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Suprise cards for Pastor Renfrow

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 25, 2010 - 3:37pm
Suprise cards for Pastor Renfrow

Students from the Bluffton Child Development Center surprised Steve Renfrow, pastor of Bluffton Baptist Church, with "thank you cards" on March 25. Pastor Renfrow, a member of the BCDC board, came to know the children during his time as pastor of the local church.

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Allen household hazardous waste collection May 8

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 25, 2010 - 12:39pm

Allen County will hold its household hazardous waste collection this spring, according to Nancy Benroth of Bluffton. The event is from 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday, May 8, at the Allen County fair grounds.

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Steve Renfrow will become a missionary for Southern Baptists

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 25, 2010 - 11:42am

When Steve Renfrow came to Bluffton in 1979 the Bluffton Baptist Chapel met on Sundays in the Shannon Theatre. The congregation was two years old at the time; its regular attendance was 12 in Sunday school and 13 in worship.

Today the congregation has its own building on County Line Road, is known as Bluffton Baptist Church and has an active congregation of around 100 members.

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Worship
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Tour of Bluffton churches continues March 27

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 25, 2010 - 9:53am

The church tours of Bluffton concludes Saturday, March 27, according to the Bluffton Area Ministerial Association.

Four Bluffton congregations are part of Saturday's walking tour. Those churches are:

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Worship
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A little game of Frisbee football

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 24, 2010 - 9:04pm
A little game of Frisbee football

The old college baseball field comes to life on warm spring days as the field of play of a new sport. It's Frisbee football. On March 24 two separate games of the sport were underway. Here's action from one game.

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Did you know that 77 percent of the Icon viewers clip their fingernails?

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 24, 2010 - 5:52pm

Somewhere in a bookstore is a book titled "How to Lie With Statistics." We dusted that old timer off the shelf and present you a column on the "average" Icon viewer's opinion.

Based only on our frequent poll questions posed at the bottom of the home page, we've created the perfect snapshot of the Icon viewer. We aren't lying about the findings; we simply realize there's no scientific proof to our findings. So, perhaps we are lying with statistics.

Nevertheless here's's how Icon viewers have expressed themselves in several of our ever-so-serious questions:

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