The Cotton Patch Gospel, a one-man musical by Phillip Kaufmann, will be presented at 3 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 20, at First Mennonite Church. The Martin Luther King Jr. Day event is sponsored by the Bluffton Area Ministerial Association.
Quiz bowl season has begun for 5th and 6th graders. This year all matches will be held at Shawnee Middle School. Bluffton will be sending the following students:
Pastor Allan Ray Tschiegg died Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, in Dallas, Oregon. He was born at home on the farm in Columbus Grove, Ohio, on September 27, 1930 to Eldon and Grace (Lora) Tschiegg.
He worked on the farm and at Farmers Grain Co. in Bluffton, Ohio until he left for Grace Bible Institute in Omaha, Nebraska. There he met Adelia Marie Heinrichs. A year later they were married while he was attending Grace Seminary in Winona Lake, Indiana. During his seminary years he was pastor of Pleasant Valley Community Church, south of Warsaw, Ind.
Larry Burkholder on violin and Joanne Niswander on piano, entertained a January party introducing new residents to Maple Crest Senior Living Community. Their piece, appropriate for the event was “Cradle-Song” by Johannes Brahms, which was in keeping with the baby theme "Welcome New Year Baby" of the event.
