6B TIMES HERALD, PORT HURON, MICHIGAN SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1998 irf I a it CHURCH DIRECTORY Your Guide To Local Houses of Worship IXTIIERAX The Following By MATT STONE, Ths Associated Press A NEW DAY: Katherine Owens yawns as she waits for the 7:30 a.m. bus in Flint to take her to work. She credits the Lord and Vineyard Ministries for turning her life around. Flint ministry works to reunite broken families Couple offer home, new hope TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH SCHOOL Missouri Synod Corner of 10th 4 Griswold 984-2993 WORSHIP SERVICES 8:30 11:00 A.M. CHRISTIAN EDUCATION HOUR 9:45 A.M.
Pre-School thru 8th Grade Handicap AcceulHearing Anit Nursery Prowled Robert H. Mann, Pastor IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH (Missouri Synod) 415 N. 9Lh. St. Clair 329-7174 Worship Sun.
8:00 ft 11:00 A.M. 9:30 A.M. Living Praise Adult Bible Classes and Sunday School 9:30 A.M. Preschool TTH W. Rev.
Alan Schwieger Pastor Alva Samsell, Minister of Family Life Our Saviour Lutheran Church Sixth and Wall Streets E.L.C.A. Church 982-1240 WORSHIP 8:30 A.M., 411:00 A.M. Sunday Evening Worship 7:30 PM; Sunday School at 9:30 A.M.: Wonderiul Wednesday at 6:00 P.M. Pastor Donald Doerzbacher W.H.L.S. Broadcast 11:00 a.m.
Nursery Provided BAPTIST First baptist Church 1814 SAXBORX PORT HURON Rev. Daniel Ilukuy SVXDAY SCHOOL 10:00 A.M. CHURCH SERVICES 11:00 A.M. Barrier free Mrfpss; Hmrinti Impaired System Aniilahle (810) 985-6861 American Baptist Church CONGREGATIONAL First Congregational Church Am fe3 WORSHIP SERVICE 10:30 a.m. CHURCH SCHOOL 10:30 a.m.
NURSERY AVAILABLE "Contact" the tin Dr Robert Starktv 723 COURT ST. between 7th HthJ HURON 982-9519 989-1718 SURGES MEMORIAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH 28th at Ravenswood Rd. Sunday School Morning Worship Nursery Provided Rev. Max Amstutz, Pastor 9:30 a.m. 10:30 am SCIENCE Sunday Service 10.30 Sunday School Wed, Evening 10:30 7:00 WORSHIP TOGETHER 'I IT 1 )l 1 XI 1H1A111 I Ja CniTim of (ion IKXKR OF 2(TII VAXXESS worship si: Kvin; 10:00 Ukv.
Chi Ai'sky Richmond Evangel 4-Christian Church I DRS. JERRY SHERILL PISCOPO REV. JEFF DAWN KUSZMAUL SUNDAY SERVICES AT 2:30 P.M. ALL WELCOME! 69619 PARKER ST. at Churchill Richmond Community Theatre Bldg.l (810)773-6568.
UNITY Church WV of Blue Water where love is (elt and lives are changed 1227 10th Avenue, Port Huron Office: (810) 982-2820 Dial-A-Thought: (810)985-1923 11:00 a.m. CHILDREN'S CHURCH and SUNDAY SERVICE "It's a Wrap- Senior Minister: Rev. Julie Montague rSf, Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church, E.LC.A. 123 5. 7th Street, St.
Clair, 329-2174 The Rev. Waller Malkewiti 8:00 A.M. WORSHIP SERVICE 9:15 SUNDAY SCHOOL ADULT IIBU STUDY 10:30 A.M. WORSHIP SERVICE Holy Communion nSo Iff A 3rd Sundays of fho month, MjolvemnaJWorthipjjflthHo FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH Missouri Synod Jfi Pastor Timothy Eichbergw HOLY COMMUNION I 9:30 CONTEMPORARY SERVICE 11:00 MORNING WORSHIP "We Value The Gifts Of The Spirit- Stone at LaSalle 985-5733 WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE ST. MARTIN LUTHERAN CHURCH 805 Chestnut St.
Port Huron, Ml 48060 982-9261 Worship Service 10:00 a.m. Sunday School 9:00 a.m. Phyllis Hormann, Pastor Celebrating Diversity We Welcome Ml People PRESBYTERIAN FIRST PRFSRYTFRIflN CHURCH 811 Wall Street 985-6191 'S 9:00 AM WORSHIP 10:15 CHURCH SCHOOL 11:15 AM WORSHIP "COMMON CLAY POTS" Pastors: Dr. Mark P. Thomas Rev.
Margie Osborn Elevator Access Nursery Care Provided A.M. A.M. P.M. 'TftvufiitdU. Tftiefuqa 10) 364-6164 SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP 10 am.
EVENING CELEBRATION 6 p.m. TUESDAY PRAYER MEETING 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY CHRISTIAN EDUCATION 7 p.m. THURSDAY VR STUDENT MINISTRIES 7 p.m. Chktcm Available Riverside Tabernacle iy thurch ot uod 3675 North River Road Fort Gratiot, Ml 48059 (810)987-3650 Sunday Worship Services: a.m.
p.m. p.m. Traditional Pentecostal High Praise Celebration Holy Spirit Revival Bible Study Classen 10 00-10 50 a.m. Sunday School All Ages 00 p.m. Monday Adult p.m.
Wednesday All Ages "Family Training Hour UU chink wen eventody it tomtSodxj andjesm Christ Is Lord" Riley Center Evangel Christian Church Pastor Lawrence Gentry Ministers Bill Ginny Vaughn Overseers: Drs Jerry Shenll Ptscopo SUNDAY SERVICE: 2:30 P.M. 12980 BELLE RIVER RD. (At Masters Rd.) 810-773-6568 Worship Celebration Sunday 10:00 AM Port Huron Northern High School 982-8720 Business Urges You To Attend Your Chosen House of Worship This Sabbath RIVER CRAB Come Dine With Us! Sunday Brunch 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. 1337 N. RIVER RD.
329-2261 Reservations Recommended for Parties oj 2 or more. The Thomas Edison Inn Join Us For Sunday Brunch 11:30 a.m. p.m. Reservations Recommended 500 Thomas Edison Parkway Port Huron 984-8000 niTED CHURCH OF CHRIST St. John's United Church of Christ Sunday Worship 9:30 11:00 A.M, Sunday School 9:30 A.M.
Fellowship Time 10:30 A.M. 1 NurseryCare PraikM Aa PASTOR DANIEL PETERSON jeAMi' Nam Corner of 7th Pine 984-5031 Gratiot Park United Methodist Church (Comer ot Church i Cherry St.) Worship Service 9:30 a.m. Wednesday Church School at 5:30 p.m. CHAIRLIFT Dr George Gerritsen, Pastor Marysville United Methodist Church 1234 New Jersey 364-7391 Barrier Free 9:30 Sunday School Worship Service 8:15 10:45 am Nursery Available at both services. Pastor David D.
Amstutz WASHINGTON AVE. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 1217 Washington Ave. PH 985-6202 WORSHIP SERVICE 1 :00 AM. ELEVATOR AVAILABLE Rev. Dr.
Gerritseii Dlal-A -Devotion 982-7812 Guide If iff confena our tins, llr ti faithful and jiutt toforgii our tin, and to chant iu from alt unrighlnumrtui. KJ.V. 1 John 18 METHODIST By BETTY BRENNER The Associated Press FLINT Katherine Owens knows what it's like to have children taken away. "It's like having your heart ripped out," she said. At 31, she has lost 10 of her 11 children.
A drug and alcohol addict, Ms. Owens neglected her children; she paid for her habits by working on the streets as a prostitute. But now she happily holds her youngest, 8-month-old Jaliyah, and hopes to get the other 10 returned by proving she can care for them. Ms. Owens credits the Lord and Vineyard Ministries, a Flint house for women turning to the Lord to change their lifestyles, with the improvement in her outlook and conduct.
The house is run by Stephanye Wells, a former prostitute who now is active in a local church. OPENED IN February, the house is funded by Mrs. Wells and her husband Charles, and by rent of $300 a month from residents. Ms. Owens is off drugs now.
She is off alcohol now. She does not need to make money on the street. Instead, she works full time as a hostess and cashier in a local restaurant. She goes to church Wednesday nights and Sundays and to a drug rehabilitation program run by the church on Mondays. "I wake up and say, 'Thank you Lord, for waking me I was not happy before I came here," Ms.
Owens said. "It took me all these children to see what drugs could do to me. I couldn't stand to lose another baby." The drugs, she said, gave her what she thought then was a good high. "The high I have now is spiritual," she says. "It stays with you.
Now I'm high with the Lord. I am happy, very happy." And she acts like it. Others in the house say she is always laughing and singing. Ms. Owens expects to be the first graduate of Vineyard Ministries when she moves out on her own after six months at the house.
That means six months in a variety of classes, six months of discipline, six months of Bible study, six months of parenting classes, six months of budgeting classes, six months of watching only Christian videos and educational or religious TV programs, six months of attending services at Kingdom of Heaven Ministries. VINEYARD MINISTRIES networks with Connexion for classes on drug prevention and parenting. The Genesee County Health Department teaches a class on health care. Hamilton Family Health Centers cares for dental and medical needs. The University of Michigan-Flint teaches nutrition.
And the women attend a support group at Northpointe Community Health and Education Center. There is not time to get into trouble, Ms. Owens said, "but I don't want to. It takes more trouble to get out of drugs than to get into them." What time she has she spends watching television and playing with her daughter, whom she calls Tinker Belle. Not all' the Vineyard residents fit in as well as Ms.
Owens. The house has beds for seven women, but only three live there now. Some of the 15 former residents have fcjund the discipline hard to take, Mrs. Wells said. Others learned enough to live better lives and rejoin their children.
Some found it difficult when they could not smoke in the house, or just missed their freedom. All, Mrs. Wells said, have had their children taken away. The house once a two-apartment home was condemned when Mrs. Wells first saw it.
A dog had lived in it and left feces throughout. It had been a dope house. Mrs. Wells did not want that house. She did not want to be on Parkway, a street with several boarded-up houses.
But, she said, "Jesus went where the people were." She also understood what the residents have gone through, she said, because she has been there. She knows what it is like to wake up on a sidewalk, to be consumed by alcohol, to be a homeless vagrant. She understands what the support of others, including her husband and her pastor, means to her. "I've been transformed by Jesus Christ and going to church," Mrs. Wells said.
"Jesus can teach them to go through it. There will be darkness, but they can go to light." SHE BOUGHT the house on a land contract with money her husband made by working overtime as a cook and that she earned selling Avon products. She furnished it with gifts from area churches and with her own furniture. The residents pay rent with income from jobs or from Supplemental Security Income. They prepare their own meals and do their own cleaning and laundry.
Some women went to Vineyard Ministries because they knew Mrs. Wells. Others were told about it at shelters that had turned them away. "God told us to work in the vineyard, where the harvest is," Mrs. Wells said.
Mrs. Wells picked up Ms. Owens and took her to the Vineyard after hearing about her from a member of Kingdom of Heaven. Ms. Owens' oldest child is 17.
Four children live with relatives, four are in foster care, one was put up for adoption and one lives with the child's father. One lives in Denver where Ms. Owens was raised; another is in Arkansas. The oldest, still in foster care, has a 1 -year-old daughter also in in foster care. Protective Services let Ms.
Owens have Jaliyah because she showed so much improvement in her behavior. Ms. Owens never married. "Every time I moved I seemed to get more kids," she said. She has been coming to Flint on and off for about 10 years, the last time about a year ago.
She began drugs because "everybody was doing it." Her mother and grandmother were drug addicts. Ms. Owens dropped out of school at 15, a year after the birth of her first child. Signs on the wall of the small bedroom she shares with her baby show her new determination: "People can alter their lives by altering their attitudes." "If it's to be, it's up to me." "The real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination." A certificate from the Michigan State University Cooperative Extension Service says she has completed a course in food and nutrition. Another says she completed a drug class offered by Kingdom of Heaven.
"I'll see a whole lot of these on the wall," Ms. Owens said. One will be a baptismal certificate from Kingdom of Heaven. "I want to get where my kids will say, 'Is that And I'll answer, 'Yes, it's and they see me when I'm not drunk." Now, she said: "Even when I'm broke I feel good. I have everything I could want, so I'm not broke.
I have this inner peace; it's not a drug high. I'm just high off the Lord." NORTH STKIiliT ITNITFJ) METHODIST fKO ortli K.I. Xorth Strvt'f S1XIIAY S( 'I II Ill a.m. MOKMNIi WIIKSI1II: il A.M. II A.M..
Xiim-n' Aviiilnlik- F.k--ilor Avuilublc KEY. AI.OKH T. LEWIS SH. First United Methodist Church The Rev. Ralph H.
Pieper II The Rev. Connie Porter, Assoc. Paster Lapeer Avenue at Ninth St. 985-8107 BARRIER-FREE FACILITIES Worship at 9:30 i 11:15 am. Children in Worship 9:30 Sunday School at 11 SO Nursery Available "Pray Constantly'' Service on Radio WHLS 1450 9:30 A.M.
WW C3CT7 et Your Conscience WELCOME! Bible School 9:30 a.m. Holiness Mtg. 11:00 a.m. Praise Meeting 6:00 p.m. III Majors David Rebecca Moffitt, Ministers THE SALVATION ARMY 2000 Court Street, Port Huron Church Office (810) 984-2679 Be Your Of all Kit' different senses and feelings that a pvrson has, one of the most important and useful is our conscience.
A person with good upbringing and strong moral convictions is blessed because he or she can usually differentiate between right and wrong. BehaiiiR in a way that is pleasing to our Lord is necessary for a fulfilling and peaceful lite. It is nut always easy to do the things that we know are good and right, because it sometimes means that we haw Ui get involved or make a commitment. Sometime when various situations arise, our first thought may be about how-it will affect us, mther than about what is right. Life is a test and we are being tested everyday by our actions, words, and thoughts.
We should not become discouraged by our failings: but learn from Ihem Ui make us better children of Oml. NX Helping to Spread the Supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all people.
