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Published weekly on Wednesdays
[52 issues per year]
Telephone: [717] 426-2212 or 653-8383
Publisher—Nancy H. Bromer
Editor—Diane Krantz
Advertising Manager—Diane Krantz
Marietta Editor—Hazel Baker
Mount Joy Editor—Cherie Dillow
Vol. 79, No. 41, October 17, 1979
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Saturday Afternoon
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Dr. David E. Schlosser
(Mount Joy Area Only)
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Rev. Shelley Shellenberger
Heard call at age 20—
ordained minister at 53
The life of Rev. Shelley
Shellenberger, senior pastor
at the Mount Joy Mennonite
Church, began in Oakland
Mills, Juniata County. His
parents moved to Lancaster
County during the depres-
sion in 1931. Rev. Shellen-
berger says, ‘‘We always
had plenty to eat and were
well taken care of, but we
never had bananas and ice
cream. I know what it is to
go through hard times.”
His family’s farm was just
north of Erisman’s Mennon-
ite Church, where the Shel-
lenbergers worshipped. The
farm is owned today by Rev.
Shellenberger’s younger
brother, Robert, and his
wife, Ruth Shellenberger.
Robert is a supervisor of
Rapho Township.
Rev. Shellenberger mar-
ried Margaret Miller, who
lived just west of Florin, and
he and Mrs. Shellenberger
worked for two years after
their marriage on a dairy
farm. Then they began
farming for themselves on
the Jonas B. Brubaker farm
near Ramsey’s Tollgate on
Route 743. Two years later
they moved to the old
Zercher farm, which was
owned by S. Nissley
Gingrich, on the southern
edge of Mount Joy. The
Shellenbergers worked on
that farm for eleven years;
their fifth and last child was
born there.
Richard is the oldest of
the Shellenbergers’ chil-
dren. He married Pamela
Givler and operates the
Kreider Dairy Store on the
road between Manheim and
Lititz. Richard and Pamela
have a daughter, Malissa.
Their second son, Donald,
married Lois Ann Wert from
Leola. He is a licensed
veterinarian, working with
Dr. Landis at Smoketown.
Donald and Lois have two
daughters, Tiffany and
Kimberly.
Rev. and Mrs. Shellen-
bergers’ daughter Eileen is
married to Donald Det-
weiler. The Detweilers are
both teachers at the Cones-
toga Christian School; they
have one son, Jamie.
The Shellenbergers’
fourth child, Henry, is
single. He their youngest
son, Harold, are now
running the Shellenberger
farm on Colebrook Road.
Harold is married to the
former Cindy Herr. They are
living on the homestead.
In the spring of 1960 the
Shellenbergers moved to the
farm on Colebrook Road, a
former Cameron estate
farm. On this 180-acre farm
the Shellenbergers have
developed an unusually fine
herd of Holstein cattle,
which includes 75 registered
Holsteins and a young herd
of 100 head. They ship cattle
they bred and raised all over
the U.S. and to foreign
countries too, like Spain,
Germany, Italy and Puerto
Rico. Some of the finest
Holstein pedigrees in the
world are to be found on the
Shellenberger farm.
Rev. Shellenberger spent
over 25 years building his
unusual herd. ‘‘It doesn’t
happen overnight,’’ he says.
‘Often you don’t know what
you've done until it’s too
late.”
Meanwhile, all his life,
another side of Rev. Shel-
lenberger was unfolding; his
role in the Mennonite
Church. Rev. Shellenberger
had been baptized at age 16
at Erisman’s Church on the
road to Manheim by Bishop
Henry E. Lutz, father of
John Lutz, the welder. At
age 20 he had experienced a
“call’’ to the ministry, but
he did not know exactly
what his ministry was to be.
At age 22 he married
Margaret Miller and started
attending the Mount Joy
Church, the church his wife
had always attended, and
where he has always been
active.
He held different offices
in the Sunday School and
served on many committees
in the church. He taught
Sunday School and served
as Sunday School super-
intendent, as well as Bible
School superintendant.
With each new post in the
church, he told himself,
‘‘Maybe this is what my
ministry is to be’ (the
ministry to which he had
been called at age twenty).
Then in 1974, at age S3,
after the previous senior
pastor resigned, Shelley
Shellenberger was called to
become the co-pastor of the
Mount Joy Church, along
with Melvin Graybill. Like
Rev. Shellenberger, Rev.
Graybill had been born in
Juniata County. They had
been friends before they
were married and were well
suited to working together
as co-pastors. Unfortunately
this cooperation was to last
only three years; Rev.
Graybill died of a. malignan-
cy of the thyroid, and Rev.
Shellenberger was left with
the sole responsibility for
shepherding the Mount Joy
Church.
After serving alone for
one and a half years, he was
joined in August, 1973 by -
Nathan Showalter as asso-
ciate pastor. Rev. Shellen-
berger is ‘‘very thankful for
an associate pastor like Rev.
Showalter, who has many
abilities.”
In addition to his pastoral
duties in Mount Joy, Rev.
Showalter is employed part-
time by the Home Missions
Office. of the Eastern
Mennonite Board of Mis-
sions and Charities in
Salunga, Pa.
The duties of his ministry
were taking more and more
of Rev. Shellenberger’s
time. In the fall of 1978 he
and Mrs. Shellenberger
moved to 222 Delta Street in
Mount Joy and turned over
the operation of the farm to
their two youngest sons,
Henry and Harold.
This past August another
associate pastor was install-
ed at the Mount Joy
Mennonite Church, Rev.
Joseph Sherer, who serves
as youth pastor.
The congregation at the
Mount Joy Mennonite
Church numbers 380
people. Young members of
the church are serving
throughout the United
States and in foreign
countries, doing Voluntary
Service. Some are part of
Youth With A Mission,
doing evangelistic work.
There are husband and wife
teams from the Mount Joy
church in Cyprus, England,
Colorado, and Texas. The
Mount Joy Church supports
and promotes their work.
“We are happy that our
young people are involved in
this type of service,” says
Rev. Shellenberger. :
There. are 50 young
people of high school age
involved in the youth organi-
October 17, 1979
zations of the church. They
work and play under the
direction of adult couples in
three departments: Faith,
Fellowship, and Service. Ip
the Faith department they
study their Bibles; ip
Fellowship they might play
basketball; in Service, they
will sometimes clean up
lawns or wash windows for
elderly people.
The Mount Joy Church is
organized into five depart-
ments. Each department is
directed by a committee
which may include one of
the pastors and a large
number of lay members,
The Worship and Nurture
department includes the
bishop, two pastors, a
deacon, and three elders. It
is concerned with the spiri-
tual aspects of the congre-
gation.
The Church Cabinet
includes the chairman of the
congregation, the secretary,
the financial secretary, the
head of each department,
plus the pastors.
The Stewardship depart-
ment oversees the financial
affairs of the church.
The department of Chris-
tian education is responsible
for the Sunday School and
Bible School curriculums.
Evangelism and Service is
composed mostly of lay
people engaged in personal
Christian witnessing.
The department of Youth
is composed of adult
sponsors and the youth
pastor.
Broad participation by the
lay members in the activities
of the church is the basis for
an effective church, Rev.
Shellenberger believes.
Sensing that he was called
to some sort of Christian
ministry when he 20, Rev.
Shellenberger was not quite
certain of the full nature of
that ministry until he was 53
years old, when he was
ordained. He says, *‘It is a
great satisfaction in my
spirit to be a minister. I feel
that the ministry is one of
the highest callings a person
can have. I love people. |
guess that's why I enjoy
being a minister.
‘I believe there is good in
every person, and my
challenge is to help every
person arrive at his utmost.
“The thrill of being in
the ministry is the trans-
formation that Christianity
can bring into people's
lives. I've seen people
changed from hate to love."
Hartzler
(cont.)
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Hartzler family life. They
attend Mount Joy Menno-
nite Church where Dr.
Hartzler is associate chair-
man of Christian education.
Mrs. Hartzler is a Sunday
School teacher and is also
active in the inter-church
council which plans joint
services among the church-
es in Mount Joy. She is also
active in parent-teacher
activities at Mayown Ele-
mentary School, where she
is co-chairperson to enlist
parents in helping teachers.
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