Canadian Union MESSENGER
Volume XXXVIII, No. 23 Oshawa, Ontario December 1, 1969
Millions Will SEE and HEAR! Canadian Networks Promote Ingathering Coast to Coast
From Victoria, British Columbia, on the Pacific coast, across the thousands of miles of Canada to Goose Bay, Labrador, on the Atlantic, the Canadian Broadcasting network will tell the Ingathering story by television and radio for an entire month this fall, beginning November 15 and continuing through December the 15th. Every Canadian Broadcasting Corporation outlet, and the stations affiliated with the network, will be giving the Ingather- ing message, free of charge, by colour television movies, colour slides, and radio spot announcements. This will give a complete coast-to-coast coverage of all provinces in Canada during the height of the Ingathering season. When it was discovered that the network was willing to give this public service to the Ingathering appeal, J. 0. Iverson of the General Conference Audio-Visual Services and W. E. Kuester discussed with CBC officials the type of material needed for their network coverage. This material was then produced according to their recommendations. Sent to CBC for the Ingathering promotion was 50 sets of TV clips which are one-minute, colour-sound movies, 75 colour slides for TV, with 135 sets of scripts, and 75 sets of radio announcements. The privately-owned CTV network has also agreed to pro- mote Ingathering as a free public service from coast to coast. This they will do for two weeks, November 15-29. With both of these networks giving public service time it will mean a complete coverage of the entire nation for this special work of the church. We are grateful that God has opened the way for this extensive promotion of the Ingathering appeal. -r-7- 1 W. E. KUESTER, Secretary Radio-TV and Lay Activities Departments Canadian Union Conference Every-Member Participation The Greatest Ever It could well be that by the time In thundered tones unprecedented you receive this issue of the CANA- events proclaim that the end of pro- DIAN UNION MESSENGER you will bation could swoop down upon us have already participated in the 1969 with awful suddenness. This hour Ingathering campaign. It could also demands unparalleled effort now, for be that your church goal has been time is running out. We have much reached. I have arrived at these con- to do in North America and around clusions because of good reports the world before the curtain falls. reaching our office, and from per- Please remember that Ingathering sonal contact with a number of our funds support God's work around the churches. clock. They sponsor hundreds of new It is hardly necessary to call at- missionaries each year. Larger In- tention to the importance of this great missionary undertaking. Through the gathering returns from your field J. W. Bothe years our members have been well will expand and extend God's cause. J. Ernest Edwards indoctrinated in this regard, and it Ingathering rightly conducted doesn't seem to take long for newly-baptized members to sense makes friends, wins souls, heals lepers and savage fire victims, the importance and urgency of the work. In fact, many times teaches in jungle schools, ministers to the under-privileged, our newer members become even more actively involved sponsors mercy airlifts and medical launches. than some members of long standing. If every church member in every conference raised one In my mind there is no concern about reaching our finan- dollar per capita more than last year, an additional $400,000 cial objective. As in past years, our churches and conferences would be raised to meet miraculous openings. will not only reach, but in many cases surpass their goal. My It is truly the greatest single missionary endeavour in the deep concern is regarding every-member participation. church. Only eternity will reveal the hearts that have been We are indeed grateful for the enthusiasm of our faithful spiritually warmed from an Ingathering visit. One home workers, many of them younger members, but how many missed, one business passed, one person slighted may be more blessings will come if this year every member shares significant in the light of eternity. in this all-important work. J. ERNEST EDWARDS, Secretary J. W. BOTHE, President Lay Activities Department Canadian Union Conference General Conference
Thrilling Early Reports It's In The Air I am thrilled with the reports that With CBC and CTV, Canada's are coming to my desk, indicating two networks, telling the story of an early beginning in the Ingathering I ngathering from coast to coast Crusade. A number of churches have across Canada, the Lord has won- already sounded the victory bell! derfully opened the way to alert the Please, brethren and sisters, make public from east to west, and north this the most spiritual Ingathering to south, that we are having a Crusade ever conducted. Each so- campaign. licitor should carry an Interest Report This will doubtless give our so- Pad on which to jot down the names licitors a more favourable reception and correct addresses of people who at many homes — it is encouraging show an interest in our work. The to be told at the door, "Oh yes, I church should then plan for a strong saw your work on TV!" follow-up programme so that those This year over 990,000 Ingather- W. E. Kuester Lay Activities C. C. Weis who are "on the verge of the king- ing papers have been printed for our Canadian Union dom" may be gathered into the fold Canadian campaign. These papers before it is forever too late. have been tailored especially for use in the conferences of We hope and pray that each conference and church will Canada, with Canadian pictures and stories. do its best to reach last year's attainment — plus 5 per cent! Already enrolments are coming in for the Bible Study The Ingathering Crusade has not been organized merely Courses, offered in many different languages. There will be for the purpose of raising funds for God's cause, important hundreds of these enrolments during the time of the campaign. as that may be. This campaign has a much greater reason for Again this year a copy of Signs or These Times is being its existence — the winning of souls for God's kingdom. offered to those requesting it. Already the papers are going Think, brethren and sisters, of the many businessmen through- out to fill requests. out this great North American Division. How are we to The Lord has promised to give us favour with the public as we rightly approach people concerning His work. May this reach them with this message? The Ingathering Crusade be our greatest Ingathering Crusade ever, with the best results presents us with a wonderful opportunity to call upon them in interests found and funds received. and talk to them about the soon-coming of Jesus! W. E. KUESTER, Secretary C. C. WEIS, Ingathering Director Lay Activities Department General Conference Canadian Union Conference
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LITERATURE EVANGELISM t'his is the Vera Work the Lord Would Have His People Do at This Time." 6T. 313 ieretatuze Eciaildecte Exftetieaced One week I asked your prayers for a Skoretz, our minister, and took a lesson Delivery Report for the Month young lady whose husband was not in each week to the new student, sending of October 1969 favour of her becoming an S.D.A. God her completed lesson to the Voice of $ 7,732.55 gave this dear girl courage to stand firm Prophecy for marking. They were fully Alberta 12,850.25 and on June 7, she was baptized. co-operative. British Columbia 6,226.80 The sequence is interesting. Mrs. B. This spring Pastor Skoretz invited Manitoba-Saskatchewan first saw a book in the office of a gyno- Pastor Milliken to hold a series of Maritime 4,976.21 cologist almost two years ago. In the fall meetings in our church and Mrs. B. Newfoundland Ontario-Quebec 23,689.13 of 1967, she sent in the card and I called attended some with us. The ministers at the home. I was told to wait until faithfully visited her and helped her Union 55,474.94 spring. In the spring, they ordered the understand some important points. So Missionary Report for October books to be delivered in the fall of 1968. once again it was the combined efforts of Calling in the fall, I noted in Mrs. B. a the colporteur, the Bible Course and the 1969 deeper interest in the things of the spirit ordained ministry all used by the Holy Literature distributed 2,762 and though they still couldn't get the Spirit to bring the needed help to a Bible School Enrolments 350 books, she almost hungrily enrolled in humble searching soul. Interested persons 6 the Voice of Prophecy Faith Course. I J. F. DINSDALE Homes prayed in 327 secured a complete set from Pastor Ed Ontario-Quebec Conference Bible studies 111 Change of Schedule for "Sabbath" Ship Visiting Pitcairn Island Pitcairn Island, that tiny spot of land ham radio rig, VR6TC, with Eddie company, and a direct telephone call in the trackless Pacific Ocean, leaped into Pullen, engineer at The Voice of Prop!, from a government aide in Fiji to the news columns around the world recently ecy headquarters in Glendale, California, company headquarters in New York City because its people chose to ',onour the on K6DTT. During his first schedule in behalf of the Pitcairn people. Sabbath day! which followed reception of the news Finally the word came from New York In September Tom Christian, radio clipping, Christian made a request: to Glendale; and on Tuesday, October 7, operator on the island, received a news "Eddie, could you get someone to from the ham radio room at The Voice clipping that the luxury passenger liner, appeal to the shipping company either to of Prophecy, Eddie Pullen talked to Tom the S.S. United States, was going to make advance or delay the arrival of the S.S. Christian: its first cruise into the Pacific Ocean in United States? Our people won't sell "The American President Lines say January of 1970. Tom noted that the curios during the hours of the Sabbath, they are definitely delaying the arrival of first stop of the vessel was to be at Pit- and if we don't it will probably disappoint the United States at Pitcairn until after cairn on the morning of January 31, 1970 the passengers because they've surely sundown on Sabbath, January 31," he — a Sabbath! heard about our curios." reported. "There will be up to 1,900 Because the Pitcairners' only way of The Voice of Prophecy made an ap- passengers aboard, so the Pitcairn people earning money is by selling curios to peal to the American President Lines can plan to have the biggest curio-selling passing ships, the news that the ship which owns the vessel, through the Gen- session in their history!" would arrive on Sabbath morning caused eral Conference. At first the steamship Because they chose to honour God's considerable dismay. Except for the company had the impression that the holy Sabbath day, a little band of some schoolmaster and his family from New Pitcairners would sell curios on Sabbath 80 people on a tiny isle in the Pacific Zealand, all the people on Pitcairn are — that the only time they would not was Ocean changed the plans of a giant members of the Seventh-day Adventist during their actual worship service hour. American shipping company! faith. Further information cleared up that HERBERT FORD Each week, on Tuesday afternoon, misunderstanding. Then followed a cable Public Relations Director Christian has a radio schedule on his from the Pitcairn people to the shipping The Voice of Prophecy
Official Organ of the CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE of Seventh-day Adventists, Carl Klam. 1141dia 11 ( .1/101/ Editor; Pearl I. Browning, Associate Editor. President, J. W. Bothe; Secretary-treasurer, Carl Klam. Departmental Secretaries: Publishing, 0. A. Botimer; Sabbath School and Lay Activities, W. E. Kuester; M:ssionary Volunteer, Educational and Temperance, M. E. Erickson; Public Affairs, D. L. Michael; Medical, E. A. Crawford, M.D. Issued biweekly. Subscription price $2.00 a year. Second class mail registration number 0912. Printed by Maracle Press Limited, Oshawa, Ont.
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