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GRAPHIC from our first CompuServe web page
November 25, 1995
NOW INSTALLED AT www.JTandBEScherer.com
Jim is very prompt about editing the other web pages he writes. The two church pages are up dated at least once a week and some times twice a week and more. The page for First Presbyterian Richmond Indiana was started in April of 2000. He is not as prompt with up dates on the other pages he does. Particularly this one for himself and Barbara. .
Jim is Webmaster for two church web pages
http://www.FirstPresbyterianRichmondIndiana.com
http://www.shallow-well.org - Shallow Well United Church of Christ, Sanford, NC
Here are the details of the Worship at First Presbyterian on the morning of our 48th wedding anniversary".Click here
Our fifty-third (53) annivarersary was September 1, 2007.
In 1954
Richmond had railroad connections, even passenger service, to Indianapolis and the west, Columbus, Ohio and the East, from Philadelphia and New York , Fort Wayne and the north and Cincinnati and the South.
The train on the upper track is a Norfolk and Southern unit train called "TripleCrown" composed of semi trailers with light weight rail road wheels and air brakes. The bottom paved trail was the C and O, more recently the CSX line to Chicago.
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FARMING IN THE 1930s AT WESTTOWN SCHOOL, PENNA. Where Barbara was Born.
Painting "Spring" by George Whitney of the Westtown faculty hanging in Central Hall at Westtown School.
This type of farming was the norm
in this country as recently as the mid 1930s, seventy years ago. Charles
Lewis Ellicott, Barbara's father, was the model for this painting.
This is the Quaker Meeting Barbara worshiped in as a child. It is in Darlington, Maryland. The meeting house building goes back to the late 1780's and is getting a new addition in 2001. It has grown since Barbara was a child. It is in a growing community within commuting distance of Baltimore. Our Quaker Membership is currently with Deer Creek Friends and Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends. Jim is a recorded Friends Minister listed in the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Minutes. He was recorded by Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends in 1954.
Barbara remembers the classes for children she attended as a child at Deer Creek as "Sunday School" not First Day School.
Barbara remembers the classes for children she attended as a child at Deer Creek as "Sunday School" not First Day School.
Jim grew up in Richmond Indiana. He attended West Richmond Friends Meeting. Then when his father, George Scherer, began preaching at Centerville Friends Meeting the whole family attended there. Centerville Friends Meeting sponsored Jim as he felt called to the Chritian Ministry.
Growing up in a Christian family with no definite earth shaking conversion experience causes problems with some evangelical Christians. Billy Graham dealt with this question in a column in August 2007. Click here
The white section is the addition dedicated on June 3, 2001 with Jim and Barbara in attendance.
Here is Barbara's "BAKING BREAD" about bread baking in her family.
click here.
Barbara worked out a hand made one loaf white bread recipe.
This hand made loaf also has instructions. July 21.2002"
click here.
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Here is another home page for the Scherer's which has up to date Senior Citizens Headlines from the SeniorJournal.com. After you have read the headlines use the "back" button on your browser to return here.
i.e. MAKES QUILTS
One of Barbara's long time interests has been sewing. She says she started sewing buttons on material when she was three. This was on her Aunt's bed spread. This interest continued through 4- H club and through high school and college.
Her interest the last few years has been in quilting. She likes to feel the cotton fabric which goes into the quilts and then design the pieces for the quilt top. She has trouble remembering that a complete traditional quilt also has batting in the middle and a back piece or pieces of fabric and is quilted through all these layers. These parts take about as much work as the quilt top but is not as interesting. So she has made a number of wall hangings from her quilt tops and full quilts that are smaller in size than a bed cover.
This was in the Muncie Quilt Guild show 2000. It is called AUTUMNAL EQUILATERAL It measures 35" by 49" And is a Stack and Whack method quilt.
Barbara usually has one or more quilt tops in progress. In August 2001 she had a baby quilt top in process. She completed the quilt herself and gave it to the Muncie Quilt Guild in memory of Lollie Belle Lemons. just click here
In SEPTEMBER 2001 she made a quilt for Pam Cohen of Deer Creek Meeting. Here are
a series of pictures showing the process of quilt making and the final quilt for Pam.
, just
click here
DECEMBER 2001 she made a quilt for the Muncie Quilters Guild project at
Ball Memorial Hospital , just
click here JANUARY 2002 Barbara's first quilt for 2002 was one for grandson, Roger Holland. Finished in
January 2002. He is going to use it on his bed , just
click here
Barbara's second quilt for 2002 was one for husband, Jim, to use on his half of the bed when he is cold. just click here
QUILTERS NEWSLETTER MAGAZINE has a website on more quilting information just click here
Barbara has her own page with pictures of more of her quilts. .
TO TRANSFER click hereALL TIME BRIGHTEST COMET AND VISIBLE FOR LONGEST TIME The exciting part for Barbara and Jim was that Hale Bopp was right outside our window as we looked through our tree.
The exciting ASTRONOMICAL EVENT
of 1997 was the appearance of Hale Bopp Comet as the brightest thing in
the night sky except the moon. It was visible for more than a month about
an hour after sunset in March April and May. The exciting part for Barbara
and Jim was that Hale Bopp was right outside our window as we looked through
our tree. Hale Bopp was visible all over the northern hemisphere at this
time and was visible in the south hemisphere after that. The last time
the comet went around the sun was about 4,000 years ago, it will be back
in about 2800 years. Goddard Space Center, May 29, 1997, decided this comet
was the all time brightest comet and has the time record for being visible
to the naked eye.
The awe of the God's universe goes back to Jim's childhood when there were few city night lights to dim the stars at night. Here is a description of this awe as recorded in WINTER HOLIDAY by Arthur Ransome, one of the children's books Jim read as a child and continues to read occasionally.". Click here
Jim likes to start his day by getting his perspective as a very small part of God's created Universe, He starts by looking at the NASA Picture of the Day in ASTRONOMY just click here
Jim's current Christian Ministry is worldwide with our church web page
The web page has been read in Australia and the United Kingdom.
picture by Bill Foston
JIM has put together a web page for FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Richmond, where
we attend. It is updated twice a week at least just
click here
Richmond is on U S 40 * the old
National Road* from Cumberland MD to the frontier in the nineteenth century.
The Madonna of the Trail symbolizes all of the mothers who walked the National
Road with their families and husbands. (PHOTO BY JIM SCHERER 12/95)
picture by Bill Foston
JIM has put together a web page for FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Richmond, where we attend. It is updated twice a week at least just click here
Richmond is on U S 40 * the old
National Road* from Cumberland MD to the frontier in the nineteenth century.
The Madonna of the Trail symbolizes all of the mothers who walked the National
Road with their families and husbands. (PHOTO BY JIM SCHERER 12/95)
JIM AND BARBARA HAVE LONG TIME CONNECTIONS TO EARLHAM COLLEGE
To visit the home page of Earlham College just click here
WAYNET.ORG is the link to wayne county. just click here
WWW.IN.GOV is the link to hundreds of business and recreational things in ALL of Indiana. It was the auto license plate slogan for several years. And I liked the open door it created.just click here
INDIANA UNIVERSITY has a campus in Richmond just click here
Internet email address for Jim and Barbara Scherer -- scherer@FirstPresbyterianRichmond Indiana.com