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Board of General Superintendents (left to right): John A. Knight, Donald D. Owens, William J. Prince, Raymond W. Hurn, Jerald D. Johnson, Eugene L. Stowe

PROCLAMATION

1990 is our Year of Sabbath. The next 12 months we are tional AIDS crisis, and now serious consideration of doing calling Nazarenes around the world to prayer—“THAT away with civil marriage ceremonies—let alone religious THE WORLD MAY KNOW!” The appeal was first made at ones. In some countries euthanasia is actually being prac­ the General Assembly this past June when we gave the fol­ ticed. It now appears that in certain areas drug testing may lowing background for our request: become mandatory, even in elementary schools. Treatment The Old Testament relates to us that on Mount Sinai centers for alcoholism are overcrowded and now new ones God spoke to Moses and said, “When you enter the land are needed for the care of teens and even younger people. I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a sab­ There was a time when we felt we were somewhat immune bath to the Lord” (Leviticus 25:1, NIV) A sabbath for to all of this in our own families, but no more. the land would result in a rejuvenation of the soil, replen­ Now the time has arrived. We will ask all our leaders, ishing it with necessary nutrients so that its usefulness local and district as well as general, to set aside the usual would continue to be assured. emphasis on program and promotion for one purpose, that We know the word sabbath signifies rest. After God had we might give ourselves to prayer and intercession. “During created the world, He rested, declaring a sabbath for him­ this year we will not look to new slogans, new methods, and self. He then chose to bless this day and set it apart as a new slick promotional pieces; rather, we will stay on our day of rest and worship. It was then that God appointed knees before Him until the international Church of the Naz- the observation of what would be known as the sabbatical arene experiences a new touch of God bringing renewal and year. This would give cause for God’s people to acknowl­ revival everywhere.” edge His sovereign authority over all things . . . wean His Because we feel spiritual preparation of depth and in­ people from an unholy love of worldly goods . . . help them tensity is necessary for a fruitful harvest in the last decade of depend upon God alone as well as upon His blessings for century 20 and the onset of century 21, we hereby proclaim their very existence. Further, it would tend to remind them January 1 to December 31,1990, as the Year of Sabbath for of the eternal rest God has provided for His own. the Church of the Nazarene. In the Quadrennial Address we shared our burden as BOARD OF GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS follows: We desperately need . . . a revival today . . . to save us from . . . the diabolical revolution, experienced the world over, which is lowering moral standards everywhere. We see the results in homes being destroyed and children suf­ fering abuse. Today traditional sexual mores are being abolished, resulting in abortion on demand, the interna­ Herald of Holiness CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

Volume 79, Number 1 FEATURE ARTICLES JANUARY 1990

2 20 26 Nazarenes at Take Nothing for Alex Deasley— Their Best: The the Journey Teacher, Aftermath of Hugo N o r m a M il l e r Preacher, and M a r k G r a h a m Scholar C a r o l W e x f o r d

22 NTS Students Can’t W ait... for Ministry 28 E d R o b in s o n On the Road with 10 the Seminary John Wesley’s President Prayers T e r r e l l C. Sa n d e r s , J r . 14 Meet William J. Prince

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE FEATURE CONTINUING COLUMNS DEPARTMENTS

1 1 When You Pray 6 The Readers Write E. D e e F r e e b o r n 8 Editor’s Choice 1 2 Into the Word W e s l e y T r a c y R e u b e n W e l c h 30 NEWS M a r k G r a h a m , 16 Rhythms of the Spirit T o m F e l d e r M o r r is A. W e ig e l t 37 Etcetera 17 In a Woman’s Voice 38 Reviews 44 R e b e c c a L a ir d 40 Evangelists’ Slates 19 Family Matters 41 Question Box Ordeal in the D o r o t h y T a r r a n t 48 Late News Atlantic 47 Observer at Large M a r k G r a h a m , D o u g l a s I. S h e r w o o d W . E. M c C u m b e r T o m F e l d e r NAZARENES AT THEIR BEST: The Aftermath o f Hugo

BY MARK GRAHAM

azarenes pulled together to In Puerto Rico, six local churches, been thrown out of work by the storm put their faith into action in the district parsonage, and seven as a result of the hurricane. Churches the wake of catastrophic homes were damaged. The district outside of the devastated areas also NHurricane Hugo. The late-Septembercampground was virtually wiped out. began gathering supplies for their fel­ storm, with sustained winds in excess In St. Croix and Puerto Rico, Naza­ low Nazarenes—some held fund­ of 150 miles an hour, wiped out most renes wrapped themselves in bedding raisers, others volunteered to travel to of the island of St. Croix before side- before clinging to plumbing in the the stricken areas to offer their help in swiping Puerto Rico and slamming bathrooms of their homes waiting for rebuilding, and others sent money to into Charleston, S.C. At least 400 up to six hours for the storm to blow Nazarene Compassionate Ministries Nazarene families were affected in over. to be passed along to the storm’s vic­ one way or another. Thirty-six fami­ In Charleston, some sought safe tims to help in the recovery. lies (11 of them in South Carolina) harbor in Nazarene churches. Others Perhaps the greatest impact of lost their homes. The storm knocked temporarily moved inland to more Hugo was not in the devastation it out power for days (months in some secure places only to return to find rendered but in the way it showed that areas), impacted water supplies, de­ their homes and churches damaged. Nazarenes—many of them victims stroyed billions of dollars in property, A number of homes of Nazarenes and themselves—chose to serve fellow and created a situation that had never parsonages were affected. The sanc­ sufferers in their own communities. been imagined in many commu­ tuary of the Dorchester Road church In short, the story of Hugo in Naza­ nities. was condemned; however, despite this rene circles is a tale of how seriously The storm hit St. Croix the hardest, drawback, parishioners of that church Nazarenes are committed to showing leaving few structures untouched. were pacesetters in the effort to pro­ their faith in the nitty-gritty day-to- Seven Nazarene buildings (three vide relief to those hurting in their day life that may erupt in disaster at churches, two school buildings, and com m unity. any moment. two parsonages) were damaged on the Representatives from Nazarene In Puerto Rico, the churches not island. Almost all of the 400 Naza­ Compassionate Ministries and Work seriously impacted pledged to match renes of St. Croix suffered damage to and Witness were immediately sent to funds provided by the Hunger and homes or personal property. Despite the impacted areas. Monies were au­ Disaster Fund to help cover the costs this kind of devastation, no Naza­ thorized to provide food and supplies of repair for those Nazarenes who had renes are known to have been killed. and to assist the persons who had incurred damages. World Mission Di-

“Old Blue,” a truck loaned to Compassionate Ministries, was used to transport materials to South Carolina. Here, workers at the Methodist church in Ridgeville disburse supplies.

tothe church of I ® NAZARENE WntCRURCH CAN BE TOUR HOME

Hugo's winds tossed homes and cars like toys in some areas. Herald of Holiness

January 1990 • Whole No. 3527 • Vol. 79, No. 1

EDITOR Wesley D. Tracy

MANAGING EDITOR Mark Graham

ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY Judith Perry

GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS Eugene L. Stowe Jerald D. Johnson Much of the damage in Puerto John A. Knight Rico was caused by falling trees. District Superintendent Pedro Raymond W. Hurn Cruz (second from right) is William J. Prince assisted by friends in tne removal Donald D. Owens of debris from the street in front of his home.

Bible quotations in this issue: Unidentified quotations are from the KJV. Quotations from the following translations are used by permission: (RSV) From the Revised Standard Ver­ A resident of St. Croix begins to sion o f the Bible, copyright 1946, 1952, recoup after the storm. © 1971, 1973. (NIV) From The Holy Bible, New Inter­ national Version, copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bible Society. (NASB) From the New American Stan­ dard Bible, © The Lockman Founda­ tion, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977. Photo Credits: Cover and photos for The remains of what was once a Hugo—Marvin Paisley, Hubert Rabon, single-family home in Charleston. David Hayse, Charles Morrow. Courtesy of Compassionate Ministries and Church Growth and World Mission di­ visions.

Herald of Holiness (USPS 241-440) is published monthly by the NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE, 2923 Troost Ave, Kansas City, MO 64109. Editorial offices at 6401 The Paseo, Kansas City, MO 64131. Address all correspondence concerning subscriptions to Nazarene Publishing House, PO. Box 419527, Kansas City, MO 64141. Copyright 1989 by Nazarene Publishing House. POSTMASTER: Please send change of address to Herald of Holiness, P.O. Box 419527, Kansas City, MO 64141. SUB­ SCRIPTION PRICE: $9.00 per year. Second-class postage paid in Kansas City, Mo. Litho in U.S.A. (Upper left) South Carolina District (Upper right) The late Charles Morrow (in (Middle right) A young Charleston man who Superintendent Jim Bearden (right) and Jim blue striped shirt), who was killed in a plane needed electricity for medical treatment Taylor, Bearden’s assistant, initially brought crash while on a Work and Witness project was provided use of a generator from relief supplies from Columbia to South in Honduras just weeks after the hurricane Compassionate Ministries until the power Carolina via automobile. was on St. Croix doing damage assessment was restored. for the Church of the Nazarene shortly after Hugo hit. (Middle left) A Nazarene elementary school in Christiansted, St. Croix. (Center) Mary Anne Bloom, wife of Byron Bloom, Charleston St. Andrews church (Lower right) Nazarenes assist in the (Lower left) South Carolina pine trees pastor, shows how many residents unpacking of nonperishable items, which snapped like toothpicks in the shifting prepared their meals during the days and were later distributed at church relief winds of Hugo. weeks following Hugo. centers.

rector Robert H. Scott was in the “I found it very gratifying to be able the four islands that make up the country October 1 to present checks to go there and to represent the Leeward-Virgin Islands District. Al­ to start the ball rolling toward recon­ church and to be able to say to them, though the people of Antigua came struction. At the same time, Puerto ‘Your Nazarene family cares and through the storm surprisingly un­ Rican pastors pledged their time to scathed, one of the first actions of the wants to show that care through this help rebuild the homes, parsonages, Antiguan Nazarenes after Hugo was monetary gift.’” churches, and campground of their to gather together to determine ways district. St. Croix and Antigua are two of in which they could help their

4 Herald of Holiness stricken friends. The result was a chester Road and St. Andrews plies from the Akron. Ohio, Kenmore pledge of m oney and assistance to churches delivered food to victims on church were routed to the scene. The help reconstruct the impacted proper­ the nearby islands and to shut-ins. afternoon after the truck arrived, St. ties of their fellow district members. Three of the area churches organized John’s pastor, Eddie Sipp, phoned In South Carolina, community re­ work crews to help elderly persons in Nazarene Compassionate Ministries lief centers were established in six tree and brush removal—a major sobbing, “I had no idea people cared Nazarene churches almost immedi­ problem in the aftermath of the so m uch.” ately after the storm struck. District storm . “What we saw as we assessed the Superintendent Jim Bearden traveled Outside of the affected areas, Naza­ situation in Charleston was people, from the district office in Columbia renes were ready to help as well. The who were themselves victims, willing to survey churches in the aftermath of Philadelphia District responded by to reach out to help others,” said Bob the storm. He also served as a liaison loading an 18-wheeler with food, Prescott of Nazarene Compassionate with C om passionate M inistries to tar­ baby products, and some clothing. Ministries. “They went far beyond get needs. Eight churches continue to Three churches in the Kansas City what could be expected in providing serve as relief centers for the comm u­ area donated two tons of food and dry assistance to other communities.” nity. goods, which were transported on a Nazarenes were among the very “There has been an amazing re­ truck donated by Roland Weber, an first groups to spring into action to sponse of neighbors helping neigh­ employee at Nazarene headquarters. provide relief to those devastated by bors.” said Bearden. “M any tim es I Compassionate Ministries staffer the fury of Hurricane Hugo. Our de­ have seen persons for­ nom ination was in St. getting their own needs Croix and South Caro­ to care for those of oth­ lina with assessment ers. crews days before most “We expected a m a­ other nonprofit agen­ jor psychological im ­ cies. In fact, the C hurch pact of this disaster on of the Nazarene’s in­ the people, but that frastructure in these ar­ hasn't occurred. There eas was so good that we has been a really posi­ were able to plug into tive attitude among the other agencies, such as folks. All of the World Relief and the churches and Christian Red Cross, thus be­ action councils of coming able to receive many different denom­ items from them for inations have worked distribution. together to establish a. “ I have to sing the program of assistance praises of our people beyond anything we here at headquarters,” The church sign at the St. Andrews church was powered by a generator for said Scott. “Steve We­ had dreamed of.” several hours every night to show persons in need where they could find Nazarenes and other assistance. ber, David Hayse, and churches of South Car­ their staffs have shown olina have joined together to partici­ Hubert Rabon drove the truck to incredible ingenuity in their ability to pate in an “adopt a fam ily” program . Nashville where he was met by a Naz­ stimulate contacts and facilitate de­ As a part of this project, churches arene layman, Jesse Mellinger, a re­ livery of aid to those impacted by the across the South Carolina District tired truck driver and layman from storm. But at the same time, I was have chosen to voluntarily “adopt” Fancaster, Pa„ First church. Together, thrilled to see the response of Naza­ families that suffered severe losses as a they drove through the night to get renes in South Carolina, Antigua, and result of Hugo. five generators and the donated sup­ Puerto Rico, who, although they, Stories of Nazarenes coming to the plies to Charleston. themselves, were victims, have been rescue in response to Hugo abound. A Nazarene Church in Fouisa, Va., willing to give of themselves for Charleston First Church came led a community-wide fund-raiser others.” through the storm relatively un­ that netted $5,000. This money was Power outages, which lasted for touched. They staffed a relief center used to purchase building supplies weeks in some cases, prevented indi­ for 12 hours a day. Upon receiving a from a wholesale lumberyard. The viduals as well as restaurants from be­ request for assistance from a Meth­ supplies were then shipped to the ing able to prepare meals. Also, banks odist church in Ridgeville, about 30 Summerville, S.C., church, which, were unable to reopen as a result of miles away, the Nazarenes o f Charles­ along with some of its members, sus­ the lack of power. ton First packed 200 large bags of tained damages. More than 500 phone calls have food and transported them to the Nazarene churches in Dayton, Ak­ been received at headquarters and the Methodist church where they were ron, and Chillicothe, Ohio, shipped South Carolina District office since distributed to anyone who had need. food, blankets, and baby items to the disaster. Many of these were from The bags were gone in less than two South Carolina. When it was learned Nazarene churches or individuals hours. that a need existed at the Florence St. wanting to know how they could help. Nazarenes at the Charleston Dor­ John’s Church of the Nazarene, sup­ Continued on page 35

January 1990 5 THE READERS WRITE

Best Yet not trying to reach the long-haired hippie type, who are we trying A comment about your Herald of Holiness. I have been re­ to reach. 1 Samuel 16:7—“for man looketh on the outward ap­ ceiving this publication for many years now; and you know pearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.” what? The publishers are continually making improvements. If we don’t watch it, we old-time Christians are going to get in At one time in years past, I attended the Church of the Naza­ a rut and that’s a grave with both ends knocked out. rene for a short time. This was a great experience. The Church of The reason I am writing is because I don’t like criticism of a God was near my home and more convenient. I find these two good thing trying to be made better.... I say more power to you. congregations are very similar, both built on complete holiness. Frieda Bowman Your magazine is one of the best I have ever read. Monterey, Tenn. May God keep publisher and staff in His care. Rev. Marguerite Rupert Herald Heritage East St. Louis, III. While expressing appreciation for the new-look Herald o f Holi­ ness as it addresses issues of our day head-on and broadside, I October on Target want to remember the one all the way back to before I could read May I commend you for the splendid handling of the TV issue myself. in the October Herald. From your excellent editorial to the Test My mother always read to our father. His eyesight had become Pattern (p. 27), every article was on target. And thanks for such so poor that he could only make out the headlines of the newspa­ a full coverage of the “Latchkey” program in Gladstone, Oreg. per. Since he had been an avid reader, it was a great help for him After all, Jim Healy and Vonnie are my pastor and wife. for another good reader to take over. My two little sisters listened Richard S. Taylor as I did when Mama read Uncle Buddy Robinson’s letters. Too, Milwaukie, Oreg. sometimes there was something from ministers who had stayed in our home during revival meetings. Papa was host to all the Holiness, Not TV evangelists who came to the little Eschol Valley Church of the If I am reading the October issue of the Herald of Holiness Nazarene there in Southwestern Oklahoma even before he and correctly, you are removing the evangelists’ slate from the Herald. our mother were married. After that he had a faithful helper as Believe it or not, but some of us still like to go to other churches the traveling ministers came and went. to hear our good evangelists. ... Also, I would like to see more The Herald has always been a means of keeping in touch with articles on good old-fashioned holiness or sanctification instead our preachers, superintendents, educators, what our church be­ of about one-half of the Herald devoted to television. I still be­ lieves, is doing, and on and on. I'm sure it will continue to be so. lieve in getting people really saved and sanctified, and God Will However, amidst the excitement of the new format I do feel a take care of the rest. I believe in speaking out against the evils of twinge of sadness. our day, but if people have the blessing of second blessing holi­ Thanks for keeping Dr. McCumber on for a one- or two-page ness, they will do that without devoting our holiness paper to it. spot. Also for the Nazarene Roots page. We hope to continue Awhile back we had a great Herald because it had a lot of articles hearing from our general superintendents also. May God bless all on holiness, especially from the ministers in England. I don’t of you. mean to complain. May God help you in your work. Mary Bales Palmer Goldie Weddington Independence, Kans. Wheelersburg. Ohio TV’s Impact Dyed Hair! The October issue of the Herald is outstanding. I am reading We are to be a separate people. currently Carl Henry’s God, Revelation, and Authority, his great The Christian is to be blonde one day, redhead the next? Yes, theological treatise. The opening segment is the most outstand­ people fell for the new look why, because these are the last days. ing analysis of the impact of TV on modern life that I have read. They like the new era. A reader only until my subscription runs However, this Herald is outstanding in outline in a profound/ out in December. It’s no more pleasurable to read. There are simple way [about the] impact of TV. plenty of people who agree with me, make no mistake. Dallas D. Mucci Unsigned Yorktown Heights, N Y. Salem, Oreg. Editor’s note: The writer of this letter clipped two pictures of Julie Gaylord (p. Wants His Money Back 19, Oct.). One was shot outside in sunlight. The other in a dim ly Please cancel our subscription to the Herald. lit sanctuary. Both pictures were taken on the same Sunday morn­ Too many pictures of earrings, etc. I will not read the October ing just minutes apart by the same photographer. The difference issue as we do not have a TV and would not want an interview in hair color is strictly a difference in lighting. with Julie Gaylord. We used to circulate Herald o f Holiness but cannot consider it No Ruts for Me second blessing holiness or godly living any longer. These days some people get most of their exercise jumping to Please remit the unused part of the subscription. conclusions. Earl Cheesman Boca Raton. Fla. Everything changes. The Herald of Holiness has not always been called the Herald of Holiness. The King James Version is not the only translation of the Bible and to cancel a subscription Mandatory! to one of the best Christian magazines because of some part be­ I’m now 80 years old. I have read the Herald since . . . Dr. ing omitted or renamed (Answer Corner to Question Box) is a Chapman was editor. I joined the Nazarene church when I was little narrow and petty (my opinion). Another thing—if we are eight years old.

6 Herald of Holiness I can't wait to make my own personal 1 love the Herald and feel that it should be mandatory that each Nazarene family should have it. discovery of the new Herald! June (Parrish) Owen Springfield, Oreg. Fill out this form and mail today to start receiving the brand new, much improved Beyond Words Herald of Holiness. For faster service, I just finished reading my Herald and being a very long sub­ call toll-free 1-800-877-0700. scriber, 1 always enjoy the whole paper. The last Herald thrilled □ Enter my subscription for one year me beyond words. So many wonderful remarks were said by of the new Herald of Holiness effec­ Becky Laird, I just felt God wanted me to write and add my tive immediately. I understand I'll praise. You see, Becky is my granddaughter, and I love her very much. She is such a blessing to me, and I’m so proud of her. First, receive 12 MONTHLY ISSUES because she is such a wonderful Christian and also for her ability WITH MY ORDER, and pay only as a writer. $9.00 for the year. She is very precious to me. Bertha Ashline □ I want to order an additional____ Plattsburgh, N.Y. subscription(s) at $9.00 each for gifts for a total of $ ______Send gjft subscription(s) to: Nothing Worth Reading Name______I for one am not very thrilled with the new Herald. For this Address______reason, you have taken the spiritualness out of the Herald and commercialized it to the point that the new Herald is just like City______State______Zip______any other church magazine. The cost is way too much, and 1 no □ Enclosed is my check for $ ______. longer can buy it through my Nazarene church. There is nothing of interest in the new Herald. For example, you have taken the To charge your order to Visa or MasterCard, call toll-free churches out of it and many other areas as well. I will never buy 1-800-877-0700. the new Herald, and I know of 15 other people that feel the same way. The new Herald is a waste of money, for there is nothing in Name______it worth reading. The question and answer area is gone. It won’t Address______be long and our denomination as a whole will lose holiness alto­ gether because it is starting with the Herald of Holiness. City______I’m sorry, but I don’t like it period, and 98% of the people in State______Zip------my church say they won’t support the Herald any longer. Jack Kettev. Sr. Phone (____ ) ______Harrison, Mich. Make checks payable to: Herald of Holiness. The local Church of the Nazarene which 1 attend is Bravo! Name of Church______Thanks for the great articles on bad TV. Three cheers for Rev. Wildmon. I write letters, not as many as I should, but I get an­ Address______swers. City______State/Prov.______Z ip____ If only there was some way we in small towns could join with others and make people understand we do count. Most people I talk to say one person can’t do any good, but the answer is “hit them in the pocketbook,” the sponsors. Inspires Us Old Nazarenes Keep up the good work. God bless. Please continue my Herald of Holiness subscription. New for­ A. J. Ridgley McArthur. Ohio mat is great. Content... excellent. A real inspiration to us “old” Nazarenes. Rolland W. Mars Show Low, Ariz. Thanks a Lot Full Circle Thank you, thank you, thank you. The new Herald of Holiness is great. 1 have never read an entire issue before, but now I can’t I am so excited about the new look of the Herald. We have stop reading until I’ve finished the whole issue. I like everything subscribed to the magazine for over 50 years. The new format, about it: all of the “continuing columns” and especially each pictures, and thrust of the personal touch happening across our story about how the Nazarene church is ministering in many di­ denom ination is rewarding. verse ways throughout the U.S.A. and around the world. Reading I feel we are coming full circle back to the objective of Dr. the HOH is now a part of my spiritual journey. Bresee in ministering to the poor, the needy, and the troubled Rebecca Belt society in which we live. Dorothy Madden Kansas City, Mo. Tempe, Ariz. Always Good TV Issue I agree that the NEW Herald is very good, and that I, too, Received the October issue of the Herald of Holiness and it’s usually turned first to the back of the OLD—to catch up on the great.. .. Love your paper, and I truly loved what you had to say news. But, then, I read the rest—because I enjoyed it. about TV. You may have stuck your neck out, but don’t back The Herald has always been GOOD and helpful—and inter­ down.... You were right on target, but you will get mail on this esting, for the most part. And that’s all I can say for it now. one. You would have gotten more if you suggested it be thrown I pray God’s CONTINUED blessing on the Herald and on all out. those who have anything to do with “getting it up” and getting it Lee Powell out. Elsie DeRuiter Oxford, Mich. Youngtown, A Z 86363

January 1990 7 1990—A Sabbath Year

sabbath year of prayer— rotation to be sure, but it was much rael’s new king own the land? Or that is what our Nazarene more than that. The sabbatical year would it still belong to Yahweh? In A leaders have called us to. had deep religious significance. the end a compromise was used. The church has been “on the More and more evidence is being Yahweh would still be King, and the stretch” for God. Nazarenes have discovered that indicates that when person wearing the crown would be been putting their money, time, and the sabbath year came not only did called “head” not king. Even David energies where the needs are. Vigor­ you not plant a crop but you also and Solomon were called “head” ous strides in compassionate minis­ moved to another farm. In each and not “king.” Not even the “head” tries, energetic “thrusts to the cities,” township the families rotated to a was allowed to own land. Land was vital programs in evangelism, educa­ randomly chosen different farm on sacred and belonged to God the real tion, and Sunday School have con­ the sabbath year. This musical farms King. sumed energies eagerly given but be­ arrangement reminded the people, The sabbatical farm rotation ap­ coming drained. And what of the one and all, of the sanctity of the parently worked for some time, but human resources poured into our land. It reminded them that the land then under the reign of David, it met year of church planting—732 the beginning of its demise. David, churches planted by September 20. in unifying the country by defeating A sabbatical year beckons us. Not Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, had hired a year to drop everything and snore, Philistine and Cretan mercenaries but a year of prayer, of rest, of wor­ W hat fools we and Egyptian bureaucrats or manag­ ship. A period of time for consoli­ ers to help him win the war. David dating gains, nurturing converts, as­ would be to strut paid off his war debt with perma­ similating members, and leading nent land grants. They owned their believers into sanctifying grace is about like lords of land, but the devout Israelites still due for our community of faith. It is had to rotate every seventh year. time for introspection, self-exam­ the harvest. It was not long until Israel’s ination, and reflection on our iden­ greedy citizens were saying, “If they tity and our mission. A call to get to own land, so do we.” The land “come ye apart” for meditation, grab was on. And it was led by the prayer, and supplication for a new belonged by covenant to God and kings. They eagerly “joined field outpouring of the Holy Spirit could God alone. No Hebrew farmer could unto field” and were roundly con­ not be more timely. own the land. He certainly could not demned for doing so by prophets God himself created the idea of put a “For Sale” sign on it— it wasn’t like Isaiah. Businessmen and mort­ Sabbath. He rested the seventh day his to sell. The sabbatical year prac­ gage brokers joined in pushing the from His creation labors. His peo­ tice acknowledged God’s sover­ weak, the widowed, and the poor off ple, in Bible times, celebrated the eignty, His ownership, and His king­ the land, seizing it for their perma­ principle of sabbath, not only in the ship. nent possession. Many of the poor days of the week but also every sev­ In those ancient cultures, the land became debt slaves to the land- enth year was a sabbath for the land. belonged to the king—all of it. He grabbers. Every seventh sabbath year was the could do with it what he pleased. Is­ God’s ownership of the land was Year of Jubilee when all debts were rael’s king was Yahweh, the Lord part of the Covenant. But who cares forgiven, all indentured persons set God. Moving off of the plot of about the Covenant when you can free. The idea of the Sabbath is ground you had farmed for six years get rich by flexing a little muscle? deeply rooted in sacred history. acknowledged that you were a mere “God owns the land? Well, I’ve got it The Nazarene celebration of a tenant, a mere steward, and that now. Do you think He will repossess sabbatical year of prayer is to be God was both Landlord and King. it? That Covenant idea went out similar in some ways to the ancient You may recall reading in the Old with ‘23 skidoo’ anyway,” they Hebrew sabbatical year. The agricul­ Testament about the stress the He­ seem ed to say. tural society of our spiritual ances­ brew nation went through when the T h e th eo lo g y o f G o d ’s k ingly tors observed a sabbatical year for change was made from the judge ownership of the land undergirds the farmland. During the seventh system to the king system. The point many Old Testament events. Some year, the soil was not asked to yield of contention had to do with this of them cannot be properly under­ yet another crop but was to lie fal­ matter of God’s ownership of the stood unless you interpret them in low, restoring its rich nutrients. land. In all the surrounding nations terms of the theology of the sanctity It was an ancient program of crop the king owned the land. Would Is­ of the land.

8 Herald of Holiness WESLEY TRACY

For example, look at the story of MINISTRY—ANY WAY YOU SPELL IT Naboth (1 Kings 21). There is more here than first meets the eye. Ahab, -IT COMES OUT N-T-S the king of Israel, tried to buy Na- spent 11 of the best years of my necesary to get a seminary educa­ both's vineyard. He offered a fair life as a member of the faculty tion. Most seminary students are price. But old-fashioned Naboth be­ atI Nazarene Theological Seminary. lieved in the Covenant; he believed married and have one or two chil­ During that time, every now and dren. They move their families to that God was King, not Ahab. He then, someone would chirp up and responded to Ahab's offer, “The Kansas City and then live for four say to our students, “Just wait until Lord forbid that I should give you years on a budget that would make you get out into the real world. Scrooge look like a spendthrift. the inheritance of my fathers.” This Wait until you get out there where was not a demure “I don’t think I Commitment? It’s knee deep at the action is.” NTS. want to sell it” statem ent. It was a What rankled us about such un­ direct challenge to Ahab’s claim to informed epithets was the assump­ NTS students commit about a be king and to his covenant-break­ tion that NTS students were lolling decade of their lives to ministerial ing assumption that he had the right about in an ivory tower waiting for education. Four years of college, 3 to buy land. It was Yahweh’s, not some distant time when ministry, or 4 years of seminary, then 2 years Ahab's, not Naboth's. Naboth had like a foxhound, would track them of professional parish experience. smacked Ahab with both a political down. The fact is that NTS stu­ Ten years and then what? Ordina­ and a religious challenge. dents are far too serious about tion? No, after 10 years one is el­ When the seething m onarch got Christ’s mission in the world to rel­ igible to be voted on for ordination. back to his palace, Jezebel, under­ egate ministry to a postgraduation There are no guarantees. Yet year standing the issue clearly, asked, affair. As Dr. Ed Robinson says, after year, NTS students commit “Dost thou now govern the king­ “NTS students can’t wait” (pages themselves to the most thorough dom of Israel?" She was saying, 22-25). preparation offered by our church. “Show him you are the king, even if NTS students don’t wait for min­ And where would we be without that old-fashioned Naboth still be­ istry, and they don’t wait until it is them? Show your support on Semi­ lieves in that outdated C ovenant no­ convenient to make the sacrifices nary Sunday, January 28, 1990. tion." Naboth died a martyr to the cov­ enant. Ahab got the vineyard— he WHAT DOES THAT MEAN and fancy vacations the tithes and thought. W hen he and Jezebel ar­ TO ME? offerings needed to maintain the sa­ ranged the judicial murder of Na­ We live under the New Covenant cred land. We cannot give it only the both, the word of the Lord came to written in the blood of Jesus Christ. scraps and leftovers of our time and Elijah. The prophet confronted The “new Israel” is the Church of energy. We dare not lounge in a Ahab in the vineyard. God, through Jesus Christ. The Old Testament hammock under a shade tree while Elijah, brought the charges against doctrine on the sanctity of the land it becomes overgrown with wisteria Ahab. One had to do with the sanc­ and the sabbatical year teaches us and ragweed. Surely, we must not tity of life, “killing.” and the other some things about how we should manipulate the “lambs” who graze had to do with the sanctity of the relate to the “land” of the new Israel, there. We cannot sow seeds of dis­ land, “taking possession” (1 Kings that is. the Church. unity in its furrows. 21:18-19). The C hurch is not ours to own or What fools we would be to strut Notice how seriously God takes i possess. The Church is God's, not around like kings, like lords of the the sanctity of His land. God's ours—and He is very serious about harvest, trying to grab credit for ev­ prophet pronounced a curse upon His ownership of the “land.” We do ery uptick on the graph. We must Ahab and his descendants. His | not own our church, we cannot own know by now that even the most tal­ crime had violated the sanctity of it. We are day laborers, not land­ ented among us are not lords of the the land, and his punishment like­ lords. harvest—we are but day laborers wise had to do with the land. “Any As with the land of old, we cannot working in it.

one belonging to Ahab who dies in j “sell” the land of the “new Israel” for During this sabbatical year of the city the dogs shall eat; and any of | gain. T hat is to say, we dare not use prayer, let us humbly acknowledge his who dies in the open country the i God’s church for profiteering. The our God’s sovereignty over all oirds of the air shall eat” (1 Kings j church is not an arena for personal things. Christ's Kingship over the 21:24, RSV). In other words, Ahab ; empire building. It is no place for ca- Church, and the Holy Spirit’s Lord­ not only did not get to own or pos­ j reer addicts or corporate ladder ship over the harvest. And let us sess the stolen land, but when he and ! climbers. pray that, in His mercy, God will his descendants died they would not Further, we dare not neglect or grant each of us the privilege of even be granted the use of the land abuse the “land" of the “new Israel.” working in some corner of His vine­ for a decent burial. I We cannot divert into cars, clothes. yard.

January 1990 JOHN WESLEY’S PRAYERS

As the Methodist revival swept over England in the sickness, grief, doubt, temptation, trouble, or weari­ 18th century, John Wesley led his people in devel­ ness, we are apt to pray only about the current dis­ oping meaningful methods of prayer. They had prayer tress and therefore “not pray as we ought.” The be­ meetings galore, especially cottage prayer meetings. liever is, even in times of stress, to pray printed or Wesley collected prayers all his life. He published memorized prayers followed by spontaneous or ex­ both personal and family prayers for every day of the temporaneous prayer. Here are a few of the prayers week as well as prayers for public worship. through which the Wesleyan holiness revival was en­ For all his written prayers, Wesley was not a for­ ergized. malist. He encouraged his people in public worship During this first month of the sabbatical year of and private devotions to use both “forms” of prayers prayer, make these prayers a part of your private de­ (memorized or read prayers) and extemporaneous votions. You may find that they will become special prayer. Wesley explained the dual prayer program by doorways to God that will enrich your spiritual life telling his people that when we are under the sway of for as long as you live.

A Prayer of Repentance A Prayer of Consecration A Prayer for Community Lord Jesus, here I am, a lost crea­ To the King, eternal, immortal, in­ O Father of mercies, grant that 1 ture, an enemy to God, under His visible, the only wise God, who is may look on the defects of my wrath and curse. Wilt Thou, Lord, the ever-blessed and adorable Trin­ neighbor as if they were my own, undertake for me, reconcile me to ity, be all honor and glory, now and that I may conceal and be grieved God, and save my soul? Do not, ever! for them; and that making Thy love Lord, refuse me, for if Thou refuse 0 Lord Jesus, I give Thee my to us, O blessed Jesus, the pattern of me, to whom then shall I go? . .. body, my soul, my substance, my my love to them, I may above all Since I come at the command of fame, my friends, my liberty, and my things endeavor to promote their the Father, reject me not. Lord, help life: dispose o f me and o f all th at is eternal welfare. . . . me. Lord, save me. mine, as it seems best to Thee. Teach me to have compassion for I come, Lord. 1 believe, Lord. I 1 am now not mine, but Thine; the weakness and frailties of my throw myself upon Thy grace and therefore claim me as Thy right, brethren; to put the best construc­ mercy. I cast myself upon Thy keep me as Thy charge, and love me tion on all their actions; to interpret blood. Do not refuse me. Here I will as Thy child. Fight for me when I all doubtful things to their advan­ stay. On Thee I will trust, and rest, am assaulted, heal me when I am tage, and cheerfully to bear with and venture myself. On Thee I lay wounded, and revive me when I am their real infirmities. my hope for pardon, for life, for sal­ destroyed. Sanctify the friendship which vation. If I perish, I perish on Thy Thou hast granted me for these Thy shoulders. If I sink, I sink in Thy servants . . . that our prayers may be vessel. If I die, I die at Thy door. Bid heard for each other while our hearts are united in Thy love and gra­ me not go away, for I will not go . . . A Prayer for Holiness of Heart O most holy God, I beseech Thee, ciously unite them therein more and accept the poor prodigal prostrating Almighty God, unto whom all more. himself at Thy door. hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid: Prayer for Perseverance Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts A Prayer of Benediction Fix Thou our steps, O Lord, that we By the inspiration of Thy Holy Pardon, O gracious Jesus, what we stagger not at the uneven motions of Spirit, have been; the world, but steadily go on to our That we may perfectly love Thee, With Thy holy discipline correct glorious home, neither censuring our and worthily magnify Thy holy what we are. journey by the weather we meet name. Order by Thy providence what we with nor turning out of the way for Through Christ our Lord, Amen. shall be, and in the end crown Thine anything that befalls us. —From the Collect for the Communion Service own gifts. 4,

10 Herald of Holiness THE PRAYER OF INTERCESSION

he question haunts m e still! become a part of the answer. And heaven” (Matthew 5:44-45, NIV). In some ways I wish I had that may be no small challenge! Prayer is never an excuse for not not read it. Maxie Dunnam When we encounter God and helping others, but when the cir­ saidT it, and I can’t get away from it. discover His will and plan, we cumstances are beyond us, one It's a “what if’ question. “What if should not gape in slack-jawed sur­ thing we can do is pray. It may be there were some things God either prise when He urges us to give the most loving thing we can do. cannot or will not do until people practical assistance to those for A nagging question about inter­ pray?” (The Workbook of Inter­ whom we have been praying. Ken­ cessory prayer remains. Can my cessory Prayer). neth Leech puts it boldly, “Inter­ prayers for another person really To be honest with you, I’ve cession means literally ... to be­ make a difference? Though a good picked this topic this month be­ come involved in the conflict” question, maybe it misses the point cause I need it. I can only remem­ (True Prayer). of intercessory prayer as we have ber a few times when I have been been discussing it. Ogilvie helps me “called” to intercessory prayer—at when he says, “The real question least in the way I am coming to W e should not is: Can God implant in our minds understand it. Intercessors do pray, the maximum expression of His but not all of us who pray are in­ gape in will for another person? Can we tercessors in the true sense of the cooperate with Him in the accom­ word—even when we are praying slack-jawed plishment of His will by praying for other people. surprise when God for him or her? Yes!” For one thing, I am coming to If cooperation is the key, then believe that when I become in­ urges us to help does that mean that my freedom is volved in intercession it is not nec­ minimized? Does it mean that I essarily my own idea, rather it is the folks we have am just an inert channel through God who calls and draws us to in­ which God works if and when He tercession. Through His Holy Spirit been praying for. takes a notion? W. Bingham He teaches us what to pray on be­ Hunter, in his book The God Who half of others. Lloyd Ogilvie puts it I believe this too. Even though it Hears, cites an illustration by T. C. this way, “When He is ready to give is God who calls me to it, I can Hammond that may be helpful. A reconciliation, salvation, healing, purposely open myself to the minis­ mother cat transports her kittens strength, guidance, or the resolu­ try o f intercession. I can do more by grabbing them by the nape of tion of a seemingly unsolvable than sit around waiting for God to the neck. They go where she goes, problem, He enlists us into part­ speak from heaven. Start a list. whether they like it or not. A baby nership for the accomplishment of What significant others come to monkey travels with its mother His will” (Praying with Power). mind who are in need? What about also, but by clinging to her neck or My second belief about inter­ your spouse, children, other family back. The mother monkey does the cession is that it is likely to involve members, friends? What about work, but the young one con­ us in action or service beyond those who have done you wrong? sciously clings. The little monkey prayer. If I think that being an in­ As I come before the Lord, He goes where the mother goes be­ tercessor is a way to stay on the will be faithful to lead me to those cause it wants to, and this is what sidelines and be safe, then I had for whom I should intercede. happens when Christians pray ac­ better take another look at the Could it be true that after being cording to God’s will. What God Cross! The Son, who continues to converted, our most important wants, we want; and we seek to make intercession for us (Hebrews ministry is to pray for others? Jesus pray according to His will. 7:25), was totally involved! If inter­ certainly connected love with Back to the original question, cessory prayer is “God putting His prayer when He said, “But I tell “What if there are some things burdens on our hearts,” as Ogilvie you: Love your enemies and pray God either cannot or will not do says, then the intercessor not only for those who persecute you, that until people pray?” What if, in­ agrees to pray but also is willing to you may be sons of your Father in deed!

January 1990 11 How Do God’s People Get Ready for God’s Good Thing?

ut the angel said to him, "Do 40— 55 lifted the hearts and the vi­ His will to “make ready a people not be afraid, Zechariah, sion of the despairing exiles with prepared" for His coming. B for your prayer is heard, the promise of God’s new creative Well, John's whole life was de­ and your wife Elizabeth will bear act of deliverance out of Babylo­ voted to this one task. What is his you a son, and you shall call his nian bondage into their restored continuing message for us in terms name John. And you will have joy hom eland. of our own preparation for God’s and gladness, and many will rejoice And then, before God did His good work? His first word is the at his birth; for he will be great be­ best thing in sending Jesus, He announcement of judgment. The fore the Lord, and he shall drink no commissioned John Baptist to burden of his message was the wine nor strong drink, and he will “make ready ... a people pre­ wrath to come (Luke 3:7-9). The be filled with the Holy Spirit, even pared” (Luke 1:17). For centuries, day of doom was at hand for the from his mother’s womb. And he the prophetic voice had been silent obsolete dispensation, the old way will turn many of the sons of Israel in Israel. Now, with the breaking in of thinking and living. God’s Mes­ to the Lord their God, and he will siah would winnow the wheat from go before him in the spirit and the chaff, judging His people in power of Elijah, to turn the hearts Every faction preparation for His coming in o f the fathers to the children, and grace. the disobedient to the wisdom of was there, I haven't always liked the word the just, to make ready for the Lord judgm ent. It was too harsh, too a people prepared” l u k f . i : i 3- i 7 holding fast its condemning. But I am learning (RSV). better. The judgment of God is our Two of the Gospels tell the story treasured turf, salvation! My perception is that the of the birth of Jesus, but all four in­ grasping tightly word does not mean simply dam­ troduce the life and teaching of nation. It is not a synonym for Jesus by telling of the ministry of its private cause. condemnation. God’s judgment in John the Baptist. I wonder why. this case means His verdict, His What makes this strange person so evaluation. His decree. God’s dec­ vital to the gospel story? I think of God’s new day of salvation, “the laration of judgment is the com­ Luke gives us part of the answer. word of God came to John the son mand to stop. It is the order to John’s task was to “make ready . .. of Zechariah in the wilderness” bring things to an abrupt halt and a people prepared” (1:17). (Luke 3:2, RSV). Looking like El­ let our lives be exposed to the eyes God's way has always been to ijah and sounding like Amos, this of God. Only such exposure to His prepare His people for His great re­ last great prophetic voice thun­ perspective can save us. deeming acts in history. The key dered the word of judgment, ready­ Why were the first pronounce­ figure in the Exodus was Moses. At ing an old and tired people for a ments of the prophets always dec­ the close of the conquest it was fresh new rain of grace and hope. larations of judgment? Israel did Joshua who introduced a new day I want us to think about this in not want to hear the unmasking by a call to covenant renewal the context of our desires for God’s words of those crochety men of (Joshua 23). It was Samuel who in­ good thing in our personal lives doom and gloom, declaring the terpreted the radical life change Is­ this new year, and also in the con­ end of their safe and controlled rael experienced when kings text of our leaders’ call to a sab­ world. N or do we. Truth is, their reigned instead of judges (1 Samuel batical year of prayer and worship harsh word of judgment was the 10:25; chapter 12). A m os and in anticipation of God’s new and only thing that could save them. Hosea were God’s spokesmen of gracious work in our church. Our Otherwise, they would go on in the judgment when, at the hands of the common conviction is that God same old ways of cover up and Assyrians, Samaria and Israel faced wants to do “something beautiful, compromise and rationalizing. destruction. Jeremiah and Ezekiel something good.” Is there any way Gradual capitulation to the de­ were His messengers before the fall to discern God’s way for us to get structive ways of the world around of Jerusalem and Judah’s exile into ready? We cannot force His hand them was leading inexorably to Babylon. The oracles of Isaiah or manipulate His actions, but it is ruin. Consumed as they were with

12 Herald of Holiness REUBEN R. WELCH

What good thing does God have for us during this sabbatical year of prayer and worship?

self-protection and self-fulfillment, change be made if His work and Christ? What can get us unhinged they were both blind and insen­ words only fell on the hard shell of from our unrecognized patterns of sitive to their fate. their contrived and managed sys­ thinking; what can ever illuminate The word of judgment had to tem? What if they simply inte­ our prejudice and egotism? break into their inevitable down­ grated His miracles and His teach­ Only our willingness to become ward drift. To hear that word, to ing into their unmolested, vulnerable and say a deep yes to open up their way of living and self-protective order? Where would the judgment of God! For that thinking to God’s vision, would be the saving be? matter, what saves us in our temp­ to submit to the saving, healing Only by bringing the whole sys­ tations and waverings and detours surgery of God. Only in that re­ tem under the judgment of God through the journey of our lives ex­ ceived judgm ent was there any could there be any hope of gather­ cept the divinely given insight into hope of salvation. ing a people ready to be remade on the perspective of God. Nothing Remember the story Jesus told the pattern of God’s Messiah. And will save us except the borrowed vi­ of the rich man and the beggar sion of God’s reality portrayed in Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31)? Dives the cross of Jesus. No wonder John lived a m agnificent life in his m ag­ W hat could have promised the gift of the Holy nificent home, arrayed in mag­ Spirit! How else may we see or nificent garments. Right outside saved this know or stand exposed to the his door, there by the gutter, lay standpoint of God. miserable Lazarus, covered with wealthy, We want, oh, how deeply we miserable sores. The oblivious rich want our church to be Christ’s au­ man went on his magnificent way self-centered, thentic body in our artificial world. until his death and magnificent fu­ luxuriating What will “turn the hearts of the neral. And then he w ent to hell. fathers to the children, and the dis­ Something of an anticlimax to his wretch? obedient to the wisdom of the sumptuous earthly heaven. ju st”? (Luke 1:17). W hat can free What could have saved this us from our wretched pettiness and wealthy, self-centered, luxuriating there you have the work of John adolescent worldliness? Is there any wretch? T he ju d g m en t o f God! He and his saving word of judgment. liberating word for our pitiful never saw himself, never saw Laza­ But what of ourselves, we whose power grasping and our dreadful rus, never saw G od or G od’s way hearts long for some new and cre­ conformity to the structures of our of looking at things until his eyes ative work of God? We who long to fallen and falling culture? were opened in hell. T he word of be conformed to Christ’s image, is Only one thing can save me, can judgment exposing his life-style to there a word for us? There is. It is save you, can save us together. It is God’s point of view is the only the harsh word that heals, the the revealing, piercing judgment of thing that could have thrown his “severe mercy” (C. S. Lewis) that God, the word that radically expos­ distorted values and inverted prior­ saves. Our conformity to Christ’s es our whole existence to His real­ ities and his blatant self-indulgence image certainly won’t come by ity. Without that word of judgment into relief—and given him a adding acts of piety or experiences we will just keep drifting, explain­ chance to change. of emotion to a style of life that is ing here, defining there, congratu­ Look at John there by the Jordan basically integrated to the self- lating ourselves here, defending in the Judean wilderness. It seems centered, unabashed greed of to­ ourselves there, carrying always in that all Israel had gathered, drawn day’s culture. Where can we get the our lonely hearts a longing for the by the m agnet o f his fearless, prob­ perspective to restructure our fun­ new and gracious thing we instinc­ ing word. Every faction was there, damental assumptions and order tively know God waits to give us. holding fast its treasured turf, our lives after the Jesus model? So, Lord, let the axe fall! O pen grasping tightly its private cause. What can get us beyond the per­ us to Your saving, healing, re­ The Messiah was in their midst; petual “born again” stage and into vealing word of judgment. Set us the promised new day was dawn­ the long obedience that leads, how­ free by Your Spirit to receive Your ing. But how could any saving ever haltingly, to maturity in good thing. ^

January 1990 13 General Superintendent’s Viewpoint Meet WILLIAM J. PRINCE

On June 28, 1989, the delegates to the 22nd General holds the M.Div. from Nazarene Theological Semi­ Assembly elected Dr. William J. Prince to the Board nary. The D.D. was conferred upon him by BNC in of General Superintendents. Dr. Prince became the 1975. 27 th general superintendent o f the Church o f the Naz­ A former superintendent o f the Pittsburgh District, arene. Prince also served as president of European Nazarene Dr. Prince served as the fourth president of Mount Bible College from 1970 to 1976. He served pas­ Vernon Nazarene College from September 1980 until torates in Lone Pine, Reseda, and Ventura, Calif, as his election as a member of the Board of General Su­ well as Minneapolis, Minn., and Dayton, Ohio. perintendents. He was elected to the presidency of Prince was ordained in 1957 on the Los Angeles Dis­ Southern Nazarene University May 5, 1989, and had trict. planned to assume that position at the close of Gen­ Prince and his wife, Evelyn, have one son, Shel­ eral Assembly. Earlier this year, he had received a burne. unanimous four-year recall from the MVNC Board of The H erald invites you to read this interview and Trustees. become better acquainted with this new general su­ He is a graduate of Bethany Nazarene College and perintendent.

Dr. Prince, where were you born and Through what events, experiences, preach. He also took me to Bethany raised? persons did God reveal to you a call to to visit the college and make prepara­ I was bom in Altus, Okla., to Mr. preach? tion for enrollment. and Mrs. L. K. Prince and grew up in While I was seeking to be sanc­ How and when did you meet your Altus. tified, the Lord began to deal with me wife? I worked in the circulation depart­ about a call to preach. Part of my In my sophomore year at Bethany, ment of the Altus Times-Democrat commitment was the willingness to I met a very nice and sweet young newspaper and later, while in high submit to the call to preach. The call lady by the name of Evelyn Imel from school, I worked in the make-up was confirmed by my testifying to the Lawrence, Kans. Someone intro­ room. call. duced us, and she bought me a cup of My mother and father attended the Tell us about your first sermon—the coffee—and we have been friends Altus Church of the Nazarene. This place, congregation, number of hear­ ever since. We became engaged at was the first Nazarene congregation ers, text—whatever makes it inter­ graduation time in the home of Dr. established in western Oklahoma. My esting. and Mrs. Fred Floyd. We were mar­ mother’s parents and other relatives My first opportunity to preach ried on August 24 of that year, 1952. were a part of this congregation. came as a jolting surprise. On Satur­ Evelyn taught school in Kansas City. Tell us about your conversion ex­ day before Easter Sunday, following Kans., while I attended Nazarene perience, and your experience of sanc­ my testifying to a call to preach, our Theological Seminary. tifying grace. pastor’s wife phoned me and in­ I attended the church throughout formed me that the pastor was ill and If you had not been called into the ministry, what vocation would you my years of growing up. I was at the could not be in the pulpit on Sunday. have entered? altar many times through those years. They asked me to preach on Easter. It I had an interest in newspaper pub­ The people in the church cared for was frightening, yet a challenge, to me, supported me, and prayed with pull together an Easter message on lishing. Because I had worked at the local newspaper office since junior me no matter how often I went for­ one day’s notice. I am sure that it was high school, 1 had a strong interest in ward. While a senior in high school I simple and short. My mother sat on that profession. The practice of law made a commitment to the Lord and the front seat and encouraged me also had an attraction for me. sought to be sanctified. I remember it with her tears of joy. The people were was an evening service on February 1 kind and patient and very encour­ You have served as president of more during a revival that I went forward to aging to me, not only on that Sunday than one college. What is the toughest surrender myself, my will, and my fu­ but from time to time as I preached in part of a college president's job? The ture to the Lord, and by faith in Jesus my home church. The pastor at that more rewarding aspect? Christ 1 received the fullness of His tim e was Rev. E. E. O rton who helped In 1970, Dr. Samuel Young invited Spirit and was sanctified. me by giving me opportunities to me to accept the presidency of the Eu­

14 Herald of Holiness “Christ’s redemptive work is the only hope for our world.”

ropean Nazarene Bible College. At The decade of the ’80s has passed. What do you believe the “sabbatical that time, I was pastoring M in­ Looking back over that decade, what year of prayer” can do for our church? neapolis First Church. We felt that it gave you the most encouragement I am very pleased for the call of the was the Lord’s will to accept that pos­ during that period? General Assembly to the Nazarenes ition. The college serves all o f o u r The decade of the ’80s is so close to to a “sabbatical year of prayer.” Activ­ churches in continental Europe. My us, it is difficult to appraise this dec­ ity is often viewed as spiritual success, wife and I served in Europe for six ade for the church. Many encour­ and organization may be perceived to years. In 1980 I was elected president aging things have come about: the substitute for spiritual growth. But in of Mount Vernon Nazarene College. worldwide expansion of the ministry truth, prayer, fasting, and obedience Both of these institutions have a of the church, the largest number of to words of Christ are vital to the strong com m itm ent to the C hurch o f missionaries in our history, the largest depth of character and strength of the the Nazarene and to the kingdom of number of students in our schools, church. My own heart longs for a re­ God. the great compassionate ministries newal of God’s Spirit, concentrating One of the challenges of the college expansion, continued evangelism, on the creation of pure hearts and president is financing the institution. and our participation in holiness em­ holy living. Even good activity cannot However, two other parts o f the m is­ phases with other holiness denomina­ meet the heart’s longing for God’s pu­ sion of our colleges w eigh heavily tions. I am greatly encouraged by rity and presence in our churches and upon the president’s shoulders. One is what has happened, and I have even in our lives. the challenge o f excellence in educa­ greater hope for the future. This is probably a great time for the tion. A Nazarene college m ust do ev­ Church of the Nazarene to fulfill its erything possible to be as good or bet­ As we enter a new year and a new dec­ work in the kingdom of God on earth. ter than secular institutions. The ade, what are your hopes and dreams We have an international presence, president must do whatever it takes to for the Church of the Nazarene? we have the church buildings, the ed­ see that high quality education takes As we enter a new year and a new ucational institutions, the publishing place in the school for w hich he is re­ decade, my prayer for the Church of capabilities, the headquarters and dis­ sponsible. the Nazarene is that it will fulfill the trict support teams, pastors, evan­ Also, we have the challenge o f spiri­ purposes of Christ for His Church. gelists, laity to mobilize under the tual concern and Christian values. His redemptive work is the only hope Spirit of Christ to change the world. The world constantly tries to press us for our world. Our church has an op­ More than 5 billion people popu­ into its mold. One challenge to our portunity to preach internationally late the earth. They need Christ. What colleges is to become the type of the Good News to a hurting, violent, a challenge and opportunity! I pray school at which students encounter and sinful world. We can share the our sabbath year of prayer will pre­ the transforming power of Christ, treasure of redemption that can pare us to rise up as one people to ful­ rather than absorb wordly values. change the hearts of people. fill our redemptive calling.

January 1990 15 Of Landmines and Landmarks

hile studying the Epistle Frequently, we are unaware of ne intriguing way to capture to the Philippians, I was those patterns in our thinking. It is that information is to list the arrested by Paul’s opti­ often easier to identify the patterns “landmines”O and “landmarks" of W mism. Here he was in prison,in un­ the lives of others than to recog­ our lives. Landmines are those un­ certain of the outcome of his trial, nize our own. expected events that have forever and as lonely as a pelican in the tragically affected us. The loss of a desert. Yet he exudes optimism. parent, a divorce in the family, a Listen to some of the clues to his betrayal by a good friend, rejection central faith story from that Epis­ by a person important to us, or a tle: “He who began a good work in “Landmines are primary disappointment fall into you will carry it on to completion those unexpected the category of landmines. until the day of Christ Jesus” (1:6, Landmarks are those important NIV); “For to me, to live is Christ events that have events that forever provide direc­ and to die is gain” (v. 21, NIV); tion and stability. When the pio­ “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will forever tragically neers crossed the Western plains say it again: Rejoice!” (4:4, NIV). they often identified landmarks by Paul’s basic understanding of the affected us.” which they could guide their trav­ reality and work of God in human els. In our spiritual travels each of life rises up to defend him. His us has identification points that di­ God-given optimism greets the rect and protect us. most adverse circumstances with a A spiritual journal is a ready­ Landmarks include moments of hammerlock that disarms the made place to begin gathering the wisdom in a conversation with a threat of prison and even death. He data to identify your own core pat­ friend or parent. They include is not even frustrated by the per­ terns. In your journal gather in­ those special moments when we sons who are preaching “Christ out sights, prayers, significant events, sensed the divine presence. They of selfish ambition, not sincerely, emotional responses, primary ques­ may include materials from a book supposing that they can stir up tions, and other clues to your per­ that produced an “aha” moment of trouble for me while I am in sonal life script. insight at a strategic time. chains” (1:17, NIV). Periodically set aside time to re­ Take the time to write a para­ Paul’s life is so hidden in Christ view the gathered information in graph about the significance of that he is no longer worried about the presence of the Lord. The Holy each landmark or landmine. As­ life circumstances. He trusts him­ Spirit will help to identify the pat­ sign each landmark a number and self totally to the God who, even terns that are spiritually crippling. each landmine a letter. Then draw when they killed Christ, raised Those crippling patterns can then a timeline of your life marked off Him from the dead. He believes be brought to the Savior for trans­ into decades and plot the land­ that the same energy that raised form ation. marks and landmines along that Christ will also enable him to han­ Such searches for patterns will line. Written reflection about the dle whatever stresses barge into his also uncover our constructive and groupings of those events will give life—or death. valuable master-stories. The Holy helpful clues to an understanding There is a powerful life script or Spirit will then enable us to of your underlying life script. master story at the core of Paul’s strengthen those patterns that I would like to offer Paul’s being. Researchers, such as James make our lives richer. prayer for the Philippians for you Fowler, have suggested that each It is also important to collect the as your search for the core patterns person has a central faith story or information from our whole life in your life: “A nd this is m y prayer: structured imagery by which he history in a journal. Frequently the that your love may abound more m akes sense out o f life. Basic pessi­ almost forgotten pieces will provide and more in knowledge and depth mism or optimism are determined significant clues to the patterns of of insight, so that you may be able by that script. Spiritual devel­ our lives. Fortunately, those crucial to discern what is best and may be opment is enhanced or curtailed by events are usually recorded in our pure and blameless until the dav of that core pattern. m em ories. Christ” (1:9-10, NIV). ' ^

16 Herald of Holiness REBECCA LAIRD

Spiritual Friendship

i s 15 lively women settled seminary, Antoinette writes to spiritual direction, a Catholic tradi­ ■J, around a fire at a recent Lucy: tion for many centuries. Protes­ jL m retreat, I posed the ques­ . . . My heart has been called tants usually refer to this as disci- tion: “What comes to mind when I back to the time when we used pleship or spiritual guidance rather use the phrase, ‘spiritual friend­ to sit with our arms around each than direction. This kind of friend­ ship’?” They began to make word other at the sunset hour and talk ship is initiated as one person seeks associations, “vulnerability,” “in­ and talk and talk . . . till both out another whose spiritual life is timacy,” “accountability,” and “mu­ our hearts felt warmer and ligh­ trusted. The seeker asks the other tuality.” The women knew what to ter for the pure communion of to gently guide her through a diffi­ expect of a spiritual friendship, yet spirit. cult time. The director, or guide, is agreed that a spiritual friendship Lucy’s response says, in part: a friend who is present to listen, was hard to find. .. . there are few, very few who pray for, hold accountable, and A friend can be defined is one can understand, and enter into mirror back what God may be do­ who is intimate with and fond of the soul’s holy of holies, but the ing. A director shouldn’t decide you. A friend is one who is on the few, or th at hum an one, is anything for the seeker. The direc­ same side in the struggle o f life. A needed, and any one is better tor simply watches closely enough spiritual friendship is distinct in the who shares his [sic] soul’s holiest to help the other sense God’s hand sense that this relationship is en­ emotions, aye and stronger too. at work. A spiritual guide chooses hanced by a deep understanding These two weathered the storms to put aside his own needs in order that the Spirit of God is a third of spiritual friendship for nearly 50 to be present for the seeker’s bene­ party in the friendship. One of the years. fit. early records of this idea is found Commitment to a Shared Vision Several years ago, a seminary in the 12th century writings of St. The second way spiritual friend­ course introduced me to spiritual Aelred of Rievaulx. When speaking ships can develop is from a mutual direction. I prayed for a director, to a brother monk, Aelred says, com m itm ent to a way o f life. From and several months later I over­ “Here we are, you and I, and I the earliest days of the monastic heard a classmate talk about her hope a third, Christ, is in our movement, spiritual friendships work as a spiritual director. I asked midst.” were formed around a shared vi­ her for the names of others I could Historically, spiritual friendship sion. In the early 500s, all who contact. When we met a week later has been expressed in at least three joined St. Benedict’s monastery to exchange the list of names, she distinct ways. agreed to a life of daily prayer, told me, “As I prayed this week, I Mutual Encouragement physical labor, and Christlike hos­ felt God leading me to ask you if The first way spiritual friendship is pitality. you would like me to direct you.” shown is through the simple com­ In my own experience. I’ve been I’d felt the same confirmation in ing together of likeminded souls for blessed with a spiritual friendship my prayers. God drew us together, mutual encouragement. Antoinette with two people in San Francisco. and for two years Barbara, a Brown Blackwell had such a friend. Bonnie and Steve were two of a United Methodist clergywoman, Antoinette was ordained as the small group who committed, as I met with me monthly, greeted me first clergywoman in America in did, to building community, offer­ with a hug, lit a candle to symbol­ 1853. A ntoinette enrolled in Ober- ing worship opportunities, and pro­ ize the Spirit’s presence with us, lin College, determined to get theo­ viding mission services to the poor and gently reflected the ways God logical education. Women were of Haight Ashbury. While working was working in my life. welcome to sit in on classes but side-by-side for eight years, the Carefully and prayerfully formed, were prohibited from speaking. Spirit has melded us into deep, spiritual friendships are gifts from One of the ways Antoinette abiding friends. God. As Aelred wrote, “A friend is persevered was to rely on her soul Spiritual Guides called a guardian of love, or as friend, Lucy Stone. After a death in The third way that spiritual friend­ some would have it, a guardian of the family and a refusal at the ship can be expressed is through the spirit itself.” ^

January 1990 17 There is no other document on earth more important than the Holy Bible. Dr. William McCumber clearly defines the truths of the Bible and the power of the Word of the Creator in His redemptive love. He writes, “The Bible is material evidence of the love of God for sinners.” He also states, “To sanctify means to set apart for God. This is more than a legal arrangement; it is a profound spiritual and moral change.” You and your friends will find this a strong and vital help to your appreciation of the Bible.

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Reducing Financial Stress in the Family

eresa and Mike had been money was attractive during court­ hard to justify not having a plan married only six months, ship, Teresa now felt he was being for spending our own money, but T but married life was not liv­ selfish and irresponsible. Couples that’s untenable when the money ing up to Teresa’s dreams. She and need to talk about their differing belongs to God.” Mike were quarreling often— expectations and be ready to make “Even Christian families are im­ usually about money. Teresa had some compromises. pacted by our culture,” Fish says, worked hard to put herself through Dr. Fish remarks, “Often fi­ “which measures success by how college and had m anaged a tight nances aren’t the real issue, but much we make, what kind of car budget and heavy work load in or­ rather the power struggles in a rela- we drive, the clothes we wear, the der to pay for the wedding. Things kind of vacations we take. It’s easy should have been getting easier for Christians to get caught up in with two incomes, but she discov­ those kinds of values, and live a ered that Mike had large out­ life-style beyond their means. This standing bills. Then he bought a can put great strain on a marriage, computer without consulting her. Financial stress particularly if it involves going into After 10 years of marriage, Mau­ debt in order to keep up with the reen and Frank came for coun­ is one of the people around them.” seling because Frank felt their m ar­ Dr. Fish stresses that, “When riage was crum bling. He was top four causes people are working more and more working two jobs to support Mau­ hours in order to live a higher and reen and their four young children. of divorce. higher life-style, whether it’s a hus­ He left the house early in the band or wife, they need to look at morning, and four nights a week he what they are giving up in terms of worked till ten o’clock. Maureen time with the family or for other did not appreciate Frank’s sacri­ pursuits. At some point they have fices for the family, and she com ­ tionship that get acted out around to decide, This is as high as we are plained that he spent too little time finances. A spouse who feels a lack going.’ Some families deliberately at home. Because Frank handled of power in other areas of life may decide to live at a lower life-style in all of their finances, Maureen did use finances to gain some power.” order to have more time with their not know what their income or ex­ In the case of Maureen and Frank, families.” penses were, so she could not judge the fact that Frank earns the In some parts of the country, it is how necessary his long work week money and controls spending essential for both spouses to work was to the fam ily’s survival. makes Maureen feel very de­ full-time in order to buy a home— Finance is one of the top four pendent. Their situation is com­ “and that is the tradeoff necessary factors contributing to divorce. I mon, but Dr. Fish feels that neither to live in certain areas.” A major discussed the relationship of fi­ partner should be in the dark theme in my discussion with Dr. nances to marital stress with Dr. about the family finances. Even Fish was the choices that Christians Richard Fish, director of ENC’s with many Christian couples, nei­ are called upon to make as they pe­ graduate program in family coun­ ther spouse knows exactly how riodically evaluate their financial seling. Dr. Fish believes that one of much money is coming in or situation. We must strive to be re­ the chief reasons for financial diffi­ where it is going. “Budgeting,” he sponsible stewards of our time and culties between couples is that they says, “is a basic Christian principle. our money as we live lives of ser­ have been raised with differing atti­ If we believe that our financial re­ vice to God and others. tudes and expectations about sources belong to God, then mak­ Richard Fish’s parting tip for re­ money and life-style. Though ing decisions about spending be­ ducing financial stress was, “Desire Mike’s relaxed attitude toward comes a matter of stewardship. It’s less!” *

January 1990 19 What is it that Jesus is calling you to leave on the 1989 side of New Year’s Day? TAKE NOTHING FOR THE JOURNEY

BY NORMA MILLER

hat would He have in store do it. He’s never lied to us before. go with them. I was so excited. Finally, for them this time? Jesus Well, m aybe we could try .. . the big day arrived. I had never been had called the Twelve to­ Jesus said, “Take nothing for the to a circus before, and I had no idea W gether. They sat in a circle on thejourney—no grass staff, no bag, no bread, what to expect. I looked around in with a sense of anticipation arcing no money, no extra tunic.” There wide-eyed wonder. Huge elephants like electric waves among them. They seemed to be a note of urgency about with red-costumed men riding on spoke in whispers tinged with rever­ it. Can’t we even go home and get an them loomed above me like moun­ ence. extra tunic? an extra pair of Levis or tains. Lions roared ferociously as they Jesus had called them together our new Reeboks? Take nothing for paced back and forth behind what many times before. Sometimes they the journey—this may have been pos­ looked to me like too-flimsy cages. would journey with Jesus and listen as sible in Jesus’ time. They had been in There were clowns with their faces He talked about the kingdom of God. Galilee for quite a while, and the peo­ painted, acting silly. It felt so good to Always, they would try to tend to ple liked Jesus and were eager to fol­ laugh and be silly. I hadn't been al­ Jesus’ needs and listen carefully as He low Him. They would welcome His lowed to laugh at home much. A taught and healed the sick and drove disciples and would be happy to pro­ black cloud of sadness had engulfed out demons from the possessed. They vide for their needs. In fact, there were my home for the last three years since hadn’t had much time alone with some religious sects, such as the Ni- my baby sister had died. My father Him lately—there seemed to be cenes, that made it a practice to travel was often absent, and when he did crowds of people everywhere He without any provisions. They would come home, he seemed drunk. My went. They hoped that this time Jesus enter a stranger’s house as if they were mother cried all the time, or else she would spend time with just the 12 of intimate friends. would be furiously scrubbing the them. It may have been possible for the floor or doing something that shut When Jesus arrived, He began to disciples to take nothing for the jour­ me out. 1 felt alone, abandoned. tell them of His plans. We read in ney, but w hat does this message say to But at the circus I had fun! I had Luke 9:1-2, “When Jesus had called us today? Take nothing for the jour­ cotton candy and a hot dog with cat­ the Twelve together, he gave them ney. Surely, we are not to go w ithout sup on it. I had a little money so I power and authority to drive out all taking our clothes and a little money bought a souvenier—a toy whip— demons and to cure diseases, and he . . . and what about all the books just like the one the lion tamer used. sent them out to preach the kingdom we’ve bought? What about the equity After the circus, they drove me to of God and to heal the sick” (NIV). in our homes? What about the career, my front door. I thanked them for This was something different. It was the savings account, and the new car­ taking me, as I had been taught, and I one thing to watch Jesus preach and pet we’ve been saving for? Surely, He told them I had a wonderful time. I heal the sick. The Twelve looked at doesn't mean we are to leave all of this ran to the door excitedly. I wanted to each other in shock and with fear. behind. Take nothing for the journey. tell my mom and dad about the el­ Wait a minute. He said, He had given Many years ago, when I was about ephants, the lions, and the clowns. I the power and authority—power eight years old, the circus came to wanted to show them my whip. As I means we have the ability to do it and town. My parents consented when a walked in, I felt fear rising up inside authority means we have the right to family down the street asked if I could me. My mother sat crying in the big

20 Herald of Holiness chair. My father was standing on the story, my hands are in fists. I was fas­ all these fists ... At any hour of the other side o f the room , and I saw the cinated by the imagery in Henri Nou- day or night you might clench anger on his face. wen’s book With Open Hands. He again for fear. Looking more fierce than the cir­ says: God has called each of us, and we cus lions, he stormed toward me. He are sent by Jesus to preach and heal. Is grabbed the w hip from my hand and this inner baggage what Jesus was began beating me on the back with it. talking about when He said, “Take What had I done? All I could hear was nothing for the journey”? Is there in­ something about being late and wor­ “He stormed ner baggage we need to surrender to rying my mother. It wasn’t my fault! toward me and Christ? What excess baggage are you Finally he stopped. carrying that needs to be left on the Mother was crying even harder grabbed the whip 1989 side of New Year’s Day? now, and my father was angry with Is Jesus gently telling you to face himself as well as with me. He yelled from my hand and the new year minus some old defense at me to go to my room, and I ran as mechanism behind which you have fast as I could and shut the door be­ began beating me taken refuge for too long? hind me. 1 leaned against the door, Is He calling you to own, name, my heart pounding. I was too con­ on the back and confess a nourished hatred on fused and hurt to cry. I crept into my with it.” which the dark side of you so often bed and pulled the covers over my feeds? head to shut out the world. And what of the excuses that have Now, decades later, there are times I served you so well? want to tell som eone about Jesus, but When you dare to let go and sur­ What, do you think, does He want I begin to pull back. The little girl in­ render one of those many fears, you to do about your deeply scarred side me becomes fearful, afraid that your hand relaxes and your palms self-image? Do you think He wants enthusiasm will be beaten out of me. I spread out in a gesture of receiving. you to drag it along like an over­ am too cautious in telling people You must have patience, of course, stuffed suitcase all through 1990? about the good news of Jesus. This before your hands are completely Are you willing to own, name, and baggage 1 carry deep inside me from open and their muscles relaxed. surrender all those past injustices that my childhood sometimes hampers You can never fully achieve such an mold in your soul? my ministry, and I am not free to attitude, for behind each fist an­ Can you turn over to Christ the preach about the K ingdom joyfully, other one is hiding, and sometimes aching memories of past wounds that enthusiastically! the process seems endless. Much have squelched your spirit for so 1 notice that every time I tell this has happened in your life to make long? Can you hear Jesus asking you to drop those old crutches of cherished grudges, hurt feelings, and lingering disappointments? Those crutches and baggage not only squelch your spirit and poison your soul but hinder wit­ nessing and service too. There’s no need to drag along the old crutches and the excess baggage anyway. If you truly trust Him, Jesus is all you really need for the journey that opens before you. Can you hear Jesus gently urging you to “take nothing for the journey” that is 1990? ^

Photos: Wesley Tracy

Norma Miller is chaplain at the Rose Brooks Center, a shelter for battered women and their children in Kansas City, and a student at Nazarene Theological Seminary. (Above) Chaplain Miller ministers to a resident, a battered wife.

(Right) Norma Miller goes over a case history with Katherine Parker, Women’s Services coordinator for the center.

January 1990 NTS STUDENTS CAN’T WAIT.., FOR MINISTRY

BY ED ROBINSON Professor of Religious Education Nazarene Theological Seminary Kansas City

“A decision to attend Nazarene Theological Seminary is not a decision to postpone ministry”

had an opportunity recently to sons who feel the call to ministry who talk to a young college student don’t experience that same enthusi­ who had received a call to minis­ astic anticipation. I try. We rejoiced together in the waysIn the course of our conversation, I God was opening doors of oppor­ mentioned the possibility of including tunity for him to preach, teach, and Nazarene Theological Seminary in his demonstrate “pastoral care” to people preparation plans. What else would in his local church. I could tell by his one expect of an NTS professor? My excitement that he could hardly wait friend hesitated a moment (I imagine to accept his first full-time pastoral as­ he wanted to spare my feelings) and signment. I don’t know of many per­ then replied, “I don’t know if I can

MMR e wait three or four years to get in­ volved in ministry. I’m so excited 1 want to get started as soon as I can.” My young friend was living with a common misconception that Naza­ rene Theological Seminary is a place of passive preparation—a waiting pe­ riod before a minister “really gets in­ volved in ministry.” I’m not sure how the idea that NTS students have to wait to be involved in ministry got started, but the truth is that men and women who are pre­ paring for ministry at Nazarene Theo­ logical Seminary have something in common with my young college friend. They can’t wait to get involved in ministry. In fact, they don’t wait at all! Pastor Ogden and Bert Smith look over a potential building site. Bob, Eileen, Alex, and David are students who couldn’t wait for minis­ try. Each came to NTS with a differ­ laboratory for putting into practice Kansas City, Eileen developed a com­ ent call, each with different experi­ the principles and skills he is learning pelling burden for victims of the ences, but with the same commit­ in the classroom. AIDS virus. She volunteered to “min­ ment to involvement in ministry Attending seminary and pastoring ister to people with AIDS and their while preparing academically. a church could present an imposing families by providing the acceptance, Bob Ogden, a senior in the School emotional, physical, and spiritual care, and love that Christ affords.” of World Mission and Evangelism, challenge. Yet, Bob relates that “the Eileen participates in Life Groups came to NTS in 1986 after pastoring laymen have learned to accept re­ that offer support, encouragement, in Idaho for six years. Bob and his sponsibility for certain areas or those guidance, and friendship. By attend­ wife, Karla, are preparing for ministry needed ministries just don’t get ing to physical needs of transporta­ as career missionaries. Bob pastors done.” The Gardner church has be­ tion, hospice care, and nutrition pro­ the Church of the Nazarene in Gard­ come a model of pastor and layper­ grams, Eileen is endeavoring to ner, Kans., on the outskirts of met­ sons involved in ministry to build the “present and live out the gospel, with ropolitan Kansas City. The Gardner Kingdom through God’s grace. the Holy Spirit’s guidance.” She is not congregation has been honored at the Eileen Ruger, a senior from Her- waiting for the “someday” of ministry last three district assemblies with the mosa Beach, Calif., came to seminary to come. Eileen is realizing her com­ Great Commission Award. Bob’s in 1986 with an interest in children’s mitment to share the gospel through leadership has contributed signifi­ ministry. She had served as a volun­ her ministry with persons who need cantly to the church’s progress. The teer and part-time staff member in lo­ the love of God. local church has become Bob’s sacred cal churches near her home. While in Alex Mason came to NTS in 1987

Eileen Ruger confers with several NTS students who work with her in the AIDS support group.

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Pastor Ogden cares for the children in his church too. Here he chats with Amy Gabehart. Dale Sass true and essential. NTS has helped me solidify my call and develop that call into action.” David Busic was an established youth minister in the Oklahoma City area. His youth group was growing both in spiritual maturity and num­ bers. David was an active part of the district NYI leadership team. But he was feeling the call to pastoral minis­ try and wanted to include Nazarene Theological Seminary in his plans. David moved to Kansas City with his wife, Christi, and their two children to enroll at NTS in the fall of 1989. But David didn’t postpone his involve­ ment in ministry. The zeal that had motivated him in his previous assign­ Alex Mason mixes evangelism and theological study successfully while at NTS. ment drove him to find a ministry while a student. “I am committed to ministry,” he said, “and I wanted to with a call to full-time evangelism. sensed a particular burden for effec­ become involved in a church where I Actively involved in his local church tive discipling ministry on secular could put that commitment to work.” in Sacramento, Calif., he sensed a campuses. After coming to Kansas David is now the associate minister need for further theological educa­ City, Alex initiated an outreach min­ at the Shawnee Church of the Naza­ tion. He came to NTS with his wife, istry at Kansas City, Kans., Commu­ rene. He is responsible for ministry Lyndell, to pursue his vision to spread nity College, which is located near his with youth and for a variety of pas­ the Good News to those who had not local church. toral duties such as calling, hospital yet encountered the message of salva­ Mixing active ministry and semi­ visitation, teaching, and occasional tion. nary education is a natural for Alex. preaching. During his first two While at seminary, Alex has put his “I don't know how anyone can be pre­ months on the job, David was respon­ evangelistic zeal and training into ac­ paring for ministry and ignore the op­ sible for planning and directing a tion. He has served as the outreach portunities presented in the immedi­ youth Work and Witness trip to Twin director for the Stony Point Church of ate situation.” He states further, “The Wells Indian School in Sun Valley, the Nazarene in Kansas City, Kans. practice of evangelism has been a Ariz. He has preached in revivals in San Di­ chance for me to internalize the mes­ David is not a student-in-waiting ego, Boston, and Sacramento, and has sage of salvation. And I am under­ for ministry. He is a minister actively led youth retreats for a number of lo­ standing that message more clearly utilizing the gifts and understandings cal NYI groups. through my studies. As I present the for service. Alex attended state universities for gospel to people, I feel more con­ his college education. While there, he fident that what I am presenting is Continued on page 29

Dave Busic (left) counsels two young men at the altar.

Dave Busic and his Work and Witness team lake a day off from their work at the Twin Wells Indian School, Sun Valley, Ariz., for a hike in the desert. I Charles Paddock

Alex Deasley with the official published version of the Dead Sea Scrolls called Discoveries in the Judean Desert. He holds in his hand a volume called The Community Rule, a book describing the life-style of that pre-Christian holiness movement colony, Qumran.

ALEX DEASLEY-TEACHER, PREACHER, and SCHOLAR

BY CAROL WEXFORD

Alex Deasley is one of those NTS students know of Deasley’s description would not fit Dr. Deasley. /% teachers whom serious stu- own superior education at two of the Deasley’s mastery of preaching is one L. m dents seek out. If the semi­ best universities in England—Cam­ example of his adeptness in practical nary were to schedule his classes at 3 bridge (M.A.) and M anchester matters. He demonstrates both the a . m ., his classroom would be filled to (Ph.D.). Hearing this gifted servant of science and the art of preaching. Dr. the doors by students who know it is the Lord go through a New Testament Wesley Tracy, former professor of worthwhile to do whatever is neces­ book step by step, syllable by syllable, homiletics at NTS, says that Deasley sary to get in Dr. Deasley’s courses. leaving no stone unturned to reveal is “the finest model of classical, ex­ Even though Deasley has a reputation the meaning of Holy Writ is a privi­ pository preaching I have ever heard." of being a “tough prof’ (no cheap A’s lege that NTS students and local pas­ Deasley reports that his teacher at here; no cheap B’s, either) students tors are careful not to squander. Hurlet Nazarene College in Glasgow enroll in his classes in droves. He is a Dr. Deasley is paradoxically intel­ transmitted to him the intense “con­ leading New Testament scholar in the lectual and practical. T hat is to say, viction that the proclamation of the Church of the Nazarene and a pro­ while some top scholars have a repu­ Word in preaching is the primary fessor of New Testament at Nazarene tation of being at home in academics method that God has ordained for Theological Seminary. but lost in the practical world, such a communication of His saving mes­

26 Herald of Holiness sage.” Mitchell himself was, according their community in order to train to Deasley, “aglow with that con­ them as members of their own sect. viction.” “M y primary John’s father and mother were very “That experience taught me,” advanced in age at the time of his Deasley says, “that the best thing a calling is to birth, and it has been suggested that teacher can do is to ‘infect’ the stu­ John might have been one of these dent with the ‘disease’—that is, with preach, but I have children. Even if John did grow up in the teacher’s own enthusiasm and the Qumran community, he broke conviction of the truth.” been on loan to with it emphatically when he began Deasley says he was “immensely his ministry, for the one thing the fortunate” in having superior models teaching all my Qumran sectarians would not do was in the British pulpit to learn from. He preach to the rest of the world. As far got to hear Leslie Weatherhead, W. E. working life. I as they were concerned, the rest of the Sangster, and James S. Stewart many world was simply fuel for the fires of times. “Sangster and Stewart in the greatly enjoy hell. pulpit were the epitom e o f verbal in­ The theological affirmations that candescence,” Deasley says. “They teaching, but I Dr. Deasley has derived from the 600 were alive, and you knew the power documents in the Dead Sea Scrolls in­ came from beyond themselves.” have to preach.” clude a very interesting doctrine of Many have remarked that they see holiness or perfection. these same qualities in Deasely’s own The Qumran settlers believed they preaching. For one thing, they testify to the accu­ were living on the eve of the Messiah’s To his students, Deasley often says, racy of the transmission of the text of coming. Further, they believed that all “My primary calling is to preach, but the Old Testament. Until the discov­ Israel had turned from God except for 1 have been on loan to teaching all my ery of the scrolls at Qumran, the old­ them. They spoke of their way of life working life. I greatly enjoy teaching, est manuscript of the Old Testament as “making atonement for the land.” but I have to preach.” we possessed dated from around a . d . By “walking in perfection of way” Dr. Deasley and his wife, Joyce, are 900. This inevitably raised the ques­ they believed they could perfectly members of the Church of the Naza­ tion whether, over that long period of keep the Law. They taught that the rene in Overland Park, Kans. Alex is a time, the Old Testament had been Messiah could not come until their member of the church board; Joyce is copied accurately. We knew that the group walked in “perfection o f way.” the director of volunteer services. Jewish scribes were very careful in But while they believed that the Law In recent years, the greatest docu­ their copying, but nobody could be could be perfectly observed, they were mentary discovery of this century has sure of this because the scribes were so aware of and mourned a depth of in­ dominated Deasley’s scholarly pur­ convinced of their accuracy that ward sin for which they knew no cure suits. I speak of the Dead Sea Scrolls. whenever they made a new copy they other than the coming of the Messiah. In the late 1940s, some 600 ancient destroyed the old one on the assump­ When Messiah comes, they believed, Hebrew m anuscripts were discovered tion that the new was better. this inbred sin would be “rooted out in some caves near the Dead Sea. Now, with the discovery of the of their flesh.” God will then “purify They were accidentally discovered by Qumran scrolls, we are able to see every deed of man with His truth; He an Arab shepherd boy who was trying that the copying of the Old Testament will refine for himself the human to round up some stray goats near the was done with a very high degree of frame by rooting out all spirit of ruins of the ancient Q um ran com m u­ accuracy. In fact, when the translators falsehood. He will cleanse . .. with the nity. o f the Revised Standard Version did spirit of holiness; like purifying waters Apparently the scrolls were pro­ their final revision in 1952, they were He will shed upon him the spirit of duced by a separatist com m unity of able to use the Dead Sea Isaiah scrolls truth . . .” (The Community Rule). Essenes. The Essenes were one of four as their basis for translation. The Deasley, who wrote his Ph.D. dis­ religious parties in Israel during New Dead Sea Scrolls validate the authen­ sertation on “The Idea of Perfection Testament times. We know a great ticity and authority of the Scriptures, in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” understands deal about the Pharisees and Sad- in which modern Christians have an­ this passage and other similar ones to ducees. We know less about the Zeal­ chored their faith. reveal that the Qumran community ots and the Essenes. We shall know There may be some connection be­ was a pre-Christ holiness movement more about Q um ran Essenes w hen tween Christianity and the Qumran that looked forward to the redeeming Dr. Deasley's book on the theology of community through John the Baptist. work of the Messiah. Only the Mes­ the Dead Sea Scrolls is published. John baptized persons at the point in siah could bring purity and holiness. We already know that they believed the river Jordan where it enters the He believes the modern holiness that Isaiah 40:3 directed them to be­ Dead Sea. From this place the Qum­ movement can claim these devout come separatists: “In the wilderness, ran community buildings would have folk as spiritual ancestors. prepare ye the way of the Lord.” In the been plainly visible. Further, we are God has richly gifted Dr. Deasley, desert they sought to preserve Juda­ told by Luke that John lived in the and he has consecrated those gifts to ism in its purity and to await the Day wilderness area in which Qumran is God and the church. He is one of the of the Lord. located. Lord’s servants who helps make NTS The scrolls have importance for the It also seems as though the Qumran an exceptional place to prepare for a Christian faith in a variety of ways. group may have admitted children to lifetime of ministry. ^

January 1990 27 On the Road with the Seminary President

his past summer, Timothy, our youngest son, and I 1990 theme—“Any way you spell MINISTRY, it keeps were talking about my many trips made in 1989. coming out N-T-S.” Since he is completing his degree in film and video We would have visited Rev. Riley Hunter in Anchor production, he suggested that it would be nice to travel Point, Alaska; Rev. Robert Wilson, Monroe, Mich.; Rev. Ed with me for a year and record the trips on film. We agreed True, Troy, Mich.; Rev. W inn Allison o f M ason, Mich.; Rev. that this would be a delightful experience for both of us. Dennis Brenner of Lansing, Mich.; Dr. Marselle Knight, 1 would like to have taken him along on my recent jour­ D.S., Eastern Mich.; and Rev. Cecil Jones of Pataskala, neys as I visited people who have graduated from NTS and Ohio. They, too, reminded me of “Any way you spell MIN­ are now serving God and the Church around the world in ISTRY, it keeps coming out N-T-S.” many crucial capacities. It would be a pleasure for me, and Tim would have spent time with Rev. Riley Layman. I know the contact with our NTS grads would do him C haplain Paul Pusey (colonel, U.S. Army, retired), and Rev. good. Marvin Appleby as we spent a day in Kentucky fishing and We would have visited five Nazarene college campuses reminiscing about the great days we spent together at NTS where he would have met four presidents, three deans, five and in our various ministries across the years. religion department chairmen, and many faculty members We would have flown 22 hours across the Pacific to Ma­ who are graduates of your seminary. What an illustrious nila, in the Philippines, where he would have enjoyed a group of servant leaders these educators are. Perhaps they delicious breakfast on the porch of a Swiss Chalet over­ do more in shaping the future of ministry in the Church of looking the great city of Metro Manila. Around the table he the Nazarene than any other group. Who can measure would have enjoyed the fellowship with President LeBron their tremendous contribution? They reminded me of our Fairbanks, Dr. Floyd Cunningham, Dr. Dean Flemming,

28 Herald of Holiness Dr. Albert Fraser, and Dr. Roy Stults. Four of these excel­ lent missionary educators at Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theo­ logical Seminary are graduates of Nazarene Theological Seminary. “Any way you spell MINISTRY, it keeps coming out N-T-S.” REASONS While in Manila, we would have attended the Lausanne II Congress on Evangelism. Some outstanding NTS grads were present. Among them were Dr. Padu Meshramkar, WHY YOU who is principal of our Bible college in India; Dr. George Rench, director of the Asia-Pacific Region; Rev. John NEEDAWILL Moore, of the Australasian Nazarene Bible College; Dr. 1. Without a personal will, the State, not you, will Franklin Cook, editor o f World Mission magazine and the determine to whom, and in what proportions, director of the Eurasia Region. “Any way you spell M IN IS­ your assets will be distributed. TRY, it keeps coming out N-T-S.” 2. . . . do you really need the other four rea­ What a privilege it was to meet and fellowship with these sons?! missionaries in what was perhaps one of the greatest gath­ W hy not w rite for help with your will today9 erings of Christian leaders in the history of the Christian R e v . Church. Our hearts burned within us as we strategized as to M r how we could preach the gospel to every unreached people M r s . ______group in the world before the year 2000. M is s Tim would have traveled to “Smokey Mountain” (the A d d r e s s ______city garbage dump) along with Dr. Chic Shaver, Dr. Chuck C it y . Millhuff, and Dr. Gary Morsch, M.D. (presently an NTS student). O ur hearts were broken as we saw 20,000 squatter S t a t e Z ip . people who have built homes on this mountain of smoking garbage. He would have accompanied Dr. Gary Morsch Telephone I and Dr. Chuck Millhuff and me as we rode a bus six hours B ir t h D a t e up into the mountains to visit missionary Eunice Marlin, ( M o n t h ) (Day) (Year) who is a teacher at the Bible college at Baguio City. While there he would have experienced what it was like to be in a Birth Date of S pouse ______

South Pacific typhoon. “Any way you spell MINISTRY, it Better yet, your church may wish may contact me at headquarters to have our representative con­ keeps coming out N-T-S.” Robert D. Hempel As we neared the end of this journey, Tim would have duct a W ills Seminar. There is no charge, although a freewill offer­ Life Incom e G ifts Services filmed me as I preached a w eekend revival for Pastor ing is suggested for the repre­ Church of the Nazarene Danny Stroud in the church at Bolivar, Mo. We would also sentative Our representative 6401 The Paseo have gone northeast to South Portland First Church for a may be contacted directly, or you Kansas City. MO 64131 Sunday with Pastor Jim Mullen. Tim would have gotten some footage of Jim Mullen and me posing at the base of the historic lighthouse in Fort William Park, which was commissioned by President George Washington. Last Sunday he would have enjoyed being home for the Can’t Wait first weekend in two months. What a joy it was to hear Pastor Paul Cunningham, another graduate of NTS, Continued from page 25 preach the Word of God in his unique and powerful man­ ner. Bob, Eileen, Alex, and David are four examples of stu­ Tim would have been exhausted, but in the process he dents involved in the daily practice of ministry while pre­ would have produced a valuable documentary about a few paring for a lifetime of ministry. Their stories are not un­ of the many graduates of NTS who are effectively serving usual. They represent scores of students who are finding God and the church as competent servant leaders around fulfillment in giving of themselves during the rigor of prep­ the world. Through its thousands of graduates, the influ­ aration for ministry at NTS. Our students serve as Sunday ence of NTS reaches nearly every corner of the earth. There School teachers, youth workers, prayer group leaders, was no way that Tim could make a tour of the church counselors at halftvay houses, workers with retarded chil­ extensive enough to tell all their stories, but if he could, I dren, helpers at shelters for abused children and battered would suggest a title for the documentary: “Any way you women. Some work with the Salvation Army, some with spell MINISTRY, it keeps coming out N-T-S.” church planting projects and other traditional and inno­ It was my pleasure, however, to visit all of the above- vative outreach ministries. NTS students can’t wait—can’t mentioned places and people, a few of the former students wait to get involved in ministry. or graduates of Nazarene Theological Seminary. I want my young college friend to know that a decision God has used NTS in powerful ways. I trust you will help to attend seminary is not a decision to postpone ministry. NTS meet its divine destiny by fervent prayer and a gener­ On the contrary, it is a decision to become involved in the ous offering on Seminary Sunday, January 28, 1990. We best of ministerial preparation while involved in the daily can't do it w ithout you— not even G od can do it w ithout practice of ministry through preaching, teaching, wit­ you. m nessing, caring, loving, healing ... all expressions of theo­ — Terrell C. Sanders, Jr. logical education in action. fq

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Nazarene Compassionate Ministries. In addition to the workshops, 18 ex­ hibitors were present including various local Nazarene ministries as well as other organizations like World Relief and Bread For The World. Joe Bell, a student at Nazarene Theo­ logical Seminary, had attended the first Compassionate Ministries Conference four years ago. “I was looking forward to hearing again the stories of what our church was doing, but instead of just another session of encouraging our­ selves, I found myself looking at a lot Raymond W. Hurn, general superintendent, brings greetings to participants in the Com­ passionate Ministries Conference. of new issues in my life, like how I feel about undocumented aliens, women, and blacks and their position in wor­ NAZARENES GATHER FOR now. It’s not either/or, it's both/and. We can do everything that we are called up­ ship." COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES “I feel inspired to go back home and CONFERENCE on to do in the far-flung comers of the world and do everything that God is do something drastic,” said Marjorie Approximately 350 persons participat­ calling us to do in the United States and Serio. The day-care director from ed in the second Nazarene Compas­ Canada." Toronto noted that the conference had sionate Ministries Conference Novem­ “The plenary speakers were prophet­ provided a lot of information that ber 3-5 in Overland Park, Kans. Spon­ ic,” said A1 Truesdale, academic dean would help her church expand some of sored by the Church Growth Division at NTS and one of the organizers of the the services they offer to parents in and Nazarene Theological Seminary, conference. “They were alert and artic­ their community. She was also looking the conference focused on the theme ulate persons who challenged the forward to exploring new areas of com­ “The Church Meeting Human Need.” church to expand its vision." passionate ministries based on what she Plenary speakers included Ron Bene- Truesdale also praised the workshop learned at the conference. ftel, senior pastor of Los Angeles First leaders for the quality and professional­ Church; Timothy Smith, professor of ism of their presentations. The 16 history at Johns Hopkins University; workshops covered topics ranging from SNU COMPTROLLER VICTIM and Cheryll Sanders, professor. AIDS and health care to addictive and OF CANCER Howard School of Divinity. Tom Nees, abusive behavior. There were also David E. Minnix, 46. director of Community of Hope, Inc.. workshops dealing with job training, comptroller of SNU Washington, D.C., presented the housing the homeless, networking with since 1972. died Octo­ keynote address at Friday's banquet, other churches, and the relationship be­ ber 30 of cancer at Dea­ and Larry Lott, senior pastor of the tween social compassion and personal coness Hospital in Ok­ Kansas City Blue Hills Community salvation. “These were, for the most lahoma City. Church of the Nazarene, presented the part, Nazarenes resourcing other Naza­ Services were held message for Sunday’s worship service. renes,'' Truesdale added. November 2. “As we've been looking toward the Nees, who also served as a member Survivors include his wife, Sharon, future of compassionate ministry in the of the organizing committee, noted a and two children, Diane and Matthew. Church of the Nazarene there are many greater confidence and capacity to deal A 1968 graduate of Trevecca, Min­ challenges,” Nees told the Friday with controversial issues. “We have nix was employed by Eastern Airlines, evening crowd. “How are we going to been able to reexamine the church's the Kentucky State Department of Per­ finance all of the things we want to do? mission as a whole and are more inclu­ sonnel, and TNC before coming to I want us to be reminded that in its for­ sive than we tended to be in the past,” SNU. mative time, the Church of the Naz­ he said. He had served as treasurer of the arene had a global mission. It was not The conference included pastors, Northwest Oklahoma District since only the neglected comers of the city professors, compassionate ministry 1982 and was an active member of with Phineas Bresee, but it was Swazi­ practitioners, and at least 120 students Bethany First Church and the Bethany land with Schmelzenbach. Both of from Nazarene colleges and the semi­ Kiwanis Club. He was selected as the those things were happening together nary, according to Tim Mastin, pro­ “Manager of the Year” at SNU for and both of them can happen together gram and promotion coordinator for 1986-87.

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LAY PASTOR KILLED/D.S. NAZARENES RESPOND TO INJURED IN ACCIDENT NEEDS FOLLOWING EARTH­ A young lay pastor of the Brazil Paulis- QUAKE tano (Sao Paulo) District was killed and Nazarenes have been respond­ superintendent Adalberto Leite was in­ ing to needs following the dev­ jured in an automobile accident astating earthquake that shook November 10. The accident reportedly Northern California October occurred when the car that Leite was 17. Clarence Kinzler, Northern driving broke an axle and rolled several California District superinten­ times, stopping just short of a river. dent, reports that Nazarenes Both men were knocked unconscious from around the country have and were rushed to a hospital. Jose been calling and offering sup­ Aguado. a lay pastor at the Santo Andre port. The Marina district of San Franscisco, near Golden Gate Community church, was heavily damaged in the church, died after several surgeries "There has been a tremen­ earthquake. without regaining consciousness. Leite dous response," said Kinzler, received 10 stitches in one ear and was and "we are really, really grate­ kept under observation at the hospital ful for that. It is great to be a part of a front wall of the building causing at for several days. great network." least $100,000 in damages. The congre­ The men were returning from work­ Nazarenes in Santa Cruz and Wat­ gation will be meeting in the fellowship ing on the electrical installation at one sonville have been providing temporary hall until the wall is rebuilt. of the 11 newly organized churches on housing and distributing food, clothing, Nazarene Compassionate Ministries the district when the accident occurred. blankets, and other necessities. has been working closely with Naza­ Aguado and his family were brought "Santa Cruz is the hardest hit in renes in Northern California, according to the Lord as a result of the Thrust to terms of displaced people," said Fred to Steve Weber, Compassionate Min­ the City of Sao Paulo. Shepard, senior pastor of the Santa istries coordinator. Thousands of dol­ Cruz Church of the Nazarene. He noted lars have been collected and sent to the that at least 13,000 people in the area area, Weber said. MVNC AWARDED $25,000 GRANT are thought to be homeless. Individuals and churches who would Mount Vernon Nazarene College has The most severe damage to Nazarene like to help may make contributions to been awarded a $25,000 grant from the property also occurred at the Santa the Hunger and Disaster Fund. Be sure GAR Foundation, according to LeBron Cruz church. The quake destroyed the to mark checks for Earthquake Relief. Fairbanks, president. The grant will be used to establish a business scholarship endowment for juniors and seniors who Interested persons should submit The four old campuses will be closed have demonstrated high achievement their name, address, and name of their and sold, while the 120 students and 18 and scholarship in business. local church to the General Secretary, faculty members of those institutions The GAR Foundation is a private Church of the Nazarene, 6401 The will join together in Muldersdrif for charitable trust established in 1967 by Paseo, Kansas City, MO 64131. The classes beginning in March. Galen Roush. Roush was the principal delegation will be selected from names The rustic campus includes well- founder and former chief executive of submitted and notified on or about equipped conference and classroom fa­ Roadway Express, Inc. March 1, 1990. cilities, as well as a furnished dining room, kitchen, and lounge. Multiple buildings located on the site will be DELEGATES NEEDED FOR THEOLOGICAL COLLEGES IN used for student housing. The site also CHA CONVENTION AFRICA MERGE includes recreational fields and facili­ ties, complete with furnishings and The Christian Holiness Association will The four Nazarene Theological Col­ equipment. hold its 122nd national convention at leges in the Republic of South Africa “We thank God for providing us with the Lexington, Ky., Radisson Plaza Ho­ will merge into one campus this month, the opportunity to purchase this unique tel, April 17-19, 1990. B. Edgar John­ according to Ted Esselstyn, missionary facility," said Esselstyn. "Once again son, general secretary, has issued a call coordinator for theological education in we are reminded of the fact that our for 50 volunteer ministers and laymen Africa. The 54-acre site of the new in­ united Nazarene Theological College who would like to serve as delegates stitution is located in Muldersdrif, north has come into being as a college bom for the Church of the Nazarene without of the Johannesburg suburb of Roode- in prayer." expense to the General Board. poort.

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Soaring land CHANGES AFFECT PASTORS prices in Tokyo resulted in the New Social Security (FICA) tax rates church realizing a go into effect January 1. 1990, accord­ gain of more than ing to Dean Wessels, director of the 1,600 percent on Board of Pensions and Benefits USA. this piece of Lay employees will have 7.65 per­ property, which cent of their wages withheld for Social was originally Security (FICA) taxes. The employer purchased for will also pay a matching amount. The $2,500. combined amount of 15.30 percent will be turned in for each employee. These new rules will affect all Naza­ rene churches who employ laymen, said Wessels. However, the minister's situation will be different. Although employed by the local church, elders ALABASTER INVESTMENT PAYS FINAL RESULTS OF FALL EMPHASIS and district-licensed ministers are re­ BIG DIVIDENDS Central Florida. Northeastern Indiana, quired to pay Social Security (SECA) A small house on the outskirts of Georgia, and Kansas City led all the at the self-employment rate. For 1990. Tokyo was one of the first projects pur­ other reporting districts in the U.S.A. the S.S. self-employment rate will be chased by Alabaster funds 40 years and Canada at the conclusion of the fall 15.30 percent. However, the tax laws ago. That $2,500 investment provided a Sunday School emphasis, "Fishers of allow an income tax deduction of 50 retreat center for missionaries to that M en." percent of the self-employment Social country for many years. More recently, Central Florida was the top district in Security tax when filing tax returns for the church had rented the facility to new enrollees, while Northeastern Indi­ the 1990 tax year and thereafter. other mission agencies. When the deci­ ana led in average attendance for the Wessels added that ministers are in­ sion was made to sell the home, it was six weeks. Georgia and Kansas City dividually obligated to pay the Social expected to bring about $300,000 to each led reporting districts in new units. Security tax quarterly, along with esti­ $400,000. Instead, the small, structural­ Overall, 20,513 persons were en­ mated income taxes. He added that ly damaged house sold for more than rolled in Sunday School classes during nearly all local church boards are $4 million. the six weeks, while an average of "helping" their ministerial employees Japanese Nazarenes who had a voice 411,167 attended. Of the 866 new units. with the payment of Social Security in how the money was distributed were 818 were new classes, 23 were satel­ taxes by way of a taxable cash allow­ burdened for the opening of the work lites, and 25 were extension Sunday ance equal to the full amount due. of the denomination in Thailand and School classes. Local churches should follow the in­ decided to provide $l million for those Here are the top districts in the re­ structions found in their copy of IRS efforts. Another $1.5 million was des­ spective categories for the fall empha­ Publication 15. "Circular E— Employ­ ignated for new works in other mission sis. er's Tax Guide." for 1990. areas. The remainder of the money DISTRICT NEW ENROLLEES In another action, Wessels says the went to work in Japan: providing a new 1. Central Florida...... 1.133 IRS has raised the standard mileage gymnasium at Japan Christian Junior 2. Southern F lorida...... 1,072 rate for figuring tax deductions. The College, refurbishing mission homes, 3. D allas...... 1,014 new rate for business use of automo­ and establishing a fund for evangelism 4. Southwestern Ohio ...... 1,013 biles is 25.5 cents per mile for the first and new works for the Japan District. 5. Kansas C ity ...... 804 15,000 miles of business use during the "This love gift to Jesus has indeed year. The new rate is retroactive to Jan­ been returned ‘pressed down and shak­ DISTRICT AVG. ATTENDANCE uary 1, 1989, and can be used for the en together,"’ said Nina Gunter, general 1. Northeastern Indiana...... 9,131 entire 1989 tax year. NWMS director. "In the true spirit of 2. Southwestern O h io ...... 8,883 The increase will affect Nazarene Alabaster, the little seed that was plant­ 3. North Central O hio...... 8.801 pastors who use their cars for church ed so many years ago is growing and 4. Kansas City ...... 8,722 purposes and church boards who spreading around the world." 5. Colorado...... 8,677 reimburse pastors for personal automo­ The denomination's Alabaster Offer­ bile expenses, according to Wessels. ing was established to help with the DISTRICT NEW SS UNITS Wessels adds that every local church building needs of a rapidly growing 1. G eorgia...... 33 in the United States should issue a church. Contributions to the offering Kansas C ity ...... 33 Form W-2 to each of its employees no continue to underwrite the building of 3. Jo p lin ...... 31 later than January 31. 1990. Although new churches and other buildings 4. Colorado...... 30 ministerial and lay employees of a local around the world. 5. Washington Pacific...... 27 church are treated differently for in-

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come tax and Social Security purposes, the IRS has stated clearly that both types of em ployees are to receive a W- 2 by the January 31, 1990, deadline. Questions on these and other benefit- related matters may be directed to the Board of Pensions and Benefits USA, 6401 The P ase o , K an sas C ity, MO 64131-1284; telephone: (816) 333- 7000. ext. 405. Deacons may request MEMO; CHURCH MANAGEMENT No. 12 from the P ensions office to find out more information about their tax status.

Thirty-two persons participated in the Ministry Internship workshop held at the Mississip­ pi District campgrounds. MISSISSIPPI DISTRICT HOLDS MINISTRY INTERNSHIP WORKSHOP how new ministers may be mentored by study was made a requirement. Thirty-two persons attended a Ministry qualified m inisters in a covenant rela­ In the covenant relationship, the new Internship workshop at the Mississippi tionship. pastor and mentor agree on learning District campgrounds, conducted by The workshop was a followup to ac­ goals and objectives, according to Wilbur W. Brannon, Pastoral Ministries tion taken at the 22nd General Assem­ Brannon. The results are reported to the coordinator. The workshop, held in Au­ bly in which supervised field education Ministerial Studies Board, which evalu­ gust. was designed to show participants experience for those in the course of ates their work. "Twenty-seven districts have already College Year Total Under- Graduate FTE* installed this program. Several districts Graduate have seen remarkable changes taking place in young pastors as a result of CNC 1989 99 99 — 53 such a supportive relationship." said 1988 90 90 - Brannon. ENC 1989 912 750 162 830 1988 972 771 201 MANC 1989 1,189 1,161 28 1,262 NAZARENE COLLEGE ENROLLMENT 1988 1,121 1,121 0 SHOWS SLIGHT DECLINE MVNC 1989 1,061 1,061 — 990 Nazarene colleges and universities in 1988 1,087 1,087 — the United States and Canada have re­ ported a total enrollment of 12.442 for NBC 1989 408 408 — 338 the current year, according to Stephen 1988 407 407 — W. Nease, education commissioner for NTS 1989 383 — 383 308 the church. Nease noted that, while this 1988 378 - 378 represents a slight decrease from 1988- NNC 1989 1,133 1,064 69 1,046 89, seven of eleven institutions reported 1988 1,148 1,130 18 enrollments similar to or higher than last year. ONU 1989 1,875 1,609 266 1,659 According to statistics provided by 1988 1,875 1,621 254 each institution. MidAmerica and Point PLNC 1989 2,221 1,837 384 Not Loma reported the largest numerical in­ 1988 2,165 1,854 311 Available creases, with 68 and 56 respectively. Point Loma had the largest total enroll­ SNU 1989 1,402 1,324 78 1,200 ment with 2,221 students. Olivet and 118 1988 1,358 1,240 Trevecca followed with 1,875 and TNC 1989 1,759 1,049 710 1,436 1,759 students respectively. 1988 1,946 1,016 930 "Holiness higher education is alive and well," said Nease. He added that 12,442 10,362 2,081 8,248 TOTAL 1989 enrollment at Nazarene institutions has 1988 12,547 10,337 2,210 increased by 706 during the last decade, *FTE represents full-time equivalency. Figures are not available for 1988. despite sharp decreases at many other colleges and universities.

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VITAL STATISTICS grandchildren; and eight great-grandchil­ EVELYN FORD LEE, 68, McAlester, Ok­ one brother. dren . la., Apr. 1. Survivors: husband, Curtis; LEONARD W. SCHENDEL, 72. Reedley Deaths HARKLESS ESTEP, 76, Ashland, Ky. daughter, Sharon; sons, Elmer and Lindon; Calif., Aug. 9. Survivors: wife, Lillian; sons, Aug. 16. Survivors: six children: Emanuel, 8 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; 2 Ron, David, and Norman; four grandchil­ PAUL BRESEE ALTON, 75, Colton, Calif., Harkless, Jr.. Morton, David, Michael, and brothers; and 4 sisters. d re n . Aug. 18. Survivors: wife, Mildred: sons, Kathy; and 12 grandchildren. EUNICE McCLAIN, 86, Nashville, Tenn.. WILBUR N. SIMMONS, Phoenix, Ariz., Paul David, Bill, and Darrell: daughter, ETHEL MAE GRAY, Lewiston, III., Sept. Aug. 29. Survivors: daughters, Barbara July 31. Survivors: wife, Maxine; daughter, Lelia; six grandchildren; two great-grand­ 27. Survivors: sons, Earl, Gerald, Charles, McClain, Ruth Boothe, Carol Parr; five Carole Sweet; son, Earl Simmons; two sis­ children; two sisters. Arthur, Harry, and Clifford; daughters, grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; ters; and two brothers. ANNIE I. BARTRAM, 89, Milwaukie, Eileen, Carol, and Linda; 34 grandchildren; two sisters. DANELLA “NELL” SMITH, 65, Coalgate. Oreg., June 10. Survivors: husband, Rev. 47 great-grandchildren. H. E. McCULLOUGH, Dallas, Tex., Oct. Okla., July 1. Survivors: husband. James; Percy Bartram; daughters, Gladys Borden FAITH HATHAWAY, 62, Miramar, Calif., 30. Survivors: wife, Glenna; children, sons, Charles and Russell; one sister; and Lois Dikes; six grandchildren; and four Oct. 26. Survivors: husband, Capt. Dudley Melvin McCullough and Nancy Bennett; three brothers; and four grandchildren. great-grandchildren. Hathaway; and children, David Wesley, and five grandchildren. WANDA JEAN SMITH, 26, W illiamsburg, JIM BETZ, 65, Chandler, Ariz., Sept. 21. Daphne Joyce, and Janet Susan. JOHN P. MclNTOSH, 64, Cottonwood, Ind., Sept. 2. Survivors: husband, Richard; Survivors: wife, Letitia; sons, Steve and HELEN LEE HAWKINS, 78, Waldron, Ariz., Aug. 9. Survivors: wife, Mary Ruth; son, Allen Richard; parents, Harold and Stan; and four grandchildren. Ark., Aug. 28. Survivors: husband, Rev. daughters, Cheryl Myers, Denise Murphy; Naoma McGough; and one brother. LYDIA BREDHOLT, 74, Vicksburg, Gilbert Hawkins; sons, Don and George; stepchildren, Sharon Dahler, David Smith, RUTH A. SPIKER, 82, Ephrata. Pa.. Aug. Mich., October 25. Survivors: husband, R. two grandchildren; two brothers; and two Diane Musselmann; 13 grandchildren; and 6. Survivors: husband, G. Thomas “Tom” D. Bredholt, Sr.; sons, Russ and Mark; and s is te rs . 2 great-grandchildren. S pike r. two grandchildren. ALICE J. HOLLIS, 79, Sterling, III., Aug. OLLYE V. MALONE, 85, Pasadena. Tex., ETHEL K. TAYLOR. 78, Donnelly, Minn., IDA C. BRUNKAU, 99, Bethany, Okla., 21. Survivors: husband, Rev. Willard Hol­ Aug. 4. Survivors: daughter, Nelrose Mc­ J u ly 3 0 . May 20. Survivors: husband, Rev. Harrison lis; sons, W. Cavitt, Berton, John; daugh­ Kay; three grandchildren; six great-grand­ BEULAH B. TILLOTSON, 74, Nampa, Brunkau; daughters, Erliene Brunkau, Verla ter, Rosemary; 14 grandchildren; and 11 children; three sisters and one brother. Idaho, Sept. 7. Survivors: husband, Don­ Sullivan, Roma Taylor; nine grandchildren; great-grandchildren. PEARL MARTIN, 86, Denton. Md„ Aug. ald; daughters, LaDonna Readmond and and eight great-grandchildren. CLARA A. HURSH, 90, Springfield, Mo., 28. Carol Manley; four grandchildren: one CHARLES WESLEY CLARK, 48, Des Aug. 28. Survivors: daughters-in-law, TRAVIS MOORE, 63, Pearcy, Ark., May brother; and one sister. Moines, Iowa, Aug. 5. Survivors: wife, Maude Burgess and Joy Lou Hursh; four 12. Survivors: wife, Ethel; sons, James TONY TROXELL, 42, Broken Arrow, Ok­ Jean; daughter, Julie; son, Charles Wesley, grandchildren; and three great-grandchil­ Noah, David Andrew, John Mark; three la., Aug. 27. Survivors: wife, Jan; sons, Jr.; parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Clark; and d ren . brothers, four sisters; and four grandchil­ Brian and Brent; daughter, Ashley. one sister. EDITH MARIE JONES, 72, Corning. d re n . M. CURTIS WALKER, 76, Yuma, Ariz., EMMETT B. (SLICK) DINKINS, 75, Jack­ Calif., Sept. 5. Survivors: husband, Fred; STEPHEN E. RIST, 46, Anthony, Kans., Sept. 22. Survivors: wife, Lois; daughters, sonville, Fla., July 22. Survivors: wife, Al­ son, Bob Jones; daughter, Mary Evelyn; Aug. 16. Survivors: wife, Barbara; son, Sondra Tucker and Margaret Aldridge; four ice; son, Clyde; daughters, Peggy Goff, one sister; nine grandchildren; and nine Steve Rist; parents, Raymond and Clara brothers; two sisters; four grandchildren; Permelia Rogers, Carolyn Dean, and Linda great-grandchildren. Rist; and one brother. and one great-grandchild. Oliver; eight grandchildren; and five great­ ELSIE HOLLOWAY KING, 82, Waverly, ELLA JANE RUSSELL, 59, Lake, Mich., CRAIG S. YATES, 29, Fort W orth, Tex., grandchildren. Tenn., Aug. 9. Survivors: daughters, Janice S e p t. 13. Aug. 30. Survivors: wife, Misty; three EDWARD H. EDWARDS, 88, Los Altos, Holloway and Becky Minix; son, Harold; 8 ASHLEY LAUREN RYCZEK, infant, sons; parents, Rev. and Mrs. Charles Calif., Sept. 19. Survivors: sons, Dick and grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; 1 Kansas City, Mo., Aug 24. Survivors; par­ Yates; and two brothers. Don; daughter, Dorothy Farrand; nine siste r. ents, Tom and Barbara (W illiam) Ryczek;

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Births to PHIL AND AMY (McKEITHEN) ta. Dr. Allen retired after 20 years as pro­ W ILLIAM P. COVEY, from Versailles, Ky., WILLIAMSON, Sulphur Springs, Tex., a fessor at TNC. He also taught at CNC and Huntertown to Huntingburg, Ind. to NEAL AND CRYSTAL AUCKER, boy, Joshua Brandt, Sept. 1 ENBC. Mrs. Allen is retired as principal DARRELL T. COX, from Sheridan, III., to Selinsgrove, Pa., a girl, Janelle Christine, to JEFF AND JOAN (QUANSTROM) clerk from Nashville General Hospital. E rie, III. Sept. 22 WOOD, Grand Rapids, Mich., a boy, Jacob Rev. and Mrs. Claude Chilton celebrated SCO n E. DELBRIDGE, from student, NTS, to RICHARD AND LISA (INGRAM) Allen. Dec. 20 their 50th wedding anniversary at an open to pastor, Grand Coulee, Wash. CHERRY, Arlington, Tex., a girl, Kristin house hosted by their three children and MARTIN DENNIS, from student, TNC, Lanae, Aug. 8 five grandchildren August 12. Nashville, to pastor, Cincinnati, Ohio, to RONNIE AND JILL (JOHNSON) DUN­ Rev. Chilton’s m inistry includes 24 Fgjrfgx CAN, Orlando, Fla., a boy, Bradley Curtis, Marriages years as a military chaplain and 29 years RANDALL S. DILLON, from St. Marys, Pa., Sept. 22 JO ANN BAILEY AND LEONARD EARL as pastor, associate or supply pastor. They to Harrisonville, W.Va. to MARK AND PEGGY (JOUSMA) McCALLUM at Walla Walla, Wash., July 1 are currently members at Glendale, Ariz., CHARLES GAMES, from student, NBC, JOHNSON, Lowell, M ich., a girl, Lisa SUSAN FAYE FECHNER AND DARRIK Colorado Springs, to pastor, Ellisville, First Church. Marie, Sept. 13 ALAN ACRE at Bethany, Okla., June 10 III. to CHRISTOPHER AND TONI (NORRIS) ELIZABETH GRACE REAM AND JOHN GEOFFREY S. GUNTER, from Longview, DAVISON, Bluffton, Ind., a boy, Christo­ MARK WILSON at Oklahoma City, Okla., Tex., to Junction City, Kans., First pher Todd II, Sept. 1 S e p t. 3 0 FOR THE RECORD RONALD P. HATFIELD, from education, to JIM AND DANA (HAUSERMAN) JODY LYNN SORENSON AND KELLY Leeward/Virgin Islands to pastor, Eliza­ KERR, O lathe, K a n s., a g irl, J a d h k e n E d ­ DEAN SCHWARTZ at Red Deer, Alberta, Moving Ministers beth, W.Va. ward, Sept. 15 J u ly 29 DANIEL M. ARNOLD, from Des Moines, PHILIP J. HEAP, from Stillwater, Okla., to JACK AND SHERREE (SMITH) Iowa, Southside to Burlington, Iowa First, to Harlingen, Tex., First KISER, a girl, M a ris s a Je n e l, S e p t. 17 DAVID R. BAGBY, from pastor, Forest City, BOB D. HUFFAKER, from Hereford, Tex., to to DAVID AND CHONDA PIERCE, Smyr­ N.C., to student, Duke University Grove City, Ohio na, Tenn., a boy, David Zachary, Sept. 6 Anniversaries JAMES F. BATESON, from Dayton, Ohio, RAYMOND L. JONES, from Warren Chapel, to PHILLIP AND JULIE (HINKLE) ROSS, Dr. and Mrs. E. Drell Allen of Port West Acres to Dayton, Ohio, Grace Tex., to Winchester, Tenn. Barrington, III., a girl, Ruth Lynn, Sept. 3 Richey, Fla., were honored on their 50th WAYNE BELL, from pastor, Prescott, Ark., CHARLES L. LAMBERT, Sr., from Loudoun to REV. RON AND HEATHER SCHER- wedding anniversary at a reception given First to Evangelism Valley, Va., to Farmville, Va. MERHORN, Seaford, Del., a boy, Benjamin by their sons, Marshall and David Allen, BRYON W. BROWN, from student, SNU, MARK LEUELLAN, from associate, Orange, Tyler, Sept. 15 August 5. The Allens were presented with Bethany, Okla., to pastor, Hamlin, Tex. Calif., to associate, Westminister, Calif., to REV. JEFF AND JOYCE (HARDY) two large scrapbooks containing cards, ROBERT BUCHANAN, from Huntingburg, C o m m u n ity WATTERS, W e stchester, III., a boy, J o s h u a letters, and pictures from acquaintances Ind., to Columbus, Ind., Calvary KYLE McGRAW, from associate, Lakeview Jason Deane, A ug. 12 representing each decade of their married RICHARD L. CHAMBERS, from Chester, Park, Okla., to student, SNU, Bethany, to TIM AND ROXANNE (KREIE) W IL­ life. W.Va., to Congo, W.Va. O kla. HITE, Council Bluffs, Iowa, a boy, Dr. and Mrs. Allen held pastorates in LARRY C. COLEMAN, to pastor, Ritzville, DWIGHT E. MEAD, from student to pastor, Jonathan Ryan, S ept. 8 Michigan, Missouri, Canada, and Minneso­ W a sh . Farmington, III.

Hugo pacted by this disaster. Much of this candles for several days. They almost Continued from was money given on faith that Naza­ went bonkers. But when the lights page 5 renes would see the need and provide came back on one person said, ‘I feel contributions to help cover the costs. like I’m born again.’” Prescott added Compassionate “Money is still the best thing per­ that one church used a generator do­ Ministries went to sons can send to help these people,” nated by Compassionate Ministries work with haste, says Steve Weber, Nazarene Compas­ to power its church sign for several making contacts sionate Ministries coordinator. “Per­ hours each night just to serve as a bea­ with other agencies that might be able sons may send their contributions to con to those in need in the commu­ to help provide relief to our people af­ the Nazarene Hunger and Disaster nity. “It served as a way of telling their fected by the storm. One example of Fund marked for Hurricane Hugo neighbors that the church was a place the outcome was the donation of a Relief. One hundred percent of every­ where they could Find comfort,” Pres­ month’s worth o f free shipping by a thing that is received will go toward cott explained. company in Florida to provide assis­ providing assistance to the people Nazarenes can be justifiably proud tance to the people of St. Croix. At who are rebuilding their lives, which of the way their denomination and its press time, two containers Filled with were changed by this terrible storm.” individual members responded in the building supplies and household One sidelight on the situation in wake of Hugo. The Church of the items had been shipped. Carolina that should be mentioned in Nazarene showed itself to be a beacon Hugo may have been overshad­ closing is the affect the power outage in a darkness created by nature’s owed by the Northern California had on people. “Darkness affected forces. Hugo brought out Nazarenes earthquake of October 17, but the people the most,” says Bob Prescott. at their best. It showed them as an ac­ needs of the people of South Carolina “When the power went out, much of tive part of Christ’s caring, reconcil­ continue to exist. Officials estim ate the ordinary noise that we take for ing community on earth. ^ that it will take at least two years for granted stopped in Charleston—there South Carolina to recover to full nor­ was only darkness and silence. There malcy. The hard-hit islands may take was no TV, no radio, and, with the longer. Almost $100,000 has been curfew, there was no one on the Nazarene Compassionate Ministries is a ser­ vice of the W orld Mission and Church Growth di­ committed by the ch u rch ’s H unger streets. The people were largely pris­ visions. It is funded through General Budget giving and Disaster Fund to assist those im­ oners in their own homes with only and donations.

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JAMES J. MINDLING, from student, NTS, MRS. CAROLYN MYATT. India, Field ad­ NEWS OF RELIGION Kansas City to pastor, Norristown, Pa. dress: Reynolds Memorial Hospital, GARY L. MORGAN, from Eaton, Ohio, First Washim, Akola District, Maharashtra to Cincinnati, Ohio, Norwood 444 505, India Most Students Are Church Members, GLENDLE RAINS, from Ropesville, Tex., to MISS LOUS R0SBRUGH, Swaziland, Field but Attendance Is Sporadic Shiloh, Tex. address: P.O. Box 14, Manzini, Swazi­ KENNETH G. RICE, from Pittsburgh, Pa.. land Two-thirds of America’s college students say they are Lincoln Place to Portsmouth, Va. DR. RUTH SAXON, Trinidad, Field address: church members, but only comparatively few will be ac­ RUSSELL A. RITCHIE, from pastor, Benton P.O. Box 1245, Port of Spain, Trinidad, City, Wash., to student, NTS, Kansas City W .l. tive in campus religious organizations or will attend wor­ SCOTT M. SCUTT, from Port Huron, Mich., REV. KURT and SUSAN SCHMIDLIN. Chile, ship services weekly, according to a recent survey released No. Hills to Saginaw, Mich., Central Field address: Casilla 744, Antofagasta, by the Princeton Religion Research Center. HOUSTON E. THOMPSON, from pastor, C hile Muncy, Pa., Twin Hills to associate, New REV. MIKE and JULIE SHALLEY, South The on-campus survey conducted in October 1988, Albany, Ind., First West Africa. Field address: P.O. Box shows that membership in a church or synagogue was LAVERNE D. WILSON, from Sikeston, Mo„ 23037, Windhoek 9000, Namibia, South claimed by 67% of the college students. At the same time First to Esther-Flat River, Mo. West Africa JAMES SHEARER, student, NBC, Colorado MR WILLIAM and SHERRILL WAGNER. only 34% of those students reported attending at least Springs, to pastor, Sheridan, III. South Africa (ACC), Furlough address: weekly. An additional 18% said they attended monthly, JAMES WEST, from McCoy, La., to Dallas, 254 Honeysuckle, Casper, WY 82604 Tex., Lake June while 25% attended only sporadically throughout the year. CLAUDE D. WILSON to Spring Valley, Ind. Twenty-three percent said they almost never attended wor­ ship services. In recent years, Gallup Surveys have found RECOMMENDATIONS that about 40% of adults in general attend worship ser­ Moving Missionaries The following have been recommended by their respective district superintendents: MR. BRIAN and CAROL BETT.‘ Papua New vices in any given week. REV. DAVID FULKS, JR., evangelist, by Guinea, Field address: P.O. Box 456, Mt. Herbert L. Rogers, Central Ohio District. Young women in college were more likely than young Hagen, WHP, Papua New Guinea REV. C. LEE GAMBLIN, evangelist, by REV. RUSSELL and THELMA BRUNT, men to attend services (39% to 30%), while attendance de­ Forrest E. Whitlatch, Iowa District. Trinidad, Furlough address: 1107 Del clined among upperclassmen (30%) in comparison to that REV. TIMOTHY B. HANCOCK, revivalist. Norte Circle, Pascagoula, MS 39567 415 South Edgewood Rd., Mount Vernon. of freshmen and sophomores (36%). The survey also re­ REV, GEOFFREY and JEANNE BURGES,* OH 43050; (614)397-8117, by Jack R. Australia, Furlough address: c/o R, Lea- veals that “A” students (43%) generally attended more of­ Archer, North Central Ohio District. man, 4227 SW 315th Street, Federal DR. J. WILMER LAMBERT, evangelist, ten than “B” (30%) or “C” (35%) students. Way, WA 98003 by Herbert L. Rogers. Central Ohio District. REV. ROBERT and MYRNA DIPERT, Papua REV. JUDITH STEENSLAND, evangelist, New Guinea, Furlough address: c/o Pet- 407 S. 5th, Apt, 120, Ames, IA 50010, by Supreme Court Allows RICO to Be Used terson, RR #1, Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Forrest E. Whitlatch, Iowa District. Against Pro-Lifers TOM 120, Canada CANDICE WILEY, evangelist/youth evan­ REV. LEE and CAROL EBY,* Papua New gelist, 1412 Central Circle, Olathe. KS The Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act Guinea, Field address: P.O. Box 416, Mt. 66061; (913)782-3712, by Forrest E. W hit­ Hagen, WHP, Papua New Guinea (RICO), intended to help crack down on organized crime, latch, Iowa District. may be used against pro-life organizations, the U.S. REV. DAVID and CAR0LITA FRALEY, France. Field address: 18, avenue du Supreme Court has ruled. The court refused to overturn a Bois Bataille, 78450 Villepreux, France lower court ruling that abortion protesters in Philadelphia REV. JEREMIAH and LYCIA GRANT,* Zim­ DIRECTORIES were liable for damages to an abortion clinic that the babwe, Furlough address: P.O. Box BOARD OF GENERAL SUPERINTEN­ 324023, Kansas City, M 0 64132 DENTS — Office: 6401 The Paseo, Kansas protesters had been trying to force out of business. That DR. JOHN and NATALIE H0LSTEAD, Hong City, M0 64131. Eugene L. Stowe, chair­ ruling ordered 26 members of the Pro-Life Coalition of Kong, Field address: 1 Sugar Street man; Raymond W. Hurn. vice chairman: Southeastern Pennsylvania to pay $108,000 in fines and 20/Floor, Causeway Bay Commercial John A. Knight, secretary; Jerald D. John­ Bldg., Causeway Bay, Hong Kong son, Donald D. Owens, W illiam J. Prince. legal fees to the Northeast Women’s Center. REV. MERLIN and ALICE HUNTER,* Israel, Because the court’s action merely let a lower court rul­ Field address: P.O. Box 1567, 16000 GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS EMERI­ Nazareth.Israel ing stand, the case has no official application outside T U S : Samuel Young, 5639 W. 92nd PL, REV. RICHARD and JEAN KNOX, Thailand, Overland Park, KS 66207; George Coulter, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Other cases in­ Field address: 121 Sol 3, Seri 6, 9310 Canterbury, Leawood, KS 66206; V. volving application of RICO statutes to abortion groups Ramkhamhaeng 26, Bangkok 10250, H. Lewis, 1406 Cambridge, Olathe, KS T h a ila n d 66062; Orville W. Jenkins, 2309 W. 103rd are pending and may provide an opportunity for the court MR. RALPH and BETH McCLINTOCK, St., Leawood. KS 66206; W illiam M. to rule on the issue, —ep Namibia. Furlough address: 153 Toma- Greathouse. 12203 W 99th Terr., Lenexa, gene Drive, Bourbonnais, IL 60914 KS 6 6 2 1 5 Con Man Uses Money Order to Dupe Churches The Sacramento Fraudulent Documents Bureau has issued a warning to churches about a new scam in which some­ ANNOUNCEMENT one posing as a minister asks a church to hold a sum of money in trust for a relative who is to be released from The 1989 Manual of the Church of the Nazarene has prison soon. In at least one case, the church agreed, after now been published and is available to our people; there­ which a money order for $12,000 was sent to the church fore all provisions of this Manual become effective as of and deposited in their bank account. Fortunately, the pas­ tor was suspicious and investigated. He discovered that the this date, January 1, 1990. money order was actually issued for $12.00. Later, the con man called and asked for the money to be Eugene L. Stowe, Chairman returned to him since the relative would not be coming to Board of General Superintendents their area. Instead, the pastor called the police.

36 Herald of Holiness CHRISTENSEN RESIGNS and outreach at Orangewood FROM GOLDEN GATE Church of the Nazarene in Michael J. Christensen, Phoenix, Ariz., for the past founding pastor and director nine years. She is a certified of Golden Gate C om m unity teacher of the Evangelism and Golden Gate Compas­ Explosion School and serves sionate M inistries in San as Southwest Region Person­ Francisco, has resigned from al Evangelism coordinator his daily responsibilities with for the Church of the Naza­ those ministries. Christensen, rene. She and her husband, WINTER HAVEN CHURCH Quayle that the Church of the who founded Golden Gate Willard, live in Chandler, CELEBRATES FIRST Nazarene prayed for him of­ Ministries more than eight Ariz. YEAR ON TV ten. The vice president ex­ years ago, plans to remain in Winter Haven, Fla., First pressed thanks, adding, “I the San Francisco area and Church of the Nazarene cele­ believe in the power of continue serving as an AIDS brated its first anniversary on prayer." ministry chaplain. Fie also national television in August. plans to devote time to writ­ The church began televising ing, sp eakin g, c o n s u ltin g , an edited version of its morn­ and program development. ing service in 1988 and the Pictured (I. to r.): Sue K in­ program, called “The Excit­ zler. Clarence Kinzler, ing Life," is being carried by Northern California District the Christian Television Net­ superintendent; Christensen work, according to Charles and R ebecca L aird C h ris ­ NAZARENE RECEIVES L. Kirby, senior pastor. tensen are honored at Golden TEACHING AWARD Pictured: Warren Brown, Gate’s 8th anniversary Vision Charles Downing, biology director (seated) and Darrel FIRST SOUTHEAST ASIAN Banquet last fall. teacher at Monte Vista High Gash, executive producer of ORDAINED IN U.S. School in Spring Valley, “The Exciting Life,” in the Ung Ty, pastor of the New Calif., received the Exem­ church’s production studio. Life Church of the Nazarene plary Secondary Teaching in Long Beach, Calif., was Award at the National Sci­ ordained in 1989, becoming ence Teachers Association in PASTOR MEETS VICE the first Southeast Asian in Seattle, April 8, 1989. PRESIDENT the United States to become Downing, who serves as Charles E. Bullock, senior an elder in the church. Ty (shown here with his wife, DeLONG TAKES NEW Christian Life chairman and pastor of the Torrance, Calif., ASSIGNMENT church board secretary at Community Church of the Susan) was ordained on the Ruth V. D eLong has joined Spring Valley Church of the Nazarene, had the honor of Anaheim District by Eugene the staff of Norman Moore Nazarene, received the award meeting Vice President Dan L. Stowe, general superinten­ Ministries as Personal Evan­ in recognition of creativity Quayle last fall during a dent. gelism coordinator and D e­ and effectiveness in teaching meeting at which the vice Ty was converted three velopment associate. De- techniques. His program president spoke. Bullock told years ago and began working Long. an ordained deacon includes a series of with the New Life Church and commissioned Christian biology exercises soon after. Within the first education di­ called “Cranial Cre­ year attendance reached 500, rector, has ations," designed to and now approximately served as the encourage critical 1,200 are present each week minister of thinking while incor­ in one of three Sunday e v a n g e lis m porating skills gener­ School and worship sessions. ally relegated to art, English, and mathmath. * *■ * Send your items for A A ETCETERA ... to the Her- A aid o f H oliness, 6401 L j 1 H ™ A g W k jfl The Paseo’ Kansas

January 1990 37 WORDS AND MUSIC

Reviews of recently released books and music

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, EVERYDAY STRENGTH, Randy musicals that sound rich and full, yet Albert L. Truesdale, Beacon Hill Press of Becton, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, are quite managable vocally for the Kansas City, Kansas City, 1990, 108 pp. 1989, 157 pp., HH080-100-9758 $6.95 average choir. HH083-411-3287 $5.95 Cancer patients Behold the Man is in the tradition share a bond of o f another great A MATTER OF As Herald of Holi­ ness editor Wes doubt, despair, and Linn work. Call Him Tracy says, "At depression that ac­ Jesus. It is a T ruesdale’s book is companies their di­ narrator-based cho­ not one you pick up agnosis. Randy Bec­ ral commentary on ton has provided a t h e m eaning of to read during the A Cancer Patient'» Guide halftime break on U) Spiritual Survnwt devotional guide of Easter. Not a chro- Monday Night Foot­ 33 meditations and ball.” prayers designed to offer strength and Indeed. A Matter of Life and Death comfort to those living with cancer. moves through such topics as the is n o t exactly leisure reading. It is, Each meditation focuses on a specific blood, the Cross, the rejection of however, a consuming look at the life topic and closes with a simple prayer, Christ by way of familiar hymns such as: and death issues generated by ad­ (“And Can It Be?” “On the Cross of vances in medical science. Many of us Father, Calvary”), past favorites (“Lamb of don’t fully understand the impli­ Fear haunts me Glory,” “Behold the Man”), and As an enemy. cations of the rapid advances being newer selections (“He’s the Lord of made in medical technology today, Your perfect love Glory” and “We Shall Overcome”). but in varying degrees, each of us will Drives my fear out. The part-writing is fairly easy and log­ W arm me someday deal with the questions ical (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) with raised by Truesdale. With your secure presence. many unison passages. Narration by My security comes one or more persons does not attempt Only recently, advances in bio­ In full trust to dramatize the story but rather to technology have made possible sur­ In your trustworthiness. rogate motherhood, easy abortion, highlight the meaning of the songs. A cancer patient himself, the writer You don’t need a huge production to genetic engineering, and the exten­ knows firsthand the assault cancer pull this off either. sion of life by extraordinary means. makes on the human spirit. These possibilities have created a new The range of styles in music is Becton’s primary purpose is to good. You are led from Bach to dimension of moral dilemma—bio­ equip the sufferer with the emotional Crouch without any apparent incon­ ethics. and spiritual strength necessary to gruity. There are some places (these Truesdale, who is dean and pro­ battle the disease—strength that can may be noted in the full written score, fessor of philosophy of religion and be gained only from the believer’s which was not available at the time of Christian ethics at Nazarene Theolog­ source of hope and peace—God’s this writing) that allow for some ical Seminary, boldly confronts the Word. meaningful congregational participa­ questions surrounding bioethics. Christians experiencing cancer and tion, such as in the praise choruses What is “meaningful” life? Must phy­ cancer treatment should have this “He’s the Lord of Glory” and “We sicians do all they are capable of do­ book within easy reach. Shall Overcome.” Teach them to your ing to save life, regardless of the qual­ —Judi Perry people a few weeks ahead of the musi­ ity of that life? Who has the right to cal and watch their eyes light up when make those decisions? BEHOLD THE MAN, Joseph Linn, you arrive at these moments! Pro­ The questions are endless, and arranger; Lillenas Publishing Company, vision is made at the end for an invi­ Truesdale reminds us that there are 44 pp., HHME-40 $4.95 tation. Length of the musical is 30 to no easy answers. He sojourns with the Last year Easter came so early that 35 minutes. reader through the immutable truth many churches and publishers were Use of drama is possible in such a of human suffering, and the journey led to consider works that were short work as this, but you are on your own. is a learning process. He presents the and easily performable. This year That’s OK, because many times a issues, but makes few judgments. Easter is a little farther from Christ­ budding playright in your congrega­ Some readers will see this as a weak­ mas, but if you haven’t yet chosen tion can add just the right touch for ness in the book—for me it was the your Easter music by now, “easily per­ your presentation. Believe it or not, it sign of a deep commitment to truth. formable” may still apply for you. Jo­ really is permissible to alter a musical — Bonnie Perry seph Linn is a master at creating work from its printed version, adding

38 Herald of Holiness or deleting songs and rewriting drama or narration as needed. Just don’t “Xerox” the parts or edit the scrip­ tures. and you'll be all right! Exalting the Christ of Easter 1 missed seeing some scored oppor­ tunities for solo or duet work. That BEHOLD THE MAN again is not the end of the world, be­ Joseph Linn brings the style and format of cause passages that may be meant his best-selling Christmas cantata, Call for choir could just as easily be picked Him Jesus, to the Easter Season. Ar­ ranged in flexible 4-part hymnal style Be­ up by one o f your strong voices as a hold the M an can be sung by full SATB solo with the choir not singing or just choir or adapted to any size group, no “ooo" ing in the background. Here matter how limited their resources. Cur­ again, fit the score to your own musi­ rent favorites, gospel songs, and standard cal tastes and needs. hymns are combined with narration to present a warm and powerful picture of Easter, unlike Christmas, which Christ as Lamb, Lord of Glory, and living tends to carry us through several Savior. Titles include: "Behold the Man ”; weeks of m usic and celebration, is a “Lamb of Glory "; “And Can It Be?” “Hes singular event on the church calen­ the Lord of Glory"; “The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power"; “O Sacred Head. Now dar. It should be planned with great Wounded”; "Nobody Cared"; more. care, using only the “finest ingredi­ HHME-40 Book $4.95 ents.” Behold the Man should very h h t a -91120 Stereo Cassette $8.98 well be considered as a tool for lead­ h h l -91 12c Choral Director’s ing your people into the worship of Preview Pack $5.00 (Limit 1 per church) the Man who is a “risen in glory, com­ ing to reign.” ^ h h m u -91 12c Accompaniment Cassette $55.00 —Harlan Moore (A composer and ar­ h h m e -40 s f Service Folders $6.00/100 ranger. M oore is m inister of m usic at Orchestration Available Nashville. Tenn.. First Church of the Naz­ arene. ) Order toll-free from your NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE

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January 1990 39 FRANK. RICHARD A.: Titusville. FL (First), Jan. 3. NBC. 5-7; Wray, CO, 8-11; Richmond, VA (District Trinidad, 5-30 Revival), 13-15; Lakewood. CO (Denver Lake­ GARDNER, JOHN M.: Tampa. FL (Westside). Jan wood), 15-18; El Paso, TX (First), 21-25; Canton, 9-14; Auburndale. FL, 16-21: Dade City. FL (Cha­ OH (First). 27— Mar. 4; Loveland, CO. 7-11; pel ot Hills), 23-28; Tampa, FL (Town and Coun­ Hemet. CA. 14-18: Chino. CA (First) 28— Apr * try). 31— Feb. 4: Belleview, FL, 6-11; Jamaica. MANN, THURL & MARY KAY: West Palm Beach FL 20— Mar. 4; Hampton, VA, 13-18: Knox. PA (Faith). (First). Jan. 17-21. Miami, FL (Central), 23-28; 20-25; Easton, MO, 27— Apr. 1 Anniston, AL, 31— Feb. 4; Ashland, KY (Grace). GAWTHORP, WAYLAND W.: Marksville. LA. Feb 7-11; Springfield, IL (Trinity), 14-18; Urbana, IL 20-25; Lexington, AL (Mary's Chapel), 27—Mar (Faith), Champaign Zone indoor Camp, 21-25: EVANGELISTS’ SLATES 4; Montgomery City. MO. 13-18 Pittsfield. IL. 27— Mar 4 Joliet, IL (First), Joliet GREEN. JAMES S ROSEMARY: Auckland. New Zea­ Zone Holiness Convention, 7-11; Elkhart. IN land, Jan. 3-7; Brisbane. Australia, 8-12; Three (First). 14-18; Rising Sun, IN, 21-25: Manteno. IL. Rivers, Ml, 21; Sanford, FL (First), 28: Largo, FL 28— Apr 1 (Seminole 1 st), Feb. 4; Naples. FL, 7-11 Bethany, MARLIN, BEN F.: Largo. FL (Seminole First). Feb. 4; ARMSTRONG, LEON, LINDA, A LANCE: Florida Con­ CERRATO. ROBERT J.: Macomb. IL. Mar 6-11; Se- OK (Williams Memorial), 28— Mar. 4; Selma, IN Fort Lauderdale (Faith). 6-’ 1: West Columbia. SC cert Tour, Jan. 30— Feb. 11; Orangeburg, SC dalia, MO. 20-25* (Harris Chapel), 28— Apr 1 (First). 2 8 -M a r 4 (First), 13-18; Greensboro, NC (Southeast), CHAMBERS. LEON A MILDRED: Vicksburg. MS GRIMES, W. ANDREW: Rockford, IL (Samuelson Rd). MAY, JOHN W.: WMTC Radio (Vancleve, KY). Radio 20-25; Chicago Heights. IL 27— Mar. 4; Creve (First). Jan. 12-14; Cleveland, MS (First), Feb. Mar. 27— Apr. 1 Revival. Feb. 19-23; Bruceton Mills. WV (Lay Re­ Coeur, IL 7-11; Canton, IL (Maples Mill), 13-18; 6-11; Somerset, KY (Lake Cumberland). Mar. HAINES, GARY: Tulare. CA (Wayside), Jan 6-10; treat). 24-25; Wheeling, WV (Mar-Win). 2 7 -M a r Princeton, IL, 20-25; Sandwich, IL. 27— Apr. 1 13-18 Modesto. CA (First), 12-14 4, Werner Robins. GA (First), 6-11, New Cum­ BAGGETT, DALLAS W.: Vero Beach. FL IFirst), Jan. CHASE. FRANK: Phoenix. AZ. Mar. 2-11;* Holbrook. HARRINGTON. F MILTON: West Sacramento. CA. berland, WV, 16-18: Bloomington, IN (First). 25-29 14: Lake Placid, FL Feb 13-18 AZ (First). 20-25 Jan. 7-21 McCORKLE, ROBERT: Marysville, OH, Jan. 24-28: BAKER. RICHARD C.: Clendenin. WV (Quick), Feb CHEATWOOD. HENRY B.: Medford. OK. Mar. 13-18; HAYNES, CHARLES & MYRT: Whiting. IN (Rob- Sioux City, IA (First). Feb 9-11 27 -M a r. 4; Newell, WV (Glendale), 13-18; Eliza­ Cedar Falls, IA, 20-25; Scott City, KS. 27— Apr, 1 ertsdale), Jan. 16-21; Geneva, FL, Feb 5-11; McGEE. JERRY E.: Brooksville FL. Jan 7-* 1 Punta beth City, NC. 20-25; Dunbar. WV. 27— Apr 1 CLAY, D. E.: Laurinburg, NC. Mar 14-18; Havelock, Winslow, IN, 20-25: Chesterton. IN. 27— Mar. 4; Gorda, FL. 21-25; Brunswick. GA (First). 28-31 BALLARD, DON: Houston, MS (Pearson Chapel), NC, 21-25: North Ridgeville. OH (Calvary Ridge). Owensboro. KY (First). 13-18: Casey. IL. 20-25; Greensboro, NC. Feb. 4-8 * Bradenton. FL (Bay- Feb. 21-25; Morrilton, AR, Mar. 7-11; Millington. 27— Apr. 1 Mount Carmel. IL (First). 27— Apr 1 shore). 11-15; Clayton, NC. 18-22;* Virginia TN, 14-18; Pelham. TN (Chapman's Chapel), CLAY, M. E.: Huntington. WV (Central). Mar 6-11; HELMS. MIKE A GLORIA: Jacksonville, FL (Faith), Beach, VA (Tidewater Centra!). 25— Mar 1: Stu­ 21-25 Bluefield. WV (First), 13-18; Alderson, WV, 20-25 Jan, 9-14; Port St. Joe, FL (First), 23-28; Cairo, arts Draft, VA (Good Shepherd), 4-8: Richmond. BELZER, DAVE A BARBARA: Deming, NM. Jan. COVINGTON. NATHAN A.: Locust Grove. OK. Jan. GA. 30— Feb. 4; Gadsden. AL (East Gadsden), VA (Southside), Zone Camp Meeting, 11-15: 30— Feb 4; Cle Elum. WA 20-25; Green River, 2-7; Sublette, KS, 9-14; Kilgore. TX. 16-21: 6-11. Knoxville. TN (Faith). 13-18; Indianapolis. IN Greensboro, NC (Zone Camp Meeting). 18-22: WV. 2 7 -M a r 4: Craig. MO, 6-13; Udall. KS. Shreveport. LA (First) 23-28; Mount Pleasant, (Eagledale). 20-25; Hoisington, KS, Mar. 6-11; Augusta. GA (First). 25-29 14-18; Minong, Wl, 20-25; Fairfield, IA, 2 7 - TX, 30— Feb. 4; Deridder, LA, 13-18; Mountain Council Bluffs, IA (Community), 13-18; Hartford MELICK, RANDY: Gladstone. MO. Jan, 7; Shawnee, Apr. 1 Grove. MO, 20-25; Shawnee, OK, 27— Mar. 4; City, IN (Olive Branch), 20-25; Goshen. IN, KS. 14;* Mexico, MO, 21: Kansas City. KS (Rain­ BENDER FAMILY, TIM: Indianapolis, IN (Southport), Yuma, CO, 7-11: Knoxville. IA. 13-18. Waldron. 27— Apr 1 bow Boulevard), Mar. 4: Cameron, MO. 11: Mar­ Feb 21-25; Scottsboro, AR, Mar. 20-25; AR (First). 20-25 HICKS, JOHN DAVID: Prineville. OR. Jan. 10-14, shall. MO, 18 Charleston, WV (Campbells Creek), 27— Apr. 1 CRANDALL. VERNON A BARBARA: Bisbee. AZ. Jan. Othello. WA. 17-21, Camas. WA. 24-28: Norwalk, MEREDITH, DWIGHT & NORMA JEAN: St. Marys BLYTHE, ELLIS G.: Deltona, F L Jan. 2-7; Concord, 16-21; Laurel, MS, Feb 13-18; Marlow. OK, Mar, CA. 31 — Feb. 4; Pasadena. CA (Bresee Avenue), OH (First), Mar 13-18 NC (New Life), 23-28; Auburn, IN, Mar. 6-11; 6-11 7-11, Sacramento, CA: (Cordova), 14-18; (Arden), MEYER. VIRGIL A DOROTHY: Venezuela Work and Ravenswood, WV, 13-18 DALE, TOM: Huntington. WV (First), Jan. 3-7: Logan. 2*-25: Eugene, OR (Fairfield). 28— Mar. 4: West­ Witness. Jan. 15-28 and Revival 29— Feb 4 BOICOURT, MARLA J.: Portage, IN (First), Jan. 28: WV, 10-14; Lamoni, IA, 17-21;' Crescent City, CA, minster. CA (Community). 7-11; Salem, OR MIZ MAUDIE MINISTRIES: Women’s Retreat ICan- Wray, CO, Feb. 1-4: Defiance, OH, Mar. 20-25 Feb 4-8: Idaho Falls. ID, 25: North Bend. OR (Bay (South). 14-18; Escondido. CA (First). 21-25. ada Pacific District), Feb. 23-25; (Birmingham, BOND, GARY A BETH: Moultrie, GA (First), Jan. Area), Mar 7-11; Newberg, OR, 18; Canada: Ed­ Yorba Linda. CA (Faith Community), 28— Apt 1 AL), Mar. 9-10 10-14; Baton Rouge, LA (First), 30— Feb. 4; Car­ monton (Southside), 20-25; Red Deer (West HIGGINS. CHARLES 8 MARJORIE: Taft. CA (West MONCK, JIM: Glendora. CA, Jan. 7: Elkhart. KS. Feb rollton, TX. 7-11; Bloomington, IN (First), 13-18; Park), 27— Apr, 1 Hills), Jan. 4-11; Caldwell, ID (Canyon Hill), 14-18; 7-11; Vero Beach, FL (First), 21-25; Tillamook. Tyler. TX (Lakeview), 24— Mar. 4 Dayton, OH DANIELS, M. BERT: New Zealand District, Jan 1-31; Eureka, CA (First), 28— Feb. 1, Napa, CA. 4-8: OR. Mar. 7-11: Grand Ronde, OR, 14-18- An­ (First), 7-11; Fayette, OH. 14-18; Flint Ml (Cen­ Kualapuu, HI (Molakai) Feb. 2 4 Lahaina, HI San Diego. CA (Penasquitos). 11-15; Prescott, napolis, MD, 21-25; Hartford City, IN, 27— Apr 1 tral). 20-25; Roseville. Ml (Metropolitan). 28— (Maui) 6-11. Central Florida NIROGA. 26— Mar. 3: AZ, 18-22; Elko. NV, Mar. 4-8; La Grande, OR. MOSS, UDELL: Lewisvilie. TX. Jan, 2-7; Fort Worth. Apr. 1 Many, LA. 11-14 11-15; Moscow. ID, 19-25: Snohomish, WA TX (Haltom City), 9-14; Kingsville, TX, 23-28: Cor­ BOQUIST, DOUG A DEBBIE: Tulsa, OK (Central), Jan. DELL JIMMY: Phoenix. AZ (Monte Vista), Jan 7; (Clearview), 27— Apr. 1 pus Christi (Flour Bluff). 30— Feb. 4: Ruston. LA, 5-7: Denton. MD, 10-14; Huntington. IN (First), Oakdale, CA, 13-17; Denair, CA (Turlock), 18-21; JOHNSON, RON: Concerts: Jan. 3-21. 28-31, Feb. 4 6-11; DeLand. FL. 27— Mar. 4; Greeneville. TN, 17-21; Philadelphia District NYI Convention, Clovis, NM (First). 24-28: Livermore. CA (Vine­ JONES. GRACE L: MEXICO. Jan. 1 -M a r 31 6-11: Benton. IL (First), 20-25: Poplar Bluff. MO 26-27; Warren, OH (First), Feb. 2-6; Worthington, yard Community), Feb. 4-7; Atascadero, CA, 8-11; KEENA, EARL E.: Pakuranga, Auckland. NEW ZEA­ (First). 27—Apr 1 OH (Columbus Northwest), 7-11; Indiana, Heri­ Sacramento, CA (North), 13-18; Chanute. KS, LAND, Jan. 13— Feb. 4; Culver, OR, 11-18; Lov- MYERS, HAROLD L.: Lake Mary. FL (First). Jan. tage Christian School (Spiritual Emphasis Week), 21-25: Kennewick, WA. Mar 3-7; Manhattan, KS, ington, NM, Mar 4-11 16-21; Winter Park, FL. 24-28: New Port Richey. 12-16;* Ludington, Ml, 22-25; Battle Creek. Ml 8-11;* Portsmouth, OH (First), 14-18; Ponca City KRATZER, RAYMOND C.: Pomeroy WA. Mar 21-25 FL (Trinity), Feb. 6-11. Tampa. FL (Forest Hills), (First), 28— Mar 4; St. Bernice, IN (First), 7-11; (St Luke's). 24-28; Texarkana, AR (First). LaSALLE, RAY: Riverton, KS (Galena Parkhill). Jan 13-18: Arcadia. FL (First) 20-25: Largo, f l . Reed City, Ml (First), 14-18: Big Rapids. Ml. 20-25 29— Apr 1 17-21; New Matamoras, OH, 23-28; Sumter, SC 28— Mar. 4; Bartow. FL (First). 6-11; Valdosta, GA BOWDEN, AL: Pori Charlotte, FL Feb. 13-18; Pinellas DENNIS, JAMES: Garfield Heights. OH (Cleveland (First), 31— Feb. 4; Okeechobee, FL. 6-11; Joplin, (First). 20-25 Park, FL 20-25 Garfield Heights). Jan. 20-21 MO (Calvary), 13-18: Dayton, OH (Northridge), OYLER. CALVIN A VIRGINIA: Lawrenceburg. TN BRAATEN. DANIEL Alva, OK, Jan. 14; Eureka, KS. DOOLITTLE, KEVIN: Virginia Beach. VA (Tidewater 20-25. Fulton. MO (Heartland). 28— Mar 4; Tuttle. (Grace), Feb. 27— Mar 4; Crowley, LA (First). Feb. 1-4; Taloga, OK (Camp Creek), 7-11; Whit­ Zone Crusade). Jan. 31— Feb. 4; Stuart. FL (Teen OK. 6-11; Branson. MO. 21-25; Atwood. KS. 6-11; Wabash IN, 13-18. Parkersburg, WV, 20-25: ney. TX, 14-18; Blackwell, OK (First), 25— Mar. 4: Retreat) Mar. 9-11: California. PA (Calvary). 27— Apr. 1 Hurricane, WV (First). 27— Apr 1 Ottumwa, IA, 11-18;* Rockton, IL, 20-25; Falls 16-18; Newcomerstown. OH, 20-25; Wadsworth, LAWSON. WAYNE T.: Woodland. WA. Feb. 4-9: Yelm. REED, SHERMAN R.: Chaplaincy (Army Reserve). City, NE, 28— Apr 1 OH, 27— Apr 1 WA (Bible Camp), 11-16;* Whitetish, MT, 18-23; Jan. 6-7, Feb. 3-4; Beaverton, Mi, 6-11: Lake BROWN. MARK: Farmland, IN (Concert), Jan. 7; Ge­ DUNMIRE, RALPH & JOANN: Eustis, FL, Feb. 13-18; Addy. WA. 25-Mar 2;* Colville, WA, 4-9: Denver, Geneva. Wl (Army Seminar), 13-16; Fox Lake. IL, neva IN (Concert), 14; Dunkirk, IN. 21,28; Uh- Syracuse, OH (indoor Camp), Mar. 5-11; Areola, CO (Heritage), 18-23; Wheatridge, CO (Denver 16-18, Morris, IL (First), 20-25; Chaplaincy (Army richsville. OH (Rush Community), 30— Feb. 4; IL (Indoor Camp), 20-25; Wheatridge). 25-30 Reserve), Mar 3-4; Tyler. TX (First), 6-11: Os- Fort Wayne. IN (Elmhurst), 6-11: Trenton, MO, DUTTON. BARRY A TAVIA: Arvin. CA Jan. 7 a.m.. LAXSON. WALLY i GINGER: Kinnesaw GA, Jan. awatomie. KS 12-18. Lee s Summit, MO. 20-25: 13-18; Austin, TX (First), 20-25; Van Buren, IN, Bakersfield, CA (East Hills) p.m., Bakersfield, CA 7-10;* Ashland. KY (First), 17-21; Melbourne. FL Lexington, KY (First), 27— Apr. 1 Mar. 6-11, Elkhart, IN (Northside). 13-18; Mont­ (Faith), 9-14; Shatter. CA, 18; San Ramon. CA (Indoor Camp). 24-28; Rock Island, IL (Indoor RICHARDS LARRY A PHYLLIS: Shelbyville IN (First), pelier, IN (Collett), 20-25; Montpelier. IN, 27— Apr. (Valley Christian Fellowship) 21; Molalla, OR. Camp), 31 — Feb 4; West Chester OH. 7-11 Lex­ Feb. 5-11 Bucyrus. OH, 28— Mar 4 1 23-28: Eagle Point. OR. 30— Feb 4: San Ramon, ington. KY (Lafayette), 14-18, Madison. AL (First), RICHARDSON, KEN: Peoria. IL (Golden Acres). Mar BURKHALTER. PAT: Denver City. TX, Jan. 23-28; Ly­ CA (Valiev Christian Fellowship), 1 *, Dallas, OR. Mar 1-4; Vance, AL (Wallace Chapel), 7-11; 6-11; Allen Park, Ml. 13-18: Rushville. IL. 20-25 ons, KS, 30— Feb. 4; Lufkin, TX (First), 6-11; 13-18; Elgin, OR, 20-25; Kuna. ID. 2 8 -M a r 4; Mount Vernon, OH (First), 14-18; Gahanna, OH ROSE, WAYNE: Wewoka, OK. Feb. 14-18: Tulsa. OK Mena, AR, 13-18; De Queen, AR, 20-25: Miami, Fort Collins, CO (First), 6-11; Page, AZ (Lake (Columbus North Land). 21-25 (Calvary), Mar. 4-11; Car! Junction, MO. 13-18: OK, 27— Mar 4; Dallas, TX (Bruton Terrace), Powell). 13-18: Elk City. OK, 20-25' Mason, M. LEAF. JOHN D.: Minerva, OH, Mar 20-25 Nixa MO 20-25; Neodesha. KS 27—Apr * 6-11; Winfield. KS. 13-18; Frankclay, MO, 20-25; (First). 27— Apr. 1 LOMAN. H. LANE: Washington. IN. Jan, 2*-24:* Rock ROTH. RONALD W.: Caney. KS. Jan. 16-21 Cher House Springs, MO, 27— Apr. 1 ESSELBURN. BUD A MIRIAM: Florien. LA (Cen- Mills, A L 28-31; Antioch, TN (Nashville Calvary), ryvale, KS, 23-28: Gorham. IL, Feb. 6-11: Brook- BYERS, CHARLES A MILDRED: Jacksonville. TX, chrea), Feb. 13-18; Mineola, TX, Mar. 6-11; Alva, Feb. 4-7: Lawrenceville, IL, 18-21;* Greenville, IL haven, MS (First). 13-18: Manchester. TN, 20-25, Mar. 13-18; Sand Springs, OK, 20-25; Moravia, OK. 20-25 (College Revival). 26— Mar 2; Franklin, OH Waynesville. MO. 27— Mar 4. Chaleston MO, IA, 27— Apr 1 FISHER, C. WILLIAM: Kenya, AFRICA. Jan 10-30: (First), 4-7; Birmingham. AL (Forestdale), 11-14: 6-11; Pratt, KS, 20-25; Tulsa. OK (Southwest) CANFIELD. DAVE: Chilicothe. OH, Jan. 24-28;* Mid­ Pomona, CA (First), Feb 11-18: Manteca. CA ' Old Hickory, TN, 18-2T Muncie. IN (First). 25-28 27— Apr 1 dletown, OH (First), 31— Feb. 4; Manchester, OH. (First), 20-25: New Castle, IN (Southside). Mar MANER. ROBERT E.: Ellenwood. GA IRehoboth) RUSSELL, J. REYNDAL Jonesboro, LA, Mar. 6 -'* 7-11; Graceland, KY, 14-18;* Winchester, KY, 6-11; Gahanna, OH (Columbus North Land), Mar 2-4: Georgia District Pastor’s Retreat, 6-8: SMITH, DUANE: Perry, FL. Jan 9-14; St. Augustine. 28— Mar. 4; Concord, NC (First), 7-11; Alpha, OH, 13-18; Newcomerstown, OH, 20-25: Columbus, Rome, GA (First), 11-18: Dover, TN (First), 20-25; FL (First) 16-21: Griffin, GA (First). Feb. 6-11 14-18; Harrison, OH, 2'-25: Cincinnati, OH (Car­ OH (Whitehall). 27— Apr 1 Grenada MS (First), 27— Apr 1 Trout. LA. 13-18; Robeline. LA (Friendship). thage). 28— Apr, 1 FLCYD, TOM: Tucson, AZ (Catalina Vista), Jan. 19-2*: MANLEY STEPHEN L: Nazarene Bible College, Jan. 20-25. Belle Chasse. LA (New Orleans West- CASWELL. GERRY: Cleveland. OH (Zone Holiness Albuquerque, NM (Rio Vista), Feb 16-21; Great i-3: Wichita Falls, TX (First), 4-7 NBC. 8-10. bank). 27— Mar 4. Rolla. MO (First). 6-11. Indi­ Crusade). Feb 21-25 Falls MT (First). 23-28; Watsonville CA. Mar. 2-7 Ridgefield. WA (Pleasant View), 10-14; NBC. anapolis. IN (Meridian Street). 27— Apr. * CAYTON, JOHN: Lakeville. MA, Jan. 16-21; Ocoee, Phoenix. AZ (North Phoenix), 9-14: Waco, TX 15-17: Pueblo, CO (Belmont), 16-21. NBC, 22-24; STANIFORTH. KEN: BELIZE (Revivals). Jan. 7-26, FL 30— Feb. 4; Jacksonville, FL: (First), 20-25, (Trinity Heights), 16-21; Overland. MO (St Louis San Antonio, TX (Valley-Hi), 24-28; NBC, 29-31. Stockton, CA (First), Feb 11-18; Lancaster CA (Central), 27— Mar. 4. (North), 20-25 Overland). 23-28; Sapulpa, OK. 30— Apr 1 Oklahoma City (Western Oaks) 3 ’ — Feb. 4; (First) 20-25. Ziliah WA 27— Mar. 4, Sunnyside

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Sunday Barbecue get the body of believers together extended subscriptions at a reduced Recently our church had a big bar­ even on Sunday. Therefore, it may price. One-year subscriptions cost becue after the morning worship be a good idea to share mealtime $9.00; two-year subscriptions are service. Tickets were even sold to it. fellowship from time to time after available at $17.00; and three-year Some of our people thought it was worshiping together. subscriptions are $25.00. These too much like a holiday diversion rates are available, both to individ­ on the Sabbath and did not feel free Who Is Lenski? uals and churches, for the first time in January 1990. to attend. Should we stop having I have just read a book by Robert such events? If a church wishes to underwrite A. Schuller in which he refers to the subscriptions for the house­ Your letter reminds me of the C. H. Lenski. Are his commentaries holds of its congregation, it should great food and fellowship that used reliable? follow these simple steps. to accompany the “all-day service I was not acquainted with 1. Prepare a mailing list that and dinner on the grounds” events Lenski, so I spoke to one of my includes the name and address that I enjoyed so much in my friends who is a biblical studies of each person who is to receive childhood. Of course, the “dinner professor. He tells me that Lenski the Herald. on the grounds” was as much a was a very conservative Lutheran convenience as a celebration due to scholar. He died about 1940. 2. Prepare a cover letter the fact that transportation for Therefore, his commentaries do which: many was by horse and wagon. To­ not have the benefit of recent tex­ (a) states the name of your day, transportation is not such a tual and archeological discoveries. local church problem, but fellowship is just as Lenski looked at the Bible through (b) states that the church is important. Lutheran eyes, seeing Lutheran paying as a donor for its people. I'm sorry that some of your peo­ doctrine in just about every passage (If the church has simply col­ ple were offended. Perhaps it was of the Bible—whether it was there lected the funds and sub­ the selling of tickets in the church or not. His full name was Richard scriptions and forwarded them or on Sunday that made it seem C. H. Lenski. along with a church check, we inappropriate to them. Many need to know that, too, so we can send renewal/expiration no­ churches use the “ticket” method Can a Church Subscribe? (even on Sundays) to help with tices to the individuals rather planning and preparation that, they Our church used to subscribe to the than the church.) believe, is quite different from the Herald of Holiness for all the mem­ (c) states whether the sub­ unnecessary "buying and selling for bers (and prospects) of our church. scriptions are for 1, 2, or 3 years. gain” that is proscribed by the Bi­ I understand that under the new in­ 3. Send the mailing list, cover dividual subscription plan this is ble. Be patient with those who do letter, and a check for the appro­ not possible. Is this true? not feel comfortable with selling priate amount to anything (including tapes and It is not only possible for a Herald of Holiness church to subscribe to the Herald records) on the Lord’s Day. Nazarene Publishing House The tradition of Christians shar­ for all the member and prospect PO. Box 419527 ing a meal on the Lord’s Day, how­ households in your congregation, it Kansas City, MO 64141 ever, has a long and meaningful is vigorously encouraged. We hope history, going all the way back to that many of our churches handle The views expressed in the responses in this column are those the Early Church. I believe it can Herald subscriptions in this way. o f the editor and do not constitute official statement by or for be preserved with profit today. In In fact, the church can subscribe the Church of the Nazarene. The editor is not able to send replies to questions not selected for publication Address: Her­ our complex society it is hard to for its members and prospects for ald of Holiness. 6401 The Paseo, Kansas City, MO 64131

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January 1990 41 STEWARDSHIP SERVICES

★ 1989 STEWARDSHIP HONOR ROLL ★ Director D. Moody Gunter says that to qualify for the Stewardship Honor Roll, a church must pay alt budgets in full and meet the formula for 10% Giving.

Listed below are the churches which have qual­ Listed below are the ten churches on the Stew­ ified for the Stewardship Honor Roll for 30 or more ardship Honor Roll with the highest percentage consecutive years: of giving to General Budget and Mission Spe- cials: Consecutive Years Church Percentage 42 ALEXANDRIA (ALEXANDRIA, IND.) of Giuing Church 42 BETHEL (ARENZVILLE, ILL.) 42 ELKHART FIRST (ELKHART, IND.) 169.51 MCDONALD GROVE (BATESVILLE, MISS.) 42 HARRIS CHAPEL (SELMA, IND.) 100.00 FLUSHING KOREAN (FLUSHING, N.Y.) 42 KANSAS CITY FIRST (KANSAS CITY, M O .) 75 .9 8 COLUMBUS (COLUMBUS, KANS.) 42 MONONGAHELA (MONONGAHELA, PA.) 71 .7 0 LONGUEUIL (LONGUEUIL, QUE.) 42 MOUNT HOPE (BERNE, IND.) 71 .4 9 HOUSTON DENVER (HOUSTON, TEX.) 42 SUBLETTE (SUBLETTE, KANS.) 67 .3 4 GREENVILLE (GREENVILLE, ALA.) 42 WARREN FIRST (WARREN, O H IO ) 57 .6 8 MATTOON (BIRNAMWOOD, WIS.) 42 WINCHESTER (WINCHESTER, OHIO) 51 .2 5 STETTLER (STETTLER, ALTA.) 42 ZIO N (BRITT, IO W A ) 49.56 LaCROSSE (LaCROSSE, WIS.) 41 M A R IO N FIRST (M A R IO N , O H IO ) 48 .6 5 DECATUR OAK GROVE (DECATUR, ILL.) 40 BEARDSTOWN (BEARDSTOWN, ILL.) 40 C H A T T A N O O G A FIRST (C H A T T A N O O G A , TENN.) 39 COLUMBIANA (COLUMBIANA, OHIO) 39 NEW BRIGHTON (NEW BRIGHTON, PA.) 38 HARMATTAN (OLDS, ALTA.) Listed below are the districts with 50 percent or 38 LOWELL (LOWELL, MICH.) more of their churches qualifying for the Stew- 38 PEORIA FIRST (PEORIA, ILL.) ardship Honor Roll: 37 CONCORD (CONCORD, CALIF.) 37 EAST ROCKAWAY (L O N G ISLAND, N.Y.) Church 37 WARREN (WARREN, PA.) District 36 BERNE (BERNE, IND.) Percentage District Superintendent 36 BRADFORD FIRST (BRADFORD, PA.) 65.0 HAWAII PACIFIC DARRELL TEARE 36 DINUBA (DINUBA, CALIF.) 56.0 SOUTH CAROLINA JAMES BEARDEN 36 DURANT (DURANT, OKLA.) 56.0 WASHINGTON ROY E. CARNAHAN 36 ELKHART (ELKHART, KANS.) 55.0 NORTHWESTERN OHIO J. E. SHANKEL 36 GRAND HAVEN (GRAND HAVEN, MICH.) 54.0 ALASKA ROGER J. WEGNER 35 OTTAWA FIRST (OTTAWA, ILL.) 54.0 NORTH CENTRAL OHIO JACK ARCHER 34 BELLE (BELLE, W.VA.) 54.0 SACRAMENTO WALTER M. HUBBARD 34 BETHEL (BETHEL, KANS.) 50.0 ALABAMA SOUTH R. PHILLIP SESSIONS 34 CLAYTONIA (WEST SUNBURY, PA.) 50.0 C A N A D A WEST GLENN E. FOLLIS 34 FORT RECOVERY (FORT RECOVERY, OHIO) 50.0 INTERMOUNTAIN RONALD KRATZER 34 PENIEL (HUTCHINSON, KANS.) 50.0 KANSAS W. T. D O UG HARTY 34 WESTBROOK (INDIANAPOLIS, IND.) 50.0 NORTHWEST WALTER LANMAN 33 IRO NTO N FIRST (IR O N TO N , O H IO ) 50.0 PHILADELPHIA TALMAGE HAGGARD 33 MUNCIE SOUTH SIDE (MUNCIE, IND.) 33 NYSSA (NYSSA, OREG.) 32 BETHANY (HUTCHINSON, KANS.) 32 COLLEGE (NAMPA, IDAHO) 32 EVANSVILLE FIRST (EVANSVILLE, IND.) 32 G EORGETOW N (G EO RG ETO W N, ILL.) Listed below are the top ten districts who 32 LANGLEY (LANGLEY, S.C.) reached or overpaid their accepted General 32 NORTH PLATTE (NORTH PLATTE, NEBR.) Budget for 1989: 32 RO ANO KE FIRST (R O A N O K E, VA.) 32 SOUTH PORTLAND (SOUTH PORTLAND, MAINE) 32 W ASHINGTON FIRST (W ASHINGTON, D.C .) District 31 OSKALOOSA (OSKALOOSA, IOWA) Percentage District Superintendent 31 UNION CHAPEL (CLAY CITY, IND.) 105.04 SOUTHWEST INDIAN JULIAN GUNN 31 BETHANY JERNIGAN MEMORIAL (BETHANY, OKLA.) 104.38 FLORIDA SPACE COAST L. WAYNE QUINN 30 BUCYRUS (BUCYRUS, OHIO) 102.78 SOUTH CAROLINA JAMES M. BEARDEN 30 HANOVER (HANOVER, PA.) 101.79 HAWAII PACIFIC DARRELL B. TEARE 30 HAWTHORNE (HAWTHORNE, CALIF.) 101.27 SOUTHERN C A LIFO R N IA B. M A U R IC E HLL 30 KANSAS CITY ST. PAUL'S (KANSAS CITY, MO.) 101.04 SACRAMENTO WALTER M. HUBBARD 30 LOGAN (LOGAN, OHIO) 100.55 PHILADELPHIA TALMAGE HAGGARD 30 M ONTICELLO (M O NTICELLO , ILL.) 100.45 KANSAS CITY MILTON PARRISH 30 OIL CITY (OIL CITY, PA.) 100.22 NORTHWESTERN OHIO J. E. SHANKEL 30 RO CK HILL WEST M A IN (R O C K HILL, S.C.) 100.00 ALASKA ROGER J. WEGNER

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January 1990 43 Personal Experience Feature

ORDEAL IN THE ATLANTIC

BY DOUGLAS I. SHERWOOD

n Saturday morning, March 21, 1987, I went fish­ We had blundered seriously. O ur life jackets were in the boat. ing in the Atlantic Ocean with two choice friends We had not put them on. Marshall managed to grab a four-foot and a beloved brother-in-law. We didn’t get to wet a Gott cooler. A green Coleman and small red lunch-box cooler Ohook or catch a fish. Tragedy struck. were swept beyond our grasp by the swift current. "We'll need A slight hitch occurred before we even got underway. Marshall that green cooler,” Marshall shouted. 1 knew Charlie couldn't had the boat in the water when John, Charlie, and I met him at swim, and I wasn’t sure John could, so I headed for it. When I Wrightsville Beach, N.C., at 5:30 a.m . We got aboard, but Mar­ spotted it, I was 50 yards from the others. shall couldn’t get the 150-horsepower motor to reverse. We I caught up to both coolers and headed back to my friends. By pulled the boat out of the water and drove to Marshall’s house for now 1 could see them only when the swells raised us all at the repairs. Fifteen minutes later he announced, “We’re in business.” same time. Marshall knew boats and motors. I trusted him completely. The current was too strong for me, and I seemed to be drifting About 6:50, we were on our way out of farther from them. Yelling to Marshall, I the inlet, cutting through two to four foot asked if he thought the boat would stay swells. Charlie grinned at me. He and 1 up. He said yes, so 1 released the coolers, had spent most of our lives on the banks which impeded my swimming. However, of the Mississippi River. Deep-sea fishing W h a t would my efforts to swim back were foiled by the in the Atlantic was an exciting prospect. strong current, and 1 was rapidly tiring. I We headed for Twenty-Three Mile happen when I turned to swim back to the coolers. The Rock, a popular fishing spot off Wrights­ green one was almost out of sight, but ville Beach. On their last trip there, Mar­ died? Would my with aching muscles I reached the little shall and John had filled the cooler with red one. I had swallowed a lot of water fish in less than two hours. John ex­ body ever be and was gasping for air. claimed, “There’s a 50-pound grouper Shoving the cooler under the water to out there with my name on it.” Marshall found? counter my weight, I could stay afloat by was eager to try out a new electricity- kicking slightly. When I was rested a little, driven reel. He sang snatches'of his favor­ I shoved the cooler under my large, pur­ ite song, “One day at a time, Lord." 1 ple sweatshirt, enabling me to stretch my plied him with questions about various gadgets on the boat— arms, which were beginning to cramp. probably the same questions I had asked on a similar outing a Only when it crested on the waves could I see the white cooler year before. to which the others were clinging. I thought I heard them calling Fifteen miles out we began to have problems. The me, and I shouted as loud as possible, not sure they could hear 150-horsepower motor conked out. Marshall removed and me. checked the fuel filter and primed the fuel line. The motor Riding the swells on that tiny cooler, 1 was tempted to give up. cranked up immediately, and we were on our way again. to just let go and allow the ocean to take me. But I fought the This happened twice more, the last time when we were about feeling, telling myself that the God I served would not honor a 24 miles out. Sailboats were visible a mile or two from us. We quitter. I had to trust Him and exert myself to the limit. were in the Gulf Stream now, and the swells were considerably I began to pray, thanking the Lord that He had forgiven my larger. Marshall fastened a 25-horsepower auxiliary motor in sins and blessed my life. If 1 had to die. I was ready. I prayed for place just as a large wave broke over the stern. The bilge pump the others. John and Marshall were strong Christians. Charlie refused to work—a fuse had blown. John replaced it, and the was not, and I prayed that these frightful circumstances might second one blew. The boat was now at a 45-degree angle and lead him to Christ. A sense of peace engulfed me. Some words steadily going vertical. from my pastor came to mind: “The Lord is bigger than what's At Marshall’s shouted command, the three of us clambered the matter.” onto the bow as he came forward to start the motor. By the time About an hour passed, and I decided to try again to reach the he reached the controls, both motors were submerged. The boat others. If rescuers found them, they might not spot me in my suddenly went vertical, hurling us all into the 51-degree water. dark sweatshirt. Pushing the cooler ahead of me, I swam until I The boat was now submerged except for about a foot of the bow was tired, then rested awhile on the cooler. By repeating this pro­ pointing skyward. The time was approximately 9 a.m . cess I made it back to where they were hanging on to the big

44 Herald of Holiness Roland Miller cooler. I remember joking with them about how well I could It was now about 11 a .m . We were trying to move enough to swim, then pulling the red cooler from under my sweatshirt, re­ offset cramps and yet remain still enough to conserve energy. It vealing the secret of my buoyancy and endurance. They laughed. was important to remain conscious and alert, and Marshall The boat had sunk, but somehow they had gotten the life jack­ checked us every few minutes. ets. When I tried to strap one around my waist, 1 floated away from the cooler, so I settled for stepping through it with one leg. Some “honeybuns” and soft drinks had somehow stayed in the My hands were losing dexterity in the cold water. cooler. We decided to save them as long as possible, but urged

January 1990 45 John to drink a little. He was starting to shiver and his teeth were This allowed me to filter through my sleeve the air I breathed, chattering. raising its temperature. The life jacket cushioned my head. My We discussed our plight. How long could we last in 51 -degree legs were submerged, but I could kick them slowly and freely to water? Marshall's wife would not expect us before sunset, so she avoid cramps. would not be alarmed sooner. Neither would my wife, Debbie. I did everything I could to stay alert through the night. I Unless some unexpected fisherman happened along, we were in counted, sang, talked to Debbie, and prayed—all of it aloud. Ev­ for a long wait. ery few minutes I checked my feet, knees, hips, shoulders, elbows, As time passed, we prayed. John was suffering and finally my hands. from hypothermia. 1 gave him another Pepsi to From time to time I cracked the cooler lid to check the moon's get sugar into his system. He was chattering position and estimate the hours remaining before sunrise. badly, and his words were slurred. The night was cloudless, the sky beautiful. John was 21 years old and planning to I catnapped, hoping to be aroused by the sound of be a medical missionary. Well- an approaching motor. Water trickled in and slowly grounded spiritually, he was a filled the cooler. I was becoming submerged again, source of strength in our and water was freezing the side of my head. Mus­ church's youth group. In the cle cramps in my arms and legs were agonizing. I short time I had known wanted to get out and empty the water from the him, I had learned to love cooler, but I was afraid I could never get and respect him im­ back in. mensely. - Somehow, the longest night of He lost consciousness, ? '-m y life passed and the sun finally and I tried to boost him rose. I kept the lid closed, waiting into the cooler as Marshall . for the atmosphere to warm. Ev- held the split lid open. 'terything was now routine — Each time I tried to lift him counting, praying, conversing with out of the water I went un­ Debbie and assuring her 1 would der and soon exhaustion survive. I dozed. forced me to give up. I placed When I awoke, the sun was him between the cooler and my­ high. Now I was disoriented. self, propped his head on my shoulder, and Was it late morning or tried to keep it above water. The swells kept early afternoon? As­ splashing over our heads in spite of my efforts. suming the worst. I tried About that time, Marshall yelled, "Another one is t to prepare myself men­ gone.” Charlie was now unconscious. Shortly afterwards, tally for another night as we floated helplessly, John died. / afloat, but it was hard to do. I could do nothing for him, so 1 tied his lifejacket to the handle..* -* The weather station had fore- of the cooler and went around to the other side to help withy* ^ cast rain for Monday. I didn’t Charlie. I propped the little red cooler under his back to keep him want to be caught out there in a storm. out of the water as much as possible. Before long, he was gone, Once more I prayed. Some time later I heard a motor. Pushing too, and Marshall fastened his body to the cooler. open the lid, I saw a helicopter about 200 yards away, flying par­ About two o’clock, judging by the sun, we decided to try to get allel to the cooler's drift. As 1 watched, heart sinking, it flew on into the cooler. For an hour we struggled, but each time we by. "Lord,” I prayed, “I can’t believe You kept me alive this long thought we were making headway the box would flip from under to let me die now.” us. As hard as we tried, nothing worked. We could neither get in Just as the words escaped my lips, a Coast Guard cutter was it or on it. In the attempt, we lost all the food and drinks except bearing down on me. Surely those aboard would see me. The one Pepsi. Charlie’s body was bumped loose, but I swam after it boat came within a hundred yards then veered right. Again, I and retrieved it. We were back again to floating and waiting. prayed desperately. Marshall and I shared the Pepsi we had salvaged. As wt A third time I heard a motor. A Coast Guard helicopter was floated, his sentences became drawn and slurred. He was now approaching. When they landed on the water I jumped out of the succumbing to hypothermia. Soon he couldn’t hear me yell to cooler, knocking Charlie's body loose again. I grabbed him and him, and I had to swim around to his side of the cooler to get his tied the life jacket back to the cooler. attention. He kept losing his grip on the cooler, and he even Coast Guard personnel lowered a rack into the water and slipped out of his life jacket. Pulling him back through it, I dragged me into the helicopter. Once aboard, I tried to stand and grabbed the cooler handle, holding him between myself and the collapsed. I couldn't straighten my cramped arms and legs. cooler, his head resting on my shoulder. He died soon after this. Miraculously, I had survived 25 hours in 51-degree water with­ Alone now, I experienced a brief period of terror. It was about out hypothermia. In fact, when my vital signs were checked, my 3 p.m . It would be hours before anyone raised an alarm about us. temperature was 99.2 degrees. However, my enzyme count was What would happen when I died? Who would tie me to the 23,000, due to the damaged muscles. At first, the doctors thought cooler? Would my body ever be found? I prayed, asking God to I had suffered a heart attack. Within three days, though, the en­ make me aware of His presence. Suddenly, I was. I could really zyme count was back to normal. My left arm remained numb for feel His presence, and I never felt alone again throughout the about a week, but there have been no long-term complications. ordeal. I am presently in college, studying for the ministry. I am still As I floated, I recalled the weather report. The temperature shaken and puzzled by the death of my friends and brother-in- would drop to 30 degrees that night. I could feel the air and water law, and I grieve with their families. Why they were taken and I growing colder as the sun disappeared over the horizon. My only was spared, only God knows. Certainly not because I was better chance of surviving the night was to somehow get into the cooler. than them. I have a sense, however, of overwhelming debt to God After nearly an hour of fruitless efforts, I made it. I managed to and His amazing grace. I want to spend my life in His service. slide sideways into the cooler, most of my torso in, my legs dan­ bt gling in the water. I rocked the cooler upright. My position was terribly cramped. My right shoulder was jammed into a corner Douglas I. Sherwood currently serves as pastor of the Highland and almost immobilized. My left arm was up around my head. Church of the Nazarene, Nashville.

46 Herald of Holiness W. E. M cCUM BER

THE AFTERMATH

hristmas is over. Half the them now than the visible, the eter­ gospel, some believed, some presents have been re­ nal more real than the historical. scoffed, and some crowded into C turned or exchanged. Half Their world and their work were middle ground between—not yet the toys are already broken. Half permanently altered because Jesus persuaded but waiting to hear the cooks are serving leftovers. The was Lord. more on the subject. trees are down and the decorations That is also the meaning of Do you suppose those shepherds stored. A spasm of excitement and Christmas for us. You can’t toss ever quit telling the story? Do you expense has subsided, and life is that away with a dead tree. You suppose anyone ever happened by back to normal. can’t store that in an attic with as they tended their flocks without From the Christmas story three boxes of ornaments. You can’t lose getting an earful of gospel? little words are appropriate—“The that when the glow of Christmas Those shepherds now had a new shepherds returned.” has faded into normalcy. purpose in life—to share the Good Wonderful things had happened News: God had visited the world in to those shepherds. Angels had ap­ order to redeem it. peared to them with a message of The Good News You cannot give your life to a incredible beauty, power, and hope. nobler cause than that. People They had worshiped the infant does not cease to need Jesus more than they need Jesus at the manger. They had breath and bread. To know Him thrilled gaping crowds with a reci­ be appropriate and to make Him known is to live tal of those stirring events. for the highest and best of all possi­ Now they were back at work. even when “Merry ble missions. Was their task easier? T heir pay Christmas” does. This evangelistic mission is the higher? Their clothes less ragged? enduring benefit and blessing of Did their sheep smell any better? Christmas. It cannot be lost in the Well, if things were the sam e When Jesus is Lord, life never torn wrapping paper and crumpled again, did all the sacred hullabaloo lacks meaning and peace and joy, bows. It doesn’t go away when or­ have any value? whatever our circumstances. “I der is restored to the living room But things were not the same have learned,” said Paul, “in what­ and kitchen. It doesn't cease to be and never would be. Christmas was soever state I am, therewith to be an appropriate message when more than a brief emotional up­ content.” “Merry Christmas” does. heaval. New dimensions had been When preaching, he was an “am­ So, we go back to normal days added to those shepherds’ lives— bassador for Christ.” In jail, he was and routine tasks. But, if the mean­ and will be added to ours if we re­ a “prisoner of Christ.” He never ing of Christmas has really gripped ally believe. thought of himself as in the hands our minds and changed our lives, For one thing, the shepherds had of men or fate, but always in the we have a Person and a purpose a new Master. The angel had said good hands of Christ. that make every day worthwhile. to them. “Unto you is born this So, we return to the normal, to It’s over? No, it's never over! As day in the city of David a Saviour, the ordinary—but there with us is long as Christ is Lord, as long as which is Christ the Lord.” Jesus Christ, and Christ is better than our lives are spent among those came not only to remit our sins Christm as. who need to learn of Him, it's but also to rule our lives. The shepherds not only had a never over. Christmas is not a brief The real master of these shep­ new Master but also had a new celebration but a renewed commit­ herds was not the owner of their m ission. They had become ment. Because God gave His Son flocks or the governor of their evangelists—"they made known for us, we give ourselves to Him. land. Their Lord was Jesus Christ. abroad the saying which was told “The shepherds returned,” not With Him in charge, their lives them concerning this child.” moping, not grieving, not com­ would never lack challenge and di­ “All they that heard it wondered plaining, but “glorifying and prais­ rection, however ordinary and at those things which were told ing God.” The aftermath of Christ­ humdrum their work. them by the shepherds.” As in the mas, for those who believe, is The unseen was more real to case of all crowds who hear the praise! ^

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when he was sucked from his Mission Division director. truck and thrown into the me­ Scott made the announcement dian. His truck was not found November 21 following the for three days. receipt of ballots which had Cruse had regularly attend­ been sent to members of the ed Huntsville First Church for APNTS board of trustees. about two years, according to He replaces E. LeBron pastor Ralph Brown. Sur­ Fairbanks who was elected vivors include his wife, An­ president of Mount Vernon nette, two stepsons, a son, fa­ Nazarene College in July ther, and three sisters. 1989. SPINDLE INAUGURATED AT MANC The twisters cleared a ten- Nielson moves to the post Richard L. Spindle was inaugurated as the third president of mile-long, quarter-mile-wide from Eastern Nazarene Col­ MidAmerica Nazarene College, November 28, at the Olathe swath through parts of the lege where he had served as College Church of the Nazarene. Nearly 1,000 people, in­ Northern Alabama town, in­ assistant to the president since cluding representatives from more than 20 colleges and uni­ juring almost 500 and leaving 1982. Prior to this, he served versities, attended the ceremony in which Spindle emphasized 500 persons homeless. at Nazarene headquarters academics and a continued commitment to the Word of God. Brown said several families from 1980 to 1982. Before in the church faced major re­ this, he pastored churches on pairs before they could move the Upstate New York. SPICER APPOINTED TO NAZARENE LOSES back into their homes. Philadelphia, Kansas City, ALASKA LIFE IN TORNADO and Middle European dis­ Kenneth G. A man who regularly attend­ tricts. He pastored in Den­ NIELSON IS NEW APNTS Spicer, 54, has ed Huntsville, Ala., First mark from 1975 to 1980. PRESIDENT been appointed Church of the Nazarene was Nielson earned a B.A. and superintendent among the 18 persons killed John M. Niel­ M.A. from ENC and a B.D. of the Alaska when tornadoes ripped son. 46, has from Nazarene Theological District. The through that community in been elected Seminary. ENC honored him action was tak­ November. president of with a doctor of divinity de­ en November 11 by General Allen Dale Cruse, 46, was A sia-Pacific gree in 1989. Superintendent Eugene L. driving his pickup truck Nazarene Theo­ He is expected to begin his Stowe. The appointment was across town at 4:35 p.m. on logical Seminary, according new assignment around the made with unanimous ap­ the afternoon of November 8 to Robert H. Scott, World first of the year. proval of the Board of Gener­ al Superintendents and in average Sunday School atten­ consultation with the Alaska NAZARENE MEMBERSHIP capita giving was $474.51, an District Advisory Council. GROWS IN 89 dance increased by 1,137 to increase of $3.45. Distribu­ The appointment is effective Membership in the Church of 642,676. tion of this amount translates January 1, 1990. He replaces the Nazarene grew by 45,284 Accessions by profession to $380.07 for local interests. Roger J. Wegner who re­ (5.18% ) to 919,262 in 1989, of faith numbered 74,191, a $26.57 to district interests. signed to accept the superin­ according to statistics pre­ gain of 18,076. With 4,608 $13.40 to educational inter­ tendency of the Dakota Dis­ pared by the general secre­ received from other denomi­ ests, and $54.47 to general in­ trict. tary's office. This compares nations, there were 78,799 terests. Spicer has served as senior to an increase of 4.28% in new Nazarenes. Distribution of membership pastor of the Oregon City, 1988. Membership gain in The number of ordained el­ by regional sub-totals is as Oreg., Church of the Naza­ the United States regions was ders grew by 223 to 11,080. follows: rene since 1982. He has also 1.63% (8,989) compared to There were 4,390 licensed pastored churches in I.56% (8,502) in 1988. The ministers (a gain of 175), REGION MEMBERSHIP PERCENTAGE. Spokane, Wash., Klamath Canada region recorded a while the number of deacons Africa 65,527 7.13% Falls, Philomath, Sweet gain of 3.83% (403) com­ increased by 47 to 104. Asia Pacific 55,751 6.06% Home, and Sutherlin, Oreg. pared to a 2.47% (253) in The total number of A graduate of Northwest Naz­ 1988, while other world re­ churches increased by 363 to Canada 10,916 1.19% arene College, Spicer was or­ gions recorded a gain of 9,294. Caribbean 82,933 9.02% dained in 1961 on the Ore­ II.53% (35,892). Nazarenes paid a total of Eurasia 23,854 2.59% gon-Pacific District. The Sunday School respon­ $436,191,126 for all purpos­ MAC 62,680 6.82% Spicer and his wife, sibility list (enrollment) de­ es, an increase of Dorothy, have three children, clined in 1989 by 1,873 to $24,493,051 (5.95%) more South America 56,348 6.13% David, Lucinda, and Keith. 1,297,407, while the weekly than the previous year. Per United States 561,253 61.06%

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