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Good Timing free to contact us for more informa- The Review applauds this appeal and What incredible timing the Lord has! I tion. For more information on the would like to report on this church a year just received the area, go to the chamber of commerce from now.—Editors. April 8 World website at www.pagosasprings.com, Edition and am which will also link you to the local amazed at how the newspaper and area real estate agents. Why So Late? Lord moves. We just Looking forward to some new Yesterday, April 12, I received the moved to a new friends in Christ! April 8 issue of the Review. I have town in Colorado read it from cover to cover. I enjoyed where the local —Gina Dalrymple all the articles, especially Roger Adventist church is struggling with 406 ELK D RIVE, PAGOSA S PRINGS, Morton’s “Mighty Manila Miracles”— three members. There is a very nice C OLORADO 81147 how the work is going forward in the church building (built by Maranatha P HONE: 970-731-0016 Philippines. about 20 years ago) that could easily seat E-MAIL: GINAD AL@JUNO. COM However, if I remember correctly, a couple hundred people, but it is almost empty. The Lord has been prompting me to reach out somehow and tell others what a great opportunity we have here, but I wasn’t sure where to start. Your cover story (Richard Utt’s “One”) was definitely an inspiration, and you have given us the opportunity through the Review to make our needs known (see Roy Adams’ sidebar). We are hoping to entice some brothers and sisters to move here and help make a difference. Pagosa Springs is one of the most beautiful places on earth. Every day I thank the Lord for bringing us here. The climate is mild compared to the rest of the Rocky Mountain area. The people are friendly, and the crime rate is minimal. Most of the locals appreci- ate nature, a good diet, and natural healing methods. The town is blessed with mineral hot springs and many days of sunshine. It is a wonderful place to retire, start a business, or raise a family. So please, if you hear the Lord call- ing you to a mission field, consider Pagosa Springs! There is plenty of work here for any willing soul. Feel

2 (762) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 you said we should get the weekly Another Healing Review by the date on the cover—yet I can strongly attest to Dr. Everett I received the April 8 issue four days Coleman’s restating that “the medical later. This is a standard type of thing. work is the right arm of the three And an advertisement on page 4 pro- angels’ messages” (see “The Healing,” motes the “NET ’98 Update” to be Mar. 8). COVER STORY held on April 7. This makes no sense. I could tell a long story spanning four years concerning the Washington 22 Rainbow Over Hell He never forgot the scene. It spoke —A. Bruce Knutson Sanitarium, then a large frame build- to him of God. B ARRE, VERMONT ing (now Washington Adventist BY R OY A DAMS Hospital), and the wonderful doctors Our mailing date is one week before the whose offices were then in the hospi- ARTICLES issue date. Because we have only one dis- tal. One of the doctors was my first tribution point—the Review and Herald personal contact with an Adventist. I 8 Your Legacy Publishing Association in Hagerstown, thought to myself, These people are dif- What will people think about you Maryland—we can’t guarantee that all ferent from the mainstream one usually when you’re gone? subscribers will receive the magazine by meets in the world. That first encounter, BY L INDSAY J OHN L AW S the issue date. Your frustration is under- followed by an unusual chain of cir- standable.—Editors. cumstances, eventually culminated in 12 How to Care for a Caregiver my being baptized into the Seventh- Even when you think they don’t need it. day Adventist Church in 1959. When Students Break the BY C OLLEEN L. REECE Rules —Jane Cornelius 14 Exiled! In his April 8 Faith Alive! column S ILVER S PRING, MARYLAND They did God’s will, even when (“Doing the Right Thing”), Calvin their lives were controlled by their Rock was asked what teachers in our enemies. schools should do when they know Growing Churches (cont.) BY B ARBARA H UFF students are violating “rules” of the Alfred C. McClure’s “Growing school. I feel that a much more Churches” (April NAD Edition) DEPARTMENTS positive and less legalistic answer is reminded me of how, when I was in 2 Letters in order. college, we used to go to the small 7 Give & Take Instead of “[conversing] with stu- area churches to preach, teach, and dents individually regarding their atti- provide music. I do hope this is still 11 Bible Questions Answered tudes and actions,” invite them to your being done. 17 Adventist World Radio home on Saturday nights for games, We used to hear a lot about plant- 18 World News & Perspectives popcorn, homemade fudge, or ice ing or spawning new churches. Over cream, or a light buffet supper. Really the past few years, as my wife and I 28 Faith Alive! get acquainted with your students in have traveled in various parts of the 29 Bulletin Board

an informal setting. Give them some country, we have visited some of these IGITAL COMPOSITE

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ers feel that outside of the class- verge of closing. EDITORIALS HOTO room, they have no responsibility as We need to remember that in P far as their students are concerned. planting, you also need to water and 5 Implications of It is stimulating to have a group of cultivate. Our large churches get larger the Incarnation young people in one’s home and, I because of all the “advantages,” and 6 An Unjustified Defense daresay, a vigorous Bible discussion the small dry up. We need more “home will ensue. missionaries.” It does take sacrifice, ACKGROUND PHOTO BY NEXT WEEK / B Adults, even teachers, have a great and I will readily admit I find it a NOTT deal to learn from the youth of today. struggle myself. A Room of Their Own K ILL

Many are deep thinkers. We all like to worship together with those B —Ray C. Myers with whom we have things in common. —M. Ellen Hardin M YRTLE C REEK, OREGON S COTTSDALE, ARIZONA OVER PHOTO BY C

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4 (764) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 EDITORIAL Implications of STEPHEN CHAVEZ the Incarnation

suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. Whenever someone times of solitude, away from the stress of nonstop activity, mentions the pathetic lack of an Adventist presence still He was always “on call,” always available. Because Jesus in most of the world’s largest cities, as Ron Halvorsen cared about them, people knew that God cared about them. did in “Cities Under Siege” There was a time when (January 1999), the Review Adventists in North America Igets letters. A significant number of believed that sending missionaries to those letters cite Ellen White’s Jesus was always foreign countries was unnecessary, counsel regarding the benefits of that they could fulfill the gospel country living and the dangers of “on call,” always commission to “every nation and living in the cities. tribe and language and people” (Rev. Although almost everyone con- 14:6, NRSV) within the boundaries cedes that fresh air, open spaces, available. of North America’s great “melting and lower-than-average crime rates pot,” which contained people from are preferable to noise and air pollu- all over the world. But our Adventist tion, congestion, and electronic security systems, the fact ancestors eventually understood that the gospel couldn’t remains that most of the people who need to hear the gospel truly go to all the world unless someone took it there “in the live in the largest cities and metropolitan areas of the world. flesh”; unless messengers were on the ground, learning the Should we retreat to rural areas and abdicate our responsi- language, teaching by word and example what it means to be bilities just because the cities aren’t “nice”? a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ. The same principle As with all of Ellen White’s counsel, her comments applies to working the cities. regarding country living are remarkably balanced. She Someone responded to Halvorsen’s article by asking, “Do wrote: “[God] wants us to live where we can have elbow we have to live inside a garbage can in order to clean it up?” room. His people are not to crowd into the cities. He wants I would respond by asking, Would Jesus have come to earth them to take their families out of the cities, that they may if it weren’t necessary? Would He have left the glories of better prepare for eternal life” (Manuscript Releases, vol. 12, heaven to endure scorn and abuse from His own creatures if pp. 30, 31). That’s the ideal. Yet she also counseled, there were another way to win their loyalty? “Wherever the people of God are placed, in the crowded Before Jesus comes there will never be a time when the cities, in the villages, or among the country byways, there is gospel can be taken to all the great cities of the world with- a home mission field. . . . In every city or settlement where out people who live there doing the taking. I know it’s com- Christians meet to worship God, there are men and women fortable to believe that some satellite radio or TV broadcast and children to be gathered into the fold” (ibid., vol. 6, p. can do the job by proxy, and that all we need to do is 323). That’s the reality. support the work from somewhere in subur- The greatest evidence that we should live in and work bia—or better yet, from a safe distance in the cities as long as we can is found in the life and ministry another part of the state. But part of the of Jesus Christ, and is wrapped up in the word “incarnation.” gospel’s appeal is that it changes people’s For thousands of years God tried to guide His people lives; and the greatest demonstration of from a distance; or, as the writer of the book of Hebrews that is when we care enough to get wrote: “Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and involved with those who have less various ways by the prophets, but in these last days he has than we do—less experience with spoken to us by a Son” (Heb. 1:1, 2, NRSV). Jesus Christ— God, less assurance, less money, less divinity cloaked in humanity—is the truest physical and education, fewer opportunities. spiritual representation of what God is really like. He spoke When people know that we care, the language of the people, ate their food, visited their they can easier believe in a God homes, ministered to their needs. Although He enjoyed who cares.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 (765) 5 EDITORIAL An Unjustified MYRNA TETZ Defense

am mourning. A good friend died last week, and I am challenging years and with those memories, some rewards. going to miss her. It’s hard to say goodbye with more We mailed hundreds of letters, and our father’s walk to the than 2,000 miles separating. mailbox became all we had imagined. The letters he received She was brave. A fighter. were placed in plastic protectors and Confident that God would heal snapped into a notebook for easy Iher. For more than a dozen years she reading and rereading. Whenever we battled that ugly cancer enemy. Then, A thought without called, he’d say, “Guess who wrote at the very last, when breathing today?” And we’d hear portions of became hard, her eyesight dimmed, action is no that important document. and pain overcame, she told a friend Then one early April morning, that if God was not going to heal her just this past spring, a fire demol- she wanted to die. Her indomitable thought at all. ished the house and, basically, the will to live had vanished. Her fight contents. Thankfully, he and his was over. She had lost. wife escaped unsinged. But in a cor- But I am mourning not only the death of my friend. I am ner of the eating area, in a box under a desk, were those let- mourning because I didn’t write very often. Because I should ters—pretty much intact. With some drying and brushing have sent flowers before the funeral. Because the week prior off the ashes, they were readable, back in plastic protectors, to her death I had thought, Bob and I need to call them. But a and snapped again in a notebook. thought without action is no thought at all. Others have modeled for me this thoughtfulness dream. Sure, we called as soon as we heard. We sent flowers for During conneXions ’99 (a conference held here at head- the funeral. We told the family we loved them. But that was quarters for young adults who plan to “spread the gospel to not enough. My inward defense for getting the daily essentials the whole world”) consideration of others was well demon- done while relegating the writing and the phone calls for strated. On Friday morning they feted individuals whom later (when I had time) was unjustified. And I lost. they identified as having “gone beyond.” There were verbal As I thought about what I should have done, I remem- tributes (and a C99 orange T-shirt) for leaders who had bered the resolve of a church school teacher in Williams been especially helpful. But a standing ovation was for Lake, British Columbia (and that was a few years ago). It Francis Norcott, who was in charge of audiovisuals, a- was New Year’s time when she said, “When I think of writ- behind-the-scenes kind too often unrecognized. ing to someone, or calling them, or sending flowers, I’m In our offices ADRA has sponsored a “send a rose” day. going to drop everything and do it right then.” Knowing her We could purchase a rose, write a note, and have it sent to a stamina and fortitude, she no doubt followed through. person in this complex. Although I recoil (unless it’s my A good resolve, I had thought. I’ll do it too. But I didn’t. idea) at this bit of “planning-my-thoughtfulness-for-me,” it’s And I haven’t. And I mourn. pretty obvious I need all the help I can get. There are times, though, when I do participate in (and Ellen (that’s what the conneXions young occasionally instigate) a thoughtful gesture. For instance, a adult presenters called her) suggested that few months ago my sisters and I wrote to the alumni from we need to remember that our characters are Canadian University College who were there during the not finished. “Weave all the kindness, obe- time of our father’s reign as president and asked them to dience, thoughtfulness, painstaking, and send him a letter of memories and encouragement. He was love into it you can,” she wrote.* Her 96, and we knew his walk to the mailbox might become the counsel is good. And she must have most exciting part of his day (except when he was on a lad- written that just for me. der cutting branches off trees in case of fire). Reading and rereading messages from those for whom he gave a portion * Ellen G. White, Our High Calling, of his life would, we hoped, remind him again of some very p. 264.

6 (766) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 ADVENTIST LIFE ISC D A few years ago my hus- HOTO

band and I decided to take © P our 2-year-old daughter, HOTO Avery, to see the Canada P Day fireworks. As we stood with hordes of people watch- ing the show, I looked at Avery to see if she was ex- cited. Sure enough—her eyes were as round as saucers, and GIVE& she had a look on her face of overwhelming shock that I had never seen before. Then, because she couldn’t really talk yet, she started to sing the tune for “Jesus is coming in clouds of pure white to take His children home. I must be ready when Jesus comes, to take His children home.” I really had to hold the tears back—partly because she had understood that Jesus was coming back for us, and partly because I hated to tell her that He wasn’t coming for us right then, when she had so much faith that He was. TAKE At that moment I realized just how much children do learn, and how impor- tant it is for us to teach them the right things from the start. READERS’ EXCHANGE —Kelly Philip, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

In this feature readers request corre- One Sunday morning while our family were driving past a country church, our spondence about a specific topic. (We can 4-year-old daughter, Hilary, asked why all the people were there. We explained use more submissions to this feature.) that they worshiped on Sunday morning. “Oh,” she said. “First-day Adventists.” RECIPES NEEDED: I am a pastor’s —Cheryl Elmendorf, Loma Linda, California wife in Kenya, and I have started a cookery project geared to spreading the gospel. Please share your recipes or cookbooks with me. I urgently SAVING BLOOD need them. PASSOVER LAMB: To help show —S. Chepkoech Bett, c/o Pastor D. K. Bett, South Rift Mission of SDA Church, P.O. Box 1715, the relationship between the Kericho, Kenya, East Africa Passover and the Crucifixion, Barbara Williams, of Nashville, LET’S PRAY Tennessee, submitted this drawing. Have a prayer need? Have a few free minutes? Each Wednesday morning at 8:00 the Adventist Review staff meets to WE NEED YOU pray for people—children, par- Send Give & Take submissions to . . . ents, friends, coworkers. Send Give & Take, Adventist Review, 12501 your prayer requests and, if pos- Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, MD 20904; Fax: 301-680-6638; E-mail: sible, pray with us on [email protected]. Please Wednesday mornings. Let’s include phone number. Submissions will not be returned. share in each other’s lives.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 (767) 7 DEVOTIONAL

Putting popularity, fat bank accounts, and other things like that in their place.

BY LINDSAY JOHN LAWS

HEREVER THERE IS A WILL, THERE An apt observation indeed. For many go through life is a relative,” someone has said. And talk without ever really waking up to what the real issues are. about wealth and property left behind What should occupy our time, for example? What should we stirs up all kinds of emotions. But this be talking about? What should we spend our money on? article is not about money. Nor is it What should we live for? When our lives come to an end, Wabout property or other material things we leave behind. Rather, it’s meant to lead each of us to ask the question: What do I want to be remembered for when I die? It’s a question we must ask in utter serious- ness. According to Numbers 23:10, even a bad man knows the best way to die. “Let me die the death of the righteous,” says Balaam in the passage, “and let my last end be like his!”

The Way We Live You’ve probably heard of the little verse that goes: “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.” Someone has suggested that instead of saying “If I should die before I wake,” the line might well read “If I should wake before I die.”

8 (768) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 for what purpose will we have lived? confrontation and mindless contro- ■ a cooperator or an obstructionist? And for what will we be remembered? versy on looney margins. ■ argumentative or agreeable? In 1996 a very well-known “Yet it can be safely written that ■ judgmental or considerate? Australian radio and television person- when these baying, emotionally inse- ■ compassionate or hardheaded? ality died suddenly. It came as a great cure, desperate creeps (and creepettes) ■ compromising or firm in principle? shock to most. So high was the depart this world, they won’t raise a ■ one who thrives on conflict, or a nation’s respect for him that a memo- public memorial service of the like we peacemaker? rial service in his honor was held in saw at Sydney Town Hall for Olle or ■ one who helps build the church— the Sydney Town Hall. A Sydney the outpouring of community grief of weak and defective as it is—or one who Morning Herald article entitled “The the past two weeks. They will slip into puts it down? Presence Without Pretext” wrote about utter oblivion mourned by nobody of ■ harsh or kind? him as follows: substance, leaving behind a tiny stain ■ extreme or balanced? “The public response to the ABC on the carpet and a faintly bad smell.” ■ one who thinks they’re never (or broadcaster Andrew Olle’s death has seldom) wrong, or one willing to admit stricken the consciences of a lot of Remembered for What? personal shortcomings? media folk, and sent them into a bout I was talking to a young man after a It is possible to choose a life that of introspection. While Olle was a Trans-Tasman Union session, and he will have lasting significance both now decent man, he worked in an industry told me a little of what was going on and after we’re gone. “‘Blessed are the where many of the highly paid ‘big in the senior Sabbath school class in dead who die in the Lord from now names’ are uncommonly common, the local church he was attending. He on.’ ‘Yes,’ says the Spirit, ‘they will rest philistine, culturally depraved, and remarked that there was so much from their labor, for their deeds will fol- intellectually deprived. With their needless discussion on issues such as low them’” (Rev. 14:13, NIV). flashy cars, huge mansions, yachts, perfection and the nature of Christ— second homes by the sea, and vast some had almost lost the nature of What’s the Measure? expense accounts, their lives are dedi- Christ in the discussion—that he Will it be enough to say of you that cated to publicity seeking and ego found himself receiving little in the you made a lot of money, that you read tripping, the very things that Olle area of practical food for Christian liv- a lot of books, that you went to a lot of shunned. On the radio, television, ing. “I now go out to the kindergarten parties, that you were the president or and in the print, they behave like rot- Sabbath school,” he said, “and am manager of a successful operation—or tweilers (many of them look like learning much more about the Bible any other of a number of things so them, too). Whereas Olle’s craft was out there”! many think are most important? Or to seek information and elucidate On which side of the ledger do you will it be that you showed care for peo- important issues, they hunt for fall? Which of the following are you? ple, that you discovered God’s plan for your life, and that you became involved in the essential things that really mat- ter in the long run? Is this what Micah 6:8 had in mind? “What doth the Lord require of thee,” the passage says, “but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.” The person who has discovered the joy of truly living, whose life is rich in friendship and caring for people, and who daily enjoys the pleasures of good food and sunshine, will not need to wear themselves out in pursuit of the kind of success centered in praise or promotion. No fancy car or lofty title could ever match the happiness they know.

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R in Jerusalem, with branches in all the cities of the world. He could have exported to faraway places and perhaps been on a Time magazine cover as LLUSTRATION BY

I “Man of the Year.” But Luke 19:10 says

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 (769) 9 of Him that He came “to seek and to Martin Luther King tried to give his life asked how she became disabled, she save that which was lost.” to serve others, that I tried to love said, “By trying to commit suicide. I Now, please don’t misunderstand. somebody; that I did try to feed the was living alone and had no friends. I We need successful businesspeople. But hungry; that I did try to clothe the hated my job and was constantly is their work to be an end in itself or a naked; that I tried to love and serve depressed. So I decided to jump from means to an end? Wasn’t it William humanity; that I was a drum major for the window of my flat, but instead of Carey, a shoemaker, who became peace; that I was a drum major for being killed, I ended up in hospital, known as a missionary to India? He righteousness. And all the other shal- paralyzed from the waist down. That cobbled shoes only to make a living. low things will not matter. I won’t have second night in the hospital Jesus When you were born, someone has any money to leave behind, or fine lux- appeared to me and told me that I’d said, you alone cried, and everybody urious things to leave behind. But I had a healthy body and a crippled soul, else was happy. So live that when you want to leave a committed life behind . . . but from then on I would have a crip- die, you alone are happy, and every- and that’s all I want to say.” pled body and a healthy soul. I gave body else is crying. Therein is the my life to Christ right there and secret of life. Have you woken up then. When I got out of the hospital yet . . . to what life is all about? And The person I tried to think of how a woman like have you dedicated your time, your me in a wheelchair could do some energies, your money, your all, to good, and I came up with the idea of that which is worth living for? Have who has discovered putting an ad in the paper, and the you woken up to the need to be rest, as they say, is history.” born again, the need to discover the joy of truly Why not, then, let Jesus come God’s plan for your life, and for the into your life? Putting Him first power of the Holy Spirit to give living will not could make it all be different. He direction to your life? can make it different. You may say, When I asked an audience recent- you don’t know my life, my circum- ly what Balaam was remembered for, need to wear stances. No, I don’t. But I do know I was told . . . an ass that spoke. And what God can do. His grace, His what do we remember Judas for? And themselves out mercy, is beyond our understanding, Ananias and Sapphira? And Demas? and He extends it to you. And Diotrephes? Why not take a in the pursuit of Perhaps as you read this article concordance and check each one and look back on your life, you may out? Then look at Hebrews 11. There see that life has not always been you’ll find a different story of the success centered what it should have been. But don’t inspiring legacy many others left be depressed and discouraged. The behind. in praise or fact that you feel bad can be good. I recently read the life story of The realization of our need and fail- Martin Luther King, Jr., of civil promotion. ures of the past can be the first step rights fame, who in his day led many toward a life that can have meaning nonviolent demonstrations in the in Christ. United States. As is well known, King Get a Life God loves us. He promises victory was often threatened. And finally he Have you ever asked yourself, What over every failure. And He is commit- was assassinated. But it didn’t take him am I here for? What legacy will I leave ted to making something beautiful of as a surprise. “Every now and then I behind when I die? our lives. ■ think about my own funeral,” he once Recently a young woman called said. “Every now and then I ask myself Nancy had a disability and was con- what is it that I want said. I don’t want fined to a wheelchair, yet she devel- a long funeral. If you get someone to oped a unique ministry to hurting and deliver the eulogy, tell them not to lonely people. She placed an ad in the talk too long.” local newspaper that read: “If you are “Tell them,” he said, “not to mention lonely or have a problem, call me. I am that I have the Nobel Peace prize. That in a wheelchair and seldom get out. isn’t important. Tell them not to men- We can share our problems with each Lindsay J. Laws is a retired tion that I have 300 to 400 other other. Just call. I’d love to talk.” pastor living in New South awards. That’s not important. Tell them Each week at least 30 calls come in Wales, Australia. not to mention where I went to school. to her, and she spends her day counsel- [But] I’d like someone to mention that ing and comforting people. When

10 (770) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 BIBLE QUESTIONS ANSWERED Jesus’ Other Name ANGEL MANUEL RODRÍGUEZ

hat biblical evidence supports the (Jude 9). This title is mentioned in one other place in the teaching that Michael is another Bible: 1 Thesselonians 4:16, in the context of the second com- name for Jesus? ing of Christ. He returns “with the voice of the archangel,” The name suggesting that Michael is most prob- Michael is used ably another name for Jesus. Wfive times in the Bible to designate a 3. He protects God’s people: Michael celestial being (Dan. 10:13, 21; 12:1; Michael is most is described as the Prince of Israel Jude 9; Rev. 12:7). He is nowhere (Dan. 10:21), the One who protects explicitly identified with Jesus, but probably another Israel (Dan. 12:1). This protection is some Christian writers have equated described in military terms and por- the two by carefully comparing the name for Jesus. trays the Prince as a warrior. In prac- role played by Michael with that of tically all the passages in which He is Jesus. Any comparisons yield not mentioned there is a conflict between only similarities but also dissimilarities, and both should be God’s people and their enemies, and Michael is present to taken into account. We’ll start with the passages in which defend them or fight for them. The protection can also take Michael is mentioned and then broaden the horizon to the form of judgment in which Michael stands up and defends include several passages that are conceptually related to His and delivers God’s people (ibid.). Those are functions of person and experience. Christ in the New Testament and confirm the suggestion that 1. He seems to be an angel: Michael is identified as “one of Michael and Christ are the same person, involved in leader- the chief princes” (Dan. 10:13), “your prince” (verse 21), ship in the heavenly and earthly realms. “the great prince” (Dan. 12:1), and “the archangel” (Jude 4. He is Prince of the heavenly hosts: In Daniel 8:10 there is 9). “Archangel” implies that He is the prince of the angels, a reference to a celestial being who performs the daily ser- suggesting that Michael cannot be another name for Jesus vices in the heavenly sanctuary. There is only one other pas- because He is divine and angels are created beings. sage in the Old Testament in which this being is mentioned. Part of the problem is that the noun “angel” is taken to Joshua had an encounter with a being who identified himself designate a creature, while in the Bible it designates a func- as the “captian [commander] of the host [army] of the Lord” tion. In other words, an “angel” is a being who functions as (Joshua 5:14). He ordered Joshua to remove his shoes a “messenger” of God. In most cases they are created beings, because the ground he was standing on was holy, similar to but there is an exception. God’s apparition to Moses. The context makes clear that this In the Old Testament there are several references to the being was the Lord Himself (Joshua 6:2). This Prince is the “angel [messenger] of the Lord” in which He is equated with same person called in other passages Prince Michael, and God (e.g., Ex. 3:2, 4; Judges 6:12, 14). It is not that the therefore we can identify Him with the preincarnate Christ. Messenger is identified with the One who sent Him as His So even though the Bible does not clearly identify representative, but rather that the Sender functions at the Michael with Christ, there is enough biblical information to same time as the Messenger. Many Christians have identified warrant the view that They are the same person. The name the Angel of the Lord as the preincarnate Christ. This Michael stresses the fact that Christ is the supreme leader of Christological interpretation seems to be biblically valid. the heavenly angels and the defender of His people as war- 2. He is leader of the angels: The phrase “one of the chief rior, judge, and priest. princes” (Dan. 10:13) could give the impression that He is one among many princes. But according to Revelation 12:7, Angel Manuel Rodríguez is an associate director of Michael is the supreme leader of the heavenly angels, or “the the Biblical Research Institute of the General great prince.” When necessary, He personally assists angels in Conference. their assigned tasks (Dan. 10:13), yet the angelic hosts are under His command (Rev. 12:7). He is indeed the “archangel”

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 (771) 11 LIFESTYLE CaregiverHow to Care for a A four-step BEST method

BY COLLEEN L. REECE

UTSIDE OUR MOUNTAIN HOME NEAR snowy night long ago. The difference is, long-term the logging town of Darrington, Washington, caregivers often cannot see an end to their task. winter raged. Inside, my 73-year-old mother’s You can help care for discouraged caregivers using what I temperature soared well past 102˚ F. I despairingly call the four-step BEST method. looked out the snow-encrusted window, then at 1. Be aware. You probably already know someone in my worried 13-year-old nephew and back to either short- or long-term caregiving: a new and frightened Mom. What should I do? Always before, Dad mother with a sick child; a family with an Alzheimer’s or had been there to make hard decisions. When AIDS or cancer patient; a friend who provides a home for a Ohe died the previous summer, I’d stepped into the head-of- disabled or retarded or diminished capacity person. Long-term household role. This was my first experience with being a caregivers are especially at risk, torn between guilt over their caregiver. The choices terrified me: try to reduce the fever own humanness, their fatigue, and their deep desire to serve. that hadn’t responded to my best efforts or bundle Mom up 2. Express your concern. Marian took her “in sickness and drive 30 miles through a blizzard to the nearest town and in health” vows literally. For five years before her hus- with a doctor and hospital. band’s death she cared for him at home despite concerned Sick but undaunted, Mom said she’d be fine. She took friends’ protests that she’d ruin her own health. She wanted more aspirin, and gradually the temperature went down. We their encouragement. She didn’t need her decision over- thanked God, and I felt I’d been given a reprieve. ruled. “I know they mean well,” she told me in tears. “But In the 20-plus years before Mom died at almost 96, I I’ve prayed and I know I have to do this.” Then she quoted served as caregiver many times, almost always short-term something I’d said months before: “Marian, when the right following a bout with flu or after a hospital stay. I fought time comes for a change, God will let you know.” Marian the fear, fatigue, and depression that accompany even the realized and accepted this when the doctor said Bob needed most gladly given care. Surely my experiences and those of more care than she could give at home. others, especially persons with long-term service, fit into 3. Step in, don’t barge in. Lily offered to care for a the category Jesus mentioned when He said what we do for spastic child a mother maintained at home, but only after others is what we do for Him. she offered friendship and won the woman’s trust. Once Jill* shared her feelings about her role as a caregiver. established, Lily provided time off for her new friend by “I love my father and never want him in a nursing home, child-sitting one day a week for years. but after three years of day and night care, even with 4. Take action; don’t just ask what to do. God’s help, I don’t know how long I can keep on.” She ■ Supply food. Caregivers are notorious for neglecting and countless others experience the despair I felt that themselves.

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■ Take a night shift so the care- ■ Enlist patient-sitters and free up loving and committed Christian friends giver can rest. the caregiver for a weekend. and church members offer can ease the ■ If permitted, help with bathing. ■ Let your friend know you are load and make a great difference in the Fixed-income persons can’t always praying for them as well as for the difficult life of a caregiver. ■ afford professional care. patient. ■ Clean the house or do yard work. Trapped by feeling helpless, filled * Names have been changed. ■ Do shopping. with fear and pain, caregivers are ■ Provide transportation. prime candidates for illness. When ■ If the patient is in the hospital, they get sick, they often refuse to Colleen L. Reece is a free- invite the caregiver over or take them admit or seek help, afraid such a course lance writer living in out for a meal. will result in their being considered Auburn, Washington. ■ Call or send notes and flowers to incompetent to continue caregiving. the caregiver as well as to the patient. The hands-on, practical help that

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 (773) 13 EXILEDSTORY

BY BARBARA HUFF

ROM THE SPARKLE IN HER EYES ambulance doctor (a physician always accompanies ambu- and the energy in her step, one would lances in Russia). He offered to work any time except Friday never guess that Valentina Ivanova has and Saturday. But when he was scheduled to work every lived most of her life in Siberia. Many Friday and Saturday, he told his supervisor, “I cannot do this.” Russian women at age 60 are languid; Sasha had no work at all for a couple weeks. At the begin- years of inconvenience, discomfort, and ning of the following week he was notified by the KGB that if disappointment are etched on their faces. he didn’t find work by the end of the week, he would be But Valentina’s smile brightens a room, arrested. and the love of Jesus is reflected brightly During the week he looked for any kind of work. He saw Fin her blue eyes; eyes that have seen decades of challenges “Help Wanted” signs in various shops, but each time he pre- because of her commitment to her husband, Sasha, their chil- sented his identification they’d say only, “Sorry, we don’t need dren, Nadia and Tanya, and her devotion to a faithful God. you.” One day, in a village some distance from his home, Sasha Tried and True saw a sign advertising for a painter. Eagerly he went inside the In 1959 Alexander “Sasha” Ivanov finished medical school building. The manager said, “Yes, we need a painter. Let me in Moscow. Along with the other graduates, Sasha was given a see your passport.” three-year assignment, after which he’d be free to choose When the man opened it he said, “I shouldn’t be telling where he wanted to work. A dedicated Seventh-day you this, but everyone in the region has been told by the KGB Adventist, he was given the choice to teach at the medical not to hire you. I’m sorry.” school in Moscow or go to Ocinniky, Siberia. Knowing that With dragging footsteps, Sasha made his way to the KGB he’d have Sabbath problems if he stayed in Moscow, he decid- office the next morning. When he didn’t return, Valentina ed that in Siberia he’d be less likely to be harassed. A year knew that he had been arrested. The next morning she gath- later he and Valentina were married. ered food and clothing for Sasha and went to the police sta- From the very beginning Sasha had problems keeping the tion. She wasn’t allowed to see him. Sabbath. He didn’t have to work that first Sabbath in Sasha was held for three days in squalid conditions, and Ocinniky, but early the next week he told his supervisor that after a mock trial he was sentenced to three years in exile. It he needed every Sabbath off, and he was immediately fired. was a month before Valentina knew where he had been sent. In the first two years after graduating from medical school Baby Nadia was just a little more than a year old, and Sasha worked at various jobs in eight cities. One of his assign- Valentina herself only 25. ments was at a “Pioneer Camp,” where he was watched night and day for some infraction of the Communist Party rules. He For Better or Worse was eventually fired for “walking barefoot in the grass.” Valentina eventually received a letter from Sasha saying Another time the KGB found Sasha meeting with fellow that he had been sent to a collective farm named “Victory,” believers at a “home church.” The next week a full-page arti- near the city of Maryinsk. Armed with only this information, cle in the newspaper told of a man “who chose the Bible over Valentina set off to find her husband. Leaving Nadia with a the scalpel.” All this time Valentina stood behind Sasha and friend, she made the seven-hour train trip, arriving in cheerfully moved from one place to another. Eventually Nadia Maryinsk. At the train station she asked for directions to the was born, the first of two daughters. collective farm. Someone told her about a truck driver who In 1962 Sasha went to Anzherka to apply for work as an was taking a load of supplies to Victory farm.

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After she found the man, he agreed The Adventure Continues peaceful surroundings, on the side of to let her ride along. A snowstorm Again Valentina waited for word the mountain, with a river flowing developed, and going up the final hill concerning the whereabouts of her through the valley. They arrived in the truck became stuck in a snowdrift Sasha. Eventually Sasha was able to get March, and Valentina had time to about a half mile (one kilometer) from a letter to Pastor Michael Zozulin, who plant a garden and harvest the crops the farm. Valentina left the truck, carry- then set out to take Valentina and before Sasha was reassigned in ing the food she had brought for Sasha, Nadia to the place in Siberia to which September. During their three years of and trudged up the hill in the snow. Sasha had been transferred. What a joy- exile they lived in four places. When she got closer, she saw a man ful reunion it was when Sasha collected As Sasha’s exile came to an end, the coming out of a building. “Do you know his little family from the train station. family wondered where they would go. Sasha Ivanov?” she asked eagerly. Joy This, however, was the easy part of By now Tanya had been born, so there rippled through her when the stranger the journey to their new home. The were two little girls to feed and clothe. answered in the affirmative. She asked three of them had to travel the next 30 Sasha was at last doing the work for him to tell Sasha to come outside. Then miles (50 kilometers) by truck. With which he had been trained. The she hid around the corner until Sasha still another 30 miles (50 kilometers) to Ivanovs felt content and happy. The came out of the building. He was go, Sasha found a small “half-dead” rich Siberian soil produced a thriving, speechless when he saw his brave smil- Mongolian pony to take them the rest abundant garden, so the family had ing wife. Valentina spent the night at of the way. They piled their few belong- plenty of good food to eat. And with the farm and then went home and pre- ings on a cart and placed Baby Nadia on the peaceful, ravishing scenery—what pared to move to Maryinsk. top, and Valentina and Sasha walked could be more delightful than living in When Valentina and Nadia arrived behind. the midst of the unspoiled grandeur? at Victory, they were assigned to live in “The scenery was breathtaking,” In his work Sasha provided medical a tiny house with an old woman whose remembers Valentina. They were in a care not only for the prisoners in husband had been exiled and later quiet, peaceful valley surrounded by remote facilities, but also for the killed. Although her husband was dead, mountains. Part of the time they trav- employees of the prisons, the local peo- the woman stayed on because she had eled on the frozen river. Night fell, but ple, and those who were in exile. nowhere else to go. the travelers pushed on. The Ivanovs were surprised and The space allocated to the Ivanov The small family was exhausted by relieved when the administrator of the family in the tiny house was actually the ordeal, but they had no choice but regional Siberian prison system came just a windy corridor. Happy to be to keep walking. Their hopes revived and offered Sasha a job. While in exile together in spite of the accommoda- when they came to a small settlement. he had been given no choice as to tions, the Ivanovs enjoyed this arrange- They had walked halfway to their desti- where he would work. Now he had

REWS ment for only 10 days. nation, approximately 15 miles (25 kilo- options, and his status changed from a C One evening Sasha did not return meters). man in exile to a free man. ERRY

T from his job caring for farm animals. He The next day they found the cabin “Dr. Ivanov,” one of his superiors had been transferred again. A to which they had been assigned. It had said, “we know that you will have prob- Communist party official told him that only one door and no windows, but it lems with your Sabbath wherever you the country was not rich enough to use was a welcome sight to the weary travel- go. We value your work, and we want LLUSTRATION BY I doctors as laborers on a pig farm. ers. It was located in magnificent and you to work for us.” The prison officials

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 (775) 15 moved the family and their belongings called her schoolmates to ask them, cookies, and everyone had a grand time. to the new location. They bought furni- they would feign ignorance; they had The visitors went to school the next ture for them and settled them into a been instructed not to give her any day and confirmed the positive report of new home. After a year the Ivanovs information. To compensate, Nadia the neighbor children. Afterward Nadia moved again. After that move, however, studied constantly, wrote out answers and Tanya were accepted among their the Ivanov family moved only one more to every question in the book, and pro- classmates, and they had friends. time before Sasha retired. They lived in gressed faster than her classmates. Valentina’s fears about the children Novokuznetsk, in the same apartment, In spite of that, their teachers talked being taken from her were replaced by for 25 years. Even though their little sec- openly against Nadia and Tanya. They the satisfaction of knowing that it’s pos- ond-floor apartment had no running were branded “crazy” and “dangerous”; sible to be true to God and enjoy com- water and they cooked on a woodstove, the other students rarely talked to them, munity acceptance and friendship. the Ivanovs felt richly blessed. Sasha and most parents would not allow their never had a Sabbath work problem; he children to visit the Ivanov home. In the Valley of the Shadow worked every Sunday so that he could Finally, when Nadia was in the sev- “I don’t think anyone has only joy, have every Sabbath off. Altogether enth grade, there was a breakthrough. happiness, and roses in his or her life,” Sasha worked as a surgeon in Siberia says Valentina. “Everyone has prob- for 30 years. lems and difficulties. These difficul- “God’s presence ties make us stronger, and we don’t School Days fear the future. We just try to find a When asked about the most diffi- was so tangible, way to overcome and survive. These cult time in her life, Valentina be- difficulties keep us closer to God comes serious. “When Nadia started because we need His guidance and school, we would not send her to I could feel wisdom in everyday living. school on Sabbath,” she says solemnly. “Sometimes I felt God’s presence One Sabbath Nadia’s teacher His warmth.” physically,” she recalls. “Sasha was came to the house and asked Nadia away, and I was home alone with to go to school with her. “I will take The children of one of their neighbors Nadia. In my evening prayers I felt as you to an orphanage if you don’t go,” were often home alone. The young- though angels were around me, that if I she told the little first grader. Nadia sters frequently came to Nadia and reached out my hand, I could touch politely told her that she would not go Tanya for help with their schoolwork. them. God’s presence was so tangible, I to school on Sabbath. The teacher One Saturday the teacher spoke could feel His warmth. Throughout my went to the town’s director of educa- with unusual harshness against the life the words of Romans 8:28, That in tion. Ivanovs. She said their home was dark all things God works for the good of “What kind of student is this girl?” because they had no electricity and those who love Him, have been my the director asked. The teacher had to everything in their home was black. anchor.” admit that Nadia was an excellent stu- She told the students that the Ivanovs In 1995 Sasha and Valentina dent. “Let them keep her at home,” spent all day and all night praying on moved to Belgorad, a 12-hour train the administrator said. “We have stu- their knees and that they had icons all ride from Moscow, where they are dents who attend all the time and over their home. She said the doctor presently involved in building a new don’t do nearly so well.” himself was insane. Adventist church. After the fifth grade, however, The students who had been in the Sabbathkeeping became more compli- Ivanov home defended the Ivanovs to iberia is a place with vast forests, cated. The school held classes in shifts, their classmates. They said that they extreme temperatures, wild ani- and students went to school either in the had been in the home and the Ivanovs Smals, and desperate people. But mornings or in the afternoons. Afternoon were nice helpful people. through years of adversity the Ivanovs’ classes began at 2:00 p.m. In December Soon afterward four girls came to relationship with God never faltered. and January the sun went down at 3:00, the neighborhood to visit a fifth girl. They drew warmth, joy, peace, and hap- meaning that in winter Nadia, and later Nadia saw her classmates from the win- piness from Him, and He used them as Tanya, had to miss two days of school dow and invited them into her home. His instruments to reflect His love to each week—Friday and Sabbath. Hesitantly they entered and began others. ■ Nadia spent every Sunday studying looking around. Nadia could almost to make up the lengthy homework read their minds: The Ivanovs do have Barbara Huff is an adminis- assignments she was given. When she electricity. Look, they have a radio. Why, trative assistant in the offices missed class on Friday and Sabbath, she they even have a piano. These people are of the Euro-Asia Division in never knew exactly which material had nice—they aren’t going to hurt us. Moscow, Russia. been assigned for homework. When she Valentina served the girls tea and

16 (776) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 ADVENTIST WORLD RADIO Discovering the Light BERT SMIT

ound guilty of murder. Sentenced to death. Now executed. But before he died, a medical doctor in a Karachi prison wrote to FAdventist World Radio saying how sorry he was for what he did—and expressing joy in his new freedom in Jesus: “I am on death row,” he wrote, “awaiting capital punishment. While in prison I was given a small radio, and there, in the darkness of my cell, I discovered the light of the Voice of Hope.” He said that he never knew about Adventists or AWR but that the programs were “messengers of good tidings.” This is just one of more than 1,700 letters received in 1998—up from 1,200 in 1997—at the Voice of Hope PRAYER LIST: Workers at the Voice of Hope studio in Pakistan record each listener’s name studio in Pakistan, where Urdu pro- in a book of remembrance so that prayers can be offered on their behalf. grams are produced. AWR currently airs the 30- handle listener mail and Bible correspondence courses. minute Special New Year’s and Ramadan greetings were sent to programs all listeners, with a pocket calendar and program schedule. twice a day The increased activity in the studio has appealed to the from its listeners too: currently mail is coming into the Lahore leased office at a rate of 100 letters a week. Mail comes from facility in places as far away as India, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Fiji. Slovakia. Programming is designed to speak to the spiritual and En- “life needs” of the person. In addition to devotional mes- couraged sages, listeners hear programs on family life and health. One by the listener wrote: “As far as I am concerned the Voice of Hope interest is a unique program. The medical advice given by your doc- shown in tor was of great benefit to all listeners.” the Urdu Many are searching for light in the prison of life in programs, Pakistan. Please pray for the Urdu programs that many may the be led to Jesus. Pakistan Union recently TECHNO-TRAINING: Bert Smit, AWR regional direc- appointed Bert Smit is AWR regional director for Europe; he is the liaison tor, trains Pakistan Voice of Hope studio staff in the a full-time between AWR and the Euro-Africa, Euro-Asia, and Trans- use of a computer to edit radio programs. person to European divisions.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 (777) 17 WORLD NEWS & PERSPECTIVES Very Cool Water

BY MICHELLE ABEL, WHO CODIRECTS ADRA’S B OUGAINVILLE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT WITH HER HUSBAND, CHRIS

he Adventist Develop- roof. Instead, the village women collect copper mine, the conflict degenerated ment and Relief Agency rainwater in old 44-gallon drums or into open fighting between Bougainville boat arrived at Irue vil- cooking pots. When there is no more and Papua New Guinea (PNG) and lage in Papua New water, the women paddle for an hour among Bougainvilleans themselves. Guinea just as the sun across the bay to collect drinking water. The fighting revolved around issues Tslipped behind storm clouds. It had not After a short community meeting such as land rights, anticolonialism, rained in Tinputz for more than a week. about constructing a ferro-cement tank, commercial exploitation, and indepen- My husband, Chris, and I, along we walked back to the boat. The com- dence. After a decade of tragedy, with two senior staff from the munity surrounded us as we pushed out Bougainvilleans are finally beginning to Australian Agency for International reconcile and rebuild. Following an Development (AusAID), a donor assessment visit in 1997, ADRA/ organization for ADRA/ Bougain- PNG received funding from ville’s water project, had spent too ADRA/ Australia and AusAID to long assessing the water systems of implement a three-year community two other nearby villages. The route development project in the to Irue involves heading past the Bougainville districts of Tinputz village on the point of the peninsula and Wakunai. The project has five and up the middle of the bay. components, each one reflecting grassroots community concerns, Strange Sight and each one currently at a differ- At some point (only the pilot ent stage of implementation. knew when) we turned right 45 Irue was scheduled to be the first degrees and headed for the beach. ONE OF MANY: The Bougainville water project is just one community to participate in the This route was the only way of many initiatives that ADRA conducts in Papua New water supply component of ADRA’s through a massive reef. As the last Guinea, including programs in childhood education. Bougainville reconstruction project. light faded, I wondered if the pilot into the shallows, telling us to come Other components of this three-year knew the route in the dark. The vil- back soon. The pilot pointed the boat project include adult literacy training, lagers were about to eat their evening at the bright stars of the Southern cocoa bean rehabilitation, sewing meal when they noticed our arrival. Cross pointers. At some point (again, machine distributions, sewing work- They crowded on the sand as our only he knew when he turned the boat shops, and distribution of relief clothing. guide pulled the boat through the toward the full moon) we were safely shallow water. away from the reef. Clear and Clean Four salty white people at sunset on The sea was smooth. The moon was Four months after that first evening a Sunday must have been a strange huge and luminous. Far away over the meeting with the villagers of Irue, sight for these devout Catholics. This mountains, sheet lightning flashed Owen Kasinori, ADRA/Tinputz water pretty village is built on soft white across the sky. Later, as we washed supply supervisor, told us, “The Irue sand. Gentle waves lap the shore only away the sea salt, a team member said community is very pleased with their a short distance from cooking fires. But they felt guilty being clean when 20 tank and cannot wait for a chance to finding clean water has always been a minutes away families didn’t have show it off to the rest of the Tinputz problem for Irue. At the bottom of enough water to drink. community. The tank has been filled. their well is a puddle of dirty, salty The Pacific island of Bougainville is Water within the tank is very clear, water. A lone galvanized tank stands to about to mark a year of peace after and the community is very pleased one side of a house with roofing iron. almost 10 years of civil war. Following with it. According to them, the water The salt has eaten a hole in the land disputes concerning an opencut is kol gut tru, or very cool to drink.”

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Kachmar, communication director for Russia: Adventist Church on the the Adventist Church in Russia. During discussion at the confer- Frontier of Religious Freedom ence, the challenge of the restrictive law in Russia was debated, along with its varied practical implementation in local districts. According to one peaking at the International the problems of religious freedom in report, “most of the offenses [religious Religious Liberty Association’s Russian society. liberty violations] took place because Sconference in Moscow March 23, According to figures released at the of lack of information about the law 24, John Graz, General Conference conference, 16,000 religious units and religious organizations.” Public Affairs and Religious Liberty belonging to 60 confessional organiza- “What happens here in Russia director, identified the vital impor- tions are registered in Russia. has an influence on all the former tance of religious liberty, especially in “If we consider this and also the republics of the Soviet Union,” com- the context of Russia. fact that Russia was developing in mented Victor Krushenitsky, religious “The Adventist Church supports conditions of totalitarianism for a liberty director for the Adventist religious freedom as a primary right long time (not only the past 70 Church in Russia. and urges all bodies to recognize and years), if we bear in mind the imper- In a formal appeal voted by the con- affirm that right,” said Graz. fection of the law about religious ference, delegates called for leaders and More than 100 representatives of organizations from 1997, then it members of religious organizations in different religious confessions met at becomes clear what a big responsibil- Russia to support United Nations deci- the Russian Academy together with ity lies on IRLA, in changing public sions proclaiming the year 2000 as an lawyers and representatives from the perceptions of religious freedom in International Year of Peace Culture. Duma (Russian Parliament) to discuss Russian society,” comments Bogdan —Adventist News Network

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Update on the Balkan Crisis to provide much needed support. Most of them are presently being sent south, where ADRA/Albania is or more than three weeks Adventist Church leaders responsible for all refugees in four prefectures, a total of F in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, had no contact with Pastor nearly 55,000 persons. Dijana Daka and three church members in Djakovica, Kosovo. On May 4, however, Pastor Daka was identified New Study Reveals Health in a report broadcast by British ITV Evening News as Benefits to Church Attendees among a group of refugees in Kukës, a town in northern Albania, close to the border of Kosovo. People who regularly attend church can expect to live “We are delighted that Dijana is safe and believe that seven years longer than those who never go to services, the other church members are with her,” says Miroslav according to a new study to be published shortly. Pujic, communication director for the Trans-European According to the study, those who attend church Division. The Adventist Development and Relief weekly live 10 percent longer, with a life expectancy of Agency office in Kukes has been notified, and the staff 82 compared to 75 for nonchurchgoers. The study is will make an effort to bring them to Tirana, capital of based on a health investigation of 22,000 people over a Albania. nine-year period and was published in the May issue of “The crisis in Albania continues to worsen day by Demography magazine. day,” reports Catherine Robinson, spokesperson for The study also found that health benefits increased ADRA/Albania. “Over the weekend [May 1, 2] there with increasing church attendance and concluded that were more than 16,000 new arrivals in the crowded and there was a cause-and-effect relationship in their findings dangerous town of Kukes.” that was not explained by other factors. Besides feeding more than 30,000 people every day, “As a church we have promoted a healthy lifestyle as ADRA/Albania is running a kitchen that provides hot part of our message,” said Thomas Neslund, an associate meals to 8,000 people in one camp daily. Reinforcements health director for the General Conference. “Here we in the form of volunteers from all over the division as have additional confirmation that participation in reli- well as other countries are arriving on a continuous basis gious services is also linked to health benefits. Of course,

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BY JEAN SEQUEIRA, EDITORIAL SECRETARY, A DVENTIST R EVIEW he Balkans, Central Europe, Sarajevo, the Olympics. Will it never end? Will there ever be “peace in our time”? For people of my generation “Sarajevo” conjures up When my family was deported from Uganda by the Tbeginnings of a world war. Conqueror of the British Empire, His Excellency Idi When I heard about NATO troops gearing up for com- Amin, in 1972, we moved to Beirut, Lebanon. When we bat in Europe, my first thoughts were for the children arrived there, folks greeted us with “Aren’t you glad to be because I remember the London blitzes of the forties. here?” Truth is, very few understood our mixed emotions. Sleepless nights were spent peeping While we were relieved to be there, from behind blackout curtains as search- NEWS COMMENTARY our hearts were still in Uganda with lights crisscrossed a darkened sky. Planes friends and families who stayed behind wove hazardous paths between shafts of light, sometimes to live through difficult times. returning home across the English Channel, or else leaving My son, Christopher, once said to me, “Mummy, why do wreckage on foreign fields. Adventists pray for the angels to hold back the winds of Other nights were spent in underground shelters with strife? Let them come, so we can all go home!” food and water stocked for times when air raids made it too I think of myself as a “Seventh-day Pacifist” and pray for dangerous to sleep at home. those in the world’s trouble spots. As you join me in that Whatever happened to “the war to end all wars”? Newspapers prayer, let’s not forget those whose homes are in the line of today report worldwide unrest, skirmishes, and fighting. fire, wherever that may be, and that soon, very soon, we can Northern Ireland, Indonesia, Rwanda, the Congo, Sri Lanka. “all go home”!

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that’s not to say people should come to church just to “The atmosphere at the lay congress was one of live longer! But it does show the healthy balance that excitement as people celebrated one another’s fellowship religion can play in a better lifestyle.”—Adventist News and celebrated those won for Jesus through evangelistic Network. activities,” says Jonathan Kuntaraf, associate personal ministries director for the General Conference. “The World’s Largest Lay Congress congress also served the higher goal of equipping people Meets in Philippines to be more actively involved in witnessing activities.” The congress was projected to bring together 12,000 Nearly 75,000 Seventh-day Adventists met together official delegates. Nearly 35,000 people attended on for the world’s largest lay congress held at Mountain the weekdays, and almost 75,000 worshiped together View College in Bukidnon, Philippines, April 12-17. on Sabbath, April 17. The Adventist Church in the Organized to aid individual church members in shar- Philippines numbers more than 750,000 baptized ing their faith, the congress brought together participants believers.—Adventist News Network. from Guam and Micronesia as well as the Philippines. The city mayor and government officials attended the Voice of Hope Takes Over opening meeting together with church officials from Radio 74 Station in Romania organizations throughout the region. Coordinating the congress were Leonardo Asoy and Hendrik Sumendap, On April 1 Radio 74 Petrosani, Romania, joined the personal ministries leaders in the southern Pacific area. Radio Voice of Hope network in Romania, according to The daily program included seminars on mission and Bert Smit, Adventist World Radio’s region director for integrated evangelism along with personal presentations Europe. on how faith has changed lives. One presenter told of In the last week of April, Daniel Amarghioalei, man- being sentenced to death. After being converted in ager for the network, signed the contract to take over the prison, he shared his faith with his fellow inmates and station. The management change came because of finan- was eventually freed. Three hundred of his fellow cial difficulties that threatened the continuation of this inmates were baptized and joined the church. Christian radio station.

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Test Your Global 3. The Sinaragu Bush is located on the Solomon Islands in Mission IQ the highlands of Malaita. Bible classes have been held, and 10 people have already been baptized. A new church was built, and a pastor is preaching and teaching in the church. 1. Because of an unfavorable polit- While the Sinaragu people are accepting the truth about ical situation, it became impossible God, there’s one thing that terrifies them. What is it? to send Global Mission pioneers to A. The sea C. Snakes the city of Kremlev. Instead they went to the city of B. Storms D. The dark Nizhnekamsk. As a result of their work in Nizhnekamsk, 67 people were baptized. Where is Nizhnekamsk located? Answers Clue: The country in which Nizhnekamsk is located is 1. B. Russia.The city of Nizhnekamsk is located approxi- 6,592,735 square miles in size. mately 540 miles east of Moscow. A. Finland C. Kazakhstan 2. C. Grarao.The Orinoco River is located in the southern B. Russia D. Poland part of Venezuela and continues into northern Brazil. 3. A. The sea. People in the Sinaragu community believe 2. Along the Orinoco River in Venezuela there are few they are the only people who inhabit the earth. Some have boats. Global Mission funded the purchase of a boat to heard the story of water covering the whole earth and help in the work of health and evangelistic campaigns. killing everyone and everything. Village chiefs won’t let Many individuals benefited from the boat, some of whom their people go down to the sea for fear they’ll bring bad were a specific kind of Indian. What are the Indians along luck back to the village. the riverbank of the Orinoco called? A. Apache C. Grarao Compiled by Summer E. Porter, Global Mission communication intern B. Aztec D. Iroquois

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Ron Myers and Nicu Turtoi established Radio 74 two bookstore in the world. The new store will feature state- years ago as a lay enterprise in western Romania. The lis- of-the-art audiovisual equipment for viewing Christian tening area has five major cities with a population of videos, a vocal soundtrack test room, and a colorful play about 500,000. area for children. In operation in Takoma Park since 1904, the store has Officials Break Ground for a been named number one of the “Top 100” Christian New Adventist Book Center bookstores in the United States by Christian Retailing magazine. Grand opening ceremonies for the new store On May 17, officials of the Potomac Adventist Book are scheduled for October 31. and Health Food Store conducted groundbreaking cere- monies for a new building in Silver Spring, Maryland. News Notes The 40,000-square-foot property will be located at the ✔ Celeste Ryan, marketing coordinator for Adventist Orchard Communications Network, was recently appointed media Center relations manager for the Adventist Church in North Mall at America. In this position Ryan will raise public awareness 12004 of the church, its mission, message, and membership. Cherry Hill Road. What’s Upcoming According to officials June 12 Women’s Ministry emphasis the new June 26 Thirteenth Sabbath Offering for the store will Southern Asia-Pacific Division be the July 3 Vacation Witnessing emphasis Store manager Clyde Kinder welcomes visitors largest July 17 Home Study International promotion to the groundbreaking ceremony. Christian Aug. 7 Global Mission Evangelism

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 (781) 21 COVER STORY Rainbow Over Hell

He was born into a dysfunctional before he turned 20, and until he was 25 family. When he was only 6, his swore allegiance to the only god he laborer father moved 2,500 kilome- knew—the emperor of Japan. So why are ters away; his mother disappeared we telling his story in the Adventist when he was just 7; at 8 he left Review? And why do so many refer to home, became a double murderer him as “the Paul of Okinawa”?

By Roy Adams*

OD HAD TO PICK SOME-

body out of death row to find

Himself an evangelist for

Japan.”

The words came from GPastor Shinsei Hokama as he and fellow Japanese- American Hitomi Johnson sat down with me on a cold winter day last January in the Adventist Review library. With them was special guest Saburo

Arakaki, the person Hokama’s statement had in mind. I felt a sense of history as I prepared to record a part of the story of this legendary veteran sitting across the table in front of me. MAKING THE POINT: Pastor Arakaki always spoke as if in deep reflec- tion on the past. Photo by Bill Knott.

22 (782) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 When American forces invaded leaving him and his three siblings to escaped the Americans and returned to the island of Saipan in the heart of scramble for survival among relatives. the guerrilla camp. But there again the Pacific in 1944, at the height of At the tender age of 8, Saburo boarded they ran into another situation that World War II, Saburo was an 18- a ship all by himself and traveled the grated on their fierce loyalty to the year-old senior at the Saipan long miles all alone to join his father emperor. Again the culprit was another Technical School. But as the island on Tinian. Japanese war prisoner, who, convinced suddenly transformed into a fierce, But it was on Saipan that the war the war was lost, was released among bloody battleground, all Japanese sol- found him—as a student of Saipan the guerrillas as a spy for the diers and civilians were expected to Technical. The Japanese forces, Americans. Once Kaga and Arakaki fight to the last person. Thus without though they put up a brave struggle, got wind of the scheme, they laid plans warning, Saburo, an innocent teen- were defeated in the end, and 19-year- to eliminate the traitor. As the three ager, found himself thrust into the old Saburo found himself fighting were walking down a trail, Saburo carnage of war. among holdout Japanese guerrilla units dropped back a pace, raised his rifle, scattered around Mount Tagpochua on and shot the man in the back. o who was this kid? And why Saipan’s northern end. “Kaga-san! Help me!” the man our interest in him? Eventually he was taken into cus- called out as he fell. But Kaga stepped S Saburo Arakaki was born in tody by American forces and in- away, and Saburo moved forward to 1926 into the impoverished home of a terned with other Japanese prisoners, finish the job with a shot to the head. farmer on the Japanese island of including his friend and leader, a There was no remorse. He had done it Okinawa. When he was only about 6 military police sergeant named for his emperor. his father journeyed to Tinian, a tiny Manabu Kaga. While in prison both In December 1945 the last remain- speck of an island (four by seven men remained fiercely loyal to the ing Japanese stragglers (including miles) near Saipan in the middle of Japanese emperor, often engaging in Saburo) surrendered, and Saburo was the Pacific (2,500 kilometers away), to subversive resistance activities. Not captured and charged with murder. look for work as a laborer. He left surprisingly, they took a dim view of Betrayed by his colleague, the very MP behind a troubled and unstable family. one of their fellow prisoners who had who had ordered the assassination, Saburo’s first recollections of his moth- the temerity to urge cooperation Saburo was convicted of first-degree er paint a picture of a poverty-stricken with the Americans. Determined to murder by the American Naval woman struggling to stay ahead of debt silence such talk once and for all, Martial Court in Saipan, sentenced to collectors, scrambling to make ends the sergeant ordered Arakaki to exe- death by hanging, and transferred to meet, and quarreling constantly with cute the traitor. Creeping into the the Agana Lockup on Guam to await his paternal grandmother, whom she man’s room in the dead of night, execution. could not stand. Saburo calmly stabbed his fellow There he spent close to a year on But things were to become even prisoner to death with a homemade death row, deeply tormented by the worse. As the economic situation dete- bayonet. fear of execution. But all that was to riorated, Saburo’s mother disappeared, In time both Kaga and Arakaki change in July of 1946 when, unex- NOTT K ILL B HOTOS BY P

IN SUPPORT: Mrs. Hitomi Johnson, of Walla Walla, Washington THAT WAS IT: As interpreter Hokama looks on, Pastor Arakaki (left), and Pastor Shinsei Hokama, of Los Angeles (right), accompa- recalls the day in 1948 when he received his Bible school gradua- nied Pastor Arakaki to our office in Silver Spring last January— tion certificate from the hand of Voice of Prophecy speaker H.M.S. she for moral support and he as interpreter. Richards, Sr., in the Oahu prison in Honolulu.

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THE WAY IT WAS: 1. Saburo at 19 as a prisoner in Guam; 2. Receiving his certificate from HMS Richards, Sr., at a Voice of Prophecy (VOP) Bible School graduation at a prison in Honolulu; 3. Over the course of his stay in the Hawaii prison, Saburo encouraged scores of other prison- ers to finish the VOP Bible course, including the 16 who joined him in this first graduation (1952); 4. Saburo (front row) surrounded by the results of his first mission effort in Okayama (1957); 5. With a Bible study group in Okinawa (1963); 6. the wedding of Saburo and Yoshiko with pioneer missionary E. E. Jensen (right) and Pastor Shohei Miyake, the one responsible for leading Saburo to the Lord, in Hawaii (1957).

plainably, his sentence was commuted sentence without parole. He sank into set of Bible lessons. Saburo at first to life in prison and he was transferred a state of deep depression, and with laughed at the nesei, with his halting to Hawaii to serve it. hope virtually gone from him, life Japanese; and not wanting to have But there was no rejoicing for him. became unbearable, and he wished for anything to do with Christianity Instead a new dread descended on death. The intensity of the emotion (which he saw as the White man’s him—the fear, the stark terror, of a life almost drove him to insanity. religion), he refused to read the lessons (which the nesei, not taking Then Something Happened no for an answer, had left with him The pivotal change in anyway). But eventually loneliness got Saburo’s attitude came three the better of him, and since there was years into his incarceration in nothing Japanese available to read in Hawaii’s Oahu prison. It was the prison, he finally broke down and then that a local nesei (a second- read the Bible course. generation Japanese-American) As he studied, a gradual change approached him in prison with a began to come over him, and he came to realize that murder was a sin, even when committed in behalf of one’s STILL GOING STRONG: (Above) country or one’s emperor. His whole Arakaki conducted evangelistic being began to change from the inside, meetings at the Westminster and the cancer of hatred began to dis- Good Samaritan Adventist solve. Later when two young leaders Church in California in January from the Japanese Adventist church in 1999. (Right) Westminster Honolulu requested to visit with him, church pastor James Ueda joined him in baptizing many he gladly received them. It was the who surenderred their lives to beginning of a series of Bible studies Jesus in baptism. Photos by that would eventually lead to Saburo’s Westminster Good Samaritan baptism some nine months later. Adventist Church. When the day had come for the big

24 (784) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 event, prison warden Joe C. Harper, who characterize the rest of his life became learned of Saburo’s baptism, they orga- had taken a liking to Saburo and had evident soon after his baptism. He nized a campaign for his pardon and been closely monitoring his amazing immediately organized Bible study classes release. For his part, hoping for the transformation, allowed him to travel to and led his fellow prisoners in worship. same outcome, the warden had been the local Japanese Adventist church His efforts culminated in Voice of sending a series of petitions on Saburo’s unsupervised. That exceptional privi- Prophecy Bible Correspondence School behalf to Washington, to no avail. lege, granted through the sheer kindness graduations in prison, in which 200 pris- Undaunted, the warden solicited the of Warden Harper, made a deep impres- oners received their certificates, having aid of the then governor of Hawaii and sion on Saburo and played its part in been inspired to enroll in the program even sent one request directly to breaking down the hatred and resent- just because of what had happened to President Truman. Nothing worked. ment he’d been harboring for years. Saburo. Meanwhile, Saburo himself began The zeal for the gospel that would When the local Japanese community dreaming of freedom. And when he learned in 1950 that mission work had Arakaki in His Own Words started in his homeland of Okinawa, he immediately pledged to God to Excerpts From an Interview return there as a gospel worker if he were ever set free. His own prayers for release, joined with those of many oth- By Roy Adams ers, were finally answered; and in late Q. How would you comment on the state of the church today? April of 1954, at the age of 28—and A. I don’t know about the church in other parts of the world, but I know that in after some nine years in prison— Japan we are in a Laodicean state, with not much going on. Everybody’s saying Saburo was granted a full pardon by the work is so difficult. President Eisenhower.

Is the problem with the church, or As if He Saw a with a society that’s not interested in Ghost! spiritual things? As he left the The society is certainly part of the prison on May 3, problem, but I think more than that, it’s Japanese the church. If the church were what it Adventists from should be, then I believe it would capture the Hawaii the attention of the society and call it Adventist back to the Creator. church stood outside the gate What do you think it will take to waiting for him. change the situation? To further his First a revival among the pastors. dream of service Then a revival in the churches. Then you in his homeland, will see some changes. they handed him a plane ticket to As you reflect on your life, what is Tokyo. Catching the most exciting experience you’ve a military plane had as a Christian? transporting More than anything else, to see a per- American sol- son giving their heart to God and recog- diers to the nize Jesus as Saviour. This has got to be Orient, Saburo the most exciting thing for me as a arrived in Japan Christian. That’s why I can’t sit still even and immediately though I’m retired. I just have to keep on made his way to doing that—bring more souls to the king- San-Iku Gakuin dom. (Japan Missionary College) in Chiba. His ex- Where do you see yourself 10 years from now? convict status notwithstanding, he I don’t know about 10 years from now, but I know that as long as I have life devoted himself to the study of theolo- I’ll be out there preaching. When I retire, it will be in a pine box. gy among classmates 10 years his junior.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 (785) 25 But there was one other item of busi- ness that, for Saburo, was every bit as Capturing the Secular Media important as theology. He must face the Ten years ago Japanese television producer Tsuneyuki past and call closure to it, and that Mohri made a documentary of Pastor Arakaki’s life. And last meant meeting Kaga again, the former summer the same producer wrote a book on the same colleague who had betrayed him. Yes, he theme, published by one of Japan’s major newspapers. had once vowed to kill him in revenge. Mr. Mohri is the author of an earlier book that became a But the urge for revenge had been best-seller in Japan, and later was made into a movie. And replaced by an even stronger motive. many in Japan—Adventists and non-Adventists alike—are hop- However, Kaga did not know that; how ing that the story of Pastor Arakaki’s life might also one day would their meeting go? become a movie. It’s a move that can bring much-needed pub- licity to the Seventh- On the Brink of Suicide day Adventist Church in that part His encounter with Arakaki’s life saved his own. of the world, and beyond.

BY TSUNEYUKI MOHRI ( TRANSLATED BY Y OSHIKA C ARAIG; MODIFIED AND CONDENSED BY R OY A DAMS) When Saburo showed up at Kaga’s Tokyo apartment that Forty-eight-year-old Yoshio Suzuki was ready to file for bankruptcy; his computer software summer day, the former MP company had been struggling to survive the severe economic recession in Japan. Finally at stood there petrified. Unaware the breaking point, Mr. Suzuki secretly planned to go to the United States to commit suicide that Saburo was still alive, the so that the huge debt would be paid off with his life insurance money. He arrived in the man thought he was seeing a United States January 6, 1999, and, as it turned out, checked in at the Better Living center, ghost, that his former colleague a health facility operated by Shinsei and Hisako Hokama, who are Seventh-day Adventists. had come back from the grave Mrs. Hokama became concerned when she noticed how depressed Mr. Suzuki looked, to seek revenge. But Saburo and she felt impressed to encourage him to read Rainbow Over Hell, a book on the life of held out his hand in reassur- Pastor Saburo Arakaki. ance: “Please don’t be afraid,” Moved to tears, Mr. Suzuki read the book through without stopping. When he returned it, he said. “I’m a different person Mrs. Hokama informed him that Pastor Arakaki, now, because I believe in Jesus the main character of the book, would be arriv- Christ. I wish for you also to ing the following day. I would very much like to repent of your sin, receive see him, Suzuki thought. It wouldn’t be too late God’s forgiveness, and accept to die after seeing him. His love.” Mr. Suzuki attended Pastor Arakaki’s semi- “I’m very sorry, Saburo!” nar in Los Angeles for several days, and was Kaga responded, shaking and deeply moved. Somehow, however, he found with tears rolling down his face. himself unable to make the critical decision to “Please forgive me!” give himself to God. And on the night of “I’ve already forgiven you,” January 12 he attempted suicide by poison, Saburo assured him. “Please but somehow he did not die. IN GRATITUDE: Yoshio Suzuki (right) took time accept my friendship.” Mr. Suzuki hated religion. But after the inci- off to thank and honor Rainbow Over Hell Kaga wept profusely, and the author Mr. Mohri (left) and Pastor Arakaki. dent on the night of the twelfth, he had no two men began a lifelong choice but to believe in the existence of God. He returned to Japan on January 13, and for the friendship. first time in his life he went to church. He attended an Adventist church in Nagoya and during the “sharing time hour” gave a testimony of what he’d experienced in America. The congrega- But Who Wants an Ex- tion was impressed, and there was a huge response. Convict for a Minister? Mr. Suzuki is now giving his service to God, teaming up with Pastor Arakaki in a series of When Saburo “graduated” seminars for secular businesspeople in Japan. The first seminar was held March 22, and from college, there was no job Pastor Arakaki reports that the place was filled with guests from the community. “I sense that waiting. After all, he was an God is watching over me,” says Mr. Suzuki. “I have never experienced such a joy in my life.” ex-convict, and ministerially unqualified to boot—having Tsuneyuki Mohri is a Japanese television producer and the author of Rainbow Over Hell. only audited classes at the col- Yoshika Caraig lives in the state of Texas. lege. What would a church

26 (786) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 He Saw the Face of advancing American forces in the In Context: Quick Facts on God battle for Saipan in 1944, he and Japan In the experience many others found themselves cor- of each of us, myriad nered at the edge of “Suicide Cliff” at BY GARY KRAUSE, G LOBAL M ISSION influences affect our Cape Magpi, on Saipan’s northern tip. outlook and our des- It was hell on earth. ■ Japan, including Okinawa, is part of the Northern Asia- tiny. But sometimes Arakaki told of emerging from a Pacific Division. it’s possible to pin- cave to face the sheer brutality of ■ There are 112 churches and 14,193 members in a popula- point a particularly war, to see brave warriors and tion of 126.4 million (that’s 112 Adventists per 1 million poignant occurrence colleagues blown to bits people). or event that, even in seconds. There was ■ Okinawa by itself has 2,001 Adventists, in a population when not immedi- a lull in the fighting, a of 1.3 million. ately recognized as light rain was falling, ■ Nominally, the leading religions are Shintoism and such, turns out to and in the midst of Buddhism (84 percent). Christians make up .7 percent of be a turning the population. point of major ■ The population, notwithstanding the religious percent- consequence. For ages above, is largely secular. Pastor Arakaki, the gift of those Japan want with a man like that? Bible lessons in prison was one of 2,500 Km But after devoting himself to volun- those moments. NW Tinian teer ministry in the prefecture of But long before that Okayama, Saburo was finally invited occurrence the young to Okinawa in 1957 to serve as a pas- Saburo had faced a tor. Not of an existing church, how- series of Saipan ever, but of one he would raise up by J A P A N hard labor. “That’s why he’s been Illustration not to scale called the Paul of Okinawa,” inter- jected Hokama at this point in our that unimaginable carnage, he saw a conversation. “He raised up churches providential rainbow in the sky, a rainbow over hell, in areas where there weren’t any. And events in his life that a rainbow that slowly moved toward when people saw the results of his in retrospect convinced him him and enwrapped him in its light. work, they said, ‘Hey, we can’t let this that a divine hand had been As he looked up to the sky a strange guy go; we’ve got to hire him!’” personally guiding him. Why, for peace filled his heart, and the fear of Over the years this modern Paul example, was he sent to Guam, death was gone. has established five churches in when other Japanese criminals were And though at that point he knew Okinawa and two in mainland Japan, being forwarded to their homeland little, if anything, of its significance, with hundreds of baptisms. following the end of the war? And that scene was one he would never Pastor Arakaki officially retired in why was his death sentence for dou- forget. Indelibly etched in his memory, 1989 (at the age of 63), but he has ble murder commuted? And in that it would later emerge at the right time not been spending his days in a Hawaii prison where he was practi- and with the right force to draw him rocking chair—a status for cally the only one speaking with invisible hands into the tender which no one could Japanese, how did it come about that embrace of God. ■ fault him if he’d cho- there just happened to be a second- Okinawa sen it. For the past generation Japanese-American * Apart from his own interviews and research, the author relied heavily on newspaper 10 years he has been around, who also turned out to be a accounts and other materials (some needing to lecturing and preach- Seventh-day Adventist Christian? be translated) supplied by interested Japanese ing throughout Japan, These and many other coincidences Adventists—in particular Hitomi Johnson, of Walla Walla, Washington, and Yoshika Caraig, and has also made forays into seemed too uncanny to be acciden- of Texas. To keep the text flowing and readable, Hawaii, mainland America, Canada, tal. specific acknowledgments have been omitted. and Korea. But the event that Arakaki later Today Arakaki lives in his native came to believe was, above all, a Roy Adams is an associate Okinawa, where in June 1998, defining moment in his life, and one editor of the Adventist Yoshiko, his wife of 41 years, who had with metaphysical significance for Review. stood by him through all his evangelis- him, happened during the war, when tic endeavors, died of heart failure. he was just 18. Retreating from the

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 (787) 27 FAITH ALIVE! A Higher Calling CALVIN B. ROCK

n my 20 years as a pastor I have experienced the full eople tend to use the terms spiritual and moral as if range of congregational ministry. I would like a they are the same. Is it possible to live a moral life change and hope soon to run for an administrative P without being spiritually converted? position. My colleagues from It is possible to speak of morality various administrative levels that is not shaped by conversion. Itell us pastors that their happiest Such morality is conduct judged days were the ones they worked in The call of the cross honorable by societal (human) local congregations, but they seem standards, rather than the ab- very reticent to pastor again. is to be Spirit-filled solutes of the Word of God. This Society’s corporate model that brand of morality lacks the superior stresses the climb from janitor to missionaries. motivations, understandings, and board chair, and the Puritan work power that result from a relation- ethic that equates status with ship with the Creator. divine approbation, stamp administrative oversight as We should not disparage the efforts of those who, while superior to other types of labor. However, Jesus equates not Christians, are guided by the healthier elements of soci- greatness not with position or power over others (Matt. etal values. Though lacking conversion, these individuals 20:25-28) but with fidelity in service wherever His provi- maintain a citizenship that is often patriotic, sacrificial, and dence places us (Messages to Young People, p. 143). in other ways commendable. That is not to say that leadership roles are not important. Societal morality often parallels the Bible model in sig- God directed that there be elders and officers in Israel nificant ways. But because it is not grounded in Christian (Num. 7:2; 11:16), and the early church also had a clearly principles and does not claim for its agents spiritual regen- defined leadership structure (Acts 15:2). The error is in eration, it is correctly referred to by Augustine as “acci- ascribing to leadership privileged superiority rather than dental obedience,” by Kant as “civic morality,” and by selfless servanthood. The call of the cross is to be Spirit- Bonhoeffer as “stolen goodness.” filled missionaries, not status-seeking functionaries. Our high challenge is to demonstrate in our everyday Should pastors “run for office”? I think not. It is incon- experience the superiority of Christian morality over any gruent to politic or sell oneself in an attempt to gain author- other—including that of other religions. That we often fall ity in the very structure organized to proclaim the opera- short of such witness is not a reflection upon God, but on tional principles of the humble Galilean. Paul’s injunction our own feeble faith and wavering consecration. “in honour preferring one another” (Rom. 12:10) and Jesus’ About the world to come, informed spirituality real- instruction to take the lower seat (Luke 14:10) may not be izes that its conduct is not meritorious for everlasting advantageous in the kingdoms of the world, but they are life; only Christ’s righteousness accomplishes that. fundamental precepts of the kingdom of grace. Nevertheless, it takes satisfaction in knowing that its Your intimation is correct; the pastorate is not as valued exercise authenticates the power of the gospel, augments as it should be. However, the antidote to the concept of the its progress, and provides believers the anticipation of pastorate as a lesser post in God’s army is not capitulation to rewards that will be given “in proportion to the energy society’s norm, but constant focus upon Christ’s example of and earnestness with which they have striven” (The Acts servant leadership. of the Apostles, p. 314). A good dictum is “Never seek the office; let the office seek you.” If it is the Lord’s will that you move from the pastorate Calvin B. Rock is a general vice president of the to conference administration, you will not have to plot for General Conference. He holds doctoral degrees in that position. He will convince you, and more important, the ministry and Christian ethics. people. That is the only way to ensure not only the honor of wider service but the guarantee of His blessings.

28 (788) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 Paul William Dysinger, to serve as professor Cheryl Faye Magnant, to serve as English/ of public health, Adventist International, Bible teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, Institute of Advanced Studies, Philippines and Seoul, Korea, of Sparta, Michigan, left February Indonesia, of Williamsport, Tennessee, left 2, 1998. March 22, 1998. Florence McEachrane-Gross, to serve as Kelly Dean Friesen, to serve as physical physician/family practice, Guam SDA Clinic, therapy assistant, Guam SDA Clinic, Tamuning, Tamuning, Guam, of Castle Rock, Colorado, left Guam, Debra Kay, and two children, of Loma Colorado, July 14, 1998. Linda, California, left June 1, 1998. James Sakae Miyashiro, to serve as physi- Brian Lee Gang, to serve as physical thera- cian/surgeon, Adventist Medical Center, pist, Majuro Government Hospital, Majuro, Okinawa, Japan, and Hideko Miyashiro, of Marshall Islands, of Newton, New Jersey, left Honolulu, Hawaii, left June 9, 1998. September 20, 1998. Teddric Jon Mohr (contract), to serve as Wayne Craig Garrett, to serve as president, Penang Adventist Hospital, Pulau physician/emergency medical resident, Guam Pinang, Malaysia, and Lois Marie Mohr, of They Still Go SDA Clinic, Tamuning, Guam, and Cherline Kalamazoo, Michigan, left January 12, 1998. Joy, of Loma Linda, California, left July 29, 1998. Monroe Alexander Morford, to serve as act- Adventist Volunteer Service Andrew Paul Haynal, to serve as visiting ing principal, Nile Union Academy, Heliopolis, The following persons left their homes in professor, public health program, Adventist Cairo, Egypt, and Frances Jean Morford, of International Institute of Advanced Studies, Marysville, California, left October 26, 1998. 1998 to volunteer their time to assist in Manila, Philippines, of Battle Ground, John Lavon Nerness, to serve as physician, mission work in other countries for short- Washington, left August 12, 1998. Guam SDA Clinic, Tamuning, Guam, of Vero term service. Most of them have already Gary Alan Hopkins, to serve as Beach, Florida, left Houston, Texas, September returned home, but because of limited physician/emergency medicine resident, Guam 24, 1998. space and other delays, their names are just SDA Clinic, Tamuning, Guam, and Amy Beth Eric Edwin Russell Oakley, to serve as peri- Hopkins, of Grand Terrace, California, left July odontist, Guam SDA Clinic, Tamuning, Guam, being published. We want them to know 29, 1998. and Dawn Michelle, of Rochester, New York, how much we appreciate their ministry. Andrews Satoki Ikeda, to serve as English/ left August 16, 1998. Bible teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, John Insang Park, to serve as English/Bible Carrie A. Allen, to serve as English/Bible Seoul, Korea, of Battle Ground, Washington, left teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, Seoul, teacher, English Language Center, Euro-Asia July 21, 1998. Korea, of Winter Park, Florida, left June 18, 1998. Division, Kazakhstan, of Spokane, Washington, Kristen Jean Jarnes, to serve as English/Bible Daniel Marvin Patchin, to serve as physi- left November 3, 1998. teacher, English Language Schools, Ukraine, of cian/OB-GYN, Guam SDA Clinic, Tamuning, Jack Kenneth Baker, to serve as dentist, Caldwell, Idaho, left August 19, 1998. Guam, and Marilyn Kay Patchin, of Gresham, Saipan Adventist Clinic, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Kelly Lee Jones, to serve as English/Bible Oregon, left July 7, 1998. of Petaluma, California, left September 9, 1998. teacher, English Language Centers, Russian Rein Andre Paulsen, to serve as director, Linbrook Barker, to serve as surgeon/physi- Federation, of Wenatchee, Washington, left Food for Work, ADRA/Haiti, Port-au-Prince, cian, Andrews Memorial Hospital, Kingston, August 19, 1998. Haiti, of Takoma Park, Maryland, left February Jamaica, of Riverside, California, left August 3, Jaclyn Y. Jung, to serve as English/Bible 2, 1998. 1998. teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, Seoul, Julia Anne Pope, to serve as MIS systems Jolene Nicole Bauer, to serve as dental Korea, of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, left analyst, ADRA/Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, of hygienist, Guam SDA Clinic, Tamuning, Guam, October 29, 1996. Springfield, Virginia, left October 1, 1998. of Colton, California, left July 31, 1997. Clarence Burton Keppler, to serve as physi- Jeffery Pritchard, to serve as English/Bible Gilbert James Bertochini, to serve as interim cian/anesthesiologist, Guam SDA Clinic, teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, Seoul, secretary, Ministerial Association, Northern Tamuning, Guam, of Hendersonville, North Korea, of Lubbock, Texas, left August 19, 1998. Asia-Pacific Division, Koyang City, Korea, and Carolina, left July 13, 1998. Earl Bradley Quijada, to serve as Bette, of Winter Springs, Florida, left October 7, Samuel and Effie Ketting, to serve as physi- physician/family practice resident, Guam SDA 1998. cians, Andrews Memorial Hospital, Kingston, Clinic, Tamuning, Guam, of Loma Linda, Nancy Kaye Campbell, to serve as finance Jamaica, of Kennewick, Washington, left August California, left April 5, 1998. director, ADRA/Azerbaijan, of Kirkland, 6, 1998. Bobby Glen Robbins, to serve as ESL direc- Washington, left August 15, 1998. Roger Jay Krum, to serve as development, tor/volunteer coordinator, Pohnpei SDA School, Gary Hilton Chan, to serve as oral surgeon, maintenance, and agriculture worker, Paata SDA Kolonia, Pohnpei, Roberta Robbins, and two Saipan Adventist Clinic, Saipan, Mariana Mission, Paata Island, Caroline Islands, and children, of Bremerton, Washington, left Islands, of Loma Linda, California, left January Amy Lynn, of Sulphur, Oklahoma, left August Houston, Texas, November 14, 1998. 9, 1998. 19, 1998. Robert L. Robertson, to serve as relief den- Steven Connell, to serve as English/Bible Dana Joyce Langlois, to serve as assistant tist, Antigua SDA Dental Clinic, Antigua, West teacher, Japan English Language School, public relations officer, ADRA/Cambodia, Indies, and Valetta Robertson, of Copperopolis, Yokohama, Japan, of Keene, Texas, left Phnom Penh, Cambodia, of Epping, New California, left October 26, 1998. December 29, 1998. Hampshire, left September 8, 1998. David Chin Row, to serve as English/Bible Robert Lee Darby, to serve as dentist, Kevin Lee, to serve as English/Bible teacher, teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, Seoul, Saipan Adventist Clinic, Saipan, Mariana Korea SDA Language Institutes, Seoul, Korea, of Korea, of Loma Linda, California, left March 1, Islands, of Paradise Valley, Arizona, left Willowdale, Ontario, Canada, left December 26, 1998. September 5, 1998. 1998. Susan Pamela Russ, to serve as dental Matthew Lawrence Dodd, to serve as station Timothy Douglas Lee and Rochelle Joy hygienist, Guam SDA Clinic, Tamuning, Guam, manager, KSDA-FM, Guam-Micronesia Mission, Lee, to serve as English/Bible teachers, Japan of Bakersfield, California, left January 25, 1998. Agana Heights, Guam, and Beth Allison, of English Schools, Yokohama, Japan, of Battle Richard Alan Seidel, to serve as secondary Ooltewah, Tennessee, left July 15, 1998. Creek, Michigan, left August 19, 1998. math/science teacher, Guam Adventist

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 (789) 29 Academy, Talofofo, Guam, of Waynesville, David Craig Varner, Jr., to serve as English/ Candler, North Carolina, left August 3, 1998. Ohio, left August 2, 1998. Bible teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, James LeVerne Smith, to serve as nurse- Seoul, Korea, of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, left anesthetist, Scheer Memorial Hospital, Banepa, August 19, 1998. Regular Mission Service Nepal, and Ruth Joy Smith, of Onalaska, Frederick Veltman, to serve as lecturer, Old Gary Glenn Johnson, of Bay Point, California, Washington, left November 22, 1998. Testament studies, Avondale College, Cooranbong, is serving as associate treasurer, Southern Asia- Alice Cunningham Spindler, to serve as New South Wales, Australia, of Hendersonville, Pacific Division, Silang, Cavite, Philippines, with his physician/OB-GYN, Guam SDA Clinic, North Carolina, left July 28, 1998. wife, Candice Jacqua Johnson, and two children. Tamuning, Guam, and Richard Spindler, of Sandra Lee Wagner, to serve as English/ They left on March 31, 1997, from Detroit for Brunswick, Maine, left May 14, 1998. Bible teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, Singapore, where Gary Johnson served as associate Jay Howard Sprague, to serve as relief den- Seoul, Korea, of Pennsauken, New Jersey, left on treasurer for the division before it moved to the tist, Saint Kitts Dental Clinic, Saint Kitts, West March 1, 1998. Philippines on November 17, 1997. We regret the Indies, and Rosemary Sprague, of South Donna Maureen Webster, to serve as incorrect information in our November 12, 1998, Lancaster, Massachusetts, left August 3, 1998. English/Bible teacher, Korea SDA Language issue.—Editors. Benjamin Timothy Stiles, to serve as chap- Institutes, Seoul, Korea, of Toronto, Ontario, lain, editor, and English program coordinator, Canada, left August 19, 1998. Literature Requests 1000 Missionary Movement, Silang, Cavite, Lloyd Dean Wenzel, to serve as dentist, Philippines, Opal Irene Stiles, and two children, Guam SDA Clinic, Tamuning, Guam, and The following persons and institutions of Norman, Arkansas, left August 10, 1998. Sharon Joyce Wenzel, of Montrose, Colorado, have requested denominational literature Walter Henry Toews, to serve as business left January 12, 1998. and would be grateful for your help. The manager, Adventist International Institute of Wendell Lyle Wilcox, to serve as Bible list is for literature only. Please discourage Advanced Studies, Silang, Cavite, Philippines, teacher/pastor, Mission College, Muak Lek, any solicitations for funds by the recipients. and Irene Florence Toews, of Williams Lake, Saraburi Province, Thailand, and Audrey, of British Columbia, Canada, left June 15, 1998. Calistoga, California, left July 27, 1998. GHANA Sissel Kay Topple, to serve as physician/fam- Stanford Lee Wolfe, to serve as relief den- Evangelist Boye Nyerere, Adventist Peace ily practice, Guam SDA Clinic, Tamuning, tist, Belau SDA Clinic, Caroline Islands, of Palm, 36 Uproad Box 9, Terchire B/AR, Guam, of Asheville, North Carolina, left Springville, California, left July 5, 1998. Ghana, West Africa: religious books and mis- Houston, Texas, December 26, 1998. David Scott Woods, to serve as regional sionary literature. Arnie Leopoldo Tupas, to serve as third- manager, ADRA/Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Elder Badu Peter, AMU Memorial SDA grade teacher, Ekamai International School, Susan, and two children, left July 1, 1998. Church, P.O. Box 620, Techiman, Brong- Bangkok, Thailand, of Wawona, California, left Daniel J. Wortman, to serve as proposal Ahafo, Ghana, West Africa: books, magazines, on August 2, 1998. writer, ADRA/Bolivia, La Paz, Bolivia, of Bibles, children’s material.

30 (790) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 10, 1999 REFLECTIONS Welcome to the Family BY ELFRIEDE VOLK

couple years ago we welcomed the newest mem- mother wanted nothing more to do with him.” ber into our family as our daughter Christine Stunned by the news, Bernice determined to find her real married Christopher. The entire family was father. After all, for the sake of her children she should at least together for the occasion. It try to get a complete medical history. She was hard to believe that the got more than that. She got family as her AVolk clan had grown so large. It still seems father welcomed her with tears of joy. only yesterday that Heinz and I were wed, But finding her real father had its price. yet now we have four married children and Her mother, unable to forgive and forget the six grandchildren. past, told Bernice that she had to choose For Christopher, becoming part of a between her father and the family she had large family was a dramatic change. He grown up with. If she insisted on seeing her had grown up with only one sister, a few father, she was no longer welcome at home. years younger than himself. She was not Our Father also has children who have his only sibling. He has an older sister, grown up without Him. They have grown Bernice, the product of his father’s first up to believe that Allah, Buddha, marriage. But he had never met her. At Confucius, Communism, or Krishna is their least, not until a year ago. parent. But our Father has not forgotten His The marriage had broken up soon after Bernice was born. children. Tenderly He recalls every detail. “I have surnamed It did not take her mother long to get married again, and thee, though thou hast not known me. . . . I girded thee, Bernice, who was too young to remember her real father, though thou hast not known me” (Isa. 45:4, 5). grew up calling her mother’s new husband “Daddy.” It was Full of love, the Father longs to wrap His arms around he who had walked her down the aisle and given her away. these children, our brothers and sisters, who have grown up As her own children were born and learned to talk, they without knowing Him. He states His determination: “I will called him “Grampa.” It was quite by accident that she dis- say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: covered she had another father. bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of “I see your uncle was killed,” an aunt commented one the earth; even every one that is called by my name: for I day, picking up the paper and reading about a well-known have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I political figure who died in a car crash. have made him” (Isa. 43:6, 7). “My uncle?” Bernice asked. “I didn’t know he was Perhaps the greatest blessing that we as Christians enjoy related to us.” is the knowledge of our heavenly Father. From infancy we “He’s related to your father.” have experienced His love and marveled at the wonderful “But I thought I knew all of Daddy’s relatives.” gifts He gives us each day. Isn’t it time that our brothers “I mean your real father.” and sisters also have this experience? Isn’t it time that we “You mean Daddy isn’t my real father?” tell them about their real Father? The aunt put the paper down. “Didn’t you know? Your And when their former friends and relatives turn against parents divorced when you were just a baby.” them, shouldn’t we open our arms to them and give them A tumult of conflicting emotions tumbled through such a welcome that they will never want to leave again? Bernice. Her first impulse was to deny what she had heard. Welcome to the family! ■ But if it weren’t true, why would her aunt say it?

ISC Instinctively she reached out to her own little girl as she D Elfriede Volk writes from the Russian Sahm Yook toddled by. The love she felt for this child—could her real

HOTO University in Yuzhno Sakhalinsk, Russia. father have felt a similar love for her? And if he did, why © P had he never contacted her? HOTO

P “The divorce was a bitter one,” the aunt said. “Your

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