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Young Adults Help Furnish Mission Hospital Wahroonga, New South Wales 44 Cover 27/10/04 5:43 PM Page 1 NOVEMBER 13, 2004 RECORD In this issue ADRA fights child trafficking in Thailand School’s caring makes news Stewardship book seeks your stories These Fijian young adults gave up one day of their weekend to help ship beds and mattresses to a Seventh-day Adventist mission hospital in the Solomon Islands. Young adults help furnish mission hospital Wahroonga, New South Wales Seventh-day Adventist hospital on Malaita in the Solomon Islands will receive 24 new beds Athanks to the generosity of six young adults from Fiji. Nathan Vari, an elder at the Fijian Adventist church in Cabramatta, secured the beds from a nursing home in Sydney that has since closed. Dr Lemuel Lecciones, the chief executive officer of Atoifi Adventist Hospital, says he needs the A church beds “because many of ours are falling apart.” One of the Fijian young adults, Nemani Bura, provided his own truck to transport the beds to the South Pacific Division (SPD) office. Dr Percy Harrold, the associate director of Adventist health ministries for the SPD, prayed for on the the young adults after they delivered the beds. “I’m impressed these Adventist young adults gave up their Sunday to help patients in a mission hospital when they could have been at home watching the Bathurst 1000 on television or been out with their friends playing touch football,” says Dr Harrold. “These guys have big hearts . move and muscles.”—ANN South Pacific ISSN 0819-5633 44 Flashpoint RVW 27/10/04 3:20 PM Page 2 FLASHPOINT ● SAH BBQ of thanks for staff’s help in busy time ● PAU women’s ministries retreat encourages ● ADRA looking for assistance in fight against drug legalisation ● School’s heart for helping ● The Sydney Adventist “Someone ordered a building?” ● The Adventist Develop- Hospital executive team ment and Relief Agency hosted a BBQ across two iverland church, (ADRA) in Australia is seeking days recently to thank staff RSA, has successfully the assistance of church for their hard work through- relocated the largest members who wish to assist it out the recent high occu- building ever to be tran- in its advocacy work against pancy period. In June the sported in once piece in drug legalisation in Australia. hospital’s occupancy level hit South Australia. “Already ADRA–Australia has an all-time high and since While making plans been credited with stopping then occupancy figures have to construct extra rooms the proposed ACT injecting remained high, meaning a for Sabbath school and room, and has contributed to very busy time for all. “The Pathfinders, two 32 metre x 10.1 metre buildings at Loxton High stopping the ACT bill to past few months have been School were noticed advertised for demolition and salvage. The legalise marijuana for medical building was free but for the cost of removal, relocation and purposes,” reports Gary renovation. Inquires led to the conclusion that, while a tight squeeze, Christian, ADRA–Australia’s it would not be impossible to relocate. After a church meeting’s national program director. acceptance of the idea and council approval, preparations were made. Interested members should On moving day, the normal 18-minute, 21-kilometre journey from contact Mr Christian by email, Loxton to Berri took three-and-a-half hours and used the assistance of <[email protected]>. three police escort vehicles, two electricity company vehicles for hard for the hospital’s staff,” negotiating powerlines says CEO Dr Leon Clark. and a convoy of vehicles ● Edinburgh Adventist Pri- “The celebration BBQ was a that blocked and diverted mary, Vic, students created a way for us to show our traffic along the route. large heart from the gold coins heartfelt appreciation for The relocation went they donated for the National their diligence and commit- without mishap.—Links Heart Foundation. The mor- ment to both the hospital and ning’s activities focused on a patients.” Evening and night shift staff featured topics such as how to pray for “heart” theme beginning with worship were also remembered, with food delivered your children, how to pray for your spouse based on Colossians 3:23: “Whatever you to them in their shifts.—Pacemaker and grooming tips. The women also had an do, work at it with all your heart.” Each exercise session with jogging, walking, term students participate in a “service to running and aerobics. A sacred concert was others” project, encouraging them to think ● Some 47 women from Pacific Adventist held on Saturday night with the ladies of others’ needs.—Jacqui Knight University (PAU) boarded buses heading presenting messages in song. The 22 male for the Bomana prisoners, who Centre for Inde- live on the CIS pendent Studies campus and (CIS) Training joined the wom- College, PNG, en on Sabbath for a two-day afternoon for Women’s Minis- worship, were tries retreat on October 8. The retreat, greatly encouraged and asked if the women with the theme of “Give me your heart,” could pray with and for them.—Harina OFFICIAL PAPER Editor Nathan Brown Mail: Signs Publishing Company South Pacific Division Senior assistant editor Lee Dunstan 3485 Warburton Highway Seventh-day Adventist Assistant editor Kellie Hancock Warburton, Vic 3799, Australia Church Editorial assistant Scott Wegener Phone: (03) 5966 9111 Fax: (03) 5966 9019 ACN 000 003 930 Copyeditor Graeme Brown Email Letters: [email protected] www.adventist.org.au Editorial secretary Meryl McDonald-Gough Email Newsfront: [email protected] Layout Nathan Chee Email Noticeboard: [email protected] Vol 109 No 44 SPD news correspondent Brenton Stacey Subscriptions: South Pacific Division mailed within Cover: Percy Harrold Senior consulting editor Barry Oliver Australia and to New Zealand, $A43.80 $NZ73.00. www.record.net.au Other prices on application. Printed weekly. 2 November 13, 2004 44 Newsfront 27/10/04 3:19 PM Page 5 NEWSFRONT ADRA fights child trafficking in Thailand Wahroonga, New South Wales sell their children as sex slaves.” raise awareness of these issues, and is he Adventist Development and Relief More than 115,000 females and 65,000 useful in promoting this project. Contact TAgency (ADRA) has launched a DVD to males worked in sex venues in Thailand in ADRA by phone (02) 9489 5488 or email raise awareness of a 2002, according to figures from the <[email protected]> to recieve a free project to prevent the Ministry of Public Health. The country’s copy.—Brenton Stacey trafficking of children Office of National Statistics estimated at the in northern Thailand. time that one-quarter of these sex workers The DVD Keep Girls were underage. PNGUM children Safe uses the story of The DVD created to “These children are living in horror,” raise awareness of Nowarat to illustrate a child-trafficking says Gail Ormsby, ADRA–Australia’s active in evangelism the issue of trafficking. problem in Thailand. director of marketing and public relations. Two ADRA–Thailand employees instal- “Many return to their villages with Lae, Papua New Guinea ling a water system in Ban Maenawang in HIV/AIDS, basically coming home to die.” hildren have been actively involved in the mid-1990s noticed Nowarat appeared ADRA–Australia has donated $A155,000 Cevangelism efforts this year in the Papua to be the only 12-year-old girl in the village. to the Keep Girls Safe project, almost one- New Guinea Union Mission. Most, they learned, had been “recruited” to third coming from one donor. ADRA will In Lae, PNG, the Buaku branch church serve as sex workers in the cities. use the money to help the community had a children’s Sabbath where the children The employees found Nowarat would provide education and support of these ran Sabbath school and the church service. prefer to attend school rather than look for issues, as well as establish a refuge and After lunch they went to work. ADRA had discovered a new need. support for those leaving the sex industry. Tent City marketplace “Parents who live in these villages, like ADRA–Thailand, in its role as the and proceeded with an those anywhere else in the world, love their implementing agency, has now helped outreach program. One children,” says Joy Butler, director of Nowarat and 83 other children and speaker was five-year-old women’s ministries for the South Pacific teenagers who live in the mountains in the Junior Francis, whose Division. “But many are addicted to opium, north of Thailand attend school rather than mother died when he was Children in the Tent City marketplace preaching. own little land, struggle to feed their chil- serve as sex workers. “They now have hope only one year old. While dren and certainly can’t afford to educate and a future,” says Mrs Butler. he was preaching he was reminded that one them. They’re so desperate for money they The five-minute DVD was created to day he would meet up with his mother in heaven and was brought to tears in front of the crowd, promptiong them to cry too. New book features Adventist writers In East New Britain Province, 30 United and Catholic primary, juniors and Warburton, Victoria teenagers have been attending evangelistic new book of Australian Christian stories features four Adventist writers. meetings presented by the East New Britain AInspirational Australian Stories is the fourth in the Australian Stories series, district area supervisor, Pastor Watman compiled by Strand Publishing. Among contributions from well-known Australians Nennek. At the conclusion, half of them such as Gordon Moyes, Margaret Court, Kel Richards and Darlene Zschech, stories stated to Pastor Nennek, “The Catholics by Adventist writers Grenville Kent, Lynden Kent, Brad and United congregation don’t involve us Watson and Nathan Brown are included in the collection.
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