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Lake Union Herald for 1992 CONTENTS Editorial FEATURES In the Beginning God! 2 Editorial by Robert H. Carter, president 3 Encouragement on Wheels Lake Union Conference 4 This Year for Kristin 6 Owosso School Earns Award I N the beginning this world was a happy, peaceful place. An all-knowing and loving Creator made 6 Kids' Corner provisions for all of mankinds needs. "And God saw 7 "Creative Parenting" insert every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good" (Genesis 1:31). Things would have 9 Comprehensive Infertility Service continued to be good if mankind had been willing to allow the creator to remain dominant. 10 A Family's Test of Faith Our Maker must have been saddened by the failure of beings "created in His 11 Breast Cancer Can Be Stopped own image" to stay on the course that He had mapped. God's intention was for man to experience total happiness in his newly created home. Trustingly, God gave man 12 Hungering for Something Better the opportunity to prove himself a worthy steward over the earth and its treasures. Needless to say, we humans have not done a good job of caring for God's 13 Inner-City Offering creation. As a result of man's disobedience the earth has been seared by sin. "As soon as the holy pair transgressed the law of the Most High, the brightness from the face NEWS of God departed from the face of nature" (Christ's Object Lessons, Page 18). Murder invaded the home of our first parents. Once tame and playful beasts became ferocious. Flowers grew thorns. Pests now plague both human and plant life. Illinois Conference 14 Disasters occur with increasing frequency. The weather has become oppressive and 15 Andrews University unruly. Disease and death still take their toll. 16 Academies There is much anxiety over this planet's future. So many threats loom over the 17 Wisconsin Conference horizon: nuclear annihilation, pollution of air and water, AIDS, famine and poverty, 19 Lake Region Conference and strife and warfare among many nations. Man is desperately trying to find 20 Health Care solutions. Economic and peace conferences occur more frequently among the nations. All to no avail. Humans have failed to find any lasting answers. Michigan Conference 21 The end of 1991 saw most of the world in a state of uncertainty and upheaval. 23 Lake Union Conference Americans were unhappy about the state of the economy. Many lost their jobs. 25 World Church Thousands of Haitians fled oppression. South Africans desperately tried for a peaceful coexistence. Yugoslavians continued their bloody civil conflict. The republics of the Soviet Union fought for decentralized rule. There were very few DEPARTMENTS areas of this earth that experienced peace and tranquility last year. What is the solution to all these problems? Does the entrance of a new year hold out much 27 Announcements promise for real improvement? 28 Classified Ads Perhaps one way to cure the world's ills would be to start all over again. If man 30 Mileposts would be willing to be submissive to the authority and leading of the Creator, things would be better. Anxiety and despair would flee. Joy and peace would reign. But such a radical change in the attitude and conduct of sinful beings may be expecting too much. I do not believe it unreasonable, however, to suggest that 1992 can be far better COVER than 1991. I challenge every professed child of God to initiate this new year by including Him in all your plans and actions. God must play a dominant role in your This scene was captured by Alden J. Ho in life, not only in the launching of this new year but throughout the year too, from Petoskay, MI, with a Canon F-1 camera, 20 mm beginning to end. To every sincere soul who makes such a solemn determination is lens, F/16 aperture and 1/60 shutter speed, on Kodachrome 64 film. made this promise, "Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof" (Ecclesiastes 7:8). The Lake Union Herald (USPS 302-860; ISSN 0194-908X) is published monthly by the Lake Union Conference, P.O. Box C, Berrien Springs, MI 49103. Second-class postage is paid at Berrien Springs, MI 49103 and additional mailing offices. Yearly subscription price $5; single copies 50 cents. Postmaster: Send all address changes to Lake Union Herald, P.O. Box C, Berrien Springs, MI 49103. 2 • January 1992 Herald Let the peace of God rule in your heart Encouragement on Wheels Jean McCutchan speaks to a Sabbath School God continues to help Jean handle the class on the Andrews University campus last various problems associated with her November. (photo by Stephanie Kaping) disabilities. In March 1986, just one year after her doctor had warned her that she would be bedridden, her family and "I couldn't believe that I was losing it," friends went to Indianapolis to watch her Jean said. walk down the aisle as a participant in the All this was taking its toll on Jean and Mrs. Indiana pageant. Her courage and her family — husband Larry and son by Evelyn Hainey positive attitude made such an impres- Eric. "I hit spiritual bedrock. Not only sion that the next year the organizers was I losing control of my job and my asked her to enter again. That year she HUMANKIND has always had a fas- marriage, but I was totally losing control was awarded "Mrs. Amity," represent- cination with wheels, a symbol of mobil- of myself," she said. "I knew that some- ing the one who others most wanted to ity. But when those wheels are part of a thing was significantly wrong with my remain in contact with. wheelchair they are considered restric- life. But I could not put my finger on what "I did not win, but I felt like a winner," tive and confining. Yet, Jean Mc- it was." said Jean, who had entered the contest Cutchan's contagious cheerfulness, glow- At that time Jean began experimental because she wanted to encourage other ing face and warm personality are not treatments with hyperbaric oxygen mothers who daily live with disabilities. confined or restricted by her wheelchair. (HBO). HBO was developed during Jean continues to pursue her doctoral When she was 18 years old Jean World War II as a treatment for scuba degree at Andrews with the help of many learned she had diabetes, at 21 arthritis, divers with the bends. Treatments con- friends such as Wilfred Futcher, a close and on her 30th birthday she was diag- sist of being isolated in a glass chamber friend and mentor, who assists her with nosed as having multiple sclerosis (MS), with the atmospheric pressure increased, transportation to and from the university. a chronic and potentially debilitating receiving pure oxygen for an hour to an "While weak physically Jean is so strong disease of the central nervous system. hour and one-half. spiritually and psychologically," Wilfred Jean suffered normal grief patterns For the initial three years after being revealed. after receiving the diagnosis. "I felt it diagnosed with MS, Jean felt that she Jean's dissertation will be based on was unfair, I was angry and frustrated," could handle it alone. Yet, it was during how children are emotionally and so- she said. "But I was determined to con- one of the HBO treatments that Jean cially affected when one or both parents tinue a normal life. I picked myself up realized she needed help and strength suffer from MS. She anticipates a 1993 and said: 'I am going to prove to every- outside of herself; and she prayed, "Lord, graduation from Andrews. body I can do this by myself. I am not I need help." "You need a daily baptism of the love going to change.' " "At that moment I felt a warmth; I felt that in the days of the apostles made them Jean's enthusiasm and a desire to do the pain, the emotional pain, the physical all of one accord. This love will bring her best motivated her to continue a pain, my anguish, my frustration, my health to body, mind, and soul. Surround normal life. Her "normal life" consisted anger, my fear, being washed out of me your soul with an atmosphere that will of being a wife and mother, director of until everything that I was experiencing strengthen spiritual life. Cultivate faith, special education for Elkhart County, negatively was gone. hope, courage, and love. Let the peace of Indiana (working year-round, 50-hour "I was reintroduced to God. I knew God rule in your heart. Then you will be weeks), and pursuing a doctoral degree that I was going to live a much better life, enabled to discharge your responsibilites. at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, and I fell asleep," she said. The Holy Spirit will impart a divine Michigan. Since that day Jean has not had any efficiency, a calm, subdued dignity, to all Jean's dedication earned her the tro- miraculous changes in her life; she still your efforts to relieve suffering. You will phy for outstanding school administrator has MS and it is still in a deteriorating testify that you have been with Jesus" of Elkhart County in the fall of 1985. state. But Jean is emotionally able to deal ('estimonies, Vol. 8, Page 191). Despite all of Jean's dedication and with what comes her way. hard work, she received bad news in Jean's prayer each morning is, "Dear March of that year. Jean's doctor told her Lord, help me to remember that nothing Evelyn Hainey is a writer for the public that she could be bedridden in one year is going to happen today that you and I relations office of Andrews University in because she was deteriorating so rapidly.
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