Monday, October 28, 2024
NIGHT LIGHTS
This colorized shot shows MHP set against evening clouds on Saturday. | photo illustration by JACK BOYCE
Local Love INC Chapter in the Works
by KRISTIAAN RAWLINGS
As planning for the local Non-Profit Center progresses, one of its planned tenants is also in the organizational stage.
“Love INC is an organization that Bob Wortman has praised for years and talked to us about,” Jennifer Jones, Executive Director at Blue River Community Foundation, said. “He made a lot of connections, and now we finally have an opportunity to have one here.”
Those connections included convincing Bruce Harrell and Thurman Adams a year ago to research the organization, and Harrell has since taken the lead.
“I’d never heard of a Love INC (In the Name of Christ) in my life,” Harrell said.
After trying in vain for years to get local congregations to work together, Harrell recognized a window of opportunity. “This is different. This has nothing to do with theology. This is to meet the needs of the people.”
Love INC is a national network of over 100 organizations in the U.S. and overseas that connects those in need to local church resources, and then looks beyond the current situation.
“We will engage people in their crisis, but (Love INC) is not just a crisis center. It’s holistic,” Harrell said. “We are far more concerned about the person than we are the problem.”
The organization serves as a connection point, taking the initial call and validating needs.
“Our purpose is not to meet the need. Our purpose is to help the churches meet the need,” Harrell said.
A call-out meeting in January attracted 21 local pastors. That number is now at 31, with at least half of those fully committed.
“Generally, it takes about 18 months to launch a Love INC, and we are on the fastest schedule any Love INC has ever launched,” he said. “We’re going to launch in February or March (2025).”
The local chapter will likely receive about one-fourth of its funds from local churches, but the majority will be individual donations. They have also found a downtown office space while awaiting completion of the Non-Profit Center.
Once launched, Love INC will follow its mission. “(Christ) didn't sit on a hill waiting on people to come to him. He went into the community and met their needs first, and tried that way to build more of a permanent relationship,” Harrell said.
It’s an approach he believes will work locally. “People who are on the street couldn't care less about your doctrine. They want to know, ‘Does God love me or not? Do I have any value? Do I have any purpose?’ And we can tell them, ‘Yeah, you have value. You don't have to be generationally handcuffed to poverty. You don't have to live where you're barely surviving. You can get out of this, and we can help you with that.’”
NOTEBOOK:
NATIONAL NEWS: The company Tesla is best known as a car company, but their latest earnings report shows that the most interesting stuff isn’t cars. Automotive sales were pretty much flat, up just 1.3 percent year over year, and with a 16 percent profit margin. Meanwhile, the energy generation and storage business — which sells the Powerwall batteries for home use and larger Megapack storage facilities used by utilities and municipalities — is doing brisk business, growing 52.4 percent year over year with an impressive 31 percent profit margin. (Sherwood News/Numlock)
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SHS Courier Archive Highlights:
Oct. 25, 1950, Part I
Miss Joan Roler was the only new teacher at SHS. Miss Marion Chenoweth had returned after teaching a year at the junior high, and Miss Mabel Quigg returned to the junior high after being on a leave of absence. Mr. John Page and Miss Martha Rhodes were also new teachers at the junior high.
Charlotte Main was named Squib Editor-in-Chief. Fred Gahimer would serve as business manager. The Courier had been revived following a 10-year absence. Miss Marion Chenoweth was the sponsor.
“Unbelievable as it sounds, four SHS boys are enrolled in domestic science classes,” The Courier said. Malcolm Buckley, Eugene Sadler, Erle McCord and Cassius Bennett were doing very well, Miss Bodem said.
Jack Compton was elected president of the senior class. Other officers were Gerald Briley and Joan Ricke.
Enrollment was up. SHS had 556 students, compared to 504 the previous year, and SJHS had 347, up from 275.
SHS graduate Roy Buell had been killed in Korea, the War Department announced. Rex Harding, another alumnus, had been wounded.
Robert Francis of South Bend and Norman Holland of St. Paul were student teaching at SHS.
SHS journalism students met with Congressman Ralph Harvey at The Shelbyville News office.
This Day in Shelby County History
News around Shelbyville and the surrounding area as reported on or about this date in history. Selections are curated from the Shelby County Public Library Genealogy Department.
2014: Editor’s note: Due to a microfilm processing error, the 2014 section for the next couple of weeks will serve to memorialize a local individual who passed away that year.) Jay Wortman, 60, of Morristown, passed away Dec. 3. He was the owner and president of J.R. Wortman Company in Morristown for 42 years. He also worked for Fountaintown Gas for many years. Wortman had been a member of the Morristown Masonic Lodge, where he was a 32nd Degree mason, and was president of the Shelby County Building Committee.
2004: Indiana First Lady Maggie Kernan met with residents at McKay Manor.
The Sheriff’s Department reached 300 sheriff’s sales of foreclosed homes for 2004. As few as six years prior, the county only sold about 70 per year. C.R. Allender, civil deputy, said the biggest culprit was “easy mortgage money.”
1994: The Shelby County Public Library announced plans to auction off furniture from the old Carnegie building. The furniture was no longer needed following completion of the expanded facility and installation of new furniture.
1984: Walmart officials announced plans to open a 67,000-square-foot discount store on East State Road 44. The store was expected to create about 100 jobs. The store was scheduled to open in early 1986.
1974: Five teenage girls were charged with vandalism after they reportedly threw eggs at mailboxes, homes and businesses in the Shelbyville, Fairland and Boggstown areas.
1964: Two Missouri men with criminal records cut a hole through the roof of Hook Drug Store and virtually into the arms of waiting Shelbyville policemen Mark Sullivan, Loren Martin, Maynard Hill, Norman Dagley and Jack Smith, accompanied by Auxiliary Officer Bert Davis. “The exact manner in which officers were informed of the burglary was not disclosed…,” The Shelbyville News said.
1954: Former Indiana Governor Henry Schricker spoke at the Eagles Lodge at a Boy Scout dinner.
Costume judges were announced for the Fall Festival Halloween party: Mickey Wagner, Mayor Philip Banawitz and Ralph Scofield. Russell Benfield would be the parade marshal. The parade left from the courthouse at 8:30 p.m. and marched to Public Square, where costume judging took place.
1944: A corn picker operated by Harry Meiks caught on fire due to a short circuit. The gasoline tank exploded while the machine was in operation on Knightstown Road, two miles northeast of Shelbyville.
1934: Hub Shoe Store celebrated its 10th anniversary. It had originally been in the Dorsey block on South Harrison Street.
1924: Season tickets for Shelbyville High School’s basketball team were distributed. Almost 1,500 season tickets had sold, practically selling out the high school gymnasium.
The Strand Theatre closed for two days so that workers could start on the additional rooms necessary to install a three-manual Marr Colton pipe organ, which had 45 stops compared to the 18 stops on the previous organ. Two additional rooms on each side of the stage, extending out into the theatre proper, were being built for the organ. Installation of the organ would likely take two months. Joe Meloy was manager of The Strand.
1914: A horse and buggy owned by Fred Tucker of London was stolen from in front of the Jackson blacksmith shop in Fairland. The case was turned over to the Horse Thief Detective Association. Tucker first thought it was a Halloween prank, but the horse and buggy had not returned as of the following day, so he reported them missing.
OBITUARIES
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