WINONA LAKE — In the early 1900s, long before the invention of such musical categories as “Christian rock” or “contemporary Christian,” Homer Rodeheaver, a charismatic trombone player and musical director for Billy Sunday, combined religious zeal with business acumen to make Winona Lake the Tin Pan Alley of gospel music, and his influence can still be …read more.

  WARSAW—Dr. Terry White, who co-authored the centennial history of Winona Lake titled “Winona at 100: Third Wave Rising,” will present an illustrated lecture on Homer Rodeheaver’s work as a musician on Sunday, Feb. 11. White’s presentation will begin at 3 p.m. at the Warsaw First United Methodist Church. It will include a creative “Name …read more.