Truro Area News
Ken Rudolph was the special speaker in Sunday school and the morning service last Sunday at the Calvary Baptist Church in St. Charles. He is with the Association of Baptist for World Evangelism and is raising support to be on their mobilization team. This means that he will be in America part of the year and in Europe part of the year. Ken will assist in the planting of Churches in Europe as well as recruit missionaries to go to Europe to serve. He is a wonderful speaker and will be speaking to people of all age groups but he will be especially speaking to youth rallies and family conferences. It is hard for me to put into words what kind of a speaker he was but he is a humble and very tender hearted man who really loves the Lord and who has a real love and desire to show all people how God loves them. He used examples that made us laugh in his sermon and you can tell our youth as well as us adults were really relating to what he was showing us through scriptures. The youth in the service that morning were very moved by his sermon and I found out later that they had heard Mr. Rudolph before when they visited Lake Ann Baptist Camp in Lake Ann, Michigan. He is the high school speaker for the camp.
During the service a young man who would be leaving for the Army in three days got up to sing a song he had written the night before. It wasn’t just a song; it was a prayer. It was so touching and moving and had all of us in tears including Mr. Rudolph who I might add looked like he was six feet or more tall!
After the Church service a potluck was held in the Fellowship Hall for everyone who cared to stay.
The big talk all round town is the ice storm that we got struck by on Wednesday. It closed schools down and people found it very difficult to get to work or they just stayed home. Travel wasn’t advised. City Hall was closed and the Library was closed. Actually you were a lot safer to stay home than to venture out in it.
The ice really lay heavy on the electric wires and all the trees branches were hanging low because of the weight of the ice. We knew it was just a matter of time before we lost power. Well, we lost it around 5 or 5:30. I lit all my candles that I have just in case we should have this happen. Actually it looked rather cozy. We still had enough light to read a magazine or even do some bookwork. I don’t know for sure how long the electric was off but not more than two hours. It just seemed longer! The lights continued to flicker all evening and sometimes it was enough that it would change the time on the clocks and turn my computer off. We just kept the matches and candles near by just in case.
It was really icy if you tried to go out your front or back door. You needed a pair of ice skates. I had to laugh when my dog went out for the first time during the ice storm. He didn’t know he would slide all over the place and when he made a mad dash to chase something, I think he went a little faster than expected because he looked rather stunned when he hit the bottom of the stairs.
I-35 School was closed on Wednesday & Thursday. What melted today has now refrozen and has made it slick outside again. You snowbirds are really missing a lot of fun! I sure hope all this fun melts soon so I don’t have to worry about falling and breaking anything!
It has been rather cloudy and gloomy this week so I’m hoping for some sunshine in the next few days before the next storm hits us. Right now Truro looks like Alaska with all this snow and ice.
Naturally, this kind of weather keeps Ancel busy plowing the streets of Truro and/or spreading sand on the roads.
Some families along the Truro/St. Charles Rd and east & west on 280th were without electricity on Thursday starting around noon. No one was able to reach REC (Farmers Electric) as the telephone lines were busy (or down) and even sending emails to the company didn’t raise anyone. At last check with some of these families, still no one was able to contact the company. Probably a down line some where?
Eldon Schultz is recovering from knee replacement surgery and is doing pretty well considering that he is in quite a little more pain than the last knee replacement surgery he had done. Won’t be long though and he will be back to feeling like his old self again.
The Madison-Warren Ecumenical Association will be having a soup supper and it will be held at the Peru United Methodist Church on Friday, Feb. 19.
A spaghetti fundraiser will be on Feb. 7 at the Truro Lion’s Hall. It will be sponsored the Truro Fire & Rescue Association.
The Betterment Committee is planning a Valentine’s Dinner on Feb. 13th from 5 to 8pm at the Truro Lion’s Hall. The cost of the meal will be $15 per person or $25 a couple. Dance to Terre Haute from 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Call Jennifer Collins for purchase your dinner tickets in advance at 515-975-2148. Tickets are also available for purchase from any Betterment Committee member. To attend the dance is $7 per person or $10 a couple
Calendars for 2010 are being sold for $8.00 by the Truro Betterment Committee.
Hopefully next week there will be more going on to write about other than ice storms and school closings.
