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Volume 6, Number 9 Newsletter of the CEM Network September 15, 2001 Personal from. .Ronald L. Dart Dear Friends, I sat in a state of unbelief as I place in California. Nicolay Soltys cide. Children are weak and watched the story of Andrea Yates. killed his wife, the mother of his vulnerable. In their earliest months, I simply could not believe that a son, with a knife. Then drove to the they are completely helpless and mother would drown her five home of an aunt and uncle, slashing dependent. At the same time, they children in the bathtub and then lay them to death along with their two are beautiful and lovable. In spite their little wet bodies out on the nine year old grandchildren, of this, down through history they bed. Surely this is not real life. It is Dimitriy and Tatyana. Bloody from have been neglected, abused, the stuff of horror fiction. What the slayings, he returned to his slaughtered, and destroyed, often made it even less real was the lack mother’s house and then made off as not by their own parents. But of emotion, first from Andrea Yates with his three year old son, Sergey. there is something very important herself, and then from her husband. Everyone prayed for the safety to remember about this. Killing or I didn’t say much about it at of the boy, but we were all devas- abusing children is contrary to the time, avoiding it in both radio tated when we learned the little human nature. God did not make and sermons, because I just fellow had been found in a card- us to destroy our own children. couldn’t get my mind around it. board box with his throat cut. I And that led to the next And then I didn’t want to sound have no doubt a lot of people wept thought, that Andrea Yates may opportunistic in preaching about it when they learned what had have had a point when she spoke while it was still echoing through happened to him. of demonic influence leading her to the media circus. But as I thought I sat and stared at the wall a kill her children. Yes, I know it is about the tragedy and the waste of long time after that, because it was Continued on page 3. it all, I couldn’t help wondering apparent that this was not merely a what our country is coming to. matter of the decay of American These deaths came on the heels of society. These people were Rus- Inside This Issue two heartbreaking deaths of babies sian, had only been in this country a who were cooked to death in hot short time, and they were killing cars after their parents forgot about each other too. How could parents Calendar of Events 2 them being there. How can a suppress their natural instinct to parent stick a child in the back seat love their children to the extent that Radio Updates 2 and just forget the child is there? they could kill, not one child, but Broadcast Schedule 2 Something is dreadfully wrong with several? And as I thought about it, this picture. the awful connection between Your Letters 4 I was still trying to figure out Andrea Yates and Nicolay Soltys what to say about all this when became all too clear. Daily Radio 4 another set of family killings took There is nothing new in infanti- N ETWORK page 2 CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL MINISTRIES STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS Radio Update FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED JULY 31, 2001 Please note the following RECEIPTS new stations: CONTRIBUTIONS $223645.34 CEM BOOKSTORE 12166.23 Tune in for the latest SUMMER CAMP TUITION 11025.00 weekly broadcast. 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Dart will be speaking in Terrell, Texas for The Feast of Trumpets services on Tuesday, September 18th . Services will be held at the Fellowship Hall of the United Methodist Church, 503 W. College, in Terrell. Services will begin at 1:00 and there will be a potluck meal immediately following services. If you need more information, please contact either Ralph Collins, in Forth Worth, at (817) 246-1874 or Faye Brown at the CEM office at (903) 509-2999. September 27th - Destin, Florida The Day of Atonement Services Ronald L. Dart will be speaking in Destin, Florida for services on the Day of Atonement, Thursday, Septem- ber 27th. Services will be at the Destin Community Center, beginning at 2:00 in the afternoon. For more information or directions to services, please contact Gary or Shirley George, in Destin, at (850) 837-0485. October 2nd - October 9th- Niceville, Florida The Feast of Tabernacles CEM will be celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles in Niceville, FL this year from Tuesday, October 2nd through The Last Great Day, Tuesday, October 9th. Services will be at the Okaloosa-Walton Community College in Niceville, Florida. See our web page for more information or call the CEM office at 1-888-BIBLE-44. November 3rd - West Palm Beach, Florida Meet the Teacher Ronald L. Dart will be speaking at a “Meet the Teacher” session on Saturday, November 3rd, sponsored by the Christian Church of God, in Lantana, Florida. The meeting will be held at the Hilton Palm Beach Airport Hotel, 150 Australian Avenue, in West Palm Beach and will be from 1:30 until 5:00 in the afternoon. There will be a break at 2:30 with coffee, tea and juice provided. Mr. Dart will be conducting Sabbath Services, followed by a Question and Answer period. For more information, please contact Neville or Joyce Gilbert at (561) 585-4580. N ETWORK page 3 Continued from page 1. Paul is driving at in his letter to the youth program. We also recom- too easy to blame everything on the Corinthians. Can we say, asked mend a book titled, “Youth Ministry devil to avoid our own responsibil- Paul, that one part of the body in Small Churches,” which will be ity for the wicked things we do. [say, the children] is not neces- available at a discount from the But there is one thing we must not sary? “On the contrary, those CEM Bookstore. For more forget. There is a devil. He is evil parts of the body that seem to be information and for a catalog of beyond our imaginations. He hates weaker are indispensable, and the YEA literature, call our office toll God and everything God is trying parts that we think are less honor- free at 1-888-BIBLE 44. to do. And one thing he certainly able we treat with special honor. Every year at the Feast, we put hates is children and families. It is And the parts that are unpresent- forward a major effort in teaching not unreasonable to lay the killing able are treated with special children. We want the Feast to be a and destruction of children at the modesty” (1 Corinthians 12:22-23 great experience in every way, not devil’s door. NIV). No part of the Church is the least in learning more about Close on the heels of this weaker than the little children. God. Join with us year round in realization comes the corollary. If It is my conviction that one of building a better ministry to youth. Satan is out to destroy children, the primary missions of the Church “Lo, children are an heritage of the then it should be the major business of Jesus Christ should be our LORD” (Psalms 127:3). See that of the Church to save children. ministry to children. And not only we don’t neglect God’s heritage. There was a day when some our own children, but also the people brought their little children children of the community around With love in Christ’s service, to Jesus that He might lay hands on us. It is a ministry that is commonly Ronald L. Dart them and pray for them. The neglected in churches, for reasons disciples didn’t think Jesus should that are hard to understand. It is be bothered with mere children, so time for every church to come P.S. How much do you really know they rebuked those bringing the together and decide what they can about spiritual gifts? Do you have children. But Jesus would have do for the children. one? If a spiritual gift were to come none of that.