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Table of Contents Our Mission Statement….2 Meet Darlene………………3 Safety Tip…………………4 Monthly Cartoon………4 Veteran Liaison……………5 Home-style Recipe……….6 Puzzle…………………….7 Veteran………………….8-10 Calendar………………….11 Senior Moments………….12 Contributors……………13 Ways to Help via Kroger…………………..13 Upcoming Events………14

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Our Mission To be a faith based ministry, dependent on out Lord, Jesus Christ, as He supplies through the gifts of many concerned Christians; To provide educational assistance, information, services, and resource linkage to empower independence for the senior citizen community in an effort to enhance their quality of life while fostering learning and fellowship in a safe non-denominational Christian environment.

Senior Education Ministries 

Offers monthly, quarterly, and annual educational programs at no charge to its senior citizens, caregivers or their families.

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We do what we do so that Jesus’ name may be known to other.

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We do things God’s way to get His results!

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We Claim the Promise, Walk by Faith and let God lead.

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Safety Tip of the Month Winter Safety In the winter in can be icy and slippery outside on sidewalks on roadways making falling so much easier to do. Another problem often seen in the winter is the drop in temperature can cause many problems for those who are not prepared for the cold. Below are some tips to help you make it through the cold icy winter. When out in the winter make sure to wear shoes with good traction and once you return inside take shoes off immediately that way you do not cause a slippery mess inside your house. When driving in the winter try to stay off the roads until they are clear. If you use a cane replace a worn cane tip to help make walking easier and safer. Dress for the temperature. Wear layers of clothes when going out in the cold including a heavy coat, gloves, and warm socks. Make sure to wear a scarf to cover your mouth to protect your lungs. Try to cover all exposed skin for the best protection from the cold. If your body gets to be too cold seek medical assistance immediately.

Monthly Cartoon!

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Billy Wallace…. Our “Purple Harp Veteran Liaison” with A ♥ Servant’s Heart Billy is a reserve police officer in Greencastle, Indiana and a current Grad. Student trying to get his Masters. Before he joined the police force, he served in the Army and went to places such as Iraq and Afghanistan. He endured many obstacles and hardships while he served his country and obtained many medals including the Purple Heart. Billy has many family members who joined various branches of service and for him joining the Army seemed like a good option. He served twenty-three years overall and saw a lot of combat during his service. Besides the feeling of fear while being in Iraq and Afghanistan, he also had times where he felt like the odd one out because of the barriers of culture and language. He would eventually get used to this, but there are something’s that can’t. In the year 2007, Billy received an injury while in Iraq that would impact him and his family for the rest of his life. One day while with his fellow soldiers, they were attacked and a hand grenade left Billy injured and many men were killed during the attack. He was taken to Baghdad for recovery and his wife didn’t know what was going on. She couldn’t get any updates because the phones had been cut, so she had to wait until she could hear any news on her husband. Billy had to have surgery to have an implant put in and eventually did recover. After this he was awarded the Purple Heart medal. After he had his implant, he was prevented to leaving base and he was in charge of operation station. He felt like it was a blessing because he could get into contact with his wife if need be and also helped other men contact family back home. When asked how being deployed impacted their marriage, the answer was a bit surprising. They said that the impact had brought them closer than before. Like all marriages, there are always ups and downs, but they both worked through them. His wife was especially helpful with maintaining everything back at home and also helping with the transition back at home. While interviewing them, I could see the love and support they had for each other which broke the assumption that deployment can make marriages go down south. Currently while working as a reserve officer, Billy is working on his Masters in a seminary program. Billy has felt like going into this was a calling since he grew up in the church and he wishes to help others. He has helped others, veterans included, open up about their experiences because he understands how it really is when a person serves their country or has had a tough life. Through personal experience he found that finding counselors who could understand was very difficult, so that has led him to wanting to help others in that sense as well. But however anyone wishes to label it, be it God or random coincidence, his willingness to help others has led him Senior Education Ministries to be our Liaison. One day while driving he heard Lori talk on the radio about the Purple Harp program and that it can be difficult to find veterans who wish to join the program. He kept listening and began to become very interested in the program. Though he later admits he misheard some of the information she mentioned while talking, but he wanted to reach out to Lori. He repeated over and over her number in order to contact her. They discussed what he would be doing for the program and that is how he joined the team. Billy has done so much for his country and for other individuals he has met. No one ever knows what the future will hold, but his good deeds and willingness to help others will go far for him. Billy thank you for your service and thank you for joining Senior Education Ministries to help fellow veterans. 5

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Home-style Recipe Old Fashioned Chicken and Noodles Lasagna Directions Ingredients 1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves 1 teaspoon salt, divided ½ teaspoon ground black pepper, divided 1 sprig fresh thyme or ¼ teaspoon dried thyme 5 tablespoons butter, divided 1 ½ cups sliced fresh mushrooms ¾ cup frozen pearl onions, thawed ¼ cup all-purpose flour 1 14 ½-ounce can chicken broth ¾ cup half-and-half or light cream 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme or 1 teaspoon dried thyme ¾ cup thinly bias-sliced carrots ¾ cup thinly bias-sliced celery ¾ cup frozen peas 9 no-boil lasagna noodles 1 ½ cups Havarti cheese will dill, shredded (6 ounces)

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees 2. Sprinkle chicken with ½ teaspoon salt and ¼ teaspoon pepper 3. Fill a medium saucepan with water; add thyme sprig and bring to boiling. Add chicken, reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 15 to 18 minutes or until cooked through. 4. Transfer to cutting board to cool; discard cooking liquid. 5. Meanwhile, melt 1 tablespoon butter in a large saucepan. Add mushrooms and onions. Cook and stir for 3 minutes or until just tender. Transfer to a bowl; set aside 6. Reduce heat to medium-low. Melt remaining 4 tablespoons butter in same saucepan. Stir in flour until well combined. Stir in chicken broth, half-and-half, 1 tablespoon thyme, and remaining ½ teaspoon salt and ¼ teaspoon pepper 7. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Cook and stir until thickened. Set aside 1 cup sauce 8. Stir carrots, celery, and peas into sauce in saucepan. Cook, covered, for 8 minutes or until tender, stirring occasionally 9. Chop chicken; add to sauce, along with the mushroom mixture. Simmer 2 to 3 minutes more or until heated through 10. To assemble: Spread 1/3 cup of the reserved sauce in a greased 2-quart square baking dish. Top with three noodles, half the chicken mixture and a third of the cheese. Repeat layers ending with remaining 2/3 cup sauce (Set aside the remaining third of the cheese) 11. Bake, covered, for 40 minutes. Uncover and sprinkle with remaining cheese. Bake for 10 minutes more or until noodles are tender and cheese is melted. Let stand for 15 minutes before serving. 6

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HAVE FUN WITH THIS OLDIE BUT GOODIE Happy New Year

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Veteran “Arley Price” – And his family are music to my ears… By Lindsey Austin Music is a gift that is often taken for granted. Music can be uplifting, soothing, or to some just another Wrote by Lindsey by pastime. People who are musically inclined have a gift in itself and they can share that gift with other people, if they so choose. I recently had the opportunity to meet a family that not only has a military background, but they also have used music in some way that has been used towards helping others. That family’s name is Price and it all began with one man, John “Arley” Price. Arley served in the Marines during 1956 to 1961 and at the time did not experience any war or combat. He and other classmates decided to all join the Marines after High School in 1956. He was stationed in Camp Pendleton in California, but he went overseas on the USO tour that primarily consisted of many Asian countries. During this tour, he and a few others created a band and began to make music for everyone around them. This would incorporate music in his life for not only himself, but for his children. Upon first meeting Arley, I heard him playing the piano very well, but he himself seemed to think that he was just fiddling around on it. He told me that he was better at playing the guitar or trombone, but to me he should have added the piano as a skill that he had mastered. Though Arley didn’t come right out with the information, Arley is one of the founders of Wabash Valley Hall of Fame. He has received many awards during his time of being inducted, but wouldn’t boast about this. After a few moments, Arley began to tell me about his family, especially his son and daughter. Like any proud father he listed all of their works and achievements, but also mentioned how they have used music in some way or form to help others whether they were young children or veterans. His daughter, Julie Bunch, told me that music had been introduced into her life at a very young age whether she liked it or not. She said you couldn’t be a Price and not play an instrument and began music by the age of three. To this day, she plays and sings in a band with Arley. They usually will sing duets that Arley once sang with his wife or songs about America. Recently they performed at Harrison Crossing and just listening to the music would show visibly how it impacted the veterans. Julie says that she feels happy when she can see how their music has touched so many. Julie has helped veterans in another way, as well, that gives her hope and happiness. Julie’s husband is in the Air Force and she would often have to pack up her and her children’s lives at any minute to move to another base. She even once lived in Japan and while she enjoyed having the experience she felt isolated from her family. Music helped her cope, but it couldn’t help with everything. Eventually they moved to California and one of her brother’s told her about the growing number of veterans that were homeless. She felt many emotions such as shock, sadness, and anger because all of her life she was taught to not only serve and love her country, but to respect those who had given their time and lives to this country. She decided that she needed to help and began to take action. She used her business skills to help homeless veterans find jobs and also help those transitioning out of service and into the workforce. She explained that it can be difficult to know what to put on a resume when you transition out of service. She said “If they put they assembled bombs or rifles, it’s difficult to be able to relate that into something for a job. What people need to understand is that a person coming from the military will take the job seriously. You won’t see a veteran be late because discipline has been ingrained within them. Military citizens and veterans want to work and they won’t take that for granted.” Within the first week, she helped three veterans find jobs that would help them land on their feet. 8

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One of Arley’s sons, John II, has had many experiences while serving in the Air Force and today uses music to not only help himself, but the youth of Terre Haute. John joined the Air Force to gain technical skills and wanted to gain more specific skills that would help him in the police force. He was stationed in an American base in Turkey and quickly went up the ranks and eventually became a Sergeant. He gained many honors and medals while also helping supervise a squad of forty-four people. Though he has one experience that stayed with him while he was serving in the Air Force. On one day while doing his rounds, he noticed that one plane was coming in and had lost one of its wings. There was another plane that was about to take off and he had to disobey the rules in order to ensure that the plane didn’t leave. He called into one of the towers to notify the plane to stay put and not to take off. Though one plane crashed down, the other plane was spared and he saved over seventeen people on board. That was his first experience helping people, especially in a high crisis situation, but it wouldn’t be his last. After leaving active duty, he began seminary school and received other trainings from counseling to crisis intervention with the Salvation Army. His first crisis event was when a tornado hit and he explained to me what it was like to see chaos and have to respond quickly. “When you first arrive you have to take a step back and look around you. You have to see what needs to be done and who you need to help. You may feel overwhelmed and your body will be tense, but you have to realize that you are there to help others. You can’t worry about yourself, you need to serve others- help others get back to some kind of normalcy.” He did so by providing food, shelter, medical needs, or counseling. One of his most memorable experiences is working on Ground Zero during 9/11. He was a Redzone Coordinator that supervised others to provide about 1,500 meals, three times a day from 7 PM to 7 AM. He had to counsel many of the workers because it was extremely overwhelming and chaotic. John described to me what it was like working on that site for sixteen days straight. “All you could see was piles of dust and rubble. Nothing was recognizable and everything was pulverized. The dust in the air was all you could see, taste, and smell. Bodies were so pulverized that they had to be shifted through old door screens to find traces of DNA. This was done so families could come and claim any relatives who may have perished. But to this day, there’s still DNA that has not been claimed because it is too difficult for some families.” John has helped with other tragic events such as Katrina and Haiti, but Ground Zero will always be the one that sticks out of his mind. He told me that if he sees videos about 9/11 he will begin to taste metal or dust in his mouth as if he was back at Ground Zero. But he wouldn’t trade the experience of being able to help people. That’s all he ever wanted to do. He didn’t want money or fame, but rather he wanted to help others and know that he could his best at the end of the day. He is now retired due to various aspects in his personal life, but he has found a way to reach young children closer to home by incorporating the one thing from his family, music. John began teaching children music since 1982, but three months ago he began teaching children here in Terre Haute. Besides being strong in music within his family, he also remembers a music teacher he once had during Junior High. His teacher influenced him and inspired him to use the same methods during his younger years. So he began by finding donations and putting ads out for children wanting to learn how to play the guitar. He would have about thirty to fifty students at some points and now has about twelve students. Overall he has taught over 3,000 children since he has started and hopes to continue teaching in the future. For him, music is a way to escape or as he likes to say a “Small vacation”. He wants others to get the same feeling and to appreciate music for all it can do for a person.

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He has seen firsthand how it can help individuals, especially those who tend to be shy. He has had students who wouldn’t come out of their shell, but after a while music helps the children to thrive and to express who they are. He describes the most rewarding and best feeling is when he sees improvements within his students and when they master skills they couldn’t before. When I asked him what he wanted others to take away from music, he replied “Music helps you in more ways than one. Besides relaxation, music can actually help those who have lost some of their memories. You see Alzheimer patients light up when they hear a certain song or even remember how to play an instrument they haven’t played for a long time. Music is the last to go, but can still bring people back from time to time.” When first hearing all of these stories, it amazed me at how one man and music found different ways to impact others and influence his family. Each individual has helped and is still helping others either with their service or with sharing music. They honestly may not even really know how much they are impacting others, but I hope that they do realize that they have. Within the next week, Arley and his daughter performed for Veterans Day at Harrison Crossing and I know that they will touch the hearts of all who hear their music. I want to also say personally that what they are doing or have done is amazing and I thank them for their services.

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Senior Moments…

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Thank you to Our Contributors To those who contributed to this ministry! Monthly Supporters Blackhawk Community Church Sugar Creek Baptist Church Lunch Sponsors for Dine with a Doc® Mini Commercials for Dine with a Doc® Bethesda Gardens Union Hospital Family Medicine Residency Wabash Valley Fairgrounds Venue Sites for Dine with a Doc® Indiana State University Residents Veterans Volunteers Word Power Radio

Please prayerfully consider making a tax deductible donation to Senior Education Ministries 7 S 6th St. Suite 212 Terre Haute, Indiana 47807 Here’s a way to help: Kroger Community Rewards FIRST Go to kroger.com and register your Kroger Card number. Second go to the top of that page and click on “Community Rewards”. THIRD (once you’re in the community rewards area under charities) add our # 71950 Senior Education Ministries or search for us under Senior Education Ministries. Community Rewards Kroger’s will donate a percent of sales to Senior Education Ministries! There is NO charge added to your bill and it DOES NOT mess with your fuel points. You will never know expect the bottom of your receipt will show Senior Education Ministries.

Be sure to share with friends and family and ask them to help us too. Thank you very much.

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Upcoming Events SPECIAL PROGRAMS January 10, 2017 Spill the Bean with a Tax Preparer-WTH January 17, 2017 Spill the Bean with a Tax Preparer-Casey FUNDRAISERS January 23, 2017 Yippee Pie Yea-Terre Haute March 14, 2017 Yippee Pi Day-Casey

Senior Education Ministries Phone: 812-917-4970 Address: 7 S. 6th St. Suite 212 Terre Haute, IN 47807 Email: [email protected] Or [email protected]