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Evangelical Friend, December 1982 /January 1983 (Vol. 16, No. 4/ 5)

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His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. (Continued on page 3) 2 EVANGELICAL FRIEND

Senator Mark Hatfield is a controversial person. His clear Christian testimony and political positions seem to be in conflict for A one of two groups: 1. those who view political issues more conservatively, and 2. those who view Christianity more liberally. Featured in the October 22 issue of BEnER Christianity Today, Mark Hatfield describes his spiritual pilgrimage from a "disdainful attitude toward fundamentalists." "Finally," he says, "/reached a point where I had WAY to make some kind of commitment to Jesus Christ as Lord and Master as well as Redeemer. That commitment was my real encounter with Christ.'' His alternative to Christian organizations who take positions, disseminate literature and propound the Christian position on government and national policies is: "the living presence of Christ in the life of the believer in every facet of society. Christ TOIMRD calls us to be leaven, the light, the salt. Those elements are known for their capacity to make an impact, to influence, to transform their environment. Christian political action tends to pull apart. We have a greater power, the power of the Holy Spirit working wfthin us, expressed in love, compassion, and the other fruit of the Spirit. Why should we reduce that power, PfACE thinking we're enhancing it through organizations?" The following article regarding a nuclear freeze originally appeared in the BY MARK 0. HATFIELD Oregonian newspaper May 2, 1982, and is used with permission.

"THERE is no issue at stake-no more than "big bombs." The bomb dropped on Hiroshima hope, no fear, nothing to which we that day was primitive by modern standards. Many of the aspire, nothing we like to avoid­ more than 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today con­ ~ which could conceivably be worth a tain 50 times its destructive power, for a total of two million 1111111111 nuclear war, which could conceivably Hiroshimas or four tons of TNT for every man, woman, justify the resort to nuclear weaponry." and child on earth. George Kennen, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet A fundamental reality that generally escapes us even Union. during those fleeting moments when we are forced to think On the morning of August 6, 1945, a massive atomic about nuclear war is that the physical and psychological cloud mushroomed over the city of Hiroshima. Within survival of the Hiroshima victims is largely due to the fact moments, between 100,000 and 140,000 human beings were that a world existed beyond the disaster. As the incredible incinerated. The entire city was laid to waste. I was a magnitude of the destruction became known medical sup­ young naval officer awaiting the invasion of Japan. plies and help of all kinds were channeled to the city. If Because the atomic bomb rendered the invasion unnec­ nuclear weapons are ever used again, and there is increasing essary, it probably saved my life. When I entered Hiro­ reason to believe that they will be used, there will be no out­ shima, the charred bodies were still being pulled out of the side world to come to the aid of the survivors. In other rubble. The horror that I experienced burned a lasting im­ words, the good news about nuclear war is that you will pression in my consciousness. To this day, it serves as a probably be killed; the bad news is that you might survive. philosophical anchor- my beacon of clarity in a political Every American president of the last three decades has arena that turns a deaf ear to those who do not speak the ex­ warned of the danger of nuclear war. Each made grandiose otic language of megatons, kill probability ratios, and other expressions of his desire to eliminate nuclear weapons from terms that desensitize us to the true nature of nuclear war. the earth; yet the accumulation of nuclear weapons has con­ I had experienced the ugly reality of war in the Pacific tinued unabated. Perhaps this is because the driving force theater but this was something entirely different. I was not behind nuclear weapons technology derives not from the the only person to conclude that unleashing of the atom military or the White House, but rather from a complex of against innocent human beings was probably the most sig­ scientists and technologists who are merely doing their jobs. nificant moment in the history of mankind since the cruci­ That "job" is replacing and improving upon current weap­ fixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. ons systems. According to the Chief Scientific Advisor to There were voices then, as there are voices now, offer­ every British Prime Minister of Defense since the second ing curious reassurance that nuclear weapons are nothing world war, Lord Zukerman, "The researchers in the nuclear DECEMBER 1982/JANUARY 1983 3

weapons laboratories of both sides have succeeded in cre­ someone had not devised the means to make them possible. ating a world with an irrational foundation, on which a new In the nuclear age the reverse is true. Everything we have set of political realities has in turn had to be built. Casting and everything we are will cease to exist unless we wipe out spells that embrace us all, they may never have been in bat­ effectively the cancerous desire to improve upon our ability tle, they may never have experienced the devastation of to inflict mass destruction. war; but they know how to devise the means of destruction. There are those who disagree. The Reagan Adminis­ And the more destructive power there is, so, one must tration is currently pursuing a $4.2 billion program to assume they imagine, the greater chance of military relocate the American public in the event of imminent success." threat of nuclear war. It envisages moving Americans from Nuclear weapons, then, pose to Americans a logic con­ 380 "high risk" areas to a number of host areas throughout trary to everything they know and respect about progress. the country. With boundless hope for the future an admin­ The impressive level of civilization we have attained is based istration spokesman pointed out that "we might ask people on technological innovation that turned dreams into reality. to take food with them." The objective of this scheme, Our great cities and industries could not have been born if stemming from the belief that a nuclear exchange would be

created: to love God with all the heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbors as ourselves. Help us to know that there is only one ruler, and that you, Lord God, are that 1 One, and that your Son has come to preach the Good News to those who are near F 1FIE and to those who are far off. BY T. CANBY JONES His name shall be called Help us to enlist in this war of Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Lamb against all evil, and the Everlasting fUther, the Prince of Peace. to consecrate our lives to you (Continued from cover) as the one king, ruler, and F THE INCREASE of his govern­ Lord, to whom we owe allegiance, whose conflict is fought O ment and peace there shall be no with the weapons of love, truth, and righteousness- and end. Why do the nations rage? He that above all with the sword of the Spirit, to cut down all the evil sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the in Pentagon and Kremlin, and to enter the fearful, paranoid Lord shall have them in derision. He hearts of all those in governments who build up weapons to shall break them to pieces. destroy humanity. Help us to know that there is one Prince Do we really believe that he is Counsellor? Everlasting of Love, who with his sword of Light will wipe out these Father? Mighty God? Prince of Peace? And that of his weapons and bury them in the bottom of the sea. Help us as government there shall be no end? people and nations and countries to trust in your cross and your power, which is the only power that redeems and de­ Beware the wrath of the Lamb. The Lamb is pictured as livers, that saves us and brings us to our knees in repentance a mighty warrior, riding on a white horse. He shall be called and forgiveness and new life. King of Kings, Lord of Lords, and out of his mouth comes a Give us a vision, Lord, of your peaceable kingdom, sharp sword with which to smite the nations. which you have endowed for your children on this earth, as Thousands of people have engaged in demonstrations promised in the Scriptures by the prophets and by our Lord for a nuclear freeze, and the churches have been at the heart himself. Give us courage to be your prophets and apostles, of this movement toward national repentance. Lord, make it and bearers of the Good News that if we give ourselves to happen! Keep it up, so that it becomes more than a fear of you, you will bring peace to each of our hearts, and to every destruction, but becomes a national awareness of your sword tongue and every nation on your green earth. Give us a sense of Truth, which cuts down all evil and all the workings of that this work has already begun in our midst, and that Satan, the prince of darkness, and brings us to our knees and others have also begun to spread abroad the Good News and to the feet of you-the Prince of Peace-so that all nations to bear the Lord's banner, so that we can say with Paul, will remember the purpose for which human beings were "Thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us together in triumph, spreading the fragrance of the knowledge of him T. Canby Jones is professor of religion at Wilmington everywhere." College, Wilmington, Ohio. This spontaneous prayer for Make us worthy to be this kind of servants and apostles peace is reprinted from New Foundation Papers with and visionaries and martyrs for your Son, the ruler of all permission. nations, who loved us and gave himself for us. @iii] 4 EVANGELICAL FRIEND

"survivable" with advance preparation, is to enable 80 per­ thousands of times more resistent to radiation than hu­ cent of the American population to survive a nuclear mans, also will multiply. Their natural predators such as attack. birds will be blinded or perish. The insect population will Contrast this strange optimism with Dr. Helen Kaldi­ enlarge rapidly and spread swiftly into areas beyond the cott's description of what can be expected following a blast site eating crops and spreading uncontrollable infesta­ tion leading eventually to epidemics of such diseases as nuclear war. hepatitis, polio, typhoid, and dysentery." "Millions of rotting corpses, particularly in hot weath­ A National Academy of Sciences study estimates that if er, will cause radiation resistent strains of bacteria, fungi and viruses to multiply and mutate- even to become more only 10 percent of the superpowers' nuclear arsenals were virulent. Insects such as cockroaches and flies, which are (Continued on page 25)

the times when your head is in the sand. You have to be watching. It's like Yogi Berra said: "You can observe a lot just by 1RE CHRISFIAN watching." My chief concern is not to suggest spe­ cific courses of action in an age of nuclear AND1RE holocaust possibilities. I'm not even per­ suaded the best approach is to stand or sit on the steps of the White House or before NUCLFARAGE Congress to witness to the sin of possible self-extermination. Neither am I opposed BY MARVIN HEIN to those who feel they wish to express their concerns in those ways. ON'T worry rator say: "There is no survival that has What I feel most strongly is that we need Dabout nuclear social value in a nuclear war." An ordinary to be people who understand the times. We war in the United nuclear bomb today has the clout of 80 need to know the potential of nuclear war­ States. Relax! Our Hiroshima A-bombs. "It is highly probable fare. And once we understand the times, government is pre­ that the survivors in such a blast would envy we need to give ourselves to prayerful inter­ pared. The Post Of­ the dead," said a doctor who referred to this cession for the world. Our congregations fice Department has specially prepared issue as "the ultimate medical issue of our need to know about the powder keg on "change of address" cards so that forcibly time." which the word sits, and then lead them to a evacuated citizens can continue to receive I don't like that kind of talk. I'd like to prayerful concern, first of all, for a world their TV Guides and Playboy magazines. think that because it's so terrible it will that could well become a Humpty-Dumpty You might experience a slight inconve­ never happen. I dream that God wouldn't world- where no one can put the pieces nience of having the post offices vaporized, allow such self-destruction to occur. He back together again. but cheer up: the cards are printed. has too much invested in mankind. I'd like The Bible asks us to pray "for kings and A government agency has also prepared to block out all talk about racial suicide. all who are in authority." Why? "In order "relocation rules" to regulate how people When the news gets about so bad, you just that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in can inhabit houses vacated by those who turn off the TV. Just don't listen! all godliness and dignity." There's nothing have been cremated in the holocaust. That is precisely what the Church and quiet, tranquil, godly or dignified about the Relax! The government is prepared to many Christians do. We tune out. We dis­ prospect of the world burned to a crisp. enforce the rules when you, the survivor, regard the uncomfortable and disturbing. God's will is peace and wholeness. We are get ready to occupy the dwelling left by What we don't know won't hurt us, we not simply praying for ourselves when we someone erased from the human race. hope. We stick our heads in the sand and ask God to guide men and women so that a Last week I viewed a film depicting possi­ believe our lack of knowingness will spare nuclear holocaust does not occur. It's the ble results of a nuclear war on our shores. us from the problem. I submit that a "head whole world for which we pray. The crown My first impression, after several minutes in the sand" posture is not biblical. We are of God's creation (humanity) is at stake. of viewing those gory, horror pictures, was stewards of this earth- and of human lives. The feverish, impetuous movement of to say: "Just don't expose me to this whole We can't shut our eyes to worldwide de­ one irrational madman could trigger the fir­ rotten business." We were encouraged to struction possibilities. ing of a fateful bomb. That would be terri­ show this film to our congregations. After In 1 Chronicles 12:32 the sons of Issachar ble if it landed in our country. But would it five minutes I decided it would be too terri­ are described as "men who understood the be any less terrible if its origin was Wash­ ble. As the film continued I heard the nar- times." That understanding led them to ington, D.C., and its destination was Ha­ Marvin Hein is pastor of the North "knowledge of what Israel should do." In vana or Warsaw or Moscow? We are urged Fresno Mennonite Brethren Church in similar fashiol). we read in Esther 1:13 of the to pray for all kings and authorities, not Fresno, California. This article is king who spoke to the wise men of that day simply those kings who are on our side. We reprinted from the West Coast Mennonite -and they are described as people "who need both to discern the times and pray for Central Committee Memo with understood the times." It's our business to all men- and perhaps then God will guide permission. know the times. And you can't understand us to further actions. rn DECEMBER 1982/JANUARY 1983 5

MARK 0. HATFIELD ABETTER WAY COVER TOWARD PEACE Most of us are alarmed by the volatile state of 2 world affairs and find along with Mr. Quaker star­ tling contrasts between the essence of Christmas T. CANBY JONES BEWARE THE WRATH and world situations. (Cartoon by Ray Bennett) OF THE LAMB ANTECEDENTS 3 "President Eisenhower said upon leaving office that one of these days the people would make the MARVIN HEIN THE CHRISTIAN AND governments of the world stand aside and let them have peace." This statement comes from Mark THE NUCLEAR AGE Hatfield in this month's lead article. 4 More than one in four voters responded to nu· clear freeze resolutions November 2. Eight states FRANCES DeVOL CHRISTMAS and the District of Columbia approved resolutions. This nuclear freeze movement often reflects hu­ WILLIAM EZRA DeVOL FEATURES manitarian concern rather than Christian convic· 6 tion. And some Christians, even within Friends WAYNE L. CONANT circles, see peace as one of the electives of the CATHERINE CATTELL Gospel. But for those of us who see the clear command of Christ through word and example TINA KNIGHT MISSIONARY VOICE: calling for nonretaliation, opposition to the foolish expenditure of human and natural resources for OUR 'PAWICHI' ••• the building of a stronger military defense be· 9 comes an act of obedience to Christ. NOT BEAUTIFUL, Our motivation for peace becomes important as BUT OURS! we present a way of life rather than just a position on a national issue. As followers of Christ we do JANET TRAVISS INCLUDING SINGLE· not have the option of distancing ourselves from the biblical standards of peace because others ap­ PARENT FAMILIES proach the issue from a different direction or 26 because a Reader's Digest editor writes a McCarthy-type piece about communist penetra­ tion of the United States peace movement. STANLEY PERISHO ON PREACHING "Let's Be Friends" (page 10) and the editorials (page 11) complement nicely the three presenta· 2 lions of the nuclear armament concern on pages 2·4. "The Bible witnesses clearly that God cannot abide callousness and carnage," writes Howard Macy, "for it violates His loving purpose for all of REGULAR FEATURES creation. The issues may vary, but the compassion of God remains the same." Let's Be Friends 10/ The Sense of the Meeting 11/ The Face of the World 12 Let me recommend that you use one, if not all First Day News 13/ A Certain Shaft of Light 17/ Books 17/ The Family Room 19 four, of the Christmas features on pages 6-8 for out loud family reading. Friends Concerns 20/ Friends Gather 23/ Friends Record 24 May the peace of Christ be yours this Christmas season and throughout the new year. -D.L.M.

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BY FRANCES DEVOL BY WILLIAM EZRA DEVOL

HRISTMAS Day of become a part of our family. Recalling past " HEN they had seen 1965 was unlike any memories was too nostalgic. I must turn HIM, they spread the other we had ever known. First, we were in my thoughts to this present day. The ques­ word concerning what had been told them the rugged Himalayan country of Nepal. tion in my mind, what does the Lord have about this CHILD." (Luke 2:17 NIV) Secondly, we were alone on Christmas day for us, was still unanswered. How does one convey a new idea? You for the first time. Thirdly, we had no plans Ah- a knock at the door! Who would it will talk about it, of course, probably using for the day. The previous two weeks had be? It was our hospital dietitian, Miriam your hands in appropriate gestures. If you been full of activities with many different Krantz, with the news that there were sev­ are going to do it before a group you may groups. Now all was quiet- too quiet! We eral people who had not received invitations use charts or diagrams, or an overhead pro­ were far from home, and family, and no from the western community for Christmas jector, or slides. If the news is very impor­ plans of our own. dinner. tant, you will use all the means at your The day was crystal clear; bright sunlight Here was the answer to our question! The disposal to make the message clear. contrasted the eternal snows with the azure Lord's surprises are always on time! What Visual aids are especially helpful when blue beyond. It was a lovely day, just the could be better than to share our home with one faces the challenge of crossing cultural kind to hold one of God's surprises. those who like ourselves were far from their and language barriers. We have endeav­ What would it be? families? ored to make the historical reality of It was easy to relive old memories of this The invitations were out immediately and Christ's birth come alive to our neighbors in special day with our children. They had soon eager guests were coming to lend help­ India and Nepal by means of drama, a brought so much joy into our lives, but now ing hands for a festive Christmas. Joy of method they use very well themselves. three of them were married and they would joys! There were three children, one a Our hospital complex in Chhatarpur, In­ be having family gatherings at home, and Nepali lad who had accompanied the village dia, is uniquely suited for this. Our "L" perhaps they too were remembering those health nurse. There was much laughter and shaped building is lined with verandas on precious Christmases we had shared. Our sharing of the customs and traditions from the sides facing the central court. We use youngest, Philip, was traveling with friends other lands as we prepared food and dec­ the separate archways as the settings for from W oodschool school in India. We orated the room. We had to use what we Nazareth, Mary's home, and Joseph's car­ were happy to have word he had reached had at hand, gifts appeared from "some­ penter shop. At a little distance is the home the Hess home in time for this day. In three where" and were placed under the tree while of Zechariah and Elizabeth. The chief days we would join them to share Christmas the children watched with wide-eyed ex­ focus of attention is on the manger scene at and Council meetings. Jamie Sandoz was citement! Bethlehem and its nearby field, where shep­ accompanying us. Jamie, a Quaker from Finally with everything ready we gathered herds huddle about a fire watching their Northwest Yearly Meeting, had joined our around the beautiful table to offer grateful sheep. Fortunately the hospital has a flat staff as a laboratory technician and had praise in song and prayer. Here we were roof in just the right place for the angels to sharing a Christmas dinner prepared by suddenly appear and startle the shepherds Dr. Ezra and Frances DeVol, now living celebrants from Australia, Great Britain, into action- causing them to pick up their in Newberg, Oregon, are inspiring Germany, Nepal, and America. We were smallest lambs and go to Bethlehem to see examples of Christian dedication to the experiencing the "Good Tidings of Great entire Evangelical Friends Alliance. Joy" in a new way- the aloneness had van­ Veteran missionaries to China, Nepal, and India, their memories of Christmas ished. Once again our Lord had shown us are shared to make this season more His love in a special time of need and meaningful to us all. turned it into an unforgettable celebration! The spontaneity of our gladness was not something contrived- it was an exuberance unplanned- to borrow the words of C. S. Lewis, we were "SURPRISED BY JOY!" onder Christmas Is IWJ Joyful News BY WAYNE L. CONANT

for themselves whether this wonderful "D BRING you the most and throngs of visitors to Bethlehem. It message of the coming of their Messiah is joyful news ever was the same old story, and to many in the really true. announced, and it is for everyone!" (Luke building it was just a rerun, something to be King Herod's court is decorated with all 2:10 LB) done every year- a tradition. the splendor of a Maharaja's palace, and It was Christmas Eve- a perfect night for However, the family who played the part the Temple where the Holy Child is taken the Christmas program. The moon and of Joseph, Mary, and the baby Jesus was for dedication has been thoughtfully stars shone brightly in a cloudless sky. The not following a tradition. This was the first planned, including the provision of two sparkling snow reflected the lights from year in their four years of marriage that white pigeons required for the ceremony. cars loaded with parents and happy chil­ they really felt a part of the "joyful news for All the animals needed for the Christmas dren as they converged from every direction everyone" crowd. They had been brought story are available, a donkey for Mary to toward the church building, which was through the outreach of the church mem­ ride, the cattle for the manger setting, located in the center of the village. There bers earlier in the fall. These young parents horses for the Roman soldiers, and three was hardly enough parking space. Down had much to learn through experience and camels for the wise men. (One year when the narrow sidewalks came people all bun­ diligent study, but they were making a our friends from the villages brought in dled in heavy winter coats, boots, and furry meaningful beginning. four camels, we used the fourth one to bear mittens. A young teen, standing third from the the gifts for the Christ child.) There was standing room only inside the right in the choir, sings "0 Little Town of The story unfolds as our chaplain reads church. The coat hooks on the back wall Bethlehem" with the joy of heaven in her from Micah and Isaiah, and from the New were bulging with coats, and the extras were face. Her commitment at summer camp Testament accounts. Light illuminates the piled on the rickety table in the corner. was reason enough to see and feel new characters who, being very appropriately There was the inconvenience of tightly meaning in these "old carols." garbed, pantomime their responses to the packed benches, but no one seemed to mind The tall slender young man, home from written word. No voice is heard except that too much for this "special night." college for the holidays, stood on the dark of the narrator reading the Holy Scripture The program was scheduled to begin at side of the stage and strummed his guitar to until the last scene, when the entire cast, 6:30 because of the "little ones" and the the tune of another carol, "It Came Upon angels and all the participants, sing together many families who opened their presents at the Midnight Clear." Strange place indeed with great exaltation, "0 come all ye home on Christmas Eve. Even the "seven­ for this young man- enthusiastically taking faithful, joyful and triumphant, 0 come thirty" people didn't make too much fuss part in a church Christmas program. He ye ... come let us adore HIM!" about the "change of meeting" for this had been on "trips," but not trips to church. Indian winter presents an ideal setting for "once a year affair." "After all, you have to Through dedicated and persistent outreach, this drama of dramas; it is so much like that give in a little," they agreed. this youth was caught up in the redemptive of Judea. We are favored with a cool, The subdued whispers of the children love within the church. The spotlight clear, cloudless night, as the stars add their ceased when the organ began to release the focused on him, and it seemed that "Angels sparkling authenticity to this wondrous familiar notes of "Silent Night, Holy [were] bending near the earth to touch their event. The crowd that came with noisy Night." harps of gold." His face radiated the peace excitement leaves quietly, and, we trust, The program began with the Old Testa­ and joy of new and bold faith. This was thoughtfully considering the wonder of the ment prophecies related to the coming of a truly a trip with real meaning! true story that occurred so long ago, but Redeemer, and closed with the Holy Family There was no spotlight beaming on her, means so much today! in the stable. The story was depicted by the but four pews from the front and next to small choir, narrators, angels, shepherds, the center aisle sat one on whom "the light Wayne Conant is pastor of the Omaha, Nebraska, Friends Church. Wayne recounts one of our holiday traditions- the Christmas program- and shares its significance. No Angel Indian Village jn tlleSky at Christmas Time

BY CATHERINE CATTELL of heaven shown." Her hair was as white as niHE camping party had "Please wait," we urged, "you see we the snow that covered the roof of the little U stayed out in the have a message for you shepherds in this big church over her. For more than half a cen­ villages longer than usual, and it was time Book we have brought. You must hear it." tury she had attended these programs. In to get back to the mission station to prepare The men looked at the Book and out of fact, the first one was when her five-year­ for Christmas. curiosity hesitated. Wives and children old daughter gave the "Welcome." To this Parcels from America were piled high in gathered to see what the delay was about. earthly saint, these times were always new the storeroom waiting for the missionaries We started singing Christmas carols- vil­ and refreshing. As the youth choir sang to gather for the dividing of the gifts and lage style with accordion- and the crowd "Angels, from the Realms of Glory," her food sent out by missionary societies back gathered, bringing earthen bowls of hot lips moved silently with the words, "Come home. I felt the pressure to get back to coals to help them keep warm as they sat and worship, come and worship, Worship attend to the details for making Christmas about on the ground. Christ, the newborn King." Why was this for the women's party at our house. I It was a clear night. The cold bright stars so new, so real? Because, every year for so hoped there would be cake mixes enough to shone down upon us, so close that we could long she always practiced her worship 50 make cakes for the occasion. The women almost touch them. The shepherds were and 2 times a year before the Christmas Eve eagerly awaited cake at Christmas made there. The sheep were huddled together program-"come and worship!" from American boxes. waiting. An old man sat in the second seat from There were the village Christians scat­ Suddenly it was as though we were on the the back on the left side. All during the tered over the area who expected the mis­ Judean hills on the first Christmas night­ program he listened intently as each person sion Jeep with gifts and goodies, especially standing there telling the shepherds that and group did their bit. When the light cake. shepherds like themselves were chosen to shown on "the Shepherds" as they knelt on There were programs to prepare for hos­ hear the message given by angels that unto the hay in the stable, a tear rolled from the pital patients, gifts and programs for ser­ them was born a Savior. old man's eye and ran slowly down his wrin­ vants, orphans, teachers, in addition to the As I spoke I became more aware of the kled face. missionary Christmas and our own family likeness to the first Christmas- the star, the As a final part of the program, everyone Christmas. shepherds, the sheep, the cold clear night. It was invited to sing "Joy to the World, the There was a lot to do and only a few days was as though I was there. I began to ex­ Lord is come." The old man's trembling left. The pressure was on to go back home pect an angel to appear. The stage was set. hands gripped the pew ahead as he pulled and get started, but there was one more But-there was no angel. Instead an inner himself to a standing position. Not know­ village close by. It was a shepherds' vil­ voice said to me, "You are it!" It was my ing the words of the song, he listened and lage- one we had never visited. We, the great joy and honor to announce for the absorbed its message. few men and two women in our party, de­ very first time to those gathered together Quickly, he searched for his coat in the cided that we must go to them before before me, "Unto you is born a Savior." pile on the rickety table. As he trudged returning home. No, there was no angel in the sky that homeward that night, the frozen snow It was evening when we arrived, and the night, but we who were messengers of Glad crunched beneath his feet. The salty tear shepherds had eaten their evening meal and Tidings returned to the Christmas prepara­ froze on his leathery skin as he headed into were starting back up to the hill beyond to tion with a new realization that the angels' the stinging north wind, but his heart was watch their flocks. message of the first Christmas was ours to strangely warmed. He sensed an angel give. In fact, we are the angels commis­ walking beside him saying, "Don't be Catherine Cattell, loved and respected as sioned to go and tell all nations. afraid! I bring you the most joyful news a missionary, writer, and Quaker leader, Christmas was special that year, and as I ever announced, and it is for everyone!" now lives in Newberg, Oregon. She look back, it was my favorite. ["f

We would make our first stop at the home of a layman, Juan. Surprise! He ~OUR was at home- had just walked in and was leaving again. "I'm so glad you came! We're all meeting down at the church lot; 'PAWICHI'* come on down." Off he went and we followed. The noise of hammers, saws, and much IIIII IIIII Ill BfAUriFUL, advice met us as we pushed open the old rusty gate. Everyone was busy. Women were cleaning the last crusty grains of rice URS! from large kettles while children played in the sand at their feet. Mama Catalina BY TINA KNIGHT straightened rusty nails that were to be used again. Gregorio set studding in place (Too long? Just dig the hole deeper). Maximo nailed siding supports. It didn't matter when the door hung at a rakish angle. And the siding? Ah, that versatile bamboo mat, They came one by one. Carefully picking had continually sliced all who didn't agree used for walls, roofs, rugs, sleeping mats, their way down dark, narrow, rock-strewn with her, had renounced their position and etc., was quickly tacked on. And Ilario, streets, pulling their shawls or coats close to left the flock to fend for itself. with his know-it-all attitude, bossed the keep out the damp sea mist, talking softly The flock met for many months in the in bewildered, frightened tones, they large room of a not-too-faithful brother. job. (They couldn't get along without him, but many can't get along with him, either!) arrived at the office of the General Sec­ But the day came when they were forced to So in a short time walls and roof were in retary of Housing Development. Word look for another place of worship. They place. spreads fast in the sleepy little fishing had property, but no building. So, dis­ But wait, it's not finished yet . . . They village of Ilo, Peru, so everyone knew the couraged and without a leader, they dis­ proudly anchored to the flat bamboo roof a reason Friends were gathering- to defend banded. Months went by. Now and then large sign that read La Iglesia Nacional their rights- to fight for their land, if need missionaries and brethren from neighboring Tacna visited the area, trying to reunite the Evangelica Los Amigos de I/o, announcing be! to all that an Evangelical Friends Church Their sluggish, lackadaisical attitudes group, but to no avail. was in occupancy. Then two by two the were jolted upon hearing words from the However, all was not lost. God was brethren carried benches and pulpit from a magistrate: their unoccupied property was watching over His children. If needed, He neighboring house, and we promptly met to be parceled out to others . . . eight would allow opposition to draw them inside for a praise service. others had asked to live on it ... the together again- opposition from without Again on Monday evening we all met in rusting corrugated fence was an to bring unity within. And a spirit of love "eyesore" their new bamboo building. And what a to the community ... besides, there was and cooperation would very soon pervade a refreshing time! The Holy Spirit knit objection to an evangelical church being once-divided group. Let me share with you hearts together, melted stony opposition, how we witnessed this remarkable transfor­ built there, and no written permission had and prompted a reconciliation meeting that been given for such. (With this last state­ mation. brought tears, words of confession and par­ ment, Ilario quickly showed a photostatic Several times we'd planned a trip to Ilo, don, and left us with that warm feeling of copy of the permission given many months but each time had been hindered. Finally, love toward one another. earlier, signed by the former magistrate.) in desperation, we left early Sunday morn­ The light of flickering candles reminded So, convinced of their rights, at 11:30 p.m. ing with many doubts running through our them of their need for electric lights. Prices the little group of Friends marched out into minds: were going up, so that night, one by one, the night, determined to occupy their own ... they need us here in Arequipa to be they came forward an.d placed their offer­ church property even though they had no with the Israel group today. It's such a new ings on the pulpit-$90! Enough for the building on it! group and they know so little of the Word. electric installation; thank You, Lord! ... tomorrow, Monday, probably won't Ilo Friends had become an every-man­ But that wasn't all. Money still came, be a good time for finding people at home for-himself church. At one time atten­ this time for in Ilo, and we simply must visit with the 13 sacks of cement. "Now dance ran in the 70's, with close to 90 on we'll start making cement blocks to replace main laymen of the church. special occasions. But criticism had eaten the old iron fence, and then we'll build our . . . there is so much pessimism, negative the soul of the meeting. The pastor, who church!" talk, and criticism there. How can we had enjoyed his title but not its respon­ Excitement ... Enthusiasm ... Togeth­ counsel them without being critical of the sibilities, and his wife, whose quick tongue erness . . . Love! You can feel it among troublemakers? the brethren at Ilo now. And, as they gaze But we drove on, five long hours over the Roscoe and Tina Knight began their with shining eyes at their little bamboo desert, through mountains, around sand missionary career in Bolivia in 1945. They church, you can hear them say, "This old dunes and boulders, finally arriving at the have served also in Peru and Mexico City pawichi isn't beautiful, but it's OURS!" ~ and are presently stationed at Arequipa, coast, a bay tucked under the shelter of Peru. giant dunes. *Aymara word meaning shack. 10 EVANGELICAL FRIEND

Let's Be Friends BY HowARD MACY

long embrace "Children of Light" who dally with such darkness until its shadow dims and even extinguishes their beacon altogether. The love of God also requires us to live the truth. We cannot talk peace at the meetinghouse and vote war at the polls. We cannot laud self-sacrifice and generosity in Sunday school and applaud the politics and economics of greed at the office. If Chris­ tian commitment and the real world inter­ sect at all, then the people of God must actively cultivate justice, the care of the needy, and the healing of individuals and of the structures of society. God surely will require of each one a different role, but in no case will obedience demand idle com­ placency. This is hardly a call for political or social action for its own sake, but for faithful ser­ vice that proceeds out of the intimate know­ ledge of God. Too often Friends have acted in a spirit of human wisdom and par­ tisan politics, completely uninformed by prayer and by the power of God. Such activity has often failed and even damaged E F the cause of right. Without prayer, it deserves to fail. On the other hand, there is a type of Idling about on beds of ease wishing for God is rooted deeply in our hearts we begin prayer and prattle of praise that revolts something fancier, they stole from the bed­ to share the divine compassion for the God. To self-righteous Israel came the less poor everything but their underwear. world, a compassion that emerges in both word, "Let me have no more of the din of Rising well rested (and slightly hung over), tenderness and judgment. your chanting, no more of your strumming they went to sing praise to God that He had Having known the love of God, can we on harps. But let justice flow like water chosen them and had provided such do less than experience deep horror at the and integrity like an unfailing stream." bounty. intentional slaughter of innocents in Leb­ (Amos 5:23-24 Jerusalem Bible) Piety and The jarring words of the prophet at the anon and the United States' complicity in politics cannot be separated. Devotion to church door seemed exaggerated and trea­ it? Can our hearts be hardened to families God must penetrate every detail of daily liv­ sonous, full of violence and ruin. They whose members have been spirited away by ing. Anything less fails to understand the seemed so to the prophet, too, but they murderous governments in Central Amer­ meaning of the Gospel. were the only words he had, for he saw the ica? Can we fail to plead for the disadvan­ It has embarrassed me for a long while to world through God's eyes and not through taged instead of hiding, even boldly, behind think that Friends ever held other human the colored lenses of his nation's flag. He Jesus' phrase "the poor are with you beings as slaves, though they did, all the would have preferred silence, but discov­ always" and labeling them all "welfare while comfortably "doing good and doing ered that the fire of love that God enkindled cheats"? The Bible witnesses clearly that well." Change came only when John Wool­ in his heart was also a fire burning in his God cannot abide callousness and carnage, man (and eventually others) challenged bones that seared silence, consumed com­ for it violates His loving purposes for all of them, cherishing absolute devotion to God placency, and demanded unflagging obe­ creation. The issues may vary, but the more than the security of the status quo. In dience to the divine command alone. compassion of God remains the same. this time when Christianity is being pirated To risk seeing the world through God's If we know the heart of God, we, like the away by the spirit of our culture, we, too, eyes always threatens to put us at odds with prophets, must tell the truth: God will not need a people of God who know that faith­ the status quo, for God does not guarantee long endure a nation that uses His holy fulness involves all of life, who will rise to see things as our culture sees them, as we name to hallow its plans for limited nuclear from their beds of ease and who will walk have seen them traditionally, or as we wars, its oppression and neglect of the courageously in the ways of God. would like to see them. Once the love of poor, its greed and its vanity. Nor will God Let's be such a people. Let's be Friends. DECEMBER 1982/JANUARY 1983 11

character, and commitment of our citizenry? David discovered that fact and declared: 'Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; but we will remember the name of the Lord our God."' (Psalm 20:7) (From the Fundamentalist Journal, November 1982, p. 22) It is confusing how one can interpret these same Scriptures as a polemic for more armaments, while another, like myself, as a clear basis for peace and Christian behavior. BY JACK L. WILLCUTS Evangelism, holiness, and peacemaking along with concern for the lost, lonely, destitute, and victims of discrimination are part of the same Gospel. We need authoritative preaching, a holy · Which Voice Do We Hear? life, unity of Christians in the Spirit, and involvement in social issues. "It is always much simpler (and safer) to ignore controversial mat­ ters that need to be examined by church leaders today." So begins an introduction to a new magazine, Fundamentalist Jour­ Chronobiological Devotion nal, published by Jerry Falwell's organization. The articles that follow on capital punishment, war, humanism, and the King Most of us at sometime or other determined to ·match John James Version are indeed controversial. As an evangelical Chris­ Wesley or Martin Luther's example of very early morning tian with deep convictions regarding Friends' understanding of prayers. Some of us have gone to sleep at it, or forced ourselves the Bible and the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, I find com­ to go through with it for awhile with more discipline than plete agreement with only about one statement in the publica­ delight. tion. It is given in a featured reprint sermon from Bob Jones, Sr.: "I know of a certainty that we Christian people can get In spite of the psalmist's preference for being renewed every along if we agree on the essential fundamentals and disagree morning- and the parade of saints of the past insisting (a few about what we don't agree about ...." quite fiercely) that true spirituality required devotions at dawn or before- it just may be some equally holy Christians are more So many voices offer many counsels. Another of these is regularly blessed at other spiritually peak times. Richard Niebuhr in his treatise on The Responsibility of the Church for Society: "Christian people may need to find their Why not give our most productive time of the day to prayer? It way today, as in some past periods of confusion, by means of may or may not be at daylight. This idea may find support in simple, democratic, equalitarian discussion and decision, relying the merging field of science called chronobiology. Chrono­ on no dominant human leader but on the Spirit in the churches. biology holds the promise of improving our work, our learning, However that may be, the time requires of all Christian folk' in and our health by allowing us to understand the daily cycle of all these associations profound and continuous thought on the energy and rest our bodies go through. Something called "circa­ great issues of human life." dian" ("about a day") cycles occur in most people. Body temperature, blood pressure, respiration, brain waves, and a lot Another voice, Ted Engstrom, upon assuming the presidency of of chemical levels in the blood rise and fall over a roughly World Vision fears most "the inroads of affluence and content­ 24-hour period. All these vary from person to person. ment with isolation from the needs and hurts of the world. I fear a collapse of the whole world's economic systems. I think Industry and educators are taking note of this and have designed we're in an apocalyptic age. The nuclear age is the most "flextime" since people work and study best when they feel like dangerous age we've had since Adam ... these could well be the it, or are more alert and energetic. days just before Jesus returns, but we are to occupy until He The idea of doing things when the mind and body are at peak comes." efficiency should be discovered and then given to the Lord. God From Dresden, East Germany, Billy Graham tells 7,000 people, made both "day" people and "night" people. most of them young, packed into the city's largest church, which seats only 3,500, that it is the duty of Christians to help to solve world problems. He described the arms race as the most dif­ A Missed Opportunity? ficult problem. He pointed out that the atomic bomb does not explode of its own accord, someone has to press the button. No Upon the death of Soviet Premier Brezhnev it crossed my mind ideology, he said, could give a person the amount of love what a splendid opportunity for our President to plan an im­ necessary to maintain peace- only faith in God could do that. mediate conversation with his successor to talk about our mutual This is an important point (doctrine). Only the power of the interests for peace. It was reassuring to read that Secretary of Holy Spirit can enable one to love one's enemies; that is why State Schultz and National Security Advisor Clark urged the Jesus sent the Spirit. Enemies seem to exist in every sphere­ same thing. They proposed Mr. Reagan attend the funeral as a sometimes in families, sometimes in the church, the community, gesture of concern and thus place the U.S. President and the and behind the Iron Curtain. How is it that a devout writer on new Premier in a setting congenial for uninhibited diplomacy. "War Is the Will of God!" can quote John 19:10, 11, "The How sad our President rejected this opportunity! Without even powers that be are ordained of God" and also insist that "our this willingness to build bridges of understanding and trust, the real defense as a nation rests in the spiritual convictions, arms race will undoubtedly accelerate. ~ EVANGELICAL FRIEND

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First Day News

QUICK QUAKER COMMENTARY

DONA.LD ::;FEEt!, )l, the past thr·ee srJd c half j'ears 0 :hairmar1 nf the pastnral tPFIITJ at ReedwxJJ Frier,ds Churcr1, Portlanrl, 0reior,, died November 16. Dnn never regained consciousnec::s after injury in an accirler,t while cutting firewood in the :'orest. A frequent speaker at QuakPr conference2 and gatherings, Don Green is held in high esteem, not only by Friends, but by the wider Christian community. This summer he was keynote speaker at the Friends World Conference in Kaimosi, Kenya, and spoke at the sessions of London Yearly Meetir€. A memorial service was held November 20 at Reedwood Friends Church led by Jack L. Willcuts. Other speakers were Robert HPss, Eric Mueller, Dea Cox, and Vaughan Palmore. Survivors include his wife, Ellie, their four children, and his parents, Dr. William and Mary Green.

EL.3IE MATTI, 91, died November 12 at Salem, Ohio. Elsie, a recorded minister, and her husband, Charles, served Evar~elical Friends Church--Eastern Region as pas­ tors and missionaries. The Mattis we-i:·e missionaries in China and in Taiwan from 1925 to 1957. For the past 1~ years Elsie has been an active member of the Beloit Friends Church. John Morris presided at funeral services conducted November 15 at East Goshen FriPnds Church. The life and ministry of Elsie Matti was featured in the article "Quaker Women: Reflections from History and Example" in thP February 1982 Evangelical Friend.

DR. JDHN CHAPPELL, missionary educator in Taiwan since 1952, passed away October 26 in Chungli, Taiwar1. In 1956 John and Rachel Chappell started Sheng-te Christian College. Prior to going to Taiwan, he was a chemistry professor and served as a Friends pastor. The Chappells were members of the Friends church in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. HOWARD MOORE, field superintendent of the Taiwan Friends Mission, gave the memorial message at the service November 7. John Chappell was 91; his wife preceded him in death a year ago.

FRIENDS FOCUS

TEXAS CHURCHES BACK AUSTIN OUTREACH

Paul and Leona Thornburg have for several months been traveling to various cities in Texas where fellowship groups are meeting in the name of Friends. It has been recently decided that the Thornburgs will focus on the fellowship in Austin, and they have located there. They have contact with eight families and several univer­ sity students. Services are held Sunday morning, and there are two weeknight Bible study groups. This outreach is a project of Texas Area Friends churches.

VOL 1, NO. 1

Two new newsletters have appeared in Northwest Yearly Meeting--"Priscilla Papers 11 and "YAF News." The NWYM Task Force on Women chose the name of a New Testament woman of "courage, leadership, knowledge, understanding, and an excellent reputa­ tion11 for their newsletter. 11 YAF News 11 is the communication piece of Young Adult Friends of Northwest Yearly Meeting. 14 EVANGELICAL FRIEND

FUM GENERAL BOARD ACCEPTS APPLICATION OF TWO EAST AFRICAN GROUPS

The 40-member General Board of Friends United Meeting, at their meeting in Richmond, Indiana, October 20- 23, accepted, after a lengthy discussion, applications for mem­ bership from Elgon Religious Society of Friends and East Africa Yearly Meeting (South). The Elgon group has been functioning as an autonomous Yearly Meeting for 10 years; the southern group for a shorter period. These two groups of East African Friends were originally portions of the large East Africa Yearly Meeting of Friends, whose membership encompassed much of north and western Kenya, as well as eastern Uganda. Friends have had an active mission interest in East Africa since 1902. Conser­ vative estimates of the number of Friends in East Africa range from 40,000 to 75,000.

DENVER AREA FRIENDS UNITE FOR CHRISTMAS MUSICAL

Musicians from Friends churches in the Denver metropolitan area are practicing a Christmas musical entitled Joseph, the Carpenter. The musical will be performed December 12 with A. J. Ellis directing the choir and orchestra.

FBC AUCTION

The 51st annual Friends Bible College Women's Auxiliary Sale was a big success. The special day brought 500 to 600 people from many states to share in the activities, including former Mid-America superintendent, Merle Roe, who helped with the auction­ eering. Proceeds this year were over $39,000. The top-selling quilt was made and donated by Mary Clark of Haviland. --MAYM Scope

PEACE CONFERENCE SCHEDULED

"The Church and Peacemaking in the Nuclear Age" is a conference on biblical per­ spectives scheduled for May 25 -28, 1983, in Pasadena, California. A large represen­ tative group of evangelical church leaders are scheduled to address the nuclear arms race. The list of board members responsible for the event includes many names fa­ miliar to Friends, including former Northwest Yearly Meeting superintendent, Norval Hadley. Details are available from CPNA, 1539 East Howard Street, Pasadena, California 91104.

'ANYBODY CAN HONK!'

Boise, Idaho, Friends Church made available through the church office bumper stick­ ers in connection with a recent stewardship emphasis. The bumper stickers read: "If you love Jesus--TITHE! Anybody can honk!"

FRIENDSWOOD GIRLS IN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Two young people from the Friendswood, Texas, Church will be participating in the International Special Olympics next summer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Michelle Louthan, daughter of Jerry and Mary Louthan, and Paula Trainer, daughter of Art and Billie Trainer, have been chosen as part of the six-member Texas gymnastics team.

TURKEY-GRAM

Young people at Orange Road Friends, Westerville, Ohio, did a special missions benefit project at Thanksgiving time. For a donation, the youth turkey delivered messages for those who had signed up for this special service. DECEMBER 1982/JANUARY 1983 15

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES STUDIED

A four-part elective on "Employment Opportunities in the 1980s" began November 17 at First Friends Church, Alliance, Ohio. Speakers for the 7:00 p.m. Wednesday sessions were Ed Seaver, Bob Williams, William Johnson, and Scott Armstrong.

CONSULTATION ON ELDERING

Friends from across the country will be meeting December 9-12 at the Quaker Hill Conference Center, Richmond, Indiana, for a consultation on eldering. Material distributed prior to the meeting included the following observation: "Eldering, used as a verb, implying function and process, has been a revered Quaker practice, a lost art which needs to be recovered. But 'elder' used as a noun, signifying status and power exercised by individuals, has often been divisive and destructive both to individuals and meetings."

ALTERNATIVE TO GHOSTS, GOBLINS, AND GHOULS

An Al l Saints Party was held October 31 at Camas, Washington, Friends. Attenders dressed up as their favorite Bible character or a saint from any time in history . Teens of the church made themselves available for those who wanted assistance with makeup.

FIVE STEPS TO A FRIENDLIER CHURCH

1. Speak to the other person first. Don't wait for him or her to take the initia­ tive. 2. If there is someone you don't know, introduce yourself to him or her. 3. Be pleasant in your words and expressions. A great church cannot be built with frowns. 4. Invite newcomers to come and introduce them to other members. 5. Encourage people to participate in those church activities that interest them.

'UNPLUG THE CHRISTMAS MACHINE'

The Christmas season can be a time of peace and joy, but more often than not these are intermixed with pressures and frustrations that deprive Christmas of its beauty. After five years of study and extensive leading of workshops, Jean Toppock Staeheli of Reedwood Friends Church, Portland, Oregon, has coauthored a book that helps the family recover the meaning and enjoyment of Christmas. Unplug the Christmas Machine looks at the holiday season from a variety of angles and gives families a host of practical suggestions as to how we can deal with that entrapping yet illusive "Christmas Machine." Five or more copies are offered at a reduced rate of $4.22 each and may be ordered from Jo Lynn Capraro-Wm . Morrow, 105 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016. It is available in bookstores for $6.95 and is published by Quill Press.

QUAKER QUOTE

"I want less love of money, less judging of others, less dependence upon external appearance. I want to see the fruit of the Spirit in all things, more devotion of heart, more spirit of prayer, more real cultivating of the mind, more enlargement of heart toward all, more tenderness toward delinquents, and above all more of the rest, peace and liberty of God." --Elizabeth Fry 16 EVANGELICAL FRIEND

(Continued from page 12) enhance the child's well-being in any way 1.4 billion, making up 32.8 percent o f the but toe ploit hildren and ell produ t ." world population. In 1900 the percentage Kee han aid broad a ter rely too heav­ wa 34.4 percent. Barrett ontend. that il y on audience rating and ad verti ing other findi ng have led him to believe tha t a dollars to determine what program to air. g;Ju Children (and other minorit group ) uffer greater percentage ha been co n fronted with the Good New . Hi findings include becau e they do not co n ti tute a large au­ the e factor : since 1900 Chri tian books d ience or pend a lot of money. and periodicals have increased b 600 per­ But Kee han a l o criticit.ed the Federal 0//eH' cent; Bible publication and distribution has Communications Commi ion (F C) for risen by 600 percent; li tener to C hri tian reducing requirement on broadca ters to You can now share the broadca t have increa ed from 0 in 1900 to carry speci fie types f program . " I pent Evangelical Friend at a o ne bill ion at the pre ent time. Barrett also the last 15 year a a broadca ter talking special Christmas gift rate ci ted a fourfold increase in mis i naries again t regulation, aying broadca ter are with friends who do not during the period. The e factor have led re ponsible human being who don't need presently receive the him to hi conclu io n that we have seen a to be told b the FCC to do thi or tha t," he magazine. Mail the coupon marked ad ance in world evangelization. said. "Now that the threat of regulation Dr. Dona ld MeGa ran, after calling for a has been removed, I've een a lot o f broad­ below before Christmas to fre h comm itment to reaching the un­ ca ter make a liar of me. They have not take advantage of this $6 gift reached people of the world, aid, " How­ acted re pon ibly." subscription . Your ever, all I have been aying i mere! Kee han a l o cores parent who u e the Christmas gift of the academic unles a tremendou new tide of TV a a baby-si tter, a practice he call s o ne Evangelical Friend will be vi ion, acrifi e, prayer, and gi ing nood of the " mi demeanor "of child abu e. appreciated throughout the the ch urche of A merica." -E.P.A . year. The urgent need call for generating in our churche "a va t collaborative e ffort in Catholic Archbishop Says If you can find a more promoting prayer, education and gi ing meaningful Christmas Violence Still Plagues El Salvador focused on the unreached peoples, un­ SAN SA L ADOR, EL SALVADOR- T he head present for $6, you may reached segment of ociety." -E.P.A . of the Roman Catholic Church in El Sal­ want to buy it! vado r aid the government i not taking trong enough action to stem political vio­ Pope Says Husbands, Wives lence in thi nation torn b three year of 'Subject to One Another' As a Christmas gift from me, please ci il war. Acting Ar hbi ho p Arturo Ri e­ ROME- Po pe John Paul II says that St. mail the Evangelical Frie nd to the ra y Dama al o prote ted the death of 24 following people: Paul tried in the manner o f hi time to ay person , incl uding 16 civil ians, in lefti t­ that both partner in a marriage are meant righti t violence in one week. He aid un­ NAME to be ubject to one another and ubject. to identified gunmen in civil ia n clothing kid­ the Lord. Paul' admonition to wive to be napped 10 person aero the countr that ADDRESS ______ubject to their husband , et fo rth in hi arne week , in luding two women who were Epi tie to the Ephe ian , has long been a dragged from a San Salvado r o rphanage. CITY / STATE/ ZIP ore point for many modern women. Church a nd human right officia l blame Attach additi onal names and addresses Pope John Paul wa ob iou ly at pain to rightist death quad for man of the on a separate sheet of paper. put tore t any notions that he con iders the e timated 38,000 polil ical layings in this wife' role inferior. He told an audi ence at D Please notify recipient of my gift. 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Post-election thought ... MacGregor has already been sched­ trial in Little Rock, Arkansas, last uled for use in 26 churches in North­ December. The Men's Retreat will Does your church participation war­ west Yearly Meeting. Two copies of be held at Twin Rocks Friends rant your reelection? the 30-mlnute, 16mm color film are Camp. Suppose membership in your being used primarily in Sunday April 11-15 are the dates for church was good for one year only, morning worship services. First re­ Ministers' Conference at Twin Rocks and that reelection depended upon leased in late October, the presenta­ Friends Camp. the good you had done in the church tion has been well received every­ The Yearly Meeting dates of July during that time. Would you be re­ where It has been shown. The film 23-29 should be noted when making elected at a business conference? was a project of the steering com­ plans for next summer. John Wil­ Suppose church membership was mittee named by the Executive liams, Jr., pastor of First Friends, limited to a certain number and there Council to assist in raising sup­ Canton, Ohio, will be the speaker. was a long waiting list of those who plementary funds for the difference wanted to get in. Would your ac­ between church pledges and the George Fox College News tions justify keeping your name on Great Commission Ministries. the church roll to the exclusion of Nearly 150 students from three someone else? states were on campus in November Suppose you were called upon to BOISE, IDAHO, FRIENDS CHURCH to attend a regional meeting of the RMYM Briefs ... tell why the church should keep your has approved the purchase of prop­ Association of Christian Schools In­ name on its roll. Do you have a erty for their East Boise extension ternational. The leadership con­ WIGGINS, Colorado-Larry and record of faithful service, financial church. The land being purchased is ference was hosted by the college's Glenna Mardock are new pastors of support, daily witnessing and devo­ adjacent to the present East Boise Admissions Department with GFC the Wiggins Church. Repair work is tion to offer in self-defense? property and meetinghouse. Imme­ Chaplain Ron Crecelius as the now being done to the church Suppose every member of your diate plans call for the expansion of featured speaker. facilities. church did just as much as you are the present building to meet the Workshops included long-range needs of this growing extension LAMAR, Colorado-Galan and Mary doing-gave as much, worked as planning, meeting objectives, fund much, attended as much. Would church. raising, working with administration, Burnett are new pastors here. A Both Cascade Friends, Bend, search for a building is now under­ more space be needed or would the and small schools. doors be shut and nailed? Oregon, and Hilltop Friends, Oregon way. City, are looking for permanent Suppose they were going to vote Clark Kerr, one of the most promi­ on you at the next business meeting facilities. Hilltop is temporarily Tribute to meeting at Western Evangelical nent names in United States higher to determine whether your support education, spoke at George Fox Col­ Grand Junction Pastor of the church justified keeping your Seminary and Cascade meets in a funeral home chapel. lege November 4. Kerr addressed a Kenneth Walter Kinser, 52, minister name on the roil. selected audience of college ad­ and resident of Grand Junction, died And just suppose that only the ministrators and academic person­ September 30, Lord Jesus Christ would cast the nel and attended a luncheon. 1982, in Grand vote; that none of your friends would COMING EVENTS that should be Kerr is president emeritus of the Junction after a be allowed to vote. On the basis of noted include the following: University of California and former short illness. your actions, conduct, attendance, A special missions rally will be chairman of the Carnegie Commis­ Kenneth was and financial support-how would held Sunday, January 16, in the new sion and the Carnegie Council of born August 22, the Lord cast His vote? What would chapel at George Fox College. Higher Education. 1930, at Hugoton, be the verdict? Chaplain Ron Crecelius and Kansas. His life -from a recent New Hope Newberg Area Superintendent of was full of music, Meeting newsletter. Missions Ezra DeVol are working Newberg's elderly, handicapped, which led him to Friends Bible Col­ together on this meeting that will and those in emergency need are be­ lege to study music and later for the feature OMS International mission­ ing offered short- and long-range ministry. He continued to be in­ ary Mildred Rice, who has served In assistance through a community in­ volved in music throughout his life. China, Taiwan, and Japan. The rally volvement project being conducted On October 29, 1950, Nadyne Leach will involve Friends churches of the this year. More than 80 students became his bride. For nearly 32 area and will begin a week of mis­ have volunteered to share their years they blended their voices and sions emphasis on campus. skills, which are matched with re­ lives in song and ministry. His first The Evangelical Friends Alliance quests telephoned to a "hotline" pastorate was Paonia Friends Coordinating Council will be meet­ number. Students are prepared to Church, followed by several years as ing in Wichita, Kansas, January cook meals, do house cleaning and director of Quaker Ridge Camp. 11-14. With the new rotation of loca­ yard work, stack wood, transport per­ Prior to moving to Grand Junction tion of these meetings, NWYM is sons to the store or medical service, just one year ago as pastor of the scheduled to host the EFA Coor­ or babysit. They also read, perform, Friends church, he served as pastor dinating Council in 1984. sing or talk to those wanting com­ of First Friends Church in Colorado Midyear Board Meetings will be panionship. Springs. He served Rocky Mountain held February 11,12 in Newberg, and The project is sponsored by the Yearly Meeting in many capacities, the Executive Council will be meet­ GFC student body organizations' including chairman of the Quaker ing February 25, 26. Christian Service Committee in coor­ Ridge Board, Missions and Outreach George Fox College Sunday will dination with the George Fox Social Board, as well as being a member of Around Northwest be March 13. This will be the second Service Department. Persons receiv­ the Evangelical Friends Alliance Yearly Meeting year that the entire Yearly Meeting ing assistance are not asked to pay for their help, but only to provide Coordinating Council. He also spent MIDWINTER 1982 for high school observes a special emphasis on George Fox College with faculty, ad­ tools or food needed for the project. much time in community service as students will be held December a volunteer fireman, emergency med­ ministration, and staff representing 28-January 1 at Twin Rocks Friends the school in local churches. ical technician, a member of the Camp. Stan Thornburg, pastor of Following the trend nationwide for Paonia Rotary, and was one of the Don Chittick will be the speaker lower college enrollments, George Plains, Kansas, Friends Church, will for the annual Friends Men Retreat founders of the Colorado Springs be the speaker. Seminars will be led Fox registration fall term is 683, Police Chaplaincy. March 18-20. Don Chittick is a for­ down from 743 a year ago. It's the by Paul Bock, Frank Engle, Mark mer professor of chemistry at Funeral services were October 3 Kelley, and Kent Thornburg. Cost is first time in 10 years campus enroll­ with Jack Rea, Eldon Cox, and Olen George Fox College and is currently ment has not increased. From the $61 if pre-registered by December 10; director of research and develop­ Ellis officiating. $66 if not pre-registered. Further fall of 1972 to a year ago enrollment details are available from youth ment for a company that converts had jumped 75 percent to a record biological waste materials into last fall. College officials credit the Church news should be sent pastors and sponsors in each local church. usable fuel. He is well-known for his decline to the smaller pool of col­ to: Mike Henley, 735 Panorama teaching and knowledge on crea­ lege-age students during the next Dr., Colorado Springs, CO tionism and was one of the witness­ few years, the current economic con­ 80904 (303) 578-5496. THE NEW FILM featuring biblical es supporting the scientific basis for dition in the state and nation, and stewardship teaching by Malcolm creationism at the evolution/creation the uncertainty about financial aid. DECEMBER 1982/JANUARY 1983 21

pursuit to accomplish the desired of devotions, again seeking His East Goshen Friends goal. Dean Johnson travels from direction and blessing on the day. church to church, motivating and After all, did not our Lord Jesus say Celebrate Centennial pleading and praying that folks will "Without me ye can do nothing"? Sunday, October 10, was celebration catch a vision of the need. Never let it be said that Friends day for East Goshen Friends. It was As auction time grows near, pub­ have no dependence on God! a special day to commemorate the licity needs to be distributed and The 1982 auction is history, but meetinghouse centennial. newspapers contacted-then finally the 1983 auction is already in the The present building, located the fairgrounds made ready. Display making-perhaps not in concrete three miles northeast of Beloit, Ohio, tables and chairs are hauled in from form, but God's people are again on Route 165, is the fourth meeting­ local churches. Volunteers come in seeking His wisdom and are depen­ house that Friends erected on that to "set up." The flea market building ding on Him who is the "same site, the first log building con­ starts bustling with excitement as yesterday, today and forever" to in­ structed in 1812 having been de­ van loads of items come pouring in. spire them, speak to them, and give stroyed by fire. And the craft building suddenly them ideas. Then, if the past has In observance of the centennial, becomes alive and colorful as the taught us anything, they will Pastor Charles Bancroft presided at beautiful items are carefully re­ persevere by praying for one the morning worship service, attend­ Friends Disaster Auction­ moved from the boxes, priced, and another, nudging one another, and ed by 249 persons. Many of the con- cleverly exhibited. The FDS trailer using that precious commodity A Ministry in Itself arrives and is made ready to supply called "time" to complete those As the day's proceeds were carefully its customers with juicy hamburgers divine plans. And why? Simply counted at the end of the day, Satur­ and plump hot dogs. The dining hall, because mankind is hurting, has day, September 18, it was realized that in another few hours will be needs, and Friends love them. that the day's sales amounted to permeated with the aroma of hot cof­ -Lois Johnson $21,759, with a net profit of $19,800. fee, whole hog sausage, and pan­ In retrospect, one is compelled to sit cakes, is being swarmed with men EFC-ER Happenings setting up tables and chairs. back and question, "What are the in­ SARASOTA Friends Church reports gredients of success that have made Never let it be said that Friends do that a five-acre plot of land located the FDS Auction consistently grow not know how to persevere! on Bee Ridge Road was purchased LOVE FOR MANKIND is another and thrive until we have seen a 46 at the end of September. The first ingredient that cannot be over­ gregation dressed in Quaker garb­ percent increase over the last five service held at the DAV building next looked. Many of those involved in complete with bonnets for the wom­ years?" This subject cannot be door to the site was on November 7. en and beards for the men. completely exhausted, but here are a the auction have had firsthand On November 21, General Superin­ glimpses of suffering human beings. Representing the Yearly Meeting few suggestions. tendent Russell Myers preached at It might have been in a little town Office, Don Worden presented an GENEROSITY. A spirit of awe at the dedicatory service, followed by a leveled by a tornado where they have engraved plaque honoring the occa­ the generosity of Friends over­ Thanksgiving meal. Pastor William worked to help restore hope in spite sion. Edna Malmsberry was given whelms those involved with the auc­ Wagner reports an average atten­ of devastation and death. Or it could special recognition as the oldest tion. As the tangible items come dance of around 25 during the month have been in a home after the flood member and the one who has the pouring in, one is aware of the in­ of September, with 11 at each of waters receded. Or it could have longest membership record. calculable amount of time that has three Bible studies during the week. Former pastors in attendance in­ been expended as well as finances been helping rebuild a home or barn that has been destroyed. cluded Clarence Sekerak (1959-63), involved. Think, for example, of the Willis Miller (1963-65), and Richard Another concern carried by the DEAN JOHNSON reports that $2,000 time involved in only the 27 quilts, Sartwell (1971-76). Chester Stanley, breathtakingly beautiful, donated by FDS Board is the distress of the was sent to World Relief as the tithe starving millions in our world t-oday, for the FDS Auction proceeds. The former superintendent of Ohio Year­ women's missionary societies. Be­ ly Meeting (Damascus), also shared, sides this, there are the rich-hewed so in a recent meeting it was deter­ gift will be applied to the fish farms mined that a tithe of the auction pro­ project in Bangladesh, where needy expressing appreciation for his afghans, the multiplicity of crafts, boyhood spent in the friendly East paintings, handmade clocks, house­ ceeds go to World Relief. people are being rehabilitated to Never let it be said that Friends do earn their livelihood. Goshen community. plants nurtured along by tender Pastor Bancroft preached the cen­ hands, as well as produce tended by not have a love for mankind! UTTER DEPENDENCE ON GOD is tennial sermon on the theme "Our a loving, God-fearing gardener. And RUSSELL MYERS has had a busy Quaker Heritage-A Godly Heri­ oh, those lovely jams, jellies, can­ the last ingredient to be dealt with. All year long the wisdom of God is month of travel. The end of October tage." The choir, a mixed trio, and a dies, pies, fluffy white loaves of found him in Virginia District visiting male quartet presented special homemade bread, and other home­ the churches. Immediately the next music. baked goodies. week he went to Rhode Island, then At the noon hour, guests were Then there is the beef for the ham­ the middle of November to Eden, served a special dinner, after which burgers, sausage for the pancake North Carolina, for Piedmont District a musical concert began at 1:45, breakfast, a 1970 Buick Skylark, an Meeting, followed by a trip to followed by the historical service at old pump organ, plus other antiques, Sarasota and Ft. Myers, Florida. 2:00. The climax of the observance ponies, furniture, new blankets, was the vivid slide presentation trees, and items too numerous to prepared by Virgil Malmsberry, mention. TWO NEW YOUTH PASTORS have started-RON ELLYSON at Alliance which portrayed the history of the Professional talent is donated by East Goshen Friends Church. David Jones and his staff as they and KELLY HADLICH at Battle Creek. Special tribute was paid to stand all day with that particular Friends-either deceased, retired, or elocution characteristic of the pro­ sought as projects are decided upon currently serving-from East Go­ fessional auctioneer. Monies are and carried through. BOB WILSON of Canton, Ohio, has shen. These include Charles and collected and records kept in order Just the evening before the auc­ been named as the architect for the Elsie Matti, Homer Phillips, Chester by accountants Glenn Lipely and tion, the "battle worn" soldiers of Camp Gideon development. Bob is Stanley, Wilda Santee Winn Nichol­ Ray and Betty Johnson. Jim Justice, the cross, who have for several days an experienced professional who son, Galen Weingart, Charles and with a particular expertise in barbe­ expended their energies on the many drew up the plans for the new sanc­ Ruth (Watson) Ludington, Lynn Ba­ cuing chicken, oversees the chicken minute details, assemble together tuary that Canton First Friends built ker, Frances Phillips Tatsch, Loretta dinner at noon, and Glenn Miller, for prayer and praise. Earl and recently. His first task is to make ap­ Knisely Leonard, C. Lynn Shreve, with his organizational ability, en­ Catherine Smith graciously presided plication for onsight inspection by Lowell Shreve, and David Myton. gineers the pancake breakfast. at this meeting with their unique an official of EPA and then to design In retrospect, it was an exciting In the light of all of these contribu­ God-given ministry. God refreshed sketches for committee review, day-with something for everyone. tions, never let it be said that Friends soul and body, and once again the followed by the final blueprints. Together the young and the old were are not generous! workers returned to their duties. Camp Gideon was approved as the drawn together in remembering the PERSEVERANCE. The FDS Auc­ Immediately following breakfast site for a Retreat Memorial Building, past and paying tribute to godly tion does not just happen overnight, on auction day, the "help" quieted enabling church-related groups to pioneers who built strong founda­ but really entails a year of steadfast themselves before God for a period use it as a training center. tions a hundred years ago. 22 EVANGELICAL FRIEND

Women's Retreat Draws eluding Randall Thompson's "Fros­ Organizing for Action the world's needs and the ways we tiana." can respond to them? It is tempting Record 602 The Friends Action Division is doing to be "at ease in Zion" instead of "Wholeness-The Price and the its best to help the people of MA YM busy about our Master's business. Promise" was the theme of the 7th Jim Tunney, perhaps the most "col­ put their faith into practice. Jesus Are we helping people find spiritual annual EFC-ER Retreat for Friends orful" referee in the National Foot­ cared about the needs He saw and physical wholeness? There is Women, sponsored this year at ball League, was the second speaker around Him, and those who claim so much to be done that it is easier in Malone's Forum Lecture Series for Ripley, West Virginia, Cedar Lak~s Him as Lord will echo that caring. not to think about the world's needs. Camp. A record 602 women were m 1982-83. He spoke to a large and en­ Since the world's needs are so great Ask God to give you one concern and attendance, coming from as far thusiastic audience on October 25, and our own energies are small, we the desire to do something about it away as Canada and Florida. sharing his firsthand experiences need one another's support if the through your church. accumulated through 30 years as an Marjorie Myers, chairm!'ln of the world is to know the love of Christ God blesses and multiplies our educator and also his officiating at made practical. Planning Committee, pres1ded. Due three Super Bowl games. small efforts when they are done to the large crowd, the big group Local churches need outreach under the Holy Spirit's leadership. meetings were held in dual locations committees, and yearly meetings Look around you with the eyes of our at the same time, with the speaker Harold L. Bussell, dean at Gordon need action committees so that we Lord. See the needs of your com­ and the musicians alternating College, was the featured speake~ at can support one another and be munity; see the fear of nuclear war; schedules. Malone's Christian Life Week dunng more effective in our efforts to see the hungry, the prisoner, the fall term. As a Staley Foundation minister to a fractured world. What disaster victim, the native American. Jan Ream, Christian psychologist are some of the things we are called and therapist with New Source Scholar, he spoke at chapel services Then minister to those people for October 18·20. to do together? Counseling Center in Sha~er Jesus' sake and in His name. Let Heights, Ohio, was a great blessmg Working for world peace is one im­ your light shine! -Dorian Bales as the Retreat speaker. "Christ calls portant task for Friends. We must begin at home with peace education us to give up those .~hings t~at ~.eep us from wholeness, she sa1d. Be· for ourselves and our children. At Friends Bible College News ing truly Christian means you are the same time we can support the willing to face who you are and do New Call to Peacemaking and the The annual FBC Women's Auxiliary something about it!" Friends Committee on National Leg­ Sale was a special day as 500-600 islation as these groups work to people from many states gathered When speaking on the family, Mrs. build a more harmonious world. together for the nine-hour sale. Pro· Ream pointed out that "to really love ceeds were over $39,000. This year's someone, you must identify_ with Children and adults the world over are malnourished. As individuals we top quilt brought $1,250 and was that one." And, she was qu1ck to made by Mary Clark, Haviland. Twin add: "Sometimes it is harder to can do little about it, but by support· ing agencies like the World Relief youth quilts, made by sisters Sue celebrate another's successes than Brawner, Arvada, Colorado, and their struggles." Corporation our small giHs add ~I? to food for a multitude. Pnsoner VISita­ Joyce Bryan, Haviland, Kansas, On ministering to the needs of brought $1,000 each. others, she emphasized that a Chris­ tion is a demanding ministry, and tian woman must be willing to take those who heed Christ's exhortation Besides the many lovely hand­ risks and to "be transparent." "You to visit the prisoner find that a caring made articles, the sale also had must identify your own wounded­ network of encouragement is impor­ homemade soap, Indian fry bread ness in order to help heal others," Over 50 Attend New tant. mix, an antique pie cabinet, filet she noted. 'Nehemiah Men' Retreat An increasing number of Friends mignon, rainbow trout, Alaskan salmon, and several old issues of the The ministry of Karen Jackson of More than 50 men attended the first are organizing to respond to wind, Ravenna, Ohio, as guest soloist was flood, and other disasters. Victims Saturday Evening Post. Annual Nehemiah Men Association need immediate attention, and by greatly appreciated. Martha Mad­ Retreat at the Center for Christian hurst of Poland-Bethel Friends preparing for these tragedies, the With Christmas just around the cor· Renewal, Oklahoma City, October Friends Disaster Service groups Church led the singing, accompa­ 22-24. ner, FBC will again have its six-foot nied by her mother, Jane Philips. become Christ's hands ot help and wreath in the Student Center. Greet­ A total of 53 registered for the love. Friends have long been aware Geraldine Williams gave "Mis­ weekend which provided inspiration ings and love gifts from the U.S. and sionary Moments" at each service, of the special needs of native from foreign countries are received and challenge for the group in a Americans. The Associated Com­ focusing in on prayer needs and relaxed and informal setting. during the Christmas season, and praise items from EFM fields. Ins mittee of Friends on Indian Affairs is David Brantingham, pastor of First the cards are used to decorate the Murphy explained the new "Two an organization that works for their wreath. Last year's Christmas Denver Friends, keynoted the retreat Praying Together" plan to encourage spiritual and physical well-being. We Wreath gifts totaled $38,000. more intercessory prayer for very and challenged Nehemiah Men, a need one another for effective action real needs. Joyce Thompson, presi­ newly formed organization in Mid· in our communities too, where dent of EFA Women's Missionary America Yearly Meeting, to grasp the gambling, drug, malnutrition, and The annual Christmas Concert will Fellowship, reported from other vision and carry out the will of God racial problems are encountered. be held Sunday evening, December retreats and brought greetings from and His work. Messages and testi­ The Friends Action group in your 12, at 7:30p.m. the other three yearly meetings. monies from David Hickman, pastor Yearly Meeting is part of the way we The "Silent Auction," which was of Friends Community Church of organize lor effective action. _Local held for the first time this year, was a West Wichita, as well as represen­ and regional Friends committees Friends University News huge success, with over $1,016 tatives from missions, Mennonite help us resist the paralysis that Disaster Service, and prison min­ During the colorful fall days, while raised for World Relief through the comes when problems are bigger the leaves drifted across Friends sale of craft items, baked goods, istries further challenged retreaters than we can address in our own to a deeper commitment to the University's campus, students and hand-sewn pillows, etc. strength. Support those groups with staff gathered each morning to kingdom. In the concluding service held your prayers and energies! They rely listen to William Vaswig, speaker lor Sunday morning many spoke of Excellent music was provided by on a two-way flow of information and Christian Emphasis Week. meeting God during the weekend Larry Kinser, Cripple Creek, Col­ interest. and finding special help-either in orado, and Fred Littlefield and Ran­ What is your local outreach board dy Thornburg of Northridge Friends, doing to educate your church about Professor and Mrs. Philip Nagley the services, the small groups, or m took students to the United Nations praying personally with a friend. Wichita. Those attending Nehemiah Men's for firsthand experience in observing negotiations of world concerns. Focus on Malone Retreat were saddened during the Friends Among Oklahoma In­ opening session to learn of the u~­ dians is the title of the new slide The Malone Chorale presented their timely death of Howard ElliS, Havi­ presentation available upon re­ The excitement is increasing on first fall concert on October 23 in the land Kansas, businessman, who quest to: Sterrett L. Nash, 612 campus as the mass communica­ Stewart Room of Randall Campus was 'killed in an auto accident on his Plum Street, Box 161, Fr<~nkton, tions students prepare to go "on air" Center. Under the direction of way to the retreat, where he was to IN 46044. A new brochure with when KSOF, Sound of Friends radio Gregory Wilson, the 55-voice have provided the missions leader­ the same title also is available. station, becomes a reality on Chorale sang varied selections, in- ship. -Henry Harvey January 1, 1983. DECEMBER 1982/JANUARY 1983 23

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(Editor's note: With first mention of been given on each of the prior four Holy Life Conference October 31- junior high school. He gets contact a church, the name of its pastor is Sundays. The grand "Finale" was November 3 with special guests, the with students and teachers this way. noted in parentheses.) an all-church talent program fol­ Max Huffman family of Muncie, In­ He spoke in a home ec class this lowed by homemade ice cream and diana. month on the topic of "Drugs." He Christian Education cake for everyone. STAFFORD, Kansas, (Jack and shared his personal testimony and MEDFORD, Oregon, (Stanley Myrtle Roe) meeting is receiving how to become a Christian. WESTGATE, Columbus, Ohio, (Galen Perisho). Associate pastor Jim good spiritual fellowship at each ser­ The GILEAD church welcomed Weingart) reports youth, adult, and Teeters conducted an exciting day vice under the ministry of the Lorenz Dietrich, exchange student ladies' Bible studies have begun. camp for 22 juniors with a theme re­ pastors. from Detmord, Germany, who is The fall Rally Day and Sunday lating to Garfield's view of life. DVBS Six MEDFORD women partici­ staying with the Harvey Mosher School Promotion Sunday were cele­ featured puppeteers Dan and Shirley pated in the Women's Retreat at family four months. brated by guest musicians Wood Kluver from South Salem Friends. Twin Rocks and enthusiastically Royce Frazier, Yearly Meeting Reed and Friends, a gospel folk reported back on the inspiring talks Youth Superintendent, presented a group from the Canton church. and lessons learned. special commendation to BETHEL BETHEL, Hugoton, Kansas, (Steve Community Outreach At NORTH OLMSTED, Frank youth this fall. The award was in Harmon and Larry Mendenhall) was SHERWOOD, Oregon, (Robert Haugh will be directing the Evan­ honor of their exceeding the pay­ host to the fall Western Area Rally. Sweat) held their annual Thanksgiv­ gelism Explosion begun by former ment of their Yearly Meeting budget Special classes were held for chil­ ing dinner November 21, inviting associate pastor Dave Smith. Sup­ last year. Ken Kohler of Hutchinson dren, activities and a film for the friends In the community. They also per groups consisting of 12 people gave a recital of organ music recent­ youth. Four different workshops sponsor a "Thursday Night Live" meet once a month in the members' ly for the dedication service of our were held for adults led by David and junior high youth outreach weekly in homes on a rotating basis. new organ, installed in memory of Marcile Leach and three others from the home of Kenneth Williams. Marq Carl Ellis. Wichita. NORTHRIDGE, Wichita, Kansas, Box leads the group with the help of (David and Marcile Leach) has just MIAMI church pays camp fees for At CANTON, Ohio, (John P. Wil­ five volunteer staff. all their young people and challeng­ liams, Jr.) "God's Better Way," a completed showing the "New Wine" GILEAD, Mt. Gilead, Ohio, film series on Sunday evenings. es other churches to do the same. study of Hebrews, is being held on (Charles Robinson) Christian School Recently organized is the Singles Sunday evening during Vespers. Northridge women have been began their third year. GCS has 65 blessed through the two new Group with 20 present at the first The Christian Education Commit· children attending preschool, kinder­ meeting. tee of HAVILAND, Kansas, (Gary women's Bible studies studying garten, and grades 1 and 2. Thomas Kelly's Testament of Devo· Wright) has been planning activities MEDFORD made a special presen­ for this year. The film series in the lion and Say It with Love by Howard Missions tation on the Bible History program Hendricks. Verna Riney, minister to Family Life Seminar, "Spirit-Con­ in the local schools. SHERWOOD held a missionary con­ trolled Temperament" by Tim and women, organized a fall festival ban­ Outreach activities for October at quet for women and girls of all ages ference October 21-24 featuring the Bev LaHaye, has been shown. The WESTGATE were a faithful layman Ron Stansell family, Terry Baron Sunday School Workers Apprecia­ from the seven Wichita Area church· Harold Fox giving his testimony in es. She gave her personal testimony family, and Steve Baron family. tion Dinner was held in November. Christian giving; district Outreach Carolyn Stansell spoke to the The Cradle Roll Committee hosted a of how God had dealt with her as a Rally at Orange Road church; wife, mother, and businesswoman. women during a "Ladies Night Out"; Baby Day, and the Nursery Commit· Stephen Tseng of Chicago Chinese Ron spoke at a Saturday Men's tee purchased new toys for the Church; all-church outreach dinner Breakfast. Families w~re all nursery. Teacher Training sessions with Dr. Gordon Werkema, president Youth together for a potluck dinner and were held in October. of Malone College; and the "Skip a Exciting things are happening in the short sessions on Saturday night. A Sunday school class on mar­ Lunch-Feed a Bunch" program and Junior High Friends Youth group at Twin Rocks slides were shown dur­ riage, taught by Pastor Orchard, has Faith Promise commitments. The ing the Sunday school hour, and Ron begun. An exciting film about the HAVILAND, reports youth leader Frances DeVol Missionary Circle Paul Romoser. The year started with spoke in the Sunday worship service. family, Sand Castles, was shown at made a baby quilt for the Disaster Cecil Binford showed slides taken in NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio, (Neil Or­ a family time of volleyball and home­ Auction. made ice cream. The following Sun­ Bolivia and Peru. chard). PLAINS, Kansas, (Stan Thornburg) NORTH OLMSTED had speakers RAISIN VALLEY, Adrian, day a study on the theme, "Maturity has a staff of five women ministers or Immaturity," began. The next Sun­ leading to Faith Promise Sunday: Michigan, (Dale Chryst) grades 3-6 to grade school children through the Ron Stansell, missionary in Bolivia; had "Fun with Friends" over a period day they were told to come with Wednesday afternoon God Squad clean feet. One group was asked to Paul Snyder, assistant director of of three weeks. Activities were Bible Club program. development at Malone College; Dr. planned learning about Friends, with paint a mature type painting and the After hours of hard work at CAN· other group an immature painting. Alvin and Lucy Anderson of Canton, a sack lunch together, after which TON and because of donations of who are preparing for service in they participated in the midweek ser­ What with? Their toes! Then the supplies needed for the remodeling two paintings were compared and Bolivia; and Bill Casto of Gilead. vice. Following a Sunday school pic­ and furnishing of FISH Haven, a tem­ A relatively new Women's Mis­ nic, seven junior-age children en­ the differences between being im· porary home for needy families, an mature and mature discussed. sionary Society has been organized joyed a camp-out. The film Super open house was held. The pastor at HAVILAND called Doris Friends Christian was shown recently. The gave a dedication message. SOUTHEAST, Salem, Ohio, (Ken­ Women. youth sponsored a hayride for chil· WHITNEY has a local Alcoholics neth Hinshaw) sponsored a youth The film sponsored by World Re­ dren K-6. Anonymous group meeting regularly retreat at Quaker Canyon with 10 lief, Empty Bellies Have No Ears, At MIAMI, Oklahoma, (Jerry in their church, with as many as 48 in other Friends churches invited. Six­ was shown in an evening service at Mercer) October was a special attendance. In September Pastor ty young people attended. Marilyn McKEES Creek. month for our Sunday school. Kids Ron hosted a "Taco Feed" for this and Steve Chamberlin directed the November 12-14 was MEDFORD Day with the young folk leading the AA group. The Outreach Committee activities. fall missions emphasis, featuring singing and even preaching; Family sponsored a warehouse (garage) NORTH OLMSTED Omega youth Ron and Carolyn Stansell. A special Day ended with a picnic; Visitors sale November 4-6 to benefit the program is meeting every Wednes­ offering was taken on November 21 Day; Senior Citizens Day; and Boy Emergency Relief Fund of the day evening, with enthusiastic for World Relief Commission. Scout Sunday. church. An annual "Arts and Crafts teachers in charge. The older youth Patti Hamsher of GILEAD has McKEES CREEK, West Liberty, Festival" will be held December 3, 4. spent a weekend retreat in Green­ begun teaching at the Appalachian Ohio, (Richard Johnson) Junior Proceeds from any items sold will ville, Pennsylvania, with Patrick and Mission, Riverside Christian School, Church, under the direction of Joan­ help purchase new church hymnals. Patti Kelley, their sponsors. Lost Creek, Kentucky. Special na Watt, were responsible for an The Sonseekers, NORTHRIDGE speakers recently included guests evening service recently. junior high youth, are an energetic from Taiwan Yearly Meeting and At WHITNEY, Boise, Idaho, (Ron Spiritual Growth group! Every week their leader, Rita missionaries Howard and Mary Rittenhouse) Rally Day, a back-to· In July WHITNEY held two sessions Smith, reports a new happening­ Evelyn Moore; Dwight Ferguson, Sunday School celebration, was held for training of church leaders. The "Leaf"-ing Day; car wash, spaghetti founder of Men for Missions, OMS October 10 with gifts for all in atten­ first session was for officer organi­ feed, watermelon feed, plans for International; John Brantingham, af­ dance. A four-week attendance con­ zation and orientation. The second Christmas Banquet .... filiate missionary in Taiwan; and test was concluded with prizes was a planning day for all church SHERWOOD'S new youth pastor, Betty Robinson of Leadership Min­ awarded. Identity of the "Mystery leaders for inspiration, goal setting, Marq Box, volunteers Wednesday istries International. Bible Guest" was revealed on Sun­ scheduling, etc. "Mastering Spiri­ mornings as a tutor in the high PLAINS Friends Women treasury day evening for which clues had tual Maturity" was the theme for the school. Thursdays he tutors in the received a substantial boost through 24 EVANGELICAL FRIEND

their crafts and foods booth at SPRINGFIELD, Colorado, (Glenn from GILEAD church, shared at the tea towels, and potholders for the Kismet Little World's Fair. Meeting Hawthorne) church welcomed their "Festival of Thanks Singspiration" camp kitchen. their goals includes considerable new pastors, Glenn and Ruth Haw­ in Cardington, which commemo­ TECUMSEH, Michigan, (John Wil­ funding for mailings to Burundi and thorne, with a picnic following the rated God's goodness during the liams, Sr.,) had famous all-pro foot­ Indian missions. Glowing reports morning worship. devastating tornado that struck one ball player Bill Glass as speaker were brought home from Women's Burgis and Rosa May Taber held year ago. Following a Sunday morn­ recently in a midweek service, with special music provided by the Sing­ Retreat; 13 Plains women attended. services at MIAMI while the pastors ing service, the entire congregation were on vacation. Over 400 attended met at the Mt. Gilead State Park for a ing Fish Family. Owen and Mae Building Improvements the showing of the Dobson films on picnic lunch, games, and fellowship, Glassburn spent a week ministering two different weekends. Miami was then returned to the church for the at the church each evening besides The STAFFORD church sanctuary Billy Graham film The Living Word. speaking at special breakfasts and ceiling was lowered and insulation host to the Tri-State Area Rally in Oc­ tober. A MAYM Awareness Time Metro Denver Friends meetings luncheons. Gerald and Marjorie added. A new coat of paint was add­ Teague spoke recently on the world ed to the outside of the church. A gave opportunity to discuss actions (FIRST DENVER, NORTHWEST, and PEACE) are combining forces for a outreach of the church. small storage shed was built behind at Yearly Meeting sessions and URBANA, Ohio, (David Byrne) held the parsonage garage, and reinforce­ brainstorm how to implement these Christmas cantata under the direc­ tion of A. J. Ellis. at lnreach-Outreach Conference, ment added to the basement walls of and other ideas in our local meet­ with several pastors of the district the parsonage. ings. After a fellowship meal Harold and Dorothy Hinshaw from and District Superintendent Harold The old parsonage at DEERFIELD, together the film Music Box was MIAMI, recently retired, spent three Wyand! participating. After a pot­ Ohio, (Christopher Jackson) has shown, and each church shared a weeks at Camp Quaker Haven mak­ luck dinner on Saturday, Pastor been painted as plans proceed for special ministry with the group. ing repairs and painting. Their Byrne conducted an evangelism beginning construction of a new one "Sound in Spirit," a five-man church sent $200 to buy the paint workshop. in the spring. A campaign "Owe No contemporary Christian music group and the Friends Women sent aprons, -Compiled by Ruth Brown Man" (based on Romans 13:8) was undertaken in an effort to bring the church into a position of "owing no YOUNG-A daughter, Elizabeth Danielle, man" as soon as possible. A home­ to J. C. and Aileen Young, September 10, made bread and soup sale and com­ 1982, Miami, Oklahoma. munity flea market have kicked off FRIENDS RECORD ZELLNER-A son, Jerod Alan, to Kelley the campaign with astounding and Carolyn Zellner, August 28, 1982, results. NICHOLSON-A daughter, Shelly Colette, Wichita, Kansas. A "Celebration of Praise" service BIRTHS to Gary and Cheryl Nicholson, July 28, was held commemorating the begin­ 1982, Medford, Oregon. MARRIAGES BELL-To Ron and Amy Bell, a daughter, ning of CANTON's building program Sara Kathleen, June 14, 1982, Mt. Gilead, ROCHHOLZ-A daughter, Darcy Jayne, to BAKER·CARSON. Marlinda Ann Baker one year ago. There was a special Ohio. David and Lora Rochholz, September 15, and Gregg Leonard Carson, September 11, slide presentation with the sharing 1982, Harper, Kansas. 1982, Euless, Texas. CRISMAN-A son, Benjamin James, to of special memories. Gordon and Cleta Crisman, October 11, ROGERS-To Wes and Shelley Rogers, a GRAFF-LAMM. Teresa A. Graff and Gregg Playground equipment was in­ 1982, Medford, Oregon. son, Brett Austin, September 3, 1982, T. Lamm, August 20, 1982, Reedwood stalled this summer at SHERWOOD. Newberg, Oregon. Friends, Portland, Oregon. The MIAMI parsonage is receiving FRIZZELL-To Dennis and Colleen Frizzell, a son, Bret William, July 8, 1982, ROSS-To David and Doreen Ross, a son, NUNEZ-WAGNER. Yolanda Nunez and insulation, new siding, and a new North Olmsted, Ohio. Bryan David, August 28, 1982, Hooker, Jeffrey Wagner, June 11, 1982, El Paso, front porch. Oklahoma. Texas. Several individuals have been GIBSON-A son, Ethan James, to I an and working with the stewards to reno­ Kay Gibson, October 4, 1982, Wichita, RUTHERFORD-A daughter, Lee Ann, to PINA-MILLER. Connie Pina and Gordon Kansas. Darrell and Cheryl Rutherford, June 28, Miller, September 5, 1982, Lakewood, Col· vate some of the older classrooms at 1982, Springfield, Colorado. orado. MEDFORD. A special workday Oc­ HADLEY-VOTH-To Wes and Marilyn tober 16 was well attended. Hadley-Voth, a daughter, Beulah Marie, SELLER-A son, Aaron Daniel, to Mr. and DEATHS October 22, 1982, Newberg, Oregon. Mrs. Charles Seller, Tempe, Arizona. BAlLY-Elizabeth Baily, 85, September 23, SMITH-A son, Joel Michael, to Andy and Other Events HAM-To Robert and Marilynn Ham, a 1982. At MORNINGSIDE, Port St. Lucie, son, Norris Samuel, October 2, 1982, Elaine Smith, August 17, 1982, Medford, Florida, (Karl Wilson) a celebration Haviland, Kansas. Oregon. BEACHAM-Esther Beacham, 93, July 22, 1982, Medford, Oregon. service held recently featured 11 HARDING-To Paul and Ruth Ann Hard­ SPARKS-A son, Herbert Austin Ill, to Bud men from Miami Teen Challenge, ing, a son, Andrew John, October 10, 1982, and Marjean Sparks, October 10, 1982, BULGIN-Bess Bulgin, 90, November 5, who shared their new lives in Christ Haviland, Kansas. Wichita, Kansas. 1982, Newberg Friends, Oregon. through music, drama, and testi­ HARMON-A son, Delbert Steven, to STANAGE-To Ken and Jana Stanage, a DAVIS-Agnes L. Davis, 85, July 30, 1982, mony. Another service of special in­ David and Ellene Harmon, January 25, son, Israel Jon, September 15, 1982, Boise, Idaho. spiration included the pastoral fam­ 1982, Springfield, Colorado. Haviland, Kansas. DODGE-Myrtle Dodge, September 22, ily, the Frosts, who provided a musi­ HAZEL-To Ted and Jeanne Magee Hazel, STRIGLE-A son, Shayne Casey, to Bob 1982, Scotts Mills, Oregon. cal program. A testimonial dinner a son, David Alan, May 15, 1982, Scotts and Debbie StFigle, September 2, 1982, was held in honor of the Frost fam­ Mills, Oregon. Medford, Oregon. ELLIS-Howard Ellis, October 16, 1982, Haviland, Kansas. ily, who are now doing church plant­ JACKS-To Tony and Diana Jacks, a SUTILE-To Jeff and Keri Suttle, a ing work in Kansas City, Kansas. daughter, Britt Louise, September 16, daughter, Rockelle Marie, September 14, GOSSARD-Tressie Mabel Gossard, 85, WHITNEY and COLORADO 1982, Haviland, Kansas. 1982, Newberg, Oregon. October 20, 1982, Newberg, Oregon. SPRINGS, Colorado, (Arden Kinser) JACKSON-To Chris and Nancy Jackson, TENNANT-To John and Suzy Tennant, a KINSER-Ken Kinser, minister, 52, have been viewing Dr. James Dob­ a son, Phillip, August 30, 1982, Deerfield, son, Drew Charles, June 17, 1982, MI. September 30, 1982, Grand Junction, Col· son's "Focus on the Family" films. Ohio. Gilead, Ohio. or ado. PLAINS-the Sunday evening tent LAYMAN-George H. Layman, July 29, meeting, which opens the annual JONES-To Tilford and Christine Jones, a VINCENT-To Keith and Debbie Vincent, a daughter, Diane Rae, October 2, 1982, Can­ son, Micah Gayle, September 27, 1982, 1982, Newberg, Oregon. Labor Day Homecoming event of ton, Ohio. Newberg Friends, Oregon. Kismet's Little World's Fair, was ac­ LEHTO-Myrtle Lehto, September 16, cented by one thunderstorm after KING-To Bill and Maciana King, a WATKINS-A daughter, Shannon Lynette, 1982, Wichita, Kansas. another. It failed to dampen the en­ daughter, Maciana Kristen, July 1, 1982, to Craig and Denise Watkins, September MICHENER-Ardis Roberts Michener, 81, Poulsbo, Washington. thusiasm of the large crowd from 11, 1982, Medford, Oregon. June 9, 1982, Altadena, California. every church in the Plains-Kismet LEWIS-To Larry and Sheryl Lewis, a son, WINAR-To Jim and Jan Winar, a MONTGOMERY-Joe E. Montgomery, Jr., community. Pastor Stan Thornburg Landon Joe, September 5, 1982, Haviland, daughter, Jill, July 6, 1982, North Olmsted, August 17, 1982, Wichita, Kansas. Kansas. Ohio. was in charge of the program. SALLEY -Leonard Salley, October 11, The WESTGATE Men's Fellowship MALIC-To Ed and Gail Malic, a daughter, WINE-A daughter, Elizabeth Ann, to John 1982, Ypsilanti, Michigan. meets one Sunday a month for Charity Ann, July 6, 1982, San Diego, and Sue Wine, August 5, 1982, Wichita, breakfast. The film The Last California. Kansas. SHIPMAN-Donald Shipman, May 28, 1982, North Olmsted, Ohio. Epidemic about medical conse­ NIELSEN-To Martha and Byron Nielsen, WOLK-LANIEWSKI-A daughter, Rachel quences of nuclear war was shown a son, Jason Bradley, September 22, 1982, Nicole, to David . and Vickie Walk· TYLER-Roy Tyler, October 11, 1982, on a Sunday evening. Fort Collins, Colorado. Lanlewski, May 14, 1982, Medford, Oregon. Scotts Mills, Oregon. DECEMBER 1982/JANUARY 1983 25

clear arsenal for the Soviet arsenal today. In fact, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were asked A BETTER last year if they would make such a trade. All of them answered "No!" WAY TOM~t~RD To those who think such an idea unrealis­ tic, I ask, "Where is the realism in the men­ PE4CE tality that tells us that nuclear war is thinkable, manageable, and survivable?" How can it possibly be justifiable to create (Continued from page 4) weapons so destructive that sanction for the used, "30 to 70 percent of the ozone in the the Reagan-Jackson-Warner "buildup while innocent is impossible? That which mas­ northern hemisphere and 20 to 40 percent in negotiating reductions" proposal, these querades as realism is proving itself increas­ the southern hemisphere would be depleted weapons will surely come to life, as will new ingly removed from reality. by the reaction to huge quantities of nitrous U.S. systems. In other words, we will argue Today's nuclear gladiators speak of nu­ oxide. It could take 10 years for this ozone endlessly over who is ahead an~ who is clear strikes and counterstrikes that the to replenish itself ...." behind under the guise of "negotiating Soviet Union could survive better than we. The belief in the survivability- one reductions." The ominous, ugly truth is the planet, as we might even call it the acceptability of We have entered an era in which re­ know it, will perish at the conclusion of nuclear holocaust- is nothing less than markable scientific advances in weaponry round one. A cascade of radioactive fall­ legitimized insanity. The Reagan Adminis­ have heightened dramatically the risk of out, fire storms, and severe destruction of tration plans to spend $222 billion in the nuclear war caused by anger, accident, or the eco system and the ozone layer will next six years to achieve the capacity to panic. During the past 20 months U.S. render the planet uninhabitable. Round fight and win a nuclear war. This will in­ computer malfunction has falsely signaled a two, at best, will be an act of benevolence clude the production of 17,000 new ex­ Soviet strategic attack 147 times. Painstak­ toward those unfortunate few who find tremely accurate nuclear weapons over the ing efforts at arms control are likely to be themselves temporarily alive in hell on next decade. Almost one third of the overpowered by the forces generated by earth. federal deficit this year can be traced to mutual suspicion and technological weap­ We stand by as children starve by the nuclear weapons programs. ons innovation. What, then, can we do? millions because we lack the capability and I do not doubt for a moment President You can't throw a freight train coming the will to eliminate hunger. Yet we have Reagan's sincere desire to control nuclear down the track into reverse until you first found the will to develop missiles capable of weapons and reduce the risk of nuclear war. stop it. I am convinced that the same logic flying over the polar cap and landing within He believes that in order to negotiate effec­ applies to the nuclear arms race. My pro­ a few hundred feet of their target. This is tively reductions in nuclear weapons we posal in Congress is similar to resolutions not innovation; it is a profound distortion must first achieve a "margin of safety." This being debated in city councils and state of man's purpose on earth. It is a sad com­ is another way of saying nuclear superior­ legislatures across the country. It simply mentary on the health of our nation, numb­ ity. No doubt, the Soviets also seek such a directs the President to approach the Soviet ly investing billions, the best minds and "margin." We have had substantial nuclear Union with a proposal for both nations to God's precious resources to transform the superiority since the day the atomic bomb halt the testing, deployment, and produc­ greatest nightmare imaginable into reality. was developed. Some historians believe tion of nuclear weapons, and to endeavor But we are recovering. We are becoming that the principle objective behind the to negotiate reductions from this point. It well again. We are saying with resolution, Hiroshima bombing was not to end the war calls not for unilateral disarmament, it calls "It must stop- now- so that we can begin but rather to send a signal of strength to the for unilateral initiative. the task of reducing and, ultimately, Soviet Union. All of the American presi­ HAVE felt, since I eliminating the threat of nuclear war." dents who presided over this superiority I first introduced a President Eisenhower said upon leaving also expressed concern over the danger of similar freeze amendment to the SALT II office that one of these days the people nuclear war. But there have been no reduc­ treaty, that it is the only approach to arms would make the governments of the world tions, there has been no increase in our control that makes sense. It is as practical stand aside and let them have peace. The security; only a steadily rising accumulation as it is simple. It enables those of us who movement to freeze the nuclear arsenals of of nuclear overkill. The nuclear freeze pro­ don't have a background in physics or nu­ both the United States and the Soviet posal offers the President a fresh oppor­ clear engineering to say "no annihilation Union is a bold step toward the realization tunity to reject these false assumptions that without representation. You can no longer of President Eisenhower's vision. have propelled us toward oblivion. hold our lives hostage to your exotic termi­ Anyone who has witnessed the testimony The primary rebuttal from this admin­ nology and your secret reports, for we are of the Hiroshima survivors felt the pain in istration in rejecting the freeze is that the not blind to the obvious." It is a time­ their words, the sadness in their hearts, and Soviet Union is displaying ominous trends sensitive proposal. It recognizes that we are seen the grotesque physical evidence of in nuclear weapons development. I quite poised on the edge of a cliff known as stra­ their experience, cannot help but want to agree. But there is only one way to guar­ tegic nuclear parity. It is future Soviet take such a small risk for peace. For me, the antee the death at infancy of a new Soviet capabilities that motivate many military words of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in bomber, a new Soviet submarine and a new leaders to join the chorus for a nuclear arms Stoppard's play echo this: "There must generation of Soviet land-based missiles, buildup. No responsible military official of have been a time, somewhere near the and that is to halt the arms race now. Under which I am aware would trade the U.S. nu- beginning, when we could have said no." 26 EVANGELICAL FRIEND

UESDAY at 8:00a.m. incompetent is not ·T May 6, 1980, my unusual as the cons- I four-year old Becky, my husband Gary, tant presence of new and I performed a family ritual. We em­ responsibilities and braced in a "family hug"- Becky standing pressure of circum­ on the kitchen counter, I on the kitchen stances and emotions stool, and Gary (6'5") just standing. Then over which there we walked to the door, waved good-bye and seems no control God bless. Wednesday morning when close in. Becky awakened I tearfully told her Papa Loss of a mate had gone to be with Jesus. He had died through death or di­ unexpectedly at work the night before. vorce can be com­ That quickly, without warning, we were a pared to the rending single-parent family. More than 80 percent of two pieces of tape. of today's one-parent families were un­ Neither piece is left planned: that is, there was no anticipation intact. Each has been of divorce or death. stripped of parts of Since nearly half of all children who are itself. A sense of now toddlers, before they reach 18 years of belongingness, there­ age, will live for a period of time in a single­ fore, is severely tested parent home, 1 chances are someone in your if not totally lacking. family- cousin, sister, nephew, daughter, The mate who feels son, or even you- will someday be part of a "left" whether by single-parent family. It is vital that we who death or divorce, is have a living relationship with God through now bereft of the His Son Jesus Christ, we who are the ones most intimate rela­ through whom Jesus lives and makes him­ tionship that provid­ self known in the world today, learn to ed the sense (or hope) relate to and include these families in our of being wanted, accepted, cared for, and (NASB) that "all these things [concerning midst. enjoyed. It may take time to allow others our new life in Christ] are from God, who Our struggles are often different from the to come close and begin meeting such reconciled us to Himself through Christ, two-parent family, but our needs of com­ needs. and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, petence, belongingness, and worthiness are I have hungered for an intimate caring namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the same. During the years of adjustment and sharing relationship while at the same the world to Himself, not counting their (usually one to two years) there is great trial time been fearful of such: afraid of giving trespasses against them, and He has com­ in all three areas, which are defined by part of myself and then losing again, and mitted to us the word of reconciliation." Maurice E. Wagner in his book, The Sensa­ afraid of not being understood or of being In divorce, no one is totally without tion of Being Somebody, as follows: condemned as I share my failures, doubts, blame. Part of divorce recovery calls for Competence is the feeling of adequacy, and fears. So to those who want to be each party to determine how he/ she con­ of courage or hopefulness, of strength to friends of a single parent, I would encour­ tributed to the demise of the marriage. It is carry out the tasks of daily life-situations. age you to be patient and also to be willing most difficult not to take sides, but I believe Belongingness is an awareness of being to share some of your own struggles and the way of love neither feeds a "poor me" wanted and accepted, of being cared for fears. That opens the door to a reciprocal attitude nor condones condemnation. Let and enjoyed. relationship, and there is growing freedom me add that I am not speaking of tempo­ Worthiness is a feeling of 'I am good' or to reveal our humanity to one another 'I count.' rary thoughts or feelings, for these are nor­ rather than seek to maintain a mask of mal. I am referring to ongoing attitudes For the single parent tasks of daily living strength. that are not brought into the control of have doubled. She or he is now totally re­ Of prime importance to those desiring to Christ Jesus and thus prevent us from being sponsible for income production and man­ relate to single-parent families is our need used as reconcilers. agement, home maintenance (from grocery of worthiness, to feel significant, worth­ Having briefly touched on some general shopping, to repairs, to laundry, cooking, while, as though "I count." For those who and cleaning), and child raising (including areas of need in the life of a single parent, are in Christ Jesus this may be the most dif­ let's look at some practical aspects. The nurturing, disciplining, listening, loving, ficult part of relating, particularly in the physical care, day care, and so on). Feeling question arises- what can we do then? I case of divorce. We know God hates di­ have some suggestions for the church at vorce (Malachi 2: 16). We all hate divorce, large and for the single parent that I pray Janet Traviss and her six-year-old particularly if we have ever been touched daughter Becky are residents of San Jose, will be useful. California. Janet is taking courses at personally by its pain. However, can we Fuller Seminary Extension Division in the not avoid the subtle tendency to determine For the Church Body Bay Area. Since her husband's death she "guilt" before deciding to befriend? Guilt 1. Please take care in teaching to give has been working in a ministry for single and conviction are God's responsibility. 2 examples and include topics that are rele­ parents. Paul reminds us in 2 Corinthians 5: 18-19 vant and apply to singles as well as mar- DECEMBER 1982/JANUARY 1983 27

alone combined with tance come from God. Only He can meet the assurance that your needs, so don't allow yourself to his/her child is enjoy­ become resentful if it seems the church is ing friends and the not at present doing so. Maybe our Lord dynamics of a two­ desires to reveal more of himself and His parent family. You or faithfulness to you. Ask yourself, "Am I your children will listening to Him? Am I willing to let Him need to have estab­ work His way (Isaiah 55:8) in my life?" lished some kind of God seeks balance in our lives. He relationship with the doesn't want us overly dependent on others, child or children while on the other hand He exhorts us to beforehand, how­ bear one another's burdens (Galatians 6:2), ever, if they are to and He tells us we cannot go it alone positively anticipate (l Corinthians 12:12, 18-21). such an outing. I have struggled for two years with the God has blessed me question of where I fit in as a single parent with delightful Chris­ in my church (I am one of three). I float tian neighbors who from class to class. However, God is BY JANET TRAVISS have a daughter seven meeting my needs in His way and His time. and a son two. Our It is difficult and humbling, but I am grow­ girls are good friends, ing and I think others are, too. and Becky gave Jerry Another suggestion: try to accept first­ (the father) the time invitations whenever you can. Don't Father's Day gift she try to determine motives or if you and your made at school be­ children will fit in. Your prospective cause "he is like a hostess/host thinks you will fit in or you daddy to me." For wouldn't be invited. Give it a chance. Last the month of July the year we were invited to Sunday dinner at rieds, to one-parent as well as two-parent mother and children are visiting relatives in the home of a couple with grown children. families. Arkansas. Tonight Jerry invited Becky to Also invited were two other fairly recent 2. When several of you are going to a attend his church's family roller skating widows, one in her early 50's, the other in play or event that is not couple-oriented, event with him. She was delighted, and I her 70's. I struggled a bit being identified as invite a single-parent friend and, if needed, thank God for their sensitivity and reaching part of the "widow ministry'' and because I help arrange baby-sitting. Finances can be out to her. did not know any of the people involved, especially tight, for income has often been 6. A great area of need for the single but I accepted and had an enjoyable, relax­ halved, so you may need to be sensitive to parent is time apart from one's child/ ing afternoon. The older son, 21, took the bind and work around it. children, time to relax and renew one's Becky to a park after dinner so I could 3. I discovered that not only do I need perspective. However, going somewhere relax, and I benefited from my time with social activity for myself but I also hunger alone for several days is often not appeal­ the older women. We haven't socialized for family involvement: to be included ing, and many single parents cannot afford further but I think they are even now a part with others on family outings. In my sitters and vacation expenses. I would like of our lives because I know they care for us. church a small group of five couples who to suggest that the next time your church I thank God often. that I am a part of the meet weekly for sharing have begun to sponsors a women's! men's retreat your Body of Christ. The past two years have include Becky and me in their family group make an effort to include the single been painful and extremely difficult at parent (in teaching topic as well). This may outings every couple of months and it is times, but they have also been exciting and great! Our children know each other from mean helping to arrange child care or pro­ worthwhile years because I am growing in Sunday school, and I am coming to know viding a scholarship fund to help with fees. the gentle but firm love of my Lord. My these families better. I would not be com­ Also, if it is a first time away she/he may heart aches for those who do not know His fortable in the couples' sharing, but I do need special assurance that it will be bene­ love. It is my prayer that the Body of enjoy the fun and fellowship of family get­ ficial for all parties involved. Christ will learn to reach out to those in togethers. HESE are just a few their midst who have suffered the loss of a 4. Last Christmas a friend offered to suggestions. If you mate through divorce or d~ath and then to take Becky shopping to buy me a gift. This T are really interested in reaching one-parent their neighbors and then to their fellow is an excellent idea for birthdays, too. It families begin with prayer, alone or ideally workers. It is my prayer that our Lord helped my morale (someone cared enough with others who share your concern. Then would accomplish His healing and proclaim to suggest it) and was an exciting oppor­ begin to bounce around some ideas of what His victory where Satan would wreak tunity for Becky to surprise me with some­ God would have you do and then move out. havoc, destruction, and despair. ~ thing she picked out. 5. Consider inviting a child or the chil­ To the Single Parent I Weiss! RobertS., Going It Alone. (New York: Basic dren of a one-parent household on family Try to remember that strength, peace, com­ Books, nc., 1979) p. x 2 Matthew 18:15-17, which is the weighty responsibility outings. It gives the parent some time fort, wisdom, forgiveness, and self-accep- of Ministry and Counsel, is the exception. 28 EVANGELICAL FRIEND ON PRfACHING

BY STANLEY PERISHO

HERE are those who needs so exclusively that we have forgotten ners, he sees no need of repentance. It is say that today is the to show needy people a God who can meet only as he sees himself as God sees him, as a Tpost-preaching age. their situations? Methods to change lives sinner who may be saved by faith in Jesus There is emphasis, and rightly so, on the by positive attitude, will power, or therapy Christ, that he can be brought to avail importance of"Body Life," the sharing and are certainly valid tools God has provided himself of God's forgiveness . fellowship. But the current emphasis on the but will never replace the Holy Spirit con­ I recognize the need for "deep" teaching importance of every-member ministry often viction of the prophetic "Thus saith the of the truth of God, but the need today is draws away from the vital role of preaching Lord" by which one realizes his desperate for a positive, prophetic message of God's in the life of the Christian fellowship . situation, and also recognizes that the only pian, which through Jesus Christ provides Perhaps much of today's lackluster answer is to rely on God. forgiveness for and freedom from sin. Let preaching is helpful in that it graphically il­ A gospel must be preached that keeps us stand on the teachings of Jesus Christ lustrates what a preacher must avoid at all people aware of the grace of God and the who says, "Ye must be born again" and "I cost. Could it be that the great lack in to­ hopelessness of men without God. Pro­ am the way . .. no man cometh unto the day's preaching is the loss of the prophetic, phetic announcement of the predicament of Father but by me." "Thus saith the Lord"? "I think," "I feel," man without Jesus Christ and the nature of Preaching, from a human standpoint, is "I may be wrong," "it seems to me," "in my God's grace and forgiveness must not be not just hard; it's impossible. The preacher opinion," surely has little power to per­ abandoned for "group therapy." is totally dependent upon God's message suade people to respond to the call of the Sin must be denounced as sin, for unless made alive as His Word is applied to hearts Spirit of God on their lives. It may be that one sees himself and/ or his world as sin- of men by the work of the Holy Spirit. ~ the preacher needs to be more sure of his statements before he makes them. Preaching, if it is to effect change, must involve a dynamic proclamation of Truth as truth from God that possesses the preacher so completely that he is consumed with the truth and its application. In order to accomplish this, preaching must relate to needs, real needs of people, but more than this, it must bring Truth to bear directly on those needs. The "Thus saith the Lord" of the Old Testament prophets and New Testament apostles takes the message beyond my ideas, my study, my philosophy, my opinions, to the authority of the God who created the universe. 'I\leUfeof I must remember as a preacher that what I think is not really important. What is really important is what God thinks, what God says about the human situation. The ~~ need of people today is not to hear a new idea, but to hear God's truth applied to life. The prophetic ministry of "Thus saith the i-\A1flt1D Lord" with a sense of excitement with what God has done and the love that God has shown to us through Christ is that which will call out a response. Preaching must not call us simply to strive to better our lives and our relation­ ships; it must call us to apply the power of God to change our lives. In order to see God changing our lives, we must be pre­ sented with a God who can change lives. Could it be that we have emphasized man's AI your Christian bookstore o r from: Add $1 .00 when ordering by mail. Stanley Perisho is pastor of Medford, Oregon, Friends Church and has a keen MULTNOMAH concern for Friends ministries. 10209 S.E. Division Street, Portland, Oregon 97266

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