David Harris and Lisa Varga
David Harris will be in-
pastor of the Ronceverte
the Nazarene Sunday,
11, at 10:50 a.m. Dr C.
the church's district
for southern West
cond,Jct the installation
sermon.
Harris, 26, is a native
Ohio. He graduated
(Ohio) Bible College
a bachelor's degree in
ministries. He is currently
work on a master's
in church management at
Nazarene University in
Illinois. He is a former ju-
officer, youth coun-
worker, and part-time
For five years he ap-
with The Travelers'
DOne The Living
E. Pishner
the living.
Sometime I will do.
giving.
man I have been true.
Quartet, a Southern gospel group
based Crum.
Lisa Varga, Reverend Harris's fi-
ancee', is 21 and was born in Madi-
son. She graduated in 1986 from
Scott High School in Madison and is
now a senior at West Virginia State
College in Charleston, where she is
majoring in communications and
television broadcasting. She also
works as a model. The couple will
be married June 2.
Reverend Harris replaces Rever-
end Ron Baker, who left Ronceverte
in November to assume a pastorate
in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
The public is invited to the serv-
ice. The church is located at 610
West Main Street, 1 1/2 blocks east
of the public library.
By Lula B. Collins
EYES LIFTED TO THE FUTURE
January is a very exciting and in-
teresting time, it marks the begin-
ning of a new calender year a time
for planning, structuring, and goal-
setting, a time for lifting our eyes
and minds as the decade of the90's
challenges us.
A beautiful and inspiring example
is found in the 13th Chapter of
Genesis. Abraham has been called
of God to leave his country and his
kindred and journey to a place that
God would show him. He accepted
the challenge and went, not knowing
all the things that were to fall across
his path. Lot, his nephew, went
along. He had flocks, herds and
tents, but he was not as wealthy as
Abraham. Now the land was not
able to support them and there was
strife between the herdsmen of Lot
and the herdsmen of Abraham. This
led to separation. Lot was given his
choice of the land. He chose all the
plain of the Jordan Valley and sepa-
rated himself from Abraham.
I wonder what thoughts might
have passed through Abraham's
mind -- a family tie broken, the best
of the land is gone, a set-back. It
was then, that the Lord spoke to
Abram and told him to lift up his
eyes and look to the north, south,
east and westward "... all that you
see I will give you." As Abram lifted
his eyes, behold new horizons
loomed before him, new visions in-
spired him, new possibilities and
new territory beckoned to him. You
see, as he lifted his eyes his spirit
and hopes were lifted also. Then
Abram was told to arise, and walk,
"go and take possession of what
you have seen." Abram moved his
tent and he moved it many times as
he continued his walk through the
land. There are no dead-end streets
for the people who walk with the
Lord. Enock walked with God, and
then he was not, for God took him
took him to heaven) Hob. 11:5
Amp. Bible.
Stephen a deacon in the early
church, full of faith and power, did
great wonders and miracles among
the people found himself seized by
the opposition. They gnashed on
him with their teeth, cast him out of
the city, stoned him, but he "looked
up" and saw the glory of God. The
heavens opened and Jesus there
was standing at the right hand of
God. Stephen committed his spirit to
the Lord, fell asleep to wake up to
an inheritance incorruptible, and un-
defined, and that fadeth not away
reserved in heaven.
Lula Collins is the pastor of the
Open Bible Church on Vago Road,
Frankford.
The Saints
By Helen W. Searle Of the twenty-five executed Feb-
In 1562 Paul Miki was born at ruary 5, 1597 three were Jesuits:
Tounucumada, Japan. At the age of Paul Miki, John Goto, and James
eighteen he joined the Society of Kisai. Six were Franciscans. The
Jesus and became a Jesuit. He was four Spanish were Peter Baptist now
a gifted preacher. Seventeen years the Patron Saint of Japan, Martin De
later he was crucified for his beliefs. Aguirre, Francis Btanco and Francis
Peter Baptist was born in Avila, of Saint Michael. Philip De Las
Spain in 1545. At the age of tw'e~ty- Casas was Mexican and Gonzalo
two he became a Franciscan. He Garcia Indian. The other seventeen
worked as a missionary in Mexico were Japanese lay people including
until he was sent to the Philippines a soldier, a physician, altar boys and
in 1583. Ten years later, at the age six-year-old Peter and his father.
of forty-eight, he was sent to Japan Each was pierced with a lance and
to serve as commissary to the'Fran- crucified one by one.
ciscans. From the founding of the Church
A little boy named Peter was six in Japan in 1549 by Saint Francis
done the living.
)art have been songs.
been one of giving.
,* , = years old. In the early morning hours Xavier persecution of almost 4,000
hrist lives in my heart. 1~,~ ,," , i~ I of February 5, 1597 soldiers Japanese Catholics continued for-
