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FEATURES
8 Tongues-Speaking and the Nazarenes I. KENNETH GRIDER 10 Coping with a Depressed Spouse MARK LARSON 12 In Search of Security CATHY KARR 20 Church Alive! DONNA FLETCHER CROW 24 Where There Is Strife, Let Me Sow Peace DONNA FLETCHER CROW 28 Home to the Mission Field DONNA FLETCHER CROW 10 36 I Was Sick and You Visited Me DOROTHY I. BAIRD with MAE-SALLEE BEALS
POETRY
47 The Best Gifts Are Free CHARLES HASTINGS SMITH
CONTINUING COLUMNS
6 Into the Word, roger l. hahn
7 General Superintendent’s Viewpoint, p a u l g . c u n n i m g h a m
19 Rhythms of the Spirit, morris a. w eigelt
30 Nazarene Roots, stan ingersol
33 Masculine Journey, mark m etcalfe
34 The Family Album, ierry and lynda cohagan
41 Over 60, c. ellen watts
46 Observer at Large, iohn c. bowling
DEPARTMENTS
2 Editor’s Choice, w esley d. tracy
3 S ign s, MICHAEL R. ESTEP 4 July’s 10-Point Quiz 4 The Readers Write 14-18, 42-43 N ew s
39 NIV Crossword Puzzle, rick iansen 40 The Question Box 30 44 Nazarene Family COVER AND PAGE 38 PHOTO: 47 Marked Copy, mark graham Punchbowl Falls, Oregon 48 Late N ew s Photograph by Dennis Prates E ditor’ s C hoice
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Let’s Go Home Editor, Wesley D. Tracy Managing Editor, Mark Graham
unthinkable. Knowing this, Maria be Administrative Secretary gan her search. Bars, hotels, night Carolyn S. Hampton clubs, any place with the reputation for streetwalkers or prostitutes. At Director each place she left her picture— taped Division of Communications Michael R. Estep to a bathroom mirror, tacked to a ho tel bulletin board, fastened to a comer phone booth. And on the back of each General Superintendents Jerald D. Johnson photo she wrote a note. It wasn’t too John A. Knight long before the money and the pic William J. Prince tures ran out, and Maria had to go Donald D. Owens back home. James H. Diehl It was a few weeks later that young Paul G. Cunningham Christina descended the hotel stairs. Her young face was tired. Her brown Bible quotations in this issue: eyes no longer danced with youth but Unidentified quotations are from KJV. Quotations from the following translations are used by permis In a h o m i l e t i c s class that I have spoke of pain and fear. Her laughter sion:
been teaching on Mondays, Gerhard was broken. Her dream had become a ( n iv ) From the Holy Bible, New International Weigelt shared Christina’s story from nightmare. A thousand times she had Version® ( n iv ®). Copyright © 1973,1978,1984 by longed to trade these countless beds International Bible Society. Used by permission of Max Lucado’s book No Wonder They Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved. Call Him Savior (Multnomah, 1986). for her secure pallet. Yet the little vil ( n k j v ) From the New King James Version. Copy Longing to leave her lage was, in many ways, right © 1979,1980,1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc.
poor Brazilian neighbor too far away. ( n r s v ) From the New Revised Standard Version of hood, Christina wanted to As she reached the the Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christ Her home, ian Education of the National Council of the see the world. Discontent bottom of the stairs, her Churches of Christ in the USA. All rights reserved. with a home having only eyes noticed a familiar ( r s v ) From the Revised Standard Version of the a pallet on the floor, a in many ways, face. There on the lobby Bible, copyright 1946,1952,1971 by the Division washbasin, and a wood- mirror was a small pic of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. burning stove, she ture of her mother. (tm) From The Message: Psalms. Copyright 1994. dreamed of a better life in was too Christina’s eyes burned Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. the city. One morning she and her throat tightened slipped away, breaking far away. as she removed the small her mother’s heart. photo. Written on the Knowing what life on back was: “Whatever the streets would be like for her you have done, whatever you have young, attractive daughter, Maria hur become, it doesn’t matter. Please riedly packed to go find her. On her come home.” She did. Herald of Holiness (USPS 241-400) is pub way to the bus stop, she entered a You could say that God has put His lished monthly by the NAZARENE PUBLISH drugstore to get one last thing— pic picture everywhere. According to ING HOUSE, Z923 Troost Ave., Kansas City, tures. She sat in the photograph John 1:18 and Colossians 1:15, Jesus MO 64109. Editorial offices at 6401 The is the very picture of God. God has Paseo, Kansas City, MO 64131 (816-333- booth, closed the curtain, and spent 7000, ext. 2302). E-mail: all she could on pictures of herself. put His picture in the Bible, in
2 H h r a i .d o f H o l i n e s s Editor’s Note S igns One of our goals here at the Herald of Holiness is to help our readers think “Christianly" about life—in the church, the factory, the kitchen, the of fice, the classroom, or wherever they might be. We were delighted when we this letter in the April edition of the South Arkansas Viewpoint. We Jack-of-all-trades wanted to share it with you. Could It Be a Scandal? maintenance supervisor for the city of Historian Mark Noll has written an in MICHAEL R. ESTEP Springfield’s municipal power plant. triguing and challenging book titled The skills he learned there were put The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. His simple thesis is this: “The scandal to work at least one week each sum of the evangelical mind is that there is mer at Friendly Chapel helping fulfill not much of an evangelical mind!” Brother Paul’s dream. Kent Hughes has written of this con Soon Jack and Judy realized that dition as “Christians without Christian Paul’s dream was becoming th eir minds, Christians who do not think dream. One week a year was not ‘Christianly'!” enough. After 19 years with the city Harry Blamires in his book on the Michael R. Estep is director of the Com of Springfield and only 4 years from subject has said that while Christians munications Division, Church o f the retirement with a full pension, Jack may worship and pray as Christians, Nazarene. quit his job. In 1989 he and Judy they do not "think” as Christians. “The moved to Little Rock to become lay Christian mind has succumbed to the missionaries alongside Brother Paul. secular drift with a degree of weakness Now jack-of-all-trades, Jack and nervelessness unmatched in Chris Kuchar has himself become an tian history.” I’ve discovered that the P a u l H o l d e r f i e l d Arkansas tornado. He built a complex first step to wrong action is almost al has an uncanny ways wrong thinking. knack for inspiring people to do that includes a shelter for 15 men, Paul proposes that one answer to things for the Lord. It is no exaggera apartments, gymnasium, soup this weakness lies in the constant “re tion to say that Paul is a “tornado for kitchen, and recreation room. He re newing of your mind[s]” (Romans God.” Everyone in his path is swept modeled the sanctuary, built a nurs 12:2). away by the enormous ery, and created a One method that we have ready and influence of his com beautiful park and available is the Herald of Holiness. mitment to Christ— playground for the Our subscription drive is upcoming, and to Friendly An Arkansas community. He also but this is about more than a subscrip Chapel. teaches a Sunday tion drive—more than winning a con At one time, Paul tornado is not to School class, drives test—more than a denominational pro was a Golden Gloves the church van, and motion. We are engaged in a battle for boxing champion, a serves in the soup our minds as Christians in America, be taken lightly— fiercely prejudiced kitchen. “I told the and we must expose ourselves to man, and an alcoholic. Lord that I wanted to Christian thinking, principles, and de at least not by those votional material. But he has been trans be the best layman I am so convinced of the importance formed by the grace who have their there ever was,” Jack of Christian literature that I would en of God in Christ. His says. courage you to subscribe to the Herald saintly mother prayed Tornado Paul is for your friends and newcomers to for him all her life. In priorities in order. now amazed at the church. Make a gift subscription to un her dying days, Paul “tornado” that Jack saved loved ones. With its new format, found God. Ultimate has become. “He just the Herald is the best it has ever been. ly, Paul was consumed by a powerful keeps on caring and giving, day after Recent articles include such titles as dream—the dream of meeting peo day. I can’t find the words to describe “How to Be Happily Married Forever ple’s needs in Little Rock, Arkansas, him,” Holderfield says. “Outstanding, in Nine Easy Steps,” “How Much Reli in the name of Jesus. He launched talented, committed—-they all fit, but gion Is Enough?” “The Erosion of Het Friendly Chapel and its FLAME min all fall short. He’s a person this min erosexuality,” “Casinos: Not the An istry (Feeding and Loving All Men istry can't do without.” swer,” and “Depression: More than Equally). If you visit Little Rock, Arkansas, Just the Blues.” Jack and Judy Kuchar were swept beware. It’s tornado season year- Let’s improve our record for the Herald and for our minds this year. away by “Tornado Paul” when they round. And the results are every Russ Branstetter heard him speak at a lay retreat in where— in the lives of thousands of Superintendent Springfield, Illinois. Soon they found men, women, and children who have South Arkansas District themselves spending their vacations felt the wind of change transform at Friendly Chapel. Jack was the their lives.
J u l y 1996 3 July’s T he R eaders Write 10-Point Qiu'z
1. According to a study by Brandeis University, the cost of tobacco, alcohol, and other drug addictions in terms of crime, health care, etc., is an amount equal to how much money per year for every person in the U.S.? A. $1,000 B. $2,000 C. $400 2. According to American Enterprise, the national acquit Keep Up the Good Work tal rate in felony trials is 17 percent. But in places like I love the Herald, and I want to make sure that my subscription the Bronx, New York, where 80 percent of jurors are mi is in good standing. Thanks for helping bring the church into a norities, the acquittal rate for Black felony defendants is: more mature state by really hitting the issues of today's church. I A. 37% B. 48% C. 58% D. 71% have noticed that there is a great balance of celebrating our histo ry and facing the issues that challenge us to our mission for the 3. According to Europe Today, only 12 percent of French future. I have read many critical letters in this past year's issues, citizens attend church weekly. What percent of the Irish but I think you are giving us just what we need, even if it at times attend church on a weekly basis? makes us uncomfortable and challenges us to change. A. 20% B. 5% C. 54% D. 76% Jim Pm Jell 4. The judge in New York’s highest court who recently Bethel. Ohio ruled that unmarried couples and homosexual partners Doves and Roses can adopt children in that state is: The May issue was outstanding! "Doves and Roses" was the A. Judith Kaye best (hope our readers understand satire). Also enjoyed the edi B. Marilyn Corbitt Woodward torial. article on Mrs. Sunberg, and Holy Trinity Sunday. Nice to C. Frank Weidhammer see an article by Geoff Austin too. Donna Fletcher Crow 5. The number of middle-aged adults living together Boise. Idaho without being married has doubled in the last decade, Great May according to the Utne Reader. The primary cause is: 1 haven't even finished my May llerald. and already it has A. Welfare benefits have to be sacrificed in many cases earned the cost of subscription! First, let me say that my favorite if the persons marry. columns are Jerry and Lynda Cohagan's and "In a Woman's B. Income tax laws favor singles. Voice." I thoroughly enjoyed Thelma Sunberg's article. "God's C. Social security and Medicare limits and exclusions Way Is the Best Way!" The Lord really used it to speak to me. tend to favor singles. . . . One important point that she left out. though, is forgiveness. D. All of the above. As a mother. I really blow it sometimes. I'm glad that, in those 6. How does the divorce rate for persons who marry times. I can go to my children and apologize and say. "Will you someone from a different faith compare with the divorce forgive me?” The answer is always, "Yes. I forgive you." 1 also really enjoyed "Sole Seekers." I. too, worship "alone." rate of persons with no religious affiliation? and your article helped me feel more “normal." ... I am not alone. A. Higher B. Lower C. About the same There are others out there in other churches just like me. . . . 7. How much did the U.S. public spend on Christian con 1 could go on . . . |but| there's so much more to read, and I certs and recordings in 1995? can’t wait to get back to it! A. $500 million B. $340 million C. $900 million Peygx Thompson Floyd Knobs. Ind. 8. Two fiberglass “tablets of the Law” used in the 1956 film The Ten Commandments recently sold at auction for: A. $650 B. $65,000 C. $27 D. $81,700 9. According to American Demographics, 46 percent of Pontius' Puddle North Americans whose income is above $50,000 per year say that religion is “very important” to them. What percent of those with incomes below $20,000 say the same thing? WHAT A. 46% B. 26% C. 56% D. 70% W R O N G -1 10. Fifty percent of men say that religion is very impor tant to them. What percent of women say the same thing? A. 68% B. 77% C. 36% D. 91%
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J uly 1996 5 Into the Word
learn to refuse to listen to the other Devotion and Duty in Deuteronomy voices and hear and obey God alone, we have found a place to stand. If we will stand at that place, we will be able to move the world. The call of Deuteronomy 6:4-5 has powerfully moved people throughout history. To this day, devout Jews repeat the words A Place to Stand of these verses twice each day as a re minder of their commitment to the God who brought them out of slavery and ROGER L. HAHN Deuteronomy 6:4-5 provide a place to stand. The opening word challenges into freedom. The verses are simply us immediately to grasp the heart of called The Shema, from the Hebrew right relationship with God. The word word for “Hear,” which is shema. Out “hear” in Hebrew means both to hear of all the commands of the Old Testa and to obey. The relativism of our mod ment to listen to God, this is the call, em world seduces us into thinking that the call to heed the Lord’s voice. all voices have an equal right to be Jesus, as well as other Jews of the heard and that they speak with equal first century, identified these words as value. Our typical response is to as the “greatest commandment.” That Roger L. Hahn is professor of New Tes sume that tolerant listening is all that is Christ would value these words as the tament at Nazarene Theological Semi required for any voice. “Hear, O Israel” greatest commandment shows their nary. reminds us that a person cannot listen ability to change our world. The confu to God without responding. Every word sion, the babble, the relativism, the ten of God is a call to a life of obedience. sion and stress are quieted when we Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is Ignoring God is not an option. We must hear and obey the one voice, the voice Lord alone. And you shall love the Lord understand that unless we obey Him, of God. Rather than worrying about our your God with all your heart, with all we have not really heard Him speak. impact or our future, we should be con your soul-life, and with all your might The next words, “The Lord our God centrating on listening to the voice of (Deuteronomy 6:4-5).* is Lord alone,” are notoriously difficult God. When we hear Him, we will have to translate, as a comparison of modern a place to stand, and we will be able to
A r c h i m e d e s , t h e a n c i e n t G r e e k versions will show. The debate among move the world. mathematician, supposedly said, “Give scholars is whether these me a place to stand, and I can move the words affirm that no other world.” The place to stand was actually God exists (pure monothe a pivot point or fulcrum. Archimedes ism) or that the Lord is to had discovered the incredible power be the only God Israel wor available through a lever. Poets and ships (monolatry based on The relativism of our modem preachers have often applied his state henotheism). Within the world seduces us into thinking ment to relationships and theological context of Deuteronomy, ideas. Deuteronomy 6:4-5 is a pivot the latter interpretation is that all voices have an equal point in the Book of Deuteronomy. It most likely. Though right to be heard. provides a place to stand so significant monotheism may be the that the world has been changed. only philosophically defen Deuteronomy 6:4-5 is a turning point sible position, in real life, in the structure of the Book of Israel’s struggle was the Deuteronomy. God had spoken the Ten constant choice between allegiance to For further study: {!) Study Matthew Commandments directly to Israel in the Lord and allegiance to the gods of 22:34-40; Mark 12:28-34: and Luke 5:6-21. The Israelites had then begged the surrounding cultures. 10:25-28. Note the differing words, Moses to become their intermediary. Frankly, we face the same struggle. contexts, speakers, and audiences. Rather than having God speak directly We find it easy to pay lip service to Identify the central message of all the to them, they asked that He speak to monotheism. We find it difficult to passages, and apply it to your life. (2) Moses and Moses report His words to block out the voices claiming ultimate Compare Deuteronomy 6:4-5 with 5:7- them. Deuteronomy 6:4-5 are the first value from things other than God. The 15. How do these passages interpret words that Moses then delivers to Is pivot point of our lives is not whether each other? What is unique to 6:4-5? rael. These verses summarize the Ten we say that we believe in only one God. (3) Write a brief prayer asking the Lord Commandments before Deuteronomy The fulcrum is whether we obey only to help you filter out all the voices call presents the detailed statutes and ordi one voice, the voice of the God re ing for obedience except His. nances that will follow. vealed in Christ and Scripture. Once we "Scripture quotations are the author's own translation.
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...... ▲ A A A A A The Energized Disciple
by Paul G. Cunningham
ow ever you look at it, the middle of 1994. Sadly, more pris his children would have the insur time is in short supply. Je ons are needed immediately. But I ance. sus had a profound sense agree with Robert Gangi of the But then he heard a voice saying, of time. He knew His Greater New York Correctional Asso “Elmer, can't you trust Me?” He be time was short, so He re ciation, who said, “Building more lieved God was speaking to his bro mained focused on His prisons to address more crime is like ken heart. He decided to trust God in mission. He avoided building more graveyards to address spite of his desperate circumstances. Hdeadly distractions. a fatal disease." And the fatal disease Two days later, the Nazarene pastor There is an ancient adage that says, we war against is sin. And its cure is came to his door and said, “Elmer, “If you want to defeat your enemies, not found through incarceration of there is a man in the church who first you must distract them." Often the body but through emancipation of asked to remain anonymous but our time is filled with so many dis the soul. wanted me to give you this money.” tractions we find ourselves suffering It was the exact amount needed to from what one writer calls “energy save his house from foreclosure. He leaks.” As a result, we become went on to successfully raise his fam “weary in well-doing" (Galatians 6:9) ily and continued his life as a devoted and find ourselves exhausted in the follower of Christ. face of huge challenges when what W e m ust fir st b e in Doesn't a brokenhearted world we need are vast resources of energy. need this kind of Savior? Of course As disciples, we seem to have dif CONNECTION WITH OUR we would agree it does. But how will ficulty keeping the main thing the the news get through? It happens main thing. And what is the main POWER SOURCE. through time-prioritizing disciples thing? Well, we might be tempted to who avail themselves of the Holy say the main thing is evangelism, and Spirit’s energy for accomplishing we could make a case for that. But needful things. Disciples who live in Jesus said in Acts 1:8, “You will re the energy field of Acts 1:8. Disciples ceive power when the Holy Spirit who are like the prophet Elijah, who comes on you” ( n i v ). In other words, However, this will not be accom had such a powerful effect on others our power source comes first, and plished by exhausted disciples but by that the young prophet Elisha wanted then we will have the energy neces energized disciples who have disci a double portion of his spirit. Elijah sary to be effective disciples. plined themselves to wait before the was an energized disciple. First and foremost, regardless of Father until His promise of empower Could we ask for a double portion time demands, we must be in connec ment becomes a personal reality. of the Holy Spirit’s power that we tion with our power source in order to How else can we confront a broken might have lives of significant spiri have energy for evangelism. Jesus hearted world that desperately longs tual influence? told His first-century disciples the to hear the voice of God? Time is running out. Life is so number one priority was to wait in One of my in-laws tells about his short. Everything is at stake. Let's Jerusalem for the promise of the Fa father's darkest hour. It was during keep the main thing the main thing ther to be fulfilled in their own lives. the Great Depression that devastated and so order our lives With His empowerment, they would the world's economy. In the process, that we can receive then be enabled to carry out His mis he lost his financial resources. At the adequate power to be sion to win the world. same time, his wife died and left him energized disciples And certainly our world has never with small children to raise. His “Acts 1:8 style”— the been in greater need of a Savior. In house was due for foreclosure. One only kind that will be the United States alone, the prison day he stood looking at the gas jets effective in helping population has exploded from on the stove and wondered if that to heal a broken 188,000 in 1968 to over 1 million by might be the best way out. At least hearted world. tfc
J u l y 1996 7 Tongues-SpeaMng and the Nazarenes
by J. Kenneth Grider
n Alaska recently, a pastor with Azusa Street, attended by many Holi to outnumber the membership of the his 1,200 Nazarenes were ness people, tongues-speaking broke Church of the Nazarene— until then dropped from the denomination. out in earnest. the fastest-growing denomination in Occasionally, other pastors (and Richard Quebedeaux’s The N ew America with more than 100,000 some laypersons) have been Charismatics, an Oxford University members. dropped front the denomination. Ph.D. thesis of the mid-1970s, says It should be easily seen why we Why? that this Black evangelist went to Nazarenes are not sympathetic to IFor too much sympathy for, or the L.A. as pastor of a Nazarene mission. tongues-speaking. It started out under practice of, tongues-speaking. One Nazarene scholar tells me he un Wesleyan-Holiness auspices, but our We Nazarenes and other Wesleyan- derstands that the evangelist spoke in leaders, including Phineas Bresee. Holiness people (said to be the sev tongues and that the Nazarenes got whose Church of the Nazarene started enth-largest grouping in Christianity) rid of him by locking him out of his out in the same city. Los Angeles. 100 are the least sympathetic to tongues- church. Carl Bangs says that the man years ago, in 1895, had no affinity for speaking of all the major groupings. went to no such Nazarene mission. it. We have many bases for this kind Indeed, W B. Godbey, the great of stance regarding both Pentecostals Holiness evangelist of the day. visited as such and neo-Pentecostals (or Los Angeles right after its outbreak charismatics). and, in a book, appraised it too se The Pentecostals are the people Pentecostalism as such verely (I think) as the latest thing "Sa who stress tongues-speaking so much tan” was accomplishing. that you hardly know that they also began in a watchnight It was not Roman Catholics who believe in other spiritual gifts. This became tongues-speakers. It was not tongues-speaking is not real lan prayer meeting Lutherans, nor Baptists, nor Episco guages but unintelligible syllables. January 1 ,1 9 0 0 . palians, nor Presbyterians; it was Holi A few incidents of it occurred in ness people who got, as we Nazarenes Britain in the 19th century, but no Agness Ozmund, a feel, off the track in that way. continuing instances. It had little his We stressed the baptism with the tory. But this was the first that histori student, was the first Holy Spirit as the way in which entire ans know about since Montanism sanctification is bestowed upon be died out in the 3rd and 4th centuries. to speak in tongues. lievers. We taught that, therefore, that Pentecostal ism as such began in a baptism by Christ is what accom watchnight prayer meeting January 1, plishes the cleansing away of original 1900— as the new century was aborn sin in believers—and our empower ing. It began under Holiness auspices In any case, an Assemblies of God ment. at a Bible school in Topeka, Kansas. professor of Fuller Theological Semi The Pentecostals said that it ac It was a lay friend of a Holiness nary has chronicled all this and finds complishes empowerment, but not the preacher, a Methodist, who led the that some 400 persons who were part cleansing away of original sin— not Bible school and the prayer meeting: of this had been Holiness people. At entire sanctification. one Charles Parham. Agness Oz- Azusa Street, tongues-speaking got Bresee himself had written the mund, a student, was the first to speak off the ground. Fuller Seminary evan chapter on “The Baptism with the in tongues. She has a place something gelism professor J. Edwin Orr says Holy Ghost" in 1894 in William like the Black woman who, in Alaba that it was an American revival out Nast's symposium The Double Care ma, started the Civil Rights Move break fueled by the great Welsh Re — and Bresee found in this baptism ment in America by refusing to give vival of 1904 (in which, as a matter of no tongues-speaking but cleansing her Black-area seat to a white person fact, no tongues-speaking occurred). from Adamic sin. Bresee understood, on a city bus. The Azusa Street tongues-speaking, as Nazarenes still do, that the tongues Parham soon traveled to Houston actually, was the beginning of Pente spoken of in Acts 2 were various real and headed a Bible school there from costalism, for it began to flourish at languages, given to the 120 believers which a Black tongues-speaking the time. so as to promote dramatically the evangelist traveled to Los Angeles By the 1940s, it was the Pente gospel 50 days after Christ's crucifix — in whose church, in 1906, on costal Assemblies of God that began ion-resurrect ion— among people
8 H e r a l d of- H o l i n e s s This old building at 312 Azusa Street, Los Angeles, became world famous as the Azusa Street Mission, beginning in 1906. It was one of the earliest homes of the Pentecostal movement in the United States.
gathered in Jerusalem for the Feast of Catholics say that it purifies from justification that comes upon every Pentecost, from all those language ar sin. But they teach that the guilt of one according to Romans 5). eas. original sin is cleansed away at water Roman Catholics teach that this So the "tongue-people,” as Godbey baptism— usually for infants, but per- cleansing from sin, this purification, called them, took exactly what we comes at the time of a formal ceremo (more than any other group) were pro ny. And we teach that it is not re moting and tested it so that it was said ceived so automatically through a cer to accomplish something quite differ Pentecostals are like emony, but through faith, witnessed ent. The Pentecostals soon came to to by the Holy Spirit, as we as believ teach, as they still do, that unintelligi the Calvinists, ers yield ourselves up to God, donat ble tongues-speaking is the one spe ing ourselves to Him, and receiving it cial evidence of a believer’s having who do not helieve by faith (even as we receive justifica been baptized “in" the Holy Spirit. tion by faith, preceded by repen It was only for believers, as we that original sin is tance). taught. But although believing in These are some of the main doctri original sin, as almost all Christians cleansed away at this nal currents in Christianity, and some do, they did not understand that this people might be a bit bewildered by Adamic depravity is cleansed away at time. Calvinists and these differences. But the differences this time. They are like us and Roman Pentecostals say that —as well as the similarities—are Catholics in saying that it is only for there. As Richard Quebedeaux says in believers. But they did not teach, as it is cleansed away the book earlier mentioned, three Roman Catholics do, that purification groupings of Christians believe in two from sin occurs at this time. Pente gradually, all the works of grace: the Roman Catholics, costals are like the Calvinists, who do the “old” Holiness people (as though not believe that original sin is way through life. he is not aware that we are still cleansed away at this time. Calvinists around!), and the Pentecostals. Yes. and Pentecostals say that it is Two works of grace. Two special mo cleansed away gradually, all the way ments. But the three groupings view through life. haps for elderly persons. We Holiness differently what is accomplished in Roman Catholics believe that it is people teach with James Arminius the two special moments. regenerated persons only who, at con and John Wesley and Orton Wiley Perhaps my reader can see why we firmation, receive the baptism with the that we have no guilt for Adam’s sin, Wesleyan-Holiness people are the Holy Spirit—as the bishop anoints only nonculpable depravity— the guilt least sympathetic to tongues-speaking the person with oil and says, “Receive of it being alleviated in everyone by of any of the Christian groupings. the Holy Spirit.” Christ’s death and resurrection (the continued on page 32
J u l y 1996 9 COPING WITH A DEPRESSED SPOUSE
by Mark Larson
can’t go on any longer . . . sic insights I have gathered, in the ognized early in the onset of the life’s too hard . . . I want to hope that what we have dealt with disease. A peer-to-peer relationship die.” I looked down at my will be helpful to those in similar with your spouse implies mutual re wife of six years and swal circumstances. spect, a healthy and sustaining love lowed hard. She lay slumped 1. You cannot play the roles of relationship, and a desire not to be a on the couch in our living both counselor a n d spouse. These controller but to be a friend. room, tears of grief flowing roles naturally conflict. Let a pro 4. Put your situation and role Idown her face. fessional Christian counselor be the into perspective. We all have As she wept, my mind drifted one who does the analyzing, prob choices of how we deal with the cir back to happier days early in our ing, and, when needed, the chal cumstances of life. Consider the marriage. One of the things that at lenging of your spouse’s feelings ministry possibilities that are af tracted me to Vickie forded by the situa was her sense of hu tion. Perhaps God mor and quick wit. has picked you for After several years of this situation to be, dating, we were mar RERHAPS GOD HAS PICKED YOU FOR THIS SITUATION TO in essen ce, a m is ried. In those first sionary to your few years together, BE, IN ESSENCE, A MISSIONARY TO YOUR SPOUSE AND spouse and other af signs that things OTHER AFFECTED FAMILY MEMBERS. fected family mem weren’t right began bers. People with to manifest them depression need selves. Vickie started compassionate, in to shy away from formed, and caring any job that required a good deal of and issues. Your job is to listen and people to be there during the hard energy and responsibility. She be be supportive. Avoid the temptation times, to offer an encouraging gan to sleep excessively and was to play both sides, and let God work word, and to pray for them. never able to hold a job for more through a professional to bring 5. Time doesn’t heal depres than several months. We started to healing. sion; treatment does. If the Lord realize that the dark shadow of de 2. You cannot “fix” your does not provide healing. His plan pression had settled over our mar spouse’s depression. Men especial may involve treatment through riage. The woman I had married— ly want to repair a problem quickly medication, Christian counseling, or that energetic, vibrant person— now and move on. When there is no even hospitalization. Help others in sat before me in a house full of un quick fix, there may be a tendency your sphere of influence to see that washed dishes, dirty laundry, and to get frustrated with the lack of dealing with depression can be a lost dreams, talking about taking progress and the emotional ups and long road. The person with depres her own life. downs depression brings to a fami sion can’t just “get over it.” Prepare That was four years ago. Since ly. Let go of your desire to fix it all. yourself for the long haul. Adapt to then, I’ve learned through experi Do what you can, but understand things not getting done, such as ence, talking with others, and God’s that God’s timing may not call for household chores. Learn how to do leadership that depression can be immediate healing. He can, and the things you’ve always relied on devastating not only for the person does, work through counselors and your spouse to do. with it but also for the spouse. I medication. 6. Celebrate the good days. have also become increasingly frus 3. Work hard on maintaining a When your spouse is up emotional trated with the lack of resource ma peer relationship with your ly, take those times as gifts and cel terials for spouses of persons with sp ou se. A tendency toward living ebrate together. Plan a special out depression. That’s why I decided to in a “parent-child” relationship ing or event. Do the things you write this article— to share some ba could easily develop if it is not rec aren’t able to do when he or she is
10 H e r a l d o f H o l i n e s s down. Expect the worst; celebrate erate about your spouse to other out. On the other hand, be open to the best. Also, be ready to say “I family members. There is a differ advice from family and friends, and love you” for the 1,001st time. Be a ence between seeking support from weigh its validity. Don’t be overly constant reassurer to your spouse of family and seeking sympathy. Talk defensive about your situation. your love and support. ing about your spouse in a negative When communicating with others, 7. Do not complain or commis way just to get sympathy is a cop use terms like “we” and “our.” “We have had a good week . . “O ur plan is to . . .”; and so on. You are part of the situation— it’s your bat T h e w o m a n i m a r r ie d n o w s a t b e f o r e m e in a h o u s e tle too. FULL OF UNWASHED DISHES, DIRTY LAUNDRY, AND LOST 8. Educate yourself on the gen DREAMS, TALKING ABOUT TAKING HER OWN LIFE. eral topic of depression. Seek out material in your local Christian bookstore. Research the cause and effects of the disease and the genet ic links. The more you know, the better you’ll be able to understand and cope. 9. Take care of yourself. Don’t get into a martyr syndrome and feel you have to drag yourself through, never tarnishing your white armor. Nonsense. It’s OK for you to feel frustrated, angry, and hurt. What re ally matters is how you deal with those feelings. Consider starting a support group at your local church or community center. Find a friend with whom you can share your frus trations. Seek Christian counseling for yourself if needed. Your respon sibility to the situation includes tak ing care of yourself. Don’t swallow your anger. Learn coping strategies. Talk about your feelings. As Vickie cried on our couch that day, I slowly sat down beside her and held her in my arms. She was still my wife. God had sent her to me. At that moment, in my heart, I committed it all to Him. I let go of trying to control the situation and be the “strong one” all the time. It was time for me to let go and let God lead. My own strength could not begin to match the resources of my God. And to this day, God con tinues to provide the grace for us to make it through— one day at a time. We continue to experience good days and bad, but we hold on to the great truth that “we are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair” (2 Corinthians 4:8, n k j v ) . We continue to run the race— together— and trust in a God who makes a difference every day. ^
J u l y 1996 11 In Search of Security by Cathy Karr
Lee Rudeen, Media International
everal years ago, I hunted where no one has gone before.” bly free— and secure. moose for the first time. Northern British Columbia’s “This would be a great place to With six horses and enough vast wilderness seemed endless. hide if Canada is ever invaded,” I gear for a National Geo We edged through dense forests. decided. graphic expedition, our par Conquered rushing creeks. Slept One night, as we sat gazing at Sty set out “to boldly go in alpine meadows. I felt incredi the star-studded heavens, we spot 12 H erald of H oliness ted something blinking its way are not security in themselves. worked for Safeway for 24 years, across the sky. The little girl’s “Ki Ki” could not 4 months. At the age of 57, what “That’s probably a foreign feed her, protect her from danger, would I do? There was my wife satellite taking pictures,” someone or love her. It only served to make and me, so life began all over commented. I felt like hiding in her feel good. again. . . . Cathy, God was in con my tent. So much for feeling se In the same way, our work, pos trol, and things began to happen.” cure! sessions, and relationships are on He went on to tell me how God Security is a basic human need. ly “blankets” that have been given had provided. He concluded by Every person has an innate hunger to us by God for our happiness. saying, “Thank God for what you to be free of fear, danger, and anx But they are temporal. Jobs are have, and He will supply your iety. lost. Houses burn. Marriages col need.” The other day, I stood behind a lapse. Bank accounts empty. A check for $100 was enclosed. man and his daughter at a check Friends die. An attached sticker stated: “Be out counter. The little girl was Last year, I was laid off from a cause He lives, I can face tomor row. Have a good day!” Parents eventually wean their children of their security blankets. They hide them. Leave them at Grandma’s. Wash them once too often. This is not to make their C h il d r e n o ften c lin g to a offspring feel insecure, but rather to help them learn how to handle their fears in a more mature way. FAVORITE BLANKET, TOY, OR ANIMAL Sometimes we feel that our happiness is yanked out from un der us, when in reality it may be TO MAKE THEM FEEL SAFE. God’s way of helping us grow spiritually. Tim Hansel, in his book You ADULTS ARE NO DIFFERENT. Gotta Keep Dancin’ (David C. Cook, 1985, 44), says, “If your se curity is based on something that can be taken away from you— you will constantly be on a false edge of security.” Most of us don’t realize how much we lean on certain things or dragging a dirty white, tattered job I desperately needed. After people until they are removed blanket, a corner of it in her working in a medical clinic for from our lives. Take one prop mouth. over two years, I was informed the away, and we are sent reeling. “Her security blanket?” I asked staff was being reduced. Sometimes it takes years to recov the young father. I was devastated. er from the painful fall. “Yes, it sure is,” he replied, In the weeks that followed, God smiling fondly at the child. “She began to show me that He is my But this is not necessary. calls it her ‘Ki Ki’— and we can’t security. He is my Provider— not When I was a teenager, we of leave home without it.” my job. ten sang the song in church “He’s Children often cling to a fa One morning, for example, I All I Need.” I sometimes won vorite blanket, toy, or animal to was feeling quite discouraged. dered if it were true. But 25 years make them feel safe. Adults are no During my prayer time, I asked and many hard knocks later, I can different. We may have conquered the Lord to assure me He was still testify to its authenticity. He is all our fear of the dark, but we still there. we need. need to feel secure. So we attach That afternoon, I received a let When life has been unfair, when ourselves to jobs, material posses ter from a friend who was aware there is no place to hide, God re sions, bank accounts, or relation of my circumstances. mains faithful. He is the only se ships. “In the spring of 1980, I also curity blanket that will cover you All of these things, however. lost my job,” I read. “I had for sure. Hi
J u l y 1 9 % 13 N ews Prepared by Herald Staff and the Nazarene News Service
SNU Wins Third Straight National Business Title VBS Kids Set Another Record Once again, Nazarene boys and girls have set a new record for giving in the Vacation Bible School Mission Offer ing, according to Miriam J. Hall, Chil dren’s Ministries director. A total of $143,457.54, was received for the 1995 offering, which officially ended Apr. 30, 1996. This represents an increase of $14,621.01 over the 1994 offering, which was the previous record. Nearly $400,000 has been given through the VBS offering this quadrennium. The monies received will be used to purchase and maintain vehicles for mis sionaries, pastors in World Mission ar eas, and multicultural churches in the U.S. and Canada. A portion of the of fering also will be used to provide edu cational funding for seven children of international pastors. “We are proud of the thousands of boys and girls who gave pennies, nick SNU’s Intercollegiate Management Gaming Team won its third straight national title re els, dimes, and quarters for the VBS of cently. Members are (I. to r.): Julie South, Craig White, Larry Mills (sponsor), Curtis Farmer, fering this past year," Hall said. “Not and Melissa Peters. only are these children learning the im Southern Nazarene University’s Inter from their home campuses in February. portance of giving to others, but they collegiate Management Gaming Team Each decision requires team members are participating in taking the gospel to won its third straight national title in to address, in detail, the full range of people around the world." May at the 32nd annual International corporate growth, productivity, credit Tom Felder is the coordinator of the Collegiate Business Policy Competi norms, market analysis, new product Vacation Bible School program for the tion in San Jose, Calif. This was SNU’s development, and other factors. In ad Church of the Nazarene. fourth title in five years. dition, each team must complete annual The theme of the 1996 VBS Mission SNU defeated collegiate business reports, a comprehensive business plan, teams from 32 universities across the a series of management reports, and Offering project is "Share the Light.” U.S., Canada, France, Spain, Mexico, make presentations to a panel of judges Funds received will be used to provide and Australia to win the title. who are corporate executives. new Spanish VBS materials, support a “I am very proud of the perfor Members of the team included: Christian school in Jordan, sponsor the mance of this team,” said Larry Mills, Craig White, president; Julie South, education of seven children of interna faculty adviser. “They are a very solid vice president/marketing; Curtis tional pastors, and support a new pro group, they have a great work ethic, Farmer, vice president/production; gram. “Touch a Life.” and they function extremely well as a Melissa Peters, vice president/account Touch a Life, an after-school pro team.” ing and finance; and Bobby Grue- gram designed for at-risk children, will Teams began competing by modem newald, consultant. emphasize one-to-one interpersonal re lationships. The program will provide practical life skills training, health edu Oregon Pacific Reaches Milestone cation workshops, and recreational ac tivities that promote teamwork and mo The Oregon Pacific District celebrated said. “This is an indication of the a unique milestone at its district assem growth of the district and the Church of tor skill development. The program is a bly in mid-May. The district reported a the Nazarene as a whole.” joint effort of Sunday School Ministries total of 16.136 full members, the first The growth also provided the district and Nazarene Compassionate Min time (under present configurations) a with two extra delegates for the 1997 istries USA/Canada. regular district has surpassed the General Assembly in San Antonio by Share the Light offering information 16,000 mark, according to Jack Stone, surpassing the 16,000 mark. Oregon packets may be found in every "Go for general secretary. Pacific will be the first district under the Gold” 1996 VBS D ire cto r’s Kit. "We offer our congratulations to the the present formula to send a total of 12 Additional packets are available free of Oregon Pacific District and District Su delegates— 6 ministerial and 6 lay— to charge by calling Children’s Ministries perintendent Gerald Manker," Stone a General Assembly. at 816-333-7000, ext. 2243 or 2430.
14 H e r a l d o f H o l i n e s s Nazarenes Active at CHA Columnist Stresses Need for “Marriage Insurance” Churches need to do more to insure Policy, a document drafted and signed good marriages and to save troubled by an ecumenical group of clergy in marriages, according to Mike Mc more than 45 cities nationwide. Mc Manus, nationally syndicated colum Manus also encourages churches to uti nist. McManus stressed the importance lize “mentoring couples”— a program of churches working to insure good through which older couples whose marriages during a special luncheon at marriages have lasted for 20 to 50 the Nazarene International Center in years, work with other couples at vari Kansas City May 6. ous stages of the marital life cycle. Hosted by Family Life Ministries Turner suggested that pastors use Coordinator J. Paul several of the marriage Turner, the luncheon preparation tools Mc was attended by per Manus is endorsing. sons representing vari Two of these include: ous disciplines from the Prepare I Enrich, the International Center, well-researched inven Nazarene Publishing tory developed by CHA President Jack Stone addresses the House, local churches, David Olson, and the 1996 CHA convention in Indianapolis. and the Kansas City Community Marriage community. P olicy, which several Implementing the theme of “The Radi McManus described Nazarene pastors have cal Optimism of Holiness,” several many churches as wed endorsed. Turner is Nazarenes served in leadership roles ding factories. "We do providing the mono for the 128th annual convention of the a good job of preparing graph “Guidelines for Christian Holiness Association (CHA) couples for the wed E stablishing a M ar Apr. 23-25 in Indianapolis. ding,” he said. "How riage Preparation Min The program and theme were devel ever, we don't do a istry” for the use of oped by Jack Stone, CHA president good job of preparing pastors and church and general secretary of the Church of couples for marriage.” Mike and Harriet McManus visit the boards in developing a the Nazarene. Stone also hosted a McManus presented International Center in Kansas City. marriage preparation breakfast for Nazarenes. his six goals for pastors policy/strategy. General Superintendent John A. and churches. These include: (1) avoid McManus, a former correspondent Knight presented the address “The bad marriages before they start; (2) for Time magazine, writes a newspaper Principles of Our Radical Optimism.” give engaged couples "marriage insur column, “Ethics and Religion.” syndi John C. Bowling, Olivet Nazarene Uni ance” through proper preparation; (3) cated by The New York Times. He is versity president, preached on the sub strengthen existing marriages; (4) work the author of two books, M a rria g e ject "The Preservation of Our Radical hard to save troubled marriages; (5) Savers: Helping Your Friends and Optimism.” help those who are separated to recon Family Avoid Divorce and In suring Jerry Lambert, education commis cile; and (6) work to push down the di M arriage. He and his wife, Harriet, sioner for the denomination, led a vorce rate in metropolitan areas. serve as lay leaders of marriage prepa meeting of the CHA Commission on He has proposed attacking the last ration at their home church, Fourth Higher Education. Roy Stults, editor of goal through his Community Marriage Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Md. World Mission magazine, led the com mittee on missiology and missionary concerns. John Mathias, director of Lil- Nazarene Sociologists Discuss Who We Are lenas Publishing Company, led a work shop on worship. Margaret Poloma, internation contingency of females for For the first time in its history, the ally known sociologist of reli an ANSR meeting to date. CHA convention featured sessions for gion, was the keynote speaker Also, representatives were youth and children. Gary Sivewright, for the 1996 conference of the present from all of the Amer Mount Vernon Nazarene College chap Association of Nazarene Soci ican Nazarene colleges and lain, led one of the two CHA events for ologists of Religion (ANSR) in universities and NTS. Seven young people. Kansas City. Some 50 persons papers were presented. They "The attendance and response to the attended the meeting with the are available from the program tell me that the CHA is find theme "Nazarene Identity: Church Growth Division. ing strategic renewal and will move Who Were We? Who Are We? Next year’s meeting will forward in giving the Holiness Move What Are We Likely Becom- Margaret Poloma, focus on Nazarene culture. It ment a distinct identity in the evangeli ing?" Among the participants keynote speaker at will be held Mar. 13-15 in cal world," Stone said. were nine women— the largest ANSR XV. Kansas City.
J u l y 1996 15 Media International/Lee Rudeen NTS honored two of its professors, Terry Read and Rob Staples, in the spring. spring. the in Staples, Rob and Read Terry professors, its of two honored NTS HonoredNTS Profs the Ministerial Education by Extension Extension by Education of Ministerial the coordinator as assignment the cept ac to 1987,leaving is since missiology professors outstanding its of two Staples. ored Rob and Marcella and Read, Joan and Terry Wetmore, Gordon President ih cnes n i Es Arcn na African East six in centers eight at students 600 has which program, the out carry to Education of Board tional Interna the new with his work In will Read role. Africa. East for program hon Seminary Theological Nazarene Summer Ministry Begins Ministry Summer to service his for Charles Read praised Gailey Colleague NTS. with status in the spring. Terry Read, professor of of professor Read, Terry spring. the in tions. Gold" Atlanta Outreach. Atlanta Gold" areas: four to assigned were students Fred to according summer, this pro grams Mission in Youth in students involved are college Nazarene 75 Nearly ainl elh ae ad Mr than "More and Care, Health national The director. Ministries NYI Fullerton, co, Philadelphia, and Flint,Mich. and Philadelphia, co, Francis San City, York New in centers Cities the to Mission in Students participating Ukraine. the and Russia, da, Cana Portugal, Australia. Azores, nia, Alba in leaders national and sionaries Care participants are using their health- their using are participants Care Inter Aid" “First Cities, theto Mission (ISM), Ministries Student International will work at compassionate ministry ministry compassionate at work will 16 Read will maintain adjunct faculty faculty adjunct maintain will Read S suet ae okn wt mis with working are students ISM "First Aid” International Health Health International Aid” "First y t T fr2 yas i rtrn fol retiring is years, 20 for NTS at gy preaching, and writing. and teaching, preaching, his in theology Wesleyan to trib A pastor. a as years 8 and versity Uni Nazarene Southern at professor as care skills in India and Swaziland. The The Swaziland. and India in skills care seminary. the and students lmi ct cnutn sot out sports conducting city Olympic working are teams Gold" than “More writ and reading serious include ment service, and his passionate dedication dedication passionate his and service, conscientious limericks, for knack ples’ colleague by Staples to given was ute years 13 included that career a lowing cluded a variety of workshops and sem and workshops of variety a cluded June camp training a with program mer terns for Nazarene Com passionate passionate Com Nazarene for terns programs. youth Vacation clubs. sunshine clinics, reach summer’s this in projects outreach with life." hisallalive “staying and ing ors . egl. egl ntd Sta noted Weigelt Weigelt. A. Morris children, recreation, group dynamics, orientation. cross-cultural dynamics, and group recreation, children, and youth to ministry puppetry, drama, in camp The Ariz. Phoenix, in 2-10 Bible Schools, and other children’s and children’s other and Schools, Bible learned about personal evangelism, evangelism, personal about learned Ministries. inars through which the students students the which through inars Rob L. Staples, professor of theolo of professor Staples, L. Rob tpe si ta hs ol i retire in goals his that said Staples I priiat bgn hi sum their began participants YIM Four other students are serving as in as serving are students other Four (L. to r.) to (L. NTS
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f o H s s e n i l o Spring Brings Graduations at Nazarene Colleges/Universities Here are reports from early graduations Nazarene pastor; and Jesse Pitts, a lege May 12. The college awarded 99 at Nazarene colleges/universities. Nazarene layman and educator. graduate and 406 undergraduate de MIDAMERICA NAZARENE grees. COLLEGE (MANC) Honorary doctoral degrees were con MidAmerica Nazarene College con ferred on Caribbean Regional Director ferred degrees on 507 graduates during John Smee and Ramon Cortines. the institution’s 25th annual com TREVECCA NAZARENE mencement May 5. The class was the UNIVERSITY (TNU) largest in the school’s history. Trevecca Nazarene University celebrat General Superintendent Paul G. Cunningham was commencement ed its 95th Commencement May 4 with speaker. An honorary doctorate was 553 graduates, according to Millard presented to Keith Wright, superinten Reed, TNU president. Daniel Spross, dent of the Kansas City District. professor of biblical theology and liter ature at Trevecca. delivered the com OLIVET NAZARENE mencement address. UNIVERSITY (ONU) The baccalaureate message was pre A record number of graduates received sented by Reed. During the service, he degrees during commencement cere ONU President John C. Bowling challenges students at the 1996 ONU baccalaureate. monies at Olivet Nazarene University announced the receipt of a $1 million May 4. according to President John C. gift from Don and Zelma Waggoner of Bowling. A total of 563 degrees were POINT LOMA NAZARENE Greenville, S.C. presented. COLLEGE (PLNC) An honorary doctoral degree was Honorary doctoral degrees were con More than 500 graduates received de presented to Roy J. Fuller, TNU gradu ferred upon Allen Dace, Illinois Dis grees during commencement cere ate and superintendent of the Pittsburgh trict superintendent; George Galloway, monies at Point Loma Nazarene Col District. Maturity Has Its Advantages . . .
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Ju r e 1996 17 NEWS OF RELIGION
Supreme Court Voids Colorado Amendment Members of the team reported their research on the shroud, believed by some to be the burial cloth of Jesus, saying that The Supreme Court struck down a Colorado measure it said the radiocarbon dating of ancient textiles is not reliable. would deny homosexuals constitutional protection and make To make a more accurate test, researchers must devise a them “unequal to everyone else.” way to separate the microbial film from the cloth, then must Colorado’s constitutional amendment, banning laws that get another sample from the Roman Catholic archdiocese of protect homosexuals from discrimination, “identifies persons Turin, Italy, where the shroud resides. by a single trait and then denies them protection across the The 14-foot cloth shows a negative image of a man with board,” said Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the ma nail wounds in his hands and feet. It was last displayed in jority in the 6-3 decision. “It is not within our constitutional 1978. It will go on display in Turin in 1998 and again in 2000. traditions to enact laws of this sort.” Writing for the minority, Justice Antonin Scalia accused the Most Effective Preachers majority of “imposing upon all Americans" the pronouncement A Baylor University survey of 341 seminary professors and that “animosity toward homosexuality . . . is evil.” Scalia editors of religious publications named the 12 most effective called the amendment “Colorado's reasonable effort to pre preachers in the English language. They are: Walter serve traditional American moral values” and said it was not Burghardt, senior fellow of Woodstock Theological Center in the court’s business to take sides in America’s “culture wars.” Washington, D.C.; Fred Craddock, professor emeritus, Can Scalia’s dissent was joined by Chief Justice William Rehn- dler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta; James quist and Justice Clarence Thomas. Forbes, senior minister. Riverside Church, New York City; President Clinton said he felt the court’s action “was appro evangelist Billy Graham; Thomas Long, professor, Princeton priate,” according to White House spokesman Mike McCurry. Theological Seminary; Lloyd Ogilvie, chaplain of the U.S. Senate; Haddon Robinson, professor, Gordon-Conwell Theo Turin Shroud Dated Closer to Jesus’ Time logical Seminary, South Hamilton, Mass.; John R. W. Stott, A new analysis of the Shroud of Turin indicates the cloth may rector emeritus, All Souls Church, London; Charles Swindoll. be centuries older than previously thought, perhaps dating president, Dallas Theological Seminary; Barbara Brown Tay back to the time of Jesus, according to researchers from the lor, rector, Grace-Calvary Episcopal Church, Clarkesville, University of Texas Science Health Center. They say a film of Ga.; Gardner Taylor, pastor emeritus, Concord Baptist Church microbes and fungi on the linen may have skewed earlier ra of Christ, Brooklyn; and William Willimon, dean of the diocarbon dating. chapel, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
Intermediate Church Initiative • National Equipping Conference Renewina a Conference Speakers Include: r. Stan Toler is presently vice president Dof INJOY Ministries. He also serves as pastor-in-residence at Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma. Dr. Toler is known as a “Pastor to Pastors.” His seminars on the model church have encouraged many pastors and churches. Dr. Toler will help develop more handles in ministry whether you are a pastor or layperson.
r. Ike Reighard is the senior associate Dpastor/pastor to satellite congregations at First Baptist Church in Atlanta. He is PEOPLE the author of Treasures from the Dark. Dr. Reighard was a featured speaker at Date: October 24-26, 1996 Cost: $95 for the pastor (after Sept. 12, the first ICI conference in Columbus and the cost is $125); was very well received. He has an inspir Place: Regal Cincinnati Hotel $75 for associates and laypersons ing way of challenging his audiences and 150 West 5th Street (after Sept. 12, the cost is $100). comes with a great deal of experience Cincinnati, OH 45202 and knowledge of church growth and the 1-800-876-2100 Hotel ($89/night + tax) and travel importance of both pastor and laity. are separate.
For more information call Arliss Fallon at (816) 333-7000, ext. 2464, or write to: Church Growth Division, 6401 The Paseo, Kansas City, Missouri 6413 R hythm s o f the S pirit
Leaving God Out of uine spiritual formation are eliminated. The Bible as the Word of God no longer functions as the final Authority. Decisions are made on the basis of pragmatism and personal preference. the Picture Persons who are more fearful of offend ing neighbors and friends than of of MORRIS A. WEIGELT sires of an affluent culture. Robert fending God clearly demonstrate that Wuthnow, in Sharing the Journey: Sup He is of minimal importance in their port Groups and America's New Quest lives. If A. W. Tozer observes: “The shallow a X for Community, investigated the chang (i ing preferences for small groups in a ness of our inner experience, the hol # * - jt S# V massive sociological study. He de lowness of our worship, and that servile scribes the constantly shifting prefer imitation of the world which marks our 7 ences as “the Goldilocks syndrome.” promotional methods all testify that we, 1k r lL He draws the analogy from the chil in this day, know God only imperfectly, dren's story of “The Three Bears,” in and the peace of God scarcely at all.” Morris A. Weigelt teaches spiritual forma which Goldilocks tests everything on Paul wrote: “And all of us, with un tion at Nazarene Theological Seminary. the basis of her own preferences. When veiled faces, seeing the glory of the our choices in ethics and worship are Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are simply a contest of personal preference, being transformed into the same image the result is subjective anarchy. from one degree of glory to another; for Whenever small groups lose their this comes from the Lord, the Spirit” (2 C harles Colson and Ellen Vaughn's central focus on God, the group begins Corinthians 3:18, n r s v ). In 4:6 Paul novel Gideon's Torch pictures a chaotic to struggle. Gareth Icenogle, in Biblical identifies the mirror as “the face of Je society in which God has been pushed Foundations for Small Group Ministry, sus Christ”—the location where the to the edges. Truth is determined by insists that small groups must intention glory of God is revealed. democratic vote—at least, the wishes of ally keep their focus upon God as the Transformation into the very image the majority as the pollsters determine Center of the process. If a leader, cur of God (the simplest definition of spiri it. Daniel Seaton seeks to oppose the riculum, fellowship, or anything else tual formation) is impossible when He harvest of fetal tissue for scientific use draws attention away from the central has been trivialized or marginalized. on the basis of his Christian principles. focus upon God, the group The president determines that Daniel is is doomed to disintegrate. an enemy of the “truth” and has to be Jesus declared that the eliminated. greatest commandment of Whenever God is shoved to the mar all was: “You shall love the gins of society, inner morals no longer Lord your God with all function appropriately. The only choice your heart, and with all God must be center stage, or we for government is to control by force. your soul, and with all your worship in vain. But force only creates despair and cow mind” (Matthew 22:37, ering before authority and further n r s v ). He was following blunts the working of inner moral con the guidance of the Ten science. Commandments, in which When God is displaced from the cen any trivialization of God is ter of worship, worship patterns are de condemned—especially the use of idols Only in His presence do we truly be termined on the basis of marketing to replace Him in any way. come the people of God. Only when He strategies to "meet the needs of the cur When the Israelites were choosing to occupies center stage will our music, rent generation." When one church place God on the sidelines and run their worship, prayers, daily living, and per meets with a measure of success (deter own show, He spoke decisively through sonal decisions become reflections of mined by attendance), everyone at Moses about arrival in the Promised His holiness. tempts to imitate that pattern. Chasing Land: “No one who has treated me with Only when God is at the heart and worship fads contributes to the trivial- contempt will ever see it” (Numbers core of society will truth be determined ization of God. 14:23, n i v ). by the revealed Word of God. Only Determining the truth or identifying Whenever God no longer occupies when God is God will force no longer worship patterns on the basis of polls is center stage in a congregation or an in be necessary. Only when God is central complicated by the ever changing de dividual's life, the possibilities of gen will anyone find safety and security,
Jc i.Y 1996 19 CHURCH ALIVE! A visit to two Nazarene churches in Northern Ireland
by Donna Fletcher Crow
ise up, O church of God! His kingdom’s Two years ago, the church added a drive-in Sunday task embrace” is an admonition our School especially for the children and young families churches in Northern Ireland take serious who enjoy walking around the harbor and visiting the ly. Following Christ’s command to “Feed castle on a Sunday afternoon. Thirty or 40 children my sheep,” at the Clifford Gay Memorial now gather regularly— on the parking lot when Church of the Nazarene in Carrickfergus, a weather permits or otherwise in the shelter of the cov congregation of 200 serve as shepherds to ered trailer. Rmore than 1,000 people in their community, andDrive-in in church began seven years ago as the vi Belfast, a church of 50 members ministers to nearly sion of a layman who drives a forklift in his work. A 300. fellow worker said something to him about using the The prime example of Carrickfergus Nazarenes bed of the lorry (truck) they were loading for an open- reaching out to meet needs is the evangelistic drive-in air meeting. It was pouring rain at the time. “You nev services they conduct in a castle parking lot. Carrick er!” was the layman’s reply. “It couldn’t be done.” fergus Castle is an 11th-century Norman castle that But the idea took root. The church asked the town still stands proudly on its rocky promontory, jutting council for permission to hold the drive-in service out into Belfast Lough (lake). Through the centuries, during Sundays in June. The council agreed and the castle has been the scene of vicious battles and ju asked them to extend services through July as well. bilant victories, but the victories that now occur there The drive-in congregation may be as few as 500 on are of a far different nature. a rainy night or as many as 800 when the weather is Every Sunday evening during June and July for the fine. On a good evening, the congregation is a color past seven years, the parking lot beneath the castle ful one: people sitting on the castle wall, customers of has been filled with people singing praises to God, ac an enterprising ice cream vendor at the back of the companied by electric piano and guitar. Those sitting lot, motorcyclists, taxi passengers, and even a fire en in their cars are given song sheets so they can join the gine crew. One night the fire engine, which is driven enthusiastic singing of the choir on the truck bed. by a church member, got a call in the middle of the Then laymen, laywomen, and children from the service. church give clear, simple testimonies of the power of Members of the Carrickfergus church distribute in Jesus Christ in their lives. A straightforward gospel vitations to the drive-in church and promote it with message by Pastor Philip McAlister and an invitation bumper stickers on their cars. Community interest to follow Christ are backed up by counselors who was raised when this unique service was featured on walk among the vehicles, offering information pack Radio Ulster. ets that contain the Gospel of John, a booklet on Steps But the servant-heartedness of these people extends to Knowing God Personally, and a letter from Pastor much farther than Carrickfergus Castle. “This church McAlister. has a heart for evangelism,” says Pastor McAlister, “This is a Kingdom ministry,” McAlister says. “We who came to the church five years ago after a career don’t see a direct increase in numbers in our own as a physical education teacher. “Our people want to church. This is service to the community for God. We reach out. A new couple came to us recently. ‘We’re counsel people in their cars, on the trailer, or over the here to knock on the door,’ they said. ‘How can we phone— anywhere they want to discuss the need for become involved?’” God in their lives. . The people at Carrickfergus aren’t nearly so wor “The drive-in church also brings our own congre ried about having their own needs met as they are gation together. It takes a hundred people every Sun about meeting the needs of others. No one comes in day night to set up the truck, provide sound crew, saying, “Feed me.” They are here to feed others. band, and choir, and give their testimonies, hand out And some of that is very literal feeding. Rosemary invitations and hymn sheets, and serve as coun Gault had a vision for feeding the hungry living in the selors.” predominantly one-parent families in the housing es
20 H e r a l d o f H o l i n e s s tate near the church. Within one week, she had the play evening. The church will be fdled with parents workers and financing she needed to begin the pro who never come at other times. gram. They distributed leaflets through the estate to “Eventually, though, people find they want more of invite people to come for lunch. Then they prepared what we offer— more of the gospel. Fifty-seven new the food. members have joined the church in the past two years.” No one came. So they took the food to the people. It’s no wonder Carrickfergus has been called a Now 50 nonchurch members come regularly to their Good Samaritan church. When they see a need, their lunch club as well as road workers, builders, or others people set about to meet it. Their silver liners club for who may happen to be working nearby and are in senior citizens has 50 members, only 10 of whom are need of physical and spiritual food. from the church. For some of those who come to the In addition, the church holds an after-school club meetings on the church-provided bus, the club meet for children of the housing estate. Every Monday af ing serves as their Sunday service. Rev. McAlister al ter school, 25-40 children fill the church to hear a ways meets with them to give an evangelistic mes Bible story, do a craft project, have an activity, and re sage before their tea. ceive a hot meal. The church bus is also used to give 20 nonchurched Likewise, their 55-member Caravan program is an teens a youth club outing once a month. This has been outreach. “Ninety-nine percent of the children are found to be a helpful solution for the dilemma of min nonchurched,” Philip McAlister says. “It’s a com istering to young people who might be disruptive in a pletely different church when we have a Caravan dis- regular service.
For seven years now, the Carrickfergus church has at the drive-in church. (Lower left) The children of the transformed the huge parking lot at Carrickfergus Castle Carrickfergus congregation present a Sunday School into a sanctuary. (Upper left) Pastor McAlister meditates as program at the drive-in church. (Lower right) The mobile the drive-in congregation gathers. (Upper right) Mrs. Agnes chancel serves the drive-in church very well. Graham, former missionary to Africa, gives her testimony Photos this page by Ian Mcllroy Elizabeth Crow Elizabeth Crow
(Above) Pastor Ivan and Isobell Miles welcome their community to the family centre that is making their church “the church on the doorstep” for their needy neighborhood in Belfast.
(Upper right) Peace initiative: Anne Morrison, church volunteer, works with community children at the Ark Family Centre in Belfast.
(Right) Carrickfergus Caravan youngsters on parade on Mayor’s Sunday. The castle is in the background.
David McAfee
And all this is accomplished with volunteers from “This will be a shop window for the church,” McAl the church; only Pastor McAlister and a cleaning per ister says. The Oasis will be open every day from 9:30 son are paid. Pastor McAlister asks the church board a .m . to 5:30 p .m . and evenings on the weekends. People to help with visitation work. The young people’s (YP) from the church will be employed to operate it, and it president leads the youth work, and dedicated laymen will offer Christian music, Christian greeting cards and and laywomen fill all the other jobs. literature, and a private counseling room as well as the The Carrickfergus Nazarenes fill the existing jobs usual tea, coffee, sandwiches, chips, and sweets. and look for more areas of service. The newest proj Where do these Nazarenes find the energy for all ect (beginning summer 1996) is The Oasis, a Chris this? The answer is prayer. Carrickfergus church has a tian coffeehouse. The Oasis addresses two problems: prayer meeting every day of the week. The Friday counselors at the drive-in church need a place to take night prayer meeting is particularly important, be people for counseling, and Carrickfergus offers no al cause its special purpose is to join people all over cohol-free and smoke-free environment for the young Northern Ireland who are praying for revival in their people to gather. The church caught the vision to pur land. In addition, Pastor McAlister has requested two chase a coffee shop across from the castle when a of his church board members to draw alongside him woman in the congregation gave sacrificially from for prayer. “They’re a pastor for the pastor,” he says. her redundancy (unemployment) check to start the “We avoid burnout by keeping our eyes on the vision fund. and supporting each other in prayer.”
22 H erald of H oliness “Our goal is to reach as many people in Carrickfer after-school club two days a week where 24 school gus as we can for the Lord,” David McAfee, a church children are given help with their homework, and a board member, says. “When we grow to 300 mem youth club for around 40 teens on Tuesday nights. bers, we’ll plant a church of 50. That way we’ll be “There were no facilities for youth in our neighbor planting from strength, not weakness. Our biggest hood,” Pastor Miles says. “We saw a need for a cross challenge will be to find 50 people who will be will community (Catholic and Protestant) centre where ing to leave when the time comes. We’ll start with young people, mostly the children of paramilitary home Bible studies in a new area first.” prisoners, could come to talk, play table tennis, and The Skegoneill Avenue Nazarenes have refreshments.” Carrickfergus believes it’s only fair that church The children in the day centre are mostly from non- planting be part of their vision. After all, they were a Nazarene families, both Catholic and Protestant, and the church plant of our staff is also cross-commu Belfast Skegoneill Av nity. The children often enue Church just 20 years come to Sunday School as ago when Mrs. Kathleen well. Their parents will Allen from the Belfast W e h o pe to bu ild confidence for come to Pastor Miles if church opened a Sunday they have problems, and School with 54 children in MOTHERS TO RETURN TO SCH00L- they will come to church a builder’s hut. for special events. Sixty- Their first church was a ESPECIALLY THE WIVES OF PRISONERS.” six non-Nazarene parents chicken coop. “We took of children attended the out the chicken cages and Christmas Nativity ser put in benches brought vice. over from Scotland,” John Paton, their first pastor, re “Our next goal is to start a mother and toddler club calls. “We cleaned it the best we could— but it still with education groups for the mothers,” Miles says. smelled awful. We had running water— in the roof “We hope to build confidence for mothers to return to and out the door. We had to raise a roof beam to make school— especially the wives of prisoners.” room for the preacher’s head in the pulpit.” Sometimes God even uses things that seem like a The fervent outreach of the present church is much terrible setback to boost His work. The church was the result of the teaching of Rev. Paton, who is now broken into recently. Thieves took a computer and superintendent of the British Isles South District. money, kicked through a wall, and smashed filing From the beginning he tried to instill in the congrega cabinets. tion the concept that the laity are to minister. “But the Letters instantly poured in from all over the com whole thing was the spirit of the people,” he says. munity. A father of one of the children in the Ark “They really wanted to do something for God.” Centre paid for an alarm system, and donations from When it came time to start a fund for a new build parents of the playgroup children compensated for the ing, the children in the church sold their toys, bicy money taken. A typical letter read, “We’re not of your cles, and watches to raise money for the church. “Of faith, but we’re so sorry about what happened.” They those young people, 14 are now pastors, missionaries, enclosed a £40 ($60) check. or pastor’s wives,” Paton recounts. Pastor Miles and his wife, Isobell, were both Salva When Paton and a board member went to the bank tion Army officers before becoming Nazarenes. “We for a building loan, the manager asked for collateral. still see the place of the church as being ‘love with its They had none. sleeves rolled up,”’ Isobell, who works in the Ark “Do you mind if we pray?” Paton asked. He knelt Centre, says. “The Christian Church as a whole needs and prayed for the manager and his family and guid to change quicker to meet the needs of the communi ance for the church. When he finished, the bank man ty. There are some enormous congregations who min ager’s face was wet. “I’ll be your collateral,” he said. ister to no one but. themselves. Many look for one And what of the parent church? Like their now- thing that will make a big change overnight. We’ve flourishing offspring a few miles down the road, had the Ark for three years. Just lately, people have Skegoneill Avenue’s ministry reaches to many times begun coming over our doorstep. Evangelical results their 50-member congregation. “Our ministry is espe will follow.” cially family oriented,” says Ivan Miles, who has pas- Such are the results when people rise to the chal tored the Belfast church for 10 years. “For three years lenge voiced by the hymn to “Give heart and mind now we have offered our community the Ark Family and soul and strength to serve the King of Kings.” Centre as a safe place like Noah’s ark. Donna Fletcher Crow is a Nazarene freelance writer who special “It is our vision to become the ‘church on the izes in British history. Her most recent book is The Fields of Ban nockburn: A Novel of Christian Scotland from Its Origins to Inde doorstep’ for the families in our neighborhood.” pendence. She is now at work on a sequel, which will be set in The Ark Centre offers day care for 24 children, an Northern Ireland.
J u l y 1996 23 WHERE THERE IS STRIFE, ' LET ME SOW PEACE by Donna Fletcher Crow
he morning after the sec Mitchell, who devoted all his en ond bomb went off in ergies for six years to bringing London, shattering the about peace in his land and played a 18-month cease-fire, the key role in achieving the cease-fire, mood was grim but deter said, “Sometimes I feel I’m batting mined at the Nazarene my head against a brick wall.” Compassionate Ministries Throughout the morning, work TLINC (Local Initiative for Needy was continually interrupted by anx Communities) Centre in Belfast, ious phone calls. One was from Northern Ireland. Liam Maskey, Mitchell’s counter The cease-fire was the first peace part working with the Catholic Northern Ireland had known in 26 community, who was as distressed years. The renewal of violence by as Billy was. They discussed possi the Irish Republican Army (IRA) ble methods for getting the two was devastating. “It’s up to us to sides together to talk, but the re hold together. We’ve got to give newed hostilities dimmed the confidence,” an ashen-faced Billy chances of dialogue. “People have Mitchell, LINC founder and direc simply gone to ground. No one will tor, declared. Come out and talk with bombs go-
Ancient monuments, older than the pyramids. Newgrange, County Heath, Eire. Forty shades of green in February. No wonder they call it the Emerald Isle.
Billy Mitchell in front of the LINC Centre where many meetings that helped bring about the “cease-fire” in Ireland were military activity. “Prison gives one Their first project was an art exhibi held. time to think and to reflect. During tion held in the Carrickfergus the first three years of my sentence, church on the theme of Creation. I gave myself over to an in-depth Two years ago, the LINC Centre ing off again,” Billy said. “If the study of politics and philosophy in moved to a renovated block of flats loyalists get involved, I don’t know an effort to find some sort of pur (apartment buildings). The three- what w e’ll do.” He shook his head. pose to life. floor complex includes reception, The phone rang again. “Tell them “Why was society so corrupt? Re lounge, office space, meeting to stay calm,” Billy told the caller. luctantly, I returned to the answers rooms, a canteen, publishing com “The loyalists must keep cool of my Christian childhood: ‘Man is pany, art therapy rooms, and work heads. And for heaven’s sake, don’t depraved because he is deprived of shops for picture framing and be drawn into conflict. We could the Holy Spirit through the Fall.’ braille transcription. lose everything we’ve worked for.” “And what can be done about it? “The centre is in the middle of And no one knows better than ‘Ye must be bom again.' In Novem the former killing fields,” Billy Billy the effort that has gone into ber 1979, I committed myself to Mitchell says. “Twenty percent of building the uneasy peace in North Christ and to Christianity. Since that all the violence in Northern Ireland ern Ireland. time, I have sought to develop a took place within a two-mile radius “It started in prison,” Billy ex Christian perspective on personal, of here. There have been more than plains. He was serving a life sen social, and political issues and to 600 deaths right around here. This tence in the Maze prison for para apply the Word of God to the issues is the only area where a peace line of everyday life. was built after the cease-fire. It was “In 1990, after serving 14 years, I in a park near here where young was released from prison. I deter people from two nationalist (those mined to do something to help other wanting a united Ireland) and three prisoners reintegrate into society loyalist (those wanting Northern and to work from a Christian per Ireland to remain part of United spective.” Kingdom) groups were still fight Billy’s wife, Mena, had begun at ing. tending the Carrickfergus Church of “We’re trying to get people to lis the Nazarene while he was in ten to verbal bullets rather than lead prison, so Billy turned to John Pa- ones.” Billy ran his hands through his ton, pastor of the church at that blond hair. “Our greatest challenge time, for help. The LINC compas now is to keep intact the bridges that sionate ministry centre began in a have been built over the last 18 room in the church. Mena, who is months. We’ve begun to see people an artist, was doing arts and crafts talking and working together that with the children in the after-school wouldn’t have sat in the same room club at the church. She began doing before. We can’t lose it all now.” art therapy with former prisoners. Billy is very modest about the
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The road to peace is long and arduous, but our Irish Nazarenes are committed to the journey.
role he played in helping bring must be created for the community sources. Both groups are fearful of about the cease-fire. “I was only through general economic develop outsiders disrupting their communi one of many who sat down on the ment. Most of the traditional indus ties and imposing an alien culture loyalist (loyal to Great Britain) side. tries in this area are gone. The eco on them.” 1 am firmly committed to dialogue. nomic decline has paralleled the The strategy for breaking down “It was essential for ex-prisoners political troubles. LINC is working these fears and getting conflicting to participate in the discussions be to develop job skills that meet the groups to begin talking to each oth cause all paramilitaries would listen market need.” er is a long process. It begins with to them. It was the Lord Mayor who In his efforts to bring cooperation two people going to a Protestant brought the two sides together. Be to the divided community, Billy group and two people going to a fore the actual cease-fire negotia works closely with Liam Maskey, Catholic group. “We ask each group tions occurred, a lot of the brain who coordinates the Catholic com the same three questions: What do storming and preliminary meetings munity groups. “We work to get all you want the other community to took place in the LINC Centre, but the significant community groups to think about you? What do you think no political meetings. work together and share their re- the others think about you? What “The LINC Centre has also been used for a lot of bridge building with nationalists since the cease Laurence Kelly runs the printing press for York fire. Printing at the LINC “The local community is where the Centre. work of building the peace is really done. We’re getting places— slow ly— but we’re getting there. It has to come from the people to build up community confidence and strength. We’re here to help that process. “It’s important to build communi ty spirit by training Catholics and Protestants together. For example, we can’t create jobs for prisoners or for long-term unemployed. Jobs
Stephen Willis (left) and Bobby Cuthbert transcribe books for the blind while learning marketable The LINC Centre, a former apartment computer skills in the braille house remodeled for compassionate transcription room at the ministry in the heart of Belfast’s “war LINC Centre. zone.” David McAfee of the Carrickfergus church purchases a picture frame from the LINC shop. Leanne Douglas is one of 16 staff members at this Nazarene Compassionate Ministries center.
(Left) Mena Mitchell instructs Jim McGookin in the art of picture framing.
do you think about them?” lence,” Billy says. “Most just want to oped to help at-risk young people Then each community sends three get back to their families. Many are avoid involvement in petty crime, representatives to bring their answers now doing community work. Prison drugs, and paramilitarism. Fourteen to the LINC Centre. The differing gives them time to think and educate young people are given training and groups are always amazed to learn themselves. In prison, they had to then a five-day seabound adventure that the fears and perceptions of each have dialogue to survive. Both sides with the ocean youth club. They can side are exactly the same. The repre worked together to improve condi then go on to learning boatbuilding sentatives go back to their groups tions in prison, so the lines of com skills. “They quickly learn that they with identified areas of common in munication were opened. must work together, or the boat terest and common complaint. “We try to provide a 12-month doesn't go,” Billy says. After another meeting, the two transition period for ex-prisoners. Billy Mitchell sees all this as the sides are encouraged to meet with a They are taught skills such as working out of his Christian world trained mediator from the Media woodworking, printing, or braille view. “It’s love in action— the thrust tion Network for Northern Ireland. transcription in prison, but they of what James means when he says, "Mutual respect is the result we have to learn how to make these "Pure religion and undefiled . . . is hope for,” Billy Mitchell says. skills marketable in the outside . . . to visit the fatherless and wid "When they feel they can trust their world. That’s what we do in the ows’” (1:27). Christ is the answer neighbors and when they under workrooms here.” either to all of life’s problems or to stand the similarity of their prob At the LINC Centre, men can none. He is relevant either to all our lems, they can then work together learn increased computer skills as affairs or to none of them. for parallel development.” they continue braille transcription; or “I believe He is Lord of Lords and The LINC Centre, which is par they can work in York Publishing, a King of Kings and therefore essential tially funded by Nazarene Compas fully operational printing and pub to the spiritual, physical, mental, and sionate Ministries, works with 20 lishing company; or they can learn social well-being of all mankind.” such community groups. “It’s con picture framing in a shop that offers Tommy, an ex-prisoner working flict transformation, not really con commercial services to the public. in braille transcription at the LINC flict resolution,” Billy says. “We It’s also important for ex-prisoners Centre, seconds that. “I was use constructive dialogue to move to learn ways of expressing their cul Catholic. Most of the fellows here people from confrontation and vio ture. This is where Mena Mitchell’s were Protestant. It wasn't politics lence to cooperation. I call it dialog art therapy comes in, as well as the that brought us together. It was Je ic democracy. I tell groups who've work of several folksingers and sus Christ. Once we meet Him, been through the mediation process, playwrights who work with the cen w e’re together. We’re family even if "You've talked it through. You’ve tre. LINC offers writers' workshops, we don’t know each other.” agreed you want parallel develop photographic and art displays, and In Northern Ireland, as in the rest ment. Now work together on it.'” drama workshops. of the world, Jesus Christ as Lord of And what about those who were And they work with the young Lords, King of Kings, and Prince of caught up in the violence before the people to prevent their becoming Peace is the answer. It’s no accident LINC Centre and others existed to prisoners. “Prevention is far better that February 28 was the day the de bring conciliation? That’s where the than rehabilitation,” Billy says. cision was announced to reopen the prisoner rehabilitation side of LINC’s Breakwater, a privately funded, shattered peace talks. It was the day work comes in. “Very few paramili cross-community (Catholic and of the Nazarene World Day of tary prisoners go back to a life of vio Protestant) project, has been devel Prayer for Europe and Asia.
J u l y 1996 27 HOME TO THE MISSION FIELD
by Donna Fletcher Crow
ire— the Republic of Ire unsuccessful attempts were made Stevensons have established a land— the home of saints to restart the work. Then, nine work of friendship evangelism. and scholars, the land to years ago, Harry and Grace ac An example of this was the Festi which Saint Patrick took cepted the challenge to establish a val of Carols held last Christmas. the Christian faith in the Nazarene presence in a land that is Nicely printed invitations invited fifth century, is today the only 2 percent Protestant. the town of Greystones to a local only nation in Western What's it like to go home to be hotel for the evening. Two hun EEurope that is a pioneer missiona missionary? “Dublin is much dred people attended, and many area for the Church of the harder to evangelize than Bo new contacts resulted. Nazarene. Now, Dublin natives livia," Harry Stevenson says. "In Showing the Jesus video in a lo Harry and Grace Stevenson have Bolivia you can put up a tent, get cal cinema, starting an employ returned to their home country af a bit of music going, and people ment centre, and community ser ter many years of missionary ser will come. There is a fervor for vices such as a planned daycare vice in Bolivia to be missionaries evangelism in Bolivia. If you get centre are other forms of friend next door to their hometown. the head of a family converted, ship evangelism. The Church of the Nazarene in you get the family. Dubliners are Last February, all of Great Dublin, to which the Stevensons much less responsive. You can get Britain and Ireland were devastat had belonged before they left for people to come to a meeting, but ed by the breakdown of the North Bolivia in 1971, later closed down not to ‘church.’" ern Ireland peace process and the due to declining numbers. Various In response to this attitude, the renewal of bombings and vio
Harry and Grace Stevenson, missionaries to The congregation at the Greystones Church of the Nazarene— a pioneer mission field just their own country. 20 miles south of Dublin.
H e r a l d o e H o l i n e s s lence. Harry Stevenson was one of really do justice to this in such a the Christian experience a vital the local leaders invited to speak short time. We’ll have an open part of their lives is quite a differ at a peace rally near Dublin. meeting at the hotel.” Two hun ent matter for people.” “Peace is possible,” he told the dred fifty people attended the A major step forward for the throng wearing white peace rib meeting on forgiveness, and there Greystones church will be moving bons. “But we must seek it at the were several more new contacts from rented facilities into their right source— not in politics, not for the Greystones church. own church building— a goal they in arms, but in the One who has And the church’s children’s min have set for late this year or early called us to live in peace and who istries are booming. They have a 1997. They have a beautiful will give us peace within our children’s club on Monday after wooded two-acre site on the edge selves to give to others and to noons and Caravans three nights a of a new 80-house development, spread over our land.” week— one night for church chil and plans are well in hand to build The church had an unusual op dren, two nights for nonchurch the first Nazarene Church in the portunity to witness to the power groups. The Greystones congrega Republic of Ireland. “There is a of this peace a few months ago. In tion of 50 ministers to more than strong sense of God's Spirit in the the 1960s, a daughter in a family 100 children and teens every week. church family, and we are confi now attending the Greystones For adults, they have several dent that the support we have wit Church of the Nazarene was mur house groups of 6 to 8 members nessed already will continue,” dered. Last year, Irish television that meet once a week in homes Rev. Stevenson says. did a documentary on several fa around the community for prayer His wife, Grace, who wrote the mous murder cases, including that and Bible study. “We have very lesson on Ireland for the current one. When the family was inter strong lay leaders,” Harry Steven NWMS study guide, says, “Our viewed for the documentary, the son says, “very talented people.” future extends far beyond Grey mother of the murdered girl was At present, Greystones is a pio stones to the whole of Ireland. The asked how she felt toward the neer area with only one church, opportunities in Ireland are with murderer. “I forgave him,” she but Harry Stevenson is looking out limit. The country is wide said. “The Holy Spirit helped me.” forward to the day when it will be open to the gospel.” This statement caused a nation come a mission district with 10 The Stevensons’ goal for their al reaction of amazement. The churches and 500 full members. pioneer work is to bring the living family was interviewed on the To accomplish this, the Grey Christ to Eire in so vital a way most popular live talk show in Ire stones church continues to look that the Church of the Nazarene land. They did their best to ex for ways to reach out. “We want there achieves regular district sta plain the Christian concept of for to help people apply the gospel to tus. Twenty churches with 1,000 giveness to a land where so much their daily lives, and we want to fully self-supporting members forgiveness is needed, but at the offer meaningful worship experi should not be too difficult a goal end of the show Ian, the brother of ences. In Ireland, everyone is born in a land that first heard the the murdered girl, said, “We can’t into a church. Choosing to make Gospel 15 centuries ago. ^
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J u l y 1 9 % 29 Nazarene Roots Nazarene Roots Nazarene Roots The Association of Pentecostal Churches of America: A Centennial Sketch by Stan Ingersol, denominational archivist
o Christian Witness read church of 37 members with Hoople as a pastor and evangelist— and ers, William Howard as its pastor. A sanctuary “in a new connections throughout the Holi Hoople described himself and rapidly developing part of the ness Movement in the Northeast. in 1895 as a C ongrega- city” was dedicated on June 15. The Meanwhile, BeVier organized the tionalist who had “em participation of the Rev. D. V. John Wesley Pentecostal Church in braced Methodist doc Gwillym, the High Church rector of Brooklyn in October. He was or trine,” and this logic lay a nearby Episcopal congregation, dained and called as its first pastor. behind the churches he shepherdedsignaled community favor. Reynolds was only one factor in inT Brooklyn. He rejected American The Utica Avenue Church was the union of the APCA and a New Methodism's episcopal system but but the first in a new denomination England denomination, the Central as an adherent of “Methodist doc that Hoople and BeVier fostered. Evangelical Holiness Association trine” was unwelcome in the Other churches soon appeared in (CEHA), founded in 1890 (“Our Calvinistic church that nurtured his the city. Ordained in late 1894, New England Roots,” H erald, May early faith in Christ. Hoople planted Bedford Avenue 1990). Another was the C h ristia n Hoople was born in Herkimer, Pentecostal Church in east Brook W itness of Boston, which published New York, in 1868, to Canadian lyn in early 1895. John Norberry frequent reports from churches and immigrants. They moved to Brook became its pastor. The Emmanuel ministers in both groups. Long be lyn shortly thereafter. His father, a Pentecostal Tabernacle, organized fore Hoople met his New England wealthy leather merchant, exerted a on Labor Day, soon followed. counterparts, they had read of each Christian influence, and Hoople In December, church representa other's work. was converted as a young man. He tives organized the Association of The groundwork of union was followed his father into business Pentecostal Churches of America laid in November when Fred and prospered. He married Victoria (APCA). The name reflected a na Hillery (Providence, Rhode Island), Crawford in 1891. They had a tional vision at the outset, and C. Howard Davis (Lynn, Massachu daughter and five sons. through merger and aggressive setts), and other New England pas His conversion to "Methodist evangelism, the denomination tors met with leaders of the New doctrine” occurred after he began stretched from Nova Scotia to Iowa York movement in Hoople's parlor. attending a prayer meeting at John within a decade. A plan of union was approved after Street Methodist Church in Manhat A church was organized in Clin- two days of discussion. The Associ tan. There he met Charles BeVier, tondale, New York, in m id-1896 af ation of Pentecostal Churches of choir director at a large Methodist ter a camp meeting revival. H. F. America’s name better reflected church in Brooklyn and an ardent Reynolds, a visiting Methodist from their common purpose and became exponent of Wesleyan-Holiness ex Vermont, decided to unite with the that of the united body. A snag de perience. Hoople soon testified to small denomination during that re veloped: several New England his own experience of sanctifying vival. He claimed that God had churches refused to enter the union. grace and joined forces with BeVier clearly called him to do so. Susan Most CEHA churches united any to open a mission to the poor at 123 Fitkin, A. B. Riggs, H. N. Brown, way. Hillery brought a paper, the Schenectady Avenue on January 4, and other New England holiness Beulah Christian, into the union, 1894. stalwarts soon did the same. and it was adopted later as the offi By June, it was a full-fledged Reynolds brought solid experience cial publication.
30 H e r a l d o r H o l i n e s s Three key persons in the development of the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America. (L. to G(1) William Howard Hoople. The tall, genial Hoople’s noteworthy singing voice was an asset to his ministry, first as a pastor and later as a YMCA worker with American soldiers on foreign soil. (2) H. N. Brown, a New Englander, followed H. F. Reynolds into the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America in 1896. Brown was one of the three “wise men from the east” who explored union with the Church of the Nazarene in 1906. (3) Charles BeVier, founder of the John Wesley Pentecostal Church.
The APCA grew steadily from plicated by the independence of In October, the First General As l 897 to 1907 as churches were some pastors, but Reynolds’s efforts sembly of the Pentecostal Church of added in New England, the Middle were decisive in nurturing the vision the Nazarene met in Chicago. H. F. Atlantic states, the District of Co of a missionary church. Reynolds was elected as the general lumbia, Canada, and the Midwest. The union of the Association of superintendent from the East and al Reynolds organized churches in Pentecostal Churches of America so continued as missionary secre Oxford and Springhill, Nova Scotia, and the Church of the Nazarene de tary for the united body. He “re in 1902. Others pushed the bound rived its initial impetus from C. W. tired" in 1932 but carried out the aries westward. A congregation led Ruth, a National Holiness Associa tasks of a general superintendent for by John Norris in Pittsburgh united tion evangelist and the assistant several more years. in 1899. By 1907 there w ere general superintendent of the Charles BeVier had died at a rela churches in Illinois and Iowa. Church of the Nazarene. In 1906 tively young age in 1905, with no Schools and missions were the Ruth conducted revivals in the East inkling of the outcome of his labors critical elements in the church pro and was invited to an APCA meet on behalf of the Association of Pen gram. Pentecostal Collegiate Insti ing, where he proposed merging the tecostal Churches of America. tute, now Eastern Nazarene Col two denominations. Cautious enthu lege, was founded in 1898. It siasm prevailed. Eastern pastors The tall, genial Hoople became struggled in its early years at A. B. Riggs, John Short, and H. N. New York district superintendent, Saratoga Springs, New York, and Brown— dubbed the “three wise serving until 1911 while pastoring North Scituate, Rhode Island, find men”— toured Nazarene churches the John Wesley Church, which ing stability only after E. E. Angell in the West that fall and favorably grew to 350 members under his became president in 1907. impressed Nazarene leaders. ministry. His doubts about the Pen World missions was a distinctive In turn, Phineas Bresee and sev tecostal Nazarenes uniting with the aspect of the APCA and its primary eral associates visited the APCA’s Southern Holiness Church of Christ gift to the broader Pentecostal annual meeting in the spring of evaporated at the Pilot Point Gener Church of the Nazarene. Five mis 1907, where the principles of merg al Assembly, in which he participat sionaries were sent to India in 1898, er were hammered out and union ed. Hoople became a YMCA work the year Reynolds assumed full-time was proclaimed under the name er during World War I and was sent responsibility for promoting home Pentecostal Church of the to France to provide wholesome en and foreign missions. Eight others Nazarene. The APCA brought to tertainment and spiritual guidance went to India in 1904 and 1905, in the union 2,400 members and 45 to U.S. soldiers. His health was un cluding L. S. Tracy and Gertrude churches, many in major Eastern dermined after breathing poisonous Perry, who soon married. John Dias, cities such as Pittsburgh, Provi gas. He was later stationed in Italy an immigrant from Cape Verde, was dence, Manchester, Saratoga and Germany, and visited his sent to his land of origin as a mis Springs, Washington, and several in daughter, a Presbyterian missionary sionary in 1900. The administration greater Boston, including the uni in Peking, before returning to of the missionary program was com versity city of Cambridge. America. He died in 1922.
J u l y 1996 31 TONGUES-SPEAKING AND THE One other doctrinal reason is be the special miracle would be His res NAZARENES______cause we think it would tend to un urrection (Matthew 12:39-40). dermine faith as the way we are justi And it is only “tongues,” glosso continued from page 9 fied— and sanctified wholly, for that lalia, that 1 Corinthians speaks of. matter. If what is as overt as tongues- That word clearly means languages. The Pentecostals took and take speaking is the evidence of being What they spoke in only at that one what we emphasize distinguishingly, baptized with the Holy Spirit, faith church was unintelligible syllables. Christ’s baptism with the Holy Spirit, would not be needed. I read only re But Paul spoke in tongues, that is, and view its accomplishment in a cently, in a piece by one of their out languages. very different way. standing leaders, the statement that, Besides. Paul says that the gift of Roman Catholics, Episcopalians, even for deaf and dumb people, there tongues is the “least" of the gifts. He Lutherans, and Presbyterians do not is audible speaking in tongues at this ranks them in 1 Corinthians, and it is become quite so alarmed by tongues- time. last. speaking as we do, because it does Another doctrinal reason is be We Wesleyan-Holiness people not directly twist the meaning of what cause we think the Holy Spirit is por wonder why it is that God had no they teach distinguishingly. trayed in Scripture as making things tongues-speaking for some 16 cen 1 mentioned the neo-Pentecostals plain, not as making things unplain turies. And if messages straight from earlier. I should discuss them here. (John 16:13; 2 Peter 1:19-21). It is God are given now. it would surely They began in 1960, as Richard why we think it would be strange that undermine the significance of the Quebedeaux says, or as early as 1958. the unintelligible syllables at Babel Bible. They are called "neo" Pentecostals (Genesis 11) would be a curse, and So we Nazarenes and other Wes because they teach a new type of Pen- then that such syllables, in the New leyan-Holiness people definitely be tecostalism. One of their differences Testament, would be of the Holy lieve in the gift of tongues— as the is that they require no frenzy, no ec Spirit. least significant of gifts, preaching or stasy, before speaking in tongues. prophesying being the greatest of They can rush in to a dinner table them, the highest. But we see that from a football game and elect to say tongues means languages, and we see grace in tongues, for example. that the gift of languages is a gift God Because of this, we do not now re It is surely gives some people in learning and us fer to tongues-speaking as ecstatic ut inappropriate for us ing other real languages. terance, as we used to. It might be ec It is a gift the way piano playing or static, or it might not be. to breach love, even singing is a gift. We practice it, but if Another difference is that the neo- we do really well at the piano or at Pentecostals stress all the gifts of the when we might feel we singing, people say that the Spirit has Spirit, the charismata, and do not sin given us a gift. gle out for distinctive emphasis the need to say something My former student who at a uni gift of tongues. This is why they are versity in Massachusetts taught He also called the charismatics. to discourage tongues- brew to a class of Jewish students Another difference is that the neo- who spoke Hebrew, using Hebrew as Pentecostals are likely to be much speaking as such the language of teaching, had a gift of better educated than the Pentecostals. in a service. tongues, that is, languages. My friend They are fully educated Episcopalians Paul Orjala has a gift of piano play (as in the case of Bennett, who tells ing. We have asked him to play at people to let the lower jaw hang General Assembly gatherings. But at loosely and to begin by saying only a eight, he was already practicing dili few syllables). They are well-educat We also wonder why tongues- gently. We say that the preaching of ed Lutherans, Presbyterians, even Ro speaking only happened at one New some men and women is a gift God man Catholics— as was my fellow re- Testament church, Corinth, Paul's has granted them. But that does not treater who, on my invitation to my main problem church. mean that it was out of the blue, with room for prayer, began, as we knelt, We think, too, that when Paul told out arduous and tedious learning. And by speaking in tongues. the Corinthians that he spoke in he or she might have had to practice- And of course the neo-Pentecostals tongues more than they did (1 preach in a hay barn or before a semi stress all the gifts of the Spirit (men Corinthians 14:18-19). he was being nary faculty committee. tioned in 1 Corinthians, Romans, and diplomatic. He meant, as Adam We Wesleyan-Holiness people also Ephesians), and not so much the Clarke says, that he spoke in Hebrew, note that after Paul lists the gifts (1 tongues (or languages, the Latin, Aramaic, and Greek. In chapter Corinthians 12:28-30), with tongues glossolalia). 10 of the same letter, he says that he or languages as the least of them, he I have spoken of some of the his was all things to all men in the hopes says as he gets ready for what we torical and doctrinal bases for our not of winning some of them (v. 33). have marked off as 1 Corinthians 13. being sympathetic to tongues speak Also, it overstresses the miracu "And yet shew I unto you a more ex ing. lous. Jesus scorned such, saying that cellent way" ( 1 2 : 3 1 , k j v ).
32 H f r a i.d o i- H o i in i ss What is that way? It is the way of love, he says. In that hymn of love M asculin e J ourney (chap. 13), he says that love is more excellent than the gifts he had spoken of earlier and that it is even more im portant than faith and hope. That is partly why we try to pro mote love above all else. It is why it is surely inappropriate for us to What’s Most breach love, even when we might feel we need to say something to discour age tongues-speaking as such in a ser vice. Valuable to You? As Nazarenes and other Wesleyan- Holiness people, we believe in the MARK METCALFE wife in a God-centered marriage has been distorted and is considered an gift of tongues but interpret it, or antiquated notion because it is not un translate it, "languages.” Not many of derstood in its proper context. Even us think that the tongues-speaking we Christians have allowed our mod people are not good Christians. Many els of leadership to be just about any of them, millions of them, no doubt one but Jesus Christ, who is the Head are. And we thank God for their being of the Church. the fastest-growing group of Chris We are outdated because in most tians in the 20th century, from Azusa other families, both parents work out Street's few in 1906 to 70 million, as Mark Metcalfe is a senior technical writer, side the home. Of course, in some one of their leaders said, a number of husband, and father of four who lives in families, both parents don’t even live years ago. We thank God for them, Nashua, New Hampshire. at home! Many try to fill the parental even as we thank God for the faithful void with technology and fast food. in all the groupings of Christianity. Others lower the standards of a quali E v e r h e a r o f a c o n t e s t p r i z e where ty family life, redefining what is nor But numbers does not prove validi a person has just five minutes to run mal and what is outdated. ty. The number of smokers we used to through a store and fill a cart with We are outdated because our family, have, or of sippers of alcohol, does anything in the store? Imagine spend with four children, is now considered not prove validity. If you wanted to ing precious time on penny candy or large. Some parents even live in fear of believe according to the number of party favors. It sounds crazy to waste their own children. They have no idea adherents, we would all be Roman time on trinkets when much more what it is like to be part of a family Catholics— which would not be the valuable things could be gathered in where each member is loved and lov worst thing that could happen to us, your allotted time. Yet how many of ing toward one another, where children as many of my friends in Scotland us chase after things of are taught that love is the seemed to feel as I lived there— and little or no eternal value essential ingredient where more especially, in Ireland. in our allotted and brief W e need to by a family prospers. time here on earth? But as wonderful (or We might do better with number One of my pastors said antiquated) as my “tradi increases if we would be more willing that my wife and I are ignore the tional” family situation is, to do and say what is unconventional, throwbacks to the 1940s. you may be disappointed as so many of them are. We might do I appreciate what he trinkets in the to find that it is not a better with numbers if we would con meant as a compliment, recipe for success. Happi tinue to do what there now is a bur but I imagine that human contest of life. ness does not come from geoning interest in our doing— minis nature has not changed force-fitting another fami tering to regular, common people, as terribly much since the ly’s situation onto your Bresee meant for the Nazarenes to do 1940s. We have merely repackaged own unique family. The key to con exactly 100 years ago. the responses to marriage, family, and tentment is making God our first prior societal pressures. The condition of God be with us all. God guide us ity. When we do this, He will become the heart remains as selfish as ever. the Lord of our family situations and all. God be with and guide me. More than once, we have been told circumstances. Matthew 6:24-33 em Dr. J. Kenneth Grider served as professor that our family is “outdated.” phasizes that putting God first ensures of theology for more than 40 years at We are outdated because our mar that all the important things “shall be Pasadena College, Nazarene Theological riage grows and flourishes despite added unto you” (v. 33). God will en Seminary, and Olivet Nazarene University. our getting married at the age of 19. able us to fill our baskets with the He is the author of such notable books as (The divorce rate among couples who most valuable things in the time allot Entire Sanctification and A Wesleyan-Holi- get married before age 20 is around ted to us. Reach for the things that ness Theology. He now enjoys a produc 80 percent.) have eternal value, and you will have tive retirement in Arizona. The position of the husband and won the best prize. ^
J uly 1996 33 T he Fam ily A lbum
both exasperating and entertaining, it Adventures in Christian Parenting has its very endearing moments as well. This past Easter when all the family gathered around Lynda’s parents’ table. Tori informed everyone that she would pray. Now this task on such auspicious occasions is usually executed by Granddaddy, being the seminary pro fessor and hence, the authority on all The Gift of Gab matters spiritual. (Actually, it’s proba bly just because he's the oldest.) JERRY AND LYNDA COHAGAN stops talking either. In fact, Lynda nev Anyway, amid audible groans from er learned to talk until her sister went both Chase and his daddy, Granddaddy away to college. said Tori could pray first and then he'd At any rate, there is a four-year-old pray second. We all joined hands, and a living in our house who never shuts up! after Tori made sure everyone's head Riding in the van, taking a bath, eating was bowed, she prayed: “Dear Jesus, meals, playing with others or by herself, thank You for this beautiful Easter Day. « > 4 ., no matter what she is doing right up to And thank You for our family all to the moment when sleep overcomes her gether and thank You for all our friends T m t each night, there is a nonstop narration at Sunday School and in the neighbor Jerry Cohagan is one half of the comedy - accompanying Tori’s activities. And hood and all the neat things in our East drama duo, Hicks and Cohagan. Lynda frankly, we’re exhausted from listening. er baskets. And thank You for all this is a high school English teacher in The monologue picks up consider food, especially the olives. Amen.” Olathe, Kansas. able speed and volume whenever we Granddaddy then prayed: "We thank are riding in the van. Perhaps it just You, Father, for this Easter Day and the seems so because of the limited space. Resurrection it signifies. We are thank So one day when we were trying to dis ful for the family gathered around this Being the astute parents we believe cuss something with no success at all table and all the many blessings You ourselves to be, Jerry recently turned to because of all of Tori’s interruptions, have provided. Bless this food, we ask. Lynda and said, “Have you noticed the Jerry suggested that Tori talk to her fin that we may serve You better. Amen." change in Tori since she turned four?” gers so Daddy and Mommy could talk Lynda looked up and said to her dad, “I know! Can you believe she’s to each other. Why didn’t we think of “Well, you didn’t say anything that Tori grown two inches in the last three this sooner? It works like a charm! Tori didn’t.” Granddad chuckled and said, “I months?” replied Lynda. carries on whole conversations with her guess you’re right.” There’s just not “Really? 1 hadn't noticed. No, 1 fingers. Sometimes she meant how much she talks.” plays out dramas with all And this is about all the conversation of her fingers playing dif we can get in before Tori takes over. For ferent parts. Sometimes she some reason, Tori has decided that it is reenacts her day with Dad up to her to keep some type of verbal dy assuming the role of communication going on at all times thumb while Mommy is “Thank You for all this food, with whomever happens to be in the usually the index finger do especially the olives.” room, in the house, in the general neigh ing a lot of pointing. borhood, basically anyone who might And when it comes time happen to innocently wander within her to pray at meals, Tori is 32 vocal range (which is considerable). pounds of lean, mean, It seems as if Tori was born talking. praying machine! Her We can remember Chase’s first word prayers have been known to take longer any difference between thanking God (which is another whole story his ma than the meal itself. All right, this is a for "blessings” or for “neat things.” ternal grandmother is to blame for), but slight exaggeration, but we have As Tori babbles through her fourth we can’t remember Tori’s first word. learned to keep the food in the oven un year, she is teaching us what “pray It’s as if she jumped from words to til after Tori ’s recital of each and every without ceasing” really means ( I Thes- paragraphs so fast we didn't notice. We food group she is thankful for, along salonians 5:17). For you see, God don’t think this is a sign of unusual in with all her friends (each one called by doesn’t want eloquence as much as He telligence (although in this family, we’d name, of course). Even Chase has dis desires nonstop conversation. And God consider any intelligence unusual); covered that if he isn’t hungry before continues to . . . What we mean is .. . rather, it’s a simple genetic predisposi Tori’s prayer, he usually is by the time We continue to be challenged by . .. Oh tion Tori inherited from her Aunt she wraps up her opus. well, enough for adult discourse— Tori Karen. You see. Aunt Karen never And while this nonstop chatter is just entered the room. ^
34 H e r a l d o f H o l i n e s s NWMS Recognizes Outstanding Districts The General NWMS Office reports that the following districts were outstanding in achievement in 1994-95.
U.S. & CANADA DISTRICTS TOP TEN— WORLD MISSION Southwest Indiana 1,813 PAYING GENERAL BUDGET RADIO GIVING Kansas City 1,789 100 PERCENT OR MORE New Mexico $17,510 Washington 1,720 Southwest Indian 143% Northwest 17,342 Sacramento 1,703 Navajo Nation 107% Northwestern Ohio 16,496 South Carolina 1,695 Southwest Indiana 105% Southwestern Ohio 15,330 Akron 1,685 West Virginia North 104% Tennessee 14,277 Eastern Michigan 1,628 Kansas 13,697 Northwestern Ohio 103% DISTRICTS ACHIEVING WORLD MISSION Pittsburgh 13,465 Central Latin American 102% SUBSCRIPTION GOAL Washington Pacific 13,345 (20 percent of Church Membership) Southern California 102% San Antonio 13,083 British Isles North 28% East Tennessee 101% Southern Florida 12,735 Houston 25% Hawaii Pacific 101% WORLD MISSION RADIO OFFERING British Isles South 22% Northeastern Indiana 101% 100 PERCENT PARTICIPATION Sacramento 22% South Carolina 101% Akron Northern Michigan Michigan 21% Washington 101% Illinois Northwest Oklahoma Louisiana 20% Akron 100% Iowa Northwestern Ohio South Carolina 20% Alaska 100% Michigan Oregon Pacific TOP TEN— MEDICAL PLAN GIVING Nebraska San Antonio Canada Quebec 100% South Carolina $13,418 Northeastern Southwest Oklahoma Central Florida 100% Tennessee 12,506 Indiana Kansas City 100% Southwest Indiana 12,095 TOP TEN— WORLD MISSION Southwestern Ohio 11,123 Michigan 100% SUBSCRIPTIONS Northwest 10,439 Northern Michigan 100% Central Ohio 2,529 Akron 10,196 Southwest Latin American 100% Southwestern Ohio 2,086 Georgia 9,996 Wisconsin 100% Michigan 1,877 Northeastern Indiana 9,698 Michigan 9,502 Washington Pacific 9,501 MISSION AWARD DISTRICTS 1994-95 TOP TEN— ALABASTER GIVING Washington Pacific $122,632 Central U.S.A. Virginia South Arkansas Chicago Central W ashington Southeast Oklahoma Northeastern Indiana 61,566 Eastern Michigan North Central U.S.A. Southwest Oklahoma Illinois Southwestern Ohio 52,849 Iowa West Texas Michigan Joplin Southeast U.S.A. Tennessee 49,888 Northeastern Indiana Kansas Alabama North Northern Michigan Akron 47,909 Kansas City Northwest Indiana Alabama South Northwestern Illinois Minnesota Central Florida Colorado 45,372 M issouri Southwest Indiana East Tennessee Michigan 43,964 W isconsin Nebraska Georgia Northwest U.S.A. Kentucky South Carolina 43,296 East Central U.S.A. North Carolina Akron Alaska Pittsburgh 42,848 Colorado North Florida Central Ohio South Carolina Eastern Kentucky Intermountain Southwest Indiana 40,771 Southern Florida North Central Ohio Northwest Tennessee Northwestern Ohio Rocky Mountain ALABASTER GIVING Southwestern Ohio Washington Pacific Southwest U.S.A. 100 PERCENT PARTICIPATION West Virginia North South Central U.S.A. Hawaii Pacific West Virginia South Central Latin American Sacramento Akron Northwest Oklahoma Southern California Eastern U.S.A. Dallas Southwest Indian Indianapolis Northwestern Ohio Maine Houston New England Louisiana Southwest Latin American Iowa South Arkansas Western Latin American Philadelphia North Arkansas Michigan Southwest Oklahoma Pittsburgh Northeast Oklahoma Eurasia Upstate New York San Antonio British Isles North Nebraska West Virginia North Northern Michigan West Virginia South
J uly 1996 35 rang the doorbell to my friend's home and prayed for wisdom and guidance. I real ly wanted to help my dying I Was Sick, friend. Could I bring comfort now to Lois, who had helped me through so many strug Igles with my own crippled daugh ter? I had promised I would visit and You one hour a day during the week whenever possible. We could read a chapter a day in the books she chose. Visited Me “Come in." her husband greeted me. “I'll go on to work." His eyes revealed pain and weariness. As he by Dorothy I. Baird with Mae Sallee Beals left, he turned. "Dorothy, how do you do this? I’ve tried, but I just can’t sit and read to her." In my ignorance, God recognized with the letter L cover basic essen "That’s because I can, and you my eagerness to serve. He gave me tials as one reaches out. don’t need to. I could never do what the wisdom and the guidance to fill L o v e —Prayerfully read 1 you do.” I thought of the pallet at one little part of the needs of my Corinthians 13. Can you honestly the foot of Lois’s bed, where Allan friend. But added to my visits, Lois approach the dying person with spent each night napping, but not re had other support that made her kindness, no prejudice, truth, trust, ally resting. “too happy to die.” A mutual friend, and patience? My husband and 1 I did not know any particular pro Mae-Sallee Beals, a registered hos had ministered for years to his cedure for working with the dying. I pice nurse and chaplain, knew just friend Larry. But not until we will just knew what I must do. Follow how to pick up the loose pieces. ingly put aside our prejudices and ing the advice of James 1:5, I asked “You are the answer to my prayer judgmental attitudes did he make God for wisdom. As I sat beside for wisdom,” I told her one day as his peace with God, just one week Lois’s bed, I tried to be “swift to we discussed Lois's homecoming. before his death. hear [and] slow to speak," as verse We finally decided to share my en L is te n — My plan to read one 19 counsels us. Some days we thusiasm and writing background chapter a day to Lois became very would put aside the flexible. We did read book to talk about eight books, but I di her baby daughter, rected our hour to already in heaven; gether by listening to the coming happy G od m y b e c a llin g yo u- y e s , yo u- her needs, both ver events of a daugh bal and nonverbal. ter’s graduation; a TO MINISTER TO ONE OF HIS CHILDREN She felt free to dis son’s marriage; a trip cuss her fears, her to her hometown. NOW NEAR DEATH. joys, her life, the Would she be strong work she was leav enough? We prayed ing, her desires, her together. Some days family, her baby she reviewed the past— her child and her knowledge. Could our ef daughter in heaven. hood, her hurts, her doubts, her fail forts help others put aside their fears L earn— By listening and loving, ures, her successes. and reach out in the ministry of the caregiver can become alerted to One by one, Lois resolved her caregiving? As we prayed for guid the needs of the dying patient. Learn conflicts, and we accomplished our ance, we visualized the crowds of his or her basic needs. Many books prayer goals. “The doctors didn’t hurting people, “harassed and help and articles are helpful. After my in think I'd live this long,” Lois said a less.” Could these “sheep without a volvement with Mae-Sallee, I found few weeks before her death. “But I shepherd” be led to Christ? We dozens of books and articles to help. think I'm too happy to die.” And, askfed] the Lord of the harvest . . . By listening, I learned that Larry “It’s finally happening," she whis to send out workers into his harvest needed to resolve a conflict with a pered one Sunday morning, as she field” (Matthew 9:36. 38, Niv). close relative. “You have every right cuddled in the arms of her daughter As a simple starting point, and a to be angry, but God can help you and slipped away. key to remembering, words starting forgive," we told him. He accepted
3 6 H e r a l d o f H o l i n e s s that bit of advice and finally made Christian by quoting, “I am the res ed Christ. It may be only a blink or his peace with God. urrection, and the life” (John 11:25). a smile response. Read brief scrip L a u g h — Lois’s family liked to For the non-Christian, Mae-Sallee tures of hope, promise, and assur laugh. Knowing my fears, Lois per says, “Get down to basics.” A dying ance. Pray a short, specific prayer. haps did not wish to Finally, leave a print shock me with her ed promise by the jokes about death. bed. But the freedom that Look— Do the pa Mae-Sallee offered B y l is t e n in g an d lo v in g , t h e tient’s eyes seem freed her. One day weary? Try silence. she told Mae-Sallee, CAREGIVER CAN BECOME ALERTED TO Fearful? Take time to “We’ve talked a long pray. Wistful? Talk time about a family THE NEEDS OF DYING PATIENTS. about family, friends, picture, but kept de accomplishments of la y in g .” She told the past. Smiling? how Jerry, her youn Discuss happy times. gest son, jokingly prompted them to person needs to be surrounded by Bring in your pleasant memories. action when he said, “We have to people of faith. If your friend is near Looking out the window? Try talk hurry with that picture, or we’ll death, reduce the gospel to a short ing about flowers, snow, scenery, have to prop you up in your coffin.” denominator, including these essen anything fitting the season. Looking Mae-Sallee reveals the story Lois tials. Have your dying friend repeat at pictures on the wall? Talk about told when she had complained each sentence of this prayer: loved ones. Especially weary? One about the amount of blood they 1. I am sorry for my sins. day Lois needed me just to hold her took for testing. Her husband said, 2. Forgive me. fragile body. “Remember: ‘Without shedding of 3. Give me strength to please Do you want to be a caregiver blood is no remission’” (Hebrews You. and reach out to the dying? When 9:22). 4. Prepare me for my final home you are willing to love, listen, learn, L iv e — For the Christian, death in heaven. laugh, look, and share life, God will means life. Rejoice with the dying Then, ask if he or she has accept include you among His harvesters, fq
J uly 1996 37 Yahwch, my shepherd! 1 don’t need a tiling. •.- You havebedded me down in lu sh meadj you find ini’ quiet pools to drink trim True to your word, % you let me catch my breath and send me in the right direction.
Eveii when the way goes through Death Valley, I’m not afraid when you walk at my side. Your trusty shepherd’s crook makes me feel secure.
You serve me a six-course dinner right in front of my enemies. Yon revive my drooping head; my cup brims with blessing.
Your beauty and love chase after me every day of my life. I’m baek home in the house of Yahweh for the rest of my life (tm). NIV Crossword Puzzle Women of the Bible by Rick Jansen
ACROSS 21. IFavor] “She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting 3. I Wild goat] Deborah and Barak mentioned her in their song. Qudges 5:1, and praying.” (Luke 2:36-37) 24) 22. IWealth] The wife of Judah. (Genesis 38:2) 5. [Brilliancy] A midwife who feared God and disobeyed the king of Egypt. 23. (Obscurity] A concubine of Caleb. (1 Chronicles 2:46) (Exodus 1:15-17) DOWN 9. lAbundance] Granddaughter of Jacob. (Genesis 46:17) 1. [Jehovah is her ornament] The wife of Joash. (2 Kings 14:1-2) 11. Wisdom: “Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are 2. [Daughter of an oath] She had four sons by King David, one who was (Proverbs 3:17) named Nathan. (1 Chronicles 3:4-5) 12. Llah is Father] She gave birth while a widow. (1 Chronicles 2:24) 4. [God’s oath] The wife of Aaron. (Exodus 6:2 3) 13. [Rest] She asked Moses for their father’s inheritance. (Numbers 27:1,4) 6. [Jah has constrained] The only woman to reign as queen of Judah. (2 14. IMistress] She opened her home to Jesus. (Luke 10:38) Cltronicles 22:12) 15. I Prolific] Because she feared God, He gave her a family of her own. 7. [My delight is in herl Wife of King Hezekiah. (2 Kings 20:21; 21:1) (Exodus 1:15,21) 8. [Weaty] She was buried where Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, and Rebekah were 17. [Beauty] Gave birth to Jabal, the father of those who live in tents and buried. (Genesis 49:31) raise livestock: and to Jubal, the father of all who play the harp and flute. 10. [Sickness] A wife of Esau. (Genesis 28:8-9) (Genesis 4:20-21) 12. [My father wandersl A beautiful girl who took care of King David and 18. [Justice] A daughter of Jacob by Leah. (Genesis 30:21) waited on him. (1 Kings 1:3-4) 19. lAdomed] Caleb gave her to Othniel, later a judge of Israel, because he 16. I Princess I She enjoyed laughter. (Genesis 21:6) attacked and captured Kiriath Sepher. (Joshua 15:16-17) 20. IBuming One] She was divorced. (1 Chronicles 8:8) Solution on page 43 My Church and I
y church is the place where the I have united with it in solemn ful attendance, by watching over the MWord of God is preached, the covenant, pledging myself to attend welfare of my fellow members, and power of God is felt, the Spirit of its services, to uphold it by my by joining with them in meditation, God is manifested, and the love of prayers, to give to its support, and to prayer, praise, and service. God is revealed. obey its laws. When I neglect its That vow I, this day, renew before It is the home of my soul, the al services, I injure my good name, I God, my Father; Christ, my Re tar of my affections, and the fore lessen its power, I discourage its deemer; and the Holy Spirit, my taste of heaven. It claims first place members, and I fail my own soul. Sanctifier. in my heart, the highest place in my I have solemnly promised, in the “I was glad when they said unto mind, the principal place in my ac sight of God and men, to advance its me, Let us go into the house of the tivities; and its unity, peace, and interests by reading the Holy Bible, Lord” (Psalm 122:1). progress concern my whole life and by never neglecting its precepts, by — Edith Anderson its actions now and in the future. contributing to its support, by faith □
J u l y 1996 39 (#1 THE QUESTION W o r d A c t io n U~U BOX CONDUCTED BY WESLEY D. TRACY, Editor
In John 20, the writer goes out of his way to tell us about the graveclothes in Jesus’ tomb. I don’t get the point. What is the significance of this? T J r o A. Don't feel bad about missing the point. Peter didn't get it either. But John did. The English transla tions themselves are obscure. William Barclay writes YOU that the Greek really says that the graveclothes “were still in their folds.” They lay in the shape they had when the body was still in them. The body had mirac KNOW? ulously disappeared without disturbing them. The im portance of this detail is (1) Some would say that Je sus didn’t rise from the dead. Rather, His body was ADULT SUNDAY CLASS GROWS carried off by grave robbers. Such larcenies occurred BEYOND ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND often enough for Rome to make tomb robbing pun Did you know that approximately 100,000 adult stu ishable by death. If thieves had stolen the body, they dents in the Church of the Nazarene study God’s Word to would not have left the expensive clothes and spices. gether every Sunday morning? Now that’s a big class! Further, they could not have extracted the body with Where is it? out disturbing the wrappings. (2) The official story Actually, that’s a whole bunch of big, medium, and put out by the chief priests was that Jesus' disciples small classes that follow the WordAction adult curricu had stolen the body in order to fake the Resurrection. lum. And if you add the adult learners from a whole spec Matthew 28:12-15 says they bribed the guards to say trum of other denominations, the WordAction adult class this. John refutes this lie. The disciples could not swells to 13 5,000 students. have stolen the body without disturbing the grave And it’s not just adults. There are thousands of children clothes either. and youth who discover God’s Word together through The note that the headdress or "napkin” was by it WordAction every week too. self indicates that it was not piled or stacked with the A businessman from a Nazarene church in South Car other clothes as robbers might leave it. But it lay in olina offered this unique perspective on being part of the its original place undisturbed, apart from the bindings WordAction family: that would have been about the shoulders and torso. My job puts me on the road a good part o f the year, including Sundays. I always look for a Nazarene Is it right for a local church to spend money church to attend. What I appreciate is that I can study raised for missions in the Easter Offering for reg the student quarterly that I get from my home church ular church expenses? and feel comfortable participating in a class anywhere I happen to be. There’s only been a fe w occasions when A. No. It is very important that our people know none of the adult classes in a Nazarene church taught that money raised for a particular purpose will, in from our denominational materials. To tell you the fact, be spent for the purpose for which it was given. truth, I felt like something was missing. I like the idea I know of one church that borrowed from its Thanks of studying the same lesson with my family. giving Offering to pay emergency bills, but three If you and others from your church have missed Word months later it repaid the fund— with 10 percent in Action Sunday School lately, consider this an invitation to terest. All our churches should be very conscientious our class, that is, to ym/rfamily’s Sunday School class. about such matters.
Q . Our church gives the pastor a week’s study leave each year. Do you think this is a good idea?
A. No— it should be more than a week— if possi WobpAction PUBLICATIONS ble. For a FREE WordAction catalog The views expressed in the responses in this column are those of the editor and do not constitute official statement by or for the Church of the Nazarene. call NPH at The editor is not able to send replies to questions not selected for publication. Address: Herald of Holiness, 6401 The Paseo, Kansas City. MO 64131. 1 -800-877-0700
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tongued as ever. Not all were difficult. Along with farmers and homemakers, cousins and schoolteachers, we talked with the mayor of a small Western city and remembered a kid once too WrinHes in Prime poor to own socks. Spotting a short fellow with an who threw hissy fits: “What if your infectious grin, we were in for an C. ELLEN WATTS face should freeze that way?” other surprise. The school clown, Facial expressions are aged by the kid who had made us laugh in a more than childish tantrums, how world that was short on laughter, ever. And to merge the way we were when dads and brothers and sweet yesterday with what we are today hearts were off fighting World War may not always end up as a nicely II, had given his gift of gab to God preserved tomorrow. and was now in the ministry. Like Some in the group hovering with me, he had kept (more or less) out in easy dip of the chips, for in of trouble by church folks who C. Ellen Watts is a freelance writer living in Nampa, Idaho. stance, had flirted with cholesterol cared enough to haul us to Sunday for a very long time. School. Having all grown up in the I paused beside them to chat with same town, probably every alumnus a girl I remembered as having dili in that room had had our same
T h e r e ’ s n o t h i n g q u i t e l i k e a high gently “studied” True Confessions chances. school reunion for capturing a nos magazine behind carefully propped Horace was right. “The jar will talgic and sometimes sobering view textbooks. Hired now to tend the li long retain the fragrance of whatev of how often we are shaped (some brary, she was under fire from her er it was steeped in when new,” I times literally!) by the way we live board for buying too heavily into decided, as the evening ended and I our lives. paperback romances. As she chat skimmed ahead of my back-thump 1 grew up in a town so small our tered on into the sad reality of alum ing friend into California Raisin’s class sponsor covered the two emp ni divorces and illicit affairs, I ex nicotine wake. ty chairs with lilacs the day our cused myself to speak with the best I stopped. class filed into the front row of the catcher in the school’s Methodist church choir loft to re softball history. ceive our diplomas. Looking like a Cali In a community that publishes a fornia grape on its way phone book barely equal in size to to Raisin City, she had the church bulletin, you do what been among the high you can to get a quorum. So the re schoolers who had been She had been fooled into forever union we attended last summer in fooled into forever with with the Kool’s and Camel’s lie. cluded not one but several of our the Kool’s and Camel’s hometown's high school classes. lie. One oxygen tank, For kids who had warmed cold two widows, and some feet over the same coal furnace reg pretty constant hacking isters, we were a motley assortment. helped me to identify others. Popularity appeared to have Avoiding the lonely bachelor (the Written in lipstick across a mir changed hands or fizzled. Not guy nice girls were never allowed to rored lobby wall beside a reflection everyone destined most likely to date), I goaded myself over to of my own wrinkled nose were nine succeed had done so, and some of where a pain-riddled woman, with words: There, hut for the grace of the least likely, it appeared, had the aid of two canes, had just settled God, go I! Or was the lipstick my done well. While I had once known herself into a chair. Having once imagination? them all, as we walked into that shown “affection” with a fist in my Either way, I scurried to my room room, my thoughts flew to a warn back and through name calling, she to scrub the self-righteous smirk off ing my mother often gave to kids remained true to form and as sharp- my face before it froze there.
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Deaths REV. ALFRED SILVERNAIL, 78. Koko FOR THE RECORD C. LEE AND WILMA GAMBLIN, evange mo, Ind., Dec. 31. Survivors: wife, Reba; lists, 808 E. Madison, Mount Pleasant, IA REV. A. ALLEN ARNER, 70, pastor of sons, David, Paul; daughter, Elaine Robin Moving Ministers 52641, 319-385-9396. by Gene C. Phillips, more than 40 years, Salem, Ohio, Feb. 5. son; 6 stepchildren; 5 grandchildren; 19 Iowa District. Survivors: wife, Eleanor; son, Tim; daugh MARK A. AILLS, from pastor, Indianapolis stepgrandchildren; 1 great-grandchild. (Ind.) Fall Creek, to associate, Raleigh JOHN AND JANE KISSEE, evangelists. ter, Susan Young; brother, Eldon; sister, ELMER E. SNODGRASS, 82, South 1432 N. Lucy Montgomery Way. Olathe. Roseline Keller; two grandchildren; five (N.C.) North Charleston, W.Va., Mar. 2. Survivors: son. R. DALE BARNETT, from associate, Jasper KS 66061, 913-829-5502. by Leon F stepchildren; four stepgrandchildren; one Roy; daughter, Ella Lipscomb; eight grand Wyss, Colorado District. stepgreat-granddaughter. (Ala.) First, to associate, Carrollton, Tex. children; one great-grandchild. JAKE W. BLANKENSHIP JR., from Mel GARY MONK, evangelist. 17708 N. State JOY D, BOHANNAN, 63, Enid, Okla., Apr. EVELYN WEAVER SUTTON, 91, Dallas, Rd. 121, Gainesville. FL 32653-7606, 904- 14. Survivors: husband, Grady: son, Doyle; bourne (Fla.) Cathedral, to Irving (Tex.) Tex., Apr. 19. Survivors: sons, Gerald, 462-1603, by D. Eugene Simpson, North daughter, Joann Wright; three grandchil First Kenneth; daughter, Grace Etheridge; sis BARBARA BONDUART, from associate, Carolina District. dren. ters, Clara Blackburn, Arjorie Weaver; six REV. ALBERT F. CAREY, 80, Manchester, Denver (Colo.) Grace, to pastor, Tatum. grandchildren; six great-grandchildren. N.Mex. Moving Missionaries Tenn., Apr. 12. Survivors: wife, Laurene; REV. OREN D. THRASHER, 81, sons, Loren, John; daughter, Esther Yates; THOMAS L. BREWER, from Jerseyville, ill., ADAMS, BRIAN and BERYL. Brazil, Fur Louisville, Ky., Apr. 12. Survivors: wife, to Monticello, III. lough Address: 1313 E. 123rd St.. five grandchildren; one great-grandchild. Lovie; son, Philip; daughter, Sylvia DAVID BROOKS, from Grant, N.Mex., to Olathe, KS 66061 EMMANUEL F. ESTEP, 60, brother of Richards; four grandchildren. Silver City, N.Mex. ATHIALY. ABRAHAM and JUDITH, Asia- Communications Division Director Michael REV. VERNON L. WILCOX, 86, pastor of R. Estep, Ashland, Ky„ Apr. 10. Survivors: CLEO BROWN, to pastor, Grand Forks Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary. 60 years and special assistant to Inter wife, Dorothy; sons, Greg Estep, Roger (N.Dak.) First Field Address: APNTS, Ortlgas Avenue mountain District Superintendent Ronald Brackman, Tony Brackman; daughters, RICHARD L. CHEW, from Anadarko, Okla., Extension, Kaytikling. Taytay. 1901 Kratzer, Nampa, Idaho, Dec. 2. Survivors: to Georgetown, III. Rizal, PHILIPPINES Pam Harris, Kimberly Wilson; brothers, wife, Elizabeth; son, Roger; daughter, Rox Harkless Jr., Morton, Michael, David; sis JAMES D. COMFORT, from Oak Hill, Ohio, COOPER, JIM and BETTY, Brazil, Furlough anne Hines; four grandchildren. ter, Kathy Elliott; 10 grandchildren. to Albuquerque (N.Mex.) Rio Vista Address: c/o George Christman. 1412 E REV. J. L. WOOLMAN, 86, pastor of 63 ROSA PEARL HANNERS, 96, Poteau, MICHAEL S. DAVIS, from Cedar Rapids Walnut, Rogers. AR 72756 years, Oklahoma City, Okla., Mar. 13. Sur Okla., Mar. 30. Survivors: sons, Rev. An (Iowa) First, to Benton. III. vivors: wife, Esta; daughters, Loretta CRUZ, PEDRO and JUSTITA. MAC South JOHN A. GRANT, from student, Nazarene drew, Walter; three granddaughters; six Browning, Linda Jonte; brother, Irvin; five Field Office. Field Address: Apartado great-grandchildren. Bible College, to pastor, Mohall, N.Dak. grandchildren; six great-grandchildren. 3977-1000, San Jose, COSTA RICA FLORENCE LUNDY, 93, Bethany, Okla., EARL J. GRAY, to pastor. Jacksonville, DISANTE. ED and CHARLEEN. Madagas Apr. 13. Ms. Lundy Births Tex. car, Field Address: B.P 5102. Antanari- served as accountant LONNIE S. KELLOGG, from associate. vo 101. Madagascar, Africa adopted by DAVID and CINDRA COLL- at what is now South Alanson (Mich.) Lakeview, to pastor, DUCKWORTH, LARRY and FRANCINE. VER, Crescent City, Calif., a girl from Chi ern Nazarene Universi Grand Saline, Tex. Samoa, Stateside Address: 17061 Rd. na, Melody Marguerite Yun, age 6 months, ty for many years. Sur RONALD KEYSOR, from student, Nazarene 13, Fort Morgan, CO 80701 Apr. 8. vivors: brother, Bert; Theological Seminary, to pastor, Valley GANT, RANDY and LINDA, Kenya, Field to JEFF and JANICE (SIMPSON) DANCE, nine nieces and City, N.Dak. Address: PO Box 20025. Nairobi. Kenya. Birmingham, Ala., a girl, Molly Caroline, nephews. STEVEN C. LYNCH, from Woodbury, N.J., East Africa Apr. 15. FRANK EMERSON to Rupert, Idaho HEIL, BRYAN and LINDA. Paraguay. Field to BRAD and DAWN (PARDUE) ESTEP, Florence Lundy HARRIS, 81, Denver, MICHAEL R. LYONS, from London. Ky., to Address: Casilla 79. Cochabamba. BO Richmond, Va., a boy, Christopher Bradley, Colo., Mar. 25. Sur Mansfield (Ohio) Grace LIVIA vivor: wife, Veva. Dec. 31. ERNIE C. McNAUGHT, from education, to LANE and JANELLE (ZURCHER) FOS- HURST, GEORGE and MARGARET, Asia- GENERAL HOSKINS, Herrin. III., Oct. 22. Northwest Nazarene College, to pastor, NAUGH, Kudjip, Papua New Guinea, a girl, Pacific Regional Office, Stateside Ad Survivors: wife, Grace; son, Floyd; broth Honolulu (Hawaii) First Sarah Kay, Mar. 10. dress: 1147 N. Alton Ave.. Indianapolis, ers, Vernon, Arthur, Paul; sister, Thelma; MARK MADDIX, from associate, Nampa to MITCH and SHELLEY (KNAPP) GIES- IN 46222 eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchil (Idaho) College, to associate, Ephrata, BERS, Vancouver, Wash., a girl, McKayla ISHAM. GEORGE and BARBARA, Stateside dren. Pa. Hope, Apr. 8. Address: 2933 Lawndale, Las Vegas. NV GERALD D. JONES, 86, Spencer, W.Va., MARC T. MEULMAN, from Benzonia, 89121 Dec. 28. Survivors: wife, Marie; daughters, to DANIEL and TRACEY (SAGE) MAR Mich., to Bay City (Mich.) First KROMER, LARRY and LARK. Furlough Ad Diana Seaton, Donna Cox; brothers, SHALL, Fairfield, Calif., a boy, Dakota GLENN E. PACK, from Shawnee, Okla.. to dress: c/o J. N. Anderson. 3925 Dawn Orville, Gene; sister, Velma; five grandchil Daniel, Apr. 29. Bedford (Ind.) First Dr., Fort Worth, TX 76116 dren. to BRAD and NORI (SMITH) SALAM- CLAUDE PERHEALTH, from Silver City, McCOY, BILL and MARSHA. Papua New REV. PAUL W. MacLEARN SR., 89, m in ONE, Oklahoma City, Okla., a girl, Breanna N.Mex., to Wapello, Iowa Guinea, Furlough Address: 12500 Erin ister for more than 60 years and Arizona Jo, Mar. 29. JOHN R. PORTER, from Columbia (S.C.) Dr., Auburn, CA 95603 District secretary for 42 years, Cotton to BRIAN and KAY SATTLER, Bourbon- Northeast Community, to Somerset MESSER, DON and BARBARA, South wood, Ariz., Feb. 16. Survivors: wife, nais, III., a boy, Gregory Kent, Dec. 29. (Ky.) First Africa. Furlough Address: 713 N. Sev Letha; son, Rev. Paul Jr.; daughters, GLENN V. PROPST, from Saltsburg, Pa., to enth St., Oskaloosa, IA 52577 Dorothy Hildreth, Carol Minton, Barbara Anniversaries Ebensburg, Pa. MOORE. RONALD and LAURIE, Philip Daisy; 10 grandchildren; 15 great-grand OVIE and JUDY COOPER, Muses Mills, RONALD J. ROBBINS, from Wadsworth, children; 2 great-great-grandchildren. Ky., celebrated their 50th anniversary May pines, Stateside Address: c/o The Meek Ohio, to associate, Defiance, Ohio REV. ALBERT NEUSCHWANGER, 82, 26 with an open house hosted by their ers, 10996 Limekilm Rd.. Grass Valley. DAVID Q. ROLANDS, from Clover, S.C., to pastor and evangelist of 63 years, West three children and six grandchildren. CA 95949 Statesboro, Ga. minster, Colo., Feb. 12. Survivors: wife, ELWIN and VIRGINIA (FREEMAN) MOYER, DAVE and MARYEL, South Africa. RANDALL L. SAPP, from Amelia, Ohio, to Lois; sons, Marlow, Orville. JOHNSON, Capitan, N.Mex., celebrated Field Address: PO Box 20025. Nairobi, Washington, Ind. JOHN RAYMOND PARKER SR., 78, Ok their 50th anniversary May 19 with a spe Kenya, East Africa HYUN SEOK SHIN, from student, Nazarene lahoma City, Okla., Apr. 22. Survivors: cial service and reception given by their PATCH, WILLIAM and GAIL. Korea, Field Theological Seminary, to pastor, wife, Sarah; son, John; daughter, Diane children. Address: PO Box 18. Cheonan City, KO Belleville (III.) Korean Martin; two grandchildren. The Johnsons have 3 children and 13 REA 330-160 BRIAN D. SORENSON, from Bradley (III.) REV. THOMAS EVERETT PHILLIPS, 85, grandchildren. RICE, JERRY and BRENDA. Mexico Semi First, to Jerseyville, III. Olive Hill, Ky., Apr. 10. Survivors: wife, TOMIE and ELLA MARTIN, Terrell, Tex., nary, Field Address: Seminario Nazareno JOHN H. THARP, to Parker City, Ind. Orene; son, Richard: daughter, Sharon celebrated their 50th anniversary June 1 Mexicano. Apartado 22-690. 14000 Tlal- TIMOTHY E. THOMPSON, from pastor. Miller; brother, Harold; sister, Oda Rollins; with a celebration at the Terrell Church of pan, D.F. Mexico, MEXICO Bowie. Md.. to associate, Easton, Md. six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; the Nazarene. RIEDER, STEPHEN and IRENE. Asia-Pacific WAYNE L. WESTFALL, from Bay City one great-great-grandchild The Martins have five children, eight Region, Furlough Address: 3 Wood St.. (Mich.) First, to Dayton (Ohio) Huber EARL SHULTZ, 83, Escondido. Calif., grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. Warren, PA 16365 Heights Jan. 14. Survivors: wife, Betty Jean; son, ROBERT and EVE ZUMALT, Dequincy, RYAN, MARK and KRIS. MAC Regional Of BARRY G. WHETSTONE, from Shippens- Earl; daughter. Alberta Knafla; four grand La., celebrated their 50th anniversary May fice, Field Address: 1869 N.W. 97th children. 19 with an open house hosted by their chil burg, Pa., to Bridgeton, N.J. Ave., Box 571. Miami. FL 33172 REV. EARL P. SCOTT, 82, Melbourne, dren. SAXON, RUTH, Stateside Address: 1100 Fla.. Mar. 23. Survivors: wife, Anna; The Zumalts have five children, six Recommendations Amherst Dr., Dothan, AL 36301 daughter. Marie Dreibelbis; sister, Miriam grandchildren, and five great-grandchil The following have been recommended SLINGERLAND, BERNIE and RHONDA. Golding; one grandson. dren. by tbeir respective district superintendents: Venezuela, Furlough Address: c/o Lois
42 H k r a i.d o r H o i .in r s s 3 V 5 5 ‘P R O ? IL 'E Knox, 62 Wendall Ave., Quincy, MA Suits, 15639 Hunnicut Rd., Cambridge 02170 City, IN 47327-9729, 317-478-3500. SRADER, DUANE and LINDA, Field Ad DUNCAN (OKLA.) OAK AVENUE dress: Rua Castilho, 209-4 Dto, 1070 CHURCH will celebrate its 45th anniversary “Nazarene Theological Seminary was Lisbon, Portugal Aug. 18. STANTON, DARYLL and VERNA, Tanzania, Former pastors, members, and friends Furlough Address: 1916 E. 79th St., are invited. For more information, contact the single most important preparatory Kansas City, MO 64132 1701 Oak Ave., Duncan, OK 73533, 405- VAZQUEZ PLA, JUAN and NOEMI, Mexico 255-2869. experience of my life.” Field Office, Permanent Address: Colibri MIAMI (W.VA.) CHURCH will celebrate 202, Haciendas de Canovanas, its 65th anniversary Aug. 30— Sept. 1 with Canovanas, PUERTO RICO 00729-3605 former pastor Bill Hill and District Superin UNG, RATLIEF and SUSAN, Cambodia, tendent C. Harold Smith speaking. Field Address: House 3A, Street MV Former pastors, members, and friends Samdech Monireth (Street 217), Vithei are invited. For more information, contact Pokombor, Khan 7, Makara. Phnom Rev. Byron Hissom Sr., P.O. Box 55, Mia Dr. Steve Green Pehn, KAMPUCHEA mi, WV 25134, 304-595-2509. WILLIAMS, MERRILL and JANICE, Korea, OLIVE HILL (KY.) CHURCH w ill cele Senior Pastor, Field Address: PO Box 18, Cheonan City, brate its 80th anniversary Sept. 1 with Dis KOREA 330-160 trict Superintendent David Prater speaking Pasadena, California, WILSON, BRIAN and JOAN, Field Address: in the 10:30 a .m . service, followed by din Postfach 109, 8201 Schaffhausen, ner and special services. First Church of the Nazarene Switzerland For more information, contact Pastor Bert Ferguson, P.O. Box 504, Olive Hill, KY Master of Divinity, NTS, 1978 Announcements 41164,606-286-2452. ANGELS CAMP (CALIF.) CHURCH w ill PRINCETON (IDAHO) CHURCH will cele celebrate its 25th anniversary Aug. 25 with brate its 75th anniversary Aug. 25. Former District Superintendent Ron Greeno speak pastors, members, and friends are invited ing in the 10 a .m . service, followed by to attend or send greetings. For more in lunch. formation, contact Wilma Gilliam, Rte. 1, Pastor Rob Hall encourages former pas Box 68, Princeton, ID 83857. Nazarene Theological Seminary was the tors, members, and friends to attend. For RICHMOND HEIGHTS (OHIO) CHURCH more information or to R.S.V.P., contact will celebrate its 50th anniversary Aug. 18 Myrtle Cray, P.O. Box 624, Angels Camp, with 10:45 a . m . and 3 p .m . services and a single most important preparatory CA 95222, 209-736-4043. dinner. AUBERRY (CALIF.) CHURCH w ill cele For more inform ation, contact Rev. Paul experience of my life. Though I have gone on brate its 30th anniversary July 7 at 11 a . m . Imboden, 499 Trebisky Rd,, Richmond Lunch will be provided following the ser Heights, OH 44143, 216-486-3148. to further graduate studies in a variety of vice. Former pastors, members, and friends DIRECTORIES places, none of that would have been are invited. For more information, contact BOARD OF GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS Pastor Phil Tate, 209-855-3919. Office: 6401 The Paseo, Kansas City, MO positive or even have made sense apart from BENTONVILLE (ARK.) CHURCH will cel 64131. William J. Prince, chairman; James ebrate its 75th anniversary July 27-28. H. Diehl, vice-chairman; Paul G. Cunning the solid ministerial and theological Former District Superintendent Dallas ham, secretary; Jerald D. Johnson, John A. Baggett will address the congregation at 2 Knight, Donald D. Owens. preparation that I received from Nazarene p .m . at the Benton County Fairgrounds. For more information, contact 107 N.W. GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS EMERITUS: Theological Seminary. Third St., Bentonville, AR 72712, 501-273- V. H. Lewis, 1406 Cambridge, Olathe, KS 2132, Fax: 501-273-3277. 66062; Orville W. Jenkins, 2309 W. 103rd THE BRESEE COLLEGE ALUMNI RE St., Leawood, KS 66206; William M. I have always said to people, and continue to UNION w ill be held Sept. 20-22, 1996, at Greathouse, 1179 Rosewood Tr., Mount Hutchinson, Kans., First Church. Interested Juliet, TN 37122; Eugene L. Stowe, 5555 say, the single most important ministry in persons may contact Rev. Andy Hayes, S. Emporia Cir., Englewood, CO 80111- 3530 Damien, No. 194, La Verne City, CA 3635; Raymond W. Hum, 7810 W. 118th, the Church of the Nazarene is the ministry of 91750,909-593-0372. Overland Park, KS 66210. CAMBRIDGE CITY (IND.) FIRST Nazarene Theological Seminary. They have CHURCH will celebrate its 75th anniversary Notice Aug. 25 with District Superintendent Ted made the difference for me. 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J u l y 1996 43 Johnson Honored for 35 Years in Mississippi
25 Years and Still Going in Myrtle Creek Media Media International Nazarene pastor Charles Johnson was recently honored for 35 years of service to the Fitkin Memorial Church of the Nazarene in Meridian, Miss. Johnson began the ministry in Meridian in 1961 with 3 adults and 10 children. Today, membership exceeds 530. Johnson (third from left) was presented a plaque of appreciation by Roger Bowman, Los Angeles District superintendent, at the National Black Strategy Committee meeting in Kansas City in April. Johnson has helped to plant African-American churches throughout the U.S. At least 15 pastors have been sent out from his church to serve congregations.
Student Wins National Art Competition Eldon and Carol Rayborn Derren Raser, a ninth earning gold key awards in the junior Some 500 friends, family members, grader at Pioneer Trail high division of national competition. and parishioners from as far away as Junior High in Olathe, His work was selected from over Texas joined in a special “Silver Kans., recently won the 14,000 individual entries and will be Memories” celebration to honor Rev. top award in the N a displayed at the Corcoran Gallery of and Mrs. Eldon Rayborn Apr. 21. tional Scholastic Art Art in Washington, D.C. Contest. His sculpture The Rayborns have served the congre He is the son of NTS professor was one of only 10 Harold and Joy Raser. gation at Myrtle Beach, Oreg., Church of the Nazarene since 1971. Rayborn is one of only 137 Nazarene pastors who have served a single congregation Humanitarian continuously for more than 20 years. Rema Needels, NWMS president at Send Stories and The 25th anniversary celebration Calvary Church of the began with a "memory walk" where Nazarene in Annan- Photos for parishioners shared memories of sig dale, Va., was recently nificant and humorous events span awarded Blooming- Nazarene Family dale's Humanitarian ning the Rayborns’ pastorate in Myrtle Award. Creek. District Superintendent Gerald Selected from nomi to: Manker spoke in the morning service nees from Blooming- and presented the parsonage family Nazarene Family dale’s Department Stores nationwide, with the Distinguished Service Award. she was honored for her work with Herald of Holiness The Rayborns also were honored Nazarene world missions. Needels has with gifts, a money tree, and an ex participated in Work and Witness trips 6401 The Paseo pense-paid vacation to next summer’s to Africa and South Korea. This sum Kansas City, M0 64131 General Assembly in San Antonio. mer she will serve in Australia.
44 H f r a l d o f H o u n f .s s Marathoners Witness Ordinations
(Right) 1996 Washington Pacific District ordi- nand class (I. to r.): General Superintendent Donald D. Owens, Rev. Mark and Lorrie Olson, Rev. Larry and Michelle Rounsley Jr., Rev. Brent and Kathy Clapp, Rev. Al and Charlene Stefan Jr., and District Superintendent Hugh L. Smith.
(Left) 1996 Philadelphia District ordinand class (I. to r.): District Superintendent Talmage N. Haggard, Rev. Seymour and Lynn Levin, Rev. Myron and Debbie Watson, Rev. Larry and Bar bara Cook, Rev. Sheridan and Laura Lehman, Rev. Stephen and Missy Kindt, and General Superintendent John A. Knight. Nazarene marathoners (I. to r.) Bill and Jerry Johncock and Jerry Peludat.
Three Nazarene Boston marathoners were featured in the Sunday morning (Right) 1996 Central Florida District ordinand worship service on Patriot’s Day class (front): District Superintendent Gene weekend at the Cambridge, Mass., Fuller, Jeffery L. Spangler, Allen L. Wagner, Church of the Nazarene. Patriot’s Day, Geraldine Dewey, David H. Zuber, Maurice D. celebrated on the third Monday in Duong, General Superintendent Jerald D. Johnson, (back) Arnold R. Perkins, Timothy D. April, commemorates the 1775 battles Emery. Not pictured: Joachim Pierre. of Lexington and Concord. Jerry Peludat of Smyrna, Fla., was in the area to run his 17th Boston Marathon, while Jerry Johncock of Grand Rapids, Mich., ran his 8th. Son, Bill Johncock, ran his 3rd. (Left) 1996 British Isles South District ordinand The congregation was encouraged class (front): Rev. Peter and Sue O’Brien, Rev. to dress down as part of “Sneaker Sun Audrey Simpson, District Superintendent John day." Jerry Johncock shared his testi Paton (back) General Superintendent Donald D. mony about his conversion at the Owens, Rev. Harold and Glynis Stutely, Rev. Cambridge Church in 1949. Deirdre Brower, and Rev. David and Jane Hurst. The Cambridge Church, selected as the New England Evangelical "Vi sion” Church of the Year in 1995, is a multicultural ministry with congrega tions of Chinese university students and Haitian immigrants. The church (Right) 1996 Houston District ordinand class (I. plans to begin ministries this summer to r.): General Superintendent Donald D. to English-speaking Koreans and Por Owens, Rev. David and Brenda Beckham, Rev. tuguese. Kurt and Ginger Ennis, Rev. Andy and Fay Fletcher Tink currently serves as Hitchcock, District Superintendent J. W. “Bill” Lancaster, and Rev. Carlos and Teresa preaching pastor, and Chris Wiley is Cortes. administrative pastor. Senior pastor John Bowen is on sabbatical develop ing English-language ministries in Ko rea.
J uly 1996 45 O bserver at L arge
On Being an it comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8 , n i v ) . Our calling is to bear witness. “I” Witness A missionary physician in one of China's most rural hospitals restored a JOHN C. BOWLING that the testimony of the eyewitnesses man’s sight by removing his cataracts. at the crime scene was believed over A few weeks later. 48 blind men came the other witnesses. The jury chose to to the doctor, each of them holding on believe the words of the ones who had to a rope guided by the man whose actually experienced the event. sight had been restored. He had led Personal eyewitness testimony is them step by step for miles. Such is the powerful. This is true not only in a influence of a changed life. court of law but also in a spiritual Henry Drummond observed: “Every sense. atom in the universe can act on every For example, one of the most mag other atom, but only through the atom John C. Bowling is president of Olivet nificent structures in all the world is St. next to it. If a man would influence oth Nazarene University. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. It is a mas er men, he can do it best by influenc sive and ornate church known for its ing, one at a time, those he comes into majestic dome. When you stand below contact with.” the great dome and look up, you see What does it take to be an effective O n A p r i l 15, 1920, in Braintree, Mass written around the inside these words "1” witness? It takes the same things to achusetts, two people carrying a cash from Matthew 16: “And I tell you that be a believable eyewitness. An effec payroll of $15,000 were shot, and the you are Peter, and on this rock I will tive witness must be money stolen. There were three eyewit build my church, and the gates of 1. A person who has seen and experi nesses. Hades will not overcome it” (v. 18, enced the matter to which he or she Several days later, the police arrested n i v ) . What this scripture does not re bears witness. two men. One was a shoe salesman veal is that Peter, the great apostle, ac 2. A person of good character. named Nicholo Socko. The other was a cepted Jesus as a result of the eyewit 3. A person committed to telling the fish peddler named Bartholomew ness account of his brother Andrew. truth, the whole truth, and nothing but Vansetti. Perhaps a second verse the truth. During the trial, the defense present should be added to the inte ed witnesses who declared that Socko rior of the dome— John had been in the passport office on the 1:41: "The first thing An day and at the time of the robbery. drew did was to find his Likewise, Vansetti testified that he had brother Simon [Peter] and been selling fish in Plymouth, and a tell him, 'We have found His own sight restored, he few folks from there testified that he the Messiah’ (that is, the brought 48 biind men at one time was in Plymouth at the time of the rob Christ)” ( n i v ) . Andrew’s bery. message is the message of to see the doctor. Although the three eyewitnesses at the Church— “We have the scene of the robbery could not agree found Jesus.” on many details of the crime, they did Even in this day of high agree that these two men were the men tech and mass media, the who had committed the crime. At the basic and still most effective tool for 4. A person whose witness remains close of the highly publicized trial, the spreading the gospel is the testimony of consistent when put to the test of cross- jury, taking everything into considera one individual to another. While it is examination. tion, chose to believe the eyewitnesses true that no one living today can be an We need to be able to simply and ef at the scene of the crime. Socko and eyewitness to the historic events of the fectively tell others what Christ has Vansetti were convicted, and on August gospel, each of us can be an “I” witness done for us. Our testimony is to be like 23, 1927, still proclaiming their inno as to how the gospel has impacted us. the blind man in John chapter 9 who cence, they were electrocuted. This commitment to tell others about simply declared, “One thing I do know. What makes this case so interesting Jesus is at the heart of the Great Com I was blind but now I see!” (v. 25, n i v ) . (it has been debated in legal circles ever mission. Jesus told His followers, “You Be ready; you never know when you since) is that the case pivots on the fact will receive power when the Holy Spir will be called to the stand. ^
46 H e r a l d o f H o l.in e s s m arked^opy^ The Best Gifts Are Free The greatest gifts in life are Notes from an editor’s journal free, by Mark Graham, Managing Editor But we are so slow to learn That priceless gifts cannot be bought, Thanks, Dad! Yet we covet, bribe, and yearn. e sat at the table—Cathy, Joey, and age, we were responsible for cleaning the Robbie (our babe in arms)—in the church next to our home. We vacuumed, Tex-Mex restaurant that we really picked up paper and gum, dusted pews, Where can you buy a baby’s enjoy. It was Tuesday night, mowed grass, and trimmed hedges. Our father WMarch 26, 1996. On this day, my father would laugh? spent almost his entire lifetime working in a Or a mother’s healing kiss? have been 75 years old. Exactly one week ear factory. He worked hard for his employer, and lier, my twin brother, Michael, had gone to he taught us to do the same. The skywriting of an eagle visit Dad at the medical facility where he Third, our father taught us that honesty is High above a precipice? spent the last four years of his life. vital. If Dad told you he was going to do As Michael entered Dad’s room, he noticed something, he did it. With four sons, he had a You may have amassed a something was wrong. Mike touched his hand, lot of bills. It seems as if we were always which was still warm, but he said Dad ap paying off hospitals and J.C. Penney's, but fortune peared to be dead. Since our father wasn’t suf the bills were always paid. Dad told us that it On life’s steep and sweaty fering, and he had asked was much easier to remem that no special measures be ber only one story—so tell trail, taken to revive him, Mi the truth. But dollars can’t make a puppy chael sat quietly beside the The Lord knoweth Fourth, he taught us to Lick your hand or wag its bed and waited. A few laugh. Some of my best minutes later, Joe McLain the days of the memories of my father are tail. Graham was with Jesus. of him and my mother jok Mike reached over and upright: and their ing with one another or Where can you buy a loving kissed his cool brow. with us kids. Daddy had a friend A few calls were made inheritance shall great smile and a winsome —to our older brother, to ness. He knew what it was Who will loan you bread or me in Kansas City, to an be for ever. like to suffer loss and hurt, a coat? aunt and uncle. Prepara but he also knew that God tions were made for a fu (Psalm 37:18) was with him. Laughter Can your children buy the neral. was a tonic. echoes I had planned to be in Fifth, he taught us to Of a whistling riverboat? Nashville for Dad’s birthday. I phoned the air care for our families. He helped our mother at line and pushed the departure ahead by three home, worked plenty of overtime, and even days. kept a second job. Still, he was always there Where do they sell magic As a family we were saddened but relieved. for us. When we played baseball, he was at music Our father had suffered from Parkinson’s dis our games—watching, encouraging. He Like wing songs and fresh ease for years. He had lost the ability to walk, taught us to shoot a rifle and to drive a car. read, and even swallow, but he could still He took us on walks and one-day vacations. spring rains? think and talk. Death was a friend to Joe Gra He took us to church, and he prayed for us. The bleat of lambs, a kitten’s ham. Michael and his wife had cared for him As we sat in Carlos O’Kelly's on what faithfully for years—as they did for our moth would have been my father’s 75th birthday, I purr, er until she passed away two years ago. Had it looked at my wife and two boys, and I Or the splash of wading not been for the loving care of my brother and thanked God for Joe Graham. For although he cranes? his family, Dad would have died long ago. had little material wealth or education, he As I prepared to preach my father’s funeral. knew what was valuable in life. One of Dad's 1 thought of the heritage he left us. He wasn't favorite scripture passages was Psalm 37. As If you could dig all the perfect, but he worked hard to instill in us sev an adult, a husband, and a father, 1 now un treasures eral key virtues. At the top of the list was love derstand why. From the earth and from for God. As a youngster, I often sat on the “I was young and now I am old, yet I have back pew of our little Nazarene church. I was never seen the righteous forsaken or their the sea, on the back row because that’s where my fa children begging bread. They are always gen You could not buy the love of ther was. He was there to welcome folks and erous and lend freely; their children will be to open the door for mothers with arms full of blessed” (vv. 25-26, n i v ). God— babies and diaper bags. On many Wednesday It’s another gift that’s free. nights—testimony time—my father would stand and share how God was working in his — Charles Hastings Smith life. At home, he was up before dawn, sitting in our living room, reading from a worn Bible. f l l M Second, he taught us to work. From an early
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