Resurrection Celebrates Marriages
By Janice Lamback
 | | Couples renew their wedding vows during a special service to honor marriages.
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"You may kiss your bride!" With these happy words, Pastor Bill Harmon concluded a special Wedding Anniversary Ceremony at the Lutheran Church of the Resurrection recently.
Eighteen couples celebrating their first year of marriage or an anniversary in increments of five were invited to the altar to renew their marriage vows and re-commit to their partnership of life.
Love was palpable as husbands and wives celebrating six weeks to seventy years, recognized that marriage is a gift from God and gazed into each others eyes ready to re-commit themselves to each other before God and the church.
It was a beautiful renewal ceremony that brought tears to many in the congregation who witness the couples repeating the promise they made on their wedding day, to be true to each other in good times and in bad-in sickness and in health; "...to love and honor you all the days of my life and take you again to myself as God's gift."
 | | Steve and Laura Bergman
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The Wedding Anniversary couples are:
Kyle and Tracey Donahue - 6 weeks
Christopher and Shelley Dowling - 1 year
Mike and Amanda Santangelo - 1 year
Kenneth and Susan Kelly - 1 year
Ryan and Wendy Faley - 10 years
Ray and Cora Stacom - 10 years
Ignatius and Jennifer Grande - 15 years
Stephen and Diane Duff - 20 years
Jay and Lynn Campson - 25 years
John and Wendy Offermann - 25 years
Rick and Pam Calonita- 30 years
Gerry and Cindy Scavelli - 30 years
Steve and Laura Bergman - 35 years
Henry and Cindy Dornemann - 35 years
Warren and Iris Seidel - 35 years
 | | Pastor Harmon (right) congratulates Harold and Grace Peers for their 70 years of marriage.
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Gerhardt and Gisela Muller - 40 years
Robert and Judy Seitz - 40 years
Carl and Carolyn Hetzel - 50 years
Jim and Jean Muff - 55 years
Frank and Carol Wibben - 55 years
Roosevelt and Muriel Hedemark - 60 years
Harold and Grace Peers - 70 years
Resurrection is a multi-site Christian community of faith. All are invited to worship at 5:30 PM on Saturdays and at 8:30 and 11 AM Sunday mornings, with Christian Education at 9:45 AM at the 420 Stewart Avenue location in Garden City. For more information, please visit www.resgc.org or call 746.4426.
 | | Gerry and Cindy Scavelli
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 | | Judy and Robert Seitz
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 | | Carol and Frank Wibbe
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