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Herald of Holiness Volume 77 Number 24 (1988)

W. E. McCumber (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House

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RESTITUTION BROUGHT PEACE

SAY "NO" TO ALCOHOL ADS

CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE WE BEHELD HIS GLORY

I he glory of Jesus did not culminate in a Bethlehem manger— it only began there. John, the apostle, testified T!that he “saw the glory” of Christ almost a lifetime after His miraculous birth. That same glory was witnessed by common shepherds who heard the angelic choir sing “glory to God in the highest.” It was shared also by the rich and the wise as they presented gifts of adoration. Yet not all could see His “glory,” and many missed it. For those who missed Christ’s glory, there was no middle ground. The longer Christ ministered, the more antagonistic they became. It seems strange that any would oppose the Lord of Life, but many did. Some viewed Him as a fraud, some as a usurper. W hat He taught seemed as sacrilege to nonbelievers. Herod led the way in an effort to kill Him after His birth. RflYMfiMn w h iir n J°hn’ wh° was veiY when he wrote his gospel account. General Superintendent Ch"s‘'s birth andLHis continuing ministry were both glorious and the panacea for earth s ills. The only remaining apostle wrote, “The Word ... became flesh ... and ... lived awhile—among us; and we ... saw His glory ...; such glory as an only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace ... and truth” (John 1:14, Amp.). The glory of Christ was sensed, observed, appreciated. The love of Christ was beyond expression. It reached the most despairing and lifted to the heavens. John wrote, “From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (John 1:16-17, NIV). Thirty-six times in the fourth gospel John speaks of Christ in terms of “life.” “In Him was life” was John’s persistent theme. Here is the beauty and glory of Christ. He brings a new life to those who believe they can’t go on. To those who have gone so far that they can’t see their way back, He brings a beacon light of hope illuminating the way. His “life” infuses us with purpose and joy. With John, at Christmas 1988 may you experience “one blessing after another.” H ONTENTS

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CHRISTMAS KINDNESSES December 15, 1988 Whole Number 3508 J. G rant Sw ank, Jr. Volume 77, Number 24 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RANDI Curt Bowers 6 MY GREATEST TREASURE Editor Ruth Wood Vaughn 7 W. E. McCumber JOEY’S CHRISTMAS Office Editor Ivan A. Beals Michael J. Christensen 10 Editorial Assistant RESTITUTION BROUGHT PEACE Mabel Adamson J. Michael Curry 12 General Superintendents Eugene L. Stowe EMPTY ARMS William M. Greathouse Donna Gilbert Jerald D. Johnson 14 John A. Knight HOW IS A HERITAGE PRESERVED? Raymond W. Hum C. Neil Strait 18 SAY “NO” TO ALCOHOL ADS William Goodman 19 Cover Photo: by F. Sieb/ POEMS H. Armstrong Roberts THE MEANING OF THAT FIRST CHRISTMAS DAY Alice Hansche Mortenson 5 Bible quotations in this issue: THE ANGEL’S WORD Sara Ann DuBose Unidentified quotations are from the KJV. Quotations from SHEPHERDS Mark R. Littleton 13 the following translations are used by permission. A CHRISTMAS LESSON C onnie (NASB) From the New A m eri­ can Standard Bible. © The COMMONER, OR KING? E. Ruth Glover 15 Lockman Foundation, I960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, (NIV) From The Holy Bible. COLUMNS New International Version, copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 WE BEHELD HIS GLORY by the International Bible Soci­ ety. General Superintendent Raymond W. Hum (TLB) From The Living Bible, © 1971 by Tyndale Flouse LIFE ON THE BOUNDARY.. . With Brad R. Moore, Publishers, Wheaton, 111. division vice president— advertising and promotion, (Amp.) from the Am plified Hallmark Cards, Inc.— AI Truesdale New Testament. © 1958 by the 8 Lockman Foundation. “BECAUSE YOU GAVE .. Paid in Full— Lorene Whittington

NAZARENE ROOTS: HERALD OF HOLINESS BORN TO LEAD (USPS 241-440) is published 11 semimonthly by NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE, 2923 THE EDITOR’S STANDPOINT TROOST AYE, KANSAS CITY, MO 64109. Editorial of­ W E. McCumber 16 fices at 6401 The Paseo, Kan­ sas City, MO 64131. Address BY ALL MEANS all correspondence concerning subscriptions to Nazarene Pub­ I Learned to Witness— Scott Meador 21 lishing House, P.O. Box 419527, Kansas City, MO 64141. Copyright 1988 by Naz­ arene Publishing House. DEPARTMENTS POSTMASTER: Please send change of address to Herald of Holiness, RO. Box 419527, ANSWER CORNER 20 NEWS OF RELIGION 33 Kansas City, MO 64141. SUB­ LETTERS 20 LATE NEWS 35 SCRIPTION PRICE: $7.50 per year. Second-class postage paid IN THE NEWS 22 in Kansas City, Mo. Litho in U.S.A. hristmas KINDNESSES

e were seated beneath the mammoth, lofty pulpit in Boston’s \ \ / historic Trinity Church. Along with some 2,000 other worship- ▼ ¥ ers, we had gathered for the annual candlelight carol service. Handsome faces wreathed in expensive scarves passed through the large, heavy curtains that divide outer quarters from the sanctuary. Women, garbed in their seasonal finest, gracefully seated themselves in the ancient pews. “A person has to get here an hour early to get a seat,” I overheard a fellow whisper to his friend. Even as he spoke, ushers were pointing to side walls where the less fortunate could stand throughout the service. On the expansive platform, poinsettias smothered the regal, churchly furnishings. A lone gold cross hung from the front’s very center, as if to crown the ornate display ablaze with color in celebration of Christ’s birth. Majestic strains pealed forth from the organ: “Trumpet Tune in C Ma­ jor” by Henry Purcell, “Sonata for Flute and Organ” by George Frideric Handel, and others. One by one, dozens of tall white candles were being lighted. They stood as silent soldiers amidst the flowering plants. Our own family had invited guests to join us that chilly December evening. Since this worship had become a cherished tradition with us over the years, we relished sharing it with special friends. So it was that we waited anxiously every move, nuance, and musical offering yet to be placed before God. Looking over to my left, however, I noted a young man who did not seem to fit. He was crouched over at first, bent with his head magnetized toward the floorboards. Then, with a sharp twist to his right, he slung himself about, rearing his black hair into the air with a jerk. His dark eyes shot at me, then bounced away, then back again in my direction. I noticed some saliva mixing with his beard. Obviously, the well-groomed man at the other end of the pew did not notice the youth’s behavior, for he was mesmerized with the lighting of the candles. Yet I wondered what his reaction would be whenever he did glance to his left. There he would witness a crippled man with crutches, a crooked body garbed in denims and flannel shirt. How had I missed this young man’s entrance within our haloed comer of the sanctuary? Without notice, he had simply slipped in, wedging his way into our tidy mosaic of season’s liturgy. Presently, I saw an usher—black-suited with a red carnation in his lapel—stoop over the young man, whispering something into his ear. “Oh no!” I gasped inwardly. After all, this was Christmas. And we were in a church of God. If ever love feasts were to be in fashion, surely this was the time. Surely that usher was not demanding that the poor fellow leave for fear of disturbing the sedate! The usher left him. His head flipped back again while two hands led two arms into jutted motions scraping the air. One leg shot out and then back against the floor. His eyes darted back to me. Fright was all over his face. All of a sudden I felt sick, not because of this poor creature but be­ cause of my own fears of what was going to happen to him. Torture is commonplace and violence has been with us since the first two sons scuffled in the field. But surely we would not have to live down a mean display of pretense at Christmas. People kept milling about, some stretching their necks, hoping they would find some tiny space on a pew for sitting. Few caught sight of the intense drama going on nearby. What could I do? I had no authority in this church. There was no speedy network of rescue that I could call into play and relieve the anxious, confused black eyes beneath his furrowed brow. Seemingly out of nowhere, an attractive young lady seated herself be­ side this youth. I saw her place her hand upon his shoulder, then lean near to his ear, whispering something. Her smile was comforting, under­ standing, as she turned her head to look straight into his eyes. Presently, those distraught limbs began to calm down and his head settled itself more evenly atop his neck. What are they going to do with him? I thought. Will they, even with a veneer of kindness, lead him away from the rest of us? What game will they play to convince him that he would enjoy the service better from a side room somewhere? Then she said no more. She just sat there, listening to Vieme’s “West­ minster Carillon” from the organ. The usher who had spoken with the young man then passed right in front of him, going across the aisle to the second pew from the front. That tall churchman had spotted a space 12 inches wide. With diplo­ matic graciousness, the usher informed the person seated next to that space that he would have a visitor sharing the worship. Back to the attractive lady and crippled man the usher made his way. Gently, he lifted the young man under his arm, taking the crutches in his other hand. It was as if the Red Sea parted there for the crossing of this HE MEANING OF THAT twosome; no one interfered. In no time, the youth discovered himself be­ ing presented with the best seat in the house. Smilingly the person to his FIRST CHRISTMAS DAY right welcomed the lad into the pew. Only a Babe Again, seemingly out of nowhere, a man in his late 20s—dressed in in a manger bed! denims and flannel shirt, his hair tied in a knot at the back of head— knelt down alongside the sick one. I watched him assist the other in Men thought He would come shedding his winter jacket, first one arm and then the Other drawn out as a King instead. of the sleeves. Next, he carefully placed the crutches on the floor right Some closest to Him inside the seat. That done, the kind man joined the attractive lady else­ weren't even aware where, but within eyeshot of the crippled man. It was then that I heard the opening Christmas hymn being sung from that the promised Messiah a far back balcony. The soprano lifted her voice with really was there. Once in royal David’s city Oh, let's not depend Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a mother laid her baby on pomp and display, In a manger for his bed. .. lest we lose the true meaning 1 could not help but turn around to see the sight. There was that of Christmas Day! robed soloist surrounded by others dressed in holy day splendor. After Let's kneel before Him all, this was the start of something very special. Worship had begun. and give Him our all— Slowly I turned back to face the sanctuary’s front. But in the turning, I glanced again at “my friend.” I saw then the most marvelous sight. Still this King who was born mixed with the hairs of his black beard was a bit of spittle, but now in in a manger stall. his eyes I saw joy. He, too, had heard the opening words of Christmas praise. And with that, he was looking over at the attractive lady and her Though despised and rejected companion. I did not mean to be prying, but I could not help but glance and smitten of men, at them as well. There they were, beaming with kindnesses rendered, so this beautiful Jesus happy that he was all right, that he had been given a good place to sit, so is coming again— ready for the worship of the King. On the second verse, the congregation was to join the soloist. With a not as a Babe shining face, the youth twisted his mouth in jubilation. The furrow was in a manger bed, gone from his forehead, thank God. And with the rest of us he was sing­ but as King of all kings ing forth— and Ruler instead. With the poor, and mean, and lowly, Lived on earth our Saviour holy. Until then, may His Spirit Although it was still days before the 25th, I knew in my heart that for rule our lives and convey me, at least, Christmas had begun. I had seen it all afresh one more year to others the meaning of in the kindnesses of an unhurried usher, an attractive lady, and her help­ ing male friend. H that first Christmas Day! —ALICE HANSCHE MORTENSON

BY J. GRANT SWANK, JR. Alice Hansche Mortenson died March 7. This is the Pastor of the Walpole, Massachusetts, Church of the Nazarene. last poem we received from her.

Herald of Holiness/December 15, 1988 writing for our PWOC Christmas meeting. This is our second Christmas in Japan, and it’s really difficult to sense in a physical way that Christmas is coming where we live. Japan is fa­ mous for its beautiful flowers and gar­ dens, but in December the skies are often gray and dull, and the weather’s damp and cold. Central heat is rare in this country, so the houses always seem chilly. To one who is used to lots of snow at Christmastime, Tokyo seems to be covered with a depressing blanket of dam p fog and smoke. Well, to get back to the purpose of my letter: In spite of the atmosphere (or lack of it), our Christmas plans this year seemed to be progressing fairly well until last week, when Mom called to tell us that you’d gone to be with Jesus. Grandpa, I know how much we will miss you this year, and I felt so lonely and sad for us all. But then (and this is what I meant about your being my inspiration), I began to realize how tremendous and exciting this Christmas will be for you. For the first time in 80 years, you will celebrate the Christ Child’s birth in the presence of the Eternal King. In­ stead of giving up life, you will have really only begun to live! The thought of this new life for you pushed away my sorrow and brought peace to my heart as I realized once more that be­ cause Christmas came, Easter could t was a cold, lonely Christmas for Dear Grandpa, come as well. Because the Babe of Randi Fulton and her husband. I I’ve been thinking a lot about you Bethlehem became the Christ of the had hired Randi as my religious this week, and this morning I felt I Cross, I know that our separation Ieducation director/Sunday School su­ should sit down and tell you so. There need not be forever. I know that today perintendent for a growing, vibrant are a couple of special reasons for this, you are celebrating Christmas with the Sunday School in Camp Zama, Japan. and although you probably already Lord of the Empty Tomb. She was a warm, responsive Christian know what they are, I’d like to tell This same glorious Christ of Easter with a heart full of love for our youth. you anyway. is available the year round to me, too, Randi was asked to give the PWOC First, I want to tell you how much I and to anyone who desires to be lifted (Protestant Women of the Chapel) de­ love you. Grandpa, people find it so from the depths of failure, despair, votional just before Christmas. I sat hard to say that to each other these and the burdens of life to the planes spellbound as she shared from a days. But I remember that you never of vibrant, victorious living. I read in lonely but overflowing heart. Here’s found it difficult to let me know how John this morning where Jesus, speak­ what she said: much you cared for me. I never got ing to Mary and Martha, said, “I am too old for those bear hugs you always the Resurrection and the Life: he that For our devotions today, I’d like to had for all the kids—not even when I were dead, yet shall he live and who­ share with you a letter I wrote that has left for Japan to join my husband. soever liveth and believeth in me shall a special meaning for me this Christ­ Saying good-bye to you is one of the never die.” These words are appropri­ mas, and I thought that, in some moments I’ll always treasure; with that ate to the message of Easter when we small way, it might give a new dim en­ bear hug—scratchy of beard and all! I remember that the tom b is empty. But sion to the meaning of your Christmas knew it would be a long time before I you, Grandpa, have helped me to re­ as well. saw you again, but I didn’t have to tell member that the Christmas story you that I love you. You've always doesn’t end in a stable. After all, the BY CURT BOWERS known it, and I’m sure you realize it manger is also empty! Director o f Chaplaincy Ministries at in­ even better today. Happy birthday, Jesus. And happy ternational headquarters o f the Church The second reason I’m writing is to birthday to you, too, Grandpa. of the Nazarene in Kansas City, Mis­ thank you; yes, thank you for being Until we meet again, souri. my inspiration for the devotional I’m Your loving granddaughter.

6 Herald of Holiness/December 15, 1988 There wasn’t a dry eye in that cha­ pel. What a profound influence Randi had on our military community at Camp Zama. Zama was the West Point of Japan, where the imperial officers trained for M|y Greatest warfare in World War II. Now it is a major headquarters for a segment of U.S. forces in the Pacific. More than that, it was the place where God chose to meet His people in the midst of Treasure tragedy. y parents were not wealthy, but they gave me something greater Not long after Randi’s chapel ser­ than any item of monetary value. That was the family altar. Of vice, I took our young people on a ski all the glowing memories that I cherish of life at home with retreat in the Japanese Alps. We trav­ MMother and Daddy, the times spent about the family altar are the dearest eled all night on the bus. As soon as I and most sacred. arrived home, my wife told me that Twice every day—no matter how busy or how full the day—the family Randi had been taken to the hospital. gathered about while Daddy read the Bible and we all knelt and prayed. I got there too late. She had already It wasn’t just a ritual, a meaningless habit. These were times when, as a slipped the bonds of earth and had family, we approached the throne of God and all the cares and frus­ gone home to a premature reunion trations of life slipped away. We were together in love, unity, and grat­ with her grandfather. Or was it pre­ itude at the feet of the Master. These were the highlights—the great mo­ mature? ments of our lives. I held a memorial service before her I can remember sitting on the floor, cuddling my Pekingese dog in my husband took her body to be interred arms, as the cold and fierce wind howled outside. I was safe and warm in the family burial plot in the States. in the shelter of the fire as the flames flickered clearly and brightly over It was the most extraordinary. Spirit- the walls, while Mother sat calmly in the big armchair and Daddy read anointed memorial service I have ever from the great Book. Daddy’s face showed gentleness as some men’s conducted. Never had 1 felt so strongly faces show vice and greed. Daddy’s voice was rich and deep and broad, led as I did that day to extend an invi­ like a river stretching out into the ocean. When he would read the chap­ tation to accept Christ and take up ter in the New Testament about love, the house would resound with mu­ the cross that Randi had laid down af­ sic. It wasn’t just the quality of his voice, the enunciation of the words; it ter only 25 years of life. was the spirit in him that caught up the words and seemed to kindle The first person to kneel at the altar them like a flame. You never forget a time like that. was George Moreland, the Red Cross I can remember when I entered my teens and was engulfed with the director, who had once chided me for fears and uncertainties of youth. One night I pulled the sewing machine not taking his life-saving course. I had into the kitchen and was working on a new dress. There had been fric­ told him that 1 appreciated what he tion in the home as I strained against parental authority. As I sat there was doing, but soul saving was more sewing, Daddy came in and sat down in the big armchair. Mother was important to me. Next was a doctor on the sofa mending. who worked on Randi and found it Daddy began to talk to me, his voice quiet, deep, and full of love. He futile to try to keep life in one whom explained the reasons why he had to refuse my requests on various is­ God had destined to receive unto sues. He told me of his love, his desire to save me to God and the himself. The altar was filled three to church. He cried. four deep in that 600-seat chapel as My heart, which had been rebellious and resentful, melted and the the Holy Spirit moved from person to tears poured down my cheeks. We knelt together, the three of us, and person, bringing to memory a holy life Daddy prayed. We were together again, and the room was warm and that once walked among them. close and full. The mystery of it all was the result Not only did we use the family altar as a place for morning and eve­ of the autopsy conducted by the pa­ ning devotions; we also used it to solve our problems. For in the pres­ thologist, a member of our congrega­ ence of God, all misunderstanding dissolved as He worked in and tion. The official statement read, "No through our hearts to bring about understanding and love that made our significant cause for death.” Only God hearts sing. knows the reason for her untimely de­ The home my parents gave to me was filled with love, togetherness, parture, but a multitude of soldiers joy, and God. Home was not just a word, a place. Home was a feeling— and their families now know that something intangible and precious. Home was the place where God had Jesus lives in their hearts because left His breath upon the walls, where love was personality, where hap­ Randi chose to live totally for the piness lived, a refuge from the world. Home was Mother and Daddy, gai­ Lord. ety and laughter, love and prayer. Home was the place where my parents One of those soldiers is George established the family altar, which is the greatest heritage, the greatest Moreland, who went to seminary, got possession, the greatest legacy my parents could bequeath to me. H his degree in religious education, and is now committed not just to saving BY RUTH WOOD VAUGHN a free -lance writer residing in Yukon, Oklahoma. lives, but to saving souls as well. H

Herald of Holiness/December 15. 1988 with Brad R. Moore, Division Vice President Advertising and Promotion, Hallmark Cards, Inc.

n his professional life. Brad garded. In both of the companies Moore lives on the boundary be­ with which I have been associated a tween the interests of a highly person could not prosper, or possi­ I competitive corporate world—the bly even survive, if he were not need to aggressively advertise and pro­ honest and truthful in all dealings. mote the products of Hallmark Cards Boundary: Can a Christian actually —and his desire to display obedience make an impact on industry and to Christ in all he does. Reared in business, or does the system finally Bradley, 111., as the son of Nazarene silence the Christian? parents, Brad attended and graduated Moore: It needn't silence the Christian from Southern Nazarene University. at all. I think a Christian can make In 1972, he earned his MBA in m ar­ an impact on business just as he keting and international business from can upon government, education, or Northwestern University. From 1972 any other part of our society. But an until 1982 he was employed by the individual must do so by being Procter & Gamble Company. He faithful in his own sphere of influ­ joined Hallmark Cards in 1982. As ence rather than thinking in grand Division Vice President Brad has re­ terms about making an impact on sponsibility for all of Hallmark’s ad­ that the alternative value systems the world. vertising and promotional activities as are unacceptable. Boundary: Do tensions arise between well as the development and produc­ Boundary: Can you identify specific your efforts to fulfill your responsi­ tion of Hallmark’s television programs values that were transmitted to you bilities as a vice president of Hall­ —the Hallmark Hall of Fame, tele­ as a child and teenager growing up mark and your commitment to vision’s most honored dramatic series. in the Church of the Nazarene Christian convictions? Brad and his wife, Laura, have two which have now become your Moore: When one works for a cor­ children, Todd (age 18), and Erin (age guides? poration, he has a fundamental re- 8). They live in Leawood, Kans., and Moore: Implementing the Golden sponsiblity to serve the owners of attend Kansas City First Church of Rule in all aspects of life— in es­ that business, whether they be pub­ the Nazarene. sence, being unselfish—was com­ lic shareholders or owners of a pri­ Boundary: Brad, when did you be­ municated to me as being of pri­ vate corporation. As an employee come a Christian, and have you mary importance for Christian you have agreed to further their ever faced a time either in your ed­ discipleship. This is applicable in business interests. At times there ucational or professional life when many ways—how one deals with his may be differences between your you were seriously tempted to aban­ employees, management, and busi­ personal convictions and what don your Christian life? ness competitors. might be better for the corporation. Moore: As a child 1 accepted Christ, Boundary: We have heard much about For example, 1 may wish to bring and through college I don’t think I “Winning Through Intimidation,” certain preferences to bear on how seriously questioned the spiritual and “Winning Through Integrity.” and where advertising funds are values that were instilled in me. In the North American business spent. But what if a different plan However, as a graduate student, world, is there an increasing or de­ would probably be meeting the even though I never discarded my creasing premium placed on per­ company’s marketing needs? You spiritual values, I did go through a sonal integrity? asked if tensions arise. They do time when there was intense pres­ Moore: I can’t say that North Ameri­ when the choices are not clear-cut. sure to question what I had been can business is moving strongly in When the choices are clear, there is taught and to question the basis for one direction or the other. Always, no tension—you must simply do my Christian faith. Regarding my there have been those who have what is consistent with your con­ professional life, the longer I am in tried to advance their careers victions on the issue. the corporate world, the more through unscrupulous means. How­ Boundary: W hat advice would you meaningful my early religious train­ ever, I can certainly testify, based on give to young people who want to ing and my experiences in a Chris­ my observations, that high moral have a career in business or indus­ tian college become. These experi­ standards are not a disadvantage in try? ences are becoming more, rather achieving success in business. To the Moore: My advice is to choose a ca­ than less, important. I have seen contrary, they are very highly re­ reer path and a company and in­

Herald of Holiness/December 15, 1988 dustry that are not likely to produce television industry—producers, ac­ trast to this. Many producers, ac­ constant tensions between your per­ tors, directors. What values guide tors, directors, and broadcasters sonal values and the values needed you in determining the types of pro­ have values that are the opposite of on the job—in other words, a situ­ grams that Hallmark will sponsor or mine. In other words, there are a lot ation in which you can contribute produce? of places in this industry where I enthusiastically and without reser­ Moore: Both the corporation’s and my would not fit well at all. I guess that vation. To do otherwise is simply to personal values are involved in the gets back to an earlier point—the ask for trouble. If one questions the kinds of programs we sponsor. For­ need for young people entering very basis of a company’s business tunately, there is no discord here. business to find a place where they —such as being in the tobacco or li­ Our goal in developing and spon­ can be true to their own Christian quor industry, for example—then he soring the Hallmark Hall of Fame is values and at the same time be ef­ should avoid employment in that to present programs that demon­ fective in supporting the goals of the company. That’s obvious. But even strate quality and good taste. When company. if the end products of the company we begin with that premise, it isn’t Boundary: As a business person. Brad, are not objectionable, a person difficult to reflect my own personal what sort of ministry do you need should observe the methods through values in the selection and devel­ from your church to equip you for which the products are produced opment of programs—even when “living on the boundary”? and marketed. Do you believe in the programs deal with controversial Moore: The same kind of gospel that them? In marketing, for example, subjects. The promotion of high val­ everyone else needs, a simple, clear there are products and service that ues is still the primary objective. exposition of the Scriptures and a are sold primarily through overt This means we frequently sponsor call to live a life that reflects my “snob appeal” or through sex appeal programs that reflect the need for love for God by the way I show love or through appeals to selfish values healthy family relationships and to others. H and materialism. That’s shaky that encourage people to give their ground for a Christian. best, one to another. And we avoid, BY AL TRUESDALE Boundary: You are involved in gener­ for example, scenes or stories that Professor o f philosophy of religion and ating major television productions condone sexual activity outside of Christian ethics, and academic dean at for Hallmark. You have to work marriage. As you know, a lot of tele­ Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kan­ closely with those involved in the vision programming is in clear con­ sas City, Missouri.

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was experiencing because of his obedience to the Lord? There was a time of rejoicing, which always attracts others. PAID IN FULL Soon several were willing to make additional contributions. We felt sure we would make our 100%. t was accounting time again and the General Budget On the final day of missionary services, we were still was not paid! As an NWMS district president, and short. Our dedicated missionary speaker and his wife an­ knowing how much our 629 missionaries depend on nounced they would give $500. I knew this was real sacri­ I the General Budget I felt a heavy burden about the short­ fice on their part. Then he asked if others wanted to join age. them. There was a beautiful response and tides of glory I have always believed that paying the General Budget in swept over the congregation as people obeyed God. full is the least we should do, but I had reconciled myself During such a time of giving, it is difficult to have an ac­ to a 97% payment. At convention time, that’s where we curate account of the total, but we all felt surely the full were. Fifty churches had overpaid and 35 churches had amount would be raised. How disappointing to find our­ paid in full. selves still a little short. I still had faith, so I wrote to the God began to work when two pastors resolved they churches that had not yet paid in full and asked for any would not accept any more salary from their respective am ount they could give. Some responded. churches until the General Budget was paid in full. The Lord honors that kind of commitment and these two On one occasion, a dear widow lady called to ask about churches did pay ... even overpaid. the General Budget. She assured me that she would mail The NWMS services and the camp meeting services $1,000 to Kansas City that day. I am sure that the blessings were being blessed by the Lord in a special way. People derived from obedience to God were multiplied to her. were obeying Him and it was a great time of spiritual vic­ Thank the Lord for pastors, that young man, the mis­ tory. After one of the services, a young man came to me sionary speaker, the widow, and the many, many others and enthusaistically informed me that the Lord had told who obeyed the Lord. Our General Budget was paid in full! him to give some money to General Budget. He was not Praise the Lord for what their sacrificial giving will mean ready to settle for 97%. I was astounded when he gave a to­ to all our missionaries. Because we gave, and because oth­ tal of $1,100, his entire savings, which he was planning to ers gave, they will be able to remain at their posts and win use for college! many to the Lord. H I was overcome, and even doubtful that the Lord was re­ ally asking this kind of sacrifice from him. I quickly real­ BY L0RENE WHITTINGTON ized my reaction was wrong. Should I question the Lord? NW M S president of the Illinois District, residing in Granite Should I question the joy and assurance this young man City, Illinois.

Herald of Holiness/December 15,1988 “Joey, when you were born, the doctors had to give you more blood or you would have died. The blood you were given six years ago contained a disease called AIDS. No­ body knew it at the time, but now we do. AIDS is a disease that some people die from, but not always. All the church people are praying that God will heal you.” When his mother had finished explaining the situation to him, Joey cried. Circumstances remained discouraging for the Benko AS family for several weeks. As Christmas approached, the world celebrated “good news of great joy for all people.” But there was no room in the inn for a child with AIDS! The family lived in a tenement apartment that the doc­ tors considered medically unsafe. The neighborhood was high-crime, the housing project drug-infested, and the apartment unsuitable for a child fighting a life-threatening disease. They suffered through a series of harassments—attempt­ ed break-ins, property damage, racial threats, and physical violence. IV drug needles were found on their doorstep, windows were broken out, their truck was set on fire, and the father was physically assaulted. The frightened family needed to move, and Golden Gate Community did all it could to find a home, but there was none available. Other social services and AIDS advocacy agencies were contacted, but they, too, were unable to lo­ cate affordable housing. We prayed for a clean, safe, and decent apartm ent where the family could focus on the quality of life for Joey. We asked the Lord for a new home for Joey before Christmas Joey with his dad, Larry Day. We created a ministry fund for “Joey’s Hom e” and so­ licited sponsors. ow do you tell a six-year-old that he has AIDS?” Churches took offerings, individuals sent in donations, The Benko family—Joey, David, Larry, and and social service agencies offered food, clothing, and fur­ Linda—was adopted by Golden Gate Commu­ niture. The San Francisco Chronicle sent a reporter to in­ H nity’s AIDS mission group—a Nazarene task force com­terview the family, ran the story on December 23, and mitted to ministry to persons with AIDS. The family’s situ­ pledged to pay first and last month’s rent on any apart­ ation became the rallying cry for action, calling forth a ment they could afford to rent. compassionate response from the whole city of San Fran­ It didn’t happen by Christmas, but by New Year’s Eve cisco. Larry and Linda’s deepest prayer was answered—“for Joey We met Joey one summer during a puppet show spon­ to have a home like it’s supposed to be, like it’s supposed sored by our ministry at the public housing project in the to look and sound and feel.” neighborhood where his family lived. In the fall, we noticed A small but safe and affordable one bedroom apartment that Joey’s complexion turned pale, signifying sickness. He was located away from the drugs and crime. “And it’s was taken to the hospital and subjected to six weeks of ex­ clean,” said Linda with delight, “and with all the windows, tensive tests. On October 20, Joey was diagnosed with it’s very bright!” AIDS. The Benko family began the new year full of hope and Members of our mission group met at the hospital to the Lord’s provisions. Joey, unable to return to school, en­ hold a vigil, anoint him with oil, and pray for his healing. rolled in a special class at the hospital. Larry was hired by Just outside his room, we heard the young child’s desperate Golden Gate Ministries job development program, and was screams and sobbing questions: “Why are you hurting me? able to buy a car. The ministry became the financial man­ You’re hurting my arm!” He had to be sedated in order for ager for the family with its limited income. Linda brought the nurses to change his IV. a material-needs list to church and members responded to Once we were allowed in the room, Joey was only semi­ help make their new home a happy one. The Make-a-Wish conscious. Gathered around his bed, we sang and prayed Foundation, which specializes in making terminal chil­ and spoke lovingly to this innocent child for whom the dren’s dreams come true, sent the whole family to Disney doctors had done all they could. “How could this happen World for a special weekend. to a six-year-old?” we asked the Lord in shocked silence. For our mission group, anxious to establish a residential There is no victim more innocent than a baby born pre­ program for persons with AIDS, Joey’s home is a sign of maturely who received a blood transfusion that showed up what is to come. As a church and mission, we are commit­ six years later as AIDS! ted to reaching out to children with AIDS, homeless per­ The following week Joey was released from the hospital sons with AIDS, and others living with this dreaded disease and sent back to the housing project. His parents drew —in Jesus’ name! H straws to determine who would tell him he had AIDS. Linda drew the short one and prayed for wisdom before BY MICHAEL J. CHRISTENSEN she spoke. Pastor o f Golden Gate Ministries in San Francisco.

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ware County, N.Y., the second child of schism that had plagued the American Phineas Philip and Susan Brown Bre­ religious soul; Methodists would not see. Converted in a protracted meeting bridge the same gap for another 31 in 1856, Bresee received a Methodist years. exhorter’s license soon afterward. The J. B. Chapman, Southern church­ family moved to Iowa the following man, reflected on the meaning of Bre­ year, and he became an apprentice- see to the aspirations of the founding preacher on the Marengo charge. He generation of Nazarenes: “The first was ordained a deacon in the Meth­ time I saw Dr. Bresee in the pulpit odist Episcopal Church in 1859 by was when he arose to lead the devo­ Bishop Matthew Simpson, and or­ tional service on the afternoon of the dained an elder in 1861 by Bishop opening of the 1908 General Assem- Levi Scott. Until 1883, he served Iowa Methodism at Pella, Grinnell circuit, Galesburg circuit, East Des Moines, Chariton, Wesley Chapel (Des Moines), Council Bluffs First, Red Oak, Clarinda, Creston, and Center Church (Council Bluffs). He also served a partial term as presiding elder and engaged in a variety of Annual Conference committee assignments. In 1883, Bresee requested transfer to the Southern California Confer­ ence, serving subsequently at Fort BORN Street in Los Angeles, Pasadena First, and then three other Los Angeles TO LEAD churches: Asbury, Simpson, and Boyle Heights. There was also another term n Saturday evening, Dec. 30, as presiding elder. In both Iowa and about sixty members of the California, Bresee was elected delegate First Church [Los Angeles] to the General Conferences of 1872 Omet at the residence of Brother andand 1892 respectively. Sister P. F Bresee, the occasion of Bresee’s life and career took a fresh their gathering together being the direction in 1894—the part best seventy-third anniversary of the birth known to Nazarenes. After one year of Dr. Bresee. This occurred on De­ in the Peniel Mission, a ministry to cember 31, Sunday, and hence it was the urban poor, Bresee joined with decided to celebrate the evening pre­ J. R Widney in founding an indepen­ vious. By common consent Brother dent congregation that is today Los [C. E.] Cornell took charge and called Angeles First Church of the Nazarene, Dr. Bresee with wife, Maria Hibbard, in later California years. on Brother Asbridge to lead in prayer. mother church of the Nazarene move­ Several hymns were sung, Brother ment on the West Coast. Bresee bly. His patriarchal appearance so im­ Cornell made a few appropriate re­ largely fashioned its superintendency. pressed me that I think I was more or marks, and Brother and Sister Bresee In 1896, the Nazarene Messenger be­ less prepared for the marvelous ad­ both expressed their appreciation of gan, one of two roots of the present- dress he gave on the 60th chapter of the love and thoughtfulness of the day Herald of Holiness. By 1907, Isaiah ... It was the presence and brethren. The former spoke at some when his group merged with the bearing and emphasis of the man that length of the providential circum­ eastern Association of Pentecostal made the impression and constituted stances connected with their coming Churches of America to create the this an occasion of a lifetime—yea, to California. Several presents were Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene, even of a century. I suspect it was the handed to our beloved senior superin­ Bresee had witnessed its expansion climax of Dr. Bresee’s life and minis­ tendent, and during the watch-night along the Pacific tier of states, with try, and 1 suspect it was the climax in service on Sunday evening he was other congregations scattered east of life for many of us who were there.” made the recipient of a purse of fifty- the Rockies. In 1908, further merger STAN INGERSOL five dollars.” with the Southern-based Holiness Denominational Archivist New Year’s Eve 1988 marks the Church of Christ generated a truly na­ 150th anniversary of the birth of Sources: The Phineas F. Bresee Collection; The Pentecostal tional denomination and struck a Advocate (January 25, 1912); The Preacher's Magazine (De­ Phineas Bresee near Franklin, Dela­ blow against the sectional and cultural cember 1938).

Herald of Holiness/December 15, 1988 or the fourth Christmas in a row I took down the print. It’s just like stealing if you don’t. If that cashier had mirror in our entry hall to hang my favorite Christ­ overcharged you $10.00 you would have gone by to Fmas decoration in its place—my Norman Rockwell straighten it out long before now.” print. It’s that wonderful picture of the boy who has just “Yes, but who wants to shell out 10 bucks from this discovered a Santa Claus suit in his dad’s bottom dresser year’s tight budget for a picture I’ve had for four years? Be­ drawer. The expression on his face tells the whole story. sides it would be so embarrassing now. W hat could I say? I just love that picture! It’s my pride and joy. Did I say ‘Oh, by the way, you forgot to ring up my Norman Rock­ “joy”? I found no “joy” in that print, which I always called well print when I was in the other day—back in December to the attention of every friend visiting our home during of 1982!’ No way! It’s water under the bridge. It was their the Christmas season. For this was the fourth Christmas I’d mistake— not mine. If that girl had been paying closer at­ had it and I still hadn’t paid for the silly thing! tention to her job this would never have happened. Forget You must understand, I’ve always been a very honest it!” person. I wouldn’t take one cent that didn’t belong to me. First Samuel 15:22: “And Samuel said. Hath the Lord as (Not even from the U.S. government at tax time!) It was all great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying just a crazy mix-up in the beginning, and the Lord had the voice of the Lord? Behold to obey is better than sacri­ been faithfril to remind me that I hadn’t paid for it. fice, and to harken than the fat of rams.” I’d purchased several items at Hobby Lobby four years I was justifying disobedience! I couldn’t even believe my­ earlier. As I signed the VISA receipt, I thought to myself, self. I was following the Lord and serving Him. There were “Well, that didn’t come to as much as I expected,” not real­ plenty of “burnt offerings” on the altar. Here I was serving izing that the cashier had charged me for the frame but on the pastor’s staff at the Lake View Church of the Naza­ had forgotten to ring up $10.00 for the print itself rene. I was working with children (teaching them about When I discovered what had happened I was already honesty!), visiting and praying for the sick on a weekly ba­ back home, about 15 miles from the store. sis, testifying about the wonderful things God was doing in “How disgusting! I’m not going to drive 30 miles round my life and to miraculous answers to prayer. I was coun­ trip to give them their $10.00 tonight. I’ll just do it the seling with people, helping them with spiritual matters, next time I’m in shopping.” paying my tithes, giving love offerings, and paying a When I pulled out the picture on Christmas No. 2 I re­ monthly faith promise pledge for missions. I’d even offered called that I hadn’t remembered to pay Hobby Lobby for myself for missionary service if needed. What would peo­ that print. “I’ve still got to do that!” ple think if they knew I was struggling over a $10.00 Nor­ Christmas No. 3—“I can’t believe I’ve never paid for this man Rockwell Christmas print? print. Oh well, it was the cashier’s fault, not mine, and I re­ Isn’t it ironic how Satan works his way into our lives ally intended to pay for it!” over the “little” things? But Christmas No. 4 was the real problem. God spoke. “OK, Lord, even if it was the cashier’s fault I’ll go back “Now Mike, you need to pay for that Norman Rockwell and give them their 10 bucks—but I’m not telling them how long ago this happened! That’s where I draw the line.” James 4:6: “... God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.” Wouldn’t you know it? The very next day I had to do some calling for the church and I had to drive right by Hobby Lobby! I didn’t have a dime on me. (My wife only trusts me with one “emergency” dollar at a time—and I’d already found an “emergency.”) I did, however, have my trusty little VISA card. I walked up to the cashier. “You forgot to charge me $10.00 for a Norman Rockwell print in here. I didn’t no­ tice it until I got home—It was four years ago.” “Four years ago?” She looked at me and grinned as she took the VISA card from my hand. As I got back into my car the peace of God came over me. It’s not worth $10.00 to forfeit that peace—or $10,000 or $10,000,000. No amount of money buys the peace of the Lord God Almighty. But “old-fashioned” restitution and obedience to the voice of the Holy Spirit had brought a peace “that the world never gave, a peace it can not take away.” H

BY J. MICHAEL CURRY A Nazarene missionary serving in Manzini, Swaziland. S h e p h e r d s Can you im agine it? Shepherds! Not kings. Not governors. Not rich fat merchants, or Roman Tribunes, or even prophets, priests, or scribes. Shepherds! They’re out in the hills, playing their pipes, huddled about the fire. They peer through the starry darkness at the flock around them, thinking of home, bed, raisin cakes—who knows what? But suddenly, the sky flames with the armies of God— angels— raw and bright as sunlight. The shepherds scatter, They hide among the rocks, terrified. But the angels speak quietly, and the shepherds stumble forward, HE ANGEL’S WORD shielding their eyes. When Jesus came down It’s good news. "A child is born His only crown in Bethlehem. A king. A Savior. The Lord Was the jeweled-filled God." The shepherds scramble. Stars in the sky. "Who'll take care of the sheep?" says one. His throne was small "Who cares?" shouts another. In the cattle stall; The old ones hobble. The young ones sprint. His praise a lullaby. The children grab the arms of the fathers. And those who came Can you see them? To give acclaim With their patched robes, their gray-flecked Were men who beards, their eager, flaming eyes—all Smelled like sheep. huddled in the doorway of God's birth stable? Yet shepherds heard The angel’s word Im agine it! Shepherds! And now we all repeat The first to know. The first to go. "Glory to God in the highest, The first to crack the door and on earth peace, good will on heaven's greatest mission. toward men" (Luke 2:14).

—MARK R. LITTLETO N —SARA ANN DuBOSE Columbia, Maryland Montgomery, Alabama

Herald of Holiness/December 15, 1988 13 courages a childless life-style, but the church has traditionally been quite family-oriented, even to the point where often it fails to make singles and couples without children feel in­ cluded. Christmas is the worst tim e of the year. Toys line the department store shelves, kids queue up to see Santa, the church goes all out for the annual children’s Christmas pageant, while the pastor announces, “We won’t be having a service this Wednesday night so that we can all spend Christmas with our families.” The infertile couple looks at each other and wonders whether their family will always con­ sist of you, me, and Gilda the gold­ fish. Childless couples frustrated by infer­ tility usually seek medical advice. At this point the pain is intensified ten­ fold. First, the wife must take her tem­ perature daily, always at the same time of the day, and mark it on a calendar. read with interest the letter from knows that they are longing for a This is usually done before she gets “Name Withheld” in the August child. In fact, most people assume that out of bed in the morning, so her first 1, 1987, edition of the Herald o f a couple without children has planned thought each day concerns her prob­ IHoliness. The author was a young it that way, especially if that couple is lem. This may not sound like much of woman who had suffered two mis­ financially successful or leads an ac­ a burden to those who have never had carriages and was trying to cope with tive social life. They assume that the to deal with it, but I’ve known women infertility. last thing in the world the couple who could not cope with this simple I could identify with the writer. Be­ needs is a child to “tie them down.” procedure and the daily reminder of ing involuntarily childless for six years However, infertile couples desper­ their shortcomings. made us painfully aware of how dev­ ately want children, and feel the pain Secondly, the couple is subjected to astating infertility can be. My husband of longing every day. It’s a longing endless embarrassing tests and ques­ and I went through countless tests, that is almost tangible and constantly tions. In many cases surgery is re­ many drugs, two surgeries, and en­ present. Though men are emotionally quired on one or both spouses. And dured two miscarriages before our son affected by infertility, women es­ the financial burden of it all is was born last year. We’ve seen both pecially go through extreme emotional astounding. Some fertility drugs cost sides of the issue now, and I would and social trauma when they find they as much as $800 per month, and in like to share some insights for those cannot conceive. Consider Hannah, vitro fertilization is $5,000 or more for Christians who want to help childless who wanted a child more than any­ each try, with no guarantee of success. couples. thing in the world, and whose hus­ Needless to say, this financial pressure, For the benefit of those people who band ached, “Am I not better to you together with the emotional stress, find it hard to understand the frus­ than ten sons?” I’m sure he wished puts great strain on a marriage. tration their childless friends express, I she could conceive, but he could find Perhaps the most devastating result will list briefly some basic problems fulfillment elsewhere and so did not of infertility is the emotional and spir­ that infertile couples face. feel the pain so deeply. itual pain. A woman who wants chil­ First of all, infertility is hard to deal A childless woman, on the other dren but is unable to have them feels with because it is an invisible malady. hand, is confronted daily with her in­ extremely inadequate and unfulfilled. We usually know how to deal with adequacies. She cannot take a trip to News stories of child abuse and abor­ people who are ill. or have lost a mate the grocery store without seeing rows tion fill her with rage that women or their livelihood; those tribulations of diapers; she cannot watch television who don’t want children can get preg­ are obvious to us. We send them get without viewing rosy-cheeked toddlers nant but she cannot. She may begin well cards or sympathy cards; we tell advertising something. Most of her to withdraw from society because them that we’re praying for them; we friends have children, and at parties that’s the only way she can isolate her­ take them a meal. But procreation is a the other women talk about how cute self from the pain she feels. She may private area of life and one that we their kids are, while she sits wishing begin to resent her husband and with­ don’t choose to discuss with many she could enter into the conversation. draw from him as well. Men suffer, people. Consequently, often no one— And church is the most painful place too, and have the added burden of try­ not even a couple’s best friends— of all. The world has accepted and en­ ing to uplift the wife’s sagging spirits.

Herald of Holiness/December 15, 1988 Add to this the nagging thoughts of make insensitive comments regarding dilemma. Although we should expect husband and wife that God has aban­ a childless couple. Avoid asking people the church to educate itself to the doned them, or that they don’t have when they plan to start a family. Don’t needs of the infertile couple and en­ enough faith, or that if they were bet­ expect an infertile woman to help with deavor to help them, don’t expect the ter Christians they wouldn’t be going baby showers. Accept the fact that a church to resolve your problems for through this, and so on. Through couple without children may not want you. You have to do that for yourself, these doubts Satan tempts them to to be included in all church activities, with God’s help. Remember also that abandon their faith. but allow them the opportunity to your trial may be all-consuming to Concerning miscarriages, it is im­ participate if they so desire. Let the you, but the person who is sitting next portant to realize that the couple who couple talk about their problem if to you on the church bench is proba­ has lost a child before birth experi­ they want to, and pray for them, but bly going through silent suffering of ences true grief. The being who died never say, “You’re trying too hard. Just his own. The Lord is using this time may have been just so many cells in a relax.” D on’t tell them about your of testing in your life for a purpose, technical sense, but it was a child to cousin Nellie who finally conceived perhaps to make you better aware of its parents. They have to be allowed to one month after she adopted a child. the sufferings of others. Continue to go through the grief process, and any (Statistically, that happens in less than trust in His goodness and wisdom and attempt to minimize their loss by in­ 10% of all cases.) What the infertile love. H sensitive remarks will only intensify couple needs from you is not trite their pain. platitudes but quiet understanding. BY DONNA GILBERT What can concerned Christians do And to those who are battling with A legal secretary and a member of the to help ease the pain of someone go­ infertility, I would say don’t expect ev­ Carrollton, Texas, Church of the Naza- ing through this difficulty? Don’t eryone to understand or accept your rene.

A CHRISTMAS LESSON Did Mary feel embarassed When the shepherds came to call? Did she wish they'd found a nicer place Instead of lowly stall? Was she yearning for a perfumed bath, Someone to plait her hair? Did she wish her son a finer bed With soft warm blankets there? Or did joy fill her grateful heart And overflow with awe, Remembering the angel's words

H. Armstrong Roberts And what her eyes now saw. For in her spirit Mary knew This son whom she adored 0MM0NER, OR KING? Was God's begotten chosen one, His Excellency came to town, Her Savior and her Lord. And in a rude and wretched stable manger So Mary murmured not at all, Laid Him down. No palace was more grand— His Majesty in swaddling bands was dressed, The King of kings was ushered in And found His comfort in a mother's arms Exactly as God planned. And at her breast. And so a lesson for all time Sovereignty—to whom was given all authority— This wisdom to impart Was born a tender scrap of bone and flesh, Don't be absorbed with worldly show, Like you and me. God looks upon the heart. —E. RUTH GLOVER —CONNIE Lake Elsinore, California Rogers, Arkansas

Herald of Holiness/December 15, 1988 T HE EDITOR’S STANDPOINT

ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTION AT CHRISTMAS For many people Christmas revolves around two our celebrations overlook the lonely, the oppressed, questions: “What shall I give?” “W hat will I get?” and the suffering; then we ought to be ashamed, for Celebrating Christmas, complained one fellow, is we distort the message of Christmas. like having lots of friends—what it costs sometimes I gladly confess that Christmas still excites me. I exceeds the joy it brings. love to read the nativity stories and hear the advent For Christians, a better question to reflect upon hymns. My favorite Christmas drama continues to be during the Advent season would be, “How much like the biblical pageant, with youngsters playing the the Christ am I?” parts in homemade costumes. The question may disturb our peace on earth. We But I don’t care for the manner in which the world easily form the habit of comparing ourselves with celebrates Christmas, and too much of the world’s each other, not with Jesus Christ. Much of the time values and customs have invaded the churches. For we carefully select those against whom we measure the churches, Christmas should be a time to repudi­ ourselves. How comforting and self-justifying it is to ate greed, force, and lust. It should focus upon the be able to say, “I’m just as good (or loyal, or gener­ loneliest and neediest among us. It should inspire us ous, or hard-working, or forgiving) as they are.” But to share, not simply to swap. It should accelerate our when the yardstick is the Christ, who of us can man­ mission to make Christ known, not as the center of age to feel an inch high? an annual orgy of sentiment, but as the Lord and The answer might shame us. The gap between His Savior of mankind. love and ours, His humility and ours, His sacrifice Never mind a jolly Christmas; what I need is a and ours, could make our cheeks flame with embar­ holy Christmas. That means a Christmas that pre­ rassment. The whole meaning of His coming was serves the meaning and message of the original event. love-inspired sacrifice for others—and the others And it means a Christmas during which I honestly were undeserving and ungrateful sinners. face up to the question, “How much like the Christ If our lives are self-centered and self-indulgent; if have 1 become?” our giving is cooly calculated on a merit system; if

Prayer is not sedation; it reinforces our depleted spir­ A SOURCE its. It does not desensitize us, allowing us to be numbly OF COMFORT indifferent or clinically detached. Every time I turn around there is someone else to destroy some circuits. Seldom does a day pass with­ pray for, someone in urgent need or desperate straits. out a letter or phone call informing me of another Some days the whole world seems like a battlefield sufferer and requesting additional intercession. strewn with casualties or a hospital filled with pa­ Prayer is a source of comfort, not a form of escape. tients. Pain, grief, and death surround us, taking a It is a conduit for peace and strength from God. constant toll upon our resources of compassion. To Prayer is not sedation; it reinforces our depleted spir­ keep on serving human needs, one has to fight its. It does not desensitize us, allowing us to be against the temptation to become depressed. numbly indifferent or clinically detached. It puts us Last night I heard a pastor putting prayer requests in touch with refreshing, healing spiritual energy that before his people. An infant girl was discovered to be enables us to cope with oppressive burdens. sightless. What a shock to adoring parents! A young Jesus Christ, our sympathetic High Priest, makes man had suffered an injury on his job, resulting in the throne of God a throne of grace. There we find nerve damage and 70 percent loss of function in one grace to help in time of need. If the load is not re­ arm. A mother had undergone surgery for cancer, duced, our strength will be increased. By His grace but too late, and doctors can do nothing but sedate we can care without despairing and help without her for the time remaining. At the close of the ser­ bankruptcy. vice we prayed for a precious friend who is facing the Would you believe it? While I was writing this, a need of intestinal surgery. phone message came, telling me that a family mem­ On and on the list grows! When you care you hurt ber must have surgery next week. Thank God for the with people, and the emotional overload threatens to prayer line!

16 Herald of Holiness/December 15. 19KX ON REPENTANCE “Repentance toward God and faith in the Lord to the will of God is involved. Repentance includes Jesus Christ” are the conditions for receiving forgive­ surrender. ness of sins. “Except ye repent," said Jesus, “ye shall perish.” He While much continues to be said about faith, re­ was referring to something more than physical death, pentance is seldom preached these days. God’s de­ for even those who repent of sins and trust in Him mands are unchanged, however, and the alternative will die. The horrible consequence of refusing to re­ to repentance is still destruction. Apart from repen­ pent is spiritual death—separation from God—which tance we cannot believe in Jesus Christ. Faith with­ becomes eternal death—the breach unclosed forever. out repentance is shallow believism, the dead ortho­ Scripture makes it clear, in its teaching about re­ doxy condemned by Paul and James alike in their pentance, that Jesus Christ saves us from our sins, apostolic letters. not in our sins. Consent to sin is a veto on grace, Repentance has been defined as godly sorrow for making salvation impossible. When we repent we can sin, but it is more than feeling bad because we have believe, and when we believe our sins are blotted out sinned. The Greek word we translate “repent” means and our lives are made new. to change the mind, to think again, but this is more “Repent and believe the gospel” is the message of than a mental process. Behind the Greek term, and Christ today just as it was yesterday. To declare that controlling its full meaning, is a Hebrew term that message and to obey that command is the responsi­ means to turn or to return. True repentance is noth­ bility of the church. ing less than turning from sin to God in order to be forgiven. The Psalmist describes the action of repenting when he writes, “I thought on my ways and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.” Unless the thinking mind is accompanied by the turning feet, repentance is incomplete and spurious. The consent of our lives

The editorial staff of the Herald of Holiness w ishes you holiness and happiness during the Christmas sea­ son and forever! “Because of the tender mercy of our God ... the Sunrise from on high shall visit us” (Luke 1:78, NASB). W. E. McCumber Mabel Adamson Ivan A. Beals Rhonda Gibson

Herald of Holiness/December 15. 1988 1 7 om Sines, in Why Rituals, though valid Settle for More and Miss the Best? (Word and meaningful, will TBooks, 1987), retells a story die and be forgotten. from Elie Weisel’s book of Hasidic tales. It is the story Those truths that of a devout rabbi who had serve life must be established a weekly ritual. The rabbi’s students, <>-, guarded and perserved. deeply influenced by him, continued the ritual several years after his death. How­ i0*sp!fSigr' ever, little by little, the ritual began to fade. First, they m j. :jf; lost the sacred place in the i a K' forest where the rabbi had gone. Then they failed to The Grand Essentials, light the fire. Before long, Waco, Tex., Word Books, they forgot the prayer. Even­ HOW 1987, p. 101). tually. all they could do was The church treads danger­ tell the story. ous paths when it changes One might argue, at the ISA its message—its heritage of outset, that the ritual died ■HERITAGE truth—to comply with the because it did not have the interests of its hearers. Such power of meaning and life. a compromise not only That might be true. A blunts the heritage, but if greater question, however, offers no challenge and no surfaces— how is a heritage conviction to the people. preserved? PRESERVED? Someday they will awaken First, great and valid truths are not automatically pre­ to realize they not only have no heritage, they have no served. We need to know this. Our faith can only be passed summons to seek their God. on to the next generation deliberately and definitely. Unless A couple of years ago, as a part of my reports to the we appreciate our faith, and clearly articulate its points, it Michigan District Assembly, I shared this: “Many of us— will not be implanted in the hearts of the younger set. Only hopefully all of us—came to the Church of the Nazarene that faith which is planted in the heart will be harvested in because it offered us a great gospel and a great fellowship. the days to come. Rituals, though valid and meaningful, There was something about its music—its evangelistic mu­ will die and be forgotten. Those truths that serve life must sic, its warmth, its doctrines, beliefs, convictions, disci­ be guarded and preserved. plines, and standards that drew us into its circle. We joined Second, there is room for questions, examination, and by choice. I, for one, do not want to see the choice com­ review. Are we preserving something just for the sake of a promised and weakened.” person? Or because of some sentimental attachment? At History reveals that compromise with values never some point the question is valid—“Is there something bet­ strengthens. It always weakens. “I have a deep feeling that ter, spiritually?” “Can the heritage be improved?” “Will it any member, be he lay or ministerial, who has become in­ furnish strength and truth down the road for those who are different to his vows of membership, or who by his actions not in touch with the emotions that once surrounded it?” shows disregard for the beliefs and standards of the church, A valid truth and worthy heritage will not be afraid of has an integrity problem which in essence is a spiritual tough questions. problem. Some of these would not think of going to Ro­ Third, heritage must be wedded to the contemporary to tary, Kiwanis, or any of the other service clubs and show give it lasting value. The meaning and message of a great such indifference and disregard. Neither would any service truth and a great way must find a place in contemporary club allow compromises with their basic purposes. Dare we life. We must guard against destruction of the past just for allow it within the church? I strongly think not!” the comfort of the present. I am reminded of what Rabbi The way to preserve a heritage, a great deposit of truth, Abraham Heschel told some members of his Jewish con­ is to live it with joy and let its strength flow into one’s life­ gregation who did not like the truths he was proclaiming, style, lifting the levels of living—and dying. When this and asked if he would please change them. He reminded kind of preservation is seen, then the heritage will be a his critics that it was not for him to change his message, m atter of the heart and not just a ritual. Then it will be but the congregation to change their lives until the truth welcomed by any people, young or old. H would be welcomed. He said “ ... they were to learn the drama and say it and ‘play’ it over and over again until it BY C. NEIL STRAIT captured their imagination and they assimilated it into the Superintendent of the Michigan District, residing in Grand deepest places in their hearts” (quoted by Ben Patterson, Rapids, Michigan.

18 Herald o f Holiness/December IS, 1988 DIVISION OF CHRISTIAN LIFE

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STATISTICS SHOW INCREASES FOR Phil Riley THE SIXTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR Division Director The 1987-88 Sunday School statistics were released by the general secretary's office on November 11. In the annual figures, the Responsibility List (Enrollment) reached a new high of 1,299,280, a plus of 34,404. The weekly average attendance totaled 641,539, a plus of 6,407. Both are increases for the sixth consecutive year. Regions outside the U.S. and Canada contributed to these increases in weekly attendance.

“WELCOME” CAMPAIGN BRINGS POSITIVE RESPONSE DURING THE FALL SUNDAY SCHOOL EMPHASIS TOfELCOME TO THE CHURCH OF • 443,144 in attendance on Rally The Paden City, W.Va., Nazarenes pur­ THE NAZARENE Day, October 31. chased billboard space on the north OUR CHURCH CAN BE YOUR HOME • A new song, “Our Church Can Be side of town (Route 2) to call attention Your Home,” written by Evonne to their church in this community of 4,000. Rev. Keith Hostutler is the pas­ “Welcome to the Church of the Naza- Neuenschwander, was introduced tor and Mrs. Sharon Seneker is CL/SS rene. Our Church Can Be Your Home” to the Nebraska District. chairperson. became a focal point of the fall Sunday • A one-fourth page ad in USA To­ School emphasis. In this six-week pe­ d a y newspaper. More than 400 riod several outstanding things took telephone responses were re­ place: ceived by the special 800 number • 25,303 new people were enrolled publicized. in Sunday School (U.S. and Can­ • Hundreds of newspaper ads ap­ ada): The top five districts were (1) pearing in com m unity new spa­ Southwestern Ohio— 1,014; (2) pers across the land. South Carolina— 956; (3) Los An­ • New pride in letting people every­ geles— 883; (4) Southern Florida where know about our denomina­ — 753; (5) Georgia— 720. tion and its message.

25 Largest Sunday Top 25 Districts Top 10 Sunday Schools Schools in Average in Sunday School in Numerical Gain Attendance Attendance (U.S. and Canada) 1. Long Beach First (Anaheim) +426 2. Los Angeles First Spanish (Los Angeles) + 149 1. Mindelo (Cape Verde) 2,104 1. Guatemala Las Verapaces 16,394 3. West Palm Beach (Southern Florida) + 102 2. Salem (Oreg.) First 1,825 2. Oregon Pacific 9,478 4. Long Beach Samoan (Anaheim) + 95 3. Bethany (Okla.) First 1,706 3. Korea Central 9,183 5. Lake Worth New Life Haiti 4. Pasadena (Calif.) First 1,516 4. Central Florida 8,982 (Southern Florida) + 93 5. Long Beach (Calif.) First 1,486 5. Central Ohio 8,798 6. Las Vegas Charleston Heights (Arizona) + 92 6. Denver (Colo.) First 1,370 6. Colorado 8,783 7. Beaumont Cornerstone (Houston) + 90 7. Olathe (Kans.) College 1,223 7. Southwestern Ohio 8,728 8. Lake Worth El Mesias (Southern Florida) + 90 8. Bonteheuwel (South Africa) 1,132 8. Los Angeles 8,621 9. Dobson Ranch (Arizona) + 88 9. Nashville (Tenn.) First 1,091 9. Kansas City 8,533 10. Lakeland Highland Park (Central Florida) + 86 10. Wichita (Kans.) First 967 10. Northeastern Indiana 8,433 11. Praia (Cape Verde) 947 11. North Central Ohio 8,299 12. Nampa (Idaho) First 836 12. Tennessee 7,919 Top 10 Sunday Schools 13. Terre Neuve (Haiti) 778 13. Southwest Indiana 7,699 in Numerical Gain 14. Bel-Air (Haiti) 760 14. Washington Pacific 7,543 (International) 15. Kansas City (Mo.) First 675 15. Indianapolis 7,532 16. Portland (Oreg.) First 664 16. Eastern Michigan 7,515 1. Terre Neuve (Haiti) +715 17. Sao Filipe (Cape Verde) 633 17. Swaziland North 7,340 2. San Ignacio (Peru) +542 18. San Ignacio (Peru) 625 18. Illinois 7,317 3. Seoul (Korea) Bethel +373 19. Oskaloosa (Iowa) 624 19. Kansas 7,260 4. Siteki (Swaziland) +363 20. Chobal (Guatemala) 618 20. Cape Verde 7,221 5. Dorlette (Haiti) +288 21. Fairview Village (Pa.) 606 21. Akron 7,059 6. Bel-Air (Haiti) +251 22. City Soleil (Haiti) 600 22. Southern Florida 6,982 7. Travari, Haryana (India) +250 23. San Miguel Chicaj (Guatemala) 598 23. Michigan 6,844 8. Heideveld (RSA Western Cape) +246 24. Kankakee (III.) College 597 24. Northwest 6,648 9. Senahu (Guatemala) +245 25. Nova Sintra Brava (Cape Verde) 590 25. Philadelphia 6,610 10. City Soleil (Haiti) +230 18A DIVISION OF CHRISTIAN LIFE A , AND SUNDAY SCHOOL ------t t . M ------Chris&mafe&K Ofvr« I a' CvV/m V

THE FIVE LARGEST SUNDAY SCHOOLS IN AVERAGE ATTENDANCE FOR THE 1987-88 ASSEMBLY YEAR U.S. AND CANADA (under roof)

AKRON CANADA WEST EASTERN KENTUCKY 503 Canton First 232 Calgary First 279 Ashland First 306 East Liverpool First 130 Winnipeg Fort Garry 241 Richmond First 235 Columbiana 124 Red Deer First 152 Turkey Creek 223 Akron Arlington 117 Medicine Hat 180 Covington Central 205 Warren Champion 96 Calgary East 160 Maysville ALABAMA NORTH CENTRAL CALIFORNIA EASTERN MICHIGAN 315 Huntsville First 400 Porterville 526 Flint Central 214 Birmingham First 349 Bakersfield Olive Knolls 494 Warren Woods 170 Jasper First 292 Visalia First 429 Richfield 160 Gardendale 237 Bakersfield First 397 Detroit First 150 Cullman First 205 Tulare Wayside 300 Plymouth ALABAMA SOUTH CENTRAL FLORIDA FLORIDA SPACE COAST 288 Lanett First 477 Lakeland Highland Park 177 Melbourne First 151 Columbiana 475 Orlando Central 128 Vero Beach First 132 Tuscaloosa Holten Heights 355 Zephyrhills First 100 Cocoa First 116 Tuscaloosa Woodhaven 334 Winter Haven First 100 Titusville First 115 Mobile First 283 Tampa First 50 Eau Gallie ALASKA CENTRAL LATIN AMERICAN GEORGIA 163 Anchorage First 102 Houston, Primera 294 Atlanta First 145 Fairbanks Totem Park 95 San Antonio (Tex.) Primera 249 Marietta First 117 Anchorage Jewel Lake 93 Oklahoma City (Okla.) 249 Sandersville 108 Soldotna 84 Laredo (Tex.) 216 Dublin First 87 Juneau 79 McAllen (Tex.) 161 Mount Olive 161 Timberlake ANAHEIM CENTRAL OHIO 1,486 Long Beach First 440 Grove City HAWAII PACIFIC 318 Anaheim First 310 Circleville 233 Kailua 288 Alta Loma Foothill Communities 291 Portsmouth First 123 Honolulu First English 261 Pomona 285 Newark First 116 Kaneohe 218 Bellflower 256 Gallipolis 105 Maili Samoan 218 Garden Grove 89 Leeward Samoan CHICAGO CENTRAL ARIZONA 597 Kankakee College HOUSTON 586 Phoenix Orangewood 543 Kankakee First 326 Houston Spring Beach 313 Mesa First 438 Chicago First 220 Pasadena First 307 Glendale 255 Danville First 202 Nacogdoches 295 Dobson Ranch 214 Danville Southside 186 Port Arthur Grace 252 Tempe 185 Houston Northwest COLORADO CANADA ATLANTIC 1,370 Denver First ILLINOIS 143 Oxford, N.S. 475 Colorado Springs First 276 Decatur First 125 Elmsdale, PE.I. 419 Denver Lakewood 263 Decatur West Side 113 Trenton, N.S. 334 Colorado Springs Trinity 196 Decatur Parkway 86 Summerside, PE.I. 301 Colorado Springs Eastborough 190 Clinton First 81 O’Leary, P.E.I. 183 Mattoon First DAKOTA CANADA CENTRAL 218 Mitchell INDIANAPOLIS 131 Toronto Emmanuel 137 Minot First 576 Indianapolis First 125 Newmarket 136 Jamestown First 558 Indianapolis Westside 101 Toronto Rosewood 133 Valley City 374 Martinsville First 94 Hamilton First 113 Mandan 315 North Vernon 84 Brantford 272 New Castle First DALLAS CANADA PACIFIC 403 Richardson INTERMOUNTAIN 146 Abbotsford 232 Dallas Central 836 Nampa First 122 Guildford 187 Texarkana First 537 Nampa College 112 Victoria First 186 Duncanville Trinity 423 Boise First 96 Vancouver First 164 Denison 348 Meridian Valley Shepherd 54 Penticton 263 Ontario CANADA QUEBEC EAST TENNESSEE IOWA 98 Montreal Centre Evangelique 253 Chattanooga First 624 Oskaloosa 55 Montreal First 142 Chattanooga East Ridge 259 Cedar Rapids Oakland 35 Franklin Centre 129 Shelbyville 242 Council Bluffs First 29 St. Eustache 116 Greeneville 231 Cedar Rapids First 22 Ste.-Foy 115 Estille Springs 209 Des Moines Eastside DIVISION OF CHRISTIAN LIFE jU L AND SUNDAY SCHOOL ------t t . f r ------m , ChriM mgzite £%. OfiunJtix1 Q tbchod

JOPLIN NAVAJO NATION NORTHERN MICHIGAN 258 Carthage (Mo.) 100 Chilchinbeto 158 Alanson Lakeview 238 Independence (Kans.) 74 Shonto 134 Beaverton 195 Parsons (Kans.) 63 Montezuma Chair 113 Traverse City 193 Lebanon (Mo.) 58 Leupp 101 Reed City 181 Fort Scott First (Kans.) 49 Ramah Navajo 99 Cherry Grove KANSAS NEBRASKA NORTHEASTERN INDIANA 967 Wichita First 239 Lincoln First 430 Anderson First 310 Wichita Linwood 175 Hastings 363 Huntington First 304 Hutchinson First 168 Cozad 321 Muncie South Side 289 Wichita West Side 155 North Platte 264 Winchester 285 Salina First 113 Omaha First 263 Elkhart First KANSAS CITY NEW ENGLAND NORTHWEST 1,223 Olathe College 333 New Bedford 443 Moscow 675 Kansas City First 261 Lowell 357 Spokane First 376 Overland Park 194 Manchester 294 Spokane Valley 337 Kansas City Central 191 Quincy 293 Lewiston First 271 Topeka First 184 Nashua 269 Yakima West Valley KENTUCKY NEW MEXICO NORTHWEST INDIANA 262 Lexington Lafayette 360 Clovis First 445 Portage First 233 Columbia 302 Albuquerque Heights First 284 Kokomo First 182 Louisville Farmdale 212 Albuquerque Sandia 250 Valparaiso 177 Science Hill 180 El Paso First 195 Noblesville 174 Georgetown 172 Roswell First 189 South Bend First LOS ANGELES NEW YORK NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA 1,516 Pasadena First 397 Brooklyn Beulah 1,706 Bethany First 349 New Life Community 165 Valley Stream 412 Bethany Williams Memorial 309 Lompoc Trinity 164 Fishkill 351 Oklahoma City Lake View Park 282 San Luis Obispo 156 Bronx Bethany 346 Oklahoma City First 242 Atascadero 137 Brooklyn Miller Memorial 230 Enid First LOUISIANA NORTH ARKANSAS NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS 147 Shreveport Huntington Park 220 Conway First 524 Sterling First 131 Baton Rouge First 191 Fort Smith Trinity 247 Rock Island 111 DeRidder 190 Rogers 235 Pekin First 111 Ebenezer 145 Bentonville 200 Galesburg First 87 Shreveport First 130 Jonesboro Woodsprings 189 Bloomington First MAINE NORTH CAROLINA NORTHWESTERN OHIO 259 South Portland 271 Charlotte Pineville 309 Lima Community 173 Bangor 245 Hendersonville 250 Springfield First 154 Millmocket 178 Raleigh First 239 Wapakoneta 148 Skowhegan 173 Raleigh North 209 Piqua 105 Dover-Foxcroft 157 Asheville 200 Lima First MICHIGAN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO OREGON PACIFIC 281 Sturgis 999 Cleveland “Church on Wheels" 1,825 Salem First 276 Chapman Memorial 528 Mount Vernon First 664 Portland First 233 Lansing South 506 Marion First 351 Medford First 226 Owosso 442 Bedford 292 Oregon City 222 Grand Rapids First 299 Bucyrus 269 Eugene First MINNESOTA NORTH FLORIDA PHILADELPHIA 233 Minneapolis First 319 Jacksonville University Boulevard 606 Fairview Village 146 Fergus Falls 170 Pensacola First 378 Mifflinburg 136 Litchfield 147 Jacksonville First 331 Ephrata 127 Rochester 146 Jacksonville Oak Hill 271 Bridgeton 124 Osseo 146 Jacksonville Central 263 Vineland MISSISSIPPI NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA PITTSBURGH 264 Meridian Fitkin 338 Tulsa Central 246 Warren 197 McComb First 276 Sapulpa 203 Waynesburg 130 Jackson First 238 Bartlesville 198 Oil City 107 Jackson Emmanuel 212 Tulsa Regency Park 186 Pittsburgh South Hills 107 Grenada First 194 Broken Arrow 136 Homer City MISSOURI NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ROCK MOUNTAIN 206 Harvester 273 San Jose First 165 Kalispell 201 Hannibal First 266 Concord First 117 Sunnyside 182 St. Louis Southwest 229 Santa Rosa 116 Casper 167 St. Louis Trinity 215 Eureka 105 Whitefish 146 Cape Girardeau First 209 Santa Cruz 103 Great Falls 18C DIVISION OF CHRISTIAN LIFE AND SUNDAY SCHOOL

Uhristicm&jk ■ Lx QSbundav OiA'/h v l SACRAMENTO VIRGINIA 557 Sacramento Liberty Towers 550 Richmond Southside 285 Redding First 210 Woodbridge 278 Auburn 198 Harrisonburg 263 Oroville 188 Hampton Roanoke First 185 Sacramento 185 Arlington Calvary SAN ANTONIO WASHINGTON 201 Harlingen First 353 York 182 Temple First SOUTHWEST INDIANA 277 Baltimore First 153 Austin South 534 Seymour First 267 Washington First 134 Austin Grace 215 Brazil 260 Salisbury 133 Odessa First 212 New Albany First 258 Bel Air SOUTH ARKANSAS 175 Vincennes First WASHINGTON PACIFIC 275 North Little Rock First 172 Terre Haute First 462 Puyallup 192 Little Rock First 413 Seattle Aurora 169 Hot Springs First SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA 373 Kent First 156 Little Rock Calvary 307 Trinity 264 Vancouver Hillcrest 142 Waldron 270 Bethany Calvary 239 Centralia 269 Western Oaks SOUTH CAROLINA 198 Yukon WEST TEXAS 309 Columbia First 155 Norman First 388 Fort Worth Metroplex Chapel 258 Fort Mill 313 Lubbock First 242 West Columbia Central SOUTHWESTERN LATIN 303 Hereford 223 Chester 218 Amarillo First 190 Sumter Calvary AMERICAN 202 Amarillo Valley View 105 Chandler (Ariz.) SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA 73 Albuquerque (N.Mex.) WEST VIRGINIA NORTH 202 Durant 63 Phoenix (Ariz.) 269 Weirton 199 Henryetta 58 El Paso (Tex.) 218 Newell First 186 Choctaw 45 Tucson (Ariz.) 216 Parkersburg Broadway 170 Ada 194 Parkersburg First 154 Shawnee SOUTHWESTERN OHIO 177 Wellsburg SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 528 Cincinnati Springdale WEST VIRGINIA SOUTH 397 San Diego Mission Valley 350 Xenia 299 South Charleston First 306 Bloomington 320 Pisgah Community 297 Charleston Davis Creek 264 Hemet 281 Trenton 260 Pineville 261 San Diego First 280 Dayton Beavercreek 237 Huntington First 235 Riverside Arlington 199 Charleston Calvary TENNESSEE SOUTHERN FLORIDA 1,091 Nashville First WESTERN LATIN AMERICAN 423 Miami Hosanna 480 Nashville Grace 374 L.A. Belvedere 367 Princeton 357 Nashville College Hill 274 L.A. Boyle Heights 315 Bradenton First 267 Clarksville First 124 Rancho Cucamonga 270 Pompano Beach 237 Nashville Bethel 107 Sacramento 251 Lake Worth First 103 National City SOUTHWEST INDIAN UPSTATE NEW YORK WISCONSIN 119 Cache 232 Owego 147 Racine Community 102 Sells 194 Rochester Grace 114 Racine Taylor Avenue 62 Paguate 175 Syracuse Immanuel 104 Mattoon 59 Cocopah 149 Rochester Trinity 100 Richland Center 48 Parker 139 Plattsburgh 99 Madison First

1989 SPRING SUNDAY SCHOOL EMPHASIS “SHARE HIS SPIRIT” March 5-26, 1989

March 5— Prepared to Be All God Has Called Us to Be March 12— Caring for Those Often Overlooked in Our Own Crowd March 19— Sharing with the Community What Christ Means to Us March 26— Daring to'Do What We’ve Never Done Before

“Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” Matthew 25:40 a i f e

YOU ARE INVITED TO INDIANAPOLIS FOR THE GENERAL CHRISTIAN LIFE AND SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION 18D SAY “NO” TO ALCOHOL ADS lcohol causes 100,000 deaths a year, 25 times as product, which pays for a lot of sports programs on TV. many as all illegal drugs combined. Alcohol-related They say you will likely be seeing a lot less athletic events traffic accidents kill more 15- to 24-year-olds than on TV if you remove their ads. Brewers will spend A anything else. It’s one of the three leading causes of birth$150,000 for a 30-second commercial to increase sales. Ev­ defects. Sixteen million people are addicted to alcohol. Al­ ery televised sporting event comes with patriotic, macho- cohol use is involved in rapes, burglaries, family abuse, and oriented beer commercials. In the 14- to 29-year-old group, homelessness. Alcohol is a drug. males drink heavily because they consider it macho or so­ Alcohol is big business. The distiller and the brewer cially in. Youthful drinking habits persist through life. The must sell their products. Millions of dollars go into the par­ debate boils down to this: Is saving our children worth giv­ aphernalia that accompanies drinking. More goes into mar­ ing up hours of free sports entertainment on television? keting to glorify this product that kills, addicts, and steals. Sport commissioners, athletes, and the nation must The marketing industry receives $2 billion to glamorize know that as they deplore drug use they must also include drinking. What is never mentioned are the deaths and seri­ alcohol as a deadly, addictive drug. Society must condemn ous health and safety consequences—such as liver disease, the practice of pushing the consumption of alcohol on the hypertension, cancer, and preventable birth defects. next generation. It is time to take a strong stand against ad­ Everyone knows someone killed by a drunk driver, an al­ vertising that encourages the use and abuse of the drug al­ coholic, a family divided by alcohol. There is a tendency to cohol for profits. poke fun at Prohibition or dismiss it as a noble experi­ Eighty-one percent of Americans say they regard alcohol ment. If a person never takes that first drink, he cannot be­ abuse as a major national problem and that someone come an alcoholic or a drunk driver. You would never should do something about it. If 81 percent of our popu­ think of these things, watching a TV commercial or read­ lation would write letters to protest beer and wine ads on ing a slick magazine that glorifies alcoholic beverages. TV and in magazines, important things would happen to A national campaign against drug abuse urges youth to curb alcohol abuse. The alcohol industry must not be al­ “Just Say No to Drugs,” yet youth are bombarded daily lowed to continue to target our youth for their products. with “Say Yes to Beer and Wine Coolers.” Popular, even While we work to educate young people to the dangerous among children, is a bull terrier with a black spot around consequences of drugs and to personal responsibility, we one eye, known as Spuds McKenzie, party dog for beer. Al­ must also remove the glamour and appeal of alcohol by cohol ads present all that is fun with a nice dog, or nice old advertisements. H men, or athletes. Alcohol ads, whether on TV, in maga­ zines, or on T-shirts, sell alcohol to impressionable youth who want to know where the good times are and forget the BY WILLIAM GOODMAN consequences. They glamorize alcohol before youth, then A Nazarene elder who serves as the Salvation Arm y’s director express concern as youth self-destruct from their product. of Correctional Services for Western Missouri and Kansas Dis­ The alcohol industry spends big bucks to advertise their trict, and who resides in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Herald of Holiness/December 15, 1988 HE ANSWER CORNER

Where is the scripture found that the Antichrist and turn to Christ, even ishable by law, but mistakes arising says the Holy Spirit will be removed at the cost of martyrdom. Obviously, out of human limitations of knowl­ from the earth after the Rapture? How this could not occur except through edge and skill should not. can anyone be saved or even pray if the ministry of the Holy Spirit. The individual Christian must the Holy Spirit is not here to help make his personal and prayerful deci­ them? If a hospital, through carelessness, sion in cases such as you inquired I assume you are referring to 2 neglect, etc., does something that about. Thessalonians 2:7-8. There Paul says, causes death to a patient, is it wrong “For the secret power of lawlessness is (according to the Scriptures) for a Is the selling of tapes and albums already at work; but the one who now Christian to sue them? on Sunday by musical groups in our holds it back will continue to do so In 1 Corinthians 6 the apostle Paul churches becoming a common prac­ till he is taken out of the way. And rebukes Christians for instituting law­ tice? Does the pastor and/or church then the lawless one will be revealed suits against fellow Christians before board have a right to prohibit this ...” (NIV). pagan judges. He asserts that differ­ practice? Some of those who advocate the ences between Christians should be I honestly don’t know to what ex­ doctrine of a pretribulation rapture settled in the church through appeal tent this is being done. I have heard of understand this restraining power to to wise counselors. To be cheated, he it in several instances but have not be the Holy Spirit who indwells the insists, is better than disgracing the witnessed it firsthand. In churches church. With the rapture of the church through public quarrels that where I have been it is not done. The church, they explain, the Holy Spirit must be arbitrated by unbelievers. pastor and church board, I believe, will be removed. This will allow the On the other hand, Paul had and have both the right and the responsi­ power of lawlessness to come to a cli­ claimed certain rights as a Roman bility to regulate practices affecting the matic expression in the emergence of citizen, rights involving court trials worship and work of the church. The the end-time Antichrist. He, in turn, and judgments (Acts 22:24-29; Acts offense created by such a practice can will be destroyed at the close of the 25:9-11). swiftly turn net profits into real losses. great tribulation when Christ returns Your question, it seems to me, is re­ Those who view the practice as a min­ in judgment. lated more closely to the latter than istry offered and not a business oper­ Other Bible scholars understand the the former principle. I don’t think ated should get the materials into the restraining power to be civil govern­ Scripture would prohibit a malpractice hands of the people on other days and ment. In Paul’s day that was the Ro­ suit, but it certainly would challenge in other ways. man Empire, represented in Caesar. A one’s motive in suing. To sue in order breakdown in civil authority will pro­ to recover a loss, or to protect others Conducted by duce the political chaos out of which from becoming the victims of incom­ W. E. McCUMBER, Editor the Antichrist will arise (the beast petence or exploitation, would be—I We welcome questions on biblical and from the sea, in John’s vision). think—a proper use of legal and doctrinal matters. The editor is not able However the passage is understood, moral rights. To sue from motives of to send replies to questions not selected the Spirit of God will not be totally greed or vengeance would not befit a for publication. Address: ANSW ER absent from the world. During the Christian. CORNER Herald of Holiness, 6401 The tribulation period people will oppose Criminal negligence should be pun­ Paseo. Kansas City. MO 64131.

filled. I enter the sanctuary with my ever-changing providences God selects cup turned up, and the blessed Holy to exhibit His principles and un­ JETTERS Spirit fills it while we sing the hymns counterfeited Spirit in our attitudes and drink in the message God has and relationships. There is no higher LOVES SUNDAY given our pastor. Sunday evening I am calling than to become simply “His Oh, how I love Sunday, the Lord’s ready to go back for more. Praise the outlet.” Day. I even love Saturday, the prepara­ Lord for Sunday! „ . “The scriptures cannot be broken” ' Pruda M. Setser tion for Sunday, when the house is College Corner. Ohio but when man-made rules, traditions, cleaned and most of the cooking is formulas, or understanding hindered done for Sunday. SEAL BREAKER Jesus the Nazarene, He broke them! I learned from my mother, when “Chosen by God to be His” while a In Secret Invasion by Hans Kristian small, that no unnecessary work was child of missionaries in China, Dr. R. and Dave Hunt, Brother Andrew re­ done on Sunday, even though we Guilford Fitz, Jr., and his doctor-father members, “The most illegal action didn’t always live where we could get are now both “serving as windows to which Jesus ever committed was done to worship. Even when the laws God’s holiness” as revealed in the ex­ on Easter morning when He broke the opened stores for Sunday business, I cellent article “The Destiny Syn­ official government seal and came out knew it was a day of rest and worship. drome” (September 1). of the grave.” Many weeks the cup of my soul is “Called according to God’s un­ Think on that! And this: “I am con­ down to the dregs and ready to be re­ folding purposes,” one accepts the cerned about my reputation that was

20 Herald of Holiness/December 15. 1988 ruined by my people throughout the lions of dollars at our problems in ed­ light of our lives. We laugh, eat, swap world”—centuries before Jesus came ucation, society, and our churches and stories, pray, cook, play games, shout, (Ezekiel 36:21, TLB). have turned out a generation of non­ quote scripture, praise the Lord, tes­ Dorothy M. Holman thinkers who do not even know what tify, romp (some of us), and talk “old- Medford, Oregon to do with the truth. time religion.” Methinks the great ma­ WAKE-UP CALL So let us wake up before it’s too jority of our Nazarene homes could Just why do many Americans, in­ late— if it’s not already. likewise affirm a wholesome family cluding many professing Christians, Charles C. Davidson relationship. So let us not settle for an Eustis, Florida seem to find it necessary to adopt the unfortunate situation as recorded by views of the big TV network newsmen Counselor Tarrant. Let us keep the record straight. and commentators who clearly would STRAIGHT RECORD Leo C. Davis best serve our country by remaining Just read “Families Need Grace, Bedford. Indiana in their big-city offices, interviewing Too” by Tarrant. Sad indeed that Katy each other during election time. endured such disappointment with her Make no mistake, unless Ameri­ parents. During my 70 years of minis­ Please keep your letters brief (50-150 cans, for one thing, cease following the try I have done much counseling. It words). Letters responding to other let­ arrogant self-appointed “thinkers for has been my good fortune to know ters are not printed. We cannot reply per­ sonally to letters not selected for this fea­ the people” and, before voting, give and to associate with some of the fin­ ture. Address: LETTERS, Herald of thoughtful and prayerful consideration est saints on earth, not with hypo­ Holiness, 6401 The Pasco, Kansas City to the im portant issues, then we will crites. There are around 30 in our im­ M O 64131. lose our hard-earned rights. mediate family—including five elders, Note: Unsolicited manuscripts will not Indeed, one of the greatest tragedies four of whom are active pastors. Get­ be returned unless accompanied by a in America is that we have thrown bil­ ting together is the most blessed high­ self-addressed, stamped envelope.

E Y ALL MEANS...SAVE SOME are living for Him?” He also observed: “Whenever you find a Christian who is not leading men and women to Christ, I LEARNED something is wrong.” Something was wrong. I needed help. I had preached to hundreds, but couldn’t witness for Jesus to one. The next semester I signed up for “Chic” Shaver’s class: TO WITNESS “Personal Evangelism.” I choked when I found out that we never thought I'd be a personal evangelist. “It’s not were required to call on seven unsaved persons, through my personality ... not my gift ... not my style ..." I our local church, with the hopes of presenting the gospel to used to say. them. IW hen I was in junior high, Billy G raham ’s Crusade Shaver taught me a simple outline of the gospel, with came to town. Several months before the outdoor meet­ scripture references and illustrations to help make the gos­ ings, my local church participated in the “I Found It” cam­ pel clear. paign. Newspaper ads, television commercials, bumper I enlisted four persons to pray for our evangelism calls, stickers, billboards, and buttons all carried the cryptic mes­ and I sought the Lord’s help myself. sage: “I FOUND IT.” This media blitz gave Christians an On-the-job training with those who knew how built my easy way to witness about what Christ had done for them, confidence until I eventually presented the gospel myself. and primed our city for the coming crusade. I’ll never forget the night we called on Mike, a teenager One day at school I was wearing my “I Found It” but­ who had been abandoned by his mother, then adopted by a ton, and a friend asked me, “So what did you find?” My Christian man in our church. I had taken part in explain­ mind went blank. I couldn’t say a thing about Jesus! I ing the gospel to Mike, and it was my privilege to pray promptly crammed the button into my pocket, and left with him as he received Christ. evangelism to Billy Graham. I learned to do personal evangelism through a method Later, I justified my inability to witness by saying: “My that works and a professor who cares. life is its own witness.” Certainly, life-style evangelism is es­ I wish I could go back to junior high and wear my “I sential, but it’s sad that I could live my faith, but not share Found It" button again, knowing what I now know. I can't it with my friend. I don’t think the Lord is pleased with do that, but what I can do is to use the training to tell oth­ that brand of life-style evangelism. ers and train others to tell. H Not until seminary did I face my problem. I had been reading Dawson Trotman’s pamphlet Born to Reproduce. BY SCOTT MEADOR He cut right to the point: “How many persons do you Student at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, know by name today who were won to Christ by you and Missouri.

Herald o f Holiness/December 15, 1988 N THE NEWS local support group for epi­ “An article in the Tennessean leptics, has written letters, and (Nashville’s morning newspaper) placed phone calls, and has made attributed the defeat of the refer­ Michener Centre and renamed numerous presentations showing endum directly to the work of PEOPLE Doreen. the Film I f I Can Do It, You Can church groups,” added Reed. “I Given only three years of Do It, which documents her life. believe most pulpits were active AND PLACES schooling, Doreen spent her □ in the campaign to prevent legal­ Doreen Befus, an advocate for teenage years assisting with the NAZARENES ization, although ministers did the rights of the handicapped, care of the severely handicapped. PARTICIPATE IN try to take a lower profile this time.” was selected an Air Canada At age 21 she began a series of VICTORY OVER Heart of Gold recipient after re­ work placements in rural Alberta This was the second referen­ ceiving eight nominations for the for farm families. Health prob­ PARI-MUTUEL dum on the issue in 15 months. prestigious award. Doreen is a lems forced her to return to Mi­ GAMBLING Nashville is believed to be the member of the Red Deer, Alta., chener in 1976 at the age of 49. Nazarenes joined with repre­ only city of more than 100,000 to West Park Church. There she began working toward sentatives from other church or­ have defeated such a referendum, Born Ella Befus in 1926, she being able to live independently, ganizations and government of­ The Tennessee G eneral As­ and her twin sister were given up a goal she achieved in 1977. ficials to again prevent the sembly legalized gambling, giv­ for adoption. Ella, the weaker She has been a board member legalization of pari-mutuel gam­ ing the right to municipalities to twin, suffered foot abnormalities of the Alberta Association for the bling in Nashville. In a referen­ decide for themselves if they wish and was never placed. Raised in Mentally Retarded, an executive dum on the November 8 ballot, to have it. foster homes until the age of member of the Red Deer branch Nashvillians voted 92,736 to The victory comes despite the seven, she was admitted to the of People First, helped organize a 86,325 on the question of legal­ fact that proponents of gambling ized gambling. spent an estimated $150,000 “Nazarenes were very active in while opponents spent only the campaign," said Millard $70,000. □ Reed, pastor of Nashville First —AW U RAYER PARTNERS Church, who served as the repre­ sentative of the Church of the MEDIA PRODUCTION HONORED PRAISINGS Nazarene in the campaign. "Many had assumed that the Media International received a The newly formed Florida Space Coast District has item would pass this time.” Bronze Award at the annual As­ held its first big district rally with approximately 400 Reed said Baptists and mem­ sociation of Multi-Image Con­ persons in attendance. Superintendent Wayne Quinn bers of the Church of Christ were vention for their production of A raised $34,000 to help build three home mission church also very active in the campaign, Willing Heart. The program was and that extra support in the bat­ designed as a promotional piece buildings; $74,600 has been raised for this purpose in tle against legalization came for the YOUTH IN MISSION four months. from Nashville Mayor Bill program. Ecuador experienced 65 percent growth last year; Boner, as well as other promi­ A Willing Heart was shown at and Paraguay, 47 percent. This means hundreds of new nent civic leaders. all of the Nazarene colleges as Christians are acknowledging Jesus as Lord. Let’s praise H im ! The church in beleagured Nicaragua is very much alive. Superintendent Nicanor Mairena reports a 30 percent increase in Sunday School enrollment (now to­ taling 9,409) and simultaneous revivals in 11 churches with 148 being converted and “reconciled” on a single day. A district board of medical doctors has been organ­ ized, and four Nazarene Nicaraguan doctors and two nurses are bringing relief in various locations to chronic sufferers through such means as dispensing medicine and making physical examinations. Christ is building His Church. We give Him praise.

PETITIONS Pray for the annual Evangelists’ Gathering in Indi­ anapolis December 19-21, 1988. Evangelists from throughout the church will convene to pray for revival, renew their commitment to fulfill the Great Commis­ sion, and share fellowship with coworkers. Pray for the 25,300 new persons enrolled in Nazarene Sunday Schools in the U.S.A. and Canada during the Media International personnel who are responsible for the award-winning pro­ fall emphasis—that many will be led to a personal sal­ duction A Willing Heart, include (I. to r.) Brian Helstrom, production manager, vation relationship with Christ. photographer: Jim Kersten, graphics; Brent Clapp, producer, photographer; Matt JOHN A. KNIGHT, Secretary Weaver, production assistant; and Denny Bergstrom, creator of original sound­ B o a r d o f G e n e r a l S uperintendents track.

Herald of Holiness/December 15. 1988 part of YOUTH IN MISSION re­ In 1987 the rate was 22.5 cents cruitment to attract college-age per mile. The new rate can be students to summer ministry op­ used in the calculations for the portunities. Nazarene Youth In­ entire 1988 tax year. ternational, of which YOUTH The standard mileage figure is IN MISSION is a part, reported used when a taxpayer who is enti­ an average increase of 54 percent tled to deduct his auto expense in applications. does not claim actual auto­ In addition to the Bronze mobile expenses, but can estab­ Award. Media International re­ lish the actual number of miles ceived a production award for driven for business purposes. the program’s soundtrack. For business mileage above The 12-projector multi-image 15,000 miles per year and for all production competed with more business use of an auto that ex­ than 100 different presentations. ceeds an aggregate of 60,000 —A'.V □ miles at the 24-cent rate, the rate remains unchanged at 11 cents ARCHIVES LAUNCHES per mile. MICROFILM PROJECT The rate for a car operated in connection with charitable activ­ Nazarene Archives has ini­ ities remains unchanged at 12 tiated an ongoing project to mi­ cents per mile. For purposes of Associate pastor, Findlay Knowles (r.) with the Zachary family in baptistery crofilm basic constitutional and medical expense and moving ex­ dedication. illustrative materials that docu­ pense deductions, the rate also ment the flow of the Church of remains unchanged at 9 cents per citizens from Trevecca Towers, the Nazarene through time, ac­ mile. young adults, and third- and cording to Stan Ingersol, Naza­ In addition, the business- fourth-generation Nazarenes rene archivist. As of October 1, related portion of parking, toll, representing many different ar­ five reels for the Nazarene Docu­ property tax, and interest on car eas of need. mentary Sources Project are loans can be deducted. The Holy Spirit’s presence was available to educators, research­ Church Management Memo evidenced in the parents’ joy, ers, libraries, and churchmen. (No. 11), titled “Auto Expenses which had replaced mourning in Reels one and two contain all and Fededal Income Taxes,” is the knowledge of Joshua being M a n u a ls , General Assembly available at no charge from the with the Lord; also by the testi­ Journals, and General Board Pensions office. □ monies of refugees who had re­ Journals from 1907 to 1932. placed the despair of fleeing their Reels three through five contain homeland with praises to God General Assemblv Journals from BOARD OF PENSIONS and a church who had given 1936 to 1985. ISSUES “14TH MONTH” them a new home. The service The first two reels of Nazarene CHECK ONCE AGAIN closed with voices raised in Lao Documentary Sources micro­ Ethnic ministries pastor, Lee Eby, bap­ The Board of Pensions and and English, singing “ We Are film, together with the three reels tizing Heuangpha Kongphatham. Benefits USA issued a “ l 4th One in the Bond of Love.” This is of Merging Religious Bodies mi­ month” check December 2, the hallmark of College Hill crofilm announced last June, 1988, to everyone who was a A SPECIAL BAPTISM Church, challenged by Pastor span the years covered by Tim­ member of the “Basic" Pensions SERVICE IN NASHVILLE Dan Boone to live out the King­ othy L. Smith in his history of Roll as of December l, 1988. The Recently on a Sunday morn­ dom. □ Nazarene origins and formation. bonus checks equaled the ing, 429 people in Nashville Col­ Called unto Holiness. amount of each member’s regu­ lege Hill Church witnessed an The cost of the film is S30.00 lar month pension check. event reflecting the spirit of the NEWS OF per reel. Inquiries should be A “ l 3th m o n th ” check was New Testament church. Twenty made to Ingersol at Nazarene Ar­ mailed in June. However, the believers were baptized and 19 EVANGELISM chives, 6401 The Paseo, Kansas decision on whether to issue a joined the church, 16 by pro­ City, MO 64131. □ EVANGELIST’S VISIT “l 4th month” check had been fession of faith. Diverse circum­ —AW deferred until after the district as­ stances, personalities, and minis­ LEADS CANCER VICTIM sembly season to ascertain the tries joined to express that faith. TO THE LORD IRS RAISES MILEAGE level of support of the Pensions A little boy’s death resulting Evangelist Jim Heckathorn ALLOWANCE FOR and Benefits Fund. from spina bifada gave rise to a visited a cancer stricken friend of BUSINESS TRAVEL Dr. Dean Wessels, adminis­ baptistery that was dedicated in a local layman and led him to the The Internal Revenue Service trator of the Board of Pensions Joshua Zachary’s memory that Lord during a revival at the Liv­ (IRS) has raised the standard and Benefits USA, says the “bo­ morning. Black children saved at ingston, Mont., church, accord­ mileage rate for figuring tax de­ nus” payments are made possi­ summer camp witnessed to a ing to Pastor Sherman N. Cran­ ductions for business use of auto­ ble by the continued strong sup­ harvest of inner-city ministries. dall, Jr. The man has been in mobiles to 24 cents per mile for port of the Pensions and Benefits Fourteen Laotian men, women, faithful attendance at the church the first 15,000 miles of business Fund. and teenagers represented almost since that time. use during the year. Over 3,100 retired ministers half of a congregation ministered With an average weeknight at­ This increase will affect Naza­ and widowed spouses of minis­ to by missionary Lee Eby, trans­ tendance of 16, Pastor Crandall rene pastors who use their cars ters throughout the United States planted from Papua New Guinea reports that 10 persons sought for church purposes and church and Canada receive monthly to an Asian mission field in a God’s help at the church altars boards who reimburse pastors for benefits under the “Basic” Pen­ Nashville neighborhood. There with 2 persons being saved and 1 personal automobile expenses. sion Program. □ were also college students, senior sanctified wholly. □

Herald of Holiness/December 15. 1988 GREATHOUSE TOURS BINC and at Faith Mission Col­ BRITISH ISLES lege in Edinburgh. One highlight of the visit was General Superintendent Wil­ the reading of his paper, "John liam M. Greathouse made a Wesley's Doctrine of Christian preaching/lecture tour of the Perfection—a Teleologicai British Isles, September 30— View,” at a meeting of the Wesley October 17, according to Herbert Fellowship in Bristol, England. McGonigle. principal of British The paper will later be published Isles Nazarene College, who co­ by the Wesley Fellowship. The ordinated the visit. meeting was followed by a tour of Greathouse preached in En­ Wesley’s “New Room” in Bris­ gland at Watford. Manchester, tol's Horsefair, built by the Bolton, Salford, Morley, Shef­ founder of Methodism in 1739 as field. and London: in Scotland at th e w o rld ’s firs t M eth o d ist Blantyre (famed home of mis­ "preaching house.” sionary David Livingstone) and Accompanied by his son, Glasgow; and in North Ireland in Mark, Greathouse also was able Lurgan and Carrickfergus. The to visit the Wesley home in Ep- Pictured (I. tor.) at the North West Zone Holiness Rally on the British Isles South general superintendent also lec­ worth. District are: Eurasia Region Director Thomas Schofield. General Superintendent tured on Romans at four pastors’ "We had 17 great days with Dr. Greathouse, and BINC Principal Herbert McGonigle. meetings, and to the students at Greathouse," said McGonigle. "We loved his warmth, his hu­ mility. and his marvelously S p irit-a n o in te d m in istry in The Association of Nazarenes teaching and preaching.” □ in Social Work and ENROLLMENT SWELLED Nazarene Compassionate Ministries DURING “WELCOME” EMPHASIS At least 25.300 persons were Presents enrolled in Nazarene Sunday Schools in the U.S.A. and Canada THE THIRD NATIONAL CONFERENCE, during the six weeks of the fall emphasis, “Welcome to the “RECAPTURING THE VISION” Church of the Nazarene,” ac­ cording to statistics compiled by “Where there is no vision the people perish." — Proverbs 29 the Christian Life and Sunday School Division. J u n e 19 & 20, 1989 — Indianapolis, Indiana "The six-week Welcome cam­ Keynote Speakers: Dr. Tony Campolo — International Speaker paign put into place a lasting theme throughout the Church of Dr. Don Bartlette — Full Time Public Speaker the Nazarene. It must be con­ Dr. Richard Schubert — President American Red Cross tinued.” said Phil Riley, CL/SS Division director. Two full days of exciting workshops and special presentations addressing the areas of The top reporting districts in human services and compassionate ministries. enrollment of new people were: W ho Is Invited: Social workers, pastors, urban ministers, social service providers, health care DISTRICT ENROLLED workers, laymen, students, and clinicians. 1. Southwestern Ohio ...... 1,014 Registration Information: 2. South C arolina...... 956 fee: $50.00 if mailed before April 15, 1989 — $75.00 after April 15. 3. Los A n g ele s...... 883 4. Southern F lo rid a ...... 753 Conference limited to first 400 applicants. 5. G eorgia ...... 720 Make check payable to ANSW Conference The top five districts in Sun­ Mail to: ANSW Conference Headquarters day School attendance were: 8610 West 10th St. DISTRICT SS ATTENDANCE Indianapolis, Indiana 46237 1. Southwestern O h io ...... 8,972 Housing is not included in fee and will be on your own. Information will be returned with your 2. Central O h io ...... 8,963 confirmation. 3. Kansas C it y ...... 8,737 4. North Central O h io ...... 8.729 Detach and mail with check 5. C olorado ...... 8,692 —AW

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Herald of Holiness/December 15. 1988 M. Greathouse, general superin­ World, a 684-page history of the tendent of the Church of the church’s missionary enterprise Nazarene. Rarely does Dr. Ken­ through 1985. dall turn his pulpit over to a guest Parker’s pastor. Rev. Keith preacher, but he did for the man Wright, introduced the denomi­ who was once his professor and nation’s director of Communica- to whom he was student assistant tions, Cecil Paul, and the over 30 years ago at Trevecca church’s local NWMS president, Nazarene College. Dr. Kendall Gloria Willingham. Paul gave noted that Dr. Greathouse had copies of the work to appropriate been licensed to preach by Dr. leaders as well as presenting an R. T. Williams, after whom he overview of Parker’s editorial ac- (Kendall) was named. He further complishments. Mrs. Will­ declared, “I am a Calvinist and ingham awarded the author the Dr. Greathouse still loves me; he Church of the Nazarene's is an Arminian and I still love NWMS award. him.” Dr. Parker’s wife, Neva; his Dr. Greathouse pointed out daughter, Peggy; son-in-law; and Pastor Keith Wright (I.) accepts a copy of Mission to the World from author that Trevecca College had actu­ grandchildren were present for J. Fred Parker; local NWMS president Gloria Willingham looks on. ally got its name from Dr. G. the occasion. Parker’s ministry Campbell Morgan who was min­ resume is long and impressive. nomination’s youth monthly, book editor for Nazarene Pub­ ister of Westminster Chapel ear­ For 16 years he edited the de­ Conquest, now Bread, and was lishing House for 15 years. □ lier in this century. Dr. Morgan suggested the name Trevecca to Dr. J. O. McClurkan, founder of a new Bible college in Nashville, since Trevecca College in Wales, Begin 1989 with a founded by Lady Huntingdon who befriended the evangelist George Whitefield, was a place DAILY DEVOTIONAL where both Calvinists and Ar- minianswere made welcome. Dr. Greathouse then preached on A Meaningful Gift at Christmas “The Great Commandment," and Throughout the Year from M ark 12:30-31. □ GOD SPEAKS THROUGH HIS WORD By A. F. Harper. Inspirational, life-centered, day-by-day devotionals uniquely designed to take the reader through the Bible in a year. The variety o f methods Dr. Harper uses in presenting these brief studies, including the development of a theme, analysis o f the scripture, biographical material, self-evaluation devices, and questions that probe reader response, stimulate a high interest level. Each medita­ tion concludes with a word of scripture, a hymn stanza, a meaningful quotation, or a prayer. Special feature — devotionals are identified as Week I , Sunday, W eek I , Monday, and so on, making it possi­ ble to begin at any time of the year. Consistent reading will result in knowing God better and nurturing one’s spirit in Christian faith. 532 pages. Kivar cover. PA083-41 1-0679 ...... $1 1.95

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Herald of Holiness/December 15, 1988 25 and distinction to the college and OUR exemplifies the Christian ideals COLLEGES AND of the college.” Hull, class of ’77, is superin­ SEMINARIES tendent of schools in Osa- watomie, Kans. He holds a mas­ MANC HONORS ALUNNI ter’s degree in school adminis­ An Autumn Festival highlight tration and just completed a doc­ was the MidAmerica Nazarene torate at Drake University. He is College alumni banquet, at­ married to M arsha (Howk), a ’76 tended by over 400, and the an­ MANC graduate, and has two nouncement of two outstanding sons, Mike and Brett. graduates: Dr. Bob Hull and Dr. Croy, class o f ’73. received the Dan Croy. Alumni Achievement Award, Nominated by the alumni and given to a graduate with “a dis­ elected by the Alumni Associ­ tinguished record of achieve­ ation at large, Hull was named ment in their profession or ca­ “Alumnus of the Year,” an award reer, thus bringing honor and Shown (I. to r.) are Paul Clem, president of the Alumni Association; Bob Hull, given to a person who “... has recognition to the college.” “Alumnus of the Year” award winner; and Dan Croy. “Alumni Achievement" rendered ... outstanding service Croy serves as coordinator of award winner. to MANC or who by personal Executive Development Hospi­ has taught at Nazarene Bible church, read a tribute to his fa­ achievement has brought honor tal Corporation of America. He College, John Wesley College, ther. Others shared their memo­ Trevecca Nazarene College, and ries of Dr. Strickland in his vari- HELP US Vanderbilt University, and has ous m inisterial roles: As KEEP YOUR coauthored two books. He and M issionary— Dr. Floyd Perkins; his wife, Kay (Hawkins), class of As Founding President— Rev. PERIODICALS ’72, and two children, Kasey and Dean Baldwin, Dr. Norman R. M a m s ? COMING BY: Nathan, live in Nashville. □ Oke, Mr. Bob Steenbergen, Rev. Dwight Neuenschwander, and Rev. Clarence Spaulding; As NAZARENE STUDENTS E vangelist— Rev. Harry Dick­ HONORED erson; Ay Church Leader— Dr. Gene Fuller and General Super­ Business students from six intendent Eugene L. Stowe. SENDING LABEL FROM Nazarene colleges were recently In the morning chapel, Mrs. EACH PUBLICATION honored by the Wall Street Jour­ Fannie Strickland was presented nal. The six students were among with a plaque of appreciation for SHOWING OLD ADDRESS 1,000 of America's finest busi­ her services as the first librarian ness students who are the win­ of NBC. In the evening chapel, ners of the 1988 Wall Street Jour­ President Jerry Lambert called nal Student Achievement Award. on Mrs. Strickland and second The award, sponsored by the PLEASE ATTACH LABEL NBC president, Dr. L. S. Oliver, Journal's Educational Service to assist in the burning of the FROM MOST RECENT ISSUE Bureau, is given annually to out­ mortgage for the original three standing students selected by buildings. The first $500,000 their schools. that Dr. Strickland borrowed to The names of the students start the present cam pus was were included in a full-page ad in paid off in early October 1988. the October 10 Wall Street Jour­ An announcem ent was made nal. Those honored at Nazarene institutions included: GIVING US YOUR STUDENT COLLEGE Stephanie J. L a d y...... MANC NEW ADDRESS IN Mary Dunsmore ...... MVNC David Dunham ...... PLNC SPACE PROVIDED BELOW Stuart Alan Garber...... TNC Cristi Henderson...... SNU Date______Kevin W. A ls v ig ...... ONU Nam e. —AW Street. City _ NBC FOUNDER’S DAY State/Province______Z ip . The late Dr. Charles H. Strick­ NOTE: Allow up to six weeks for processing address change. land was honored as the found­ ing president of Nazarene Bible M all to: SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT College in Founder's Day chapels NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE on October 18, in Colorado Springs. P.O. Box 419527, Kansas City, M0 64141 Mrs. Fannie Strickland receives Rev. C harles W. Strickland, plaque for service as first NBC librar­ pastor of Santa Rosa, Calif., ian.

Herald of Holiness/December 15. 1988 TNC BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING The fall session of the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees at Trevecca Nazarene College was held October 15-17. The board is made up of one district superintendent from each of 13 districts on the college region along with one other minister and layman from that district. Some districts are large enough to have more ministers or lay­ men serve on the board. This year's total of trustees numbered at 48 participants. The total number includes the college president and two alumnus rep­ resentatives. President H om er J. A dam s presented a report to both the Board of Trustees and faculty at the evening dinner on the 16th. Rev. Charles Strickland reads tribute to his father; front row (I. to r.) are Mrs. Verla Lambert, Mrs. Fannie Strickland, Mrs. The president’s speech dealt with Sue Ketner, and Prof. Roger Williams. achievements and changes that of the monies received in the have occurred since the last Strickland Memorial Chapel/ board meeting in March of this Conference Center offering, and year. the plates were passed. That of­ The officers elected to the fering has now reached nearly board to serve for the up coming $ 130,000 of the $500,000 goal as year are; J. V. Morsch, reelected churches across the denomina­ chairman; Ed Nash, vice chair­ tion have responded to the man; Mark Greathouse, secre­ theme “Express your love— tary; and Jim Bearden, treasurer. extend his vision.” These officers also make up the In the closing moments of the Executive Committee, which chapels, Vice President for Aca­ serves Trevecca when the Board demic Affairs Neil Wiseman of Trustees is not in session. The challenged the present student Executive Committee is made up body to deeper commitment as of eight members. This includes they sang “Let Thy Mantle Fall the four officers, three members- at-large, and the president. The on Me.” Dr. Stowe shares memories of Dr. Charles H. Strickland Other out-of-town guests on three men who were elected campus who shared in the Mike Estep, Mr. Harold Flesh- Dickerson, Mrs. Bob Steenber- members-at-large are Lowell F o u n d e r’s D ay a c tiv itie s in ­ man, Rev. Walter Hubbard, Mrs. gen, and Dr. and Mrs. Richard Clyburn, Odie Page, and Lamar cluded two members of the Exec­ C. V. Spaulding, Mrs. Harry Urwiller. □ Smith. □ utive Committee of the Board of Trustees, Mr. Gordon Olsen and J a n u a ry Dr. Hoyle Thomas; and Mr. S e le c tio n Lfc LAYMEN’S TAPE CLUB For Your Encouragement

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Herald o f Holiness/December 15. 1988 27 Caravan Phineas F. Bresee Recipients for 1988*

The Phineas F. Bresee medal is the highest award that can be earned by a Nazarene Caravan child. It requires the completion of four years in the Caravan program, earning the top Winans and Lillenas awards, giving seven hours of service to the local church, learning all 15 Articles of Faith, and earning a minimum of 32 achievement badges and 8 honor citations. We are proud to honor these children, their guides, parents, and local Caravan directors. Congratulations!

'This com pletes the recipient list begun in the Decem ber 1 issue.

BRESEE RECIPIENTS 1988

NEBRASKA OREGON PACIFIC WASHINGTON PACIFIC Michelle Nickels— Lincoln, Nebr. Da-Niei Jennings— Salem, Oreg. Cathy Simon— Lynwood, Wash. Jennifer Quade— Lincoln, Nebr. Rachel Tuttle— Salem, Oreg. Erika Schmidt— Poulsbo, Wash. Mike Bowen— Lincoln, Nebr. Rebecca Stamper— Salem, Oreg. Jennifer Madsen— Port Orchard, Wash Nadine Martinez— Lincoln, Nebr. A. C. Hamilton— Tillamook, Oreg. Justin Major— Port Orchard, Wdsh. Mario Salazar— Lincoln, Nebr. Heather Clark— Rockaway Beach, Oreg. Lawanda Wells— Port Orchard, Wash. Jesse Rench— Medford, Oreg. Melinda Shafer— O lym pia, Wash. NEW ENGLAND Janell Buell— Sdlem, Oreg. Christopher Barrass— Centralia, Wash. Rhoda Davis— Waterville, Vt. Bev Lohrman— Sdlem, Oreg. Sunshine Mosteller— Ridgefield, Wash. Joshua Johnson— Linwood, Mass. Nathan Gelder— Salem, Oreg. Pomar Matti— South Waymouth, Mass. WEST VIRGINIA NORTH Kari Sheldon— Salem, Oreg. Amy Lynn Spearman— South W aymouth, Mass. Bridget Lazear— Wellsburg, W.Va. Carolyn Wadlow— Albany, Oreg. Joshua Baker— Marion, Mass. Mandie McClure— Wellsburg, W.Va. PHILADELPHIA NEW M E X IC O WEST VIRGINIA SOUTH Greg Reiff— Ephrata. Pa. Michelle Collier— Farmington, N.Mex. Matthew Bishop— Pineville, W.Va. Grace George— Glassboro, N.J. Seth Nixon— Kirtland, N.Mex. Roger Stewart— Pineville, W.Va. Jennifer Sue Martin— Ephrata, Pa. Scott McKinley— Farmington, N.Mex. Amy Peck— Pineville, W.Va. Lori Sue Martin— Lititz, Pa. NORTH CAROLINA Jodi Grube— Newmanstown, Pa. WEST TEXAS Alex Moore— Franklinton, N.C. Matthew Burr— Ephrata, Pa. Todd Simms— Burleson, Tex. Scott Frazier— Horseshoe, N.C. Dawn Houston— Burleson, Tex. Melissa Webb— Hendersonville, N.C. PITTSBURGH Jerry Black— Burleson, Tex. Melody Rifenberick— Union City, Pa. David Burke— Burleson, Tex. NORTH CENTRAL OHIO SOUTH CAROLINA Rodney Hollaway— Denton, Tex. Matthew Billow— Fremont, Ohio. Anthony Syme— Goose Creek, S.C. Karla Hoffman— Mount Vernon, Ohio WISCONSIN Trinia Kutcheravy— Mount Vernon, Ohio SOUTHEAST INDIANA Jared Rider— St. Croix Falls, Wis. Erica Akins— Mount Vernon, Ohio Micheal Meredith— Portland, Ind. Erik Priebe— Centuria, Wis. Jonathan Morris— Castalia, Ohio Brett Hambrock— Portldnd, Ind. BRITISH ISLES NO RTH Kristen Dye— Cardington, Ohio SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA Alison Joy Brown NORTHEASTERN INDIANA Karri Holloway— Midwest City, Okld. Greenisland, Northern Ireland Amy Stouder— M uncie, Ind. Michelle Cregan— Oklahoma City, Okla. TTacy Gilliland Lynda Hudgins— Del City, Okla. Greenisland, Northern Ireland NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Angela Brown SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Matthew Stanley— Scotts Valley, Calif. Greenisland, Northern Ireland Elizabeth Caldwell— Rialto, Calif. Michelle Bunyard— Santa Cruz, Calif. June Foster Tammy Morris— San Diego, Calif. Sandy Jones Hauser— San Leandro, Calif. Greenisland, Northern Ireland Shirean Schmidt— San Diego, Calif. Jim Hughes NORTHERN MICHIGAN SOUTHERN FLORIDA Greenisland, Northern Ireland Steve McMeans— Tawas City, Mich. Christine Larned— Miami, Fla. Leslie Young NORTHERN OKLAHOMA Kerry Purnell— Princeton, Fla. Greenisland, Northern Ireland Kaylen Waugh— Watonga, Okla. TENNESSEE Julie Gilliland Tiffany Baird— Oklahoma City, Okla. Michelle Mitchell— Erin, Tenn. Greenisland, Northern Ireland Lisa Buckelew— Oklahoma City, Okla. Crystal Nolen— Tennessee Bridge, Tenn. Rachel Young Tammy Walters— Oklahoma City, Okla. Greenisland, Northern Ireland VIRGINIA Chris Bugg— Bethany, Okla. Brandy Elder— Richmond, Va. Denton Everett— Bethany, Okla. Tami Figard— Chester, Va. Bob Payne— Oklahoma City, Okla. The following names should have Eric Martin— Oklahoma City, Okla. WASHINGTON a p p e a re d in the Dec. 1 issue: Ttavis Clipson— Bethany, Okla. Nicki Mummert— Hanover, Pa. Benjy Cove— Yukon, Okla. Carol Carr— Hanover, Pa. ARIZONA Christal Howard— Fort Huachuca, Ariz. Jennifer Hall— Oklahoma City, Okla. Joy Willey— Salisbury, Md. Karen Swanson— Bethany, Okla. Kazimiera Henson— Bel Air, Md. KANSAS Liana Underwood— Greenfield, Okla. Kelly Hooper— Hebron, Md. Joanna Cole— Belle Plain, Kans.

Herald o f Holiness/December 15. 1988 THE CHURCH SCENE

CHURCHES REMINDED OF SOCIAL SECURITY TAX RATES FOR 1989 Social Security tax rates will continue unchanged in 1989. Employees will have 7.51 percent of their wages withheld for Social Security (F1CA) taxes. The em ­ ployer will also pay a matching amount. The combined amount of 15.02 percent will be sent by

the employer to the IRS for each September 18 at 3 p.m ., Superintendent Dallas Mucci of the New York District dedicated the church and multipurpose covered employee. building of the High Mountain Church in North Haledon. N.J. The church, parsonage, and multipurpose building are located These taxes will affect all Naz­ on three acres of prime property, and are valued at approximately $1,600,000 Present indebtedness is at $650,000. The arene churches who employ lay­ multipurpose facility, which includes a gym. kitchen, seven classrooms and four offices, is contracted for use weekdays men. However, the minister's sit- by a nonprofit organization, teaching developmentally disabled adults. Rev. Lee Everleth has been pastor for the past six uation will be different. years. Although employed by the local terial employees with the pay­ church, elders and district- ment of Social Security taxes by licensed ministers are required to way of a taxable cash allowance pay Social Security at the self- equal to the amount due. employment rate (SECA). For Local churches should follow H eath a n d taxes 1989. the effective rate will be the instructions found in the IRS 13.02 percent. (Deacons mav re­ Publication 15. "Circular E— quest MEMO: CHURCH MAN­ Employer's Tax Guide." for ARE NOT CERTAIN! AGEMENT No. 12 from the 1989. Questions on how the So­ Nazarene Pensions office regard­ cial Security taxes affect local Through your gift of ing their tax status.) Nazarene churches may be di­ appreciated assets— Each minister is obligated to rected to the Board of Pensions pay the Social Security tax quar­ and Benefits USA. 6401 The Pa- ■ You can avoid capital ? he apostle Paul terly. along with estimated in­ seo. Kansas City. MO 64131: gain taxes spoke of the fact come taxes. Most local church telephone: 816-333-7000. Ext. that there would boards are “helping” their minis- 405. □ ■ You can receive a generous income tax be some alive (who would not deduction see death) when ■ You can often increase our Lord returns. your income 1 Thessalonians 4:17

Life Income Gifts Services In Canada: Church of the Nazarene Church of the Nazarene Executive Board SOUP KITCHEN 6401 The Paseo Box 30080, Station B Kansas City, MO 64131 Calgary, Alta. T2M 4N7 Attn: Robert D. Hempel Rev. HempeL Please send me a no-obligation quote on how a gift of ______valued at approximately (real estate, stock, etc.) $______would affect me. Rev. Mr M rs .___ Miss Address

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Pictured (I. to r.) are Pastor Allen Schaarschmidt of the Phillipsburg, N.J.. S ta te . ■ Zip Blessed Hope Church; and Rev. Willis Scott, director of New York Thrust to the Cities. The Blessed Hope Church opened its Soup Kitchen in Phillipsburg Sep­ Telephone ( tember 4. as a Thrust to the Cities project funded by Nazarene Compassionate Ministries. In its first week of operation they served 162 meals, and by the end Birth Date _ of their second week they had served 441 meals. Since the Blessed Hope Soup (Month) (Day) (Year) Kitchen opened, church attendance has greatly increased. The average atten­ dance ran in the 80s. but it dramatically jumped the first three Sundays to 103. Birth Date of Spouse . 107, and 119 respectively.

Herald of Holiness/December 15. 1988 29 STEWARDSHIP SERVICES

★ 1988 STEWARDSHIP HONOR ROLL ★

Director D. Moody Gunter says that to qualify for the Stewardship Honor Roll, a church must pay all budgets in full and meet the formula for 10% Giving.

Listed below are the churches that have qual­ Listed below are the 10 churches on the Stew­ ified for the Stewardship Honor Roll for 30 or more ardship Honor Roll with the highest p ercentage consecutive years: of giving to General Budget and Mission Spe­ cials: Church

ALEXANDRIA (ALEXANDRIA, IND.) Percentage Church

BETHEL (ARENZVILLE, ILL.) 195.95 FLUSHING KOREAN (FLUSHING, N.Y.) ELKHART FIRST (ELKHART, IND.) 147.29 M C D O N A LD G R O VE (BATESVILLE, MISS.) HARRIS CHAPEL (SELMA, IND.) 84.65 HOUSTON DENVER (HOUSTON, TEX.) KANSAS CITY FIRST (KANSAS CITY, MO.) 71.96 DOVER CALVARY (DOVER, DEL.) MONONGAHELA (MONONGAHELA, PA.) 70.87 GREENVILLE (GREENVILLE, ALA.) MOUNT HOPE (BERNE, IND.) 66.79 WAHIAWA ENGLISH (WAHIAWA, HAWAII) SUBLETTE (SUBLETTE, KANS.) 49 .0 9 WHEELER (WHEELER, WIS.) WARREN FIRST (WARREN, OHIO) 44.71 BURLESON (BURLESON, TEX.) WINCHESTER (WINCHESTER, OHIO) 40.75 FAYETTE (FAYETTE, O H IO ) ZIO N (BRITT, IO W A ) 39.62 G LA S G O W FIRST (G LA S G O W , KY.) MARION FIRST (MARION, OHIO) BEARDSTOWN (BEARDSTOWN, ILL.) CHATTANOOGA FIRST (CHATTANOOGA, TENN.) COLUMBIANA (COLUMBIANA, OHIO) Listed below are the districts with 50 percent or NEW BRIGHTON (NEW BRIGHTON, PA.) more of their churches qualifying for the Stew- HARMATTAN (OLDS, ALTA.) LOWELL (LOWELL, MICH.) ardship Honor Roll: PEORIA FIRST (PEO RIA, ILL.) CONCORD (CONCORD, CALIF.) C hurch D istrict EAST ROCKAW AY (L O N G ISLAND, N.Y.) Percentage District Superintendent WARREN (WARREN, PA.) 58.0 SOUTH CAROLINA JAMES BEARDEN BERNE (BERNE, IND.) 57.0 SACRAMENTO WALTER M . HUBBARD BRADFORD FIRST (DINUBA, CALIF.) 57.0 WASHINGTON ROY E. CARNAHAN DURANT (DURANT, OKLA.) 56.0 NORTHWEST WALTER LA N M A N ELKHART (ELKHART, KANS.) 55.0 HAWAII PACIFIC DARRELL TEARE GRAND HAVEN (GRAND HAVEN, MICH.) 53.0 MICHIGAN C . NEIL STRAIT BRESEE AVENUE (PASADENA, CALIF.) 52.0 ALABAMA SOUTH R. PHILLIP SESSIONS OTTAWA FIRST (OTTAWA, ILL.) 52.0 IOWA FORREST E. WHITLATCH BELLE (BELLE, W.VA.) 52.0 WASHINGTON PACIFIC HUGH L. SMITH BETHEL (BETHEL, KANS.) 51.0 INDIANAPOLIS JOHN F. HAY CLAYTO N IA (WEST SUNBURY, PA.) 50.0 NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA JESSE C . MIDDENDORF FORT RECOVERY (FORT RECOVERY, OHIO) PENIEL (HUTCHINSO N, KANS.) WESTBROOK (INDIANAPOLIS, IND ) CHICAGO OAK PARK (OAK PARK, ILL.) IRONTON FIRST (IRONTON, OHIO) Listed below are the top 10 districts who reached MUNCIE SOUTH SIDE (MUNCIE, IND.) or overpaid their accepted budget for 1988: NYSSA (NYSSA, OREG.) 31 BETHANY (HUTCHINSON, KANS.) D istrict 31 COLLEGE (NAMPA, IDAHO) Percentage District Superintendent 31 EVANSVILLE FIRST (EVANSVILLE, IND.) 108.29 SOUTH CAROLINA JAMES M. BEARDEN 31 G EORGETOW N (GEORGETOW N, ILL.) 103.05 SACRAMENTO WALTER M. HUBBARD 31 LANGLEY (LANGLEY, S.C.) 102.49 HAWAII PACIFIC DARRELL B. TEARE 31 NORTH PLATTE (NORTH PLATTE, NEBR.) 101.88 MAINE CLARENCE C. HILDRETH 31 ROANOKE FIRST (ROANOKE, VA.) 101.43 KANSAS CITY MILTON PARRISH 31 SOUTH PORTLAND (SOUTH PORTLAND, MAINE) 101.37 ALASKA ROGER J. WEGNER 31 WASHINGTON FIRST (WASHINGTON, D.C.) 100.89 WESTERN LATIN A M E R IC A N R A YM O N D Z. LOPEZ 30 OSKALOOSA (OSKALOOSA, IOWA) 100.14 WASHINGTON ROY E. CARNAHAN 30 UNION CHAPEL (CLAY CITY, IND.) 100.09 VIRGINIA CHARLES L. THOMPSON 30 BETHANY JERNIGAN MEMORIAL (BETHANY, OKLA.) 100.00 SOUTHWEST INDIANA B. G. W IG G S

30 Herald of Holiness/December 15, 1988 Grandview, Mo., to 1429 A. Werner from Groton, Conn., to Office of the MARK SARTIN from Chattanooga Val­ FOR Park, Fort Campbell, KY 42223 Chaplain, Bldg. 46. Naval Station, An­ ley, Ga., to Huntington (W.Va.) First CH (MAJ) RICKEY NEEDHAM, USA, napolis, MD 21402 PERRY J. SCHMITT from Creswell, THE RECORD from Durham, N.C., to Religious Re­ Oreg., to Provo, Utah source Center, Box 225, Funari Bar­ MOVING MINISTERS ALAN W. SCOTT from Schenectady MOVING CHAPLAINS racks, APO NY 09166-3768 (N Y.) First to Johnson, Vt. KENNETH D. BIRDWELL to pastor, CH (CPT) JEFF MASON, USAR, from LT LARRY KENDRICK, CHC, USNR, TIMOTHY W, SHEA, student, to associ­ Monroe, Wash ate, Pocatello, Idaho D O U G LAS H. B O H A LL fro m inter- JERRY W. SHELLEY from Louisville (Ky.) demoninational to pastor, Pontiac Valley to Georgetown, Ind. (Mich.) Hillcrest CARLOS D. SOL from Los Angeles ROBERT E. BUTLER from associate, (Calif.) First Spanish to district as­ Eugene (Oreg.) Fairfield, to pastor, Wil­ signed, Latin coordinator Pasadena, lows. Calif. Calif, BENJAMIN N. COOK from Watertown, SCOTT F. ST. MARY from pastor, Ar­ S.Dak., to McPherson, Kans. lington, Oreq., to associate, Othello, STEVE M. COUTOUZIS from Cisco, Wash. Tex., to Alief, Tex. JAVIER TAMEZ from Chicago (III.) North- OREN A. DeBOARD from Littlerock side Cambodian Mission to associate, (Calif.) First to Lake Los Angeles Alexandria (Ind.) First (Calif.) Mission MARSHAL L. VAUGHN from Colorado DWIGHT DeNEGLEY from McMinnville, Springs (Colo.) Indian Heights to La- Tenn., to Bellville (Ga.) Trinity Grande, Oreg. CARLOS W. FANDINO from Indio, Calif., MARK A. VALADEZ from associate, to Sun Valley, Calif. New Life Community (Pismo Beach, STEVEN R. GREENE from West La­ Calif ), to pastor Ojai, Calif. fayette, Ind., to Kearney, Nebr. SUSAN WEISENBURGER from pastor STANLEY R. HUNT from Barrett, W.Va., Barrhead, Alta., to associate, Ed­ Steve Thornton (r.) was sworn In as a chaplain candidate for the United States to Gallagher, W.Va. monton (Alta.) First Army by Chaplaincy Director Curt Bowers. Thornton Is presently assigned to the JOHN S. KISSEE from Sacramento 35th Infantry Division, Lexington, Mo. He hopes to go on active duty after semi­ (Calif.) West to Gainesville, Mo. nary. CHARLES B. KOLP from Baltimore (Md.) Brooklyn to Shippensburg, Pa. JAMES RAY LANHAM from Powhatan Point, Ohio, to Clarion, Pa. PAUL E. LOCKHART from associate, Roanoke (Va.) First, to pastor, Boones Mill, Va. JERRY E. McCONNELL from Gooding, Idaho, to Baker, Oreg. WILLIAM L. MEDLEY from Shelby, Ohio, to Grafton (Ohio) Midview STANLEY D. MEEK from Dodge City In the Popular (Kans.) First to Pryor, Okla. ROBERT L. MILLER to associate, Dialog Series Nampa (Idaho) First STEVE R. PROFFITT from Chandler, Okla., to Carmichael, Calif. MAJOR PRUETT from Marion (Ind.) Lynn Park to Paoli, Ind. R. HOWARD ROGERS from Seminole Chaplain Curt Bowers (r.). director of Chaplaincy Ministries, and Lori, Jeff's wife, (Okla.) Northwood to Wichita (Kans.) share in pinning on 2LT bars for Staff Specialist Jeff Hawkins. He will be eligible Trinity to become a chaplain serving on active duty in the U.S. Army after graduation DENNIS L. SAMS from Willow Creek, from seminary. Calif., to John Day, Oreg.

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H erald o f Holiness/D ecem ber 15, 19S8 Md.; New Brighton, Pa.; and Altona, N.Y. D.; nine grandchildren; one great­ On the former Washington-Philadelphia grandchild; one sister; and one brother. District he served as district secretary, ELSIE LEE KNOX, 94, Mar. 14, The treasurer, member of the Advisory Dalles, Oreg. Survivors: daughter Esther Board, Camp Board, and trustee to Magill; son Glenn, 3 grandchildren; 10 WILDMON SAYS “LAST TEMPTATION” WAS Eastern Nazarene College. great-grandchildren; 11 great-great- HUMILIATING FINANCIAL LOSS He is survived by his wife, Mildred; a grandchildren; and one brother. son. Ken, Jr.; a daughter, Karen Goslaw; LORENA I. WASALASKI, 82, Sept. 30, Christian activists who protested the movie “The Last Tempta­ and grandchildren. Ypsilanti, Mich. Interment: Midland, tion of Christ” won a tremendous victory, according to the Amer­ * * * * Mich. Survivors: son Gilbert; daughters ican Family Association (AFA). The AFA says Universal Pictures Edith Houghtaling and Mary Jo Fuson; suffered a humiliating financial loss of $10 million to $13 mil­ REV. J. EDWARD 11 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchil­ FERGUSON, 79, of dren; 2 brothers; and 2 sisters. lion because of a successful boycott effort. About 1 percent of the Virden, III., died Oct. EARL HILLARD YARBROUGH, 90, roughly 13,000 theaters in the country have shown the movie, 26 at Memorial Medi­ Nov. 2. Wellington, Tex. Interment: Inde­ and so far Universal has reportedly recovered less than $4 million cal Center. He was pendence Cemetery, Okla. Survivors: of their $15 million to $17 million investment. born Oct. 5, 1909, in daughters Exa Cudd and Audie Carter; Richland County, son five grandchildren; eight great-grand­ “The Christian community has won a tremendous victory,” of Edward and Lula children; one brother; and one sister claims the Rev. Donald E. Wildmon, executive director of the Zimmerlee Ferguson. BIRTHS AFA. “AFA joined other Christian organizations—broadcasters, He married Louise Bowman on Oct. 30, to JIM AND BECKY (GREEN) BEALS, parachurch ministries, denominations, etc.—in protesting the 1931. Grants Pass, Oreq., a girl, Juliann Loree, movie,” notes Wildmon. “The secular critics, and many Chris­ Rev. Ferguson had pastored the Vir­ Nov. 1 den church for the past 14 years. His tian media, reported that the protest ensured success. Christians to DON AND TRUDI (PETTIT) BERG- years of ministry spanned the past 57 should have said nothing about the movie, the critics said. All the LAND, San Bernardino, Calif., a boy, Gre­ years, serving in both the Methodist and gory Michael, Oct. 26 protest did was help ensure the movie's success. But it didn't hap­ Church of the Nazarene denominations. to ROBERT AND CHARLOTTE pen. AFA distributed radio spots to about 900 Christian radio His pastorates included several church­ (PICKENPAUGH) HOLTER, Jack­ es in the Lewistown area, Monmouth stations and most stations used the spots repeatedly. AFA also sonville, N.C., a girl, Leslie Lynn, Oct. 17 and Eureka; Milwaukee, Wis.; and Kirks- produced a television special that was shown on more than 50 to JIM AND MICHELENE (COLLINS) ville and St. Louis. Mo., before pastoring LARRABEE, Malawi, a boy. Trenton Christian TV stations. Thousands of pastors in local churches in Virden. Jameson, Oct. 10 called their people to action, and the members responded. Mil­ Surviving are his wife, Louise; one sis­ to DAVID AND BEVERLY (SMITH) ter, Phyllis Hilleshem of Richland Center, lions of Christians signed petitions and sent them to their local NEUFELD, Olathe, Kans., a girl, Sarah Wis.; and several nieces and nephews. theaters, and hundreds of thousands of others called and wrote. Joanna, Aug. 17 * * * 4= to JAMES AND MARY (LACOMBE) Their efforts were successful." DOLLY (TAYLOR) WAINSCOTT SCHESSER, Rockland, Maine, a boy, AFA expects that “Last Temptation” will be nominated for Benjamin David, Aug. 26 MARKS, 85, died Aug. 17 in Noblesville, some Oscar awards. “That is one way Hollywood has of re­ Ind. Dolly was a charter member of the to JOSEPH AND DIANE (FITZ­ warding its own,” explains Wildmon. “Just remember that all the GERALD) SCHESSER, Independence, Noblesville church, started by her first Mo., a girl, Emily Marie, Nov. 4 nominations and voting are done by people in the industry, peo­ husband. Rev. Elic Wainscott. She was in to REV GREG AND FAITH (HALL) song evangelism for a number of years. ple who for the most part want to help MCA/Universal save STORY, Cullman, Ala., a boy, Gregory She was predeceased by her hus­ face.”— EP News Blake, Oct. 17 band, Thomas L. Marks, who was care­ to STEVEN AND WENDY (WITBECK) taker for the Northeastern Indiana Dis­ RELIGIOUS BROADCASTING TATE, Nashville. Tenn., a girl. Amanda trict camps for many years. Elizabeth, Sept. 30 STILL GROWING, SAYS NRB She is survived by one brother, Lafe to LOU AND DONNA RHAE (PAT­ Taylor of Anderson, Ind.; a foster son, Jim More television and radio stations are broadcasting the gospel TERSON) WALTERS, Sewell, N.J ., a girl, Davis; and a foster daughter, Mrs. Jim today than ever before, according to Dr. Ben Armstrong, execu­ Melanie Kaye, Sept. 14 (Ann) Beckley; and several nieces and tive director of National Religious Broadcasters (NRB). Arm­ to KEVIN AND BEVERLY (HALL) WIL­ nephews. LIAMSON, Warrenton, Mo., a boy, An­ strong’s claim is based on research done for the 1989 Directory of * * * * drew Alan, Nov 1 Religious Broadcasting, published by NRB. Marj Stevens, managing editor of the directory, says the new REV. ARCHIE R. RUTLEDGE, retired ANNIVERSARY elder, 86, died Oct. 13 in Nampa; Idaho. REV AND MRS. VERNON D. MAY cel­ directory will list an additional 125 radio stations and at least 70 After attending Pasadena College in ebrated their 50th anniversary with a re­ more television stations than the 1988 publication. his early years, he and his wife worked in ception held at the Norwood School Caf­ Religious broadcasting continues to be a volatile industry. Ste­ eteria, Norwood, Mo., November 6, Mexican evangelism in southern Califor­ vens estimates that 30 percent of the 1989 directory information nia. They also pastored churches in 1988. Prescott, Ariz.; Clinton, Iowa; and The reception was hosted by their will have changed from the 1988 edition. The directory lists radio Sprague River Oreg. In the area of home daughter and son-in-law, Alan and Avis and television program, location, personnel, and service changes, missions building, he started and built Bungard of Macomb, Mo. Present were as well as radio and television station information.—EP News the churches in Myrtle Creek and Keno, their grandchildren and spouses: Doyle Oreg.; Highland Park, Seattle, Wash.; and Vonda Bungard, David and Kathlene Anderson. Weaverville, and Burney, Hutton of Norwood, Mo.; Joy Lynn Bun­ AMERICANS SAY THEY Calif. gard of Mountain View, Mo., Gary and PREFER STRONG TRADITIONAL VALUES He is survived by his wife. Margaret Kimberly Boykin of Crane, Mo., and Jana Americans desire traditional social values, according to the re­ LaDene Bungard of Macomb, Mo.; and (Schierholz) of Nampa; one son, John of sults of a recent Gallup Poll. The poll found that 94 percent of Forney, Tex.; tw o daughters, Ruth (Mrs. great-grandson, Graham Hutton, great- Richard) Halbert and Evelyn (Mrs. Emer­ grandaughter, Courtney Boykin. Americans would welcome an increased societal emphasis on son) Elmore of Nampa; also by 10 grand­ The Mays pastored for many years in family ties, up from 91 percent in 1978. The poll also found that children, and 8 great-grandchildren, He the Holyoke, Colo., church. They were in the percentage of Americans desiring greater sexual freedom had the evangelistic field for 10 years, and was preceded in death by a son, Robert, declined to 22 percent, down from 29 percent a decade ago. in 1938 in Clinton, Iowa. then were asked to organize and pastor In the greatest change in the survey, the percentage of Ameri­ * * * * the Norwood, Mo., church where they remained until this past June, when they cans desiring more acceptance of marijuana dropped to 8 per­ LURA CHIVINGTON, 91, Nov. 2, Ce- retired. They were married at Hot cent, from 20 percent a decade ago.—EP News Springs, S.Dak., November 9, 1938. lina, Ohio. Survivors: son Pat; daughters Joy Linton, Eileen Reasner, Billie Web­ RELIGION IN HUNGARY ster, Betty Meyering; 13 grandchildren; DIRECTORIES 24 great-grandchildren; 3 great-great- BOARD OF GENERAL SUPERINTEN­ A survey by a Hungarian Communist Party newspaper reports grandchildren. DENTS— Office: 6401 The Paseo, Kan­ that religious belief in Hungary is on the rise. The survey showed LEOTA J. EYLANDER, 71, Sept. 22, sas City, MO 64131. Eugene L. Stowe, that 62 percent of the 10.6 million population have a religious Chicago Heights, III. Interment: Chicago. Chairman; Raymond W. Hurn, Vice belief... up from 53 percent in 1980. Seventy percent of Hun­ Survivors: husband Richard A., Sr.; Chairman; John A. Knight, Secretary; daughter Mrs. Paul (Sharon) Williams; William M. Greathouse; Jerald D. John­ garian babies are baptized and 75 percent of the funerals take sons Richard A., Jr., Donald G., Robert son. place in church.—Church Around the World

Herald of Holiness/December 15. 1988 SPRING NIROGAS Nazarene International Retreat Of Golden Agers UNFORGETTABLE ENRICHMENT EXPERIENCE for adults age 55 and up

FLORIDA OZARK February 27— May 1-5 March 3 Eureka Springs, Ark. Join us this spring in the Lake Yale, Fla. Stomp the snow from your Ozarks. Eureka Springs, often referred to as boots and meet us in Florida for a week of the Little Switzerland of America, offers a sunshine. We’ll bump heads on the low- host of exciting opportunities. The Passion hanging citrus fruit and bask in God’s pres­ Play, mountain music, shopping, afternoon ence. Directing the retreat this year will be tours, and more. Price: $189 per person, Rev. Sam Stearman, more affectionately double occupancy. Directing the retreat this known as Brother Sam. Join him for a “God year will be Marge Jantz. Marge has at­ Bless You.” Price: $130 per person, double tended many of the NIROGAs as pianist and occupancy. has a genuine love for the NIROGA ministry.

Sam Stearman Marge Jantz

FALL NIROGAS— 1989 GLORIETA September 11-16. Near Santa Fe, N.Mex. Retreat Director: Rev. A. Wayne Pittard.

RIDGECREST September 18-22. Located in the heart of the Blue Ridge mountains. Retreat Director: Rev. Chuck Acheson.

ADIRONDACKS September 25-29. Schroon Lake, N.Y. Retreat Director: Rev. Tim Stearman.

VICTORIA, B.C. October 23-27. At the beautiful Empress Hotel. Retreat Di­ rector: Dr. Riley Coulter. ST. SIMONS November 6-10. Located just off the coast of Georgia on St. Simons Island. Retreat Director: Rev. Hilton Gillespie.

For more information or registration folders write or call: NIROGA, International Church of the Nazarene, 6401 The Paseo, Kansas City, MO 64131. 816-333-7000, ext. 497 MARK GRAHAM Reporter ATE NEWS Nazarene News Service

RESURRECTION OF A ple having marital troubles; and traffickers of child pornography, larized, man-centered thinking he is arranging to baptize the such as confiscation of property of this present age, God is still DEAD CHURCH child of one of his new parish­ and profits, this legislation puts God,” said Greathouse. “. . . He is A Nazarene church that al­ ioners. teeth into our child pom laws,” worthy of our praise as our Cre­ most had been given up as lost The pastor says the hardest said Johnson. ator and our Redeemer in Christ. has been energized by God’s part of the program was finding Groups instrumental in urging Since this is true, we must find pow er an d “ T he P h o n e ’s for persons to make phone calls, but the passage of the legislation in­ ways to install a sense of awe You” program. volunteers from the Temple City, clude: the National Coalition within the worshipers. We must Problems resulting from a cha­ Glendora, Monrovia, and Wal­ Against Pornography, American help them to understand why rismatic element in the Azusa, nut churches gave their assis­ Family Association, Citizens for they are in church on Sunday Calif., church some four years tance, along with five paid help- Decency Through Law, the Na­ and what it means to bow down ago resulted in the building even­ ers from Azusa Pacific tional Christian Association, and before the infinite God in that tually being leased from the Los University. Some of the students others. □ mixture of awe, wonder, and joy Angeles District by the charis­ have caught the vision of the new — A'.V that we call ‘worship.’” matic group until February of work and are planning to con­ Most of the sessions will have a this year. It was feared that the tinue to be a part of the body that lecture presentation of 45 Church of the Nazarene would worships at the new church. WORSHIP WILL BE minutes followed by a discussion not be able to return to the com­ “We are seeing that God is in TOPIC OF JANUARY period of the same length. munity of 30,000, but on Sunday, control,” added Nelson. "On Topics discussed will include: November 13, a newly repainted, Wednesday nights when we had SEMINAR A Biblical Theology of Worship; polished, and manicured church, Nazarenes praying for us across Worship will be the subject of a Essential Elements in Classical the Azusa Community Church the country, we could tell a differ­ seminar January 9-11, 1989, at Christian Worship; Exploring of the Nazarene, reopened its ence in the calls we made. On Menucha Retreat Center, Cor­ Worship in the Wesleyan and doors with a brand-new congre­ Thursdays the missionaries at bett, Oreg. Sponsored jointly by American Holiness Movement gation of 56 people—51 of Casa Robles were praying for us. Nazarene Theological Seminary, Traditions; Francis Asbury’s whom had not been attending Thursday was also a good night Northwest Nazarene College, Contribution to Our Way of any church. of calling. and Pastoral Ministries, the Worship; How Culture Shapes The miracle came about “ ‘The P hone’s for You’ is a seminar will examine worship in the Theology and Practice of through the earnest efforts of 25 godsend. We could use it to start the Wesleyan/Protestant tradi­ Worship; The Pastor as Pro- volunteer callers, through the ar­ churches in every town in this tion and provide participants claimer and Worship Leader; dent prayers of Nazarenes across country. with a forum for consideration of The Pastor’s Plight: Meeting Ex­ the country, through the lead­ “We have just seen the tip of the ways in which contemporary pectations and Guiding the ership of church planters Charles the iceberg here. We are contin­ Nazarene churches carry out Church in Making Wise Deci­ and Jill Nelson, and through the uing to make calls, and 1 envision worship. sions About the Practice of Wor­ miraculous working of God. having to go to double services in “The purpose of the seminar is ship; and The Present Crisis in Pushing their “touch tones” our 80-member sanctuary within not to establish any one official Nazarene Worship. for a total of 193 hours. Nelson three months.” □ type or pattern of worship. That Speakers, preachers, and lead­ and his volunteers made 6,645 —AA would be deadly,” said Wes Tracy, ers who will be facilitators for the phone calls. From the 4,211 per­ continuing education director at event include: Paul Bassett, pro­ sons who answered their phones, NTS. “Our goal is to provoke fessor of the history of Chris­ they developed a mailing list of GENERAL SECRETARY critical thought, study, and evalu­ tianity at NTS; Wilbur Brannon, 568 persons who are interested in ATTENDS SIGNING OF ation that would result in a more Pastoral Ministries director, C. S. knowing more about the church. informed practice of worship.” Cowles, teacher of practical the­ DRUG/CHILD PORN “We’re trying to build the boat The keynote address for the ology at NNC; Ed Crawford, pro­ with water up to our neck,” said LEGISLATION "Worship of G od” seminar will fessor of religion at NNC; Dennis the 46-year-old Nelson, a gradu­ General Secretary B. Edgar be delivered via videotape by Crocker, music professor at ate of Nazarene Bible College Johnson was in Washington, General Superintendent William MANC; Don Irwin, Arkansas who pastored churches in Man- D.C., November 18 for the presi­ M. Greathouse. Greathouse, who South district superintendent; zanola, Colo., and Willows, dent’s signing of the Omnibus will be holding assemblies on the Ralph Neil, chairman of the Phi­ Calif., before moving to Azusa in Drug Bill. Johnson was invited to Caribbean districts and will be losophy and Religion Division at September to begin the tele­ the White House as one who had unable to attend in person, deliv­ NNC; Cecil Paul, Communica­ marketing church plant. shown special interest and sup­ ered his message, “The Present tions Division director; Bruce “We won’t have a traditional port for the passage of the legis­ Crisis in Nazarene Worship,” in Petersen, senior pastor of Nampa church, but we will not alter our lation. chapel at NTS November 16. College Church; Wesley Tracy, di­ doctrine. We will alter our m eth­ Among the provisions of the Greathouse cited several prob­ rector of continuing education at ods." drug bill are stiff anti-child- lems associated with Nazarene NTS; Morris Weigelt, professor Nelson already envisions hold­ pornography and obscenity pro­ worship. These include: con­ of New Testament at NTS; and ing a Saturday evening service to visions which were originally fusion as to what really con­ Gordon Wetmore, NNC presi­ accommodate those persons part of the Child Protection and stitutes worship; the growing dent. who work on Sundays or who are Obscenity Enforcement Act of tendency to crowd out congrega­ Credit is available on either the used to doing less spiritual things 1987. The antiporn provisions tional singing with special music; continuing education, under­ on Saturday evenings. were tagged onto the drug legis­ and the drift toward services be­ graduate, or graduate level. For Since his first Sunday, Nelson lation after the original obscenity ing a source of religious enter­ more information, contact Pas­ has been asked to officiate at a bill became stalled in committee. tainment. toral Ministries at headquarters. wedding; he has counseled a cou­ “With its strong penalties for “Despite the scientific, secu­ — AW □

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