Lake Union Herald for 1976
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The Lake Union HERALD June 1,1976 Volume LXV1I1, Number 21 Remember the °Inner City by A. W. Bauer, Director Lay Activities Department A special committee appointed by All three of the centers are working youth development program which is the Union officers has just completed closely with other agencies in these organized as boys and girls clubs for an on-the-spot review and evaluation cities and are referring clients to each ages 8 to 11 and 12 to 15. These clubs of our Inner City work in Detroit, other for the particular kind of ser meet once each week. Chicago, and Indianapolis. vices rendered by each agency. The Spanish Inner City program is Our committee members were The Chicago Better Living Center is also getting underway. The Spanish amazed at the amount of work done sponsoring a free medical clinic one Central Church has just moved into for the underprivileged in these three night per week and averaging around their new facility which includes an large cities by the few paid staff 20 patients. The total for 1975 was annex used for Sabbath School divi workers and the volunteers, dentists, 630 patients. The center is also spon sions and the plan is that this will also physicians, ministers, and laymen. soring a strong youth program. Their provide rooms for a Better Living In Detroit the free dental clinic is Community Bible Club meets every Center. serving an average of 14 to 18 patients Friday afternoon from 3 to 4 p.m. As the Inner City Study Commission on the one day each week the clinic is Because of the strong spiritual took a good took at all of the Inner open. Some of the dentists drive 200 emphasis 7 persons were added to the City programs, a strong conviction miles each way to volunteer their church last year. developed that our outreach program services. Other community services Blood pressure is taken and other in these cities needs to be expanded given at the Better Living Centers in screening work is done daily between and strengthened. Detroit, Chicago, and Indianapolis 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. More than The Inner City Offering will be include food in some emergency cases, 2,000 persons were given clothing and taken on Sabbath, June 12. This offer clothing, bedding, and some furniture. bedding and 160 home visits were ing will be for the Inner City work Cooking and nutrition classes are made during 1975. within each conference. Please give offered as well as Five-day Plans to Adult education classes included generously. We need to strengthen and Stop Smoking. Detroit is also offering such areas as how to buy food, how to expand the Inner City program in the classes in typing. select housing, and how to know your cities within our union. Please give Counseling is an important phase of legal rights. liberally now. Tomorrow may be too the program in Chicago and Detroit. Another area of service is their late. The Lake Union HERALD Thoughts on OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE LAKE UNION CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS June 1, 1976 Vol. LXVIII, No. 21 the Bicentennial, JERE WALLACK. Editor A RICHARD DOWER. Managing Editor MARILYN TWOROG. Copy Editor C JUDY LUKE, Circulation Services Part 3 Member, Associated Church Press Indexed in the Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: Lowell L. Bock, Chairman: W. L. Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than Murrill, Vice-Chairman; Jere Wallack, Secretary; F. L. Jones. those of the United States. Every step by which they have CORRESPONDENTS: Jack Martz, Illinois; Cliff Hoffman. Indiana: Fred Williams. Lake Region; Ernest Wendth, Mich advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to igan; Ernest Wheeler. Wisconsin; David Bauer, Andrews Univer sity; Joel Hass, Hinsdale Sanitarium and Hospital. have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS: All articles, pictures, obit [Results] cannot be compared with the means by which most uaries, and classified ads must be channeled through your local conference correspondent. Copy mailed directly to the Herald Governments have been established without some return of will be returned to the conference involved. pious gratitude, along with an humble anticipation of the MANUSCRIPTS for publication should reach the Lake Union Conference office by Thursday, 9 a.m., twelve days before the future blessings which the past seems to presage. date of issue. The editorial staff reserves the right to withhold or condense copy depending upon space available. George Washington NEW SUBSCRIPTION requests should be addressed to the First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789 treasurer of the local conference where membership is held. Conference Directories LAKE UNION CONFERENCE Throughout the evolution of the American spirit there has been deep Box C, Berrien Springs. Michigan 49103 (616) 473-4541 religious motivation. Religious influences helped mold this nation from the P re s id e n t...................................................................Lowell L. Bock S e c re ta ry F. L. Jones beginning. Unlike other nations whose point of origin often stemmed from T re a s u re r......................................................................W. L. Murrill Assistant Treasurer ................................................Charles Woods political, economic, or racial pressures from within or without, America A.S.I. .........................................................................D. A. Copsey A u d ito r .............................................................................Arthur Opp came into existence primarily as a land where freedom to worship as Communication ........................................................... Jere Wallack Data Processing ...................................................Harvey P. Kilsby conscience dictated was the most pressing imperative. The very first Education ...................................................................Fred Stephan Health .........................................................................D. A. Copsey amendment to the Bill of Rights included and insured the free exercise of Lay Activities ............................................................... A. W. Bauer religion. Publishing .................................................................. J. W. Proctor Religious Liberty ............................................................................... In no other nation’s founding documents can we find so many Religious Liberty Associate ................................C. N. Eckman Sabbath School ..............................................................F. L. Jones declarations of allegiance to God. In the inaugural addresses of the. Stewardship ............................................................... D. A. Copsey Temperance .....................................................E. Wayne Shepperd presidents of the United States, in times of crisis, in times of peace and of Trust Services ......................................................H. Reese Jenkins Y o u th ................................................................. E. Wayne Shepperd thanksgiving, God has been invoked as Provider and Protector. Into His ILLINOIS: J. L. Hayward, president; Bernard L. Cook, hands the nation has been committed throughout its history. secretary-treasurer. Office address: 3721 Prairie Ave. Mail address: Box 89, Brookfield, IL 60513. Phone: (312) This remarkable awareness of God by the American people was observed 485-1200. by a visitor from France to the United States in 1835 when he said, “Upon INDIANA: G. W. Morgan, president; R. R. Rouse, secretary- treasurer. Office address: 15250 N. Meridian St. Mail address: my arrival in the United States, the religious aspect of the country was the P.O. Box 1950, Carmel. IN 46034. Phone: (317) 844-6201. LAKE REGION: J. R. Wagner, president: R. C. Brown, first thing that struck my attention.” secretary; Isaac Palmer, treasurer. Office and Mail Address: 8517 S. State St.,Chicago, IL 60619. Phone:(312)846-2661. It was in this very period of time that great stirrings were beginning to MICHIGAN: Charles Keymer. president: G. H. Carle, treasurer take place in the northeastern part of this new country—stirrings which Office Address: 320 W. St. Joseph St. Mail Address: Box 19009, Lansing, Ml 48904. Phone: (517) 485-2226. were to lead to the belief that the second coming of Christ was imminent. WISCONSIN: R. L. Dale, president; W. H. Dick, secretary- treasurer. Office Address: 802 E. Gorham St. Mail Address: And out of that belief was to come an enlarged understanding of Bible Box 512, Madison, Wl 53701. Phone: (608) 257-5696. truth which would lead people of great commitment and dedication— Entered as second-class matter in the Post Office, Berrien ■ James White, Ellen White, Joseph Bates, and others—to establish a message Springs, Michigan. 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