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Digital Commons @ George Fox University Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church Northwest Friend (Quakers) 9-1966 Northwest Friend, September 1966 George Fox University Archives Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_nwfriend Recommended Citation George Fox University Archives, "Northwest Friend, September 1966" (1966). Northwest Friend. 260. https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_nwfriend/260 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church (Quakers) at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Northwest Friend by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SEPTEMBER 1 9 6 6 'Quaker journal of the Paeifie florthwest" Vol. XLVI No. 6 IN THIS ISSUE: | We Were There I The Recruitment of Friends Ministers I May I Introduce Jack L. Willcuts (Cover picture ^ows Dorwln Smith, Presiding Clerk of Oregon as serving on the Board of Evangelism. He, Yearly Meeting, center, widi Jack L. WiUcuts, left, and Dean Gregory, retiring General SuperintendenL ) aloi^ with his family, have given unstintingly of their effort as missionaries in Bolivia. He has been active in the work of the Publication May I Introduce Board, has served as a representative from Oregon Yearly Meeting on the George Fox Jack L. Willcuts Press, Evangelical Friends Alliance as well as other inter-yearly meeting committees. jt CCORDING TO the Discipline of Oregon He has also been very successful in pastoral Yearly Meeting it is the responsibility work and a member of the Friendsview Manor of the Executive Council "to nominate to Board to name a few of the areas in which he 'Eyewitnesses of His Mnjesfy' the Yearly Meeting persons to serve as Gen has been engaged. eral Superintendent, financial secretary, and Space will not permit the mentioning of any such other official position as the Yearly all the areas of consideration and the ses impressions of some very sad situations. His cataloging of the sins of rHEtheAPOSTLE times found Peter in I wrotePeter, acame discouraging close home letter to filled thewith minority-group- first hand Meetir^ may designate, ..." sions of discussion with Jack and Geraldine Christians of the early church, with this warning: 'Tor the time has come Therefore, when the Executive Council Willcuts, but we feel that it can be adequately learned that it was necessary to secure the summed up by saying, the committee unan that judgment must begin at the house of God. if the righteous scarcely services of another person to be General be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" (I Peter i m o u s l y r e c o m m e n d e d J a c k W i l l c u t s t o t h e Superintendent, they immediately appointed Executive Council as our nominee for General 5:17, 18). a committee to start working. Superintendent. In turn the Executive Coim- Some sad situations were exposed to the 600 of the 6,000 Friends who W h a t d o e s a c o m m i t t e e l o o k f o r i n m a k cil unanimously nominated him to the Yearly gathered at Yearly Meeting in Idaho. The recent trend of Sunday school ing such a selection? Does a man's age enter Meetii^ in the 1966 session. attendance dipped to a total loss of 163 below last year. The missionary into the consideration? How about his fam The Executive Council feels that our new budget fell into the red for the first time in years. These provide some ily? What experience has he had in church Superintendent has already been well ac reasons for launching the 'Tear of Advance." While not all is bad with work, etc? These and many other questions cepted by the Yearly Meetii^. Many favor other splendid signs of revival seen, the danger remains that these un came to the minds of the committee when this able comments have been received and we happy conditions will not move us closer to God. We now live "in the midst assignment was b^un. feel confident God has directed our selection. of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the The committee reaiized that the person May we give Jack Willcuts our wholehearted world, holding forth the word of life. ." (Philippians 2:15, 16). What if o u r l i g h t s g r o w d i m ? to fill this position must be God's man. Not support and cooperation as he assumes the only God's man at the moment but a man who leadership of Oregon Yearly Meeting as our Peter brings us back to the real answer. It is to be "eyewitnesses of had proven he knew how to follow the leading General Superintendent. • His majesty." The Gospel of Christ is not just another argument, not a —Dorwln Smith, Presiding Clerk of OYM of the Spirit. We also knew that the attitude philosophy alone. It is not old-fashioned or worn out. Christianity is of the Yearly Meetii^ at large should be con Christ—a right relationship with God bringing a Divine Person within us sidered. The experience in church work such so that we are to be governed by His Spirit, led by love and Christian con as pastoral leadership, counseling, youth, T H E N O RT H W E S T F R I E N D victions. Christianity is more than a stand on racial issues. Christianity missions, finance etc. were ali matters that is not soine kind of religious pill to be taken at stated times to ease the must be evaluated. Jack L. Willcuts Editor discomfort of spending the Lord's money on pleasures, leisure, houses and cars. We need a new vision of the judgment, power, glory and majesty With these in mind the first matter of Lenny Fendall Assistant Editor business for the committee was PRAYER! of God! Harlow Ankeny After prayer and discussion the committee Managing Editor The distinctive characteristic of the men of the Book of Acts was not, mentioned the names of individuals who might F r a n k R o b e r t s F r i e n d s Yo u t h E d i t o r after all, their action but their prayerfulness. This is how they gained. be available. The upward vision and inner Presence led them through. This then, is our It is most interesting to look back and re Published monthly, except August, by Oregon Year way out through this maze of conflicts and confusion. Emerging as real member that the name of our newly elected ly Meeting of Friends Church at 600 East Third Christians, the church always startles the world. But people confounded Street, Newberg, Oregon 97132. RETURN RE with anxiety and preoccuppied with material things do not advance, they drift. Superintendent, Jack Willcuts, was among QUESTED. Second class permit authorized and post the first to be mentioned. age paid at Newberg, Oregon. SUBSCRIPTION Some day will reveal that our church, missions,youth. Christian education RATES: $2.00 per year for those outside Oregon and outreach, everything that we count important, all is held together by the Not desiring to be hasty the committee Yearly Meeting. Address all changes of address, decided to solicit suggestions from the Year subscriptions, manuscripts and other correspond prayers of God's people. Everything works in our religion when we pray, ence to proper editor in care of THE NORTHWEST (even prayer meetings!), nothing works when we are not praying. But how ly Meeting and set atime for another meetii^. FRIEND, P.O. Box 232, Newberg, Oregon 97132. At the next gathering of the committee the DEADLINES: Regular and special features to reach hard it is to hold still in prayer without discipline, dedication and vision. "In the Editor, 5th of each month; church news to reach quietness and confidence, shall be your strength." information from the churches was evaiuated Managing Editor, 5th of each month. Address all as weli as expressions from the members checks and money orders payable to The Barclay September is called a month of prayer in Oregon Yearly Meeting. The Press, P. O. Box 232, Newberg, Oregon 97132. THE move out into our community for Christ must become a spiritual fire from present. We soon realized that the attention NORTHWEST FRIEND is published under the direc was being directed toward Jack Wilicuts. tion of the Oregon Yearly Meeting Board of Publi w i t h i n . S e p t e m b e r i s t o d a y . • cation: Harold Antrim, president; Joseph G. Reece, Jack Wiilcuts has had wide experience vice president; Earl P. Barker, secretary; Barbara in church work. He is familiar with outpost Baker, George Moore, Davis Woodward, members; and new meetings, having served as pastor Harlow Ankeny, Jack L.Willcuts, members ex-officio. in this capacity in his early ministry as well 2 September, 1966 J^orthwest Iriend W E W E R E T H E R E Jack L. Wlllcuts, new general Superintendent, Is assured of the prayer support of Oregon Yearly Meeting by Dorwln Smith, Pre siding Clerk, following the Installation service. Dean Gregory presents his keynote address admonishing the yearly meeting to "look on the fields, for they are white already unto The business sessions were conducted in the Greenleaf Friends A part of the congregation at one of the evening services.