The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 46, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 1, 1989 Page: 2 of 32
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TRANSITIONS
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W. NORTON
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THIA B FLETC1
JAKE LOVATO WITH HB HANDIWORK
... welder and craftsman
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THE MONTH AHEAD
Calendar of events
WORLDWATCH
News from around the world
PARTNERS 12-14
Bell Trust fund assists ministers
ACU professors release sex survey
backyard shop with methods for bringing out
the colors in steel — silver, gold, purple and
gray. He calls the business Sunset Silhouettes.
Lovato likes to work in the night, especial
ly during the summer, when the cutting
torch's heat can be almost unbearable under
gloves and heavy clothing worn to protect
him from the glowing sparks.
“I go out there after IO, and it's quiet. Kids
are in bed, nobody calls on the phone to in-
terrupt me, and I know what’s on every radio
station at that time of night," said Lovato
His wife, Tknia, sometimes helps him trace
the patterns onto the steel.
Lovato has tiro daughters, Madalyn, 9, and
human
interest
COVER NEWS
Churches balance debt, ministry
Colorado law threatens tax status
Western Christian to move to Manitoba
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U.S. news round-up
OPINION 18-19
Editorial: church to build in Brasilia
Perspectives: Collinsville in retrospect
Reviews: 2 books on the cross of Christ
A challenge for theological education
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Wichita hospitality house has birthday
CHURCH GROWTH
Family crises evidence maturity
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other elders.
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rho will move
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worn. cloth cap mis backwards
on his head, bill pointing down
his back The young, thin man
sits in front of a cold, heavy BSIM
piece of steel, tracing the BHBHH
white, soapstone lines with a hHBSm
thin, blue flame. Red sparks
fly for hours.
Finally, he sits back, flings ■HH9
off his gauntleted, leather NMHfl
gloves and pushes the cap off ||||||||
his forehead. Then he smiles HH|
He is pleased with the work of
art, yes, art — a price sign MH|
commissioned by a local HHBHb
restaurant.
Jake Lovato’s new craft is
taking more and more of his
time from making trailers or
pipe fences for area ranchers.
In the three years since he hung his first
hand-cut, silhouette sign outside a local
business, his other works have begun to dot
the town.
He’s done ornate nameplates for
cemeteries, ziapattemed window grates,
chrome-ptated emblems for cars and grillwork
for the town dogcatcher's truck.
“1 don’t do stuff that people see all the
time,” said Lovato “It all has to do with be
ing a perfectionist. If it doesn’t come out
right, it doesn’t come out of the shop.”
That strategy seems to be working. His
signs are selling at stores around town and
at a recent state fair booth, he got inquiries
from as far away as Australia.
A San Diego art shop wants to begin stock-
ing his work. Mailboxes and gate signs have
turned up in Tennessee and Oregon. He has
welded patio grillwork in Native American
designs.
Sometimes the requests get a little bizaare,
but Lovato doesn't mind. The owner of a local
Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant challeng
edTiim to make a silhouette of Colonel
Sanders. Lovato did it.
His work starts at $35 and averages be
Paub Valley, Okla., church, Feb. 14.
preached for the College church in (
City for 18 years and serv ----j
ed for two yean as mis A
sionary in Lisbon, R>r
tugal. He had been with
the hub Valley church for
only three months. He is
survived by hb wife, Cbri,
and two daughters, Sheryl
Scharf, Ardmore, Okla., MORMH
and Gwynn Bulmer, Lisbon
HIRED: John Featherston as pulpit
of the Decatur, Thxas, church He fotn
. minister at the North Davis church, A
HONORED: Ptouh Beene, high sdto
and member of the Southwest ch
Oklahoma Qty, for her essay on citbes
ment in government. She won •
Washington, DC.
HBBh Chuck Freeman as the seal
IL 3-6
Valley U
ERSBURG, WV
hg” will be the t
aio Valley Colled
pe lectures will 1
Henderson, Tenn.
'Mass.; Dr. Evert!
ind Hardeman N
ue for the daily IJ
Jcipleship from I
r and chapel hod
“The Great d
t speakers will il
his, Ohio; Dr. Du
lark Braze), Leuvl
Vienna, WVa ; I
tfentor, Ohio;
mrg. Fem Hill <
Matured speaker
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Illi be conductc
pf Christ in Dal
Missionaries of
b will be featured
g Tony Coffey,
K Galon Jones,
has; and RogeJ
e for the event
Missions." Oth|
Hing, Stanley S
Gray, Tex Wi
tween $8O-$IOO. But some pieces, such as a
windmill, run “right on up there,” he said.
Lovato, 29, now experiments from his , paid rehabilitation program.
“There’s this excitement when you bti
one,” Lovato said. “Ybu look at it when
done, and it’s clean and good. Ybu kmda h
to see them go, you know? And when tl
come to pick them up, it’s fun to see tl
faces when they see them.”
Although Jake still calls his work 501
cent art and 50 percent welding, he adit
it does take a steady hand and a lot of wo
If you take your family through du
Bernalillo this summer, remember to l< wk I
ftitsy’s beauty shop, Chile Hill Emporium
Salazar's shoe shop MjuII see Lovato's cad
craftsmanship. You might end up tail
home your own piece of Jake's art
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MB1ALLBD: Cbrance WbIIK Du<
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Avenue dtotoh, Wichita, Kan.. Matf
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church Fbb. 5.
HIRED: Israel Fiona as Spanish minbter of
the Garden Oaks church,
Houston.
AWARDED: Jewell
Harris, longtime teacher at
Jefferson Junior High
School, Abilene, Ihxas,
with the 1989 Grover C.
Morbn Medal Award by I
Abilene Christian Univer- JEWBX HARRlt
sity March 10. The honor b given annually to
an ACU alumnus who has excelfed in the field
of education.
HONORED: Cherilyn Ryder of the Deaty
church, Whbash, Ind., as Dbabted Wbman of
the War. The honor was given by the Pilot Chib
of Muncie, Ind., in January. Ryder has triuscu
br dystrophy and b confined to a wheelchair
She completed her practicum work at Compre
hensive Mental Health Servfaa, then joined the
staff as sodal worker.
■ NMARDED: Ann Hunt Smith of the Brooks
Avenue church, Raiebh, NjC., with an Bmerg
ing Artbt Grant from the City of Raleigh Arts
Commission to develop a video tape and
booklet tracing the roots of African music in1
traditional American sotmu
Morris Thurman, M,minbtor of the
TO BE HONORED: David Jones, 48, for 25
years as the minbter of the Schrader Lane
Church of Christ, Nash-
ville. Tenn., on April 8
Jones holds a doctorate
from Vanderbilt Universi I
ty and is curriculum direc I
tor for the metropolitan I
public school system
RE-ELECTED: Larry MHHB
Harris, administrator for (WHO JONES
the Willow Brook Chrbtbn Home, Worth
ington, Ohio, to a second term as president of
the Association of Ohio Phibnthropk Homes
and Housing for the Aging. He represents
AOPHA in dealings with Ohio Governor
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LISTED: Dickye Baggett, daughter of Ben
and OOine Price of the Madbon, Ifenn., church,
in the 1988 yearbook of World Book Encycfo
pedta. The yearbook carried her picture and a
story about her breakthrough surgery for
rniKinsons disease
HIRED: Bobby Jeffcoat as minbter of the
Covington Road church, Natchez, Mbs. He
formerly serwd the Carrin Springs and Seguin.
INBIMXIDt Jim Ctark, John Heidreth and
* Bid ftamons aseMvs of the Madbonvilla, Ky.,
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Welder turns professional skill to art
Joy Lynn, 2, but he also h
about a dozen foster childi
at Albuquerque Christ)
Children’s Home, where I
and Tknia were housepaneJ
for a year.
Although he still gets J
from the kids and sometiJ
hosts parties for them or J
them fishing, he said the1
was difficult.
“It’S like the Brace Corpi
it’s the toughest job you'll d
love,” he laughs. Lovato es
made a pipe fence for J
children’s home.
Both New Mexico natiJ
Jake and Tania worship at a
University Church of ( hnstl
nearby Albuquerque. whJ
he b a deacon.
Jake began welding at the Bernalillo Hl
School, when he joined Future Farmenl
America and competed in rodeo and weldi
contests.
After that, he went to work at a kJ
welding shop, where he made trailers,!
many trailers it got boring. He has also woJ
ed in oil field construction.
But Lovato got serious with it after a drJ
driver slammed into hb car eight years J
leaving him with 64 broken bonesand a st!
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Bible appeals to restless Irishman
Missionaries begin new works
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