Adventist Review General Paper of the Seventh-day Adventist Church May 24, 1984

Adventist adoption: giving and receiving Page 3 Surprises in the British Isles Page 10 The 1909 General Conference session Page 12 Adoption's broader view Page 18

Cover: The special pain of giving up a child for adoption, the joy of receiving such a child, and the work of the Adventist Adoption and Family Services are discussed in this week's feature articles, pages 3-8. THIS WEEK This week's special empha- Jocelyn Fay points out in sis—"Adventist Adoption: "Adoption's Broader View" Giving and Receiving" (p. (p. 18), all of us should be 3)—has been a long time in the adopting someone into our cir- making. Some 18 months ago a cle of love. Published continuously since 1849 recipient of a child through Bible credits: Texts in this EDITOR Adventist Adoption and Family issue credited to N.I.V. are William G. Johnsson Service suggested that we tell from The Holy Bible: New ASSOCIATE EDITOR the whole church about the International Version. Copy- George W. Reid agency's services. right © 1978 by the Interna- MANAGING EDITOR When contacted, agency tional Bible Society. Used by Jocelyn R. Fay director Fern Ringering was permission of Zondervan Bible happy to share the information. Publishers. ASSISTANT EDITORS James N. Coffin, Eugene F. Durand However, it was some time Fern Ringering Art and photo credits: Aileen Andres Sox before an interview could be Cover, pp. 5, 7, Richard Stead- ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY scheduled. After the interview, topic of adoption should be of ham; p. 10, John Loughborough Corinne Russ it was a few more months before interest to more than just child- School; p. 11, A. E. Sutton; p. EDITORIAL SECRETARIES all the other details could be less couples and unwed 13, G. V. Buck, Review Chitra Bamabas, Jeanne James arranged. We feel the wait has mothers. Have not all of us been Archives; p. 14, Review; p. 16, ART been worth it, though. adopted into God's family? Fur- Luis Ramirez; other photos, Director, Byron Steele It is our contention that the thermore, as managing editor courtesy of the authors. Designer, G. W. Busch

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That is all Unsolicited manuscripts are welcome, but porting work as surely as one is "The Three-legged Stool," notification as to acceptance or rejection called to the ministry. The right with me, since this seems which might be described as a may be expected only if accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. self-supporting work is a lay inevitable. "committee meeting," brought Permit me to suggest what I ministry ordained of God; it is out some interesting and impor- An index is published in the last Review of think you should have done: June and December. The Adventist Review an extension of, as well as an tant material, but as committee is indexed in the Seventh-day Adventist integral part of, the organized either have had this issue meetings are prone to do, it may Periodical Index. labeled "The American work. Its members are fully have lasted a little too long. 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Review assistant editor James Coffin our autonomy. So we have drawn primarily on private donations and the fees charged for services. discusses adoption with Adventist Who are your major donors, and how do they become Adoption and Family Services aware of your work? director Fern Ringering. Most of our contributions do not come from clients, but from others interested in children. They may have had a relative or friend who benefited from our services. What procedure would my wife and I have to follow to Would you tell us about the origin of AAFS? adopt a child? More than 20 years ago LeEllen Bradshaw, the wife of a First you would contact the agency and fill out some dental student at Loma Linda University, began informally preliminary qualifying forms. Some of the general qualifica- to help physicians in the Loma Linda area find homes for tions are that usually both parents must be under age 40 to babies born out of wedlock. When her husband established a adopt a healthy newborn infant. They must not have more dental practice in the State of Washington, she continued her than one child currently. They must have been married at role, and through the years the number of babies placed in least three years, and they must be facing some infertility that way increased considerably. problem that would prevent the natural growth of their As State regulations became more stringent, the agency family. If the basic qualifications are met, the prospective came under the auspices of the Upper Columbia Conference, parents then would fill out an in-depth application form. A with professional support services provided by Walla Walla local, State-licensed agency would make a study of the College. The agency provided services to unwed mothers— home, and during that study the representative would explain particularly from Adventist families—who wanted to have the various aspects of adoption to help the family determine their children placed in Adventist homes. In addition to whether it truly is feasible for them. adoption, AAFS now offers such services as family Assuming that it does appear feasible, how long would counseling and foster parenting. a couple probably have to wait, and how does that time Do you still operate under the auspices of the Upper compare with the waiting period for other agencies? Columbia Conference? AAFS has a considerably shorter waiting period than most No. The agency is independent of the church and other agencies, some of which project as much as five years. separately incorporated. However, our governing boards One factor in the short wait is that the majority of the young include laypersons as well as church officials. Our executive women who use our service are asking for Adventist homes. board, which meets quarterly, is made up of lay people and representatives from each of the conferences in the North For further information, contact: Pacific Union. The national board, which meets annually, Adventist Adoption and Family Services has representation from each union in the North American 6040 SE. Belmont St. Division and from the General Conference. Portland, Oregon 97215 So you have no direct financial support from any (503) 232-1211; (503) 232-2694 church entity. Is that correct? or No. The North Pacific Union provides some funding as one of their community outreach projects. Although our 125 College Ave., Box C main office is in Portland, Oregon, we also have a branch Berrien Springs, Michigan 49103 office in the Lake Union, which is funded in part by that (616) 471-2221 union. Some irregular funding has come from the Adventist Health System, and the North American Division has After a home has been approved, we tell prospective parents allocated some funds. that they can expect to wait between one and two years. It Have these funds adequately met the agency's needs? could be considerably less time if a particular home has the No. Any social service agency that is not funded by taxes specific characteristics that a natural parent is asking for. faces a continuous challenge. We have felt it advisable not to Conversely, some people have to wait up to three years. But seek government funding, as we have wanted to safeguard two years is about average. What type of references do you seek in addition to your Fern Ringering holds a Master's degree in social work and personal interview with the prospective parents? had worked for secular social service agencies before We make contact with the pastor in addition to requiring coming to Adventist Adoption and Family Services (AAFS). other letters of reference. While we can't really assess a She and her husband have seven children, five of whom are couple's spirituality, we can examine certain outward things. adopted. For example, a young woman may ask for a liberal Adventist

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 24. 1984 (539) 3 family. If that's the case, we feel morally bound to seek such simply divide the country into the East, Midwest, West, and a family. On the other hand, if we assure a natural mother that South. Then we may tell the natural mother which of those a family is vegetarian, attends Sabbath school regularly, and locations the child is in. We try to give mothers peace of has family worship, we want to be sure that we are telling the mind, but we do not place the child in the same locality. truth. Some mothers request that the child be taken by a family Is it common for natural mothers to specify the that already has another child. Some may say they would gradation of , if we could call it that? prefer the child to be reared as an only child. If a young It may seem strange, but often we will have a young woman is athletic and enjoys sports, she might wish to have woman in our office who is smoking a cigarette and whose the child taken by an athletic family. Or she might prefer a appearance would not indicate any affinity whatsoever with Adventists. Yet she will be concerned about the theological leanings of the prospective parents. She may be concerned After a home has been approved, that Sabbath observance doesn't include swimming on we tell prospective parents Sabbath afternoon. Is wealth an important factor in determining whether that they can expect to wait or not a couple is eligible to adopt a child through your between one and two years. agency? More important is how the couple manages what they do have. Some people manage very well on a relatively low family where the child will have opportunity to ride horses. income. Others have a very high income but are almost We try to help the natural mothers look at long-term values, bankrupt. It is important, though, that the family be able to not just fleeting preferences. cover all the adoption expenses, as most insurance compa- Services for natural parents are tailored to suit each nies don't cover the maternity medical costs of the natural situation. For most natural mothers this will mean that the mother. agency will arrange for medical and other pregnancy-related Uncomplicated delivery and postnatal care average care if the baby is to be put up for adoption. Some expectant between $1,500 and $2,000. Added to that might be the mothers prefer to leave their home community during the mother's transportation from where she lives to where she latter portion of their pregnancy. We arrange transportation, will deliver the baby, and transportation for the AAFS staff medical details, counseling, and accommodation in a member to pick up the child and deliver it to the adoptive Christian home near one of our offices for those who wish parents. There are legal fees and an agency fee of $500. this added degree of privacy. We tell prospective parents that they should expect to pay As an Adventist agency you obviously prefer to see the around $3,500. However, this cost can increase significantly children placed in Adventist homes. How do you deal if there is need for a cesarean section, if the child is born with a non-Adventist mother who has no preference prematurely, or if it needs intensive care. If a family feels about religion? they simply cannot handle the high expenses related to a First of all, we always place the child in a home of the religion preferred by the mother, whether it is Adventist or not. However, when someone is undecided, we may ask how In addition to adoption, the person feels about smoking, drinking, private Christian AAFS now offers such services education, or family togetherness—many things that are a standard part of Adventist lifestyle. When the person as family counseling responds favorably to these things, we say, "Well, the home and foster parenting. you're describing actually sounds like an Adventist home. Would you like to know more about Adventist beliefs?" After a discussion of the ideals of Seventh-day Adventists, specific child, that does not jeopardize their chance of the prospective mother often will choose to have the child go adopting another baby later. to an Adventist home. Do natural mothers want a wealthy family for their What percentage of the babies that you deal with are child? placed in Adventist homes? Surprisingly, wealth doesn't have top priority with most Without doing an exact calculation, I would say around 80 girls. Obviously, they want the child to be clothed, fed, and percent. But even if a mother chooses a home of another educated. But some actually prefer that the family be of faith, we feel that we have been involved in Christian moderate income, feeling that affluence might be a negative outreach, helping a mother when she most needs help. influence in the child's life. They prefer that the child learn to As you would not have in your files, say, a list of work for what he or she may have. available Catholic homes, how would you place a baby in Are there any characteristics requested by the natural such a home if requested to do so? mothers that recur frequently? We have a reciprocal arrangement with other agencies Yes. Stable, two-parent, loving, caring families Some across the country, and other agencies in turn may refer cases mothers say such things as "I would like to have my child to us when an Adventist home is specified. We do accept grow up in the eastern part of the ." We try to applications from a limited number of non-Adventist honor that type of request. But for confidentiality, we make couples. sure that the child's specific location is not revealed. We Do you make specific recommendations as to whether

4 (540) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 24, 1984 or not and when parents should tell a child that he or she is adopted? Yes, we feel it is impor- tant for the child always to know that he or she was adopted. We recommend that the parents talk to their baby about the adoption, that they include details of the adoption in little lullabies that they might make up— how happy they were to get the baby, how delighted they were to meet the airplane. Then the adoption words actually become part of the baby's earliest vocabulary. The child will learn about his or her adoption sooner or later because many other people know about it. If the fact has been hidden, it will be seen as something nega- tive, when in fact it is really a very happy and beautiful experience. How can the young women who need your services make contact with you? Someone is available for telephone counseling 24 hours a day. The only exception might be when everyone is at Sabbath school and church. Because prospective mothers are usu- ally hurting when they call, Although some infants are available, we try to be available imme- diately. We tell them to call the ones most needing homes are older children, collect. They may have 25 children with handicaps, and other special-needs children. cents, but not enough for a long-distance call. We talk with hundreds of young women every year. Many We don't keep absolute statistics. Roughly for every of them never identify themselves, but they need questions woman who gives up a baby for adoption, we offer some answered. And although they may have no interest in form of counseling or assistance to another eight. The adoption, we can help them examine the positive and majority of those would elect to keep the child. That might negative aspects of various options open to them. We can mean marriage, it might mean help from relatives, or the help them evaluate their resources, such as finances and person assuming the sole-parent role. We feel only a small proportion of those who deal with us have an abortion, although we have no way of knowing for We recommend that the parents sure. We should say, however, that because of the nature of talk to their baby about how our organization, if a person is dead set on an abortion she happy they were to get the baby. probably won't waste time phoning us. There is the occasional situation where merely to satisfy a parent or a friend she contacts us. Similarly, if a young woman has her family support systems, and other factors that would be mind set on keeping the baby, she probably won't talk to us significant in the course of action that they may choose. except to placate someone who is pressuring her to do so. What percentage of those you deal with would have I might just mention here that of the older children we deal an abortion, keep the baby, or opt for adoption? with, the majority are from attempts to keep the child when it

ADVENTIST REVIEW MAY 24, 1984 (541) 5 just hasn't proved possible. Recently we worked with a little the cost of adoption, although they could care for the child toddler whose mother said that the child had been in some 30 adequately. homes in his few months of life. The mother recognized that We also have families who would he willing to take a this was not the kind of life she wanted for the child, and her special-needs child but who cannot afford the adoption primary request was for a family with no intention of expense. We would like to be able to assist such families, but moving. at present no such funds are available to us. This is a real Do you work with many married women who give up problem that we hope to see resolved. children for adoption? We have had reasonable success in placing black children Surprisingly, we do. Many times the marriages are fragile. and infants, but we may have had to do considerable It could be a young couple whose marriage initially was recruiting and contacting of black pastors. We would like to based on a premature pregnancy. The chance of the be able to have files of potential adoptive parents from all marriage's surviving is slim, and it simply couldn't minority groups. withstand the pressure of an additional child. It could be a Has adoption changed significantly with the ready very young couple who have separated and who recognize availability of abortion? Yes. A typical request from parents approaching adoption agencies a few years ago was, "We would like a little girl The majority of natural parents with blue eyes, blonde hair, and a dimple." Today applicants to secular agencies quickly are told that such are asking for a stable, two-parent children are rarely available. Although some infants are family for their children. available, the ones most needing homes are older children, children with handicaps, and other special-needs children. What areas of the AAFS would you like to see that they have no stability whatsoever to offer the child. For improved? whatever reason, we are seeing an increasing number of We would like to have much greater contact with the married people giving up children for adoption. church, to visit college campuses regularly, to keep pastors Have you had any babies adopted by a single parent? informed, to be known more widely so that we can be of We have had many inquiries by single people who would better service. Repeatedly we hear people say, "If only we make ideal parents. But the majority of the natural parents had known that your service existed, we might have taken a are asking for a stable, two-parent family for their children. It different course." We want the adoption alternative to be is unlikely that a single parent would request that another available, to be understood, and to be considered single parent raise the child. We have had the situation where seriously. courts have referred to us a teenage girl who was the victim of sex abuse and who simply could not relate to a male figure. In those cases we have sought a single female parent, but such cases are rare. Parenting is a demanding occupation, and two Thegiver._ parents can help ease the burden significantly. Do you have affiliation with any overseas Adventist The following was extracted from an interview with orphanages or adoption agencies? a woman who gave up a child for adoption. Yes, recently we began a program with the Adventist orphanage in Guatemala. Currently we are processing families to receive these children. Most of the children are An unwanted pregnancy is terribly. He agreed to quit under school age, and some are infants. Most of them are of the worst experience possible drinking, so I agreed to stay Spanish or Indian background. for a young woman. I know. It with him. But when he immedi- Adoption costs are comparable to costs for a baby from the has happened to me twice. You ately started drinking again, I United States. Of course, the prerequisites for adopting sit there saying, "What do I do left him—only to discover I was now?" And you have only three pregnant. I couldn't face going children are not quite as stringent as those for infants. Since options: keep the baby, give it back to him, and he wasn't many of those coming from Guatemala are not infants, it may up for adoption, or terminate the really concerned about my be easier to qualify in some cases. pregnancy. All three options being pregnant. Do you have many Hispanic applicants for the have devastating implications. When I was about five Guatemalan children? My first accidental pregnancy months along, I began to realize We certainly would encourage more Spanish-speaking occurred when I was a teenager that I was neither financially nor people to apply. For the older children the possibility of just out of school. It happened emotionally prepared to raise a communicating in Spanish with their new parents is a great after a prolonged relationship child. Having gone to Adventist bonus. that came to an end about that schools for eight years and even Do you have many black children and infants available time. I absolutely was not ready having been a baptized member for adoption? to have a child, and as I hadn't once, I had several Adventist even thought about adoption, I friends. We do have some black children and some of mixed race. went ahead with an abortion. A pastor put me in contact We would like to have more black families to choose from. When I was 23 I married with the Adventist Adoption Unfortunately some of the black families that would be someone I never should have and Family Services, Fern Rin- interested in adoption and who would provide excellent married. Right after we were gering, the agency's director, homes do not have the financial resources available to cover married my husband beat me up sent me some paperwork, we

6 (542) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 24, -1984 had several phone conversa- she really wants to keep the itely helps to have somebody time to recover psychologi- tions, and I opted for the adop- baby and her parents are saying, you can open up to other than a cally. tion alternative. "No, you can't. You either will family member. In that sense it was harder for I'm afraid I wasn't good at give it up for adoption or you It's extremely difficult to me to give up the baby for being pregnant. My system will have it terminated." I saw make a decision to give up a adoption than to have an abor- didn't seem to like it. From friends go through that experi- baby. But once you make it, tion. The baby had been there, beginning to end—and I went ence when I was younger, and it don't second-guess yourself. growing and moving. Whereas, five weeks over—it was misery. just tore them apart. 3ust get on with life—hard when a baby is aborted in the Ten months of sheer misery. Fortunately, my mother was though it is to do so. first three months, you don't I don't think anyone should very supportive. She was with When you give birth, your feel the baby move. You are just be pressured to take a particular me even when I had the baby. body has nourished and shel- a little sick, a little bloated, but course of action when an But I couldn't really talk with tered that baby for however long the baby is not a reality to you. unwanted pregnancy occurs. her about it objectively-- you were pregnant. Your body It's something you know about The decision should be left because we were talking about naturally expects to have a baby but don't really feel. totally to the person who's her grandchild. Her first grand- to nurture, to hold, to cuddle. If Fortunately, my main moti- pregnant. She can get advice, child. Probably the only grand- it's not there, it can be very vation was concern for the child then do what she thinks is right. child she ever would have. She painful. It can hurt literally, rather than my own emotional It can totally devastate a girl if was a great help, but it defin- physically. And it takes a long needs. What is best for the

I realized that I was neither financially nor emotionally prepared to raise a child. I don't know who her parents are, but I know she's in a good home.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 24. 1984 (543) 7 child? But if you don't have You really want to see your baby for adoption is hard to promise given to approved- strong convictions about what child. handle. If it weren't for my faith and-on-the-waiting-list parents you are doing, it can bother you I'd love it if 15 or 20 years in God, I don't think I'd have leaves one feeling unsettled for a long, long time. down the line she decided to made it. I'm not a Seventh-day also. On the other hand, I knew my contact me. I'd absolutely love Adventist or even a regular When my baby was placed in baby was with a good Adventist it. But I wouldn't try to make church attender, but I do con- my arms, I saw the differences family, and I had helped choose contact with her. If she becomes sider myself a Christian. And diminish between myself and the type of family she would interested and wants to find out during the whole ordeal I did a my friends who had given birth have. I don't know who they are who her natural mother is, then lot of praying, a lot of saying, to their children. Like many or where they live, but I know the adoption agency will have "God, please give me the "natural" mothers, I found that she's in a good home. Then, the address where I can be strength to do this; this is what I I did not become the instant too, I'm not really sure I'm reached. Right now State laws know has to be done. Just let me mother I expected to be. parent material. I'm a good are such that the agency cannot make it through." Motherhood requires practice aunt, but I don't think I would give out that information. But Thanks to God's help, the and patience on the part of any make a good mother. My father I've signed an affidavit that if excellent work of the Adventist woman. I've experienced all the was an abusing parent, and I'm the laws change they have per- Adoption and Family Service, joys and frustrations of any frightened—absolutely terri- mission to give her my address. and support from relatives and parent. I've watched my child fied—that I might be the same. As you can see, giving up a friends, I have made it through. grow from a tiny, helpless baby Going through the trauma of to a bright, inquisitive, imagi- pregnancy and childbirth does native 3-year-old. I'm offered something to you, though. I've constant challenges and changed tremendously since I The receiver . rewarded with the daily comedy had the baby. I used to be a 3-year-old dusts liberally over radical, to run around, party, be every action. And nothing in the out all the time. It amazes me The following was written by a woman who has world can replace the nightly "I and a lot of people I know how an adopted child. love you, Mommy" shouted much I've changed. I've settled out as I go downstairs. down, I've mellowed. It's as if I am conscious, however, of I've gone from being a kid to A few years ago I read in the heartache and the loneliness one difference between my being a parent—whether I have Sojourner magazine a letter that she must have felt—perhaps mothering and that of a mother my child with me or not. Going touched me so deeply it made even rejection when she decided who has borne her own child. through such an experience me cry. It was written by a to go through with the preg- From time to time I say a silent definitely changes you—and young woman who had opted nancy. What that young mother thank-you to the woman who it's with you for the rest of your not to have an abortion when may never know is the degree of gave me the gift of a child, and I life. she found that she was preg- happiness her decision has pray for her well-being and I guess it's only natural, but nant. She wrote about going brought to the lives of one contentment and for God's you always wonder how the through the pregnancy alone; husband and wife. The young blessings for her. I don't do this child is progressing. I'm not about the help she found when a woman who wrote the letter is every day, not because I don't sure how long the adopting friend encouraged her to focus not, I'm sure, the mother of my care or because I feel threatened family can go on telling me on the unborn child and his child. But a young woman who by thoughts of another mother, about my child. I've kept up needs rather than the problems had to go through a similar but because most days I don't with her so far, but she's only a he was creating; about how God experience is. think of my child as "adopted" year old. I received a letter from helped her with the details of her As I grow into "mother- or having been a part of some- the adoptive mother shortly new life, helped her work out hood" with my growing child, I one else's life. She is my after they got her. The letter had her problems and withstand been sent to the agency, then trials. they sent it on to me. I also have She gave control of her life to pictures of my baby that the God and stated that when she From time to time I say a silent adoptive parents took when she finally gave birth, the child was thank-you to the woman who was two or three months old. I indeed a miracle, a light of new thought it was very thoughtful hope, and a blessing. But she gave me the gift of a child, of them. gave the child up for adoption. and I pray for her well-being. My sister-in-law made some- Not because she didn't want thing we sent with the baby him, but because she loved him when she was taken to her so very much. In her words, "I see that being an adoptive daughter. She reflects my inter- adoptive parents, so at least she gave him up with my hands, but mother is not all that different ests and my abilities. I see her has something from my family. not with my heart." from being a natural mother. reactions mirroring her adopted No direct contact is allowed I haven't given up a child. The physical pain of childbirth father's and mine. We see our between the natural parent and But I have received one through is replaced by the emotional personalities in her. the adoptive parents. Any inter- an adoption process, and I feel trauma of the adoption preli- We're a family like any change has to go through the as though my baby's mother minaries—home studies, finan- other. Adoption is really not all adoption agency. But that also might have felt the same as that cial arrangements, and a deli- that unique. It is the creation of makes it much easier. Should young woman did. A small very date that might be in six a family by people who love the natural mother want to go child is a blessing. I'm glad it weeks or two years. Being a few enough to be willing to accept and see the child, she simply has was for her, and I know it is for weeks overdue is very uncom- the responsibility involved in no way of doing it. That desire me. I can only imagine that fortable, I'm told. But the "any sharing that love with children strikes sometimes, you know. difficult decision, the pain and time within the next two years" who need it. ❑

8 (544) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 24, 1984 One luscious bite of Loma Krispy Quik Se Linda's Vege-Scallops, and you'll Mix, pan-fried wi be a believer. fresh lemon juice. Loma Linda's unique process with garlic and tomatoe uses all vegetable protein, and them a - contains no cholesterol, no e-Sca animal fats, and rtf) ou'll forget story. der write te ma Linda. oods, 11503 Pierm, St.. Riverside, CA 92515. - AIDA FOOD, '40V On the road with the editor Surprises in the British Isles

Encouraging developments in spite of obstacles—a firsthand report from the editor.

LONDON: Arranging my hand luggage before takeoff from Baltimore-Washington International Airport, I looked up to see a familiar figure entering the Boeing 747. Wayne McFarland! I had expected to meet up with him in London, but here we were on the same flight. That was the first in a series of happy surprises connected with my 17-day stint in the British Isles. Dr. Mac and I had held joint physician-minister seminars years ago in France and West Germany. Ever since, we had looked forward to working together again in presentations of the distinctive The editor found the mood at Granose Foods "upbeat." From left Adventist message of health of body, peace of mind, and to right are Harold Calkins, British Union president; Robin Archer, Granose Foods acting manager; the editor; and J. Wayne serenity of spirit. Now, responding to the request of the McFarland, with whom the editor held meetings in England. British Union, we would conduct revival and evangelistic meetings in several places. sales volume, and in July of 1983 Sanitarium Health Food "Oh, to be in England, now that April's there," we sang Company withdrew from Granose, closing down the with Browning as our plane touched down at Gatwick Sunnybisks production line and shipping the machinery back Airport. Daffodils, primroses, and tulips put on a royal to Australia. The work force at Granose was cut heavily. display, and the cherry trees and forsythia were bursting into Granose has diversified its products during the past year, color. Depending on one's point of view, the wind, never however. The management team introduced vegetarian lines still long, was either chilly or bracing. manufactured by Nutana, the church-based food factory in On hand to greet us was Harold Calkins, president of the Bjaeverskov, . Result: Granose turned a profit British Union Conference. Our host for the visit, Elder during the last five months of 1983, and sales for the first Calkins shepherds a flock of some 16,000. quarter of 1984 are up by $21,000 over the first quarter of For Dr. McFarland, the British Isles hold vivid memories. 1983. He assisted in the great London ■ Enton Hall is a newly acquired Adventist health-condi- evangelistic campaign of 1952-1953, when Ben Glanzer was tioning center in Witley, Surrey. The setting—a mansion the swig leader. Everywhere we went, people recalled those on 50 acres with lovely grounds and a market garden—is days—the opening night at the Coliseum, when some 10,000 outstanding. Enton Hall was well known as a health-care Londoners tried to find a seat, and the purchase of the New center before it became available to us. Its new Adventist Gallery Center. connection is a direct result of much prayer and the interest of But 30 years have gone by, and many things have SDA laypeople in the United States. The British Union changed. While overall membership has grown by about Conference not being in a position to purchase Enton Hall 6,000, the increase has come from among immigrants; the when it was put up for sale, a group of Adventist laypeople number of indigenous Adventists has declined. Before raised the necessary funds; the institution is governed by a coming we had heard also of financial stress in the British board of which Harold Lance, former president of ASI, is Union Conference, with Granose Foods suffering losses and chairman. the New Gallery lying unused. We met Russell Standish, medical director for Enton Hall. What would we find today? Amid the problems facing the He told of plans to introduce health education programs and work (as the work faces problems everywhere), a sequence to build up a strong medical staff. At present Enton Hall has of encouraging developments: about 40 patients; its facilities can accommodate twice that ■ At Granose Foods the mood is upbeat. That is a distinct number. We saw the work of refurbishing going on; change from a year ago. For several years the Sanitarium considerably more work will have to be done. Health Food Company of Australia had worked hard at Enton Hall has great possibilities. In the British Isles Granose, seeking to introduce the British market to concern is growing over prevention of heart disease and Sunnybisks, similar to the breakfast food Weet-bix so change in lifestyle. This new SDA institution, product of successful in Australia and New Zealand. But despite all hope, prayer, and lay dedication, can become a center of efforts, the new product failed to win a sufficiently large influence that will boost the image of the church.

10 (546) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 24, 1984 ■ John Loughborough School, located in north London, vegetarian buffet was in full swing. An extension of Country was an even bigger surprise. Here is a growing, thriving Life Restaurant of New York, the buffet serves an average of secondary school of 300 students. In maroon-and-white 200 meals per day. It is staffed largely by young people, school uniforms, the young people impressed us with their some of whom have come from distant shores—Argentina, clean-cut appearance and courtesy. Australia, Scandinavia. The New Gallery complex today is a "This is the school of miracles," principal Orville further demonstration of the way in which ASI members are Woolford told us. Between periodic interruptions from helping the church worldwide. telephone, staff, and students, he related how the school This trip has produced other good news. At the Holloway property was purchased in faith, how the laity gave and church in London we met Louis R. Preston, Jr. , pastor of a worked to prepare the facilities, how desks and equipment thriving congregation of 585 that has spawned five new were found, how a teaching staff was assembled from churches in the past five years. The Holloway congregation nothing. currently is involved in a refurbishing program of the Dream child of the late Maureen Luxton, the John sanctuary. Silbum M. Reid, president of the South England Loughborough School, now in its fourth year, has become Conference, told of the success of camp meeting and plans the most publicized SDA institution in the British Union for 1984. Dr. Reid gives enthusiastic leadership to a Conference. Newspaper and TV reporters have followed its conference that is growing and is strong financially. progress with interest. The school is unique in the British Whitford Shaw, publishing director for the British Union Isles. It has demonstrated that black boys and girls, given an Conference, explained how publishing evangelists—Bible AdVentist environment, can excel academically. In 1983 its workers employed to follow up literature evangelists' first students sat for the public examinations. The results interests—are winning people to Christ, while Barry Gane, were outstanding, outstripping the performance of all other the union's youth director, told of young people "adopting" black students. for Christ cities where we have no Adventist presence. ■ We found the New Gallery Center alive again. In the We were delighted to be able to meet two Adventist people Gallery itself preparations were going on for a six-week whose hospitality has blessed many. For years Enid and Bill evangelistic crusade to be conducted by Jack Bohannon, Tolman have gone out of their way to entertain Adventist starting April 28. Next to it a new health-food market with a strangers in London. Their home has taken in more than 4,000 people from more than 85 countries. Their hobby is people. They probably know more Adventists than anyone else in the denomination. As I write we are completing our fourteenth day in the British Isles. During these two weeks we have spoken to workers, church groups, and the public—a total of 18 meetings. Everywhere the response has been warm and spontaneous. For the past five days Dr. Mac and I have been in Grantham, Lincolnshire. Grantham, center for the Stan- borough Press, was the home of Sir Isaac Newton and Margaret Thatcher. We have been conducting public meetings on the theme "Love in Action" in the Grantham SDA church. The church members have supported the meetings in a strong way, and a good number of young people and non-Adventists have attended. Dr. Mac was cofounder (with Elman Folkenberg) of the Five-Day Plan to Stop Smoking. Observing the interest of the people in our joint health-Bible approach this week, he said, "It seems as though we've discovered a Five-Day Plan to Start Living." Tomorrow—on to Ireland, where we part. After meeting with the church in Dublin and attending a youth camp in the south of Eire, I will fly back to the United States; Dr. Mac will spend a week in Ireland and another week in Scotland. Does the work in the British Isles face problems? Yes, especially among the indigenous peoples; accessions are not keeping pace with losses owing to emigration and death. Overall growth in the British Union is slow, and resistance is heavy; the financial structures need strengthening. But much is happening of a positive nature. We have seen evidences of progress and hope. We have met men and At the John Loughborough School in north London the editor women who refuse to bow to the "impossible" and "it can't found young people eager to achieve academic success, clean- be done." And so, with all the travel and meetings, we have cut, and courteous. The school is in its fourth academic year, been surprised, delighted, and refreshed in spirit. ❑

ADVENTIST REVIEW. MAY 24 1984 (547) 11 A diamond anniversary-1 The 1909 General Conference session: flashback

Seventy-five years ago Ellen White attended her last General Conference session. A few of the delegates who attended the 1909 General Conference session* By KENNETH H. WOOD M. L. Andreasen, E. E. Andross, B. W. Brown, G. W. Caviness, Mrs. Fannie D. Chase, L. R. Conradi, A. G. eventy-five years ago Ellen G. White, at the age of 81, Daniells, Matilda Erickson, I. H. Evans, C. T. Everson, S attended the thirty-seventh session of the General J. E. Fulton, L. W. Graham, Frederick Griggs, M. E. Kern, Conference, May 13 to June 6, 1909. This session, held in Dr. D. H. Kress, C. S. Longacre, Meade MacGuire, 0. tents on the grounds of Washington Foreign Mission Montgomery, Mrs. L. Flora Plummer, W. W. Prescott, J. L. Seminary (Columbia Union College), Takoma Park, Mary- Shaw, W. A. Spicer, J. S. Washburn, W. C. White, F. M. land, was the largest to that time, with 328 delegates. Wilcox, B. G. Wilkinson, Chancy Wood. Weekend meetings attracted about 2,000 people from Washington, Baltimore, and other nearby points. * B. W. Brown was Miriam Wood's grandfather; I. E. Fulton officiated at the marriage of Miriam and Kenneth Wood; Chancy Wood (no relation) was As with previous General Conference sessions, the first elder of the first church pastored by the author. Bulletin was published daily except Sabbath. According to its masthead, the price was "50 cents for the Session"—a tremendous bargain for 21 issues with a total of 378 pages, plus 32 pages of financial and statistical reports! The Bulletin the promptness of the large congregations gathering at the contained not only the daily program (which began at 6:00 meetings. Very seldom has a meeting opened late." A.M.!) but mission reports, the conference proceedings, "The newspaper press has continued to give liberal space sermons, Bible studies, devotionals, and reports of the to reports of the Conference. The Washington dailies have departmental meetings. It also contained brief news items had their reporters frequently on the grounds, gathering and editorial comments. Here are a few samples: news." "The new concrete bridge over the Sligo, while not fully "The Conference met yesterday morning for discussion of completed, has been thrown open for both footmen and resolutions, the hearing of reports, and other business. It then teams. It is not less than thirty feet higher than the old bridge adjourned in order to allow a deputation appointed—about and makes the approach to the grounds much easier than 137 of the delegates—to visit the White House, to pay formerly." respects to the President [William Howard Taft] and to "On every side, over the grounds of the encampment, present an address. The deputation will, we suppose, report friends are shaking hands with friends, old associates in the to the Conference today, and we can give information service meeting from all parts of the world. It is pleasant to concerning the visit in our next number." hear the warm words of greeting." Eleven times during the session Ellen White spoke in the "More than once we have heard brethren remarking upon big tent. On three of the four Sabbaths of the conference, she was the morning speaker. All her messages except her final Kenneth H. Wood, formerly editor of the ADVENTIST one were reported in the Bulletin, some under the heading REVIEW, is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ellen G. "Sermons," others under the heading "Testimonies." This White Estate. was the last General Conference session at which the voice of God's messenger was heard. Four years later, when the next session was held in Takoma Park, Mrs. White was too feeble Delegates to the 1909 General to travel from her home in California, but she sent two Conference session messages to be read to the delegates. (One was read by A. G. Daniells; the other, by W. C. White.) She died two years North American Union Conferences 199 later, in 1915. Australasian Union Conference 9 This year-1984--marks the diamond anniversary of Conferences 48 Mrs. White's last appearance before a General Conference South Conference 3 session. As we pause to note this anniversary, it is important South American Union Conference 7 for us to remember "the way the Lord has led us, and His West Indian Union Conference 12 teaching in our past history." General and Miscellaneous 50 But first a brief background. Unlike her uncertainty as to Grand Total 328 whether she should attend the sessions of 1901, 1903, and 1905, as early as September, 1908, Mrs. White seemed

12 (548) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 24, 1984 The General Conference Bulletin dated June 14, 1909, pictured Ellen White and others who had been workers in Australia. settled on what she should do. expect to attend the next "Praise Him! Praise Him! Jesus, our blessed Redeemer! General Conference in Washington," she wrote to the Sing, 0 earth—His wonderful love proclaim. Workmans in Takoma Park. Though for some time she had Hail Him, hail Him, highest archangels in glory: been bothered by a lame hip, she seemed to look forward to Strength and honor give to His holy name." the journey and the opportunity to meet with church leaders. Keynote of courage So, on Monday morning, April 5, accompanied by her son Willie, Sara McEnterfer, and Minnie Hawkins, Mrs. White Elder Daniells made a brief statement of welcome, then left her Elmshaven home in California's Napa Valley, en said: "We shall open the way for our brethren to speak as the route to Washington. Eager to make the trip as productive as Spirit of the Lord impresses them, and as the gratitude of possible, she spoke 14 times on the way, meeting their hearts prompts them to speak at this opening service." appointments in College View, Nebraska; Nashville, Ten- One of those who responded was G. A. Irwin. He said, in nessee; Huntsville, Alabama; and Asheville, North Caro- part: "Courage should be the keynote of this meeting from lina. the very beginning until the end, and we should pray that God The conference began in Washington on Thursday may overshadow this place by an innumerable number of morning, May 13, at ten-forty-five. Setting the tone for the angels, and that His Holy Spirit may be the directing, leading meeting, A. G. Daniells, president of the General Confer- influence in everything that is done. . . I can say, brethren, ence, asked the congregation to sing "Praise God, from that I was never in my life of better courage. whom all blessings flow." G. A. Irwin, a vice president, Another who spoke was G. I. Butler, whose experience then read Psalm 105, which begins, "0 give thanks unto the with the Advent Movement dated back to 1844. "Someone Lord; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the may say, 'Are you not discouraged, Brother Butler? You people." have been looking for the Lord so long, you have seen so "We will now engage in a season of prayer, invoking many trials and troubles and apostasies.' Thank the Lord. God's blessing upon this Conference," announced Elder No. I am not discouraged. I am growing old, and weakening Daniells. He asked G. 1. Butler and 0. A. Olsen to lead. As physically, but my heart is still in this message. I know that the season of prayer closed, Elder Daniells prayed: God will give it a glorious triumph." "0 Lord, . . . we beseech Thee to take away anything that Frederick Wheeler, at that time the oldest Seventh-day separates us from Thee this morning. Hear us and bless us. Adventist minister, in his ninety-ninth year, had sent a Guide us all through the meeting. May there be no message that was read to the conference by W. A. Spicer, carelessness; may there be no forgetfulness of Thee; but may General Conference secretary. The message said, in part: "I we rely upon God day by day. We believe Thou art here, and rejoice today that the Lord in mercy saw fit to give me a place that Thou wilt help us; and we give Thee the praise, through in this work in its early history. . . I rejoice in the progress Jesus our dear Redeemer. Amen." that the truth is making. . . . While I cannot well expect to The solemn but joyful mood of worship was intensified as live to see it, yet I firmly believe that the consummation of the congregation sang: our hopes will be in this generation."

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 24, 1984 (549) 13 Others added their testimonies. Without exception all FOR THE YOUNGER SET sounded a note of faith and courage. In succeeding meetings of the session, as reports were given from various parts of the world, confidence that God was blessing the Advent Movement was not only maintained but intensified. After the session ended three and a half weeks later, one delegate declared that it was "without doubt the most wonderful council since the days of the apostles." Exhilarated by the The day the good reports, and sobered by the solemn messages of Ellen White, the delegates seemed to forget even their differences sparrow spoke concerning the meaning of the "daily" of Daniel 8. The president's agenda By EDITH JAMES What kind of agenda did the conference consider? In Bootsie, my black-and- did not know that it was on general, a four-point program set forth by Elder Daniells at white cat, saw me enter the dangerous ground in our the close of his president's address on the opening night of garage, and she slyly yard. Likewise, sometimes sneaked out. Her stealth we lose sight of the way the session. "Perhaps the most important question of all for made me suspicious. I had Jesus wants us to walk and us to consider is the personal spiritual experience of our seen such actions before, so try to walk in our own way. people. . . . Each one should know for himself that all is right I dashed after her. Sure We then find ourselves in the between himself and God. He must know that his sins are enough, she had a sparrow in path of that roaring lion who forgiven, that the righteousness of Christ is imputed to him, her mouth. walks about seeking whom and that the power of God is giving him continual victory I grasped her firmly with he may devour. over the world, the flesh, and the devil. . . We should, at one hand and forced her The sparrow knew no way this time, set on foot a movement for a great spiritual revival, mouth open with the other, to call for help. Fortunately, that will lay hold of our people everywhere and give them a and the bird dropped into my I happened along. But when great spiritual uplift." open palm. Walking away, I we are helpless in the grip of looked at the tiny lifeless the lion's teeth, there is One Second, said Elder Daniells, "something far beyond victim. Only an English on whom we can call: One anything we have ever done for the teeming millions in sparrow, but God had felt its who has beaten Satan, who mission fields must now be done." terror and pain. He sees even "sticketh closer than a Number three on Elder Daniells' list was the production of the sparrow's fall. brother" and always is near. more literature, and the improvement of existing literature. "Too late. I'm sorry, lit- "The Lord is nigh unto all "A strong literature committee . . . should be appointed to tle fellow," I said as it lay them that call upon him, to thoroughly revise the literature we have, and take steps to see motionless on my warm fin- all that call upon him in that such new literature is produced as seems required to gers. But wait, did I see an truth" (Ps. 145:18). meet the living issues of the times which are molding public eyelid quiver? Yes, both He is able to open the opinion. " eyes opened, and the brown lion's mouth and set us free. Sprite struggled to its feet. "Blessed be the Lord, who Number four called for an improvement in the handling of Not waiting to fluff down hath not given us as a prey to gifts and legacies. "Much is lost to our cause each year by rumpled feathers, it flew up their teeth. Our soul is neglect to act in time, by mistakes in legal documents, and in unsteadily and made a wob- escaped as, a bird out of the many other ways. This can be avoided by careful, watchful bly landing on our backyard snare of the fowlers: the effort." fence. Teetering to balance snare is broken, and we are Many of the sermons during the session emphasized itself, the little bird suddenly escaped. Our help is in the strongly both the need and the method of improving personal shot across the street like an name of the Lord, who made spirituality. Among the topics presented during the morning arrow and disappeared into a heaven and earth" (Ps. Bible studies were: "Praying for the Holy Spirit," tree in the next block. 124:6-8). "Every day will I "Conditions of Receiving the Holy Spirit," "The Work of Bootsie and the sparrow bless thee; and I will praise are no more, but a lesson thy name for ever and ever" the Holy Spirit," "Preparation for His Coming," "Prepara- remains with me. The bird (Ps. 145:2). tion for Reception of the Holy Spirit," "Reflecting the Light of Christ," and "Walking by Faith." The speakers set forth perfection as the standard of Christian character and declared that the power of Christ is able to give complete victory over sin and temptation. Two meetings each morning were devoted to Bible study, devotional messages, and prayer—one at six, and another at nine-fifteen. It was clear that those who planned the session agreed with Elder Daniells' desire to give spiritual interests the highest priority. Next week we shall review briefly the messages that God gave to the 1909 General Conference session through His inspired messenger. ❑ To be concluded

14 (550) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 24, 1984 The General Conference: how it operates-3 When you visit the General Conference

By VICTOR COOPER

How to add a new dimension match the work of the departments. The Youth Department has the 1907 typewriter used by M. E. Kern, first director of to your trip to Washington. the department, as well as model boats from Lake Titicaca. Children, ask Uncle Leo or Uncle Jim to tell you a story. illions of tourists come to Washington each year to In the portion of the General Conference buildings M visit its monuments, museums, and government occupied by Archives and Statistics you will find original buildings, along with other things of interest to visitors. letters from Pitcairn Island, the diary of a man who attended Naturally, Adventists among them often are interested in the famed 1888 General Conference in Minneapolis, and the visiting the world headquarters of the church, the General record of a man who met an angel. You may visit the chapel Conference. where worship is held at 8:00 A.M. Monday through Friday. Visitors always are welcome at the General Conference Visitors are welcome. A cafeteria service functions on the center. When you come to the church headquarters, you are tenth floor of the North Building, serving 11:45 A.M. to 1:00 likely to be greeted by Lygia de Oliveira, the hostess for P.M., Monday through Thursday. The sweeping windows of visitors. She can show you a series of interesting features. the cafeteria offer views of the city of Washington, with You will want to see the 15-minute cyclorama entitled "The vistas reaching into both Maryland and Virginia. Conflict of the Ages" as well as a 25-minute multimedia Aside from these things at world headquarters, there are program on world missions. 20 other Adventist facilities and institutions in the area, such At the Ellen G. White Estate offices you may see original as Washington Adventist Hospital and Columbia Union manuscripts and pictures of the White family. The Sabbath College. School Department displays a model of the first Seventh-day There is a lot to see. But perhaps it is the people in the Adventist mission ship, the Pitcairn. The original ship, service of the Lord who are most important. You will enjoy launched in 1890, cost $19,000, and was paid for by Sabbath meeting them, too. school members in . How much do you know about the denomination's At the Publishing Department office you can see a replica leaders? Try out your knowledge by taking this little quiz. of the first Adventist press, purchased by James White in See how many you can fill in accurately. After you have 1852 and operated in Rochester, New York. The Communi- completed it, check your answers with the key on page 19. cation Department features photographs of Adventist broad- Concluded casters and Bill Reed's paintings of the life of Christ that

Victor Cooper is an associate director in the Communication Other General Conference Department of the General Conference. organizations The General Conference also operates the following organizations located outside Washington, D.C.: How many do you know? 1. Adventist Health System/Loma Linda, Inc., Loma Linda, California. List the names of the persons who currently occupy the 2. , Berrien Springs, Michigan. following offices: 3. Christian Record Braille Foundation, Inc. , Lincoln, Nebraska. 1 . The president of the General Conference. 4. Gencon Risk Management Service (Insurance Service): - 2. The secretary of the General Conference. pean branch office, St. Albans, Herts., England; Riverside branch 3. The treasurer of the General Conference. office, Riverside, California. 4. The director of the Communication Department. 5. Geoscience Research Institute, Loma Linda, California. 5. The director of the Education Department. 6. Harris Foundation, Portland, Oregon. 7. Loma Linda Foods, Riverside, California. 6. The director of the Health and Temperance Depart- 8. Loma Linda University: Loma Linda Campus, Loma Linda, ment. California; La Sierra Campus, Riverside, California. 7. The director of the Lay Activities Department. 9. Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, Califor- 8. The secretary of the Ministerial and Stewardship nia. Association. 10. Pacific Press Publishing Association, Mountain View, Califor- 9. The director of the Public Affairs and Religious nia. Liberty Department. 11. Review and Herald Publishing Association, Hagerstown, 10. The director of the Publishing Department. Maryland. 12. Seventh-day Adventist Radio, Television, and Film Center, 11. The director of the Sabbath School Department. Newbury Park, California. The center houses these organizations: 12. The director of the Youth Department. Breath of Life, Faith for Today, , DBA Transda, Answers to "How Many Do You Know?" on page 19: .

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 24, 1984 (551) 15 SINGLE LIFE

stances allow you any glow at all—you discover you are a An only-lonely victim of the only-lonely syndrome. Even if you don't feel particularly victimized yet, probably some of the signs already have cropped up—little green, weedy shoots that used to live here indicate being on your own is not the happy prospect you might have conceived it to be. It is possible to feel lonely Mealtimes are almost exclusively stuff-your-face, get- nourished times. Cooking a real meal for only one person in a crowd. But with Jesus, seems a waste of time. For some, it is nearly an impossible you will never be alone. enterprise. Evenings end up somewhat repeating themselves week after week, and you may grow to know more about television show characters than you do about yourself. By KATIE TONN-OLIVER If you are fortunate, you have children, or a dog, cat, bird, or plants that need your attention—anything to get your mind off feelings of boredom and that insidious sense that o, you're on your own. You have moved out of the nest, aloneness means, somehow, that you are unworthy. When S not at home with the family, no longer in a dorm room, you're alone, an only-lonely, it is hard not to think that no longer sharing a home with a spouse. Either you are on something must be wrong with you. your own for the first time, or for the first time in a long time. During the decade when I was alone I learned some things After the first glow of independence—if your circum- that helped me escape the tyrannical curse of the only-lonely syndrome. Perhaps what I learned can help you. Katie Tonn-Oliver is a free-lance writer living in Angwin, First, I created a good environment for myself. Even if I California. had to come back to a nearly empty house or apartment (only

The author dedicated her home to God, who brought short-term and long-term guests to share friendship and spiritual fellowship.

16 (552) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 24, 1984 nearly so, because I almost always had a cat or two, and roommate. You may have some strange respondents. always had plants), at least home made my eyes happy. However, God will help you find just the right person, if you Fortunately, I have a talent that allows me to make something are patient. (He also is aware of your financial situation and of nearly nothing in terms of "found art" and other the fact that you can't afford to pay the rent, or payments, on decorative items. If you don't have that gift, find someone your house or apartment all by yourself for too long.) Once in who does and enlist his or her help. But if you can't do that, at a while someone will come to live with you who you feel is a least keep your living environment uncluttered and clean. difficult person. This is your opportunity to stretch your I dedicated my home to God. It became His house, and tolerance and patience. I have never known God to leave me over the years He brought short-term and long-term guests to in that sort of situation indefinitely. share time, warmth, friendship, and spiritual fellowship. If Most important, let Jesus be your constant, though you have a guest room, let God know it is available to Him. invisible, roommate. His consistently invited presence in Some of those who come along may be ones you feel you your home will help to keep the loneliness at bay. It is could have done a lifetime without; however, God was possible, of course, to feel lonely in a crowd, But with Jesus sensitive about this for me, and He didn't keep difficult to talk to in your mind, you never will be alone. Even if you people around for too long or bring them home too often. don't have a plant, fish, bird, child, cat, dog, or any other I went out of my way to invite others to share meals with living presence in your home, you need not be an me, either at my place or theirs or out at a restaurant. Food only-lonely. Where Jesus dwells, the house is full. ❑ and conversation mix well. Nothing need be fancy or gourmet. The sharing—if you are determined to go deeper than surface chitchat—is more important than the actual meal. It is true, though, that attention to small details, like Bits and pieces from having the table look nice, makes you and your guests feel better. our correspondence There are many things one can do to alleviate the only-lonely blues. Here are a few ideas, some of which I have In the ADVENTIST REVIEW'S first Single Life column to be published ("Singles: What Is the Church Doing?" Jan. 27, tried myself at one time or another: 1983, p. 11), we mentioned that the North Pacific Union Open your home one evening a week for a group Bible Gleaner invites singles living in its territory to place study session (or a computer-club meeting or whatever). If classified advertisements in a section called Person to you feel shy about leading out, ask someone who you feel Person. Recently we asked Mort Juberg, Gleaner editor, to would be a better discussion leader. assess the results of the Person to Person column for us. Church is a place where we reach out to God in worship, He writes: "We have been quite pleased with the success submitting wholly to His will. But from another perspective of the Person to Person column in the Gleaner . . . . I haven't church can be formal, and it is easy to remain an only-lonely kept careful track of people who have been married, but I at church, especially if the congregation is a large one. But do would guess there are probably half a dozen couples who go to church. The people you invite to share your meals or would fall into this category." Elder Juberg enclosed a story join your study group will be some of those you meet at from the January 16 Gleaner about Ruebon and Debra Edgerly, a couple who met through the Person to Person church. section. Be sensitive to the need for friendship that other Richard Barron, General Conference associate Youth only-lonely people must feel. If you wonder what you have to director, reports that the Australasian Division is giving offer anyone, take time to read the Bible, inspirational support and encouragement to its single members. Two years books, and other self-help or motivational books that help ago the Trans-Australian Union Conference conducted a you overcome shyness and develop your self-esteem. The Philosda Congress that proved to be a success. As a result of more you come to realize that God loves you—despite your requests from those who attended for another congress, the faults and feelings—the more free from self-consciousness Australasian Division conducted another Philosda Congress you will become. at a youth camp in Sydney January 3 to 8, 1984. They invited not only Philosda members, but also anyone over 21 and Learn to be more interested in developing friendships, single, widowed, or divorced. Guest speakers included Elder many of them, than in finding just one certain someone with Barron, K. Martin, division youth director, and his whom to share your life. Marriage is wonderful—most of the associate, L. Lansdown. time. However, during a decade of single living as an adult I Elder Barron reports enjoying his association with the 150 learned that it is necessary to grow comfortable, to a large or so singles who attended the congress. He says that before degree, with yourself before you try to merge your life with the congress ended, the singles organized a national Philosda another person's. Friendships, as opposed to romances, help Club. you keep your relationships centered on mutual interests, A reader in Loma Linda, California, suggests an addition whereas romances sometimes push self-awareness and to our listing in the December 22, 1983, issue of books and development to the back burner. The emotions of romance magazines of interest to singles. She recommends Christian Single, published monthly by the Southern Baptist Conven- need a hot fire and demand the priority burner of your tion. A one-year subscription is $12.75. The address is 127 attention. Some of the best marriages are those where the Ninth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee 37234. Another couple were good friends before they were romantically reader sent us a copy of the February, 1984, issue of involved. Christian Single, and after seeing the magazine we agree that If you can afford the initial expense, move into a larger it is both interesting and helpful.—Editors. house or apartment than you need. Then advertise for a

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And yet, maybe there is a The possibilities for this kind of Adoption's broader application of the word "adoption" are almost endless, for adoption for the rest of us. It seems no doubt in every church and com- broader view to me that what Clements is really munity are some who are lonely, saying by adopting is "I see a lot of isolated, hurting, troubled, or George Clements is a man of hurting and loneliness in the world. grieving. A single person or a child action. Several years ago this pastor I can't take away all the pain, but I could "adopt" a lonely older per- of the Holy Angels Catholic church can do something." son as a grandparent. One family in Chicago became concerned about Is it possible to look at adoption could "adopt" another to encour- the thousands of black children in as a principle rather than only a age and support. Another family the United States growing up in legal process? Could adoption also might feel more comfortable foster homes and institutions. He be defined as the caring church, the giving relief to a single parent by began promoting One Church, One caring member, reaching out to "adopting" his or her child. An Child—the idea that one family in someone in need of love? older couple could "adopt" a youn- every black congregation adopt at People who care ger one, or vice versa. On a larger least one black child and that the scale, a Sabbath school class could rest of the congregation be support- The Old Testament tells us of "adopt" a nursing home or a hospi- ive of the adopting family. Jesus' mission "to bind up the tal ward; a church could "adopt" In 1981, practicing what he brokenhearted" (Isa. 61:1), and an orphanage, a prison, or a spe- preached, Clements adopted a 13- exhorts the church to "comfort ye cific part of its neighborhood. year-old boy named Joey, who had my people" (chap. 40:1). The What might adoption include? spent most of his life in institutions apostle Paul counsels believers "to Listening. Encouraging. Sharing. after being abandoned as an infant. comfort them which are in any Comforting. Inviting home for din- According to a Religious News trouble, by the comfort wherewith ner, helping with tasks, giving Service report, Clements recently we ourselves are comforted of material assistance when necessary, adopted a second son, a 15-year-old God" (2 Cor. 1:4). This gives us an and providing role models leading named Friday Endumele. idea of the kind of people God to spiritual birth and renewal. "Every child if at all possible would have us be. And isn't caring This kind of adoption, while not should be raised in a home with what we would like our church to demanding the lifelong commit- both a father and a mother," says be known for? ment of legal adoption, does need .Clements. But the priest is a realist Recently I heard the story of a to be taken seriously. It takes time who believes that adoption by a family who said to a young to develop deep, caring relation- single parent is preferable to a divorcée they knew, "We're ships with other people. And series of foster homes. going to adopt you and your daugh- always there are some people we He has promoted the One ter." It happened at a time when the encounter who, for reasons they Church, One Child program at young woman and her child particu- themselves may not know, reject adoption conferences and work- larly needed the love and support of our overtures of friendship. They shops, and under his leadership it a family; and as the relationship need our understanding and has expanded across the country. developed, all the participants felt prayers. Obviously, not all of us can they benefited from it. George Clements, of Chicago, follow the priest's noteworthy put love into action and changed his example. While circumstances may world for the better. Why don't be right for some Adventist families caring Seventh-day Adventists, led to welcome another little person by the Holy Spirit and following into their homes, there are various Jesus' example, do the same? valid reasons why the majority J. R. F. cannot. It also is unlikely that more than a few singles have the physical and financial resources to adopt.

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crowd the mission reports out of of the "good deeds" of Advent- In 1892 the paper, now re- mission of the church through the issue. I have heard several ist education, perhaps we need a named the Southern Review, literature is better served today people complain about their more objective report that rec- served for both missionary out- than in 1904 when Ellen White absence from the Adventist ognizes our spiritual deficien- reach and church news. This made her statement. We need Family issue. cies and offers practical counsel journal continued until 1901 now to expand the circulation of LESTER H. RHYMES on how to improve. when it was merged with the these outstanding publications. Escondido, California Even as Paul was quick to Tennessee River Watchman Few realize the potential of with the stated purpose, "to modern printing equipment. In We, with our children, own affirm that he taught the genuine unify and strengthen the work in 1904 printing was a slow, tedi- that they obtained quality edu- gospel, though he was not one the whole Southern field." The ous process involving mostly cation in Adventist schools. We of the twelve apostles, so should title was then changed to the hand work. Today large web are grateful for this. we also affirm that genuine Southern Watchman. presses at the Review and Her- The material in "Excellence Adventist education is not lim- Southern Watch- ald and Pacific Press run 30,000 in Adventist Education" ited to conference supported In 1903 the merged with the Gospel copies per hour, printing on prompts me to address two other schools. Institutions such as man which up to that time both sides of the paper, folding, facets basic to caring for the Wildwood, Weimar, and Hart- Herald, carried a special mission to the and trimming in one operation! students in our schools. land offer quality Christian edu- black population. In 1905 the Before the merger of These First, it is imperative that cation and should be included as journal's title was shortened to Times and Signs of the Times, each faculty member and each viable options for young The Watchman. For two more each periodical needed only a department head, whatever the Adventists. years the paper carried church one-day run to complete each discipline, have a personal the- CINDY GRAMS TUTSCH news as well as missionary issue. This was not cost-effec- ology that relates faith with the Holly, Michigan articles for a cross section of the tive. The total subscription list discipline in which he or she Journal merger population. In an important last year was 135,000 for These teaches. The faculty member transition in 1907 The Watch- Times and 305,000 for Signs of should be able and willing to Re "Journal Merger to Be was given a totally evan- the Times. In joining the papers articulate this correlation both Complete by April" (Back man gelistic content and the South- the duplication of editing and in the classroom and in personal Page, Jan. 19) regarding the ern Union launched its separate production costs has been eli- conversation. merger of These Times with union paper, ultimately to be minated, and the savings on Second, faculty members Signs of the Times. Southern Tidings. production and coordinated should know and use principles The reasoning for combining called the promotion will enable us to of emotional health and matu- these two journals sounds feasi- Again the title of the missionary Our reach the immediate objective rity. I do not know of a curricu- ble except that it does not go journal was changed to and later to These Times of 1 million subscriptions and lum in which these principles along with Counsels to Writers Times to avoid confusion of the title beyond. are examined with the same and Editors: The Watchman with another There is another interesting earnestness as are the principles (which became These Times in The Watchman religious journal. With even highlight on subscription rates. of healthful living in regard to 1951) should "do its appointed In 1874 when the salary of a the physical body. I am uncon- work in all parts of the world. Its these changes, the church fell short of its ultimate mission, publishing house worker was vinced that we can deal with field is wherever subscribers especially for the black popula- $12 per week, the subscription character and personality can be found for it."—Page Message maga- cost of the Signs of the Times, defects unless we also learn and 136. tion. In 1935 zine was launched as "an evan- eight pages per issue at the time, teach to our people the princi- "The Watchman is to have a gelistic journal beamed toward was $2. The special 1984 sub- ples of an emotionally healthy place in the field at large. It the black population." In recent scription price for the new Signs lifestyle. MARGARET TURNER bears the message of truth as El of the Times of twelve 32-page Dayton, Ohio verily as do the Review and the years, yet another journal, Signs of the Times."—Ibid. Centinela, was instituted for the issues is only $6.50, including The educators interviewed D. WOMACK Spanish-speaking public. There postage. By contrast the annual seemed oblivious to what many Los Angeles, California are also other fine journals such subscription cost of the Wash- Adventists see as a real deter- newspaper is ■ We asked L. L. Bock, General as Listen, Liberty, Your Life and ington Post rent to spiritual growth in our Health, and Israelite. $111.80. Our publishing work SDA schools: chiefly, a signifi- Conference vice president and chairman of the Pacific Press This review of our history is still a miracle! L. L. Bock cant trend toward the values of fairly shows, I believe, that the Washington, D.C. the world in career choice, board, to respond: entertainment, and even curri- To explain the Annual Coun- cula. cil action that merged the Signs Truly there is much that is of the Times and These Times, Answers to "How Many Do commendable happening in our one must look at the history of You Know?" on page 15 SDA schools. But it seems to our church missionary journals. me that we are practicing self- Of the two mentioned, the Signs 1. Neal C. Wilson 7. George Knowles 2. G. Ralph Thompson 8. J. Robert Spangler when we brush aside of the Times has the longer 3. Lance Butler 9. Bert Beach reminders of the original pur- history, dating back to 1874. 4. Robert Nixon 10. Louis Ramirez poses for Christian education by The development of These 5. Charles Taylor 11. Howard Rampton citing examples of the impracti- Times has included several 6. Mervyn Hardinge 12. Leo Ranzolin cability of inspired counsel. changes, beginning in 1891 as Rather than a glowing recital the Southern Agent.

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there it spread throughout the Mauritius-missionary island Indian Ocean. The history of Adventism in of the Indian Ocean the Indian Ocean began in 1912 on Mauritius, a former British colony that previously had been By JAMES L. FLY ruled by Holland and France. While vacationing in Swit- zerland to improve her health, The dodo bird never had a they now have the right to elect Rose Le Meine, a young chance. their own leaders. Mauritian girl who was a dedi- For centuries they hatched At the first constituency cated Presbyterian, attended peacefully on the uninhabited meeting, held in the Beau Bas- lectures held in Lausanne by H. Indian Ocean island of Mauri- sin church, delegates reelected H. Dexter. Accepting the tius, a turkey-sized bird with the man who had led the Mauri- Adventist faith, Rose returned such tiny wings that it could not tius Mission for the past few Mikael Beesoo, president of to Mauritius excited about shar- the Mauritius Mission, chal- fly. It had no natural enemies. years—Mikael Beesoo. lenges members to look ing her newfound faith. She Then humans came in 1638. Cautioning the church mem- ahead, not simply to dwell on quickly convinced her two sis- Dutch settlers feasted on the bers not to rest on the laurels of their past accomplishments. ters. defenseless dodo. The new- the past, Pastor Beesoo chal- At about the same time, a comers' hogs, rats, and dogs lenged them to look ahead: "It's behind and pressing on toward young Mauritian man, Elysee destroyed its eggs. By 1681 the true that our mission has what lies ahead." Moikeenah, joined the Advent- dodo had the dubious honor of enjoyed a measure of success, Nevertheless, the four-day ist Church in Australia. Like becoming the first living species but we must not become com- meeting could not but be a time Rose, he too came back to his whose extinction was recog- placent. That's why, my dear of reflection for Mauritian island home with a burning nized to be directly caused by friends, on this joyous occasion Adventists as they recalled the desire to tell others about the joy humans. The only dodo birds I challenge you to be like the way the Lord had established he had discovered. you can see today are stuffed apostle Paul, forgetting what is His church on their island. From Working independently of and in museums or carved and in souvenir shops. In happy contrast to the hap- less dodo, Seventh-day Advent- ists, although small in number, are very much alive on this small volcanic island quilted with sugarcane fields and peo- pled by a multiethnic population of nearly a million. In February of this year the 2,160 Adventist Mauritians cel- ebrated the seventieth anniver- sary of the Adventist church on the island by becoming a con- ference. In doing so, Mauritius became the first conference to be organized within the Africa- Indian Ocean Division since it was formed in 1980, and only the third conference in the divi- sion's territory. Achieving conference status means that Mauritian Advent- ists must continue to be self- supporting financially and that

James L. Fly is director of On Sabbath, February 18, the Mauritius Mission, organized in 1958, achieved conference status. media services for the Africa- It is the third conference in the division. This step acknowledges the members' ability to oper- Indian Ocean Division. ate a self-supporting organization and brings with it the authority to elect leaders.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 24, 1984 (557) 21 one another and without any organized the first church, bap- guez Island. And a Mauritian fine beaches of their island, knowledge of the others' pres- tizing 21 women and four men. established the church on the Mauritians always seem to be ence or activities, Elysee, Rose, Soon other churches were Seychelles archipelago 1,000 going away from their island and her sisters plowed the thriving, and enthusiastic miles (1,600 kilometers) to the and coming back again. While ground of people's hearts, Mauritian Adventists began north. jet-setting European tourists planting seeds that grew like looking beyond the coral-reef Today, well-educated and ride Windsurfers and sunbathe emerald waves of sugarcane boundaries of their island. highly motivated Mauritians are at Mauritian resort hotels during dancing in the ocean breezes. A Mauritian named Tuyau, serving the church not only in the winter, the desire to see When French pastor Paul who had attended Adventist the Indian Ocean but also in other lands is an equally irresist- Badaut arrived in Mauritius in meetings in Mauritius, sparked Europe, Africa, Canada, and ible craving in the hearts of May, 1914, at Rose's request, interest in the Adventist mes- Australia. Like the ebb and flow young Mauritians. the harvest was nearly ready. In sage in Madagascar. A Mauri- of the turquoise tide that Pastor Beesoo, who himself September of that year he tian began the work on Rodri- caresses the gleaming, powder- has traveled to Europe

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The last soldier lays down her arms—undefeated As a little Catholic girl growing up on the Indian Ocean island of Rodriguez, Amelie Ithier wanted to be a nun. But after her baptism into the Seventh-day Adventist Church at the age of 14, she dreamed of nothing but going to Africa as a missionary. After 14 years of working as the dean of women at the Adventist college in Madagascar, her dream finally came true. At first, however, it seemed more like a nightmare. Assigned as a secretary to the Congo (now Zaire) Union office in Elizabethville (now Lubumbashi), starry-eyed Amelie arrived in August, 1961. Three weeks later war erupted between Katanga (now Shaba) Province rebels and the newly indepen- dent Congolese government. United Nations troops were called upon to restore order. On an urgent mission to arrange a cease-fire, UN Secretary- General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). The union office was caught in the cross fire between the two armies. Amelie, along with some 30 other Congo Union and Southern African (Trans-Africa) Division employees and their Amelie Ithier: "I wouldn't trade Zaire for anywhere else." families, huddled in the corridors of the sturdy two-story brick office building. It was then that she learned that being a ago for one reason or another, but not Amelie. She has missionary means that you truly have to be a Christian soldier remained, convinced that this is where her Commanding Officer marching as to war, clad in the "full armor of God" (Eph. 6:11, wants her to serve. N.I.V.). Like a faithful sentinel, she has never abandoned her post, Machine-gun fire tattooed the walls and shattered the never admitted defeat. She has done just about every job there is windows of their fortress, the bullets whining and ricocheting. to do at the union headquarters. Mortar rounds whistled, then exploded on the roof, showering "I came here to stay and to work. That is just what I have plaster down on their heads. done," she said. It seemed hard to believe that anything like that had ever Eating the delicious dinner that my gracious Mauritian hostess happened as I recently sat talking with Amelie in her had prepared for me, I pointed to the bullet holes in her kitchen comfortable apartment—the same one where she has lived for 23 doorway that she had shown me earlier. years. "You never had a thought about going back?" I asked her. "Weren't you afraid?" I asked her. "Never," she replied, thrusting out her chin and with a "There is a kind of feeling that is stronger than fear. I'm sure mischievous twinkle in her brown eyes. "I'm not the kind to turn the Lord puts it in you. You feel like a soldier who is going out on my back on the enemy." the battlefield. You know you might be killed but you keep going When Amelie retires in May, the Zaire Union Mission office forward. I was scared only when everything was finished and we will never be the same again without its "doctor," "door- were out of the country. That was when I started shaking keeper," and "mother," and neither will she. uncontrollably," she replied. "I wouldn't trade Zaire for anywhere else,"' she said, gazing Former General Conference president Robert H. Pierson, out her window at the house across the street that once served as then president of the Southern African Division, went through the headquarters for UN troops. the second battle of Elizabethville, in December, 1961. He "But aren't you looking forward to retirement?" I asked. wrote about the miracles involved in the evacuation of the Congo "Oh, yes," she said, agreeing with me at last. "There comes Union staff in his book Angels Over Elizabethville. a time when every soldier must lay down his arms. " All the other people who were there at that time have left long JAMES L. FLY

22 (558) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 24, 1984 explained it to me as he looked thoughtfully out the window of his second-floor office in Rose Hill: "I understand the thirst of our young people to see the world. Until they leave, Mauri- tius is the only world they know." There is, however, a more pressing and practical reason why so many young Mauritians leave the island. Because it has one of the greatest population densities in the world, Mauri- tius is plagued by unemploy- ment. But the exodus of young Mauritians drains the local church of talent that could help it to be stronger and more effective than it is on an island where more than half the people are Hindus. The strength of the Hindu religion displayed itself in awe- some pageantry just a week Young Mauritians enjoy a songfest and fellowship. After graduating from secondary school, after I left Mauritius. Every year many students study abroad. Some return home; others remain overseas to find employment. at the end of February, Hindus from all over the island don as well as of his land and on the other hand, teaches in an island are making invaluable white clothes. Then, walking profession, Christian told me Adventist school in southern contributions to the church, I barefoot with portable flower- that Mauritius has the oldest California. could not but feel, after visiting covered bamboo "chapels" on press in the Indian Ocean and "Why did you come back?" Mauritius, that the ones who their shoulders, they participate that a Mauritian introduced pho- I asked him. stay behind or return as mis- in a pilgrimage of purification tography to Australia. "Because I love my coun- sionaries to their own island that takes them to Grand Bassin He himself is planning to try," he responded with an make the greater sacrifice. Lake. emigrate to Australia with his infectious smile. Our church members on Participants in this greatest of family in the near future. "I've He also gave me a hint of how Mauritius will continue to face Mauritian Hindu festivals, stayed as long as I have because the church in Mauritius has been the challenges of Hinduism and called Maha Shivaratree, I wanted to influence and able to support itself finan- unemployment just as the island believe that the water in the lake encourage the young people cially. "Pastor Samuel Appave, bears the brunt of destructive miraculously comes from the here," he says. the first Mauritian president of cyclones between December Ganges, India's sacred river. He recently served as the the mission, put a great amount and April each year. In 1980, a Fortunately many young mission's education director. of emphasis on stewardship. cyclone destroyed a third of the Mauritian Adventists do not Like 28 percent of Mauritians, This certainly helped us to attain sugar crop. leave the island, and others go Christian is a Creole, a person financial independence," he In fact, the tail end of a away to study and then come generally of mixed African and said. cyclone was washing the island back. European ancestry. For many years, stewardship with rain just outside of Beau As I innocently bit into a has been a way of life for Ignace Bassin as I rode along in a van at Chinese well represented piece of Mauritian pineapple— and Ginitte Montille, primary sunset with the officers of the which unknown to me had been Although they are a small school teachers of Indian ances- Africa-Indian Ocean Division rubbed with chili peppers—one minority on Mauritius, the Chi- try. As we drove along a narrow and the Indian Ocean Union. such young Adventist, Chris- nese are well represented in the highway toward Casella Bird But suddenly, the sun broke tian Michel, grinned at me. Adventist Church. One hot Park (we saw no dodos there!), through the swirling clouds. "I hope it's not too hot for Sabbath afternoon I met Kelvyn Ignace quietly told me that "Look over there!" you," said Christian, a journal- Ng Wong Hing outside the despite the fact that he and his exclaimed Francis Augsburger, ist in his 30s who works for the entrance of the Beau Bassin wife together earn less than one president of the Indian Ocean daily newspaper. "That's the church, which was overflowing teacher makes in the United Union, who had spent part of his way we like it here." Later he with old and young alike who States, the Lord has blessed youth on Mauritius when his kindly bought me a fresh coco- had come to listen to various them. "We have been able to father was president of the nut, and its sweet, cool milk singing groups and G. S. Val- give 10 percent offering in Mauritius Mission. soothed my tingling tongue. leray, secretary of the Africa- addition to our tithe," he said. Despite the storm, a beautiful Christian's grandfather pio- Indian Ocean Division. Ignace's brother Charles is rainbow arched across the pur- neered the work of the church A physics teacher at a public the president of the Reunion ple sky above a sugarcane field. 60 years ago on Mauritius' secondary school as well as an Mission, while Ginitte's If the past is any indication, dependent island, Rodriguez accomplished musician, Kel- brother, L. H. Seenyen, teaches unavoidable problems not with- (located 350 miles [563 kilome- vyn completed his university Bible at Auckland Adventist standing, the future of our ters] east of Mauritius). studies in France before return- High School in New Zealand. church on Mauritius should be Obviously proud of his heritage ing to Mauritius. His brother, While the ones who leave the sweet and full of promise.

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All of his family master plan whereby lay dale Academy, Centralia, much-loved pastor ministered and 120 of the members of his preachers would hold evangel- Missouri, Sunday, April 15, for to a nondenominational congre- church are now Adventists. istic crusades in January and the first regular triennial session gation. In one of his sermons he In north Haiti a pastor of a February, the pastors in March of the Iowa-Missouri Confer- told his members that the popular Protestant church and April, and the youth in May ence since the merger of the two Seventh-day Adventist Church attended a series of Adventist and June. However, enthusiasm conferences in 1980. had the truth and that he consid- evangelistic meetings and was so great that some people The conference's three offi- ered Adventists to be the most determined to become a refused to wait for the suggested cers, W. D. Wampler, presi- sincere people in Haiti. When Seventh-day Adventist. He then campaign dates. Despite—or dent; W. E. Brown, secretary; he died a short time later, the faced the task of notifying the because of—this "lack of coop- and D. F. Gilbert, treasurer, congregation remembered his 11 churches under his care. Not eration" the results have been were reelected, as was the entire high esteem for Adventists and only were the members of his impressive. slate of departmental and serv- sent a representative to the family baptized with him, but as In Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, ice staff. South Haiti Mission to ask the a result of his preaching, more lay preachers have conducted The constituents authorized president, Max Charles, to send than 600 people have been 97 lay evangelistic campaigns. the newly elected 23-member someone to organize them as an baptized also. When I recently visited one of executive committee to sell the Adventist church. Today they BETTY MCCLUSKEY the city's 13 churches, I found Oak Park Academy property in are an active Seventh-day Public Relations Director 200 persons attending the cru- Nevada, Iowa, either in its Adventist congregation. Franco-Haitian Union sade, 80 of whom were visitors. entirety or in separate parcels, In the second church 250 adults whichever proved more profit- were present, only 25 of whom able. Authorization also was were Adventists. Because there given to sell the Elkhorn Ranch simply was not enough room for Youth Camp near Boone, Iowa, the members, they had gathered as Camp Heritage in Missouri on a lawn across the street and was considered adequate to were listening from there. serve the entire field in provid- Although such a response ing camping facilities for the would not be unusual in the young people. southern part of Mexico, it DON R. CHRISTMAN indicates a new day for evangel- Associate Secretary ism in Monterrey. General Conference In the nearby city of Saltillo, capital of the state of Coahuila, HAITI there are three churches, all served by one pastor. But lay Churches preachers were preaching in 20 locations. The pastor informed join SDA fold me that a Catholic priest in the The Adventist Church in area is conducting introductory Haiti has seen at least 30 non- Bible classes and the reference Adventist congregations SDA addresses UN commission books he recommends for Old become Seventh-day Advent- Seventh-day Adventists influenced the fortieth session of the Testament are Patriarchs and ists during the past three years. United Nations Commission on Human Rights, held from February Prophets and Prophets and A non-Adventist pastor in 6 to March 16 in Geneva, Switzerland, through both quotations and Kings. For the New Testament Gonaives invited Isaac Jean- a presentation by an Adventist representative. he recommends The Desire of Baptiste, lay activities director Gianfranco Rossi (third from right), president of the International Ages and The Acts of the Apos- of the Franco-Haitian Union, to Association for the Defense of Religious Liberty, addressed the tles. attend a special Sabbath morn- entire assembly for some 15 minutes, during which he emphasized While visiting in Saltillo, I ing service at his church. As the right of each individual to choose and confess any religious shook hands with a woman who Pastor Jean-Baptiste listened, conviction, calling it an indispensable human right. dreamed that she was to go to the pastor stood in front of his Representatives of the U.S.S.R. and the German Democratic Hidalgo 114--the address of the congregation and said: "I have Republic twice mentioned the Seventh-day Adventist Church as an Central church—where she was been studying the Adventist example of how strict separation between state and church can be to inquire about salvation. The message for a long time, and I achieved while still collaborating in some areas; and a representa- pastor began Bible studies with am tired of fighting against God tive from the Holy See quoted from an Adventist document, without her, and today she is a dedicated and His Word. . . . I know that mentioning the source. church member. Her husband Adventists have the truth. I have Because of Adventist involvement at the session, certain became upset about her new explained these truths to my desirable changes in the documents under question were effected. faith and thought he would get church members, and they HEINZ HOPE the priest to advise her to stop understand and agree with my REVIEW Correspondent going to the Adventist church.

26 (562) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 24, 1984 To his surprise, the priest said: "At the moment, our team "My son, don't be a fool. This doctor was not nearby, so I went Review and Comment is a good step. You should alone. On the way I was praying By JAMES COFFIN RUN accompany her there. Go and that whatever lay ahead, God Sri study the Holy Scriptures and would give me the wisdom to do try to apply what you learn to just the right thing. Upon your life. Don't bother your reaching the home of the caller I ■ Ask almost any adult who has a television what he or she wife about this anymore." was surprised to find the room watches most, and news will head the list. But who says'that news SERGIO MOCTEZUMA dark and all windows closed. In may not have as adverse an effect on the viewer--particularly the Lay Activities Director addition, the windows were way it often is portrayed—as any other programs on the tube? For Inter-American Division covered with blankets. The example, when a 12-year-old recently was arraigned on charges that patient was a 1-year-old boy he sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl on a pool table while other having a febrile convulsion. PHILIPPINES children watched, officials assumed he may have gotten the idea The thermometer registered from watching the Big Dan's Tavern rape trial on television. If a 40.8° C. (105.4° F.) and his committee were set up to rate the news, we might be surprised how Pioneer medical eyes were rolling. The relatives much would be rated R and even X. volunteers reach had given up the boy to die. "According to their custom, I According to Parade Magazine, Japanese baseball manager out to Muslims they prepared for his death by Tatsuro Hirooka was not impressed when his team, the Seibu Lions, The H.E.L.P. (Health Edu- placing pounded grass in all finished last in their league in 1981. Prescribing a macrobiotic diet, cation for Lanao People) was body entrances such as the nose, Hirooka limited meat intake and banned polished rice and sugar organized in 1978 as a total ears, and anus. They believe altogether, eventually putting the team on a totally vegetarian diet. medical missionary outreach that if these openings are The diet proved to be a winner, and despite having to live with such program dealing with the pre- covered, the spirit in the person insults as being called "the goat team," the Seibu Lions became the ventive and curative sides of who dies cannot escape, so kings of Japan's baseball jungle in 1983, winning the Japan Series. medicine. Created by six mis- Satan cannot take it with him. Parade Magazine's observation: "Food for thought, isn't it?" sionary volunteers and spon- As a nurse, I knew all this was ■ sored by the Seventh-day wrong, but how could I explain The Western Journal of Medicine recently reported a study Adventist Church, it was it to them? The man who asked done in Erie County, Pennsylvania, that showed that nonsmoking financed by the Far Eastern for help was the boy's father. wives of smoking husbands were twice as likely to die of cancer as a Division, South Philippine Being unwilling to give the boy control group of nonsmoking women whose husbands didn't Union Mission, Northern Min- up, he thought we could help smoke. If a wife dies under such circumstances, would it be danao Mission, and Mindanao him. I was banking on him for considered murder or merely vicarious suicide? Sanitarium and Hospital. support. ■ Writing in the March, 1984, issue of Glamour magazine, The six volunteers, including "Quickly I took measures to Wendy and William Dreskin, authors of the recently published the project director, a doctor, lower his temperature and book The Day Care Decision: What's Best for You and Your Child, two nurses, a health educator, removed the plugs from his tell how they got out of the all-day day-care business. Why? and a technician, arrived in nostrils so he could breathe Because they saw what it was doing to the children they cared for. Marawi City in the same year. freely. In 40 minutes the tem- They state: "Researchers have documented negative effects of Knowing the area was inhabited perature was down and the boy full-day substitute care. The problems are greatest for children by 90,000 conservative Mus- once more was smiling and under three, who need to form a strong emotional attachment to a lims who were prejudiced seemed well. The parents were parent or parent-substitute. We feel—and studies show—that against the ways of Christians, deeply thankful and I was happy disruption of that attachment process, which takes place over it was only in teaching by for a good first impression. several years, is likely to shortchange a child emotionally." example the life of Jesus that the "Since then we have faced H.E.L.P. team was able to live many challenging situations. ■ At long last it looks as though the State of Nebraska has found a among them. Telling them Despite the threat, we learned to way out of the deadlock with unlicensed Christian schools, which openly about our doctrine love that dangerous place and resulted in six fathers spending three months in jail, while their would have resulted in death. the delicate work, as well as families lived in exile outside the State. Nebraska governor Bob During the first month we love the people. Owing to the Kerrey has signed a bill, to go into effect July 9, that states that arranged our headquarters and cruel, untimely death of one of teacher competency information can be used by the State as only became acquainted with people, our volunteers, however, we one factor in evaluating private schools. offering our services without have returned to the Mindanao ■ Believing in "flower power," Catholic priest James Harvey, cost. Our home was made spot- Sanitarium. Brooklyn, New York, about ten years ago arranged for a prisoner to lessly clean. We made a garden "When the time comes that work in a neighborhood florist shop to learn the art of floral in the backyard and prepared the work can be resumed in that arrangement. Since that time the Flowers With Care program has front yard for a flower garden. area, I shall look forward to developed, and more than 1,000 men and women in trouble with the One of the nurses recalls an being there with the people we law have participated. Five graduates have their own florist shops, incident that occurred soon after have learned to love. Many and many others are employed in the floral business. The amazing they arrived. have yet to discover that fact is that the rate of return to crime has been less than 2 percent. "We were at work in the Seventh-day Adventist Chris- flower beds when an urgent call tians are different from all other ■ In a report entitled "Torture in the Eighties," Amnesty for help was heard from the Christian groups." International claims that more than a third of the world's house next to ours. Of course FAIZMENDY BALDONADO governments have used or condoned torture during the current could not understand the dialect Nurse decade. Those residing in countries where such crimes against they spoke, but took my nursing Mindanao Sanitarium & humanity are not practiced should thank God—and pray for those bag and followed the man. Hospital less fortunate.

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CORRESPONDENTS, Now plans are under way to ■ Michael Lawrence, a young audience. Some 114 partici- WORLD DIVISIONS—Africa-Indian Ocean, J. B. Kio; Australasian, R. M. Kranz; Eastern return to a more strategically literature evangelist in Wolver- pants received certificates for Africa, Ruby Patterson; Euro-Africa, Heinz Hopf; Far Eastern, S. Wayne Young; Inter- placed country in the center of hampton, England, sold books successfully giving up smok- American, Fred Hernandez; Northern Euro- the cultural environment the to an attractive young woman, ing. The project was conducted pean, H. J. Smit; South American, Assad Bechara; Southern Asia, A. M. Peterson union serves. The Auckland began to give her Bible studies, by the church pastor, S. K. CORRESPONDENTS, office of the CPUM will close led her to baptism, then married Dass. NORTH AMERICA—UNIONS: Atlantic, on September 30, and the trans- her! His in-laws also have Leon H. Davis; Canadian, P. F. Lemon; ■ A Ministerial Institute held in Columbia, Ernest N. Wendth; Lake, Jere fer to Suva should be completed become church members, and WaHack; Mid-America, Halle G. Crowson; by early 1985. his mother and mother-in-law Dhaka recently focused atten- North Pacific, Morten Juberg; Pacific, Shir- tion on the use of art—among ley Burton; Southern, George Powell; have joined the literature min- Southwestern, Richard W. Bendall ■ In 1985, when the Australa- istry. other successful methods—in UNIVERSITIES: Andrews, Andrea Steele; sian Division commemorates spreading the gospel. Charts of Lorna Linda, Richard Weismeyer the one hundredth anniversary ■ The recently established prophetic symbols currently are of the Adventist Church in Adventist Development and being painted, to be used by ministers in Bangladesh. Australasian Australia, a wide range of activ- Relief Agency office in the ities is planned. The focal date, British Union has successfully ■ May 11, is the Sabbath after the applied for another grant of Some 180 students were ■ Victor Schulz, a Spanish pas- invested with Adventist Junior tor from the Indiana Conference day missionaries Corliss, Israel, $85,000 to build a fourth clinic and Haskell sailed from the in Nigeria. The project will be Youth insignia at the Tambaram (United States), is conducting Adventist School on February United States. funded jointly by the govern- an evangelistic campaign for 28. Sydney's South American com- ment's Overseas Development munity. Administration and the ■ In mid-March, more than 100 Northern Seventh-day Adventist Church. people attended a five-day ■ Papua New Guinea Union European ■ In spite of a recession, the regional lay congress conducted Mission administrators are con- in the Sunderban area of Bang- ■ tithe increase for 1983 through- ducting negotiations with the From the world's second- ladesh. government concerning possi- most-powerful medium-wave out the British Union was 9.8 ble provincial hospital status for transmitter, Radio Luxem- percent. Deed of covenant ■ General Conference Health the Sopas Adventist Hospital. bourg, the Adventist Church is returns from the government tax and Temperance associate beaming a 15-minute weekly authorities amounted to almost directors Iris Hayden and Eliza- ■ Volcanologists now concede broadcast for youth. Under the $500,000, which was double beth Sterndale recently toured that Matupit volcano near title Who Cares? the presenta- the 1982 income from this the Southern Asia Division Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, is tions take the form of chats with source. The Ingathering total of conducting Nursing Leadership going to erupt. People have young people about the rele- £349,623 (US$506,953) was up Seminars in Adventist hospi- been evacuated from designated vance of faith in God. It is 10 percent from the previous tals. When A. T. Jonahs, medi- hazard areas. Church officials estimated that the regular audi- year. cal director at Ruby Nelson are monitoring the situation ence exceeds 200,000. Memorial Hospital, Jullundur, closely, as a large Adventist Punjab, India, casually men- village is situated near the vol- ■ A Bible correspondence Southern Asia tioned this forthcoming seminar cano, and the headquarters of school advertisement on the to the commandant of the large the New Britain New Ireland annual Ingathering leaflet offer- ■ R. G. Manners, health and military hospital nearby, the Mission are at Rabaul. ing a health correspondence temperance director for the commandant insisted on hosting course yielded 1,570 applica- South India Union, conducted a the seminar in his hospital so ■ After its official opening by tions. Almost 300 of those health and temperance seminar that his nursing officers could Michael Somare, Papua New inquiring became students, and in Madurai on March 7. Fifty- also attend. Although the Guinea's prime minister, the 50 have moved on to Bible five people attended. majority of the military nurses New Pacific Adventist College courses. were non-Christian, they at Port Moresby has begun its ■ Special School Day programs seemed interested in the presen- academic year with 108 stu- ■ The enrollment at Newbold have been conducted in ten tations on spiritual care and dents from the three union mis- College for the 1983/84 aca- Adventist schools in South Adventist health philosophy. sions of the Pacific. demic year is 274, a 9 percent India. Each of the programs gain over 1982/83. attracted people from the sur- ■ Last December, the Fijian ■ rounding communities, and minister for home affairs stated In order to capitalize upon the school personnel and influential North American that the government had agreed contacts made by literature local leaders delivered Atlantic Union to the establishment of the Cen- evangelists, each conference in speeches. tral Pacific Union Mission the British Union has appointed ■ Some sixty students in the headquarters at Suva, Fiji. For one evangelist to follow up ■ A Five-Day Plan held in the Greater New York Conference some time the union has customer interest. The results Dhaka Adventist church March participated in a math bowl operated from New Zealand. have been encouraging. 11-18 attracted an overflow conducted at the Jackson

28 (564) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 24, 1984 Heights School. The event, ■ The Allegheny West and ■ Shawnee Mission Medical the group presented a concert planned to stimulate students' Ohio conferences observed Center now offers a "Fitness ID under the direction of Dan appreciation for math, included Unity Week together at the Ohio Program." The aim is to edu- Shultz, chairman of the music oral and written questions, as Conference office. Both staffs cate the public of the need to department of Walla Walla Col- well as word problems. On the used the week to develop carry identification when using lege. basis of overall scores, Brook- greater appreciation for all public recreation areas or ■ lyn School took first place, racial and cultural groups. neighborhood streets for jog- Members of the Pleasant Whispering Pines School sec- ging, walking, cycling, and Valley church have broken ■ Thirty-two persons recently ond, and Patchogue School swimming. In the event of an ground for a new church in the became charter members of the third. accident, the process of noti- East Portland area. The congre- Mil'vine, New Jersey, com- fying the family and providing gation comes from the Milwau- ■ Eda Steele, of Thornton, New pany. The group is a result of emergency medical treatment kie and Hood View churches. Hampshire, turned 100 on outreach by the Bridgeton and can be expedited. The tags are Volunteers from the Oregon March 31. She has been a Vineland churches, pastored by durable, waterproof, nonera- chapter of Maranatha Flights member of the Plymouth church Don Bozarth. sive, and cost $1 each. International will help members since 1938, and has served as construct the sanctuary during ■ Glen Whitacre, of Piqua, church treasurer and clerk. The ■ The Nevada, Iowa, church the first part of June. Ohio, picked up a piece of paper town of Thornton honored Mrs. school has purchased two corn- from the floor of the bank where ■ Steele as the oldest resident of puters—one for grades 1 Portland Adventist Medical he works. It was an invitation to the town. She has been a faithful through 4, the other for grades 5 Center has initiated the Home enroll in the Voice of Proph- church member over the years through 8. The Commodore 64 Health Agency, which provides ecy's New Life Bible studies. and an inspiration to those with microcomputer systems consist a follow-up for those discharged Now he and his wife, Bettie, are whom she has come into con- of a color monitor, the com- from the hospital. Directed by Adventists. tact. puter, and a disc drive. Also Dorothy Rouse, the service provides a variety of assistance s More than 100 students and a purchased were a numeric key- for those not needing hospital- number of adult members of the pad for data entry, a printer, two Columbia Union ization. Blue Mountain Academy computer tables, and software. ■ Ron Gladden, an Ohio Con- church have been reaching out ■ ■ Members of the Fairbanks, ference "planter of new Union College has announced to meet the needs of local senior plans to host this summer an Alaska, Home and School churches," has just finished his citizens, who comprise 44 per- found a successful fund-raising first project: the establishment on-campus computer camp for cent of the Hamburg, Pennsyl- young people age 12-18. The method when they sold dried of a new congregation known as vania, population. One of the fruits and nuts to the commu- the Cincinnati Village church. camp will teach computer skills projects is a hot-meal program to those of all experience levels. nity. They decided to use the Elder Gladden will stay with the on Sundays. money raised to start a band new congregation long enough ■ On April 3 Union College's program in grades 4 to 8 of the ■ Grace Colon has become to help it become firmly estab- division of nursing was granted church school. A music major what she calls "the fifth wheel" lished before moving on to continuing accreditation for an from the University of Alaska for Potomac Conference's Jac another area to raise up another eight-year period by the has agreed to come two days a Colon evangelistic team. At the new church. National League for Nursing. week to teach various instru- age of 64 she left her lifelong ■ Eight-year-old Dawn Ander- The accreditation is the culmi- ments. home in New Orleans to nation of a five-year project to son, of the Miamisburg, Ohio, become a full-time self-sup- church, has been the prime update and strengthen curricu- porting part of her son's out- Southwestern Union mover behind a children's lum content, faculty prepara- reach activities. tion, and on-campus clinical choir. She has phoned her ■ The Beeville, Texas, Memo- resources, as well as to increase friends, urging them to join and rial Hospital marked its twenti- its involvement in health-care then attend practice. Choir Mid-America Union eth anniversary by sponsoring a services to the community. director Joyce Walsh said that ■ 10-kilometer (6-mile) and a 2- When Shawnee Mission Union's nursing program has Dawn even "drafted" her. Fif- mile (3-kilometer) Run for Your Medical Center recently opened been accredited since 1946. teen children, ages 6 to 13, a Laughing Room for hospital Life on Sunday, March 18. comprise the choir. patients, it was believed to be Some 60 runners participated. North Pacific Union Hospital president Vernon L. ■ The New Jersey Conference the third health facility in the Small commented, "We've got and the Columbia Union Con- country to provide a special ■ Nikki L. Case, a sixth-grader another 20 years off and run- ference, cosponsors of a senior room intended to make patients at the Treasure Valley Adventist ning." housing project that will consist laugh. The basic idea of the School in Payette, Idaho, has room stems from the old adage of 80 efficiency and one-bed- won the Idaho State champion- ■ The Philadelphia church in "Laughter is the best medi- room units for low-income ship in the second annual All- Shreveport, Louisiana, recently cine." The premise has been senior and handicapped resi- American Salute to Mothers celebrated its seventieth anni- revived recently by a number of dents, recently conducted a greeting-card contest. She versary. New pastor A. L. Teele scientific studies and by Nor- groundbreaking ceremony for received a home computer and a was the featured speaker. man Cousins' book the project. Anatomy of certificate of merit. an Illness. In his book, which ■ The Spanish church in ■ Pine Forge Academy in Penn- describes his experience with ■ One hundred and forty stu- Odessa, Texas, has designated sylvania benefited to the tune of what doctors told him was ter- dents from 16 schools in eastern the first Sabbath of each month $12,000 from a musical extrav- minal arthritis, Cousins recalls Washington recently joined the as Church Building Fever Day, aganza given by the Northern how he combined medical 80-member Upper Columbia to prepare for the building of a Senior Citizens' Association in treatment with large doses of Academy band for a two-day new church. Jose Hernandez is Bronx, New York. funny films to make him laugh. band clinic. On Saturday night the pastor.

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