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The Dallas Post
Dallas, PA Wednesday, July 22, 1998 7
POST PHOTOS/CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK
Lessons from a pro
+ Campers at the College Misericordia boys' basketball camp got a
visit from Chicago Bulls center Bill Wennington last week.
Wennington has a home at Harveys Lake, and visits the camp
each summer for a nominal fee. Brandon Carr of Dallas said
Wennington spoke to the campers about avoiding alcohol and
drugs, and the importance of staying is school. But he also
showed them a little about the game. "He taught me how to
rebound," said Michael DeRojas. "Using two hands, always
above your head." And what did Justin Singer think of meeting
someone he's seen on television. "He's big!"
Above left, Mike Sobeck, Harveys Lake, tried to figure out how to
get around the 7' 1" Wennington in a game of one-on-one. At
right, Wennington spoke to the campers.
Trinity
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tions with my pastor and he and
others encouraged me to (become
a pastor). That's when I enrolled
to Duke and then transferred to
Princeton,” explained Harper.
The soup kitchens and prisons
gave Harper important lessons he
never could have learned in school
alone. “Ilearned many significant
lessons (in those places),” he said.
Harper's father, Curtis, is a
pastor in North Carolina. “Living
in a clergyman’s household I saw
the good and bad aspects of being
a pastor,” explained Harper. De-,
spite this knowledge, every day is
different and new.
“Although Iwent into it with my
eyes openas much asIcould, God
surpriSes me every day. It's a
privilege to get to work with folks
who have given their lives to God
in that way.”
Harper describes his style of
preaching as thoughtful. “I don’t
want to be an autocrat,” he said,
with a smile. “I want to nurture
and work with people and help
them realize their gifts,” he said.
"The new pastor says he will
give himself a year to do some
careful listening within his con-
gregation. “I want to listen to get
a sense of the spirit of this par-
ticular congregation,” he said.
One of the goals Harper has is
to challenge his new congrega-
tion. He would like to reduce the
suburban church's distance with
the poor. “I'd like to start con-
. necting our church with single
parents struggling to come off
welfare.”
Also, he would like to start a
ministry.that reaches out to pris-
oners. “I'd like (the congregation)
to. become more involved in the
lives of prisoners, considering they
are our neighbors.”
Harper wants to maintain
Trinity's welcoming spirit to chil-
dren and young families aswell as
single people and seniors. “Like
many pastors I love to see a won-
derfully diverse congregation with
people of all economic back-
grounds and races,” he said.
“We have to work hard on our
own lives of prayer. If we're not
well grounded in our faith as a
church were not going to have
much to offer people outside the
church.”
MILITARY NOTES
Senior Airman Sonja D. Bell,
from Plattsburg, NY, was recently
assigned to the U.S. Air Force
Recruiting Office 695 Kidder
Street, Pine Mall, Wilkes-Barre.
Bell is a recent graduate of the Air
Force Recruiting School near San
Antonio, TX, where she was
trained in various areas of study,
including the Job Classification
System, testing and enlistment
processing procedures and pub-
lic speaking.
Bell earned top honors in her
class and was awarded the
Distinghished Graduate Award for
her efforts. Bell was selected for
this special course and recruiting
duty as a volunteer with an out-
standing Air Force record. Before
Bell's assignment here, she was
stationed with the 95th Supply
Squadron at Edwards Air Force
Base, CA.
Army Capt. Willliam J. Erle
has arrived for duty at Fort George
G. Meade, Laurel, MD.
Erle is an assistant judge advo-
cate assigned to the Headquar-
ters Company, U.S. Army Garri-
son.
He is the son of Judith A. and
stepson of Leonard Greskiewicz
of Shavertown.
His father and stepmother,
William J. and Diane Erle, reside
at Endicott, NY.
Erle’s wife Erin, is the daugh-
ter of Richard and Renee Wallikas
of Johnson City, NY.
The captain graduated in 1986
from Wyoming Area High School,
Exeter, and received a bachelor’s
degreein 1990 from Susquehanna
University, Selinsgrove. He earned
a law degree in 1994 from Wid-
ener University School of Law,
Harrisburg.
Army Reserve Pvt. Christopher
T. Lamoreaux has entered basic
military training at Fort Jackson,
Columbia, S.C.
During the eight weeks of train-
ing, the soldier will study the Army
mission and will receive instruc-
tion in drill and ceremonies, weap-
ons, map reading, tactics, mili-
tary courtesy, military justice, first
aid, Army history and traditions,
and special training in human
relations.
Lamoreaux is the son of Judy
and Charles Lamoreaux of Shav-
ertown.
Heis a 1996 graduate of Dallas
Senior High School.
Navy Petty Officer 3rd class
Richard Hodle, son of Richard J.
Hodle of RR 3, Dallas, recently
returned from a six-week deploy-
ment to the Eastern Atlantic
Ocean and Mediterranean Sea
while assigned aboard the am-
phibious command ship and com-
mander, U.S. Second Fleet flag-
ship, USS Mount Whitney,
homeported in Norfolk, VA.
Hodle was among 50,000 ser-
vice members from 15 NATO and
10 Partnership for Peace (PFP)
nations who participated in the
NATO Exercise “Strong Resolve
‘98”. Conducted in the surround-
ing seas and airspace of Norway,
Portugal and Spain, the multina-
tional live exercise tested the full
spectrum of NATO missions. It
was the first large-scale exercise
presenting two simultaneous cri-
sesin separate geographicregions.
The 1994 graduate of Dallas
High School joined the Navy in
1991.
Brian R. Sickler has joined the
United States Army under the
Delayed Entry Program at the U.S.
Army Recruiting Station, Wilkes-
Barre.
The program gives young men
and women the opportunity to
delay entering active duty for up
to one year.
The enlistment gives the new
soldier the option to learn a new
skill, travel and become eligible to
receive as much as $40,000 to-
ward a college education. ‘After
completion of basic training, sol-
diers receive advanced individual
training in their career specialty.
Sickler, a 1990 graduate of West
Side Vocational Technical High
School, Kingston, will report for
active duty on July 1, 1998.
Heis the son of Robert L. Sickler
of Dallas.
Air Force Airman Michael T.
Smith has arrived for duty at
Minot Air Force Base, Minot, N.D.
Smith is an aerospace ground
equipment apprentice assigned to
the 5th Maintenance Squadron.
The airman is the son of Jean
L. Shaffer of Shavertown, and Tho-
mas W. Smith of Wilkes-Barre.
He is a 1997 graduate of Lake-
Lehman High School, Lehman.
Trinity has limited openings for fall
POST PHOTO/KYLIE SHAFFERKOETTER
Rev. Mark C. Harper, the new pastor at Trinity Presbyterian
Church, relaxed for a moment in his new office.
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