MAKING MARRIAGES LAST • WORDS TO LIVE BY ADVENTIST

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Diversity men with the courage to speak on ness, equity, and justice. It seems to me Recently I was walking down a street behalf of women's issues, since the that the numbers should be in reverse in in downtown Los Angeles. Two voice of women is effectively silenced order to achieve the three goals listed African-American friends of mine came by these few numbers. above. Also, I find that of the layper- up behind me and mentioned to each Thank you for the opportunity to see sons italicized, there are far more other that "love comes in all colors." just how these matters have been women than men. This is not true Because I'm handicapped and short of addressed by our church leaders and for action by representation. It is far and stature, I turned around and mentioned providing us with the information to away unbalanced. C. Baker that "love comes in all shapes and sizes, contact our local leaders and represen- San Bernardino, California too." They agreed with me. tatives before the General Conference Even though we live in a culturally session. Peggy Harris, Board Chair diverse society, we also live in a handi- Women and Men Against Sexual To Read or Not to Read capped, diverse society. Both are Harassment and Other Abuses Scott Moncrieff's review of The important. James Cady Burtonsville, Maryland Orion Conspiracy ("Holiday Reading," Rosemead, California NAD December issue) proved interest- ing and enlightening. Since this was my Speaking Up Do you really want us to respond to the first attempt at writing a book of this There is a simple and effective way North American General Conference type, I'm pleased that he had as much to reduce the number of delegates to delegate list in your latest issue? Are good to say about it as he did. future General Conference sessions. you sure? Along with him, I wished for more (See "Speak Up Now, or Hold Your In the world, in the home, in the church time (and space) to work out the char- Peace," NAD December issue.) Let the today, voice means value. Of the nearly acters' needs. Dr. Moncrieff is correct General Conference session vote to 300 delegates listed, I know or have in noting that much of the plot comes have a worldwide realistic, redemptive visual recognition of more than 100. Out from The Great Controversy. In fact, cleanup of our church books. At least, of those 100, only one (maybe two) is the purpose of the book is to present the and probably many more than, half of younger than 35 years old. One, uno! message of that great book in a format the 8 million members now listed on From the other 200 or so, my pastoral that will attract and hold the attention of our church books are no longer practic- experience (from the Lake, Columbia, readers who might not read a more ing Seventh-day Adventists. This would and Pacific unions) leads me to believe scholarly work. reduce the delegates from 2,669 to that the situation is much the same. Voice Your reviewer seemed to wish that 1,335. A marvelous by-product of this translates to involvement and investment! Orion had been written more in the all-out effort would make church mem- Numerous workshops, specially style of great literature. It wasn't bership meaningful and important. designed conferences, even a well-done intended as such, but as a fast-paced Bob Spangler study called Valuegenesis, tell the lead- story that could awaken readers' inter- It Is Written Field Representative ers and laypeople that something must est in studying the Bible. If it achieves Thousand Oaks, California be done for our Adventist youth and that goal, I will be satisfied. fast. But I believe it all goes for naught Your readers may be interested to when we follow up with an "important know that the Booklist, the journal of What wonderful information you gave family vacation" that coincidentally the American Library Association, has us by listing the delegates from North excludes the children. Jnvolvement reviewed The Orion Conspiracy (Nov. America to the General Conference ses- implies importance. Families are com- 15, 1994) and recommended it for sion. prised of men, women, and children, inclusion in public libraries. I hope that I am bewildered, however, by the aren't they? Tim Evans, Chaplain some Adventists will donate copies to minute number of women representa- Loma Linda University Medical Center their local libraries, thus helping the tives included in the list. This certainly Children's Hospital book to fulfill its mission. does not reflect the percentage of Loma Linda, California Kenneth R. Wade women in the church, which is more Nampa, Idaho like 55 to 60 percent. It points out that our church needs to address representa- I did my own tallying and found that Letters should not exceed 250 words and tion of gender along with progress in out of 285 delegates only 70 are true should carry the writer's name, address, and ethnicity representation. When one laypersons (not employed by the orga- telephone number. All will be edited to meet looks at these statistics, it is easy to see nized work). This leaves 215 persons space and literary requirements, but the author's meaning will not be changed. Views why some things get voted the way they who receive their paychecks from the expressed in the letters do not necessarily rep- do. I hope this time there will be more organized work. What a travesty of fair- resent those of the editors or denomination.

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6 Newsbreak 8 Another World For those of us who have gotten used to the church the way it 11 Sandra Doran is, maybe it's time to look at things from another perspective 17 Children's Corner and live a new reality. by Bonita J. Shields

23 Reflections HERITAGE 12 A Woman's Place 12 One woman's We always hear about the men who pioneered the Adventist ministry message in foreign countries. But there were women and chil- EDITORIALS dren who faced the same hardships. by Robert G. Wearner

4 Words I Live By LIFESTYLE

5 Great Idea! 14 What Makes Marriages Last? Read these suggestions from an "expert"—someone who has been successfully married for almost 50 years. by Charles M. Rogers

STORY NEXT WEEK 16 Hands Across the Chasm 16 Letting go "The Christian's View Is there anything harder than laying aside one's prejudices? of Assisted Human by Bernard R. DeRemer Reproduction" Medical technology is WORLD REPORT making impossibilities possible. It's also 18 Brief Encounters of the Supernatural Kind blurring the bound- Worked long and hard without results? Read this. aries of what's ethical by Betty Kossick and what isn't. Cover illustration by Art Lenderman

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Words I Live By

commend to every follower of Jesus Yahweh is my response too—praise our faith, who for the joy set before him IChrist the daily, personal reading of with all my being. Our God forgives endured the cross, scorning its shame, the Bible. The Scriptures stabilize life and heals, redeems and satisfies. He and sat down at the right hand of the like a gyroscope; they supply an end- does not treat me as I deserve, or I throne of God" (Heb. 12:1, 2). less fountain of immortal drink; they would have no hope. He has removed I have probably preached on this pas- give you words to live by. my sin as far as the east is from the sage more than any other. Today it still Here are a few words from the Word west; He has compassion on me like a speaks to me powerfully, reminding me I live by: parent who knows the frailty of His that I am in a race—the race of life— "But he said to me, 'My grace is suf- children. How short, how very short, is and to finish is to win. This race is a ficient for you, for my power is made life; but Yahweh's love never fades, marathon, and those who complete it perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will never ceases, never fails. must prepare for the long haul. To start boast all the more gladly about my Praise the Lord, 0 my soul! is good, but to finish is what really weaknesses, so that Christ's power may "Even youths grow tired and weary, counts. rest on me" (2 Cor. 12:9). * and young men stumble and fall; but To fall short of the goal—how tragic! More and more this passage has To fall morally and to bring reproach emerged as the one I flee to. Here I find Do you have a favorite on the ministry of my Lord—how unut- the divine assurance that no matter how terably sad! To turn back or grow faint- difficult the task that confronts me, how hearted, or to lapse into complaining weary or inadequate I feel, the power of Bible text? Write and and backbiting—what a sorry end to the risen Christ will supply all I need— one's life! I must press on, ever keeping indeed, will be perfected in and through my eyes fixed on Jesus, who has run the my very weakness. tell us about it. race already and now stands cheering My work often involves long hours, me on at the finishing tape. tough decisions, and overseas travel. Sometimes I have to speak before large en the devil came to Jesus in the audiences when I feel utterly worn those who hope in the Lord will renew Whwilderness, the Master met his down. But I claim this promise, as did their strength. They will soar on wings allurements with "It is written: 'Man the apostle Paul. It has never failed. like eagles; they will run and not grow does not live on bread alone, but on I try to live by these words. They weary, they will walk and not be faint" every word that comes from the mouth aren't easy—to rejoice in weakness (Isa. 40:30, 31). of God'" (Matt. 4:4). Do you live by because weakness opens the door for This is a runner's text, but everyone the living Word? Do you have a text or Christ's strength, to know that the more may claim it. What a blessed energizing passage that you live by? inadequate for the task at hand I feel, quality is hope! What a promise—to I'd like to hear from you. Write out the greater will be the divine empower- know that Yahweh will come through your text, including the version, and tell ing. But they are real. for me, that He will make the extraordi- me in 75 words or less why it has been, "Praise the Lord, 0 my soul; all my nary ordinary in my life, that I shall be or is, of special meaning to you. Send inmost being, praise his holy name. sustained and renewed daily from the to: Words I Live By, Adventist Review, Praise the Lord, 0 my soul, and forget One who, although the Ancient of 12501 Old Columbia Pike, Silver not all his benefits—who forgives all Days, is eternally young. Spring, Maryland 20904-6600. your sins and heals all your diseases, "Therefore, since we are surrounded who redeems your life from the pit and by such a great cloud of witnesses, let * All Bible quotations come from the New crowns you with love and compassion" us throw off everything that hinders and International Version. (Ps. 103:1-3). the sin that so easily entangles, and let This entire psalm has been our recur- us run with perseverance the race ring favorite for reading aloud as a fam- marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes ily on the Sabbath. David's response to on Jesus, the author and perfecter of WILLIAM G. JOHNSSON

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Great Idea!

at do you think of our relation- After a few moments of thoughtful component of a person's experience, Whip?" silence, she said, "OK, let's exchange any more than spirituality can be The question caught him off guard, lists." But when she looked at the list he divorced from a person's total life so he mumbled, "What do you mean?" handed her, she burst into tears. "That's experience. Romance is a reflection of "Our marriage—do you think it's as not fair!" she exclaimed. God's love and is a direct demonstra- exciting and passionate as it used to be?" Because for every line she had writ- tion of the fruit of the Holy Spirit (love, "I like our marriage," he said. ten about what she didn't like about joy, peace, patience, kindness, good- "I knew you'd say that. That's the him, he had written on his paper, "I ness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self- way most men respond." love you, I love you, I love you . .." control) in a couple's life.' "Who says?" Looking across the table, the woman My heart aches every time I hear of "This magazine article I've been suddenly remembered why she was in couples who live under the same roof, reading. It says most men are satisfied love with such an ordinary man. Not are parents of the same children, are with their marriages, but that a majority because he was outrageously attractive, seen in public together, but share no of women wish there was more or because he had magnificent wealth, romance, no passion, no intimacy. I romance in their relationships." or because he was the greatest lover. wonder if they've experienced so little "We have romance." She loved him because his love for her of God's unconditional love that they "Yes, but not like we used to. The was unconditional. That and her own have nothing to share with the person article says we should communicate love for him had seen them through who shares their bed. more, open up, and say what's really on decades of laughter and tears, our minds." heartaches and holidays. And that, by It's a Conspiracy "why?" itself, was the reason there was Let's face it—Satan would like noth- (sounding exasperated) "To make romance and passion in their relation- ing more than to prevent people from our relationship more exciting." ship. Not as much as there used to be, experiencing God's love in any form. "But I like our relationship." but enough .. . more than enough. So if by neglect, fatigue, or perversion After dinner the woman persuaded Satan can keep couples from sharing her husband to participate in one of the An Original Idea romantic love, he's effectively elimi- "exercises" she had read about in the Some people have a hard time cele- nated one of the most tangible demon- magazine. Sitting at the dining room brating romantic love. strations of God's unconditional love. table, she said, "OK, this is how it Not me. I know that people call Homes without romance between hus- works. I'll write down things I don't Valentine the patron saint of love. But bands and wives are just dormitories, and like about you, and you write down long before Saint Valentine (or Dr. their inhabitants only roommates. God's things you don't like about me." Ruth), love and romance was God's idea. ideal is much higher than that. Ellen "Then what?" The earliest scenes of humanity are White wrote, "It [the home] should be a "Then we exchange lists and talk two creatures, male and female, perfect little heaven upon earth, a place where

about them." in every way, living and loving in a affections are cultivated." 2 "But I like our relationship." flawless environment. This was God's Romance is God's idea. After the But to humor his wife, he agreed to enduring legacy to humanity: in perfec- plan of salvation, I would argue that it proceed, and they began. Looking tion there was romance. is one of His best ideas. thoughtful, the woman focused on the The fact that romance has been cheap- ' Gal. 5:22, 23. empty page, pen poised. Suddenly ened by sleazy portrayals in books, The Adventist Home, p. 15. inspired, she wrote a line on her paper. movies, and television programs doesn't He replied with a line on his own page. mean that the love between a man and a After another moment's thought, she woman in the context of marriage's wrote again. So did he. She wrote, and exclusive commitment should not be he responded in kind. Several enjoyed. It's a gift—like salvation. exchanges took place. But romance isn't just an abstract STEPHEN CHAVEZ

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Robert S. Folkenberg, General Conference president, presents Rose Otis Audray Johnson, family ministries director of the Southeastern California with a bouquet and plaque of appreciation for her work as director of the Conference, spoke during the discussion of physical and emotional abuse in Office of Women's Ministries for the General Conference. the family. Conference Sets Course for Year of the Woman

historic two-day educational conference organized by the and excessive burdens borne by women. Her presentation AGeneral Conference Office of Women's Ministries came with powerful impact as she described her own experi- kicked off the Year of the Adventist Woman ences as a child of migrant Mexican day on January 9, 10. The event focused on six laborers. issues that impact women globally: poverty, Cardiologist Joan Coggin, M.D., of the risks to health, abuse, workload, illiteracy, and School of Medicine at Loma Linda University, lack of training and mentoring opportunities. addressed the lack of training and mentoring Held at world church headquarters in Silver opportunities for women. She also drew on her Spring, Maryland, the conference attracted own background as a young woman entering more than 70 participants, primarily leaders of the field of medicine and later as an advisor to the General Conference. the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Rose Otis, director of the GC Office of The poverty issue was presented by David Women's Ministries and overall planner and Syme, who recently came to the General organizer of the conference, said that the con- Conference Office of Global Mission after ference was "to speak to key leaders of the John Corcoran, who learned to read serving in Africa. He likewise combined statis- church and make them more aware of the in his late 40s (after graduating tical data with moving personal experiences. issues faced by women in the church and from school and operating his own Several experts teamed up to cover abuse of business), stressed the importance women we hope to reach with our message, of literacy. women: Dr. Alberta Mazat, Dr. Nancy and to develop strategies to meet these issues." Bassham, Dr. Richard Stenbakken, Mable Keynote speaker for the conference was Dr. Barbara Frye, Dunbar, Audray Johnson, Janis Vance, and Ron and Karen professor of maternal/child health at the Loma Linda Flowers (coordinators). University School of Public Health in Loma Linda, The conference banquet featured John Corcoran, author of California. In a statistics-packed profile of women around The Teacher Who Couldn't Read, and guest on several the world she pointed out that although women comprise 50 national television programs. Corcoran passionately percent of the population and do two thirds of the work, they described his struggle to learn to read and his eventual tri- own only 10 percent of the money and 1 percent of the prop- umph in his 40s. "When you teach someone to read," he said, erty. Frye also gave a study on risks to the health of women. "it's an act of love and service to God." Lynne Waihee, an Adventist national literacy advocate, One of the most moving moments of the conference, how- addressed issues of illiteracy. As first lady of the state of ever, came in an unrehearsed speech. After the discussion of Hawaii, she sponsored Read to Me and other programs that abuse, Jose Campos, an associate publishing director of the attacked the state's 19 percent illiteracy rate. GC, said that "abuse is a problem and we can create aware- Dr. Ramona Greek, university professor, spouse, mother, ness of it, but the underlying issue is that we need to respect and church administrator, took up the topic of the long hours women more."

K KAJIURA At the banquet a statement on the biblical concept of

RIC By William G. Johnsson, editor of the Adventist Review. women, prepared by Ardis Stenbakken of the Office of

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Womens' Ministries, was presented to Karen Davis, a SDA Members, Workers Survive representative from the United Nations. Japan's Earthquake General Conference presi- dent Robert S. Folkenberg Though the earthquake near Kobe, Japan, Located northeast of Kobe, the 116-bed attended the entire confer- has claimed the lives of more than 5,000 hospital sustained broken windows, buckled ence. In a closing challenge persons, General Conference leaders say no floors, cracked walls, and loss of water, gas, he pointed to the launching casualties involving Adventists have been and electricity. Medical personnel have of the Office of Women's reported as of presstime (January 26). been seeing patients as usual, says the Ministries and Global All Adventist national workers, members, Adventist News Network based at the Mission as the landmarks of and expatriates in the region have been General Conference. the quinquennium now draw- accounted for, says Larry Colburn, an asso- However, some patients were sent home ing to a close. He called on ciate secretary of the General Conference to enable the staff to treat quake victims. the Office of Women's and liaison to the Far Eastern Division. At the Nishinomiya Adventist Church 70 Ministries to lead the way in "The only reported loss is of a member who people who lost their homes are being two paradigm shifts—one in lost her home." housed. the developed world to The January 17 quake caused extensive The Adventist Development and Relief bridge the gap between damage to the Kobe Adventist Hospital and Agency has opened seven feeding centers doing and believing, so that the two Adventist churches in the vicinity. and is feeding 4,000 persons daily. social action is not divorced from mission; the other in the developing world to Network, a satellite televi- Union; secretary, Napita August 10. James R. Nix, show that it is appropriate for sion network operated by Nshimba, formerly West an associate director of the the church to get involved in Adventist members in south- Kasai Field president; and estate, will become vice the issues identified by the ern Illinois, a non-Adventist treasurer, Ninfa Gonzaga, director. conference. pastor in Mount Vernon formerly senior accountant Gordon has served the Summing up the event, brought his entire congrega- for AID, and a Filipino Adventist Church for 43 Otis stated: "I view this tion into the Adventist who is now the only female years, including 28 in the conference as a real bench- Church, reports James L. union treasurer in Africa. White Estate, and the past mark, a historical happen- Brauer, Illinois Conference five as director. ing. I was very pleased with president. Viera Becomes Director- the spirit of the partici- Elect of E. G. White ALSO IN THE NEWS pants—their obvious inter- WORLD CHURCH Estate. The Ellen G. White est and willingness to be Estate board has appointed New Study Documents informed by the messages, New Union Inaugurated in Juan Carlos Islamic Growth. Nearly which weren't militant but Zaire. More than 2,000 per- Viera, cur- 500,000 Muslims worship clearly urgent. Even more sons took part in a special rently asso- in 1,000 mosques in the important than the informa- Sabbath celebration on ciate United States and Canada, tion presented was the fact January 7 to commemorate director of says a new study reported that the conference the new West Zaire Union the E. G. by Religion News Service. occurred. This sends the Mission with headquarters White The study reveals that message that church leaders in Kinshasa. Estate, as director-elect. half the mosques have been want all members, regard- The Sabbath services con- Viera (above) will assume established since 1980 and less of gender, involved in cluded three days of union the office of director when 75 percent have been estab- the church's mission." meetings, the first business Paul A. Gordon retires on lished since 1971. session of the new union. NORTH AMERICA The new union officers CHURCH CALENDAR appointed by the Africa- Illinois Pastor Converts His Indian Ocean Division Feb. 11 Christian Home and Marriage Week Church to Adventism. As a (AID) include: president, Feb. 18 Youth Temperance Focus result of viewing the Three Ratsarasaotra, formerly sec- Feb. 18 Vibrant Life, Listen magazine promotion Angels Broadcasting retary of the Indian Ocean Mar. 6 World Day of Prayer

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his article is about justice. About interracial T understanding. About people and how they interact in society. About my dream for the church as an

accepting, affirming, redemptive community. About my

vision of God's people as an alternative society.

hate my pastor's wife!" my friend inside that to be a child of God, I was exclaimed. Then she said to me, going to have to give up this hatred. And "You probably think I'm terrible, it wasn't easy. I struggled and resisted, Idon't you?" and through hours of tears and wrestling Now, at this point I had several with God, I handed my hatred for this options. I could have looked shocked, person to God. Miraculously, when I saw given her a mini Bible study on how she that person the very next day, I could must learn to love her enemies, and actually say I had love for this person. quoted a few scriptures for her to mem- I told my friend, "Nothing shocks the orize. The Lord, however, impressed me Lord. God knows our human condition. to open up—to become vulnerable. He is not there to condemn us, but to "No, I don't think you're terrible. I've love us and help us be overcomers." hated someone myself." I shared with her Shouldn't this be our goal in the how I hated this person and felt I had Christian community—not to condemn, every right to my hate because of how but to love and help? this person treated me. But I knew deep "And let us consider how we may

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8 (144) ADVENTIST REVIEW, FEBRUARY 9, 1995 spur one another on toward love and Christian who says that she and her hus- knew it would be just a matter of time." good works" (Heb. 10:24, NIV). band prefer to attend AA (Alcoholics One of my favorite verses of Scripture Anonymous) meetings for fellowship and is Micah 7:8: The Church of My Dream sharing rather than attend church: "At "Do not gloat I have a vision of a church with men church we've noticed that people look over me, my and women not being afraid to share shocked, withdraw, and stop talking to us enemy! Though I Too many their pain and struggles with one when we say something about our strug- have fallen, I will another. A church in which people gles, fears, and doubts. At least at AA rise. Though I sit know that their fellow church members everyone comes admitting they are in in darkness, the times I have will take seriously their confidence and trouble, and no one is trying to pretend Lord will be my will take the problem to the Lord instead they are okay like they did at church."' light" (NW). of breaching their trust or becoming So many of us walk into church pre- Such power! sat through proud, feeling that they themselves have tending we're OK, when what we really Even though we it all together. Instead of church mem- want is to bare our souls to someone may fall, it's not bers saying, "The last person I want to who will say, "You're not alone. I've the time to give celebrations of tell about my problems is someone in been there." Satan the victory. my church," they will say, "I really need It's time to fight to share this with someone in my church I have a vision of a church that says to back—"Don't Women's family—they'll understand." its members, "Get up—I know you can gloat over me, my Dr. Margaret Rinck in her book Can do it!" "You can make it—I have faith in enemy!" It's time Christians Love Too Much? shares a you," instead of the all-too-common "I for us to get into Month or story of one of her clients, a new could tell that one wasn't going to last; I the battle together. To help our fel- low believers rise Black History up ("You can make it! I know you can do it!"), Month and not push them back into the mud ("Can you believe seen hatred what he did? He's not really a Christian"). It's a and animosity time to remind one another that the Lord will illu- disguised as minate our path and enlighten our vision if only we virtues. will ask. Some may say, "But if I don't point out their error, how will they know they're doing wrong?" My answer is: It is not my job to convict of sin—that is the work of the Holy Spirit. It is my job to love and to share how the Lord has led in my life. My friend knew she shouldn't hate her pastor's wife. She didn't need someone to remind her how sinful hatred is. She needed someone to tell her she's not alone in this human condition, that there is power to overcome.

z I have a vision of a church in which I the youth are excited about Jesus. The 2 chair of the religion department at one

ADVENTIST REVIEW, FEBRUARY 9, 1995 (145) 9 of our schools did a survey of Adventist the older Christians sharing the wisdom would not eat at all. For the first time in youth on their opinion of the church they have learned through the years, and my life, I had met a white man who acted today. What was the finding? They young Christians giving of their energy like he was Christian enough to take a looked upon the church as "stuck-up, and their vision for the future—and each stand against injustice with a black, biased, boring, hypocritical." And they listening to the other. Christian brother. I couldn't believe it! I felt that as youth they were considered knew the moment would come when he "second-class citizens." I have a vision of a church that will would buckle under, but he never did. When my stand up against injustice, yet will not "Up to this point I had known two nephew Shawn in the midst of the battle create more worlds: the white world with its social, was 15 years old, injustices. Too many times I have sat religious, and economic systems and the he stayed with through celebrations of Women's Month black world with a separate church, eco- Many of our my husband and or Black History Month and seen hatred nomic, and social system. For the first me one summer and animosity disguised as virtues. time I began to understand that there was for about six Edward V. Hill, a prominent Black another world—a third world, a world of youth feel like weeks. If only we preacher, tells of growing up in the midst Christians. I discovered that within this could have bot- of two worlds—the White person's Christian world there were both blacks tled his energy! world and the Black person's world. As and whites who had been regenerated to second-class The problem he grew into his teens, his hatred of believe that the color of a [person's] skin was, though, that Whites boiled within him—that is, until really made no difference... when he ran out he discovered a third world: "There is a third world where white citizens. of constructive "As a freshman at Prairie View and black (and I shall add male and ways to use that College, the Negro Auxiliary of the female, young and old) are planning, energy, he would Texas A &M University system, I working, and praying together, sacrific- find destructive became involved in the Baptist Student ing and accepting abuse together, so that ways to use it. I learned, however, that Union and was selected to attend the the kingdoms of this world will become whenever I asked him for help and took National BSU Convention in Nashville, the kingdom of our Lord (Rev. 11:15)."2 time to show him what I needed, he Tennessee. I had no money, but the accepted the challenge immediately and BSUers at Texas A & M, through vari- So, That's It gave it all he had. ous projects, raised the money for two have shared with you my vision for Could it be that the youth of our of us to attend. Both black and white the church, my "third world." I church have lost their vision because we students were going to this meeting. don't pretend I have all the answers have not asked for their help, shared "I was happy to go, and I accepted the Ito make this vision a reality. But I with them our struggles, and let them money the white students raised because do know it's possible. And it must begin know that we don't have all the I looked upon it as their attempt at pity right here—with me and with you. To answers? In not humbling ourselves, toward a less fortunate person. I felt that begin, we must humble ourselves before have we deprived them of knowing that they got a lot of glow and glee from God and one another; and we must there is power in the name of the Lord? knowing they sent a Negro somewhere. believe—really believe in the depths of I personally believe our youth want to "Then my troubles began. This trip our being—that any victories we have in make a difference in the world but don't was to be by car, and in the car would our lives, whether personal or corporate, know how. They haven't been asked or be three whites and two Negroes. I was are not the result of our willpower, but given a challenge. so filled with hatred and misgivings the result of our hearts being softened about the trip—traveling through the by the power of God. I have a vision of a church that will South—that I almost backed out. What power awaits us if we will hum- institute change when necessary, but However, I finally agreed to go. We met ble ourselves, if we would truly become not create a barrier between young and at Texas A& M in College Station and "third world" Christians! rr old. Too many times change has been began the trip with a very distinguished ' Margaret Rinck, Can Christians Love Too Much? made, and instead of helping people— gentleman, Dr. W. F. Howard, then (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1989). especially the older generation—under- director of student work for the Baptist 2 Edward V. Hill, "Third World," taken from the book The Greatest Lesson I've Ever Learned, Here's Life stand and enjoy it, they've been told, General Convention of Texas. Publishers, Inc., 1991, p.107-109. "You don't like it? You can find another "There I was, totally disliking the church!" Growth is then stifled, because whole setup, but anxious to show the change was made only for the sake of whites that I was their superior. I didn't Bonita J. Shields is change, and it became divisive. know where we would eat or where we studying theology at "Come, let us reason together," says would sleep. Dr. Howard informed us Columbia Union Col- the Lord. I can see a church of young that we would travel together, stay lege. She writes from and old giving the advantages of their together, and eat together, and if there Takoma Park, Mary- stage in life to each other for growth: were places that would not serve all, we land. 10 (146) ADVENTIST REVIEW, FEBRUARY 9, 1995 SANDRA DORAN: DIALOGUES Lord, Protect Us From People With Answers y

T've come to a rather simple conclu- having this problem today." with being a parent. I am so down on lsion. The world is made up of two But the letter that caused me to myself, and I'm scared that I'm damag- types of people: those with problems cringe—and does even now—is one that ing my son even more. and those with answers. And as Job came from Mrs. James Roy.* "The "I can't find a good Christian coun- might attest, the real problem arises Bible says we should lay stripes on our selor, and I don't know where to turn. I when the two meet. children to drive out foolishness. Have feel helpless and hopeless." This knowledge hit me rather we done that? Until we do what God My prayer, when I put down Laura's abruptly after the publication of my first commands we will not receive the bless- letter, was that she would not run into a article on hyperactivity. Seated on the ings of obedience." touter of nontoxic therapy, a pusher of couch, engrossed in a letter that Lord, protect the people with prob- wooden spoons, an antivaccine activist, promised to "solve my son's problem" lems from the people with answers. a mercury-filling detester, or white- by "retraining his ability to hear," I was sugar hater. My prayer was that she interrupted by the telephone. It's Not That Simple would find, not a packaged answer, but "Sandra?" said the voice at the other Why is it that Christians seem so a genuine friend. end of the line. "I just finished reading ready to set the world straight and dole your article, and I have a question. Do out answers? Is it because we equate A Little Humility Goes a Long Way you have mercury fillings in your answers with righteousness? Do we feel When Job's friends were so sure they teeth?" that since there is one right answer to a had the perfect causal explanation that Momentarily stunned, I stalled for theological question, there is one right linked Job's pain to its antecedent, God time. "Would you mind calling back answer to a human dilemma? Are we did not offer any such reductionist inter- this evening?" more comfortable with Hume's theory pretation. Instead He overshadowed "I won't take long," the speaker of causation—every event is linked to a such paltry human reasoning with the responded. "I've got some crucial infor- cause—than we are with the view that expansiveness of His own power: "Do mation for you. If you have mercury reality is many-faceted and stratified, you give the horse his strength or clothe fillings in your teeth, it has undoubtedly with multiple layers of complexity? his neck with a flowing mane?" (Job gotten into your bloodstream, which The unfortunate side of the reduction- 39:19, NIV). affected your son when he was in utero ist viewpoint is that for every Bildad, God revealed Himself in all His rich- 11 with life compartmentalized, labeled, ness and glory, and the petty explica- This caller's earnestness was echoed and neatly packaged, there is a Job, vul- tions of Job's three friends disintegrated. by dozens of others who claimed to nerable and hurting. For every Mrs. Would that people with answers might have the answer to my "problem." In the James Roy, there is a Laura. catch a true vision of the rich complexity months that followed, I received a bar- Laura's letter came to me in the form of God and His universe. Would that rage of "solutions." of four pages of single-spaced pain. people with problems might be sur- Just one teaspoonful of barley green a After thanking me for writing the article rounded by those thus humbled. day, promised one writer, will cure any- on the hyperactive child, she stated: "I thing from cancer to hyperactivity. was so relieved to find that my family is * Names have been changed. Eliminate all sugar from the diet, said not the only one going through this 'dis- another. Take care of yeast infections. orderly disorder.' I have little support in Clear up ear infections. Try nontoxic my extended family—and my church therapy. Give him EEG biofeedback. family has been no better. It seems that Sandra Doran is a field supervision fel- Avoid the dangers of vaccines. everyone has an answer to my problem, low and doctoral candidate in special And then there were the letters that but no one wants to take the time to lis- education at Boston University. She is chastised me for what I had not done. ten.... the author of three books and hundreds "If you had removed his diaper and "I have felt so alone in all of this. I of articles. She also conducts seminars spanked him with a wooden spoon," one feel so drained most of the time, espe- on writing, family issues, and raising writer admonished, "you would not be cially emotionally. I'm so frustrated "tough kids."

ADVENTIST REVIEW, FEBRUARY 9, 1995 (147) 11 HERITAGE AWoman's Place The history of Adventist missions is the history of Adventist women. There wouldn't be the former without the latter.

BY ROBERT G. WEARNER

aude Courser Perry was Since the Peruvian constitution new pastor and his family with open one of the first Adventist strictly prohibited all worship except arms. Betran helped the Perrys find a women to serve as a for- that organized by the state church, the two-room apartment to rent a short dis- Meign missionary. Ana first Adventist meetings, by necessity, tance from the meeting place. Stahl's name comes to mind when most took place in secret. As a result of per- One can only imagine how hard it people talk about the pioneer work in sonal Bible studies, Escobar baptized must have been for Maude Perry to keep the Andean region. Books have been three Peruvians in 1899. (Lay leaders house in two small rooms with very lit- written about her, and a clinic in the jun- were permitted to baptize, since there tle room for a toddler to play. The cou- gle is named in her honor. But who was were few ordained ministers in South ple, with their limited knowledge of Maude Perry? America at the time.) Spanish, had to buy new and unusual In this Year of the Adventist Woman, Other Chilean Adventists started work (for them) tropical fruits and vegetables it's appropriate to review the facts in in the southern cities of Arequipa and in an open-air market and cope with regard to the first woman sent by the Mollendo. These early evangelists customs vastly different from the ones General Conference to assist the pioneer encountered bitter opposition. A recent they had known in the north central work in Peru. war between Chile and Peru resulted in United States. Maude Perry, her husband, Franklin, deep hatred between the citizens of the As for missionary activities, they had and her 2-year-old son, Mora Lloyd, two countries. This, combined with the to be very careful. All religious services arrived in the Peru port city of Callao on prejudice demonstrated against had to be held behind closed doors. The November 16, 1905. This was nearly Adventists, showed the strength of the Roman Catholic Church was the only four years before the Stahls began work love these pioneer Adventists had for all church sanctioned officially by the gov- in Bolivia, in July 1909, and six years people, regardless of their national origin. ernment. And the Peruvian constitution before they moved to Plateria, Peru, in specifically mentioned "the exclusion of 1911. The First Small Steps any other." (The clause was not deleted When the Perrys arrived in Peru in from the constitution until 1915, 10 The Foundation Is Laid 1905 they found a group of 14 individu- years after the Perrys arrived.) Both the Perrys and the Stahls bene- als meeting in a small dark room behind Having left behind the severe winters fited from members who prepared the a store in Lima. By that time a literature of the Dakotas, the Perrys were pleas- way. For although these two couples evangelist, Ram6n Betran, was working antly surprised by the mild weather of responded to calls made by the General in the capital city. Frank Westphal, in Peru. Temperatures seldom rose higher Conference, as early as 1898 a group of Chile, informed Baran of the arrival than 80°F in summer or fell lower than seven self-supporting missionaries date for the new missionary family, and 60°F in winter. "The only thing we have started working in Lima, Peru. Jose Luis Baran met them at Callao and brought to annoy us," wrote Franklin, "are the Escobar, a carpenter, led the group. The them to Lima by electric train. He also fleas, which are numerous." names of the others in the group are arranged for the transport of their goods Maude didn't have to put up with unknown. They met for services in by horse-drawn cart. cramped living space for long. Her hus- homes because rented halls were too In spite of the language barrier, the band found a house to rent that provided expensive. tiny group of believers welcomed the more room for the family, and a place

12 (148) ADVENTIST REVIEW, FEBRUARY 9,1995 for worship services promised to find a home for the Adventist for the child somehow. group. Although they When Franklin ar- still had to talk and rived in Aberdeen with sing quietly, the com- the child, Maude fell in pany was grateful to love with the aban- move out of the tiny doned baby at first room behind the store. sight. She and her hus- The ingenious lay- band gladly adopted people and the Amer- him, and Mora accom- ican husband and wife panied them to all their made a powerful evan- mission posts for the gelistic team. Within next 20 years. two years a group of Perhaps nowhere is 20 baptized believers the compassionate char- formed the first acter of Maude Perry Seventh-day Adventist revealed more than in church in Peru. this story of the adop- Known today as the tion of an abandoned church of Avenida child. Espafia, it is still a After four years of thriving congregation. intensive labor in Peru, The church also holds the young pastor's the distinction of health deteriorated, and being the first congre- the Perrys had to return gation in the present to North America. But territory of the Inca before they left, the Union Mission. membership of _the church in Lima passed A Mother's Love the century mark, and Not much has been Franklin turned the recorded about work over to Alvin N. Maude's role as she Allen and others in and Franklin served 1909. as the only overseas Maude Courser Perry After a short period of missionaries in Peru. Years later her ahead of Franklin and his sister in the recuperation the couple worked in cooking, sewing, and musical skills same railroad car, a young mother car- Canada, then later in Uruguay, Chile, were well known by her family. And ried a baby in her arms. Getting up to go Argentina, and Mexico. In Mexico City doubtless she employed these gifts to the restroom, the young mother asked Maude died prematurely on June 6, among the believers and the public that an older woman to look after the baby. 1923. She was just 43 years old. she and her husband served. When the young woman didn't return The South Dakota girl who became a Maude did what she could to support after a reasonable time, the older woman missionary left her mark on Adventist Franklin in ministry, but she regarded asked the conductor to investigate. The work in Peru, the land of the Incas. As the care of their son, Mora, as her first train's brakeman informed him, "Oh, we honor women of faith in Adventist "mission field." she got off at the last station." history, let's include Maude Courser Locked firmly in Maude's heart was When it became obvious the baby had Perry, the first Seventh-day Adventist the fact that Mora had been adopted. been abandoned, the passengers dis- woman missionary to Peru. Now, after a lapse of more than 90 cussed the situation. The older woman years, the story can be told. was on her way to a funeral and could Before going as missionaries to Peru, not keep the child. The conductor could Maude and Franklin Perry carried on only turn the child over to the authori- evangelistic work in Aberdeen, South ties, who would see that he was placed Robert G. Wearner is a Dakota. When the young evangelist in an orphanage. When the passengers retired missionary who needed an organist for his meetings, he learned that Franklin was a minister, spent many years work- traveled north by train to enlist his sis- they urged him to take the child. He hes- ing in South America. ter, Marie, for that purpose. itated to make a final decision without He writes from Oolte- On the way back to Aberdeen, a little getting his wife's consent, but he wah, Tennessee.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, FEBRUARY 9, 1995 (149) 13 LIFESTYLE

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BY CHARLES M. ROGERS

14 (150) ADVENTIST REVIEW, FEBRUARY 9, 1995 to refrain from behavior that gets under common of human traits, often leads to his or her skin. Certainly we'd like our words that wound and sting. partner to do that for us, wouldn't we? We can't always avoid this, I believe. n an age in which divorce is Even if your spouse doesn't always But this we all can do: we can say we increasingly common, even succeed in doing or refraining from doing are sorry. That is Christian through and among Seventh-day Adventists, one is some things that annoy you, just knowing through. A spouse can overlook a lot tempted to ask why a Christian faith that your partner is trying makes things so from a partner if he or she can muster doesn't preserve more marriages than it much easier to bear. Most of us are rea- the courage to admit having spoken or does. What is wrong, anyway? sonable about these things. We don't acted unkindly. A partial answer is that our faith often expect perfection of each other. does keep marriages that would otherwise Too many young people especially Pray and Make Peace crumble intact. It happens all the time. are inclined to say, "Love me as I am— As Christians my wife and I believe Still, I wonder if we sometimes fail to or you don't really love me." we should take time for prayer before apply Christian principles of behavior to going to sleep at night. But one cannot our marital problems in concrete, down- pray more than a perfunctory, routinized, to-earth ways. Christianity perceived in a uncomfortable prayer if one entertains vague, generalized, sentimental form resentment toward a spouse because of does not do justice to its true potential for something that happened that day. strengthening a marriage. Oeizff tolerant and That's why we have found it impera- My wife and I have been married tive that unpleasantness that has occurred more than 47 years. Our marriage has during the day be cleared up before bed- not been without its bumps and bruises, cfiViithff theie "de time. Sometimes it may be excruciatingly sometimes serious ones. As a worka- difficult to say what needs to be said in holic I fell considerably short of being order to restore family peace. But noth- the kind of husband I should have been. g(the marrias.e coat ing yields richer dividends. And nothing But some attitudes and strategies befits the Christian spirit more. we've employed, derived directly from Sometimes this requires going more our faith, have helped us. And on the g&tiff to- reduce than halfway to resolve a problem. A lit- chance that some things we've learned tle magnanimity never hurts—and it might help others, I write this article. often brings out the best in one's harriemi to- maritwe spouse. A belligerent defense of "me Time to Talk—And Listen and my rights" doesn't. From time to time, especially in our It's also a good idea, when thorny later years, my wife and I have set aside Aeace is/ the odzer-. problems arise, to say, "Let's pretend time to discuss our marriage and ask we are Christians trying to resolve this each other, "What could I do, or refrain problem in a Christian way!" That can from doing, that would make you feel change the atmosphere and lead to a better about me and our marriage?" more amicable discussion than might (From what I've been told, a host of otherwise take place. wives would shed tears of purest joy if Maybe so. But persons expressing this they could have a session like this.) view who aren't willing to try—and try Then we've tried to take the answers hard—to behave in a way that makes a seriously—for more than a day. relationship more pleasant manifest a self- Some Christian spouses are reluctant centered, self-indulgent spirit that will Taking a marriage work is to bring up irritations or vexations take its toll on a marriage sooner or later. probably the most difficult task any of unless invited to do so, especially if the Being tolerant and forgiving is one side of us will ever undertake. It is a much problem might appear to the other to be the good marriage coin; trying to reduce tougher task than achieving success in a minor one. barriers to marital peace is the other side. one's career. Only being a consistently But we have learned that behavioral We can't always avoid doing or say- good parent rivals it as a demanding job. characteristics that may seem unimpor- ing things that we will (or should) later It takes the very best that is in us, a tant to one spouse may not seem so to regret. We are dog-tired, or the day has best that needs to be nourished by RK PA the other. Nor will it do for the offending gone badly, or we don't feel very good, prayer and sustained by specific, con- ER T party to say, "Oh, come now, that's such or some wholly unexpected problem crete application of the Christian spirit /PE GN

a trivial thing; it shouldn't bother you." arises to darken our day, so we blurt out when we are tempted to act like we feel DESI

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ever irrational that may seem to another. moment it's out of our mouth we know TRA And if we love our spouse, we will try we have erred. Impulsiveness, that most Charles M. Rogers is a pseudonym. VE STE

ADVENTIST REVIEW, FEBRUARY 9, 1995 (151) 15 STORY hands a minute. See, brethren, Dr. Hatfield and Brother Steel shake hands across the bloody chasm. 'Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!'" (Ps. 133:1). At that moment Ira D. Sankey raised his rich baritone voice in "Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love . . ." Those around the table joined in spontaneously.

Burdened No More Moody led in prayer, and the Southerner confessed, "I never heard such a prayer. He thanked the Lord for bringing me to Philadelphia; thanked the Lord that I was in Richmond, dear A decade after the end of the Civil War, some Richmond, a city renowned throughout the world for its noble traditions, for its Americans still hadn't let down their guard. heroic defense, for its delightful people. He prayed that the richest blessings of heaven might rest upon me, my church, BY BERNARD R. DE REMER and Richmond. And he prayed with fer- vor and earnestness." Steel was amazed; in spite of himself, his bitterness against Dr. Hatfield and ll Philadelphia, it seemed, the most famous evangelist of the day), the North was disappearing. He wept, was turning out to hear the the friend took him to a side door. overcome with emotion, and could say famed evangelist Dwight L. In a room behind the platform, with Jacob, "Surely the Lord is in this AMoody during his 1875-1876 Moody and some 20 ministers were place" (Gen. 28:16). campaign. The interior of the former meeting around a conference table, Later he was ushered to a seat on the Pennsylvania Railroad freight depot at planning the services. The salesman platform near the famous evangelist. 13th and Market streets had been rebuilt said, "Excuse me, Mr. Moody, but let It was the beginning of a lifelong for the occasion, and every evening an me introduce Brother Steel, pastor of the friendship. Some years later Moody estimated 12,000 people filled the build- Broad Street Methodist Church in held a campaign in Louisville, ing within 10 minutes after the doors Richmond, Virginia." Kentucky, where Steel was then a pas- were opened. U.S. president Ulysses S. Moody rose, greeted the visitor cor- tor. He became Moody's chief assistant. Grant and several Cabinet members dially, then invited him to join the were among the 900,000 who attended group, motioning to a vacant chair near teel always looked back on that over the course of the series. the center of the table. As he resumed S Philadelphia scene when the ice of Dr. Samuel A. Steel, then a young his seat, he said, "Dr. Hatfield, shake his fierce anti-Northern prejudice pastor from Richmond, Virginia, was hands with Brother Steel." melted in a moment, and he discovered one of those who flocked to At this Steel almost panicked. He that "all the good folks did not live in Philadelphia. Eager to be a better trained later recalled, "If there was a man any- my part of the country." pastor, Dr. Steel sought to learn the where in the world I hated more than secrets of the great evangelist's success. another, it was a Methodist preacher in This incident was related in Steel's 1925 Philadelphia named Hatfield! His malig- autobiography Eminent Men I Met nant pen had vilified the South in Along the Sunny Road. unmeasured terms." The decade since the Civil War had failed to heal all sec- Still Fighting the War Within tional prejudice. Bernard R. DeRemer While waiting in line to gain entrance But it happened so fast there was writes from West to the auditorium, Steel was hailed by a scarcely time to reflect: the man across Liberty, Ohio. He is a traveling salesman he had known in the table was extending his hand. Steel retired executive secre- Richmond. His friend insisted on intro- thought, Maybe it's not the same per- tary for the Liberty ducing him to Moody. And over Steel's son, and grasped the outstretched hand. Lobby in Washington, objections (he was somewhat in awe of Then Moody exclaimed, "Hold your D.C. 16 (152) ADVENTIST REVIEW, FEBRUARY 9, 1995 Emergency

BY EDNA MAY OLSEN

erek was only 3 years old when he pulled up to the house and two men Derek took hold of the bolt, which Dreceived a medal for saving his jumped out. They raced to the front door was stiff for his little fingers, and mother's life! and tried to open it, but it was locked, as slowly pulled it back. I am sure he doesn't realize the were the back door and all the windows. "I've done it!" he shouted. importance of what he did last February "Derek," they shouted, "can you open In no time the men opened the door when his mother fell down the stairs and the front door?" and put Derek's mother into the ambu- was knocked unconscious. But his par- "No. Daddy has the key." lance and took her to the hospital. A ents do, and they are proud of him! "How about that back door?" neighbor contacted Derek's father and "I don't know what happened," his "No, it's bolted." watched the children until he came mother told the hospital staff. "The last "Can you reach the bolt, Derek?" home. thing I remember, I reached to get some- "No, it's too high up." "You have a real smart son," the thing from a shelf at the top of the stairs. "Well, listen, Derek. Get a chair and ambulance man later told the boy's Then I woke up in the hospital, and some- put it by the door; then we'll tell you father. "Derek remembered his address one told me Derek had saved my life." what to do next." and the 911 number to call in an emer- Apparently she had slipped down the There was plenty of scraping and gency. His quick action saved his stairs and injured her neck. Had it not banging as Derek pushed a heavy chair mother's life. If all parents taught been for Derek's quick action in calling to the back door. these things to their children, it would the emergency number 911 (in the "OK, son. Now stand on it. Can you make our job easier." United States), she might not have lived. reach the bolt?" The next day Derek's picture was in After his mother fell, Derek hadn't "Yes, I've got it." the newspaper, but he wasn't inter- known what to do. Then he remembered "Fine. Now see if you can slide it to ested. He was just happy he had been that once when he had fallen and his the left." able to help his mother. mother had given him a glass of orange juice. So he went to the refrigerator, poured some juice in a cup, and offered it to her. But she didn't wake up! So he went to the telephone and dialed 911, A whole new way to love just like his parents had taught him. "Hi! I'm Derek. My mom fell down and understand the Word. the stairs and won't wake up," he told The Abundant Life Bible Amplifier is your key the operator. "What should I do?" to unlocking the treasure house of God's Word. "Are you alone?" she asked. *User-friendly study tool makes the Bible "My baby sister's here, but she's accessible to new and experienced Christians. sleeping." *Easily adaptable for small-group study. "Anyone else?" *Four new volumes added each year, "No, my dad is at work." eventually covering the entire Bible. *Written by some of our church's finest "Do you know your address?" the Bible students. operator continued. *Available in paper and hardcover bindings. "Yes, it's 15 Lime Avenue." Try it and see for yourself the beauty of this "You are a clever boy, Derek. Now breakthrough Bible-study system. stay with your mommy and in a few Paper. US$12.95/Cdn$18.75 each. minutes the ambulance people will be Hardcover: US$17.95/Cdn$26.00 each. there to look after her, OK?" a 1995 Pacific Press Publishing Association 820/59591 "OK!" And he hung up. Available now at your local Adventist Book Center, or call toll free 1-800-765-6955. In a very short while the ambulance

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II MICHIGAN Brief Encounters of the Supernatural Kind Who knows where gospel seed will sprout?

Every August the North- though I left with a big stack ern District Fair is held in of books, he wouldn't take Cadillac, Michigan. It's a any money for them. I practi- place to kick up one's heels, cally begged to pay for eat cotton candy, maybe try them." for a blue ribbon in cate- Laden with books, Hinman gories ranging from baking read them. But then he was to horse training. Hardly a reading a lot of books at the place to find God, right? time. He was a college stu- Wrong! dent, after all. And though seeds were sown, the fruitage In 1984 the church board would wait. of the Cadillac Seventh- day Adventist Church Anything for a Friend hedged a bit about operating Two years later one of a fair booth again. "After Hinman's friends started tak- all," some said, "we've ing studies with an Adventist done it many times before, pastor in Mount Pleasant, spent time and money, and Michigan. Hinman decided to we've never seen any inter- study with them—for the ests as a result." purpose of trying to persuade But the personal min- his friend not to join the istries leader, Mary Lou church. He remembered Shaw, stood firm, even attending an Adventist offering to pay the church a couple times as a expenses herself—if the teenager and was put off by members would come and all the "can't do's." help. And Pastor Jim So now he went back to Ten years after their first contact, Pastor Jim Micheff (left) met and remembered Micheff urged, "Let's plant Brad Hinman, now a teacher in the Adventist school in Grand Haven, Michigan. his personal library, which some seeds!" included the books he had Arrangements were made to rent the Many people stopped by the display, collected from the county fair. With conference bookmobile to use instead including a 20-year-old college student these and his Bible, Hinman set out to of a booth. From it the members con- named Bradley Hinman. The lure for prove his point. Attending Central ducted free services: blood pressure Hinman, an avid reader, was the offer Michigan University at the time, he checks, stress tests, distribution of free of free books. While browsing through sought out books by Ellen White in the literature and books, even vegetarian the literature, a kindly older man asked library. He also found a book written by food taste-testing. the younger one if he believed in a Catholic priest that took issue with Once the plans were launched, the Christ. This led to a discussion about Adventist beliefs. "But," said Hinman, church members backed Shaw all the forgiveness. A dialogue followed which "his reasons were so illogical!" With a way, preparing food for the fairgoers to lasted two hours. definite, logical approach to life, sample, operating the mobile unit and Now 30 years old, Hinman remem- Hinman couldn't accept such reasoning doing the various tests, and handing bers the man dashing to retrieve another as "You'll be looked at as odd by going

out the books and pamphlets. book whenever they got onto another to church on Saturday." FF spiritual subject. "I was amazed at his Hinman genuinely wanted the Lord By Betty Kossick, a free-lance writer knowledge of biblical things," Hinman to show him the truth, but he didn't MICHE RNICE

from Cadillac, Michigan. said. "And I was impressed that even think the Adventists had it. BE

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Yet the more he studied the Bible forgiveness. In his presentation he Exuberantly, Micheff declared, "You and his "free books," the more he dis- used a phrase that took Hinman back can't put a price tag on the value of a covered the real truth! He also changed 10 years. "I was standing in the book- person, and you can't reap a harvest his career path from law to education. mobile again, listening to the kind without planting seed." Stressing the "I'd never considered teaching [as a man talking to me about Jesus' for- importance of volunteers in spreading career] before the Bible studies." But giveness. And I realized, This is the the gospel, he said, "Many will hear, 'It though he graduated with double same man!" was you whom the Lord used."' degrees—law and education—he felt Until that moment Hinman had not From his perspective, Hinman the Lord calling him to a total life com- recognized Pastor Jim Micheff, and reflected, "I'm a member of the church mitment that included being baptized Micheff had not recognized Hinman. as a direct result of meeting Pastor as a Seventh-day Adventist and pursu- Yet both remembered their initial meet- Micheff at that bookmobile." Hinman's ing a career in Adventist education. ing some 10 years earlier. life was altered as a result. He met his Recalling the church board's hesi- wife, Pat (Oliver), on the day he was Coincidence or Providence? tancy those previous years about spon- baptized, and the couple has seen the Three years ago Hinman began soring a booth at the fair, Micheff birth of two sons, Aaron and Kory. teaching at the Seventh-day Adventist called Mary Lou Shaw to tell her the "This is where I belong, and I can't elementary school in Grand Haven, harvest story. Shaw's reaction? "We imagine doing anything but teaching. Michigan. As part of the educational [volunteers] put so much effort into it, I've grown as a Christian from being program; the pastor of the Adventist and it seemed so fruitless. But when around children, with their spiritual rela- church led out in classroom worship Pastor Micheff called, I was so glad. tionships so clean, so untainted. I every Monday morning. The Lord says His Word will not return believe this is what God wants me One morning the pastor's topic was to Him void, and it didn't!" to do."

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• AUSTRALIA Media Centre in New South Wales, Apple Corporation wanted to demon- A Message for where he is assistant to Media Centre strate the usefulness of the Macintosh evangelist Geoff Youlden. computer, the company released a pro- the Twenty-first Pastor Mitchell has developed a motional video that featured Mitchell prophecy video series designed for use using computer animation and graphics Century with the Prophecy Seminar Bible study to illustrate his sermons on a large guides. The new videos use three- screen. An ancient message dimensional computer animation and When Mitchell realized the potential photorealistic imaging. Translation: of using the computer to update evange- is combined with viewers see three-dimensional images listic presentations, he shared his cutting-edge technology. that simulate the time and location of thoughts with North New South Wales ancient Babylon, and bring to life the Conference president Rex Moe, who also It's a far cry from those old charts of ancient prophecies. "Virtually all of it caught the vision. "It was Pastor Moe (beasts and chronologies that Adventist has been produced using computer-gen- who was instrumental in convincing the evangelists used to use in public meet- erated backgrounds," said Mitchell. conference executive committee that an ings. But the effect still captures the "There's simply no other way to get an investment in this project would reap great rewards," said Adventist Media Centre manager John Banks. The video series was pro- duced by the North New South Wales Conference and is being managed and marketed by the Adventist Media Centre. James Cress, director of the General Con- ference Ministerial As- sociation, said, "Our whole staff is excited about this video project. It has tremendous poten- tial for the world field." The video series is visually coded to an accompanying Prophecy Seminar workbook, and a guidebook provides clear, simple instructions Anthony Mitchell (right) and Rex Moe, president of the North New South Wales Conference, display the Prophecy Seminar on how to use the series Video Bible study guides. most effectively. "The series is ideal for individ- attention and imagination of viewers aerial shot of ancient Babylon other than ual or family study, Bible studies in who wouldn't give those old charts a to create it on a computer." schools or churches, or with neighbors or second glance. The videos re-create such scenes as other contacts," said George Drinkall, A young Australian Adventist pastor Daniel in the lions' den, the ghostly North New South Wales Conference has spent much of the past few years hand writing on the wall at Belshazzar's communication director. packaging the prophecies of the biblical feast, and the stone shattering the great book of Daniel into high-tech computer image of Daniel 2. animation and graphics. Pastor Anthony Mitchell is highly regarded for his By Gary Krause, creative director for Mitchell has now become part of the innovative use of computer graphics in the Adventist Media Centre, Wah- staff of the South Pacific Adventist Australia. A few years ago when the roonga, New South Wales, Australia.

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MI CALIFORNIA 1975 with his parents. He graduated president of the Southeast Asia Union By All Means with degrees in chemistry and religion Mission, contacted Pastor Duong about from Walla Walla College and then producing radio programs for Adventist How God is using a radio earned a master's degree in biochem- World Radio. Duong agreed excitedly, istry from Oregon State University. saying he looked forward to the day program produced in Feeling a special burden for the when there was "a Seventh-day Southern California to Vietnamese people, Duong felt Adventist in every village in Vietnam." touch hearts a half impressed to enter the ministry and Fortunately, Pastor Duong is not went to Andrews University. He gradu- alone in this ministry. Of the 180 mem- world away. ated in 1987. bers of the Vietnamese church in Loma Returning to California, Duong Linda, at least 60 are involved in some I n the last several days I have met the worked to establish a Vietnamese way in the media ministry. One member Lord through your program. I am sure church in Westminster, Orange County, has just finished writing a series of many families that have lost peace and and also helped build up the Bible courses in Vietnamese. happiness will find them when they listen Vietnamese congregation in Loma And so it happened that just four to this program. I myself have experi- Linda. During this period he began to weeks after the programs in Vietnamese enced this. Please send me your material imagine the possibilities of using radio began on AWR, the letters began com- so I can lead the members in my parish and television to reach the estimated ing in. All four of the first listeners who and others back to Jesus Christ." 400,000 Vietnamese who lived in wrote requested a Bible course. A high This letter from a Roman Catholic southern California. school student said, "I really like your priest in Vietnam was among the first The means to begin this work came program, and I am telling all my friends received last September as a result of early in 1993 when Lynn Mallery, to listen." Vietnamese language broadcasts that president of the Southeastern There are at least 70 million people in began airing from the facilities of California Conference, approached Vietnam, most of whom are Buddhists, Adventist World Radio-Asia on Guam Duong about producing a television Confucians, and Taoists. The Holy the month before. Other letters have program. Spirit is already using Adventist World come from a homemaker, a high school In July of that year the first Peace Radio to bring them the peace and hap- student, a college student, and a refugee and Happiness program aired in piness that comes from being a follower in a camp in Malaysia. Vietnamese on KSCI-TV, channel 18. of Jesus Christ. Isaiah Duong, pastor of the It's also broadcast on cable and satel- Vietnamese Seventh-day Adventist lite TV, which covers the United States Church in Loma Linda, California, pro- and Canada. The program features By Geoffrey Zhu, public relations assis- duces the programs in a studio in his items on family life, spiritual growth, tant for the East Asia Committee of home. He calls it Peace and Happiness and Bible study. It's the first and so far Adventist World Radio in Hong Kong. Radio. the only evan- "I didn't expect to get any mail from gelistic televi- Vietnam for at least a year after the sion program broadcast began there," says Duong. in the United "The cost of sending a letter is equal to States for Vi- a day's wage for a professional person. etnamese peo- This is wonderful encouragement. ple. And from Praise the Lord!" the beginning, Adventist World Radio (AWR) has the response been working with the Southeast Asia has been over- Union Mission for some years, trying to whelming. discover a way to get Vietnamese This min- broadcasts on the air. Duong's willing- istry was des- ness to produce radio programs in addi- tined to go tion to his established pastoral and beyond North television ministry was considered an America. In answer to prayer. early 1994 Isaiah Duong, producer of Peace and Happiness programs for television and Duong moved to the United States in Robin Riches, Adventist World Radio, works out of a studio in his home in southern California.

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Christopher J. Lee (PUC), to serve as To New Posts English/Bible teacher, Korea SDA Language Volunteer for Institutes, Seoul, Korea, of Takoma Park, Maryland, Adventist Youth Services left Los Angeles June 21. Adventure Geoffrey Noel Ingram (CUC), to serve as math Timothy Douglas Lee (SC), to serve as teacher, Pohnpei Adventist High School, Kolonia, teacher, Carlos SDA High School, Ebeye, Maranatha Volunteers International is a Pohnpei, of Burtonsville, Maryland, left Los Marshall Islands, of Collegedale, Tennessee, left supporting ministry of the Seventh-day Angeles July 31. Honolulu August 8. Adventist Church that creates opportunities for Craig Ridgely Jackson, II (LSU), to serve as Sheryl LuAnn Lindemann (CUC), to serve as volunteers to help build churches, schools, and English/Bible teacher, Thailand English Language math/computer teacher, Marshall Islands Mission other needed church facilities around the world. Centers, Bangkok, Thailand, of Highland, Academy, Majuro, Marshall Islands, of Greenbelt, Skilled construction professionals are always California, left Los Angeles August 13. Maryland, left San Francisco August 2. needed, but so are people who can make good Christopher Woodstock James (SC), to serve John William Loewen (PUC), to serve as meals or carry block. as assistant pastor/youth worker, Eight Mile Plains teacher, Ailinglaplap SDA School, Majuro, Marshall If you would like to participate or get a church, Trans-Tasman Union Conference, Gordon, Islands, of Mission Viejo, California, left Los group together to help on a project, contact Australia, of Ooltewah, Tennessee, left Chattanooga Angeles August 2. Maranatha Volunteers International, 1600 August 16. Jewel Kay Marsh (WMR), to serve as tutor, Sacramento Inn Way, Suite 116, Sacramento, Moises Guerrero Javier (SC), to serve as pas- Adventist Frontier Missions, Manila, Philippines, of CA 95815; phone (916) 920-1900; fax (916) tor/evangelist, South Australian Conference, Dove Creek, Colorado, left Dove Creek September 920-3299. Prospect, Australia, of North York, Ontario, Canada, 5. left Los Angeles September 14. Janean Mattson (PUC), to serve as English The following is a current listing of Christian W. Johnston (LSU), to serve as teacher, English Language School, Gdansk, Poland, upcoming projects: English/Bible teacher, Korea SDA Language of Loma Linda, California, left Boston September Institutes, Seoul, Korea, of Loma Linda, California, 19. MEXICO: left Los Angeles June 19. Sean Raulins Maycock (AU), to serve as February 1-18, 1995: Villahermosa, Tabasco. Marcella Edna Kack (Surrey, British teacher, Chuuk SDA School, Weno, Chuuk, School construction/expansion. One hour Columbia), to serve as nurse, Roundelwood Health Caroline Islands of Altamonte Springs, Florida, left from Pichucalco, Chiapas. Includes a visit to Centre, Tayside, Scotland, of Surrey, British Los Angeles August 2. Mayan ruins. Columbia, Canada, left Boston July 31. Laurel McClelland (UC), to serve as secondary February 22-March 11, 1995: Join construc- Michelle Marae Kelch (SC), to serve as nurse, teacher, Nile Union Academy, Heliopolis, Egypt, of tion superintendent Jack Giacomazzi in the Adventist Frontier Missions, Manila, Philippines, of Lincoln, Nebraska, left New York September 12. building of a school on the Isla del Carmen, Waterflow, New Mexico, left New Mexico Kandi Lynette McCourt (WWC), to serve as located just off the coast of Campeche, September 16. teacher, Marshall Islands Mission Academy, Mexico. Surrounded by warm Gulf water, it is Han Sung Kim (PUC), to serve as English Majuro, Marshall Islands, of Tacoma, Washington, the home of beautiful black dolphins. Housing teacher, Pohnpei Adventist High School, Kolonia, left Los Angeles September 13. is limited and somewhat primitive. Pohnpei, of Lucerne Valley, California, left Dawna Rae McLeod (PUC), to serve as teacher, Honolulu August 2. Chuuk SDA School, Weno, Chuuk, Caroline Islands GROUP PROJECTS: MEXICO Susie So Yun Kim (LSU), to serve as teacher, of New Hazelton, British Columbia, left Seattle February 21-March 2, 1995: Ciudad del Chuuk SDA School, Weno, Chuuk Caroline Islands August 2. Carmen. School construction. Cashmere, of Riverside, California, left Los Angeles August 2. Brenda Christine McMann (CaCU), to serve as Washington, group. Leader: Dave Tall- Nathan James Klingstrand (AU), to serve as PE instructor, Pohnpei SDA School, Kolonia, (509) 782-2989. Bible secondary teacher, Ebeye SDA High School, Pohnpei, of Ponoka, Alberta, Canada, left Calgary, February 23-March 5, 1995: Ciudad del Marshall Islands, of Alpena, Michigan, left San Alberta, Canada, August 2. Carmen. School construction. Sligo Builders. Francisco August 2. Malachi Elsworth McNeilus (Whalan, MN), to Leader: Monte Jacobs-(800) 638-6547. Ronald Elman Knapp (SC), to serve as indus- serve as assistant to project director, ADRA- March 2-12, 1995: Ciudad del Carmen. trial arts teacher, Pohnpei Adventist High School, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, of Whalan, School construction. Tampa Bay Junior Kolonia, Pohnpei, of Villa Rica, Georgia, left Los Minnesota, left Minneapolis June 27. Academy. Leader: Bruce Freeman-(813) Angeles August 8. Preethie Pearl Meesarapu (CUC), to serve as 228-7950. Arata Kondo (PUC), to serve as science teacher, computer/English teacher, Dominican Adventist March 10-18, 1995: Ciudad Victoria. Church Ebeye SDA High School, Marshall Islands, of University, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, of construction. Austin South church. Leader: Matsuyama, Japan, left San Francisco August 11. Burtonsville, Maryland, left Miami August 25. Arlene Zabolotney- (512) 285-4171. Daniel Scott Krebs (WMR), to serve as English/ Kristi Ann Messersmith (AU), to serve as sec- March 14-19, 1995: Los Mochis. Tamarack Bible teacher, Japan SDA English Schools, ondary history teacher, Ebeye SDA High School, Springs Academy. School construction. Yokohama, Japan, of Anson, Maine, left Los Marshall Islands, of Lamar, Colorado, left Los Leader: Jerry Wernick- (406) 892-0253. Angeles August 10. Angeles August 2. March 14-20, 1995: Los Mochis. Dakota Patricia Michelle Lange (AU), to serve as Scott Andrew Miller (SAC), to serve as Academy. School construction. Leader: Dan English-Bible teacher, Thailand English Language nurse/medical field, Adventist Frontier Missions, Kittle-(701) 258-9000. Centers, Bangkok, Thailand, of Berrien Springs, Manila, Philippines, of Cleburne, Texas, left March 16-26, 1995: Los Mochis. Hoodview Michigan, left Los Angeles August 10. Cleburne, September 5. church. School construction. Leader: Paul Savino-(503) 663-5611. March 16-26, 1995: North Puget Academy. School construction. Leader: Ed Lyons- (206) 755-9261. General Conference March 17-26, 1995: Cancun. Church con- Prayer Requests struction. Baby Boomer Ministries. Leader: Every Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. the Adventist Session Curtis Rittenour-(402) 486-2575. Review staff meets together to pray for the cor- March 17-26, 1995: Los Mochis. School con- porate and personal needs and concerns in the Official notice is hereby given that the fifty- struction. Lewis County youth. Leader: Phil church. If you have a personal request you wish sixth session of the General Conference of Becker-(206) 748-9566. us to pray for, please send it to Prayer Requests, Seventh-day Adventists will be held June 29 to Adventist Review, 12501 Old Columbia Pike, July 8, 1995, in the Jaarbeurs Conference Centre GROUP PROJECTS: Silver Spring, MD 20904-6600, U.S.A. You in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The first meeting DOMINICAN REPUBLIC may also send your requests by electronic mail: will begin at 1500 hours, June 29, 1995. All duly February 6-15, 1995: Azua II. Church con- CompuServe network: 74617,15; Prodigy net- accredited delegates are urged to be present at struction. New York Conference. Leader: Phil work: VRUN29B; Internet: 74617.150 that time. Muthersbaugh-(315) 469-4811. Compuserve.com. February 16-24, 1995: Azua. School con- -Robert S. Folkenberg, President struction. Adventist-Laymen's Services and G. Ralph Thompson, Secretary Industries. Leader: Chuck Randall-(616) 624-4811.

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lmost everyone has heard the classic story Just as Mom and I sent ahead those things that Aof the rich man who, when told he couldn't we wanted to have in our new home, we can take his stocks and bonds to heaven retorted, "If "send ahead" to heaven riches enough to fill our I can't take it with me, then I'm just not going." treasure chests, even make them overflow. Sounds suspiciously like the fellow in the Bible What can we send ahead? whose sole attention lay with accumulating Assurance of a home prepared for us by our riches instead of serving God (Luke 12:16-21). Lord. Jesus promised His disciples in John Like it or not, we can't take material things 14:1-3 that a place would be prepared for us in out of this life. We can, however, enter heaven the Father's house of many mansions. This someday knowing that we have a treasure chest promise is just as valid for all of us who accept of riches waiting because we have sent them But you can God's gift of salvation now as it was for the dis- ahead. ciples long ago. Faithfulness. Near death, the apostle Paul n 1970 my 73-year-old mother, Pearl Towne send it ahead. told Timothy that he had fought a good fight, IReece, and I moved from the house where finished his course, and kept the faith. Paul con- we had lived for 34 years.* Dad had died two cluded triumphantly that a crown of righteous- years earlier. ness awaited not only him, but all who look and The demands of living out in the country a long for Jesus' appearing (2 Tim. 4:7, 8). few miles from a doctorless town proved too What we have done for others. Colossians hard in snowy winters and too lonely. After 3:23, 24 says the work we do is for the Lord, much prayer we settled on a large town about and from Christ will come our inheritance and 150 miles away. We knew church friends, and reward. Mom's brother would welcome us there. The faith to endure. Jesus never promised Mom knew it was necessary to move and that doing God's will would be easy. He did tell even anticipated it. Yet the moment of departure us our reward in heaven will be great, and that loomed large in her mind—that final time of bid- we can rejoice and be glad, even in the midst of ding farewell to memories, joys, heartaches, the persecution (Matt. 5:11, 12). familiar home. She knew God would supply the Ongoing commitment. In Psalm 24:3, 4 strength to begin a new phase of living, but she David poses the eternal question, "Who shall dreaded saying goodbye to her long-term home. ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?" The answer is that Nothing to Mourn whoever brings clean hands and pure hearts will With the help of family and friends, we filled live with God. the large moving van, and it left taking our Trust in God's promise. "For God so loved belongings to our new home. Mom and I turned the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, back, walking silently through the empty rooms. that whosoever believeth in him should not per- Suddenly Mom paused. Her face shone. ish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16 is the "Why, this isn't the way I thought it would be at richest treasure of all. all!" she exclaimed. "Everything important has * Mom lived another 22 happy years after moving away from her already gone ahead and will be there waiting for long-term home and died in 1992. us when we get there. There's nothing left here to mourn." She laughed and thanked the Lord. Colleen Reece is a freelance I agreed. The unoccupied house meant little writer living in Auburn, now, for its very heart had gone. Washington. Jesus went on to say in Luke 12:33, 34 that we should provide ourselves treasures in heaven, for our hearts will be where our treasure lies. BY COLLEEN REECE

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