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Evangelical Friend, February 1973 (Vol. 6, No. 6)

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2 Evangelical Friend Evangelical Friend Contents Editor-in-Chief: Jack L. Willcuts Managing Editor: Harlow Ankeny Editorial Assistants: Earl P. Barker, Kelsey E and Rachel Hinshaw Art Director: Stan Putman. Department Editors: Esther Hess, Mission­ ary Voice; Betty Hockett, Children's Page; Walter P. and Carol Lee, Book Review. Regional Editors: Verlin Hinshaw, Kansas; In this issue: Eugene Collins, Eastern; Lon Fendall, North­ west; Lloyd Hinshaw, Rocky Mountain. Contributing Editors: Charles S. Ball, Leon­ ard Borton, Everett L. Cattell, Gerald W. Dillon, Myron Goldsmith, Robert Hess, Veri in 0. Hinshaw, Lauren A. King, Harold B. Kuhn, Paul Langdon, Walter P. Lee, David Le Shana, Fred Littlefield, Russell Myers, Arthur 0. Roberts, Lowell E. Roberts, Merle Roe, Milo C. Ross, John Robinson, Chester G. Stanley, Harold B. Winn. Editorials Advertising Manager: Lloyde D. Johnson Quaker nouns and adjectivesI On eating in the right places MEMBER~ EVANGELICAL PRESS ASSOCIATION Page 5

The EVANGELICAL FRIEND is the official publication of the Evangelical Friends Alliance and is published monthly (except August) at 600 East Third Street, Quaker growth Newberg, Oregon 97132. Second class postage paid at Newberg, Oregon. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $3.50 "Statistics indicate we are not growing. It would be more accurate per year. CHANGES OF ADDRESS: Send all changes of address and subscriptions to EVANGELICAL to say we are both growing and dying." Page 6 FRIEND, P. 0. Box 232, Newberg, Oregon. Please allow lour weeks lor changes to be made. EDITORIAL: Articles and photographs are welcome, but we assume no responsibility for damage or loss of manuscripts, art or photographs. Opinions expressed by writers are If we don't win, it's a shame not necessarily those of the editors or of the Evangel­ ical Friends Alliance. Address all manuscripts, letters to the editor, and other editorial content to Editorial "Christian racism is ... an outright assault, in the name of Christian Offices, P. 0. Box 232, Newberg, Oregon 97132. AD­ VERTISING: Rates are available on request. Address orthodoxy, on the doctrine of God's universal love." Page 8 all correspondence regarding advertising sales to Lloyde D. Johnson, Advertising Manager, P. 0. Box 882, Wichita, Kansas 67201. Production and offset lithography at The Barclay Press, Newberg, Oregon. Vacation Bible School 'a la mode' Cover It's time to plan Vacation Bible School, so EFA's Christian Although it's confusing as to which day we education consultant urges creative planning. Page 11 honor whom, February is the birth month of two great Presidents, Washington and Lincoln. Our art directors took up this theme, creating a montage of familiar American symbols. An Twentieth century genesis article on page 8 adds to the theme by dealing with a contemporary American problem. (Art by "Having made all things for his comfort and enjoyment, man found Stan and Shirley Putman.) himself still in trouble." Page 12 Antecedents It has been a joy to receive a number of letters responding to "Concerns with Many Sides" that Missionary Voice first appeared in 1anuary. The tone of each letter reveals a high level of Christian love. A barrel stove talks 141 Francisco Mamani-an autobiography 141 While all of us may not agree, the Holy Spirit binds us together in Christian understanding. Mexican praise and prayer notes 151 The purpose of a book To be published in the March EVANGELICAL FRIEND will be excerpts from some of these left behind 16 letters under our regular "Friends Write" column. In the same issue will be the second in our "Concerns with Many Sides" series. It will Jesus and the ghetto pertain to payment of taxes for military budgets. Also coming in March will be a most interest­ Through a simple encounter at the well, Jesus broke the racial ing article/ interview entitled, "Let Russian Christians Speak," written by Roger Wood of barrier-interacting with a person as a person I Page 17 Canton, Ohio, who visited Leningrad and Mos­ cow last December 22-29. Thanks to you who wrote giving the date you received the January magazine. I'd appreciate Regular Features more such information. In the meantime, we as editors are doing our utmost to get the magazine The Face of the World 41 Books 131 The Children's Page 181 on a better schedule so you will receive it earlier in the month. Since there is no one serving full Friends Concerns 20 I Friends Gather 23 I Over the Teacup 27 time in any capacity on the magazine staff, it is often difficult to sandwich its time requirements into already busy schedules. We appreciate your patience. -H.T.A.

February, 1973 3 The Face of the World were destroyed; buildings of the Baptist and Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaurs. The Seminary were seriously damaged. association anticipates a demand for this World Relief Commission of the Na­ film, which demonstrates conclusively that tional Association of Evangelicals sent dinosaurs and humans lived on earth con­ $7,000 and set a goal to raise $50,000 for temporaneously at a recent date, approxi­ earthquake victims. mately 4,000 years ago. -E.P. American Baptists, with a long history of missions there, supplied $5,000 in PASTOR BACKED IN STAND reserve funds. Their representative, Dr. AGAINST PAYING TAX FOR WAR Gustavo Parajon, said 80 percent of the WILMINGTON, DELAWARE-The superin­ Baptist hospital was destroyed by the tendent of the Wilmington District of the quake. United Methodist Church has pledged his Catholic Relief Services had stockpiled support to a minister who is refusing to 518,000 pounds of food earmarked for pay 60 percent of his 1972 federal in­ Guatemala, then diverted it to Nicara­ come tax. guans. The Rev. Howell 0. Wilkins, superin­ Church World Service, arm of the tendent of the district, said he did not NCC, sent an initial shipment of supplies know what supporting the Rev. Ronald worth $500,000. Other private relief P. Arms would mean, "but I'll support Church agencies agencies were at work. -E.P. him." pool relief PRESIDENT ASKS FOR PRAYER Mr. Arms, associate pastor of the AT SECOND INAUGURAL 3,100-member Aldersgate church in sub­ urban Fairfax, has said he will not pay WASHINGTON, D.C.-With his hand on for Nicaragua that part of his income tax that he two family Bibles opened to his favorite figures goes to "buy bombs and other LA CANADA, CALIFORNIA-The Evangeli­ text-Isaiah 2:4-President Richard M. cal Press News Service has compiled the Nixon took the oath of office January weapons of destruction." following summary of church-related re­ 20 at his second inauguration, mention­ The clergyman, the son of mission­ aries to Chile, has the "respect" of his lief aid to earthquake-stricken Managua, ing "peace" 16 times in 16 minutes and bishop in his action. Bishop James K. Nicaragua: asking his fellow Americans for prayer, Mathews of Washington, whose area in­ Food for the Hungry provided 70 tons "so that in the years ahead I may have cludes Wilmington, told a reporter he of canned goods valued at $200,000, God's help in making the decisions that had considered the same form of war which was on its way by January 2. are right for America." [One family Bible protest. -E.P. Larry Ward, director of Food for the included in it the name of Mrs. Ethol Hungry, warned that people unfamiliar George whose picture was recently fea­ 'RENEWED COMMUNITY' IS with relief logistics often fail to appraise tured on the cover of the EvANGELICAL THE THEME OF NNEA MEET the long-range need for disaster assis­ FRIEND. Mrs. George is a cousin of the PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA- Christian tance. "They see stacks of relief goods President.] and fail to appreciate what is involved in leaders from all parts of the nation are "We shall answer to God, to history, expected at the I Oth annual convention moving these," Ward stated, "or just the and to our conscience for the way in gargantuan nature of the task of feeding of the National Negro Evangelical Asso­ which we use these [coming] years," the ciation here, April 11-15. a half million people as in Nicaragua." President said in his prepared speech. He In the usual pattern, according to Ward, Gathering around the theme, "The Re­ added extemporaneously that he, like all newed Community in Action," NNEA a crisis period comes a month or so after Presidents, has felt the need for help far the first emotional response is over and will sponsor such workshops as "Chris­ beyond himself to make his dreams of tians and Ethnic Cultural Differences," the food supply from the rest of the America come true. -E.P. world begins to dwindle. "Christians and the Sexual Revolution The Salvation Army dispatched 100 NEW CHA EXECUTIVE and Drugs," "Education and Politics," cartons of shoes, clothing, and other DIRECTOR DESIGNATED and "The Christian's Role in Psychology and Social Work." relief supplies from Panama and collect­ INDIANAPOLIS-The Reverend Mr. Thom­ Bishop Roy Nichols, spiritual and ad­ ed funds for later use. as H. Hermiz, of Columbus, Ohio, has President W. Stanley Mooneyham of been designated as the executive director ministrative leader of more than 1,000 World Vision International personally of the Christian Holiness Association. churches of the United Methodist took a check for $25,000 to Managua on Mr. Hermiz will serve part time as Church, will be a featured speaker. Speaking also will be the Rev. Benny an inspection trip. "administrative assistant" to the present Goodwin, admissions counselor at the The Medical Assistance Programs CHA executive director, Dr. 0. Dale Pittsburgh Theological Seminary; Evan­ rushed $400,000 worth of vaccines-flu, Emery, until April 30, 1973, and will as­ gelist Tom Skinner; John Perkins of polio, diphtheria, tetanus toxoid, and sume his full responsibilities on May 1, Mendenhall, Mississippi; Mrs. Willa Mae smallpox-and established the Disaster 1973, at the Central Office of CHA, Rice of the Pittsburgh Courier; and the Relief Fund. located in Indianapolis. Roy McKeown of World Opportunities Rev. Ed Riddick of Operation RUSH. flew to Managua and contributed $1,000 FILM SAID PROVING RECENT -E.P. in a pooling of emergency funds for the DATE FOR DINOSAURS BILLS INVOLVE CAPITAL Evangelical Committee for Earthquake CALDWELL, IDAHo--A new motion pic­ PUNISHMENT, TAX-EXEMPT Victims, then helped arrange further ture film titled Footprints in Stone has AGENCIES, RESTITUTION shipments from Los Angeles. been produced by Films for Christ for WASHINGTON, D.C.-A series of Con­ The Southern Baptist Foreign Mission the Bible Science Association. gressional bills call for a return to capital Board made available an initial $5,000 The film is a 45-minute documentary punishment and an amendment to the for relief efforts among Nicaraguan Bap­ on the discovery of large human foot­ internal Revenue Code involving tax- tists. All six Baptist churches in Managua prints alongside tracks of Brontosaurus (Continued on page JO)

4 Evangelical Friend Editorials then additional adjectives are hardly needed unless it would be to distinguish us from, say, a Methodist Christian, a Baptist, or a Nazarene Christian. But if used to distinguish our position from someone who has denied or abandoned a faith in Christ, who might therefore even describe himself as a Moslem Quak­ er, a Hindu Quaker, or a Jewish (non­ Christian) Quaker, then adjectives are Quaker nouns and adjectives essential. Factually stated, according to our in­ terpretation of terms and history, for a Quaker to be anything but Christian is a contradiction of terms. Any differences in practice-including the pastoral or un­ programed meeting, mission, or service emphases, plain, quiet, east or west-may When does a noun need an adjective? name. Some are distressed about this, be resolved with adjectives under the More to the point, when does a religious insisting the evangelical should be used as canopy of the Quaker noun. But if noun need one? The name Quaker is an adjective to identify our kind of Quaker and Christian are ever separated such a noun. Of course, the word Quaker Quakerism rather than in a separate title; in concept or practice, an impossible is an adjective too when the cereal com­ the rationale of this position is that a contradiction in terms exists. panies use it. Surely no one out there in Quaker, to be a Quaker at all, is evan­ To identify as an evangelical Friend is the breakfast world believes Quaker Oats gelical historically, scripturally, philo­ not, then, a matter of pride but of humil­ is a moneymaking project for the Society sophically, and theologically. Then, too, ity, an acknowledgment of the lordship of Friends. If they notice at all, they adjectives or even nouns used attributive­ of Christ. This does not destroy our in­ must assume some good qualities exist in ly tend to lose their descriptive quality dividuality; it releases. It is not a burden, the noun Quaker that are somehow and significance when they become part but a freedom. As Jesus said, of Himself, also found in the good qualities of oat­ of a name. To add the adjective or "The truth shall make you free." meal and indicated by the adjective assume the title is often misunderstood Perhaps only two designations are Quaker used in the name. Do you sup­ by the non-Quaker and an affront to needed to identify the differences: Chris­ pose that if we don't measure up to these other Quakers who either have never tian Quakers or non-Christian Quakers. expectations we might someday be sued considered the term evangelical or have Since there is no way to require non­ for tinkering with registered trademarks? misunderstood it. Christian Quakers to cease and desist As one devout Friend remarked, from using the title for any number of That is one problem. There are others. service or action programs, then we have Few religious names have been used for "When you say you are an evangelical Friend, I get the feeling you are bragging no alternative but to identify ourselves so many unrelated purposes. It becomes with an adjective. But how fine it would necessary now and then to provide some to me personally that you are a little taller, a little more sophisticated, a little be if the name Quaker could remain an descriptive definitions to the word Quaker understandable noun! -J.L.W. for identification. For instance: Quiet wiser, a little more righteous than the rest Quakers (a character designation); Plain of us." To this good Friend, it meant Quakers (denoting a type of dress, smugness, pride, and holier-than-thouism. speech, and simplicity of life style); Un­ If it ever means that, the adjective On eating in the programed Quakers (a form-of-wor­ should be stricken from our vocabulary ship description with theological over­ and the particular Quaker involved right places tones in the minds of some) ; Eastern, should be waited on for preening himself Western, African, or Taiwanese Quakers, in such unbecoming language. If this is Restaurants were segregated in Jesus' (geographical identification); General how our "evangelicalism" comes across, time. So, when he sat down to eat with Conference, Friends United Meeting, then we are as religiously ridiculous as the likes of Zacchaeus and others not of Evangelical Friends Alliance, Indepen­ the foolish Emperor of Aesops fable who the right race, color, religious or social dent Quakers (organizational descrip­ unwore his invisible clothes. status, demonstrations began. That there tion); North Carolina, Kansas, etc. Most evangelical Friends, of course, was no good reason for this segregation (probably a Yearly Meeting designation). desire the name as a designation of a was overlooked by the Pharisees and There are many similar kinds of defini­ Christian witness to our faith in Christ other prominent religious leaders-it just tions needed to sort out the meaning of and a wish to identify with others of "like wasn't done. Good people were not to the Quaker noun such as athletic teams of precious faith." The issue rests, then, associate with bad, especially very bad various schools have used. There are also neither on the adjective evangelical, nor people. the "Singing Quakers" of Friends Univer­ even the noun Quaker, but upon the One Friends pastor often deliberately sity fame, a group that sang at the White name Christian. If it can ever be con­ goes to the cocktail lounge to order his House Christmas service. strued by anyone that a person may be meals in the better restaurants ("They Yet another aspect of the noun-adjec­ a Quaker without being a Christian, usually do serve meals there," he explain­ tive discussion rests squarely on theolog­ then something must be done to make ed to me as I reluctantly followed him ical connotations. Take our own usage our continuing loyalty to Christ clear. into the darker room. "It is an excellent - evangelical Quaker or evangelical If to be a Quaker is merely a humble place to find those who are in spiritual Friend. When the word evangelical ap­ but determined insistence, a thought­ need and want to talk about it.") pears on the masthead of a magazine or ful and consistent attempt to follow Know what my first reflex reaction in capital letters on a sign in front of a the teachings of Jesus as our Redeem­ was? Suppose someone saw us go in! Friends church, the words form a title or er and Lord as we understand them, How pharisaical can we get? -J.L.W.

February, 1973 5 Arthur 0. Roberts

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Although statistics do not tell us every­ sored a conference in London on mission Approximately 70,000 persons were iden­ thing, they do tell us something. The and service. This conference resulted tified as Quakers in 1660. Migration to Quaker movement is not growing. In from a concern for a more consistent wit­ America caused a leveling off of the num­ fact, relative to population growth, we ness than presently obtains. Inconsistency ber of European Friends. By 1700 the are declining. Far from trying to dis­ has not been conducive to church growth. figure stood closer to 50,000; by 1800 courage, I say these things to encourage Accompanying statistical observations about 32,000. I estimate there were only us to find activities of renewal based 18,000 Quakers in Europe in 1865-its are based upon FWCC Handbooks (1935, upon such realism. However much we 1952, 1962, 1972); various yearly meet­ lowest point. Sixteen thousand of these may stress the quality of our spiritual were in London Yearly Meeting, with ing minutes; Hodgkin's Friends Beyond witness or talk about the leavening in­ most of the remainder in Dublin Y.M. the Seas (London, 1916); the standard fluence we exert, it remains true, none­ histories; and various mission reports. Despite stepped-up itinerant ministry theless, that absolute and relative mem­ Helpful also were the excellent studies of outside Anglo-Saxon culture (Russia, bership losses indicate a diminished or Friends growth in Bolivia and Peru by Norway, Africa, Australasia), some mis­ radically redirected vitality. Quentin Nordyke, Animistic Aymaras sionary support and visits, and certain Across North America many monthly and Church Growth (Barclay Press, evangelical ferment, London Yearly meetings are participating in Key 73. 1972); and Friends in Central America Meeting in 1835 rejected a proposal to This can be a means for the Holy Spirit by Paul Enyert (South Pasadena, William set up a missions board. With declining to renew the church. Yearly meeting Carey Library, 1970). Kansas Yearly membership, however, after 1858, prod­ superintendents bear the concern for Meeting has begun an in-depth analysis. ded by the vision of George Richardson, church growth. Leaders of the Friends the Yearly Meeting took steps to increase United Meeting and the Evangelical GROWTH PATTERNS IN EuROPE Christian evangelism both by supporting Friends Alliance with whom I have talk­ In Europe, primarily in the British missionary activity to the Near East, ed are planning conferences or other Isles, the Quaker movement reached its India, Pemba, and Madagascar, and by programs that bear directly upon this greatest numerical impact within a dec­ establishing evangelistic activities in Eng­ issue. In January of 1973 the Friends ade after George Fox's Pendle Hill vision land through the Home Missions Council. World Committee for Consultation spon- of a people to be gathered to the Lord. An attendance count at worship in 1904

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indicated 34,500 as compared with Orthodox groups, reflecting the adapta­ Eastern Region (EFA) 35% 20,800 in 1851. London Yearly Meeting tion of Friends to revival methods of North Carolina (FUM) 35% membership has been plateaued at 20,000 evangelism. During the present century New York (FUM, FGC) 20% to 21,000 for the past 70 years. Small North America has been in a steady state Growth is also evidenced in the forma­ groups of Friends have been established condition with losses and gains locally tion of new Friends organizations. Lake in European countries during the 20th reflecting transfer in and out. There have Erie, South Central, Southeastern, South­ century. Although the aggregate is small been some significant gains by convince­ ern Appalachia, and Missouri Valley total (1 ,300 in 1972), growth rate has been ap­ ment both among nonpastoral and pas­ some 4,000 members. This reflects both proximately 300 percent since 1935. toral Friends within the past 30 years. increased mobility among nonpastoral As compared to biological or transfer More research is needed to determine the Friends and growth by convincement. growth, using McGavran's formula, the nature of this growth statistically. Non­ See graph above showing Quaker growth greatest conversion growth occurred from convincement about equals convincement. in North America. 1650 to 1660 in the British Isles, from Generally speaking western yearly 1860 to 1890 in England and Ireland, meetings have gained the transfer losses GROWTH BEYOND EUROPE and from World War II to the present in of midwestern yearly meetings. On the AND NORTH AMERICA Europe. See graph below. basis of normal biological growth alone In 1972 approximately one-fourth of (without any converts) during the past all Friends were non-European. These GROWTH PATTERNS IN NORTH AMERICA 70 years, North American Quakers numbers reflect both conversion and In North America initial patterns re­ should number 200,000 rather than biological growth but little transfer flect migratory transfer growth and bio­ 120,000. Statistically speaking, signifi­ growth (except for Australasia and South logical growth from 1700 to 1820, from cant growth in North America since Africa). These Friends are within newer approximately 40,000 to 100,000. From 1935 has occurred as follows: groups, generally reflecting evangelistic 1850 to 19 50 "Hicksite" losses about Illinois (FGC) 300% concern that arose at the turn of the cen­ matched "Orthodox" gains. The period Northwest (EFA) 100% tury and awakened missionary zeal of greatest conversion growth seems to Alaska 90% among American youth. have been between 1870 and 1900 among California (FUM) 70% Taiwan's gains offset apparent losses 80 70 QUAKER 60 GROWTH: OUTSIDE 50------40 EUROPE AND iB 30 z NORTH ~20 ------0 AMERICA ~10 ------

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February, 1973 7 in mainland China. Japanese Quakers QUAKER GROWTH: OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA were depleted during the troubled 1940s. Malagasy Friends (7,575) in 1968 merg­ 1902 1935 1952 1962 1972 ed with other Christian bodies. Africa's Africa 36,000 Friends are predominantly from Burundi 1,300* 1,000* 1,794 Kenya and Burundi. Growth has slowed Kenya 7,084 17,800 30,397 33,860 to 10 percent in Kenya during the past Madagasakari 2,400 4,000* 6,003 7,575 decade. Martyrdom in Burundi during Pemba & Zanzibar ? 100 80 46 130 the past several months may lead to ac­ South Afr~ca & Rhodesia 116 200 214 175 celerated growth. In Latin America the greatest growth is Asia occurring presently among the Aymara in China 100* 1,350 ? ? ? Bolivia and Peru. They numbered around India (Bundelkhand) ? ? ? 240 264 8,000 in 1972. The growth is mostly con­ India (Mid-India) 398 170 199 249 323 versibn. The homogeneity of the people Japan ? 750 123 201 276 and indigenous leadership augur well for Taiwan 391 1,500 continued rapid growth. On the basis of Australasia a doubling every 4.1 years in Peru and Australia 400* 642 734 852 992 every 5.4 years in Bolivia, Nordyke New Zealand 100* 282 413 579 698 estimates 122,000 ( 1/10 to 1/20 of the Aymara population) by the 1990s! We Europe could use a little more such startling Denmark 35 42 60 54 optimism! Experiences of Friends under France 100 80 127 143 checkered political and religious condi­ Germany W, E, & Austria 212 475 534 586 tions m Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, and Great Britain 18,500 20,383 20,900 21,745 20,807 Central America, however, suggest watch­ Ireland (N & S) 2,000 2,108 1,960 1,933 1,756 fulness and prayer rather than presump­ The Netherlands 19 81 92 129 tion. See graph on page 7 for growth Norway 70 63 85 119 beyond Europe and North America. Sweden & Finland 96 118 156 I said earlier that the statistics indicate Switzerland 106 120 we are not growing. It would be more Jordan & Lebanon 130 150 100 120 accurate to say we are both growing and South & Central America dying. We need openly to ask where, and Bolivia 600 3,000 7,000 why? These statistics lead me to the fol­ Costa Rica 76 71 lowing reflections: Cuba 1,967 409 375 250 1. Many small acts of faith can open Central America 4,083 5,197 9,593 2,305 the way for growth. Such as: Jamaica 750* 1,136 982 865 730 -membership classes Mexico 800* 56 50 197 197 -new times, places, or ways for worship Peru 700 and education -purchase, distribution, and use of 25,448 44,793 57,937 80,750 75,255 Quaker literature *estimated

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BY BRUCE LOCKERBIE Dr. D. Bruce Lockerbie is chairman of the English My wife and I were returning home from Department, The Stony Washington, D.C. As our taxi sped Brook School, Stony Brook, toward the Arlington Bridge and Nation­ New York. He is the author al Airport, the glow of spotlights suffus­ of a dozen books, including ing the Lincoln Memorial suddenly at­ The Way They Should Go tracted me. I asked our driver, a Black (Oxford University Press, man, to take us once around the circle to 1972 ). This article is from the front of the Memorial. the Evangelical Press As we sat looking up at the wonder of Association syndicated living stone, I mumbled something about service. the sanctity of the shrine. Our driver

8 Evangelical Friend QUAKER GROWTH: NORTH AMERICAN -local statistical analysis -intervisitation within and among yearly YEARLY MEETINGS meetings. 2. Several larger acts can increase Yearly Meetings 1902 1935 1952 1962 1972 capacity for growth. Such as the yearly Alaska 140 1,317 1,727 1,500 2,467 meetings: Baltimore (FUM, FGC) 4,725* 3,464 3,299 3,278 3,346 -resolving conflicting views about out­ California (FUM) 1,710 4,484 6,149 7,886 7,459 reach Canadian (all) 1,600 1,273 882 623 943 -deciding what inter-Quaker structures Central 500 576 506 466 best conserve and increase growth Illinois (FGC) 1,000 285 552 943 1,120 -determining how a vision of the Quak­ Indiana (FUM) 19,878 15,944 13,886 13,847 11,513 er movement worldwide can be shared Indiana ( FGC) 1,400 680 556 650 793 effectively in local churches. Iowa (C) 1,600 950 853 724 763 Iowa (FUM) 11,280 7,477 7,052 6,146 5,242 3. We are called to be the Church and Kansas (EFA) 11,214 9,098 8,103 8,568 7,746 not an order in it. Every group of Chris­ Lake Erie 820 tians interpenetrates in the larger Church (Missouri Valley) 200 to some extent, leavening or being leaven­ Nebraska (FUM) 2,390 1,775 437 1,314** ed. To be the Church requires faithful­ New England (all) 4,800 3,900 3,303 3,222 3,543 ness to all spiritual gifts whereby Christ New York (FUM, FGC) 7,145* 5,600 7,381 6,743 6,774 is exalted as prophet, priest, and king. North Carolina (C) 500 500 250 311 For us Quakers today it means we are North Carolina (FUM) 5,194 10,826 13,415 14,543 14,886 as responsible as other Christians to Northwest (EFA) 1,607 3,135 4,582 5,537 6,972*** evangelize or to disciple the peoples of Ohio (C) 1,800 1,260 990 860 796 the world. For Friends to become an Ohio (EFA) 5,809 5,607 6,161 7,207 7,874 order (finishing school for those whom Pacific 756 2,309 2,023 others have evangelized) would be a Philadelphia (FGC) 15,400* 15,237 16,853 17,657 15,817 denial of our heritage. It could mark an Rocky Mountain (EFA) 1,437 1,557 elitist refusal to accommodate to new South Central 316 approaches and to adjust priorities in the Southeastern 432 use of energy (including money). Southern Appalachia 200 One reason people responded so readi­ Western (C) 300 200 50 50 ly to Jesus' call was that He saw potential Western (FUM) 15,196 13,069 12,549 12,528 11,140 in each of them. Poor as we are, Quakers Wilmington (FUM) 6,273 5,296 5,025 4,492 3,556 have potential. We are promised that God will not despise a broken and a con­ 117,971 112,492 116,975 121,943 119,489 trite heart. Let us welcome the renewal by the Holy Spirit in our times and pre­ *Includes both Orthodox and Hicksite pare the way for the gathering in of * * Reflects dual membership of approximately 900, Kansas Yearly Meeting those who hunger and thirst after righ­ * * * Erroneously reported as 5,972 in FWCC Handbook 1972 teousness. D

nodded, then turning to face us he said, America in which I've chosen to live and but that's no description, only a cliche. "I don't know if you feel like me, but raise my family. My background, more accurately, is there's times when I just look at him But why should the single remark of a lower-middle class and middle-American; and the tears come. We understand what Black stranger prod me so? On the plane Canadian by birth, I'm now a naturalized he meant, but most white people who coming home and since, I've wrestled American citizen. My Canadian relatives would help us are being scared off by with my conscience over my pretended still live in the Stephen Foster era: they Black militants. Bigots seem to be gain­ tolerance and tacit racism. call Blacks "darkies." ing, and it don't look good for the home My Christian upbringing was funda­ team." Oh, I'd never been a conscious bigot. mentalist. I've heard the teaching that In college and after, I competed in track We drove on; the flame on the hillside uses Scripture to condemn black men with Blacks, some of whom-pardon the in the darkness ahead reminded us of as descendants of Ham, Noah's prurient expression!-were among my best another President cut down by hatred. son. I know the concern to evangelize friends. I've been teaching for 16 years The metaphor of the cab driver seared Africa, "the Dark Continent," that all my mind-"the home team," a phrase in a Christian school and always felt that but obliterates any social concern at I understood the two-dozen-or-so Black from the baseball song, home. I remember racist jokes I heard students and their needs. told from pulpits to white-on-white con­ Let me root, root, root for the home For a long time-I've now come to gregations. I recall listening to the team, realize-! wasn't with the home team be­ Eureka Jubilee Singers and wondering If they don't win, it's a shame. cause I hadn't made up my mind which why they didn't sing the hymns as writ­ side was which. My background had a ten-I'd never heard of "soul." The home team, I thought, is the team lot to do with my indecisiveness. I'm To someone with this background, the that represents me, my homeland, the what careless journalists label as WASP, drama of the civil rights struggle, the

February, 1973 9 Black Revolution, had its ironic counter­ only to Christ but also to Western cul­ balances. Yes, there was the governor in ture. Face of the World the school doorway, but there was also I attend a suburban church in an old Continued the senseless self-slaughter of guerrilla Long Island town, a university center. fighting in Watts, Hough, and Newark. Within a mile or so of our church is a exempt organizations. A Maryland bill There were both the restaurateur with his settlement of Blacks whose ancestors calls for restitution for children's mis­ ax handles and the terrifying hatred in date back to long before the Revolution­ deeds on the part of parents. Leroi Jones' plays. There was the dream ary War. A mile in the opposite direc­ Senator Paul J. Fannin (R.-Arizona) of Martin Luther King, Jr.; there was tion stands a migrant workers' dormitory. has introduced in the Senate a bill that also the screech of Rap Brown. Black men in our community have some would require mandatory imposition of the death penalty for individuals convict­ Rather than decide between these al­ difficulty getting a haircut in local barber ed of certain crimes. They would be: ternatives, I found it easier to dismiss shops. Our township has rejected an open­ ( 1) The assassination of a President, much of the movement as just one more housing covenant. But my church isn't vice-president, or state governor; murder instance of the white man's favorite cari­ officially aware of any of these develop­ of a judge, policeman, or fireman; mur­ cature of black dignity-the spats and ments. We have almost no dealings with der committed by a person already ser­ bowler hats of Amos 'n Andy and the our Black neighbors; we scarcely know ving a life imprisonment term; aircraft Kingfish on their way to the weekly meet­ they exist. piracy if loss of life occurs as a conse­ ing of the Mystic Knights of the Sea. When the subject is raised, one hears quence. -E.P. I grew cynical about power struggles pious evasions and rationalizations. "In and feuds that ruptured unity among Jesus' time, the Roman Empire had Black leaders and led eventually to the slavery far worse than anything we've SEVEN-TON TRUCK IS assassination of Malcolm X. I pondered ever had in America. Yet Jesus never BANGLADESH AMBULANCE rumors linking one Black man with the said a word about abolishing slavery for CHITTAGONG, BANGLADESH-A seven-ton Chinese Communists, another with the equal rights. Are you saying you're more truck served as an ambulance for an National Liberation Front. I listened concerned about someone's condition eight-year-old Bengali boy threatened while a Baptist pastor told his congrega­ than Jesus was?" Or this: "The only with the loss of his one good eye, accord­ tion that Dr. King masterminded a stolen thing the Negro needs is what every man ing to Fred Gregory, World Relief Com­ car ring in Atlanta. I could transfer some needs, whatever his color. They all need mission's director for Bangladesh. of my fears into outbursts of mixed rage Christ to save them from their sins. Then Jacob Bario, a Bengali, lost the sight and amusement at the attempts of James we can get on with talk about improving of one eye in complications following Forman to obtain reparations from life in the ghetto." severe smallpox. Mrs. Howard Hawkes, American churches. Over all these inci­ It's this digging in the heels that the Assemblies of God missionary and repre­ dents lurked the shadowy possibility of a press characterizes as "a white backlash sentative of WRC, visited his home every race war, led perhaps by Eldridge Cleav­ in the Bible Belt." But Christian racism day. When the good eye was threatened er, that would blow us all into eternity. is far more serious than that. It's an out­ with infection she knew the boy had to Still, my conscience was troubled by right assault, in the name of Christian have professional help. those acts of white insanity that kept the orthodoxy, on the doctrine of God's uni­ Since 85 percent of the transportation bomb fused-the murders of Medgar versal love. has been destroyed in Bangladesh, the Evers, Dr. King, and others; the sense­ The central teaching of Jesus is "good WRC truck provided the solution. It was less, obvious injustice that stripped Mu­ news"-the Gospel that sets men free­ on a regularly scheduled relief run to hammad Ali of his boxing championship free from an enshackling intolerance Dacca when it gave the patient and his title; the curious singling out for rebuke toward some, free from a feeble tolerance mother a ride. -E.P. of Adam Clayton Powell by his congres­ of others. The Christian Gospel should sional colleagues; the unwarranted har­ liberate from the narrowness of sectarian­ CHRISTIAN TEACHERS SET assment of Black political organizations ism; it should turn loose a man's spirit to TO MEET IN SANTA BARBARA find its loftiest opportunities in service by Federal or municipal authorities. For PASADENA-Christian teachers in Ameri­ for others, regardless of race, because me the most obscene gesture of white re­ ca's public schools will convene in Santa pression had been the gagging of a mana­ God is no respecter of persons. Barbara, California, August 13-17, for cled Bobby Seale in an American court­ My racial attitudes resulted from a re­ the fourth big National Convention spon­ room. Yet I did nothing. fusal to involve myself personally in the sored by National Educators Fellowship, I can't blame my inaction on my Chris­ legitimate grievances of Black people be­ the only national professional organiza­ tian faith, even though much of evan­ cause of my scruples over certain extrem­ tion for Christians in public education. gelical Christianity in America maintains ist methods. Seeing offense on both sides, Ralph Carmichael, a great name in a retrenched social position. It's trite to I tried to retreat to a supposed neutrality, modern Christian music, will demon­ say that the most segregated time and a benign tolerance. I wouldn't offer my strate, explain, and illustrate the new place in American life is 11 o'clock Sun­ hand to help those who, because they are sounds of today's sacred music. day mornings in church. The typical Black and for no other reason, feel op­ Norman Rohrer, director of Christian Protestant church goes through its acts pression as I do not. By being neutral, Writers Guild, will lead discussions and of worship in 1972 as though it were I've been giving support to the wrong workshops on the urgent need for Chris­ 1932. Choirs still sing "Negro spirituals" team. tian writers, the techniques and skills of with no apparent sense of irony in the But now it's time to change, and writing, and a survey of current Christian metaphors of deliverance in "Swing Low, though it's late to begin I must declare markets. Other workshops will explore Sweet Chariot" or "Go Down, Moses." my love and support for the home team Christian aspects of reading, math, coun­ Sin is conventionally described in degrees --for persons of any race, just as the old seling, etc. of blackness; righteousness is white and Sunday school song says, Complete program details and other pure. Missionary endeavor is still report­ Red and yellow, black and white, related information may be obtained ed, as in my childhood, in the rhetoric of They are precious in His sight. from E. A. Patchen, Executive Secretary, colonialism. "The white man's burden" is This is the home team, but if we don't NEF, 1410 W. Colorado, Pasadena, CA the obligation to convert the heathen, not win, it will be the shame of us all. D 91105.

10 Evangelical Friend What's New! printed on brightly colored sea animals. the primary and junior age children to a Shells were given as awards for memori­ city park or campsite. A basic VBS cur­ zation. riculum can be used plus many outdoor The crafts were creative, using many of activities. Children can bring lunches for the natural materials available. Rocks most of the days and you might want to were glued together and painted like plan a special picnic for the last day. animals. Sand candles were made on the 3. Country Vacation Bible School­ Locate a large barn in which to have beach and everyone participated in a classes and some activities. Children can sand-sculpturing contest on the last day sit on the floor or on bales of hay and of Bible school. use boards to write on. Build the theme The highlight of each day was the around the farm, the animals, etc. search for buried treasure on the beach. 4. Vacation Bible School Campouts­ Clues were given and the children scram­ Take your juniors or junior highers on a bled from place to place digging franti­ three-day (two-night) campout. A five­ cally to find the treasure, which included day VBS curriculum can be used plus such things as candy, balloons, sparklers, many unique features appropriate in a and play money. camp situation. One feature might be the

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Look ahead to your summer ministries! Think and plan creatively about the organization, time, and place for your Vacation Bible School this summer. Interest was high throughout the week morning private devotions that are en­ These are this month's suggestions and the Beach Bible School climaxed couraged by giving each junior an en­ from EFA's Christian education with a picnic on the beach. velope sealed with wax in which he finds consultant. Not every church has a lovely beach on his "Secret Orders." Each child locates a which to have a Vacation Bible School, favorite spot where he spends a few but there may be other possibilities just minutes alone each morning. as exciting. Look around and you may 5. Family Vacation Bible School-An discover some unique place, some more evening Bible school planned for the The "Beach Bible School" sponsored by effective program, or a better time for whole family. The program is usually your school this summer. planned for two hours. the Nehalem Bay Friends Church of 6. The traditional one- or two-week Wheeler, Oregon, was certainly Bible The need for this additional Bible Bible school-A few innovations can re­ school "a Ia mode." All of the ingredients teaching time is crucial. Pray and think vitalize the traditional Bible school. Use of a full-fledged Bible school plus the creatively to discover the best possible your imagination in decorating and build­ added flavor of the beach atmosphere program for your church's VBS this sum­ ing around the theme. Include special and creative crafts made this Bible school mer. features each day to build suspense and a special treat. VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL VARIETIES: anticipation. Some features might be a Taking advantage of their location the treasure chest, a time machine, or special 1. Backyard Bible School-Choose guest. Bible school was held at a retreat center homes and hostesses in various sections with many of the activities taking place of your community. Plan a two-hour-a­ Remember that VBS can be for three on the sandy beach. day program with songs, Bible story, days, one week, two weeks, once a week A nautical theme was _followed Scripture memorization and other activi­ for five or ten weeks, or whatever fits throughout. A devotional feature that ties. Advertise the times and places well your situation. It can be morning, after related to the sea and sea life was led by in advance and plan a thorough follow-up school, or evening. Consider all of the the pastor. The program also included a program. possibilities and choose the most appro­ Bible lesson and the memory verses were 2. Day Camp Bible School-Transport priate time for your VBS this summer. 0

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BY T. EuGENE CoFFIN After "The Beginning," man began. And man said, Let there be a wheel, and there was a wheel. And man saw that it was good and invented all sorts of vehicles, from wagons pulled by oxen to trains own kind. And man thought it was good. driven by the power of the piston; from And the evening and the morning were carts pulled by ponies to planes pushed the fourth era. by jet engines. And the evening and the And man said, Let the men of science morning were the first era. bring forth a craft that will break the And man said, Let the laboratories power of gravity and fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And bring forth the cleansers, the labor~saving devices, the maintenance-free equipment; our countryside and cities. Let this tele­ man created great space capsules, orbit­ let them multiply in infinite variety; and vision divide the night from the day for ing platforms, communications satellites, it was so. And man made self-cleaning its viewers so that the night people may flying spy machines in order to explore ovens, frost-free equipment of every rule. Let it be for a sign of the seasons the universe and to keep track of his conceivable type. And man saw that it and give information to all the earth. earth neighbors. Every invention brought And it was so. And man made great was good. And the evening and the morn­ forth abundantly after its kind and in­ ing were the second era. towers to send the vision on waves of spired new creations. And man saw that And man said, Let there be a new light and sound, and he made a lesser it was good and blessed it with huge dimension to our vision so that we can sound called radio to rule the day. And budgets, saying, Be fruitful and multiply see what takes place on the other side he set them in the pattern of life to divide in the earth. And the evening and the of the earth as well as in every corner of the day into segments, the years into morning were the fifth era. series, and the summers into reruns. And And man said, Let us make a machine man saw that it was good, and the eve­ in our image, after our likeness, and let T. Eugene Coffin is pastor of the East ning and the morning were the third era. it do all our calculating for us, keep ac­ Whittier Friends Church, Whittier, And man said, Let there be power curate record of our fiscal affairs, make California. He is on the executive committee of the General Board of from the building blocks of the universe. out the payroll, keep up to date the data Friends United Meeting and serves as And man made the power by dividing the on all scientific progress, store in memory chairman of the Board of Spiritual atom and called that power an atomic all the facts of all the earth and every Life of California Yearly Meeting of bomb. And man said, Let the power of moving thing in heaven and on earth. Friends Church. the atom be channeled into one purpose. So man created the computer in his And man called that one purpose the own image, computer and collator creat­ guarantee of peace upon the earth and ed he them. And man blessed them and the working together of all peoples for said, Do all the work required of man, the benefit of all. And man saw that it multiply formulas and equations to the was good. And man said, Let the power end of the universe, take charge of the bring forth new ways of manufacturing power of the atom, and compute the goods for all men, and the atom yielded path of the orbiting spacecraft. And man its power to produce submarines, aircraft saw everything that he had made, and carriers, missiles, each yielding after its behold, he thought it was very good.

12 Evangelical Friend And the evening and the morning were Books about a redheaded Quaker boy named the sixth era. Obadiah Starbuck of old Nantucket. The Thus was all the modern world com­ stories accurately preserve the quaint pleted with its host of ingenious devices colonial architecture and cobblestone created by man. In the seventh era man streets and were carefully researched to said, Now I will rest and enjoy the fruits portray the 18th century Friends in of all my labors. But the screaming jets custom and dress. These tales employ would not let him sleep; the gadgets and charm and humor to entertain in text and expanded vision gave him stomach ulcers; have skillfully composed interdependent his unlimited power kept him nervously illustrations that are both soft in tone suspicious of his neighbors; and the and more than adequately colorful. creation in his own image gave him All three books instill a warmth of answers to his questions he did not like. home and a sense of love, and are the Having made all things for his comfort realization of the author's goal: and enjoyment, man found himself still " ... no matter how successfully I may in trouble. Great and marvelous were his entertain, I am really up to something achievements, but they brought no peace else: subversion. My abilities are implac­ to him or to the world. For in the begin­ ably lined up against the hypocrisy, ning was God, who made man and made A. Dudley Dennison, M.D., Give It To materialism and brutality that so pervade our society. As my readers leave child­ his heart to be restless until it finds its Me Straight, Doctor, Zondervan Publish­ hood behind, I hope that they will carry rest, not in man's inventions but in the ing House, 1972, paperback, $1.95. Creator and Ruler who created peace and with them an appreciation for such alter­ This is a better book than the cover bestows it upon those who believe in the natives as integrity, mutual respect, kind­ would indicate. Actually this Christian ness, and reverence for life."* One He sent. D physician deals in a very practical way In Obadiah the Bold our mischievous with problems of mental health, sexual hero wants to be a feared and dreaded happiness, drugs, and attitudes toward pirate, a wish born of a spyglass that death. On the issue of abortion as on a once belonged to his grandfather, a form­ number of other issues he is much more er ship's captain. Now it is Obadiah's understanding of the complexities of the most prized possession. But Moses, his issue than most popular writers on the brother, teased, "Has thee ever heard of subject. This would make a good book a Quaker pirate?" After playing pirate for an adult elective class. The author with the other Starbuck children, who repeats himself occasionally. make him walk the plank, he considers The style is conversational. There are his father's admonition to be like his no footnotes, but each chapter has a use­ grandfather, more brave than any pirate. ful list of "referrals," which should en­ (Also available in paperback edition at Norman Rohrer, Director hance the book for pastors and coun­ $.75 and in color sound filmstrip at CHRISTIAN WRITERS GUILD I selors of troubled people. $9.50, both from Viking Press.) La Canada, California 91011 -Arthur 0. Roberts Thy Friend, Obadiah, a Caldecott Send me your FREE Starter Kit and show me I how to develop my writing talent. I understand I Robert P. Benedict, Journey Away from Honor Book, dramatizes the relationship I can start selling right from the start. I God, Fleming H. Revell Company, 189 of a sea gull that "favors" our little ------..M.,R.-.,MoRso.-uM,cos

February, 1973 13 Located in many of our camps are the round log houses called hooghans. * A cabin type home is appearing to replace many of the aforementioned ones. How­ ever, as the winter season approaches­ with anticipation of cold, wintry weather, our people often move back into these hooghans. They are easier to keep warm. On one occasion Helen Descheene and I stepped into one of these hooghans to have a service with two ladies in our area. We sat near a stove, which was only a barrel cut down to a smaller

*This is the Navajo spelling of the word. A barrels Missionary Voice

I was born in the community of San Martin of Calata in the region of Manco Kapac, the ninth of March, 1945. When I was five years old, my grandfather, Francisco Aj:olinario Chipana, took me to the first evangelical church at Amacari. Then my mother was converted, and then my father, Antonio Mamani, at Christmas time through the preaching of Cipriano Mamani Mamani in the Amacari church. Since Autobiography as told to J. David Thomas then, I grew up in a Christian home. I also was taught in an evangelical school at Copajira. Celso Caceres and Atanasio Mayta were my first teachers. They taught me to pray and sing choruses in the school. When I was nine years old my parents put me in a Nazarene school in Alto La Paz. I completed my grade school studies in the Friends school at Max Paredes. When I was barely sixteen years old my father wanted me to study in a Bible Institute of the Baptists in Huatajata. They refused to accept me, but my father pleaded with them and I was accepted. My economic resources were exhausted after six months and I had to leave my studies. From that time I have had a strong desire to study the Word of God. When I was seventeen I enlisted in the military to complete my required military service. The Lord accompanied me in Francisco Mamani is pastor of the Max Paredes Church all this, as well as when I worked in a (the First Friends Church) of La Paz, Bolivia, South America. tile factory. This is Francisco's own story as told to the late J. David In a meeting of the representatives of Thomas, long-time missionary to Bolivia under Northwest the Friends Church the Lord talked to Yearly Meeting of Friends, who died in a boating me through an uncle. He spoke of the accident in May 1972. lack of students in a Bible Institute. These words were a guiding light to me

14 Evangelical Friend height with a stove pipe protruding we must obtain daily spiritual blessings testimony loses its effect. It takes the through a hole in the roof-this being the and help through the "upper window" of nighttime to see the stars; it takes the only avenue for light. One might con­ devotions and communion with God to difficult places to see the light of God sider this a very crude type of stove, yet keep the fire burning upon the altars of shining from our lives. it makes a great amount of heat. our hearts. Furthermore, Christ states if we save As I sat meditating while Helen was Oftentimes Christians seem hemmed in our life we shall lose it. History has giving a lesson in her own language, the on all sides by temptations or hard places. often proven that Christians gain in stove seemed to portray a real truth of According to the inspired writings of strength and fortitude during days of the spiritual heart warmed by God's love James, this only gives reason for rejoic­ persecution, not during times in which within. It is needful that the stove remain ing on the part of God's children. If the no forces oppose them. within the confined walls of the hooghan stove could make a choice and prefer the This is our prayer for our Christians in order to give warmth to those around outdoor environment instead of the limits who face opposition from their people. it. Yet, it must obtain the air from the of a hooghan, its heat would have no A real miracle of grace is wrought in roof in order to keep burning. We as effect. For a similar comparison, if be­ those who remain steadfast in faith, al­ Christians must remain in this world with lievers choose the way of least resistance though others of their own household the limitations of our physical body, but with no temptation or hard place, their withstand them. D

Mary Gafford is a missionary/teacher on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona, working at the Rough Rock Friends Mission under Rocky ~ove talks Mountain Yearly Meeting of the Friends Church. By Mary Gafford

that led me to ask the pastors about this year, I was filled with the Spirit of God. have been answered (November, 1972). institute. Finally, our missionary, Ralph It was one night in the house of the He gave his heart to the Lord and has Chapman, gave me the necessary infor­ director that Mrs. Robbins prayed for a good testimony. mation and encouraged me to follow in me. It was the most outstanding hour of For an increased and steady atten­ the steps of my father. Finally, I quit my life. From that time I decided to dance in the Sunday evening services, work and made out all the papers in the work for the Lord. My life was different and a continued assurance that God is Ministry of Labor in one day. than before. Since that time the Lord building His Church here in Mexico. The Bible Institute was "Berea," in has had His way in my life. These years, For an inspiring Christmas program Santa Cruz, belonging to the World with my wife, we daily meditate on the and a delicious Mexican supper that were Gospel Mission. They accepted me as a Word of God and pray. Right now I am enjoyed by 110 believers and friends in regular student. Here I was able to ful­ seeking God's will for the coming days, our home. fill the desires of former years. I had the that He might do with my life as He PRAY pleases. My desire is to aiways serve the opportunity of studying three years, That our Christian families might ex­ finishing in 1966. All this time I was Lord wherever I am. Thanks be to Him; may His name be praised. D perience a growing unity as they learn to planning to help some way in the Boli­ live and work in Christian fellowship. vian Friends Church. Satan is trying to create factions among At the end of my last year I married them. Juana Ott, who also had finished her For Hugo and Lucha, Guillermo and studies in the same institute. The first Alicia, two couples who made a start of 1967 I went to the Yungas district to for the Lord, but haven't been faithful the Arapata church as pastor and teach­ in services. er, and was there two years. That God will take away the desire for In 1969, while attending the represen­ liquor from Luis Garcia, recently con­ tatives meeting of the INELA, without Mexican verted, and from Jesse, who is having a thinking about it before, I was named as real struggle with the habit. director of the Bible Institute for three praise and That several new contacts now being years. Thanks be to God who helped me made will bring forth fruit. in a great way during these years with For the conversion of Ruben, the this delicate responsibility. My three prayer notes magician, who has been attending some year period is finished at the end of 1971. services and showing interest. I received Christ as my personal Savior That the Christians will sense a hunger when I was twelve years old. Although for growth in their spiritual lives, and I lived in a Christian home, I went only PRAISE that conviction of sin will be felt in the because my parents were Christians, That several new families are showing hearts of those who do not know the without accepting Christ. But one Sun­ an interest in the Gospel. Lord as Savior. day I gave my life to the Lord, and since For raising up a worker among our That we might have wisdom in the then he has guided my youth through believers who is actively witnessing to increased amount of counseling we are danger and guarded from evil. During neighbors in her community. called upon to do. my stay in the Bible Institute, in the last That your prayers for Luis Garcia -Roscoe and Tina Knight

February, 1973 15 Missionary Voice

The purpose of a book

Betty and Lynn Baker are new missionaries on left behind Taiwan under the Evangelical Friends Church­ Eastern Region. They are teaching at the Morrison Academy in Taichung. Betty is shown above as she teaches an evening English Bible class.

BY BETTY BAKER As we looked over our new home in class I would be willing to study Bible a er, teacher, tax collector, agricultural Taichung for the first time, we discover­ half hour before or after class if any extension worker, engineer, government ed three books left behind by the mis­ were interested. While considering the worker, automotive mechanic, and uni­ sionaries who had previously lived in the extra time spent away from home, one versity student. But I must go on to tell house. The one book caught my eye of the students in my class said to me you how God is sending the right stu­ because it was on the ladies' missionary one evening, "Mrs. Baker, you are such dents. The first night I had two young reading list last year. I had not taken a good teacher (typical Chinese polite­ male pharmaceutical students present, time to read it, even though everyone ness), but our time for learning is so David Lin and Joseph Chwang. David kept telling me how interesting it was. short. Could we add an extra half hour spoke first and told me he had studied The book? L'Abri by Mrs. Francis to our class each evening?" I just could English a year under a man who I knew Schaeffer. Since we were unable to locate hardly believe my ears! I felt God say­ was a Christian man and taught the the owners of the books, we kept the ing, "This is the way;_ walk ye in it." Bible in his English class. Without hesita­ three books on our shelf. Day after day, tion, I asked David if he was a Christian. Quickly, I began reading the Gospels as I looked at the book L' Abri on my When his answer came back with a note of Luke and John to determine which shelf, I determined to read it before the of uncertainty, I assumed he must not book we would study first. My training owner turned up to claim it. Little did I have understood all about knowing told me John, but I wanted God to show realize how the Lord would speak to me Christ personally or he did not compre­ me definitely through His Word. As I through L'Abri as I intently read its hend my question. These two young men reached the tenth chapter of John, my pages. are coming to our home quite frequently heart was stirred anew as I reread the and are asking questions. I feel definitely At this same time I was facing some familiar story of the Good Shepherd. that God sent these men to my class. decisions about my English class. This Never had these words stood out to me David and Joseph have now brought into class is held in the lower level of the Pei as they did that day as I read, "No one my English class three young ladies who Tun Friends Church. When I began takes my life away from me. I give it are classmates in medical school. teaching this class, they were not study­ up of my own free will." (Good News I must share about one of my young ing the Bible at all, and I had a deep for Modern Man) What could be any ladies, Miss Wu, who is no longer able to concern to share the Good News with plainer to show how much Jesus loves us? attend my class at the church but is now these men and women. I ·felt a great It was settled. I would start with John, coming to my home once a week. God sense of inadequacy in teaching God's but how? As I finished reading L'Abri, gave me an opportunity to share my per­ Word. I began asking advice about teach­ my heart was challenged to launch out in sonal witness with Miss Wu and to pre­ ing the Bible and how I should introduce the same type of faith as the Schaeffers sent the Good News in a nutshell. She it the first time. The class was meeting had there in Switzerland. I committed was so receptive and open; she left that an hour on Tuesday and Thursday eve­ my class to the Lord in complete trust day thanking me again and again, for no nings, but the time did not seem suffi­ that He would send the right students one had ever told her such Good News cient to work on the exercises in the whose hearts were all prepared to receive before. book, let alone add the study of the the glorious Good News. Bible to our agenda. One day as Charles I believe God wants to save these men DeVol dropped by for a brief visit, our I have students who come and go, but and women. Would you pray with me conversation turned to my English class. the ones who come most regularly are for the salvation of their souls? God can After I expressed my concern to teach mainly businessmen of different walks of redeem souls in Taiwan the same as in the Bible, Charles suggested I tell the life. Some of their occupations are bank- L'Abri, Switzerland. 0

16 Evangelical Friend John W. Oliver

Jesus Two thousand years ago Palestine spawn­ ed a society that seems strangely modern. There, in an atmosphere of racial ten­ and sion, a remarkable encounter was to occur. The milieu contained Jews, "God's people," entrusted with divine oracles yet the threatened by a Hellenism that imposed nude games in the holy city and horse racing within sight of the Temple. There were prestigious foreigners in ghetto Palestine. Romans were there-overbear­ ing, entranced with their world order built upon law and respect for the state. And there were Greeks-argumentative, crafty, slick, proud of their heritage. These lived among the Jews in Judea, Galilee, and Perea. Another group, however, posed a more serious social problem. The Jew gained self-respect through his religious heritage, the Roman through his political, the Greek through his cultural. But the Samaritan? Who was he? Where did he LUOMA PHOTO fit in a society concerned for orthodoxy, empire, and culture? Racially, the Samaritan was a mongrel. He sprang from Canaanites, the native enemies of the Jew; from aliens trans­ A ghetto! It seemed a natural solution tered the ghetto. In the middle of a town planted from the Near East in the wake to an embarrassing presence. It mini­ called Sychar they paused. The disciples of Sargon's conquest; and from the low­ mized possibilities for racial confronta­ walked away, and Jesus sat alone by a est order of Jews, people too inconse­ tion-the traveler from Judea to Galilee well-a Jew where Jews were rarely seen. quential for the Assyrians to deport. Dis­ could avoid the ghetto by crossing the A resident approached. She might have advantaged by such parentage, the "race" Jordan and passing up the other side. ignored him except He broke the silence: was discredited by history; the Samaritans It enabled the Samaritan to mingle with May I have a drink of water? had resisted Nehemiah's rebuilding the his own kind while the rest of society Her response was predictable: You're walls of Jerusalem, and Ezra had for­ could pretend he didn't exist. Racial a Jew! What are you doing here? Why bidden the Jews to intermarry with them. peace-compatibility-no wonder the do you, a Jew, ask a favor of me, a Racially separate and undistinguished, system was approved by the civic and Samaritan? the Samaritan was further isolated by his religious leadership! The encounter may have lasted only a religion, an off-brand Judaism. Scarcely Of course, no system is perfect, Limit­ few minutes, but it touched a spectrum of tolerated at Jerusalem, he had since the ed contact encourages stereotrying, as emotions. Unerringly the intruder guided time of Alexander the Great worshiped when Ben Sira labeled the Samaritans the conversation, moving from His thirst at a temple on Mt. Gerizim. Here he "nobodies" whom "my soul abhorreth." to her needs, condition, and aspirations awaited the "Taheb" or Messiah who Incidents occasionally flared, as when -from Himself to her. Caught up in would someday destroy the "followers of John Hyrcanus slashed into the ghetto to the interaction, she forgot her water and Ezra" (the Jews). dstroy the Samaritan temple. The Samari­ scurried back to town to tell of a man­ What does one do with a hostile "in­ tans reciprocated in kind, as when they not a Jew, but a man-who knew, who ferior race"? Ancient Palestine's answer defiled the Hebrew Temple with dead understood her. rings with contemporaneity. The solu­ bodies. That day Jesus cracked the racial tion was simple-segregation. One dis­ Two hostile societies, with neither barrier. He ( 1 ) went into the ghetto, posed of such people by shutting them desirous of bridging the gap! Such at­ (2) initiated a relationship, and (3) in­ up in a ghetto bounded on the north by mospheres await the occasional individual teracted with a resident, not as Jew with Galilee and on the south by Judea. whose standards vary from those of his Samaritan, but as person with person. peers. In this instance a person emerged "Come after mel" Well, we're not sure. John W. Oliver is assistant professor -Jesus of Nazareth. His behavior was Such things could lead to all sorts of of history at Malone College, Canton, unique. complications, even intermarriage, and Ohio. This article was submitted by John tells what happened. One day who would want one's child to marry a Regional Editor Eugene Collins. Jesus, accompanied by His disciples, en- Samaritan! D

February, 1973 17 The Children's Page anew expertence

PART II BY BETTY M. HOCKETT

was nowhere in sight. I hope he's found some new friends like I have, she thought. Then the bell rang and the weaving was stowed away safely until recess time later. Before the last bell rang, Patsy had a quick chance to whisper to Perry, "Did you find anybody who'd be friendly to you? I did!" Perry's eyes gleamed. "Sure did! Rich­ ard and Kevin and Art asked me to play basketball with them. I talked to them first, just like Mother said." Conversation was over right then as Mrs. Donovan announced the page of So FAR: The Masters family moved to math to be done that morning. Patsy felt another part of the city, making it neces­ warm and happy way down inside as she sary for Perry and Patsy to change to thought about learning how to weave. the Morton Elementary School. After "Ask me this time tomorrow and I'll Perry did his math problems with a good the first day there, they were convinced tell you for sure," laughed Perry. "Well, feeling, knowing that soon it would be that the children were not at all friendly. here we are; let's go on in." time for recess and more basketball. Their mother has just reminded them that Once they were inside the classroom, Recess times that day were taken up the Bible says that in order to have Patsy noticed that Monica and the other with their new friends. At noon, Perry friends, a person must be friendly him­ two girls were sitting at the table working and Patsy did not sit with Mrs. Donovan self. The twins decided to try this idea! at their weaving. She hung up her coat as they had done the day before. Instead, and then swallowed hard, trying to feel they each sat in the center of the groups * * * brave. "Hi! Can I watch you weave? It of their classmates. The others began ask­ looks real neat!" ing questions about the school on the The twins ambled slowly down the Monica smiled, "Sure, Patsy. We're other side of town. They all found that sidewalk towards the Morton Elementary each making squares that we will sew all they liked the same sorts of things. The School. Perry looked behind him, seeing together to make a big afghan." twins discovered that some of the others Chico sitting on the corner by their The girl with long brown braids smiled, went to Sunday school and church regu­ house. The brown dog had a very definite too. "It'll be all different colors. Sara's larly, just as the Masters family did. look of disappointment on his face. mother gave us the red yarn and my The whole day went much faster than "That silly dog!" laughed Perry. "I mother had the blue." the day before. Soon it was three o'clock guess he had planned on being invited "Mrs. Donovan gave us the green and and Perry and Patsy stepped out of the to walk to school with us. How come he purple yarns," added the third girl, who building for the short walk home. thinks he can go to school?" was Sara. "Shirley's mother said she'd go "I think this Morton School isn't too with us to a nursing home so we could bad after all," Perry said firmly. "He doesn't know that's where we're give the afghan to one of the older ladies "Yeah, the kinds are neater than I going," reminded Patsy. "After all, we who lives there." thought at first," his twin answered. have always ridden on a school bus be­ Patsy watched as the big long needles "I had fun playing with the other guys. fore. Other times he goes fo< walks with went in and out, under and over the Some of them may even come over on us so I suppose he thinks that's all we're strands of yarn already on the small Saturday if I can get Dad to put up our doing now. But he sure does look sad." square looms. "That looks like fun. I basketball hoop on the end of the garage '"Spose the kids'll be friendlier today?" wish I could do something like that." by then. Those guys are neat. But you Perry wondered out loud. Shirley smiled pleasantly. "I've got an know what they said? They said that "I hope so. I'm going to talk to the extra loom at home. Should I bring it yesterday they thought we were stuck-up! girl with the long curly hair. I think her tomorrow?" And that's just what we thought about name is Monica. She and two other "Sure," said Sara quickly. "We can them!" girls were doing some kind of weaving show Patsy how to do it. If she helps us Patsy giggled. "I know! That's what with a little tiny loom at recess yesterday. we can get this done a lot sooner." Sara told me, too." She said, "We didn't That looked like fun. Maybe what the "Hey, yeah! That's a good idea," think you wanted to get acquainted with Bible says about us having to be friendly Monica agreed. us. You and your brother just stayed all really is true." Patsy looked around for Perry. But he by yourselves so we thought you figured

18 Evangelical Friend you were a lot beter than we are!" But she told me today that she liked us after all. I like them, too." "Hey, there's Chico," yelled Perry, Merry Christmas, starting into a fast sprint. 1972 Chico's short legs moved in perfect rhythm. He was just one fuzzy-haired Lay Witness style brown streak of speed, anxious to meet his children for a good romp. Laughter, tinsel, and family tradition was Patsy ran, too. Breathlessly the twins the way Christmas afternoon started. and their dog got together. They all But God was going to add something to dashed into the house; the twins could the evening just as he had 2,000 years hardly wait to report the news of their ago. good day. They began talking all at once! Through a Lay Witness Mission in "Everyone was so friendly . . . and our church [Tigard Friends Church, Ore­ at lunch . . . over to the nursing home gon], I had rededicated my life to God . . . . Saturday morning ...." So, during family Christmas carols and Mrs. Masters laughed. "Wait a minute! devotion time, I felt I should tell what Slow down! I can't make heads or tails had happened to me, my wife, and chil­ out of what you are sputtering about!" dren. I mentioned how God had helped Patsy and Perry giggled, too. Then, us and is always there when we need slowly, they each told about their happy Him. Well, you can just imagine what experiences for that day. happened when 12 adults and 10 chil­ "Well, thank the Lord," their mother dren, ages 7 through 17, start enjoying said. "He surely did answer prayer for the presence of God in the living room. you very fast!" Each family sang or said something in "And we found out that the Bible verse relation to how God was helping them. was right," Patsy said calmly. "Didn't Then different ones were asking forgive­ we, Perry?" ness of others they had wronged. One of "We sure did. 'A man that has friends the male adults had left the room and must show himself friendly!' Maybe it we prayed for him. In a short time he ought to say, 'Boys and girls who have was back and on his knees asking God's friends must show themselves friendly!'" forgiveness and rededicated his life to Perry and Patsy both giggled, feeling Him. We all stood in a circle singing and fine about everything, school included. praying for the next hour and a half. "Woof! Woof!" barked Chico, feeling What else could be a more wonderful very fine himself. (Conclusion) gift than to have those you love admit to God and each other that they will unite and pray for each other! This could have been like being in church, but New film tells I'm talking about my mother, sisters, and their families. I pray 1973 will be filled earthquake story with God's goodness for everyone. Los ANGELEs-A new ten-minute "mini­ ___:_Dave Harris film" depicting the situation in earth­ quake-torn Managua has just been re­ leased by Food for the Hungry, interna­ Jesus tional relief agency headquartering here. (") c I stand 0 Titled Managua: Beauty for Ashes, u.. before the wealth UJ 0. the film report was produced and nar­ "0'"" of you DO N ::: rated by Dr. Larry Ward, veteran relief (!) and know again E Ol 0 executive and Christian journalist, fol­ 0 0 Z;- the poverty u. Cii i:) lowing his relief mission to Nicaragua. c >= of what I am (..) Dr. Ward, president of Food for the .s: '" and yet (.) Hungry, explained: "These brief mini­ c.'" 0. "0 films are being welcomed by churches you accept <( .c: that may not want to devote an entire my small " "(.) (jj -~ service to a film, but who do want to gestures '" (..) e"' keep their members informed about the my small ~ 2 human needs and spiritual implications person ~ ~ I posed by the world's 'hot spots' and major and then ~ ~ I disasters." tell me i .. ~I it is these ~ ~ 5 e I The new film is available on a freewill :jLLc :§ ~~ offering basis with 100 percent of such that make i~~ g ;;o""l offerings going to Nicaragua, stresses you rich >0(/) ·U) fJ) "5 '8§1 :;:,1-LU ~~-~ rn (!) .r::. o.c. Ward. Groups wishing to use the film (Ephesians 1:18) " frl ~ :E:E:E m ~ .c: ~ cc g. I A a: a: w E :g ~ .2' ~ ~ Q) I may write Food for the Hungry, Box ~ -Nancy Thomas :;; Q ~ DOD ~ <( () I (..) <( f- 200, Los Angeles, California 90041, sug­ MALONE COLLEGE CANTON, OHIO 44709 J gesting three possible showing dates. 0 ~·== ------

February, 1973 19 KANSAS YEARLY MEETING Friends concerns

tensely aware of the wonderful fel­ Word from lowship found throughout the world, among His people! The Wayfarers Arriving in Burundi, Africa, March So that our friends may keep inform­ 28, right ori schedule, we were met lion instruction in each area of the Christ and the church, serving as a by fellow missionaries and immedi­ ed of our activities, we send you this Yearly Meeting. Recognizing that a member of Northbranch Academy message from our overseas sojourn. ately felt a part of this family. Though local Christian ed program will have Board, Quarterly Meeting superin­ the following days were filled with special meaning as it fulfills the tendent of Walnut Creek Quarterly I was asked to represent Kansas many new faces, often speaking a needs of people, the emphasis is Meeting, member of Friends Univer­ Yearly Meeting and Friends Africa strange language (Kirundi), new toward a people-centered approach. sity Board of Directors, and song Gospel Mission at the Friends Inter­ places, and a totally new way of life, It was the desire of the planning evangelist. national Mission and Service Con­ we fell more than ever our Lord's committee to deal not only with the In 1923, he left the farm and ference in London. Travel support presence and the peace of which the concepts of job and program, but entered the ministry, serving as pas­ for my trip came from concerned angels spoke that night so long ago. also to deal with the needs of the tor of the following churches: Cot­ Friends. Several love gifts were re­ The Prince of Peace has come to be people who were there. The result tonwood, Friendswood, Bridgeport, ceived, also, to help make it possible a living reality in our hearts, and it was a closer feeling of unity and pur­ Hopewell, West Glendale, Ringwood, for Betty to accompany me. After is to praise Him that we write this pose in the Christian ed program Stark, and Homestead. He also leaving Wichita January 17, we at­ letter to you with a prayer that His across the Yearly Meeting because served as a member of Pastoral, tended the conference from the 19th peace is also felt in your life and of the time spent together. Evangelistic, and Church Extension through the 23rd. An extra couple of home. Committee of Kansas Yearly Meet­ days spent in England gave us lime Gary has been busy finishing two ing, member of Committee for Re­ for a brief look at historic and heri­ new classrooms for the primary Church Growth Force cording Ministers, and sponsor of tage spots. school here at Kibimba and a new Appointed youth groups at summer camps. house for the Normal School direc­ We were in Tel Aviv the evening of In 1957, at the age of 80, he and the 26th through the evening of the tor. Also work is nearly finished on Among Friends throughout Texas, his wife Jennie retired from active the station shop, which lost its roof 29th for a short Holy Land tour. We there is an increasing concern for pastoral work and moved to Friends­ when the gasoline generator caught landed in Nairobi, Kenya, at mid­ developing new meetings. The exec­ wood, Texas. In 1965, his wife pre­ night on the 29th. There we visited fire. utive council for the area appointed ceded him in death. Friends we have known in other Connie is busy teaching Susan a Task Force on Church Growth to days, as well as Judy Riley and and Vickie kindergarten and first Because of failing health, he came survey possible opportunities for to Red Cloud, Nebraska, and enter­ Glenn and Kerry Little, at Rift-Valley grade, not always an easy task, as new churches in such areas as Academy. there are many interruptions from ed the Sprague Nursing Home, Dallas, Austin, Tyler, Brownsville, where he remained until his depar­ women who are wanting sewing sup­ and the west and north suburban We are thrilled to be spending plies. With all the activities of study, ture for his life everlasting. from February 1 through the 19th in areas surrounding Houston. Those construction, housekeeping, and appointed to the Task Force were: One daughter, Elizabeth, preced­ Burundi as we visit our mission sta­ working with new people, we covet ed him in death in 1963. He is sur­ tions and share with our people. Delbert Vaughn, Lawrence Pope, your prayers that our ministry here Robert Kellum, Galen Hinshaw, and vived by four daughters, Lois Bills of Each family we visit has expressed to the people may be as God would Friendswood, Texas; Esther Jeffery their joy at our being able to make Raymond Martin. A list of Friends have it to be. With the many physical families in the areas will be solicit­ of Guide Rock, Nebraska; Margaret the trip. They send their greetings to problems to distract and the beauty Kellum of Meridian, Idaho; and June friends and family at home. ed to determine the interest and of this country to admire, it is too strength upon which to organize a Worden of Osawatomie, Kansas; and We return to Wichita on the 20th easy to overlook the hearts filled new meeting. one son, Hubert, of Plains, Kansas. or 21st, depending on the advisabil­ with burdens and needs thai only There are 18 grandchildren, 37 ity of reviewing the leprosy work at the Prince of Peace can meet. great-grandchildren, and one great­ Nyankanda with officials of the Memorial to Luther Dillon g real-granddaughter. American Leprosy Mission in New We praise our Lord for the way He Luther Dillon, youngest son of Luke Luther was a wise and considerate York. cares for us. To God be the glory; great things He has done! We praise and Elizabeth (Folger) Dillon, was father and always helped carry the For all this, plus the backing in Him daily for His presence, care, and born on a farm near Northbranch, burdens of his children and others. prayer, we are grateful. We were love! -Gary and Connie Young Kansas, September 23, 1877, and de­ given numerous assignments, which parted this life at the Sprague Nurs­ we have endeavored to complete. ing Home at Red Cloud, Nebraska, Friends University It has been our desire to be ambas­ Christian Ed Retreat September 9, 1972, aged 94 years, Announces 10-Year Plan sadors for Christ. Thank you for 11 months, and 16 days. remembering us, our family, the In Oklahoma City He attended Northbranch Acad­ Friends University announced a ten­ church at home and abroad in pray­ The Christian education division of year educational master plan and a er. -John Robinson emy and was graduated from there the Education Board in a program in 1898. $14 million goal for its ten-year 75th coordinated with the EFA Christian On September 23, 1899, he was Diamond Jubilee Campaign under New Year- Education Commission held a re­ married to Bertha Adelaide Price. the leadership of its new president, treat December 8 and 9, 1972, at the There were four children: Lois, Hu­ Dr. Harold Cope. New Missionaries Center for Christian Renewal in bert, Elizabeth, and Esther. Bertha "In facing the 21st century, the Oklahoma City. University reaffirms its Christian her­ II is hard to realize that it has been was called to her reward on Septem­ All Area Christian education chair­ ber 6, 1909, and Luther and children itage and commits itself to the pur­ nearly a year since we left Wichita men were guests of the board. poses and educational goals of the on January 5, 1972. God is answer­ made their home under the tender Dorothy Barratt, EFA Christian ed care and guidance of his brother institution. The ten-year plan is a ing prayers continually, and the lime consultant, Loren Lutes, and Wen­ Asa Dillon and wife Emma. milestone for Friends and has been has flown by swiftly. For three dell Barnett served as resource peo­ well received by the Board of Trus­ months in Switzerland, we lived at ple. On February 7, 1911, he was mar­ tees, faculty, and students. Aware Institute Emmaus in the mountains Among topics discussed were the ried to Jennie Hadley, and their of the need to provide students with above Vevey and Lake Geneva and following: "Leadership: How, When, daughters are Margaret and June. a meaningful educational program commuted along the lake with an­ and Where," "Goal Setting, Charting Luther was a birthright member of that will command respect and sup­ other couple to Institute Richelieu in a New Direction," "EFA Resources the Northbranch Preparative Friends port of both church and public, Lausanne. Available," "Discovering Opportuni­ Meeting. He was converted at the Friends University proposes the fol­ Not only did we learn a little ties of Spiritual Dynamics of the age of 12 years and was faithful as a lowing goals and their implementa­ French, but God began to teach us Small Group." Particular emphasis Christian throughout his life. During tion," Dr. Cope said. to have faith in Him as He provided was given to the information and the years of his early life while work­ 1. FU will continue to be a small step by step. We also became in- direction of quality Christian educa- ing on the farm, he was devoted to liberal arts commuting college with

20 Evangelical Friend an increasing number of residential education, independent study/re­ ences-ldaho: Melba, Nampa, students, while meeting needs of the search, international or intercultural Meridian, Star, Whitney Wichita area by enrolling a broad study, and Christian or humanitarian 11-14-0utreach Conference, spectrum of students. Recognizing service. Establishment of an educa­ Caldwell, Idaho the relationship of the size of the tional informational system. A three­ 16-18-Young Friends Conference, student body to operational effi­ year degree. A new freshman year Pendleton, Oregon ciency and the capacity of the cam­ program "The Key Year." Funds to 19-23-Ministers Conference, pus, a goal of 1,200 students is set increase the Edmund Stanley Library Twin Rocks, Oregon for the fall of 1982 or earlier and a holdings to 100,000 volumes. A 23-25-0utreach Conference, maximum enrollment of 1,500 by learning laboratory and development Maplewood, Portland, Oregon 1986-87. of the use of the Educational Media 29-Aprii1-Concurrent Outreach 2. The following new facilities or Center in Edmund Stanley Library. Conferences-Reedwood, by the music directors, Harold Clark, Clackamas Park, Lynwood, improvements: The completion of 4. A major emphasis will be plac­ pastor of Star, Idaho, Friends (Portland, Oregon); Cherry William Penn Science Hall in early ed on assisting faculty in the educa­ Church, and Harry Selby, minister of 1973. A total renovation of Davis tional process through instructional youth at Greenleaf, Idaho, Friends Grove, Battle Ground, Washington Administration building. Taking up and learning services in order to in­ Church. the option of the YMCA Building at crease the learning experience and Making beautiful sand candles is April 1-3-NAE National Convention, 2401 University and using it for edu­ level of achievement of students. an art. It was one of the popular Portland, Oregon cational purposes. A University Faculty workshops in educational chapel for the center of worship and media and computer instruction are religious activities on campus. contemplated, and seminars on ad­ Around GFC (Plans could include offices and vising and understanding this gen­ classrooms.) A master plan for the eration's needs are projected. Facul­ "Greatest conference ever!" These campus should be designed, incor­ ty wishing to do further graduate were the sentiments as expressed by porating all the projected ideas with study, research, or initiate an experi­ a George Fox College senior at the an outer drive. Attention would be mental course will be supported fi­ close of the GF Missions Conference given to landscaping and the use of nancially from the institution. '73, which took place January 21-26. space for recreational areas and the The ten-year $14 million campaign purchase of necessary property. will be outlined in the following man­ With a theme of "One God-One 3. Educational programs: Friends ner: Endowment-4 chairs, Scholar­ Job," and a new format for services, University will continue as a liberal ship, Other $6,200,000; Educational the conference proved to be very arts college with an increasing em­ Programs-Faculty salaries, library effective. Instead of having a prin­ phasis on career education. The books, new programs $800,000; Phy­ Ciple speaker as before, the 16 mis­ individual learning experience will sical Plant-Remodel Davis Adminis­ sionary guests, representing 14 dif­ ferent agencies, took turns speaking be accented with the student having tration building, purchase property, recreation activities along with bowl­ greater freedom and responsibility science building equipment, YMCA m the services giving greater variety ing, swimming, going to the beach. of challenge. in determining his own course of purchase and remodel, cafeteria re­ Rod Crecelius, a GFC sophomore, study. To realize these aims a pro­ model, air-condition dorms, Chapel, was recreation director. In the final evening service a faith­ gram of personalized education is Mall $2,500,000; Operations-1 0 year Midwinter this year was one of the promise challenge was presented for envisioned: An experimental educa­ annual support $4,500,000; Grand largest with 215 high schoolers and the purpose of supporting some tion program including cooperative Total $14,000,000. 44 staff. It was necessary for the George Fox students on short-term first time to use nearby Harbor mission projects in various parts of House as a dormitory. Many activi­ the world next summer. A total of ties were held in the new Friendship $9,454 was promised by just over Center. Wayne Chapman, a GFC 100 students. NORTHWEST sophomore, was Midwinter chair­ In the closing chapel on Friday man. morning a challenge was given for YEARLY full surrender, and over 200 students Outreach Ministry responded to the invitation by com­ MEETING ing to the front of the auditorium and Conferences standing in the aisles. Eight students were sent to the John Fankhauser, NWYM missions mission fields as a result of Missions coordinator, asks that we pray for Conference '72. They served in the Outreach Ministry Conferences Spain, Africa, Ecuador, Bolivia, Ja­ now and others to be scheduled pan, Colombia, and Canada. The throughout May in various parts of two students who went to Japan and the Yearly Meeting. Pray that these Bolivia remained to serve a full year. will result in greater spiritual vision and increased giving to the Unified Budget, which includes all our out­ Dennis Hagen, chairman of GFC's reach ministries. division of fine arts, is one of six per­ sons in the nation selected to re­ gional presidencies of the College Better, but Band Directors National Association. Moment of Truth at Midwinter He was elected president of the Not Quite Good Enough Northwest region at the associa­ A daily time with God and His Word praying for met God in a "moment tion's 17th biennial national meeting was emphasized this year at Friends of truth." The good weather during Giving to the Unified Budget during in Champaign, Illinois. A faculty Youth Midwinter Convention De­ Midwinter was also regarded as a the first six months of this fiscal year member since 1964, Hagen repre­ cember 23-January 1. Yearly Meet­ miracle and much appreciated. is a little better than last year, but sents the states of Oregon, Washing­ ing Superintendent Norval Hadley Mike Frazier, Friends Youth presi­ still not good enough to meet half ton, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and brought out this theme in his class dent, pointed out that many teen­ the budget needs according to Year­ Alaska. "Dedicated Living." It was also an agers are discovering that they can ly Meeting Treasurer Arlene Moore. We fell $6,800 short of meeting half important theme in other classes, live in spiritual victory between con­ A $50,000 grant from a Portland "Finding God's Will," led by Ralph ferences and thus are finding new the $207,000 budget during the first half-year. Total giving to the Unified based foundation was announced by growth at camps and Midwinter. the college in January. The anony­ Many testified at the New Year's Eve Budget from July through Decem­ ber, 1972, was $96,665.56. mous gift is the third from the foun­ dation in three years. The gift, given without restrictions, is to be split into Coming Events two areas, according to President David Le Shana. Half will go to the In the Northwest college's general fund for current Outreach Conferences in Newberg operating expenses; half will be uti­ Area throughout February lized by the college's admissions de­ February partment. 15-Board of Finance 16, 17-Executive Council The Asaph Music Lecture Series, Chapman, director of Friends Mis­ 28-March 4-0utreach Conference, named after the biblical Old Testa­ sionary Literature Service, and Homedale, Idaho ment psalmist who is credited with "Spiritual Gifts," led by Oscar writing at least 12 of the 150 Psalms, Brown, pastor of Hillsboro Friends March was inaugurated January 30. First Church. service that their personal Bible 1, 2-Special Meetings, Greenleaf, lecturer was sacred music composer Ron Crecelius, George Fox Col­ study and prayer are a key to this Idaho; Speakers: Norval L. Stanley Glarum. He illustrated lege chaplain, challenged everyone victory. Hadley, Ron Crecelius how he as a composer looks at to pray for a miracle. Many saw Psalms 19, 48, and 63 sung with 3-Four Flats Concert, 8:00 p.m., Scripture in a way to coordinate it answers to these prayers during the guitar and string bass accompani­ Nampa, Idaho with music. Featured were four com­ weekend when a friend they were ment were among the new songs led 7-11-Concurrent Outreach Confer- positions by the composer.

February, 1973 21 to peruse quickly the large volume economy tour costing approximately of daily reports, able to find the $950 round trip from New York and answers quickly to questions as includes three days in Switzerland. varied as how to secure a passport One, two, or three hours' college E. F. C.-EASTERN visa to how to arrange for signature credit may be received by paying on a disarmament treaty. $50 per credit hour additional. Con­ REGION Now the shoe is on the other foot. tact Dr. Dymale at Malone College Instead of reading reports from the by March 1 for tour reservations. field, I will be out in the field writing these reports. I am assigned as polit­ CALENDAR OF EVENTS ical officer and vice-consul to the March 1-3-Winter Drama Production U.S. Embassy in Rwanda. March 9-Winter Term Ends We are going to Kigali, Rwanda, a March 9-19-Malone Chorale Tour pleasant city in the Rwandan high­ March 23-Executive Board lands, which support Africa's dens­ March 27-29-Malone Missions est population. I will have a variety Conference of jobs, from reporting on economic Aprii10-13-Ministers' Institute and political affairs to helping set April 27-lnauguration of Malone up and supervise our limited pro­ President Lon D. Randall grams in economic assistance to April 27-29-Youth Conference processing passports and visas. I Rawson Appointed to African Embassy will be one of seven Americans em­ DID YOU KNOW? David P. Rawson, on leave of ab­ ployed at this little embassy, where a The Malone College Chorale took sence from the Malone social sci­ the U.S. seeks to maintain a friendly up a special offering on January 12 ence faculty, was recently appointed presence in the heart of Central to send to the Baptist Church in to a two-year term of duty at the Africa. Managua, Nicaragua? The church American Embassy in Kigali, capital 1 will know more about life there was destroyed by earthquake just of the Republic of Rwanda in Africa. when I get there. You may write me one week after they had sung there. He will be political officer and vice­ at the American Embassy, Kigali, It was their last concert in the De­ consul as announced by the State Department of State, Washington, cember Term Central American tour. Department in Washington, D.C. D.C. Stop and see us on your next a That Billy Graham recently visited Rawson was commissioned a For­ world tour. Taiwan? Charles DeVol writes that eign Service officer of the United Yours, Dr. Graham's visit was a real bless­ States in July 1971, and until last Dave Rawson ing during the short time he was December 28 he served as desk offi­ there. cer for both Burundi and Rwanda. Focus on Malone a That our superintendent and his He was born in Addison, Michi­ wife, Russell and Marjorie Myers, re­ gan, but at the age of six went to The Malone Chancel Players an­ port a wonderful trip visiting Nairobi, Burundi with his medical missionary nounce the drama, "Grab and Africa, in December and India in parents and attended schools in Grace," by Charles Williams is avail­ David and Viola Rawson with January? They plan to return home Burundi, Zaire, and Kenya complet­ able to churches for scheduling March 13. ing his secondary education. Jonathan and Christina. through the Public Relations Office. He received the B.A. degree from It is a 45-minute light morality play Malone College and both the M.A. A six-week orientation course in­ especially suitable for young audi­ Norma Freer and Ph.D. degrees from American troducing me to the Foreign Service ences. Returns to Field University. His doctoral dissertation and to various government agencies was entitled: "The Role of the United in Washington was followed by a A model of the Old Testament Nations in the Political Development two-week survey of African culture "Tabernacle in the Wilderness" was of Ruanda-Urundi, 1942-1962." and politics. Then came language recently donated to Malone College In 1965 he joined the faculty of study- four months of intensive by Mrs. Juliet (Jewell) Sorg, a 90- Malone, where he was assistant pro­ training in spoken French. year-old alumna of the class of 1927. fessor of political science. He is It was six months after my ap­ The model was given in memory of presently on leave from Malone pointment before I finally got out of her husband, John Sorg, and will be while serving with the State Depart­ training and into a substantive job. on display during Winter Term in ment. Although at first I had hoped to go Cattell Library. Mrs. Sorg lives in directly to Africa, I got the opportu­ LETTER TO THE EDITOR Ocala, Florida, and is a minister in nity to be desk officer for Rwanda the Church of the Nazarene. En route to Kigali and Burundi for one year at the State December 28, 1972 Department, so of course I took it. Miss Norma Freer left for Chhatar­ Dear "Curly," In this job I was the coordinator A Holy Land tour will be sponsor­ pur, India, on January 19 to begin Viola tells me that you want a for our communications with U.S. ed by Malone College next summer another term of missionary service resume of our current activities. Not embassies at Kigali and Bujumbura. July 20-August 13 under the direc­ under Eastern Region Evangelical knowing exactly what you had in I read and evaluated messages from tion of Dr. Herbert Dymale. It is an Friends. mind I will simply start at the begin­ the field, responded to their re­ ning. quests, and helped draft messages My interest in working with the to the embassies. At the same time Foreign Service was stimulated by I had to maintain contact with the my desire to return for a period of representatives of Burundi and time to Africa so that I could pursue Rwanda serving their country in my interest in African culture and Washington. thus be better able to understand the While I was desk officer for these significance of Africa in the inter­ two countries, Burundi experienced national arena. I had previously done its worst crisis of modern times. I some research on the cultures of was in fact in Burundi on an orienta­ Rwanda and Burundi and had hoped tion trip when a band of rebels at­ ROCKY for the chance to at least visit these tacked various government posts countries of my youth and revive my causing the ruling Tutsi people to MOUNTAIN knowledge of these people. fear that they would be toppled from I had originally intended to work power by the Hutu (who constitute a YEARLY overseas under the auspices of the majority of the population). Conse­ UN, but when that did not work out, quently the Tutsi regime began a I entered into the competition for systematic arrest, trial, and execu­ MEETING assignment as a Foreign Service tion of all they considered to be a officer in the U.S. Diplomatic Ser­ threat or potential threat to their vice. The competition consisted of power. The death toll has been taking a day-long written exam na­ variously estimated between 80,000 tionally administered at regional to 200,000 people. centers. Besides having to deal with this Midyear Board Sessions Profitable After passing the written exam the crisis, I had the more mundane du­ The annual Rocky Mountain Yearly Among the many actions of the next step was to fill out extensive ties of drafting ceremonial mes­ Meeting midyear sessions were held Yearly Meeting Executive Council biographic background and then sages, arranging briefings, dealing November 17 and 18 at Colorado was approval of the new Yearly undergo an oral exam held, in my with questions of economic develop­ Springs. The sessions were well at­ Meeting organizational handbook. case, in Washington D.C. After pass­ ment, and temporarily filling the tended both for the board meetings This action was the result of two ing security and medical clearances, shoes of other country officers who on Friday and the Executive Council year's study and revision of the new I finally received my appointment as are on leave or had left for assign­ on Saturday. Many important deci­ organizational plan. This plan was a Foreign Service officer and arrived ment. I have found that a desk offi­ sions confronted each of the boards approved by the Yearly Meeting in in Washington June 23, 1971, for cer must be flexible, able to deal as they sought the guidance of the 1970 for adoption. Based on an EFA assignment. with a wide variety of situations, able Lord for their area of ministry. sponsored model, this plan simplifies

22 Evangelical Friend the Yearly Meeting organization, re­ Ken Kinser To Be New board. Having attended institutes on Our 38-voice Teen Choir has been ducing the number of boards to four. camping, received special training in busy this month. They presented The structure becomes more con­ Quaker Ridge Manager camp development, directed numer­ concerts at West Mansfield (a com­ sistent at all levels with the Local ous camping programs, served as munity service), Richwood, Ohio, organization mirroring the Area and the Yearly Meeting camping-coordi­ community Christmas concert, plus Yearly Meeting organizations. An During the Rocky Mountain Yearly nator and as a camp counselor, a concert at the First Christian important feature. of the new struc­ Meeting midyear sessions, the Quak­ Kenneth comes to this position ex­ Church of our city. On Christmas ture is its concept of delegation. A er Ridge board announced the ap­ tremely well qualified. Ken's asso­ Eve in a candlelight service, they board may appoint a committee to pointment of Kenneth and Nadyne ciations with Quaker Ridge trace presented, "Born a King," by John fulfill delegated board responsibili­ Kinser as the new Quaker Ridge back to its origin, as he assisted in Peterson, before over 300 people. ties. When the assignment is com­ Camp managers effective July 1, the building of the lodge (Quaker The Teen Choir has now presented pleted, the committee may be dis­ 1973. Kenneth and Nadyne are cur­ Ridge's first building) as a teen-ager. 23 concerts (other than our church) continued if there is no additional rently the pastors at Paonia, Colo­ Ken and Nadyne have four children. in the past year and one half, travel­ purpose for its existence. rado, Friends Meeting, where they It is with considerable rejoicing ing over 7,000 miles, singing in 7 states. To God be the glory! Appreciation must be expressed are completing their fourth year of that the Yearly Meeting pauses to ministry. praise God for providing such cap­ December 7, we enjoyed the pres­ to many for their faithful effort in ar­ ence and ministry of Norma Freer, riving at the new handbook. The late Kenneth has served the past year able leadership as the Kinsers in this as chairman of the Quaker Ridge important ministry of our church. missionary to India. C. Earle Turner did much of the pre­ On December 17, 14 babes and liminary work in preparing the hand­ small children were dedicated to the book. Others deserving credit are Lord in a beautiful service. Lloyd Hinshaw, Mrs. C. Earle Turner, Our annual Christmas program Olen Ellis, Harvey Hutson, Stanley was presented by the Sunday school Perisho, and Darryl Harrison. The department on Sunday evening, De­ use of Kansas Yearly Meeting's new Friends cember 17. handbook as a model has also been While our teens babysat, the greatly appreciated. This handbook Young Married Class went Christmas will be implemented at the Yearly caroling this year, singing for 14 Meeting level July 1, 1973. The local gather shut-in homes. and area meetings will operate by Lt. Col. Jack Mohr was our guest this handbook beginning March 1, speaker for a weekend of services 1973. ending the year 1972. Col. Mohr, the The question of interim leadership first prisoner taken in Korea, brain­ with the absence of a superintendent was discussed, with the Executive washed and sentenced to die, has a Council referring the matter to a great message he proclaims over the committee for continued study. The nation. general feeling of the Executive Our church was host for the Dis­ Council is to continue for another trict School of Missions, January 5-7 year with this form of leadership with with Dr. and Mrs. Everett Cattell and some revision. Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Mosher. The weekend included classes for adults, The presence of the Holy Spirit a rally for teens and a special time was evident and valued as hearts for juniors. were encouraged by reports of God's working among the Friends of CALDWELL, Idaho Rocky Mountain Yearly Meeting. The December 3 marked the beginning Mission Board's glowing report of ALLIANCE, Ohio guest speaker, and his message was of our church bus ministry with 11 the boys and girls Bible schools and an inspiration to all. Alva Friends are children riding the first time. There effective camp visitation brought a December 3 was the beginning of has been a steady increase since. Deeper Life Week with E. A. Lock­ cooperating in his support. An inter­ deep sense of gratitude for God's denominational youth group, The Fifteen new families have been blessing. Other boards returned en­ wood as evangelist, and music under reached. Eleven volunteer callers the direction of Earl Bailey, our Maranatha Group, provided special couraging reports related to planned music for the rally. work every Saturday, knocking on activity. The leadership of the Holy youth and music director. The sanctuary in our church has doors and offering invitations to Spirit is earnestly sought as the Some features of the week were adults and children to ride the bus Yearly Meeting presents itself as a nightly services, morning Bible taken on a new look. Martha Hill has given new padded pews, and her to church. Junior Church was also tool for the work of our Savior. studies, and a fellowship dinner the generous gift inspired the trustees begun this day and has proven to first Sunday. Speaker following the be a valuable opportunity. dinner was Norman Palmer, profes­ and other members to carpet the There was a piano recital the sional golfer and former instructor sanctuary. Martha presented her gift to the church in the morning worship afternoon of December 3 for the stu­ Harold and Ethel Clark of Dwight D. Eisenhower. dents of Eilene Fodge. We also were Carl Adams was in charge of pro­ hour December 17. Several mem­ bers purchased old pews for their privileged to have as our guest Resign from Quaker Ridge motion for the meetings, and several speaker Russell Killman of The prizes were awarded for attendance. homes. Those remaining were given to Camp Quaker Haven. Heaven and Home Hour and Arnie At the close of the 1973 camping The main prize was an all-expense Hartman, gospel accordianist, on season, Harold and Ethel Clark plan paid trip to Florida. This was won by Alva Friends observed "A Month December 3. to take a well-earned rest from their Delbert Szeiff, who brought 37 per­ of Christmas" throughout December. The Christmas program was pre­ duties as managers of Quaker Ridge sons to one service. Second prize of In lieu of sending Christmas cards to sented December 17 by the Primary Camp. Under the Clarks' direction, $50 and a gift went to Karen John­ each other, we each brought one and Junior Departments during the Quaker Ridge Camp has expanded son, a high school student, who card to the church and placed it on morning meeting. Slides depicting both its facilities and its ministry. brought 28. a cardboard tree. The money saved faith and inspiration were shown in The camp for the first time in its December 3 the youth sang at a from cards and postage was sent to the evening. Vesper services were history became self-supporting un­ Health Center service and distrib­ the Yearly Meeting as a gift for conducted by the Quincy Fodge der the guidance of Harold and uted gifts to the patients. Oliver Kent. Each of the various de­ family on Christmas Eve. December Ethel. Many buildings were added, The children's departments pre­ partments in the Sunday school pre­ 27 Gary and Marj Moon presented including the Clark Caper Center, sented the annual Christmas pro­ sented a program on a Sunday night. slides of Alaska. which was named in honor of the gram during the Surday school hour Alva Friends are cooperating fully The Service Committee served managers. One of the highlights of on December 24. Infants were dedi­ in the Key 73 program. Beginning food to shut-ins at Christmas time the Clarks' labor was the installation cated at the morning service. In the Christmas Day, 11:50 a.m., all the and thawed pipes during the sub­ of the new swimming pool, which evening the cantata, "Love Trans­ church bells rang and the siren zero. Maude Smith and Rosella has become a big attraction to all cending," was presented. sounded for five minutes each day Moon are undergoing prolonged campers. The most recent project The New Year's Eve service be­ for two weeks, calling the entire confinement in the hospital. has been to winterize the camp for gan at 9 p.m. with a Billy Graham community to church for prayer. We were privileged to have the year-round use. Besides giving much film. Food and fellowship were in­ Our local radio station cooperated Sweet Spirit group from Haviland, of themselves and their time, the cluded. with a devotional time. Kansas, with us January 2. Clarks donated considerable by way Steven Fettke attended a Lay Wit­ of finances to Quaker Ridge. ALVA, Oklahoma ness Mission in Tigard, Oregon; COLORADO SPRINGS During the midyear sessions of Our pastors, John and Julia Reth­ Hudson and Shirley Cummings shar­ Colorado Rocky Mountain Yearly Meeting, ex­ erford, returned the last of Septem­ ed in the Lay Witness Mission in The College and Career Sunday pressions of gratitude were voiced ber from a two-month trip around Omaha Friends. School Class met for dinner at Quak­ for Harold and Ethel's many years of the world. They visited Friends mis­ er Ridge Camp on Saturday, Decem­ dedicated service to Quaker Ridge. sions on the various continents. We BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio ber 16. God has truly used their ministry to appreciate the world vision they Almost 1,000 pounds of caramels The Agape Players presented a help touch hundreds of young lives. brought us. have been made and sold by our play and special music Sunday eve­ With deep gratitude, the Yearly The Alva Missionary Societies church folk, netting over $850 for our ning, December 17. Meeting wishes God's continued hosted a rally on December 2 with building fund. The Christmas program and can­ blessing for Harold and Ethel Clark ladies from the other churches that Lloyd and Ruth Hughes celebrated dlelight service held Sunday, De­ as they move into new avenues of formerly composed Cherokee Quar­ their 50th wedding anniversary on cember 24, provided treats for every­ service. terly Meeting. Oliver Kent was our December 1. one.

February, 1973 23 A New Year's Eve watch night was dismissed to attend First Meth­ with sound track, The Little Donkey, his sermon, the Holy Spirit provided gathering was changed to an early odist Church of Richwood, Ohio, was added as part of the service. the words! And afterwards the junior 6 p.m. vesper service so all could where Bellefontaine First Friends The congregation joined in carol high Friends Youth put on the play, be home for the New Year. Church Teen Choir had the Christ­ singing. "The Silver Forest." Several high school youth attend­ mas program of music, stories, Our entire group is saddened by The high schoolers raised money ed the midyear youth conference at Scripture, and testimonies for Christ. the death of Susie Feller but rejoice by selling candy to enable two Quaker Ridge December 26-30. The Christmas program was pre­ that she is beyond weakness and youths to go to Midwinter at Twin The Men's Saturday morning Pray­ sented by the children the evening pain and with her Lord, whom she Rocks who otherwise would have er Breakfast has been attended with of December 24. Recitations were loved and served faithfully for many been unable to go! enthusiasm by the men and boys. given by the wee people, and then years. At the request of her family, a In spite of much difficulty in trans­ the junior and senior choirs, com­ memorial fund was given in place of portation, three of our college youth EMPORIA, Kansas bined under the direction of John many flowers. -Debbie Sexton, Zana Krupp, and The Outreach Board presented Penhorwood, portrayed the Christ­ The Salem Friends Fellowship Mike Lowe-were able to spend a the film, High on the Campus, one mas story in music. held their December meeting at week in Mexico helping in an or­ Sunday evening. On Friday night, December 29, the South Salem Friends, where the phanage. We had a Lay Witness Mission No­ church traveled to Radnor School combined choirs, directed by Paul On Sunday, New Year's Eve, an vember 3-5 with Wayne Adams of gym for an evening of recreation. Weaver, gave the cantata, "Born a activity time was provided from 9 to Fredonia, Kansas, as coordinator. (Fifty hours in four months earns a King," by John W. Peterson. 1 t. Finger foods were eaten and Thirty witnesses from Kansas and Presidential Emblem for Physical Carrie Menard, who was received games were enjoyed by all. Then at Texas joined us, sharing love for Fitness. Some of us older folks won't into membership during the past 11 the service started with a quiet Christ and one another. The power make it.) year, surprised our pastors, Everett time of worship. All lights were off of the Holy Spirit was manifest in our The youth had charge of the De­ and Charline Craven, by making it and only candles I it the chapel. personal lives as we met in the 24- cember 31 evening program. The possible for them to accompany her Testimonies were given and "new" hour prayer-vigil groups and shared youth gave their time and talent and to the Holy Land during December. hearts accepted Jesus as their Sa­ in the togetherness of dinners, lunch­ asked the others for their tithe. Everett Craven showed slides he had vior. It was a time of peace, joy, and eons, coffees, and teen-coke meet­ Dennis Hillman gave an interesting taken of the trip both Christmas and love! ings. The evaluation continues to message on "Newness." Pray that New Year's Eve. "0 Lord our God, the majesty and reveal itself in our 5unday school the children in all churches keep The enlarged Fellowship of Salem glory of your name fills all the earth youth and church responsibilities serving the Lord in service, voice, Friends met at Highland church Sun­ and overflows the heavens." (Psalm and responses. and song. day, January 7. The sound color 8:1 LB) Christmas was celebrated by the film, To Russia with Love, was shown Sunday school presenting a Christ­ GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado by Paul Scheming. This was a por­ NORTH VALLEY mas program December 15. A white The Area meeting held December trayal of the underground ministry Newberg, Oregon gift offering for missions was receiv­ 3 welcomed 20 from Paonia in addi­ of getting copies of the Bible behind ed, amounting to $158.65. Veryl Hin­ the iron curtain. An offering of $70 Since moving into our new build­ tion to the Grand Junction Friends. ing, our attendance is running be­ shaw presided in a very impressive was received for the work. Mr. Butch Stassen was approved for tween 100 and 145. candlelighting service. Area superintendent, replacing the Scheming brought a gospel message from Micah 7. Our World Relief offering came to The church joined Donita and former Jack Gregory. The next Area over $323. Gary Hinshaw in a reception honor­ Meeting is scheduled in March. On December 10, a drama group ing their parents, Veryl and Beth A Christmas emphasis evening KENT, Washington from George Fox College presented Hinshaw, on their twenty-fifth wed­ December 10 included a candlelight Our men have been working many "Ten Miles to Jericho" at the eve­ ding anniversary. A money tree with ceremony, tree decoration donation, long and extra hours after work and ning service. It was very well pre­ 25 silver dollars served as the table and cookie exchange. Each family Saturdays on our building. The wom­ sented and had a wonderful mes­ centerpiece. Another surprise was brought a tree decoration for the en have been taking hot meals to the sage, showing that people of Christ's money given by friends to be applied church tree; after the decoration was men on Saturdays, and the noontime time and people of today have the on their automobile fund. put on the tree, the family lit a small has been a time of rejoicing and same self-centered outlook on life A Stairglide chair lift has been in­ candle in a candelabra close to the thanking God for His goodness to us. and all need the love of Christ. stalled in the vestibule of the church. tree from a large candle first lit by The rough plumbing is finished, the December 17 the dedication ser­ This was given as a memorial to Al­ the pastor and his wife. Afterwards roofing underway, and the glu-lam vice was held at North Valley church. bert Allmon. hot drinks and cookies were served beams for the sanctuary have ar­ Norval Hadley, general superinten­ Eugene Cundiff substituted for our in Likes Hall, and each family ex­ rived. We hope to have them up and dent of Northwest Yearly Meeting, pastor in the Sunday morning ser­ changed a dozen cookies to take covered in the near future. We are was our dedicatory speaker. Others vice December 22. Our choir has home. grateful for the work crews that have taking part were Arthur Roberts, added much to our services with Eighty persons enjoyed the Sun­ come to help us from Tacoma, Olym­ Harold Ankeny, Charles Beals, Fred beautiful special numbers, and they day morning Christmas program, fol­ pic View, Holly Park, Reedwood, and Littlefield, and John Wisely. Roger have sung carols in three rest homes lowed by treats and cookies. Lynwood. It has been a wonderful Knox, our pastor, led the congrega­ and to other shut-ins. Naomi and Walter Fritzlan pre­ experience to fellowship with other tion in the service of dedication. sented a dialogue, "Mr. Jones goes FIRST DENVER, Colorado men who love God while working for The Lynwood Friends choir pre­ to Bethlehem," at the December 20 Him. sented John Peterson's cantata, The First Denver Friends Church service. Jeanette Hitchins hosted an We have two Bible studies in pro­ "Born a King," on December 20; 135 has approved selling and removing afterglow fellowship at her home gress, one studying Colossians, the were in attendance. from the sanctuary the present after the service. other reviewing the book, Satan is Christmas Eve North Valley joined pews. The pews will be replaced by Alive and Well on Planet Earth, by West Chehalem at their church for covered chairs, permitting varied GRINNELL, Iowa Hal Lindsey. the evening service. possibilities for arrangement in the The children's Christmas program The Christmas pageant, planned New Year's Eve West Chehalem sanctuary. New carpeting on the was presented Sunday morning, De­ and di reeled by Peggy Sybertz, took came to North Valley for games and floors and accoustical tile on the cember 17. A box of candy was the congregation back to Bethlehem to hear a presentation by Under­ ceiling are also part of the planned given to each person at the conclu­ and the events surrounding the birth, ground Evangelism, which included project designed to be completed by sion of the service. centuries ago, of our Lord. Refresh­ the film, To Russia with Love. Re­ February 1973. This change in the A candlelighting service was held ments were served after the pageant freshments were also served. seating will permit a more circular December 22 with Morton Dorsey of and a love gift presented to our February is outreach month. arrangement of the congregation as Ohio participating. He was also with pastors, Eugene and Norma McDon­ Speakers will be from George Fox well as extending the opportunities us for several special services prior ald. College, the mission fields, Board of for variation. to Christmas. The emphasis for WMU has been Evangelism, and others. Among the highlights during the Several members of our church on prayer, love, and concern for April 6 through 8 we will have a Christmas season were a bus trip participated in the annual "Bible those in our meeting and special re­ Lay Witness Mission. downtown to view the Christmas Readathon" on December 23. The quests. We are now experiencing a lights for our VIP (older) members; Scripture was read continually from new feeling of unity, love, and faith PLAINS, Kansas the choir's presentation of a lovely 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and was heard in in our fellowship. Expectations for "Five Great Days Christmas cantata accompanied by downtown Grinnell through a loud of Spiritual Renewal" were realized a small orchestra; the New Year's speaker system. MEDFORD, Oregon when Keith and Elizabeth Ellis drove Eve watch night service, which fea­ Pastor and Mrs. Harris were called Since the last part of November, from Lone Star each day November tured a pancake meal and midnight to Ohio by the tragic death of his 12-16 to minister to us. Zeal and en­ devotional service and several class we have been contributing our share brother in the Weirton, West Virginia, to project Key 73. Noon prayer meet­ thusiasm gleaned from attending a parties. steel plant explosion December 15. leadership seminar at Garden Grove Several hundred dollars worth of ings were held, and local ministers gathered to discuss the project. Community Church about a year be­ food was donated by the church to HIGHLAND AVENUE fore overflowed Keith's messages, 38 needy families in our area during Home Bible studies have been held Salem, Oregon in many homes on a basis of four challenging us to experience new Christmas. We praise God for the The December meeting of the and greater growth and outreach opportunity of this ministry. days a week. These studies started WMU was postponed because of the November 28 on the book of Luke than ever before. snow and ice. and have been enlightening and Jim and Sheila Ratzlaff, with their FULTON CREEK, Radnor, Ohio The Sunday school children pre­ spiritually uplifting. children Laura, Tamara, and Jan, Prayer service on December 6 was sented a Christmas program during George and Eva Smith celebrated have transferred their membership presided over by Norma Freer. She the Sunday school hour on Sunday, their 50th wedding anniversary No­ from University Church in Wichita to showed her pictures of India and December 17. The Christmas story vember 25. It was a time of shared our meeting. They have been one was guest at the social hour follow­ was presented in an excellent man­ experiences with old friends. with us in fellowship and service ing the program. ner, with Eleanor Smith and Phyllis Our Christmas service was a real since Jim joined the staff of South­ The December 10 evening service McCracken directing. The filmstrip blessing. As Pastor Crisman gave western Heights High School, where

24 Evangelical Friend he is teaching and coaching basket­ of the needs and work in Bangla­ SMITHFIELD, Ohio that in place of a gift exchange they ball. desh gripped us strongly and we We were deeply privileged to have were asking for gifts to the church Several members of our church felt that our offerings, accumulated C. T. Mangrum with us as our speak­ (this had been explained earlier in choir sang with the community throughout the fall in the little blue er for revival services held from De­ the month also). Two special proj­ chorus in presenting Jerry Nelson's boxes, were one way that we could cember 10 through 17. Truly he is a ects have been chosen: rhythm in­ Christmas cantata, "On Love Alone," implement our prayers for this needy man dedicated to God. The meet­ struments for the children, and an in our high school auditorium De­ place and its people. Our home ings were Spirit-filled, and many re­ electric typewriter for the church cember 20. Sheila Ratzlaff was as­ share service featured a musical ceived spiritual renewals and bless­ office. A money tree was presented sistant director and coordinator. group from our local Salvation Army ings. The young people were espe­ to our pastors. A festive Christmas supper was congregation, and a large offering of cially open and receptive to the enjoyed in Fellowship Hall by around TRINITY, Van Wert, Ohio food was given to them for distribu­ Word. His messages were centered 75 people December 17. An informal tion to the needy. We were privileged to have Norma presentation of the Sunday school around the Holy Spirit. Leslie Jack­ Roy Jabusch was honored at a son came to sing for us Saturday Freer, our missionary at Mission children's program closed an enjoy­ public reception in appreciation for Christian Hospital, Chhaturpur, India, able evening. evening. his 24 years of service on the Rose The senior FY held a Christmas as guest speaker on December 14. Special WMU activities have in­ Valley School Board. During the morning service on De­ cluded another successful Christmas play on Wednesday, December 20, Leo and Caroline Herlocker were entitled "Christmas in a Cobbler's cember 17, the children presented Bazaar-Food Sale, a wedding show­ honored by family and friends in De­ their annual Christmas program. In er for Betty Jean Powell and John Shop." We are very proud of our cember on their 60th wedding anni­ young people for their willingness the evening service, the Senior Penrose, and rehearsal dinner for versary. Among the out-of-town Youth Choir, under the direction of their wedding party. and enthusiasm to serve the Lord. family guests were her brother and On December 24 at the 10 a.m. Jean Klausing, presented the cantata sister-in-law, the Earl Antrims, to­ hour, the children participated in "Born a King" by John W. Peterson. PROVIDENCE gether with their daughter, Helen This outstanding presentation was Virginia Beach, Virginia their program, and then a special Cadd, all of Newberg. candlelight service was held on sung from the hearts of our youth Bert Lang, talented musician from Sharon Gibberson and Donna Pres­ Christmas Eve with Pastor Kelbaugh and was enjoyed by all who attend­ Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, provid­ cott planned and directed the Sun­ presenting a great inspirational and ed. ed an enjoyable program of music day school Christmas program given heart-warming message. and testimony for a Youth Rally on by members from the various de­ On New Year's Eve, a special ser­ WILLIAMSPORT, Pennsylvania Saturday night, December 9. He was partments, and assisted by their vice was held singing favorite hymns Our new pastor, Dennis Bewley, also with us for the Sunday morning teachers. The Christmas Eve vespers and hearing testimonies of many his wife Lois and daughter Susan, worship service in which the follow­ were again a highlight of the season. who attended. A great inspiration moved December 8 from Wilmore, ing people were dedicated into The quiet, candlelit sanctuary was a was received. We are looking and Kentucky. He is a graduate of As­ church membership: Arlene and beautiful setting for the story in praying for great things to happen in bury College and Seminary and has Roger Dillon, Christine and Hurly music and word. 1973. served churches in Port Royal, Jack­ Harris, Eddie and Nancy Linger, The senior Friends Youth again son Center, and Machville, Ken­ James and Mary Lowery, Larry and sponsored a Christmas card bulletin SPOKANE, Washington tucky. Pat Newsome, Bill and Rosemary board. Those wishing to place their The youth fellowship and their Ralston, Margaret Snellings, Shirley greetings on the board contributed Area Rally was held in Spokane leaders, Allan and Jean Foster, en­ Turpin, and Florence Williams. to the Midwinter Conference ex­ November 17-18 with Ralph Green­ tertained the congregation at a Hard The Jet Cadet Youth Group bright­ penses. Thea Bales attended from idge from Seattle as guest speaker. Times Banquet on December 9. It ened the lives of many children by our meeting. After the Youth Rally on Friday night, was well attended and a good time having their Christmas Party at the There were no generation gaps at the senior high youth went to Twin of fellowship was enjoyed. Hope Haven Children's Home on De­ the annual watch night party, where Lakes, Idaho, for a retreat. Peter cember 7. The Alpha Teens had their children, parents, and grandparents Fertello from Newberg, Oregon, was WILLOW CREEK party Friday evening, and the pri­ enjoyed the fun and food for several guest speaker. They returned home Kansas City, Missouri mary classes were given a Christmas hours before going to the sanctuary Sunday afternoon. party at the church by their teachers just before midnight to welcome the There were many activities during on Saturday afternoon. Also, the new year with songs, prayer and the holidays. The Sunday school junior boys had an enjoyable time praise, concluding with the ringing Christmas program was given Sun­ at their party. of the bell at midnight, supervised day afternoon, December 10, to a Sunday night, December 17, the traditionally by Rueben Aitken. full house. For the morning service children's choir, consisting of ages Cold weather has temporarily on December 17, Dwaine Williams 6-8, presented a program of music slowed the gym construction, but directed the choir in singing the can­ and the senior youth group present­ most of the framing of the first floor tata, "There'll Always Be a Christ­ ed the Christmas play. Afterwards, is completed. The big beams and mas." That evening everyone went the youth treated the congregation the floor joists for the second floor caroling from 5:30 to 9, then met at to an open house in the educational have been cut by Dan Baxter and the Ron Watson home for chili. On wing of the church. Roy Jabusch at Roy's mill. The sec­ December 24, the Children's Church Christmas Eve, the children pre­ ond floor framing will be next on the caroled at a nursing home and gave out bookmarks they had made. sented their program consisting of schedule. Funds and volunteer help The enclosed picture shows one Twenty-nine adults enjoyed a New a portrayal of the nativity scene and continue to come in from the com­ physical improvement resulting from singing a selection of carols. Each munity and the church people, and Year's Eve party at the Louis Becker renewed interest and enthusiasm in person brought their candles to this we praise the Lord for help and home. The evening was spent play­ the Willow Creek Friends Church. service, and their candle was lighted blessings as we all work together for ing games, cooking with fondue Money for the materials was raised pots, and having a devotional as the as testimonies were voiced for the Him. by the FY group. The time and talent Lord. new year approached. SHERWOOD, Oregon necessary for constructing and Seven senior high youth and their erecting the sign were donated by ROSE HILL, Kansas sponsors, Dwaine and Becky Wil­ The first half of the church year other members of the church. Other Sunday, February 18, has been we had an increase over last year of liams, reported a great time of bless­ improvements accomplished over ing at Midwinter at Twin Rocks, Ore­ designated as Alden and Rolena 17 percent in Sunday school, 12 per­ the past few months include painting gon, December 28-January 1. Pitts Day. To honor 10 years of ser­ cent in family hour, and 20 percent the church exterior and installing a vice as pastors of this congregation in prayer meeting. We are thankful for the working of new carpet in the parsonage living the Holy Spirit in our midst and for and 40 years in the ministry, the 11 We have completed the new par­ room. a.m. service will be dedicated to sonage, and our pastors have moved the wonderful unity felt among our members. Willow Creek Friends Church was Pastor and Mrs. Pitts. Alden began in. The parsonage was evaluated at recently adopted as the new name his ministry as a student pastor at $30,000, and it was built for a cost for the Kansas City Friends Church the Glendale Meeting near Mullin­ of $20,000. We are thankful for all SPRINGFIELD, Colorado to emphasize a fresh, new outlook ville, Kansas, in 1933, and has served the good volunteer help that was A baby shower was held for the and to provide a locality association the entire time in Kansas Yearly given. newest addition to our pastoral with the nearby Willow Creek apart­ Meeting. Weston Cox will be guest We had over 200 in attendance for family, Danny Lee Whiteman. Sev­ ment complex, which was recently speaker, and family members and our Christmas program. A fellow­ eral gifts were given. completed. friends have been invited as special ship time with homemade candy and Early morning prayer meetings We, as a church, want to praise guests. cookies followed the program. have been started in several indivi­ God for our pastoral leadership and Recognition is to be made of the The watch night service and party dual homes. We have combined our for new interest in the church that Pitts' fortieth wedding anniversary at were well attended with about two prayer requests and are praying has been generated in part by the an open house to be held at the dozen people going bowling after­ specifically for our church and its involvement of some new families. church at 2:30 p.m. The event will ward. need of revival and for several young Through Bible study groups and per­ be hosted by the Pitts' daughters January 7 the high school FY had married couples who are prospects. sonal involvement, we are seeing and their families, Mr. and Mrs. Gene charge of the evening service and Plans are continuing for coopera­ lives changed by the power of God. Jacks, Haviland, Kansas, and Mr. presented an excellent program, tion with other churches in town in A combination of these factors has and Mrs. Stanley Brown, Wichita, "My Sweet Jesus." Key 73. Consideration is being given resulted in some long-range goals Kansas. Thirty-five covenant cards were to the possibility of either a city­ for the church as we try to capture ROSE VALLEY turned in on the first Sunday for the wide Lay Witness Mission or Evan­ a vision of outreach and growth in Key 73 program. gelistic Crusade. the days and years ahead. We want Kelso, Washington We have three students listed in Beginning with a supper, our to thank each one who has shown Thanksgiving-time sharing includ­ Who's Who for 1973-high school, Christmas program was held on the concern for our church, and we ed special emphasis on needs both Dave Whitmore; college, Kathy evening of December 17. The Sun­ would appreciate a continued inter­ at home and abroad. The WRC film Haisch and Dwight Minthorne. day school superintendent explained est in your prayers.

February, 1973 25 Leslie Lyn, November 29, 1972, in LINDSAY-HARVEY. Sandy Lindsay Ponape, Caroline Islands. and Robert Harvey January 20, 1973, Northridge Friends, Wichita, Kansas. SNOOK-Mr. and Mrs. Donald Snook, Williamsport Friends, Pennsylvania, POWELL- PENROSE. Betty Jean a daughter, Stephanie Diann, Octo­ Powell and John R. Penrose, Decem­ ber 19, 1972. ber 23, 1972, Plains Friends, Kansas. Friends TUNING-Mr. and Mrs. James Tun­ REDFERN-SCOTT. Julia Redfern and ing, Woodland Friends, Kamiah, Terry Scott January 20, 1973, Alva Idaho, a son, Kevin Miles, November Friends, Oklahoma. 16, 1972. SMITHERMAN-LEHMAN. Joy Smith­ record ZIRKLE-Mr. and Mrs. Ed Zirkle, Bel­ erman, Greenleaf Friends, Idaho, lefontaine Friends, Ohio, a daughter, and James Lehman December 9, Ada Mae, December 15, 1972. 1972. STEINHAUER- INGRAM. Rebecca Steinhauer and Roger Ingram, Ful­ Elfresh, Fulton Creek Friends, Ohio, MARRIAGES ton Creek Friends, Radnor, Ohio, BIRTHS a daughter, Michelle Renne, Decem­ December 8, 1972. ber 8, 1972. SALAH-QUICK. Jennifer Brinton Sa­ CONN-Mr. and Mrs. Bill Conn, Kent, MELHORN-Lioyd and Beverly Mel­ lah and David Lee Quick, October 8, Washington, a girl, Tricia Renee, Oc­ 1972, Stevenson, Maryland. tober 31, 1972. horn, Sherwood, Oregon, a son, Greg Gerald, October 3, 1972. FLINT-MOORE. Nyla Flint and Mark DEATHS CROSSER-Mr. and Mrs. Robert MURRAY-To Mr. and Mrs. David Moore, Pringle Friends, Salem, Ore­ Crosser of Damascus Friends, Ohio, gon, in Rudyard, Montana, Decem­ CRAVEN-Alta Almeda Craven, 85, a daughter, Carrie Diane. Murray, Mount Carmel Friends, Min­ go, Ohio, a son, David Wayne, born ber 29, 1973. charter member Woodland Friends HEATON-Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hea­ December 21, 1972. Church, Idaho, December 23, 1972. KAMPH-HAWKINS. Karla Margaret ton, Ypsilanti Friends, Michigan, a RIGGENBACK-L. H. Riggenback, daughter, Sarah Irene, December 2, PARCELL-Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Par­ Kamph and Walter Dean Hawkins of cell of First Friends, Newport News, December 1972, Alva Friends, Okla­ 1972. North Valley Friends, Newberg, Ore­ homa. Virginia, a son, Shawn Alan, Novem­ gon, December 16, 1972. HELM-Wendell and Betty Helm, a ber 19, 1972. JOHNSON-BONNER. Dorothy Ellen WALSER-Lora M. Walser, 94, De­ girl, Lacy Lynn, August 1972, Chan­ cember 26, 1972, Emporia, Kansas. dler Friends, Oklahoma. RIGGS-Larry and Linda Riggs, a Johnson and John Bonner, October girl, Rochelle Lynn, December 27, 31, 1972, University Friends, Wichita, WEAVER-Veri C. Weaver, 66, No­ INMAN-Mr. and Mrs. Philip Inman, 1972, Eureka, Kansas. Kansas. vember 21, 1972, Emporia, Kansas. Bellefontaine Friends, Ohio, a daugh­ ter, November 26, 1972. SHONIBER- Lorenzo and Lorry KING- WOOLF. Jenny King and WORTH-John William Worth, De­ (Smith) Shoniber, members of North­ Steven Woolf, Salem Friends, Ohio, cember 25, 1972, Friendswood McELFRESH-Mr. and Mrs. Ben Me- ridge Friends, Wichita, a daughter, December 22, 1972. Friends, Texas.

ware of covetousness~' and to "not store the most accurate text possible to supple­ Books up treasures for yourself on earth." It is ment the Whittier edition of 1871, the Continued instructive for affluent Friends of the Gummere edition of 1922, and the Whit­ twentieth century to realize that London ney edition of 1950. packed into one picture book with ample Yearly Meeting was affronted by the The Journal of John Woolman is truly room remaining to "curb thy tongue" "singularity" of this quiet little man who one of the great devotional classics of from "falsehoods." wore coarse, undyed cloth and a plain Christendom. Like Francis of Assisi, he These three picture books will stir the white hat and whose deep convictions sought to devote himself completely to imagination and thinking of our children against slavery were already beginning to Jesus Christ. Early in his life he wrote, from kindergarten to grade three. Their move the hearts of American Quakers. "through the revelation of Jesus Christ, appeal to this audience and the intriguing I have seen the happiness of humility, portrayal of Friends may well provide the Henry Cadbury is a historian's de­ light. Although he probably tells more and there was an earnest desire in me to subtle persuasion needed to remind us enter deep into it" (p. 35). From his of what it is to be a people called than you want to know about Woolman's refusal to support or sanction slavery to Quakers, and slowly we may realize that journey and the ministry to London his final journey to London to encourage these vivid books with simple text are Yearly Meeting in 1772, this little mono­ Quakers to faithful commitment to Jesus among the most significant of this decade graph sparkles with documentary gems Christ, he demonstrated spiritual guid­ to us. -Fredrick C. Boots lifted out of letters and journals from people who responded to Woolman's ance. We today are rediscovering his in­ *Anne Commire, Something About the ministry. Such was the young Friend sight that love and truth cohere. Wool­ Author. V.2. Gale, 1971. p.248 Tabitha who wrote to her friend Sally man saw love in all creatures and shared that although Woolman's uncouth appear­ the compassion of Christ on behalf of Henry J. Cadbury, John Woolman in ance might prejudice many he was never­ all who suffered. We may argue that his England 1772: A Documentary Supple­ theless a deep minister who "searches "Plea for the Poor" is too idealistic. But ment, Friends Historical Society, 1971, things quite to the bottom." there is no doubt that he remains a 142 pages includes index and map, paper­ prophet to all who would live godly lives. After many years of preparation, To read Woolman is to be summoned to back, $4.00. Henry Cadbury's work was completed in The Journal and Major Essays of John priorities, to ask which are the real con­ 1966! Unfortunately it was not printed veniences, how we might properly edu­ Woolman, Phillips P. Moulton, ed., A until 1971. Accordingly there is no men­ Library of Protestant Thought, Oxford cate our children, and how to be true tion of Phillips Moulton's new edition of stewards of the earth. -Arthur Roberts University Press, Inc., 1971, 336 pages the Journal. Dr. Cadbury's endorsement including appendices, biographical notes of Moulton's book appears on the cover, Etta Lynch, Help Is Only a Prayer Away, and index, $10.50. however: "For the first time the modern Fleming H. Revell Co., 158 pages, $3.95. To Quakers, John Woolman is of con­ reader can feel assurance that he has Experiences of individuals who have suf­ tinuing interest. Publication of these two before him a text edited with high stan­ fered physically and mentally with seri­ books in 1971 not only fosters that in­ dards of faithfulness." ous problems in their lives, with the terest but enhances it by increasing docu­ Every Quaker home and every Quaker thought that prayer is available for every mentary reliability about this New Jersey meeting library ought to have this text. need. Interesting but lacking in emphasis tailor whose sensitive spirit so well ex­ Even though some of the changes noted upon prayer and the Christian walk. emplified the words of his master, "be- may seem picayune, it is good to have -Carol Lee

26 Evangelical Friend Over the Teacup being ready to be offered. Few of us go that far. The other day I ran across the word ready seven times in Luke 12:35-40 WANTED in the Living Bible. George Fox Coll ege, Newberg, Now there is something that takes Oregon, has an opening for a full­ preparation of heart and mind and actual time man in its maintenance de­ obedience and involvement! partment. Requirements for the po ilion include a knowledge of Perhaps it would be a good idea to electri cal wmng, plumbing and move on tiptoe in readiness these days. carpentry skil ls, and general me­ There is so much to do. The ills of this chancial abi lities. ff you qualify, world need people who are ready to phone fo r an appointment: (503) serve, ready to share, ready to give, and 538-2101 , e t. 258 ready to go. Stuart Richey And-the Wedding Feast could be any Director of Ph ysical Plant Are you ready? time! D

BY CATHERINE CATTELL There is nothing more frustrating than not being ready for company when the doorbell rings or, maybe, not being ready I LIKE ALDERSGATE JUNIOR MATERIAL in time to catch the plane unless per­ haps it is waiting for others Who are not ready when you are! Now Uncle Elbert was one of those ''As a teacher of junior girls I find that each Sunday men who was always ready on time and something new and exciting can be presented. Just saw to it that all of us on the farm were what the junior needs! The material has been so ready in time for church or school. In stimulating that it has helped me create something the years my brothers and I lived with new and different each Sunday, too. This material has helped me in my goal of leading the junior to a the Benedicts, school meant a three-mile lasting, growing experience with Jesus Christ who is '' drive by horse and buggy, which meant the answer to everything. getting the horse ready as well as us. -Alice L. Gamble For me, it meant getting the breakfast dishes done first and getting my books together and making lunch to carry. Nowadays, we live in an apartment of 12 families. We are the only ones who do not have children with us, so we ob­ serve and hear the frantic last-minute rush to get the children of others off to school. The halls are filled with children's voices saying good-bye and mothers call­ ing, "Hurry and get ready." When we hear the horns outside blowing impatient­ ly, we know someone wasn't ready to go in the car pool. Also, every other family except one or two is busy. The men are working on their doctorates, and their wives work to put them through. What a lot of work is involved in getting ready for a doctors degree! Alice Gamble is a successful Being ready involves more than having teacher of junior girls at Winona hat and coat and books together. There Friends Church, Winona, Ohio. is a readiness of mind and heart to ac­ cept disciplines, to put up with years of inconvenience and hard work. On second thought, perhaps the most frustrating thing is to try to get someone ready who does not have a mind to co­ operate and who is not motivated to do anything about it. I am glad now that For further information Uncle Elbert saw to it that we were ready on the Aldersgate Graded Curriculum write to: ahead of time and worked toward that end. Being ready also means willingness to involve ourselves. "Ready to go; ready G(ORGl fOX PRlSS, P.O . Box 44, Newberg, Oregon 97132 to stay," we sing and then go right on doing what we want to. Paul speaks of

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