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C-2 Times-News, Twin Falls. Idaho Saturday. May 6, 2006 RELIGION Methodist men sponsor 'Walk of Ages' Missionaries YOUNG ENTERTAINERS RUPERT Elder Cody Howard has returned from serving a mission for The Church news ter-day Saints in the Oklahoma Tulsa Mission. Pehrson is the son of Jim and Sue Pehrson of Burley and is in the Spring-dale 2nd Ward. Sjj Pehrso Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Mexico Leon Mission.

Howard is the son of Scott and Patty Howard of Rupert and is in the Ru Howard pert 1st Ward. He will return to Utah State The Times-News welcomes news of church missionaries. Send information to Ellen Thomason, the Times-News, P.O. Box 548, Twin Falls, ID 83303, or Trena Tegan, South Idaho Press office, 230 E. Main Burley, ID 83318.

Deadline is 5 p.m. Wednesday for publication on the Saturday religion page. University in Logan to continue his education. BURLEY Elder Jordan Aaron Pehrson has returned from serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- A Christian musical drama group, Jeremiah People, will present a concert at 7 p.m. Friday at the First Baptist Church, 2262 Hiland Ave.

For almost 30 years, Jeremiah People has been entertaining audiences throughout the United States with Christian drama and music for the entire family. Comprised of five to eight actors and musicians, Jeremiah People uses drama, music and testimony in its ministry. RECOGNITION NIGHT Methodists schedule Sunday luncheon WENDELL A salad bar luncheon with hot scones will be served from 1 1 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at the Wendell United Methodist Church.

This will be the last luncheon. The Sunday luncheons are put on by the United Methodist Women. Cost is a freewill offering. Celebration open house scheduled for reverend RUPERT A celebration open house for the Rev. Nels siSfr'f Bw iwwL life JEROME The Jerome United Methodist Men are sponsoring a "Walk of Ages" from 8 a.m.

to noon today. Participants should gather at 500 S. 214 W. (one mile north and just over two miles west of the Golf Course corner). The event is an outing for the entire family to bring to life the last 100 years that have made the desert bloom, organizers said.

It is not a race but a pleasant outing for all ages. Displays will show the history of the land, transportation of days gone by, wildlife of yesterday and today and the story of the ages told by geology. The 2.5-mile walk will showcase a view of the Snake River Canyon many have never seen and a look at where the new bridge will cross the canyon. Donations are requested to support the Jerome Ministerial Association Food Pantry. For more information, call Scott McClure at 324-2022 or Gary Hompland at 324-33 1 1 Presbyterian women slate Spring Gathering TWIN FALLS The Presbyterian Women of Kendall will hold their Spring Gathering from 9:30 a.m.

to 3 p.m. today at the First Presbyterian Church, 209 Fifth Ave. N. The theme will be "Tending the Flame." Worship, inspiration, music and fellowship are included. Lunch is available for $5.

Everyone is welcome to bring a friend. For more information, call Betty Benefiel at 735-1209. Gospel Opry will feature the Liberty Quartet TWIN FALLS The Liberty Quartet will be featured at the Magic Valley Gospel Opry at 7 p.m. today at the First Assembly of God Church, 189 Locust St. N.

The opry team also will perform. Liberty Quartet also will present concerts at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at the Heritage Alliance Church, located at Sixth Avenue North and Eden Street North, and 6 p.m. Sunday at the First Church of the Nazarene, 1231 Washington St. N.

Child care through age 5 will be available for the Nazarene Church program. Liberty is a traditional southern gospel quartet from the Boise area. Group members are Doran Ritchey, baritone and pianist; Royce Mitchell, bass; Keith Waggoner, tenor; and Dan Gilbert, lead. The group has shared the platform with others such as Legacy Five, Greater Vision, Gaither Vocal Band, Poet Voices, Dixie Melody Boys and Florida Boys. The musical ministry bridges generations and brings entertainment in traditional and contemporary styles.

The public is invited to any or all concerts. Admission is free. Freewill offerings will be accepted at the opry program tonight. Guitarist will sing during Sunday worship service TWIN FALLS Shane Horner, guitarist, will sing "Amazing Grace" and "Into the Wine" during communion at the 10 a.m. worship service Sunday at the First Presbyterian Church, 209 Fifth Ave.

N. Interim minister Al Fry will speak on "You He Made Alive." The Hallelujah Handbells, led by Barbara Mix, will ring "Prayer" and the choir, led by Jerry Green, will sing "Holy and Mighty." Refreshments will be served in the fellowship hall after worship. Everyone is welcome. Chuck Upton will lead Adult Bible Study at 8:30 a.m. in the adult library.

Discussion will be on "What are the Bible and Pastor Telling You?" A church talent show will be held at 6:30 p.m. Sunday in the sanctuary. Anyone with a talent they would like to share is encouraged to call Melanie Halsell at 733-8261 A pie social will follow in the fellowship hall. The public is invited. T.F.

church celebrates Sweet Tooth Sunday TWIN FALLS Sweet Tooth Sunday will be celebrated this week at the Rock Creek Community Church, 131 Grandview Drive N. Don Richards will provide special music for worship at 10:10 a.m., and Pastor Dale Metzger will speak on "How Time Flies," from Psalms 90:4. Communion will be offered. Freg Coggburn will lead congregational singing with Willa Rider at the piano. Sunday School begins at 9:30 a.m.

Gifts for Mother's Day will be presented in the hallway. Prayer and study groups will meet at their regular times and places. Bible study of Isaiah will meet at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the church. Tracy Godby of the Interfaith Caregivers will speak at the monthly women's meeting at 2 p.m.

Thursday. For more information, call 734-5268. Children's musical takes place on Sunday BURLEY The Kings Kids of First Baptist Church will present a children's musical, "Race to Win," at 1 1 a.m. Sunday at the church, 2262 Hiland Ave. The production was created and written by Jimmy Travis Getzen and Gail Getzen.

The public is invited. Admission is free. AP photo The Declo Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently held a Young Womanhood Recognition night for all the those who have received their Young Womanhood medallions this past year. Pictured from left In the back row are Janelle Jones, Kim Harper, Tallle Tanner, Cherry Ward, Hillary Spear and Laurie Leach, and in the front row, Elissa Call, Diane Edwards, Lacy Earl, Skye Burch, Nicole Darring-ton, Kylee Montgomery and Kandace Kempton. Not pictured but also receiving awards are Heather Dayley, Ashley Forsgren, Natasha Oster-hout, Brittney Hansen, Sherise Deters, Stacy Teeter, Jaci Garner and Zenna Wardle.

Moller will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Trinity Memorial Episcopal Church, 902 Sixth St. Moller is retiring and he and his wife United Methodist Church will hold a benefit concert at 7 p.m. Sunday at the church, 450 E. 27th St.

Music will be performed by the full choir, duets and solos. The handbell choir was formed in 1991. Three-octave handbells were donated by Clifford Jackson, who was the first director. Sharon Lighthill directed the group for a number of years, and Judy Morgan is the director now. Choir members Leon Street, Laurie Bell, Mary Christy, Viola Bloch, Mary Beth Kraemer, Deana Christensen, Cindy McWilliams, Alexis Bell and Lighthill.

Admission is a freewill offering, with all proceeds going to the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. Luncheon set for Wednesday in Heyburn HEYBURN The Ladies Lifeline Fellowship will hold its monthly nondenominational luncheon from noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday at Connor's Cafe. The theme is "Planting the Seeds of Faith." Vicki's Country Gardens will present the program, and Anne Tharp will speak and provide the music. For reservations, call Lila at 438-5376.

For prayer concerns, call Ruth at 436-5380. Prayer circle will be May 17 at Charlene Pattersons home. Call 438-5902 for directions. The public is invited. The Times-News welcomes news of church events.

Send information to Ellen Thomason, the Times-News, P.O. Box 548, Twin Falls, ID 83303, or Trena Tegan, South Idaho Press office, 230 E. Main Burley, ID 83318. Deadline is 5 p.m. Wednesday for publication on the Saturday religion page.

Religion letter Moller muvmgw Spokane, to be more centrally located to their family. 'Our Shared Ministry' topic of worship service HOLLISTER Elder Steven Taylor of Hollister will speak on "Our Shared Ministry" for worship at 11 a.m. Sunday at the Hollister Community Presbyterian Church, 2461 Central Ave. Scripture reading will be Psalms 32. Refreshments will be served after worship.

Visitors are welcome. the scriptures. Most times they are called false Christs or false prophets; sometimes called religious fanatics. In the Book of Revelation, it states the mystery of God should be finished. The book also talks about the false prophet.

Even so there are still some people who pray to idols that can neither hear, see, walk nor talk. WILLIAM HAFFNER Twin Falls The Times-News welcomes letters on religious topics of 200 words or less from readers. Letters should include the writer's signature, mailing address and telephone number. Letters considered libelous, obscene or in bad taste will be rejected, and the Times-News reserves the right to edit all letters. False prophets believe they are called by God In the Old Testament, it was prophesied God would send someone to change the world.

Jesus said he came to fulfill the scriptures. The people wanted Jesus to give them a sign so they could believe that he was the Christ that was to come. Jesus answered, saying, "A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no sign be given unto it." Jesus tried to tell the people how to make a better world, and he ended up by saying, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" In every generation, there have been men who believed God was using them to fulfill Schaefer Handbell choir holds benefit concert Sunday BURLEY The Jubilee Handbell Choir of the Burley Singer Amy Grant likes her family-focused life ly their lives or a line adrift? "Faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea," the Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor once said. No one can determine the genuineness or depth of anyone's faith. But the signs for a younger generation are encouraging.

Sometimes it takes childlike faith to keep hope alive in the rest of us. Tom Schaefer covers religion for the Wichita, Eagle. themselves. That's not me," she says. "Honestly, it's a relief to me to not look at the Hot 100 all the time and worry about jumping in there and trying to play that game.

That part of music doesn't matter to me anymore. What still matters to me is a great song that can turn your mood on a dime." She has a few of those songs floating around in her head, she says. Getting them down on paper is the tough part. "As you can imagine, it's hard for me to find time to work on music," she says. "Writing, for me at least, requires solitude, and I don't know how to get it.

I love being around the kids, but my 5-year-old is so demanding, there's hardly any time to have a thought. But I'm always scribbling down a lyric or poem, and I have to tell you, I think the best stuff is yet to come." Continued from CI thinks religion is attracting a younger audience. His parents' generation believed that conventional politics and activist governments would fix what was wrong, he said. "There was a real sense back then that those movements would solve all the world's ills," he said, "but they didn't." When life seems to be devoid of answers, and is punctuated by aimlessness, faith is a welcome door to find. No wonder mcreasing numbers of young people are stepping through it.

But is this generation of young people different from others? Will faith become an anchor for them throughout Photo courtesy of Records After her mainstream popularity began to wane a bit, Amy Grant went back to inspirational music, releasing CDs of spiritual hymns. Now, she says, she's pouring her energy into her family. Knight Ridder News Service When most musicians say they like to make their shows as intimate as a living room, it's really just a figure of speech. Amy Grant means it. "We're taking my living room furniture there," Grant says of her shows this week in Fort Worth, Texas.

"I told everybody I wanted these shows to feel like my living room, so a friend of mine said, 'Well, why don't you take the So we're bringing my couch, a chair and I'm having a print made up of a painting we bought by Robert Harper. This picture that I see every day in my home will be the backdrop for the show." In a way, Grant wanting to paint a picture of her home life, and feel like she's at home, makes perfect sense. After years of recording and touring, with and without her country-music icon of a husband, Vince Gill, Grant says it's time for a nice, long breather. She doesn't have any plans to make a new record anytime soon, and she's playing only a handful of shows this year. Grant, 45, has seen her career come full circle.

In the '80s, the Georgia-born singer established herself as one of the leading lights, commercially and artistically, in contemporary Christian music, becoming one of the genre's first superstars. That laid the groundwork for her crossover into pop music in the late '80searly '90s via hits such as "Baby Baby" and "That's What Love Is For." After her main Lighthouse Christian School Child Care Center nam-som) II Dre.Crhnnl thru Kth It would be fine with them if I checked out and went on tour, but it's not fine with me. This is a time in my life when I want to be with them in a way that I haven't been able to be with them before." As the clock ticks and musical trends wash away what was once popular, Grant says she realizes she probably won't again reach the commercial peak she ascended to at the height of her career. Although other artists may be in' denial, refusing to believe that they won't sell millions of records again, Grant embraces her cooled career. "I think that there are great examples of women who have had lifelong pop careers Cher, Tina Turner people whose music is timeless and who don't do the same thing and who always reinvent stream popularity began to wane a bit, she went back to inspirational music, releasing CDs of spiritual hymns.

Now, she says, she's pouring her energy into her family. She has four children three from her previous marriage to Texas-born songwriter Gary Chapman, one with Gill and the last thing she wants to do is raise them on the road. "We've done that before taken the kids on the road," says Grant, who has lived in Nashville most of her life (aside from a short stint in Houston). "We hired tutors to go on the road with us, and it was fine. I love touring and performing, and it's a great catalyst for releasing what you think and how you feel, but I have three teens and a 5-year-old, and these are the most important times in their lives.

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