Contents Editorial february 2006 harold l. lee

In Every Issue Beyond Our Borders

3 | Editorial rom its inception, mission has been the heartbeat and focus of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. “Into all the world”—from everywhere to Feverywhere—have been our watchwords. The whole world, with its 4 | Newsline countries, villages, towns, cities, and hamlets, is our parish. Every member, 18 congregation, school, healthcare institution, program, facility, agency, and 6 | Potluck activity of the church finds its right to exist only as it participates in mission. If this stops, the purpose of the church ceases. News & Features 8 | Resource Guide Luke 12:48 tells us, To whom much is given, much is required. Ellen White identified additional reasons: “To show a liberal, self-denying spirit the success of foreign missions is a sure way to advance home missionary work; for the prosperity of the work depends 21 | Healing Ministry 10 | Columbia Union Mission Story: largely, under God, upon the reflex influence of the evangelical work done in countries afar off. It A Special Report on Missions Abroad is in working to supply the necessities of others that we bring our souls into touch with the 2001-2006 Newsletters Source of all power” ( Gospel Workers , p. 465, 466). Compiled by LaVerne Henderson and Tanisha Greenidge 25 Allegheny East Columbia Union Mission Story The Columbia Union Conference has aggressively sponsored 27 Chesapeake Five years ago, we introduced an initiative called Missions Abroad. As partners in the global mission and endorsed a Missions Abroad initiative during the past 29 Columbia Union College of the church, we have undertaken this outreach—beyond our borders—to provide a life-changing quinquennium of 2001-2006. The program was designed to experience for members by creating special relationships with divisions, unions, conferences, etc., 31 Mountain View build relationships and provide members with “life-changing outside North America. experiences.” Read about the many countries visited and the 33 Mt. Vernon Academy Our healthcare systems—Adventist HealthCare and Kettering Adventist HealthCare—provide sub - resulting ministry projects. 35 New Jersey stantial funds to support and strengthen church growth, 37 Ohio the work of evangelism, and the construction and develop - ment of new churches, schools, clinics, nursing programs, 16 | Union Entities Embrace 39 Pennsylvania classroom buildings, and other community-based min - Mission Opportunities 41 Potomac istries abroad. Partnerships have also been formed with the Members from the Columbia Union’s eight conferences, two 43 Spencerville Adventist Adventist Development and Relief Agency, Maranatha colleges, and two healthcare entities have participated in numer - Academy International, and Adventist Health International. ous mission trips during the past five years. Whether under the 45 Takoma Academy I am excited to tell you that during the last five years, auspices of the union’s Missions Abroad initiative or on their Columbia Union members have engaged in mission in own, they have traveled overseas to build churches and schools 51 | Bulletin Board 35 countries. Caring enough to give of their time, talent, and spread the gospel. Take a look at some of the destinations. and finances, they have built or rebuilt many facilities and spread Christ’s message of hope. This special issue of the Visitor , themed “Columbia Union 18 | Labor for Love: 55 | Last Words Mission Story,” highlights their work. Members Share Mission Stories As you read this report on pages 10-20, I pray that the Spirit of God will impress you to consider giving your time, From grouting heavy cement talents, and gifts to His mission work around the world. blocks and painting walls, Would you like to “go” abroad to share the love and grace of to preaching and praying, our Lord Jesus? Would you like to have that life-changing hundreds of Columbia Union administrators, pas - and –fulfilling experience that so many testify about? tors, lay people, and stu - Think about it! Pray about it! dents have labored for love during mission trips abroad. Harold L. Lee is president of the Columbia Union Conference After reading their testi - of Seventh-day Adventists, headquartered in Columbia, Md. For About the Cover: A woman in monies, you may find it’s India gathers sand used to help more information on how you can be a part of Missions Abroad, time to step outside of your build a new Adventist church. call Celeste Ryan Blyden at (410) 997-3414. comfort zone and experience Photo by Henry Fordham III an overseas mission trip.

2 | VISITOR FEBRUARY 2006 | 3 Newsline Newsline laverne henderson D R

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This award recognizes phase of a four-year, $99 million Baltimore ACS to etc.—increase or decrease the expansion and renovation proj - Pastor Darriel Hoy (left) receives a $2,000 we have a long way to go, we’ve risk of disease and quality of excellence in the use of outcomes Host National Youth grant a State Farm Insurance agent. ect that will add a new lobby, Service Day made great strides,” said James life. Adventists aged 35 years four-story tower, new surgery Standish, executive director of and older are encouraged to Baltimore Adventist department, and 144 private Youth, and Families; and other the Church’s North American participate. Community Services (BACS) was beds, etc. Visit www.adven - youth groups and community Religious Liberty Association. Enrollment began in 2002 one of 50 organizations selected tisthealthcare.com/SGAH for partners,” adds Hoy. “This is a “We need everyone to let their and will continue until June nationwide by Youth Service more details. golden opportunity to provide representatives and senators 2006. AHS-2 is funded by the America to coordinate National youth with concrete ways to put know their views and ask them National Cancer Institute and is & Global Youth Service Day cel - their faith into action. We want conducted by researchers at the Union Churches to ebrations April 21-23. to inspire and develop a new School of Public Health at Loma Host NET 2006 “This is the largest service generation of servant-leaders.” Linda University, in partnership Pictured left to right: Helen Cole, Assoc. Over 65 Columbia Union event in the world that engages VP, Nursing; Debbie Foshee, VP, Medical National & Global Youth with Oakwood College, and the churches have signed up as youth as leaders,” says Pastor Staff Svcs.; Rebecca Beauchamp, Service Day, founded in 1986, is Seventh-day Adventist Church VP/Chief Nursing Officer; David N. Klein, host sites for NET 2006 . Darriel Hoy (above, left), BACS currently funded by State Farm in North America. Members MD, Pres., Montgomery Emergency Themed “Revelation Speaks executive director. “I thought it Companies Foundation. who still have questionnaires Physicians; Deborah A. Yancer, Pres., Peace—Unlocking the Signs,” would be a great way to involve Shady Grove Adventist Hospital; and Also planned by Hoy is a are urged to return them. To this Seventh-day Adventist youth and churches in William G. "Bill" Robertson, Pres. and “Summer of Service,” where request a survey, call (877) 700- CEO, Adventist HealthCare. evangelism series will be Baltimore. Our goal is to engage over 200 youth can volunteer 7077 or visit adventisthealth - uplinked via 1,000 youth, ages 5-25, in a day Adventists Miguel Hernandez, Deborah with local nonprofit organiza - study.org. —Terry Butler satellite of service and leadership to Fountain, and Jimmy Alignay pose with tions; host an Easter Passion James Standish (second from right). measurement by healthcare from meet critical needs in the city.” Play as a major inner city organizations to achieve improve - Phoenix, Baltimore’s theme is “A Day Allegheny East Baltimore evangelism effort; or ments in quality and safety. Ariz., March of HOPE,” as youth will engage Church Wins February participate in six ministry train - to move this thing forward.” For Shady Grove was recognized for 10-April 8. in service projects that involve eChurch Award ing tracks such as drama, pup - more information, log on to its efforts to relieve overcrowding Shawn Handy work, Organizing the The Cherry Hill Seventh-day petry, chaplaincy, preaching, www.religiousliberty.info or call in the emergency department Boonstra, community, People in need, Adventist Church of Baltimore, music, and prayer evangelism. (301) 680-6683. —Adrian Westney and to move patients through speaker/director for It Is and the Environment. There Md., has received the February Contact Hoy at Baltimore the hospital process more effi - Written , will be the speaker. In will be over 20 service projects 2006 eChurch Award (see Adventist Community Services, ciently, thereby assuring commu - the last few years, Pastor including recording books on 88,145 Surveyed www.preparingforglory.org). To (410) 997-3414 or darriel@abet - nity access to care. “We also Boonstra has held 21 major tape for the blind, building a for Adventist Health terbaltimore.org. knew that we needed to take a evangelism series and written Habitat for Humanity house, Study 2 holistic approach in fulfilling our seven books. His clear grasp of organizing a sleep-out to raise The Adventist Health Study 2 mission of providing excellent Scripture and warm, dynamic awareness about homelessness, Adventists Testify (AHS-2) has received surveys healthcare to our community,” presentation style have collecting canned goods for Before House of from 9,188 Columbia Union said Shady Grove president inspired many. Originally from local food pantries, and host - Representatives members to date. Another 8,242 Deborah Yancer. “We are honored Canada, Boonstra now lives ing blood drives with the The Workplace Religious responses are still needed to to receive this recognition for with his wife Jean and their American Red Cross. Freedom Act was recently granted reach the union's goal of 17,430. service.” Board chairman Harold two daughters in Southern “We hope that each church’s a successful hearing by the The overall aim is 125,000 Lee says, “I believe this is the first California. For a complete list - youth group will participate. We United States House of responses throughout North time an Adventist hospital has ing of union downlink sites, or are also involving public Representatives’ Subcommittee America. To date, 88,145 ques - learn more about this award, received such a distinguished to register your site, visit schools; six local universities; on Employer-Employee Relations. tionnaires have been received. visit www.nadadventist.org/ award; I applaud their efforts.” www.unlockthesigns.com. NET the Mayor’s Office for Children, Three Seventh-day Adventists The goal is to explore the links echurch. —George Johnson Jr.

4 | VISITOR FEBRUARY 2006 | 5 Potluck celeste ryan blyden What You Bring to the Table

DVD features three of his enabled Columbia Union mem - What’s New? Books > Barley And though it’s still winter, You’re invited to Potluck! Loaves favorite motivational messages: go outdoors on the next bright bers to engage in life-changing, “Never Give Up,” “Against All short-term mission experiences Send your samples and Ivan Colón day to enjoy heaven’s blessing Music > Odds,” and “The Power to in 35 countries. contact info to Columbia Union Chris Hasse’s poems have finally and make some vitamin D. “Room Enough” Overcome.” To order, visit Now the union wants to help emerged from their hideaway in Fifteen minutes (30 if you have Visitor , 5427 Twin Knolls Rd, (Folk/Acoustic) www.customflix.com/206967. save more lives by supporting a manila folder tucked in a filing darker skin) two or three times Columbia, MD 21045. Adventist Health International’s cabinet. This Chloe, W.Va., gar - per week is all you need. Using his voice and acoustic gui - Bed Net Project. Every year, 350 dener, literature evangelist, and —Timothy Arnott, MD, Adventist tar, Ivan Colón takes listeners on If you’d like to support WholeHealth WholeHealth Family Care million people in Sub-Saharan Spencer church member, was this project, send a donation to a journey in song. In “Welcome Africa contract malaria from pleasantly surprised when the Columbia Union Conference, to My Corner,” On the Bright Side mosquito bites as they sleep. As local newspaper opted to publish 5427 Twin Knolls Road, which has a nice a result, 3,000 children die her collection of thoughts and Your Turn Columbia, MD 21045, melody, he has a Adventists have long everyday. A life-saving insecti - insights about God, written over earmarked “Bed Net Project .” talk with Jesus: understood the cide-treated bed net can protect decades. “Much of religious To participate in the Missions “I cannot health The Bed Net Project them for four years and costs verse sounds like an ode to some Abroad initiative, contact Celeste compare You benefits of just $5. But most families can’t deity in a distant realm,” said Ryan Blyden at (410) 997-3414 Jesus/with any - sunlight. This issue features the Columbia afford one. The Bed Net Project company reps. “But Chris’ or [email protected]. thing I’ve ever known/in earth, Ellen Union Conference’s Missions will provide thousands of poems show a very personal and the sea, or in the heavens/there White Abroad initiative, which—dur - life-saving nets to people in direct relationship with God.” Support the Bed Net Project and get is none like You/none like You.” called it ing the last five years—has Sub-Saharan Africa. this pin free! Why the title Barley Loaves? “In The Highland View Academy one the hands of the Master, a mea - graduate and Triadelphia of “the ger repast of loaves and fishes (Clarksville, Md.) church mem - blessings was multiplied to feed thou - Get to Know > Duawne Starling ber wrote all 13 songs. “There are which sands,” Hasse explains. “If my a lot of things I’ve tried to com - Heaven little collection nourishes the municate through my music, but has provided hearts of e has come a long way, and if you ask him, Duawne (rhymes with swan) the most important thing is that to make the sick well just a few Starling will tell you that he’s still working his way “There.” There, he I love Jesus,” Colón says. “He’s and to keep in health those who H readers explains, is what Psalm 16:11 describes as the presence of the Lord where there really changed my life. The songs are not sick” ( Testimonies , with heaven - is fullness of joy. It’s also a favorite on his self-titled, autobiographical, 12-song I write are all from that perspec - vol. 2, p. 535). ly hope and CD that features a “variety of styles” from praise and worship and contemporary tive.” Listen and learn more at One way sunlight keeps us inspiration, [it] will Christian—to traditional and urban gospel. www.myspace.com/ivancolon. well is to stimulate production not be wasted.” Read our Starling was raised in the Shiloh church in Petersburg, Va. He graduated from of vitamin D in skin. In fact, it’s favorite poem at www.columbi - Shenandoah Valley Academy in New Market, Va., and attended Columbia Union how we acquire 90-95 percent of aunion.org. To order this 52- College in Takoma Park, Md., where his talent for singing blossomed. After graduat - it. Vitamin D is needed to Keeping page book, call Calhoun ing from Oakwood College in Huntsville, Ala., he moved to Tennessee and spent 13 absorb calcium, mineralize Score Publishing at (304) 354-9373 or years singing backup. “I first did studio work for Daniel Winans,” he recalls. “Then it bone, strengthen muscles, bring e-mail [email protected]. was like a snowball effect because the music industry thrives on relationships.” cell growth under control, lower Soon his voice could be heard, and his arrangements recognized, on projects with Percentage of blood pressure, and prevent The Boy Donnie McClurkin, CeCe Winans, Fred Hammond, Kirk Franklin, Sandi Patty, Nicole 29 Adventists who Video > autoimmune disease (i.e. multi - C. Mullens, Michael W. Smith, and many others. say they’re involved in Who Couldn’t Read, ple sclerosis) and cancer. Now back in the Columbia Union, with his wife Carmen and their newborn community service efforts Vol. 1 Living in mid-Atlantic United daughter Shiloh, Starling is focused on building his own music ministry. He sings States, working indoors, and for churches and concerts, serves on the intercessory prayer team at Miracle Percentage of As a child, Terry Johnsson was having dark skin, each reduce Temple in Baltimore, and just completed a master’s in religious studies. He’s 50 Adventists who classified as “unteachable and sunlight exposure and put us at already writing songs for his next project, which will also be about his life. “My say they engage in daily hopeless.” Today, the popular high risk for vitamin D deficien - life influences my music,” he notes. “I Can do This” (on the current album) is Bible study and prayer Sligo church youth pastor, based cy. How can you know if you written to myself because I know there won’t always be someone cheering me on. in Takoma Park, Md., is busy are making enough vitamin D? Source: General Conference It refers to Proverbs 3:5,6 and sends a message that I can do it if I take God’s spreading the word that, no Request a 25-hydroxyvitamin D of Seventh-day Adventists hand and don’t let go.” ■ www.duawnestarling.com . matter the circumstances, God level test from your doctor, and has a plan for every life. This take 1000 IU of vitamin D daily.

6 | VISITOR FEBRUARY 2006 | 7 Resource Guide norma sahlin

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8 | VISITOR FEBRUARY 2006 | 9 Inter-American Division El Salvador Peru The Nance Verde, Los Naranjos, and El Carmen Four evangelism meetings—conducted by four churches were built as a cooperative effort with treasurers—were held in Lima, Peru. This group Maranatha Volunteers International. In El was comprised of Dowell Chow, former Columbia Carmen, the facility serves as a church and Union treasurer; former Ohio treasurer Michael school. The school has split scheduling with pri - Wixwat; former New Jersey treasurer Raymond mary-grade classes in the morning and middle- Jimenez; and current Allegheny West treasurer grade courses during the afternoon. Because high Zenobia Seward. They also helped build a church. schoolers have to work during the day, they attend in the evening. Cuba The Columbia Union partnered with Trinidad Maranatha to erect the Kamaguey church. Hospital administrators are providing ongoing In addition, library materials were donated to assistance at Trinidad’s Port of Spain Community the Cuba Adventist Seminary. Hospital. This interchange began in 2003, and according to Motschiedler, a chief financial officer from a Columbia Union hospital, has been serving as an advisor for Port of Spain. The union also sup - plied a dialysis unit and assisted with the installation of an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) machine. “It is now the only hospital on the island with an MRI unit,” says Lee. Guyana At Davis Memorial Hospital, the Columbia Union Conference assisted with funding for a dialysis and steriliza - tion unit, pharmacy, laboratory, dental services, and computers to network administrative offices. In a cooperative effort with Adventist Health International, Adventist HealthCare, and Kettering Adventist HealthCare, plans are in motion for an outpatient center and medical office complex. In another cooperative effort with Adventist Health International, the union will make a donation to the mosquito bed net project to he Columbia Union Conference has aggressively sponsored and endorsed a Missions help combat the spread of malaria. Each net, at Abroad initiative throughout the 2001-2006 quinquennium. According to union presi - a cost of $5, provides 4 years of protection. T dent Harold Lee, the program was designed to provide members with “life-changing experiences” and to assist the Seventh-day Adventist Church in developing various areas of Venezuela the world as they engage in sharing God’s love and saving grace. In recognition of the The Columbia Union is currently provid - union’s culturally diverse constituency, several of the Adventist Church’s worldwide divisions ing consulting services for a hospital project were visited. Union administration, pastors, lay people, and students traveled overseas to in Venezuela. There’s also a church in Uroy build or remodel churches and schools, provide supplies and scholarships, and participate Uaray, which contains a large native Indian in evangelism meetings. “We concentrated on building relationships in our sister fields,” Adventist community. Often referred to as the says former union executive secretary and Missions Abroad coordinator Edward Motschiedler. “Davis Indians,” they are named after a mis - Here is a brief roundup of Missions Abroad activities: sionary who worked there.

10 | VISITOR Southern Asia Division India For the past few years, the union has spon - or neon sign identifying the hospital, an operat - sored diabetes and cataract screening programs ing room light, computer equipment, and a at Thanjavur Adventist Hospital, which is locat - backup generator. ed in rural southeast India. “In late 2003 I Giffard Memorial Hospital, which opened in attended a diabetes screening that was actually 1925, is the first Adventist hospital in Nuzvid, held in a Muslim mosque,” Motschiedler says. India. The nurses’ hostel (dorm) was recently “The cataract screening was done at a Hindu dedicated by the Columbia Union, Adventist temple; it’s a blessing that members there have HealthCare, and Kettering Adventist HealthCare, been able to build stable community relation - and renamed the Anna Knight Memorial Hostel. ships.” Equipment purchases included an exteri - “To encourage the annual 100 percent pass rate for nurses, some $5,000 in scholarships was given,” says Lee. Computers were also donated. i i i m a h d r o f y r n e h y b s

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Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division South Africa Lesotho In addition to a new K-12 school in In Lesotho, the road leading to the Maluti Grahamstown, South Africa, churches were built in Adventist Hospital—a 160-bed facility located in Swaziland, Transvaal, and George. The name of the Mapoteng, a village nestled in the foothills of George church is Lukhanyiso, which means “a light.” the Maluti Mountains—was paved. The hospital Former Chesapeake Conference president Neville opened in 1951 and quickly established a repu - Harcombe led a strong overseas mission program tation of excellence in surgery, eye care, and for that involved several countries. One project, in its School of Nursing. Maluti Hospital serves which office staff, lay people, and students assisted, more than 70,000 people in the western part of was building three churches in the Limpopo the Berea district, as well as a small portion of province of South Africa. “This is one of the poorest the Leribe district. Lesotho is an enclave of areas in the country, with a high incidence of AIDS South Africa, about the size of the state of and unemployment,” says Harcombe, who is now Maryland, with a population of about 2.1 mil - executive secretary at the Columbia Union head - lion. According to Pennsylvania Conference quarters. “Our young people returned to their president Ray Hartwell, “Our Adventist schools homes, schools, and churches with a life-altering across the state raised nearly $5,000 to provide appreciation for the true meaning of “missions.” care for 52 hospital patients.”

12 | VISITOR FEBRUARY 2006 | 13 Namibia East-Central Africa Division The union partnered with the Pennsylvania Conference to build three churches along the Tanzania Caprivi Strip in Namibia. Then conference presi - The union launched a dent Mike Cauley later returned to dedicate the nursing program at the churches. “In any way possible, we desire to con - Adventist University in tinue that tradition and take the message of Arusha (formally Christ’s soon return to Pennsylvania and across Tanzania Adventist the world,” says Hartwell. College). A building for classes, complete with computers, was erected. Union West Central-Africa Division nurse educator Patricia Patterson The Gambia Two subsequent offices were added at a later time. traveled with this There were three union-sponsored evangelism “The Gambia is a 95-97 percent Muslim coun - group and spoke about programs in The Gambia. Chow held a meeting in try,” says Motschiedler. “There are more students using good health habits to Banjul, the capital city. Allegheny East Pastor Pete in the Adventist schools than there are church control and prevent AIDS. Palmer spoke in Serrekunda, the largest city, and members,” he adds. Because education is the “pri - Columbia Union College Allegheny West Pastor Bryant Taylor presented in mary evangelism thrust,” the union helps support provided over 1,500 books, Briakama, where there was no major Adventist the country’s two schools. desks, and supplies. ADRA presence. According to Chow, there were 86 bap - There was also a scholarship program estab - also assisted in the shipment tisms and 10 subsequent decisions. lished whereby Gambian students can attend of supplies. The Gambia Mission office, located in Kanifing, Valley View University in Accra, Ghana (West Heri Hospital also was also refurbished. A second adjacent building was Africa). Once their studies are complete, they will benefited from the Columbia remodeled for use as a church and evangelism center. be able to return and minister in The Gambia. Union’s Missions Abroad initiative. “We provided major funding for the operat - ing room at Heri Hospital , which is located in a remote, primitive area of western Tanzania,” stated Chow. This mission outpost facility had no electricity and used a generator to perform surgical procedures. According to Chow, previ - ous ADRA donations financed a river dam, missions abroad which was used to produce hydroelectricity. Fast Facts 500 – nursing books donated 200 – computers donated i i i 35 – countries visited m a h

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14 | VISITOR FEBRUARY 2006 | 15 Cambodia, Ghana, baptized. At Mountain Peru, Dominican View College in Republic, Hungary, Mindanao, 400 theology and Sri Lanka. They students attended night - provided training ly services and joined and mentoring in more than 3,000 wor - ministry including shipers during the leadership confer - Sabbath service. ences, workshops for lay leaders, and evangelism meetings in remote villages. ot only has the Columbia Union Conference sponsored several Missions Abroad trips Since 1980, Mel and Karen Hatch from the during this quinquennium, many people from the conferences, colleges, and healthcare Columbia Union College Columbus Eastwood church have taken at least systems have also engaged in mission work, as follows: From 2002 to 2005 students at Columbia Union N one mission trip a year. College (CUC) in Takoma Park, Md., have gone on Their first trip with nearly 10 short-term mission trips to Belize, Allegheny East Mountain View Maranatha was to Mexico, and Zambia. In the summer of 2005, 12 Dominica in the West people from CUC went to Merida, Mexico, to evan - Pine Forge Academy seniors, 57 to be exact, As part of the annual student missionary program, Indies. They have built gelize. Donald McKinney, a 2005 graduate of theol - traveled to Barbados last spring. Accompanied 20 Mountain View students traveled to churches in Peru, ogy recalls his experience in the Yucatan Peninsula: by 17 chaperones, the students participated in Chapultepec, Mexico, Dominican Republic, “The local pastor—at the church where I construction, music, nutrition and etiquette, last summer to build Newfoundland, and preached—invited me to accompany him on a few medical, youth, and puppet ministries. “By a church. While Nicaragua. “It’s good for home visits with God’s grace, we reached all of our mission goals, shoveling gravel and people to see what’s outside their church in the interested believ - from renovating schools to reaching hearts,” bending many feet of United States,” Karen continued. “Mission trips ers. At one house, said graduating senior rebar to reinforce the should be required for every Adventist.” I asked God for the Marcia Robinson. concrete foundation, words to say and Conference adminis- the team learned lots proceeded to lead trators and members also about earthquake zone construction techniques. Pennsylvania three people to traveled to The Gambia, Residents presented conference president Kingsley Lay people, in conjunction with Global Christ. It was a Ghana, India, Tanzania, Whitsett with a plaque in appreciation. Evangelism, have held meetings and preached blessing to see God work through me that way.” and Thailand to do mis - nightly for two weeks at sionary work. New Jersey destinations such as Dominican Republic, Kettering College of Administrators, pas - Philippines, Nigeria, Allegheny West tors, lay people, and stu - Guyana, Costa Rica, Medical Arts The Gambia, Ghana, and Peru were among the dents traveled to Peru, Romania, Venezuela, and Medical students from Kettering College of countries visited by Allegheny West members. Tanzania, El Salvador, Belize. According to Jean Medical Arts based in Dayton, Ohio, traveled to India, Venezuela, Puerto Cusack, conference coordi - Belize in 2004. They visited local schools and spoke Rico, Belize, and the nator, over 100 lay people to students about AIDS and sexual abstinence. They Chesapeake Dominican Republic to and pastors have partici - also visited clinics, orphanages, and conducted the Local conference minister and spread the gospel. They conducted pated throughout the country’s first health fair. More than 1,000 atten - treasurers from evangelism meetings, health clinics, Vacation years. “We have baptized more than 1,000 peo - dees received information on smoking, diabetes, Allegheny East, New Bible School, taught Pathfinder honors, and built ple combined,” she says. and free dental cleanings Jersey, Ohio, and three churches, a house, and a school. and assessments. Chesapeake traveled to “Mission trips make you Peru and built a new Potomac aware of your spiritual 120-seat church near the Ohio Members conducted two weeks of prayer in walk with God,” said capital city of Lima. The group worked during As part of its Missions Without Borders, Ohio the Philippines last spring at the Adventist Darrell David, a senior the day and split up to do evangelism meetings pastors, teachers, and departmental directors have University in Manila. Over 700 students and health science major. “It’s at three different locations during the evenings. visited India, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Laos, faculty attended, and eight individuals were a humbling experience.”

16 | VISITOR FEBRUARY 2006 | 17 taught Vacation Bible School. In the evening, the members threatened to beat him for coming to the treasurers preached at three different churches, meetings. But he came anyway and was baptized. It while I gave presentations on health, temperance, was hard work, but at the end of the three weeks and stewardship. On the second Sabbath, 35 peo - there were 130 baptisms in the six churches. ple were baptized. It was during this time that I realized our purpose in going to Peru—to share Lou Toscano ❂ Director, Christ with those who don’t know him. Planned Giving, Ohio Conference ❂ We went to a little fishing village called Vladimir Corea Pastor, Winneba in Ghana. I remember that the people Highland View Academy were so receptive I have organized mission trips within the and warm. In 10 rom grouting heavy cement blocks and painting walls, to preaching and praying, members Chesapeake Conference for 12 years. Mission trips days, 20 people in the Columbia Union labor for love during mission trips abroad. These trips typically last 10 remind me of how important people are in life. I were baptized. As I days and serve as a spiritual wake-up call for many. Regardless of age, ethnicity, and eco - F can’t think of anything more rewarding. For some preached during the nomic background, mission trips impact everyone. After reading the following testimonies, you students, mission trips are life-changing. I’ve meetings, I noticed may find it’s time to step outside of your comfort zone and experience an overseas mission trip: known some teenagers who take a year off from a man listening school to go on a long-term mission trip; others very attentively. have changed their Although he Virginia and Frazier return in April and July. This village will consist of career goals. It’s fun to remained aloof, I ❂ 10 houses for children who have lost their parents expose kids to the talked to him each Mathis Founders, Global due to AIDS. “There are about 12 million orphans in world. No matter where night. I knew the Vessels, Inc. Africa as a result of AIDS,” says Mathis. “Most of the they go, kids see that Lord was working on his heart because of the Virginia and Frazier Mathis coordinate mission children we will house are not Adventist, so this is church is basically the questions he asked. trips for the Emmanuel-Brinklow church in an ideal witnessing opportunity.” He also noted that same and the songs are At the end of the meetings, church members Brinklow, Md., through Global Vessels, Inc. Their the university donated the land for the project. familiar. It helps bridge took up a collection and bought me a traditional nonprofit organ - Over 125 volunteers, including Dunbar Henri, the culture gap. Ghanaian outfit. That touched me more than any - ization encour - principal of Takoma Academy, have participated in In 2002, I took a group of students to Santa thing because I knew it was a sacrifice. ages individuals these mission trips throughout the years. To volun - Barbara, Honduras. While helping at an orphan - t n

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h Allegheny West Conference outages, people p efforts have built ❂ Peggy Koch Member, still came. Even two churches, one library, and a girls’ dormitory in I (pictured, right) went to Lima, Peru, earlier Boulevard Church, Charleston, W.Va. the children Ghana. “We also held evangelism meetings during this year with two other conference treasurers, I’ve raised four kids and I’ve always had a burn - were extremely each of these trips, and 60 people were baptized,” under the leadership of Dowell Chow, former ing desire in my heart to go on a short-term mis - well behaved says Frazier, Global Vessels director. treasurer at the Columbia Union Conference. sion trip. We and quite atten - In 2004, they went to the University of Arusha About 20 members from the Eastwood church in used prepared tive. The Lord in Tanzania and built an addition to an existing Ohio also came to build churches during our sermon notes to blessed with sev - clinic. According to one academy student, it was evangelistic series. On preach to the eral hundred an experience worth repeating. “It was my first our first Sabbath we people of baptisms—some took place in the Tandag mission trip; I’m glad that I went; it was a life- attended an ordination Teguthagalba, prison in a barrel. We were also able to coun - changing experience,” said Wayne Taylor, a senior for five Peruvian pastors Honduras. In the sel and marry 13 couples that had been living at Takoma Academy. who manage 12 to 14 beginning I was together; most of them had children. We had Global Vessels went back to Tanzania in 2005 and churches each. scared, but I a huge party for them and the babies and chil - started building the Havilah Children’s Village on During the day, think I was more blessed than the people were. dren were dedicated to the Lord. I am awed by the university’s campus—which also contains an ele - Eastwood members I wanted to adopt a young street kid who came the things that God does! There is no better mentary and high school. In 2006, the group will worked at the site, gave health screenings, and every night. You could tell he had a hard life. Gang way of life than to do the service of the Lord!

18 | VISITOR FEBRUARY 2006 | 19 Khalea Lester-Winbush ❂ Sophomore, Takoma Academy Healing Minis try I’ve gone to Africa five times, most recently to A NEWSLETTER ABOUT ADVENTIST HEALTHCARE IN THE COLUMBIA UNION Tanzania. The best part about the trip was seeing everyone working together. In the morning we had worship with the church members from the t n a

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t n 1903, at the suggestion of Ellen White, a group Today, AHC is a vast network, that employees o h p of leaders from the General Conference of 7,200 people and cares for over 250,000 patients a ISeventh-day Adventists traveled from Battle year. It includes the following entities: Creek, Mich., to Washington, D.C., in search of a How has the Missions Abroad experience new location for the denominational headquarters, Washington Adventist Hospital changed your life? a publishing house, sanitarium, and college. They The 40-bed Washington Sanitarium opened June found just the spot in Takoma Park, Md. White con - 13, 1907. The “San” was a gracious facility with spa - tributed a part of the proceeds from the sale of the cious grounds and gardens. Patients recovered in a Kettering Adventist HealthCare actively partici - despite their lack of material things. While preach - book The Ministry of Healing to help build the sani - homelike institution with a friendly Christian pates in Missions Abroad for a dual reason. These ing the gospel and helping to build and dedicate tarium, and Adventist HealthCare (AHC) was born. atmosphere where special diet was combined with trips increase the compassion of our caregivers. It churches, I’ve indulged my photography hobby rest, exercise, and instruction in healthful living. shows them how others, under very difficult cir - and taken thousands of pictures. —Henry Fordham Guests could work in the gardens, play croquet on cumstances, are following in the III, Executive Secretary, Allegheny East Conference the front lawn, or exercise in the well-equipped Master Healer’s steps. Secondly, gymnasium. Physical therapy treatments having served overseas, I know I was struck by the great poverty became one of the sanitarium’s it’s a tremendous source of in South Africa. We visited an specialties. encouragement to have people, orphanage where the children and equipment, come to help have only one meal per day. meet day-to-day challenges. Our doctors, interns, Everywhere we went they had and residents have done surgeries and medical very little, but everyone was gra - assessments in Belize, Trinidad, Peru, Guyana, and cious and happy. Here in other locations. —Frank Perez, President and CEO America, we have so much and are still not satis - fied. Since my return, I’ve become far more com - These saints are serious about the passionate to those in need. —Steven Jencks, Senior Lord. They work 16-hour days, Pastor, Chesapeake’s Atholton Church kneel on cement floors to pray, and worship in windowless churches in We were honored to support the Columbia the sweltering heat. What I learned Union's Missions Abroad initiative in such coun - is invaluable. —Gina Brown, PhD, tries as Trinidad, Guyana, Chair of Nursing, Columbia Union College Venezuela, India, and Tanzania. During the past five years, we During the last 17 years, I have have provided financial support, been to Benin, Togo, Ivory Coast, equipment, and medical expert - Australia, Colombia, Thailand, ise. Not only has it been our Namibia, South Africa, and India duty and pIeasure to serve oth - (seven times). It’s very humbling ers, but we in turn have been blessed beyond when you see that other cultures measure. —William G. "Bill" Robertson, President have a greater appreciation for spiritual things, and CEO, Adventist HealthCare

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Over time, the sanitarium evolved from serving The primary goal is helping patients increase nal, the capstone being a dramatic, welcome facil - (50 beds) on the campus of Shady Grove “rest-cure” clients to more seriously ill patients. In their level of independence. The focus is on con - ity “facelift.” Phase two involved changes to near - Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 1910 the first class of nurses graduated, after three tinued enhancement and volume growth within ly 75 percent of the facility’s interior. The West ■ Shady Grove Nursing and Rehabilitation years of study and training. In 1916 the hospital the core programs of brain and spinal cord injury, Wing underwent a $26 million expansion. A sec - Center parlor was turned into a maternity ward and the stroke, and amputation. ond medical office building provided space for a (120 beds) next to Shady Grove Adventist Hospital sewing room was converted into a delivery room. Two full-service outpatient sites—located within Wound Care Center, Outpatient Dialysis Center, ■ Springbrook Nursing and Rehabilitation In 1918 the name was changed to Washington the Rockville hospital location and in Silver and the Joan Knechel Cancer Center. Center Sanitarium and Hospital. Spring—offer physical, occupational, and speech With a patient volume that has doubled since (99 beds) in Silver Spring, Md. The facilities were repeatedly enlarged and therapy. Because Adventist Rehab is not a large the year 2000, Hackettstown Regional Medical ■ Fairland Nursing and Rehabilitation developed to keep up with needs. In 1973, with facility, the staff establishes relationships with fam - Center is thankful at how far it has come in its Center the completion of a $14 million expansion project ilies and patients that extend beyond the hospital mission to serve. (92 beds) in Silver Spring, Md. that replaced or enlarged all major ancillary serv - stay. They strive to achieve world-class outcomes ■ Sligo Creek Nursing and Rehabilitation ices, the name was changed again to Washington for each patient by providing a team of experts Adventist Senior Living Services Center Adventist Hospital (WAH). dedicated to getting patients back to life. Adventist Senior Living Services is uniquely dif - (102 beds) near Washington Adventist WAH continues to grow and offer programs that ferent from other healthcare providers in that the Hospital promote healthful living and healing of the body Hackettstown Regional majority of its residents and soul. It remains committed to leading-edge Medical Center live at the facility long- Potomac Ridge Behavioral programs and services to support new subspecial - Hackettstown Regional Medical Center (formerly term. The residents (not Health System ties of surgery and medicine. This includes sophisti - Hackettstown Community Hospital) was first “patients” as referenced Today, an estimated one in five adults suffers cated technology and equipment to provide state- envisioned in the mid- by most other healthcare from a diagnosable mental disorder. In addition, of-the-art procedures with skill and compassion. 1940s. Unfortunately providers) require more four of the 10 leading causes of disability are the project kept than medical service; mental disorders. Guided by a mission to deliver Adventist Rehabilitation Sligo Creek Nursing and they also want a place to clinical and service excellence through a min - Hospital of Maryland Rehabilitation Center call home. Most require istry of physical, mental, and spiritual On January 2, Adventist Rehab proudly celebrated ongoing care for an exist - healing, Potomac Ridge Behavioral Health its fifth anniversary. The years have been filled with ing illness and desire the security and comfort of a System is the most comprehensive provider of change, growth, and heart-warming opportunities home environment. This environment allows resi - mental health services in the National Capital to touch the lives of numerous patients. dents, their families, and staff to forge close bonds. area, with facilities in Montgomery and Anne Adventist Rehab—a joint venture between It also enhances a holistic approach of caring for Arundel counties. Kessler Rehabilitation Corporation and Adventist the mind, body, For over 25 years, Potomac Ridge has HealthCare—was the first acute rehabilitation and soul. provided behavioral health services in a variety hospital in Montgomery County, Maryland. Adventist Senior of settings, including hospital-based programs, In 2004 AHC purchased 100 percent of the hos - Living Services residential treatment centers, school programs, pital and the name changed to Adventist consists of the fol - residential group homes, outpatient and commu - Rehabilitation Hospital of Maryland. lowing facilities nity-based services and support groups, and The hospital opened with six patients. Since stalling due to changing regulations and climbing (nursing homes, Operation Runaway, a free program for families then over 5,700 inpatients and many more outpa - costs, and little progress was made in building a assisted living, Kingshire Manor and of runaway teenagers. tients have been treat - hospital in northwest New Jersey. and adult day- Shady Grove Nursing and Potomac Ridge became a member of Adventist ed. Today Adventist In 1967 the Bible teacher at nearby Garden care centers) that Rehabilitation Center HealthCare in Rehab has two sites— State Academy made an ingathering visit to a offer a compre - 2000. In January a 55-bed facility in local bank chairman. While they were talking hensive range of senior services to address the 2006, it opened Rockville, next to about the worldwide chain of Adventist hospitals, unique situations and needs that come with aging: the first and Shady Grove a Hackettstown hospital activist entered the bank. only pediatric, Adventist Hospital, This led to the suggestion that Adventists build ■ Bradford Oaks Nursing and inpatient chil - and 22 beds housed the hospital. Because of the cooperation of com - Rehabilitation dren’s unit in within Washington munity members working hand-in-hand, the hos - Center (180 beds) in Clinton, Md. the county. Adventist Hospital. pital’s doors opened on February 23, 1973. ■ Glade Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Services include The split campus As Hackettstown Regional approached the new Center a wide range of makes acute rehabilitation accessible to citizens millennium, it undertook an extensive expansion (124 beds) in Walkersville, Md. treatment options for children, adolescents, throughout the county. and modernization program. Phase one was exter - ■ Kingshire Manor Assisted Living adults, and seniors. Employees are truly devoted to helping people

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with mental illness. They provide compassionate become independent again. care and use their talents to develop unique pro - grams such as the Children’s Unit and the Shady Grove Adventist Hospital Montgomery Unit, which specializes in the treat - When Shady Grove Adventist Hospital opened FEBRUARY 2006 ment of mood disorders. in 1979, it stood alone among the undeveloped rolling pastures and farm fields of Montgomery Adventist Home Health Services County. The 504 physicians representing 31 spe - In 1973 administrators and physicians of cialties at the four-story facility welcomed the ini - 25 Members Teach English in Thailand Washington Adventist Hospital and Leland tial 240 residents. Today, the 269-bed acute care uring a recent mission trip to Bangkok, Thailand, 25 Southeastern Asia came Memorial Hospital founded Adventist Home Health hospital serves as a primary healthcare resource Dmembers from around the Columbia Union used in 2004 for IMPACT Services, a Medicare-certified home-care agency. for a rapidly growing community. Bible stories to teach English to Thai students. These 10/40, a world confer - Because patients were being discharged more quick - Shady Grove has added many valuable services short-term missionaries ranged in age from 17 to 55 ence for youth in the ly, they recognized the need for home-based health - over the years. For pediatrics patients, it houses and hailed from these churches in the Allegheny East community. While there care within the framework of Conference: Walnut Street in Pottstown, Pa.; Ephesus he felt a growing need whole-person care. in Richmond, Va.; North Philadelphia; Willow Grove in to return and do more Throughout the 70s and 80s, Philadelphia; and Berea Temple in Baltimore, Md. evangelism outreach. “Our group was Adventist Home Health operat - tremendously ener - ed in Montgomery and Prince gized by the receptive - George’s counties. The first ness of the people,” office was located in said Harris. In addition to teaching at the schools, Hyattsville, but Silver Spring the volunteers sent supplies to children living at the became its home 20 years ago. Bamboo orphanage. “Thailand is a quaint and quiet land where there’s In the 90s, the agency expand - poverty and need,” Harris explains. “Those who went to ed its service area in Maryland Thailand really felt the spirit of servitude and worked very to Howard, Anne Arundel, St. hard to minister to the people.”— Tanisha Greenidge Mary’s, Calvert, and Charles counties and to the District of Columbia. Adventist Home Health’s staff Mission trip members use action to illustrate Bible stories to works closely with physicians students in Bangkok, Thailand. developing home treatment plans for patients on a case-by-case basis. Services the county’s first Pediatric Emergency The group spent time guiding students through sto - I I I

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year, making it the second busiest in Maryland. different cultures,” said Pastor Claude Harris II, youth T O H year in the surrounding community. County residents also recognize Shady Grove for ministries director for Allegheny East. Harris’s first trip to P In 1983, Adventist Home Assistance opened to its excellent care in the areas of high-risk obstetri - provide private duty home-care services to assist cal, cardiac, and vascular interventional care; patients with daily activities. Adventist Home oncology; orthopedic care; and bariatric surgery . In Adventist Conducts Choir at Rosa Parks Memorial Assistance provides affordably priced services for a 2005, Shady Grove became the first Adventist hos - dward Jackson, II, a member of the Dupont Park church in Washington, wide range of needs such as housekeeping, pital to receive the Ernest Codman Award from D.C., led a mass choir for the city’s televised memorial service for civil bathing assistance, and meal preparation. E the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of rights leader Rosa Parks. Jackson, who is a long-time member of the What makes home care so special is the one-to- Healthcare Organizations. They’re also celebrating church, serves as its minister of music. Under his direction, the music one relationships that patients experience with the completion of the first phase of a four-year, department has grown from one choir to eight. In addition to directing the their nurses and therapists for several weeks, $99 million expansion and renovation project Chancel Choir at Dupont Park he also directs a Methodist choir. Jackson is months, or even years at a time. Patients get the that will add a new lobby, four-story tower, new a retired music teacher who continues to teach vocal lessons and conduct - ing at the Duke Ellington School for the Performing Arts in Washington, satisfaction of being cared for at home, and the surgery department, and 144 private beds, etc. D.C. —Jerri McClean staff looks forward to seeing patients progress and In 2006, Shady Grove will expand its commu - nity-based healthcare services with the opening of 24 | VISITOR three other facilities—the Shady Grove Adventist FEBRUARY 2006 | 25 The Sampson Family—21 PFA Graduates and Counting

n 1950 while living in Bronx, N.Y., my parents—Helen FEBRUARY 2006 Iand George Sampson, Sr.—committed their lives to Jesus Christ by joining the Seventh-day Adventist Church. They hoped and dreamed that by living in the What is our Accent? north, they would be able to give the family a better life than in their racially charged home in the south. ccents are marks that indicate our essential nature and establish our greatness. Jesus said, in many different But the next year, when my grandmother became Aways, that we are to have an accent: “You are the salt of the earth” and “You are the light of the world,” he deathly ill, the family moved back home to Fayetteville, said in Matthew 5:13 and 14 (NIV), respectively. N.C., to care for her. There they met Abraham Johnson, What is your accent? What is the accent of your church? Is it possible that a church could have seemingly a member of the local Seventh-day Adventist church. everything and yet lack the most important qualities: an utter dependency upon God and a willingness to be used Abraham introduced them to his young son who had by Him for His reconciling and redemptive purposes? Without this, no church can be what God intends. just returned from Pine Forge Academy (PFA). This Now let me explain the name behind each set of four: It is no cause for rejoicing if masses flock to our church but misunderstand our message and mission. No vic - well-dressed, articulate, polite, polished young man The first four endured the hardest times. They strug - tory has been won when multitudes come, unless their lives have been changed to conform to the image of impressed my parents, and they wanted to know more gled to reach beyond the boundary of their time and Christ. It is always a temptation, even for Seventh-day Adventists, to judge the significance of our movement by about the school he attended. created a path for the fighting four. The fighting four are numbers. I am not suggesting a disdain for growth. It is just not the right criteria. Spiritual significance is never In time, they met other notable young people who the ones who took the family to the next level. They judged primarily by quantity, but by quality. And by quality, I mean commitment. attended PFA and were equally fought to provide more, do more, and be more. While We must never forget our Lord’s words in Luke 17:20 (RSV): “The kingdom of God is not com - impressed. Then one Sabbath, we also worked hard, the final four reaped all the bene - ing with signs to be observed (Could He have meant statistics?).” And we must always remember E. I. Watson, the principal of fits and blessings of the first and the fighting four. I call that the church is God’s doing—it was conceived, established, empowered, and commissioned PFA visited Fayetteville. After it the reach back affect. by His grace. listening to him speak, and As you can see, Pine Forge Academy changed the In the next several issues, I will share my perspective on what should be the accent of a hearing the PFA choir, my par - fabric of my family and continues to be a place we rely church. My challenge, as your new president, is to work with you to make the accent of ents were sold and knew they on to provide the same type of polished results that Chesapeake’s churches come through loud and clear. What will frame our priorities? Where had to find a way to send their impressed my parents over 50 years ago. will our energies and resources be placed? The answers to these questions, and others, Rob Vandeman oldest son George. will be a clear indication as to what is our accent! President The Legacy Continues In 2006, the legacy of the Sampson family continues. Sampson number 20—Ryan, the son of Michael—is a senior; number 21 Daniel Richardson (son of Carlton) is also a senior; and Brittany Johnson (number 22 and Chesapeake Loses an Old Friend daughter of Vernetta), is a sophomore. —Sonya Sampson (#12 to attend PFA) illis Dagenais, pastor of the Cambridge (Md.) More than 250 Wchurch, passed away last month from complica - people attended the tions due to liver and kidney failure. He was 65. memorial service held Born in Baltimore, and raised on Maryland’s in Preston, Md. His Eastern Shore, Dagenais came to the ministry in long-time friend and midlife after a fundamental colleague in ministry, The Sampson family through the years, top to bottom: 1960, and thorough turnaround. Frank Bondurant, 1970, 1999, and 2000. He served as a district pas - accurately character - tor in the central and eastern ized Willis with three Though they weren’t sure they could afford the regions before answering a words: humor, heart, monthly tuition of $100, my brother assured them that call to the Iowa-Missouri and hope. “He always he would work off as much of the bill as he could. So conference in the late 1970s. had a twinkle in his eye and a winning way with in 1959, George was off to Pine Forge Academy. The He returned to Chesapeake people,” Bondurant noted. “He had a big and gener - first-born and the first of 12 children to attend, he set in the mid-1980s as pastor ous heart. And the hope of Christ’s return was his the precedent for the rest of us. His example of work - of the West Wilmington (Del.) passion.” Dagenais is survived by his wife Pat; two ing hard, studying, and always striving to do his best Allegheny East Conference church, then became a con - married daughters—Brenda Alexander and Jeanette has become a common thread in our family. PO Box 266, Pine Forge, PA 19548 ■ Phone: (610) 326-4610 ference evangelist before taking on the “Pigtown Shalaby—and their families; and a host of friends. www.myalleghenyeast.com ■ President, Charles L. Cheatham We attended PFA in the order of birth and in sets of Communication Director, Robert Booker Project” in Baltimore. He returned to the shore in four. I call George, Paula, Jimmy, and Gwen the “first Pine Forge Academy the late 1990s taking on responsibilities for the four.” Then there are the “fighting four”—Reggie, Alan, (800) 390-9529 ■ www.pineforgeacademy.org church at Cambridge. Vernetta, and LuValle. Last, but not least, there’s the e-mail: [email protected] Headmaster, Cynthia Poole-Gibson “final four”—Carlton, Renee, Michael, and me (Sonya).

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Never Too Old to be Born Again!

ecently, at the tender age of 93, Hosanna Marsh church ministries director Len Hennlien received RHenderson was baptized into the Baltimore White a phone call from a woman in North Carolina. She Marsh church. The baptism was the culmination of a asked if someone from the church would visit process that began 18 months earlier when White Henderson, her aunt. Hennlien channeled the request to Pastor Tom LeBlanc. LeBlanc and Cathie Johnson, a member who lived near Henderson, made the initial March 4 Offering to Support New Media Project Baltimore White Marsh contact and continued to nurture her interest. is happy to welcome Last summer, White Marsh member and volunteer their newest member, n Sabbath, March 4, Columbia Union College (CUC) will be the focus of a special offering in the Columbia Hosanna Henderson Bible worker Gayle Voigt started Bible studies that led OUnion. The designated offering will help the college create a multimedia classroom in Wilkinson Hall capable (third from left), who Henderson to her decision to be baptized and join the of supporting the latest audiovisual learning tools. stands with (left to right) Seventh-day Adventist Church. CUC is working to update classroom facilities in order to keep pace with the demands of today’s increasingly her “neighbor” Cathie “It just goes to show that you can never be too old fast-moving, technological advances. In addition to a renovated look, the multimedia classroom will contain a Johnson, Pastor Tom to be born again,” said LeBlanc. He notes that built-in projection screen, new desks, projectors, and computer-ready media devices. Upgrades and renovations LeBlanc, and Bible Henderson is the oldest person he has baptized in his for the multimedia classroom are projected to cost a minimum of $15,000. worker Gayle Voigt. many years of ministry. CUC president Randal Wisbey believes this technology-updated classroom will directly impact thousands of students in the years to come and allow them to obtain the best Adventist education possible. “The support and dedication for this project by church members throughout the Columbia Union will help ensure that CUC students have the very best tools to enhance their spiritual, academic, and social development,” Wisbey says. 49 Attend Disaster Response Training Weekend For more information about the offering or how you can support the multimedia classroom project, contact ast month’s conference-wide, disaster response Norman Yergen, vice president for college advancement, at [email protected] or (301) 891-4133. Ltraining weekend drew 49 participants, including representatives from Allegheny East and New Jersey conferences. The intensive schedule gave participants NEWS more than 20 hours of instruction toward certification. The event, organized by Chesapeake Conference Alumni Weekend Planned Employees Win Prestigious National Awards Disaster Response coordinator Kitty Juneau and held Reconnect with old friends, visit with your former Carla Conway and Julian Peterson of the publica - at the West Wilmington (Del.) church, certified atten - dean, and find out whatever happened to old what’s- tions and graphics office recently won 2005 American dees in levels 1-4 of basic disaster preparedness, vol - his-name who lived across the hall in the dorm. CUC Graphic Design Awards for excellence in communica - unteer orientation, and management issues related to Alumni Weekend will take place April 7-9 honoring tion and graphic design. running collection and distribution centers. the classes of 1946, 1956, 1966, 1976, 1981, 1986, The winning Coming in the wake of a historic hurricane season, As part of their materials management training, participants and 1996. For more information, watch this space, pieces included conference coordinators used their experience with study a model setup. visit www.cuc.edu, or call (301) 891-4133. 2004’s First Year Katrina and Rita to add a sense of urgency to the Experience training sessions. Columbia Union Disaster Response coordinator Don Bonchack and Norman Talley, disaster Sophomore Named All-American Athlete postcard and response coordinator for New Jersey Conference, Cross-country runner Vanessa Jones, a sopho - t-shirt designed assisted Juneau with the presentations. more biology and pre- by Peterson and “There was a unique bonding process going on med major earned the the Adult Evening throughout the weekend, as the reality of the need for title All-American Program-Success Youth Department Hosts preparedness hit home,” Juneau reports. “The ques - Athlete from the United Night postcard Family Ski Days tion is not if there will be another devastating hurricane States Collegiate series designed season like this past one, but will we be prepared to Athletic Association for by Conway. ore than a hundred young people—many respond rapidly to it.” her successful season “Carla and Graphic designer Carla Conway displays Mfrom church youth groups, Pathfinders, and Plans are underway for another training event at the and placement at the Julian are excellent two design awards. Adventurer clubs—took to the slopes of the Big Hagerstown (Md.) church, April 21-23. To attend, con - national meet. designers and they Boulder Ski Area near Blakeslee, Pa., last month, tact Juneau at (301) 367-2715 or call Evelyn Gates at Jones, captain and work hard at refining each piece to represent CUC and for a fun-filled day of snow boarding, skiing, tub - the Chesapeake Conference office at (301) 596-5600. prayer captain of the address the targeted audience in an appealing way,” ing, and fellowship sponsored by the Chesapeake women’s cross-country said Scott Steward, CUC’s public relations director. Conference Youth Department. The next outing will team, finished sixth in The pieces were selected as winners by a nation - Because of her successful take place February 12 at the Jack Frost Resort, the individual competi - wide panel of judges with Graphic Design USA. Only season, sophomore Vanessa also near Blakeslee. For discounted lift tickets, Jones was recently named tion. The team placed 10 percent of entries were honored this year. Award- contact the youth department in advance, at The Challenge is published in the Visitor by the All-American Athlete. fourth. —John Pak winning pieces are published in a 300-page industry (301) 596-5600. Chesapeake Conference ■ 6600 Martin Road, Columbia, MD 21044 reference book. —PR Staff Phone: (410) 995-1910 ■ Editor, Rob Vandeman Editorial Assistant, Barbara-Lee Boyd

28 | VISITOR FEBRUARY 2006 | 29 Professor Earns PhD in Media Studies and Journalism tacy Spaulding, assistant professor of journalism, successfully defended her dissertation, and recently FEBRUARY 2006 Sreceived her PhD in media studies and journalism from the University of Maryland—College Park. Spaulding began work on her doctoral studies in the fall of 2001 and completed course work and exams in 2003. She has spent the last two Adventists in a Rut? Part I years working on her 376-page dissertation. Her topic, “Lisa Sergio: How ould it be that God’s remnant people, living on the brink of eternity, are in a religious rut? Perhaps last year Mussolini’s ‘Golden Voice’ of Propaganda Created an American Mass you thought, “Next year I’ll make some progress. I’ll get out of this rut and really go forward with God.” But Communications Career,” is based on the biography of a female journalist C that “next year” is now. Are we now making great strides with God? who worked for Benito Mussolini before moving to America in 1937. Time may not be our trusted friend helping us get things together with God. In fact, time can do just the oppo - “I was interested in women’s and radio history, and when I found out site. As we put off that full surrender to Jesus, time increases our indifference to spiritual things. It’s like driving that Sergio’s papers were located in D.C., at Georgetown University, I away from town on a trip listening to a favorite radio station. As we get further away, the signal starts getting started going down there one or two days a week to investigate. The fuzzier with increased static. Occasionally we climb a hill and the signal comes through, but as we move further more I read, the more I got hooked,” Spaulding recalls. away, we go out of range and hear nothing. “We are proud of Stacy for completing her graduate degrees—a That’s what people in ruts find out. We discover the passing of time tends to dull our religious masters and doctorate—while teaching and advising in the department,” Assistant professor Stacy Spaulding feelings, and the signal that God used to get through may become fainter. Sometimes, a moun - said Barry Casey, chair of the Department of Communication and recently received her PhD in media studies tain-top experience (a church revival, camp meeting, or new preacher) allows us to hear that Journalism. —Val Bossous and journalism. Voice once again—a little bit. But it’s not long until we’re out of range and cannot hear it any - more. Time has increased our indifference to spiritual things and dulled our ability to respond, continually making it harder to change. There comes a time when we must make that change. If Alumnus and Recent Harvard CALENDAR not, we never will. Time is stealing away our days of opportunity. But when Jesus asks us to Grad Speaks to Students repent, He promises to give us power to change. It’s February already, and the choice is Kingsley Whitsett February ours. Is this the year we will heed His voice? President cott Loughlin, CUC alumnus, Hogan and Hartson, where new Srecently returned as the keynote U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice 5-11 Womanhood Week speaker during an interdepartmen - John Roberts was a senior partner. 8,16 FAFSA Nights tal law forum. Loughlin shared “You must distinguish yourself (prospective students Town Hall Meetings Keep Constituents Updated advice on how to get into law from the other applicants,” advised get help with financial school, and other stories, with more Loughlin, who graduated from aid process) sing an interactive approach with attendees, con - Mountain View Conference during the past quadren - than 40 students and faculty. He Harvard Law School last year. 12 Student Association Uference leaders and departmental directors con - nium. Here are two key highlights: also discussed his current position Loughlin also added that CUC Valentines’ Banquet ducted town hall meetings at three widely separated ■ Increase in Tithe - While Mountain View, in common at the prestigious D.C. law firm of students have certain advantages 20 Presidents’ Day— churches in Mountain View—Bluefield, W.Va.; with most conferences in North America, faced since they come from a small No Classes, Offices Closed Oakland, Md.; and Parkersburg, W.Va. Administrative financial difficulties during this period, tithe school. He strongly suggested that and departmental reports presented at each location increased by 11 percent per capita. That’s a marked they take advantage of the intern - 27-3/2 Midterm Exams summarized the achievements and challenges of improvement over the previous quadrennium. ship opportunities in D.C. ■ Increase in Baptisms - Baptisms were also up, and “You’re in a prime location to get March 2005 was our highest year for baptisms since 1983. involved with things like the mock Despite this blessing, the overall membership increase 1 FAFSA Deadline trial team and student government. has not always kept pace with the rise, largely for Maryland, Law schools expect the best and because new converts often move to other states in CUC Priority Applications won’t listen to excuses,” he noted. pursuit of broader vocational opportunities. We rejoice, “At CUC, it’s easier to do the 2-12 Spring Break however, for their spiritual gifts and contributions to extracurricular activities that will 4 CUC Offering Sabbath God’s kingdom. We also rejoice that more and more impress them.” (Unionwide) people are choosing to settle in the quiet, rural places The forum was sponsored by the 6 Spring Fever Day of West Virginia and bringing with them a zeal for Center for Law and Public Policy Offices Closed advancing the mission of the Adventist Church. and the departments of Business, Attendees also heard plans—developed by confer - 8 Adult Evening Program CUC alumnus and Harvard graduate Communication and Journalism, ence leadership, pastors, and congregations working Scott Loughlin recently visited the cam - English, History and Political Success Night— together—for the next quadrennium. One goal is to Gaithersburg Center pus to share advice with students. Studies. —PR Staff Constituents listen to departmental reports at the Parkersburg realize over a thousand baptisms by 2010. 9 Adult Evening Program town hall meeting. Success Night— Gateway is published in the Visitor by the Columbia Union College Takoma Park Campus 7600 Flower Ave., Takoma Park, MD 20912 ■ Phone: (800) 835-4212 ■ www.cuc.edu President, Randal Wisbey ■ PR Director, Scott Steward

30 | VISITOR FEBRUARY 2006 | 31 20 Baptized Through Prison Ministries rison ministries work in eight to the faith, as evidenced by their clears away all obstacles as con - SpiriMOUNT VERNON ACADEMYT Pfacilities—state and federal— study habits, tithing, and regular verted inmates resolve to follow FEBRUARY 2006 produced over 20 baptisms in church attendance. Sometimes, Christ in faithful discipleship. One 2005. Before being baptized, con - because of religious prejudice and congregation of enthusiastic verts receive careful instruction in institutional challenges, it is an inquirers and members in the state The Power of Three all the beliefs and practices of the uphill battle to secure the right for prison at Frostburg, Md., has over his year the Lord has allowed Mount Vernon Academy (MVA) to enjoy an increase in enrollment to 163 stu - Adventist Church. They also Adventist pastors to baptize their 35 inmates attending services Tdents. Our campus population boasts students from 11 states and six countries. This level of diversity allows demonstrate practical commitment candidates. Nonetheless, the Lord each Sabbath. our students to develop strong appreciation for different cultures and maintain a positive Christian worldview. For over 100 years MVA has been committed to developing young people who will serve their communities for Christ. As a Seventh-day Adventist boarding academy, our mission is to partner with families to help students CHIP Changes Lives in Charleston develop spiritually, academically, and physically. Ecclesiastes 4:12 tells us that a threefold cord is not easily bro - ken. At MVA, we believe this scripture is a direct challenge for our school to develop a cord that will combine with est Virginia, where 80 percent reversing cardiac problems and God and the family to develop a young person that will not be easily broken by the things of this world. of our conference territory is renewing the life energies of those W Our desire for the future is to use this threefold cord to develop young people who are committed to making located, ranks an unenviable third who fully commit to its guidelines. witnessing a part of their lifestyle; young people who are not ashamed of sharing the gospel of among the states battling obesity in “As a diabetic with a cardiac triple Jesus Christ and what it means to them personally. The obstacles our young people face are North America. According to the bypass, a pacemaker, and a renal many, but their desire to serve the Lord is great. As a community we must surround them with the Centers for Disease Control, related stent, my motivation to attend the necessary nurturing to prepare them for life on this earth and for eternity. health costs for the treatment of Micro-CHIP program is self-evident,” Left to right: Coordinators Becky Deal, RN, The faculty and staff at MVA have accepted this responsibility whole-heartedly. Through local this condition far exceed half a bil - said participant G. Brian Tarr, age 74. and Darlene Burton, RN, pose with Betty and oversees mission trips, Bible studies, prayer groups, campus families, and numerous other lion dollars annually in West “The presentations kept my interest Grothe and Chris Hasse, helpers from the activities, our staff is actively involved in the lives of our students. That commitment has David Daniels Virginia. Sedentary work, lack of high and attention fixed, as the care - Spencer (W.Va.) church. produced strong relationships with the student body. Principal exercise, and high consumption of fully sequenced programs built an “convenience” foods and soda undeniably rational approach to pops, are among the chief con - healthful living. Dr. Diehl projects a want to exemplify the benefits of the tributing factors. Mindful of these winning personality, supported by his principles we teach. This program is Why We Love the MVA Experience pervasive problems, members of medical credentials, as he presents too important to offer it in a second the Charleston (W.Va.) church the dramatically effective—but sim - rate way,” say Darlene Burton and “Our faculty has done well While students at MVA have determined to educate themselves ple—changes this new approach to Becky Deal, healthcare profession - supporting the students several opportunities to grow to be facilitators of the cutting-edge lifestyle entails. The staff of ladies als and local CHIP coordinators. academically and spiritually.” academically and socially, the Cardiac Health Improvement who conducted the program also —Daniel Morikone —Tristan Shaw, ’07, best part about being a member Program (CHIP), developed by deserves commendation for their gra - Student Association President of the MVA family is that we are Hans Diehl. To that end, they ciousness, capability, and presenta - focused on growing together in recently embarked on a nine-ses - tion of delicious, healthful meals (as our relationships with Christ. sion, Micro-CHIP program, where shown below). I wish every one of my Mountain View —Amy Soper, English Teacher they learned how to incorporate fellow West Virginians could attend healthy practices, before presenting CHIP and adopt its teachings.” EVENTS “I think we have a strong, “The faculty are very caring this regimen to the community-at- Other participating church mem - February balanced program that and go above and beyond to large. Emphasizing dietary, exer - bers at Charleston and nearby 19 MV Board of Education challenges students help the students succeed.” cise, and other natural lifestyle Adventist churches have a similar 21 Departmental Meeting academically, physically, —Valerie Sutton, ’06, changes, including abstinence from testimony and are now poised to 26 Walk 100 Miles Begins and spiritually.” —Bruce Class President all harmful indulgences, CHIP has a host a full-fledged CHIP program 26 New Pastors Workshop Bellchambers, History Teacher clinically-proven track record of for the community in April. “We March 6 MV Executive Committee 7 Ministers Meeting “The faculty members are 10-12 Pathfinder Classoree always willing to help students “MVA students can experience 18 MV Music Festival, who don’t understand the mate - a safe, caring environment with Charleston rial. They always show concern many opportunities to develop for the spirituality of the students a relationship with Christ, pre - Mountain Viewpoint is published in the and that’s something you can’t pare academically for the future, Visitor by the Mountain View Conference have fun, and make lifelong 1400 Liberty Street, Parkersburg, find in public schools. That’s WV 26101 ■ Phone: (304) 422-4581 really awesome!”— Jessica John, friends.” —Pam Castillo, President, Kingsley Whitsett ’07, Class President Science Teacher Editor, Brian Jones ■ www.mtviewconf.org

32 | VISITOR FEBRUARY 2006 | 33 SpiriT Students Talk About the MVA Family

FEBRUARY 2006 ampus Family at MVA is more than an arbitrary Share an experience where a Cassignment of students to staff. Every day and staff member was there for you. Worthless or Worthy? throughout the week, our “families” take time to pray Adam : When I was really and show they care in a hundred little ways. It is through depressed, Mrs. Sutton was e all value familiarity. No matter what kind of day you have had, driving the last few blocks home and turning this major objective—building relationships at MVA— there for me. Winto your familiar and quiet driveway erases much, bringing comfort and a feeling of belonging to the soul. that cravings for fellowship and belonging are met. Michelle : When I broke my arm, Going to your favorite market, gas station, or restaurant, or sitting in the same place in church each Sabbath, pro - The deans work night and the staff drove me to the hospital vides a soothing serenity. But danger can hide in our contentment. It is called complacency, and that is an enemy. day to provide a comfortable, and rode to Columbus, Ohio, Gospel workers have no time for complacency. Their ears are always eagerly awaiting God’s command. They supportive, and well-scheduled with me because my parents are ever ready to follow their Lord where He so chooses. They know that with each new circumstance comes new home environment where the lived far away. They were really faith and insights into their loving Savior. They know that without that living faith in Christ as personal Savior, they students can study, play, rest, comforting and loving and made Adam Clayburn, ’06 will soon have nothing to share and become a worthless servant. and bond. In class, each me feel a lot better. “We cannot give to others that which we do not ourselves possess. It is in proportion to our teacher’s relationship with the own devotion and consecration to Christ that we exert an influence for the blessing and uplifting students goes beyond formulas Summarize why a new student should come to MVA. of mankind. Unless the Holy Spirit can use us ... to communicate to the world the truth as it is in and sentence fragments to per - Jesus, we are ... entirely worthless” ( Thoughts From the Mount of Blessing, p. 37). Adam : MVA is a place you can develop family-type sonal attention and prayerful The New Jersey Conference is filled with worthy servants, willing and eager to go where the relationships, grow with God, and make close friends. support. In this interview, seniors Master sends them to fulfill His mission. And so we say goodbye to several of our workers and Michelle Riley, ’06 Adam Clayburn and Michelle Michelle : This is a very well-rounded school. They put hello to new ones (see story below). All leave that which was familiar and comfortable behind and LeRoy Finck Riley share their thoughts: God first, relationships next, and they have excellent embark on new journeys. But this is how worthy servants, hidden in Christ, magnify their Lord. President academics and sports. I have made friends here who I How do you see yourself fitting into the social will be friends with forever. I love it here and you will, too! aspect of life as a student? NEWS Adam : I feel well accepted as a leader on campus. Michelle : I have a lot of friends; I get hugs from Conference Bids Farewell and Welcome to Employees underclassmen all the time. Raymond Jimenez —Farewell to tions, mission fields, and Adventist Book Centers. Most How do you try to improve the experiences of new Raymond and Julie Jimenez, and their recently, he worked in the Rocky Mountain Conference. students coming to MVA? calendar children Raymond III, Randy, and Reese. Welcome Jim; may the Lord use you in service for Him. Adam : I try to get to know them and become involved of events Raymond worked 14 years with the New in their lives. Jersey Conference as assistant treasurer Israel and Mercedes Williams — Michelle : I try to be as friendly as possible to them, and and then treasurer. They have moved to Israel Williams, assistant treasur - help with homework and schedules. February the Montana Conference where he will er, and his wife Mercedes, sec - 19 Student Association Banquet serve as secretary-treasurer. We are going to miss retary for the office of How have you been influenced spiritually by other Raymond’s kindness and genuine spirit. Secretariat, have decided to students since you have attended MVA? March retire. Before faithfully serving David Cadavero —Cadavero served sev - the New Jersey Conference, Adam : The seniors have always had a positive 3-4 Ohio Conference Elementary eral years as superintendent for the New they worked in the Inter-American Division. We say a influence on me. Music Festival Jersey Conference Education fond farewell to the Williams and hope they enjoy retire - Michelle : My friends, like Kaylea and Alicia, have 9-12 Home Leave Department. He previously worked for ment with their daughters, grandchildren, and family. upheld their own values, which helps me do the same. 13-17 Ohio Graduation Tests the Greater New York and Pennsylvania conferences. As he returns to the Mike and Nada Lekic —We wel - 14-16 Midterm exams How has your campus parent influenced you? Greater New York Conference, we wish come Mike as our new confer - Adam : They are always there to monitor grades and 24-2 Spring Break him well. ence superintendent of schools. watch my progress. He also has years of experience Michelle : My campus mom helped me get through a April James and Joyce Greene — in the education field, not only in Congratulations to James and Joyce difficult week through the little things she said and did. 2 Parent/Teacher Conferences Canada where he has served for Greene for joining the New Jersey several years, but in the mission 17-21 Spring Week of Prayer What does daily Campus Family prayer time Conference family. James, who will serve field. Mike is multilingual and speaks English, French, mean to you? 28-30 Alumni Weekend as treasurer, has a wide range of experi - German, Serbo-Croatian, and some Spanish. With all ence working for the Seventh-day those languages, he will be a blessing for the diversity of Adam : It gives me an opportunity to slow down and Adventist Church in the financial field. He languages spoken in the New Jersey Conference. start the day out right with God. Spirit is published in the Visitor by Mount Vernon Academy 525 Wooster Road, Mount Vernon, OH 43050 ■ Phone: has served in various conferences, educational institu - Welcome Mike; we look forward to working with you. Michelle : It helps with stress and helps me to get to (740) 397-5411 ■ Principal, David Daniels ■ www.mvacademy.org know other people in Campus Family.

34 | VISITOR FEBRUARY 2006 | 35 30 Make Decisions for Christ at Youth Ablaze Weekend FEBRUARY 2006 very year, the New Jersey After each interrogation there God through baptism. Praise God, EConference hosts a weekend was a debriefing session. In one of 30 precious youth accepted the call. youth rally called Youth Ablaze. The those sessions an adult chaperone Youth Ablaze has begun a revival Ohio Plans First Electronic Town Hall Meeting theme for this year’s event, which broke down in tears because, among youth in New Jersey. Many drew 170 teens and 70 young although Adventist for years, he have been inspired to pick up their istory will be created on March 9. That’s when the speak. They can also type text messages. adults, was “Are You Ready to couldn’t defend his faith. Bibles, read books like Last Day Hfirst electronic town hall meeting will be hosted by “The Adventist Church must take advantage of Stand up for What You Believe?” On Saturday night after a vesper Events , and study for themselves the Ohio Conference, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Using every available technology to enhance efficiencies of The goal was to immerse attendees service by weekend speaker Dwain how to be ready for the coming of Internet technology, this web-based interactive “meet - time and costs in conducting its business,” observed into a time-of-trouble scenario Esmond (editor of Insight maga - the Lord. One young man has ing” will enable participants to “attend” from anywhere Raj Attiken, Ohio Conference president. “Besides this where they would be tested and zine)—who focused on what hap - decided to accept his calling into in the world. They will view and listen to presentations town hall meeting, we are scheduling several pastors challenged about what they pens when people die and how the gospel ministry and pursue a on their computer. They can also ask questions and conferences and training events in 2006 using web- believed. Those who gathered at Satan uses spiritualism to mislead theology degree. Keep praying for conferencing technology,” he announced. Tranquil Valley Retreat Center in us—everyone was captured and us as the Lord continues to raise In 2006, this e-town hall meeting will not fully Tranquility, N.J., knew what was marched to the main chapel. The His army of youth in New Jersey. replace the annual regional town hall meetings. Area scheduled to occur. They were youth weren’t sure what they would —Laffit Cortes meetings will be held as follows: assembled in small groups and face, but began singing and ■ March 20, 7-9 p.m., Toledo First Church assigned a leader to help them encouraging each other to stand ■ March 21, 7-9 p.m., Akron First Church study what Adventists believe about strong and never compromise. ■ April 2, 3-5 p.m., Worthington Church the Sabbath, the reliability of the Hungry from a long day of Bible ■ April 3, 7-9 p.m., Kettering Church Bible, the sacrifice of Jesus for our study and interrogation, they were ■ April 4, 7-9 p.m., Lakewood Church sins, and the state of the dead, etc. given a choice: If they wanted pizza Congregational leaders, church members, and dele - Throughout the weekend teams and snacks, free time in the gym, February gates to the conference constituency session are urged of youth were “captured,” blindfold - and time to hang out with friends, 16 Finance/ABC Committee to attend. The agenda at these meetings will include ed, handcuffed, placed in the back they had to recant their faith. If they reports from the Ohio Conference for the past four 20 Presidents’ Day— of a truck, and driven to an “interro - refused, they would receive only Andy Sutton, association treasurer, moderates a web conference. years, information on proposed changes to the consti - ABC/Office Closed gation center.” There they were water and an apple, and they would tution and bylaws, and other items of interest. 21 Ad Com, 9 a.m. pressed hard on why they were be sent to bed. make comments. The meeting will be held using To learn how to participate in the historic electronic Seventh-day Adventists, why they “We won’t eat!” “We won’t eat!” 23 Association Board VoxWire web conferencing services. Besides a com - town hall meeting on March 9 from the safety and worshipped on a day that no one they chanted. And none did. After Executive Committee puter and Internet connection, participants will need comfort of your office, home, or church, visit apples and water, they went to bed. 24-26 Spanish Lay Evangelist School speakers to listen, and a microphone if they wish to www.ohioadventist.org. It was awesome to see how deter - 23-26 NAD Youth Ministries mined they were to stand for God. Convention But that wasn’t even the highpoint Jacksonville, Fla. Second Ghanaian Church Formed in Ohio of the weekend. 28 Ad Com, 9 a.m. On Sunday morning, after our pproximately 300 people gathered at the Forest evangelistic campaign and baptized 15 new members. team met for prayer, everyone March Chapel United Methodist Church recently to for - Last November, 44 people registered as charter mem - assembled at the “fire bowl” in the A mally organize the Cincinnati Ghanaian Seventh-day bers of the new church. woods for the final worship service. 5 ABC Open, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Adventist Mission Church. They also celebrated the God had used Esmond all weekend, 7 Ad Com, 9 a.m. installation of Pastor Emmanuel Kwasi Sarpong. Ohio and this was going to be his final Curriculum Committee, Conference president Raj Attiken, executive secretary else did (breaking the National message. He spoke about deci - 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Hubert Cisneros, and Columbus Ghanaian Pastor Sunday Law), and why they would - sions, those we like to make, and 8 Directors Advisory, 9 a.m. Isaac Boateng officiated during the services. n’t go along with the rest of the those we don’t like to make. He 11 Youth Convention, Representatives from Ghanaian churches across world in unity. talked about how Jesus was able to Tranquil Valley Retreat Center North America were also present. To encourage them to recant make right decisions throughout His Education Commissioning Cincinnati Ghanaian links its beginnings to the their faith, participants were bribed life. He did it so much, Esmond 12 ABC Open, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Clifton church where Sabbath School classes were with food from McDonald’s, threat - preached, that it became His nature. organized for Ghanaian/Zimbabwe groups. The idea of ened with death, roughed up, or He did it so much that He could 12-16 ABC Spring Sale forming a congregation was initiated by Madam even “killed.” Many teens wept say, “I always do those things that Agatha Peters. On January 1, 2005, the first Ghanaian because they did not really know please my Father,” quoted Esmond, New Jersey News is published in the church service was conducted at the Forest Chapel what they claim to believe and paraphrasing John 8:29. At the end Visitor by the New Jersey Conference church with 30 adults and 15 children. During the sum - couldn’t prove it using Scripture. of the sermon he made an appeal 2160 Brunswick Ave., Trenton NJ 08648 Phone: (609) 392-7131 ■ President, LeRoy mer, several Ghanaian pastors conducted a major The church choir prepares to sing for the organizational service. But none would recant. asking teens to give their lives to Finck ■ Editor, Aura Garcia ■ www.njcsda.org

36 | VISITOR FEBRUARY 2006 | 37 Ohio Churches Grow Using Small Group Ministries

losing the back door” of the church members the non-members attending have FEBRUARY 2006 Cchurch means retaining new because they are yet to be baptized, they continue to and existing members. How does a family members, fellowship with the members. church keep its membership? Each co-workers, or congregation consists of sub- enjoy worshipping Small Groups Sustain Franklin groups or “mini-congregations” that in the Ghanaian Spanish Members help individuals feel more at home. language. Plans Small group ministries are in full These smaller groups often attract Pastor Isaac are now being swing at the Go and Tell others who have much in common. Boateng regularly made to use Franklin Spanish As long as an individual involves members the Global church in kay, I’ll admit it. I have the best job in the world. The Lord has given me the opportunity to work with youth “belongs” to one of these sub- in evangelism Evangelism Cleveland. Oand youth leaders all over the Pennsylvania Conference. Sometimes that includes meetings, phone calls, long groups, they are part of the “in activities. DVD series in Though the evan - distance driving, preaching, dodge ball, worship, and Bible study. It’s great! It’s not only a lot of fun, but extremely crowd.” They become invested the Ghanaian language for a gelistic meetings rewarding as I see God work on the hearts of young people. In my few months here I’ve met emotionally and relationally to this subsequent soul-winning event. had only been many of our youth. group and, as a result, to the taking place for Pennsylvania, we are blessed. God has given us an extraordinary group of young people. And church. Ohio Evangelism Initiatives Springfield Members two weekends, they have vision, passion, energy, and love for God! When I spend time with our youth, my mind is showing local churches how to Grow “Closer” three candidates Pastor Oswaldo and heart begin to race as I think about all of the possibilities there are to involve these “mission - help each member become part of “We feel closer than ever agreed to be bap - Magana baptizes a aries” in this mission field. In Matthew 11, Jesus asked John the Baptist’s disciples to go and tell new member at the an “in group,” therefore closing the before!” and “Let’s do this again tized. They had others about the things they had experienced with Jesus. It is the mission of the Pennsylvania Cleveland Franklin Conference Youth Department to introduce our youth to Jesus and then give them opportuni - Kris Eckenroth back door of the church. Here’s a soon!” were sentiments expressed been prepared in Spanish church. look at how this is approach is at a debriefing meeting following a advance of the ties to “go and tell” others what they have experienced with Him. Youth Director working in some of our churches: recent evangelism event at the meetings through their involvement Springfield church. This enthusiasm with small group Bible study. Columbus Ghanaians springs from members who were Pastor Oswaldo Magana has Focus on Family formerly concerned that their organized several small groups to Last October Pastor Isaac church might be growing “cold,” prepare interests for baptism and Three Mission Projects Planned for Summer Boateng of the Columbus Ghanaian and, as a result, less attractive to engage them in church activities. congregation began a Bible doctrine new members. Associate Pastor William Rodriguez outh from across Pennsylvania have three exciting residents in this 2.96 square-mile area. Lansdale Pastor series centered on family. Presented Although faithfully supported by presented the evangelistic series Yopportunities to serve as missionaries in the mis - Jim Wibberding will lead the effort June 16 through for five weekends, with the assis - Pastor Willis Adams and his wife with 15 non-members in attendance. sion field of Pennsylvania this summer, as follows: July 31. Church members will house and feed the vol - tance of nurses Boachie Mensah and Miriam, this Global Evangelism Literature Evangelism —The first will be held in the unteers (age 14 and older), who will learn to share their Juliana Forson, this fresh and practi - event was conducted by lay mem - Cincinnati Spanish Lansdale, Pa., area. Located in Montgomery County, faith while earning money for school. Applications can cal approach has been met with ber Nic Ashton. During the series, Churches Flourish just 30 miles north of Center City Philadelphia. Youth be downloaded at www.paconference.org/ministries. tremendous participation by church small groups met in the fellowship The Cincinnati Spanish Company literature evangelists will witness to the nearly 16,500 Click on Youth, and then find the Youth Mission members. The non-members who hall and then together for Ashton’s is experiencing significant member - Opportunities page. attend already have strong ties to DVD/lecture presentation. Although ship growth. They began 2005 with Children’s Day Camp —For those who would rather 14 members. But after two evangel - work with children than knock on doors, a “Cool istic efforts and Bible studies, more Camp” will be held at the Kenhorst Boulevard church Camp Meeting Extended than 30 people joined. Now the in Reading, Pa. This summer day camp will run week - days, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., June 28-July 28. Those 18 The Ohio Conference’s 2006 camp meeting schedule has been extended. church has 75 members. years and older can apply for staff positions by con - There will be a full week of camp meeting on the campus of Mount Vernon Also, a second congregation has tacting Kris Eckenroth at [email protected] Academy, June 11-17, with programming for adults, youth, and children. been planted nearby, in the city of or at (610) 374-8331, ext. 211. Each day will feature In addition, there will be a series of area camp meetings and community Hamilton, where weekly attendance games, stories, and activities with up to 25 community outreach events in select cities. The preliminary schedule is as follows: has grown from 10 to 60. This year, Pastor Joel Rivera is and church children attending. April 8 ...... Southern Ohio ...... Open Door Min. Campus, planning to hold at least three small Mission Trip —From July 23-30, youth age 16 and Chillicothe group evangelistic campaigns and a older will have the opportunity to travel to the far off April 29 ...... Northwest Ohio ...... Toledo Church Revelation seminar. The objective is land of Ernest, Pa., where they will help build a Habitat for Humanity house. These missionaries will eat and June 9-11 . . . .Ohio Hispanic Camp Meeting . . . Mount Vernon Academy to try to plant a third group in the sleep at Laurel Lake Camp in Rossiter, Pa. During the June 11-17 . . .Ohio Camp Meeting ...... Mount Vernon Academ y Cincinnati area by 2007. —Hubert Cisneros day, they will work on the construction site, while the June 29-July 2 . .Friendship Get-a-Way ...... Maumee Bay evenings will be spent in recreation and worship. Cost July 19-23 . . . .Ghanaian Camp Meeting ...... Kenyon College, Gambier Mission Ohio is published in the Visitor by Youth Director Kris Eckenroth and his friend Devon invite young of this mission trip is $250. Downloadable applications August 19 . . . . .Northeast Ohio ...... Edgewater Pk., Cleveland the Ohio Conference ■ P. O. Box 1230, Mount Vernon, Ohio 43050 ■ Phone: (740) people to take part in one of three mission opportunities in are also available at the conference’s Web site on the Sept. 30 . . . . .North Central Ohio ...... Central-Hower High 397-4665 ■ President, Raj Attiken ■ Editor, Pennsylvania this summer. Youth Mission Opportunities page. School, Akron Bette Toscano ■ www.ohioadventist.org

38 | VISITOR FEBRUARY 2006 | 39 News From the Youth Department FEBRUARY 2006 New Youth Director Makes the Rounds Young Adult Retreat Planned Youth director Kris Eckenroth is getting around Pastor Jason Dunkel of Pennsylvania. Ten churches have held Youth Sabbaths Collegedale, Tenn., will be the Southern Asian Church Dedicates $8 Million Facility since Eckenroth joined the conference team last June. featured speaker for this year’s ast month, hundreds of members, supporters, and friends of the Southern Asian Seventh-day Adventist Church These Sabbaths give youth leaders and young people a Pennsylvania Conference Young packed the spacious foyer to witness the ribbon cutting marking the official opening of their new worship facility. chance to meet our new youth director. It also gives Adult Retreat. The event will take L The weekend-long celebration continued with an estimated Sabbath-morning attendance of nearly 2,000 worship - Eckenroth the opportunity to get to know local leaders place at Laurel Lake Camp, April pers. With a seating capacity of 1,000, the 702-member congregation is and youth. Young people have led the worship services 7-8. Shawnessy Cargile will be the poised for continued growth. and held afternoon meetings at the Hampden Heights worship leader. Young adults (col - Inauguration Sabbath activities included 18 baptisms—a special num - church in Reading; the Spanish I and II churches in lege age to 30s) are invited for Pastor Jason Dunkel ber reminding the congregation of their 18 years of existence. Philadelphia; the Blue Mountain two days of inspiring music, life- will be the featured Through fundraising efforts that included cultural shows, fruit sales, car Academy church in Hamburg; and impacting worship, hiking in the speaker at the Young washes, cell phone recycling, a capital campaign, and a host of other cre - at churches in Stroudsburg, York, woods, fun-filled activities, and Adult Retreat. ative endeavors, the congregation has raised over $3 million toward their Hanover, Allentown, and great fellowship. Pick up an appli - $8 million building project. Shermansdale. Young people from cation at your local church or Officers of the Potomac Conference were on hand to give thanks six area churches also gathered at apply online at www.paconference.org/ministries/ to God and affirm the hard work of Senior Pastor Harrisburg’s mini camp meeting. YoungAdultPage.html. While there, check out the latest Franklin David, Associate Pastor Sujjan John, and the When Eckenroth attended the letter to young adults. Contact Kris Eckenroth for more dedicated members of the diverse congregation, youth Sabbath at the Hanover details at [email protected] or (610) 374- which is comprised of a host of languages and church where he used to serve 8331, ext. 211. Sebastian Mayer cultures from India and other parts of South and as assistant pastor, he had the preached the sermon East Asia.— Garrett Caldwell at the Hampden opportunity to baptize Zac Heights Seventh-day Smith. The pair had developed a Adventist Church in friendship at Hanover’s “Kids Reading, Pa., for their Night Out,” a weekly worship youth Sabbath service. and game night. February 4 Pathfinder Bible Bowl, Harrisburg, Pa. Special Event Planned for High School Youth 10-12 Conference Couples Retreat, York, Pa. All high school-age youth from across the confer - 17-19 Hispanic Lay Festival, Lancaster, Pa. ence are invited to worship, grow spiritually, and meet 18 Pathfinder Bible Bowl, Hamburg, Pa. other youth from Pennsylvania on February 11 begin - 20-Mar. 13 Overseas Evangelism Trip to Venezuela ning at 9:30 a.m. at Blue Mountain Academy. This spe - cial youth event will feature small group Bible study, March praise and worship, a Sabbath afternoon concert by 3-4 Elementary School Music Festival, and for youth. Attendees will also get the chance to Blue Mountain Elementary, Hamburg, Pa. meet and make new friends who share their faith. 17-19 Conference Women’s Retreat, Eisenhower Inn, Gettysburg, Pa. Youth Leaders Inspired by Training 17-19 Pathfinder Honors Weekend, Barry Gane, professor of youth ministry at the Laurel Lake Camp, Rossiter, Pa. NEWS Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at April Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Mich., recently Galax Couple Celebrates 50th Anniversary Pulaski Member Turns 93 7-9 Young Adult Retreat, Laurel Lake Camp visited Pennsylvania to speak for the Youth Leaders The Galax Seventh-day Adventist Church was filled Leona Cruff-Macy, who recently celebrated her Training Sabbath at Blue Mountain Academy. Youth June with family and friends as Bob and Edna Montgomery 93rd birthday, attributes her longevity to diet, exer - leaders from Blue Mountain Academy, Stroudsburg, 1 Application Deadline, Overseas Evangelism renewed their wedding vows cise, and a good relationship with the Lord. “I’ve out - Williamsport, Allentown, Lebanon, Hershey, Hanover, Trip to Belize recently. There was only one wit - lived three generations of my family,” says the Danville, and Hampden Heights churches were in atten - 9-17 Pennsylvania Camp Meeting, ness at their wedding 50 years woman who grew up in the country, ate fruits and dance. Gane provided training in leadership, communi - Blue Mtn. Academy, Hamburg, Pa. ago, but this time, many people— vegetables, and used hard work as a form of exer - cation, and planning and illustrated his points with per - including their three children— cise. Today, Cruff-Macy, a member of the Pulaski sonal stories from his 30-plus years in youth ministry. attended the nuptials. Pastor (Va.) church for 61 years, still maintains a good sense Pennsylvania Pen is published in the Visitor by the Pennsylvania Daniel Royo presided over the of humor and lives “on faith alone.” Joni Bokovoy, Allentown’s youth leader, appreciated Conference ■ 720 Museum Road, Reading, PA 19611 the event. “The retreat was inspiring; I learned valuable Phone: (610) 374-8331, ext. 210 ■ President, Ray Hartwell ceremony.— Donna Patton lessons from Dr. Gane,” she said. Editor, Tamyra Horst ■ www.paconference.org

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ick Jordan, pastor of the Woodbridge (Va.) church, God’s amazing grace Rand Rick Dahlberg, pastor of the Meadowbridge and the unique mes - church in Mechanicsville, Va., were recently sage of God’s last ordained/commissioned to the gospel ministry during day church to a inspiring services at their respective churches. world in need of Jordan learned about the Seventh-day Adventist Him! The Jordan Grandparents’ Day—Connecting Generations Church as a young teenager when he visited his father family includes and stepmother in Rick’s wife Beth, and pencerville Adventist Academy (SAA) recently held its eighth annual Grandparents’ Day. Being new here, Alaska. During one their children Ricky, Sit was my first time experiencing such an event. I watched as the grandparents filled the school, and soon of those visits, he Tim, Esther, and George Akers offers prayer during discovered that many of them had traveled hundreds and even thousands of miles to be attended a youth Russell. the ordination/commissioning service there. It was astonishing! for Rick Dahlberg. camp and was Dahlberg accept - I watched as, throughout the morning, grandparents followed their grandchildren from class - introduced to ed the call to pastoral ministry in Quebec, Canada, in room to classroom. The students were so excited to share their educational world with their Jesus. He was bap - the fall of 1998. “There are many things you can do in grandparents that they seemingly did not notice the generation gap. tized and joined the this life, but there’s only one thing you can do to have I have not been able to forget the powerful memories of that day. How meaningful those inter - church during his lasting happiness—enjoy God,” he says. “Enjoying God actions must be for the children involved. It reminds me of the old African saying, “It takes a vil - lage to raise a child.” Let’s strive to keep our generations connected. In that connection Brian Kittleson Ray Pichette, assistant to the senior year of high is not using Him, but knowing that God is using you as we will find strength, love, and wisdom that cannot be matched. Principal president for Potomac Conference, school. It is his He wants … .” Dahlberg and his wife Eve are proud presents Rick Jordan. desire to share parents of Alexander Nils and Andra Nevyn. NEWS Olney Forms New AcroSquad Attends AcroFest 2005 Four SAA Seniors Receive Awards Adventurer’s Club Staunton Church Hosts AcroSquad, SAA’s gymnastics team, recently partici - Four seniors at SAA—Matthew Collett, Staci “Piano Praise” Concert pated in AcroFest, the annual gymnastics conference Davenport, Ellen Poirier, and Andrew Tetz—recently The Olney (Md.) church recently held its very first for Adventist high schools and colleges. AcroFest, held received Commended Scholar Awards from the PSAT Adventurer’s club meeting. More than 20 children iano Praise, a three-piano, 12-hand ensemble (two at Southwestern Adventist University in Keene, Texas, National Merit Scholarship Program. The surprised stu - joined the club. Some participants are members of the Ppeople playing together makes four hands at each gives students the opportunity to practice and learn dents were awarded Letters of Recommendation dur - church and some are from the Olney Adventist of the three pianos, for a total of 12 hands) recently more about the sport of ing a special presentation at chapel. Commended Preparatory School. The children have enthusiastically played for the study and worship service at the gymnastics. Twenty teams Students are those who rank in the top five percent of participated in many activities including a Sabbath Staunton (Va.) church. Selections included nine hymns, from across the United the 1.3 million students who take the PSAT National afternoon hike involving searching for clues to a Bible praise, and gospel songs and featured the classical States engaged in the Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test each year. text; a Sabbath afternoon bike ride; crafts; and planting rendition of “As the Deer,” a lively interpretation of the demonstrative learning In addition to their academic success, these students bulbs on the church/school property. The club plans to spiritual “This Little Light of Mine,” and a rich, moving clinics, the famous also enjoy activities outside the classroom. Collett is a do a ski trip and a spring campout. “We feel blessed to arrangement of “People Need the Lord.” Saturday night perform - member of the SAA basketball team and is currently have such a wonderful group of children and a very Pianists of this unique group included several Virginia- ance, and all around fun. recording a CD of original music with several friends. successful based members: Jeannetta Bosley yy of Churchville, This year’s theme was Davenport is a skilled musician who plays many instru - start to our Gaylon Hevener of Staunton, Deanna Knoll of “Make a Difference,” and ments, including the guitar. She is also a member of the new pro - Waynesboro, Kelly Lum of Staunton, Patty Marsh of SAA’s AcroSquad gathers each athlete was encour - Lady Hornets basketball team and participates in other gram!” say Fishersville, and Beth Ware of Highland. The public was for a team photo before their aged to positively impact sports throughout coordina - invited and the Saturday night performance people in their community. the year. Poirier tors Sally church was at AcroFest 2005. This was Spencerville’s is editor of the and Haryl packed. All who fifth year attending 2005-06 Linzau. attended AcroFest (and one of our best). Our team had a good Retrospective , the received a rich time learning from the other schools and trying new SAA yearbook. She blessing as they gymnastics moves. Although one of our teammates also performs with listened to the was injured the night before our big performance, we the Spencerville Alyssa Izzo, pictured with fellow Adventurer club Left to right: Ellen Poirier, Staci heavenly music. members from the Olney (Md.) church, works to were able to figure out a solution and still put on a Ringers, SAA’s Davenport, Drew Tetz, and Matthew earn a bead craft honor. Participants in good show. The best and most memorable part of hand bell choir. Collett were all recipients of the PSAT the Piano Praise AcroFest was the bonding—we made a lot of new Tetz is an accom - Commended Scholar Awards. concert at the friends and managed to strengthen friendships on our plished yo-yo per - Potomac People is published in the Visitor by the Potomac Staunton (Va.) church included (left to right) Kelly Lum, Beth team as well. AcroFest gave us important lessons and former. He has participated in several yo-yo contests Conference ■ 606 Greenville Ave., Staunton, VA 24401 Ware, Jeanetta Bosley, Patty Marsh, Deanna Knoll, and (seated) unforgettable memories to take home. We can’t wait to and recently placed fifth at the national level. We are Phone: (540) 886-0771 ■ www.pcsda.org ■ President, Dave Gaylon Hevener. go back next year!— Jaime Jacobson ’09 . very proud to see our students earn such high honors. 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Y R A U R Music Teacher Visits Cambodia B E F In January 2005, following the found myself speechless by the liv - hygiene supplies, as well as toys Itsunami, CNN’s Paula Zahn ing conditions—animals living and stuffed animals, for the children reported on the need for music among the people, no clean water in Cambodia. Their sincere notes of teachers. According to the pro - or sanitation, not enough nutrition, kindness and expectations of soon gram, music therapy was the only the curse of AIDS. The heat and meeting Cambodian orphans in Beyond Fundamentals way many of the orphans would stench were overwhelming, and I heaven moved my heart. In their often wonder why many of our Seventh-day Adventist students choose to attend public schools instead of emerge from their numbed depres - could not help crying myself to own way, my students at SAA have Adventist schools. I also wonder if Adventist schools provide an education that can “compete.” Public schools sion. I saw how the teachers used sleep at night. How could some stepped out of their world and into I boast multiple course offerings, multiple language choices, larger interscholastic programs, and more up-to-date their legs and pieces of sticks to countries have so much, while oth - the lives of others who are less for - facilities. But there are also deficiencies. Significant to me, as a parent and educator, are the vast numbers of stu - create simple “patsching” rhythms. ers have so little? I wondered. tunate. This year during Spring dents, lack of individual attention, plethora of unchristian influences, and absence of prayer! The faces on the destitute children The remaining weeks were spent Break, I plan to take my choir to As noted in the September 2005 issue of Educational Leadership, today’s “schools must go beyond teaching suddenly came alive as they recog - in Siem Reap where I took the Belize so they, too, will have that fundamental skills.” Despite what we don’t have at Takoma Academy (TA), we go beyond fundamentals. First, nized the familiar sounds of their recorders. I was thrilled to witness joy of sharing music with orphans. consider our teachers. Though they are not compensated for the amount of work they are required to accomplish, cultural folk music. My eyes the pride that the children took in —Jane Lanning they are hardworking, dedicated, and often spend their careers working at Adventist schools. watered as I came to a realization: their new possessions. They imme - They take an interest in our kids and often pray with them. Secondly, our classes are smaller, Often, we become so involved with diately wrote their names on their allowing for more individualized instruction, which provides a host of long-term benefits. Third, our daily routine that we forget the recorder and read the attached beyond fundamentals, we teach with the “eternal” mindset, preparing our students for heaven. reasons for which we chose our messages. The eagerness they dis - What can you do to assist Adventist education? How can you partner with us in this important career path. So, shortly after the played was my greatest reward and, CALEN DAR work? Can you provide resources? Are you willing to go on field trips? Do you have financial program aired, I made arrange - little by little, my new music stu - connections to provide up-to-date equipment for the school? Are you constantly praying ments to go to Cambodia to work dents began to learn to read notes. C. Dunbar Henri for our schools? Thank you for whatever you can do to make a difference. Principal with orphans. Using the white board in my out - February I invited my third- and fourth- door classroom, I drew the staffs 12 Student Council grade recorder students at SAA to and notes for each day’s new song. Valentine’s Banquet NEWS help out. At the end of the school At the end of my visit, we had a year, they enthusiastically donated mini concert with 90 students per - 17 Midterm Ken Wilson Retires—Again TA Welcomes Alumnus to the Staff their own recorders—90 in all—and forming “God is So Good.” When it 20 Presidents’ Day— Ken Wilson has retired—again. Last Spring, when Last month, Derek and Ashley Boyce joined the TA wrote messages of encouragement was over, the children brought me School Closed there was a teaching vacancy at TA, he stepped in and family. Derek graduated from TA in 1999 and went to to would-be recipients. bouquets of wild flowers. I had to taught Chemistry, Southern Adventist University, graduating in 2003. He My first weeks in Cambodia were pray that God would keep me from March Anatomy and then went to Andrews University and did graduate spent volunteering with ADRA work - losing my composure. 6-10 Week of Prayer Physiology, and work until the call came to interview at his alma mater. ers assigned to the Child Survival Back home, the students at SAA Honors Chemistry. “I am [happy] to be able to [return] to TA to begin my Project. By the end of the first day I prepared bags with educational and 12 NHS Induction He continued this career,” Derek says. “I want to make chemistry and school year until a physics fun for the 13-17 Student Council new teacher was students.” “Spirit Week” hired. At a recent When not teach - (high school only) assembly, Principal ing, he enjoys bik - 27-31 Spring Break Dunbar Henri ing, board games, thanked him for playing the trom - his service. bone and electric For more dates, visit Wilson started bass, and cars. His www.spencervilleacademy.org . teaching at TA in fondest memory of September 1963, TA was hanging out having graduated from the academy in 1955. His with friends at fondest memory of being a teacher at TA is interact - lunch and band and ing with the students at all times but especially on being on the track the biology (Biota Club) field trips. team. TA is fortu - When asked what his plans are, Wilson replied: nate to have him “When the nursing home guard is not looking, we will join the faculty. Spotlight is published in the Visitor by the Spencerville Adventist Academy sneak out and go backpacking with my new GPS, trav - 15930 Good Hope Rd., Silver Spring, el throughout the United States to national parks and MD 20905 ■ Phone: (301) 421-9101 historical sites, and visit grandchildren in Colorado.” He www.spencervilleacademy.org Principal, Brian Kittleson and his wife Cody also plan to invest in real estate and SAA music teacher Jane Lanning poses with a group of eager music students who Editor, Heidi Wetmore embark on a lot of boating explorations. won her heart at a Cambodian orphanage.

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recently participated in a short-term mission trip to ing, and then made our way to the Seventh-day IRussia. Our group of 42 participants—led by Floyd Adventist University in Zaosky. We sorted through toys Murdoch, a retired TA teacher—happily endured the 10- and clothes donated by students and staff at TA and hour flight to Moscow. We spent a few days sightsee - other churches and schools. The donated items were for a group of orphans scheduled to visit the university. When the orphans arrived, the staff and students performed a Christmas program and served a hearty lunch. The children were then led to rooms filled with the donated gifts and told to pick one. Many approached the offerings shyly while other children boldly made their preferences known. Their smiles and words of thanks encouraged me as I fumbled with my limited 10-word Russian vocabulary. From this experience I received a life lesson on the human spirit and its innate drive to survive despite unfamiliar obstacles. The trip to Russia reminded me to During her mission trip to Russia, Myrna Candelaria, who teach - be more of a missionary in my classroom and to others es English at TA, befriended these two orphan children. who are a part of my daily life.— Myrna Candelaria Auction Raises $5,000 for TA Events Jamaica Music Tour February ecently, the Takoma Academy band, jazz band, strings, and drama 8-11 Columbia Union College Rgroups sponsored an auction to raise money for their upcoming Band Festival Jamaica Tour, March 24-April 3. The groups, with awesome parental sup - 12 Valentine’s Banquet, port, transformed the gymnasium into an auction room with delicious West Martin’s Crosswinds Indian food on display. Pastor Kermit Netteburg from the Sligo church in 14 Parent/Teacher Takoma Park, Md., led out in the festivities, while Pastor Derek Marley from Conference, the Takoma Park (Md.) church served as auctioneer. They raised over Noon Dismissal $5,000 to assist with the trip to Jamaica. Though it will cost around $1,000 per person, these funds will defray some of the cost for each student. The 20 Presidents’ Day— trip will consist of concerts and programs, and the students are exploring School Closed the possibility of doing a short-term mission project during their stay. For 27-Mar. 3 Student Week of Prayer the participants, this is not a vacation; it’s a musical mission trip. To lend by Campus Ministries your support, send donations marked “Jamaica Trip” to Takoma Academy. March 4 TA Youth Rally Fine Arts Department Presents 23-24 Semester Examinations Christmas Program 27-Apr. 2 Spring Break A’s Fine Arts Department provided a April wonderful Christmas program at Sligo T 20 Open House, 6-8 p.m. church late last year. A snowstorm on the very day of the program presented some 21-22 Alumni Weekend challenges. God was in control, however, 29 TA Day, Takoma Park and there was a wonderful crowd present (Md.) church to enjoy performances by the school Students from TA’s band and choir Vicki Yohe in Concert, present their Christmas program at band, orchestra, strings, drama group, 7 p.m. (free will offering) Sligo church in Takoma Park, Md. Camarata, choir, and gospel choir. Members of these groups, directed by TA Today is published in the Visitor band teacher Tim Vandeman, and choral teacher Gylcris Sprauve, presented by Takoma Academy ■ 8120 Carroll Ave., Takoma Park, MD 20912 ■ Phone: what Christ means to them and celebrated Christmas in the traditions of (301) 434-4700 ■ Principal, C. Dunbar various cultures. Henri ■ www.ta.edu

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RV S! OHIO CONFERENCE CHIP LEADERSHIP Celeste Ryan Blyden ■ Editor adventist-owned and -operated ASSOCIATION MEETING WORKSHOP: LaVerne Henderson ■ Associate Editor for News & Features rv dealership has been helping may 16-20 at atlantic union What About Church Planting? notice is hereby given of a legal Kelly Butler Coe ■ Art Director & Designer adventists for over 30 years. huge college. auc's culinary arts meeting of the ohio conference Sandra Jones ■ Copy Editor & Bulletin Board Editor inventory. courtesy airport pickup department partners with the association of the seventh-day and on-site hookups. satisfied adventist chip association to hurch planting” is the contemporary adventist church, incorporated Monte Sahlin ■ Publisher adventist customer list available. train church teams to present the under the laws of the state of term for starting new congregations call toll-free (888) 933-9300. lee's coronary health improvement PUBLISHING BOARD : Harold L. Lee (chair), Celeste Ryan (secretary), ohio, in connection with the 39th rv city, oklahoma city. visit our project (chip), a video-based Raj Attiken, Seth Bardu, Charles Cheatham, LeRoy Finck, in communities where there is no regular constituency session of J. Neville Harcombe, Ray Hartwell, James L. Lewis, Monte Sahlin , C Web site www.leesrv.com or ministry that is changing lives and the ohio conference to be held in e-mail [email protected]. making friends for time and for Rob Vandeman, Dave Weigley, Kingsley Whitsett Seventh-day Adventist church, and it can the Worthington seventh-day eternity. to register or for more adventist church, 385 east MISSION STATEMENT be controversial. LEGAL NOTICES information call (866) 732-2447 dublin-granville road, The Visitor provides news and information, resources for effective or e-mail: ministry, and insight on issues with a spiritual focus to help people The Center for Creative Ministry Worthington, ohio, at 11:30 a.m., MOUNTAIN VIEW [email protected]. celebrate God's transforming grace in preparation for His return. CONFERENCE on sunday, april 9, 2006. recently helped us survey members THE SOUTHERN ASIAN COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE QUADRENNIAL SESSION the purpose of the meeting is across the Columbia Union Conference, SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS to elect officers and trustees and the third quadrennial session CHURCH 5427 Twin Knolls Road, Columbia, MD 21045 to transact any other business that with a large sample filling out questionnaires on Sabbath at of the mountain view presents michael card in concert, (301) 596-0800 or (888) 4-VISITOR may come before the association conference of seventh-day sunday, march 25, at 7 p.m. http://www.columbiaunion.org church. Here are some of the key responses: at that time. the delegates to the adventists will convene at tickets can be purchased at the Free to Columbia Union members. All others—$15 per year. 39th regular constituency session 10 a.m. on sunday, march potomac book and health food of the ohio conference of 26, 2006, at the seventh-day store by calling the church office COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE seventh-day adventists are 80% adventist church complex, (301) 439-7035, or going online at Harold L. Lee President Percent that Agree delegates of the session. 70 friends-r-fun drive, www.sasdac.org. J. Neville Harcombe Executive Secretary 70% summersville, W.va. Seth Bardu Treasurer WALKER MEMORIAL Hamlet Canosa Vice President/Education 60% Raj Attiken, President the purposes of the meeting ACADEMY (WMA) Walter Carson General VP/Legal Counsel Lou Toscano, Secretary 50% are to elect the conference ALUMNI WEEKEND Monte Sahlin Vice President/Creative Ministries Celeste Ryan Blyden Asst. to the President/Communication 40% officers, conference committee, will be held at the avon park, fla., 77% board of education, and the Harold Greene Information Technology 69% MEETING OF THE campus on march 25 & 26. the Curtis Boore Plant Services 30% constitution and bylaws 54% MOUNT VERNON ACADEMY speakers for the weekend will be Walter Carson Trust Services/PARL 20% 42% committee for the ensuing CORPORATION pastor rey descalso, Jr., and Peggy Lee Revolving Fund 31% term, as well as to transact pastor mark reams. a special Carol Wright Undertreasurer 10% notice is hereby given that a other business as may properly tribute will be awarded to William meeting of the mount vernon CONFERENCES 0% come before the conference at e. farmer for his 20 years of dedi - It is important to start Willing for my local Willing for 2 or 3 key I am personally willing I am personally willing academy corporation will be held that session. cation and service at Wma. ALLEGHENY EAST: Charles L. Cheatham, President; Robert Booker, new congregations church to sponsor people to leave my to join a core group to make a montly pledge in connection with the 39th regular Visitor Correspondent; P.O. Box 266, Pine Forge, PA 19548. a church plant church for a new for a church plant for church planting a meeting of the organizing ■ church plant constituency session of the ohio OBITUARIES Tel. (610) 326-4610 www.myalleghenyeast.com committee, described in article conference of seventh-day ALLEGHENY WEST: James L. Lewis, President; Robert C. Lewis, iv, section i, of the bylaws, will adventists at the Worthington ADAMS, Ronald L., born august Visitor Correspondent; 1339 E. Broad St., Columbus, OH 43205. As you can see, more than three out of four Adventists support convene at 1:30 p.m., sunday, ■ seventh-day adventist church, 2, 1938, in pensacola, fla.; died Tel. (614) 252-5271 www.awconf.org January 8, 2006, at the 385 east dublin-granville road, november 14, 2005, in grand Visitor Subscription CHESAPEAKE: Rob Vandeman, President and Visitor the concept of church planting, but support dwindles as the “cost” seventh-day adventist church, Worthington, ohio, at 11:50 a.m., island, fla. he was a member of Information Correspondent; 6600 Martin Rd., Columbia, MD 21044. 1901 park avenue, parkersburg, of doing so comes closer to home. Still, significant numbers are on sunday, april 9, 2006. the north lakes church. ron Tel. (410) 995-1910 West virginia. the purposes of Would you like to receive the this meeting is called to elect joined the church in the early MOUNTAIN VIEW: Kingsley Whitsett, President; Brian Jones, willing to get personally involved in giving their time and money this meeting are to select mem - Visitor , or are you on the mailing Visitor Correspondent; 1400 Liberty St., Parkersburg, WV 26101. trustees and transact any other 1960s. he received his elementary bers of the nominating list but have an address Tel. (304) 422-4581 ■ www.mtviewconf.org to church planting. The 42 percent willing to join a core group for business that may come before education degree from southern committee for the session change? the constituency at that time. missionary college and a master’s NEW JERSEY: LeRoy Finck, President; Aura Garcia, a new church plant represent 27,000 to 50,000 individuals across and to nominate members of Visitor Correspondent; 2160 Brunswick Ave., Trenton, NJ 08648. the delegates to the 39th regular from etsu in Johnson city, tenn. the constitution and bylaws please e-mail: Tel. (609) 392-7131 ■ www.njcsda.org our eight states, and the 31 percent willing to make a monthly constituency session of the ohio he taught and was a principal at committee for the ensuing [email protected] conference of seventh-day the elementary and academy lev - OHIO: Raj Attiken, President; Bette Toscano, Visitor donation represent 20,000 to 37,000 individuals (depending on term. or Correspondent; P.O. Box 1230, Mount Vernon, OH 43050. adventists are delegates of the els. he was also very active in phone toll-free: Tel. (740) 397-4665 ■ www.ohioadventist.org Kingsley Whitsett, President session. pathfinders. after nearly 40 years whether you restrict the estimate to active members). Larry Boggess, Secretary of teaching in the columbia, lake, (888) 4-VISITOR PENNSYLVANIA: Ray Hartwell, President; Tamyra Horst, Visitor Raj Attiken, President southern, and southwestern or Correspondent; 720 Museum Rd., Reading, PA 19611. David Daniels, Secretary unions, he retired in florida. at the mail to: Tel. (610) 374-8331 ■ www.paconference.org What Does This Mean? Columbia Union Visitor POTOMAC: Dave Weigley, President; Janet Olsyne, Visitor time of his death, he worked as a There are hundreds of communities across our eight states QUADRENNIAL SESSION ANNOUNCEMENTS chaplain for florida hospital Subscription Services Correspondent; 606 Greenville Avenue, Staunton, VA 24401. OF THE OHIO CONFERENCE Waterman. ron devoted his life to 5427 Twin Knolls Road Tel. (540) 886-0771 ■ www.pcsda.org where, at present, there is no Adventist congregation or local Columbia, MD 21045 OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST SINGLE christian seventh-day adventist COLLEGES ADVENTISTS ADULT MINISTRIES (ASAM) education. it was his passion. he is ministry of any kind. This is especially true in the major metro - COLUMBIA UNION COLLEGE: Randal Wisbey, President; CONFERENCE survived by his wife sharon adams please include the name of the 39th regular constituency Scott Steward, Visitor Correspondent; 7600 Flower Ave., politan areas such as the suburbs around Philadelphia, Baltimore, will be held march 22. attend the of grand island, fla.; two daugh - the conference where your ■ session of the ohio conference Takoma Park, MD 20912. Tel. (301) 891-4000 www.cuc.edu country's largest training event for ters, lori (michael) abbott of membership is held and your Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Washington, D.C., and of seventh-day adventists will KETTERING COLLEGE OF MEDICAL ARTS: Charles Scriven, single adult ministries leaders at bellbrook, ohio, and teresa (Kevin) telephone number. if an address convene at 9:30 a.m. on sunday President; 3737 Southern Blvd., Kettering, OH 45429. Norfolk-Virginia Beach. About 60 percent of the people in our the interdenominational sam rice of memphis, tenn; a son, change, also send your ■ april 9, 2006, at the Worthington Tel. (937) 395-8601 www.kcma.edu convention, march 23-25, following steven adams, of maintowoc, previous address as listed on seventh-day adventist church, territory live in the 10 largest metropolitan areas and 90 percent the 3rd annual adventist sam Wis.; a grandson, nathan abbott, the magazine label. HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS 385 east dublin-granville road, leadership training conference, of bellbrook, ohio; and grand - live in all 46 metro areas, but the majority of our churches are Worthington, ohio. the purpose ADVENTIST HEALTHCARE: William G. “Bill” Robertson, President march 22. both will be held in daughters Kelsey abbott of & CEO; Ray Tetz, Visitor Correspondent; 1801 Research Blvd., of this meeting is to elect officers If you live outside the located elsewhere—where 10 percent of the population lives. In phoenix, ariz.. featured speakers bellbrook, ohio, and Karli and Suite 400, Rockville, MD 20850. Tel. (301) 315-3030 and committees, consider Columbia Union Conference are dr. hyveth Williams and dr. taylor rice of memphis, tenn. www.adventisthealthcare.com recommendations for revisions territory, a year’s subscription other words, if we are serious about the mission Christ has given dick stenbakken, nad asam KETTERING ADVENTIST HEALTHCARE: Frank Perez, President of the constitution and bylaws, (12 issues) is $15. coordinator. contact plusline at & CEO; Kenneth Chaij, Visitor Correspondent; 3965 Southern us, we must reposition ourselves to go where the people are! and to transact such other (800) 732-7587 or go to Blvd., Kettering, OH 45429. Tel. (937) 395-8167 business as comes before the STAY Please make your check http://plusline.org/events for www.kmcnetwork.org conference. CONNECTED! payable to: registration information. the columbia union Visitor Published by the Columbia Union Conference of Seventh-day Monte Sahlin, a vice president of the Columbia Union Raj Attiken, President asam Web site is Adventists. Printed at the Review & Herald Publishing Association. www.columbiaunion.org and mail to the above address. Conference, coordinates homeland missions strategy. Reach Hubert Cisneros, Secretary www.adventistsingleadultministries. Volume 111 ■ Issue 2 org/. him at [email protected] or (800) 438-9600.

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