The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 8, 1986 Page: 3 of 10
ten pages : ill. ; page 23 x 15 in. Scanned from physical pages.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Mercedes, Texas 78570 Wednesday, January 8, 1986
986
on
Thrower is the director and
renewal,
Vo
THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERYTHING . . ." Ecclesiastes 3:1, The Living Bible, Tyndale House
TREASURED THOUGHTS
o e e e e
ATTEND CHURCH THIS WEEK
2
Who Support Our Right to Worship Freely.
The Mercedes Enterprise
OF THE UNITED STATES
DARIUS W. HEROLD
1101 S. Missouri
Of Mercedes
STATE LIC. C-4151
- - ----
-BORDER
202 S. Texas
565-4555
565-3026
1306 S. Missouri-Mercedes
morning worship service
Saturday, January 18.
ROBERT NUNLEY
President - Director
PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS
& SECURITY SERVICES
This Series Made Possible by
These Business Firms and Individuals
, ARC
T AB
Bible series starts Saturday
‘Hour of Prophecy' minister's first talk on ‘Loaves and Fish’
THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY
12; “How to Know When You Are
Converted”; Monday evening,
January 13; “Beauty of the King”;
Tuesday evening, January 14;
“Christ Heals the Man Born
Blind”; Wednesday evening, Janu-
ary 15; “Led by the Spirit”;
Thursday evening, January 16;
“The Blessed Hope”; Friday
evening, January 17; “Story of My
Conversion” and Saturday morning,
January 18; “Ark Then and Now”.
The public is invited to attend
each service.
Borderland
lardware
565-9074 2
126N. Texas al
VanBerg
and Flores
INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS
& SECURITY INC.
A HEALING TOUCH - Robert Edwards, formerly of Mercedes,
treats the wounds of a survivor of the mudslide triggered by volcano
Nevado del Ruiz November 13 that killed more than 25,000 people.
The survivors "seem to be in a state of hopelessness,” the
missionary physician said. “They don’t know where all their family is
-- or if they’re still alive. They’re concerned about having a home
again and finding work.” [Photo By Joanna Pinneo.]
565-1696
Mercedes, Texas 78570
sake.
Your friends and neighbors
of the United Methodist Church
are in mission, helping to spread
the Christian spirit through sharing
and caring for others. Join us.
It’s a spirit that’s catching.
Catch the Spirit
FIRST UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
S. Ohio and 16th St.
[One block east of Texas.]
Sunday Worship 11 A.M.
I TUESDAYS ONLY!
I EL FENIX
I CAFE
409 N. Texas Blvd.
Weslaco
[512] 968-1823
[512] 968-8171
GOO'S FIVE MINUTES
formidable challenge, Lozano said.
The Gileses and Ellis Leagans,
mission chairman, took a two-
burner stove, pots and pans, dishes
and clothing to one apartment
where 25 relatives had taken E
refuge. Included in the group were 2
two women who had lost husbands. 2
One also lost three of her four
children; the other, all three of 5
hers.
Missionaries are investigating =
the possibility of opening a good- L
will center in Ibague to help E
amputees and others with debilitat- 2
ing injuries and teach new skills to 2
Rios of Mercedes
BOOT OUTLET
565-2460
Corner of Vermont & Business 83
★ Furniture repair items ★ Dishware ★ Kitchenware ★ Tool sets
★ Doorsteps ★ Seat covers ★ Housewares
★ and many useful items carrying prices that are lower than ever.
those left jobless. Government
officials have not decided the
long-term help religious organiza-
tions will be asked to provide.
Missionaries have listened to a
young father tell of the loss of his
25-day-old son. He believes his wife
is alive but doesn’t know where she
Leagans gave “high, high
marks” to Colombians in their
response to the crisis. “They
haven’t sat back and waited for the
rest of the world to respond.
They’ve been working tirelessly
themselves.”
Joining Robledo and Edwards in
assisting at the state hospital in
Ibague were Guillermo Chaparro, a
general practitioner and member of
Bogota’s Northside Baptist Church,
and Don Pearson, an orthopedic
surgeon and member of College
Park Baptist Church, Orlando,
Florida. Maria del Carmen de
Alvarez, a neighborhood nurse and
member of Bogota’s Central Baptist
Church, worked in various relief
locations.
Nearly every relief worker has
battled weariness. After several
days on the scene, Mrs. Giles
recounted, “I didn’t know if I could
go anymore.” But the next day,
“seeing people who are hurting and
in such need, you just forget about
yourself and keep going.”
The Mercedes Enterprise -- Page 3
Missionary physician Robert Edwards
tending victims of Colombian volcano
0 SPECIAL/
Mexican Dinner
2 Tacos, 2 Enchiladas, dam gem go
Rice & Beans. P l ms
IN just inside the front door.
E It holds your best buys in
• Hardware ★ Lamps ★ Automotive accessories
Robert Louis Stevenson lived in Samoa
for a number of years. The natives loved
i him so they built a road up the mountain-
side to his lovely home.
They named the road, "The Road of the
Loving Heart."
When I was a child I read his little book,
A Child's Garden of Verses, and through
it, Robert Louis Stevenson built a "Road
of the Loving Heart" straight to the door
of my life. Remember, "I have a little
shadow that goes in and out with me?"
How could any of us ever forget?
In a sense, that is what God does for
every man. He builds a road to the very
door of your life and He walks it every
day. He brings love and mercy and
personal concern for your welfare.
He is a shadow who "goes in and out
with you."
It is the road of the loving heart and you
can walk toward Him as He walks to you.
It is a two-way path to peace and power
and strength, built by God to the very
threshold of your life.
Evangelist Bob Thrower will
speak at the Seventh Day Adventist
Church, corner of Fourth and
Virginia Streets in Mercedes, for a
series of nine Bible messages,
beginning Saturday morning, Jan-
uary 11, 9:30 a.m.
He will speak Saturday evening
at7 p.m. and each evening
thereafter at 7 p.m. through Friday,
January 17, and again at the
speaker for the radio program,
“The Hour of Prophecy,” which is
aired on half a dozen stations.
Thrower speaks to most of the
United States Monday through
Friday with a 15 minute daily
message.
Headquartered in Fort Worth,
Thrower’s “Hour of Prophecy”
ministry also includes a broad
literature work: books, pamphlets,
Bibles, plus a monthly tabloid
newspaper that covers religious
news and offers news analysis from
a conservative point of view. Each
month’s paper also includes
messages on salvation and Christian
doctrine. The “Hour of Prophecy”
newspaper has a current mailing
list of 55,000.
Thrower augments his radio
preaching with personal appear-
ances, particularly throughout the
Southwest. He conducts at least two
full-scale evangelistic campaigns
each year and handles many
week-end appointments. A graduate
of Tennessee Temple College in
Chattanooga, Tennessee, and of
Andrews University in Michigan, he
is currently in his 28th year of
preaching.
Thrower’s list of topics is:
Saturday morning, January 11,
“The Loaves and Fish”; Saturday
evening, January 11, “The Ten
Virgins”; Sunday evening, January
r .
en’s
This column belongs to our readers. We will accept printable items and pay $5.00 for each item ©Community Advertising
published. In the case of quotations, the name of the author and the title and publisher of the book
must be given. Address items to “God’s Five Minutes,” P.O. Box 18012, Asheville, N.C. 28804.
is. A mother with a fractured pelvis
is hospitalized beside her 10-year-
son whose leg was amputated. She
lost her husband and three younger
children.
Another woman, just a week
away from giving birth, lost her
husband and mother. A toddler
with “NN” (no name) above his
bed and a gash atop his head held
out his arms and cried for
“Mommy.” He ate only when
someone could be found to
breast-feed him.
Leagans and his wife, Judy,
since 1979 the only Southern
Baptist missionaries in Ibague, a
city of a half million people, feel “a
personal loss. I sink my roots
wherever I am,” Leagans said.
There’s “an intense regional
loyalty” in the state of Tolima,
where Ibague and Armero are
located;' Leagans also knew the
director of a Presbyterian-related
secondary school in Armero,
Vicente Rodriguez, who still is
missing.
By Art Toalston
Southern Baptist Press Service
Robert Edwards, a missionary
physician who grew up in
Mercedes, has been among the
relief workers in Colombia where
volcano Nevado del Ruiz has killed
more than 25,000 people.
Edwards worked in the state
hospital in Ibague among such
victims as Edisson Ortis, five years
old, a new amputee and possibly an
orphan. No family members have
visited him in the state hospital
here.
Edisson, who lost his left foot
after gangrene set in, was one of
3,000 to 4,000 hospitalized through-
out Colombia following the eruption
of volcano Nevado del Ruiz. He’s
among 50,000 left homeless, people
who somehow survived a wall of hot
mud and debris, as deep as 60 feet
in places, that buried the town of
Armero, 22,000 surrounding acres
and 20,000 to 40,000 people.
About 15 Colombian Baptists,
Southern Baptist missionaries and
Foreign Mission Board staff
members have assisted Colombian
Red Cross workers, government
officials and medical personnel in
disaster relief.
Survivors of the mudslide “look
like they’ve been pulled over
broken bricks for a couple miles,”
said. Edwards, who has directed the
Baptist Clinic in Barranquilla,
Colombia, since 1973. In the
flowing mud, one survivor recount-
ed, “I felt like I was being ground
up like a mill grinds wheat.”
Edwards lost count of the
operations he performed, estimating
the number at 25 or more. He
cleaned wounds of mud and
infection, working on one patient,
for example, with a bladder full of
mud that had been pressed through
the man’s mouth, nose and ears.
“The Baptists have done a work
that is incomparable,” said Ramiro
Lozano, a gynecologist who heads
the Red Cross chapter in Ibague,
headquarters for relief efforts,
about 70 miles south of Armero.
Helping alleviate acute short-
ages in medicines and medical
supplies is but one of numerous
ways missionaries have used”
Southern Baptist relief donations to
aid Red Cross workers here.
“Don’t abandon us now,
because the work has just begun,”
Lozano said to James Giles, disaster
relief coordinator for the Southern i
Baptist mission in Colombia. |
Reuniting family members in
various hospitals and shelters
across Colombia will be a
Matt’s Appliance Repair
•Ranges • Washers a Dryers
•Window Units & Refrigerators
installation
set Sunday
Members of Mercedes’ First
Presbyterian Church will “celebrate
Jesus’ baptism” in a renewal of
baptismal vows this Sunday at the
church, reports Rev. Casey Jones.
Also to take place is the
ordination of David Schwarz and the
installation of Ned Swarner and
Mrs. Jo Anne Frix as elders.
Rev. Jones will preach a sermon
entitled “Leaders with Vision” and
there will be a time of coffee and
fellowship both before and after the
11 a.m. worship.
EUEGRUGODU LOUER 1 0003841001447
...and we’ve got’em on our
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 8, 1986, newspaper, January 8, 1986; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1614048/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.