Varied Act-IVit-IeS Highlight Choralels TourChorale tour, April

2ng, finally came afterbeing so eagerly awaitedby the twenty-fo\Ir Peoplein it. As we boarded thebus,little didweknow ofthe varied experiences wewould be involved in butwe anticipated a greattime®

Our first programwas at Penns Grove Menno-nile Ch\1rCh. LnPenn Grove,N. J. There, as at theother churches. we wereenthusiasticany received.

Friday morning wesang at Cufroerland Chris-tian School and were host-ed for dinner in theircafeteria. The afternoonwas spent in traveling andplaying games. By eveningwe arrived in Bronx, 'NewYork City. We were hostedby the Friendship Communi-

ty Church until Sunc\aymorning. We gaveour com-plete program there Fri-day night and sang twosongs in their Saturdaynight service.

Saturdaywas exhaust-ing as we toured New Yorkc~ity. sindwiched in sub-ways, elevators or busystreets, we managed tovisit the Empire StateBuilding and experience aferry ride.

Sunc\ay morning wesang at Mennonite BibleFellowship Church in NewHaven, Conn. Therewe en-countered a situation inwhich we needed to dependon God more obviously thanbefore on o\1r trip ~ O\Irbus was robbed.

After getting a goodnightof rest {for many ofus it was the first timeon tour that we slept in abed) , we journeyed to The

KingI s College in New York.We sang a few songs in thecafeteria and afterwardsate there.

We left there about2:00 and returned home atapproximately 5: 30.

It was truly a pleas-urable tour. Through thediverse circumstances welearned in a new way themeaning of our theme forthe tc,ur9 ''Christian Joy" .

Rose E9b

ffluStarD SeedApril 1981 Faith M®nnoni,a High School Vol.3,No.8

T`heftPosesQuestions a Answers"Bigger than all my

problems , bigger than any-thing. God is bigger thanany mountain that I can orcannot see.`'

Is He really BIGGER?Sunday afternoon,

April 5, while praisingthe Lord in New Haven,Connecticut, our tour buswas robbed of $8OO to $1OOOworth of goods includingcameras , pocketbooks , andc:ashI

"Why, God? Why did

you let this happen tous...tome? Am I beingpunished?"

MNo, child.W"But, God...?""Child, am I really

bigger than±±lyour prob-1eins?l'

''I thought so, butnow® ® ®|l

''You know that thereis nothing that comes intoyour life that I have notallowed and approved of."

"Forgive me Lord, I

NYC Is Interesting...Sinbways , people, sky-

scrapers. taxis ... taxis,

see it now.''God tested me through

this experience to seewhether± meant what i wassinging about. I nolonger question "Why, God"but, ''Show me Lord whatnew lesson I am to applyin my life." Truly, Godis bigger than any moun-tain! Sharan Fteed

Work Days Planned

Put Us To Work!Student Council has

pecentLy announcec\ thedates of our third annualwork days. Students willbe available on Friday andSaturday April 24 & 25 towork for a minimum wage of$3 an hour. Jobs can in-c:lude larm and garden work,farm Work, and numeroushousehold chores and ofldjobs. Students willbe a-vailable to work for theirparents upon request.

Student Council willbe running ads onWDAC for

Con't on page 4

skyscrapers , people, sub-ways...Day in, day out.Night and day there's aconstant mrshI Every-thing seems to be done inseconds. If one doesn'trush, he may watch diesubway leave without him,get run over by a car, orget pushed around in acrowd, and end up in thewrong destination.

New York City is aland where there are norolling hills covered witEtrees , flowers ,F fields andherds of cattle. Neitheris there a chorus of birdsto give one a cheery "good-morn±ng'',- ±nsteed thereare a few fat pigeonsstrutting aro\1nC\ On mO\1n-tains of trash and garbage.

But amidst crowdedelevators , midnight gangsand overflowing subways,take a closer look. Forone has to remember thekind lady in the subwaywho helped us wher`we werelost, the breathtakingview from lO2 stories up,and the happy bands of be-lievers in HIM scatteredthroughout the city.I

In spite of blessingsin the city I still thankGod I'm a country gir1!

-Dedo-re-s ,Brenneman

Page 2 Mustard Seed April 198l

PrincipaIJs Corner

Mr Jc!mes i. GochncIUer

A Little BitS`ome of us who have been associated with FMIi for

a long period of time, take certain things for grant-ed, among which are items both humorous and serious;Following is a popourri of trivia which you may findinteresting (even though you won't -be tested on it) .Did you know:

-I That it takes about $1.OO worth of a teacher'sand a classes cortoined time for each minute astudent enters class late?

- That Miss Witmer has met again as students atFMH, people she taught in first grade at LocustGrove2

- That FMH used to have a ''Mer`ittrdemerit" systemand scrapped it to develop teacher creativityin relation to discipline?

-That Mr. Wilburs breeds Arabian horses when heis not teaching school?

-That the Lost and Found has accumulated clothes,books, papers, baseball gloves, andl shoes -butnever eny money?

-That the students farthest away from,school drive76 miles round trip to Come every day?

-That Mr. Lapp spent 15 years in Washington D.C.in mission work ,before coming to Frm?

-Phat more than one-third of nexF year's student

Of Here fn Therebody will be new students?

-That Mr. Harnish is also Mr. Gochnauer' s pastor?-That one of the ''Annies'' reachedup and stopped

Steve Groff when he was doing CPR on her theother day? (April Foo1!)

-That FMH has its own ''Statement of Faith.''-That Mr. and Mrs. Gochnauer were the only two

full-time teachers the first year of school?- That all full-time academic teachers at FMH have

at least a bachelor's degree in their field?-That Mr. Gochnauer now stops at all railroad

tracks when driving a bus?-That three mice were caught in the teacher's

room and Beulah's locker but ''Max'' refuses tobe mentioned among theme

- That Miss Zimmerman has collected so many ''un-claimed" pattern pieces ft-om home ec. classesshe will soon be able to make a garment fromthemeMaybe you know some more things we should know.

Tell us, or write a note to Mustard Seed, Faith Men-nonite High School, R. #1, Kinzers, Pa. 17535.

Meanwhile9 let'S keep Praising the Lord for allthe factors, both great and small,I that makes FMH theunique place it is.

Datebook

April 2O -Easter vacs-lion ends

May

23 - Gospel teamtc, be atauarry'V-i_liePresbyteri-an Home

24-25 -Work days26 -Chorale at

Marietta27-spiritual

Life Week5 -Chorale at

Landis Homes9 - Maranatha is

coming10 - Gospel team

at Church-tour in theafternoon

17 -Chorale atRawlinsville

18 - AIlumni day

CIass Observes Greek OrtIIOdOX Sol-Vice

on March 22nd, theAnabaptist History classvisited the Greek Orthodox.Church along Hershey Ave.We arrived at 9::45 a.m.and entered the ch\LrCh a-long with numerous otherchurchgoers. j5 strangemonotone singing was heardas we walked through thereligious education de-partment anc\ to the narthexwhichwas just outside thesanctuary. They Li.i can-dles and placed them in alarge candle holder andthen kissed an Icon. Wewere then introduced tothe priest's wife who ex-plained the symbolism thatthe church had and the manypictures which were paint-ed on the front wall and

ceiling.we were told that

quite a number of peopleattending the church spokeGreek as their only lan-guage and that practicallyeveryone was well versedin the language. Conse-quently half of the servicewas conductec± in Greek.

We had the privilegeof sitting in the balconyso we could observe theservicebetter. The sanc-tuary was hazy with smokefrom the huge amount ofincense they burn. The1_±turdy was very formalwhich included singing thescriptures insteed ofreading them. The wholeservice lasted over oneand ahalfhours with peo-

pie coming and going asthey pleased 9 depending Onwhich part of the servicethey wanted to attend.

Itwas interesting tonote that every time theTrinitywas mentioned, thepeople would cross them-selves out of respect. Al-so, each Sunday they gothrough the life of Christin the service.

It was enjoyable andvery eye-opening for us tovisit another kind ofchurch and observe how theyworshipped the same God aswe do. But I'm sure thatall of us who went, canbetter appreciate the fel-lowship that we have in ouro\^m congregations.

-Steve Groff

publishedmonthly duringthe school yearbyFaith Menu. tiighSchp, Rt.1, Kinzers, Pa. 17535. Iti8 di8tributeffimPlimentarily to doriors, §Eudents, and riennor;ite schools in tie areTaJ. EdiJtorial Staff; Joy Bien-neman, Loi8 Ranck, Rose Esh,. Linda DeiteI'~Ken Gehman. and_ Victpr_ Stoltzfus. Advisor9~: Mr. Gochnauer. and Miss Witmer.

Page 3 Mus,clrd Seed April l98l

[[ApparIItiOnS7'seen DuringttSpirit Week'7

Student Council mem-bers thought that schoolneeded a little liveningon the week of March 23-27. SpiritWeek. What isthat? It was designed toget student's in "thespirit". Each day therewas something differentfor students to wear. OnMonday it was schoolcolors. Everyone (wellalmost!) showed up inbrownor geld. Tuesday wasclash day. Some of thoseoutfits could havecrossed your eyes! Thechapel speaker for thatclay notecl that "everyonelikes a little variety!"I hoped the visitors didn' tthink we always dressed

like that. Wednesday wasdress up day, of course.Everyone appeared in goodSunday clothes, many ofthem new. The boys wereeven pursuadecl on the wholeto wear suits. Thursdaywas button & pin clay.Janelle Charles walked inschool with 102 buttons.Dan Geib accumulated 154when friends donated theirmetals to his collection.They were both awardedwith a large Hershey choc-olate bar during Friday'sassembly. You could tellwhen they irere around bythe rattling and clatter-ing of the buttons. Fri-day the school was filledwith nurses , firemen, car-

Talent Show ¬limaxes WeekTo end spirit week, a

talent show was planned.Anyorle Who Wished COuldparticipate. To beginwith, two unlucky guys,who didn't wear schoolcolors on NIonday, hed apenalty. Theywere ±ntro-c\ucecl to a ''hunan machLne''which manufact\1reCl waterand they received a small

We are looking for-ward to receiving our 198"SilverCrest". As a staffwe feel we have created areally unique yearbook.Orders are coming ±n butmore can be taTcen. whynot order while the supplylasts! Fill in the blankand mail to the school assoon as possible or callthe school at {442-8818)and place your order now.

shower. Joy Kreider hada dramatic! reading whereshe was an old lady tryingto ride a horse. We allroared with laughter whena Cow Milking men's quar-tet tiled {to sing us asong. Miss Hurst andMiss Witmer put on an in-teresting skit. MissHurst was an old lady whogot everything all. turnedaround when she couldn'thear the questions thatMiss Witmer, a censustaker, asked her. RoseEsh read her own imagina-tive story about FMH stu-dents afEe;r they gradua-ted, and what they wereinvolved in. ¢herealso were other skits andsinging. It was a greatway to enc\ a week.

-Sara Stab,

penters,I farmers, house-wives, milkmaids, wait-resses , paramedics. engin-eers, airplane mechanics,and more. This wats occupa-tion day.

Friday afternoon wasthe frosting for the cake.Students enthusiasticallyparticipated in a talentshow which convincedeveryone of the potentialwhich is present in thisschool. It was afun weekand I believe that "every-one liked the variety."

-Carol Eberly

Student Councilmodels the dress codefor Spirit Week.

AlumniNews

Miss Cynthia J. Brenneman

MarlinMartin ( I 8O)±s currently employed asHerdsman on Don Ranck' sdairy farm located onemile east of Strasburg.He enjoys his job Ofmilking cows and doingfield work. Marlin andhis wife Sue visitedseveral states on theirHoneymoon-TennesseqPex-as, Arizona, Colorado,Kansas, Missouri, and afew ot'rler states. Theyvisited Grand Canyon andsome other interestingplaces. Marlin is nowaproud father of a 51b.girl. 'Ande1-a Jeari wasbornApri1391981. Con-gratulations Marlin andSue. O\lr prayers arewith you as you raiseAngela for the I|ord.

paulRanck ('79) iscurrently working athome on his father'sdairy farm. His jobsinclude feeding the cowsand calves, milking, andother regular routinefarm jobs. Twiceaweekhe helps one of hisneighbors clean theirbarn ±n the forenoon.

On Friday and Saturdayhe helps another neigh-bor clean his barn. Heenjoys ilunenSely thefarm life and workingwith the ani`maLs. Sun-day morning' he teaGheSlthe youth class at FarrCreek Mennonite Church.He uses his rmsiCaltalent in singing withthe Joyful ServantsI(which includes hisbrother and three sis-ters) Some months agothe Joyful tsar.vents wentto Northern Pa. to givethree programs in theCanton area. Paul, alongwith his brother andsister is now planningon `taking a trip to In-diana to see his sisterNaomiwho sings with theGospel Echoes Team. Hesays it's really greatto be out of the schoolbuilding but the learn-ing experiences don'tstop. Along with therest of the alumni Paulcontinues to learn as theLord continues to teachhim through life exper-iences.

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Seniors Puzzled By Disguised Food

With the savory aromaof "mysterious" food com-ing from the kitchen, weseniors eagerly anticipa-bed a fun filled eveningfollowing school on March24±b. It was time for a-nother one of our socialsand this time wewere head-ed for a big surprise; amystery supper!

Immedlately afterschool we were free to doas we pleased until fouro'clock, at which time wemet in the gym. A coupleof the guys helped set upthe volleyball net and weplayed hard and'vigorouslyfor about an hour. Bythen we were thoroughlyfamished and ready forour supper. But first wewere put to work fillingou.t a college exam. Mostof us passed that so weheaded on-dorm to -|thetypLnq room to wait forLnstruct±ons and our men-us. The paper table-cloth proved to be a fas-cination and an excellentdrawing pad to some of usas we waited.

O\1r menus LncLuc\ec\such items as Snake'sTongue (fork) , Irishpearls (peas), Balaam's

Donkey' s Delight (carrots)and, stacks (1asagna) plusmany more.

Following the delical,ious food and many laughswe watched the film E±g.Red. This thrilling story5f-a boy and his greatlove for a big red dog heldour attention right up tothe enc1.

Another surprisesuceeded the film. We wereserved blueberry pie andice cream before headinghome. -Joy Brenneman

Con'f from page 1a week starting on April15 during their Sunriseand Jubilee programs.

The money earned fromthe two work days will gointo Student fund drive andwill be used to help payfor yearbook expenses,field trips, audio visualsupplies, and other stu-dent-activities.

To call the school formore information or to hirea student, simply dial(717) 442-WORK duringschool hours from Apri115to April 23.

-Dwi'giv Bei[er

etS*ietS*:e±Slfa:e±«ieZ±*:a+SIC:e±S1*:e¢±rf:¬iS*:e±fieeZ±*!e±±#ee

I p±ct\1re a Stream Ln wi.nter -cold and almost silent,Eittered with decaying leaves.Trees stand exposed and gray.The banks are empty,And ferns have vanished.

No warmth - No life!

BL\t then..-Spring comes along! !The stream trickles over pebbles and around bendsTrees bend low as if to shelterTiny ferns that deck the bank.Twigs burst forth.Leaves stretch as if to touch each other.

Life everywhere!

I picture myself coming to GodFilled with fear and uncertainty,Little sign of life.But then Gee sends a sprLngt±me -A friend or a smileAnd my heart is filled.

Now I can live!-F,ieda StoJtzfus

Max the

Mouseby Maximillian van Musculus

Hullo everyone,i mac\e up my mind

and everything is offic-ial. I'mcomingback toFMH next year. Peoplehave been treating merather nicely since themice massacre so I guessit's safe to stay. Ihanded my application toMrs. Ressler and she wasso thrilled that she hungit up on the office win-dow. That is where allthe important papers areposted.

I almost went withChorale 6n their tour.I was in the locker roomsbrowsing around thesuitcases and garmentbags when I spied onethatwas open. I peekedinside and accidentallyfell in but the materialsinside were soft so Ididn't hurt myself.SoorL, however,` I grewhungry. I bedyan rum-maging around and I foundsome snacks. After ex-periencing a pleasurablehour I began to getsticky. To my dismay Idiscovered that I wassitting in a. pool ofhairspray. There wereother kinds of glue intherealso. I'mnot surebut it loc*ed like a signsaid Face Creme. I de-cided then lthat I wouldnot go anywhere near

hairspray and glue or Imight get stucrd in NewYork City. I disappearedfrom that room aS quick-ly as possible.

CPR is so puzzlingto me. I don't know ifthe students love or hatethose Anhies. Sometimesth'ey hit them, then theywill kiss thembut pinchtheir noses. When theysettle their emotions,maybe then the Ann±eswillrespond. That willbe fun to watch.

During Spirit Weekbefore I discovered thatitwas the students thatwere wearing pins Ithought I was living mylast day. It soundedexactly like an army ofcats with bells was in-vading the school. Therattling of tin wasterrifyingly clangorousand as I was runningfrom it I saw the SpiritWeek bulletin whichhailed that day as pinclay. Then I was con-soled. So now that Iendured that, I believeI deserve a genuinemetal for my courage.

I;est you think thatI'm bragging, I bettersign off before you getangry about ny inso-lence®

Happy Easter vaca-tion.I

Faith Mennonile High SchoolRoute I

Kinzers, PA 17535