NEW BEGINNINGS. In Celebration of Marita Todd s 80th Birthday her family is hosting an Open House and Card Shower

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1 NEW BEGINNINGS Come Help Us Celebrate Victor Kisela s 90th Birthday at an Open House, Saturday, January 10, 2015 Dundy County Senior Center 710 Chief Street Benkelman, NE 2:00 4:00 p.m. MST In Celebration of Marita Todd s 80th Birthday her family is hosting an Open House and Card Shower Open House at the Blue Colonial Rd 359 Trenton, NE on Saturday, January 24, 2015 from 2-5 p.m. Cards may reach Vic at: Victor Kisela PO Box 169 Benkelman NE Come Join Us!!!! Cards may reach her at Rd 359 Trenton, NE Your presence is your present. Congratulations to Michael Lorens. Michael graduated from Southeast Community College in Milford on December 19th with a degree in Manufacturing Engineering Technology. He is the son of Kent and Marilyn Lorens.

Stratton Santa Buck Winners: $25 winners: Linda Zahl Danny Rife Julie Diehl Jeff White Rebecca Lorens Melissa Sis Molly Ladenburger Connie Henry $50 winners: Julie Terwilliger Bud Jesch Business

2 Stratton Santa Buck Winners: $25 winners: Linda Zahl Danny Rife Julie Diehl Jeff White Rebecca Lorens Melissa Sis Molly Ladenburger Connie Henry $50 winners: Julie Terwilliger Bud Jesch Business Donation Winners: MNB Ins. - Eduardo Olivas League Builders Clock Travis Terwilliger Stampede Supply Chloe Stehno Grandview Harold Manning MNB Stratton Turkey Kevin League Farmer s Co-op Amanda Zweygardt MNB Stratton Turkey Becky Faimon MNB Insurance Tyler Thiessen MNB Stratton Ham Donna Jesch Christmas Lighting Contest Most Unique Shawn & Julie Terwilliger Religious Wes & Delores Burk Newcomer Bob & Joyce Forch Most Decorated Rod & Sharon Brown New Beginnings is published monthly by the Community Builders Academy. In order to assure a timely issue, articles must be submitted by the 25th of the month to either Penney Walter of Julie Bernt. Articles may be ed to rbernt@gpcom.net. Thank you to this month s donors: MNB Stratton We need to Thank everyone in Stratton that contributed and attended the Pancake Feed held for us! We appreciate all the Love and support from our Community. Also, Thanks to the Stratton Community Fund and UMWC for the Store gift certificate and to the Angel for the anonymous card and gift card. Also, to the Angel that gave Delaney the awesome gift and my gift certificate from the Caring Tree. Everything is greatly appreciated. We wouldn't make it through this time without Awesome Friends. Thanks again, Dena & Delaney Dewey

3 A Prayer Lord, keep me from the habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion. Release me from craving to straighten out everybody s affairs. Keep my mind free from recital of endless details give me wings to get to the point. I ask for grace enough to listen to the tales of others pains. Help me to endure them with patience. But seal my lips on my own aches and pains - they are increasing and my love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by. Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally it is possible that I may be mistaken. Keep me reasonably sweet; I do not want to be a saint some of them are so hard to live with but a sour old person is one of the crowning works of the devil. Give me the ability to see good things in unexpected places, and talents in unexpected people; And, give me, O Lord, the grace to tell them so. Make me thoughtful, but not moody; helpful but not bossy. With my vast store of wisdom, it seems a pity not to use it all - but Thou knowest, Lord, that I want a few friends at the end. St. Valentine lived in Rome during the third century. He was a holy priest in the temple. During that time an emperor named Claudius was ruling Rome. Claudius was not a popular emperor and was disliked by the masses. Claudius was a warmonger and wanted to have a large army. He asked young men to join the army in large numbers. But people had other ideas and they believed in romance and love more than wars. They did not want to be separated from their wives and families. When Claudius came to know of it he became infuriated and issued a decree forbidding marriage for young men. Claudius thought that if men were not married, they would easily join the army. This new law was an attack on the personal liberty of the people. As Valentine was a priest, one of his various activities was to marry couples. He too considered the new law as cruel and ridiculous. Therefore he kept defying the new law by performing marriages. This was an open challenge to the authority of the emperor. Soon the emperor ordered the arrest of St. Valentine. He was put behind the bars and awarded death punishment. He was beaten with clubs and later beheaded. Thus ended the life of a great man who sacrificed all just for the sake of love. As a mark of love and respect towards this great man, we celebrate the Valentines Day every year by exchanging flowers, cards, candies, chocolates etc. The sacrifice of St. Valentine has kept the flame of love and friendship burning forever!

4 Stratton Public Library News The Library has added the following books. Adult Fiction Christmas At Rose Hill Farm by Woods The Wolf In Winter by Connolly Christmas Letters by Macomber All Is Bright by Spencer The Mistletoe Promise by Evans The Christmas Light by VanLiere A Quilt For Christmas by Dallas A Christmas Prayer by Roby A.D. 30 by Dekker The Escape by Baldacci The Cinderella Murder by Clark Personal by Child Hope To Die by Patterson Silent Night, Holy Night by Coble A Cliché Christmas by Deese Christmas In Cowboy Boots by Dailey The Unfinished Gift by Walsh The First Prophet by Hooper The library has been given 11 boxes of unopened children's valentines. Please stop by and select valentines for your child (or children). All of the boxes are free. "Reading books pays off. Go to the Library and get your paycheck!"

5 Thank you for the $25 gift certificate I received from the Chamber of Commerce Soup Supper. Julia Diehl Thanks to the Stratton Area Chamber of Commerce for the gift certificate we received at the Christmas drawing; also MNB Stratton Bank for the gift certificate for a ham from Stratton Country Market. Bud & Donna Jesch The Stratton Area Chamber of Commerce would like to thank all who participated in and helped with the 2014 Christmas events! THANK YOU for -shopping in Stratton -decorating your homes with Christmas lights -giving to the caring tree -attending the soup supper -donating food for the soup supper -volunteering your time to make any of these events a success Special thanks to Santa for stopping in Stratton on December 21!! Happy New Year to All!

6 The Chaplain s Corner I am writing this two days before Christmas and when you read this Christmas and New Years will be gone. The gifts will all be opened and either appreciated and used or put away and forgotten. Most of the trees are taken down but some of the lights may linger on. The cold months of January and February are ahead of us and most of us long for the warm days of spring again. The reason (or should be the reason) that we give gifts at Christmas is because our God gave us the greatest gift of all, the gift of his son Jesus, that the sacrifice of his life would be given that we might have eternal life with him. We cannot even begin to imagine how great that gift was. My wife wrote the Christmas cards this year, as she usually does, (once in a while I surprise her and do it) and today we received a reply from an old friend from many years gone by. He was a Christian long before we were but had turned away from the Lord some years ago, but in his note he writes, I m grateful for a Loving God who never gives up on us. That statement will be the best gift I will get this Christmas. Ephesians: 1:5-6 In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will to the praise of his glorious grace which he has freely given us in the One he loves. Church Worship Service Schedule Comm. United Methodist Church 9:00 a.m. Church Service 10:15 a.m. Sunday School Christian Union Church 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. Church Service 7:00 p.m. Deeper Life Hour St. Joseph Catholic Church 8:30 a.m. Mass Church of Christ 10:00 a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. Church Service Southwest Nebraska Holiness Church 10:30 am Sunday School 11:30 a.m. Church Service 7:00 p.m. Church Service Being happy doesn t mean that everything is perfect. it means that you ve decided to look beyond the imperfections. - Unknown Stratton Medical Clinic Hours Monday Closed Tuesday 10:30 a.m-12:00 p.m. Dr. Lori Stonehocker DO 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Wednesday 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Brenda Haussermann APRN 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Dr. Jose Ramon Garcia Sr MD Thursday 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Carol Hofman APRN Friday Closed

NEW BEGINNINGS. April 15th 8:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m. April 16th 8:00 a.m. 12:00 noon Or until container is Full

NEW BEGINNINGS. April 15th 8:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m. April 16th 8:00 a.m. 12:00 noon Or until container is Full NEW BEGINNINGS April 2016 Volume 25 Issue 11 UMW Salad Luncheon At the Community Methodist Church Stratton April 14tt 12:30 p.m. Spring Clean-Up Everyone Welcome! School Bus Parking Lot Please call for