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P.U. Box 41.1W.1 Burleson, TX 76028 ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED P.U. Box 41.1W.1 PAID Burleson, TX 76028 Seminars Unlimited ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED TEX COVER PHOTO: Samuel Lara stands tall over the Texas landscape he was born on and still farms today. (Cover photo and photos on this page by Jeremy Martin) 2 RECORD / March 1994 SDA baptism in Texas the next those whose work day. Canwright estimated that there were "about 60 Sabbath- keepers" scattered over the state. has contributed to the In response to a request made to the General Conference by the Dallas congregation, an evangelist, growth of the church in R. M. Kilgore, was sent to Texas in May, 1877. He held tent meetings the Lone Star State and organized churches in Cleburne, Peoria, and Terrell. It was at the Terrell camp meeting that A. G. Daniels served as TEXAS—It's a land of great Stories are told of pioneer women, tentmaster. distances. Being the second widowed during times of war, who That same year, James and Ellen largest state in the United States, stayed on to make a success on White spoke at the first regular with Alaska as the largest, it takes their ranches or set up businesses camp meeting held in Plano. The up 7% of the total area in the of their own and made a contribu- four existing churches in Texas USA, with El Paso in the west tion to the community. And to this were organized into the Texas being nearer the Pacific coast day, this characteristic of rugged Conference at that time with R. M. than to Houston, and Amarillo in independence and individualism Kilgore as president. Evangelistic the north closer to the capitals of continues in the blood of those efforts centered around north New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas who are known as Texans. And, as Texas, although the whole state and Oklahoma that to its own can be expected, these characteris- was part of the conference. state capital. Understandably, tics carry over into their politics, In 1893 the Texas Conference people in these far-flung parts of business and church life. purchased 800 acres of land in Texas sometimes have closer In this issue of the Record you Johnson County for a training business and social ties with the will read of lay people and church school. Small tracts were sold to people of other states than they workers who have been persever- Adventist members living in the do with citizens of their own state. ing and persistent, undaunted by area. This was the beginning of Texas—It's a land of stark adverse circumstances, but have today's Southwestern Adventist contrasts, with the extensive served the church as faithful College. By August of 1899 the coastal plain of sand dunes rising Seventh-day Adventists. Texas Conference had 1,000 to an escarpment and mountains In the spring of 1875 three members. in the southwest where 91 brothers left the snows of Michi- Spanish interests were begun in mountains are more than a mile gan and came to this great land of south Texas by a literature high, to the dry savannah of the contrasts. John E., E. G., and A. B. evangelist, W. F. Mayer, who mid-section that bursts into color Rust arrived at the settlement on worked among the Mexicans along with wild flowers in the spring, the fork of the Trinity River, the lower Rio Grande valley. and to the forested hills in the begun in 1841 by a Tennessean Nearly half the number attending east. Rich resources of oil and named John Neely Bryan and now the South Texas camp meeting of other minerals are in stark known as the city of Dallas, Texas. 1925 were Mexicans. contrast to the desert-like areas Eager to share what they knew Today, with a membership that support little life. about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, reaching 24,000 and a tithe per The historical background of they held a series of meetings that capita of $620, the Texas Confer- Texas gives it a rich flavor of the resulted in the formation of a ence operates successfully because Spanish-Mexican and Native company of believers who met of the energy and devotion of its American cultures as well as the each week in various homes or lay constituency and its stalwart influence from European immi- buildings in the Dallas-Grand church workers, spread all across grants. Prairie area. this great land. Many early settlers who came to The following year in May, 1876, Jean Thomas, Editor this land survived because they D. M. Canwright, ordained the were rugged individualists, not previous year and now a forceful easily deterred by difficulties. preacher, held meetings in Dallas and organized of church of 18 members with E.G. Rust as a deacon. He conducted the first March 1994/ RECORD 3 The Lone Stars of Texas Devoted to God and Man town of Mercedes. Sam was born in Falfurrias, on the same land Part of the Lara's where he lives and farms water- melons today. Christmas letter: The Lara farm also became the "Sam and I have worked site of the very first Seventh-day watermelons since we were Adventist church in Falfurrias. young. His father grew them, These Lone "The Lara Church," as it was then and my father would come to known, was built by Sam's father Falfurrias to buy fields of wa- Stars of Texas and grandfather on land the fam- termelons to take to market. ily donated. The church didn't Twenty-live years ago we met, Are Shining have a full-time pastor, so Sam's and we had something in com- Examples of father often preached and led mon (watermelons). He grew church activities. them, and I sold melons with Christian Living About ten years ago, when it Dad, and that is the way we became time to relocate the met. It was 23 years ago that church, the Laras again re- we started working together, sponded to their church's need. and with the help of God (our partner) we have grown and Sam, his cousins, and the pastor sold many millions of pounds. spent five years working on the For 23 years in a row God has newest Falfurrias church. Sam blessed with a good crop." even donated 10 of his best cows to the building fund. "When I sold them, a neighbor gave $650 God has given to them. "There * Lifelong for each of them," says Sam. were times when hail destroyed a "They were only worth $150 or field of watermelons right next to Texans, the outfit Sam spends his work- so, but he knew they were going ours. But our melons weren't Lifelong ing day in. to help build a church." even touched," she says. "We have What you can't see from look- The Laras put more than a different story of God's bless- Servants ing at those boots, or at Sam, or money into the building, though. ing for each of the 23 years we've at Sam's farm, is his life-long dedi- The church was built entirely with farmed. A look at Samuel Lara's hand- cation to God and his church. the volunteer labor of the family "The produce people still ask made boots can tell you a few That dedication is buried deep in and other members. about my mother," Sam says. interesting things about this life- Sam's heart and in his family's The Laras continue to be in- "She used to go out and put `God time Texan. Stitched into the roots. For five generations there volved, even though the building is Love' signs at each corner of leather you see the image of his have been Seventh-day Adventist is complete. Sam and Olga fill the fields." Sam says his mother family's livelihood, the water- Laras. offices in the church, too. Sam is often went out into the fields to melon. You also see the state the Sam and Olga Lara have both first elder, and Olga leads Com- pray for the crops in dry spells. Laras have farmed in for genera- spent their entire lives in Texas. munity Services and teaches Sab- Sam and Olga are known in tions. Those boots also complete Olga was born in the South Texas bath school. Together, they make the area for not trading on the up the church's treasury depart- Sabbath. But this brings bless- ment ings as well. "Some kinds of wa- "Now that the church is closer termelons get easily sunburned. to town, people see us more," People tell us we have to harvest says Olga. "It used to be just 'the on the weekend to save them," Lara church' but now we're also Olga says. "But we've seen many known as the Seventh-day hot and sunny Fridays, followed Adventists." by cloudy and cool Sabbaths." The church's activities in the Both the Laras profess their small town of Falfurrias are well known. Olga says "It's not gambling that the community remembers seeing when you make God the Community Services trucks in your partner." time of disaster. Samuel Lara "When we do In- (Above) Samuel Lara's hand-made gathering, it's so boots explain the man who wears easy. The businesses give auto- faith and reliance on God as the them. (Photo: Jeremy Martin) matically. We don't even ask secret to their success. "Some sometimes," she says, laughing. farmers work like they're in Las (Right) Samuel and Olga Lara are "Sometimes we just get checks Vegas," explains Sam.
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