July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Students missed an experience
Letters to the Editor
To the editor:
The CR’s recom-mendation of the Portland Authority Police Department’s traveling 9/11 display at the Healing Fields was absolutely correct.
It was a “must see.”
The personal stories were very moving, and brought home the fact that the victims were just everyday people doing their jobs.
The condition of the many items pulled from the rubble showed the terrible violence of that dark day.
A high-quality living history event like this does not visit this area on a regular basis, so you would think that the Jay County school system would have taken advantage of a chance to show their students why the world they will inherit is so completely changed from the pre-9/11 world that I grew up in. South Adams schools thought it was worth the trip, as did Fort Recovery and Randolph County. But not Jay County.
The tractor and engine show merits a day out of school (I would think that if it was to encourage the students to attend, a field trip would be more productive), but a memorial to the most notable event in U.S. history since the turn of the century does not.
A former prisoner of war from Vietnam and members of the New York fire department who actually responded to the WTC disaster also spoke. But few, if any, Jay County children benefited from these first-hand accounts.
My wife and I took our nephew, a student at West Jay Middle School who is living with us as his mother prepares to deploy to Iraq, to see the Healing Fields on Sunday. I believe the Port Authority display helped him to better understand why things are the way they are. I have to think the message would not have been lost on others, and would have made for lively discussion in the classroom.
Superintendent Long, I have to wonder if a field trip would have been arranged if this had been a traveling tribute to The Long March of Mao Zedong.
Phil Blakely
Portland
Special event
To the editor:
How great it is to live in a community where the churches support and pray for each other! The Jay County Re-Awakening Prayer movement is a good example of this. Over a year ago the Jay County Ministerial Association decided to organize a prayer movement among the churches similar to what took place back in 1929. As a result of that concerted prayer effort the “Great Fisher Revival” took place.
The Friends Church and the Christian Church jointly sponsored this Revival, but several churches were involved. As a result of their joint efforts God chose to bless our county.
Several thousand accepted Christ during the 29 weeks of the Revival. Huge baptism services were held in Bear Creek and in the Hughes Gravel Pit.
Many were healed during these services as well. Every day The Commercial Review reported what took place at the Revival Service the night before. What a great outpouring of God’s Spirit took place back then. And we have been praying for that to occur again in our time.
Churches have been praying for each other over the past year, and we are beginning to see the fruits of our labors come to pass. In celebration of our common blessing, the Jay County Ministerial Association is sponsoring an event Saturday, Sept. 24 at 2:30 p.m. in the Farmers’ Building at the Jay County Fairgrounds. We will be able to join in a time of worship and praise in an atmosphere much like the old time Camp Meetings. Irwin Bailey will lead us in a time of worship in song as we sing old and new songs in praise of our Lord. The Christianaires Quartet will bless us with its own brand of spirituality. And we will be taught by a nationally renowned speaker and teacher of God’s Word, Dr. John Neihoff Jr.
Dr. John is not only well known as an Evangelist for young and old alike, but he is a college Administrator, and Professor as well, working at Kentucky Mountain Bible College. During the service there will be a time set aside to lay hands on all of the pastors present, and to pray for them and their churches, that God will bless them in a very special way in the time to come.
So, I urge you all to come to this great event in the life of The Church in Jay County. Come prepared to be blessed, and to be a blessing! (You might want to bring a lawn chair just in case the benches are full when you arrive.) See you there.
Tom Lightle,
Jay County
Ministerial
Association
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The CR’s recom-mendation of the Portland Authority Police Department’s traveling 9/11 display at the Healing Fields was absolutely correct.
It was a “must see.”
The personal stories were very moving, and brought home the fact that the victims were just everyday people doing their jobs.
The condition of the many items pulled from the rubble showed the terrible violence of that dark day.
A high-quality living history event like this does not visit this area on a regular basis, so you would think that the Jay County school system would have taken advantage of a chance to show their students why the world they will inherit is so completely changed from the pre-9/11 world that I grew up in. South Adams schools thought it was worth the trip, as did Fort Recovery and Randolph County. But not Jay County.
The tractor and engine show merits a day out of school (I would think that if it was to encourage the students to attend, a field trip would be more productive), but a memorial to the most notable event in U.S. history since the turn of the century does not.
A former prisoner of war from Vietnam and members of the New York fire department who actually responded to the WTC disaster also spoke. But few, if any, Jay County children benefited from these first-hand accounts.
My wife and I took our nephew, a student at West Jay Middle School who is living with us as his mother prepares to deploy to Iraq, to see the Healing Fields on Sunday. I believe the Port Authority display helped him to better understand why things are the way they are. I have to think the message would not have been lost on others, and would have made for lively discussion in the classroom.
Superintendent Long, I have to wonder if a field trip would have been arranged if this had been a traveling tribute to The Long March of Mao Zedong.
Phil Blakely
Portland
Special event
To the editor:
How great it is to live in a community where the churches support and pray for each other! The Jay County Re-Awakening Prayer movement is a good example of this. Over a year ago the Jay County Ministerial Association decided to organize a prayer movement among the churches similar to what took place back in 1929. As a result of that concerted prayer effort the “Great Fisher Revival” took place.
The Friends Church and the Christian Church jointly sponsored this Revival, but several churches were involved. As a result of their joint efforts God chose to bless our county.
Several thousand accepted Christ during the 29 weeks of the Revival. Huge baptism services were held in Bear Creek and in the Hughes Gravel Pit.
Many were healed during these services as well. Every day The Commercial Review reported what took place at the Revival Service the night before. What a great outpouring of God’s Spirit took place back then. And we have been praying for that to occur again in our time.
Churches have been praying for each other over the past year, and we are beginning to see the fruits of our labors come to pass. In celebration of our common blessing, the Jay County Ministerial Association is sponsoring an event Saturday, Sept. 24 at 2:30 p.m. in the Farmers’ Building at the Jay County Fairgrounds. We will be able to join in a time of worship and praise in an atmosphere much like the old time Camp Meetings. Irwin Bailey will lead us in a time of worship in song as we sing old and new songs in praise of our Lord. The Christianaires Quartet will bless us with its own brand of spirituality. And we will be taught by a nationally renowned speaker and teacher of God’s Word, Dr. John Neihoff Jr.
Dr. John is not only well known as an Evangelist for young and old alike, but he is a college Administrator, and Professor as well, working at Kentucky Mountain Bible College. During the service there will be a time set aside to lay hands on all of the pastors present, and to pray for them and their churches, that God will bless them in a very special way in the time to come.
So, I urge you all to come to this great event in the life of The Church in Jay County. Come prepared to be blessed, and to be a blessing! (You might want to bring a lawn chair just in case the benches are full when you arrive.) See you there.
Tom Lightle,
Jay County
Ministerial
Association
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