BUTTERFLY PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS
A PERSONAL TRIBUTE TO
THE CHAPEL OF MT VIEW LUTHERAN CHURCH
ALSO TO YOU PEARL, MOTHER DEAR TO ME:
Here is to the chapel and also to you my mother who had me when you were 43 years old, and had me baptised there with the Egges and Johnsons standing up for me. Here is to both you my mother and the chapel where I was raised to love the Lord. That you mother brought me to attend both Sunday Church and Sunday School till an adult. There are times that my heart longs for those simpler times spent in that building once our Church, but now our chapel. Especially since then whenever I fell away from Grace your prayers brought me back, and what was learned of God's word within those hallowed walls. A mother's love covers a multitude of sins and as the Bible says it was really tested time after time with me. I have had to share you with seven other siblings, and many other people who have been given to you by the Lord to serve. Here at age 90 years old you are still busy with the Church councils, your quilting group, heritage group, chore working, the women church circle group, garden club, Tacoma's merchant marine mission, babysitting jobs, house cleaning jobs, house sitting jobs, visiting sick in hospitals, visiting those in nursing homes, and still having time to be a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. I have truly been blessed to have you as my mom. I'm really proud of you!
I KNOW THAT YOUR OTHER CHILDREN
All Join Me, Your Baby Of 46, In Thanking The LORD JESUS CHRIST For Being Able To Have You As Our MOTHER. Plus We Join You In Keeping The Building Known Now As The Chapel Alive For Future Generations. TO US IT IS THE CHURCH OF OUR YOUTH, AND THE CHURCH HUSBAND (FATHER OF THE OLDEST SEVEN) ROBERT GINTHER FOUND FOR THE FAMILY.
THOUGH THE CROSS STILL POINTS UPWARD TOWARD HEAVEN I ONLY WISH THE CHURCH OF YOUR YOUTH BACK IN BRYANT, SOUTH DAKOTA, HAD BEEN SPARED ENDING UP SOMEONE'S STORAGE UNIT AND WAS MOVED TO PLAIN VIEW FARM FOR OUR FUTURE REUNIONS. BUT THE BUILDING IS A LOSS. THANKS TO THE LORD THAT WE CAUGHT THE MOUNTAIN VIEW CHAPEL IN TIME BEFORE IT SUFFERED THE SAME FATE. VISITORS MIGHT WELL WANT TO CHECK IN NOW AT A WONDERFUL TRIP TO BRYANT AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH AND THE PARSONAGE, AS GIVEN IN THE BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT BY THE SON OF A PASTOR IN YEARS PAST, REV. JORDAHL. EARLING JORDAHL, HIS SON, HAS GRANTED US PERMISSION TO INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING RARE AND PERCEPTIVE ACCOUNT OF HIS BRINGING BACK TO LIFE THE BELOVED OLD CHURCH IN BRYANT AND THE TRULY PIOUS LIFE-STYLE ENJOYED BY HIM AND HIS FAMILY, A LIFE-STYLE THAT CAN HARDLY BE COMPREHENDED IN THESE TIMES AND IN THIS LARGELY IRRELIGIOUS AND NON-REVERENT SOCIETY WE SEE AROUND US TODAY! (NOTE: A LINK WILL SOON BE PROVIDED, PLEASE RETURN FOR IT, FOR FOR IT WILL BE AN "EYE OPENER" AND A PICTURE WE KNOW YOU WON'T FORGET.)
YOUR SON, JERRY L. BALDWIN-GINTHER
MOUNTAIN VIEW LUTHERAN CHURCH'S
72 YEAR OLD CHAPEL
DOESN'T LOOK AS TIME-WORN AS THIS
BUT
IT NEEDS AS MUCH PRAYER
FOR ITS RESTORATION
AND
ITS FUTURE USE
IN THE SERVICE OF THE LORD!
TO ALL WHO ARE VISITING US ON-LINE
PLEASE JOIN US IN PRAYING
FOR THIS ON-GOING PROJECT
TO RESTORE THIS SYMBOL
OF
CHRIST'S GREAT SACRIFICE
FOR OUR SALVATION
WHICH
IS VISIBLE FOR MILES
FOR THOSE TRAVELING ON THE ROADS
LEADING TO ITS VIEW POINT
OF
MOUNT RAINIER
AND
IN THE SHADOW
OF
ITS ATTRACTIVE A-FRAME REPLACEMENT, THE THIRTY-THREE YEAR OLD "NEW SANCTUARY"!
"FAITH IS A PILGRIM'S WALK"
Saving and restoring the old Chapel is a
unique learning experience by which
the Lord stretches faith in all concerned
to grasp the larger picture,
which in this case includes possibly
generations to come.
Even if the Chapel should not be
preserved physically.
The "faith capital"
built up by all
endeavoring to save the Chapel
will not be lost
but
will enrich them
in many ways that change
lives for Christ
for years to come.
Faith is the Pilgrim-
walk to the Promised Land
of God's blessings for His
children.
Doubt or unbelief leaves
a person stranded in the
wilderness
of a wasted, misdirected
life.
Exercising faith for God's
glory
and
the benefit of others
cannot fail to win what God
wants for us.
Doubt or unbelief leaves
a person stranded in the wilderness
of a wasted, misdirected life.
Exercising faith for God's glory
and
the benefit of others
cannot fail to win what God
wants for us.
THANK-YOU RON GINTHER, OUR PUBLISHER, AND MY BROTHER,
FOR THAT WORD FOR US ABOUT THE CHAPEL
I KNOW I WAS BLESSED BY IT
GOD BLESS YOU FOR WRITING IT
A CHAPEL WHERE
THE GINTHER BRANCH
OF
THE STADEM FAMILY
HAD FIRST ATTENDED CHURCH
WHEN THEY CAME FROM SOUTH DAKOTA
IN 1942!
NEWS! NEWS! PRAISE GOD, WE HAVE GOD'S VICTORY
IN THIS VENTURE OF FAITH--NEWS
CAME TO PEARL GINTHER
ON FRIDAY NIGHT, OCT. 2, 1998
THAT THE $200,799 NEEDED
HAS COME IN! WE WANT TO THANK
ALL THOSE WHO PRAYED AND
WHO PLAYED A ROLE OF GIVING
THEIR TIME, MONEY,
MORAL SUPPORT,
AND
ESPECIALLY THEIR PRAYERS
TOWARD THIS WORK OF THE LORD.
I KNOW OUR FAMILY FRIEND
ODNEY WISE, HEAD OF THE HERITAGE CHAPEL COMMITTEE
OF MT. VIEW LUTHERAN CHURCH,
AND MY MOTHER PEARL GINTHER
DEEPLY THANK-YOU
AND
THEY ALSO EXTEND THEIR THANKS
TO OUR HONORARY INTERNET PARISHIONERS
WHO JOINED US
IN PRAYER FOR THIS UNIQUE AND PRECIOUS CHAPEL HOLDING SO MUCH FAMILY, CHURCH, AND COMMUNITY HERITAGE.
IN CHRIST'S WONDERFUL NAME
AMEN AND AMEN!!!
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