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With unbridled enthusiasm, By ERIK TRYGGESTAD Olan Hicks launched into the Thumbing through the first issue first front-page news story in The of The Christian Chronicle, it’s “Greetings to the readers Christian Chronicle, a brand- hard to tell that America was of the first issue of Christian new publication for Churches of fighting a massive war in Europe Chronicle. I am happy to Christ dated June 2, 1943. and the Pacific. assume the job of editor and “The most intensive campaign Nearly a year before the publisher of the paper you now ever staged by members of the D-Day landings in France, the hold in your hand. Not that it is church is planned for the summer pages of the brand-new peri- an easy task, by any means, for in Salt Lake City and Ogden, odical are filled with news of it is one of the most arduous and Utah, bailiwick of the Mormon gospel meetings and brimming thankless tasks in all the world.” church,” Hicks wrote. with optimism about the future Those brutally honest words The preacher-turned-newspaper- that awaits Churches of Christ. from Olan Hicks graced the founder highlighted the upcoming “There are hopeful indica- front page of the Chronicle’s debate between Otis Gatewood, a tions that we are now in the first first issue 75 years ago. But the renowned missionary in the fellow- stages of growth unparalleled in paper’s founder and first editor ship, and Kenneth E. Farnsworth, the history of the church since quickly added that “I am happy a member of a Quorum of the the Apostles turned the world to tackle the job because I think Seventy in the Mormon church. upside down with the dynamite it is the best means available Paul Southern and Harvey of the Gospel of Christ,” wrote today for stirring up missionary Childress, ministers for Churches Bonds Stocks, a preacher and enthusiasm in the church.” of Christ, would do two weeks of the Chronicle’s capital corre- campaigning before the debate. Hicks devoted much of his spondent in Washington, in an The topic was appropriate, first front-page columns to editorial. He then noted “the perhaps, since the Latter-Day introducing “the fine group of tremendous responsibility of Saints played a small role in the Christian men and women who the church during and after this Chronicle’s genesis three-quarters have rallied to my side to help unprecedented global crisis.” of a century ago. Hicks, a native me.” Among them was John On Page 7 of the second issue, F. Wolfe of El Paso, Texas, a (Continued on Page 8) Margaret Upton wrote about veteran missionary to Mexico Japanese Americans brought who “will give you each from Los Angeles to the Granada week a well-written column (Continued on Page 9) on the status of things reli- gious among Latin-American peoples,” Hicks wrote. The Christian Chronicle “was and activity among members the newspaper’s first editorial Homer Hailey, a Bible teacher begun with the purpose of of the church everywhere and on Page 34. We also offer a at Abilene Christian College publishing all the news of the to give all a broad vision of the Dialogue with Hick’s daughter, in Texas and minister for the Churches of Christ that is worthy opportunities and responsibili- Lavella McMillan, on Page 10. Highland Church of Christ, of being published,” editor Olan ties of the church today.” agreed to help write editorials. Hicks wrote in an editorial in the In 2018, the Chronicle Plan now to get every issue Other early staffers included first issue 75 years ago. remains committed to the Hugo McCord, Jim Taggart and “The reason for publishing this biblical principles Hicks set out of the CHRONICLE and keep a (Continued on Page 9) paper is to stir up missionary zeal in issue No. 1. See more from file of them. 2 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE JUly 2018

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International Bible Institute Sunset International Bible Institute • 800.658.9553 • www.sunset.bible JUly 2018 the christian chronicle 3 My life in the pews, black and white overing the 50th anniversary of the Atlanta meeting on race relations in Churches of CChrist has me thinking about my own history. I’ve moved about our congregations — some black, some white, too few a mix of both. Inside Story Some were welcoming. Some were PHOTO PROVIDED BY DWAIN EVANS not. Black and white ministers pose for a group photo during the 1968 Atlanta meeting on race relations in Churches of Christ. When I was a boy, it seemed strange ‘We still have two brotherhoods’ that I never Hamil R. Harris heard instru- FIFTY YEARS AFTER historic meeting, Churches of Christ remain split along racial lines. mental music coming out of the East Hill BY Bobby Ross Jr. and Hamil R. Harris right to the point in describing his of Christ and being unable to attend Church of Christ, which was THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE view of racial discrimination. a Christian college without going to across the street from the “It’s paved streets on Southwestern Christian College or house in Pensacola, Fla., n the summer of tumultuous one side of town and 1,500 miles to Pepperdine,” the long- where I lived until I was 6. 1968, more than 40 black and white unpaved streets on the time minister of the Newark Church of My mother was the organist ministers gathered to discuss other side,” Lawton Christ in New Jersey added. “It’s attend- for the Mount Olive Baptist ways to improve race relations in told the group, accord- ing worship service and being sent to Church, one block away. Churches of Christ. ing to a July 5, 1968, the basement. It’s a preacher being dis- Years later, on Dec. 3, IThe two-day meeting — held 50 years article in The Christian missed on Monday because he prayed, 1978, I was baptized at the ago at a hotel near the Atlanta airport Chronicle. “It’s wall-to- ‘Lord, bless the King family.’” Call Street Church of Christ — came less than three months after wall carpet on one side In recent interviews with the Lawton in Tallahassee after studying the assassination of civil rights leader of town and wall-to-wall Chronicle, the 80-year-old Lawton Bible with church members Martin Luther King Jr. and at the height rats on the other. It’s having to sleep and three other surviving attendees on the campus of Florida of the unpopular Vietnam War. in the car beside the road because recalled the circumstances leading State University. My Bible One of its organizers, a black there’s no place in the inn. to the historic meeting, the personal study leader, Dean Farris, preacher named Eugene Lawton, got “It’s being a member of the Church See BROTHERHOODS, Page 6 who was from Pensacola, told me I needed to worship with a Church of Christ Generation Z is plugged in, but do they spiritually Contribute? when I went home. I didn’t want to disappoint BY CHELLIE ISON | THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE providing them with something people to my heart,” Armstrong told The him or my family, so my only in her country take for Christian Chronicle. option was to sneak out of OKLAHOMA CITY — If the phrase granted — feminine She and three of her classmates at the choir stand at Mount “Generation Z” makes you think of hygiene products. Friendship Christian School in Lebanon, Olive, slip out the back door teenagers plugged into their iPhones, “Going there and Tenn., were recognized for their service and run up the street to the disconnected from the world, get to teaching them — during the first Contribute Conference, East Hill church on Sunday. know Anna Kate Armstrong. looking into the faces sponsored by Oklahoma Christian At East Hill, I was surprised Less than 48 hours after returning of girls my age and Academy, a pre-K through high school to see theater seats and about from Africa, the 17-year-old stood seeing they don’t have associated with Churches of Christ. 60 white souls — and they on a stage at Oklahoma Christian access to these things Armstrong Brandon Tatum, the school’s presi- were even more surprised University and talked about the work and how easy of a thing dent, said the purpose of the conference See PEWS, Page 4 she does to empower young women by it is to provide — that’s really close See GEN Z, Page 24 4 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE INSIDE STORY JUly 2018 PEWS: Some churches accept diversity, others pursue it

FROM PAGE 3 was Selma, and on my mind were white evangelists at those meetings: to see me. Then I spotted a husky, all of the college students who were Marvin Phillips, Terry Rush, Richard About our front page silver-haired man in a brown suit, beaten or lynched during those years Rodgers, Chuck Lucas. They made one of the elders. I told him I was the of integration in the South. me believe we really can be united — little boy from across the street who “Do you remember what and take the world for Christ. But in had just been baptized. He welcomed happened?” Jeff asked me just the the years that have followed it seems and introduced me to others. (East other day as we reminisced about like fighting, fracturing and splitting Hill eventually closed and became that visit. “We got stares, but then have plagued our fellowship. the funeral home that prepared my one man asked Undra, ‘Didn’t you There’s hope, however. The grandmother for burial.) play football for Century High?’ When University Park Church of Christ I haven’t always been received so Undra said yes, we were welcomed. in Hyattsville, Md., where I preach kindly. Once I visited a Church of “God worked through football.” once a month, is a thriving, diverse Christ that had about 500 in atten- Now Jeff and his wife, Sherry, congregation. I’ve been inspired by dance — 20 of them black. Even who worship with the Campus the great men who have preached for so, one of the deacons suggested I Church of Christ in Norcross, Ga., the Simpson Street church in Atlanta, might be more comfortable at the have four children, one of which is the Schrader Lane and Jackson Street black congregation across town. I African-American. They’re blessed churches in Nashville, Tenn., and the ignored him. The church’s ministers to be part of a diverse church family. nearby Madison Church of Christ. and elders, it turns out, were nice. There’s a difference, Sherry says, Despite the racial divisions that seem I will say, however, that one of between churches that accept diversity to be set like theological concrete in the elders, when I told him about and churches that pursue diversity. Memphis, Tenn., I was welcomed by the church I attended back home, “At the Campus church, we are brethren black and white alike when suggested that I attend a nearby actively striving to be the church I studied there at Harding School Church of Christ that was in the non- that Jesus died for,” Jeff said, “a of Theology. One of the professors, institutional branch of our fellowship. church that has the attitude that we Edward Robinson, had us look at two Our divisions aren’t only racial. are glad you are here.” racially charged movies — “Birth of The Christian Chronicle was born June Back at Florida State, one of my In 2014, I went back to that church in a Nation” from 1915 and “Amistad” 2, 1943, at eight pages, 17 inches fellow football walk-ons, Undra Alabama. There still were no people of from 1997. It was fascinating how tall, 11 inches wide. In honor of the Griggs, who is black, studied the color in the pews. To my surprise, one the black and white ministers in the publication’s 75th anniversary, we gave Bible and obeyed the Gospel. My man knew my mother. She had been room viewed these films differently. this month’s front page a distinctly roommate, Jeff Hughbright, who is his music teacher at Century High. Fifty years after the Atlanta race “retro” look, including justified columns white, insisted that we find him a That connection warmed things up. meetings, I think we need to recog- separated by hairlines and fonts that church to attend in his hometown, As I get older, I hang on to the nize that we are different. But we’re approximate those used by old linotype Century, in the Florida panhandle. hope that the church can be the the same in all the ways that matter machines. Special thanks to Kim The closest Church of Christ we could diverse movement it should be. to Jesus, and he wants us to pursue Walden for her work cleaning up and find was an all-white congregation just I remember the annual Florida diversity as we pursue him. digitizing the Chronicle’s first masthead across the state line in Flomaton, Ala. Evangelism Seminars of more than logo, which includes a globe — the I will never forget walking into 20 years ago, where I listened to HAMIL R. HARRIS preaches for the Glenarden symbol of the publication ever since. that church building with Undra African-American speakers such Church of Christ in Maryland. He was a longtime Look for additional features celebrating and Jeff. We were two blacks and a as Humphrey Foutz and Richard writer for The Washington Post and now freelances 75 years of Christian journalism at white guy. Just two hours up the road Barclay. And there were inspiring and teaches at Morgan State University in Baltimore. christianchronicle.org.

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JULY 2018 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE 5 ARKANSAS SEARCY — The 1,600-member Downtown Church of Christ is expanding to better serve the youth of its membership, including often- overlooked children with special needs, church leaders said. A $3.6 million addition will double the congregation’s number of classrooms. A previous addition, completed in 2000, was designed for a maximum of 280 children. “We’ve outgrown that facility and currently have 361 kids in our chil- dren’s program,” said Jennifer Mills, one of the church’s children’s minis- ters. “And it continues to grow.” The new space will include class- rooms for special-needs and hidden- disability children and feature tools and resources such as sensory swings, body socks, fidget toys and weighted lap pads. LOUISIANA NEW ORLEANS — Pop star Beyoncé photo provided by DAN COOPER reportedly has purchased the Seventh and Camp Church of Christ building. Real estate records cited by the New Jersey congregation celebrates a baby boom New Orleans Advocate newspaper Each year, the Pitman Road Church of Christ in Sewell, N.J., invites parents of newborns up front for a special prayer. Over the last year, the indicate the two-story, corner congregation has experienced a baby boom, minister Dan Cooper noted. “Biggest group of new babies we’ve had in a while,” Cooper said. church recently sold for $850,000. The church had fallen into disre- pair as its small congregation dwin- After the riot, Locke later left the spoTLIGHT dled over the years, and the few ministry and police work to enter remaining members decided to sell academia. He served as the dean it, according to the paper. of the Daniel J. Evans School of The celebrity news site TMZ Public Affairs at the University of Texas church to rebuild after fire identified Beyoncé as the buyer, Washington. He lived in Seattle at KERMIT, Texas — After a recent fire, the Advocate noted. The church’s the time of his death. the Eastside Church of Christ is telephone number has been reminding supporters that the disconnected. MISSISSIPPI church is made up of Christians, not PEARL — During the Civil War, brick and mortar. MICHIGAN President Abraham Lincoln created “Our congregation’s building is DETROIT — Hubert Locke, a former two holidays: Thanksgiving and a destroyed, but the Lord’s church minister for the Conant Gardens National Day of Prayer and Fasting. remains strong, and worldly things Church of Christ who Leaders of the Skyway Hills are temporary anyway,” leaders of wrote a book on the Church of Christ said they initially the West Texas congregation said on 1967 Detroit riot, died were unaware of the second holiday, their website at sites.google.com/ June 2. He was 84. which has faded away. view/eastside-church-of-christ. Besides his church “The more we learned about this The 60-member church awaited fire duties, Locke served National Day of Prayer and Fasting, investigators’ determination of a cause as an administra- the more we felt called by God to for the fire while preparing to dig tive assistant for the honor him in this way,” elder Jim Head through the rubble. The auditorium, PAMELA DAY Detroit police commis- told the Jackson Clarion-Ledger. So the offices, classrooms and food pantry Locke Volunteer firefighters take time to pray sioner. He was the church recently observed the holiday. were destroyed, but the fellowship after battling the blaze in Kermit, Texas. author of “The Detroit Riot of 1967,” Member Andrew Rodgers told the building is across an alley and was which detailed how events unfolded newspaper: “Fasting and prayer draws unharmed. The congregation expects the recovery will be a lengthy hour by hour. The Christian Chronicle us closer to God because ... we are to meet there while rebuilding. The process,” the website said. interviewed him at the riot’s 50th relying on him for all our sustenance, burned facility was insured. Financial donations can be sent to anniversary last year. for all our needs.” “Due to the severity of the fire, PO Box 845, Kermit, TX 79745. 6 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE ACROSS THE NATION JULY 2018 BROTHERHOODS: Racial division remains FROM PAGE 3 bonds that were formed that June and the racial divide that still lingers a half-century later. Racial reconciliation “The white brotherhood wasn’t and the church even aware that racism was declared 1968 — 2018 to be illegal in America,” Lawton said of 1968. “So we had tokenism at the time, but most of the Christian colleges didn’t open their doors to black students because of love More from this series: christianchronicle.org and Christianity. It was based on the federal government saying you wouldn’t receive another dime (of student aid) from us unless you integrate your schools.” Racism was rampant in Churches 1968 of Christ, said Andrew Hairston, a black minister who served as the MARCH 31: In a televised address to conference’s Atlanta host. He will the nation, an increasingly embat- celebrate his 86th birthday on July 8. TED PARKS tled President Lyndon B. Johnson “We were not accepted in the Andrew Hairston preaches at the Simpson Street Church of Christ in 2012. Hairston announced: “I shall not seek, and I white churches except for the retired in August 2017 after nearly 56 years as the congregation’s minister. will not accept, the nomination of back seat or by special invita- my party as your president.” tion,” said Hairston, who retired in schools are desegregating, but the do, some very strong forces of evil,” August 2017 after nearly 56 years Churches of Christ are as white as said Chalk, now 81 and living in Fort APRIL 4: Civil rights leader Martin as minister for the Simpson Street they can be and as black as they Worth, Texas, where he attends Luther King Jr. was assassinated Church of Christ in Atlanta. “The can be,’” said Evans, who began to Christ Chapel Bible Church. while standing on a balcony outside thing that hurt me greatly was advocate for bringing Christians of “Most of us at that meeting were his Memphis, Tenn., hotel room. for us to be saying there was one all races together. blinded by our own cultural training church. We were obviously divided.” But resistance to integrating and … blinded by the evil one,” he JUNE 5: After winning the California Dwain Evans, a white minister who Churches of Christ was strong, he said. added. “It still exists, if not even more Democratic presidential primary, attended the meeting, “I could tell you powerfully today than it did in 1968.” Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assas- came from West stories of friends sinated while leaving a Los Angeles Islip, N.Y., where of mine who were ‘A NEGRO HAS A SOUL’ hotel where he had addressed a he planted the first fired just because Discussion at the Atlanta confer- large group of supporters. Exodus Movement they asked a black ence was frank. congregation. preacher to say a “You want me to lift myself by my AUG. 26-29: With anti-Vietnam War The Exodus dismissal prayer at a own bootstraps, but you are standing fervor running strong, TV cameras Movement — which gospel meeting,” said on my boots,” charged the late captured bloody clashes between drew Time magazine’s Evans, who later left Humphrey Foutz, a black minister Evans Chalk police and demonstrators at the attention in the 1960s ministry and entered who served the Central Church of Democratic National Convention in — involved large groups of Christians the real estate business. He is a Christ in Baltimore for nearly 50 Chicago. in the South and Southwest forming member of the Bering Drive Church years. He died in 2006. ready-made Churches of Christ in of Christ in Houston. “I have had to defend the fact that OCT. 16: After winning medals at places such as West Islip; Stamford, Another white attendee, John a Negro has a soul,” said the late the Summer Olympics in Mexico Conn.; Burlington, Mass.; Rochester, Allen Chalk, preached for the Carl Spain, an Abilene Christian City, U.S. athletes Tommie Smith N.Y.; and Toronto. Herald of Truth’s radio program University Bible professor who had and John Carlos bowed their heads Evans, now 85, graduated from from 1956 until 1969, when he made a 1960 lectureship speech and raised their black-gloved fists Abilene Christian University in moved to the pulpit of the Highland calling for integration at the Texas in a recognized salute to the Black Texas in 1954, the same year as the Church of Christ in Abilene, Texas. university. He died in 1991. Power movement during the play- U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark He left the Highland church in 1971 Besides Lawton, main organizers ing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Brown v. Board of Education deci- to attend law school. of the meeting included Jimmy sion declaring “separate but equal” “My experience with sin and all Allen, a nationally known white NoV. 5: In a three-way presidential public schools unconstitutional. In the principalities and powers and evangelist who conducted thou- race, Republican Richard Nixon de- the unanimous ruling, justices said world rulers of darkness, just my sands of gospel meetings, and R.C. feated Democrat Hubert Humphrey state-imposed segregated schools understanding theologically of the Wells, who now is minister emeritus and independent George Wallace. were “inherently unequal” and must human condition, caused me all of the Harlem Church of Christ in be abolished. through this period to realize that New York after serving that congre- SOURCE: history.com “I thought, ‘My goodness, our we were really battling, as we still gation for decades. JULY 2018 ACROSS THE NATION THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE 7

Because of health issues, neither Lawton said. The discussion in Allen nor Wells was available for an Nashville and Atlanta “did not fully interview. solve the problem, but it began an The Atlanta gathering came on the acknowledgment of the wrong.” heels of a March 1968 race relations Hairston said: “Our meetings were workshop hosted by the Schrader genuine, and that’s one of the bless- Lane Church of Christ in Nashville, ings that came to me. I felt that John Tenn. Minister David Jones and Allen Chalk and Jimmy Allen and me the Schrader Lane — we had genuine elders put together relationships in that integrated those times. I would workshop, which say I talked to many white congre- them man to man, gations boycotted, brother to brother. according to And they both were research by Doug very conscious of Foster, director of what was going on. ACU’s Center for “The fact that we Restoration Studies. sat down and talked Jones spoke, too, for a couple of days at the Atlanta gath- was a change,” ering a few months he added, “and it later. Jones retired affected our lives.” in 2015 after 53 Evans echoed years as the congre- Hairston, explaining gation’s minister. why he describes At the end of the the Atlanta meeting Atlanta meeting, as a wonderful a statement experience: “It was BOBBY ROSS JR. was produced PHOTO PROVIDED BY JOHN ALLEN CHALK the spirit of love.” ‘A segregated church cannot survive in a multi-racial world’: So said minister “acknowledging John Allen Chalk, who later became Chalk pointed to Eugene Lawton at the 1968 Atlanta meeting on race relations in Churches of Christ. the sin of racial an attorney, shares a Bible message the good will that Read The Christian Chronicle’s July 5, 1968, story on the conference and the full prejudice in on a Herald of Truth radio program. came out of the list of recommendations that emerged at christianchronicle.org. Churches of Christ Chalk served as the ministry’s main meeting: “It was and church-related radio preacher from 1956 to 1969. a very significant a Christian calling, that the church a greater openness about issues,” he institutions and group of concerned doesn’t have to be bothered with it. said. “And all the colleges associ- businesses,” Foster noted. “It set people who came and listened. I’m “Schools and jobs have been inte- ated with Churches of Christ, for the out specific guidelines to remedy sure everyone got some insights grated, and we are not as unknown most part, did begin admitting black the evil in congregations, schools, and heard some things from to each other as we were 50 to 100 students. So that was a profound Herald of Truth, publishing houses their black brothers — and black years ago,” he added. change, but it didn’t come because and Christian-owned businesses. brothers who heard some things But at the same time, many of the Atlanta conference.” “Twelve of the 47 present did not from their white brothers — that Christians seem content to remain in Lawton calls racism the No. 1 issue sign.” It’s unclear if they refused to they hadn’t even considered.” racially isolated congregations. in America, suggesting that “a black sign or perhaps had left the meeting “I definitely don’t think we’re one person can’t even go into a coffee early, Foster said. ‘MOST SEGREGATED HOUR’ church,” Hairston said, “because shop and not be arrested.” Decades after King called 11 people still decide based on race In a recent case that made ‘ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE WRONG’ a.m. each Sunday “the most segre- where they are going to go to church.” national headlines, two black men None of the attendees interviewed gated hour of Christian America,” Evans agreed that the conference’s were arrested at a Starbucks in by the Chronicle claimed that the Churches of Christ remain largely ambition of fully uniting the black Philadelphia. The men’s transgres- Atlanta meeting eliminated racism in divided along racial lines. and white churches did not occur. sion: They had asked to use the Churches of Christ. “We still have two brotherhoods Part of that may relate to theology, bathroom as they waited for a busi- In fact, each lamented the lack of — the white brotherhood and the he said, as the black congregations ness meeting and then occupied a more significant progress in inte- black brotherhood — and we don’t tend to be “even more conservative table without making a purchase. grating the nation’s pews. have too much fellowship between than the white churches.” “The No. 1 thing is to teach,” Lawton But each characterized the gath- us,” Lawton said. At his home congregation, he said, said. “We have enough churches ering as a success in that black and Hairston indicated that he sees “We have black members, but there’s talking about ‘baptism is essential white ministers formed stronger more apathy and less overt racism in not many of them. One of them has for salvation.’ We have to talk about personal relationships with each Churches of Christ these days. served in leadership positions. But by problems that face the lives of every other — and church publications “You don’t have as much of a and large, the divide is still there.” human being in terms of survival. and media ministries gave promi- hardline ‘Get those black people out Looking back, Chalk said he can “This is not just the Church of nent attention to the issue. of here’ as we had then,” he said. see some progress. “There are token Christ’s problem. This is America’s “We knew that racism was a sin “You don’t have as many people who blacks in many white churches that problem,” he added. “Where do we and something had to be done,” openly advocate that (integration) isn’t were never there before, and there’s go from here?”

(Continued from Page 1) of Sulphur, Okla., attended Abilene Christian College in Texas, where “the missionary spirit was alive and well,” said Lavella Hicks McMillan, one of his four children. “He had grown up with a really spiritually minded mother, and it all combined to make him mission-oriented.” He earned a bachelor’s in jour- nalism and a master’s in English from the University of Texas in Austin and preached for Churches of Christ across the state. One day, on a walk, he spotted a copy of the Deseret News, a Mormon newspaper. It reminded him of his long- time desire for a similar publication for Churches of Christ. “He wanted a newspaper like the Cristian Science Monitor,” said his son, Mark, “not a doctrinal paper ... but a paper for and about the news of the church, especially in support of mission efforts.” Hicks shared the idea with Hulen Jackson, a friend and fellow Texas minister who immediately asked Hicks to sign him up — and became the Chronicle’s first subscriber. * * * correct way from a book. David Lipscomb. intended to assure readers that the paper “After the paper was printed, the In 1909, evangelist W.T. Moore was going to be sound — and thereby folder did its job. Then the person coined the phrase “editor/bishop,” which garner support and avoid opposition operating the Addressograph, usually “referred to the informal power that for the effort rather than intentionally mom, would take the paper and print editors of journals could and did wield steering the churches in certain ways.” A handful of other subscribers the name and address of the recipient. in the absence of a more formal, denom- While Hicks didn’t set out to influence followed, committing the $2 per year ... I remember sitting up on the bags of ination-wide authority structure,” said Churches of Christ beyond encouraging fee. Hicks assembled a team of reporters papers to make the ride to the post office Doug Foster, professor of church history evangelism, the publication did play an spread across the U.S. At age 35, he each Wednesday evening. We’d be so and director of the Center for Restoration agenda-setting function similar to the launched the Chronicle as a weekly tired and would then eat a quick supper Studies at Hicks’ alma mater, now role played by daily newspapers, said publication. Its first issue included ads of and go to church that night.” Abilene Christian University. Richard Hughes, an author and longtime congratulations from the Preston Road Although Churches researcher of religion and culture. * * * Church of Christ in Dallas, G-P Rubbing of Christ have no “By faithfully reporting the news, Alcohol, Braden’s Cake Shop and The formal hierarchy and The Christian Chronicle has done Meggs Co., which sold Diamond Tires individual congre- several things,” said Hughes, a scholar- and Exide Batteries. The Chronicle wasn’t the first gations are autono- in-residence at Lipscomb University in “The mailing room was our front porch,” news publication for Churches of Christ mous, the writings Nashville, Tenn. “First, it has determined Mark Hicks said. “I was 5 years old, and all and was not intended to be “in competi- of scholars such as what counts as news and what doesn’t I can remember clearly is that there were tion with any other paper in the church Lipscomb and B.C. and in that sense fits into the editor/ bowls of wheat paste and brushes, papers, today,” Hicks wrote in the first issue. Goodpasture have bishop category. addressing labels and a half-dozen people The newspaper did not follow the served an informal “At the same time, by proclaiming scattered around there once a week.” model of many of its 19th century function of teaching, the news about Churches of Christ, the McMillan was only 2 when the predecessors associated with the Stone- guiding, disciplining Chronicle has by all means played a role paper made its debut. She remem- Campbell Movement, also called the and nurturing the fellowship’s congrega- in unifying our fellowship. I think, for bers watching her father proofread the Restoration Movement, which advo- tions, Foster said. example, of George Whitefield in the galleys from which printers produced cated simple, Bible-based Christianity. “My impression of The Christian early days of the Great Awakening. He the newspaper’s pages. Publications such as Millennial Chronicle is that it was intended to be functioned, as it were, as the ‘newspaper’ “Daddy had a knack for reading it Harbinger, The Christian-Evangelist, more of a networking and news-reporting for the colonies since, as he preached upside down and backwards from the Firm Foundation and Gospel Advocate paper rather than a paper to exercise such up and down the eastern seaboard, he lines of metal type,” she said. “He could included teaching pieces by theologians oversight,” Foster said. “The language brought news from other places where he read the backwards type produced by including Alexander Campbell, James of Olan Hicks concerning standing for had preached. And by making folks aware the linotype faster than I could read the Harvey Garrison, Austin McGary and right and truth seems to me to have been of what was happening in other areas, he

served as a unifier for the colonies.” “I just barely passed,” she recalled For his part, Hicks never aspired to “He didn’t want anyone thinking that he Let’s Work Together such a role, Lavella McMillan said. was partial to any of his own kids.” “Daddy was the most unassuming Hicks continued to advocate for person you would ever hope to meet missions in the U.S. and abroad, — none of that editor/bishop stuff for launching an Evangelistic Forum him,” she said. “As for his vision for at Freed-Hardeman. If a biography the Chronicle, he just wanted to let were ever to be written about him, people everywhere know what was his son Mark suggested the title “The going on in any place where Christ Missionary Who Stayed Home.” had been preached. He believed that Hicks died Sept. 8, 1963, at age 55. the Chronicle would awaken people to “We seriously doubt that the broth- the need all over the earth for Christ’s erhood in general is aware of the message of salvation.” serious loss sustained in the death of Firm * * * Olan Hicks,” wrote the editors of Foundation, who hailed him as the father of both the religious newspaper and “the tremendous upsurge of world- wide missionary interest.” As World War II ended and the “It is an odd but common thing that paper’s circulation grew, friends suggested men who found movements are more that Hicks move the operation to Abilene. often than not shuffled out of them, and The family set up the Hicks Printing few live to see them bloom,” the editors Company in a building near the intersec- wrote. “Such was the case with Olan. tion of Plum and North 13th streets. In the He spent the last of his too-few years years that followed, Hicks continued to as an outstanding teacher of Bible and publish reports of evangelism and mission of church history in one of our colleges. efforts in the postwar era. “It is our personal feeling that in Bailey McBride, a former editor of history he will go down alongside the Chronicle who has served the publi- Campbell, McGary and Lipscomb in the cation for more than 30 years, said that field of journalism, and in world evan- reading the newspaper’s earliest issues gelism someone will still have to come “reveals that Hicks played a powerful along that can be put down beside him.” role in setting the agenda for churches to grow, reach out of the United States and utilize media (radio and then tele- vision) to teach about salvation and to (Continued from Page 1) publicize Churches of Christ.” Paul Southern, who taught Bible and Despite the Chronicle’s popularity, English at Abilene Christian.

Hicks struggled to keep it funded. A “He was the one who gave me my first small group of businessmen offered to lessons in journalism,” Hicks wrote. “If help and bought 51 percent of the publi- the job is poorly done, now you will cation, McMillan said. Soon, the finan- know who to blame!” ciers took over most of the newpaper’s Though he had some training in operations and forced Hicks out. His journalism, “I am not a professional In the third issue, editor Olan Hicks final issue as editor was March 4, 1954. promoter,” Hicks wrote in his second framed the overseas conflicts in the “Daddy nearly had a nervous break- column, dated June 9, 1942. If the paper (Continued from Page 1) context of global evangelism. down when the paper was taken from succeeds, “it will be because it has the internment camp in southwest Colorado. “Every mail brings news from some him,” his daughter said, “but he had merit to succeed. He then offered a sort “Uprooted from their homes, belong- place where a group of soldiers or defense needed financial support. ... He was in of mission statement for the publication: ings and familiar surroundings — some workers, finding themselves in some such anguish but didn’t want to let us “CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE is to be bewildered, some frightened and no place where there is no congregation, set kids know what was going on.” built on character. It means to stand for doubt some bitter, these people were about to organize one,” Hicks wrote. He His friends and family encouraged him. right and truth, for fairness and impar- brought to a new world,” Upton wrote. commended U.S. servicemen “for their His sister, in a letter, joked “that he would tiality, for zeal according to knowledge. “In that bewildered multitude was loyalty to the Lord and his church” and enjoy working with people rather than It is a newspaper and is to be conducted a little band of Christians under the encouraged stateside Christians to answer just printing presses,” McMillan said. The on the principles of news reporting. We leadership of elders Yoshimuni and the call of steel companies and other busi- family moved to San Antonio and then mean to maintain not only the highest Shigekuni whose doctrine is set down nesses looking for workers to support the to Henderson, Tenn., where Hicks joined ethics of the newspaper profession, but by the apostles in the New Testament.” war effort. Move for the jobs, he wrote, the faculty of Freed-Hardeman College, also of Christianity.” The story mentioned a gospel meeting in and stay “until the church is established.” now University. He taught Bible, Greek, the camp conducted by Allen, Okla., evan- “The war, in spite of all its horrors, church history and Christian evidences. See that someone from your congre- gelist Perry Blue. The Japanese Christians waste, sins and heartaches, may in the Eventually, his daughter became one of gation is designated to send all the news expressed tearful thanks for their fellow providence of an almighty and an allwise his students in a Bible course. to the CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE. believers’ concern, Upton wrote. God bring some good to this old world.” 10 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE JUly 2018 NO GOSSIP, JUST NEWS. That was the goal of The Christian Chronicle from the beginning, says Lavella Hicks McMillan. A chronicler’s daughter shares memories BY ERIK TRYGGESTAD | THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE greeted people after the service book called “Great Songs of the was over. He would shake hands Church” as well as a whole series of rinter’s ink flowed through the veins with someone and then pat me on commentaries on the Bible and also of Lavella Hicks McMillan at an early the back, then shake hands with lots of bulletins for various congre- age. She was 2 when her preacher someone else. I wonder how he did gations around Abilene. We kids it without losing patience with me. would help fold and get them ready father, Olan Hicks, published the first He was witty, reserved and always to deliver or to be picked up. Pissue of The Christian Chronicle, a newspaper fair in his dealings with people. for Churches of Christ. He always seemed to be about the I know from experience that the Her brother, Mark, remembers “the black meekest man I ever knew — no Chronicle will eat up any spare ink smudges on Daddy’s tummy, on the front braggadocio personality, just the time you have! Plus, family-run of his white dress shirts, which he wore every unvarnished truth about what he newspapers can be expensive was thinking. He always took the labors of love that become conten- day,” she said. Her mother, Opal, “bless her back seat to anyone else who was tious among family members. heart, worked so hard to get them clean.” around him, always stood back and Were there ever times when you Born in Chicago, McMillan and her siblings let others go ahead of him. He tried saw the newspaper as a burden? — Mark, Clark and Janet — all played roles to teach us the same thing. We all went without a lot of things, in the production of the Chronicle’s first issues, We had a period of several years and clothes, and all that, but it was from 1943 to 1954. Olan Hicks’ died in 1963, when we always had a family time the only thing we knew. when we’d pile up in Mom and Dad’s Mom wasn’t brought up in the and Clark Hicks served as the Chronicle’s editor bed and he’d read us a Bible story church, but when she married and publisher in the early 1970s. from Hurlbut’s Bible story book. PHOTO PROVIDED Daddy, she really pitched herself McMillan grew up in Abilene, Texas, and Lavella Hicks McMillan into whatever he wanted to do. She moved with her family to Henderson, Tenn., I understand that he never saw was really a people person and could where her father taught at Freed-Hardeman himself in an editor/bishop role. Was there ever a moment when talk to anyone she met. She was University. She attended Freed-Hardeman, Tell me more about that. your dad came to the realization, such a great asset to him. I often He could name about any “Wow, this was the right thing to wondered if she might have had married and completed her degree at Lipscomb preacher anywhere in the world if do?” or was it more gradual? second thoughts about marrying University and Tennessee Tech. you asked him, since he knew first- Yes, Daddy knew that printing and him if she knew what she was in for! She did mission work in New Hampshire for hand who was where, but he wasn’t publishing the Chronicle was the two years, served a brief stint in the Women’s a glad-hander type at all. He was right thing to do, since it let people Seventy-five years after the Army Corps and then moved to Melbourne, fairly reserved and didn’t expect know what was happening in the Chronicle’s first issue, how do Fla., to teach. She divorced and later married anyone to cater to him. church all over the world. you see your family’s legacy in When we would travel and go The United States was just real- the greater story of the Lord’s Ned McMillan, her husband of 46 years. She to church, he always had to have izing that mission work was so church? taught math and English and served as a media an outline of a sermon in his coat important, and the Chronicle was at As for me, I’m still very oriented specialist for her school before retiring in 1999. pocket since he would inevitably be least partially responsible for that toward mission work, and served Lavella McMillan has a son by her first invited to speak by the preacher. knowledge. some years in New Hampshire. marriage and two grandsons, plus two I found one of his little scribbled Otis Gatewood and Maurice and Now I’m a member of a congre- outlines the other day. It was only Marie Hall were the most well-known gation that is mission-oriented, and stepsons. She and her husband worship with about five or six words, but enough missionaries I remembered, but there also a ladies’ Bible class that contrib- the Melbourne Church of Christ. to help him get his thoughts together. were lots of people who were in the utes to different missions. Also, I remember him getting off mission field, including the Padens in Daddy was what I call a “chroni- Tell me about Olan Hicks. What on tangents when preaching. After Italy. There were so many at Abilene cler.” He didn’t want to sway opinion kind of man was he? catching himself, he’d say, “That one’s Christian College who were mission- except toward what the Bible taught I remember a time when we free of charge” or “It won’t cost you a minded, such as J.W. Treat, Homer and only wanted to report what had were living in Abilene, and he was penny for that sermon” and then get Hailey, and many more. happened or was happening. His holding a meeting at, seems like, back on the subject. emphasis was always on mission work the 14th and Vine Street Church of He never had his own agenda. The Chronicle wasn’t the only and spreading the Gospel worldwide Christ. We had gone to every night’s He said his main verse was Paul’s thing your father printed, right? — no gossip, no opinions, no trying to service, and I was so worn out. I words in 1 Corinthians 2:2: For I The name of the company wasn’t sway people’s opinions about certain was probably 4 or 5 years old. determined not to know any thing The Christian Chronicle, but Hicks things, people, places or work that I got to crying and couldn’t stop. among you, save Jesus Christ, and Printing Company. Daddy printed was going on, just straightforward He held me in his arms and still him crucified. That was Daddy. lots of other stuff. There was a song reporting the situation as it was. JULY 2018 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE 11 12 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE JUly 2018

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JULY 2018 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE 13 AUSTRALIA spoTLIGHT BRISBANE — “Passing the Baton” was the theme of the recent Asia- Pacific Elders, Deacons and Training Africans to Spouses Conference, hosted by The Point Church of Christ. More reach souls in Europe than 60 Christians attended from PADUA, Italy — In northern Italy, across Australia, Singapore, India Churches of Christ comprised of and the U.S. Speakers included immigrants from the West African Evertt Huffard of Harding School nation of Ghana “actually outnumber of Theology in Memphis, Tenn., the Italian churches in both size and Jay Jarboe of Missions Resource number,” said missionary Jeremy Network and ministers Steve Wilson, Korodaj. “Most of these congrega- Benny Tabalujan and Stuart Penhall. tions don’t have any qualified men “It was a fruitful and inspiring who have enough Bible knowledge time,” said participant Craig Holyoak, or experience in the Word of God to “which left attendees with a common help guide and mature them through sense of mission and shared preaching, teaching, ministry.” purpose.” See more news from Four years ago the Church of Christ Australia in InterSections magazine, in Padua launched the Latreia Bible www.intersections.com.au. School, named for the Greek word for “service” (which appears, appropri- CAMEROON ately enough for Italy, in Romans 12:1). NGONG — Tuition for a new ministry Korodaj and Ghanaian Christian Eddie training school in this West African Dadzie teach classes on weekends and nation is a bag of corn. during a “Blitz Week” each summer Actually, the corn is more of an to allow for students’ work schedules. investment in the school, L’Institut Six students, representing Ghanaian Biblique de congregations in Vicenza, Zoppola, l’Afrique Reggio Emilia, and Modena, graduated Francophone recently from the three-year program. de Ngong, “Their commitment is commend- overseen by able,” Korodaj said. Most work long the Church of hours on weekdays and some work Christ. Albert JUSTIN HOPKINS half days on Saturdays before trav- Djoksia runs eling at least an hour to Padua and the school, When the potluck brings itself to church attending class for five hours. which has As students take exams, a lone chicken strolls through the Rwenzori School of The missionary gave each grad- seven rooms Preaching in Kasase, Uganda. Minister Justin Hopkins (that’s his shoe at far right) uate the apostle Paul’s charge from for dormi- traveled to the East African nation to teach courses on evangelism and marriage 2 Timothy 4:1-5, the same charge he tories and a and family at the school, founded in 2016. Hopkins worked with Gregg Knight of received from minister Guy Orbison classroom the Manna Project during the trip, providing food for widows of a Church of Christ Jr. when he completed a preaching PHOTO PROVIDED BY DOYLE KEE for its first in the mountains near Kasase and support for orphans taken in by a congregation internship in Durango, Colo. In Ngong, Albert Djoksia 12 students. in the village of Kitswamba. “Also, a group of Ugandan preachers is forming a “The charge is to preach the Word baptizes a former Muslim The church coffee-growing co-op, with the goal of supporting their ministries, feeding orphans of God in all circumstances,” he he met through door-to- also plans to in their villages, and employing local brethren to lift up the community,” Hopkins said, “good, bad, when it’s popular, door evangelism. open a health said. The visitors hope to import the coffee to the U.S. to assist the new co-op. when it’s not.” center to serve its community in Cameroon’s predominantly Muslim north. Speakers discussed histor- hosted by the Wembley Church of ical evidence for Jesus, the New Christ. Speakers included Athena FRANCE Testament canon, materialism and Theodotou and Amanda Appiagyei LYON — Street interviews conducted suffering during the retreat, hosted of the Wembley church and Esther in this once staunchly Catholic by the Lyon Church of Christ. Chikurunhe of the Thamesmead nation show that French people About 110 Christians attended. Church of Christ. today know little about Jesus, This item appeared in the latest church members report. So coordi- UNITED KINGDOM issue of Christian Worker, which nators of a recent family retreat for LONDON — Christian women of also has extended tributes to British French-speaking Churches of Christ British, African and many other Christians Jack Strachan and Beryl PHOTO PROVIDED BY JEREMY KORODAJ chose “Faith: From Assurance to national origins practiced “Love in Nisbet. Read the tributes at www. Jeremy Korodaj gives the 2 Timothy Proclamation” as this year’s theme. Action” at the Wembley Ladies’ Day, churchesofchrist.co.uk. charge to a graduating student in Italy. 14 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE AROUND THE WORLD julY 2018 Missions canceled amid ‘fear and uncertainty’ POLITICAL VIOLENCE in Nicaragua halts trips by U.S. groups as Central American nation prays for peace.

BY BOBBY ROSS JR. | THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE Managua, remained relatively calm for weeks, Baker said. ormally, a team from the Misión Para Cristo’s Nicaraguan Highway Church of Christ staff — a core group of 52 people — in Judsonia, Ark., would be kept the ministry’s outreach in areas sweating for God in the moun- such as health care, education and tains of Jinotega, Nicaragua. construction going, he said. NFor 15 straight summers, the But in recent days, the violence congregation has sent teens and reached Jinotega, resulting in adults to help with Misión Para Cristo deaths and injuries. — Spanish for “Mission for Christ.” On a recent Saturday, Misión Para The humanitarian aid organization Cristo treated and helped stabilize shares Christ’s love with thousands in about two dozen victims, Baker said. Central America’s poorest nation. But the next day, safety concerns But amid ongoing deadly clashes forced the ministry to lock its doors. between Nicaraguan government “The fear of the 1980s is starting forces and civilian protesters, the to creep in,” Baker said, referring Arkansas congregation reluctantly to the Nicaraguan Revolution — a canceled this year’s planned trip. decade of civil war. “Nicaragua was “It’s just heartbreaking not to be not a good place in the 1980s. You able to see our Nicaraguan brothers can already hear and sisters,” said Danny Deramus, a people fearing that Highway church elder. will happen.” Dozens of U.S. church groups Baker voiced have made the same difficult choice concern about the to stay home. loss of income from “We have not come to this decision the 275 short-term quickly and have been in prayer for missionaries who the last month,” said Audrey Mauck, won’t make the trip Baker missions coordinator for the Edmond to the poor, coffee- Church of Christ in Oklahoma. producing region of northern The Edmond church supports five Nicaragua this summer. Nicaraguan native missionaries and BENNY BAKER The nonprofit occupies a remod- had intended, as it Staff members with Misión Para Cristo in Jinotega, Nicaragua, treat a eled warehouse across the street from has for several years, gunshot victim after political violence erupted in the city north of Managua. a usually bustling — but recently to send a group to quiet — city market and bus stop. conduct Vacation Sundays because of fear,” he said in the protests.” Demonstrations began Typically, fees paid for the church Bible Schools in a Facebook message. “Night activi- April 18 after the government hiked groups’ meals and lodging cover 40 the Latin American ties of Churches of Christ have been worker and employer social security percent of Misión Para Cristo’s year- country this summer. stopped in some places.” contributions. round operating expenses. “Our hearts are The human rights organization Although the reforms were later “Right now, we’ve got a number with our brothers and Amnesty International accuses reversed, the unrest has lingered of people who could lose jobs very Estrada sisters there,” Mauck President Daniel Ortega’s govern- with demonstrators calling for the quickly,” Baker said. said in a recent Facebook post. “Our ment of adopting “a strategy of removal of Ortega, a 72-year-old He asked for prayers for Misión prayer is that God will be glori- repression, characterized by the former Sandinista guerrilla fighter. Para Cristo and all of Nicaragua. fied in this situation as we know He excessive use of force, extrajudicial In all, 24 church groups from the “What hurts is when you see your can resolve the differences in the executions, control of the media, U.S. had been scheduled to travel world being turned upside down, country.” and the use of pro-government to Nicaragua and work with Misión and you have no control over it Efraín Perez Estrada, a Church of armed groups, to crush protests.” Para Cristo this summer, said Benny whatsoever,” the missionary said. Christ preacher in Matagalpa, a hilly At press time, the death toll stood Baker, the American missionary “I attribute this to a major polit- agricultural community in northern at roughly 130. who with his wife, Donna, started ical storm in Nicaragua,” he added. Nicaragua, asked for prayers from Besides those killed, Amnesty the Christian nonprofit in 1997. “In the middle of the storm, you fellow Christians. He pointed to International points to more than But not anymore. don’t know the damage. Our goal “fear and uncertainty about the hard 1,000 injured and hundreds arrested “I couldn’t in clear conscience ask is to make sure we are still able to situation.” “amidst the state’s heavy-handed anybody to come,” Baker said. function and serve the people of “A lot of brethren didn’t meet on and highly coordinated response to Jinotega, a few hours north of Nicaragua when this storm is over.” JULY 2018 AROUND THE WORLD the christian chronicle 15 ‘The sky began raining ash’ IN GUATEMALA, church members witness a volcano’s fury — and launch relief efforts.

BY ERIK TRYGGESTAD | THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE our children in the ABC program (a child sponsorship program) nor oday the colossus woke their families were lost,” said Health up,” said Dr. Raul Duran, Talents director Rick Harper. “They describing the volcanic were far enough away to be safe, eruption in his native but not far enough away not to be Guatemala that claimed impacted by loss of friends.” ‘Tmore than 100 lives as it smothered A team of U.S. Christians was villages in magma and mud. serving at Clinica Ezell when the Duran, a physician who worships volcano erupted. During their evening with a Church of Christ in the devotionals the team prayed for those tourist town of Antigua, said that affected, said Kevin Owen, preaching all of the members of his congrega- minister for the College Hills Church tion are accounted for. One of the of Christ in Lebanon, Tenn. Christians, however, said that at A couple working with the team, least 30 members of her extended Cary and Rita Sills, lives in Antigua family are among the 200-plus and returned to their home with people still missing. medical supplies on June 7, Owen The volcano (named Fuego, “fire” said. Another team member, Kay in Spanish) is one of 37 in Guatemala kevin c. owen PHOTO PROVIDED BY LIBBY BARKER Reiboldt, “hugged them goodbye and is prone to eruptions, Duran “Fuego! For now she’s sleeping,” writes After driving through a rain of ash, the before they left and said, ‘I hope said, but “usually of low intensity.” minister Kevin C. Owen in a message Lipscomb Academy mission team made your house is OK,’” Owen said. On June 3, Fuego shot a plume of gas from his medical mission in Guatemala. it safe to Antigua, Guatemala. “Rita said, ‘It’s only a house.’” nearly six miles into the air, sending Health Talents workers are giving ash into the skies over Antigua and in Pinares del Norte. gather necessary supplies. gloves and masks to people affected Guatemala City, nearly 30 miles away. “The rain was black and smelled “Unfortunately, the churches in by the ash and plan to distribute Roberto Alvarez Jr. was driving a like soot,” said senior Lindsey Guatemala are not overwhelmingly water filters, rice, beans and a high- van full of students from Lipscomb Reynolds. Soon “our van was covered rich with money, but they want to protein drink mix, Incaparina. Academy in Nashville, Tenn., to in ash. In order to see the road, we give everything they can.” Duran and his fellow Christians in Antigua as Fuego erupted. constantly poured water and Coke The firefighters compiled a list of Antigua also plan to assist in relief. In “We were in shock when the sky onto the windshield.” the most urgent needs, including July they host a mission team from began raining volcanic ash,” Alvarez When the team arrived in Antigua, water, first-aid the Prestoncrest Church of Christ in said. “At that point, we had no idea “we stepped out of the van onto a supplies, milk, diapers, Dallas, which supports Duran. of the devastation.” thick layer of ash,” Reynolds said. tents and bed sheets. “This will be our 20th year,” said The students from Lipscomb, a K-12 “People were wearing masks to keep BICA students are John Scott Davis, worship minister school associated with Churches of from being poisoned by the toxic delivering supplies for Prestoncrest, of the upcoming Christ, had just completed a week of fumes of the volcanic soot. It was sad to rescue workers mission. “We have worked several mission work in San Cristobal and to see such a beautiful city littered and relief centers. years at a school in Alotenango, worshiped with the Church of Christ with black debris.” Members of the Rural which is just a few miles from the The mission team returned safely Hill Church of Christ base of Fuego, and they are the Alvarez to the U.S. June 5, said team leader in Antioch, Tenn., community that really caught the Libby Barker. During the trip they planned to assist in the work. Healing brunt of this eruption. I’m sure we worked alongside students from the Hands International, a nonprofit will be serving some folks from that Biblical Institute of Central America. associated with Churches of Christ, community while we are there. The institute, known as BICA, is collecting funds for relief and “What’s crazy is that this volcano trains evangelists in Guatemala providing assistance to BICA. puffs and spits all the time, but it’s and Honduras. Alvarez serves as Health Talents International, the volcano that people take tours to director of development. another church-supported ministry, climb while we’re there. “Three BICA graduates work as also is assisting in relief efforts. The “I doubt we’ll have any volcano firefighters, so they have been called medical mission operates a surgical climbers this year.” into action,” Alvarez said. “They facility, Clinica Ezell, in the coastal PHOTO PROVIDED BY ROBERTO ALVAREZ JR. contacted us to ask for help for town of Montellano. HOW TO HELP: Find links to church-related A rain of ash falls on a van carrying a the people in need. So we began a “While Volcano Fuego is only 35 ministries collecting funds for volcano relief at mission team near the Fuego volcano. campaign with the local churches to miles from Clinica Ezell, none of christianchronicle.org 16 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE JUly 2018 JUly 2018 Currents the christian chronicle 17 A CHURCH-PLANTING TEAM moved to South America eight years ago. Their goal: ‘To work ourselves out of a job’ Now, as the first team members prepare to return home, they pray that their replacements will keep the faith — and keep planting.

BY ERIK TRYGGESTAD | THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE coming years, the church will appoint Peruvian elders, deacons, preachers CUSCO, Peru and evangelists and that its members t’s terrifying, to be will continue to serve the hurting — completely honest. and plant new churches. “It’s terrifying to think “We’re really trying to work of leaving, coming back in ourselves out of a job,” says Sarah a year and it’s all gone.” Davis, who moved to Cusco with her ‘IThat’s Barton Kizer’s biggest fear husband, Ryan, four years ago as for the Church of Christ he and part of the team’s second wave. his teammates have planted in this She cites 2 Timothy 2:2 — advice South American city of half a million given by the apostle Paul to his souls, the gateway to the ancient young protege nearly 2,000 years Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. ago — as her guiding star: “Teach In December, after completing the others to teach others.” eight years of service they committed To equip themselves for ministry, to and trained for, Kizer and his wife, the Peruvians studied for two Allison, will pack up their lives and years at Baxter Institute, a ministry their four children (three of them training school in Honduras associ- were born here) and ated with Churches return to the U.S. of Christ. So will three of their “All that I learned teammates — Gary in Honduras I can put and Jennifer Reaves into the church here,” and their two children Arévalo says. But and Corinne Faneus. she’s concerned that, Their destination: as Jesus once said of a Charlotte, N.C., where prophet in his home- Kizer Arévalo they hope to plant a town, she and her new, multi-ethnic Church of Christ. Peruvian coworkers won’t get the Sitting in an upper room of the same level of respect or cooperation Cusco church’s rented building, PHOTOS BY ERIK TRYGGESTAD that their congregation gives to the the departing teammates talk about Outside the meeting place of the Ayllu Church of Christ in Cusco, Peru, Sarah missionaries from the North. their hopes and fears with Ron and Davis checks in on her babysitter before an all-day meeting with Ron and As the transition approaches, the Georgia Freitas, former missionaries Georgia Freitas of Great Cities Missions. Davis and her husband, Ryan, will missionaries granted The Christian to Curitiba, Brazil, who work with remain in Cusco as five of their team members return to the U.S. in December. Chronicle access to their meetings Great Cities Missions, the Texas- with the Freitases and glimpses into based nonprofit that has trained and surrounding Cusco. About 120 fell apart after the missionaries went their daily lives — and the lives of nurtured the Cusco team. people break bread, pray and serve home. But they’re not leaving the those they serve. The church planted by the team, in the church. Among them are the church empty-handed. So far, “it’s been a funny-feeling Iglesia de Cristo, Congregación Ayllu, addicted, the abused and the over- A second wave of U.S. mission- year,” Barton Kizer says, “but God’s takes its name from a word meaning looked — those the church planters aries will remain and a third wave is bringing it together at the right time. “gathering place” or “community” came here to seek and serve. training for ministry. Among them “It’s going to be a tough transition, in Quechua — an indigenous Despite the mission’s success, are Peruvians Elvis Chacón, his wife, I don’t want to underestimate it, but tongue still spoken in the villages the church planters know of other Yolanda Arévalo, and Percy Ávalos it’s going to be a good one, too.” that seem to dangle from the cliffs efforts that, despite careful planning, Rojas. The team prays that, in the CONTINUED 18 JULY 2018 CURRENTS THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE 19

At nearly 11,000 feet, a short climb up the staircase in Barton and Allison Kizer’s apartment can leave a traveler breathless but yields a rooftop view of Cusco. The oldest city in Peru, Cuzco (Qusqu, “rock of the owl” in Quechua) was the capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th to the 16th century, before the Spanish conquest. I like the way they approached the mission. They asked, ‘Should we come here?’ Republic of Peru POPULATION: 31 million. languages: Spanish, Quechua, Aymara, Ashaninka and other indigenous CONTINUED on survey trips. The students also conducted by visitors from the U.S. Plaza de Armas. Around the table are languages. RELIGION: 81.3 percent Roman e wanted to be close to trained with Great Cities Missions, Soon, they learned that the church the team’s past, present and future Catholic, 12.5 percent evangelical Christian groups, home … y’know, in this which plants Churches of Christ had more to offer than just medicine. — Barton Kizer, Davis and his wife, 3.3 percent other, 2.9 percent none. ‘Whemisphere.” across Latin America. Speaking in Spanish as Kizer trans- Sarah, and Peruvians Elvis Chacón The slightest of smirks crosses “I like the way that they approached lates, Bolanos talks about the fights and his wife, Yolanda Arévalo. Barton Kizer’s face as he recalls the the mission here,” Malpartida says of he and his wife used to have, and “We absolutely fell in love with reasons his team chose Cusco, a mere the team. “They were very careful not how their involvement with the Ayllu Cusco when we came down on our 3,600 miles south of, and across the to harm the church here. They asked, church likely saved their marriage. first mission trip,” Ryan Davis says, equator from, his home in Tennessee. ‘Should we come here?’ Now they host neighborhood Bible “but what we fell in love with I think Ecuador Colombia (Yes, it is in the Western Hemisphere, The Wanchaq church’s reply: “We studies in their apartment, sharing even more was the team.” though, and the same time zone.) should not be the ones to prohibit the parable of the sower and other He laughs as he remembers the PERU It’s also quite high God’s will. We can help you to start.” stories of God’s love. long year of language learning after Brazil up. The living room of “After church, they they arrived. They knew they were the Kizers’ apartment like the parable of the sower. always stay and clean making progress when, during prayer Lima measures 10,698 feet When there are problems in up, these two,” Kizer request time at a small-group Bible above sea level. A ‘I life, they can choke you out says of the couple. study, one of the church members simple stroll upstairs (just like thorns). But we should Later in the day, a said, “I just want to thank God that Cusco to the roof yields a sprout. We should grow despite small group of Ayllu these missionaries who arrived a year panorama of the city the problems in life.” members and a family ago mute, now they can speak.” that’s breathtaking — Erlin Guzman Bolanos sits outside his one- Among those served by the mission of visitors meets for Percy Ávalos Rojas, right, leads a Tuesday evening small-group Bible study. Cusco team Sarah Davis says, “I think we’ve had CHURCHES OF CHRIST: Evert Pickartz, a missionary Malpartida de la Cuba literally. Allison Kizer room apartment with two of his daughters. team is Erlin Guzman Bolanos, a man Bible study in one of members made small-group ministry an intentional focus of their church-planting work. a huge blessing in just being able to in Chile, distributed tracts in Peru in 1958 and in says she’ll miss the view but not the who knows a lot about thorns. Cusco’s middle-class neighborhoods. learn a lot from Barton and Gary’s 1961 sent Oscar Aquilar to establish a congregation “high-altitude baking fails.” learned Spanish and made contacts. The taxi driver and his wife, Noemi, Percy Ávalos Rojas, one of the “One day, out of the blue, he came e’ve never known the families. It’s been pretty exciting to in the capital, Lima. Glenn Kramar was the first Back in the living room, as the The teammates met as students live in a single, rented room off a Pervian team members, leads a to her crying, saying, ‘Esther, I want church in its days of get to come in and kind of apprentice full-time missionary Kizers’ twin 4-year-olds don super- at Freed-Hardeman University in muddy creek path with their three discussion of 2 Peter 3:8: “With the to be baptized!’” Kizer translates. ‘Wscarcity. Now, it’s kind of under them in certain ways, and now from the U.S., arriving in hero capes and compete for a Henderson, Tenn. They shared the daughters — including twins with cere- Lord a day is like a thousand years, “He’s preaching this Sunday.” a different challenge.” to have the blessing of getting to work 1962. Among those he reporter’s attention, the family shares desire to serve “outside the Bible Belt,” bral palsy. Despite his humble circum- and a thousand years are like a day.” Their daughter, Milagros Loiza, As he passes a plate of Picarones — with our new Peruvian team members.” baptized was Francisca a pasta dinner with Juan Carlos says Barton Kizer, whose father and stances, “he insists that you try his He references the Old Testament started attending church with her crisp Pervian doughnuts, hot out of Eight years into the mission, the Feliz de Triveños who, Malpartida, a structural engineer and brother both are pulpit ministers in the wife’s cooking,” Barton Kizer says. prophet Isaiah’s admonition to “wait family when she was 12. Later, in her the fryer — Ryan Davis talks about U.S. Christians see their role behind along with her husband, deacon of the Wanchaq Church of Southeast. They considered Vancouver As the family shares plates heaped on the Lord” and the differences teen years, she fell away from the his vantage point as a member of the the scenes, cultivating Peruvian Hipólito, planted churches across the country, Christ, a congregation launched in and Denver, but their future wives influ- with grilled fish, beans and rice, one between man’s expectations and church, but “I had a conversation mission team’s second wave. preachers and evangelists. The two including the Wanchaq Church of Christ in Cusco. Cusco in the early 1970s. enced them to think south. of the twins gleefully rams her wheel- God’s timing. with Barton, and I’ll never forget it,” “And I know these guys are jealous,” are different, Kizer notes. It seems that Hipólito Triveños estimates that the country now is “We really look to Wanchaq as our Their teachers recommended Bill chair into her guest’s legs, demanding It’s a lesson Esther de la Cuba she says. She returned to the flock. he says of the departing missionaries, “God doesn’t make a lot of preacher/ home to 38 to 42 Churches of Christ — more than big brother,” Barton Kizer explains. Richardson, a missions professor at he draw pictures for her, while the knows well. Before the Bible study, “We got used to you guys,” Loiza “because we’re going to get to benefit evangelists. He makes preachers and 20 of them in the Lima metropolitan area. When the first wave of missionaries Harding University in Searcy, Ark., other dangles from Kizer’s neck. she shares the story of her baptism tells Kizer. “You shouldn’t leave, but from the fruit of their labor.” he makes evangelists.” arrived in Cusco in October 2009 who leads teams of students to the The family encountered the Ayllu and the long, patient wait she endured the inclusion of the Peruvians (on the It’s the end of a meal at a second- He sees both qualities in Chacón, a SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, “Churches of Christ Around the they worshiped with Wanchaq as they region. He helped the missionaries church through a medical campaign for her husband to accept the Gospel. team) is good.” story restaurant in Cusco’s historic CONTINUED World” by Mac Lynn, interviews. Maps via Wikimeida Commons. 20 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE CURRENTS JUly 2018

The Cusco team shares a laugh with Georgia and Ron Freitas of Great Cities Missions, right, as they begin a day of discussions about the upcoming transitions. I think sometimes we have to check our purposes as a church

CONTINUED was high to join new, all-Latino It’s also a difficult time, he adds, man who, at one point in his life, mission teams headed for locales as the Christians attempt to “make a “didn’t think God would even love throughout the Spanish-speaking team out of two cultures.” someone like me,” he says. world, some of them coordinated The teammates know the chal- He grew up Catholic, like most of by Great Cities Missions. lenges. The U.S. Christians want to his countrymen, but spent much of But “this is the church where see the church continue its outward- his time at nightclubs, “drinking and I was born,” he says of the Ayllu focused, urban ministry, resisting the fighting.” His sister found out about congregation. “We wanted to come urge to buy affordable land on the the Ayllu church and its reputation back because this is our family.” outskirts of town. That could keep for helping the hurting and addicted. Kizer adds, “If we had to just think the church from reaching those who She encouraged him to visit. of an ideal couple to work with the need Jesus, they say. “I was still doing things I shouldn’t church, I would think of these guys.” The Peruvians want their ideas do,” he remembers. But he kept to be considered equally with those going to church and was baptized. o many changes are going of the U.S. Christians. There’s also He collapses with laughter when on with you so quickly.” concern about economic inequality. he remembers the name of his ‘S In a tight semicircle, the The U.S. Christians have access employer at the time — a restaurant entire Cusco team lines the walls to more financial support than the called The Fallen Angel. of an upstairs classroom in their Peruvians, though they must make “I don’t know why, but one day rented church building as Georgia regular trips to the U.S. to raise they asked me to preach and work Freitas talks with them about the funds. The U.S. Christians also don’t with the young upcoming transitions. have the family support structure people,” he says. “I “Our team’s going through the Peruvians have in Cusco. ‘It was a God thing’ remember that my puberty!” Barton Kizer jokes. Or The departing team members, Bethany Iversen, an intern for the first sermon lasted maybe it’s a midlife crisis. The team menwhile, worry that, despite their Cusco team, visits with Yuxelis about seven minutes.” is about halfway through its 15-year years of sweat, toil and tears, the inter- Márquez, a refugee from Venezuela The sermons length- plan — a plan focused on worship, cultural mix won’t work, the team will who learned of the Ayllu Church of ened and improved, evangelism and small-group ministry. fall apart and the church will disappear. Christ through a friend. and the team members Freitas and her husband, Ron, Throughout the discussions, “It was a God thing,” Marquez says enrolled Chacón host three sessions with the team — Freitas encourages the teammates Chacón as Iverson translates. “I came here for and his wife in an one for the departing missionaries, to be patient with each other and, a reason.” intensive course of study. The couple one for the U.S. missionaries who most importantly, to keep their Churches of Christ across South had to demonstrate three months are staying and one for the Peruvian focus on Christ. America are serving Venezuelans forced of active membership followed by six team members — before meeting “I think sometimes we have to to leave their homes in the midst months of active leadership. They led with the full team. They ask each check our purposes as a church and of the country’s ongoing economic small-group Bible studies and did a group what they feel good about and as a team,” he says. “A lot of times, crisis. Márquez had to leave one of her six-month internship. Finally, the team what they’re most concerned about. I find myself concerned or worried children behind and sends home money sent the couple to Baxter Institute in “This is a momento muy importante about things I shouldn’t be worried from whatever work she can find. The Tegucigalpa, Honduras, along with en esta iglesia, a very important about. That’s pride. church is helping with her needs. Percy Avalos Rojas for two years of moment in this church,” Ron Freitas “I want you to think about being “I’m impressed by the character of ministry training. says in Spanish and English, occa- a master builder — as a team — the Venezuelans,” Iversen says. “They’re The training was excellent, sionally throwing in a Portuguese built on a foundation, built solely by open, kind. The ones I’ve met haven’t Chacón says, and the pressure word or two from his days in Brazil. Jesus Christ.” been trying to take advantage of us.” july 2018 currents the christian chronicle 21 cusco team timeline NOT EVERY HILL IS CALVARY!

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Borchers, DBA, Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Business Lipscomb University at: [email protected] julY 2018 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE 23 higher education FAULKNER UNIVERSITY MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Faulkner students just keep getting younger and younger. The 2,500-student, Christian university launches a pre-kinder- garten program this fall, buoyed by a grant from the state government. Faulkner will house two of Alabama’s 107 new First Class Pre-K Program class- rooms. The program is an initiative by Gov. Kay Ivey to raise the state’s enrollment of 4-year-olds to 32 Cowell percent statewide. Leslie Cowell, dean of Faulkner’s College of Education, applied for state grants for the classrooms, which will serve 32 students. The program’s directors “asked if we could do two classrooms,” Cowell said, “because the need in this area Steddon Sikes of Montgomery was so great.” Smiles and mustaches abound at York College’s SoulQuest HARDING UNIVERSITY A few of the 450 participants at this summer’s SoulQuest share hugs, smile and fake mustaches on the campus of York College in Nebraska. SEARCY, Ark. — In the midst of a “Lives were changed, and hearts were touched for Jesus,” said Chrystal Houston, director of alumni and communication for the 500-student nationwide epidemic of prescrip- college associated with Churches of Christ. “The week included service projects across the York community, from painting houses, fire tion drug abuse, the College of hydrants and park benches to sorting clothing at a donation center, to washing city vehicles, to singing for residents of a care facility.” Pharmacy at this 7,100-student university associated with Churches of Christ facilitated a recent Drive- and Public Service’s Fred D. Gray students and the community. ministry training Thru Medication Cleanout. Institute for Law, Justice and Society. The Ray and Cam Boatright By dropping off unused and Students spent time at the Health Center honors a couple that CONNALLY SCHOOL OF PREACHING expired medications, Rosenwald School has “worked day and night to help arusha, Tanzania — Solar panels and Searcy residents are and spoke with rela- raise funds for Sonrise,” said admin- a water well will help the Andrew “working to prevent tives of the partici- istrator Joseph Dzamesi. “Their Connally School of Preaching save abuse, misuse and pants in the infa- commitment and dedication to the about $2,500 per month in utilities, said accidental poison- mous Tuskegee Sonrise project is unmatched.” The Daniel Gaines, who coordinates the ings while protecting syphilis study. school is ranked among the top six school under the elders of the Bear the local water supply “One of the rela- schools in Ghana’s Volta Region, he Valley Church of Christ in Denver. and landfill,” said tives said after all that added, and its ministry has resulted The projects are part of a Bohn pharmacy professor Monyei has been said and in hundreds of baptisms. Tanzanian Leadership Challenge that Kaci Bohn. done, forgiveness is raised 68 percent of its $250,000 goal Since 2012, Harding has partnered what needs to happen because there in six months, Gaines said. with the Searcy Police Department is too much hate in the world,” said The East African school, named and White County Sheriff’s office to Lipscomb senior Christian Monyei. after a longtime missionary for collect more than 1,100 pounds of “That just really resonated with me.” Churches of Christ, has played a medication, Bohn said. role in the establishment of more than 500 congregations in Tanzania, LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY K-12 CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic TUSKEGEE, Ala. — Seven students from Republic of Congo and South Sudan, the Nashville, Tenn., university SONRISE CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL said officials at Bear Valley Bible traveled to the Tuskegee History HO, Ghana — During the 10th grad- Institute International. Museum recently to help with uation ceremony of this school Launched by Cy Stafford and the archival work. Coordinating the trip in West Africa, associated with PHOTO PROVIDED BY JOSEPH DZAMESI Hattiesburg Church of Christ in was Randy Spivey, academic director Churches of Christ, officials dedi- Sonrise Christian administrators cut the Mississippi, the school is an exten- for Lipscomb’s College of Leadership cated a 16-bed clinic that will serve ribbon for the school’s new health clinic. sion campus of Bear Valley. 24 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE PARTNERS JULY 2018 GEN Z: Too many churches using ‘antiquated, outdated’ methods FROM PAGE 3 was “to create dialogue around spiritually forming Generation Z.” Too many churches and Christian schools rely on “antiquated, out- dated” methods, he said. Generation Z — born in the mid- 1990s to mid-2000s — grew up online, awash in ever-present, tech- nological distractions, Tatum said. Veronica Dillard sees this first- hand at Westbury Christian School in Houston, also associ- ated with Churches of Christ. “We are compet- ing with so many different messages that our kids are Dillard being tossed every day, every five minutes, every 30 seconds,” said Dillard, who works with teens and college students and attended the Contribute Conference. “All this stuff they’re exposed to we have to compete against,” Dillard said. “We have to make it seem like this Jesus stuff we’re talking about is cool too, because it’s not popular.” Brandon Tatum, Jay Smith and Mallory Wyckoff discuss Generation Z during an audience question-and-answer session. But it should be, Tatum said. Too many students who seek ways to be really, I think all that means is we you doing that,” said Norsworthy, messes, and cleaning them up is involved in social justice and hands- keep them in this sort of ‘Jesus minister for the Westover Hills nothing short of heroic. on service — the very behavior club.’ I don’t necessarily think it Church of Christ in Austin, Texas. Giving young people real work Jesus modeled — walk away from means we’re making disciples.” to do gives them an opportunity to their faith when they don’t see those He encouraged the attendees to ... and ‘let them scrub toilets’ contribute, to give back, Sandefer opportunities in their churches. honor the intelligence of their chil- They also need “hero stories,” said said. And it gives them something to “I think we need to be a little dren and not “dumb things down.” Laura Sandefer, founder of Acton be proud of. more active in our spiritual forma- Rather, believers should challenge Academy in Austin. These aren’t The advice was practical and help- tion efforts instead of so passive,” their church’s youths and give just fictional stories of supernatural ful, said Dillard, adding that it called he said. “The way we’re doing it them opportunities to serve. men, women (and, occasionally, to mind the words of the apostle isn’t necessarily engaging the next They are, after all, aliens) but also tales Paul in 1 Corinthians 3:6, “I have generation. I also think the Gospel “image bearers of of ordinary people planted ... but God gave the increase.” should be exciting.” God,” said several of who do extraordinary “Even if we don’t see the results the speakers, includ- things — people who while the students are with us, just stop over-entertaining kids ... ing Josh Graves. don’t give up when know and trust that God, in the end, For two days, speakers from across “Humans of every things get hard, is the one who gives the increase,” the nation focused on four key chal- generation forget that people who try their she said. “It’s just our job to do what lenges faced by Gen Z — identity, the image of God has hardest to solve a we can while we have them.” diversity, trauma and inconsistent faith. been placed in every- Graves problem, people who Sandefer Too many Christians view their one,” said Graves, get back up when the FINDING THEIR VOICES young people as entertainment seek- minister for the Otter Creek Church world knocks them down. Christians must realize that their ers, said James K.A. Smith, profes- of Christ in Nashville. And “stop answering questions,” young people have something valu- sor of philosophy at Calvin College It’s not enough to merely expect Sandefer told the audience. “Answer able to offer their churches, said in Grand Rapids, Mich. great things of the next generation, questions with questions. Let them another speaker, Mallory Wyckoff, As a result, churches tend to over- speaker Luke Norsworthy added. have a chance to figure things out. who teaches at Lipscomb University entertain their youths. Older generations must model what They’re smart. They don’t need us in Nashville, Tenn. “We thought if we could make they hope to see in young people. to answer everything for them.” “By valuing dignity, we can help church entertaining for kids we “If you want students to be cre- Lastly, “Let them scrub toilets,” young people find their voice,” she would keep them,” Smith said. “But ators, contributors, they need to see she said. Real life includes “nasty” said. JULY 2018 PARTNERS THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE 25

PHOTOS by Barbara Haywood and Riley Wilson Building Christian leaders one stone at a time When it comes to influencing Generation Z for Christ, “what you do matters,” Luke Norsworthy, minister for the Westover Hills Church of Christ in Austin, Texas, said during the Contribute Conference. He cited 1 Corinthians 15:58: “Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord.” “Don’t underestimate the value of the work of one day,” he said, using the analogy of building a cathedral. The beauty doesn’t all happen at once, he told conference attendees. Rather, it comes through a process of carving each individual stone. Norsworthy hosts a weekly podcast, Newsworthy with Norsworthy, in which he discusses spirituality and Christianity with fellow ministers, authors and scholars.

To that end, organizers of the her classmates — Jessica Cherry, Contribute Conference honored Scottie Smith and Pryce Jordan students for their efforts to improve Daniels — work with 84 Days, a their schools and communities: mission project of the nonprofit • Emmanuel Ukot, a recent Run4Water that provides reusable graduate of Westbury pads and menstrual cups to girls Christian, helped in Africa. The project’s name is the bring an international average number of days girls and student organization, young women miss school or work Health Occupations due to a lack of these products. Students of America, Many African girls also are at risk to his school. The of assault and rape as organization exposes they fetch water and students to the Ukot perform other daily healthcare field and tasks, so the 84 Days promotes career project provides self- opportunities in the defense training. industry. Traveling to Africa • Holden Hill, of — and sharing your Oklahoma City, spent faith at home — can Daniels months interviewing be frightening, Christian leaders Daniels said. But seeing older believ- from around the ers model service to God is helpful. world, searching for Hill “I feel like sometimes people are answers to questions nervous to put themselves out there he had about his faith. He compiled and do it,” Daniels said. “But once his journey into a book and hopes to you do it, the first-time people real- help other seekers find truth. ize it’s not as scary as it seems to go • Anna Kate Armstrong and out and talk about Jesus every day.” 26 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE PEOPLE JULY 2018 Newsmakers

Showcasing the moments of your life AWARDED: Michael Benavides, Milestones and the lives of loved ones. a member of the West Huntsville Church of Christ in Alabama, the Mr. and Mrs. Lee Holder Birthdays the Scriptures,” telecast over stations many who sought to practice simple Memorial FHU Bible in three states and seen in parts of Christianity. Scholarship for the 104th: eight states. Articles that he has Having studied at Catholic semi- fall semester at Elmo Snelling, written have been printed in many nary, at 21 Fausto Salvoni received Freed-Hardeman July 27, Churches of Christ affiliated publica- a doctorate in divinity and later University in Edmonson, tions. a master’s in the Holy Bible. He Henderson, Tenn. Benavides Texas. 101st: Dean was engaged with evangelism served as a professor at Catholic Rick and Benita Lloyd Boyll, on the sub-continent of Asia for 50 Seminary for Priests in Milan. He Lanning, the Friend to Youth award June 5, Abilene, years. From 1967 to 1982 his time was wrote for the Catholic Encyclopedia from Florida College in Temple Texas. divided between work in Asia, and (Vatican Edition) and Ecclesiastical Terrace. The couple has served local work with churches in Kentucky Encyclopedia. Churches of Christ in Minneapolis and Tennessee. Since 1983, he was He stated, “I loved the Bible and had for 32 years. Joey Davis, the Elmo Snelling engaged full time in foreign evange- the wonderful privilege of studying it Alumnus of the Year award and lism. His work was primarily in India in original languages. I tried during that Sherry Brown, the Living Flame but also included time to teach theBible faithfully and not Award from the Memphis School of Anniversaries Nepal, Myanmar, Roman Catholic traditions.” Preaching in Tennessee. and Sri Lanka. In 1950, he left the Catholic 71st: John and Mary Townley, He is survived church, gravitating toward directions DRAFTED: Lee Solomon, second June 14, Porter, Texas. by his wife of the early church. He connected baseman for of 67 years, with Harold Paden, a pioneering, the Lipscomb 70th: Frank and Marjorie Davis, Mary Evelyn post-World War II missionary for University Bisons, June 13, Neenah, Wis. of Murray, Ky.; Churches of Christ, and determined selected by the San three sons, to work within the Churches of Christ Diego Padres in the Gary (Margrit) there. He was baptized for forgive- 2018 Major League Memorials Crutchfield of ness of his sins and received the gift Baseball Draft. He Florissant, Colo.; of the Holy Spirit. He soon preached is the 30th player in Robert ‘Dean’ Robert Crutchfield of Murray, Ky.; to large crowds across Europe and the Nashville, Tenn., Solomon Edward (Melissa) Crutchfield of visited the USA, directing the Bible university’s history Crutchfield Johnson City, Tenn.; two grandsons, Chair in Milan and teaching at to be picked in the MLB draft. Charles and James Crutchfield; three Florence. He served many churches, 1932-2018 granddaughters, Emily, Amanda while publishing. NAMED: Phillip Calvert, chief of and Hannah Crutchfield; one great- Harold Paden credited Fausto police for Faulkner Robert Dean Crutchfield, age 85, grandson, Kenton Dean Crutchfield; Salvoni with modeling a passion for University in passed away at 10:30 p.m., May 27, and one brother, Richard Crutchfield God’s love and grace, above sectarian Montgomery, 2018, at the Murray Calloway County of Cadiz, Ky. issues, which so many of us later Ala. Stephanie Hospital in Murray, Ky. He was born Dean is preceded in death by his received through Harold. Howell to the October 5, 1932, in Fulton, Ky. He parents, Herschel D. Crutchfield and Fausto died in 1982, leaving his board of trustees of was a member of the Green Plain Ruby Edwards Crutchfield; and one wife, Enrica, as a valuable presence in Harding University Church of Christ. brother, Hershel E. Crutchfield. the churches in Italy. Throughout the in Searcy, Ark. Dean preached and served Churches following 36 years the Bering Drive Alan Stephens, of Christ in Alaska, Maine, Kentucky Church of Christ in Houston continued development Calvert and Tennessee. His preaching for Enrica Salvoni sending much-needed support to this officer for churches in gospel meetings and at godly widow and example to Italian World Christian lectureships took him to 24 states and 1927-2018 churches. It was a blessing to partici- Broadcasting 18 foreign countries. pate in her journey. in Franklin, For many years, he was the May 19, 2018, Enrica Salvoni, age Tenn. He and regular speaker on radio programs 91, passed away in Milan, Italy. She With Appreciation his wife, Stacey, in Kentucky and Tennessee. He was was the widow of Dr. Fausto Salvoni, worship with the instrumental in starting and was scholar and leader for decades in The Christian Chronicle appreciates Concord Road Church of Christ also moderator for seven years for a Churches of Christ in Italy. He wrote and acknowledges a generous gift Yoder weekly television program, “Searching numerous books and influenced received in honor of Bobby Ross Jr. in Brentwood, Tenn. Christian Yoder, stateside administrative coordinator for Submit your wedding announcements, birth announcements, memorials or tributes to Made in the Streets, a nonprofit [email protected] or call (405) 425-5071. 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verybody, it seems, has an opinion about Jack Phillips, the Colorado baker in whose favor the U.S. Supreme Court recently issued a 7-2 Edecision. Sadly, not everybody has taken the time to review the facts of his case. The high court determined that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission exhibited anti-religious bias when it ruled www.columbiachristian.com against Phillips. The state commission Graduates celebrate at Columbia Christian School, a pre-K through high school in Oregon associated with Churches of Christ. sided against Phillips when the baker declined to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. The owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver cited his The words that tear us down — and biblical belief in marriage as a sacred union between one man and one woman. Regrettably, many — including some build us up — begin with ‘You are’ Christians eager to present themselves as more loving and compassionate than ords have power. God used words to create funny. You are organized. You are ambitious. But the Phillips — have twisted the actual facts the world. The Bible, one of our key access really, truly important ones come from Scripture. Let and circumstances of the baker’s case. points to God, is full of words — mean me introduce you to some “You are” statements that The idea that Phillips “refuses service” words, nice words, pretty words, are true, no matter who you are: to gays and lesbians as a general busi- Wloving words, hateful words, big words, small In the Word • You are fearfully and wonderfully made. ness practice is rampant. It’s also untrue. words. They’re part of our lives. I’m utterly (Psalm 139:14) He serves anybody who walks in fascinated by the power and beauty of words. • You are a child of the King. (1 John 3:1) his shop’s door. He just doesn’t create I have a friend who’s a couple of years older • You are redeemed. (Isaiah 43:1) any message. And for him, a wedding than I am who’s a beautiful model of what it’s • You are chosen for this time. (Esther 4:14) is a sacred rite, a religious ceremony. like to live for Christ on earth. We exchange • You are set apart. (1 Peter 2:9) He can’t in good conscience endorse a prayer requests. Once, as I was telling her • You are loved. (Jeremiah 31:3) wedding that goes against his faith. about some battles I’m fighting, she told me, • You are fought for. (Exodus 14:14) “I told these two men when they “You are powerful.” Wow. That stuck. • You are freed. (John 8:32) came in my store, ‘I’ll sell you cookies, To be honest, I don’t remember much Mary Edwards Friends, God speaks the truth about who brownies, birthday cakes. I’ll make you more of that conversation, but those three you are. custom cakes. I’ll make anything for words bounced around my mind for days. “You are I want to challenge you. Every day for 10 days, you,’” Phillips told NBC’s “Today” show, powerful.” While all words have power, “you are” write down one or two positive “You are” statements referring to the gay men who sued him. statements have a special kind of power — Captain- that describe you. They can be biblical. They can In the same interview, the baker noted: America-with-his-shield, Percy-Jackson-in-the-ocean, be personal. They can come from your friends. It’s “I don’t create cakes for Halloween. I Hermione-Granger-in-the-library kind of power. important to rely on those who love us when we wouldn’t create a cake that would be We’ve all be told some type of “You are” statement. can’t love ourselves, but it’s also important to learn anti-American or disparaging toward Let’s be real; they don’t all make us feel like Percy to truly love and value who we are. anybody for any reason, even cakes that Jackson at the center of a hurricane. They make us If negative “You are” statements pop into your would disparage people who identify as feel more like pre-super serum Steve Rogers getting mind, write those down too. Then crumple up the LGBT. It’s just cakes have a message, beat up in the alley. Maybe it sounded something paper and throw them away. You don’t need that and this is one I can’t create.” like this: You are ugly. You are fat. You are unim- kind of negativity in your life. Satan’s lies are no Phillips stood up for what he believes. portant. You are irrelevant. You are stupid. You’re not match for God’s truth. Go. Speak truth — to your- In a free nation, he has that right. talented. You are a failure. self, to those you care about, to the world. Similarly, religious freedom gives those We’ve all been told things that tear us down, break My friend, you are powerful. who disagree with Phillips the right to our hearts, destroy our confidence. It always hurts, express their opposition. no matter who says it. Maybe it was your friend, mary edwards and her family worship with the Eastridge Church of But critics — particularly those who or the mean girl, or your significant other, or your Christ in Rockwall, Texas. This fall she begins her freshman year at Harding claim to be followers of Jesus — owe it to parents. Or maybe, maybe it was you. University in Searcy, Ark. She and her mother, Martha, write the blog Phillips to educate themselves on the real “You are” statements aren’t always bad. You are “Restoring God’s Masterpiece,” at restoringthemasterpiece.weebly.com. facts before casting stones at him. 30 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE OPINION JUly 2018 Mourning a man who made words dance An abused grandmother’s dying requests: Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no Study your Bible and learn how to forgive final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom ... is realizing how small I orgive? Really? No way. so why was it so hard for me to do am and unwise, and how far I have Forgiveness is an intentional, the same? yet to go. — Anthony Bourdain voluntary process. Feelings and The Scriptures offered me guid- attitudes change. We let go of ance and helped me remember that ’m trudging through emotional Fnegative emotions. How could I do I also have been forgiven: muck due to the loss of that? I am trying to raise my family, • In him we have redemption Anthony Bourdain. He was a keep my house from through his blood, the forgiveness of friend I invited into my home Views exploding into chaos sins, in accordance with the riches of Ithrough the screen and pages for and maintain my God’s grace. (Ephesians 1:7) many years. His wry exuberance full-time job. • For he has rescued us from the for learning and experiencing And I didn’t cause dominion of darkness and brought us affected me deeply. His sardonic any of this mess! into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in wit and ability to spar the trite But that’s what whom we have redemption, the forgive- and shallow — beautifully, I my Nana asked of ness of sins. (Colossians 1:13-14) might add — amazed me. me during her alert • And when you stand praying, if His words were sometimes moments in her you hold anything against anyone, poignant, sometimes scathing, but Allyson B. Roberts final days. forgive them, so that your Father in always reflective of his brilliance Read the heaven may forgive you your sins. in crafting an image or emotion. Scriptures, she told me, and know (Mark 11:25) He made words gustatory, taming how to render forgiveness. I believe that forgiveness is them while making them dance. For two years, I was blessed playing a huge role in my grieving I have to thank him many times beyond belief to have my grand- process. We all know the stages of over for taking mother in Pennsylvania where I live. grief, and while I feel that I some- Voices me to places The nursing home staff knew that, times go through all of them at I otherwise every Sunday, they needed to get her once, I do forgive my family. would have up and dressed and have her break- PHOTO PROVIDED BY ALLYSON ROBERTS My mother has suffered never seen and fast fed to her so that she could come During the final two years of her life, from depression and now has introducing me to with us to worship with the King “Miss Peggy” (born June 11, 1925) Alzheimer’s disease. But when I cultures I didn’t of Prussia Church of Christ. Nana rarely missed Sunday worship with the see her, she remembers that I love know existed, would sing the old hymns, partake King of Prussia Church of Christ. the Lord and want to serve him rekindling in communion with her weak, feeble until my last breath. my passion to hands and smile at the young chil- attorney. By then, she was penniless I learned that through my sweet Bethany Hutton explore. I got to dren who would walk by and in their and awash in credit card debt. Nana and promised to strive to live vicariously cheery, sweet voices say “Good I felt betrayed. During my prayer follow in her footsteps and be a through him, 48 minutes at a time. morning, Miss Peggy!” moments and quiet time with the forgiver — not one who condemns. He was far from a model citizen, In two years Nana missed just Lord, all I would do was complain, Grief and forgiveness can work plagued by darkness I can relate three Sundays. Her memory, even grumble, moan and ask for this thorn together to achieve the ultimate goal. to uncomfortably well. He didn’t at 92, was to be taken The old is gone, the new is here. revolutionize the food world by astounding. from me. I will continue to grieve the loss of way of his cuisine, but he did in She would Nana Nana and work on offering forgive- terms of access and celebration recite took her ness to continue on her legacy. of differences, both in the kitchen Psalms, last breath May the God of heaven grant and around the world. finish the on Aug. strength and power to all of us who He once said that he was afraid sentences 26, 2017. need it. May we live by the words of to stop moving for fear of what of the She is no Ephesians 4:31-32: might happen. You stopped Scriptures See stories from our series on Christians caring for the aged, those longer in Get rid of all bitterness, rage and moving, Tony. You couldn’t outrun and pray with special needs and more at christianchronicle.org. darkness, anger, brawling and slander, along it. And, today, part of me has for me but now with every form of malice. Be kind stopped moving, too. as she knew the burden that I was is in the kingdom. Hallelujah! I am and compassionate to one another, I’m skeptical, but I hope you bearing. thrilled to know that she is in heaven. forgiving each other, just as in Christ found enlightenment. As her health started to decline, I I have tried to honor her last God forgave you. You still had so far to go. just wanted to see her smile. request — that I stay immersed in You see, Nana had suffered elder Scripture and learn to forgive. Nana Allyson B. Roberts and her family worship with BETHANY HUTTON worships with the Memorial abuse at the hands of my own family offered forgiveness to the family the King of Prussia Church of Christ in Pennsylvania. Road Church of Christ in Oklahoma City. for four years before I took power of members who committed the abuse, She has a doctorate in music education. JULY 2018 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE 31

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Involvement/Worship Minister Looking for an The Fredericksburg Church of Christ is seeking Energetic Evangelist an Involvement / Worship Minister to work Associate Minister The Bell Fork Road Church of Christ is with our young families, lead worship/singing, searching for an energetic, evangelistic minister occasionally preach, and assist congregational to serve full time. Our desire is for a family efforts to reach our community for Christ. We are seeking an associate minister to work with our pulpit minister with the intention man with a love of GOD’s word and people Please send a resume, a list of references, and also the ability to work well with a of transitioning to our full-time pulpit minister. The associate pulpit minister will work versatile congregation of all races and ages. and your philosophy of ministry to: with our current pulpit minister and elders to serve the West Olive Church of Christ by providing a balanced ministry of preaching, teaching and assisting the elders in imple- Church of Christ Fredericksburg Church of Christ Attn: Chris Kelsey, Chairman 507 North Llano St menting our vision to help the congregation grow to its full potential in membership 321 Bell Fork Rd Fredericksburg, TX 78624 and spiritual growth in Christ. We are a congregation of 450 members in a growing Jacksonville, NC 28540 community west of Phoenix, Ariz. [email protected] [email protected] General Requirements: The ideal candidate should be a married, middle-aged man with (910) 346-6107 at least ten years of experience. He should be of strong personal faith and be doctrinally Minister Needed sound and well grounded in the Scriptures. He should have an evangelistic heart to share FULL-TIME MINISTER WANTED the Gospel with those who are lost. Is there a congregation ready The Chatham Church of Christ is looking for a Principal Responsibilities: Responsibilities of this position include preaching, teaching to send a minister to work in full-time minister. We are a small congre- and participation in the life of our church family. gation in northern New Jersey. Preferred south-central Pennsylvania? qualifications include: master’s degree; strong How to Apply: Small church needs a sponsored preaching, teaching, evangelism and inter- worker for a growing community. Those interested in applying should mail a copy of their resume with picture and at personal skills; 5-10 years of experience; See online ad for more info. least three references to the attention of: and willing to make a long-term commitment. Send resume and other relevant information Chambersburg Church of Christ West Olive Church of Christ to: PO Box 221 [email protected] Chambersburg, PA 17201 Attn: Elders Chatham Church of Christ (717) 261-0835 (leave msg) 10935 W Olive Ave 382 Fairmount Ave [email protected] Chatham, NJ 07928 www.christianchronicle.org/classifieds Peoria, AZ 85345 (973) 635-6810

Full-Time Minister - Missouri Malden Church of Christ seeks a full-time minister. Rural congregation, 50-60 faithful members, led by the Lord and two elders. Compensation commensurate with qualifications and experience. Contact: Rod Dill at (573) 281-8625 Jerry Reaves at (573) 276-8071 32 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE REVIEWS JULY 2018 Minister gives strategies to engage skeptical Can we reach a culture that considers our faith irrelevant? millennials but overgeneralizes their beliefs eople perceive Christians as irrelevant and extreme.” he secularization of North America conversation, however, Clark’s approach to This is the startling assertion by Christian seems to attract ever-increasing attention interreligious dialogue has a couple of short- researchers David Kinnaman and Gabe from the media, sociologists and students comings. Throughout the book, the world- ‘PLyons in “Good Faith.” Sharing results of a recent of culture (both Christian and not). views of non-Christian groups are often overly Barna Group study, they reveal that TFor many Americans, David simplified. (“Athiests believe ___” or basic Christian beliefs are now consid- What we're Kinnaman of the Barna Group and Gabe In Print “Buddhists claim ___ has to be true.”) ered strange, crazy and, in some reading Lyons of Q ministry were among the As we live in an ever-globalizing cases, dangerous by mainstream first popular writers to examine and put world, it is vital that those of us minis- American culture. hard data to an anecdotal experience, tering cross-culturally overcome the Yet there is hope. Generally, adults suggesting that a significant cohort of belief that all of any group thinks and in America have a positive feeling the millennial generation is disassoci- believes only one thing. While the lack toward church. They might not ating itself from Christianity and church. of nuance does not invalidate most of attend, but they believe it does good. In “The Problem of God: Clark’s arguments, I would suggest So Kinnaman and Lyons believe that Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges to that we not expect all our neighbors now is the time for the church to Christianity,” Mark Clark engages this Seth Bouchelle to share opinions identical to the non- enter the public square and engage Steve Cloer same phenomena and invites all parties Christians presented here. in productive, spiritual conversations to attend to what he considers the most persua- Clark also tends to present the “Christian that point people to Christ. In this book, they seek to sive arguments in favor of the Christian faith. perspective” without acknowledging the great prepare Christians for the task ahead. Clark begins by relating his story of growing diversity of belief that exists throughout the Christians need to gain a hearing within our culture, up as a member of this irreligious genera- church on the various issues he addresses. the authors argue. This involves three actions: love, tion. Following his testi- Upon reading “The believe and live. Christians should demonstrate kind- mony of conversion as a Problem of God,” one ness in what they say and how they say it. They should teen with a self-confessed could easily conclude that not be afraid to courageously stand for their beliefs with disposition toward doubt no “real” Christians differ confidence. Finally, they should demonstrate love and (which he sees as related from Clark in their beliefs belief daily for others to see. to his unapologetic ration- about evolution, inerrancy, The authors offer guid- alism), Clark takes us on a the depiction of hell in ance on how to approach journey through the most Scripture, etc., and this relevant topics in today’s pressing questions that sets up a number of false public square — marriage, have emerged through his dichotomies between the family, death, same-sex work over the last decade Christian worldview and attraction, racism and reli- to “start a church for others in which the reader gious freedom — using their skeptics.” is asked to pick a side. “love, believe, live” values. Most readers will find This book provides a I found the book helpful familiar the list of problems set of answers to common in two ways. Reviewing the Clark identifies: science, challenges that Christians authors’ research gives a the existence of God, the may encounter in engaging snapshot of beliefs, attitudes authority of scripture, evil others about faith. And and feelings within American and suffering, hell, sexu- we need works that come culture about faith-related David Kinnaman and ality, hypocrisy and other from the kind of personal topics. This provides great Gabe Lyons. Good such questions. experience recounted by material for future lessons Faith: Being a Christian Relying heavily on Clark to help us navigate and guidance on critical areas When Society Thinks scholars including Alvin Mark Clark. “The Problem of God: the enormous changes where teaching is needed. You’re Irrelevant and Plantinga and Alister Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges taking place in our culture. “Good Faith” is about Extreme. Ada, Mich.: McGrath and popular apolo- to Christianity.” Grand Rapids, Mich.: However, we also need evangelistic conversations Baker Books, 2016. 288 gists such as C.S. Lewis and Zondervan, 2017. 272 pages. $17.99. those resources to try and in a post-Christian world. pages. $15.99. Tim Keller, Clark seeks to capture the complexity The authors offer inspira- demonstrate on each of these issues that “the of our world in a way which empowers all tion mixed with thoughtfulness about how to engage Christian position” can be proven not only intel- the church to engage the world on behalf of secular America with the Christian worldview. lectually defensible but is, in fact, often more God’s kingdom Their ultimate call to the church is for faithfulness: reasonable than the atheistic worldview. standing out while demonstrating love. Readers who find their beliefs under attack by SETH Bouchelle lives in the Bronx, N.Y., and works with When we do this well, we show good faith. acquaintances holding views that might be char- Global City Mission Initiative, a nonprofit that focuses on cross- acterized as militantly anti-Christian will discover cultural evangelism, disciple-making and church planting among STEVE CLOER is preaching minister for the Southside Church of Christ in in Clark a resource to help bolster their faith. the diverse immigrant populations in big cities around the world. Fort Worth, Texas. See www.sscofc.org. For those who wish simply to engage He is a graduate of Abilene Christian University in Texas. See their non-Christian neighbors in evangelistic www.globalcitymission.org. What are you reading? Send submissions to [email protected]. JULY 2018 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE 33

Full-Time Family Minister - Tennessee Full-Time Pulpit Preacher CALENDAR Millington Church of Christ is praying for a full-time family minister, with a passion for the Lord and for serving His people. Our economically, racially and socially diverse church The Annapolis Church of Christ in Maryland family consists of about 250 adult members who are shepherded by eight elders. We have is looking for a well-rounded preacher who is July 6-8 PeacePrints Retreat. a full-time outreach minister (who has served this congregation for 34 years), a full-time capable of inspiring members of the church and Strawn, Texas. See centerpeace.net. youth minister caring for a large number of teens and active Kingdom Kids (6th grade and the community around them. The church has July 8-13 Summer Honor Choir down) group and a large correspondence course prison ministry. We are known in our elders and deacons. Interested men should mail community as a friendly, compassionate, accepting church. We have four men that preach or email a letter of introduction, resume, recent (High School). Harding University, regularly (two are members). We are looking for a godly – fatherly man who has a heart for Searcy, Ark. See www.harding.edu/ evangelism, will preach a few times a month, teach classes, will connect with families dur- sermons, and examples of recent classes taught. honorchoir. ing the week with office hours and who will visit folks (homes, hospitals, shut-ins, etc.). If Go to annapolischurch.org/preacher for full job interested please contact us at: description. July 15-18 48th Annual Caribbean John Lewis Lectureship. Georgetown, Guyana. [email protected] [email protected] The National Cultural Centre. See [email protected] caribbeanlectureship.com. (901) 872-4426 (443) 977-6124 July 15-20 Theology Summer Academy. Oklahoma Christian University, Oklahoma City. See Full-Time Pulpit Minister oc.edu/tsa. July 21 Rise and Build Workshop. Do you have a passion for preaching the Gospel? Pleasanton Church of Christ in Texas, St. Petersburg, Fla. Contact A servant heart that desires to teach others how to reach the lost in this world? is looking for a pulpit minister. We have an lane3communication.com. With a specific vision and plan on how to grow the church spiritually? average Sunday morning attendance of 215 July 22-27 Texas Normal Singing members/guests, seven elders, nine deacons School. Abilene, Texas. See If so, then we want to hear from you! and an associate minister whose focus is youth and family. Please provide a copy of singingschool.org. Sunset Church of Christ is a dynamic, energetic, established congregation in Taylor, your resume and one DVD of a sermon you July 23-27 Global Reunion 2018. Michigan, looking for a full-time preacher to become part of our growing family. have preached within the last year. For more Oklahoma Christian University, You will work alongside a 200+ membership that consists of many young and middle- information, please contact the search com- Oklahoma City. See intermission aged families and some wonderful seniors. We have a strong children’s and youth mittee chairman: ministry.org. program led by an Involvement Minister, as well as, a minister for seniors and visita- July 26-29 Angel Fire Bible Wayne Johnson at 830-391-2571 or tion. Additionally, we work extensively with a missionary to the largest population of [email protected] Symposium. Angel Fire, N.M. Muslims in the US, located in nearby Dearborn, Michigan. Sunset is led by a dedicated See angelfirebible-symposium.com. group of Godly elders and deacons who serve and live by example. We have a family Aug. 2-4 Redemption CCG atmosphere that strives to be more than Christian in name but a body that desires to live National Tournament. Tomball, every day for Christ. The ideal candidate will have experience working with a culturally Enthusiastic Youth Minister Texas. Contact txredemption@ diverse congregation, a firm reliance on the Bible as the authoritative Word of God, and The Park Avenue Church of Christ in gmail.com. a demonstrated ability to inspire and relate God’s Word to motivate people to action. Denison, Texas, is seeking an enthu- Aug. 3-4 Widow / Widower If this sounds like you, please send your resume, audio/video files, and a one-page siastic youth minister. Responsibilities Retreat. LaVergne, Tenn. See description of your purpose in God’s Kingdom to: include: coordination of youth education, widowhoodworkshop.com. worship, fellowship, service activities, Aug. 18 Church Missions Sunset Church of Christ etc. Must possess strong leadership, Conference. Chattanooga, Tenn. c/o Elders organizational, verbal and written skills. See eastbrainerdchurch.org/ Experience preferred but not required. missionconference. 24800 Ecorse Road Send resume to: Aug. 31-Sept. 3 National Taylor, Michigan 48180 Christian Singles Seminar. Sugar George Hatfield Land, Texas. See national [email protected] (Subject: Minister Search) [email protected] christiansingles.com. Sept. 11 Eastern European Mission’s Franklin Event. Franklin, Tenn. See eem.org/events. Full-Time Family & Youth Minister Sept. 13-14 New Day Confer- The Woodinville Church of Christ has a full-time position open for a Family & Youth Minister. We are a mature ence. North Blvd. Church of Christ, 250-member strong congregation with five elders, sixteen deacons, a full-time pulpit minister and a very active Murfreesboro, Tenn. See fellowship. We are seeking someone to enthusiastically reach out to teens and their family members, assist in northboulevard.com. guiding our teens to a committed relationship with God, promote the training of teens for service, local and foreign Sept. 16-19 Summit 2018. outreach efforts and be a spiritual mentor. The successful candidate will have at least seven years of experience including leading and teaching teens and pulpit preaching with a desire for full-time pulpit ministry; Abilene Christian University. education should include a bachelor’s degree (Bible major preferred) or a preaching school graduate or equiva- Abilene, Texas. See blogs.acu. lent church-related experience. The city of Woodinville is located in the scenic Puget Sound region of Washington edu/summit. State--a small suburb with all the cultural amenities of Seattle nearby and an abundance of outdoor adventure opportunities. FULL CALENDAR: www.christianchronicle.org. Please submit your resume and sermon audio sample to the Family & Youth Minister Search Committee: To include your event for $25, contact [email protected] [email protected]. www.woodinvillecofc.org 34 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE OPINION JULY 2018

Full-Time Minister Reaffirming a 75-year-old promise Established Niagara Falls, NY, congregation without elders, is seeking a full-time pulpit he Christian Chronicle exists all the news of the Churches of Christ minister. We are an older congregation of 50+ members striving to serve the Lord and to inform, inspire and unite that is worthy of being published. our community. The congregation prefers a married man with a minimum of eight Churches of Christ with stories • The Chronicle will at all times years’ experience and a four-year Bible degree who will help us focus on reaching about our fellowship at home maintain a firm and vigorous editorial our community. Please send resume, video/audio CD, or link along with a Tand around the world. policy for all that is in the best To our readers personal philosophy of ministry to: The Chronicle has a long interest of New Testament LaSalle church of Christ history, thanks to readers Christianity. It will not become Minister Search Committee; c/o Dailey who have supported it since a mere gossip column; it is 4704 Stacey Dr, Lewiston, NY 14092 Olan Hicks published the first not going to go into a coalition issue 75 years ago. with any special interest nor be www.lasallechurchofchrist.org After Hicks, the Chronicle exploited by any special group. was led by Christians including It means to serve all alike, James Walter Nichols, Ralph fairly and faithfully. Sweet, Haskell Chesshir, Clark Erik Tryggestad • The Chronicle will not Semi-Retired Preacher Minister Needed Hicks and John Beckloff. Each be used as a clearinghouse The church in Chillicothe, Texas, is Church of Christ located in Eureka, Calif., is struggled to rally financial support to for scandals or petty rivalries. It will in need of a semi-retired preacher looking for a minister. Weekly salary, house, sustain the paper. By 1980, Beckloff steadfastly refuse to publish any news and travel allowance are provided. We prefer and his wife, Dottie, realized they that may seem to be detrimental to to work with us. We are a very small someone under 60 with 10+ years experience. congregation not capable of much could not continue to produce the the person or church about whom it is financial support but will furnish If interested, send resume, recorded sermon paper, so they offered the Chronicle reported until its truthfulness has been a nice brick home adjacent to the sample and recent photo. to Oklahoma Christian College, verified. Even then, if its publication church building. Please contact: Church of Christ now University, in Oklahoma City. will not serve any good purpose, it will 257 Sonoma St Howard Norton, longtime missionary not be published in the Chronicle. F. D. Bradshaw Eureka, CA 95501 to Brazil, became the editor in 1981. • The Chronicle is not published 940-852-5181 (707) 443-6102 In the years since, numerous dedi- for the purpose of making money 940-839-5551 (cell) cated souls have labored to make the but for the good it can do. If you like Deadline: August 1, 2018 Chronicle the best it can be. this policy and want to help achieve At every landmark in the paper’s the goal we have set, we solicit history, we have reaffirmed the policy your patronage. We promise today Full-Time Youth Minister Full-Time Minister that Olan Hicks wrote in the first to do all in our power to spread the issue. Following are excerpts. See Gospel of Christ into all nations. The Maple Hill church of Christ in Lebanon, The Newport Avenue Church christianchronicle.org for the full text. Here we take our stand. Tenn., is seeking an experienced, full-time of Christ in Bend, Oregon, is • The Christian Chronicle was Youth Minister. We are a growing congre- hiring for a full-time (five days begun with the purpose of publishing Contact: [email protected] gation of approximately 450, located 30 miles east of Nashville with several young per week), preaching minister. families. Send resume’, references and work Seeking someone to help imple- Paper is ‘a chronicler of life and its challenges’ philosophy to: ment programs and structure to s a retired journalist and legacies of Martin Luther King Jr. Maple Hill Church of Christ continue to grow the church and member of the Lord’s church and Marshall Keeble (Page 1, April). 102 Maple Hill Rd. develop active youth programs. since 1948, I can say with Yes, there is some reason to be Lebanon, TN 37087 Email resume and cover letter to: assurance The Christian Feedback concerned about dwindling maplehillchurch.org AChronicle has conducted church attendance. But as [email protected] [email protected] business as both a true the Holy Spirit instructs us, newspaper and a helpful, our job is to plant and leave informative service for us as the growth to God. Preacher Search - Davenport, Iowa MOUNTAIN Christians. You have covered Only God can save us, in Central Church of Christ is looking for a the spreading of the faith in accord with his will. gifted speaker, sound in Scripture, who COMMUNITY New Testament tradition and And we know this: With can present the Word in the assembly to OPPORTUNITY as a chronicler of life and its faithful servants like your staff, visitors we bring in. The minister should challenges for us, the faithful. Ernest Holsendolph we may observe the course of be encouraging, outreach-focused and Tiny congregation looking for sound Chris- I can see that your work has the effort in the pages of The able to devote one-to-one study time with tian leadership. Retirement or been a challenge, but no bigger than Christian Chronicle. the challenge faced by the church, God bless you all and keep you recent converts. We are an active body other support needed. trying to convey the Lord’s message strong. of servants. Please submit cover letter, Church of Christ across an expanse of cultures, in the resume and link to a recent sermon to: Attn: Billy McCarty competition of ideas and the struggle Ernest Holsendolph served for 42 years as a J.E. Willis at [email protected] PO Box 487, Reserve, NM 87830 to stay relevant in the lives of our writer and editor for publications including the Atlanta (563) 940-5751 (575) 533-6574 young. Nothing more epitomized Journal Constitution, the New York Times, the Cleveland your success in bridging the inter- Plain Dealer and Fortune magazine. He worships with ests than your recent stories on the the Hillcrest Church of Christ in Decatur, Ga. JULY 2018 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE 35

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Opportunities Qualifications for Houseparents: Seeking a married couple with a commit- ment to caring for teenage boys with the motivation to meet the physical, spiritual and emotional needs of children in care. Must be a faithful member of the Church of Christ and meet the State of Florida Criminal Background check requirements as well as Teacher: Spring Hill, Tennessee agency background checks. Tennessee Children’s Home is seeking a full-time teacher to work at on-site school for the 2018- Benefits Include: Salary, Retirement Plan, School Tuition, Food, Health Insurance, 2019 school year. Candidate must be able to plan, organize, and implement an appropriate Life Insurance, Housing and Utilities. instructional program in a learning environment that guides and encourages students to develop Qualifications for Social Worker: Hold a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in and fulfill their academic potential. social work and have a minimum of two years’ experience in working with children 1. Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited institution 2. Meet professional teacher education requirements of school, district, and state and families. Must be a faithful member of the Church of Christ and meet the State of 3. Possess a single subject credential or certification in teaching a specialized subject Florida Criminal Background check requirements as well as agency background checks. 4. State certification Benefits Include: Salary, Retirement Plan, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, and 5. Relevant teaching experience 6. Experience in working with at-risk youth a plus School Tuition. 7. Knowledge of relevant technology Send Resume and letter of interest to: Residential Counselor Couples: Knoxville, Spring Hill, Pinson Chuck Shepherd Seeking couples for live-in positions as residential counselors, providing front-line treatment Director of Social Services and care for up to eight adolescent males, ages 13-18. Good interpersonal, team and conflict [email protected] resolution skills are required. Must be able to adapt to a two-week on-one-week off schedule. (352) 383-2155, x9128 Residential Counselors are part of an interdisciplinary team consisting of case manager, creden- tialed counselors and night staff. 301 West 13th Avenue 1. High school diploma or higher from an accredited institution Mount Dora, Florida 32757 2. Experience working with at-risk youth a plus 3. One (1) year experience working with youth (volunteer, intern experience can apply) 4. Must be at least 21 years of age and married Open Full-time Faculty Positions Night Staff: Knoxville, Spring Hill Elementary Principal Secondary Assistant Principal Knoxville and Spring Hill are seeking night staff to supervise residents during sleep hours. 1. Be at least 21 years of age Secondary Science Teacher 2. High School Diploma or GED After School Program Director 3. Must have ability to deal with residents in difficult situations and use good judgment on a nightly basis 4. Experience working with at-risk youth a plus Availability: Fall 2018 5. One (1) year experience working with youth (volunteer, intern experience can apply) Salary: Varies based on education level and experience; benefits include retirement Teacher Assistant: Knoxville and Spring Hill plan, school tuition, health insurance, life insurance. Knoxville and Spring Hill is seeking a full-time teacher assistant to aide classroom teachers in Job Description: Mount Dora Christian Academy is seeking highly qualified indi- behavior management and daily functions of the school. viduals to join our growing team for the start of our 2018-19. 1. High School Diploma or GED required; college degree or related coursework a plus 2. Two years’ experience working with children (paid or volunteer) A successful candidate for any of the above will: Come be a part of this ministry! We offer competitive pay and excellent 1. Hold a minimum of a bachelor’s degree (master’s degree or higher is preferred) 2. Be licensed/certified or eligible for licensure/certification in Florida full-time benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 3. Be a faithful and active member within a church of Christ congregation disability, retirement and paid-time off. 4. Possess a positive attitude and be a team player Sharing Faith, Hope and Love (Since 1909) About the Organization: Mount Dora Christian Academy is a private, PK-12 school founded in 1945 and affiliated with the churches of Christ. Our beautiful 70-acre Dana Lawson, (931) 486-2274 ext. 225 campus is located in the heart of central Florida. [email protected] Visit our website at www.MDCAcademy.org tennesseechildrenshome.org Please send a Resume/CV and letter of interest to: Lori Hadley Congratulations, [email protected] Christian Chronicle! 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