Northern Europe-West Africa Division

Vol. 62 First Quarter, 1973 N O. 1

NORTHERN EUROPE-WEST AFRICA DIVISION

Projects: • An assembly hall for Adventist Col- • Development program for Stanbor- lege of West Africa, Nigeria. ough Secondary School, England. [For clarification of projects, see page 2.] 0-.10•••••04 1.114 1...1•••,11”.•1•00Mr1,41•111.114 04•••.411 1.411•111.4•1.4101•1•11.1•1•110.11.10.1.411.414M.NMO.14=1.0•11.1.711

OVERFLOW PROJECTS NORTHERN EUROPE-WEST AFRICA DIVISION

A. Stanborough School Development Program

Overwhelmed by steeply rising building costs in Britain, the 1 British Union Conference has had to turn away from its 'L225,- 000 (US$580,500) program to something less expensive. Yet the needs are tremendous. The plan now is to: 1. Use the present primary school, which is only five years old and near the secondary school, for secondary education. 2. Build a new primary school on a new site. 3. Use some of the present multipurpose secondary school building for dormitory accommodation. However, this older building will require substantial modification to meet present-day fire regulations. It is to provide this extra dormitory accommodation that half of the Thirteenth Sabbath Offering overflow will be applied. B. Hall for the Adventist College in West Africa, Nigeria The other half of the offering overflow will be used to provide a much-needed chapel-assembly hall for the Adventist College of West Africa. Established in 1959, the college is so crowded that the dormitory chapel has had to be turned into sleeping quarters. And still four or five students are crowded into every room. It is hard to keep pace with the rapidly increasing church membership in Nigeria.

111.4.04.11•1114.0411.11141.0.1•1••01,411.1141.1140.••=16.14111•044 1.41n.l.n.dn64•441.ffbut.b.4.4.4mi.ak Nigeria extends mission work. Theology student, Florence Iyabo Ogunseso, at Adventist College of West Africa, displays Picture Rolls to be used in child evangelism. (CAPTION) SABBATH, JANUARY 6 Let us tell you first how much your offering to this division three years ago accomplished. One third Overflow Projects—Past of it went toward the purchase of and Present much-needed equipment for the growing publishing house in Po- by W. Duncan Eva land. Because of the Adventist literature that this publishing house [W. Duncan Eva, president of the Northern handles, the printed page is being Europe-West Africa Division, worked for many greatly speeded to the people of years in the Trans-Africa Division as church Poland. school teacher, pastor, evangelist, and union Another third was used to help president. From 1954 to 1965 he was secretary of that division, and in 1966 was called from open work in the hitherto unen- the Secretarial Department of the General tered West African country of Up- Conference, where he hod served a short time, per Volta. There in the city of to his present post as president of the North- ern Europe-West Africa Division.] Ouagadougou (pronounced wa- ga-doo-goo) the Henri Kempf pio- The Northern Europe-West neer missionary family from Africa Division stretches from France, but recently returned from "Greenland's Icy Mountains" and Andrews University, are already the "Land of Fire and Ice" (Ice- hard at work. land) in the far north Atlantic The last third of the offering, southeastward to embrace the four $32,500, went toward the comple- Nordic countries of Denmark, tion of the Empress Zauditu (zow- Norway, Sweden, and Finland. It de' too) Adventist Hospital in Ad- gathers to its fold Poland and the dis Ababa. At the time, the Ethio- Netherlands on its way to the pian Union was still a part of this Emerald Isle across the Irish Sea. division. The Northern Europe- It then leaps two thousand miles West Africa Division is proud to to include Gambia, Sierra Leone, have been able to provide from Liberia, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, within its own territory almost two Ghana, Togo, Dahomey, and Ni- thirds of the total one million dol- geria, in its vast West African lars needed for the construction of Union. From all these countries the hospital. Now completed and more than 155,000 Sabbath School operated by a dedicated overseas members cordially greet your Sab- and national staff, it today serves bath School this first Sabbath of Ethiopia nobly. 1973. What are the plans for this quar- How grateful they are that their ter's overflow offering? We expect turn has come again at the close to divide it between two important of this quarter to receive from the educational projects—one in West Sabbath Schools of the world, the Africa, the other in Europe. Thirteenth Sabbath Offering over- The Stanborough School is the flow. In anticipation they say a big only Seventh-day Adventist sec- and appreciative THANK YOU! ondary school in the British

TELL IT! THEY WILL ENJOY IT BETTER. 3 Union and draws young people, pace with the expanding needs and including the children of mission- to provide for the future, the aries, from many parts of the shape of which is already easily world. Its facilities are old and in- discernable, ACWA's program adequate, and for some time the must be improved and expanded. British Union has been working And so here too, a carefully on a carefully prepared develop- phased development plan has ment plan. The offering overflow been worked out, and one half of is part of the plan of finance and this quarter's overflow is to be de- will make possible additional ur- voted to an essential need in the gently needed dormitory accom- senior college—a chapel or assem- modation. Seventh-day Adventist bly hall. young people who now must attend non-Adventist schools be- 11313E 1L The Northern Europe- cause there are no accommoda- West Africa Division believes in its tions available for them at Stan- youth. They will soon be bearing the borough School will then have the burdens others are laying down. In privilege of a Christian education. what better cause than the proper edu- West Africa is one of the most cation of its young people can the fruitful fields in all the world. It is church invest its money? Let us give growing in numbers and in ma- our future leaders the best possible turity. On Christmas Day, 1970, preparation and they will not disap- the first all-black conference on point us, nor, and this is infinitely the whole continent came into ex- more important, will they fail or dis- istence in Ghana. It is making appoint their Lord. good progress and is growing in strength and responsibility. There are other areas in West Africa that might fairly soon be ready to fol- SABBATH, JANUARY 13 low suit. In this connection one of the most urgent needs is for a larger number of well-trained and A Reputation in Faraway educated indigenous ministers and Places workers to meet the challenge of its populous and rapidly develop- by Alf Lohne ing countries. ACWA—Adventist College of [Alf Lohne is a native of Norway. He worked as an evangelist and conference president in West Africa—holds the key to the Norway, then served as president of the West church's future. For some years Nordic Union for sixteen years. Since 1967 he now it has offered limited work on has been secretary of the Northern Europe- the senior college level and has West Africa Division. Pastor Lohne is the author of four books printed in Norwegian, produced promising and produc- Danish, and Greenlandic.] tive workers, some of whom are successfully carrying heavy respon- The fifty-bed capacity Jengre sibilities as leaders. But to keep SDA Hospital in North Nigeria

4 WORLD MISSION REPORT does not rank among the big ones care of him. Dr. Bland cut loose in Africa, but it certainly fills its the contraction and did some place as a true mission institution. grafting on Jimmy's leg from other A Nigerian chaplain conducts wor- parts of his body. He and the ship every morning in the lan- nurses did their utmost for the boy. guage of the people, and a nurse To the joy of all and the surprise gives simple health instruction and of many, the day came when demonstrations to the large groups Jimmy left the hospital and re- of outpatients waiting their turn to turned home to his village walking see the doctor. Six hundred students on his own feet. No wonder that fill the classrooms of the primary during the next weeks and months school attached to the hospital— a stream of patients with leg prob- all taught by Nigerian Seventh-day lems flooded to the hospital. Adventist teachers. Unfortunately, not all cases Some of the patients travel up turn out as well as Jimmy's. One to four hundred miles, beginning evening, after Dr. Bland had gone their journey on narrow savannah to bed, a man knocked on the door trails, riding on mules, carried by and pleaded for his sick wife. Mrs. friends, or simply wheeled on a Bland went along with her hus- bicycle. They continue by lorry band on this late visit. They trav- and truck on some of the world's eled by car as far as the road per- most dusty roads in the dry season mitted ; the last part they went by or on nearly impassable roads dur- foot on winding paths through the ing the rainy season. bush. There was no moon, so only Why do they come from such the flimsy light of torches guided faraway places as Sakoto and Ma- them. At two o'clock in the morn- bugu when they pass several other ing they arrived at the village—too hospitals on their way? late. The wailing of the bereaved The medical director, Dr. F. R. people told Dr. Bland well ahead Bland, hesitates to answer this of arrival that the woman had question, but the North Nigerian died. The night's sleep was lost, Mission president, Pastor W. B. but he had at least tried to help. Ackah, has no doubt about the rea- Things are improving at the hos- son : "The reputation of the hospi- pital. A short while ago a new ma- tal care and its surgery reaches far ternity wing was opened and two and wide." new homes have just been finished Take, for instance, the case of on the hospital compound. But Dr. six-year-old Jimmy. He fell into Bland and his fellow workers still the fire in his family hut and was want quite a few important things. badly burned. His right leg stayed For the surgery he needs a cau- flexed, and he seemed doomed to terant, an instrument that would live as an invalid for the rest of his make operations quicker and life. He came from a poor family easier to perform. The amount of and could pay nothing for medical $250 to pay for such an instrument treatments, but the hospital took seems a small amount, but when

TELL IT! THEY WILL ENJOY IT BETTER. 5 you do not have the money, it since that time has spread all along looms big. A four-wheel-drive the coast of West Africa. Through Land Rover, to be used in the the years, one of the urgent needs rainy season when roads become of this great field was for a train- impassable for ordinary cars, ing college for the preparation of would ease life at this medical out- ministers. So the Adventist College post in Africa. Another well for a of West Africa was established in better water supply ranks high on 1959, near the little village of the list of needs. Ilishan-Remo (ee-lee' shun rem' o), West Nigeria, in the heart of a 1P PE 1L Increased sacrificial stronghold of paganism. At that giving for missions will make it possi- time there was not even one Sev- ble to improve mission hospitals and enth-day Adventist in the entire lighten the burdens for men such as area. Today there are more than Dr. Bland and his fellow workers. 400 members. Though the ma- Keep this in mind when you give. Let jority of the students come from us as Sabbath School members give Nigeria and Ghana, the value of regularly and faithfully to worldwide the college and the education it missions each week, and may the Thir- offers have been recognized by all teenth Sabbath Offering overflow this the West African missions, from quarter amply provide for an assembly Sierra Leone and Liberia clear hall for the Adventist College of West across to Cameroun, with the re- Africa in Nigeria and furnish means sult that the enrollment has far to improve the Stanborough Secondary outgrown the facilities. Four stu- School in England. dents are housed in every dormitory room and five in some. The dormitory chapel has been turned into sleeping quarters, classrooms SABBATH, JANUARY 20 are overflowing, the meager library facilities are woefully inadequate, and even the assembly hall Who Is Jesus? is too small to seat the student body. There are hundreds of stu- by Herman Bauman dents still clamoring to get into the Adventist College of West Africa, IA native of Wisconsin, U.S.A., and a graduate but there is no room for them. The of Southern Missionary College and Andrews needs of this field are tremendous, University, Elder Herman Bauman served seven and ACWA must expand and de- years as conference evangelist in the Wisconsin and Upper Columbia conferences. He an- velop to help meet those needs. swered the call to the mission field in 1967 to "Amos, see what I got today in be the evangelism and pastoral training teacher Sabbath School ! Isn't it pretty !" at the Adventist College of West Africa, in Amos, a young Nigerian man of Nigeria.] about 18 years of age, looked The Adventist message was first down at the item his little brother preached in Nigeria in 1907 and held so proudly in his hand. It was

6 WORLD MISSION REPORT a used Sabbath School memory ing to earn money to return to verse picture card that someone ACWA he faithfully shares his pre- had sent to the college for use in cious faith as he conducts weekly its Branch Sabbath School pro- Branch Sabbath Schools which grams. Some little American boy over fifty people attend. or girl had no idea what a treasure The college evangelism instruc- that picture card that he didn't tor and his class were conducting want anymore was going to be to an evangelistic effort in a nearby another little child of Jesus thou- village. "What's wrong with our at- sands of miles away. tendance? Where's our crowd?" "It surely is nice," said Amos. the evangelist asked his translator, "Do you think they would give me a college student who is also an one too if I went with you to Sab- ordained minister. bath School?" Amos, like the ma- "I don't know, but I'll find out," jority of Africans, is highly inter- answered the translator. ested in religious things, and, like The evangelist continued, the majority of Africans, is very "We've advertised well and we poor and unable to buy religious have a nice building for our meet- pictures and books that he would ings. I just can't understand what's love to have. He was thrilled at wrong. The church should have the prospect of having a lovely col- been full, but hardly anyone ored picture of one of his favorite came." Bible characters for his very own. A few nights later, as the crowd "I think they would give you still lingered dangerously close to one. Come along next week and the zero mark, the translator said, find out," invited the little "Pastor, I have found out what the brother. problem is. There has been some The next Sabbath Amos, with kind of severe difficulty in the vil- his little brother, was in Sabbath lage. The chief decided to hold School well before it was time to ceremonies to appease their pagan begin, and he did get one of those gods. So nobody will be coming to treasured picture cards. He con- our meetings until the ceremonies tinued to attend Sabbath School. are over." Before long Amos' interest in the In about a week the ceremonies Adventist message became very were finished, the church was full, strong, and in about two years he and the evangelistic meetings pro- was baptized. Amos enrolled in the gressed to a successful conclusion. elementary training course at the In one of the West African Adventist College of West Africa countries an Adventist young man to begin study in preparation for received word one day that his dear the ministry. Unfortunately, be- old mother was very sick. She lived cause he didn't have enough far upcountry, in the bush. For money to pay his tuition he was much of the way there were no able to study for only one year. roads and one had to travel on However, while Amos is out work- foot. He journeyed several days to

TELL IT! THEY WILL ENJOY IT BETTER. 7 reach her side. Shortly after he SABBATH, JANUARY 27 reached home his mother died. He wanted her to have a Christian burial, but there were no churches A Great Need in Britain and no preachers at all in that remote area. Finally he decided that by Kenneth H. Gammon the only thing he could do would be to preach the funeral sermon [Elder Kenneth Gammon has served for many himself. He presented a very sim- years in departmental work and has been ple message, endeavoring to point division radio-TV secretary in Southern Asia. More recently Elder Gammon has held admin- the hearts of the listeners to the istrative office as secretary of the West Af- One named Jesus, the only One rican Union Mission. Upon returning from the who can give comfort for sorrow tropics, he was appointed stewardship and de- and hope after death. After the velopment and lay activities secretary of the service many of the people gath- South England Conference.] ered around him. The same ques- Britain is an old country, proud tions were on all of their lips : of its past and its noble heritage. "Who is this Jesus of whom you Not without cause is it known as spoke? He sounds like a wonderful Great Britain. Its very stones seem man. We would like to hear more steeped in history, and its ancient about Him. We want to meet Him. democratic principles and judicial Does He live in the same village system have been used as examples where you live? Can we go to see in many lands. Its explorers and Him?" adventurers circumnavigated the globe, charting lands and islands APPEAL When will they hear never before known to the West- more about Jesus? Will they be pre- ern world. Its missionaries pio- pared to see Him someday and go neered in dark and distant places, live with Him and all the redeemed giving their lifeblood to carry the in that "heavenly village"? The answer gospel to hostile peoples long un- to these questions may depend upon der the dominion of the devil. you and how much you are willing to Despite occasional differences of give this thirteenth Sabbath and every opinion, Britain still retains the af- Sabbath to help send messengers to fection of millions in the Com- take the saving name of Jesus to all. monwealth of Nations, that in- Not only in the jungles of Africa tangible link which binds together are there people who don't know countries of widely differing cul- Jesus, but also in New York, London, tures and customs. Her predilec- and Tokyo. And yes, right there in tion for religious freedom and tol- your own town, there are many people erance, no doubt, has been a factor who may have heard of Jesus, but they in the acceptance of the Seventh- don't know Him. Won't you determine day Adventist message in these to help these precious but lost souls lands. to know Jesus, the Saviour of the British Adventists, though not world? numerically large, have an impos-

8 WORLD MISSION REPORT ing record. They have generously tries. This characteristic is found given of their sons and daughters in the Adventist Church too. De- in mission service, and sacrificially spite its own pressing needs, it con- supported the church's worldwide tinues to support the overseas pro- program, eager to complete the gram in developing countries Lord's commission and to hasten through the Sabbath School and His return. Their pride is not world mission offerings in addi- based on self-satisfaction, but on tion to $250,000 of annual Ingath- the message and the onward prog- ering. And this is given cheerfully, ress of the work. However, there is willingly, as a privilege not a duty. one point on which pride of However, the fact remains that its achievement gives way to frank home church building program embarrassment. seems to be facing odds that hu- In the land of Christopher manly speaking are insurmount- Wren's masterpiece, St. Paul's Ca- able. Some of the churches are so thedral; of ancient Westminster overcrowded that double services Abbey, coronation site of Britain's have been held, and sad to say, monarchs as well as the repository some members just stay away be- of the remains of its great and cause of lack of space. In just one famous; of the modern architec- conference of eighty-one churches tural triumph, Coventry Cathe- and companies, more than one dral—in this land Seventh-day half of this number have either no Adventists have relatively few rep- church building or are worshiping resentative places of worship. In in inadequate or unrepresentative Greater London, where almost one ones. A garden shed, Girl Scout seventh of the country's 56 mil- hut, converted milk depot, and old lion reside, there are twenty-six stables have all been used where Adventist congregations, but of nothing better is available. Imme- these eleven are worshiping in diate building needs in this one buildings, halls, or rooms rented conference alone have been cur- for the Sabbath day. The same gen- rently assessed as in excess of $4.5 eral conditions prevail throughout million. the country, and even the church With such a large population that cares temporarily for the mem- crowded into such a small territory, bers of the division staff and their land is at a premium. Home build- families meets in an upstairs room ing lots cost up to $14,500, and rented for the morning from the this in a land where the average Odd Fellows Lodge, and used on income is $275 a month. Sundays by the Christadelphians. Occasionally a church of an- It has been said that as a coun- other denomination comes on to try Britain is too generous. As a the market, but site developers and nation it is in a precarious finan- big business organizations are cial position, but it still continues ready to snatch the building for to give millions of pounds annu- prices far in excess of the meager ally to assist underdeveloped coun- resources of the church, and then

TELL IT! THEY WILL ENJOY IT BETTER. 9 tear down what to us would be a gree in English at Andrews University (1964), he obtained two Master's degrees, one in Eng- treasured place of worship to erect lish linguistics and the other in library science, a block of offices or apartments. at the University of Michigan (1965, 1966). He The city of London is forty crowned his academic quest with a Ph.D. in miles across, yet it is almost im- English linguistics at Howard University, Wash- ington, D.C. (1971). Today he is serving his possible to find a building site. One Lord in the dual capacity as English lecturer of our churches there, recently and college librarian at Adventist College of completely destroyed by fire, finds West Africa.] its rebuilding program restricted by new legislation on parking Have you forgotten the famish- space. Even when rebuilt it will ing Nigerian children you used to only accommodate two thirds of its see on television three years ago? membership. If you have, this may be because the kom-kom-woom-woom of the APPEAL There are millions of mortar bombs, the baba-baba of souls in Britain yet to be won, but the automatic rifles, the tu-weeeee where can they worship? Building of the fighter jets, and the agoniz- funds are being raised, though piti- ing "0 God!" cried by the fright- ably inadequate for the great need, ened and threatened civilians are and development plans are already in no more to be heard. The govern- hand. Yet even these are an evidence ment forces have defeated the Bi- of faith, not the solution to the prob- afrans. War has yielded to needed lem. Our fellow believers around the peace, and the civilians have re- world, please remember our brethren turned to their normal life. in this land that their courage may be During the civil war, as in many strong and that the Lord will show other wars, many civilians became them the answer to their dilemma so destitute. War experiences were that in these ancient islands the work many and varied—some very horri- may be finished and the remnant made fying, others fascinating. In all of ready to meet the Lord. these experiences, God's guiding hand was readily seen. This morning we shall hear one of the war experiences. SABBATH, FEBRUARY 3 Kom - kom - woom - woom, bel- lowed the enemy mortar bombs at "Help Us to Fulfill Our Okpuala (opu-ala), one of the Pledge" hottest war sectors in the civil war. "0 God, the enemy is here !" cried the frightened villagers of Okpuala by Benson Omenihy Oluikpe as each of them tried to run for dear life. In this "Run, Buddy, [Dr. Benson Oluikpe (o-lik'pay) was one of the run" show, mother forgot a dear pioneering students at Adventist College of West Africa in 1960. In fact, he first demon- crying baby, and father deserted strated ACWA's high academic standard in the a beloved son. Subsequently, one United States. After taking his Bachelor's de- could see along the bush tracks

10 WORLD MISSION REPORT abandoned, crying babies and shells began to drop on all sides. starving skeletonlike children Undaunted, the three continued with protruding pale stomachs— for three days until they came to a victims of the dreaded kwashior- refugee camp, where they were re- kor. Although Adiele was neither a ceived favorably by one of the re- baby nor a child, he was, neverthe- lief workers, who made sure that less, separated from his parents they had enough to eat each day. during the quest for life at Okpu- Consequently, David, Selinah, and ala. Adiele was a five-and-a-half- Adiele were never attacked by f oot slender-looking youth of kwashiorkor, a protein deficiency eighteen, who ran without his par- disease that killed men, women, ents, money, or provisions into an and children by the thousands. unknown village in a desperate at- At the refugee camp, David and tempt to escape from the enemy Selinah narrated to Adiele how he bombs. For four days Adiele was had been saved, and they used the on the run without even remem- opportunity to tell him of the sav- bering his dear parents. As he had ing death of Jesus Christ on the not had a bite of food to eat nor a cross. A nominal Adventist, Adiele drop of water to drink, he col- listened attentively to the preach- lapsed on the fourth day by the ing of David and Selinah. "My big bush track. Adiele's condition was mother and father," cried Adiele, a common sight during the war. "this is a miserable life we are liv- Consequently, everybody who ing." He paused, and with quiver- passed by him never even gave a ing lips he continued, "We cannot glance. War, indeed, reveals both survive this war without Jesus. I the selfishness and brutishness of would like to serve Him with all man. When, on the fifth day, my heart." Trembling, he mut- Adiele had given himself up for tered, "If God helps us to survive dead, God sent some help. A child- this war and makes it possible for less Adventist couple happened to me to reunite with my parents, I run through the bush track where shall become an Adventist minis- Adiele had fainted. Struck by the ter." "Amen," echoed David and pathetic sight of this dying youth, Selinah, and they all prayed in they halted and gave him some wa- their tent. ter and then a little food out of Not very long after the above their own provisions in order to incident, the war ended. David, Se- revive him. Encouraged by Adi- linah, and Adiele survived the war. ele's response, David and Selinah, Adiele parted with his "big father the Adventist couple, decided to and mother" in search of his par- take him to a place of refuge, they ents. At an unexpected place and knew not where. time, Adiele was reunited with his No sooner had David positioned family. Rejoicing, they journeyed the weak Adiele on his back, so back to where they had lived, only that they might continue their es- to find that a bomb had leveled their cape to safety, than the enemy home.

TELL IT! THEY WILL ENJOY IT BETTER. 11 APPEAL In spite of their desti- overflow. Today we wish to tell you a story of tution, Adiele never forgot his pledge Christianity at work in Fiji.) to God. Today, he is working his way Mrs. Nasausila writes: through Adventist College of West Thank you so much for the Sab- Africa (ACWA) where he is training bath School Picture Rolls you sent to become a minister of the gospel. us. These have all been distributed Adiele is one of many survivors of to the many Branch Sabbath the civil war working their way Schools that our Dorcas Welfare through college at ACWA. They all women have organized. Two Pic- depend on the college to provide work ture Rolls were sent to Lambasa, for them. Unfortunately, the work on the Fijian island of Vanua opportunities at ACWA are limited, Levu, where a new church was re- because there are no funds to develop cently organized, resulting from a industries. You can help the Adieles Branch Sabbath School. Let me of ACWA fulfill their pledge to God tell you a little more of how it all by giving liberally to help this school, happened. so that these dedicated youth can ob- In Fiji an army of over 1,500 tain Christian education. Our over- Dorcas Welfare members con- flow will build an assembly hall, which stantly goes from village to village is much needed. God can help us sup- looking for those whom they can ply these needs. Let our prayer be, assist. A group of them, returning 'Help us to fulfill our pledge." from a village eight miles from Lambasa where they had distributed clothing to those in need, noticed among the children they SABBATH, FEBRUARY 10 passed a nine-year-old girl who was wearing a torn, discolored Christ's Methods Are Still dress. All the other girls wore neat Unsurpassed uniforms. Approaching her, one of the women asked, "Are you going by Naomi Nasausila home from school, or have you (na-sá-see'la) been fishing?" "From school," she said. [A native of Fiji, though born in New GuInca to "Then why don't you wear a missionary parents, Naomi was trained in Fulton uniform like all these other girls?" Missionary College, Fiji. After gaining experience teaching in elementary schools, Naomi asked the woman. was called to the staff of the Fulton College "My father is blind and cannot to lead out in teacher training. For several work. Mother cares for us all. We years now she has been fully occupied with cannot afford uniforms." Dorcas Welfare work in Fiji. The government sponsored her on a trip to England for a six- The women had a brief confer- month welfare training course in 1971.] ence, then decided to visit this (Note: Several times during the quarter it home. On the way they bought is our plan to bring you reports from other divisions that benefit by our weekly offerings some food. On arrival they discov- to missions other than the division to which we ered the mother, suffering from a shall devote our Thirteenth Sabbath Offering high fever, struggling to prepare

12 WORLD MISSION REPORT the evening meal for the family. ready to collapse. The old man The women smilingly presented was a lay preacher in a Protestant the food they had bought, pre- church. Sensing the opportunity to pared it for the family, then pro- demonstrate their love for these ceeded to clean up the house and needy ones, the Dorcas Welfare give the mother some simple treat- women organized a project de- ments. signed to bring spiritual and physi- A few days later, they returned cal help to these people. with three new uniforms for the First they needed materials. Sev- girl and extra clothes for the other eral calls were made for donations. members of the family, including Pastor J. L. Lansdown, along with the blind father. They were all the mission carpenter and three most grateful. The women taught men, looked after building opera- the children some choruses. At the tions. Mrs. R. F. Stokes, the wife request of the father, they re- of the manager of the Rarama turned on Sabbath afternoon for Publishing House, with local assist- more. This was the beginning of ance conducted a Vacation Bible the Branch Sabbath School that School. Three other ladies ran forty-five children and eleven health and cooking classes for the adults attended regularly. This has village women, while three more now developed into a new church cared for the cooking for the en- at Lambasa. Thank you for that tire group. Then at night Pastor Picture Roll. It helped greatly. Lansdown, the evangelist, The Advent message had never preached. Tracts and Voice of been preached on Mbengga, an- Prophecy lessons were distributed. other small island in the Fiji This was real coordinated evangel- • group. This is the home of the ism. famous Fijian fire walkers. How Finally the completed house, does one break into an area where furnished by the Dorcas Welfare superstition and devilish practices women, was handed over to these are still so firmly entrenched? The needy people. They accepted it Dorcas Welfare workers found a with tears of joy. way. Loaded with forty-two sacks The village chief remarked, • of clothing, they landed on this "All the other churches have small island and systematically visited our island, and some of visited every home in ten villages, them have seen these needy peo- leaving tracts, lessons one and two ple, but only the Adventists have of the Voice of Prophecy course, done something about them. This and where needed, clothing. The house will continue to preach year village folk welcomed the visitors after year. This gift of love is • warmly. tangible evidence of what you be- In one of the villages, they dis- lieve and teach." covered an elderly couple and also And so in village after village a woman with six fatherless chil- where once Adventists were told dren living in a home that was in no uncertain terms that they

TELL IT! THEY WILL ENJOY IT BETTER. 13 were not welcome, today the scene School members to give liberally of is entirely changed. These demon- their financial blessings for the strations of what the apostle James work of soulsaving in other coun- described as "pure religion and tries. undefiled" are melting hearts. The The three incidents of giving Fijian Government, kept informed cited in our story today tell of in- of our work, has expressed its ap- dividuals who sacrificed in order preciation in many ways. to have something to give. May we Fiji needs your prayers. There too be stimulated to give more are strongholds of evil yet to be sacrificially. taken. The members of our church What would you do were you to there are working in every possi- inherit a large sum of money? No ble way to spread the good news doubt you would pay your tithe, of a risen and soon-coming Christ. perhaps donate an amount to some worthy project, and then probably PP r 11, Our weekly offerings start thinking about your own support the work in every area of the needs. You could not be judged for world, including the islands of the that. You inherited the money. It's South Pacific. Let us give generously all yours to do with as you choose. week by week, not forgetting the spe- However, there is someone who cial projects to benefit from the offer- acted differently. ing overflow on March 31, thirteenth While the Knoppers were serv- Sabbath. ing in the Congo, money was needed to start Gift Bible Evangel- ism. As is often the case in mission fields, there are many projects, SABBATH, FEBRUARY 17 many plans. How to finance them always presents a major problem. Sacrificial Giving One day this missionary family received a letter from a retired liter- by J. T. Knopper ature evangelist in the Nether- lands. Because of her few years of service, barely fifteen years, this [Pastor Knopper was born in Holland and graduated in 1953 as a ministerial student. He woman's sustentation was not very • served ten years as the Netherlands Union much. Because of ill health she publishing department secretary. From 1963- had to quit her work as a litera- 1971 he was in mission service as departmental secretary for the Congo and Tanzania Un- ture evangelist, which she loved ions in Africa. He now serves as publishing very much. In her letter she men- department secretary of the Northern Europe- tioned that she had decided to do- West Africa Division.] nate an inherited sum of money to Wherever a mission report is a worthy project in the mission given, it is an appeal for giving. field. She hoped the Knoppers In the home fields as well as in would suggest one. Another mis- the mission fields, the story is sup- sionary also received a similar let- posed to encourage Sabbath ter from her, because the amount

14 WORLD MISSION REPORT of money was so considerable that literature evangelist did his work more than one project could bene- faithfully from door to door. Holy fit from her gift. In the Congo it angels surrounded and protected was not difficult to find a suitable him. He sent the proceeds from his project. They informed her about sales to Tanzania where, as a re- their lack of funds for the Gift sult, many came to a knowledge of Bible Plan. As a former literature the true God. Easy? Close your evangelist, this plan appealed to eyes for a moment and think her very much. She sent the about what you could do if you money, and the mission was able were blind! to purchase hundreds of Bibles. One Sabbath a program about They well remember the Sabbath the work in Africa was given. The when these Bibles and the lay existing needs for soul-winning en- members were dedicated in the tri- deavors were emphasized through angle church of Lubumbashi. The films and slides. As a result a gift Bibles were taken to many homes, of nine pounds (about $22) for even into prisons, for evangelism. missions was received from a young How successful was this project, boy, 13 years of age, who was and what were the results of this studying at one of our schools. sacrificial gift? Many souls were Fully aware of the fact that this baptized—men and women whose particular family was not rich, the lives continue to bear testimony missionary inquired from the lad that whatever we give unreservedly about the background of his gift. to God bears fruit sevenfold. By doing odd jobs at school he had While serving in Tanzania the managed to earn and save the • Knoppers received a letter from a money which was his contribution retired literature evangelist, 70 to missions—an excellent begin- years of age, who was blind. He ning for a lad. His desire was to wrote that he felt impressed to sell become a minister of the gospel. literature again and had decided that all the earnings should go to APPEAL We may not all be the mission field in Tanzania. He fortunate enough to inherit a legacy, . wanted to know whether they had nor may we all be able to sell books any particular project for which or do odd jobs in a school, but we can they could use the money. Gift all do something and sacrificially do- Bible Evangelism, evangelism, and nate the results to the Lord's work. medical work for the Masai in It is not so important how much we Tanzania, free literature for distri- give, important as that may be, but bution by our literature evangel- rather what we do in order to give. , ists—these were some of the proj- What are we going to do this quarter ects mentioned in reply to this to expand the educational work for gracious offer. our young people in fields where they Selling literature and talking to have found it impossible to do it people about the love of Christ themselves? Northern Europe-West Af- and the work in Africa, this retired rica looks to us for help.

TELL IT! THEY WILL ENJOY IT BETTER. 15 SABBATH, FEBRUARY 24 father, leading his blind, deaf, and dumb child, came to a village near an Adventist community. Here he Through Drought and obtained some food and work. He Famine stayed for some months but eventually became ill and died. The vil- by Negash Motbainor lagers took the man's body and the blind girl to the cemetery. There [Pastor Negash Motbainor is the president of they buried the body and left the the Northwest Ethiopia Field. Trained as a girl by the grave, because they were minister at the Ethiopian Adventist College, afraid of the disease they thought he entered upon his work as a chaplain of the Empress Zauditu Memorial Adventist Hospital she had. in Addis Ababa. He served as a district pastor Fortunately, an elder and a dea- and now is president of the field.] con of the Seventh-day Adventist (Note: The overflow of the Thirteenth Sab- bath Offering this quarter goes to the North- church came by and saw the girl ern Europe-West Africa Division to improve the sitting alone. They greeted her, educational facilities for England's only Sev- but she did not answer. They enth-day Adventist secondary school and also called to her, but she did not show for the Adventist College of West Africa, Ni- geria. But I wish to tell you today something any sign of hearing them. They about the work of God in the country of Ethi- went to the village and learned her opia, which shares in the benefits of our story. When they realized that the worldwide work that is in part sustained by community would not take care of the twelve Sabbaths' offerings.) her, the Adventists took the girl Adventists are known to be kind- to their homes. They bathed her hearted and helpful. Because of and changed her clothes. They this, the needy frequently come to took turns feeding her. An Ad- them asking for help. God places ventist abroad heard about her His children everywhere on this and he sent money to help her. earth to help others. They always Now she is quite healthy, even have something to give spiritually chubby, clean, and happy. Al- as well as materially. though Mamit (that is what they Some years ago there was a called her) does not see, hear, or drought that continued for seven speak, I am sure that when Christ years in one of the provinces of comes she will be able to express Ethiopia. Naturally, famine fol- herself. lowed. Many people died ; many The Seventh-day Adventist left their homes and migrated to church of Ethiopia did more than distant places. Among the latter help just one girl in this area. was a family with a blind, deaf, Famine and disaster relief funds and dumb daughter. The family from our world organization were was without food and had to flee made available to our members like others. Since they were walk- during this calamitous period that ing, it took several days for them claimed the lives of many. The to reach their destination. Some of continuation of the drought the children died on the way. The prompted the Ethiopian Govern-

16 WORLD MISSION REPORT ment to come to the aid of those who had recently been transferred) affected. Fertile land with an who did not have sufficient crops abundance of rainfall around the to supply their needs. Their pres- year was made available free of ent crop gives promise of being cost. The Ethiopian Union of Sev- sufficient." enth-day Adventists provided APPEAL Isn't it wonderful that transportation, and our people we have an organization so diversified were transferred to a safer place that we can help people across the where they could grow plenty of globe? And on March 31 our world- food. All these people, like Mamit, wide Sabbath School family will join are filled with joy because their in giving to strengthen our educational heavenly Father cared for them work in both Nigeria and England. A during those years of peril. new assembly hall in Nigeria and new Their gratitude and loyalty were facilities at Stanborough School will indicated by the faithful return of soon be monuments to the unity of the tithe from the first harvest. the Sabbath School. Far more impor- The president of the South Ethio- tant, however, will be the memorial in pia Field reports: "Our members the hearts and lives of students who in the Abela district have set an attend these Christian institutions. example for our whole world in the matter of tithe. Most all of us are aware that they have only recently been resettled south of Sodo SABBATH, MARCH 3 because of the continued drought conditions in their home area. This year they have turned in over Give to Keep Our Schools Eth.$1,200 cash and 64 quintals Alive (about 6 tons) of shelled corn as tithe, amounting to over Eth.$2,- by C. 0. Adeogun 500 cash value. "Perhaps you smile at the [C. 0. Adeogun (cide-cYgun) comes from a well- thought of returning tithe to the known Adventist home in West Nigeria. His Lord in this way. In many remote father was the first Nigerian mission president. Caleb Adeogun graduated from the University areas, the people do not have ac- of lbadan and started denominational service cess to markets where they might at the Ede Grammar School (academy). In sell their produce, yet they want to more recent years he has been teaching in the be faithful to the Lord. Our mis- English department of the Adventist College sion usually takes such produce, of West Africa.] sells it as best it can, and uses the "Lord, have mercy on me." This funds as tithe. was all she could ask for, but the "On this occasion, the South Lord strengthened her faith and Ethiopia Field purchased this also healed her of her wounds. corn and so turned it into cash. Young Mary Ajayi (a-jah-yee) They then used the corn to feed lived in Ikosu (i-ko-su) Ekiti (ei- the Gamu Gofa people (refugees kee-tee), in the Western State of

TELL IT! THEY WILL ENJOY IT BETTER. 17 Nigeria. Her parents worshiped Following this they gave her no the living God revealed through food for two days. Poor Mary knelt nature. She had gone to school for a down and prayed, "0 God, please year or two before she went to live speak to my parents. Lord, have with a brother-in-law in a town mercy on me." two miles from her home. There The Lord really had mercy on she had the opportunity of attend- her ; she was completely healed ing an ideal school—the Ikun after a few days. The following (i-kun) Adventist primary school. Sabbath she was the first to arrive The worship periods at the be- at church. ginning and close of the day's This time the father's heart was work, the wonderful instruction touched. He talked with the during Bible classes, the tender mother, and they decided together and loving care of her teachers— to speak to the Adventist minister all of these struck little Mary in a in order to know the source of very special way. their daughter's strong convictions. Before long she was a regular Today, as a result of this girl's member of the children's Sabbath faithfulness her parents and some School, and she loved all the ac- of her other relatives are members tivities very much. She showed of the Adventist Church. such devotion that in 1964, after It is not only the primary attending for a little over a year schools that bring about conver- and a half, she was voted in as the sions and inspire soul-winning en- secretary. deavors like those of Mary, but All this time the brother-in-law also the secondary schools. had been noticing her interests and Young Doja came to the Advent- trying to discourage her, but the ist Grammar School, Ede (e-de), girl would not give in. from a Moslem home, and every- She went home to visit her par- thing about the Christian religion ents during the Christmas break. appeared very strange to him. In her hometown the Adventists Even though a devout Moslem will have a little church, which she was not touch liquor, little Doja had proud to attend on Sabbath. At been so influenced by the city that first her parents thought that she he drank, smoked, and talked care- was just visiting with friends, lessly at a very early age. which was common at Christmas At first adjustment to school life time. But when they learned that was difficult, but he tried, and by she was attending church, they the end of his first year in the were very angry. On her way home school he was a new Doja. one Sabbath she met her father, When he went back home his who had a special whip with parents were proud of their son which he flogged her. When she and the school he was attending. got home her mother applied hot They wanted to know more about pepper to the blisters on her arms our doctrines. Soon Doja was tell- and back. The burn was terrible. ing his parents and a few of the

18 WORLD MISSION REPORT neighbors what he knew of the we had no Adventists within a doctrines of the Adventist Church. forty mile radius of the Adventist Today quite a number of these College of West Africa. Today people are good Adventists. Doja there are more than one hundred has since attended university and baptized members in two organ- is still faithful. ized churches and five companies. The Adventist College of West In addition, many Branch Sabbath Africa held evangelistic campaigns Schools are now springing up since in connection with evangelism the first church was organized. courses. The first of these in 1970 The evangelistic role of our insti- was held in Aiyepe (a-ye-pe), just tution is very vital to our work in six miles from the college. A West Africa. group from a girls' school in that town attended the meetings. One APPEAL Therefore let us give of the girls, Iyabo Odupitan and give until it pains, in order to (o-du-pii-tan), was unique. She de- help the church in this part of the cided to be baptized, but her par- world fulfill its task—that of pro- ents, who belong to another Prot- claiming Christ's second coming. estant church, warned her against this step. They seized her clothes and threatened to stop paying her fees. SABBATH, MARCH 10 Today she is a Sabbath School officer in the Aiyepe company, Blanca's Victory even though her parents carried out their threat. She got a cousin by Tulio R. Haylock to help her with her fees, and when she finishes her secondary [Elder Haylock obtained his Bachelor's and education she plans to train as a Master's degrees at Andrews University and Bible instructor. has served in the organized work for nineteen Even though we all know our years. For the past seven years he has been church schools are working to the Sabbath School and radio-TV secretary of the Inter-American Division.] evangelize our own children, in (Note: This quarter we have been bringing West Africa they have also served you stories of the progress of the work of God as opening wedges for our work. and its needs in various parts of the Northern Europe-West Africa Division, but let me tell But it is sad to say that most of you today a story about the work of the Holy these schools are being taken over Spirit in the life of a young woman in the by the government. Stit41.4 American Division, just one of the coun- As we see these schools slip from tries of the world that benefits by our twelve Sabbaths' offerings.) our hands, which in the past have been the means of winning a large "How happy I am that within percentage of the leaders of our a week I will be baptized and really work, we can thank the Lord that become a member of your there still is room to operate pri- church," said a former nun in an vate institutions. Twelve years ago interview.

TELL IT! THEY WILL ENJOY IT BETTER. 19 Blanca Morales entered a Cath- Blanca then began attending a olic convent when she was 15 years series of meetings held in two dif- old and spent the next nine years ferent homes three nights a week there without returning home, but for a month. During these meet- when she found out that her ings she met a woman who lived mother had become very ill, she only a few blocks away from her. finally requested permission to Very quickly they became friends. leave the convent for three This woman had also been tre- months. mendously impressed by the truths Colombia-Venezuela Union Col- she had learned, but because of her lege is located about ten miles husband's opposition she had not from Blanca's home in the city of been able to study as much as Medellin, Colombia. As part of the Blanca had. Now they encouraged missionary activities of the college, each other to study the Bible more students visited Blanca's neighbor- diligently. They feared that soon hood one Sabbath afternoon to en- they would have no one to help roll interested people in the Bible them. The end of the school year correspondence course. This day was fast approaching, and they felt was to be the turning point in that after the students left no one Blanca's life, even though she did else would continue visiting them. not know it at that time. She did Mrs. Folkenberg, the wife of the not even hear the doorbell when it union president, felt impressed to rang. Instead, her brother an- talk with the theology students be- swered the ring and accepted the fore they left. She asked them invitation to enroll in one of the whether or not they were studying Bible correspondence courses. with anyone whom she could help After studying the first two or during the vacation period. As a three lessons, Blanca's brother de- result, Blanca was brought to her cided to drop the course because home for further studies. he did not care too much for its During this time, Blanca at- teachings. However, Blanca, hav- tended church regularly. Every ing seen the lessons, decided to Sabbath she and her friend and a continue with the course where few other interested people had her brother had left off. She im- lunch together with Mrs. Folken- mediately wrote to the Bible corre- berg, and then in the afternoon spondence school requesting that they studied the Bible for several the lessons be sent to her. hours. Instead of sending the lessons by Every Sunday morning Mrs. mail, they were given to a college Folkenberg went for Blanca to theology student, who took them take her to a Branch Bible to her every week. So eager was School. Because of the prejudice she to learn that only one month in her home it was necessary to later she had completed all three pick her up at a friend's house. courses offered by the school. Bible On Monday morning Blanca study to her was new and exciting. would go to Mrs. Folkenberg's

20 WORLD MISSION REPORT home to study the Bible for an- they have remained strong and true. other two or three hours, and one We solicit your prayers for these youth, time they studied from 10:00 A.M. and we also pray that you will be im- until 3:00 P.M. She always took pressed to give generously not only on copious notes and shared them thirteenth Sabbath but throughout the with her brother who had spent quarter as well so better facilities can three years studying for the priest- be made available for training our hood. At first he was favorably im- young people and for teaching them pressed, but because of consider- about Jesus. able opposition in the home he became discouraged. When the time came for her to SABBATH, MARCH 17 return to the convent, Blanca went to the Mother Superior, who happened to be in Medellin at the Stanborough Secondary time, and requested permission to School stay another month. Later, when the Mother Superior found out by Hugh Dunton what was happening, she wrote to her repeatedly. Once she came to [Hugh Dunton first taught at Stanborough talk with her personally and to School from 1952-1956. After eight years as plead with her to return, but this principal of Seventh-day Adventist Secondary School, Bekwai, Ghana, and of Peninsula Sec- time Blanca told her that she had ondary School, Sierra Leone, he returned to made her decision and that she England, where he taught at Newbold Col- would not be returning. lege before taking up his present appointment A few months later Blanca was in 1966 as principal of the Stanborough baptized and began attending our School.] school to complete her secondary It wasn't quite a little red school- work. house, it was a World War I army Blanca is now in Montemorelos, hut where Stanborough School Mexico, where she is studying in first operated. That was in the one of our schools to become a 1920's, and it was not until 1940 nurse. This experience has not that Elder E. E. White began sec- been very easy for Blanca, because ondary work in what had once her family has practically dis- been the nurses' home for the owned her since she became a Sev- Stanborough Sanitarium. Cramped enth-day Adventist. quarters, shortage of staff, the wail of air raid sirens punctuating les- APPEAL Throughout the vast sons, and all the general shortages Inter-American Division there are of wartime Britain made the early young people who have had tremen- days hair-raising, nerve-racking, dous opposition from parents and yet in retrospect very exhilarating friends when they accept Jesus as their and rewarding. personal Saviour and decide to keep You would like to hear what the seventh-day Sabbath. However, your previous Thirteenth Sabbath

TELL IT! THEY WILL ENJOY IT BETTER. 21 Offering overflow accomplished for and you will hear Swahili spoken Stanborough School. You'd like to by missionary children, French by be taken on an armchair tour of Mauritians and those who picked the new facilities purchased with it up in Mauritius, and various your gifts. You even wonder why English accents. And it's fun to be the school is asking again. But, in in an international community fact, this is the first appeal to the united in ideals. worldwide Sabbath School that Boarding students stick together. has been made for Stanborough Everyone notices the close-knit loy- Secondary School. And about time alty of this group. Pierre is a Mau- too, you'd say, if you could see the ritian boy from a non-Christian school. home who enrolled in the school Stanborough School is the only and became interested in the Ad- Seventh-day Adventist secondary ventist faith. When his brother was school in the whole of Great Brit- unable to pay the school fees, the ain. If you want an Adventist edu- dormitory boys offered to find the cation past grade school in these money to keep this young man in islands, it's Stanborough or noth- a Christian school where his faith ing. So Rona, Lee Garth, and Iris could grow. He completed school a came from Ireland, Graham and baptized Seventh-day Adventist. Gordon from Scotland, Mary from Stanborough School serves the Wales, and many others from British field. Two former students, North and South England. Since Ruth and Irmeli, have entered a Britain is also the headquarters of nearby hospital as nurses. This the Northern Europe-West Africa hospital is one of the newest and Division, the school draws many of finest in the country, and it is an its students from the division of- honor to be accepted there. Re- fice workers' families. Among these cently the front cover of the lead- have been the Maurice Battle and ing nursing magazine in Britain the Pierson families from the carried a color photograph of United States, the Knoppers from Ruth and Irmeli outside the new Holland, the Colthearts from New hospital. These two Adventist girls Zealand, the Cieslars from Poland, appear on publicity material put Ingrid Sundquist from Sweden, the out by the hospital, and Ruth was Harjus from Finland, and the chosen to represent the school of Pedersens from Denmark. Wider nursing at a recent national ca- yet, children who have been edu- reers exhibition. cated in the British system while Two of the present staff first in the overseas territories come to came to the school as students from England to continue. United States non-Adventist homes. They ac- service personnel look for an acad- cepted the faith and after training emy where a Seventh-day Advent- were called to teach in the rooms ist education can be found in Eng- where they were once students. lish east of the Atlantic. Stanborough School serves the Listen in the dining hall queue world field. For the past five years

22 WORLD MISSION REPORT students have collected each have plans, we have land, we have spring over $2,600 in Ingathering students to fill the building that funds. This is especially creditable you are going to help us erect. when you understand that the law Not for decades has there been does not allow people under six- such an interest in Christian educa- teen years of age to solicit funds, tion in Britain. As conditions and the majority of the students darken, parents turn to the light- are under sixteen. It is not just house of the Christian school. They money that it sends—Stanborough are giving sacrificially to make School sends people. dreams come true, but the project Dave Balderstone and Roland is large and the members compara- Karlman were with the relief tively few. We must catch the tide teams in the Nigerian War. Lau- of God's opening providence. rence Read, who served as a science teacher and principal in APPEAL Your money will mean West Africa, has now completed so much, and wherever you are, who medical training and will shortly knows whether one day your son or go overseas again as a medical mis- daughter, grandson or granddaughter, sionary. nephew or niece, will not be training As you listen to these words, Da- and studying here in the renewed Stan- vid Syme is working in a clinic in borough School you helped to build. Debre Tabre, Dr. Norman Gulley Give us the tools and by God's grace is teaching at Philippine Union we shall finish the job. College, and Dr. Brian Jacques is at Loma Linda University. The list is long and the names given are a random sample. SABBATH, MARCH 24 Those rooms where they were once students have not changed In Due Time God Sent very much. A fresh coat of paint Help has done its best to cover the work of time, but much more is needed. , The school has grown; the build- by P. Cieslar ings are cramped and inadequate. [Since 1952, Pastor P. Cieslar has worked for A start has been made on the re- the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, first building scheme, but it cannot go as a pastor-evangelist and then as a depart- forward without your help. We are mental secretary in Poland. Since August, turning away students for lack of 1971, he has served as secretary of the lay activities and radio-TV departments of the space. They are students we do not Northern Europe-West Africa Division.] want to lose. They are students who should not be denied a Sev- "Your heart has been damaged enth-day Adventist education. A far more than the heart of Mr. new dormitory building will en- Blaiberg [the first heart transplant able us to take in those who are patient] ; I see no hope of saving now regretfully turned away. We your life. Because of limited ac-

TELL IT! THEY WILL ENJOY IT BETTER. 23 commodations in the hospital we the evangelistic meetings, she met shall have to send you home, but Mrs. Czubak, who was lying in a it will also be more pleasant for hopeless condition awaiting death. you to spend the last few weeks of Sister Bodnarska sat at her bed- your life among relatives." Such side, opened the Bible, and posed were the words Mrs. Czubak (chu- this question: "Do you want to bak) heard three years ago as she hear words of life and hope?" lay in the hospital after her third The sick woman replied, "For heart attack. An ambulance took twenty-five years I have been her home, and her daughter ar- searching for a strong faith and ranged for the priest to visit her in hope, but it has been in vain. If order to perform the last rites. you can find something in your Mrs. Czubak was going to die, Holy Book that will satisfy there was no doubt about it. The the longing in my heart, one which doctors, relatives, and even Mrs. I have felt since childhood and Czubak herself were well aware of have tried to satisfy without suc- the seriousness of her condition. cess in the Catholic Church and in But the Bible says that God's the pleasures of this world, then I thoughts are unlike man's shall listen with pleasure for I am thoughts, for instead of dying, about to die." through the providence of God, she Through the inspired words of recovered, and at the same time the Bible the invalid was per- found her way to the Advent mes- suaded that God is as merciful to- sage. Three years have passed day as He was in the days of David since Mrs. Czubak became a happy the psalmist. Then Mrs. Bodnar- Seventh-day Adventist. ska knelt by the bed and pleaded Because Mrs. Czubak's experi- with God to heal the sick woman. ence is a very moving one and a With childlike faith she presented witness to what God is able to ac- the case of the poor unfortunate complish for man through man, woman before God. This Samari- the author of this article wishes to tanlike faith and approach had an share the spiritual aspect of the enormous influence upon the sick story with fellow believers around woman. This simple visit resulted the world. in what many later recognized to It was in 1968 that the members be a miracle of God's power. The of the Seventh-day Adventist very next day Mrs. Czubak rose church in Warsaw were involved from her bed and came to the meet- in a strong visitation program. ing. Two months later she was They went out to search for men baptized into the Seventh-day Ad- and women who were looking wist- ventist Church in Warsaw. fully to heaven. While one of the Sister Czubak had been a dedi- members, Mrs. Bodnarska, was vis- cated Roman Catholic. A member iting the homes to talk with peo- of the choir for many years, she ple about God's Word and to ex- had participated regularly in every tend to them invitations to attend church service and had sought to

24 WORLD MISSION REPORT represent the Roman Catholic to participate in every pleasure faith in her daily life. After her that the world had to offer—this marriage she experienced a sad would be her only aim in life. But time. Not only was her married as she returned home, one night life unhappy, but she witnessed a she suddenly realized how absurd contradiction between the words and empty the life was that she and actions of the clergy. Her faith was now leading. With desperate was shaken; nevertheless she still cries and for many sleepless hours attended the church. Her marital she cried to God, "My God, my life deteriorated, and her husband God, why have You forsaken me?" left her. Her constant worry af- But again she returned to the fected her physically, and she be- world and its pleasures. gan to suffer heart attacks. Such is the story of Mrs. Czubak In order to unburden her soul —a broken marriage, the respon- she was advised to make a pilgrim- sibility of raising and educating age to the most holy place in her child alone, disappointment Poland, called Czestochowa (ches- with the clergy and religious life, to-hova) ; there she would find and indulgence in worldly pleas- peace and happiness. She began ures. No wonder that her physical her journey of more than 186 miles and spiritual life were destroyed (300 kilometers), and walked for and that she suffered three heart many days along dusty roads in the attacks ! All the doctors who at- hot sun. After arriving at Czesto- tended her could offer her no hope, chowa she met thousands upon but the One whom the Bible says thousands of people kneeling and shall neither slumber nor sleep slowly crawling upon their knees sent her help just at the right time. toward the Cardinal—reckoned to After she was baptized, Sister be almost Godlike by many of Czubak decided to sell half of her those people. In vain Mrs. Czubak furniture in order to make an of- spent two days on her knees at- fering to God's church. When the tempting to reach that most holy minister visited her one day she place, "The Bright Mountain." spoke of her decision to make such But there were so many people an offering. Then God bestowed that they finally closed the main more of His blessings upon her, gate. It was a great disappointment for the very next day the account- to her, and for many hours the ant from the place where she used thought flashed through her mind to work visited her and told her that she was unworthy of this bless- about a plan of her employers to ing for which she had traveled so increase sick pensions. There were far. With a broken heart she took three categories of pension rights, the train back to Warsaw. and Sister Czubak belonged to the That disappointment was too third category, but now she would much for her; she thought that be advanced to the first category. God had rejected her. In order to This meant that each month she suppress this feeling, she decided would be paid 200 zloty more, and

TELL IT! THEY WILL ENJOY IT BETTER. 25 she would receive back pay for the they realized that there is nothing past two years. The money was like an Ingathering tin with only paid, and she carried it to the a few coins jingling together (put church treasurer with the words, in before leaving home to give one "I am making this offering with a start) for giving one away. great gratitude to God for His a- "Oh, no!" the subway loiterers bundant goodness and His mani- groaned. "It's the God squad!" fold blessings." There they stood, looking as though soap and razor blades had APPEAL May the story that you never been invented . . . as if they have just heard strengthen your faith had just broken out of the Bas- in your heavenly Father and make you tille, or Newgate, or San Quentin, more prayerful and sacrificial follow- after a protracted stay on bread ers of Jesus Christ. Let us remember and water, and had raided the that it pays to witness for God and nearest trash cans for clothes . . . sacrifice for Him. He understands our and by accident had stumbled on a circumstances and awards us accord- third-rate guitar. The older gen- ingly. Our God will never disappoint eration in Britain call them rough- us. necks or "yobbos," but these were not the leather-jacketed sort who went to the steelworks on their motorbikes each morning and came home on Friday with fat wage SABBATH, MARCH 31 packets. No, sir! But they were harmless enough. "But Send Us the Means" All they wanted was to discuss, with the understanding that he who could sound the most "trendy" by D. N. Marshall and permissive and shout the loud- est would be the winner—it being [D. N. Marshall was born in Ulceby, England, deemed "untrendy" to use words where the work in Britain began in 1883. He like God, Christ, Bible, authority, is a third generation member of one of the families who accepted the message in those divine or faith, except possibly in days. He was educated at the University of the form of blasphemy. Hull and has held his present appointment as After a very harassing hour "dis- history instructor at Stanborough Secondary cussion," the Ingatherers went on School since 1968.] their way, heads spinning, but The Ingatherers walked fur- pleased to be free of the stench of tively past those who stood with Indian hemp. their shoulders against the rough- But the words they had heard cast concrete on the other side of still revolved in their minds. It was the subway, somewhere in the ur- the Age of Aquarius, the Age of ban wilderness of south London. Peace . . . what had religion done The young solicitors hoped that in the past but caused wars? . . . they would not be noticed, but And life could only be lived to the

26 WORLD MISSION REPORT fullest on a collective farm or a when they have seen the boarding hippie commune. . . . Again and facilities for the first time, their again they said that we were living child's "home" away from home. in the Age of Peace . . . peace, The education is good, staff peace, peace! members are well qualified, and we But the Scriptures say, "For have a good atmosphere—all these when they shall say, Peace and things despite dry rot in the wood- safety; then sudden destruction work, the stiff neck one gets from cometh" (1 Thess. 5:3). sitting near classroom windows in Our task is to prepare these, the winter, the stream of water that youth of the secular city of this runs down the staff room wall advanced Western society of ours, when it rains, daylight through to meet their God. the roof, and the "tin tabernacle" What did we have to offer? In used for an assembly hall. Britain the two worlds are moving Generations of teachers and pu- farther and farther apart; the gulf pils have prayed. We have built is widening. The pressures on our scale models of that school of the own sons and daughters studying future. We pray again: "0 Lord, in state educational institutions, the souls are here, the spirit, the from grade school to college and willingness, the determination. 0 university, are increasing and are Father, send us the means." The incredibly strong and insidious. authorities tell us the building is We all know about the teen a fire hazard, a health hazard, a drain from the church, and most danger to life and limb. Her Ma- of us recognize that Adventist jesty's inspector of schools con- schools are the answer. But in the tinues to accord us recognition as entire British Union we have only a first-class school, "But your build- one secondary school. ings !" he says, "How do you man- Stanborough School is idyllically age?" We look embarrassed and set on the rolling grassland of a pray that before the Lord comes a large park, interrupted only by representative building may be clumps of cedars and evergreens, erected. But years pass. and thickly surrounded by woods Quarter after quarter Britain's and orchar&. But the buildings? offerings go out to lands afar to Ah, yes ! Well, you see, we usually build or replace schools, and she do not talk about them. Today will prays for her turn. The influences have to be an exception. of the secular city encroach. Souls The rambling main building are being lost. But still we turn was built in an era long past, when away students every year. "No even the elementary requirements room." The gulf widens. Britain for utility and durability were given needs a proper school. Today, we scant consideration. Its life-expect- pray again: "Our Father in hea- ancy now is certainly less than ten ven, we want the work in these years, but it has been crumbling for British islands to go forward, not thirty. We have seen parents weep backward."

TELL IT! THEY WILL ENJOY IT BETTER. 27 APPEAL This quarter it will EXTRA ARTICLE be our privilege to strengthen the educational work at our Stanborough [To be used as superintendent School by providing proper facilities sees fit.] for the training of our youth in Eng- land who will take their place in the Fruitful Witness in work of the church and prepare a Norway people for the coming of the Lord. by Paul Frivold The souls are here, the spirit of sacrifice, the determination, but we plead: [Pastor Frivold is principal of the Norwegian Please send us the needed means. Bible Correspondence School. He started his Amen. Who will answer this plea? Yes, work in the denomination as a publishing secretary in 1934. He has served as secretary- all of the Sabbath Schools around the treasurer in the North Norway Conference, be- circle of the world this quarter, let us yond the Arctic Circle, later as evangelist, and each do our part to send the means. then as its president. Later he held the position of president of the West Norway Confer- ence and then served in the same capacity in the East Norway Conference. Later he worked as the lay activities secretary of the West Nor- dic Union, comprising Denmark, Norway, and THIRTEENTH SABBATH the Faroe Islands.] A young Seventh-day Advent- March 31 ist, Gerhard Rodal, worked in an electrical equipment factory in Suggested Program Oslo, Norway. Here he shared his faith in a way that eventually 9:15- 9:29 Inspirational song service. brought astonishing results in souls 9:29- 9:30 Program participants enter. 9:30- 9:34 Silent prayer and opening song. won for Christ. The effect of his 9:34- 9:36 Prayer—brief, remember the mis- influence has been like rings from sion field to benefit from the a stone thrown in the water, and offering overflow. 9:36- 9:59 Special thirteenth Sabbath mis- we expect to see still greater re- sions program—usually the adult sults in the future. and/or not more than two of the A young man from Switzerland children's divisions participate. by the name of Fritz Ziircher came 9:59-10:37 Class period—six-point program, 7 minutes (including taking of to Oslo and got a job in the same lay-activities report, 2 minutes, factory where Gerhard worked. and brief tie-in with last week's Day by day as they worked together lesson). this young stranger from Switzer- 10:37-10:40 Closing exercises—close promptly. land noticed our brother's conduct. Note: Posters, announcements, and/or bulle- He was always friendly, polite, and tin inserts provided free by the conference an- nouncing the thirteenth Sabbath projects may considerate. During lunch breaks be used. Plan all details of your program early he noticed that our brother always —at least two weeks in advance. Instruct divi- bowed his head in silent prayer sion leaders whose children are participating so before he ate his lunch. He also that each may know the amount of time al- lotted. For additional program material see noticed that our brother was ab- Children's Edition, World Mission Report. sent from work every Saturday. He

28 WORLD MISSION REPORT asked Gerhard whether this had down his name and address. something to do with his religion, Bjarne, the young man, read what and this gave our brother the op- was on the slip of paper, but his portunity to share his faith. He in- first impulse was to throw it away. vited Fritz to Sabbath School, However, he decided he would where he was captivated by the read the references in the Bible Bible study. After a couple of when he got home. This he did months, Fritz was ready for bap- and his interest was aroused. One tism. night he decided to look up his As a happy Seventh-day Advent- new friend. He found Fritz at ist with the first love in his heart, home, and they soon got into an he wrote home to Switzerland to interesting Bible study that lasted his sister, Anna, a registered nurse, till late that night. Fritz invited and invited her to come to Norway. his new friend to attend church She responded and came to Oslo with him. To make a long story and soon got a job as a nurse in a short, after a few months Bjarne large hospital. Fritz shared his new- also was baptized. He is a good found faith with his sister. About singer and serves the church with three months later he had the joy his beautiful solos. Some of his of seeing her join the church. Anna songs are on records and are en- worked for some time in our clinic joyed by many. in Oslo after having joined the Bjarne's brother Karl was study- church. But she felt a burden for ing pharmacology at the University her mother back home in Switzer- of Oslo. Happy in Jesus and his land. She therefore decided to go newfound faith, Bjarne visited his home and share with her the won- brother and sister-in-law and derful truth both she and Fritz had shared his faith with them, but found. Before long the mother also nothing seemed to happen. His was ready to join the church and brother completed his studies and is now a happy Seventh-day Ad- moved to a little village forty miles ventist. away. Bjarne visited them from One afternoon as Fritz was wait- time to time, and they continued ing for the tram on his way home to study Bible truths together. from work in Oslo, a young man For a period Bjarne went home stood beside him also waiting. They to visit his mother and sister in talked together about world condi- North Norway, shared his faith tions, and the conversation turned also with them, and brought them to the prophecies of the Bible. along to a series of public meet- Fritz felt that this young man was ings. Both his mother and sister responsive to the subjects they had have now been baptized. discussed. He hastily wrote some Meanwhile the Holy Spirit Scripture references on a slip of worked on his brother Karl and paper and suggested that the young his wife, and one night they visited man read them in his Bible when the elder of our church and told he reached home. He also wrote him that they wanted to be bap-

TELL IT! THEY WILL ENJOY IT BETTER. 29 tized and join the church. They what we want to know is why so are now both active church mem- many neglect such an opportunity bers, and he is the leader of the to do their part for missions. young people's society in the SUPERINTENDENT: The questions church. Their 15-year-old daugh- are getting more difficult. I sup- ter has also been baptized. pose we might say their heart isn't Fritz Ziircher, feeling a call for in the work—after all, we're told the ministry, went home to Swit- that "where your treasure is, there zerland and took ministerial train- will your heart be also." ing at our college in Austria. He JUNIOR GIRL: Could the main is now engaged in the work of sav- problem be that we lack the love ing souls in a larger capacity as he we should have for God? engages in the ministry. SUPERINTENDENT: Well, I'm sure there is some truth to that. APPEAL As you can see, the JUNIOR GIRL: Why do we lack story of souls won as a result of a this love, this closeness to God? young man's witnessing for Christ in SUPERINTENDENT: Most people a factory in Oslo is not finished. would blame our love for the It is for the education of youth such world, I'm sure. as these that we invite you to give lib- JUNIOR GIRL: We have come up eral offerings Sabbath after Sabbath. with another reason. We ran across the statement that says, "To know Him is to love Him." Could it be that we fail to study our Bibles Dialog: To Know Him enough, or fail to get out in na- by Juanita Boyce ture in order to gain a better understanding of God? JUNIOR GIRL: (su- SUPERINTENDENT: You're right, perintendent's name), we juniors I'm sure. If we truly loved God, we have been having a discussion re- would want to please Him in every garding our Thirteenth Sabbath way to demonstrate our love and Offering and have decided to seek devotion. your advice. Do you think church JUNIOR GIRL: Right. We juniors members give a sacrificial gift for plan to spend more time in getting this special offering? acquainted with God, and if mem- SUPERINTENDENT: That is a dif- bers of the adult Sabbath School ficult question to answer. We can will do the same, surely we will be sure some people do deny self double or even triple our Thir- and sacrifice to advance the work teenth Sabbath Offering. Because in mission lands, but not everyone. to know Him is to love Him. To JUNIOR GIRL: We agree, but love Him is to serve Him.

30 WORLD MISSION REPORT Where Do You Walk? OUR YOUTH

by Esther Hirst In England and Nigeria Where do you walk, my brother dear? by Stanley Cambridge What pathway for your feet? Do you now take the broad highway— The church with anxious hearts looks to our The bright-lit noisy street? youth, So many choices we must make! Our youth look to the church, and rightly so, Sometimes it's hard to know That they the Word might search, God's will Just which path is the right one— to know. The way that we should go! We long to see them stand foursquare for The broad way seems so crowded, truth. And it's dangerous—beware— For there are pitfalls for the feet Their schools appeal for help to meet a need, Of all who travel there! And to this urgent call shall we give heed? The jostling crowd is careless, and Our vision for their work we must extend. Our liberal gifts for this they will expend. They care not where they go- They have been taken captive by These countries both their urgent call now An artful, wily foe. make, They seem to be quite unaware For each desire their youth to learn the way They lost the vantage ground— To reach men's hearts, and so His love It happened as they yielded to display; Enticements of the town! Strong in the Lord to work for His name's sake. There is another path I see, A rocky, narrow trail. Our youth when rightly trained, a power for The travelers who are walking there good will be, Seem weary, worn, and pale. Their care God has entrusted thus to you and Their clothes may not in fashion be, me; Their hair not quite in style, Our duty's plain, to sacrifice we will not shirk, But they'll soon be home together Do we not long to see the finish of His work? In just a little while! Privations of the trail seem small When weighed with things above. They're trusting in their Father's care And resting in His love!

Where do you walk my brother dear? The Thirteenth Sabbath What pathway for your feet? Are you finally getting ready Offering overflow for the The precious Lord to meet? When our time on earth is over, Second Quarter, 1973, will And our work for souls is done, Will you be satisfied, my friend, go to the Inter-American With those that you have won? When Christ Himself doth gather in Division. All peoples, not a few, It is my prayer that you'll be there To walk the earth made new!

Issued quarterly by the Seventh-day Adventist Sabbath School Department, Washington, D.C.

PRINTED IN U.S.A. GREENLAND MISSION Northern Europe- West Africa Division

STANBOROUGH SCHOOL \\WEST NORDIC ICELAND FINLAND CONFERENCE WEDISH BRITISH

LONDON POLISH c-NETHERLANDS Church S.S. Unions Population Churches Membership Membershm•

British 57,301,080 138 12,225 12,330 Finland 4,770,000 50 5,356 5,318 Netherlands 13,000,000 43 3,380 2,418 Polish 32,000,000 119 4,156 4,929 Swedish 8,350,000 60 3,808 4,284 West Africa 85,123,582 351 48,370 129,537 West Nordic 8385,609 130 9,393 8,702 Iceland Conference 203,442 7 493 576

Division Totals 209,133,713 898 87,181 168,094

IFIgures as of 3rd Cltr. 19711 •Ftgures as of 4th Cltr. 1971.

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