Invasion of the Spray & Rollers – The Marcellus News office and soon-to-be-headquarters of the Marcellus Area Historical Society at 149 E. Main Street is looking brighter each day. Mike Moroz (left), M & M Painting, and Ron McAdam, McAdam Design+Decorating, donned the appropriate apparel to spray and roll paint on the walls of the building’s new storage area.
Thank you for your continued patience as The News Office’s renvovation nears completion.
POSTPONED: Paw Paw Presbyterian Church Thrift Sale: The annual Presbyterian Church of Paw Paw Thrift Sale has been rescheduled for Saturday, June 4, 8:30am to 3:00pm, due to COVID-19.
Donations will be accepted Thursday, June 2, from 12noon to 7:30pm, and Friday, June 3, 8:00am to 3:00pm.
County Historical Society presents: Wakelee – A Railroad Boomtown: The Cass County Historical Society presents Wakelee: A Railroad Boomtown, Tuesday, May 17, 7:00pm, at the Wakelee United Methodist Church. Allen Butchbaker, who spent is youth in the Wakelee area, is the featured speaker.
Anyone interested in joining the County Historical Society is welcome to the regular business meeting which begins at 6:30pm prior to the program.
The Wakelee Methodist Church is located at 15921 Dutch Settlement Street.
The Society meets June 14 at the historic Bonine House, on M60 west of Vandalia. Daren Bettinger will speak about Cass County’s Black Civil War Soldiers.
Meetings are free and open to the public. For more information, email CCMiHistoricalSociety@gmail.com.
National Day of Prayer is May 5: The National Day of Prayer will be observed locally this year at the Marcellus United Methodist Church on Thursday May 5 at !2noon. If the weather is uncooperative, we will pray in the Fellowship Hall. Afterwards there will be a boxed lunch available. Everyone is welcomed to attend and pray with us. Or if you need prayer, please come and we will pray with you.
The theme this year is “Exalt the Lord who has established us” with the supporting scripture from Colossians 2:6-7:6 As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7: rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
In 1952, President Truman made the National Day of Prayer an annual observance, stating: “In times of national crisis when we are striving to strengthen the foundations of peace…we stand in special need of Divine support.”
In April of 1970, President Richard Nixon had the nation observe a Day of Prayer for Apollo 13 astronauts. On May 5, 1988, President Reagan made the National Day of Prayer the first Thursday in May, saying: “Americans in every generation have turned to their Maker in prayer…We have acknowledged…our dependence on Almighty God.”
The Marcellus United Methodist Church is hosting this prayer time in partnership with Trinity Bible Church and Wakelee United Methodist Church. We hope other local churches will join with us in praying for our community, our nation and our global neighbors.
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