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Thursday, January 27, 2011
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Always a preacher Allison Seney For the IC
The following is the final article of a three part series on religion in the recession Chaz Boes was 11 when he assembled his first congregation inside his grandparents’ garage in Defiance, Ohio, complete with chairs, carpet, an altar and a plastic toy microphone.
Today, the 19-year-old is double majoring in world religion and law and social thought at the University of Toledo as well as pastor of the World Healing Center, Church of the Living God located on the East Side of Toledo. “I don’t feel like I have accomplished enough. There is still a lot more to do and I thank God for allowing me to do what I love to do,” Boes said.
Boes was born in Austin, Texas. When he was three, his mother, Linda Alverado, moved the two of them back to Northwest Ohio. While Linda Alverado went to Toledo to find work and take care of Boes’ half-brothers and sisters, Boes lived with his grandparents Laura and Raul Alverado. Laura Alverado would read the Bible to her infant grandson and according to her,
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Chaz Boes organized his first congretation when he was 11 in Defiance, Ohio, preaching into a toy microphone in his grandparents’ garage.
State of the Union Address Oreanna Carthorn IC Staff Writer
America is home to the world’s best colleges and universities, “where more students come to study than any other place on Earth,” according to United StatesPresident Barack Obama. But America is slacking on educating its children, Obama said in his 2011 State of the Union Address Tuesday night. “America has fallen to ninth in the proportion of young
people with a college degree,” Obama said. Obama said he is working to make college education more affordable by ending unwarranted taxpayer subsidies to banks and making the tuition tax credit, which is worth $10,000 for four years of college, permanent. It is his goal that by the end of the decade, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates — Address, Page A4
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President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address to Congress on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, January 25, 2011 in Washington, D.C.
Boes’ first word was “Jesus.” Although he doesn’t know exactly what sparked it, Boes said when he was five years old, he received a call from God to preach. Early days of school life for Boes were rough and uncertain. He showed great promise with music, but he learned music playing by ear and received criticism for his more unorthodox way of learning. Initially, Boes’ style of a more rockabilly approach to hymnals clashed with the more traditional congregation at his church. “It takes a village to raise a child, but the village did not always have my back,” Boes said. Yet his grandparents were there by his side every step of the way. “At first my grandma did not want me to be a preacher, but when she saw how serious it was to me, she had a change of heart,” he said. “She is my rock and the only one I could depend on when no one else believed in me.” Boes described his grandmother as a “storyteller,” relating everything to some kind of lesson he could use in life later on. “My grandmother taught me a lot of life lessons and
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my best memories are times spent with her even if we were just driving for two hours to go to a mall to go shopping,” Boes said. The church was the one thing there that gave him peace. He attended every day and when he was eight, Boes was already leading praise and worship. At age 14, Boes met Joseph White, founder and presiding bishop of the Church of the Living God International, which is the organization that Boes is associated with today. “When I met Bishop White, I met someone I felt I could relate with,” he said. “As a church leader it can be hard to find someone who understands what your vision is- he is everything that I wished my father could be.” Both serving as men of God and talented pianists, Boes sees much of White’s qualities in him. White overcame the racial stereotypes of the 1960s and 1970s and not giving up is one quality Boes admires. “He inspires me, he goes beyond what stereotypes have limited him to do,” Boes said. Boes found support in his grandmother and — Preacher, Page A4
Suspect in stabbing pleads guilty By IC Staff
The suspect in the fatal stabbing of University of Toledo student Casey Bucher plead guilty to one count of murder on Wednesday at a pre-trial hearing. Lawrence James, 24, will face up to life in prison when he is sentenced for the murder today in Lucas County Common Pleas Court. James, a Toledo resident, said he had dreams telling him to approach Bucher, so he followed him from Maxwell’s Brew and stabbed him once in the heart. If James is sentenced for murder and receives life in prison, he will be eligible for parole after 15 years. According to police, James asked Bucher for 35 cents and cigarettes on July 18. After being evaluated for mental disabilities three times, Judge Ruth Ann Franks ruled that James was capable enough to stand trial for murder. In exchange for the guilty plea, James will not have additional indictments against him for aggravated robbery. James had been released from a two-year prison sentence for a similar stabbing incident in 2008 just two months before he stabbed Bucher. Bucher was 22 years old at the time of the stabbing.
Post-game post ‘over the top’ Photo screencapped from Facebook.com
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Following the UT Women’s basketball 66-65 win over Bowling Green, Student Government President Matt Rubin posted on his personal Facebook page a satirical letter directed toward the losing university. “Dear Bowling Green State University, It must suck to suck. Disrespectfully, The University of Toledo Student Government,” he wrote in the post, tagging both BGSU and SG’s Facebook pages. The post was made at 9:52 p.m. and by 10:43 p.m., and the post received 21 “likes” and nine comments, including some made by members of SG, according to Rubin. Rubin told the Independent Collegian his original intention was to tag the University of Toledo’s Facebook, not SG. Rubin said he was “swept up in the rivalry.”
“I think it was a little too much over the top especially out there in public on Facebook and putting Student Government’s name on there when I take a lot of pride in Student Government and again the rivalry got to me,” he said. “Maybe it wasn’t the right place to do that. I’m comfortable with that and my bad.” Rubin apologized and admitted his original post was over the top. “It was a mistake and I’m glad I can learn from it and some people are more sensitive to this kind of stuff,” Rubin said. “In the future I will be more mindful of that and try not to get my emotions for Bowling Green in front of my love for UT.” Rubin ended up replacing the original post with another that read, “Perhaps that was a bit much, let’s just keep it at Go Rockets!”
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Rockets edge Bowling Green The UT women’s basketball team beat Bowling Green 6665 last night at Anderson Arena. The win snapped the Falcons’ streak of 39 straight wins at home.