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Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 9-1-1995 Herald of Holiness Volume 84 Number 09 (1995) Wesley D. Tracy (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, Christianity Commons, History of Christianity Commons, Missions and World Christianity Commons, and the Practical Theology Commons Recommended Citation Tracy, Wesley D. (Editor), "Herald of Holiness Volume 84 Number 09 (1995)" (1995). Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today. 45. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/45 This Journal Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Church of the Nazarene at Digital Commons @ Olivet. It has been accepted for inclusion in Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Olivet. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE REMEMBERING NYC '95 Resources for Youth from J m i / l e n o s Lead the Way! m r i l l e n a s MUSICRE ATIONS 50 Contemporary Songs made popular by such artists as Al Denson, Steven Curtis Chapman, Amy Grant, Petra, Michael W. Smith, DeGarmo & Key, Rich Mullins, Twila Paris, and Babbie Mason. Youth groups will enjoy listening to and performing these popular songs and more: “Be the One”; “For the Sake of the Call”; “Place in This World”; “Shine, Jesus, Shine”; “Jesus Is a Rock”; “I’m Prayin’ for You”; “Heaven Is in My Heart”; “If God Is for Us”; “Hope Set High.” HHMB-647 Songbook $5.95 HHMB-647A Words-Only Edition $1.95 HHTA-9151C Extra-Length Stereo Cassette $12.98 HHTA-9151S Split-Channel Cassette $19.98 HHMU-9151C Stereo Accompaniment Double Cassette $85.00 HHMU-9151T Stereo Accompaniment Double CD $85.00 Dare to Run Youth groups, this songbook is for you. Included are 51 contemporary songs made popular by such artists as Petra, Steve Green, DeGarmo & Key, Michael W. Smith, Stryper, Michael Card, Twila Paris, Rich Mullins, Larnelle Harris, Scott Wesley Brown, and Sandi Patti. All are chosen and arranged for group singing, whether in a fellowship setting, a classroom, or for performance. Four-part hymnal style or melody with keyboard accompaniment, plus chord symbols. HHMB-602 Songbook $5.95 HHMB-602A Words-Only Edition $1.95 HHTA-9108C Extra-Length Cassette $12.98 HHTA-9108S Split-Channel Cassette $19.98 HHMU-9108C Stereo Accompaniment Cassette $60.00 Y o u t h D r a m a R e s o u r c e s Teens in Drama Ministry By Tim D. Miller. Written from the viewpoint of a teen minister who uses drama for participa tion, as well as for performance. Chapters include acting games, evangelism possibilities, staging helps, script selection, and much more. Should be required reading for all who work with youth. HHMP-514 $8.95 Drama Til You Drop By L. G. and Annie Enscoe. A collection of short sketches for almost every conceivable situa tion—from a hayride announcement to a realistic scene on anger. Not only is this collection crammed with promo spots, but it also contains nine sketches on the fruit of the Spirit. A youth programmer’s dream-come-true. HHMP-695 $8.50 You Can Get There from Here By L. G. and Annie Enscoe. One of the largest collections of top-notch scripts for teens ever assembled. Number of actors ranges from monologue to several actors, both male and female. Deals with a wide range of issues. HHMP-655 $9.95 Acting Up Again! By Doug Smee. 13 Bible-themed scripts that are usable by any group. Some are extremely sim ple, and most take very little staging. A follow-up to Smee’s first book, A c tin g U p! HHMP-679 $8.50 A c tin g Up! By Doug Smee. Deals with subjects that are close to teens and their lives. All of these sketches are short— none longer than six min utes—and are highly practi cal. Each has production suggestions, theme summa ry, and scripture back ground. HHMP-661 $8.50 To order, call your Nazarene Publishing House at 1- -877-0700 tf'm your teorw t'm m d opportunity to !mn idents, youth sponsors, and local who have attended, who have been congregations who worked togeth influenced by anointed preaching er to enable so many of their teens and teaching, and who have ac to attend NYC ’95. The Church of cepted the call to make a differ the Nazarene is blessed to have ence in their world for Christ. such a wonderful support system Our teens, wherever they are in for its young people. Research has this rapidly shrinking world, are shown that most students who the church of today and emerging make a faith commitment to Jesus leaders for the 21st century. I am Christ do so by age 18. The early optimistic about the future of the childhood and adolescent years Church of the Nazarene! To pas are pivotal, and the local church tors and parents who read this is must place a high priority on pro sue, I urge you to expand your vi viding effective ministries for sion for youth ministry in your S j J ring together thousands of children and youth. NYI, the local church. Give the teens time Canadian and U.S. high youth auxiliary of the church, is and opportunity to learn to lead C J school students and spon structured to facilitate ministry to and to exercise their God-given sors, add a full range of ac youth through the local, district, talents. Listen to their ideas and tivities to equip them to share regional, and general levels of the help them to dream God’s dream their faith in Jesus Christ and to organization. Each level, working for new ministries to their peers live lives of holiness and compas in concert, focuses its energy on and others in your community. sion, toss in outstanding Christian assisting the local church to reach Yes, they will, on occasion, fail. speakers and musicians, and sprin and disciple young people. You and I do too. But never give kle in some fun and fellowship, The Church of the Nazarene has up on them, and continue to invest and you have the recipe that made always invested in its young peo in them through meaningful rela NYC ’95 the greatest gathering of ple, and NYC ’95 was once again tionships and specific challenges. youth in the history of the Church solid evidence of that commit To the students who attended of the Nazarene. During the week ment. As the event has continued NYC ’95 in Phoenix, may this of July 25-30, 1995, Nazarene to grow, its mission has expanded special edition of your church’s Youth International and NYI Min and adapted to the ever-changing chief publication not only call up istries sponsored Nazarene Youth youth culture, while maintaining significant memories of your Congress, the once-every-four- the core commitment of calling “Once in a Lifetime” experience year “mega-event” that saw more students to discipleship and ser but also serve as a reminder of than 6,000 participants descend on vice. The event has been held at commitments made to God, your Phoenix, Arizona, for an incredi various locations, from Europe to peers, and yourself. Pray for those ble time of worship, ministry, cel Mexico and the United States, and unsaved family members and ebration, and spiritual growth. now the concept has been adopted friends. Be a witness. Walk the This special edition of the H er by every world region of the talk. LEAD THE WAY! * ald o f Holiness focuses on “NYC church. Hundreds of youth have ’95.” In the articles and photos been saved, sanctified, and called that follow, you will get a glimpse to full-time Christian service. And of what took place in the lives of the movement is growing! teens during that very special What began as a dream in the week in Phoenix. late 1950s has become a truly in I want to express my apprecia ternational movement in less than Fred Fullerton tion to the parents, pastors, district 40 years. Praise God for the thou D irector superintendents, district NYI pres sands of Nazarene young people NYI Ministries S e p t e m b e r 1 9 9 5 1 Contents SEPTEMBER 1995 VOLUME 84, NO. 9 FEATURES 1 Lead the Way FRED FULLERTON 3 No Fear JIM WILLIAMS 4 Gary Sivewright: A Heart for Youth 6 NYC ’95 Special Speakers 7 NYC ’95 Guest Artists 8 The Myth of the Teenage Werewolf TOM LYTLE 10 A Look Back at NYC STEVE BABBITT 14 Good Stuff They Said 16 Serving Others in the Valley of the Sun 18 Equipping Seminars 19 The Sponsors’ Eye View of NYC 22 What Happened to Me at NYC 25 Nazarene Youth Dig Deep for Outreach to China 26 Glimpses from NYC 30 Rock Music: Why Do Teens Listen? AL MENCONI 37 Purity Is for God’s People TOM FLOYD CONTINUING COLUMNS 12 General Superintendent’s Viewpoint, j o h n a . k n i g h t 34 Rhythms of the Spirit, m o r r i s a . w e i g e l t 38 Observer at Large, i o h n c . b o w l i n g DEPARTMENTS 30 I i-------------------- 39 Marked Copy, m a r k g r a h a m COVER PHOTO AND CENTER SPREAD 40 Editor’s Choice, w e s l e y d .