tournament in Hamilton this past
week from Wednesday to Saturday.
Easter Sunday was such a beauti-
ful warm day that it enabled every-
one to go out visiting with their
families and I am sure the "Easter
bunny" was able to make his rounds
with no trouble!
The children and grandchildren of
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Flaxbard enjoyed
the day on Sunday together and the
warm weather in the afternoon per-
mitted them to have their annual
Easter egg hunt outdoors which
proved fun for both the little kids
and the older ones.
Join and Bernadette Denornme re-
turned back home safe and sound
last week on March 22 after being
away in Florida for the past two and
a half months.
Anne and son Steven Besozzi
from San Francisco, California are
presently spending a week-and-a-
halfs holiday visiting with her par-
ents and grandparents Frank and
Gerry Kane.
Hubert and Marge Schilbe, Doug
and Betty -Ann O'Brien and Lottie
Gascho spent the holiday weekend
in Lawrence Ville, New Jersey at-
tended the wedding of Jane Gascho
to Michael Micoski on Saturday.
Dan and Carrie Eybergen and two
daughters of Kitchener spent the
holiday weekend with her parents,
Jerome and Carmel Sweeney and
family.
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Times -Advocate, April 6, 1988
Page 11
PLANNING FOR POLAND - The Scott family will be part of a Teen Mission to Poland this summer. Checking
their destination in the atlas are Al and Rosemary Scott and sons Andrew (left), Darcy and Justin.
Easter egg hunt at library
An Easter egg hunt was held for
the children at the library on Satur-
day. This Thursday April 7 is the
story hour from 2-3 in the after-
noon for the pre-school kids.
Don't forget to see the play
"Women in White" this Sunday.
and. Monday, April 10 and 11 at
7:30 p.m. at St. Boniface School.
Tickets are available at the door $3
for adults and $1 for children. Eve-
ryone is most welcome.
Hockey awards
The minor hockey awards night
and pot luck supper will be held at
the Zurich Community Centre on
Thursday April 21 at 6 p.m.
The voice of Leo
The Lions Club have been busy
with their annual Easter Seal Cam-
paign, which supports physically
disabled children. Louis Willcrt,
Easter Seal chairman reported that
$1,778 has already been received
since their meeting on March 9.
Twelve people from the Zurich
club attended the District A-15 con-
vention in Cambridge over the
weekend from March 25 -27th and
found it to be very informative and
interesting as well as fun.
On Wednesday, April 13 is the
annual_ Farmers Night meeting at
the hotel, each Lion is asked to
bring along.a farmer guest. Dinner
begins at 7 p.m.
Personals
The family of Jim and Joy Hogg
gathered on Easter Sunday to cele-
brate the first communion of Mat-
thew Denomme and Jarrett Geoffrey
(their two grandsons).
A surprise visitor over the holiday
weekend was their daughter Roberta
from Vancouver.
Several members of the United
Church were up, bright and early to
attend a sunrise service on Easter
morning at 7:30 a.m. followed by
a breakfast held in Dashwood.
St. Pctcr's Lutheran Church, Zu-
rich held a youth sunrise scrvicc.at
7 a.m. with a breakfast afterwards.
Members of the youth group pre-
sented a program every Wednesday
evening during lent.
The other two churches in town,
Catholic and Mennonite also held
special masses and services for the
Iloly Season.
Carol and Cyril Gingcrich of
Ethiopia arc presently vacationing
with their families friends and rela-
tives for a while and staying at the
home of her father, Mr. Gordon
Erb of RR 2, Zurich. All enjoyed a
special Easter morning service at
the Stanley Township Complex in
Varna.
Father Mooney St. Boniface also
deserves a rest after a very busy
Lenten and Holy week. An Easter
vigil on Saturday night welcomed
into the parish family, Peggy Hay
and Dale Swciger who received the
sacraments of baptism confirma-
tion and Holy Communion.
Women'"s Institute
The date of the meeting for the
Women's Institute -is changed to
Monday April 25, 7:30 p.m. at the
town .hall. Tickets arc still availa-
ble for thc,85th anniversary to be
held in Scaforth, April 19. Please
phone Eileen Consrtt for them as
soon as possible at 236-4254.
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