Troop 77, a Boy Scout troop sponsored by the Muncie branch, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. With 42 boys, the troop is larger than it has ever been. Members just learned that their scoutmaster, Pete Walters (Muncie), will receive the highest honor a volunteer can earn from the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America--the Silver Beaver.
Six members of the Appleton branch made the covenant of the People of Praise on October 22. They include a married couple from Africa, a married couple in their 80s, a retired heavy equipment operator and a single woman who met the community through a church choir.
An Allendale woman was healed of back and neck pain after community members prayed with her. In September, Miss Betty arrived at Ruthanne Seitz's house for their weekly Bible study, wincing and rubbing her neck and shoulder. She was one of the first to arrive, so Ruthanne and Patti Deakin (Allendale) began to pray with her—until their prayer was interrupted by a ringing doorbell and then a phone call.
An Evansville man who had been seriously hurt in a motorcycle accident had his ankle pain and limp disappear when three People of Praise missionaries prayed with him.
My understanding of ecumenism comes from my father, Christopher. He grew up in Little Greece in Downtown Chicago and was raised Greek Orthodox. (While growing up, my family had Orthodox iconic pictures of Jesus on top of our television, and grandma would walk up to them and kiss the pictures, as we tried to watch TV around her.)
