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Connecting the Pacific Union Adventist Family October 2009 34 OshkoshPathfi nders Flock Camporee to 7 Cliff ton Anderson Leaves a Legacy in Two Communities 14 Youth Rush Students Find Seekers 18 William Bell Chooses the Bible over Basketball CONTENTS PACIFIC UNION Inside www.pacifi cunionrecorder.com LOCAL CONFERENCE NEWS Recorder Staff 20-21 Arizona Editor / Layout & Design Alicia Adams 16-19 Central California [email protected] 28-29 Hawaii Publisher Gerry Chudleigh 4-7 Northern California [email protected] Printing 8-11 Southeastern California Pacific Press Publishing Association 12-15 Southern California www.pacificpress.com 11 The Recorder is a monthly publication reaching nearly 80,000 Seventh-day Adventist homes in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah. Our mission is to inform, educate KEEPING YOU INFORMED and inspire our readers to action in all areas of ministry. 30 Adventist Health 38-48 Advertisements Editorial Correspondents 47 Advertising Policy Arizona 480-991-6777 Phil Draper, [email protected] 27 La Sierra University Central California 559-347-3000 31 Loma Linda University Caron Oswald, [email protected] Hawaii 808-595-7591 32 22 Pacific Union College Teryl Loeffler, [email protected] Nevada-Utah 775-322-6929 3 President’s Perspective Connie Hall, [email protected] Northern California 925-685-4300 38 Public Affairs & Religious Liberty Stephanie Kinsey, [email protected] 41 Sunset Calendar Southeastern California 951-509-2200 Jocelyn Fay, [email protected] Southern California 818-546-8400 Betty Cooney, [email protected] ABOUT THE COVER Adventist Health Shawna Malvini, [email protected] Larry Caviness, president of the Southern La Sierra University 951-785-2000 California Conference, baptizes Eufricina Larry Becker, [email protected] Palaganas, from the Trinity Pathfi nder Club, Covina, Calif., at the camporee in Loma Linda 909-558-4526 Richard Weismeyer, [email protected] Oshkosh. Photo by Gerry Chudleigh. Dustin Jones, [email protected] Pacific Union College 707-965-6303 Julie Z. Lee, [email protected] Pacifi c Union Recorder Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation This statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation was Year Average Sept. Issue fi led on September 16, 2009, with the U.S. Postal Service for the Total number of copies 79,731 77,754 Postal Regs: The Pacific Union Recorder (ISSN 0744- Pacifi c Union Recorder, for publication number 0744-6381, a Total paid or requested outside-county mail subs 77,681 75,701 6381), Volume 109, Number 10, is the official journal of the Total paid or requested-inside county mail subs 0 0 Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and magazine owned and published by the Pacifi c Union Conference is published monthly. Editorial office is at 2686 Townsgate of Seventh-day Adventists, 2686 Townsgate Rd., Westlake Village, Sales through dealers, carriers, street vendors 0 0 Rd., Westlake Village, CA 91361: 805-497-9457. Periodical CA 91359-5005. It is published 12 times a year at a subscription Other classes mailed through USPS 1,728 1,731 postage paid at Thousand Oaks, CA, and additional mailing price of $12 (domestic) and $16 (foreign). For further information, Total paid and/or requested circulation 79,409 77,432 offices. Subscription rate: No charge to Pacific Union Adventist contact Gerry Chudleigh, publisher, or Alicia Adams, editor, Total free distribution 322 322 church members; $12 per year in U.S.; $16 foreign (U.S. 805-413-7280, at the same address above. The following fi gures Total distribution 79,881 77,904 funds); single copy. $0.85. POSTMASTER: Send address for the extent and nature of the circulation apply to the year ending Copies not distributed 150 150 changes to: Circulation Department, Pacific Union Recorder, Box 5005, Westlake Village, CA 91359. with the September 2009 issue of the Pacifi c Union Recorder Total 79,881 77,904 and were printed in the October issue of this publication. Percent paid and/or requested 99.5% 99.5% 2 Index www.pacifi cunionrecorder.com ONE to ONE PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE Jesus, the Center of Attraction hat’s your favorite part of the Bible? Are you a Jesus is the center of attraction for the Seventh- prophecy buff , loving to explore the futuristic day Adventist church. All of our doctrines center Wforecasts of Daniel and the apocalypse of John, in Him and His mediatory work for us. His great the revelator? Perhaps you are blessed in the Psalms, sacrifi ce on the cross to fulfi ll the words of John the reading David’s peons of praise to the God he came Baptist, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh to love while he moved through his life as a shepherd, away the sin of the world;” which fi ts fully with Paul’s giant slayer, repentant king and aged ruler. Or does declaration in 2nd Corinthians 5:21, “For he hath your heart beat faster reading the exploits of Moses and made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we Joshua living the history of the Old Testament, wistfully might be made the righteousness of God in him.” wishing that you could be there to watch the Red Sea Th is is just the beginning of the reasons we are drawn part or the walls of Jericho fall down? to Him and the reason why he is worthy to be called I must confess that while I love the Bible from King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Holy and majestic, cover to cover — and there are plenty of parts that loving and forgiving, hating sin and loving sinners, I don’t understand, while I am challenged to live dwelling in us through the Spirit, commanding us to out the parts I do understand — I love spend- righteous living and giving us grace to do what He ing time in the Gospels, those four books which commands. He is all that and much, much more. center on the life and teachings of Jesus. So the question comes to me as I write. Is Jesus Th ere is something magnetic and alluring the center of attraction in my life? How about in our about God revealed in Scripture that has its pin- churches here in the Pacifi c Union? Does our work nacle presentation in the Prince of Peace. revolve around lifting Him up or elevating ourselves Th at’s what it is about. Th is righteous Rabbi and our denominational ministries? Is Jesus the center who divides history and calls all people to Him- of attraction for us? If He is not “center stage” in our self is the center of attraction. From begin- individual and corporate lives, there will be no lasting ning to the end, the Bible points us to Jesus. and transformative power for us. I didn’t grow up as an Adventist. While my mater- I want Jesus to continue being nal great-grandmother was a Seventh-day Adventist, the all-encompassing center of the family lost the faith for a while and later recovered in my life, so I can help bring it. I grew up without the knowledge of the health others to him. Don’t you? message and developed some poor eating habits that I still struggle with. I praise God that I am doing much better in that respect. However, when I was young, I ate a lot of candy. One of my favorites was the Clark Bar. I don’t know if it is still around, but I remember one of the company’s advertisements. Th e black and white TV showed a set of cur- Ricardo Graham tains with a spotlight focused on the opening. As President the curtains were drawn back, there was the Clark Pacifi c Union Bar it all its glory. It appeared to unwrap itself and snapped into two pieces, and the unseen announcer said, “the center of attraction” and went on to de- scribe the nougat or whatever it was in the middle. Th e center of attraction made it what it was. October 2009 Recorder News 3 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Financial Seminars Help Church Members Keep Their Money hurch is the last place many and this is a great way to build in the world is common sense when people think of when they are them. I hope people will reach out it comes to fi nances.” Clooking for help managing to neighbors, friends and fellow em- “Th e great thing about the their money. Northern California ployees,” he said. seminar was that it was simple and Conference Stewardship Director William practical, and the people were able Gordon Botting wants to change Gemora, to relate to it,” said Valley Commu- that mindset. pastor of nity church Pastor Rudolph Peters, Botting hopes that his seminars, the East whose church hosted a fi nancial “7 Steps to Financial Freedom” Bay Fil-Am seminar last spring. and “7 Stupid and Stock- After each seminar, Botting asks Th ings that ton Fil-Am the local church to host a 12-week Smart People Do churches, class in which participants complete to Mess up Th eir has used a workbook, Faith and Finance Finances,” will Botting’s (which he co-wrote), to learn more infl uence church seminar as about responsible money man- members and an outreach agement. A member of the Lodi- others to view the tool several times this year. Fairmont church who is a certifi ed church as a place “People come to church for fi nancial planner, called the book to help them learn a topic which has nothing “some of the fi nest material he has money management to do with religion, but is ever seen,” according to Senior Pas- skills.