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12-15-1987 Herald of Holiness Volume 76 Number 24 (1987) W. E. McCumber (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House

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'On those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned

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oecti '87 CHRISTMAS: AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE BENNER LIBRARY ------Olivet Nazarene University KANKAKEE, ILLINOIS IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME

ONE CHRISTMAS I MET AN ANGEL

'NOTHIN' . . . WITH SUGAR ON IT'

CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE PERFORMANCE OR WORSHIP

his is the season for Christmas programs and cantatas. It is a happy and enjoyable time as our congregations celebrate the birth of Jesus in song, verse, and drama. On reflection it provides an opportunity to Treview the relation between performance and worship. For, in some instances, what was once a seasonal activity, the presentation of impressive perfor­ mances, has become year-round programming. Religious performance has reached a new state of perfection and accep­ tance. Highly developed amplifying systems, coupled with skilled technicians, add to the artists’ effectiveness. Through the miracle of transcription, music of blessing and inspiration is welcomed into our homes, offices, and cars. All of this has opened a new area of “ministry” that in years gone by was only an impossible dream. How good it is to have an alternative to the other options thrust at us at every turn of the dial! As with most all new ideas and opportunities, this also has some pitfalls. The abuse of a blessing can be detrimental. We need to be aware of some of the hazards. They could lead us to a total dependence on religious perform­ ance to meet emotional and spiritual needs rather than participation in deep JERALD D. JOHNSON and meaningful acts of worship. There are times when the two must be sepa­ General Superintendent rated. In order to compete with the secular world and its attractive distractions, we may be tempted to incorporate religious entertainment into our worship traditions. Carried to an extreme, pulpits are removed, microphones neatly ar­ ranged; what was once a focal point for worship and the proclamation of God’s Word becomes a stage for religious performance. Audience participa­ tion, with the singing of many choruses without the interjection of theologi­ cally sound hymnology, may lead to a personal faith that is regulated by “the best religious show in town” rather than experience based on sound doctrine. All too often the wholesale pull-outs of segments of existing congregations are the result of performance-oriented church services. The exodus is prompted by a search for a better show. Frequently one hears where our own church has allowed a place for tal­ ented and godly religious performers. This is not to imply that such activities are not a blessing. To the contrary, they are often used to reach people for Christ. Nor is this an appeal for stilted, ritualistic, lifeless worship services. The burden being expressed here is to develop a balance in worship among God’s people. This is an appeal, then, for worship to be just that— worship. Let singers and preachers alike experience the anointing of the Holy Spirit on their min­ istry. How heartwarming to be in a service where the choir or the soloist can repeat a chorus, or a verse, without waiting for the tape to be rewound; rec­ ognizing, of course, the value and usefulness of tape backgrounds when used in good taste and moderation. How blessed when a saint, or a newborn Christian for that matter, feels free to stand and testify to the glory of God without “taking over” in a manner contrary to Scripture. Although we are still a young denomination, a Nazarene style of worship has characterized our church down through the years. Diversion from that style, either to the liturgical and ritualistic extreme on the one hand, or to the emotional extreme spurred on by human manipulation on the other, has never left a congregation satisfied and healthy. Let us do what we do best— that is, be ourselves under the authority and leadership of the Holy Spirit. And let our worship be unto Him in a manner that brings glory to His holy name. Applying these principles of worship to Christmas programming will entitle our people to God’s special blessings at this wonderful season of the year. H BENNER LIBRARY ONTENTS Olivet Nazarene University KANKAKEE, ILLINOIS ARTICLES IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME December 15, 1987 Neil E. Hightower Whole Number 3484 Volume 76, Number 24 THE HARDEST TIME OF THE YEAR Dorothy Tarrant 5 CHRISTMAS: AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Harold Ivan Smith ADVENT Editor C. Neil Strait 7 W. E. McCumber ONE CHRISTMAS I MET AN ANGEL Office Editor J. G rant S w a n k , Jr. 8 Ivan A. Beals Editorial Assistant WALK WITH THE WIND Mabel Adamson Jack C o n n 10 Contributing Editors “NOTHIN’... WITH SUGAR ON IT” Eugene L. Stowe Charles El. Strickland Carolyn Merrifield 12 William M. Greathouse MERRY XMAS Jerald D. Johnson John A. Knight B etty Ross 13 Raymond W. Hum TRAINING NOW- -MORE THAN EVER! D a v id J. Felter 14 INCREDIBLE LOVE R o y Stults 20 Cover Photo: by Jim Kersten COLUMNS Media Services PERFORMANCE OR WORSHIP General Superintendent Jerald D. Johnson 2 “BECAUSE YOU GAVE .. Students Are Equipped— Mildred Gibson Bible Quotations in this issue: NAZARENE ROOTS: Unidentified quotations are “MOVEMENT JOURNALISM” AND C. J. KINNE 11 from the KJV. Q uotations from the following trans­ lations are used by permis­ THE JABEZ PRINCIPLE sion. Book Brief— Harold Ivan Smith 15 (NIV) From The Holy Bible, New International Version, THE EDITOR’S STANDPOINT copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bi­ W. E. M c C u m b e r 16 ble Society. BY ALL MEANS Rejected, Accepted—Juanita Buchanan 19 POEMS HERALD OF HOLINESS (USPS 241-440) is published COME, JESUS . . . Sara Ann DuBose semimonthly by NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE, 2923 WE ESTEEMED HIM NOT E. Ruth Glover T R O O S T AVE., KANSAS CITY, MO 64109. Editorial CHRISTMAS GIFT Lucille Gardner offices at 6401 The Paseo, Kansas City, MO 64131. Ad­ Merle Lamprecht dress all correspondence con­ CHRISTMAS IN CAPE TOWN 13 cerning subscriptions to Naza­ rene Publishing H ouse, P.O. ONE STAR IS SHINING STILL Charles Hastings Smith 19 Box 419527, Kansas City, MO 64141. Copyright 1987 by Nazarene Publishing House. POSTMASTER: DEPARTMENTS Please send change of address to H erald o f Holiness, P.O. ANSWER CORNER 18 NEWS OF RELIGION 33 Box 419527, Kansas City, MO 64141. SUBSCRIPTION LETTERS 18 LATE NEWS 35 PRICE: $7.50 per year. Sec­ IN THE NEWS 21 ond-class postage paid in Kan­ sas City, M o. Litho in U.S.A. IN THE FULLNESS od’s Word declares that “when God’s redeeming action came at the the fullness of the time was right time for the outcasts of Adam’s come, God sent forth his Son, OF THE race. Under bondage to sin, and to a Gmade of a woman, made under the law, powerless law, by G od’s grace we have to redeem them that were under the law, been made heirs of the fullness of grace that we might receive the adoption of by the Spirit of holiness. The law was un­ sons” (Galatians 4:4-5). able to declare us part of God’s family. A poignant illustration of this exactness However, the gospel of G od’s Son wiped and orderliness of God came to me today out the charges of insurrection that were as I opened my mail. One of the letters, posted or filed against us, and we became postmarked in Winnipeg and in a very eligible for adoption. plain envelope with no return address, God’s redeeming grace has transformed impressed me. Upon opening it, 1 saw us from slaves to children; thereby, we are that it was from the Lieutenant-Governor free and able to call God father, or even Designate of the Province of Manitoba. ------o ------more spiritually close, “Daddy.” (That’s He was responding to my invitation to what “Abba” means in the Hebrew! cf. present the Governor General’s “Silver Our bondage is broken, Galatians 4:7.) Our bondage is broken, Medal" to an outstanding graduate at our and we have become and we have become heirs, heirs to the commencement next April. fullness of time, who is none other than Not yet installed as Lieutenant- heirs, heirs to the Jesus the Christ. Governor, the Queen’s representative in fullness of time, Our inheritance is God himself, and the Manitoba, His Honour could not yet treasures of heaven. Wherever we go, and avail himself of the official stationery, nor who is none other whatever our circumstance, by repentance yet move into the official residence, nor than Jesus the Christ. and faith we have access to the blessings yet know his official schedule for the of the Eternal Word. The access key or New Year. But on the 12th of December, ated foundations of the world. From the personal signature number of our ac­ the day of his installation, that all will Bethlehem on, He was in full inheritance count with God is Jesus. He is one of us, have changed. His fullness of time will of the predicament. because made of a woman through the have come. His stationery will show it in His coming was adequately timed for Holy Spirit. Yet He is one with God, as his next reply, as will also his place of res­ us poor sinners of Adam’s race. Born un­ eternal Son. What more could time hold idence and knowledge of schedule. der law, whether Mosaic or the law writ­ for us than the fullness of the legacy of God had a time, a perfect time for this ten on our consciences, we were guilty of the Son? Our inheritance is even now be­ earth, when Jesus should be born. He was covenant-breaking. He came to redeem ing compounded for that eternal day. incarnated by the Holy Spirit in the us, the alienated, and give us back our Oh, yes, I just had a letter from the womb of the virgin Mary. He took our birthright of being God’s “sons.” Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba. It was nature; He laid hold of our environment; God’s time is still “full,” for the age of on the gold-leaf stationery of the Queen’s He received the limits and frustrations of the Son is still in force. All who will re­ representative, and originated from Gov­ our infirmities. He never lost His God- ceive Him may be adopted! Until Jesus ernment House. He is now in possession hood, but He emptied himself of the ac­ comes again, we live in the fullness of of his office, and possessor of his sched­ coutrements of divinity, according to Phi- time. ule. But even more important, just this lippians 2:7. His humanity was as real as Full-time is God’s time. It is ripe time, morning early, I heard from heaven, from His deity, for He took the essential attri­ that is time that has come to the full the presence of Almighty God. And the butes of man as well as retaining the es­ term of its fruition. It is time that has be­ Holy Spirit freshly communicated the fact sential attributes of God. come complete, in the sense that its pur­ that my spiritual inheritance is intact. He was installed as the Savior of hu­ pose and its nature are mature. The in­ How wonderful is the fullness of God’s manity by the angelic choirs bursting tended use of a particular segment of time and His presence! H forth in praise over Bethlehem hills, scar­ time has blossomed into the reality that ing shepherds out of their wits, and by God planned. It is the time of oppor­ BY NEIL E. HIGHTOWER the lowing of cattle in a ntanger-cave. He tunity, for grasping the purpose that is in President o f C anadian Nazarene College had been the Savior-designate at the cre- line with God’s intention. in 'Winnipeg, Manitoba.

4 Herald of Holiness/December 15, I 9X THE

OF TH E YEAR

amily Christmas—we see so many pictures of laughing children, fire­ light, goodwill and harmony, and Fgently falling snow. For a great many fam­ ilies this Norman Rockwell view of Christmas is very different from reality. Christmas for many is the hardest time of year, in part because of the glaring con­ trast between their experience and the ro­ manticized image of Christmas projected by television specials and women’s maga­ zines. For millions of families, their struggles to put enough food on the table and pay utility bills are mocked by commercials urging them to buy more and more ex­ pensive toys. The working mother, whose energy barely seems enough for the de­ mands of the rest of the year, grows in­ ties— those strongest of all bonds that with Him about our hurts, He supports creasingly frazzled as she tries to produce can bring us great joy and comfort as well us in our struggles and does not expect all those little extras that are expected of as deep and lasting pain. us to hide from Him behind a false front every good mother at Christmas time. It is at Christmas that the pain of frac­ of Christmas cheer. Families hurting from a chronic illness, or tured family relationships is perhaps most 1 look at my friend’s German hand- a recent devastating loss through death or keenly felt— the pain of children whose carved manger scene with new eyes. The divorce, feel alienated by the cheerfulness parents have neglected or abused them, or little grouping of Mary, Joseph, and the of society that expects them to put on a failed to accept or affirm them; the pain Baby speaks to me of God’s compassion brave front for the holidays. of parents whose children have opposed for the families of the world. I am re­ The world that Jesus came into as a or scorned or ignored them; the pain of minded that He calls me to be a light in baby was a dark and cruel place. He husbands and wives who have forgotten the darkness, to demonstrate that His chose to come to working-class parents in how to care for each other and now con­ love makes a difference, to be sensitive to an enemy-occupied country. He was born centrate on building shells for self­ those around me who are hurting, to in a stable, a temporary homeless shelter. protection. In families marked by tension show His love and care to some family Soon His parents became refugees, fleeing and hostility, or merely by an inability to for whom Christmas could be one of the Herod’s wrath, seeking sanctuary in an express to each other individual feelings hardest times of the year. H alien land. The circumstances of Jesus’ and hopes and needs, those family get- birth suggest that God chose to identify togethers at Christmas are endured be­ BY DOROTHY TARRANT with the poor, the powerless, the needy. hind smiling masks. An associate professor and a member of Emmanuel means God with us— in the Jesus came as the light for our dark­ the counseling staff at Eastern Nazarene tough times of life. ness. He came to show us the Father. His College in Quincy, Massachusetts. Jesus was bom into a family, a godly death on the Cross is a demonstration of family specially prepared to love Him and God’s unconditional love for us. The best care for His human childhood needs. Yet of human relationships will disappoint even in this best of families Jesus knew our need to be loved and understood. C ome, jesus... the frustration of parents who could not God’s love for us is perfect, compassion­ fully understand His adolescence and ate, individual, understanding, constant. Come, Jesus, w'ho struggled with letting Him go; He Once we begin to experience this love as grieved the death of Joseph, a beloved fa­ the foundation of our individual and fam­ to the stable of ther; He experienced the disappointment ily lives, then we can begin to hope for my heart. of His own brothers not believing in Him healing, for forgiveness, for reconciliation. Transform the and His mission; He faced the difficult The process may be slow, we may need to wood, hay, and stubble draw on outside support and help, but choice between caring for His family and into a throne needing to follow His own vocation. Jesus the good news of Christmas is that God grew up to understand the force of family cares about our pain, we can be honest where You can work and reign. —SARA ANN DuBOSE 5 Montgomery, Alabama or many, 1907 promised a bleak Christmas; for others, perhaps their last Christmas. Tuberculosis or con­ sumption was spreading; everyone knew' someone suf­ Ffering with the disease. W ho would be next to come down with it? Any cough produced a worried glance, a quick explanation. CHRISTMAS: Tuberculosis was fatal in one out of seven cases and certainly no respecter of person. The disease affected every social and eco­ nomic class. Dr. Joseph Wales faced an immediate crisis at his tuberculosis “laboratory”— better called a shack— in the hills outside Wil­ mington, Del. He desperately needed money to keep it open. People had strange ideas about TB— maybe the patient de­ served it. Some were hesitant to be too compassionate. Wales approached his cousin, Emily Bissell. “Could you do some­ thing?” What? He wasn’t sure. How could a spinster make a difference with a disease as prevalent as tuberculosis? Didn’t she need to be a doctor or a nurse or a scientist to make a difference? No. Clearly, he had asked the right person. Emily’s compassion had been shaped by her Sunday School teacher in Wilmington, Del., who urged Emily to visit in the homes of the city’s needy. The visits impacted Emily profoundly. In 1899, Emily had organized the city’s first free kindergarten as well as the Boys’ Brigades, a forerunner of the Boy Scouts. She opened the first public playground for children in the state of Delaware. She was a temperance advocate. As she considered her response to Dr. Wales’ request, Miss Bissell remembered an article she had read. The Danish govern­ ment each year sold “Christmas seals” to finance their sani­ tariums for children with TB. Christmas would soon be coming. If that idea worked in Denmark, it would work in Wilmington. She wrote the American Red Cross for permission to use theit well-known symbol, then consulted with artists in the adver­ tising department of the Du Pont Company. So far, so good. When she suggested to the postmaster general that the post of­ fice sell the stamps, she got a prompt “No.” However, he would permit volunteers to sell the stamps in the lobby of the post of­ fices. On December 7, 1907, she set up her booth in the Wilming­ ton, Del., post office, selling her Christmas seals for a penny each. The first year’s sales produced $3,000. Emily was elated. Opportunity Many people would have been satisfied with that amount and moved on to a new project. Not Miss Bissell! If the seals sold in Wilmington, seals would sell elsewhere. So she recruited the ex­ pertise of Mabel T. Broadman of the American Red Cross for the 1908 national campaign. to Make a About $135,000 worth of seals (a small fortune in those days) was sold. It was a long way from her home to the TB patients. Not ev­ eryone thought it was the right thing for a single, refined, Chris­ tian woman to do. Emily ignored her critics. Tuberculosis found its biggest enemy in one determined Christian single adult. Difference One woman, one single woman, didn’t wring her hands and say, “But what can I do?” She saw an opportunity in what some labeled “misfortune" and responded creatively. Eighty years later millions of dollars have been raised through Miss Emily’s “idea.” Tuberculosis is something of a rare disease; few die of it. Today, Christmas Seals raise money for research on a variety of lung diseases. Christmas Seals are a living reminder that one Christian can make a difference. This Christmas could be your opportunity to make a difference. The story of Emily Bissell reminds me of a point often made by Henrietta Mears: “We begin our Christian life, our Christian

6 Herald of Holiness/December 15, I9S? ministry, where we are, and let God lead us from that moment on.” Many sec ministry beginning when I get to point B, C, or per­ haps D. Emily Bissell understood her launch point to be Wil­ mington. Emily Bissell is an example of the benefits of the Sunday School. Who was that teacher that so impacted her? We do not know her name but God does. Sometimes the end of a calendar year causes teachers to question their effectiveness. But you need to remember: Some of the results of your time before a class are not always visible. Emily Bissell is a reminder of the “dangers” of reading. If she had never read about the work of the Danish Christmas seals, would she have developed the American version? Sometimes, through an article or a book, the Lord plants a seed. Then He carefully tends that seed, sometimes for a long time. Eventually, in His season, the seed comes to life. I like Paul's instruction to Titus: “Do everything you can to help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way and see that they have everything they need" (Titus 3:13, NIV, italics added). You see, God intends that, even in the Christmas season, we not n December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright were be content to be spectators in the ministry and dreams of oth­ able to keep their handbuilt airplane in the air for 59 ers, but participants. God intends that Christians make a differ­ seconds. It was a moment that changed history. In ence. O their excitement, they sent a telegram to their sister in Dayton, Emily Bissell participated in Joseph Wales' work. Whose Ohio, stating: “First sustained flight today in 59 seconds. Hope dream and work are you participating in? H to be home for Christmas.” Their sister was so excited by the news that she took the tele­ BY HAROLD IVAN SM ITH gram to the editor of the local newspaper. The next morning the A Nazarene layman, free-lance writer, and frequent speaker at headlines simply said: “Popular local bicycle merchants to be seminars and conventions. He resides in Kansas City, Missouri. home for holidays!” (Related by Ken Crossman, “Questions Jesus Asked—Who Will Answer”) The biggest news of the time passed without notice. A news­ paper editor missed the point. It is easy to miss great spiritual moments. The big gets lost amidst the little. The spiritual is lost amidst the earthly. Jesus WE ESTEEMED HIM NOT comes with no pretensions, no fanfare, no marching army. He (ISAIAH 53:3) comes in love, with gentle voice and tender call. It is easy to miss Him. Why are no rich and costly robes Advent maybe needs to be a time to slow the pace, tune the Spread on the manger bed? heart, to listen, to feel, to see, to wait. And amidst the waiting and the listening, He comes! And when He comes, all is And why does only straw shine golden changed! On the crownless head? Because He is so often expected in fantastic ways, shattering These courtiers on bended knee— experiences, earthshaking dramas, or emotional moments, we What mean these shepherds' crooks forget that He may be present in stillness, quiet moments, com­ mon experiences, and in daily events. Within their workworn hands? The Advent is surely a time for His presence, His joy, and His And why do only cows and donkeys hope. For if the Advent is to mean what it is supposed to mean, View the scene from shadowed stands? then we must see Him in our daily living, in the tears and com­ Where are the heralds, mon traumas, in the ordinary, and in the small. For if God is too big to validate himself in these, He is not the God you and I Running with the happy word? seek. Where are the subjects, But the hope of the Advent, the good news of it all, is that Riotous in celebration God is there in all the experiences and episodes of daily exis­ Of the little Lord? tence. He is there wanting to be Lord, Helper, Healer, Savior, and Comforter. He is there wanting to enter into our lives, just Majesty is sleeping in a stable, as He tried to do those years ago at the first Advent. Divinity in swaddling bands is dressed, At that first Advent God had to seek another place, another Omnipotence is capsuled in a baby, entrance into His world. May He find it in your heart and mind this Advent time. H And finds its comfort at a mother's breast. Lord of lords and Kings of kings—but He BY C. NEIL STRAIT Superintendent of the Michigan District, residing in Grand Rap­ Chose to be born a commoner ... ids, Michigan. Like me. —E. RUTH GLOVER Lake Elsinore, California Herald of Holiness/December 15, 19 X 7 7 t was the most depressing Christmas of my life. My wife and I had been married for nine years. Since our second year together, she had been ill. Now she was facing brain surgery. IHer illness forced me to leave my midwest pastorate. We moved to my in­ laws’ home in New England. Medical tests followed. Then the day of surgery. It was Christmas, but it did not seem like Christmas to me. Traditional lights were glistening everywhere and churches were abuzz with excitement, but I felt a coldness in my heart akin to the freezing rains that hit me as 1 trudged uphill to the hospital. A world-respected physician, Dr. James I.. Poppen of New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, believed the operation would relieve my wife’s constant head pain. He would place a shunt in her head, connecting the brain to the heart for the release of i pressure under her skull. I spent many hours in the hospital’s chapel. 1 recall viv- J idly bathing in the quietness of that attractive space as I sought God’s peace for my troubled soul. Our only daughter was in Connecticut with her grandparents while my wife and I endured a morbid holiday. 1 could hardly believe that the season could turn so dismal. The hospital is located atop a city hill. To get there one must climb a nar­ row street often treacherous with December’s ice. 1 drove up that tiny passage each day to be near my wife. But where would I stay while in the area? Our Christmas Day would be spent in the old section of the hospital with its barren walls and spooky al­ coves. But where would 1 sleep at night? An unmarried friend of ours lived in a suburb nearby. Knowing that Pris­ cilla would be going through the ordeal of surgery and that I would be stranded in a strange city, she invited me to stay over at her apartment. 1 took her up on her invitation. During the day, she worked as secretary to the dean of students at our col­ lege in Quincy. In the evenings, she was there waiting for me with her genuine laughter and a cup of hot tea. I needed both. One night when I left the hospital, 1 discovered that my tire was flat. There I was, parked on the top of this lonely mound of concrete. My feet and hands were freezing in the awful winds. At my feet was a tire that had gone on strike—at Christmas, no less. After changing it, I was in no mood for celebrating any holiday, let alone the most meaningful one of the year. I was anxious to ditch it all and get on with a. new year, praying that it would be a lot better than the one we had just staggered through. However, when 1 arrived at Marian’s apartment, I discovered that she was in a festive mood. The tiny apartment was lighted throughout. Simple refresh­ ments were waiting on the small table. And her heart was merry. I thanked God for the pull-out couch in the den that was awaiting me. And 1 was particularly grateful for this warm abode where I could dry out my dampened spirit. One “Marian, you need some practical additions to this place,” I said one eve­ ning while taking stock of her living quarters. I noticed that there were a number of items missing from her kitchen— tools, baskets, racks for this and that. r “Oh, 1 know. And I could have bought them a long time ago, but I guess I Christmas never got around to it," she replied. I knew one reason that she had not gotten them was because she gave a lot of her money to college students in need. One by one she would have them into her place to feed them, listen to them, and pray with them. ■ I M et An In fact, she became so popular with the students that they set aside a spe­ cial day one year and named it after her. They made her the guest of honor in that day’s chapel service, presenting her with a gift from the whole student body. Angel So 1 knew why.she was missing one convenient device after another. There­ fore, when returning one night from the hospital, I decided the Lord was nudging me to pack a collection of household gadgets into a large plastic clothes carrier. I must have looked strange walking into that apartment building with this array of items. Nevertheless, I had more of a Christmas feeling as 1 climbed the several flights of stairs to her door on the top floor. I knocked. She opened the door and I rushed in with my assortment of gifts. One by one I lifted them into the air for her to see. (I had no time to wrap them.) She smiled as she handled each present with delight and wonder. I darted into one space after another, suggesting just where she could use each HRISTMAS GIFT present. Soon the kitchen and living room were adorned with new objects c that spelled my thanksgiving at Christmastime. Untie the wrappings. The surgery on my wife was over. There was a long recuperation period yet Behold this gift— to get through. It would be well into January before she could be- released a tiny form in swaddling clothes from the hospital for a return trip to Connecticut. who cries for food, Yet in the midst of it all, I felt that the awful loneliness of the city was be­ ginning to ebb for both of us. We were being buoyed with new hope for the and yet so soon future. His hands will feed a multitude “But why did you buy all these things?” Marian asked. “You can’t afford and heal the sick, the lame, the blind. these.” His words will fill the hungry souls She was right, of course. But I could not afford to have done otherwise. I knew that without her hospitality to me at Christmas, I could not have made of billions still unborn; it. His life will light dark human paths; “Marian, it’s the least I can do for you. You have been so kind to me that I His blood erase all stains of sin; just felt I had to do something to say thanks. So this is it.” His resurrection give unending life; She broke into laughter and walked toward the teapot again, ready to pour me a cup. I saw tears in her eyes as she moved into the kitchen. I felt that she His intercession bring men to God's throne; read me far better than 1 was able to express my feelings in words. After all, I His preparation make a place was only one of many young persons she had helped through the years. for each redeemed throughout eternity. As I sipped the steaming tea, I looked at her, framed against the Christmas lights shining from the living room window. The glow was unmistakable. It Accept this gift from God was then that I knew it to be true. In the midst of my confusion and heart­ ache, God had sent me an angel at Christmastime. send to you in love. Now I know that no Christmas can ever be too bleak for Him. His mes­ sengers are still at work, no matter how dark the times. H. —LUCILLE GARDNER San Jose, California J. GRANT SWANK, JR. Pastor of the Walpole, Massachusetts, Church of the Nazarene.

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sians are an education-oriented so­ to purchase a valuable collection of friends of the seminary who have donated ciety. They are very much aware books, mostly written from the Wesleyan many volumes of good used books to the of the importance of an earned theological standpoint, which included library. These are invaluable. But because Adegree. Sometimes, I think, obtaining themany historical books. you gave, there is also a generous yearly degree is more important than applying Over the campus intercom recently, Dr. allocation from General Budget especially what the student has learned. Fairbanks joyfully announced that APNTS designated for the selection and purchase At Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological had just been given official recognition by of new literature and equipment. Because Seminary the degree toward which our the Department of Education, Culture, you gave, APNTS students and faculty are students are striving is, we believe, also an and Sports. This is a vital forward step, being equipped with tools for learning, affirmation of their commitment to being increasing the possiblity that other na­ and they are thankfully taking advantage fully equipped for the ministry to which tions will recognize APNTS as an accred­ of them. God has called them. ited graduate level institution. We thank In April, 18 students received degrees Because you gave, our seminary has a God for this answer to prayer. Many fac­ in the second annual graduation ceremo­ growing library of scholarly materials nec­ tors entered into the decision of this nies. Of this number, one is going on to­ essary for the graduate level student committee. Our facilities and tools were ward a doctoral program, four are now needs. Whether research is needed for re­ examined and evaluated, including the li­ teaching in Nazarene Bible colleges, and ports, leadership training, or preparing brary. Because you gave, an adequate li­ 13 arc in pastoral ministry. We are thank­ sermons, resource material is available. brary is becoming a reality and was recog­ ful for your part in the early success of Because you gave, Dr. LeBron Fair­ nized as a part of an ongoing growth APNTS. H banks, our president, has been able to or­ process. We now have close to 17,000 BY MILDRED GIBSON der thousands of books from a source in volumes on the shelves. She and her husband, Cordan, are mis- Europe which handles complete libraries We are thankful for the generosity of sionaries on specialized assignment to the on given subjects. Last year we were able Nazarene colleges, retired elders, and Philippines.

Herald of Holiness/December 15 , 19S7 9 had a car! This year, I thought, I'll surely get a nice present. Why, it could he some­ thing worth a whole dollar. He might buy me a cap pistol! Maybe even a pair of leather gloves. Howard always wore WALK WITH leather gloves during the winter. On that last day of school, the Christ­ mas program over, our teacher passed out the gifts. My mother managed somehow to buy for Bonnie a box of handker­ THE WIND chiefs. Bonnie opened her gift, looked shyly at me, and smiled. That pleased me. I kept waiting for my name to be called. Finally just one big present remained. Mine. No! It went to another. Suddenly 1 felt numb. Shocked. Howard hadn’t bought me anything. Nothing. And I had hoped . . . The teacher wished us “Merry Christ­ mas” and dismissed the class. Walking the tracks toward home, 1 passed the little combination post office and country store. Howard came out the door. “Hey, Jack! Wait a minute,” he called. I stopped. He came up with outstretched hand. The gloved hand held a candy bar. “Here. I bought you something for Christmas." popped the last bite of a candy bar I took the nickel candy bar. Howard You w on’t have into my mouth and chewed it an­ left me standing there staring alternately grily. Just a while ago we had sung at his retreating figure and the candy bar. to face into the I“Jingle Bells” and “Joy to the World” in Ripping the candy wrapper back, I took a the schoolhouse, but I had nothing to be large bite. The turmoil within wouldn’t bitter wind of joyful about. Christmas was only three allow me to enjoy it. days away. I had watched Howard climb Walking homeward into the wind, I the bank from the railroad where 1 stood, brushed tears from my cheeks with one disa ppoin tmen t. cross the road, and take the drive up to cold, knuckle-cracked hand, and thrust it their white house on the hill. In my back deep into the pocket of my denim Walk with the thoughts 1 hurled nasty words after him. jacket. A chilling wind in your face brings Squeezing the candy wrapper in a tears to your eyes. The wind of bitter dis­ wind o f clenched fist, I dropped the crumpled ball appointment was far colder than that between two railroad crossties and blowing up the valley. It wasn’t so much stomped it into the gravel under the heel that Howard hadn’t bought me the most divine Love. of my brogan. It wasn’t fair! The Great expensive gift of all given that day; rather Depression of the 1930s wasn’t some­ it was his attitude that I really wasn’t thing that an eight-year-old, caught in the worth anything— even a nickel gift was grip of its talons of poverty, understood. given grudgingly. No one should be sub­ Still, what was happening to me wasn’t jected to deprecation. To make another right. It couldn’t be! Howard disappeared human being feel worthless intentionally behind their house. 1 faced into the cold is surely a sin against mankind, if not Appalachian wind blowing up Left Beaver against God. Perhaps both. Many who Creek and started down the railroad, tak­ lived then, and many who live now in af­ ing two ties at a stride. fluence would prefer not to be reminded This drama on the railroad was the that those in poor circumstances had the consummation of events that had begun same grandparents as they. two weeks earlier in our two-room coun­ Years later 1 met a Man who had been try school. According to custom each stu­ treated tar worse than I. He understood dent had put his or her name on a slip of bitter disappointments. His name was paper and dropped it into a hat. We then Jesus, whose birth we celebrate at Christ­ “drew names." Each would buy a present mas. He reminded me that, "He came for the person whose name was drawn, to unto his own, and his own received him be placed under the Christmas tree and not” (John 1:1 1). He came to help and presented on the last day of school before heal. His own in Nazareth “. . . thrust the holidays. I had drawn Bonnie’s. Word him out of the city, and led him unto the gets around. I learned that Howard, a brow of the hill whereon their city was cousin of mine, had my name. His dad built, that they might cast him down worked for the gas company. They even headlong” (Luke 4:29). Others mockingly

10 Herald of Holiness December I \ lds~ said, “Can there any good thing come out don’t we? Yet the One whose birthday we love to expect something under the of Nazareth?” (John 1:46). He was from celebrate said, “It is more blessed to give Christmas tree that won’t be there. the other side of the tracks also. He than to receive” (Acts 20:35). Without Why not plan Christmas activities cen­ loved. They hated. the love imparted by the Spirit of the One tered around togetherness and sharing? He asked me to “Love your enemies, who said that, it’s hard for adults to ac­ Make cookies or popcorn balls. Buy nuts bless them that curse you, do good to cept, and even harder for children to in the shell for making fudge and have a them that hate you, and pray for them comprehend. But therein lies the solution nutcracking time. The best Christmases which despitefully use you, and persecute to disappointment— be a giver. Enjoy see­ leave fond thoughts of family and you” (Matthew 5:44). 1 found I could do ing others happy and excited with gifts friends— not things. Most disappoint­ that by His grace and with His example given. Give out of love. Give with no ex­ ments are over things. and Spirit of love as my guide. Yet 1 can­ pectation of reward or recognition. Give Want to have a Christmas without dis­ not help but remember that drama of bit­ because He gave. appointments? Surely you do. Then make ter disappointment at Christmas, although Parents shouldn't lead their children to it one with sensible activities, sensible more than half a century has passed. We expect more in Christmas gifts than they gifts, and a central sense of Christ’s pres­ are products of our past. Ofttimes we are can afford. The road to post-holiday dis­ ence and love. You won’t have to face changed products by G od’s grace, but still appointment and even depression may be into the bitter wind of disappointment. products. Many will be disappointed this paved with plastic credit cards. Wouldn’t Walk with the wind of divine Love. Tears year as Christmas comes and goes— it be better to find out what each son or at Christmas will then be tears of joy and disappointed children and disappointed daughter really wants? Not a lot of things, happiness, truly to be treasured. H adults. Can these disappointments be but one central item. If that “want” is un­ eliminated or alleviated? 1 think so. reasonable for the child or unaffordable BY JACK CONN In our materialistic society we are con­ for the parents, provide guidance for an A free-lance writer who resides in Nash­ ditioned to want “things." We like gifts, alternate selection. Don’t lead those you ville, Tennessee.

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“MOVEMENT senger Company, accepting a salary of less than half his previous one. In 1911, three years after the merger of regional bodies JOURNALISM” into the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene, Kinne played a AND C.J. KINNE leading role in bringing together his publishing company with the Pentecostal Advocate Company of Greenville, Tex., to form the Pentecostal Nazarene Publishing House. Kinne was involved in selecting Kansas City as the site for the new venture, and he organized the company, purchased its equipment, and began publishing the church’s paper and literature under the restraints of limited finances. C. A. McConnell, who worked closely with him during these years, wrote that Kinne “is the Columbus of our publishing in­ terests. He knew that if the recently merged streams of holiness thought and experience from the West, the East, and the South C. J. Kinne as he appeared in should ever become a denomination, one in ideas as well as in a 1914 issue of The Linotype Bulletin, a manufacturing ideals, it would be such through the literature of a common journal. publishing house. Kinne’s idea became a purpose, and the pur­ pose a fact. . . . To those of us who were his coworkers in the After his first wife died in the mid-1920s. Kinne married beginning, how near it appeared to be the ‘making of bricks Susan Bresee. daughter of without straw’—or clay. P. F. Bresee. “That was the spring of the deep snow. How cold it was in that old residence building, with its two floors, attic, and base­ n his study of the populist movement of the late 19th cen­ ment. Down in that dark basement were finally installed a cylin­ tury, social historian Lawrence Goodwyn indentified crit­ der press, a job press, a second-hand linotype machine, two im­ ical factors in the success or failure of any movement seek­ posing stones, and a small cabinet of type. I ing to organize itself and propagate a distinctive ideology that “Kinne was General Manager— that is, all the planning, all the contrasts with established patterns of thought. One such factor hard jobs, all the disagreeable ones, he seemed to consider his was the necessity of internal lines of communication to facilitate own particular property. What a man Kinne was! and how we the mass educational processes and to carry news of internal de­ loved him. It is not a figure of speech to say that he put his life velopments in the movement’s struggle to define its purpose and into the foundation of the Publishing House.” mission. In the Wesleyan-holiness agitation of the same period, After leaving the publishing house, Kinne made the building holiness journalism played this role of promoting cohesion and of Bresee Memorial Hospital in China his special project, labor­ solidarity, and continued to do so during the turn-of-the-century ing on it throughout the 1920s until its completion. transition from “a holiness movement” to “holiness churches.” As the 75th anniversary year of the Nazarene Publishing One who instinctively understood the role of the press in de­ House closes, it is worth a moment’s reflection on the man who veloping a sense of connectional identity was Clarence J. Kinne. more than any other was its founder. Born in Iowa in 1869, Kinne became a Methodist preacher (Sources: Herald of Holiness, November 16, 1932; April 17, 1937. Photographs: C. J. Kinne around 1890 and united with Bresee’s West Coast movement in Files and NPH Collection). 1905, when he became business manager of the Nazarene Mes­ STAN INGERSOL, Archivist

Herald nf Holiness December IS, ll)S7 11 f j v h ill t WITH sum OH IT DENNIS THE MENACE ennis, that sage of comic Psalmist knew what it meant to strip fame, makes wise chew on G od’s Word. Psalm observations from his 119:97-104 gives us some in­ Dlofty pinnacle of wisdom as our sight into the results of his favorite perennial five-year-old. study habits: Today he and Joey are licking at • I love your law giant cones of that pink fluffy • I meditate on it all day long stuff known as cotton candy. • Your commands make me Dennis says, mid-lick, “It wiser than my enemies tastes like nothin’ . . . with sugar • I have more insight than all on it.” What if, instead of the my teachers, for I meditate fair scene Hank Ketcham drew on your statutes in the background, he had • 1 have kept my feet from ev­ drawn a picture of a Sunday ery evil path so that I might morning congregation? A picture obey your Word of a weekly Bible study? A pic­ • 1 have not departed from ture of someone at their morn­ your law's, for you yourself ing devotions? A picture of the have taught me last Christian concert in your • I gain understanding from community? your precepts; therefore 1 There seems to be a pervasive hate every wrong path attitude among Christians that Tucked into this list of benefits “if it’s hard, I don’t want to do from deep study is this verse: it.” If the Sunday morning ser­ “How sweet are your words to mon takes thought and effort to my taste, sweeter than honey to understand, I’ll volunteer for my mouth!” (v. 103, NIV). "IT TASTES LIKE NOTHIN1....W ITH SU6ARON IT. nursery duty. If the weekly Bible Time and effort are required study gets beyond superficial for such study, but there is sus­ conversation and social niceties, tenance in the depths of God’s I’ll opt for cleaning the oven. If Word for us. Whether in public consistent Sunday evening church attendance becomes too bur­ worship or private devotions, the time spent in real study is the densome, I’ll watch the newspapers to see who's having a film or meat and potatoes of Christian existence. When the junk food a concert and I’ll attend that instead. Or maybe I'll stay home is left at the vendor’s stand, and true spiritual nutrition is and watch the tube . . . there’s always a good family show on worked for, the benefits are those the Psalmist had: Sunday nights. Don’t misunderstand. Films and concerts are • an abiding love for the Word great, but only as a oncc-in-a-while treat. Cotton candy gets old • an ability to meditate on it for long periods of time quick. In fact, cotton candy sort of withers away all by itself • Godly wisdom even if it isn’t eaten. The humidity in the air is enough to con­ • fresh insights sume it, and what is left is an unappetizing glob. • understanding and discernment Remember Paul? He was a little frustrated at cotton candy • avoidance of evil ways eaters. He called them something different, but meant the same. • faithfulness to the commandments of God Talking to the Corinthians he said, “Brothers . . . I gave you • a hatred of the wrong milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it” (1 Corin­ And in it all, God provides just that right proportion of sweet­ thians 3:2, NIV). Solid food— something to chew on. The ness as an extra benefit of the study of His Word.

12 Herald of Holiness December IS, 1987 Let's not settle for “Nothin’ . . . with sugar on it.” God has so God wants us to move beyond childish things and strive to at­ much for us. He desires and provides all that we need to be tain that wonderful balance of the mature Christian life: child­ healthy, fit, strong Christians—Christians who are sustained by like, but not childish. Proverbs 25:27 cautions, “It is not good the Word, who can draw on that strength for the trials and test­ to eat too much honey” (NIV), nor is it good for us to live on ings of life; Christians who possess the endurance needed to live, the fluff of life. Spiritual nutrition is there for each of us, if we to their final day on earth, a life pleasing and acceptable to don’t settle for “nothin’ . . . with sugar on it.” H Jesus. He is the One who said, “. .. it is my Father who gives DENNIS THE MENACE® used by permission of Hank Ketcham and © by News America you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he Syndicate. who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world” (John 6:32-33, NIV). BY CAROLYN J. MERRIFIELD Dennis can be forever that lovable, perpetual five-year-old, but A free-lance writer. She resides in Port Orchard, Washington. MAS

11 days past 1 would never write means Christ. Oh, those poor agnostics, During the Christmas season, as we see Xmas. 1 believed in putting Christ in or atheists, what shall they do? Every way more and more Xs filling in where Christ Christmas, just like all the Christian they turn there is a reminder. . . . should be, we need to be reminded that literature says. It takes a lot less time to An X ray: sees right through us; an ap­ the world can’t take Him away. In fact, it make an X than to write “Christ.” Even propriate description for Christ. seems like the harder they try, the more so, lazy as I am, I wouldn’t think of re­ He shines through from unsuspecting X marks the spot: that’s just what He placing Christ with an X — that’s sooo places. They couldn’t kill Him years ago does. Christ marks the spot in our life worldly! so why would they think they could “X” when the old, and the dirty, and the But then one day I heard a minister say Him out now? worn-out become the new, and the clean, that X is a symbol of Christ. I found that Xalt the Lord Jesus and the everlasting. hard to believe so I got out my 12-pound To His Xcellent position in your life. dictionary and looked for myself. I won­ And the big X at a railroad crossing Share His Xciting news, dered if Webster knew about this w on­ certainly can be a reminder to stop— Xpress His wonderful love, derful discovery, or if this was just a new look— listen— to Christ each day. and Xperience an attempt to make the world squirm. Sure On documents we are told to sign by Xtremcly wonderful Christmas! enough, there it was in black and white, the X. The most important paper we will MERRY XMAS! H “X,” the symbol for Christ or Christian. ever sign is the one we sign spiritually. It Doesn’t that give your heart a laugh? The reads: “I do hereby accept Jesus Christ as BY BETTY ROSS world doesn’t want to promote Christ as my personal Savior.” To put your signa­ Secretary of the Ellet Church of the Naza­ a part of Christmas so they replace Him ture by the X will change your life—your rene in Akron, Ohio. with an X then it turns out that the X eternity.

C hristmas The lights are lit P. W Botha speaks of bombs— down Adderley Street. a boy with dangling in CAPE TOWN Christmas stars, synthetic snow, stunted arm carols sing runs gaily through the throng- MERLE LAMPRECHT from every corner among the smiling faces Ciskei, South Africa flowers down the row— stride the grim black and white or those who hide their pain— and shades of both it's wrong. mingle in the m all— peace on earth Yet without Easter, goodw ill to men— Christ of Christmas to all. would not be our song.

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r * -U- RAINING NOW- t was a day like any other day— clear throughout the work life. Today's college blue skies, the gentle lapping of or university graduate who walks down Mediterranean seas against the the aisle with a diploma in hand will walk I brown sands of a pleasant beach. White into training classes tomorrow to learn clouds, softly propelled by northerly MORE the information necessary to participate breezes, puffed along. as a functional employee in the company On the seas, fishermen pulled in their of his employment. nets from the dawn’s early catch, stowing Seventy percent of the nation’s execu­ their gear as they finished their work. tive, professional, and technical workers Soon they would be in home port, work­ THAN are retrained on the job for other posi­ ing, laughing, talking together. tions. One in eight working Americans Shopkeepers set up their displays of participates in a formal training course wares, awaiting early customers hunting each year. bargains for table and pantry. Profession­ While fully 50 percent of the nation’s als read the report of business activity EVER! chief executive officers (CEOs) hold no from the previous day. Children sat at the Sunday School have caught many of us more than a high school diploma, 18 ma­ feet of their tutors listening raptly to he­ unaware. All around us, the world has jor corporations offer college-level degree roic tales. been changing. While our Sunday Schools programs on site. In the next two years, Housewives chatted with neighbors. beckon students to participate in routine 13 additional corporations will join this Laborers toiled beneath the watchful eyes investigations of the Greatest Story Ever list. of master and foreman. Told, rough rumblings of major changes America is no longer a nation of youth. Then, without warning, the earth in social organization threaten status quo We are struggling to understand and re­ shook, the sky ignited. In minutes, a ca­ observances with sudden obsolescence. spond to the needs of a new majority. tastrophe of cosmic proportions caught President Reagan’s report, “A Nation at The U.S. government annually spends $70 the residents of Pompeii unaware, en­ Risk,” called Americans to focus attention billion in federal funding of formal con­ gulfing them completely, along with their on the schooling of our children, while, tinuing education and training. American history, society, and routine. One mo­ quietly and without fanfare, training in business has accepted as fact that the hu­ ment, all was as it had been from ancient the workplace accelerated as the major man resource is an asset to be developed. memory. In the next, only unrecognizable provider of education, equalizing the size Fortune 500 companies have learned that shapes and forms, boiling and smoking in of our elementary, secondary, and higher training helps them identify and equip blowing trails of molten lava, mutely educational systems combined. people who can think, create, nurture ini­ marked once tranquil settings. Training, not formal education, will tiative, and inspire excellence. Just so, changes in our churches and largely determine what a person will earn Let us consider this question: “Who is

14 Herald of Holiness, December IS, /9,S’ 7 doing a good job of finding and serving herents. From generation to generation, that in only hours the world as they had the needs of the adult?” Without spend­ we have alternately fanned or doused the always known it would be forever ing much time and energy in tedious re­ sparks from the embers of these cross­ changed? If we could look out over the search, the answer clearly emerges, “The beams. In one generation, koinonia horizon of time and see the moving hand Church." blazed with such intensity that the glow of God writing history’s timetable, what Two thousand years ago, a group of in­ of the other embers was hardly dis­ would we do differently in the Church of significant people, in an insignificant city, tinguishable. In other generations, liturgy the Nazarene? met in observance of an insignificant re­ flamed across the horizon of the Church’s How would we fill the ministry oppor­ ligious holiday. Suddenly, with the sound life, until the didache, the apostle’s teach­ tunities to laypersons? Would we spend of a mighty rushing wind, 120 people ing, was all but neglected. precious moments equipping them to were immersed in the stream of the Spirit, Today, voices from our cultural setting serve the needs of an age rapidly ap­ rising to greatness, challenging prevailing awaken us to a rekindling of the embers proaching holocaust? Would we invest world views with a proclamation of hope of dying fires, the fires of training. Valued our energies in repetitious programs of and good news. The group, considered members of our communities of faith are dependency-producing behaviors, ignoring ne'er-do-wells by the so-called intel­ being immersed in training programs from the fact that without a vital partnership ligentsia of their time, set ablaze and em­ their employers, their interest groups, and of trained laity and Spirit-filled, Spirit-led boldened by the indwelling Holy Spirit, their communities. Now is the hour for clergy we will never impact our commu­ sallied forth to change the world. the Church of the Nazarene to become a nities on a scale sufficient to properly In the flush of first success, they so­ full partner in their lives by offering them evangelize them? berly established the foundational cross­ the appropriate opportunity of training, Let us accept the challenge today of re­ beams of their fledgling experiment, care­ education, and development. Now is the emphasizing the role of training in the fully laying them on the foundation hour for the Church of the Nazarene to lives of our congregations. Let us capital­ which was none other than their Lord, recognize the opportunity to declare the ize on a tidal wave of momentum already Jesus Christ. value of every layperson by according him developed for us by the forces of social These five crossbeams were: the opportunity for meaningful participa­ organization. Let us offer needs-driven re­ 1. The kerygma— the proclamation of tion in the full life of the faith commu­ sponses that empower, equip, and enable a Savior who lives to save. nity. believers for works of service and minis­ 2. The koinonia— the invitation to an Changing world scenarios femind try. Let us form a partnership of listening. all-inclusive fellowship. churchmen of their critical role in society. Let us listen to the neglected, the en­ 3. The liturgy— the celebration of wor­ Delivery systems evolve. Methodologies slaved, the oppressed; hearing their cry, let ship, prayer, and praise. appear, change, and disappear. Epochs, us respond to their need with the message 4. The diakonia— the challenge of ser­ once glacier-like in movement, now burst of the Savior. H vice and ministry in Jesus’ name. upon human consciousness with main­ 5. The didache— practical learnings en­ frame speed. The church can only re­ BY DAVID J. FELTER spond with the Cross and its cross-beam abling all to incarnate Christ. General coordinator of training in the Di­ Down through the ages, with varying message if it paces its performance with vision of Christian Life and Sunday degrees of commitment and success, the training for its front-line troops. School, and consultant for evangelism Church of Jesus Christ has transmitted What would the citizens of Pompeii projects at international headquarters in the vision of these five bulwarks to its ad­ have done differently had they known Kansas City, Missouri.

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self-analysis regarding your work. That’s right, I said “work”— W-O-R-K— the everyday garden variety. Being a “man on the go” himself, Smith writes out of the fa­ THE JABEZ miliar crucible of daily living. Something about the book hints PRINCIPLE at being especially for the layperson. With a few decades of be­ ing an ordained elder under my belt, I felt like I might be in­ Paper, 195 pages. truding when I peeked inside the covers of this volume. How­ To order see page 23. ever, I didn’t find any “No Preachers Allowed!” signs in the book. So whoever you are, turn the page and get yourself some good sound straight-to-the-point advice for dealing with such HAROLD IVAN SMITH things as work stress and job depression and a whole lot more. author If you ever faced a situation where you felt you “didn’t have a prayer,” you can find hope in these pages about a man whose entire life is summed up in the prayer he prayed. His whole bi­ nyone who can gain and hold the attention of 3,000-plus ography is contained in two verses in the Old Testament. single adults has got to be worth some attention. Harold Jabez, whose name is a direct reflection of the pain he caused I. Smith can do this with both tongue and pen. Since his mother when he entered the world, may not be all that fa­ many of us are neither single nor able to hear Smith in person miliar, but the prayer about his work has sweat and tears in it. we will have to settle for a piece of him we can hold in our You’ll find yourself praying it, too. And after reading this book, hand and listen to with our mind. you’ll want to put the “Jabez Principle” to work in your life. H The book begins with an invitation from the author to join Glen Lewis Van Dyne him in the writing. You are offered the opportunity to do a little Pasadena, California

Herald of Holiness/ December 15, 1987 HE EDITOR’S STANDPOINT

CHRISTMAS GIFTS The first Christmas gifts were three in number—gold, And where gifts are concerned, while their gifts to frankincense, and myrrh. Christ had value, Christ himself, as G od’s gift to mankind, They were offered to the infant Christ by three “wise is of infinite worth. His Godhead wrapped in flesh, He men” from “the east.” Precisely who they were, what they was at once like us and unlike us. As Henry A. Buttz said, did, and where they came from is not revealed in Scrip­ “He entered into our humanity, bearing its infirmities and ture, and has been the subject of scholarly inquiry across weaknesses, but not its sins.” many centuries. His experience of our humanity assures His perfect sym­ We are not even sure how many were in this group of pathy. His sinless manhood, offered in atoning sacrifice for early worshipers of the Christ child. “We three kings of us, assures our complete salvation. Since He binds up, in Orient are” is song but not Scripture. From the number of His incarnation and crucifixion, all we can ever know of gifts we have inferred the number of givers, but that is God, of humanity, and of salvation. He is the most price­ sheer guesswork. There are many countries and cultures less gift ever given by anyone to anyone. east of the Holy Land from which they could have come, The gifts of the magi probably financed the flight of the so pinpointing their origin and class is also a matter of ed­ holy family into Egypt to escape the murderous insanity of ucated guesses. Herod. The gift of God in Christ is the ransom price that Does it matter? Not greatly. They were not wise because finances our flight from the bondage of sin to the freedom they came from the East, or because they belonged to of forgiveness, cleansing, and peace. In gratitude our gift some priestly or scholarly class. They were wise because to Him can be nothing less than ourselves— totally. they came to Christ, because they worshiped Him. All who come to Him are wise, and all who don’t are otherwise.

SHADOWED CHRISTMAS The slaughter of the innocents recorded in the Gospel The practice of violence against the unborn is as repre­ of Matthew and celebrated in later art cannot be for­ hensible as the practice of violence against those who live gotten. Its connection with the infancy of Christ guaran­ to reach childhood, youth, or adult years. To crusade tees the event an enduring place in history. against the abuse of children or the elderly, while de­ As an act of savage cruelty on Herod’s part it was of a fending the right of a woman to destroy human life within piece with his nature and career. He murdered without her womb, is farcical. question or hesitation anyone perceived as a threat to his To declare that life is human only when it has emerged throne. To put all the baby boys of a village to the sword, from the womb is both illogical and unbiblical, a pathetic hoping thereby to assure the death of a certain one, was concession of politicians to a misguided concept of “liber­ not out of character for this demented monster. ated” womanhood. Enslavement to egoism and hedonism This shadow side of Christmas is really a minor incident is masked as freedom. One day the verdict of history or compared to the mass destruction of fetuses going on in the judgment of God will strip off that mask. America today. Since convenience abortions were legalized The infants of Bethlehem were a handful among mil­ by the U.S. Supreme Court, over 10 million human lives lions of infants murdered in our violence-ridden world. have been deliberately and callously destroyed annually. They are remembered because of their association with This wholesale slaughter rivals the death camps of Hitler Jesus. One day we shall realize that all children, including in magnitude and wantonness. That “holocaust” should the unborn destroyed in the name of liberation, are con­ become a descriptive term for this horror is no surprise. nected to Him.

16 Herald of Holiness/December I S, 198? Someone’s life is in your hands. Have for it the respect CAUTION, and care you would wish a surgeon to have for yours if SURGEON! you were going under the knife. In my reading today I came quite unexpectedly upon Preachers, too, bear delicate responsibilities and need to these lines from Emily Dickinson: work with great caution. The gospel we proclaim is des­ Surgeons must be very careful tiny-determining. Life and death are the issues when the When they take the knife! Word of God encounters the mind of man. Consequent Underneath their fine incisions upon the response one makes to the gospel is heaven or Stirs the Culprit— Life! hell. Eternal damage could result from a preacher’s mal­ The quatrain arrested me immediately, for Doris is practice. scheduled to undergo major surgery in five days. (By the When you think about it, every person’s influence has a time you read this, the operation will be over and recovery potential for enhancing or destroying life. We should all be will he complete.) Her life is exceedingly precious to me, as careful as possible that our speech and conduct are and I certainly want the surgeon to be extremely careful. helpful, not baneful. Especially is this true where our influ­ When a slip of the knife could maim or destroy, the re­ ence upon “little ones” is concerned, as Jesus Christ sponsibility of surgeons is awesome. I am sure that most of pointed out with blunt warning (Matthew 18:5-14). them feel it and respect it. The very few who do not will Someone’s life is in your hands. Have for it the respect not long survive as surgeons. It used to be said, “Doctors and care you would wish a surgeon to have for yours if bury their mistakes.” In this day of frequent malpractice you were going under the knife. suits and huge court awards, the creaking criticism no lon­ “Reverence thyself,” said Pythagoras. Others, also! ger holds.

The Editorial Staff Unto you is w ishes you May His saving born this day. A HOLY AND grace and pow er be HAPPY your deepest reality a Savior. and highest joy! (Luke 2:11) CHRISTMAS

W. E. McCumber Mabel Adamson Ivan Beals Rhonda Gibson

Herald of Holiness/December 11 , IPS7 17 HE ANSWER CORNER

I heard a speaker quote John 17:15 as with Me.” This “door” is generally under­ rope. He is compelled to respect the lim­ proof that the church would go through stood as “the heart’s door,” for “heart" is its imposed on him by God. As Luther the tribulation. To me, the verse has no used in Scripture as a figure for the inner put it, “he is G od’s devil.” connection with that subject. What do life. Christ does not force the door open However, he masterminds a vast army you think? but awaits our welcome. He is never of evil spirits and he has an ally in every 1 think you are right. guilty of breaking and entering! carnal heart. For these reasons he does In this passage Jesus, praying for His Paul speaks of “Christ in you, the hope not have to be personally present in all disciples, says to the Father, “I do not ask of glory” in Colossians 1:27, and prays instances of temptation. Thee to take them out of the world, but that “Christ may dwell in your hearts James said, “each one is tempted when to keep them from the evil one.” His dis­ through faith” in Ephesians 3:17. Such he is carried away and enticed by his own ciples are different from the world be­ passages are sufficient warrant for this lust” (1:14, NASB). “Lust” here means cause He has given them the word of common way of speaking which recog­ “strong desire.” God. The w'orld reacts to that difference nizes (1) that Christ desires to possess our Peter, however, warns, “Your adversary, with hatred (v. 14). Nevertheless, they are hearts, but (2) He never coerces our sub­ the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, not to be withdrawn from the w'orld, but mission to that desire. seeking someone to devour” (1 Peter 5:8, arc sent into the world in order to bear NASB). And Paul said, “Satan disguises witness to Christ (v. 18). He prays, there­ Our Sunday School teacher told us that himself as an angel of light” (2 Corinthi­ fore, not for their exemption from con­ the devil has nothing to do with a per­ ans 11:14, NASB). A roaring lion who flict but for their protection from evil. son’s decision to commit sin; that such travels with the speed of light— that’s The tribulation period at the close of desires originate solely within the mind scary. Personally or through his emissaries the age is not in view in this passage. It of the individual. He said the devil, being Satan can get around to a lot of people does make clear, however, that God pro­ a single entity, has only a limited range each day! tects the church, not by isolating it from of contacts; that the Bible records only a Nevertheless, we are assured, “Resist suffering, but by insulating it against evil. few instances where he tempted someone, the devil and he will flee from you” such as Eve and Jesus. flames 4:7, NASB). Whatever the direct source of temptation, Satan’s wiles or our To my knowledge, I have never read in It is true that Satan is a creature and desires, we can overcome them and keep the Bible that we are to allow the Lord to therefore limited. He should not be true to Christ. enter our hearts. It may be biblical but thought of as everywhere at once and as I’ve never seen it. Is there Scripture which the possessor of all knowledge and all Conducted by says, “Allow the Lord to enter your power. He should not be elevated to the heart”? status of God in these respects. W. E. McCUMBER, Editor We welcome questions on biblical and doc­ There is a wonderful promise in Revela­ I think it is instructive and encouraging trinal matters. The editor is not able to tion 3:20 that reads, “Behold, 1 stand at that Satan had to get a permit to try Job, send replies to questions not selected for the door and knock; if anyone hears My and when He issued the license God poublication. Address: ANSWER COR­ voice and opens the door, 1 will come in placed a limit on what Satan could do to NER, Herald of Holiness, 6 401 The Pa­ to him, and will dine with him, and he Job. The devil is tied, but with a long sco, Kansas City, MO 64/ >/.

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LOOK AHEAD ments and become satisfied with our ef­ with no appropriate words, I simply forts. Today’s Church should be the most ex­ shook his hand and smiled, giving myself God pity us when there ceases to burn one more day to find the right words to cited and busiest of all that have ever in our hearts a desire to do something express my appreciation for his ministry. been. Why? Because every day that passes greater for God. As we were eating after the service, my draws us closer to the day when our Lord 1 1 -year-old daughter proudly announced, and Savior will return to gather His Dave Duncan Mount Dora, Florida "I told the pastor thanks for coming.” Church and take them home with Him. As the men put the last piece of fur­ Instead, I’m afraid a lot of people in niture on the van the next day. Pastor the Church today are living in the past THANKS FOR COMING shook my hand, and I found myself say­ and thinking of how' it used to be. No It was our pastor’s last Sunday with us. ing, simply, “Thanks for coming, Pastor.” matter how glorious our past has been, it For almost six years our lives had blended Somehow, that seemed to say it all. is just that, PAST! No matter what we together in a small rural church. have done or failed to do, we can’t dwell As he preached his last sermon, I kept Sarah Cleckner Cearns on what used to be. thinking about what I could say to some­ Wiltshire, Ohio Our efforts must be directed to TO­ one with whom I had shared spiritual DAY and TOMORROW if we are going mountaintops and valleys, graduations, ON TARGET to be ready when our Lord returns for us. anniversaries, car accidents, deaths . . . At Thank you for your “Standpoint” of We can’t rest on our past accomplish­ the end of the service, having come up June 1, 1987. Again you are right on tar-

18 Herald of Holiness/December 15, 1987 DIVISION OF CHRISTIAN LIFE AND SUNDAY SCHOOL

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DENOMINATION’S SUNDAY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT AND ATTENDANCE INCREASES FOR FIFTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR The 1986-87 Sunday School enrollment increased during this past statistical year from 1,231,288 to 1,264,876, or a plus 33,588. Average attendance totaled 6 3 5 ,1 3 2 , for a gain of 8,374 over the same period one year ago. These annual statistics were released by the General Secretary’s Office for the Church of the Nazarene in all world areas and confirmed that Sunday School has continued to grow for the fifth consecutive year. The present enrollment figure is just 100,000 below the goal set for Year Two of our march to TWO MILLION by 1995.

“LIFT HIGH THE TORCH” FALL EMPHASIS BOOSTS ATTENDANCE AND NEW ENROLLEES During the six-week Fall Sunday School emphasis, “Lift High the Torch," a total of 3 6 ,3 3 6 new people were added to the enrollment in U.S. and Canada districts. Average attendance increased by nearly 16,000 each Sunday over the 1986 average, and the Rally Day attendance total was 4 5 7 ,8 1 3 . Two districts were declared winners in each of the five Olympic categories: NUMERICAL WINNERS PERCENTAGE WINNERS Category I Central Florida Dr. James Morsch, D.S. +11,677 Category I Tennessee Dr Talmadge Johnson, D.S. + 9.29% Rev. Bob Bolton, Chairman Rev. Gerald Parmer Chairman Category II Arizona Dr Bill Burch, D.S. + 5,348 Category II Georgia Dr FHarold Latham, D.S. + 9.24% Rev. Lee Steele, Chairman Rev. Lowell Clyburn, Chairman Category III South Carolina Rev. James Bearden, D.S. + 4,676 Category III North Carolina Rev. Eugene Simpson, D.S. +14.01% Rev. Larry Spraker Chairman Rev. Gary Powell, Chairman Category IV Mississippi Rev. J. W. Lancaster, D.S. + 1,874 Category IV Minnesota Rev. Russell Human, D.S. + 9.48% Rev Ron Scarlett, Chairman Rev. Ron McGilvra, Chairman Category V FHawaii Pacific Rev. Darrell Teare, D.S. + 1,684 Category V S.W. Latin Rev. Moises Esperilla, D.S. +46.95% Rev. Lon Eckdahl, Chairman American Rev. Felipe Villatoro, Chairman

25 Largest Sunday Top 25 Districts in Top 10 Sunday Schools Schools in Average Sunday School in Numerical Gain A ttendance Attendance (U.S. and Canada) 1 Mindelo (Cape Verde) 2.104 1. Salem First (Oregon Pacific) + 2 8 5 2 Salem First (Oreg.) 1,828 1. Guatemala Las Verapaces 17,908 2. Los Angeles First (Los Angeles) + 2 1 7 3 Bonteheuwel (South Africa) 1,700 2 Southern California* 10,789 3 Tampa Faith (Central Florida) + 154 4. Bethany First (Okla.) 1,681 3. Oregon Pacific 9,540 4. Alanson Lakeview (Northern Michigan) + 148 5 Denver First (Colo.) 1,487 4. Central Florida 9,239 5. Yuma First (Arizona) + 139 6. Pasadena First (Calif.) 1,432 5. Central Ohio 9,047 6. Bethany First (Northwest Oklahoma) + 132 7 Olathe College (Kans.) 1,200 6. Colorado 9,040 7. Kailua (Hawaii Pacific) + 128 8 Long Beach First (Calif.) 1,060 7. Southwestern Ohio 8,779 8. Morenci (Eastern Michigan) + 120 9. Cleveland "Church on 8. Los Angeles 8,725 9. Phoenix Deer Valley (Arizona) + 112 Wheels” (Ohio) 1,060 9. North Central Ohio 8,582 10. Guthrie (Northwest Oklahoma) + 112 10. Nashville First (Tenn.) 1,010 10. Northeastern Indiana 8,525 11. Reed City (Northern Michigan) + 112 11. Wichita First (Kans.) 978 11. Kansas City 8,332 12. Praia (Cape Verde) 947 12. Korea Central 8,270 13. Nampa First (Idaho) 823 13. Eastern Michigan 8,009 Top 10 Sunday Schools 14 San Miguel Chicaj (Guatemala) 803 14. Swaziland North 7,971 in Numerical Gain 15. San Juan Chamelco (Guatemala) 765 15 Southwest Indiana 7,868 16. Mount Vernon First (Ohio) 764 16. Tennessee 7,863 (International) 17. Manzini First (Swaziland) 752 17. Illinois 7,846 1. Manzini First (Swaziland North) + 709 18. Oskaloosa (Iowa) 682 18. Indianapolis 7,660 2. Santa Rosa (Peru North) +560 19. Portland First (Oreg.) 666 19. Kansas 7,576 3. Merlo (Argentina Central) +460 20. Kansas City First (Mo.) 660 20. Washington Pacific 7,531 4.Praia (Cape Verde) +452 21 Primera Iglesia San Salvador 21. Akron 7,027 5. Bonteheuwel (RSA Western Cape) + 4 1 7 (El Salvador) 653 22. RSA Western Cape 6,941 6. Yaxbatz (Guatemala Las Verapaces) +350 22. Sao Filipe (Cape Verde) 633 23. Michigan 6,869 7 Haut de Trou (Haiti North East) +327 23. Indianapolis First (Ind.) 628 24. Northwest 6,733 8. Campur (Guatemala Las Verapaces) +324 24 El Estor, Izabal 1A (Guatemala) 610 25. Republic of Cape Verde 6,693 9. Panla (Guatemala Las Verapaces) + 3 1 8 25. Seoul Tung-Ma-Ru (Korea) 610 'District divided in 1987 10. La Collna (Colombia Coast) +311 DIVISION OF CHRISTIAN LIFE . A , AND SUNDAY SCHOOL

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AKRON CANADA WEST EASTERN KENTUCKY 481 Canton First 247 Calgary First 246 Ashland First 294 East Liverpool First 120 Red Deer First 240 Richmond First 235 Akron Arlington 119 Winnipeg Fort Garry 187 Maysville 218 New Philadelphia 107 Medicine Hat 182 Covington Central 199 Columbiana 98 Calgary East 160 Newport ALABAMA NORTH CENTRAL CALIFORNIA EASTERN LATIN AMERICAN 286 Huntsville First 444 Porterville 109 Stamford 182 Jasper First 328 Bakersfield Olive Knolls 101 Jersey City 170 Birmingham First 300 Visalia First 82 Rochester 157 Gardendale 232 Bakersfield First 86 N ew ark 152 Florence First 184 Oakdale 73 P assaic ALABAMA SOUTH CENTRAL FLORIDA EASTERN MICHIGAN 302 Lanett First 468 Orlando Central 583 Flint Central 175 Columbiana 391 Lakeland South Florida Heights 477 Warren Woods 148 Tuscaloosa Holten Heights 376 Zephyrhills First 408 Richfield 128 Mobile First 317 Tampa First 372 Flint First 119 Tuscaloosa Alberta 301 Winter Haven First 357 Detroit First ALASKA CENTRAL LATIN AMERICAN GEORGIA 167 Anchorage First 96 Primera Oklahoma City 300 Atlanta First 125 Anchorage Jewel Lake 94 Primera Houston 249 Sandersville 120 Soldotna 94 Primera San Antonio 228 Marietta 107 Fairbanks Totem Park 92 Laredo 214 Dublin First 90 Wasilla Lake 88 M cA llen 169 Mount Olive ANAHEIM CENTRAL OHIO HAWAII PACIFIC 1,060 Long Beach First 392 Grove City 220 Kailua 308 Anaheim First 307 Newark First 147 Honolulu First English 258 Alta Loma Foothill Communities 303 Portsmouth First 143 Maili Samoan 244 Pomona First 298 Circleville 100 Kaneohe 237 Westminister Community 271 Gallipolis 93 Ewa Beach ARIZONA CHICAGO CENTRAL HOUSTON 560 Phoenix Orangewood 564 Kankakee College 340 Houston Spring Branch 338 Glendale 502 Kankakee First 213 Nacogdoches 311 Mesa First 404 Chicago First 190 Port Arthur Grace 246 Tempe 265 Danville First 188 Pasadena First 229 Phoenix Deer Valley 202 Danville Southside 184 Houston Northwest CANADA ATLANTIC COLORADO ILLINOIS 149 Trenton 1,487 Denver First 292 Decatur West Side 148 Oxford 437 Colorado Springs First 270 Decatur First 144 Elmsdale 412 Denver Lakewood 225 Decatur Parkway 89 Summerside 359 Colorado Springs Trinity 207 Clinton 80 O 'Leary 320 Colorado Springs Eastborough 191 Mattoon First CANADA CENTRAL DAKOTA INDIANAPOLIS 120 Toronto Emmanuel 229 Mitchell 628 Indianapolis First 111 Newmarket 148 Jamestown First 516 Indianapolis Westside 102 Toronto Rosewood 140 Valley City 403 Martinsville First 87 Hamilton First 132 Minot First 350 North Vernon 87 Toronto Kennedy Road 128 M andan 270 Shelbyville First CANADA PACIFIC DALLAS INTERMOUNTAIN 139 Abbotsford 404 Richardson 823 Nampa First 115 Victoria First 234 Dallas Central 579 Nampa College 89 Guildford 180 Duncanville Trinity 417 Boise First 84 Vancouver First 179 Texarkana First 349 Meridian Valley Shepherd 57 Penticton 174 Dallas First 256 Ontario CANADA CUEBEC EAST TENNESSEE IOWA 94 Centre Evangelique 240 Chattanooga First 682 Oskaloosa 38 Franklin Centre 133 Chattanooga East Ridge 280 Cedar Rapids Oakland 38 Montreal First 120 Shelbyville First 269 Cedar Rapids First 22 Ste-Foy 118 Chapman's Chapel 226 Council Bluffs First 14 St. E ustache 117 Knoxville First 224 Des Moines Eastside

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JOPLIN NAVAJO NATION NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 249 Carthage 100 Chilchinbeto 289 San Jose First 239 Independence 74 S honto 231 Eureka First 194 Springfield First 56 Montezuma Chair 218 Concord First 187 Lebanon 54 Leupp 214 Santa Rosa 185 Fort Scott First 52 Ramah Sandmountam 159 Monterey 159 Santa Cruz KANSAS NEBRASKA 978 Wichita First 233 Lincoln First NORTHERN MICHIGAN 315 Salina First 168 North Platte 148 Alanson Lakeview 293 Hutchinson First 151 Hastings 112 Reed City 287 Wichita Linwood 150 C ozad 105 Beaverton 274 Hutchinson Bethany 131 York 104 Traverse City 84 Cadillac KANSAS CITY NEWENGLAND 84 Cherry Grove 1,200 Olathe College 339 New Bedford International 660 Kansas City First 276 Lowell NORTHWEST 325 Kansas City Central 213 M anchester 421 Moscow 321 Overland Park 183 N ashua 344 Spokane First 295 Kansas City Nall Avenue 178 Quincy Wollaston 314 Lewiston First 298 Spokane Valley KENTUCKY NEWMEXICO 284 Yakima West Valley 291 Lexington Lafayette 321 Clovis First 227 Columbia 317 Albuquerque Heights First NORTHWEST INDIANA 178 Georgetown 222 Albuquerque Sandia 461 Portage First 177 Louisville Farmdale 185 El Paso First 309 Kokomo First 168 S cie nce Hill 175 Roswell First 245 Valparaiso 239 Hammond First LOS ANGELES NEWYORK 204 South Bend First 393 Brooklyn Beulah 1,432 Pasadena First NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA 392 Los Angeles First 255 Valley Stream 1,681 Bethany First 379 New Life Community 173 Fishkill 428 Bethany Williams Memorial 305 Lompoc 147 Lakeland 340 Oklahoma City Lake View Park 290 San Luis Obispo 145 Bronx Bethany 307 Oklahoma City First LOUISIANA NORTH ARKANSAS 236 Enid First 224 Conway First 159 Shreveport Huntington Park 185 Rogers NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS 123 Baton Rouge First 170 Ft. Smith Trinity 532 Sterling First 115 Ebenezer 141 Bentonville 249 Rock Island First 106 DeRidder 134 Springdale 231 Pekin First 97 Alexandria First 214 Galesburg First NORTH CAROLINA 172 Ottawa First MAINE 240 Pineville 260 South Portland 200 Hendersonville NORTHWESTERN OHIO 164 Bangor 192 Plymouth 292 Lima Community 153 Millinocket 179 Raleigh First 249 Springfield First 149 Skowhegan 174 Fayetteville 205 Piqua 105 Dover-Foxcroft 204 Lima First NORTH CENTRAL OHIO 203 Wapakoneta MICHIGAN 764 Mount Vernon First 263 Chapman Memorial 450 Marion First OREGON PACIFIC 256 Sturgis 429 Bedford 1,828 Salem First 237 Lansing South 314 Bucyrus 666 Portland First 222 Grand Rapids First 230 Elyria 340 Medford First 213 Owosso First 285 Oregon City NORTH FLORIDA 283 B end MINNESOTA 278 Jacksonville University Boulevard PHILADELPHIA 254 Minneapolis First 143 Gainesville First 583 Fairview Village 140 Litchfield 140 Jacksonville First 337 Mlfflinburg 137 Fergus Falls 139 Pensacola First 309 Ephrata 129 O sseo 129 Hernando 293 Vineland 119 B ackus 129 O cala 266 Bridgeton MISSISSIPPI NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA PITTSBURGH 206 Meridian Fitkm 335 Tulsa Central 245 Warren 179 McComb First 310 Sapulpa 217 Waynesburg 123 Jackson First 253 Bartlesville 212 Oil City 112 Grenada 210 Tulsa Regency Park 181 Pittsburgh South Hills 111 Jackson Emmanuel 198 Broken Arrow 154 Homer City MISSOURI NORTHEASTERN INDIANA ROCKY MOUNTAIN 183 Hannibal First 420 Anderson First 154 Kalispell 176 St. Louis Southwest 394 Huntington First 150 Sunnyside 175 Harvester 317 Muncie Southside 112 Bozeman 170 St. Louis Webster Groves 270 Elkhart First 109 Casper 158 St. Louis Overland 255 Winchester 102 Great Falls

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SACRAMENTO SOUTHWEST INDIANA WASHINGTON PACIFIC 553 Sacramento Liberty Towers 524 Seymour 472 Puyallup 283 A uburn 227 New Albany First 404 Seattle Aurora 283 Oroville 223 Brazil 345 Kent First 268 Redding First 219 Bloomington First 299 Vancouver Hillcrest 203 Sacramento First 196 Bicknell 235 Centralia SAN ANTONIO SOUTHWEST LATIN AMERICAN 179 Temple First 110 Chandler W EST TEXAS 1 6 4 Flarlingen First 72 El Paso 345 Lubbock First 163 Austin South 60 Albuquerque 343 Metroplex Chapel 142 San Antonio First 48 Phoenix 276 Hereford 141 Odessa First 37 Tucson 220 Amarillo First SOUTH ARKANSAS SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA 207 Amarillo Valley View 287 North Little Rock First 315 Oklahoma City Trinity 187 Little Rock First 315 Oklahoma City Western Oaks WEST VIRGINIA NORTH 174 Hot Springs First 289 Bethany Calvary 279 Weirton 164 Little Rock Calvary 189 Yukon 245 Newell First 139 W aldron 160 Mustang 218 Parkersburg Broadway SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTHWESTERN OHIO 212 Parkersburg First 257 Columbia First 459 Cincinnati Springdale 183 Elkins 257 Fort Mill 372 Xenia 236 West Columbia Central 336 Pisgah Community WEST VIRGINIA SOUTH 211 C hester 279 Trenton 295 South Charleston First 206 Langley 278 Dayton Beavercreek 292 Charleston Davis Creek SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA TENNESSEE 273 Pineville 211 Henryetta 1,010 Nashville First 236 Huntington First 205 Durant 443 Nashville Grace 201 Charleston Calvary 171 C hoctaw 329 N ashville C ollege Hill 168 Ada 271 Clarksville First WESTERN LATIN AMERICAN 167 Shaw nee 269 Memphis Calvary 359 Los Angeles Belvedere SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UPSTATE NEW YORK 272 Los Angeles Boyle Heights 380 San Diego Mission Valley 225 Syracuse Immanuel 124 Rancho Cucamonga 319 Bloomington 211 O w e go 122 Sacramento 278 San Diego First 187 Rochester Grace 105 National City 219 Riverside Arlington Avenue 164 Plattsburgh 197 Chula Vista 157 Rochester Trinity WISCONSIN SOUTHERN FLORIDA VIRGINIA 139 Racine Community 400 Miami Hosannah 520 Richmond Southside 115 Mattoon 343 Princeton 210 Roanoke First 112 Richland Center 295 Bradenton First 204 Arlington Calvary 110 Racine Taylor 268 Pompano Beach 187 Hampton 102 Burlington 263 Lake Worth First 184 Tidewater Central SOUTHWEST INDIAN WASHINGTON 96 C ache 336 York 62 Paguate 279 Baltimore First 58 Ponca City 271 Washington First 51 Sells 267 Salisbury 48 Lehi 236 Bel Air

1988 SPRING SUNDAY SCHOOL EMPHASIS “LOVE REACHES OUT TO BABIES” March 6— April 3, 1988 “Love Our Babies” Day March 6 “Love Is Intergenerational” Day March 13 “Love Finds a Baby” Day March 20 "S' “Love Celebrates Babies” Day March 27 “Love to All Families” Day April 3

<■ “Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me.’” »t> Matthew 19:14

18D get. Wouldn’t it be nice if church boards hurt, they cry. If their reputations are de­ great singing of DeVerne Mullen and had some performance evaluation pro­ stroyed, they die, and the church dies a Brother Patzch, plus many others. cedures built into the structure of their little, too. Thank you, New England District, for administrative tasks which could give pas­ Thank you for speaking a strong word the years you kept the camp open, and tors positive feedback without the some­ in favor of kindness and courtesy. may the power of camp meetings never times bitter, often insensitive, occasionally Gary A. Slusher die but continue until Jesus comes. cruel ways dissatisfaction is commu­ Dallas, Texas R alph W. Bailey nicated? Jamesburg, New Jersey Who is more aware of the “strange NOT FORGOTTEN clothes” the Holy Spirit has chosen to Gone but not forgotten are the days of preach His Word than the messenger? Old North Reading Camp. What precious Please keep your letters brief (SO-1 SO They are often inadequate. They are often memories to us who remember the great words). Letters responding to other letters mistaken. Their leadership is sometimes preaching of Dr. Chapman, Uncle Bud are not printed. We cannot reply person­ ally to letters not selected for this feature. suspect. Rarely are they moral failures. Robinson, ). Bona Fleming, Rev. J. Neil- Address: LETTERS, Herald of Holiness, Often they are mortally flawed. Yet I be­ son, Sr., Dr. Earle, Lon Woodrum, and 6 401 The Pasco, Kansas City, M O lieve that most are willing to be cor­ many more, plus the great praise meetings 04131. rected, even rebuked, in love and kind­ led by Uncle Frank Smith, with Sister Note: Unsolicited Manuscripts Will Not ness. Rundlett at the piano. Be Returned Unless Accompanied by a If they are cut, they bleed. If they are Gone but not forgotten also is the Self-addressed, Stamped Envelope.

YALL MEANS.-SAVE SOME O ne star is s h in in g s t il l Our world is wrecked with violence; Our world is battered, bruised, and torn— REJECTED, But one bright star is shining still: The one that shone when Christ was born. The swords of terror strike us down ACCEPTED And men's weak hearts are failing them- aria, a lovely blond in her early 30s, walked into our But one bright star is shining still: church foyer one Sunday, alone. I was there, wel­ The one that shone on Bethlehem. coming visitors, being sure the bulletins were ready, Atomic gods belch out their wrath Metc. “Hi, I’m the pastor’s wife. I’m so glad you have come to wor­ And melt our weapons and our shields— ship with us today.” I got her a visitor’s card, and she filled it But wait, I hear the angels' song: out while we were talking. The one sung above shepherds' fields. Maria told me, “I’ve been going to another church, but they don’t want me, because I wear some jewelry, my hair is too The missiles fly and many die, short, and I wear blue jeans.” Her face told me that the rejec­ We ask when will the struggle cease? tion she felt had hurt her deeply. But wait, the angels sing again “You won’t find that attitude here,” I told her. “We will love The song of goodwill and of peace. and accept you as you are.” Maria went into the pastor’s Sunday School class and found Dictators shake their fists at God immediate acceptance. The next Sunday she came back and And glut themselves with saltless greed, brought her 12-year-old daughter with her. Now they both But one bright star appears again: come regularly and Maria sings in the choir. I visited her home one day, and learned that she had told her The one that shone on Jesse's seed. mother all about our loving, caring church. Maria went on vaca­ The carnal sins of men increase tion recently, and sent us a card saying, “Please save my place, And Satan’s puppets multiply— I'll be back." Maria has suffered many rejections. She was rejected by her But wait—I hear a virgin groan— husband because, of her faith in Christ. She was rejected by a And then I hear a baby cry. church because she did not fit their mold. Now she has found The wise men knelt with costly gifts; love and acceptance. Maria and her daughter have both joined our church. We are I hear a hallelujah shout— thankful that she came to us, instead of turning away from the The Star of Ransom shines again church after being rejected. H And all hell cannot put it out!

BY JUANITA BUCHANAN —CHARLES HASTINGS SMITH Bethany, Oklahoma NWMS president and Continuing Lay Training director at the Tampa, Florida, Town and Country Church.

Herald of Holiness/ December 15, 198 - 19 Incredible Love had heard some in­ for the young man’s life to he credible stories about spared and for his sentence to Christian love and forgive­ “The love that was shown be shortened. Iness that became a part of the The young murderer found healing process following the Christ because of the Christlike Korean War. But these stories the young murderer love of those who should have were distant hated him. He became a model — they had taken place a long was not natural love; prisoner and witnessed to others time ago. One day, however, I in his cell. became aware of another in­ One day in 1980 a man credible story of love and for­ it was supernatural walked toward our neighbor’s giveness. This story took place home and turned into the drive­ in Korea in the proximity of our love.” way. At that very time our home. neighbor’s parents (the pastor Our neighbor, the son of a Methodist pastor and himself a and his wife) were visiting their son’s home. When they saw the professor of theology at a college in Taejon, Korea, had taktyi man coming into the driveway they jumped up and ran out the his mother into his home to live out her final days under his door and embraced him as they would a member of the family. care. This was Korean custom. Daily she walked up and down The man could not stop crying even after entering the house. the hill in front of our home on her way to the little Methodist Our neighbor did not recognize the man and was puzzled by his church where she was a faithful teacher, group leader, and en- parents’ actions. But soon it became known that sitting there in courager. their living room was the young murderer, recently released from One day 1 received a call from our neighbor’s wife. Her prison, visiting those whom he had deeply hurt. But he was no mother-in-law had collapsed on the floor and the wife could not longer seen as a murderer but as a beloved son. contact her husband. She asked for my assistance in taking her Eventually the man became a pastor and now serves a church mother-in-law to a clinic across town. When I arrived at their in Korea. home 1 was joined by the pastor of the church and together we Perhaps such a story should not seem so incredible. After all, took her to the clinic. Later, after a short visit to the hospital, there have been other murderers who have been changed and the elderly saint passed to a well-deserved eternal reward. became servants of Cod. The murderous Saul, so zealous in his She was a remarkable lady. She and her husband had a fruitful pursuit of Christians, had them bound, beaten, and killed. Even ministry. But the eulogies at her funeral revealed that her life and after he became a changed man, the early apostles were reluc­ ministry was far from ordinary; they told of amazing love and tant to accept him. Barnabas had to intercede on his behalf, and forgiveness. he was finally accepted by the church. Their reluctance was She and her pastor husband were the parents of a beautiful probably due to the fact that Saul had been responsible for and vivacious young girl who had just graduated from high some of their loved ones being put to death. school. But tragedy struck the pastor’s home and the life of the We are unaware, perhaps, of the extent to which God calls us young girl was taken by a jealous lover. to love and forgive. The love that was shown to the young mur­ It is difficult to comprehend the way these Christian parents derer was not natural love; it was supernatural love. And it is reacted to the situation. All natural reactions were laid aside and supernatural love that sets the Christian apart from the world. true Christian love prevailed. “See how much love they have for one another!” H The murderer, himself a young man, received a life sentence for his crime and went to prison. The young girl's parents, in ROY STULTS spite of deep grief, visited the young man in prison and wit­ A Nazarene missionary , teaching missions at Asia-Pacific Naza­ nessed to him about the love of Christ. The pastor petitioned rene Theological Seminary in the Philippines.

2 0 Herald of Holiness/ December 15, 1987 N THE NEWS quest MEMO: CHURCH MAN­ rent tax procedures. This W-2 AGEMENT No. 12 from the Naza­ should report wages earned by the rene Pensions office regarding their employee during 1987. was instrumental in developing the tax status.) Although ministerial employees PEOPLE MidAmerica Nazarene College The minister is individually obli­ and lay employees of a local church Foundation. gated to pay the Social Security tax are treated differently for income AND PLACES Doane and his wife, Laurie quarterly, along with estimated in­ tax and Social Security purposes, the Craig Doane, di­ (Peacher), are both graduates of come taxes. Nearly all local church IRS has clearly stated that both rector of the Endow­ MANC. The Doanes plan to remain boards are “helping” their minis­ types of employees are to receive a ment Fund for Mid- in Olathe, Kans. □ terial employees with the payment of W-2 by the deadline. IRS Publica­ America Nazarene Social Security taxes by way of a tax­ tion 15, “Circular E—Employer’s College, recently re­ SOCIAL SECURITY able cash allowance equal to the full Tax Guide” (available from the IRS), signed to begin a ca­ REMINDER amount due. states that there are criminal and reer with the Na­ January 1, 1988, new Social Secu­ Local churches should follow the civil penalties for willful failure to tional Kidney Foundation. Doane’s rity tax rates will go into effect. Em­ instructions found in IRS Publica­ give a statement of required infor­ position with the foundation will be ployees will have 7.51 percent of tion 15, “Circular E— Employer’s mation. chief development officer. He will their wages withheld for Social Secu­ Tax Guide,” for 1988. Questions on By the same date, Form 4782, be involved in fund-raising with a rity (F1CA) taxes. The employer will how the Social Security taxes affect “Employee Moving Expense Infor­ primary emphasis on soliciting from also pay a matching amount. The local Nazarene churches may be di­ mation,” must be given to any em­ major corporations and founda­ combined amount of 15.02 percent rected to the Board of Pensions and ployee for which moving expenses tions. The Kidney Foundation’s will be sent by the employer to the Benefits USA, 6401 The Paseo, Kan­ have been paid or reimbursed. (See head office is in New York City. IRS for each employee. sas City, M O 64131; telephone: MEMO: CHURCH MANAGE­ Doane will commute between the These new rates will affect all 816-333-7000. □ MENT No. 15.) Kansas City regional office and New Nazarene churches who employ lay­ Additional information on how York City. men. However, the minister’s situ­ DEADLINE FOR ISSUING these apply to Nazarene churches is In 1981, Doane joined the ation will be different. Although em­ W-2 FORMS TO available upon request from the M ANC staff as the administrative ployed by the local church, elders CHURCH EMPLOYEES Board of Pensions and Benefits USA, assistant in Admissions and Finan­ and district-licensed ministers are 6401 The Paseo, Kansas City, M O cial Aid. During his years at M ANC, required to pay Social Security Every local church in the United 64131. When requesting informa­ Doane worked with the annual Col­ (SECA) at the self-employment rate. States should issue a Form W-2 to tion, please ask for MEMO: lege Days program, new student ori­ For 1988, the effective rate will be each of its employees no later than CHURCH MANAGEMENT Nos. entation, and capital campaigns. He 13.02 percent. (Deacons may re­ January 31, 1988, according to cur­ 3, 6, 7, 8, and 15. □

PETITIONS Pray for the 1988 thrust cities— New York and Los An­ geles. General Superintendent Raymond W. Hurn conducts dis­ trict assemblies in Central America commencing January 4. Pray for our people as annual reports are presented in Gua­ temala (where we have seven districts), Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Panama. Pray for Mexico City seminary where housing for married The Christian Musicians International of Christian Life and Sunday School was the sponsor of a three-day seminar held at the Nebraska District parsonage. students is needed. They have secured a plot of land near the October 5-7, 1987. The above six students and church pianists are working campus. President Alberto Guang made a tour of Mexican toward their Church Pianist Certificate, which is awarded through the Continuing assemblies with the plea for people to buy one meter each of Lay Training office. Evonne Neuenschwander was the instructor. Pictured (I. to r.) are: Ernestine Hendrickson, Ruby Henderson, Linda Shipman, Faye Anne the 5-acre plot. It is believed the people will raise more than Hughes. Mary Baney, and Vicky Darling. the $18,000 required.

PRAISINGS We are praising God for the accomplishments of Thrust to Mexico City 1987. Out of 78 extension outreach locations, 6 have become fully-organized churches with an estimated 25 to reach that level in 1988. Praise God for the work of 253 people on Work and Wit­ ness teams in Mexico City during 1987 and for the work of the teams in 1988, which will help to get permanent proper­ ties established. We are praising God in Mexico City for a 20 percent in­ crease in student enrollment at the seminary. Indications are that by next fall present maximum capacity of 80 resident Sunday, July 26, Russell B. Hartzell was honored in a special service for being students will be reached. church treasurer of Morgantown, W.Va., First Church for 50 years. Pictured (r. to RAYMOND W. HURN, Secretary I.) are: Mr. and Mrs. Russell B. Hartzell, their daughter Catherine; former pastor, B o a r d o f G e n e r a l S uperintendents Rev. Pat LaFon, and present pastor, Rev. Paul D. Sydenstricker.

Herald of Holiness/December IS, 19 X 7 ★ 1987 STEWARDSHIP HONOR ROLL ★

Listed below are the 10 churches on the Stew­ To qualify for the Stewardship Honor Roll, ardship Honor Roll with the highest percentage a church must pay all budgets in full and of giving to General Budget and mission spe­ meet the formula for 10% Giving. cials:

PERCENTAGE CHURCH 132.08 FLUSHING KOREAN (FLUSHING, N.Y.) ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ 107.99 GREENVILLE (GREENVILLE, ALA.) 105.04 LONG BEACH FIRST (LONG BEACH, CALIF.) 72.47 DOVER CALVARY (DOVER, DEL.) Listed below are 49 churches that have qual­ 65.29 MOUNT PLEASANT FIRST (MOUNT PLEASANT, MICH.) ified for the Stewardship Honor Roll for 30 or more 63.90 HOUSTON DENVER (HOUSTON, TEX.) consecutive years: 63.00 BURLESON (BURLESON, TEX.) 60.13 ROANOKE GRANDVIEW HEIGHTS (ROANOKE, VA.) 56.61 MOUNT HOPE (BERNE, IND.) CONSECUTIVE CHURCH 47.09 DETROIT FIRST (NORTHVILLE, MICH.) YEARS 40 ALEXANDRIA (ALEXANDRIA, IND.) 40 BETHEL (ARENZVILLE, ILL.) •k'k'k'k'k'k'k'k'kir'kif'k'k'kir'k'k'k'k 40 ELKHART FIRST (ELKHART, IND.) 40 HARRIS CHAPEL (SELMA, IND.) Listed below are the districts with 50 percent or 40 KANSAS CITY FIRST (KANSAS CITY, M O.) more of their churches qualifying for the Stew­ 40 MONONGAHELA (MONONGAHELA, PA.) 40 MOUNT HOPE (BERNE, IND.) ardship Honor Roll: 40 SUBLETTE (SUBLETTE, KANS.) 40 WARREN FIRST (WARREN, O HIO ) CHURCH DISTRICT DISTRICT 40 WINCHESTER (WINCHESTER, O HIO ) PERCENTAGE SUPERINTENDENT 40 ZION (BRITT, IOWA) 71.0 SACRAMENTO WALTER M. HUBBARD 39 MARION FIRST (MARION, OHIO) 61.0 HAWAII PACIFIC DARRELL B. TEARE 38 BEARDSTOWN (BEARDSTOWN, ILL.) 60.0 INDIANAPOLIS JOHN P. HAY 38 CHATTANOOGA FIRST (CHATTANOOGA, TENN.) 58.0 SOUTH CAROLINA JAMES M. BEARDEN 37 COLUMBIANA (COLUMBIANA, OHIO) 56.0 WASHINGTON ROY E. CARNAHAN 37 NEW BRIGHTON (NEW BRIGHTON, PA.) 55.0 CANADA QUEBEC HARRY A. RICH 36 HARMATTAN (OLDS, ALTA.) 55.0 MICHIGAN C. NEIL STRAIT 36 LOWELL (LOWELL, MICH.) 54.0 AUSTRALIA SOUTHERN MAX STONE 36 PEORIA FIRST (PEORIA, ILL.) 54.0 NORTHWESTERN OHIO M. V. SCUTT 35 CONCO RD (CONCORD, CALIF.) 53.0 AUSTRALIA NORTHERN PACIFIC JOHN N. WHITE 35 EAST ROCKAWAY (LONG ISLAND, N.Y.) 50.0 AUSTRALIA WESTERN JOHN KERR 35 WARREN (WARREN, PA.) 50.0 INTERMOUNTAIN HOYLE C. THOMAS 34 BERNE (BERNE, IND.) 50.0 KANSAS W. T. DOUGHARTY 34 BRADFORD FIRST (BRADFORD, PA.) 50.0 NORTHWEST WALTER LANMAN 34 DINUBA (DINUBA, CALIF.) 50.0 PHILADELPHIA TALMAGE N. HAGGARD 34 DURANT (DURANT, OKLA.) 34 ELKHART (ELKHART, KANS.) ★ 34 GRAND HAVEN (GRAND HAVEN, MICH.) ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★■A - 33 BRESEE AVENUE (PASADENA, CALIF.) 33 OTTAWA FIRST (OTTAWA, ILL.) Listed below are the top 14 districts who 32 BELLE (BELLE, W.VA.) reached or overpaid their accepted budget for 32 BETHEL (BETHEL, KANS.) 1987: 32 CLAYTONIA (WEST SUNBURY, PA.) 32 FORT RECOVERY (FORT RECOVERY, O HIO ) PERCENTAGE DISTRICT DISTRICT 32 PENIEL (HUTCHINSON, KANS.) SUPERINTENDENT 32 WESTBROOK (INDIANAPOLIS, IND.) 110.12 MAINE J. E. SHANKEL 32 YUMA (YUMA, COLO.) 108.02 SOUTH CAROLINA JAMES M. BEARDEN 31 C H IC A G O OAK PARK (O AK PARK, ILL.) 103.14 NEW ENGLAND NEALE O. McLAIN 31 IRONTON FIRST (IRONTON, OHIO) 101.79 WESTERN LATIN AMERICAN RAYMOND Z. LOPEZ 31 MUNCIE SOUTH SIDE (MUNCIE, IND.) 101.61 HAWAII PACIFIC DARRELL B. TEARE 31 NYSSA (NYSSA, OREG.) 101.35 SACRAMENTO WALTER M. HUBBARD 30 GEORGETOWN (GEORGETOWN, ILL.) 100.97 KANSAS CITY MILTON PARRISH 30 FAIRVIEW (NAMPA, IDAHO) 100.78 WASHINGTON ROY E. CARNAHAN 30 BETHANY (HUTCHINSON, KANS.) 100.61 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CLARENCE J. KINZLER 30 SOUTH PORTLAND (SOUTH PORTLAND, MAINE) 100.30 PHILADELPHIA TALMAGE N. HAGGARD 30 NORTH PLATTE (NORTH PLATTE, NEBR.) 100.18 ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARNOLD R. CARLSON 30 EVANSVILLE FIRST (EVANSVILLE, IND.) 100.00 ALASKA ROGER J. WEGNER 30 ROANOKE FIRST (ROANOKE, VA.) 100.00 ILLINOIS JOHN J. HANCOCK 30 WASHINGTON FIRST (WASHINGTON, D.C.) 100.00 UPSTATE NEW YORK GEORGE E. TEAGUE

22 Herald of Holiness/ December T 5 , I l)R7 BOARD OF PENSIONS Mairena, the Nicaraguan Nazarenes Phyllis Gentry, specialized assign­ ISSUES “14th MONTH” go forward. In their own words, ment to Papua New Guinea; Alberto CHECK writes Editor Franco, they ask their and Lillian Guang, specialized as­ brethren around the world: “Do not signment to the Seminario Nazareno The Board of Pensions and Bene­ forget us. Pray for us." Mexicano A.C.; Keith and Karen fits USA issued a “ 14th m o n th ” ‘Spanish Publications is a part of Horwood, specialized assignment to check to each retired minister and Publications International of Com­ Swaziland; Jay and Carol Hunton, widow of a minister who was on the munications Division at interna­ specialized assignment to European “Basic" Pension Roll as of Decem­ tional headquarters in Kansas City. Nazarene Bible College; Donald and ber 1, 1987. This check equaled the Bonnie Krockenberger, specialized amount of each member's regular □ assignment to Swaziland; Wayne and monthly pension check. Joan LaForce, specialized assign­ A “ 13th month” check was issued NEW MISSIONARIES Nazarene Chaplain John M. Power. ment to Papua New Guinea; Gio­ in June. Dr. Dean Wessels, adminis­ Veterans Administration, Roseburg, COMMISSIONED vanni and Elina M onterroso, spe­ trator of the Board of Pensions and Oreg.. was recently awarded the Su­ Missionaries appointed during cialized assignment to the MAC perior Performance Award. Chief of Benefits USA, says these “bonus” the 1987 General Board meetings Regional Office; Ben and Janell Chaplain Service, G. K. Kausch, says, payments are made possible by the were formally commissioned in a Moore, specialized assignment to “Power shows the kind of compas­ continued strong support of the special sending service August 18. the Philippines; John and Vicki sion and awareness of human need Pensions and Benefits Fund. Over Field at Olathe, Kans., College Moore, specialized assignment to that attends to the ‘cup of cold water’ 3,000 retired ministers and widows ministry to patients, as well as bring­ Church, the serv ice was the culmina­ Australia; Jim and joy Nash, special­ of ministers throughout the United ing them the comfort of the gospel. I tion of three days of orientation for ized assignment to Australia; and States and Canada are served by the am proud to have had him in our ser­ the new missionaries. The orien­ Sam and Grace Pickenpaugh, spe­ “Basie” Pension Program. □ vice these past two years.” John M. tation was coordinated by John cialized assignment to Western Aus­ Power (r.) is shown with Medical Cen­ Smee, administrative assistant in the tralia. □ ter Director Perry C. Norman. World Mission Division, and fea­ —NN FRANCO VISITS tured Mary Scott along with various NICARAGUA division and headquarters person­ At the request of Rev. Nicanor nel. General Superintendent William Mairena, district superintendent of M. Greathouse commissioned the the Church of the Nazarene in Nic­ following missionaries who were aragua, Dr. Sergio Franco, adminis­ present at the service: Dean Flem­ trator of Spanish Publications,* ming, Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theo­ spent nine days ministering there, logical Seminary; Debby Flippo, October 23-31. MAC Region; David and Laura Run­ His activities included an in­ yan, Azores; John and Rose Sprung- tensive Writers’ Workshop in the er, Africa Region; Timothy and capital city for 1 1 pastors and lead­ Jadonna Trout, Philippines; and ers from various parts of Nicaragua; Terry and Andrea Phillips, special­ a pastors’ retreat in the city of Rivas; ized assignment to Papua New and two holiness meetings for the 10 Guinea. churches in Managua and the 19 in Other missionaries in the 1987 Rivas and San Jorge. class who were not present for the He also met with the Executive sending service are: Karen Frye, Swa­ ziland; Harry and Deborah Wiese, Board of the interdenominational Four Nazarene police chaplains met with Chaplain Bowers at the International Swaziland; Kenneth and Karen agency that has channeled aid for Conference of Police Chaplains in Cincinnati. There are 27 Nazarene pastors Nicaragua, first when Managua was Bryant, specialized assignment to serving part-time as police chaplains in addition to their pastoral duties. Two destroyed by an earthquake (1 9 7 2 ), Seminario Nazareno Mexicano Nazarene elders, Ch. Rosegrant and Ch. Cawman, serve as fulltime staff for and since the revolution in 1979. A.C.; Rene Chansler, specialized as­ police work in Ohio and Louisiana. Pictured (I. tor.)are Chaplains Stanley Ogden, The Church of the Nazarene is a signment to Japan; William and Robert Gardner, Robert Cawman, Curt Bowers, and Alan Rosegrant. part of that agency. "A spirit of joy, in the presence of pain, commitment in the face of un­ CLIP AND MAIL TODAY! certainty, and of obedience to God’s Word in the context of much con­ fusion” is how Franco describes the THE JABEZ PRINCIPLE m eetings w'ith the pastors. The By Harold Ivan Smith theme was the biblical basis of the holiness faith. Fervent praise and joy 196 pages. Paper. See page 15 for description characterized the sessions with the PLEASE SEND pastors of 66 organized churches and nearly 30 missions. In some copies of PA083-411-2124 at $6.95 each to: cases, their attendance was through D ate______1987 many difficulties and peril. According to Franco, there is a Account Number______spirit among Nazarenes (and Chris­ N am e. tians in general) of pressing the gos­ S tre e t. pel throughout the country. As they City _ sang in the closing meeting of the minicrusade in San Jorge (the town State/Province______Z ip ------where the Nazarene church was CHECK or MONEY ORDER Enclosed $_ Add 4% for handling and postage horn in Nicaragua), “;Nicaragua sera CHARGE (30-day) TO: □ Personal______(other) Account para Cristo!” (“Nicaragua shall be for Christ!") To that end, and under NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE • P.O. Box 419527, Kansas City, MO 64141 the leadership of Superintendent

Herald of Holiness/December 15, 1987 bell, pastor of the Mesa, Ariz., Lehi ing it possible for the school to open Church. Rev. Campbell was one of on time. the first workers at Twin Wells 25 One week after the beginning of years ago. classes, following Wednesday eve­ Other persons who brought greet­ ning prayer meeting, two sixth grade ings included Rev. Michael Estep, girls felt the need to return to the Church Extension Ministries direc­ chapel to pray. Accompanied by tor; Rev. Denny Owens, Nazarene their counselors, the two girls were Indian Bible College president; Mr. saved. They returned to their dorms Robert Prescott, Compassionate where, during their evening devo­ Ministries assistant coordinator; tional time, nine more girls accepted Rev. John Nells, Navajo Nation dis­ Christ. trict superintendent; and Rev. Julian "This is what Twin Wells is all Gunn, Southwest Indian district su­ about," said Rev. Lynn. perintendent. Rev. Roy Lynn wel­ Tuition for the children at the comed the 85 students and guests to hoarding school is $250 per student Students begin the 1987-88 academic year at Twin Wells Indian Schools the school. The institution was do­ per year, but the actual cost per stu­ nated to the Church of the Nazarene dent is $2,500. The actual operating TWIN WELLS OPENS About 250 persons attended the by World-Wide Missions, |une 2, cost at the school is $ 1,000 per day. TO GREAT THINGS ceremony, including parents; repre­ 1985. Staff members are volunteers who Tremendous things are happening sentatives from the local business Within the 90 days prior to the raise their own support. at Twin Wells Indian Schools, ac­ community of Holbrook, Ariz.; and beginning of the fall semester, at Twin Wells is an approved 10 Per­ cording to administrator Rev, Roy an official representative from the least 300 persons in 9 Work and cent Special. Rev. Lynn and his staff Lynn. The 1987-88 school year be­ Navajo Nation who gave greetings. Witness teams and 25 other groups are available for mission services in gan with a grand opening celebra­ Also present was the board of direc­ visited the school site to perform a local churches. The school address tion August 26. tors along with Rev. Beulah Camp­ wide variety of needed work, mak­ is P.O. Box 13, Sun Valley, AZ 86029. □ —NN

NAF AIRLIFTS SUPPLIES TO TWIN WELLS SCHOOL In October, Twin Wells Indian School was the beneficiary of over 2,700 pounds of school and office supplies, library hooks, clothing, and other items donated by Sterling 111., First Church. Nazarene Aviation Fellowship members Jack Archibald, Jerry Brockhaus, Rollin Gilliland, and John Sprunger airlifted the sup­ plies from Sterling, 111., to Holbrook, Ariz. NAF member Chuck Hoover aided in organizing the airlift. John Sprunger is the first missionary to be appointed by the Church of the Nazarene as minister/aviator. The airlift is the first project com­ pleted by the the newly formed NAF. It was organized in July of 1987 and held a constitutional assembly in October. A 12-member hoard of di­ rectors was elected. Directors are: Jerry Brockhaus, Robert Chen- owith, Mike Duncan, Gregory Ford- yce, Charles Hoover, Ray Mattix, Lee McCleery, Gerald Oliver, Monty Ortman, B. J. Schramm, John Sprunger, and Don Stelting. The t i n board will elect executive officers to serve through June 30, 1988. NAF’s constitutional statement of purpose is “. . . to support the worldwide evangelistic mission of the International Church of the Nazarene through those aviation- related resources, facilities, skills, and interests held by its members or in the trust of its membership.” NAF charter membership is open until pfWice* February 29, 1988, and regular membership will remain open after that date. Interested persons may contact NAF, P.O. Box 2961, Ola­ NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE the, KS 66062. □ P.O. Box 419527 • Kansas City, M0 64141

24 Herald of Holiness/December 15, 1987 to review previous work of the ESL ministry and to help determine di­ rection for the future. Committee members included Nancy Clark, Wes Eby, Karen Phillips, and Nancy Zumwalt. The ESL ministry, a relatively new one in the church, has been charged with the development of curriculum materials that are adapted to meet Pictured (I. to r.) at the conference are the linguistic needs of adults and Michael Estep, William J. Prince, Jo­ seph King, and Ed Grindley. older youth who are limited in their English proficiency or who are sec­ SOUTHEAST ASIAN ond language learners. WORK GROWING The major work of the committee during the meeting was to finalize a The second Southeast Asian C on­ East Liverpool, Ohio, First Church raised $1,302 in its September Alabaster set of lessons on basic Bible doc­ ference and Camp Meeting of the march. The emphasis was “The Missionaries Are Our Feet to the Mission Fields,” trines (related to the Articles of Church of the Nazarene attracted with a special push for the children to bring 100 pounds of money In their Ala­ Faith) at a first/second grade read­ more than 150 persons to the Cen­ baster boxes. At the close of the Alabaster march, the money weighed in at 105'A ing level. It is primarily targeted to pounds, a total of $1,106.82. Rev. Paul R. Nesmith Is the pastor. tral Ohio District campgrounds in non-Christians and people who are Columbus, August 19-21. being introduced to the Christian Cosponsored by the Central Ohio faith. The first of two books should District and Church Extension M in­ be available after the first of 1988. istries, the conference was coordi­ nated by Central Ohio District Su­ n perintendent J. Wilmer Lambert. Participants came from Nazarene churches throughout the United States. Special evening speakers in­ cluded Dr. John C. Kounthapanya, pastor of Laotian United Methodist Church of Columbus; Dr. Joe Kong, head of the Cambodian Evangelical Church of the Christian and Mis­ sionary Alliance in the United States; Michael Estep, Church Extension Ministries director; and President Or. Neal Kamp, chaplain of Henry Bill Prince of M ount Vernon Naza­ Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, rene College. Valencia, Calif., is on emergency call Throughout the day various semi­ 24 hours a day, seven days a week, nars and workshops were conducted ministering to trauma patients. Chap­ for adult members of Southeast As­ lain Kamp has given 10 years of ser­ ian churches. Training sessions were vice, the last 5 as director of the Pas­ also held for leaders involved in toral Care Department, in HMNMH. NYI Ministries Teen Program Coordinator Fred Fullerton (center) and Gary Sive- Dr. Fred Rio (I.), chairman of the sponsorship of such churches. wright (r.), NYI Ministries director, show the 1988 Youth Week poster to Phil Riley, Trauma Committee, presents a Christian Life and Sunday School Division director. Youth Week is a yearly de­ Youth camp activities were coordi­ plaque to Chaplain Kamp (r.), com ­ nominational program that in 1988 will be January 31 to February 7. The poster nated by Kathy Kizzee from the mending him for his dedication and highlights the 1988 theme of “Share His Spirit with the Nation.” It depicts youth Cleveland Westlake Cambodian commitment to the Trauma Program, involvement in such national issues as environment, politics, compassionate Church of the Nazarene. The work­ the patients, and their families. ministries, and morality. _nn shops were coordinated by Mrs. Judy Millard of Minneapolis First Cambodian Church and Eileen Figge January of the Gahanna, Ohio, Shepherd Selections Church of the Nazarene. Ltc LAYMEN’S TAPE CLUB Special activities were also held for children. Those coordinating For Your Encouragement these included Mary Lou Roabaugh of the Christian and Missionary Alli­ Side One Side Two ance Church in Arlington, Va., and Bible Reading: Hebrews 4:9-16 Abraham: A Model of Consecra­ — John Corrigan tion, Part II— Dennis Kinlaw Ellie Harrie of the Columbus N orth­ Bible Study: I Am the Bread of Life “My Wonderful Lord” land Church of the Nazarene. — Don W. Dunning ton Sunday School Reflections “Redeemed Medley" — Gene Van Note Pastor Ed Grindley of the Colum­ Devotional Nuggets bus Wilson Avenue Church coordi­ nated the operation of the camp. Mail — N N 0 Today ESL COMMITTEE MEETS D a t e . ACCOUNT NUMBER . 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Herald of Holiness/December 15, 1987 25 four-year liberal arts college and es­ lege, where she serves as chairman of OUR tablishing its reputation as a quality the Department of English. educational institution. The The board voted to confer the COLLEGES AND $350,000 endowment was raised in honorary degree doctor of divinity small contributions from hundreds on President William Patch of Ko­ SEMINARIES of her former students. rean Nazarene Theological College. ENC BOARD OF Dr. Patricia Ward, dean of Arts The board elected Rev. M anuel TRUSTEES MEETS and Letters at Wheaton College in Chavier and Dr. Raymond Dunlop The annual meeting of the Board Wheaton, 111., was the special to three-year terms as members-at- of Trustees of Eastern Nazarene speaker. Ward is a 1952 graduate of large. In addition, the board elected College was October 26-28, 1987. ENC who majored in literature un­ to the Executive Committee Dr. Roy One of the highlights of this year’s der Bertha Munro. In her address, Carnahan, chairman; Dr. Richard meetings w'as Heritage Day Con­ “Character Formation and the Schubert, vice-chairman; Dr. Dallas vocation October 27 when Dr. Ruth Teaching of Literature," she re­ 1). Mucci, secretary; Mr. George A. Cameron was installed as the first viewed Dean M unro’s approach to Gressett, treasurer; Dr. Henry Hen­ occupant of the Munro Chair of Lit­ the teaching of literature and ana­ derson, lay representative; Dr. How­ erature. This first endowed chair at lyzed the current calls for reform in ard Chambers, ministerial represen­ President Nease p j conferring Munro ENC was established in memory of education. tative; and Rev. Neale M cLain, Chair on Dr. Cameron as Dr. Donald the late Dean Emeritus Bertha M un­ Ruth Cameron also majored in district superintendent representa­ Young looks on. ro who served at the college from English under Dean Munro, gradu­ tive. 90% status. He also announced that 1918 until the mid 70s. She died in ating in 1950. She earned her Ph.D. President Stephen Nease reported the Master Design Campaign for the 1983 at 95 years of age. Dean M un­ at Boston University in 1972 and has payment on church budgets reached library expansion has now reached ro was the guiding force in moving taught from 1964 to the present on 81.6% of the allocated budget with $1.3 million in cash and pledges. the college to full accreditation as a the faculty of Eastern Nazarene Col­ four of the eight districts achieving Dr. Nease also announced the res­ ignation of Vice President for Finan­ cial Affairs Robert F. Bollinger. Bol­ Teen Bible Study linger has served at the college 23 years, the last 18 as the Chief Finan­ cial Officer of the college. ENC has BREAK THE BOREDOM operated in the black every year un­ der his fiscal management. He will continue on a part-time basis with BARRIER... the college, working in the area of with wills, annuities, life gifts, and de­ ferred gifts, to the institution. □ a the MVNC BOARD OF Boredom TRUSTEES COMPLETES Breaker” Mi .. : - - m FALL MEETING Approval of several building projects highlighted the annual fall DISCOVERING meeting of the M ount Vernon Naza­ HEBREWS and rene College Board of Trustees held 1, 2 PETER at the college November 4-5. The building projects were re­ by Mark Gilroy A YOUTH BIBLE flected in the report of President STUDY WORKBOOK William |. Prince, which focused on the college’s progress during the first BORING, IT’S NOT. 20 years. The college's first classes began in fall 1968. This latest in the series of Discovering Bible study workbooks will again The biggest board item was ap­ provide teens with challenging and creative approaches to their personal proval to proceed with the chapel/ devotions and the small-group Bible study setting. auditorium/fine arts building in the spring of 1988. The college is in the Each section of the workbook is divided into personal and group “discov­ final fund-raising stages on the $5 eries.” Teens share what they have learned from their personal “discoveries” million building, which will provide with their small group and then learn additional truths during the group a 2,000-seat chapel-auditorium, “discovery” session. A leader’s guide provides the adult sponsor with “han­ classrooms, offices, a recital hall, and choral music and hand practice dles” for the small-group session. area for the music department. Break the boredom barrier for your teens with Dr. Ron j. 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Herald of Holiness/December 15, 1987 MVNL , reported the college re­ corded its 14th consecutive year of NEWS OF operation with a balanced budget. OTHER ADULT The Board of Trustees also ap­ EVANGELISM proved adding another 30-bed REVIVAL RESULTS IN SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS apartment unit north of Oakwood OUTREACH MouStauMvLtAsia Hall, dormitory for men, and east of Bloomington, Minn., Faith Cedar (men) apartments. Dr. Parry Church recently held revival services Questions About said this complex is scheduled to be with evangelists Marvin and Linda completed in fall 1988. Dennison. Rev. David L. Frishie, pas­ Christianity A seventh academic division for tor, reports: Grapples with hard questions, like: business administration, accounting, “The most prominent feature of Why is the Old Testament God so office administration, and compre­ this revival was outreach. Each eve­ hensive business education was ap­ cruel? How do we know Jesus was ning, more than half of those attend­ resurrected? proved by the Board of Trustees. ing were the result of outreach. As Currently M VNC has six academic the revival concluded, we had identi­ Leader's Guide pao8 3 -4 i 1-123 3 $1.95 divisions— education and physical fied more than 30 unchurched pros­ Pupil Book PA0 8 3 -4 1 1-12 2 5 $2.95 education; fine arts; literature, lan­ pects for further personal contact. guage, and communication; natural “Altar response crossed all age science; religion and philosophy; Available from your NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE lines. Children, teens, and adults re­ P.O. Box 4 1 9 5 2 7 , Kansas City, MO 641 4 1 and social sciences. The business sponded. The Dennisons are gifted area was under social sciences. altar workers and led our volunteer Dr. Jack Anderson, academic vice altar counselors effectively. Prices subject to change without notice Add 4% for handling and postage president, noted the new business “A highlight of the revival was division will already have over 20 Marvin Dennison’s portrayal of the percent of the students enrolled at disciple John, in full costume, speak­ the college. □ ing and singing. This dramatic ser­ vice concluded our special services. It’s Tough Out There... MANC NURSING PROGRAM It was a time of spiritual impact and IS REEVALUATED challenge.” □ In the world teens live in— The Board of Review for bacca­ laureate and higher degree programs 57% of all high school juniors of the National League of Nursing have had sex voted to grant continuing accred­ 67% of all high school seniors itation to the baccalaureate program have tried at least one in nursing at MidAmerica Nazarene illegal drug College. The official reaccreditation 85% of all eighth graders have was announced October 15, 1987. tried alcohol at least one A reevaluation is necessary every few years to assure the quality of the time program is consistent. The National 400,000 teens attempted suicide last year League for Accreditation is a volun­ — 5,000 of them succeeded General Superintendent William M. tary accrediting process that recog­ Greathouse (r.) congratulates Rev. nized this standard. James Bearden, superintendent of That’s what Nazarene teens are up against. The nursing program at MANC the South Carolina District, and Mrs. Every month in Bread magazine we deal with the issues that accommodates registered nursing Leota Downing, former district students who are returning for a NWMS president, for their district’s teens face from a Christian perspective and present the side of the B.A. degree as well as the traditional overpayment of its General Budget story that offers hope. We don’t claim to know all the answers. But four-year baccalaureate student. □ goal by $16,638.10. we do know the Answer. And we want to help.

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Herald of Holiness/ December 15, 1987 1 9 8 8 THRUST TO THE CIT

Thrust To The Cities Is A Call ... to the neglected quarters... to the wasted places . . . to the many souls seeking pardon and cleansing THRUST ID THE CITES LOS ANGELES . . . to the city of Los Angeles.

Perhaps no other American city is feeling change like Los Angeles. You see it in the large influx of Vietnamese, the flood of illegal aliens, the drug trafficking on street corners, the vast number of homeless and the $177,000,000 cost of two earthquakes. Los Angeles is hurting.

It is not a call to judge and condemn. But it is a call to care, to love and to pray.

The Church of the Nazarene has committed itself to bring about a spiritual change to the city of Los Angeles.

It was here our vision of ministering to the poor, the unreached, and the forgotten began. Today the need is even greater. And we are called to respond to this need by: • starting 30 new churches • strengthening existing churches • ministering both physically and spiritually

We are called to have compassion for every need!

HOW YOU AND YOUR CHURCH CAN HELP US ANSWER THIS CALL J • PRAY— Pray for the funds that are needed. Pray for the Work and Witness teams. Pray for the pastors and laity of the inner city. Pray for the volunteers who will give of their time and talent. • GIVE — Pastors m ust be supported. Workers need to be trained. Chruches have to be built. And operating equipment has to be purchased. But it can't be done without the giving of dollars. • WORK AND WITNESS TEAMS — Assistance will be required in various building projects. Plan now on how you can join in these life-changing programs. • "ADOPT" A SISTER CHURCH — Beginning a new church can be difficult and very lonely. "Adopting" a church can be a special way to help, encourage and support a new congregation and at the same time motivate your church into greater giving. • VOLUNTEER — This can be a highly rewarding experience for people with special abilities and talents. Someone in your church needs to use their gifts in this great outreach.

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Willis Scott js f Coordinator je Street, Fair Lawn, NJ 07410 '7 ) R. Estep Cities Director At the Illinois district assembly. Dis­ The Upstate New York District cele­ trict Superintendent John J. Hancock brated its 50th anniversary at its reported two new churches orga­ 1987 assembly. Pictured is District nized: East St. Louis Rush Memorial Superintendent George Teague (r.) and Springfield Friendly Chapel. Dr. presenting the Church Planter Award Jerald D. Johnson, general superin­ to Mark Gorman (I.), pastor of the Ar­ tendent. ordained Timothy W. Gates. cade Crossroads Church, organized Russell F. Gumm, and Rodger D. during the assembly year, with Rev. Strong. Pictured (I. to r.) with District Blair McKim. pastor of the spon­ Superintendent Hancock are the pas­ soring church, in the background. tors who received the Great Commis­ General Superintendent Charles H. sion Leader Award: Earl Jones. Barry; Strickland ordained Larry R. Chan­ Richard Unger. Glenview; Russell dler, Greg Paris, Richard A. Rouse. W. Brewer, Monticello; and Duane Joseph Stump, and Richard C. Wood. Schmidt, Decatur West Side. Others who received the Great Commission Fellowship Award were Gary Clark. Harrisburg; and Stephen Borger, Clin­ ton. GOD SPEAKS THROUGH HIS WORD Pictured (I. to r.) is District Superin­ By A. F. HARPER tendent George Teague presenting Inspirational, life-centered, day-by-day devo- the New Church Citation ot Merit Award to Rev. Paul Willette, pastoral tionals uniquely designed to take the reader Saratoga Springs, the sponsoring through the Bible in a year. church, while Rev. David Frazer, pas­ The variety of methods Dr. Harper uses in tor of the newly organized Galway Pictured (I. to r.) are Walter Shack­ presenting these brief studies, including the Church, looks on. Pastors ant leford. pastor ot new East St. Louis churches that received the Greal development of a theme, analysis of the Rush Memorial Church; Muriel Commission Leader Award were scripture, biographical material, self- Shackleford, daughter of Mary Rush; John Marchant. Buffalo New Life: evaluation devices, and questions that probe Pastor Edward Stovall. Dupo. the Ronald E. Boyd. Springwater; and W sponsoring church, who received the John White. Watertown. Others that reader response, stimulates a high interest Citation ot Merit Award from District received the Great Commission Fel­ level. Each meditation concludes with a word Superintendent John Hancock. lowship Award were Kim L. Rich­ of scripture, a hymn stanza, a meaningful ardson, Buffalo First; Loren R. Ed­ quotation, or a prayer. wards. Ithaca; Dennis L. King. Pots-dam; and David L. Speicher. Special feature — devotionals are identified Syracuse First. as Week 1, Sunday, Week 1, Monday and so on, making it possible to begin at any time of the year. Consistent reading will result in knowing God better and nurturing one's spirit in Christian faith. 532 pages. Kivar cover. PA083-411-0679 $11.95 Shown (I. to r.) is District Superinten­ dent Hancock presenting Pastor Bret OTHER DAILY DEVOTIONALS Kuchar. Springfield Friendly Chapel, the Citation of Merit Award. BESIDE STILL WATERS By H ughes W Day. Devotional thoughts touching per­ sonal needs drawn from scores of writers. 420 pages. Clothboard. PA083-410-5993 $9.95 At the Northern Michigan district as­ sembly. District Superintendent HOLINESS AND HIGH COUNTRY Milton Hoose reported two new By A F. H arper Presents a year's study of the deeper churches organized: Benzie and Gray­ life. Spiritually rewarding. 384 pages. Kivar board. ling. General Superintendent Charles PA083-410-2323 $6.95 H. Strickland ordained Dennis J. No­ Prices subject to change w ithout notice ble and James E. Young, Jr. Pictured (I. to r.) are the pastors who received the in om mr Great Commission Leader Award: Pictured (I. to r.) District Superinten­ John Carr. Alanson; and David Wilson. NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE dent Hancock presents Pastor Roy E. Benzie. Other churches receiving the P.O. Box 419527, Kansas City, MO 64141 Rogers. Springfield First, the Citation Great Commission Fellowship Award of Merit for sponsoring Friendly Cha­ were: Charlevoix. Kalkaska. Man- pel. celona, and Temple.

30 Herald of Holiness December I S. lbS~ FOR THE RECORD DISTRICT ASSEMBLY REPORTS NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA At the Northwest Oklahoma district assembly District Superintendent Jesse C. Middendorf completed the first year of an extended term. General Superin­ tendent Raymond W. Hurn ordained James Walker Ballenger, Richard Doug­ las Gunsalus, and R ob ert Jay S hephard. The credentials of Stephen Mark Hol- lingworth were recognized. The Great Commission Leaders Award were re­ ceived by pastors Edwin Morse, Guthrie; At the Georgia district assembly District Superintendent Harold Latham was relected to a four-year term. General Super­ Robert Shephard. Piedmont; Kevin C. intendent Eugene L. Stowe ordained Donald Wayne Hicks and Jack Brannon Smithwick, Sr. The credentials of Timothy L. Rodgers, Ponca City St. Luke; and Stan­ Bost. R. Gene McLendon, and Kenneth F. White were recognized. Shown (I. to r.) are pastors who received the Great ley A. Toler, O klahom a C ity First. O ther Commission Fellowship Award (front row): Dublin First. T. Daniel Casey; Fort Valley, Paul Barnes (also Great Commission pastors and churches that received the Leader Award); Albany Grace, Don Hicks; Blairsville First, John Strickland (also Great Commission Leader Award); Cairo, Great Commission Fellowship Award Harold Hatton; Savannah First, Gary Jakes; Graham Memorial, James Frost; South Trion, Robert Bledsoe; Smyrna, Skye were David Clawson, Pawnee; Charles Alison; Fitzgerald, James Hubbard (also Great Commission Leader Award); (back row) Dalton First, Thomas Cook (also McKinney, Fairview; James Ballenger, Great Commission Leader Award); Battlefield Parkway, Mike Clyburn; Donalsonvilie First, Steve Hood; Gainesville Bethel, Helena; Terrell Earnest, Guymon; Philip Michael Bryant; Pine Mountain, James Laymon; Rowland Chapel, Lyde Killingsworth; Wilkes, Al Soles, Jr.; and Wrens, Heap, Stillwater First; Byron Strange, James Dunn. Waterloo; and Melvin McCullough, Beth­ any First. Pastor Jim Cooper, Enid First, received the Citation of Merit Award. SOUTHWEST INDIANA When should you At the Southwest Indiana district as­ sembly, District Superintendent B. G. plan your will? (choose any 4) □ After the birth of □ During your pastor’s Shown (I. to r.) at the Akron district your first grandchild. next sermon on assembly are District Superintendent Floyd 0. Fleming, with Great Com­ □ When one of the heaven. mission Leader Award winners Rich­ “old gang” expires □ Other______ard A. Wright, Louisville; Terry suddenly. Schmelzenbach, Tallmadge; and At the Northern California district as­ Marion W. Barber, Columbiana; and Any of the above may serve to remind us that time is sembly. General Superintendent Ray­ General Superintendent William M. still marching— and today is a very good time to prepare mond W. Hurn ordained as elders Greathouse. Others who won the Sheldon G. Boyd and Barry L. Brown; Great Commission Fellowship Award your will, so that your heirs won’t be at loose ends “to­ and R. Duane Baumgartner, deacon. were Fred W. Thompson, Akron Cot­ morrow.” Shown are the recipients of the Great tage Grove; John C. Taylor, Akron El- Your church, too, can benefit— or Christian education Commission Leader Award: Pastor let; William R. Dillon, Sr., Uh- Roy Green. San Jose Valley; with Dis­ richsville; and Alvin White, or missions. You can put the whole world in your will trict Superintendent Clarence J. Youngstown Boardman. Dr. W illiam through a special bequest to the work of Christ. Kinzler; and Pastor Bob Denham, Greathouse ordained Duane Edward HOW TO START: Use the coupon at right to request Fremont Central. Pastors receiving Brown, Susan Kathleen Brown, the Great Commission Fellowship James Raymond Davidson, Joseph J. our free booklet, “How to Make a Will That works.” Award were pastors Jeff Baughman, Frank, Trevor Howard Johnston, Lynn There’s no obligation. Antioch; Jim Kent, Fremont First; and Edward Nichols, Conner Hall Sayers, Mark Pitcher, San Ramon Valley. Jr., and Edwin Arthur Spangler, Jr. Life Income Gifts Services In Canada: Church of the Nazarene Church of the Nazarene Executive Board 6401 The Paseo Box 30080, Station B Kansas City, MO 64131 Calgary, Alberta, Canada Attn: Robert D. Hempel T2M 4N7 Rev. M r M rs .______M iss Address

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Herald of Holiness/December I S, 19S7 31 Wiggs completed the first year of a four- BRIAN V. LOONEY from Chambers- year term. General Superintendent Wil­ burg, Pa., to Woodbury, N.J. liam M. Greathouse ordained Timothy H EN R Y R. LU K A to Louisiville (Ky) Hikes Keilerman, Rodney Lindsay, Homer Point NOW! PLAN NOW! Meneely, Charles Parsons, Brent Poe, R O N N IE W, M cC O R M IC K from Lan­ and Paul Robinson. The Great Commis­ caster, Pa., to Harrisonburg, Va, 1988 Denomination-Wide sion Leader Award was given to pastors K RAY McDOWELL from Drumright, Claude Chastain, Jr., Shoals; Robert Okla., to Manhattan, Kans. Shepherd, Clarksville Parkwood: and D A LL A S E. M cF A R L A N D from Cold- C o n tin u in g Gene Clark, Terre Haute Southslde. water, Mich., to Lansing (Mich.) Wood- Other churches receiving the Great view Lay Training Commission Fellowship Award were GEAROLD (Jerry) D. MAY from Valley Bloomington Eastside, Cory, Evansville S hepherd, Idaho, to Cam arillo, Calif. S tu d y Diamond Valley, Freetown, Jasper. JOHN A. MOHLER from Erie, III., to Nashville Parkview. Odon, Palmyra, Modac, Ind, For February and March Roachdale. Vincennes First, W orth­ DOUGLAS M. MOYER, associate, Lo- ington, and Zion. qan, Ohio, to pastor, Pleasantville, O hio INTERMOUNTAIN ROBERT PEGO from Sault Ste. Marie At the Intermountain district assem­ (Mich.) Indian to student, Albu­ bly, District Superintendent Hoyle C. querque, N.Mex. Thomas gave his 11th report. General JIM R E EVES from Pilot Point. Tex., to Superintendent Jerald D Johnson or­ Orofino, Idaho dained Edwin C. Nichols. Pastors and R. C LA R K RIVAS, student, NTS, Kansas churches receiving the Great Commis­ City, to Lufkin (Tex.) Bethel sion Leader Award were Robert M. Arm­ M A R K A. R U D EEN from Connell, Wash., strong, John Day, Oreg.: Charles E. Jack­ to Irving, Tex. son, Middleton, Idaho; Roy A. Litsey, R. L. SALISBURY from Harrington, O rder Form Nampa, Idaho, Bethel; and Richard J. Wash., to Harney County, Oreg. Mark, Nampa, Idaho, Karcher. Others re­ WESLEY SAMPSON from Greencastle, ceiving the Great Commission Fellow­ Ind., to Jordan. Ind. LESLIE PARROTT ship Award were Danial A. Buster, Boise, DON SC H IN K from W atkins Glen, N.Y,to Idaho, Overland; John A. Flowers, Enter­ Saco-Biddeford, Maine prise, Oreg.; I. Carl Koons, Vernal, Utah; WILLIAM R, SINGH, student, NBC, Col­ D a te ------Ronald L. Wilde, Elko, Nev.; Albert R. orado Springs, Colo., to Bingham, Pemble, Mountain Home, Idaho; Orval M aine Please send items as indicated below: Hailey, Nampa Fairview; and Aaron N. V E R N O N E, S T IM P E R T fro m Johns­ PA083-411-2132 THE BIBLE SPEAKS TO ME ABOUT MY Knapp, Twin Falls, Idaho. Retirement sta­ tow n, O hio, to Z anesville (Ohio) North- CHURCH — Parrott...... $4.95______tus was granted to R. W. (Bob) Carpen­ side 10% CLT discount on 5 o r more ter, John E. Riley, Glenn W. Schafer, Orval PAUL STRAUB from associate, Vista, p a lg -1 7 LEADER'S GUIDE ...... $1.50______L. Schmidt, T. N. Watkins, and Vernon L. Calif., to pastor, Maria (Calif.) High­ Total ______W ilcox. lands Add 4% for postage and handling ______GLENDON STROUD to Lakeland (Fla.) GRAND TOTAI______MOVING MINISTERS Eastside Mission RICHARD WAGNER from Jacksonville L. KENNETH ADAMS from Eau Galle, SHIP TO: (Fla.) Lem Turner to Melbourne (Fla.) Fla., to Palms, Fia. Eau Gallie RONALD K. ADAMS from Watertown. CHESTER WEBSTER from Saginaw NY, to associate, Rochester (N.Y.)Trin­ (Mich.) Shields to Cadillac (Mich.) First ity C H A R L E S E, W IL L S O N fro m Rocky CHECK o r MONEY ORDER E nclosed $______WALLACE A. BELL, JR., to Roanoke. Ford, Colo., to Eliot, Maine CHARGE (30-day) TO: DChurch DSS Ala. DAMON H. WRIGHT from Parker, Ariz., LARRY BENJAMIN to Heppner, Oreg. ______(other) Account to Camp Creek, Okla. FREDERICK E. BLAUSER from Miff- G R A D Y Z IC K E FO O S E from pastor, Col­ ACCOUNT NUMBER ______linburg, Pa„ to Woodstown, N.J. fax, Wash., to Oregon Pacific, district Church Location (city)______ROBERT L. BOLTON from Tampa (Fla.) assigned First to Glendale, Ariz. (state/province)______McKINLEY BROWN from Pleasantville, Church Name ______Ohio, to Whitesburg, Ky, MOVING MISSIONARIES Bill to:______STEVE BROWN from student, NTS, REV. ROBERT and NORMA BRUN­ Kansas City to Kerrville (Tex.) First SON, Costa Rica, Field address: Apar- E. DWAYNE BURTON from Columbiana, tado 3977-1000, San Jose, Costa Ala., to evangelism Rica REGISTRATION FORM SAMUEL CASTRO to Arcadia (Calif.) DR. FLOYD CUNNINGHAM,' Philip­ D a te ______Baldwin Park Spanish pines, Furlough address: 221 Hutton St., Gaithersburg, MD 20877 Course: CLT Unit 126.1a, JO H N S. C R A M E R II, associate. M el­ rose, Mass., to pastor, Gettysburg, Pa. MISS DEBRA FLIPPO, MAC Region, The Bible Speaks to Me About My Church ED EBY to associate. Tampa (Fla.) First Field address: c/o Instituto de Lengua Text: THE BIBLE SPEAKS TO ME ABOUT MY CHURCH— LOWELL P. FORD from associate, Hock­ Espanola, Apartado 100, 2350 San Leslie Parrott ing Valley, Ohio, to pastor, Johnstown, Francisco de dos Rios, San Jose, O hio Costa Rica Church Name ______GORDON GARRISON from Oak Harbor MISS ARLENE GARDE. MAC Region, A d d re s s ______Wash., to Spokane (Wash.) Pasadena Field address: Apartado 3977-1000, Park San Jose, Costa Rica RICHARD L. GROGAN from Kingsburg, DR. ENRIQUE and ANA GUANG,' D is tric t______Calif., to Mesa (Ariz.) Valley Shepherd Costa Rica, Field address: Apartado Enrollment estimate Beginning date Number sessions ___ Fellowship 3977-1000, San Jose, Costa Rica JO H N H IC K M A N fro m P arrish, III., to MR, MIGUEL and CELIA MEJIA,' Costa Class to be held □ NYI hour □ Wednesday night Other Arkadelphia, Ark. Rica, MAC Regional Office. Field ad­ Send Report Blank, Registration Material to: ROBERT HUFF from Rossvllle, Ga., to dress: Apartado 820-A, 01909 Gua­ Phenix City, Ala. temala, Guatemala, C.A. HYLYARD IRVIN from Portage, Ind., to MR JOHN and CAROLYN MILLER.' Glendale, Ariz. Peru, Field address: Apartado 193, NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE JAMES KAYS to Colville, Wash. Chiclayo, Peru KENNETH T. KEIM from Jersey Shore, MISS MARY MILLER. Peru, Furlough P.O. B ox 419527, K ansas City, M O 64141 Pa., to Warminster, Pa. address: 6161 Reims, No. 820, Hous­ ton, TX 77036 SEE OUTSIDE BACK COVER FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION E. DONALD KING from Bloomington, Calif., to Lompoc (Calif ) Trinity REV. GIOVANNI and ELINA MON- DOYLE R. LARKIN to Boulder City, Nev. TERROSO,' MANC Regional Office,

32 Herald of Holiness/December I >, 1987 Field address: Apartado 3977-1000. dianapolis, Ind., a girl. Sarah Elizabeth, EWS OF RELIGION San Jose. Costa Rica O ct. 23 MR. DAVID and MARQUITA MOSHER.* to DAN AND MICKIE (BONE) DAN­ Swaziland, Furlough address: 1415 E. NER, Kansas City, Mo., a girl. Sara Ann, WORLD VISION STEPS UP EFFORTS IN Walnut, Cushing. OK 74023 Sept. 28 AFRICA TO COUNTER FAMINE REV. MISS MARY LOU RIGGLE, Costa to RANDY AND NANCY (JIVIDEN) As famine threatens many African countries this season due to the drought Rica, Field address: Apartado DODD, Lithonia, Ga., a boy Tyler Ran­ 3977-1000, San Jose, Costa Rica dall, Sept. 14 and the lack of the “long rains” in June and July, World Vision is making REV. BOB and N AN C Y SAY,* Haiti. Field to BRAD AND SONYA (ARTHALONY)- extensive attempts to step up their agricultural assistance work, water im­ address: -Naz, c/o MFI, Box 15665, EDGBERT, Molalla, Oreg., a boy Kyle provement projects, medical assistance programs, and food distributions. West Palm Beach, FL 33406 Bradley, Sept. 30 The Ethiopian government has requested almost 1 million tons of food aid REV. D. KEITH and G ENEVA SILVER- to ARTHUR "BUCKY" AND CAR­ for 1988 in anticipation of its food needs as a result of drought. World NAIL,* Furlough address: 208 OLYN (TUCKER) GOULD, Gresham, Orangeview Ln„ Lakeland, FL 33803 Oreg., a girl Kristin Marie, Aug. 16 Vision President Bob Sciplc visited Ethiopia in late October to survey areas REV. BOYD and NEVA SKIN N ER , Chile, to RUSSELL AND TRUDY HAYTER, of need. Furlough address: 1121 Presidents Nacogdoches, Tex., a boy. Morgan Brad­ Famine relief is not food relief only, according to World Vision. Most of Ave„ No. 3, Kansas City, MO 64131 ley Sept. 30 World Vision’s projects are development oriented. “I don’t do things for MR. RANDY and ALICIA VORCE,* MAC t o REV. JOHN AND VICKI people," said Rebecca Cherono, director of World Vision in Kenya. “I find Region, Field address: Apartado (BEECHER) MOORE (on special assign­ out why they don’t do things for themselves, and then help them do things 3977-1000. San Jose, Costa Rica ment in Australia), Chino, Calif., a boy REV KEN and CAROLYN WADE. Bo­ Alex Zachary, Mar. 4 for themselves.” Cherono, the first woman to head an African ministry of tswana, Field address: P.O. B ox 2113, to RALPH AND VICKIE (PEMBER­ World Vision, oversees the organization’s second largest African ministry and Gaborone, Botswana, Africa TO N ) MURPHY, Florence, Ky., a girl Tara its largest child-care program on that continent. MR. KEN and LINDA WALKER. Swazi­ Jewell, Oct. 8 land, Furlough address: P.O. B ox 366, to REV. RALPH AND DONNA (WEIT- GUTENBERG BIBLE BRINGS $5.39 MILLION Newberry, FL 32669 ZEL) SCHERER, Kankakee, III., a boy David R alston, Aug. 21 A Gutenburg Bible, printed in 1455 in Mainz, Germany, was sold at an ’Specialized Assignment Personnel to REV. TIM AND SUE YOUNG, auction October 22 for more than twice the record price fora printed book. Omaha, III., a boy. Andrew William, The Bible is one of 48 surviving of the 185 believed to have been printed RECOMMENDATIONS Aug. 6 partly by Johannes Gutenberg. I recommend REV. KEN DODGE, one MARRIAGES Johannes Gutenberg, a German printer who was born around 1400, is of the fine pastors on the Northern Cali­ RICHELLE LYNAE REED and DAVID credited with inventing the first printing press with movable type. The Gu­ fornia District, who is entering the field of NEAL FAIRCLOTH at Nashville, Tenn., tenberg Bibles were the first books printed from his presses and paved the evangelism. His integrity, theology, and A ug. 15 way for mass communication. The Bibles were an edition of the Vulgate. preaching ability are models for the D IAN N H IG G S and RIC HIE LO C KER T The Gutenberg Bible is in pristine condition, according to Christie’s auc­ church. He may be contacted at 1150 W. at Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 30 Winton Ave., No. 221, Hayward, CA GINA ANN MARGHELLA and JEFF­ tion house, in charge of the auction of more than 130 printed books from 94545.— Clarence J. Kinzler. Northern REY TODD MOHNEY at California, Pa.. the 15th century. The pages are clean and are bound in their original binding. California district superintendent. Nov. 7 The Bible is the first volume of a two-volume set, and includes Genesis The location of evangelists may be se­ ANNIVERSARIES through Psalms of the Old Testament. The second volume in the set is not cured through Evangelism Ministries' MR. AND MRS. KENNETH STEW­ believed to have survived. toll-free number, 800-821-2154. ART of Erie. Pa., celebrated their 60th The buyer was Maruzen Co. Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan’s largest bookseller, who wedding anniversary September 13. A paid $5.39 million for the Bible. The previous record for a printed book sold VITAL STATISTICS family party was hosted by their children at auction was $2.2 million when another Gutenberg Bible was sold in 1978. DEATHS S eptem ber 17. T hey are m em bers o f the REV. PAUL M. BARD, 78. Jan. 24, Erie First Church. The Stewarts have six children, John, William, Robert, and Dor- NRB’S NEW ETHICS AND INTEGRITY COMMISSION Pasadena, Calif. Survivors: wife Lois; HOPES TO CLEAN UP RELIGIOUS BROADCASTING son Rev. Donald: and two grand­ etha Morosky all of Erie; Dolores Moh- daughters. Ministry: Minnesota, North­ ney of Hawthorn, Pa.; and Joan Mohney in an effort to step up self-regulation of the TV and radio broadcasting west, and Los Angeles districts. of California. Pa. industry, the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) have formed the Ethics LILLIAN BURKHART, 74. Oct. 13, San and Financial integrity Commission (EF1COM), a new “watchdog” division Diego, Calif. Survivors: sisters Lidy Mae DIRECTORIES of the NRB. Burkhart and Hazel Bolton; brother Ar­ Effective January 1,1988 “F.FICOM is now in place and calls on the 1,300 members of this religious thur Burkhart. BOARD OF GENERAL SUPERINTEN­ broadcasting association to comply with a code of ethics that will deal with EARL P. CLARK, formerly of Nampa, DENTS— Office: 6401 The Paseo, Kan­ areas of ethics and fund-raising practices,” stated Dr. Ben Armstrong, execu­ Idaho, 71, Oct. 19, Dayton, Wash. Sur­ sas City, MO 64131. Eugene L. Stowe, vivors: daughters Sandy (Mrs. Dennis) Chairman; Raymond W. Hurn, Vice tive director of NRB. “The EFICOM seal will be, essentially, our ‘Good Simpson and Wanda (Mrs. Clayton) Chairman; John A. Knight, Secretary; Housekeeping Seal of Approval.’” West; son Larry; eight grandchildren; Charles H. Strickland; William M. Great­ NRB President Robert Cook added, “Although this effort was well under­ one sister; two brothers. house; Jerald D. Johnson. ANNIE HORTON, 95, Oct. 19, San Di­ way before the |PTL founder] Jim Bakker downfall, the announcement of ego, Calif. Interment: Portsmouth, R.l. this commission is timely. The self-regulatory agency will insure the highest Survivors: son Paul; daughter Marian of standards and practices by our members." Trout; 7 grandchildren; 11 great-grand­ SHOWERS OF BLESSING’S Cook explained that main points of the F.FICOM program, recently ap­ children; 1 brother proved by the NRB board, include public disclosures of annual independent ELIZABETH J. KREMPA, 60, Sept. audits; complete disclosure of source of donations, expenditures, salaries, 25, Hockessin, Del. Survivors: husband Edward; daughter Mrs. Barbara Swi- perks, etc.; review of fund-raising materials used by member organizations; gart; 3 granddaughters. and a decertification procedure for members who fail to meet FFICOM NATALEE MAE PARMELY of Miller, standards. S.Dak.. 46, Sept. 27, Sioux Falls. S.Dak. “Religious broadcasting has experienced an explosive growth in America,” Interment: Miller. Survivors: husband concluded Armstrong. “We now have 1,370 radio stations, 210 television Otis; daughters Debbie Steadman and December 27 Tena; son Jim; eight grandchildren; one “Eternal Values” stations, over 2,000 radio programs, and five cable networks. Many place our brother; one half-brother; her step­ regular viewing audience at 20 million households.” m other. January 3, 1988 VETA WHITE, 72. Oct. 5, San Diego, “Hidden Treasure” ABOLITION OF FAIRNESS DOCTRINE HAILED Calif. Survivors: husband Lum; daugh­ Christian broadcasters are pleased that the Federal Communications Com ­ ters Claudine Todhunter, Joy Hall, April January 10 McNeiece; nine grandchildren; six great­ “Hilarious Trip” mission has abolished its Fairness Doctrine, which required equal time for grandchildren. opposing views. January 17 The policy was meant to encourage balanced discussions of controversial BIRTHS “The Huge Toll” issues, hut in effect it often discouraged stations from presenting the Chris­ to GREG AND STEPHONI (BALKO) tian viewpoint on controversial issues because they were then obliged to give BROWN, Bakersfield, Calif., a boy, G reg­ by Stephen I.. Manley, speaker ory Scott, Nov. 7 equal time to opposing views. Regardless of the FCC’s unanimous decision, to DAN AND MARGARET CLARK, In­ some members of Congress are working to reinstate the policy as law.'

Herald of Holiness December I i , D)S7 33 secretary. Two charter members of Superintendent C. Neil Strait. Also bers and friends from the commu­ THE the church were present. They were participating were Kendall Porritt, nity. The house is located on a Mrs. Earl (Jeanette Limbaugh) Sams Archie Duncan, and Carl Peterson, nine-acre lot where the congrega­ CHURCH SCENE and Mrs. Ben (Virginia Limbaugh) members of the Board of Trustees tion plans to build their new church U nder the leadership of Rev. Howard. The property is now valued who were on the construction com­ facilities. It was built under the lead­ Chester L. Kneir, Cape Girardeau, at over $745,000. □ mittee in 1983, and about 30 mem­ ership of Pastor Bob Evans. Mo., First Church had a mortgage The funeral for Pastor Rodriguez burning service Sunday, July 26, of the San A n to n io de A reco c h u rch , 1987. In approximately 3 months in Argentina, became an installation $20,000 was raised and the church service. After the death of her hus­ was paid off nearly 12 years ahead of band, Mrs. Elena Rodriguez said, “I the due date. Rev. Paul Aldrich of wish to continue serving the Lord.” Corpus Christi, Tex., guest speaker, Right before the casket of her hus­ was pastor during the building of the band, before the Antonio de Areco church in 1973-74. Rev. Hiram San­ congregation and surrounded by ders, superintendent of the Missouri other pastors and wives, District Su­ District, and Rev. Douglas Clem of perintendent Juan Chumba installed Port Orchard, Wash., a former pas­ her as the pastor. □ tor, also took part in the service. Others who participated in the The Clarksville, Mich., Elmdale service were Bill Cheek, chairman of C h u rc h burned the mortgage to The Webster, Tex., NASA Church dedicated a new educational building July 26. Dr. Jerald D. Johnson, general superintendent, was the guest speaker. District the mortgage burning campaign; their parsonage Sunday, July 26, Superintendent D. W. Thaxton, since deceased, also participated In the services. DeWayne Toole, church treasurer; 1987. Speaking at the service, led by The new building is a two-story facility (8,000 sq. ft.) with a 50 x 20' foyer, and Mrs. Joyce King, church board Pastor Gregory Freed, was District designed to accommodate more than 250 students. Groundbreaking was in 1984 under the leadership of Pastor Darrell Hall. The church borrowed $95,000 to start HELP US the project. In 1986, under the leadership of Pastor Wayne Hicks, the first floor and the second story were completed. Volunteer labor from members and KEEP YOUR friends did the work. Money and supplies were also donated to the church from outside sources. The entire church complex is now appraised at $1.2 million, PERIODICALS with a total indebtedness of $150,000. M 0 M 6 ? COMING BY:

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PLEASE ATTACH LABEL The Laurinburg, N.C., church was dedicated August 2. with District Superinten­ FROM MOST RECENT ISSUE dent D. Eugene Simpson bringing the dedicatory message. This “Home Mission D First Unit Worship Center” is located on four acres of choice property south of Laurinburg. The building comprises a sanctuary seating 100, an education/fel­ lowship area, and pastor’s study, totaling 3,000 sq. ft. The building was built mostly by volunteer labor from the local congregation and workmen from cross the North Carolina District. The indebtedness is $35,000, with a total evaluation of the property at $125,000. The church was organized January of 1986, with 20 members. Rev. Gale L. Goode is the present pastor.

GIVING US YOUR NEW ADDRESS IN SPACE PROVIDED BELOW D ate. Name _ S tre e t. C ity __ State/Province. Z ip. NOTE: Allow up to six weeks for processing address change. Mail to: SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE July 12, the Molokai Church in Kualapuu, Hawaii, held its first baptismal service P.O. Box 419527, Kansas City, M0 64141 by the seashore with 12 receiving Christian baptism. None of these were new converts. The church was organized January 29,1987, by District Superinten­ dent Darrell Teare, with 14 charter members. Rev. Lee Toplift is pastor.

34 Hcmlti of Holiness/December 15 , 19 X 7 MARK GRAHAM R eporter ATE NEWS Nazarene News Service Nazarene Seminary Graduates NAZARENES LEND HAND IN Bible College; Mike Estep, Church INDIANAPOLIS DISASTER Extension Ministries director, and S e rv e other resource persons presented Two Nazarene pastors were lectures that were translated into Around the World as among those offering assistance af­ Spanish. ter a military jet plowed into the air­ Four pastors, Carlos Fernandez of port Ramada Inn in Indianapolis, • Missionaries • Pastors the Phoenix Hispanic church; Ro­ killing nine persons, October 20. berto Hodgson of the Hispanic con­ • Church Planters • Teachers Steve Powell, pastor of Richmond, gregation at Washington, D.C., First Ind., St. Paul’s Church, and his asso­ • Evangelists • Administrators Church; Jose Gonzalez of the Santa ciate, Cecil West, were returning Fe Springs, Calif., Belvedere Church; from visiting a parishioner at the and Rogelio Lopez of the Houston, Plainfield State Correctional Facility Remember January 31, 1988! Hispanic church shared methods when they heard about the accident that they are using to take the gospel Seminary Offering Sunday and rushed to the scene. to Hispanics in their communities. “It looked like a battle scene,” IMPACTO ’87 was a joint project said Powell. Both men added that Let’s keep a steady flow of workers going sponsored by Central Latin Ameri­ they were unprepared for the job, to the fields with the best in theological can, Southwest Latin American, and but they spent the day at the Red the four Texas districts in cooper­ education. Cross center in a nearby hotel trying RAYMOND W. HURN, Secretary ation with Nazarene Bible College to console families of the victims. Board of General Superintendents and Church Extension Ministries. Powell also serves as a chaplain at Its principal goal is to train church the District 72 State Police Post in planters to reach Hispanic commu­ Connersville, ind. —NN nities. R. T. Bolerjack, NBC’s vice Gulf District, which includes the young men as they ate with the spe­ president in charge of ethnic train­ states of Mexico east of Mexico cific purpose of inviting them to ing, served as chairman of the com­ City to the Gulf. Julio Perez was re­ make Jesus their Savior. NNC DEAN IMPROVING mittee that coordinated the event. elected superintendent of the Mex­ “After lunch 1 invited everyone NNC Academic Mike Estep and Joe Rodriguez, ico Central District. who had accepted Christ to join me Dean Kenneth Wat­ director of Instituto Teologico Naz- “I think there is no question that out at center court,” said Quinn. “It son, 45, is recovering areno (an extension center of NBC Nazarenes across Mexico have been was worth it all when nine of those from last month’s air in Los Angeles) spoke in the evening stimulated by the great vision and big fellows walked out to me, and crash in Denver. He services. □ faith shown by the Mexico Central one guy reached down and hugged was among the 55 —NN District as they have worked so hard me.” U survivors of Con­ and sacrificed so much during the The pastors who serve in the areas Ptinental flight 1713, which crashed EXCITEMENT IN MEXICO past year,” said General Superinten­ where the young men live were then at Denver’s Stapleton International Assemblies on the districts of dent Raymond W. Hurn who con­ identified in an effort to connect the Airport, Sunday, November 15, kill­ Mexico just ended with reports of ducted the assemblies across Mex­ new converts with a fellowship of ing 27 persons. Watson came out of growth and the creation of a new ico. believers. a coma November 20, and has been district, according to Jerry Porter, Michael Estep, Thrust to the The boot camp was preceded by showing improvement since that Mexico and Central America Re­ Cities director, also joined Hurn and an intensive personal evangelism time. gional director. Porter at the Mexico Central Dis­ training seminar for the planters. Watson was returning to Nampa More than 1,200 new members trict Assembly. □ Paul D. James, pastor of Yorba from Kansas City where he had been joined the Church of the Nazarene —NN Linda, Calif., Faith Community attending a meeting of the church's in 1987 in Mexico, for a total of Church, trained 66 pastors and lay­ Bioethics Commission. 26,351 members (including proba­ men in how to present the gospel The flight frofn Denver to Boise tionary). Sunday School average at­ BASKETBALL BOOT CAMP one-on-one. Hispanic, Arabic, flipped upside down and crashed as tendance was up by 1,403 while in CHANGES LIVES Black, and Vietnamese church it was taking off Sunday afternoon at the area of giving, the total amount An ad in the Chicago Tribune and planters participated. 2:16 Mountain time. The plane raised jumped 102% from 485 to the volunteer time from the Chicago The boot camp was underwritten went down in the midst of Denver’s 981 million pesos. Central District and Olivet Nazarene by the Davis Creek, WVa., Church. first heavy snowstorm of the season. Fourteen new churches were or­ University gave a group of 27 young Another such camp is planned for □ ganized, and pastors set a goal of blacks an opportunity to learn more next March. □ —NN 336 new churches by May 1989. about basketball and a chance to —NN Three districts, Northwest, West, meet Jesus. The basketball boot IMPACTO DRAWS HISPANIC and East, requested Regular status at camp was held at a building be­ CHURCH PLANTERS their assemblies. North District will longing to Nazarene elder Gilbert SIMILAR NAMES TO SAN ANTONIO not be large enough for Regular sta­ Leigh. CREATE CONFUSION Hispanic church planters from tus, but it will be self-supporting ONU athletic director Larry Wat­ Persons who heard rumors about across the United States converged next year. son and head basketball coach Jerry Johnson being on the PTL in San Antonio October 21-23 for Much activity was generated Ralph Hodge, along with eight Club in recent weeks can rest easy. IMPACTO ’87. About 60 persons around the country by the growth members of the ONU basketball The guest with PTL host Gary Mc- participated in the daily sessions, and enthusiasm of the Thrust to team, directed the young men in Spadden was actually Overland Park, with more than 225 in one of the Mexico City and Encounter ’87. drills during the morning of October Kans., evangelist Jerry Johnston. evening worship services which were More than 75 preaching points (to­ 31. At noon, chicken dinner lunches “I’m flattered to be compared with held at the East Terrell Hills Church. ward a goal of 100) were created in were provided along with a brief de­ such a dynamic, young, handsome General Superintendent Ray­ Mexico City in the past year. The votional from L. Wayne Quinn, Chi­ evangelist, but 1 have never been a mond W. Hurn opened the event district grew to the point that the cago Thrust director. At that time he guest on the PTL Club, and 1 don’t with the Wednesday morning key­ Mexico Gulf District was created by announced that some of the pastors expect to receive an invitation,” said note message. Carl Clendenen, pro­ the assembly. Felix Gonzalez is the who are planting churches in Chi­ General Superintendent Jerald D. fessor of church growth at Nazarene newly elected superintendent of the cago would be circulating among the Johnson. □ —NN

Herald of Holiness/ December 15, 1987 SECOND-CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT KANS AS CITY, MISSOURI • DECEMBER 15, 1987

A FIVE-YEAR BIBLE STUDY SERIES FOR THE HEART AND MIND

I FIRST YEAR - FEBRUARY— M A RCH 1988

THE BIBLE SPEAKS TO ME ABOUT MY CHURCH By Leslie Parrott Opening up the Book of Acts as a practical discussion guide toward a better understanding of the church today.

"It is the work of the Holy Spirit to create new living cells in the Body of Christ through yielded, open, willing hearts and minds. If we do not have the Holy Spirit in the church energizing it, leading it, and motivating it, we only have a bureaucratic organization. "Dr. Parrott provides helpful insights about the work of the Holy Spirit and a breadth of biblical understanding about the human or­ ganization that we call the church." RAYMOND W. HURN General Superintendent, Church of the Nazarene

DENOMINATION-WIDE CONTINUING LAY TRAINING STUDY

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