Breakfast Club Returns To Shipshewana
This year marks the ninth season
for the Breakfast Club. Meeting each
Friday morning from June 29 through
Sept. 7, it has become a regular destination for hundreds of active retirees.
“Though we say active retirees, anyone
and everyone is welcome to attend. The
word ‘club’ is just a name,” remarks
Breakfast Club director, Dave Edwards.
Every week, attendees are treated
to the breakfast buffet at the Blue
Gate Restaurant. From there, audiences move up to the theater to enjoy
a variety of southern gospel groups,
comedians, memorable favorites from
the Lawrence Welk Show, Grand Ole
Opry and more.
Travel is another feature of the
Breakfast Club, destinations such as
Branson, Missouri, European excur-
sions and cruises to locations including
Alaska and the Caribbean. Dave says,
“We like to keep everything as active
and exciting as possible.”
Dave and his wife, Irma, founded
the Breakfast Club in 1988, when he
left his position as the Senior’s and
Music Minister at their local church in
Clearwater, Florida. It was started to
answer a need for a positive, inspirational and encouraging ministry that
was not affiliated with any specific
denomination. The vision worked and
has grown to include six locations in
Florida, Indiana and Ohio.
During the winter months the
program has regular weekly programs
in Clearwater, Bradenton and Lakeland, Florida. “We couldn’t do things
down there without a host of amazing
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volunteers and board members. We’re
so glad that with many of our folks
being snow birds, they are able to be a
part of our northern programs as well,”
says Dave. In addition to Shipshewana’s Blue Gate restaurant and theater,
the Breakfast Club’s northern summer
programs include Sugarcreek, Ohio,
at the Carlisle Inn and beginning this
year, Cedar Lake, Indiana, at the Cedar
Lake Conference Center.
This season opens on Friday June
29, with the Gospel Music Caravan featuring the Chuck Wagon Gang, LeFevre
Quartet and the Blackwood Brothers.
Breakfast begins at 8:00 am and the
programs begin at 9:30 am.
Further information about the
Breakfast Club, their schedule and
activities is available on their website,
www.thebreakfastclubonline.com.
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For more information dial the Blue Gate at 260-768-4725