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Biblical Spirituality
Church Growth: A Biblical Principle 2 EVANGELICAL FRIEND
HERE IS A STRANGE WIND of doctrine sweep ing across the evangelical Friends of America. It is a doctrine that proposes that as pastors and people T we must choose either the principles of church growth or biblical spirituality. Today I write as one who does not believe it is an either I or question. I believe the answer is both/ and. I call for the integration of church growth principles and biblical spirituality, or shall I say the spirituality of evangelical and 17th-century Quakerism. It is this synthesis that is the solution. This is a difficult procedure and perhaps that is why the advocates of each concept attempt to subdue the other. Both are afraid of losing. Yet, when church growth prin ciples and biblical spirituality are merged and bonded together, they are stronger and better for it. They are part Gro.. ners, not adversaries. If we as Friends are to reap the harvest fields of the 1980s successfully, we must put ourselves to the task with ~. both the truth of biblical spirituality and the tools of church growth. There is, however, a great fear among evangelical Friends of compromising our message. Unfortunately, too many Friends view successful growing churches that have used a trace of the world's knowledge for their outreach as churches that have compromised their message. Their reasoning is: "They have made the Gospel too easy," or " It is not the Gospel those people are flocking to, but per sonalities, entertainment, and fun." Now I do not deny that this is sometimes true, but more often, I believe, suc cessful growing churches are that way because they are us ing the proper tools for the whitened fields of the 20th century harvest. They have properly sharpened the cutting blades. They are meeting needs and healing hurts. We unconsciously comfort ourselves in our heart of hearts by believing that "small is spiritual" or "many are called but few are chosen." In Jesus' day the harvest was plenteous. If it is anything, it is more plenteous today. The task is overwhelming. I ask, are we afraid of the task? BY What can our answer be when we refuse to use the tools that CHARLES have been developed by men of God that when coupled with NUTT the power of God's Spirit help us to reap a more bountiful harvest? I realize that when I call for the use of church growth principles in Friends churches, many people believe these principles are not historically Quaker. It has been argued that we must not sacrifice three hundred years of Quaker
Charles Nutt is pastoring the Gardner Friends Church in Kansas and is one of two pastors chosen for Mid America Yearly Meeting's church/pastor teams. These teams participate in the "Full-time Pastor Program," a subsidy project of the Spiritual Life Board for those meeting prescribed criteria in church growth potential and outstanding leadership. MARCH 1980 3
heritage for the sake of lively music and a warm handshake. The command of Christ is to be both spiritually fit and I could not agree more. reaching out to the lost around us. The Bible tells us we I deeply appreciate our Quaker heritage and too many cannot be one without the other. How can you say you love Friends, myself included, know too little of its richness. God if you do not love your brother-i.e., sharing the good However, we must not let our Quaker heritage become the news of Christ with him? Sacrificial service to others and ball and chain that hinders us from carrying out the last evangelism are the keys to the successful integration of marching orders of Jesus Christ: to reach the world for these two concepts. And I do mean service and evangelism. Him. Evangelism without service is Christianity without its work Just as Jesus Christ was contemporary to the first cen ing clothes on. Service without evangelism is nothing more tury, so we too must be contemporary to the 20th. Three than good and decent humanism. Only when we have done centuries of Quaker heritage must not be used to stifle both can we truly be called Christians, and fulfill the Great methods and principles effective for Christian outreach in Commission. this century. If we cling too tightly to our rich heritage, we Biblical spirituality and the principles of church growth shall find ourselves with a poor future. In fact, early do go hand in hand. That does not mean we must swallow Quaker history and present-day church growth principles every new idea that comes down the pike. But we must not are not in contradiction! The record growth and the fear them either. ministry of the "valiant sixty" is, indeed, church growth It is unfortunate that there is a great deal of misunder demonstrated. Praise God, as Quakers we have a precedent standing and fear of church growth. I myself have some for bringing great numbers of people to Jesus Christ! fear of church growth and what it means. I fear it because I Whenever one talks about church growth, people often write as one who does not need to defend the large crowds think that its only concern is with numbers. Surely that is flocking to my church. There aren't any. I fear it because part of what church growth is all about. I believe that is as I examine church growth, I must also let it examine me. I good and right. For behind every number there is a person, fear it because it points to failures in my own personal and there is no reason why we have to forget about the per ministry. God has taught me that when something makes sons behind the numbers. Jesus did not forget about them me uncomfortable, often I am wrong; often I am not where and He dealt with more numbers of persons than most of us I belong; I am not who and what I ought to be. pastors ever have or will in a lifetime. If God's concern is So, God helping me, I shall take church growth for demonstrated in being anxious for the one that is lost when what it is: contemporary tools and methods that will help 99 are safe, imagine His heart impulse when 99 are lost and me better proclaim the everlasting truth and message of one is safe. I believe God is concerned with numbers. Jesus Christ. ~
Another Look at Church Growth What Kind of Men Do We Look for to Organize a New Church? Some denominations have a hard time identifying the kind What else slows down new church development besides of pastors who can organize a congregation in a reasonable poor choice of leadership? One thing is building plans that length of time. The process is much like construction. You are too ambitious, too elaborate, and too early for the will need organizers who can accumulate resources, gener fledgling congregation. The notion that "we cannot ate enthusiasm, and get things going. These people will not achieve an attendance because we don't have a building" is be so sensitive to the feelings and pastoral needs of people at times a nongrowth excuse. When there is a momentum that they get immobilized with petty people problems. They for growth and an excitement about spiritual life, the will to are going to be goal-oriented, result-demanding, go-getters! solve building problems is not far away. They may not wear well. But they will get a new congrega Architectural evangelism is a pathology that imagines tion underway. that people will come if we build. There is too much re This kind of person ought to be able to launch a new liance on the building instead of on the development of pro congregation in one to three years. To use a standard pas grams and leadership that are needed to encourage disciple toral (shepherding) type is like asking a maintenance man to making. build a new house. He is better at cleaning and polishing The initiative for church planting comes from God. than a carpenter, but woefully slower at construction. This initiative will probably appear as a sense of burden or a vision of the possibilities for the new church. In many I have seen denominational programs in church plant cases, it will be a member of the committee charged with ing that did not expect to be self-supporting within ten this work. In yet other cases, laypersons carry the torch for years! This does not call for much care in the selection of the new church. ~ aggressive organizers. To vigorously pursue new church -Carl F. .George, Director Department of Church planting requires a price in prayer and push. Growth Fuller Evangelistic Association 4 EVANGELICAL FRIEND
To this furloughing missionary, even worse than the "reverse culture shock" is the readjustment to the sense of apathy toward the rest of the world found in the United States. Nancy Thomas, a gifted writer, and her husband Hal return to Bolivia this summer.
STOPPED in midstep and turned within reason. Bolivia has seen more Recently Hal and I spent the evening with around. Had I heard right? Had the presidents than years of history. She is a some friends. The four of us talked about news commentator really mentioned country noted for political instability. Why, our concerns and struggles and then prayed I Bolivia? Bolivia rarely makes the indeed, should any of us care about what's for each other. It was good. But at the end headlines in U.S. news programs, so I happening there? of this time of prayer, one of the members knew, if something wasn't wrong with my Missionaries at home on furlough com of the group said, "I don't understand this, ears, it must be serious. I quickly stepped monly experience what's called "reverse but I feel we should pray for the peace of across the kitchen to the radio and turned culture shock." The speed of traffic, the Jerusalem." We took this suggestion as up the volume. tensions and rapid pace of U.S. living, the from the Lord, and spent an hour praying I had heard right. Just the day before a affluence-these and other things can pro for Israel, for peace in the Middle East, and coup had toppled the fledgling democratic duce an emotional paralysis that's some for Jewish populations all over the world. congress and set up another military times worse than the missionary's initial We prayed for Woody Allen's salvation. It regime. In protest the U.S. was withdraw reaction to the foreign culture. Hal and I was exciting because that evening we were ing all military and economic aid. As I lis have experienced our share of this. involved in what God is doing in the world. tened to the crisp staccato voice of the an But for us the hardest thing about the We were a part of it. The Church needs to nouncer, I felt fear. I thought of my friends U.S. culture to readjust to (and I hope we recognize her responsibility before God to Bob and Beryl who work with U.S. AID in the whole world. She needs to care. La Paz. I thought of Charles, who as a There are certainly bright spots in the pic U.S. Army colonel advises the Bolivian BY ture. Some churches and many individuals military and who, along with his wife Kim, in our yearly meetings are vitally interested is active in the English-speaking church in in missions. The prayer chains and groups La Paz. I wondered about the safety of evidence a continuing commitment. Several these and the many other U.S. citizens churches have responded to the cns1s m residing in Bolivia. Southeast Asia by sponsoring refugee And of course I thought of our own mis families. sionary co-workers: Ron and Carolyn, But I'm convinced that throughout the James and Gail, Roscoe and Tina. Sitting Evangelical Friends Alliance we need to up here some 6,000 miles away, it's hard to wake up and see ourselves as responsible know how serious the situation is. Is this members of God's worldwide kingdom. just another minor revolution where cau What do you know about the total program tion on the part of U.S. citizens is advisable II of EF A missions in Burundi, India, but real danger remote? Or is it different Taiwan, or Latin America? Have you this time? fasted and prayed for the starving peoples And I thought, too, of the people the in Cambodia? Have you prayed for the situation touches most closely: the Boli Pope, the most powerful spiritual leader in vians. I thought of Mr. Morales, our the world? Have you considered your per former landlord, who just became a Chris sonal responsibility to the boat people? tian last year. I thought of Jorge, who Have you prayed for the governments in works in the government geology office. I don't) has been the sense of apathy toward Bolivia and Peru? It's risky. If you pray wondered about Ricardo, Elias, Umberto, the rest of the world. The apathy touches and care, God may ask you to do something and other university students, who in the even the church. Sure, the evening news more. Love is always risky. past had expressed such idealism and at the may be part of the daily ritual, but what As you read this, the situation in Bolivia same time doubt about the possibility of a does any of it mean personally? The church has been partially resolved. A democratic democratic government in their country. I has become ingrown. Even missions is congress again governs the country, and thought of the thousands of Christians. becoming passe. We missionaries speak in Bolivians look forward to free presidential How are they affected? Are any of them many churches whose interest is obviously elections in May of 1980. But our respon among the wounded or killed? Will there marginal. Having missionary speakers is sibility to be involved in whatever way God be persecution because of their association something a church just does. And if we're asks is ongoing. Let's open ourselves to with U.S. citizens? "good," people appreciate and enjoy the Him and ask that He let us see the world I expressed my concern to a friend and he presentation. But what does it mean at the through His eyes. Let's ask, "Lord, how facetiously chuckled, "Oh really? Another commitment level? Often not much, I'm would you have me pray? What would you revolution in Bolivia?" His humor is afraid. have me do?" ~ MARCH 1980 5
CHARLES NUTT CHURCH GROWTH: COVER A BIBLICAL PRINCIPLE The principles of church growth and biblical 2 spirituality are partners, not adversaries, believes Charles Nut!, a pastor in Mid-America Yearly Meeting. Teamed together they are effective in reaping the harvest. (Design and art by Shirley Put· CARL F. GEORGE WHAT KIND Of' MEN man). ORGANIZE A ANTECEDENTS 3 The subject of church growth has been discussed NEW CHURCH? and almost debated in recent issues of the Evan gelical Friend. It may be that Charles Nutt's arti cle is a reasonable compromise in the ongoing debate. Perhaps one can be spiritual and growl NANCY THOMAS MISSIONARY VOICE: Maybe God is interested in numbers! There is no doubt that a key to church growth A CALL TO or growth in any enterprise-is leadership. In the INVOLVEMENT case of churches, it's the pastor. To help our pastors sharpen their skills, rebuild their con fidence, and recharge their spirits should be the goal of all of us who sit in the pew each week. RICHARD J. FOSTER SIMPLICITY Such an opportunity comes next month. From April 14-17 hundreds of Friends pastors will be joining together in St. Louis for a second National Conference on Pastoral Ministry under the theme "Rekindling Our Calling." The conference is a cooperative effort of Friends United Meeting and the Evangelical Friends Alliance but open to all Friends ministers. ANNA NIXON A CHILD AND HIS GOD Thousands of us have a close link to the event because either our own or a nearby Friends pastor will be attending. Others may not have that vital an interest. But all can share by joining in the "Day of Prayer in Local Meetings," Sunday, April 13-a part of the conference program itself. If the pastor is the key to church growth, we are ARTHUR 0. ROBERTS CHASING AFTER the key to our pastor's growth. Let us help him "rekindle his calling" through our prayers, sup NAAMAN port, and encouragement- whether it be St. Louis 1 in April or on the homefront where the euphoria of a conference is not present. -H. T.A.
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"The Christian discipline of simplicity is an inward reality that results in an outward life-style . . . . To attempt to arrange an outward life-style of simplicity without the inward reality leads to deadly legalism.,,
And when we see exception to the modern psychosis that ourselves in a way that's right, defines people by how much thay can pro We will live in a duce or what they earn. We should experi valley of love and delight! ment with bold new alternatives to the The Christian discipline of simplicity is present death-giving system. The spiritual an inward reality that results in an outward discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream life-style. Both the inward and outward but a recurrent vision throughout history. It aspects of simplicity are essential. We can be recaptured today. It must be. deceive ourselves if we believe we can Simplicity is the only thing that can suffi possess the inward reality without its having ciently reorient our lives so that possessions a profound effect on how we live. To at can be genuinely enjoyed without destroy tempt to arrange an outward life-style of ing us. Without simplicity we will either IMPLICITY is freedom. Du simplicity without the inward reality leads capitulate to the "mammon" spirit of this plicity is bondage. Simplicity brings joy to deadly legalism. present evil age, or we will fall into an un and balance. Duplicity brings anxiety and christian legalistic asceticism. Both lead to fear. The preacher of Ecclesiastes observed idolatry. Both are spiritually lethal. that "God made man simple: man's com Scripture abounds in descriptions of the plex problems are of his own devising." abundant material provision God gives His (Ecclesiastes 7:29 Jerusalem Bible) Because people. "For the Lord your God is bring many of us are experiencing the liberation ing you into a good land, a land ... in God brings through simplicity we are once which you will lack nothing." (Deuter again singing an old Shaker hymn: onomy 8:7-9) It also abounds in warnings It's a gift to be simple, about the danger of provisions that are not It's a gift to be free, kept in proper perspective. "Beware lest It's a gift to come you say in your heart, 'My power and the down where we ought to be, ECAUSE we lack a divine might of my hand have gotten me this Center our need for security has led us into wealth.' " (Deuteronomy 8: 17) Richard J. Foster, a Friends minister, is an insane attachment to things. We must The spiritual discipline of simplicity pro special lecturer and writer in residence at clearly understand that the lust for af vides the needed perspective. Simplicity Friends University, Wichita, since July fluence in contemporary society is psy sets us free to receive the provision of God 1979. This article is excerpted from his chotic. It is psychotic because it has com as a gift that is not ours to keep and that best-selling book, Celebration of pletely lost touch with reality. We crave can be freely shared with others. Once we Discipline, published by Harper and Row things we neither need nor enjoy. We buy recognize that the Bible denounces the (1978: $7.95) and is used with permission. things we do not want to impress people we materialist and the ascetic with equal vigor, do not like. we are prepared to turn our attention to the Courageously we need to articulate new, framing of a Christian understanding of more human ways to live. We should take simplicity. MARCH 1980]
We work but we know that it is not our Coca-Cola, etc. If you have become ad work that gives us what we have. We live dicted to television, by all means sell your by grace even when it comes to "daily set or giv~ it away. Any of the media that bread." We are dependent upon God for you find you cannot do without, get rid of: the simplest elements of life: air, water, radios, stereos, magazines, movies, news sun. What we have is not the result of our papers, books. Chocolate has become a labor, but of the gracious care of God. serious addiction for many people. If To know that it is God's business, and money has a grip on your heart, give some not ours, to care for what we have is the away and feel the inner release. Simplicity second inner attitude of simplicity. God is is freedom, not slavery. Refuse to be a able to protect what we possess. We can slave to anything but God. trust Him. Does that mean that we should never take the keys out of the car or lock HE CENTRAL POINT for the dis the door? Of course not. But we know cipline of simplicity is to seek the kingdom that the lock on the door is not what pro of God and the righteousness of His tects the house. It is only common sense to kingdom first-and then everything observe normal precaution, but if we be necessary will come in its proper order (see lieve that it is precaution that protects us Matthew 6:33). It is impossible to over and our goods we will be riddled with 3. estimate the importance of Jesus' insight at anxiety. this point. Everything hinges upon main To have our goods available to others a habit of giving taining the "first" thing as first. Nothing marks the third inner attitude of simplicity. things away. If you find that you are must come before the kingdom of God, in Martin Luther said somewhere, "If our becoming attached to some possession, cluding the desire for a simple life-style. goods are not available to the community consider giving it to someone who needs it. Focus upon the kingdom produces the in they are stolen goods." The reason we find I still remember the Christmas I decided ward reality, and without the inward reality these words so difficult is our fear of the that rather than buying or even making an we will degenerate into legalistic trivia. future. We cling to our possessions rather item for a particular individual I would give Nothing else can be central. The desire to than sharing them because we are anxious him something that meant a lot to me. My get out of the rat race cannot be central, the about tomorrow. But if we truly believe motive was selfish: I wanted to know the redistribution of the world's wealth cannot that God is who Jesus said He is, then we liberation that comes from even this simple be central, the concern for ecology cannot do not need to be afraid. When we come to act of voluntary poverty. The gift was a be central. The only thing that can be cen see God as the almighty Creator and our ten-speed bike. As I drove to his home to tral in the spiritual discipline of simplicity is loving Father we can share because we deliver the gift, I remember singing with to seek first God's kingdom and the know that He will care for us. new meaning the worship chorus, "Freely, righteousness, both personal and social, of I want to list 10 controlling principles for freely you have received; freely, freely that kingdom. the outward expression of simplicity. They give." Yesterday my six-year-old heard of should not be viewed as laws but as one at a classmate who needs a lunch pail and ask tempt to flesh out the meaning of simplicity ed me if he could give him his own lunch into 20th-century life. pail. Hallelujah! I. Buy things for their usefulness rather De-accumulate. Masses of things that than their status. Cars should be bought are not needed complicate life. They must for their utility, not their prestige. Con be sorted and stored and dusted and re sider riding a bicycle. In building or buying sorted and re-stored, ad nauseam. Most of homes, thought should be given to livability us could get rid of half our possessions REEDOM from anxiety is character rather than how much it will impress others. without any serious sacrifice. We would do ized by three inner attitudes. If what we Don't have more house than is reasonable. well to follow the counsel of Thoreau: have we receive as a gift, and if what we Consider your clothes. Most people have "Simplify, simplify." have is to be cared for by God, and if what no need for more clothes. They buy more 4. Refuse to be propagandized by the we have is available to others, then we will not because they need clothes, but because custodians of modern gadgetry. Time possess freedom from anxiety. This is the they want to keep up with the fashions. saving devices almost never save time. inward reality of simplicity. However, if Hang the fashions! Buy only what you Beware of those words, "It will pay for what we have we believe we have gotten, need. Wear your clothes until they are itself in six months." Most gadgets are and if what we have we believe we must worn out. Stop trying to impress people built to break down and wear out and so hold onto, and if what we have is not avail with your clothes and impress them with complicate our lives rather than enhance able to others, then we will live in anxiety. your life. them. This problem is a plague in the toy Such persons will never know simplicity 2. Reject anything that is producing an industry. Our children do not need to be regardless of the outward contortions they addiction in you. Learn to distinguish be entertained by dolls that cry, eat, wet, may put themselves through in order to live tween a real psychological need, like cheer sweat, and spit. An old rag doll can be "the simple life." ful surroundings, and an addiction. Elimi more enjoyable and more lasting. Often To receive what we have as a gift from nate or cut down on the use of addictive, children find more joy out of playing with God is the first inner attitude of simplicity. nonnutritional drinks: alcohol, coffee, tea, old pots and pans than the latest space set. 8 EVANGELICAL FRIEND
Look for toys that are educational and obligatory upon all cultures at all times. But dual, kept clear from all things which durable. Make some yourself. neither should they be thought of as totally tended to stir up or were connected with Propagandists try to convince us that irrelevant to modern society. Behind those wars, either in this land or in Africa; my because the newest model of this or that has biblical injunctions stand centuries of ac heart was deeply concerned that in future a new feature (trinket?) we must sell the old cumulated wisdom (and perhaps some bit I might in all things keep steadily to the one and buy the new one. Sewing machines ter experiences!). Certainly prudence as pure truth, and live and walk in the plain have new stitches, tape recorders have new well as simplicity would demand that we use ness and simplicity of a sincere follower buttons, encyclopedias have new indexes. extreme caution before incurring debt. of Christ .... And here luxury and cov Such media dogma needs to be carefully eteousness, with the numerous oppres scrutinized. Often "new" features are only sions and other evils attending them, ap a way of inducing us to buy what we do not peared very afflicting to me, and I felt in need. Probably that refrigerator will serve that which is immutable that the seeds of us quite well for the rest of our lives even great calamity and desolation are sown without the automatic ice maker and rain and growing fast on this continent." bow colors. That is one of the most difficult and sen- 5. Learn to enjoy things without owning sitive issues for 20th-century Christians to them. Owning things is an obsession in our face, but face it we must. Do we sip our culture. If we own it, we feel we can con 8. coffee and eat our bananas at the expense trol it; and if we can control it, we feel it of exploiting Latin American peasants? In will give us more pleasure. The idea is an il Jesus' instructions a world of limited resources, does our lust lusion. Many things in life can be enjoyed about plain, honest speech. "Let what you for wealth mean the poverty of others? without possessing or controlling them. say be simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything more Should we buy products that are made by Share things. Enjoy the beach without feel than this comes from evil." (Matthew 5:37) forcing people into dull assembly-line jobs? ing you have to buy a piece of it. Enjoy If you consent to do a task, do it. A void Do we enjoy hierarchical relationships in public parks and libraries. flattery and half-truths. Make honesty and the company or factory that keep others 6. Develop a deeper appreciation for the integrity the distinguishing characteristics under us? Do we oppress our children or creation. Get close to the earth. Walk of your speech. Reject jargon and abstract spouses because certain tasks are beneath whenever you can. Listen to the birds; they speculation whose purpose is to obscure us? are God's messengers. Enjoy the texture of and impress rather than to illuminate and grass and leaves. Marvel in the rich colors inform. everywhere. Simplicity means to discover Plain speech is difficult because we so once again that "the earth is the Lord's and seldom live out of the divine Center, so the fulness thereof." (Psalm 24: 1) seldom respond only to heavenly prompt ings. Often fear of what others may think or a hundred other motives determine our "yes" or "no" rather than obedience to divine urgings. Then if a more attractive opportunity, or a situation that will put us in a better light, arises we quickly reverse 10. our decision. But if our speech comes out of obedience to the divine Center, we will HUN WHATEVER would dis find no reason to turn our "yes" into "no" tract you from your main goal, George Fox and our "no" into "yes." We will be living warned: "But there is the danger and the 7. in simplicity of speech because our words temptation to you, of drawing your minds will have only one source. Soren Kierke into your business, and clogging them with with a healthy skepti gaard wrote: "If thou art absolutely obe it; so that ye can hardly do anything to the cism at all "buy now, pay later" schemes. dient to God, then there is no ambiguity in service of God, but there will be crying, my They are a trap and serve to deepen your thee and ... thou art mere simplicity business, my business; and your minds will bondage. Both Old and New Testaments before God . . . . One thing there is which go into the things, and not over the condemn usury for good reason. ("Usury" all Satan's cunning and all the snares of things . . . . And then, if the Lord God in the Bible is not used in the modern sense temptation cannot take by surprise, and cross you, and stop you by sea and land, of exorbitant interest; it referred to any in that is simplicity." and take your goods and customs from terest at all.) Charging interest was viewed 9. Reject anything that will breed the op you, that your minds should not be as an unbrotherly exploitation of another's pression of others. Perhaps no person has cumbered, then that mind that is cumbered, misfortune, hence a denial of Christian more fully embodied this principle than the will fret, being out of the power of God." community. Jesus denounced usury as a 18th century Quaker tailor John Woolman. God give us the courage, wisdom, and sign of the old life and admonished His His famous Journal is redundant with such strength always to hold as the number one disciples to "lend, expecting nothing in tender references to his desire to live so as priority of our lives to "seek first his king return." (Luke 6:35) not to oppress others, as this: dom and his righteousness," understanding These words of Scripture should not be "Here I was led into a close and all that that implies. To do so is to live in construed into some kind of universal law laborious inquiry whether I, as an indivi- simplicity. ~ MARCH 1980 9
A CHILD AND HIS GOD BY ANNA NIXON
The relationship of a child to his God is of say-and correctly so-is an abstract book utmost importance, not only to the child, and written for adults, and literal-minded but to God. Jesus said, "Let the little children cannot possibly understand Bible children come to me, and do not hinder truths. But one does not wait for a child to them, for the kingdom of God belongs to understand the laws governing digestion such as these." When they came, He reach before feeding him. A mother will natural In fact, "religious training" cannot ed out to establish a relationship of loving ly choose different foods for her child than always be equated with "Christian educa trust, confidence, and respect. They came for her husband, but she will continue from tion." The Apostle Paul had the best possi to him with outstretched arms, looking to birth to feed the child. And long before a ble religious training of his day, but he was Him for forgiveness, love, strength, and child can understand the abstract meaning a persecutor of Christians; and according to guidance. For long before a child can of love, he reaches out to be taken into his his own testimony, he was "the chief of sin understand that he must be converted, he mother's arms. ners." His religious training led him astray, feels the need of it. And in relationship Therefore, Christian education doesn't for though he learned much about God he with Jesus he experiences it without know was never led into personal relationship ing what name to call it. mean merely teaching abstract and intellec tual truths to a child, but rather bringing with God himself. After he finally met the Some educators object to giving Chris him into an atmosphere of spirituality Lord face to face on the Damascus road, he tian education to children. The Bible, they where he absorbs the meaning of actions said, and attitudes. These come to him through "Whatever gain I had "Children still/ike to learn about Jesus and concrete experiences in relation to others. I counted as loss for the sake of Christ, hear stories of His love . ... " Anna On the basis of these experiences, the child, Indeed I count everything as loss because Nixon, veteran Eastern Region Friends of the surpassing worth of knowing missionary and educator, expresses a deep out of his own longing for strength, forgive concern for a continuing ministry of ness, and love, learns to turn to God in Christ Jesus my Lord." teaching children about God in this 200th prayer and to believe in Jesus-his very best The change took place because he met a anniversary of the Sunday school. Friend and Savior. person, Jesus Christ, the Son of God. And 10 EVANGELICAL FRIEND
when he came to know Him, this sophisti to teach. First of all, they are all to teach cated man became very childlike. He one another to know the Lord in a very wanted to throw away everything just to be deep and personal way. As they encourage near Jesus. He wanted to get close to one another the adults are also admonished Jesus, just like the little children who ran to teach their children. and climbed upon His knee. The content of the teaching is clear: Children still like to learn about Jesus Adults are to teach the words of life-that and hear stories of His love and kindness means teaching that makes a difference, and sing of His grace and power. But when causes growth, leads to understanding, and do they really come to know Him as their gives life. The teaching is to be done own Savior? Can a child really have a con diligently, by many different methods: Tell, version experience and come to know God? discuss, show, write. The teaching is to be Chasing Many a child, brought up in a Christian done all day-when you sit, when you home where he sees his parents taking Jesus walk, from morning when you rise until seriously, has come to know Jesus very ear night when you lie down. The teaching is Mter ly in life. There are those who have testi not confined to any one place, but is to be fied to this experience as young as three done in the home, in the community, and years of age. Often in Sunday school beyond the gates, which I believe implies Naaman* through the study of the lesson a child may the missionary spread of the Gospel to come to realize his need of forgiveness. His those beyond the immediate community. Sunday school teacher may lead him to And the reason for all this is that each one Arthur 0. Roberts Christ, or he may go home to pray with his may know and love God. These are deep parents, who should be alert and ready to and personal words, and go to the very help him know what is happening in his life. heart of our being. (A seven-dip Jordan cure, Both Sunday school and home have a The Sunday school has a role to play in and no charge? role to play in helping a child to know God. cooperation with the home and community Not even a gift booklet The home is by far the most important area so that as teachers and parents live close to to bait the mailing list? of training for a small child. I like to think God, what they teach with their lives will be The man's a good prophet explained in words by their teaching in the but a poor manager. classes. The Sunday school may present Naaman's more perceptive stories and drill in memory work, but these he knows we need things have meaning only as they are ex more military "Can a child really emplified in the daily life of those they see and political clout have a conversion around them. And what they see takes on with celebrity status significance and meaning as the Sunday to preserve the franchise ... .) experience and come school, the underlining key, helps them to understand the important truths upon -where have you been, to know God?" which life is based. Oehazi?" If a Sunday school feels its job is done "Oh ... nowhere, Elisha." merely by teaching facts and awarding prizes, it is sadly mistaken. It is a fact that "No, Oehazi, nowhere of the Sunday school as the underlining key Nikita Kruschev memorized all the four is where you are going, on a typewriter. The lessons of the week Gospels for candy prizes. I know a mis not where you have been. are typed out day by day in the home, in the sionary whose Sunday school teacher gave The Jordan cannot cure you, school, or on the playground. The Sunday him 25 cents for memorizing the 23rd nor the Nile, nor the Volga, school goes through once a week and un Psalm. "I spent that quarter long ago and I nor the Mediterranean, derlines the main spiritual truths. don't remember what I bought," he told nor the Potomac, However, this doesn't imply that the me, "but I still remember the 23rd Psalm." Lake Thun, Tahoe, Sunday school is meaningless to children The difference between Nikita Kruschev nor the depths who don't come from Christian homes. and that missionary may have been that the of the China Sea." There have been many instances where the missionary had a loving Sunday school child's conversion in Sunday school has teacher who helped him not only memorize revolutionized the non-Christian family. In the Scripture, but also to know the Lord as such cases, the Sunday school teacher is his shepherd. *See 2 Kings 5 called upon to fill a much larger role of sup Hear, 0 Sunday school teachers, Chris port and example for the child, for every tian community, and most of all, parents: child needs examples to follow. The Lord our God is one Lord and you The ideal situation for helping a child shall love the Lord your God with all your know God in a deep, meaningful way is heart, with all your soul, with all your found in Deuteronomy 6:4-9. There the might, and you shall teach this diligently to command is given to the whole community your children. ~ MARCH 1980 11
BY JACK L. WILLCUTS Bank on Your Stewardship
Draw whatever mental picture you are used to for the setting of is the nitty-gritty of stewardship, not amounts only, but the the Sermon on the Mount and listen to this: " ... where your heart. "No one can serve two masters"; note the word serve. treasure is, there your heart will be also." Jesus continues Why do we become more cynical and pessimistic about further, "You cannot serve both God and Money .... But economics as we grow older? We see how loudly money does seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things talk. How clever we become at explaining our own ideas about will be given to you as well." (Matthew 6:21, 24, 33 NIV) handling and spending money! Everyone of us has rationalized Like other things taught in the Sermon on the Mount, it is our present approach to stewardship. We have to, we are either amazing that this truth can be lifted out of its Middle Eastern good stewards or bad stewards. One is not a Christian because cultural setting 20 centuries ago and fit our inflationary living. he gives; he just realizes that all he has been given in intellect, Money is capitalized. It's as real and relevant as your check health, opportunities is a gift of God and makes him a debtor. book and savings account, your investment portfolio, your real And even if it were true that our bank balance is due to our estate, your cars, your wardrobe, your furniture, and things cleverness and hard work, it doesn't change the heart concern like that. and responsibility of a Christian. Jesus' teaching on kingdom living is clear as can be and There is great joy and meaning in giving to the Lord who has relentless. It is talking about the things we have or are paying given us everything we have. The Gospel deals straight out with on, even the things we would like to have if we could afford facts and practicalities of daily living far more than with abstract more. it exposes the difference between generosity and greed, ideas. The sermons of Jesus are as much like an income tax selfishness and sharing, good management and impulsive form as they are like poetry. Money is not evil, not sin, not spending. And don't forget the setting; we are being let in on wrong. Jesus warns only about the misuse of it. But He also some very direct and private home-Bible-study kind of teaching. speaks of the positive use of money as an agent of love. The real issue is our freedom of choice. Banking is always an act of Jesus had sent away the multitudes; this was not a press faith, so let's lay our treasures in the kingdom. It's a good place conference. Nailed to the door of the Sermon on the Mount for our heart to be also. [~ room is a sign reading, Disciples Only. One really doesn't discuss these messages, nor argue, nor try to explain them any more than one can improve on the Ten Commandments. They The Wonder are neither overstatements nor understatements. God is speaking. Be quiet and listen, and obey! Of Systematic Giving Christian discipleship involves these two specifics: (I) a deliberate Some of us are uneasy with heavy-handed demands for detachment from the acquisition of unnecessary things and (2) a percentage giving. Like a tithe. Others are bothered with careful accounting of one's resources. Graphic color word newfangled ideas for raising money, emotional appeals, far-out pictures bolster these words: The treasures you accumulate very schemes to bring in the budget. soon get moth-eaten and rusty. Don't put your money on things that decay and quickly lose their value. Don't buy things you It may not be a legalistic requirement, but it would certainly don't really need or quickly tire of. Peter understood when he simplify and strengthen all we are trying to do as Friends if later wrote: "God's divine power has given us everything we everyone began his giving practice by systematic, consistent need to live ... so that by means of these gifts you may escape tithing to and through one's local church. Every budget we have from the destructive lust that is in the world .... " so far laid out in missions and evangelism would be met, and (2 Peter I :4 TEV) then we could get on with the business of giving offerings, faith promises, and beyond in a crescendo of blessing, prayers, and Another continuing problem with overspending and too large an ministering that would stagger our highest visions. Wouldn't that inventory of things is that "robbers [can] break in and be wonderful? [eid] steal" -not just our stuff but our abilities, time, capacity to serve, care, help, love, and ministry to others. The awful grip and power of super sales merchandise and personal expertise in any field of competency is seen in the expression treasure. Where that is, your heart will also be. This 12 EVANGEliCAL FRtEND
lists for healthy American Jndian -"''''·'-··- but the healthy black child often country re in assorted foster homes. One req,mrement for factor is that social workers in lence--p~ttieJnce to some states black children work the under five with parents. However, the United States and in the number of black children over five the parent country, still adoption may never find a set Anyone who wants to THE ADOPTION OPTION of black It. is sad never to win find that a "home have a permanent because of being A social worker retained BY BECKY ANKENY black. will visit. parents in their Adoption is no a last resort for in The other source of chil- to to them better as voluntarily childless couples. 1n the last dren needing homes is the rest of the world, viduals to establish in a cursory way few years, doors have opened for n1~.:1uumg Latin the Philip. their ability to be parents, This home who already have children, couples who India. Children in these coun is much less detailed and than that have decided not to bring biological chil tries are often in orphanages. There required .for foster but dren of their own into the world, and are healthy children under five in these is still set to pmtect the There are to adopt. This is a healthy countries, and many more who are handi- no requirements for are so many children in this in one or more of the listed your You can be renters ratherthan and even in this country, who desperately The major obstacle in home owners. You don't have to make a need the stability and love that a permanent from overseas is the cost, but it cost$ lot of Some agencies make no sep- home of their own can provide. about one third as much as a new car and arate the home including Any adoption social worker or agency sure to be a more investment. In it in their Other only will tell parents, "If are addition to whatever the adoption for the home looking a healthy, white we agency there is l.fU,!l<.'lU.OlcH for any type Of i:Uft\r\f,t'lf'l can't help you." Changing social mores placemem. have decreased the number of these babies husband, released for adoption. Those that are avail water before ilf•fn<>ll
First Day News
QUICK QUAKER COMMENTARY DR. CHARLES DeVOL and LEORA, who returned from Taiwan to Oregon in January, arrived in Columbus, Ohio, February 12, and will stay awhile in the family home, Sunnyslope, near Marengo, Ohio. Their address is 1280 County Road, Road #24, R.R. #3, Marengo, Ohio 43334. DOROTHY THOMAS of the Newberg, Oregon, Friends Church has been appointed for service in Guatemala by the Board of Missions of California Yearly Meeting. JOY RIDDERHOF was honored by the women of Garden Grove Friends Church (Cali fornia) on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of her founding of Gospel Recordings, Inc. The story of Joy Ridderhof, a Quaker, is told in a book, Count It All Joy, by Phyllis Thompson. It may be obtained by writing 122 Glendale, Los Angeles, Califor nia 90026. Gospel Recordings has pressed more than 13 million records in 4,023 different languages and dialects. CHARLES BALL left his retirement in Ohio to return as interim pastor of Diamond Bar Friends Church in California. ELLA RUTH HUTSON will return from the Friends field in Taiwan just before Easter for a brief furlough. After visiting relatives in California, she plans to do deputation in Northwest, Rocky Mountain, and Mid-America Yearly Meetings before starting visitation among the churches of Evangelical Friends Church--Eastern Region. FRIENDS FOCUS NEW ZEALAND FRIENDS QUOTE FOSTER The following 10 "controlling principles" for the outward expression of simplicity are printed in the New Zealand Friends Newsletter, lifted from Richard Foster's book Celebration of Discipline: 1. Buy things for their usefulness. 2. Reject anything that is producing any addiction in you. 3. Develop a habit of giving things away. 4. Refuse to be propagandized by modern gadgetry. 5. Learn to enjoy things without owning them. 6. Develop a deeper appreciation for the creation. 7. Look with skepticism at "buy now, pay later" schemes. 8. Obey Jesus' instruction about plain, honest speech (Matthew 5:37). 9. Reject anything that will breed the oppression of others. 10. Shun whatever would distract you from your main goal! SPEAKING OF GOALS
"The church that does not have a clearly defined purpose or mission which everything they do can be screened through will drift and stagnate."--Lyle Schaller, Yokefellow Institute, as quoted in the First Friends Church of Canton, Ohio, midweek paper.
"We Beheld His Glory"
Alfred Miller, veteran Friends missionary to Burundi, Africa, under Mid-America Yearly Meeting, tells of the continuing revival experienced there now. "Spiritual 14 EVANGELICAL FRIEND
victories are being won these days on all fronts. The teams that are holding reviv- als are reporting tremendous manifestations of God's power displayed. The prayer burden is unbelievable and staid Quakerism gets kind of uncomfortable in the midst of earnest prayers, tears of repentance, and shouts of joy to God . . my old 'quiet Quaker heart' gets so involved that I can't stop the tears from falling nor the shivers running up my spine. Like John wrote, 'We beheld his glory!' and another said 'whereof we are witnesses.' Praise the Lord. "We don't know what storm clouds lie over the horizon, but we've already seen the power that will carry His church through to the end."
"AGING CREATIVELY"
This is the title of a new publication of Northwest Yearly Meeting's Department of Social Concerns. It is a quarterly edited by Mike Allen and George Moore and car ries devotional thoughts, book reviews, poetry, news stories, and helpful and interesting articles for those in "midlife and later years . " Those interested in receiving the paper should write to Box 37, George Fox College, Newberg, OR 97132. A donation of $1 is requested to care for postage and mailing costs.
IF ALL CHRISTIANS WOULD STOP . .
... helping out of a sense of duty and instead respond joyfully to the creative urgings of God's Spirit to do what they wanted and enjoyed doing, we could not only change ourselves but our churches and our world. --from the Alliance, Ohio, Friends Church, a quotation from the book The Passionate People by Bruce Larson and Keith Miller.
STUDENT ENROLLMENT UP Friends Bible College, Haviland, Kansas, reports 13 new full- and part-time students this term. In January 1979, there were 93 full-time students enrolled compared to 109 this year.
WORLD RELIEF OFFERING LARGER Northwest Yearly Meeting reports $11,600 given in 1979 to the work of the World Relief Commission of the National Association of Evangelicals compared to $6,367.15 the previous year.
RETIREMENT HOME DEDICATED
A new retirement home with nursing care facility for 100 residents was dedicated at Mt. Gilead, Ohio, in November. Named Woodside Village, Bill and Priscilla Casto of the Mt. Gilead Friends Church are administrators. General Superintendent Russell Myers of the Evangelical Friends Church--Eastern Region gave the dedicatory message. (See "Salt and Light" story, February Evangelical Friend, p. 16.)
HAVE YOU TRIED TITHING?
"Mathematically it is a tenth ... Scripturally it is a law ... Morally it is a debt ... Economically it is an investment ... Spiritually it is a blessing." This quote comes from the Iowa Friend. Stewardship is much more than money, however, according to Russell Baker, enthusiastic member of the Stewardship Board of Northwest Yearly Meeting, who has arranged with the Ge orge Fox College bookstore to have for sale to any who wish to broaden their understanding of this vital subject a package of six challenging books. (See advertisement on page 18.) Baker's favorite quote comes MARCH 1980 15
from a church that carries in its weekly bulletins this announcement: "our church is not concerned with your share of our budget, but vitally concerned about God's share of your income." A GOOD REPORT
Robert Hess and Charles Robinson gave encouraging reports to the full Missionary Board of the Evangelical Friends Church--Eastern Region in their midyear meeting. Having just returned from an extended visit to the Friends missions in India and Taiwan, they urged continued support of both fields. Of special interest in India are the plans for training young new leaders in the church and in the program of the hospital. Another successful venture is ACCRA, an evangelistic/agricultural ministry.
FRIENDS CAUGHT IN VISA PROBLEMS
Mexico will no longer issue new visas for Wycliffe translators nor extend current visas, according to recent Associated Press news releases. Three Friends mission aries of Northwest Yearly Meeting, Donna Marks, Barbara Morse, and Inez Butler, are affected. Although Inez has a resident visa, she will have to leave when her part ner's visa expires this fall. Donna's visa terminates in March and Barbara's in July. Prayer is requested that God will guide in this situation.
THEME SELECTED
Friends General Conference has selected the theme, "Here Am I! Send Me," for their annual "Gathering," June 28-July 5, 1980, at Ithaca, New York. Their executive sec retary, Dwight Spann-Wilson, is to be the speaker for North Pacific Yearly Meeting in Salem, Oregon, in late July.
FOCUS ON CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
Special conferences featuring Christian education opportunities will be held March 21-23 in Canton, Ohio, on the Malone College campus, and March 28-JO at Twin Rocks, Oregon. Dorothy Barratt, EFA consultant for Sunday school, will be a speaker at both conferences. CHURCH HIRES DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
In Clinton Corners, New York, Pastor Jon Heymann has raised $80,000 for the pur chase of 45 acres for new development of their church facilities and programs. Dr. Clinton E. Tatsch will serve in a part-time position as Director of Development.
"AMIGOS ACROSS THE BORDER"
This was the theme of the Texas Friends Area Rally held at Friendswood Friends Church in late February. Everett and Alda Clarkson were guest speakers along with a Spanish pastor and his wife.
PREPARING FOR WORSHIP
From Morningside Meeting in Florida midweek mailing comes this advice: "What does one do during the instrumental prelude before a worship service? The ideal thing would be to find a seat, quiet one's mind and soul, enjoy the spirit of the music, and in general, prepare for worship. While greeting one another is important, let's not let that joy interfere with our personal preparation for worship." 16 EVANGELICAL FRIEND
THAT FRIEND IN EVERY MEETING From the New Zealand Friends Newsletter comes this appreciative poem written by Norman Bennett: She has not got the O.B.E. Or maybe Varsity degree, But every Sunday without fail She takes the toddlers out of jail, Well, out of Meeting anyway, With blocks or toys or books to play. Of course, she misses most of Meeting- Even the Clerk's concluding greeting. This Friend deserves our special thanks For coping with our children's pranks.
NEW TESTAMENT READ ALOUD IN ONE DAY Phoenix, Arizona, Friends Church led a marathon reading of the New Testament on the last day of 1979 carried .out by 29 different readers in 76 fifteen- minute periods. From 5:00a.m., when the pastor, Ernest Thompson, began with Matthew 1:1, until the last verse was read at 11:45 p.m., with musical interludes, the entire book was read aloud. Warren and Cheryl Boblet planned and arranged the effort, which was carried live on the 6:00 p.m. news by KOOL-TV in Phoenix.
A NEW 'CLIC' IN THE CHURCH Medford Friends Church (Oregon) announces a Church Leader Improvement Course (CLIC) in a series of six mini (1!-hour) workshops to help improve the effectiveness of church lay leaders such as committee chairmen, Sunday school department heads, elders, or others in leadership roles. Although the topics are based on needs iden tified in a recent all-church retreat, its classes are open to everyone. Classes will be led by Jim Teeters, associate pastor.
SUNNY RIDGE MANOR HOLDS OPEN HOUSE
Several hundred visited the new Sunny Ridge Manor Retirement home, Nampa, Idaho, for open house March 15. The $2.5 million facility is a non-profit enterprise with 90,000 square feet, all on the ground floor. There are 117 "life tenancy" units with seven still available. The manor has a JO-bed Health Center, its own beauty shop and commissary. Darwin Smith, former Friends pastor and presiding clerk of Northwest Yearly Meeting is Executive Director; Ron Willcuts, a Friend from Newberg, Oregon, is chairman of the board. For additional information, write Sunny Ridge Manor, 2609 Sunnybrook Drive, Nampa, Idaho, 83651.
ONE HUNDRED COMMTTMENTS George Fox College Chaplain Ron Crecelius reports more than 100 students made com mitments of their lives to Chri st and His service during a recent missions confer ence held on campus . Twenty-nine volunteered to go as Faith Promise missionaries this summer. The student body Faith Promise Commitment totaled $6,081 .
READING THE BIBLE THROUGH Boise Friends Church gave earned certificates to 21 persons who read the Bible through in 1979 . Bo i se Friends will be sponsoring a new church in the city this year, with classes i n personal evangelism being held now each week for the indi viduals who plan to be a part of the congregation when it opens. MARCH 1980 17
page rangers." In this sense Wagner under- fade when an adopted child becomes stub. scores a biblical that has not been born and says, "I don't have to do what heard frequently in the discussion" of you You're not my real mo,mnlv the past two decades. this I mean he daddy). There has to be a con.scious argues. that are both functional and sion to love this child un<,onawrofi;ally "M>«WJtnu, that there is an interrelated- commit yourself to "'"""'"' ness t.he members that de- to the needs of this child. mands attention f,o be on corporate of decision to love that as strong as upon individual relationship healthy. it would be good to see the homes ()f Christians all across America to the fatherless and of this world. ting a child with problems or another race is a potent to the love of Jesus I would like to adoption as an to zero popula~ tion growth, families of four, uninvolved for the unfortunate, but more than as something that is good, in itself, to do.
movement. -Donald Green Dale V. Benton, A of Rough Roek friends Mission published), Albuquerque, New !Vtt:AI"'J.I979, 86 pages, C. Peter paperback, $2. '!tmn Church There is more to the Arizona desert than 272 pages, paperback, sagebrush, cactus, and lack of water. Peo • When I mentioned to a friend that l was re- ple live there-:-Navajos, who perhaps know ... you can have a this book on spiritual his re- more about simplicity in living than any guaranteed income ply was like this: was 'gifted one. are sturdy people, having sur for life, while out' about four ago." It was with an vived blizzards and and the most attitude this that I drastic kinds of weather, supporting Christian C, Peter to But they are a needy higher education Your people of Nebraska. Yearly under The the leadership of Millard V, Powell saw this through a George work be something different than the need and responded. From 1944 to 1951 Fox College Annuity usual run~of~the-mill paperback on""'''""·~~ the people of Nebraska Yearly Meeting program. Wagner begins with a brief but well· gave of their and of them- written historical essay in selves, to teach and which he traces the schools of thought of preach. In the transfer to Rocky the 48 major works he has chosen from this Mountain Yearly made. field. For those an overview of the of. the most was the past J 5 development of this issue, his digging welt "It is a to hear can be usefuL John [Cline} tell how the Lord him to Wagner believes that "a spi1rttual the spot to drill for water and how im- special attribute men in . this work told him there every member could not be water there. But to God's there was it is a bountiful supply text oft.he at a depth of a over 200 feet!' (p. 30) definition Since was so dry, everyone re- he states u'"''14"'l1'"' water. disconnected t.•"''"""''" came; classes useful. Spiritual r'hn~~t.~e were 18 EVANGELICAL FRIEND
accept the Lord Je us a her Savior and free tion! In times like the e we look for little her from this terrible fear and uperstition." thing to bring cheer, to give strength and Willie Draper became a Chri tian who comfort. The big things are out of ou preached and interpreted for even year . hands. Little difference , however, are pu He ay he learned the chant , songs, and aside to give olidarily to meet the threaten ceremonie of the medicine man. He also ing crisi . drank, wa a bootlegger, and u ed tobacco. Thi i happening on the political cene After he and hi wife were saved, they quit the international cene. Nation are serving the Navajo gods, stopped drinking, realigning, looking for friends with who bootlegging, and u ing tobacco, and de to unite, becau e of the danger po ed b) stroyed the medicine man' equipment. the realignment of enem nation . Willie Draper aid, " He ha an wered my I wa thinking about C hristian , you an prayer and made it po sible for me to pend me, in time like the e, and the eemin~ my full time preaching and teaching. The unawarene of piritual warfare that i. go Lord is Great!" ing on now. Our enemy i looking to e1 Navajos continue to be reached through where he can de troy fellow hip and defea chool and churches. us. It i one thing to be helples , but aware One of the impressive part of this book trengthening our force . lt i anothe to me wa the eviden e of the guidance of thing to be given the power to o ercom1 the Holy Spirit to the people of Nebra ka and with tand attack, but totall y unawan and Colorado. When a mi ionary wa in time like these that our enemy i ruthles needed, someone re ponded. When build and that hi bomb hell a re falling arount er , mason , carpenter , well-driller were us in families, churche , denominations needed the people re ponded acrificially and on a world scale. with time and money. God ble ed and to There i great power in umtmg ou day the Navajo are e tabli hed in their own forces, our faith, and layi ng hold of thl churche . available re ource for ju t uch time a Thi book may be purchased from Dale the e. T here i great comfort in haring, i1 V. Benton, 2705 Carol NE, Albuquerque, gi ing and receiving, in upporting on NM 87112. Dale Benton gathered the another. FRI ENDS UNIVE RSITY materials for the book. T he war i on, Friends! And ictory i t In W ichita, Kansas -Geraldine Wil/cuts be had at the co t of laying a ide our unlo ing attitude , u picion, jealou ie , hurt feeling that divide u . INTELLECT UALLY Let u "speak comfortably" to on Fri end s offers a chall enging another to encourage and upport. Let libe ral arts curriculum taught by cling together to hare hope and recei faculty w ho rea lly care about you cheer. In time like the e we need eao other. SPIRITUALLY Fri end s is a campus community sharing with one another out of SPECIAL OFFER Christian concern IN TIMES LIKE THESE STEWARDSHIP CULTURALLY CATHERI E CATTELL EDUCATION PACKET Friend s is located in Kansas' Hello! For a long time now new ha been (SIX BOOKS) largest city and th at lets you see very un ettling to a lot of people around the drama, music th eatre, ball et, visit world. Local news i not much better. I re Reg ular P r i ce-~ mu seums, the zoo, histo ri c member hearing that during World War II Special Price-$16.95 Cowtown or just get out to the bomb were falling in England; no o ne (includes postage) w ide open spaces and w atch a knew where the next one would fall , and people were helple s-women, children, offer expi res April 30, 1980 bea utiful sun set acro ss the Kansas Send check to plain . and the aged. During tho e dark moments neighbors, even strangers, huddled together GEORGE FOX COLLEGE Let us tell you more ... around someone' tea table haring their BOOKSTORE fears and hope over a hot cup of tea. 409 Carlton Way Write: Danger ha a way of era ing barrier be Newberg, Oregon 97132 Dairel 0' Bar, D irector of Admissions tween people, a they cling together for pro Friends University tection and comfort-to give a well a to Serving Evangelical Friends 2100 University, W ichita, Ks. 67213 receive. Helplessnes i very fru trating. If In the Pacific Northwest we could ju t do something about the itua- THE SHIPPER'S COVE MYSTERY BY BETTY HOCUTI Part HI-Conclusion no," I thought. "He's found the t.ioned about tuiJ•uluiiL he was hunt box! Now he'll get the reward and ing for the American idol he Mrs. Mathers won't believe in really said he'd been interest ... !' I moaned out loud. the ed in about it but that's as far as it Mr. Tagley ·came close I felt so weak bad him, would hardly hold me up. he hurried off to the still was "I've found it! I've and a of relief found it!" when I looked into continued on down to the that time Mr. Tagley came out his bucket to see . . . three clams. The last of our vacation came bright clams! You could have knocked me over and dear. I to one mt)re quick with a feather. I to laugh but at the look around while was surf It same time I tears were running was like I wasn't meant to the down face. Mr. just stood there cme to unea.rth the treasure, but I beaming ear to ear. Finally I sput· did hope would be saved tered, "But .. , clams! What . . I ; ..." anyway. Then he me and gave t.he There was one tree-a ever beard from that was clear down nat with its he was so excited he roots and talk. "These clams .. I've hunted for fun poked the. shovel ...,.,, ..,"·"' a long time for them. a certain some of the roots. I ... you can avoid most• kind that are practically extinct now, but in find anything there but stuldenlv my scientific research I had concluded that hit something other than dirt. I rammed it or all your capital gains' probably would be here in Shipper's and f realized it was something metal. taxes on appreciated Cove if they were at: atl Just another oil " I hoped as I worked think . . after all here at getting the real estate or securities and ali this time •.. I've found them!'' l gasped because really and it turned while supporting quality He looked at those clams with the most out to be a m¢tal. all.rusted and Christian higher loving As far as J' m concerned With dirt. The wouldn't budge so clams are .but it was quite Ito tiered ·to Dad. was poundlng education at that he thought When 1 men~ bard and loud and I felt. all over. George Fox College. . Since couldn't tbe gota
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and the excitement started all over again. I "Here on earth to reach my oul, you can thought we'd never get calmed down. not neglect my body." It would take too long to tell all that hap Yameogo i a pa tor evangelist and pened after that but it still seems like a development worker with Upper Volta' dream! Mrs. Mathers told us that one big Federation of Evangelical Mi sion and tree had blown down in a storm last winter. Churche (FEME), the organization with Later, at a real high tide the waves came which Mennonite Central Committee car clear up to the bank and washed all the dirt ries out it relief and development work in away from the root . That's how come I Upper Volta, a Wet African country be was able to locate the little box. It took just The EVANG EICAL FRIEND neither endorses tween Mali, Niger, and Ghana. that one storm and high tide to begin the nor necessarily approves subject matter -M.C.C. News Service job. used in The Face of the World, but simply The best thing about it, though, was that tries to publish material of general interest Graham Speaks Out on because God answered my prayer as He to Friends.- The Editors Dangers Facing Evangelicals did, Mrs. Mathers prayed and was aved URBANA , ILLJNOi -In respon e to ques that very day. And now the museum of Ministering to Body and Soul tion at the Urbana Mi si on Convention ficials tell me that probably I' ll get the other in Upper Volta here, Billy Graham aid that the tremen dou pre ure placed on new celebrity reward, too. AKRON , PENNSYLVANIA-" If you want to Chri tian converts i " unbelievable." He Yes, sir, there' no doubt about it. God preach only to our soul , go to the place of said his own organization had been guilty of helped us pick the right vacation poL And the dead. That i the only place where body thi in the past, and they have taken He surely did answer our prayers-all of and soul are eparate," an Upper Vol tan them! Conclusion villager told Pa tor Samuel Yameogo. mea ure io correct the ituation. Graham al o said American evangelical can loo k forward to per e ution in the 1980s, although he aid he doesn' t know how if will happen. " I don't think this country i a pet of God," aid Graham, and added that eva ngeli a l need to band togelher, avoid ex e publicity, and em pha ize di ciple hip. G raham commented !hat the 1980s will ee change in mi ion . A merican will work a partner with Chri tian from other countries. Thee angelist aid that he is opposed to abortion except inca e of incest, rape, and wh en the mother' life i at take. He ad 1. Biblical base 6. Vocational milled to orne ambi alem feeling about 2. Evangelical 7. Affiliations ca c where abortio n is permis iblc and 3. Christian hbliness 8. Contemporary cited lhe ca e of E thel Waier , who e 4. Spiritual nurture 9. Professional molhcrwa a vi timofrape. -I.V.C. F. 5. Inductive teaching 10. Missionary Eldridge Cleaver Sentenced AL MED , ALIFO RNIA-Former Black Panlher turned C hristian convert Eldridge Ten key issues discussed to help C leaver wa entenced to probation and you find the Seminary in your future. 2,000 hour of community ervice work in ...... Alameda, California, Superior Courl in _ February. C leaver had pled guilty 10 three Mail coupon I Yes, please send me I a ault charge in connection with a 1968 hootoui bet ween Black Panther and for your copy copies of "Evaluating" I __ I Oakland police. -Christianity Today, February 8, 1980 I (name) I Family Farms I (address) I (city/state/zip) WA HI TON , D.C .-Family farm were I Yr. graduating from college. t9 ______I dealt a major blow recently with Senate pas age of the Reclamation Reform Bill of Western Evangelical Seminary WestAm Evangelical Seminary admits students of any I I 1979. The bill would repeal the intent of sex, race, color and national or ethnic origin. 4200 S.E. Jennings Ave. Portland, OR 97222 .J the original Reclamation Law to di tribute ...... ~...... the benefits of federal irrigalion as widely fan1ilh~ are sm,mPn~z l)Ol'lffl«WSt Asia. muni.cate tells it through the eyes guage of one: family, one and one refugee. emotional Since it is so dose to of many Mt!mbers of the.. congt:eg~~ticm rrrovided more, it is shared and as a job, call to prayer Qthers yet food, furniture, a ear, and lots of waiting fM .<~:nt~n.'<•'lr<~:. prayer support. Because of the efforts of aU these people, is no longer helpless. AKRON, Home-- He is nearly to take his place as a full sick, These three words describe member of our society. · the of a in the who arrived in the from Since his from Vietnam for months. brother August 1978, had been at the escaped from Vietnam other forces-of the weather, of the and was in a second Malaysian and United States and now, eattlth-ttte notorious Pulau Bidong, AJ. of unknown Amerieans who had the offered sponsorship to to him reestablish a normal life Cuong shortly <~cfter arrival, lt in their country, It was frightening, as well until July that they were reunited. as humiliating, for this proud man. Because of the chaotic cooditions in the Helpless-Lu Vinh <.wne to us on. communication the January 1979, His few belongings were was practically In ... more people don't packed in a tote A shortwave seven. months Cuong reeeived ..._. realize they can from Ky .. Ky received one to the U.S. by a leaving give tax dollars to Christian the horrible. conditions ff1liemdJ made the wait alm0$t unbear· higher education at II Book Store Chlristlans we could tum t() Ood .. George Fox College Serving Evangelical Friends with not1ninl~l Buddhist, had no such r~ instead ofUncle Sam. the language problem i the best in Evangelical Literature more than uphold him A full service Christian For helpful information, supply store featuring II- Cambridge and World without obligation, on this Bibles, books from major evangelical publishers, and other gift programs with i; George Fox Press Sunday excellent tax advantages, School literature, gifts and supplies for call: Maurice Chandler every occasion. at (503) 538-8383 or A service of the write: George Fox College Evangelical Friends Church, Eastern Region since 1931. Newberg, OR 97132 Ky was happy about the church's and :#~ might be next Book Store no communJ... 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study, discussions on hunger, and morning and evening devotions. Work sessions were planned tor cleaning the church and for periodic physical fitness routines. Other ac· tivities included a scavenger hunt, singspirations, and all types of games. Added duties were assumed when a snowstorm came through on Saturday afternoon. Soon the young people were busy cleaning the walks and drives for the beginning of the Saturday evening program. Arrangements had been made tor the showing of Corrie ten Boom's full length feature film entitled The experienced by the leadership of Focus On Malone Eastern Region. Now that you have Hiding Place. As the people came Founders Week 1980 at Malone was in, the Youth Group met them with met them, let's support them and Help for the Hungry pray for them. We thank God for held February 5-7. Guest speaker for placards around their necks that the annual three-day spiritual em read "Do Not Feed." The large sign these men and women of vision that The North Olmsted Friends Youth He has placed in these strategic phasis time this year was Dr. John P. Group decided recently to empha· in the Christian Education Wing clearly proclaimed their attitude positions. We are confident that we Williams, Jr., pastor of Canton size the plight of the millions of peo· will move ahead in this new decade Friends Church. pie in this world who are starving to toward the final countdown. It said "Let it Growl," and indeed their because of their extreme compe· death. tence, loyalty, and dedication to On a Friday evening, the congre· stomachs cried out from the lack of Dr. Murray Banks, adjunct professor food. Christ and His Church. of psychology at Norwood Institute galion was invited to attend an inter· -Lois Johnson national dinner sponsored by the Following the movie, the group in Midland, Michigan, will appear at youth group. Following the viewing traveled to a local restaurant, where Malone on March 10 as the third of a slide presentation by World Vi· the fast was broken. Laura and Roy Eastern Region Happenings speaker of the 1979-80 Forum Lec sion International on the world shor· Beck, the youth counselors who MIDYEAR BOARD meetings were ture Series. Banks's entertaining !age of food, "dinner" was served. guided and participated in the "plan· held the end of January at the Can· program blends his best comments However, not everyone was treated ned famine," discussed with the par· ton headquarters office and Malone on good psychology and mental equally. Twenty percent of the peo· ticipants the value of their commit· College. health taken from his six books and pie were given a full meal, 70 percent ment. When all was counted, the eight LP recordings. received only a bowl of soup and young people had raised $185 and all had experienced real self-sacrifice FINAL REPORT of 1979 giving to the bread, and 10 percent were served Missionary Outreach Budget is a Madeline L'Engle, author best nothing at all. The percentage break· for a worthy cause. -Walter R. Sheffield total of $552,965.63 for the year. This known for her Newberry Award down was the same as the distri· means that 96.68 percent of the "ad· winning children's book A Wrinkle in bution of the world food supply. The justed" MOB was met. Compared to Time, will be guest speaker for message was loud and clear, and let's Get Acquainted last year (1978) $6,328.63 more was Malone's 1980 Christian View and soon people were offering to share given in 1979. Another interest· Literature Conference. Perhaps there are some of you who with the less fortunate ones. ing item: December receipts of Two weeks later the Youth Group have never had opportunity to get ac quainted with the tine staff at our $97,753.77 registered the highest giv· carried their awareness program ing ever for any month in Eastern even farther when they took part in a headquarters office in Canton. If Region Friends history. True, there "starve-a·thon." For 27 hours they that is so, then here's your oppor· remains a deficit of some $18,969. committed themselves to tasting. !unity! Creative suggestions for solving this They asked others to support them First is Russell Myers, our general problem are most welcome by the by pledging $5 to the World Vision superintendent, then Joe Roher, ad· Finance and Stewardship Board. International relief fund, and also by ministrative assistant; Don Worden, agreeing to forfeit one meal during director of development, and Bruce the time of the fast. Burch, administrative assistant. SUPERINTENDENT RUSSELL On Friday night the group met Also pictured are staff secretaries MYERS represented EFC-ER at the with a full schedule of activities to Anna Cobbs and Lucy Anderson. Evangelical Friends Alliance Com· last from 6:00 that night through As lay people out in our local mission meetings in Oklahoma City Saturday evening until 10:00. In ad· churches, most of us are probably in January. Others representing our dillon to recreational activity, ser· never aware of the tremendous Yearly Meeting included Galen ious periods were set aside for Bible pressure and sense of responsibility Weingart, Robert Hess, Charles Rob· inson, Roger Wood, Ron Johnson, John Grafton, William Lockwood, Dean Johnson, Ben Stahley, and Marjorie Landwert. Representatives of EFM were Reta Stuart and Re· Extension Meeting becca Coleman. Begins in lamar, Colorado DR. CHARLES and LEORA DEVOL have returned to the States from the A new church outreach began re Taiwan Friends Mission and spent a cently in Lamar, Colorado. few weeks resting and visiting at the The new meeting is led by Jim and home of his brother, Dr. Ezra DeVol, Kay Summers. Since starting, the in Newberg, Oregon, before continu· Sunday services have grown to an ing on to Ohio, where they are now. average attendance of 21. Families helping the Summerses in the church are Chuck and Sherri A NEW FRIENDS CHURCH in Akron Bowen, Homer and Mary Carpenter, on Copley Road held its first service and Wynona Grover. Summers is a on February 3. It is called Friends graduate of Friends Bible College. Community Church, with George While students at FBC, he and his Primes serving as pastor. Watch in wife worked as dorm parents. They future issues for reports from this came to Lamar from Jet, Oklahoma, work of faith. where they performed different tunc- 24 EVANGELICAL FRIEND
tlons through their own ministry, "Ask, and it shall be given unto Internal Nurture Division chair· written progress report and financial Jesus Missions Unlimited. you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, man, J. Parker Craig, began with a statement for the current year. The For six years the Summerses and it shall be opened unto you." note of thanksgiving and praise in budget of TFC for the 1980-81 church helped with the summertime Bible (Matthew 7:7) that Willow Creek Meeting, Kansas year totaled $49,226. School at Rough Rock Friends Mis· City, Missouri, participants in the Foreign Ministries Division chair· slon In Arizona. They have two Full-Time Pastoral Support Program man, Fred Littlefield, reported that children. shared by the Yearly Meeting, an the convention (agreement) between Your prayers for this new church nounced their growth was such they MAYM and the Burundi Interim Year are appreciated. no longer required the finances of ly Meeting is now being considered the program. Tne Gardner Meeting by BIYM. All churches have been will continue in that program. taken in the Sister-Church Project. Christian Ministries and Voca· New personnel are needed in the tions chairman, Alden Pitts, reported areas of agriculture, building, teach· that new guidelines for the recording ing, and medicine. Personnel of ministers would be available changes are as follows: soon. Topeka was approved for the • James Morris has accepted the Pastoral Intern Program next year. position as executive director of EFM. EDUCATION BOARD- • Ed Rehwinkle completes his ad Laura Davis, President vanced degree in May and will begin Youth Activities Division chair· French studies soon. man, Sheldon Cox, introduced Royce • The Gary Youngs, Carolyn Hin· Frazier, the MAYM superintendent of shaw, and Geraldine Custer are all youth, who reported that 130 youth scheduled for furlough during the On the Incline attended midwinter retreat, and 30 year. At Midway Point college and careers young people A 10 percent salary increase was ap met in a similar experience. Two proved for all missionaries. The ice and snow of winter did not projects were presented by Royce: A communication from Stanley deter MA YM board members as they first, the involvement of college and Perisho, EFA Coordinating Council met for three days at Northridge career age young people in the board president, was read in which ap Friends in Wichita in midyear ses· work of the Yearly Meeting; and sec preciation was expressed to Fred sions. Littlefield for his leadership as the The Jim Summers family ond, a Summer Ministries Program In addition to the four boards for high school youth, to utilize their president of the EFA Missions Com· Outreach, Education, Stewards, and music and art talents in ministries to mission. RMYM Briefs Spiritual Life-and the Executive churches of the Yearly Meeting. Social Action Division chairman, DENVER-Several couples from Council, there also were meetings of A yearly meeting quiz contest, to Galen Hinshaw, reported on the EFA Rocky Mountain Yearly meeting the WMU and the Camp Board. start this summer, will conclude on "Miss-a-meal-a-week" project, with attended a Marriage Encounter Despite icy roads, 31 Friends met the Evangelical Friends Alliance funds to go for world hunger through February 15 to 17. in Executive Council on the last day level, with the champion being the World Relief Commission. He chaired by Clerk David Smitherman. chosen at the 1981 EFA General spoke of the work of the Fred Assistant Clerk Elmer Davis brought Conference in Canton, Ohio. Royce Leimkuhlers and the Fred Warnkens DENVER-Youth for Christ's televi· devotions from James 4. has accepted a position with Alders in prison ministries, of Charlene sian program, Where Have All the Hal Cope with his wife Ann repre gate as a youth division consultant Davis's representation to the FCNL Children Gone? aired in Denver sented MA YM at last summer's as added responsibilities. meetings in Washington, and of the January 17, featured several well· Friends World Committee for Con four MAYM members who attended known celebrities. sultation Triennial Conference in Christian Education Division the Mid-America Conference on Switzerland. He presented a slide chairman, Cathy Davidson, told of Peacemaking and of their regional illustrated report of the 260 Quakers four planning dinner meetings held conferences coming soon. COLORADO SPRINGS-The 1980 last fall with Dorothy Barratt. Also, Rocky Mountain Yearly Meeting is from 11 different yearly meetings in To assist local meetings in being nine different countries who were in positive response was given for the current on the draft issue, a Chris set for June 11-15 at Quaker Ridge Toddler Workshop with Betty Hock· Camp. attendance. tian Peacemakers Registration form Neil Harmon was introduced as ett. Coming soon on the EFA level was prepared and shared with all the newly appointed superintendent will be a revision of Bible study meetings, in the prospect of the pro WOODLAND PARK-Juniors, junior of the new Colorado Area, which material and children's church posed registration and draft. Pastors high school, and senior high school functions officially beginning July 1, materials. and youth workers are urged to give summer camps are set for July at 1980. Board reports and discussion School Relations Division chair knowledgable counsel to our youth Quaker Ridge Camp. Consult with followed. man, Lyle Wheeler, spoke of con· on peace education. your pastor for information. tinued support of our church col SPIRITUAL LIFE BOARD- leges. A program of information is STEWARDS BOARD- What Is Your Standing Steve Harmon, President anticipated. Dick Long, President With God? Evangelism and Worship Division The board was happy to announce chairman, Maurice Roberts, outlined OUTREACH BOARD- that due in part to the efforts of Clerk (Editor's note: Here is an item from a tentative plans for the coming Year Roscoe Townsend, President Smitherman in contacting key per recent Beaver Park Friends Church ly Meeting Sessions August 1980, Home Ministries Division chair· sons involved with MAYM finances, newsletter.) which will mark the entering of the man, Dave Ellis, distributed written Treasurer Agnes Hain was able to We look around us and see a world Decade of the Eighties. Two depar reports, then, with Gerald Teague, report that at the midway point in the of strife. There are wars and rumors tures from the usual format were gave background for the division's year, receipts totaled 48 percent of of war; there are famines and suggested: the evening services are recommendations, which were: the UFP, the best finanacial posture disasters. The end of time is near to involve the MA YM boards, as they 1. Ten-year Plan-for the Decade experienced in several years. and yet many people say, "I can present their interests and future of the Eighties, seeking to establish The president presented the UFP meet Christ tomorrow. I'll become a plans as a part of the worship; and eight new Friends churches. for 1980-81 in detail, with a grand Christian tomorrow." there will be no workshop sessions. 2. The HMD recommends starting total of $389,585. The road to hell is filled with peo· Maurice presented a plan to promote new Friends churches in Salina and Chairman of Trustees, Billy War· pie who have said these things, and evangelism throughout the Yearly Wichita, Kansas, and Dallas, Texas, ner, informed the council that the tomorrow never came. Are you still Meeting that would involve securing about the beginning of the 1980-81 property adjacent to the Yearly waiting for tomorrow? God has let the services of an evangelist who church year. Meeting Office had been purchased. us remain this long, but He doesn't will travel throughout MAYM over a 3. An amended budget of $45,000 It is anticipated that rent of most of promise us that we will be here when three-month period, upon the invita was approved for the planting of the space will make the payments, the sun rises again. tion of the churches. The spring or churches In 1980-81. while still providing additional Do something about your spiritual fall of 1981 were possible projected Administrator . of Texas Friends storage space for headquarters life today-NOW. dates. Churches, Jerry West, presented a materials. MARCH 1980 25
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT on "The Quaker Family Tree," show ers for the 14th annual GFC Mis· John Robinson, voiced praise for the ing the development and divisions of sions Conference. The week fea Coming Events caliber of people who serve on the Friends across the U.S., a brief tured 27 missionary representatives va~ious boards, mentioning the history of each of the four yearly from 14 worldwide organizations. MARCH Sp1ntual .Life Board for the in-depth meetings composing the Evangel· The conference included a "Faith 28-30 Friends Christian work depleted by the new guidelines leal Friends Alliance, and fascinat Promise" meeting to give attenders Education Conference, for the recording of ministers, the ing stories about William Penn and opportunity to pledge financial sup Twin Rocks Conference Trustees for their recent and contin· Mary Dyer. port to students interested in sum Center uing work with churches experienc Additional lessons include skits mer mission service. 30 Deeper Life Conference, Ing change, and to the Home Minis and teaching on "What the Friends George Fox College tries Division for their progress in Church Believes," and additional A paper "The Historical Moment" church planting. stories about Mary Fisher's visit to presented orally to the Oregon His· APRIL John believes that Friends can the Sultan of Turkey, Stephen torical Society by George Fox his 1·2 Deeper Life Conference, rise to the needs of the day and can Grelle!, and the "Modern Miracle of tory professor Lee Nash is schedul· George Fox College face opportunities with optimism Joy Ridderhof." There are more on ed for publication by the society. 7-8 Women's Awareness and faith. John Woolman, Elizabeth Fry, Laura Nash, chairman of the George Fox Conference, George Fox Haviland, and the Underground Division of Social Science, was one College Railroad. of two Oregon independent college 11·13 Friends Youth Sponsors' There are also materials available representatives chosen to speak at Conference, Umatilla, through Barclay Press, P.O. Box 232, Oregon Newberg, Oregon 97132, for attend· the 82nd corporate meeting attended by 600 persons. The paper tells of 14-17 National Friends ers new to Friends or those enrolled Nash's turning to history after an Pastors Conference, St. in church membership classes. undergraduate education emphasiz Louis, Missouri These include "The Family of ing studies in the field of English. He 14-19 Fine Arts Festival, Friends," a membership course of 10 completed a doctorate in history and George Fox College lessons on Quaker beliefs and prac taught at Northern Arizona Universi· 17-19 Easter drama: The Vigil, tices; "I Have Called You Friends," a ty before joining the George Fox Wood-Mar Auditorium, course of study designed for chil· faculty in 1975. George Fox College, dren by Virginia Helm; "What About 8:00p.m. the Ordinances," by Herman Macy; "Essential Baptism," by Charles Dr. Arthur 0. Roberts, George Fox Beals; "The Bible and War," by Paul College philosophy and religion pro· Mills; "People Called Quakers," by lessor, has written new words to the Now is the time to prepare for Yearly Arthur Roberts, and others, including tune of the "Star Spangled Banner." Meeting sessions-by making plans several full-length books on Quaker The three-stanza poem by Roberts to be in Newberg July 26-August 1- history and biography (write to "The Song of the Free" affirms a put these dates on your calendar Let's Be Friends Barclay Press for their catalog). more universal peace-seeking di· now and be praying. Don Green will be speaker for the evening services. "Do we have any materials or Every family of the Yearly Meeting mansion. The music dates back to literature for teaching children about should be encouraged to subscribe England in the 18th century and has to the daily devotional booklet writ· been sung to at least 85 different what Quakers believe? Or new at· John and Janet Lyda and boys Jamie tenders ... and new Christians?" ten by Friends for Friends, Fruit of parodies. the Vine, edited by Harlow Ankeny. and Jerrie from Newberg spent six This question comes from several weeks in Papua New Guinea helping leaders in extension churches and Let's make use of these valuable tools in Christian nurture and ac Around the Northwest ... missionary friends with needed con· other meetings. Yes, we do. Let me struction on their house. list a few: quainting new Christians with who A retreat is planned for April 21-24 There is a teaching Resource we are! -Jack L. Wi/lcuts for pastoral team members in the packet titled "Let's Be Friends" that Idaho area to be held at Quaker Hill NWYM Friends Youth sponsored a includes a wealth of material for Conference grounds at McCall, volleyball tournament in February on children and adults. This course on Around George Fox College Idaho. Gerald Dillon, Western Evan· the George Fox College campus with Friends history and doctrine in Winter term enrollment is at a record gelical Seminary professor, is speak· 18 high school teams participating; cludes a teacher's manual and stu· 697 with 638 full-time students and ing; also Jack Willcuts, NWYM su also Junior High Jamboree was held dent book written for and by Friends 59 part-time; not included are 32 par· perintendent. at Twin Rocks Conference Center in as part of the Aldersgate-produced ticipants in the college's off-campus February. graded curriculum for senior, teen, independent study courses. and primary ages. George Fox Press has produced additional childrens' lessons and activities including A record-breaking time was featured "Faithful Friends," "Friends in Mex for George Fox College's first Home ico," "True Friends," and a complete coming celebration of the 1980s. FRIENDS GATHER set of Quaker materials for Vacation Participants attempted to break old campus records and establish new Bible School titled "Bible Heroes." ALBA, Missouri Janet Wuske traveled to Colum· In the "Let's Be Friends" packet ones. Featured were tricycle races The Tri-State Area Rally was held in bus, Ohio, to receive an award for her one finds items such as a chart pickle eating, bench press competi: our new sanctuary in February. The husband, Jim Wuske, who was post· showing a "Church History Time lion, banana eating, and a He Man/ humously inducted into the Ohio Line," posters and skits on the con· She Man obstacle race. More tradi· Ozark Bible College of Joplin, Missouri, brought special music for Association of Track and Cross version of George Fox, James Par· tiona! events included a coffee the afternoon, and Superintendent Country Coaches Hall of Fame. Mr. nell, William Dewsbury, and Robert reception, Homecoming chapel, de· John Robinson was speaker in the Wuske, who. died February 7, 1979, Barclay. Lesson three has a poster partmental updates, decade lun was Mt. Un1on College's "winning· cheons, and the Homecoming bas evening. Sheldon Tucker directed youth ac· est" cross-country and track coach ketball game, followed by an after· leading his men to many award~ game reception featuring former and tivities, and there was a puppet show Lents Homecoming for the juniors. since 1957. current GFC quartets. The 1980 At the induction service, Janet Homecoming queen was Vicki All persons who have attended was able to share how Jesus ap· worship services or other activ Morgan, a senior from Portland, ALLIANCE, Ohio peared to her husband as he was be· ities at Lents Friends Church, Oregon. It was our privilege to have Dr. Alvin ing wheeled into surgery, and told 5728 S.E. 91st, Portland, Ore and Lucy Anderson speak at a morn· him He would be with him. Through gon, are invited to a homecom· Silas Hong, executive director of ing service this month. Dr. Anderson that experience Jim was able to ing reunion Sunday, March 30, United Evangelism to the Chinese, is professor of education and psy· witness to many persons that he 11:00 a.m. to 5:30p.m. Potluck and Valetta Steele, director of the chology at Malone College. Also, he knew Jesus was with him no matter dinner 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. home meeting department of OMS and Lucy spent two years teaching what happened. His witness was International, were the main speak- in Nigeria. written up in the local paper. Janet, 26 EVANGELICAL FRIEND
too, has had many opportunities to to Fulfill the Great Commission" and month sharing in a music and teach· FOWLER, Kansas ing ministry. share how Jim has complete healing accomplishing it by "People Reach· Dr. Richard Foster, author of Gel· ing People." with the Lord. ebration of Discipline, presented a Wednesday evening attendance is DAMASCUS, Ohio weekend seminar in February. Plains up well over 50 percent since the CANTON, Ohio Our FY has begun sponsoring Friends joined us for the evening Elective Program has been initiated. As a fellowship we dedicated our· monthly roller skating parties for fellowship supper and service. We rejoice that our Faith Promise selves to donating funds to be used everyone on the last Monday of the Fowler Friends joined Plains on Sun giving went over the top for 1979. in worldwide ministry of hunger month. This is always well attended, day morning followed by a dinner relief. Banks shaped like loaves of with our first one enjoying 104 par· and wrap-up service in the afternoon. BAYSHORE, Bacliff, Texas bread were distributed to families ticipants. Car-pool captains scheduled rides A quick review of activities reveals and money was collected for four The pastor has begun weekly word for the evening Western Area Rally that we have nine classes on Sunday weeks. The money received was study during Sunday evening ser· at Liberal. morning for the study of Scripture. distributed as follows: 40 percent vices. Anyone with a word they Pastor Ron Ferguson announced Three times a week we meet for wor· ($978.81) to World Vision, 40 percent would like to see studied can give that several year-end gifts to our ship, prayer, and study through (978.80) to World Relief Commission, this to the pastor and he will ex Building Fund enabled our Steward· preaching. Our ladies meet monthly 10 percent (244.77) to FISH, a Chris· pound on it. Also during the ship Committee to pay off the par· to care for mission-related concerns, tian emergency organization. Wednesday night services, the sonage loan. He added: "Thanks to and our men are beginning to meet Our Junior Department aided the pastor has been holding member the Lord for His provisions." weekly for an early morning prayer FISH organization by decorating a ship classes for prospective mem meeting. Sock and Mitten Tree for needy bers, and for the rest of the member FULTON CREEK, Ohio children. We do this because God deserves ship to observe what is involved in Watch Night services were schedul A six-week Couples Covenant it, we need it, and there are others the class content. ed for 8:00-12:00 p.m. New Year's who will receive Christ if we are Group is being led by our pastor and his wife, John and Carol Williams. EAST GOSHEN, Beloit, Ohio. Eve, with a break for refreshments faithful to witness. and social hour. A spiritual and Our junior and senior high youth Couples spend Wednesday evening Missionary Sunday was observed enjoying a salad supper, Bible study fulfilling evening was the result for group had a February banquet with recently when we were privileged to the beginning of a new year. Karl Newmann, youth minister from and recreation . have Dave and Cindy Aufrance and Our fellowship shared in a com· Friendswood Friends, as their their daughter Rebecca. It was a GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado speaker. munion service held on New Year's real blessing to hear them share con· Eve. Time was spent in prayer, cerning their four years in Hong Dave and Beverly Fendall, Grand meditation, making new covenants Kong, as well as provide special Junction pastors, assumed their BEAVER PARK duties at the end of December. Penrose, Colorado for the coming year, and sharing music for the services. with our pastor. Under influence of There were 189 in attendance for One family, the Gary Chriscos, Beaver Park Friends member Dylan the Holy Spirit, communion was par· the annual Christmas program. recently moved to Denver. The Roberts recently received the Pen· taken of as families felt led. What While the pastor was on vacation Young Friends helped the family rose Middle School student of the an inspiring time it was preparing for the church was privileged to have pack for their move. week award. the new year! Steve Steer preach. Special music Nancy Loucks is coordinating Roberts, an eighth grader, earned was provided by the "Young Believ special services for men and women the honor because of teacher recom· COTTONWOOD ers." One Sunday evening the young involved in alcoholic rehabilitation mendations, a good attitude toward programs in local hospitals. academic subjects, and leadership Emporia, Kansas people were in charge, at which time the Deceived potential. His interests include jour· Several "new things" can be seen film was shown; 85 people had their eyes opened to the HAVILAND, Kansas nalism and sports such as basket· around the church that are greatly events of the People's Temple and A Christian education workshop ball and football. enhancing various ministries. New King James Bibles have been pur· how easy it is for even Christians to with Joyce Lamb was hosted in our church in November. It was a single BELOIT, Ohio chased and placed in each pew. We be deceived. believe that "following along" with We have been having a time of day packed with enough information The "Lifeline" singers, consisting of the reading of the Scripture will in· prayer and meditation as part of our and helps to meet any teaching need young adults from Beloit, Salem, and crease learning and understanding Sunday services. We also praise for a long time. Youngstown area, participated in of biblical principles. The Stewards God for the increased attendance in in December, 44 persons gathered morning and evening services for recently installed an electronic hear· prayer meeting. to participate in a Teacher Apprecia· Youth Sunday. ing device into the PA system in the tion Dinner prepared by Kay Smith, The Friends Youth have started sanctuary, which will be helpful to ENID, Oklahoma Charlotte Ross, and Roxie Anders. meeting at 5:30 for prayer and shar· those with hearing problems. The topic of our Sunday evening DeWayne Bryan brought devotional ing on Sunday evening before the Soon·to·be·completed projects in· Bible study has been "Be Mature," thoughts and the evening was plan 6:00 o'clock service. They have also elude the installation of a hot water taught by Mer! and Eunice Kinser. ned by Anita Kendall and Gene begun a Saturday night Bible study heater in the parsonage, radiant A special Valentine's supper and Jacks. and sharing time, meeting in various heaters in the Sunday school rooms, program was given in February as a Youth Minister Hubert Nolen re homes. and the laying of indoor-outdoor gift to the congregation from our ports: "It has truly been a blessing to carpet on the front steps of the youth. see how the Lord has worked among BOISE, Idaho church. We have been most thankful in re· our youth in 1979. Our youth raised Charlene Olson produced and cent months to report that our $9,000 for a trip to Haiti, then raised directed "The Christmas Story" on COUNCIL HOUSE General Fund giving has been ex· money to bring a family from Haiti to Sunday morning, December 16. It Wyandotte, Oklahoma ceeding our budgeted needs. participate in our missions confer· was a unique presentation. A cast of An encouraging development for us ence. Our youth group has doubled 80 children, who had been photo· has been the organizing of a regular FERRY ROAD, Danville, Virginia in size from 15 to 30, new converts graphed during recording sessions, Sunday night meeting. Other factors Tom and Frances Murphy celebrated have been won, and lives have been appeared on two separate movie to strengthen our faith have been the their Golden Wedding Anniversary changed because of what they have screens. This was a new approach purchase of a van, debt free, and the on December 30. An open house experienced this past year." to that old, sweet story. great financial support we have re· celebration was given in their honor The annual "Soup Supper" was ceived from many of you. As you at their home on Sunday afternoon MORNINGSIDE held Saturday evening, December know, our salary comes from the by their son and his wife, David and Port St. lucie, Florida 22, in the church Fellowship Hall. Associated Committee, which is Carolyn Murphy. December and January brought in More than $350 was given to help supported by donations; however, Tom and Frances are very special creased attendance and enthusiasm with Midwinter conference ex· we receive no money from them for people at Ferry Road. We all love at the Morningside church. No penses. Eight of our youth attended special projects. This is where your them very much. They founded our doubt our several special activities the conference. assistance is so important to us. We church at Ferry Road in 1947. He contributed to this. Jorge Estrada, a A Lay Institute for Evangelism are praying that sufficient funds will was pastor for many years. Although Guatemalan layman converted a (LIFE) was held in our church come in to enable us to hold Quiver he retired in 1963, he still preaches couple of years ago through the January 17 through 19. This was an ing Arrow Camp again this year. the Word whenever he is able. I am ministry of our church, shared his extension course of the "I Found It" We were pleased to have Larry and sure they would enjoy receiving a testimony with us in an evening ser campaign. The theme was "Helping Shirley Mendenhall with us this note or card from their many friends. vice. One Saturday night at a show- MARCH 1980 27
ing of The Cross and the Switch A senior citizens group known as a winter vacation. Dan Frost shared The Frances DeVol Willing Work· blade, more than half of those in at "The Faithful Followers" has been with us about his present work in ers Missionary Society held a "Gold tendance were strangers to us. The organized. At the first meeting we Florida. en Carol Sing" for the ladies of the Malone College basketball team was had devotions, music, and quiz church. Each table featured a present one Sunday. games, followed with a delicious ROLLIN, Addison, Michigan centerpiece representing a Christ· Our church's first choir, under the luncheon furnished and served by On January 13 Rollin Friends Church mas carol that was sung. One of the direction of David VanCise, pre the ladies of the church. held a potluck supper, in which goals of the missionary group was sented the John W. Peterson Christ The Women's Society sent gifts of those who attended had opportunity realized when an artificial Christmas mas cantata Love Transcending, and money for Christmas to mission· to meet and get acquainted with the tree was used to decorate the sane· our children's Christmas program in· aries in India, Taiwan, and Mexico. quartet "Sound in Spirit" from Mt. tuary with white and gold beaded volved 22 boys and girls (last year Highlighting the Christmas season Gilead, Ohio, who ministered during "Chrismons" made by society mem we only had 3) in a reenactment skit were the Christmas program and a the evening service. bers during the past year. Stars, of the Christmas story. candlelight service. A special angels, and crosses, along with One special December event was Christmas offering amounting to SILVERTON, Oregon white lights, adorned the tree sym $978 was divided between Eastern a Christmas party for our two Cam· The Silverton Friends Church is mak· bolizing the life of Christ. Region MOB and a local need. bodian refugee families, sponsored ing plans to start a new school in by the Morning Glories Ladies Mis Silverton this September using facili TRINITY, Martinsville, Virginia sionary Society. We had a Khmer PENIEL, Onemo, Virginia ties of the church. Initially the The Christian Education Department language New Testament and had A special treat for us was to have school will have one certified teach· sponsored a breakfast on a Sunday one of the men read the Christmas Dave, Cindy, and Becky Aufrance for er and one aide for up to 30 students morning in December. Fifty-five peo story in his own language-which an evening service. Two children, in grades two through six. ple were present to share in this en· may have been the first time he ever Anna Marie Hudgins and Ron Hudg According to Pastor Paul Meier, joyable event. Pastor Brantingham heard it! ins, dressed in Chinese costumes, the church's effort is not a challenge shared some meaningful Scripture In January Dave and Cindy sang a welcome Chinese song. A to Silverton public schools, nor to with us at the close of the meal. This Aufrance, missionaries to Hong time of refreshments and fellowship imply criticism of the local schools, was a very special time for all of us. Kong, ministered at Morningside; followed the service. but a concern regarding the increas· they happened to be the first current Pastor Lockwood and 8 of our ing number of state and federal regu TIMBER CREEK missionaries to visit us. teenagers met with 117 other young lations that restrict the teaching of Atlanta, Kansas people of the Virginia district in the principles and subjects the church Pastors Glenn and Cora Sanders OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma Portsmouth church. A film concern members feel are important. There returned January 19 from a trip to Enthusiasm is building for our sec ing the tribulation was shown and are trends that seem to be eroding Papau New Guinea. They visited ond Annual Missions Conference, to several young people were saved the authority of parents and the their son and wife, Arden and Joy be March 14-16. We will have mis during the service. shifting of control over schools from Sanders, who are Wycliffe Bible sionaries from New Guinea, Burundi, Bobby Stewart, Jr., freshman at the local community to the state. Translators, and had charge of a Kickapoo Indians, City Rescue Mis· the University of Virginia, and his dedication service for their new sion, and our Yearly Meeting super· sister Allison, senior at Matthews SMITHFIELD, Ohio grandson, Glenn Joshua. The peo High School, were cited in the intendent of youth will present the The movie The Hiding Place was ple in the area where the Sanders are Summer Ministries program to our Who's Who in American High School shown for the community during a opening a new field of work are very youth. Students. Sunday evening service. primitive and needy. The Timber Our Missionary society sponsors Home Bible studies will continue Creek church people sponsored rais· a boy in the Matthews County Boys OLYMPIC VIEW every other week at the homes of ing the finances for the trip and gave Home, remembering him on special members during 1980. their pastors a six-week leave of Tacoma, Washington occasions. Olympic View Friends Church Four members attended the dis· absence. The local people, during the absence ushered in 1980 with Stewardship trict Sunday School Conference at of their pastor, had Month. On January 13 we experienc PLAINS, Kansas East Richland Church. charge of the church services with Our December "Year of the Child" A "going away party" was given the help of Robert Hutson and the ed a break with tradition in the show FBC Singers, who gave a concert ing of the film Discover Your Gifts, emphasis included special features for Qean Dagan, a young man who is an illustrated sermon very much en by and for children through fourth going into the U.S. Marine Corps. Sunday evening, December 16. joyed by the congregation. grade. Their music, Scripture read· Dean has attended our Sunday January 25 the Stewardship Com· ing, prayer, and other participation school and church ever since he was TOPEKA, Kansas mittee provided a Loyalty Dinner and were a blessing to the congregation. a young child. Our Education Committee and the program for the entire family. The Our Christmas program entitled Worship and Spiritual Life Commit evening opened with the continua· "The Babe-The Man" closed with a SPRING GROVE tees received approval from our tion of the previous film shown and candlelight service conducted by Osawatomie, Kansas meeting to secure the services of a was entitled The Gift of Love. At the Stan Thornburg. There were refresh· Many of our people found joy and part-time person to work with our conclusion we sat down to a dinner ments and caroling to complete the peace when they accepted Christ at preschool and elementary age chil· of beef stroganoff and noodles, fol· evening. Funds from our Christmas our fall revival, with Kenneth Burn dren in a two-year program of lowed by pie dessert. The highlight card wreath made possible the pur ham as speaker. Other recent development and recruitment of of the evening, however, was the chase of a record player for class events have been guest speaker, children from the immediate church dedication by Pastor Dan Nolta of use. James Hickman, the primary and neighborhood, with planned instruc the new addition to Day Care, which Forty people attended when our junior Christmas program, and a tions and activities for their educa is part of the "Friends Building for high school youth hosted the adults playlet by the youth. A watch night tion and spiritual growth. Funds the Future" program and is the first at a skating party in Liberal. Dave service was a time of fellowship as have already been set aside to begin step toward the proposed multipur Hickman, Liberal, ministered to us in we gathered around the altar as the this work. We are praying that we pose building due for ground break· January, as he presented a special New Year approached. will find the right person to develop ing in April 1981. evening of message and song. Linda Elliot, on a year's exchange this needy area of outreach. study in Mexico City, has been Topeka Friends honored two of ORANGE ROAD RAISIN CENTER privileged to visit Everett and Aida our early day founders, as we sent a Westerville, Ohio Adrian, Michigan Clarkson, with EFM Missions. card shower to Charles Jones cele· brating his 90th birthday and to We have been blessed here at the Every Sunday school member from Marie Jones, celebrating her 82nd. Orange church with many recent the toddlers to the high school par TECUMSEH, Michigan visits by missionaries. Dr. Robert ticipated in our annual Christmas Christmas at Tecumseh Friends was Hess and Dr. Ezra DeVol were speak program. celebrated with many programs. The TULSA, Oklahoma ers for a district rally. Gilbert and An adult choir, under the direction annual Children's program was high Our WMU Christmas party was Louise George from Bolivia and of Larry Ehinger, presented the can lighted with the Junior Department centered on "Secret Prayer Sisters." Peru, James and Doris Morris of tata Come to the Manger. and adult choir presenting a musical During our gift exchange, each per Burundi, Africa, Russell and Esther The end of the year was certainly a entitled Mary Had a Little Lamb. The son revealed who had been her Zinn of Taiwan, and David and Cindy time for reminiscing and recalling of children used animal puppets to tell "secret sis" during 1979. In devo Aufrance of Hong Kong have also past events with our former pastor the Christmas story from the ani- tions, it was emphasized that the im ministered to us. Dan Frost while Pastor Esch was on mals' point of view. · portant gift we give is the gift of ourselves to one another in love and KWIATKOWSKI-KNOX. Terry Kwiatkowski prayer. and David Knox, February 15, 1980, North January brought Peter Enns, FRIENDS RECORD Valley Friends, Newberg, Oregon. author and speaker, to our pulpit. He NIVER-MATHIAS. Denise Niver and Mark gave lls a provocative message on Mathias, December 15, 1979, Canton, Ohio. the harmony of the body (of Christ) In BIRTHS SALES-To A. J. and Kim Sales, a poetic verse. daughter, Angie Marie, January 9, 1980, NORTON-MADDEN. Robert G. Norton and Our new youth group is blossom· AHERN-To Tony and Sue Ahern, a University Friends, Wi chita, Kansas. Dawn Madden, January 19, 1980, Friends lng. At their January social, Wilbur daughter by adoption, Katherine O'Con wood, Texas. ner, January 9, 1980, Canton, Oh io. SANTEE-To Dwight and Karen Santee, a Mayfield and sons presented a son, Benjamin Roger, January 2, 1980, SANTEE-STEER. Sheila Santee and Steven gospel magic show. This was fol· BRAWNER-By adoption, to John and Sue Beloit, Ohio. Steer, December 1, 1979, Beloit, Ohio. lowed by a time of fellowship, Brawner, a daughter, Lynne Anne, October 19, 1979, and a son, Robert John, TUCKER-To Sheldon and Annette Tucker, VANDERVELDE-BATTEN. Connie Vander games, and refreshments. Later in Velde and Ralph Batten, December 21 , the month, a youth banquet was held November 4, 1979, Denver, Colorado. a son, Marc Ryan, December 30, 1979, Riverton, Kansas. 1979, Miami, Oklahoma. and officers for 1980 were elected. DOBBECK-To Ben and Linda Dobbeck, a WILLIAMS-HOLLIDAY. Betty Williams and The following Sunday these officers daughter, Miriam Elaine, February 1, 1980, WEMHOFF-To Ken and Marva Wemhoff, were installed during the evening North Valley Friends, Newberg, Oregon. Michael Holliday, November 17, 1979, a daughter, Karey Joy, January 20, 1980, Beloit, Ohio. service by the laying on of hands and Boise, Idaho. prayer. We praise the Lord for the EARLL-To Randy and Paula Thomas Earll, a daughter, Tiffany Nicole, Decem· DEATHS koinonia developing within the ber 22, 1979, Spencerville, Ohio. group. MARRIAGES BOONE-Dan Boone, 57, October 12, FORRIDER-To Keith and Vickie Forrlder, 1979, Booker, Texas. a daughter, Andrea Renee, January 18, AMOS-MORRIS. Patsy Amos and Dale UNIVERSITY FRIENDS 1980, Radnor, Oh io. Morris, October 20, 1979, Martinsville, CARTER-Gertrude B. Carter, 83, January Wichita, Kansas Virginia. 19, 1980, independence, Kansas. A new interdenominational men's HINKLE-To Mr. and Mrs. Rick Hinkle, a son, Adam Lee, December 15, 1979, BOWMAN-CHASE. Traci Bowman and KENWORTHY-J. Nyie Kenworthy, No· breakfast Bible study has been Penrose, Colorado. Douglas Chase, November 17, 1979, vember 8, 1979, Denver, Colorado. started for men at Friends and WSU. Tecumseh, Michigan. MAR DOCK-Clarence Mardock, 82, Febru· Sponsored by Phil Speary and Dan KENNEDY-To Wayne and Sandra Ken· ary 4, 1980, Newberg Friends, Oregon. Robinson, the men are studying on nedy, a son, Brent Mason, December 20, BRANTINGHAM-McCLURE. Paula Brant· 1979, University Friends, Wichita, Kansas. Ingham and Jim McClure, November 17, NOTTURNO-Andrew Russell, infant son Thursday mornings Getz's book, 1979, Martinsville, Virg inia. Building Up One Another. Kevin and of Peter and Laurel Notturno, December KING-To Earl and Marcia (Duncan) King, 19, 1979, Canton, Ohio. Deanna Frazier are providing ex a son, Michael Earl, January 12, 1980, COLE-LUPTON. Wanda Cole and Philip cellent leadership in our college Booker, Texas. Lupton, December 23, 1979, University PHILIPPY-Lewis Earl Ph i Iippy, 90, Febru· class, which meets Sunday morning Friends, Wichita, Kansas. ary 16, Newberg, Oregon. LEWIS-To Del and Lori Lewis of Kent, in their home. John Wine II recently Washington, a daughter, Alissa Michelle, GEE-SEAY. Karen Gee and Mike Seay, REPP-Viola Repp, January 4, 1980, Boise spoke to the class on the topic: " En January 3, 1980. August 11 , 1979, Martinsville, Virginia. Friends, Idaho. vironmental Law and Ethics." We RINARD-Phil Rinard, January 2, 1980, HARRIS-BRANTINGHAM. Beckl Harris are blessed and enriched by 40 new McCAIN-To Randy and Joann McCain, a Boise, Idaho. members since our last recognition son, Matthew Scott, January 16, 1980, and Samuel Brantingham, June 23, 1979, service a year ago. Smithfield, Ohio. Martinsville, Virginia. SCHWARTZ-Minnie Schwartz, January 7, 1980, Canton, Oh io. Tom Mullen of the Earlham School PONDER-To Bruce and Julie (Bales) HARRIS-ELLYSON . Lisa Harris and of Religion was in our community Ponder, a girl, Shelly Ann, January 15, Michael Ellyson, De cember 27, 1979, SHEWELL-Carl Shewell, November 26, one weekend in February. He spoke 1980, Newberg Friends, Oregon. Damascus, Ohio. 1979, Beloit, Ohio. at Friends University convocation and conducted a seminar on that Saturday, "The Church in Change." Sunday morning he spoke on the subject, "Christ, the Son of God," as a part of our Living Christ Series. The rediscovery of love VILAS, Colorado Blanche Hagerman, a long-time member of Vilas Friends, departed this life January 13, 1980, at 96 years FRIENDS of age. She was in the Lorna Linda, California, nursing home at the time of her death. MARRIAGE She and her husband were engag ed in pastoral evangelistic work in Walsh Quarterly Meeting for many years. A memorial fund has been ENCOUNTER established for Blanche and her hus band , Royal S. Hagerman, at the Vilas Friends Church. • Sponsored by the Friends Center on Family Living, Marriage Encounter is open to couples of all faiths ... helping them to go WEST MANSFIELD, Ohio more deeply into the meaning of their lives together • Marriage A revival was held recently in our Encounter weekends are designed primarily to make good church with Irene Weitert of Univer· sity Park, Iowa, as evangelist and marriages better. Randy Penhorwood of Rushylvania, Ohio, as song leader. We highly recommend both of these Christian COMING ENCOUNTER WEEKENDS: workers. Our pastor and wife, Rev. and Mrs. April 1980 May 1980 June 1980 William Ballinger, spent the month 11-1.3 IDAHO 2-4 COLORADO 6 -8 OHIO of January with their son in Califor· nia. The pulpit has been filled by 25-27 OREGON 2-4 INDIANA 6-8 SO . CALIFORNIA James Chess of Urbana, and Alma .30-June 1 1.3-15 KANSAS Marmon. Lawrence and Alma Mar· WASHINGTON 1.3-15 IDAHO mon are now making their retirement 20-22 OREGON home in West Mansfield. For Information contact . A good Men and Missions meeting Friends Marriage Encounter was held at West Mansfield recently. This quarterly meeting group has 2100 University • Wichita. Kansas 6721.3 been working on a project of buying Telephone .316 / 261 -5891 a used tractor for a youth center area in the Eastern Region.
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