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The Voice of Prophecy in Navajo Northern California official organ of the Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Remember— PATHFINDER DAY September 18, 1965 Sabbath, October 16, Will Be Community Relations Day With a tape recorder over his shoulder and a microphone in his hand, a public re- ARIZONA • CALIFORNIA • HAWAII • NEVADA • UTAH lations secretary for the Seventh-day Ad- ventist Church recently interviewed pe- destrians at a main intersection of a large VOL. 65 ANGWIN, CALIFORNIA, AUGUST 23, 1965 NO. 6 eastern city. For more than an hour he asked, "Where is the local Seventh-day Adventist church?" A Modern Miracle — The Voice of Prophecy in Navajo Northern California Within three or four blocks of that Conference Workers Meeting intersection a well kept and identified Promptly at 7:30 on the evening of Adventist church is located. It is on a July 18 a large, joyous, and spirited group main street entering the city. A ten min- of pastors, evangelists, departmental sec- ute drive will reach several large, well retaries, office secretaries, and church ad- established Seventh-day Adventist institu- ministrators met in the beautiful and tions. Thousands of Adventists live in the spacious Rio Lindo Academy chapel to immediate vicinity. How many would you begin their workers meeting. From the estimate knew the location of that church? opening song until the benediction at During the entire hour of interviews, NOT noon Thursday, July 22, a spirit of sin- ONE PERSON KNEW! cerity, dedication, and unity was in evi- Does the church need to improve com- dence. munity relations? Yes, indeed! This inter- Important topics were carefully selected view reveals a condition that exists in and assigned to individuals weeks in ad- communities, large and small, across North vance of the meeting. During the days of America. this gathering talks such as "The Im- If the message of the church is to be portance of the Spirit of Prophecy to the meaningful, the church must first be Remnant Church," "Aspects of Soul Win- known. Good community relations can ning," "The Minister and His Calling," answer a large part of this problem of un- "Church Administration and Organiza- wanted anonymity. Wayne Hooper works with Mrs. Alice Mason and Tom Holliday in transcribing hymns from a Navajo tion," "Ministerial Ethics," etc., were pre- What are plans for Community Re- hymnbook into the International Phonetic symbols, which are used by the Voice of Prophecy radio staff lations Day, October 16, in your church? in singing about the love of God in any tongue. sented and carefully evaluated by the workers. Don't you think it is time that you did something to let your community know "This is God's man! He's the son of Oljatoh, about ten miles from the Monu- Under the leadership of Elder James that your church exists? Hosteen Tso, the biggest medicine man ment Valley Mission, and his near neighbor Chase, conference president, and with the Help is available. See the October issue on our part of the reservation. He wore was a trader by the name of Ed Smith. assistance of every worker, the advent mes- of GO magazine—or, write your local con- a little bag of gods, a little leather pouch After Tom's conversion, Ed Smith re- sage will continue to make significant ference PR secretary. He has a program made by the medicine man. If you don't marked, "If I never see another Christian forward moves in this challenging field. outline for you. have that bag on you, you can be be- in the world, I would know that there is The Northern California Conference has MARVIN H. REEDER, ASSOC. Secy., witched and die at any time." That is a miraculous power in Jesus Christ by some heavy problems, but none of them Public Relations Department, how Mrs. Lloyd Mason, Bible instructor looking at the life of Tom Holliday. He is beyond solution if there are able and General Conference. of the Monument Valley Navajo Mission was the worst Navajo I ever saw in my dedicated workers through whom God can manifest the power of His Holy Spirit. in Utah, began relating the conversion life! There wasn't anything that fellow Over a Million Are Receiving story of Tom Holliday, speaker for the wouldn't do! We were afraid of him. But R. R. BIETZ, President, new Navajo Voice of Prophecy broadcast the change that has come into that man's Pacific Union Conference. Signs of the Times Each Month which will soon be heard over Station life is a miracle of God." The 1965 Signs Crusade was a success. KENN of Farmington, New Mexico. Tom was turned to Christ by a godly "What does the number 666 mean?" He A big THANK YOU to everyone who Returning to the broadcast studio in Presbyterian minister. Yet he saw some was deeply interested in Bible prophecies. helped. Over a million people will read the middle of his vacation, Wayne Hooper, inconsistencies in that church and one day "When we began to study about the the 275,000 copies distributed every director of music programing, made the said to himself, "This isn't for me." He Sabbath, Tom would just shy away," Mrs. month. new Navajo radio broadcast possible by then attended another church but was still Mason said. "I would think I had the Subscriptions have been entered faster learning to sing in the Navajo language dissatisfied, and finally he decided to Sabbath lesson all ready for him, but Tom this year, so that even the ones ordered using the International Phonetic System. establish a little church of his own. would have so many questions, he just during the first of August will receive the To get the new broadcast underway, he Interpreter Needed went all around the Sabbath." The day September edition. This inspiring issue prepared thirty-six baritone solos for pro- It was about this time that an inter- Mrs. Mason decided to present Daniel 7, will contain the following features in ad- gram use. Other members of the Voice of preter was desperately needed in the Sab- she went to every house in the mission dition to the regular articles which make Prophecy music group also recorded songs bath morning services at the Monument saying, "This is the day. Pray right now. Signs a most desired journal: in the Navajo tongue. Valley Navajo Mission. "We were then I'm going to start at a certain hour, and "Peace on Earth—When?"—Elder Theodore Dr. and Mrs. J. Lloyd Mason had lived using a translator who was drunk most of pray that Tom will accept the Sabbath." Carcich in Bishop, California, where he had a busy the time," remarked Mrs. Mason. "His "Tom was half asleep when I gave the "Witnessing for Christ in South Vietnam"—a heart was not in the work, and we didn't study; but suddenly, he came to life as special interview conducted by Barbara practice. They went to the Monument Hand Valley Navajo Mission about 1957. Shortly even have him half the time. We would if he'd just had a shot of adrenalin," Mrs. Mason recalled. "Now, give me that all "When God Rested"—Prof. Harold W. Clark thereafter, Mrs. Mason began thinking come to Sabbath morning service—and no "Whither Africa?"—Elder W. R. Beach to have one." over again," Tom had said. "Now please about the possibility of getting a Voice of translator! We just had "God's Power in Your Life"—Pastor Raymond Prophecy broadcast in the Navajo lan- When Tom came to the hospital, Mrs. write it all out for me." Libby guage. According to the Masons there are Mason saw in him just the man she felt "As Tom translates the lessons into the "Menace to the Mind" (hypnosis) —a proph- over 100,000 Navajo people—one-third of God could use at Monument Valley, and Navajo with the power of the Holy Spirit, ecy by E. G. White which is reaching its them children and youth—who are desper- later as speaker for a Novajo Voice of it's a miracle," stated Mrs. Mason. "It's fulfillment today, by Elder D. A. Delafield ately in need of our message. Prophecy broadcast. just a miracle. There's no other man on the "How Your Body Functions"—Clifford R. An- Finding someone who could present The first thing Mrs. Mason did was to reservation who could do it! There's no derson, M.D. the sermon in language that could be have Tom paint their house, though it one who is so dedicated, who so strongly You are invited to pray that God will easily understood by the Navajo people really didn't need painting at that time. has the confidence of the Navajos. And bless each one who reads the Signs in was the next problem facing the Masons. Later, she persuaded the contractor to have there is no one else who would have the these days when people are asking, "What Tom Holliday attended school where, in Tom do some painting on the new mission patience to do this work. So, I thank God shall we believe?" addition to his liberal arts education, he hospital. All the while Mrs. Mason was for Tom Holliday, and for the Voice of L. R. HIxsoN, Assoc. Manager, learned the painting trade. Later, he also studying the Bible with him, and he was Prophecy which is helping us to give the Circulation Department, learned to drink heavily. Tom lived near asking more and more questions, such as, gospel through radio to the Navajos." Pacific Press Publishing Assn.
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