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JUNE/JULY 2019 EXTENDING THE HEALING MINISTRY OF CHRIST ADVENT HEALTH ILLINOIS MEMBERS ILLINOIS FOCUS INSIDE NEWS ON THE WEB IN THIS ISSUE / TELLING THE STORIES OF WHAT GOD IS DOING IN THE LIVES OF HIS PEOPLE Let's Stay in Touch! FEATURES Visit lakeunionherald.org for more on these and other stories 14–19 Advent Health TWENTY-SEVEN MASTER OF DIVINITY STUDENTS and their sponsors traveled March 15 to Santiago, Cuba, for the VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS OF THE LAKE Julie Busch seventh annual Care for Cuba evangelis- UNION ASI 2019 SPRING CONFERENCE tic study tour. Since its inception in 2013, Care for Cuba has baptized 1,800 new ARE NOW AVAILABLE. believers. vimeo.com/lakeunionherald 20 Mary Ann and I both come from Aging in Grace SEVEN DECADES HAVE PASSED since Your “hospital” families. When we first and Wisdoom Story Hour began its humble journey in a met, our parents worked at Kettering local fire station in Southwest Michigan. Hospital. We both had our first real On March 27, the Berrien Springs studios jobs there, and much later at Hialeah were open for the public to meet those Hospital in South Florida. So we’ve who have helped keep the program on Follow us at lakeunionherald always appreciated being connected the air. to the healing ministry of Christ, even Deanna Schulle though we were not medical person- nel. I’ve appreciated the opportunity A RECORD-BREAKING CROWD OF OVER PERSPECTIVES LIFESTYLE 3,000 gathered April 26-27 in Rockford, to support the flagship Hinsdale Ill., for the North American Division level Hospital (now part of the AMITA President's Perspective 4 Family Focus 6 Pathfinder Bible Experience. A total of Health network), the hospital that Lest We Forget 8 Alive & Well 7 209 team travelled from various points inspired Virginia Kettering to establish Conversations with God 9 across the U.S., Canada and even the Kettering Hospital on her estate in Conexiones 11 CURRENT MATTERS United Kingdom. Kettering, Ohio. We are fortunate to New elementary school opens is Indiana One Voice 38 AdventHealth 26 have a network of Adventist hospi- tals that continue to bring the heal- Andrews University 27 HINSDALE ADVENTIST ACADEMY EVANGELISM News 28 Welcome to the launch of our weekly e-newsletter Lake Union Herald ing ministry of Christ to the greater “Legends of the Shooting Stars” won two E-News Get the latest news to your Sharing Our Hope 10 Calendar at-a-Glance 34 first place awards at the Adventist LEGO Chicago area. P Robotics League National Competition on Telling God’s Stories 12 Mileposts 35 May 5 at Forest Lake Academy in Florida. LAKE UNION On The Edge 39 Classifieds 36 Gary Burns HERALD E-NEWS Editor Get the latest news to your email inbox ADDRESS CORRECTION Only paid subscribers (see below) should contact the Lake Union Herald office with COVER PHOTO: DAVE PFLEDERER their address changes. Members should contact their local conference membership clerks directly for all Lake each week. Sign up at ON THE COVER: Robert Dabney, chaplain Union Herald address changes. Contact phone numbers and our mailing address are listed below for your The Lake Union Herald (ISSN 0194-908X) is published monthly (except for June/July and November/December) by the Lake convenience. Online submissions can be made at http://herald.lakeunion.org under “Subscription Change.” at AMITA Health Adventist Medical Center La Union Conference, P.O. Box 287, Berrien Springs, MI 49103-0287. Periodicals postage paid at Berrien Springs, Michigan, and additional mailing offices. Yearly subscription price is $12.50. Vol. 111, No. 6. POSTMASTER: Send all address changes to: Lake Union Herald Office: 269-473-8242 Michigan: 517-316-1552 Grange. Lake Union Herald, P. O. Box 287, Berrien Springs, MI 49103-0287. Lake Region: 773-846-2661 Indiana: 317-844-6201 ext. 241 lakeunionherald.org Illinois: 630-856-2860 Wisconsin: 920-484-6555 Members outside the Lake Union may subscribe by sending a check for $12.50 (per year) to P.O. Box 287, Berrien Springs, MI 49103-0287. Note: If you are a member of a church in the Lake Union but are not receiving the Lake Union Herald, please request it through your church clerk or your local conference secretary. LAKE UNION HERALD LAKE UNION HERALD JUNE/JULY 2019 3 PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE Bowl. Again, what a logistically impressive sight to Growing Young in the Lake Union behold of great planning and execution. Two hundred Thank God for a movement that broadens our teams from around the North American Division and horizons and prepares us to be lifelong servant beyond were there. They studied the Gospel of Luke and answered Bible questions posed by a modera- leaders, giving us many opportunities to serve and He was prepared to leave the Seventh-day Adventist tor, overseen by a judge. When I arrived, there was lead, many of which, we simply take for granted. Church for good. But he went to a Pathfinder event standing room only as the North American Division organizers underestimated the amount of youth that called “Oshkosh,” and now he’s a leader in God’s last day would participate. A good problem, indeed! The worldwide Seventh-day Adventist campo- remnant church. ree at Oshkosh is the brainchild of Pastor Ron; the Pathfinder Bible Experience (PBE) is the brainchild of taken from the boyhood life of David. Betty Whitehead, This was the testimony of an individual I recently Terry Dodge, a long-standing member of the Michigan Pastor Ron’s wife, designs a gargantuan stage for the met at the Camporee orientation held in Oshkosh, Conference. These two gentlemen are responsible for continuing story which is portrayed each night, written Wisconsin, possibly the largest Christian camporee the world coming to our doorstep twice this year. held in the nation. on the Camporee theme. I once spoke at a Union camporee. As I drew my At the day-long orientation, presentations were Vernon Byrd, known far and wide as “Vern,” over- message to that optimistic age of young people to a made by about 10 or so associate level leaders of sees the arrangement of the camporee site; Sue Young close, it seemed they were sitting on the edge of their the camping extravaganza, all of whom support the and many others serve faithfully in capacities too seats, waiting for the sermon appeal before it was given. numerous to cover here. E Maurice Valentine Christian Youth Evangelism Department, a resource At PBE, the young people came in droves to commit alentine shared by Andrews University and the Lake Union I’ve only been once before. I could have gone when their lives to Christ, and thank God they did, as one Conference. They covered a variety of subjects, my children were of Pathfinder age, and regret that I person I visited stated none of his group had yet been ranging from where bathrooms and showers will be didn’t. I’m sure the youth I pastored would have had a baptized. Thank God for a movement that broadens located to whether you can fly drones (which you keen appreciation for their pastor accompanying them our horizons and prepares us to be lifelong servant on the trip, especially my kids. I did attend when I cannot.) It’s quite impressive to see! It was a tremen- leaders, giving us many opportunities to serve and lead, Division American Damsteegt/North Pieter dous privilege to see how adroitly Ron Whitehead, served as a conference president, and the youth of our many of which, we simply take for granted. E Pathfinder Bible Experience participants and supporters cheer after hearing the final results at the North American Division level in Rockford, Illinois affectionately known quite literally around the world conference certainly did show their appreciation on This August I hope to see that Pathfinder director, the as “Pastor Ron,” with his excellent team at his side, that occasion. young man that “almost left,” along with his troop. I’m has put together this extraordinarily executed event of When Pastor Ron introduced me to the young man here today because church members invested time and mammoth proportions. who almost left the church, the young man stated, “It attention in me as a youth and young adult. Would you Parents and “spiritual parents,” and, in some was how well Oshkosh was organized that changed do the same? Join me in praying for this worldwide instances, young adults, as was the case with the gen- my mind and convinced me to stay in the church.” He camporee in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, August 12–17. tleman I met mentioned above, who probably would went on to say with a look of satisfaction on his face, Thank God for the Lake Union Conference, the be bettered considered a “big brother” to the youth “Now, I’m the Pathfinder director for my church.” place where the Missionary Volunteer Society (now who participate in Pathfinders, take time off from work To that, I immediately said to Pastor Ron, “That’s Adventist Youth) and Pathfinders were born, even as and money from their pockets, to camp throughout what makes all this more than worth it. All the the Seventh-day Adventist Church and many other hill and dale of their region to help boys and girls grow headaches and heartaches you’ve endured are satis- Adventist entities that are now worldwide staples of into mature servants in God’s work by taking them to fied when you meet one person that says, ‘I’m here Adventist polity and culture also were birthed right events called camporees.