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Breakthrough in Miami

by the Editor

he evangelist left the pulpit tions the "Evangelism Explosion" in the metropolitan area are hundreds and stepped to the front of program, home Revelation Seminars, of thousands of Hispanics, many of the auditorium. People were active, soul-winning churches, and whom speak only Spanish, plus tens streaming down the aisles to pastors who have soul winning on of thousands of Haitians, most of T whom speak only French fluently. meet him. their hearts. A typical altar call? Yes and No. There were the usual obstacles, and In an effort to reach a broader spec- A Revelation Now crusade was to others unique to large cities. "One trum, radio and newspaper ads and begin at the Airport Lakes Holiday Inn was trying to get the word out, ex- posters were prepared in Spanish. March 6. plains Halvorsen. "Miami is such a Meanwhile, the pre-work was con- But this was November 8, four massive complex that it is hard to tinuing. Gail Skilton is what some months before the crusade was to have enough money to advertise. would call a Bible worker. Young and open. Secondly, the traffic is terrible. energetic, she wheeled into town in a And the location was the Miami Another thing—people work a lot of pickup truck pulling a travel trailer. Springs church. night shifts in Miami." For three months she worked with The occasion? The morning wor- His remarks were understated. the churches to develop Evangelism ship service. Miami is the 14th largest media mar- Explosion (EE). The program calls for For Ron Halvorsen the campaign ket in the nation, with 28 television a trainer to visit with two trainees. had already begun. stations and nearly 50 radio stations Once or twice a week they visit homes, bombarding the city. The budget make a gospel presentation, explain By the following April, nearly 70 would allow ads on only one small TV Bible subjects, and invite people to people had been added to the Miami station and three radio stations. One make decisions for Christ. After sev- Springs, Temple, and Westchester standard-size newspaper ad would eral weeks, the participants are now Spanish churches. have cost $5, 500. qualified to be trainers, with each of "The pre-work was the secret to the Few cities are as culturally diverse. the original three now taking two per- success," says Halvorsen. He men- Among the three million inhabitants sons with him. What had once been three is now nine. Within a few more weeks the nine has "exploded" to 27, then 81! Rallies were held in the sponsoring churches, plus others in the sur- rounding area. When opening night arrived, so did gale winds and torrential rains. Half of the 80 or so who had seen brochures or posters and called for reserved seats failed to come. Total attendance was 325—respectable, but not equal to expectations. In most instances, at- tendance usually goes downhill after opening night. Halvorsen and Skilton, together with Pastors John Newbern, Dan Bentzinger, and Carlos Turcios, began to implement contingency plans. Although Halvorsen and the team had engaged in a strong visitation program before the crusade, "the first two weeks we had a very heavy visiting Dan Bentzinger explains the registration booklet to those attending the opening night. schedule. The pastors and I visited

2 ■ Southern Tidings May, 1987 evangelism must be a process, not an down and involved two other event. "If you don't have evangelism churches, the fact that we did a lot of year around or a growing church preparatory work on a larger scale program, you can't expect an than simply our church, we'll come evangelist to come in for a month or out with 60 or 70 baptisms. You go two and do it." through all the motions for five or 70. Bentzinger detects a trend. "Years You preach, you visit, you run your ago we used to do a lot of preparatory classes, you live in your trailer—you work. More recently we get up a few do the whole nine yards whether you weeks before and announce, 'We're reap 10 or 100. It is just more cost starting meetings. Hope you can effective, if you are going to send an come.' No evangelist should go to a evangelist in, to do some preparatory church unless there has been five or work and reap 100." six months of preparatory work." Meanwhile, the follow-up con- "The conferences, the Union, and tinues. Halvorsen remained for an Carlos Turcios translates the messages into churches should send evangelists additional week to visit and secure Spanish. Headsets were providedwhich allowed into areas that are actively involved in additional decisions. "Shepherds" persons to sit anywhere in the auditorium and receive the translation. reaching the community," believes are being assigned to the new mem- Halvorsen. "I don't think we are bers. Pastors' Bible classes are being strategizing the places where we are held to further indoctrinate and inte- their main interests to encourage going to hold meetings. We are going grate new converts into the faith. Ef- them to come to the meetings. Once by lottery concept. People put their forts are being made to involve the into the meetings, we visited all the names in, they want a meeting, and new members in Evangelism Explo- primary interests in their homes to we draw the names out of a hat, as it sion. encourage them and to set and seal were. We must come to grips with the "There's a threefold thrust in this them with the message," explains needs of certain churches. We should program," says Halvorsen, "training Halvorsen. study demographically which of laymen, the crusade and baptisms, The crusade wasn't confined to the churches are most likely to grow. To and the continuation of a lay-training Holiday Inn. Each Sabbath would be send an evangelist to an area that is program." an evangelism rally in the churches. unprepared and demographically This was Halvorsen's first crusade Altar calls would be made, people unpromising is wasting God's money since his arrival in the Southern Union would respond, and the team would and the energy of those engaged in as co-director of the Church Growth/ work with them. soul winning." Evangelism Institute. He and his col- "We started to work with the non- Why did things go better in Miami league, Dennis Ross, will be entering members who were coming to bring than they have in most other areas in other cities, sometimes together, their nonSDA friends," adds Halvor- the past five years? "I think Ron would sometimes separately. Halvorsen will sen. New members and nonAdvent- have had a good meeting anywhere be going to Memphis, Charlotte, and ists are your best salespersons, he be- he went," says Bentzinger. "We would Birmingham. While the learning lieves. have gotten our usual 30 if we had process continues and methods are Bentzinger agrees. "Every year you held the meetings here in the Temple. refined, one thing is certain—each are in the church your sphere of But, due to the fact that we were in an city stands to benefit from the break- nonAdventist friends shrinks. After auditorium, the fact that he came through in Miami. C3 you've been in the church for five or eight years that sphere is almost gone." Better weather, audience-building techniques, and an advertising strategy that highlighted Halvorsen's "From Gangs to God" conversion story combined to build the attend- ance to 650 one week after opening. That was the night the "punk gangster of the fifties" told how he became the "prophecy preacher of the eighties!" The crusade was a breakthrough. Although black and French- and Spanish-speaking evangelists have done well in recent years, it had been at least four since a white, English- speaking evangelist had witnessed 50 or more baptisms from a single crusade. Ministerial and lay training are key elements in Ron Halvorsen's strategy. During January pastors from "Evangelism isn't dead, by any future sites came to Miami to undergo an orientation and instruction session. Among them were Robert means," declares Halvorsen. The se- FoUcenberg, Jr. (left), and Frank Ottatt from Carolina, and Charles Jenkins and Paul Boling from Gulf cret to success, he maintains, is that States.

Volume 81 SOUTHERN TIDINGS (USPS 507-000) Number 5 Published monthly by the Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Box 849, Decatur, GA May, 1987 30031. Second-class postage paid at Decatur, Ga., and additional offices of entry. Subscription rate—five Southern Tidings ■ 3 dollars per year. POSTMASTER: send changes of address to SOUTHERN TIDINGS, Box 849, Decatur, GA 30031. by 'death dealers' for use first and foremost by children, In Birmingham, this is the most widely used drug, Birmingham Church marijuana is second." lie said that, despite the existence of 500 treat- ment programs in NYC, there is up to Declares War on Drugs a seven-month waiting list for addicts trying to enroll in expensive treatment programs. by Antonio Hall "Even sadder is that most of these programs are designed for failure. In these state-funded programs, you oday's drug problems were "This scene is moving rapidly to- seldom hear God mentioned," a examined in a special pro- ward us (Birmingham)," commented self-proclaimed drug fighter and gram sponsored recently by Blass. former addict added. the Temperance Department "Although heroin has fallen from Larry Patterson, a recovered addict, T fashion, with a steady half-million told of years of squandering money of the Real Truth church in Birming- ham, Alabama. customers, cocaine has four-to-five on drugs despite a good family The program touched on the follow- million regulars, reaching from the background. He also described his ing topics: early warning signs, health board room to the assembly line to day-to-day dependence now on God. principles, child rearing, dangers to the study hall," Powell said of the na- Benjamin Bandy told how teachers the abusers and their families, law en- tion's $200 billion a year habit. are sometimes hampered by parents forcement problems, treatment limi- Powell reported that "crack," who don't realize their children are tations, Christian solutions, and cooked rock cocaine, a smokable manipulating them to hide their new- church responsibilities. "designer drug that is cheap, plenti- found interests in tobacco, alcohol, During the two-hour program, ful, intensely addictive, and causes and drugs. popular drugs and their accompany- severe depression," has been marked The mother of an addict who said ing paraphernalia were displayed by her life was eventually in danger at the Lt. Dennis Blass of the Birmingham hands of her son, told how she began Police Department. Insights on the to suspect his addiction when he de- scope, danger, and treatment of sub- veloped an interest in growing plants stance abuse were presented by which she later learned were David Powell, director of a 50-bed re- marijuana. habilitation center in New York City. In A "How to Say No" program was addition, heart-rending testimonies presented in March during an Advent- were shared by recovering addicts, ist Youth Society program. According school teachers, and the mother of an to Elinor Burks, temperance leader, addict. church members were encouraged to "Research shows that one of every write their legislators and local offi- six of our teenage youngsters will cials regarding legal restrictions that have sampled cocaine before senior hamper effective enforcement of prom night in high school," said Pow- local drug laws. ell. "In New York in 1986, 78 percent Various drug awareness programs of the males arrested tested positive Antonio Hall, founder of riEWSTART Christian re- have been organized by Antonio Hall, for cocaine use." habilitation project. a local elder at the Real Truth church and a former drug user, who is de- veloping plans to operate a rehabilita- tion program called NEWSTART, based on Christian principles. The NEWSTART project will counsel and train church members who would like to witness effectively to substance abusers. After seeing how some Birming- ham Adventists will fight drugs, using the principles of the Bible as treat- ment tools, Powell has decided to help develop Hall's NEWSTART proj- ect. Antonio Hall is an elder at the Real A captive audience listens intently to the horrors of drugs. Truth church in Birmingham.

4 ■ Southern Tidings May, 1987 Flo It's the Little Things by Norma Hofmann t's 7:55 p.m. and about 100 home- plan, a mission, for my life, I thought. Several other Adventist churches are less people are waiting in line. The Methodists asked for volunteers. now joining our group: Forest Lake, They brave the cold, hoping the Why were these people in this con- Apopka Highland, Forest City Ichurch will give them relief tonight dition? No home, no baths, no car, no Spanish, and Orlando Central. Larry from the near-freezing temperatures. clothes, no food. I learned that, given Randall, Dana Cordone, and Paula Some share their blankets. Children the right circumstances, we could be Mutschler help in all areas—clothing, are crying, their fathers look dis- on the street, too. Poor health, job food, medication, and lending a lov- traught. They are the "new poor." Just loss, family crisis, economy, loss of ing ear. They are all instrumental in like the Ingathering brochure said, housing. If a family missed four pay the program and we each spend two "Hardworking people who used to checks in two months with no other to three nights a week there. have homes, two cars, and a boat, support, it could be on the street. More blankets, shoes, clothes, now they're on the dole and don't Some say, "They're lazy, they could food, and money are needed. Volun- know what to do next," work." Most are not lazy. Some get up teers are needed to serve suppers and At 9 the church doors open. Fifty at 4:30 in the morning and walk breakfasts and especially for the quickly storm inside, dragging plastic across town and stand in line for a job overnight shifts. This is where you re- bags filled with a shoe, a dress, at the Labor Pool. Those who are ac- ally get to know and help people. They maybe a jacket—that's all they own. cepted get $3.35/hour. The Labor have ulcers, they're worried, the baby They rush to claim their sleeping spot Pool insists workers have two meals a is crying, they don't feel good. They on the floor as they put cardboard day, so they net about $20/day. You need medical help. mattresses down. Others have small can't come up with a first/last and pieces of carpet, plastic bags, or security deposit for an apartment with When daylight comes they must newspapers to lie on. Few have blan- that. Some of the homeless are men- leave. They go to the library, Eola kets, tally unfit for employment. But, even Park, to the blood bank to earn a few The First United Methodist Church if they weren't, they still have no ad- dollars. Others, some with families, in downtown Orlando studied John dress, no phone, or no transportation just keep walking. 3:17-18 and Matthew 25:40 and could to get to work. Some have no skills One family stayed in a car all day do no less but open its doors. This and poor health. One man is a build- long. Tempers would flare. I talked was the picture I saw November, er. lie fell off a roof and had to have with the son and explained why his 1986. It was my first night as a volun- major surgery. He gets only occa- father was angry. Then I said, "a soft teer worker to help the street people. sional work and his wife lost her job. answer turneth away wrath." The next Twenty-one area churches provide People become hopeless, depressed, night he hugged me, saying, "You volunteers and food. I was the only and some— suicidal. know this wrath thing. . . I did what Seventh-day Adventist. Even though this was a personal you said and my dad and I are getting My husband, Dale, and I were pre- outreach program, I felt compelled to along so well. What you said has paring for a sailboat health mission share it with my church, Winter made our relationship so much bet- with a Louisiana Adventist physician. Springs, Florida. Pastor Marvin Wil- ter." But Dale became ill with cancer and liams and the members have sup- It's the little things that count and passed away, and so did our health ported the homeless with volunteers, not the big things. We don't have to mission. God must have another food, blankets, clothing, and money. tell them about hell. They live it.

There are more than 1,000 homeless in Orlando. Fifty are accommodated at the First United Methodist Church. Many of the rest sleep in abandoned houses, unlocked cars, bushes, and dumpsters. They are not all bums and derelicts. There are families, babies, grandparents, teens, and school-age children. They need our help (love) and we need to give it.

6 All the men have shoes. Bill Reilly, a member at Forest Lake, donated 200+ pairs of boots, 100 If built, a city shelter is at least two years away from becoming a reality. We army coats, and 50 pairs of pants obtainedfrom need more churches to open their doors. Temporary lodging is needed a Leesburg Florida, Army surplus store. Mem- long enough until the homeless can get a place of their own. Dr. Steve Im bers and the Pathfinders from the Winter Springs and the Adventist Community Services Center have begun basic medical and Forest Lake churches cleaned the boots, assistance. Three pregnant mothers delivered at the church and some sewed buttons on coats, and Paula Mutschler came back with their babies. Most have no diapers. (left) passed them out. Norma Hofmann (center) distributed blankets. Volunteer churches gener- ally work one night a month. To help in any area May, 1987 call 305) 788-9369 or (305) 327-1190. Students Invade Honduras by Brent Van Arsdell

eventeen Southern College tern. Its permanent population of ap- Construction was slowed by lack of students who went skin div- proximately 18,000 is divided about blueprints and delays in getting mate- ing and now wear healthy equally between the English-speak- rials, but progress was rapid by Hon- S tans didn't set foot in ing descendants of colonists and duran standards. By the time work Florida. They got "missionary tans" former slaves and the Spanish-speak- stopped on Friday, our addition had during an invasion on the tropical is- ing workers who have been attracted the second floor walls up and about land of Roatan in Honduras where by jobs in the fishing industry. There half of the trusses in place. they built an addition to the Seventh- are Adventist churches for both lan- The food we ate was more adventur- day Adventist primary school. guage groups. ous than having to sleep in a shrimp The SC delegation, which totaled Construction on the school project boat or on a retired barge, as most 21 including sponsors and alumni, began Sunday morning, March 1, of the guys did. After about the third was part of the approximately 90 vol- under the instantly hot tropical sun. day, it made us long for good South- unteers who converged on Roatan In the afternoon, most students ern College cafeteria and Campus from Adventist college and academy broke for swimming and snorkeling Kitchen food. The staples on the is- campuses. near a reef. On Monday we had much land were beans and rice served The expedition was coordinated by of the same, but Tuesday we experi- exactly the same way at every meal. Carolina Conference Youth Director enced our first tropical rain. For variety we ate cooked bananas Bucky Weeks "to give the students a The warm gentle drops were, at that tasted like potatoes, deep fried chance to experience mission service first, refreshing and didn't slow the banana chips that were salty, or firsthand." work at all. However, after an hour or cooked bananas that were sweet- Roatan is an island that might be two, the rain became a downpour. ened. Occasionally we tried bananas called a paradise, except that it hasn't The downpour turned into buckets of that tasted like bananas. been developed into a big tourist at- rain on and off all week. The temper- The last Sabbath most students traction. The island is 30 miles long ature was tolerable, but the rain put piled on to Alan Hyde's power yacht, and five miles wide at the widest a temporary stop to plastering and the Miss Collett, and enjoyed a one- point. There are no paved roads and work that required electrical equip- hour cruise to the west end of the is- only a limited FM radio telephone sys- ment. land for what was to be a camp meet- ing church service. Rainy weather kept attendance low, but the service went on with enthusiasm and ended with a baptism in the ocean. At church we discovered that, while we had been praying for good weather, the local Seventh-day Adventists had been praying for rain, as the island had been rather dry. Seventeen SC students took the gospel commission personally this spring break. Some like Melinda Sut- ton felt, "It was such a neat experi- ence, I'm ready to go back!" Others think their "callings" will be closer to home. In the final analysis, it's important to learn that the field of service is a lot bigger than what you will see on your 19-inch color TV screen. CI

Brent tin Arsdell is a business admin- istration senior at Southern College of Seventh-day Adventists.

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f you have never been to a Liter- ature Evangelist (LE) Rally you need to attend one. The Front weekend of March 6-8 I had the privilege of attending the Gulf States Conference LE Rally held at Camp Alamisco in Dadeville, Alabama. The moment I arrived I could feel the ex- Line citement and enthusiasm in the air as the LEs and their families greeted each other as only LEs can. No other branch of the Lord's work has such Reports by Bill Wood enthusiasm and zest for life. En- thusiasm and commitment are im- portant as the LE goes from door to tributing Christian literature he asks door presenting gospel-filled truth himself what is he doing to spread through the printed page. The LEs are the gospel message in his area. We the frontline soldiers who are prepar- all can be literature evangelists in our ing people's hearts through gospel lit- own right. "When church members erature. realize the importance of the circula- Special guests for the weekend rally tion of our literature, they will devote were: Bill Beckworth, Southern Union more time to this work. Papers, tracts, publishing director, who spoke Friday and books will be placed in the homes evening on "Our Last Words"; Bill of the people, to preach the gospel Wood, conference family life director in their several lines. . . . The church and his wife, Janet, presented a work- must give her attention to the can- shop entitled "Understanding Your vassing work." (Manuscript 113, Ttmperaments" throughout the week- 1901). We can become LEs by dis- end and showed how the lessons tributing truth-filled literature in our learned could apply to their families Bill Beckworth, Southern Union publishing direc- neighborhoods and to all those with and the ministry; and Marvin Glantz, tor, challenges the literature evangelists to set the right example by their words. whom we come in contact. conference treasurer, presented a What rejoicing there will be in mini-seminar on family budgeting. LE rally firsthand to find that this is heaven as the redeemed ones meet Among the exciting features of the true! and greet the LEs of the Gulf States weekend were the "frontline reports" As one listens to the experiences of Conference who have had a burden given by selected LEs. The frontline those who are on the frontlines dis- in their behalf in 1987. reports were fresh experiences on El how the Lord has blessed their minis- try. Time was provided Saturday night for recreation such as volleyball and other games in which the LEs partici- pated with their characteristic en- thusiasm. The publishing program in the Gulf States conference, under the leader- ship of Clay Orrice and his district lead- ers, Billy Conner and Clarence Moxley, has taken gigantic leaps the past 12 months with a gain of 86 percent in sales. As one guest remarked, "There is 'rally' something special about litera- ture evangelists when they all get to- Gulf States literature evangelists assemble in front of the lodge at Camp Alamisco. Clay Orrice, Gulf gether. They have a special spirit." States publishing director, is in right foreground; Bill Beckworth, Southern Union publishing director, One will only have to experience an extreme left

May, 1987 Southern Tidings II 7 PROFILES

CAROLINA day prominent citizens and businesses placed a two-page advertisement in Taking a gift along the local newspaper congratulating when you visit a sick Harbolt and his wife, Genevive, for friend is a tradition in their honor. Mrs. Harbolt serves as Salem, S.C. George communication secretary for the Smith keeps that tradi- Beersheba Springs church. tion. Some people think he may have originated KENTUCKY-TENNESSEE it! George is well-known throughout his com- Dorothy Walters, RN, taught a class munity as always being in hydrotherapy and simple home there to encourage and pray with his remedies at the Bordeaux church in friends and neighbors when they are Nashville during the first part of the sick or in trouble. Smith likes to take year. Running for six sessions, the something with him that will cheer class included demonstrations on and help. In season, George takes fomentations, hot foot baths, greens, okra, tomatoes, and figs. treatment for common health During the winter he brightens his problems, charcoal poultices, etc. It visits with store-bought Florida also included information on the use oranges. George says, "If there is any of herbs. A total of 20 persons way—I'll make life a little brighter for attended the evening classes. someone else." And yes, he does get "thank you" cards. OAKWOOD COLLEGE James Kisekka, son FLORIDA of Dr. Samuel B. M. The Advent Home and the Education Kisekka, prime Department of Florida Conference have Defeat minister of Uganda, established a satellite school at the was enrolled as a home. Advent Home is a residential Results in Victory student at Oakwood home for Adventist teenage boys College on March 19 experiencing difficulties. Classes have Carla Williams, a junior Business by the prime minister. been set up to meet 7th-10th grade Management major and Pre-Alumni Kisekka visited requirements. Says Director Blondel Oakwood College as a Senior, "The school provides our president at Oakwood College, was part of a tour of SDA institutions students with the academic appointed corresponding secretary sponsored by the General Conference development, tutoring, and remedial for the National Pre-Alumni Council of of Seventh-day Adventists. During his education they need to continue their the United Negro College Fund for visit Kisekka met the local press at a news conference. Under the glare of education." Teacher Jerry Castello 1987-88 during the UNCF convention says he has noticed an improvement television lights, the prime minister in the students' attitude since they held in Atlanta, Ga. made it clear that his visit was of a have received individual attention with Willette Smith, coordinator of the personal nature and not an official their school work. Advent Home Oakwood College Pre-Alumni Coun- state visit. Kisekka, a Seventh-day received a matching $16,000 grant cil, urged Williams to run for vice pres- Adventist physician, is no stranger to the US, having served his medical from the Commonwealth Foundation in ident of the national organization. "I Silver Spring, Md. The monies are residency 'at the now-defunk Riverside earmarked for salaries for group home was very excited with the idea," stated Hospital of Nashville, Tenn., 30 years parents and counselors. the candidate, who prepared and ago. The prime minister, under heavy passed out flyers and answered ques- Secret Service protection, toured the GEORGIA-CUMBERLAND campus, visiting first the Library tions at the corporate luncheon on Museum, where he recognized the late Byron Harbolt, DO, personal Friday, February 13. F. L. Peterson, the second black ministries leader of the Beersheba Because of her religious beliefs as a president of Oakwood, in a portrait. Springs, Tenn., church, was awarded Seventh-day Adventist, Williams did After the press conference Kisekka the "Distinguished Citizen of the Year" not attend the elections on Saturday. enrolled his son, then met with African honor by the Grundy County, Tenn., students from Oakwood and Alabama Chamber of Commerce on March 9. In But, representatives of Stillman Col- A&M University. Following a luncheon announcing Harbolt's award, Executive lege, Tuscaloosa, Ala., assisted by the prime minister visited the Alabama Director Y. B. Ashby told the audience showing her three-minute, video- Space and Rocket Center where he that "more Grundy County people can taped speech to the delegation. received a tour by director Edward 0. trace their beginning in life to his Williams missed a victory by a slim Buckbee. Also with the prime minister clinic than any other place." He also was Youth Leader for the Nation noted Harbolt's "strong religious faith margin but, due to her strong presen- Stephen Kabuye, an SDA who states and an equally rare trait in his house tation, she was appointed to the cor- that, because Uganda is still rebuilding calls. Qualities of character are an responding secretary post by the after years of strife and civil war, the asset to the community in an even executive board. work among Ugandan youth is difficult more valuable way than an industrial Don Wood and challenging because the needs are or commercial enterprise." The next so great.

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The Frank W. Hale Distinguished for a special supper and Friday night Leader series got off to a lively, vespers and is just a caring person. thought-provoking start when the man She's honest and tries to give us ideas for whom it was named delivered his and help whenever we need it." address February 19 at Oakwood Academic advisement is an important College. Frank W. Hale, Jr., Ph.D., D. part of the educational process at Hum., president of Oakwood from Southern. Students are assigned a 1966 to 1970, is now vice provost for faculty adviser who can guide them in Ohio State University. tie received a their course selection, provide them warm reception from Oakwood with information on student services, administrators, faculty and staff, and visit them throughout the year. students, and many friends from the community who gathered at the C. T. Miles from his usual Richards auditorium in the Moseley physics classroom at Complex. Hale has kept close ties with Southern College, on Oakwood and helped scores of February 16 Ray Oakwood alumni through graduate Ph. D., was studies at Ohio State. in the Grand Kremlin Palace listening to SOUTHEASTERN Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev. About Benjamin F. Reaves, president of 'One Spoke 1,000 people from 80 Oakwood College was the guest countries participated in a forum of speaker for the annual homecoming In a Wheel' scientists, and cultural, religious, and services at the Mt. Sinai church in business figures. Familiar with the Orlando. Homecoming celebrates the William Driver received the "11 Russian language, Hefferlin had return of church family members Alive" Community Services Award on occasion to speak with Mrs. Gorbachev whose absence from the church stem and also with dissident Andrei April 8 at a banquet held at Atlanta's from several causes. But primarily, Sakhorov. Neal C. Wilson, General homecoming celebrates the return of Hyatt Regency. Conference president, Roland Hegstad, those whose relationship with Christ "Bill," as everyone calls him, is editor of Liberty magazine, and Jan once deteriorated to the extent that semiretired but puts in long hours at Paulson, president of the they left "home" (the church). Pastor the Georgia-Cumberland Conference Trans-European Division, also attended S. J. Jackson called upon the entire the forum. Wilson invited Hefferlin to office. He is also heavily involved with church family to fast and pray in join the delegation as evidence that behalf of missing and returned family the Community Services program. the Seventh-day Adventist Church is members and those contemplating a Driver is a dynamic Christian who not hostile to science. On February 14 decision to return. says,' "If you don't have action, you they worshiped at the Moscow SDA don't have much love." He collects Church, and the following week Dr. SOUTHERN COLLEGE Hefferlin attended the Leningrad castoffs and anything he feels he can church. Thelma Cushman, repair. Sometimes he travels up to associate professor of 100 miles to get an item. SOUTHERN UNION home economics, was Once a month he boxes up the ABCs of Bible Prayer Evangelist honored at a spring re- cargo, loads his truck, takes the Glenn Coon continues to recover ception on April 2. goods to the low-rent housing proj- from the February 12 stroke that left Cushman is retiring this him partially paralyzed and unable to year at the conclusion of ects, and distributes them to the speak according to daughter-in-law 30 years of service at needy. He has given away tons of Marty Coon. He undergoes speech and Southern College. The clothing within the past few years. physical therapy several times weekly reception was hosted by Driver doesn't take all the credit for at the Siskin Clinic in Chattanooga. He the Division of Human Development this effort. Upon receiving his award, walks a mile and a half on and the meal management class. non-therapy days. "His speech is Driver said, "I'm just one little spoke progressing more slowly, but a great Evonne Richards, in a great big wheel, one little link in a deal of progress is being made there, Ed.D., assistant profes- chain, because no one person can do also," says Marty Coon. "He usually sor of office administra- it alone." answers the telephone" to calls made tion, has been named to the home of his daughter and Driver is 70 years old. In January Adviser of the Year at son-in-law, Juanita and Charles Southern College. Stu- 1987, he will fully retire and devote Steffens, where he is staying. lie dents, peers, and divi- himself completely to the Community attended worship services April 4 at sion chairs made rec- Services Outreach Program. Driver the Collegedale church. The extent of ommendations for this was one of 11 Atlanta residents to be his future involvement with public ABC recognition. "Dr. Rich- crusades is still unclear, but his honored on the hour-long televised ards takes extra time to talk to me participation appears more likely than about my classes, problems, social ceremony sponsored by WXIA-TV. first thought. Crusades are continuing life, and future plans," wrote one Nancy Macias-Toledo under the direction of Glenn Coon, Jr., advisee. "She invites us to her house assisted by Will and Kit Walker.

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A weekend of WHITE-WATER RAFTING in the three children's classes. The back portion of the western mountains of Carolina is planned by the building is for storage and a kitchenette. Plans call Carolina Youth Department for May 22-24. Three for a metal outbuilding on the property to be con- especially designed crafts will be crewed by a verted into additional classrooms, a health food maximum of 15 young people between the ages of store, and Dorcas facilities. A deeper well has al- 16 and 21. The participants will enjoy the ready been dug. The South Congaree company is panorama of the most gorgeous western Carolina involved in an active door-to-door witnessing scenery during this wilderness excursion. July 31 campaign and looks to several baptisms in the through August 2 will be a back-packing field trip near future. exploring the rugged beauty of Lynnville Gorge. Scaling the mighty Table Rock Mountain is also A NEW CHURCH was formed on March 28. part of the agenda. To be part of these weekend Benny Moore, conference secretary, presided for wilderness experiences, contact the Carolina the official church organization ceremonies. Youth Department, or call Rik Mitchell at Nosoca Nearly 100 people watched as the official charter Pines Ranch, (803) 273-8200. book was presented. Forty-five signed as charter After meeting for more than a year in a member's members of the Leiscester (pronounced "Lester") home, the SOUTH CONGAREE COMPANY, near church. Following the church service a fellowship Columbia, S.C., has moved into the old South meal was served. The afternoon hours were dedi- Congaree Book Exchange building on Route 302. cated to a special musical program. The Leicester The 2,100-square-foot building, on one-and-a- congregation is renting a Methodist church until it quarter acre, has been purchased. The building is builds a home of its own. They already have a now being used as the church. However, plans call sizable fund to purchase property. Their pastor is for renovation of the structure. The company, to- Howard Rampton, retired Sabbath School De- talling 12 members, has designated an area for partment director for the General Conference.

"On the basis of percentage of income, the cation to stewardship and following the biblical Apopka Spanish church is tops in giving to principles of systematic benevolence. It was one of FLORIDA ADVANCE among the Spanish those fringe benefits of following the Personal Giv- churches," says Florida Conference Stewardship ing Plan." Funds from Florida Advance go to edu- and Development Director LeRoy Albers. "1 didn't cation, Camp Kulaqua rebuilding, new churches, set out to gain these results," says Pastor Frank and new work. Gonzalez. "It just issued from the members' dedi- Qum-fM.-0-4444e41444401

The ribbon-cutting for four new classrooms at was conducted March 15-20 at the North Park HCA the DOUGLASVILLE SCHOOL was held on March Hospital, Hixson, Tenn. The 36 registrants were 29. Conference officials and local dignitaries were down to zero cigarettes smoked the final night. on hand to join in the celebration of hard work and Henry A. Uhl, director of the Greater Chattanooga sacrifice on the part of the faculty, students, and Evangelistic Council, teamed up with John A. members of the congregation. Adventists first Sines, DDS, from Collegedale, to present the opened a school in Douglasville in 1914. Closed by seminar. the depression in the 1930s, local schooling was A two-session CANCER PREVENTION SEMINAR renewed in 1963. Recent growth in enrollment was conducted by Dr. Larry Calloway, of Ringgold, from 24 to 96 students in the past four years, has Ga., at the Chattanooga community service center. tripled the teaching staff to six and created the He presented tips on proper diet and methods of need for additional classrooms, Principal Del increasing resistance to disease. The seminar Leeds and building committee chairperson Joelle employed videotapes featuring Dr. John Graham, reviewed the progress of the project for Scharffenberg, of Bakersfield, Calif., who dis- the many who came to share in the ceremony. cussed the major cancer sites and the research A highly successful STOP-SMOKING CLINIC pointing to life-style factors which increase the risk.

Members of the Milton, Fla., church operate a weekend. A card format is used so the people can VAN MINISTRY OF COMMUNITY SERVICES for indicate the type of service they desire. In one the people in their area. On the third weekend of month eight people signed up for the stop- every month the van serves people at the K-Mart smoking classes, signified interest in vegetarian location, and at the McCrory location on the fourth cooking and 16 were seeking Bible studies.

The Boulevard church in Madison, Tenn., has a MEMBERSHIP, which has led to a shortage of growing problem. And to help solve the "prob- space. Seating has become very limited at the 11 lem," the church began conducting two worship a.m. worship service on Sabbath mornings. The services beginning April 4. The "problem," says church board recently voted to begin holding two Pastor Lester Keizer, is a GROWING CHURCH Sabbath morning worship services, at 8:15 a.m.

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and 11 a.m. Sabbath school will be held at 9:30 Louisville. His wife, Frances, provided special a.m. music for the worship service and for vespers. Etta On February 28 the Elizabethtown, Ky., church Cannon presided over the evening service, which observed BLACK HISTORY WEEK with a guest included a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King. speaker for Sabbath school—Willie Knight, from or 044wegol Coate OAKWOOD COLLEGE Through the department of English and com- new and innovative programs developed by histor- munication, Oakwood is becoming part of the ically black colleges and universities. This will BLACK COLLEGE TELECOMMUNICATION NET- bring more collaboration among instructors con- WORK (BCTN). This is being done to strengthen cerning research projects and could also assist in academic and educational development. Under improving student performance in national tests the direction of the Office of Satellite Communica- including MCAT, GRI, NTE, ACT, etc. Besides re- tions at Howard University, Oakwood will receive ceiving educational programming from BCTN, video transmission which allows it to take part in Oakwood will produce educational programming creative programming developed and broadcast which can be shared with the other 104 historically by participating BCTN colleges. The network sys- black colleges and universities. The remodeling in tem will include a transmission of voice, video, and Moran Hall to house the satellite has also provided data for educational, instructional, informational, a place for WOAK, the student-operated radio sta- cultural, and training programs. These programs tion. WOAK plans to operate on the air before the will serve to strengthen each academic depart- end of May. Theodore A. Rivers is coordinating ment and will be an asset for students. Through both projects. BCTN, Oakwood will have access to information on ~EpN Co,! 504414€444 ecatc, Die Meistersinger, the 30-member male chorus passages is familiar, so such passages are ideal for at Southern College, is making a CONCERT TOUR reading aloud for comprehension, pronunciation, to Poland and the Soviet Union May 5 to May 26, and inspiration, says Ray Hefferlin, Ph.D., the class under the auspices of Friendship Ambassadors. instructor, They will perform at universities, cathedrals, and Several NON-TRADITIONAL COURSES will be concert halls in an Itinerary that includes Moscow, offered this summer. A botany field course, Rostov Na Danu, Odessa, and L'vov, Warsaw, Poz- "Smoky Mountain Flora," is being taught May 4 to nan, and Gedansk. They hope to visit SDA 27 by Duane Houck, professor of biology. Ben churches on their Sabbaths abroad. In 1982 the McArthur is teaching a U.S. Constitution study tour chorus performed in the Soviet Union and to New England May 4 to 24, and Bill Wohlers will Rumania. lead the Best of Britain study tour May 16 to June ELDERHOSTEL, an educational venture geared 12. In addition, a wide range of other classes will for those over 60 years of age, brought 26 par- be offered on campus in four summer sessions ticipants to the campus March 29 to April 4. The which begin May 4, June 1, June 29, and July 26. short-term students took classes in "Organs and A BUXTEHUDE FESTIVAL is being held by the Organ Music Through the Ages," "US — Latin SC music department June 7 to 12. The Knaben- American Relations," and "John Harvey Kellogg chor, a boys' choir from Hanover, West Germany, and Nutrition Today." Some came from as far as will be participating, as well as organist Harald Sacramento, Calif., and London, Ontario, for the Vogel, also from Hanover. The choral group is week of classes taught by SC faculty. sponsored by a foundation in Germany. The Festi- Seventeen students from Southern College have val will include concerts, lectures, and masterclas- already been ACCEPTED BY LOMA LINDA UNI- ses. VERSITY School of Medicine for the class register- The SC GYMNASTICS TEAM presented pro- ing in August, 1987. grams on campus the evenings of April 4 and 5. Students In the DIRECTED STUDY IN RUSSIAN The group is coached by Ted Evans, assistant pro- class have been using the Bible as a means for fessor of physical education. Academy and high improving their skills in the language. Biblical pas- school students participating in College Days '87 sages are often repetitive and the material in the watched the team's April 5 performance. 5044-14€44%

Ongoing negotiations with the HARRIS PINE tions and verify all claims before we reaffirmed that MILLS Creditors Committee, the bank, and the position. "We never did want to get our money Trustee, initiated by the Seventh-day Adventist before non-Church groups got theirs. In fact, De- Church, would place the Church's Corporation in cember discussions of the dilemma by the Board subordinate position. "Although the Church is the and 'Survival Team' underscored the desire for second largest creditor," explains Harold F. Otis, total repayment," Otis added. Harris Pine Mills filed the new Church-appointed Harris Board chairman, for Chapter 7 bankruptcy last December 5 when "we feel the Christian, compassionate thing to do liabilities neared $55 million, while assets ap- is take our $13 million out of the competition for peared to be $40 million. Specifically, losses dur- repayment until those who are owed lesser ing the quarter preceding the bankruptcy petition amounts are paid." In essence, the voluntary sub- reached $50,000 daily for the Pendleton, Oregon, ordination will give the Church's Corporation, parent company and its 26 branch plants coast- which owned all of the Harris stock, last place in to-coast. A week later the Court-appointed Trustee distribution. "We would hope that all listed cred- petitioned for conversion to Chapter 11. He since itors will be paid everything before the Church gets has requested and received Court approval to bor- anything," Otis said. "This has always been our row up to $9.1 million more from the bank to cover desire and has been the historical practice of the wages of employees and to partially reactivate Seventh-day Adventist Church," Otis continued, plants in order to bring pieces of inventory to "but we needed to take a look at all the ramifica- finished product.

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pastor of Americus evening social entitled, Education church, joined Marvin "A Night in Hawaii." Greater the Chattanooga School Jones, who until recently Eugene Armstead, of Arts and Sciences was thought by some to pastor of the Clearwater Louisville came with parents and be the top drug dealer Tampa-Town and Country School teachers to move a in middle Georgia, in a district, challenged the mountain of bags and seminar on Drug Abuse. young troopers, who Systems Merge boxes from a storage Darryl Howard, pastor of were in full uniform, to room so it could be set be disciples — loyal and Kentucky-Tennessee up for the new service. true to Christ and the — For many years, there In a few hours of heritage of Pathfinders. have been two schools high-spirited fun, they The Virginia Avenue operating in the accomplished a task that Pathfinder club, Ft. Louisville area. Pewee would have taken regular Pierce, South Florida Valley Junior Academy, a volunteers many days of Pathfinder club nine-grade school hard work. coordinator Rosa Wilder, operated by St. Matthews The Chattanooga Master Guides from Ft. and Pewee Valley School of Arts and Lauderdale-Mt. Olivet, churches, and Louisville Sciences is a new public and John Rachel, South Junior Academy, a magnet school with an Florida Master Guide 10-grade school, innovative approach to coordinator, were special operated by the education. They set aside guests. Louisville First and a special day to work Darryl Howard, pastor and coor- R. R Brown Southside churches. together on a service dinator of the convocation at the Due to the decreasing Dublin church. project as a way of Youth Rally student census both getting better acquainted the Dublin church schools will consolidate with their community and Decries Drugs for a three-year instructed on the Pro's each other. commitment as a Gail Williams and Con's of Dating, and Kentucky-Tennessee 10-grade, six-teacher, Jeanette Warren, — Frank Ricks, pastor of junior academy program Youth- president of the Georgia the Morristown, Tenn., at the Pewee Valley Youth Federation, church, Ben Parrish, Junior Academy location. Middle Georgia lectured on Church musician, along with the The consolidation was Identity. Southern College quartet recommended to the Youth Meet A gospel concert, and performers from K-12 Board of Education In Dublin featuring the youth choir Madison and Highland of the Conference in of the Americus church, academies highlighted April. South Atlantic — preceded the AYS the recent youth rally on Lyle C. Anderson "Keepers of the Flame" program and vespers led the campus of Highland was the theme of more by Grady Johnson and Academy, March 14. than 300 young people Sam Dade, pastor of Other items of interest Tennessee of the churches of Warner Robins church. included an anti-drug skit middle Georgia on The convocation ended which graphically Students Assist February 14 at First with a basketball game illustrated the adverse Community church in Dublin. The between Milledgeville and effects of drugs, and a all-day event was Americus. discussion by area Center spearheaded by the Darryl Howard pastors of pressures on Georgia-Cumberland church pastor. today's youth. — The Tennessee Valley Teens and youth from Ft. Pierce Mark Cox, senior Community Services Macon, Warner Robins, religion major at Center likes to involve Americus, Milledgeville, Celebrates Southern College, school children in its Columbus, Albany, Pathfinders Day fascinated listeners with developing program. Wrens, and Dublin joined his personal stories from When the center was Richard Long, South Southeastern — The the Far East. ready to set up a food Atlantic conference youth Macedonia Pathfinders Various youth groups supply room, Ooltewah director, in witnessing, club in Ft. Pierce, Fla., throughout the church school teacher sharing, and preaching celebrated Pathfinders conference, including Ava Peek brought grades about their experiences Day January 31. They Memphis, Dickson, one through three to with Christ. coordinated the entire Lawrenceburg, Louisville help move existing food After the fellowship day's activities, beginning and Ridgetop attended out of the way. dinner, three seminars with the Sabbath school the rally. Then 30 students from were offered: Alex Todd, and ending with an Fred Fuller

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health Health Van minutes passed through smoking. Assuring them stop-smoking program the "Better Health Van" of continued involvement for city employees. Boosts during the hours it was in this area, Haley Shortly thereafter he Awareness open. Hundreds of agreed to conduct a received a third call from pieces of literature on Breathe-Free plan. Eight Waycross Memorial In Aiken health and nutrition were people enthusiastically Hospital. Could the given away in addition to participated in the church help serve the Carolina — The Aiken, the free blood pressure course. many requests they were S.C., church chose to check and a As this class was receiving from people increase its community's computer-based beginning, Haley received seeking help in quitting? awareness of Seventh-day "Health-Age Analysis." another call, this time As a result, additional Adventists by utilizing the Follow-up activities from the Waycross city seminars are scheduled Conference's community include a marriage government requesting for the near future. health van. They set up enrichment seminar and that Seventh-day the unit at the annual a vegetarian cooking Adventists conduct a Roger Morton craft show in Aiken. class. Special invitations Personal ministries will be sent to contacts Progress leader Neil Cushman made through the described the public community health van. 'Helping Hands' projects, giving tender response as "beyond my The van is available to loving care to the wildest dreams." all churches in the Continue churches, schools, and Cushman calculated that Carolinas for a minimal Building youth camp buildings. one person every three fee. Mary Hunt A few undertakings Kentucky-Tennessee have been: a new — Retired Pastor George addition on the Yost organized the Henderson, Ky., church, Helping Hands group a new gable roofs on a number of years ago. number of the Indian Later, Jim McConnell, Creek Camp buildings, pastor of the and remodeling camp Hopkinsville, and meeting facilities. The Clarksville, Tenn., next project is at the churches continued the self-supporting academy, Helping Hands team Harbert Hills Academy, in work to aid in building Savannah, Tenn., where and remodeling they will build a new conference facilities. administration building. The team consists of Easter weekend, at laymen and pastors from Indian Creek Camp, a Children, as well as adults, show an interest in the free literature being around the Conference reroofing bee will begin offered as a part of the Better Health Van activity at H. Odell Weeks Activity joining together in on the large chapel. Center in Aiken, S. C., on December 6 and 7. improving church Lyle C. Anderson

Waycross screenings, and vegetarian cooking Community schools have all been a Attacks Smoking part of their ministry to the community. But, until Georgia-Cumberland recently, the plan to stop — Since 1931 the smoking, so well members of the received in many parts Adventist church in of the country, met with Waycross, Ga., have been little interest in Waycross. identified as Recently Steve Haley, health-minded through pastor of the Waycross various community church, was asked by the programs which they local mental health have sponsored. Stress center if Adventists still "Helping Hands" renovate a building at Indian Creek Camp. clinics, blood pressure helped people to stop

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Warrensville clerks, personal had disqualified herself she had changed her ministries, from receiving benefits religion during the Builds, communication, Sabbath because she had been course of her Pay-As-You-Go school, and youth. discharged for employment, creating the Alice Voorheis "misconduct connected conflict. "The First Carolina — The with (her) work." Amendment protects the faithfulness of the few in Eastern Kentucky "Florida's refusal to free exercise rights of Warrensville is being award unemployment employees who adopt Adventists Meet religious beliefs or rewarded. A beautiful compensation . . . convert from one faith to church building is taking Kentucky-Tennessee violated the Free Exercise another after they are shape in Ash County in — Five church districts Clause of the First hired," the Court said. the northwest mountains met March 6 and 7 at Amendment," the Court Attorney Walter E. of North Carolina. Prestonsburg for the said. "(T)he State may Carson, of the office of Work was begun on annual Eastern Kentucky not force an employee general counsel of the the Warrensville church Camp Meeting. 'to choose between in the fall of 1985. The Guest speaker for the following the precepts of General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, members were weekend was W. T. her religion and argued the case for determined at the onset Clark, special assistant to forfeiting benefits, . . . Hobble. Attorneys not to go into debt, but Neal C. Wilson, president and abandoning one of Mitchell A. Tyner, of the to construct as the of the General the precepts of her General Conference money was available. Conference. Clark spoke religion,' " quoting an Public Affairs and Many friends have given on Friday evening and earlier decision. Religious Liberty time, materials, and then for the worship The Court rejected Department, Frank M. money. Everything to this service. date is paid for. All that Florida's argument that Palmour, a Seventh-day Bob Johnson, personal Miss Hobble was remains is sheetrock, ministries director for the Adventist attorney in responsible for the Orlando, and legal intern insulation, carpet, tile, conference, led out in consequences of the Alan Reinach also and paint to complete the Sabbath school the sanctuary. The conflict between her job participated in the case. program. A full afternoon and her faith because Robert W. Nixon building season is short of music was presented when perched high in by Ben Parrish, from the mountains of North Gallatin, Tenn., and the Outr each Carolina. The 13-member closing message was Missionary God to send someone to congregation hopes to given by Conference help me study the complete its sanctuary President Clinton Mailman Bible." Within a couple this summer. Shankel. of hours, they had Herb Crawley Delivers Lyle C. Anderson enrolled 42 people in In Matthews The Bible Says lessons. —UR C:111t— Carolina — The Other members caught Supreme Court thought of witnessing the vision, and now Area Workshops Upholds from door-to-door strikes there are four "routes" Train Church terror in the minds of with a total of about 90 Religious many people. But the lessons being distributed Officers Freedom Missionary Mailman every week. Gulf States — Four program is changing the After the sixth lesson, church officers' training Florida — The perceptions of many people will be asked if workshops were held Supreme Court, in an church members. they want to continue. during the first quarter 8-to-1 decision, has Two members of the The strength of the of the year in strategic upheld the right of a Matthews, N.C., church program is that areas throughout the woman to receive picked out a friendships are formed conference: Jackson, unemployment neighborhood and during these "deliveries," and eventually Miss.; Birmingham, Ala.; compensation benefits started knocking on Pensacola, Fla.; and after she became a doors. "We're with a opportunities arise to Huntsville, Ala. Seventh-day Adventist Bible awareness review the subjects Administrators and and was fired for program" they explained studied. "This is really a department directors refusing to work on her as they presented The great service your church conducted workshops for day of worship. Bible Says lessons. A is providing," said a church leaders with the Florida administrative lady at the second home young mother. A man following responsibilities: and court decisions that they visited exclaimed, explained, "I use these elders, deacons, had held that the "You're an answer to lessons for my Sunday deaconesses, treasurers, woman, Paula Hobble, prayer! I've been asking school class." Paull Dixon

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Hawaii Governor Hawaii by performing South African Benjamin Reaves, outside a downtown ranging from civil rights Performs With entertainment center. Delegation in America, the Orlando Central During their Visits Oakwood commemoration of Dr. performance a woman in Martin Luther King's Florida — Florida is the crowd began to sing Oakwood College — birthday, and Reaves the vacation capital of along. At the invitation Thomas Bischoff, Dirk reactions to being president. the United States . . . no, of the group she and Meerkotter, and Errol make that the vacation her husband joined Nourse, each university The entourage visited capital of the world!, say them. administrators in South WOCG for a radio residents. For four This pleased the guest Africa, visited Oakwood interview and toured the consecutive weekends because he said he as part of a 30-day tour campus facilities. during Ingathering, wanted the newly elected of colleges and Although each Orlando Central church Seventh-day Adventist expressed opposition to members tapped into the mayor of Honolulu to apartheid, each differed stream of worldwide see him pictured with on the means by which visitors. the Adventist group. Who to end it. Don Wood Church members met was this visitor? The visitors from England, newly elected governor of Hawaii! France, Canada, and Claire Morton Telecast Features Greensboro The members brought Ft. Lauderdale bags of food, clothing, Thomas Bischoff, a member of the Pastor Expands and of course, money. South African delegation, greets The barrels were filled Benjamin Reaves, president of Community Oakwood. Southeastern — each Sabbath with food. Pastor W. C. Byrd, of the Services The Community Service Ft. Lauderdale district, Department, under the was featured on a South Atlantic — East supervision of Christine Market Street church in two-part 30-minute Harrington, was program, "Living Faith," Greensboro, N.C., is not responsible for just another on the which was aired on assembling the boxes of Selkirk Cable Channel corner. It is a church in food and clothing for action. Recently, the 25, February 10 and 17. distribution. The first series was a church delivered 35 Pastor C. B. Preston boxes of food valued at Errol Nourse (left) and Dirk Meer- question and answer asked the members to kotter respond to reporters during $2,500, 1,000 pieces of dialogue featuring W. C. submit names of needy a news conference at Oakwood Byrd and Caesar clothing, 16 pairs of College. families in the Robinson. The telecast shoes, and 238 pieces of community. The universities in the United literature. answered the following members were then States. They came as a questions: What is a Instead of having a responsible for delivering result of negotiation with land march for the Seventh-day Adventist, the boxes to the names State Department officials and some of the multi-purpose building, they submitted. by Alma Foggo-York, there was a food march doctrinal beliefs of the Recipients were elated Oakwood's director of church? How does a for the needy in the over the fact that the international affairs. community on two young person become church actually cared. Oakwood is now a part involved in this church? occasions in December. Twana E. Leak of the regular tour What is the curriculum of arrangements for the Oakwood College? How State Department in the does the Mt. Olivet southern region. Seventh-day Adventist The visitors were church reach out to help accompanied by Dr. persons in the James Kirk, US state community? Department escort, and The second series was Betty King Fargubar, of a sermonette given by the Huntsville —Madison Byrd on "Love and County Council of Brotherhood." Larry International Visitors. Bernard Richmond (left), Mary Smith, Cristine Harrington, Viola Richmond, Harris rendered music on Carrie Winkfield, Amanda Kinzie, Queen Ester Quick, and Maurice Davis They asked several both series. prepare for food distribution in Greensboro, N.0 questions of President R R. Brown

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Jerry Wilkey, Paducah, Ky., church treasurer, presents Laquita Jacobs (right), community services leader, and Ruby English, social committee leader, with recognition awards for their out- standing work during 1986. They led out in food basket dis- tribution to needy families, visits to nursing homes, along with gifts and fruit to patients with no families, various social ac- tivities throughout the year, including picnics, a cake walk, Christmas banquet, fellowship dinners, and a special banquet for the Paducah church's 71st anniversary homecoming.

Madison Academy American history students recently visited Civil War sites in the Chattanooga area. Pictured are Melissa Morazzi, Marc Ware, Lydia Wood, Alescia DeVasher, and Natasha Silva at Chickamauga Battlefield.

13lil and Cora Bosko present a puppet program to the boys and girls of the Graysville, Tenn., church. Through the use of marionettes, the Boskos seek to teach Chris- tian virtues and dramatize Bible stories.

The annual alumni phonathon at Southern College often puts teachers in touch with their former students. John Durichek (pictured) was the top faculty participant this spring, giving 10 of his March evenings to phonathon calling. The 1986-87 objec- tive Is $110,000 for scholarships (divided between immediate funding and endowment) and $60, 000 for academic equip- ment This year's BECA goals (Businegs,Executives' Challenge to Alumni, offering Southern College bonuses of $18,000 this year) call for at least 2,400 donors to contribute. Pledges and other gifts are arriving daily at the Alumni Office at Southern College. The 1986-87 drive concludes June 30.

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Fifty-two Pathfinders and staff from the Forest Lake, Fla., church have participated in their fourth annual snow-ski trip to North Carolina. "We plan, work, and save all year for the trip," says one Pathfinder. "It's what some of our best memories are made of " All 52 stay at the home of Marcia Hamilton's parents. Bob and Marcia Hamilton are teen directors for the club. During their stay 10 inches of snow fell, giving the skiiers a 37-inch base to ski on.

The Duluth, Ga., Junior Academy grades 1-3 Bell Choir performed at two nursing homes during the Valentine season, later giving out 120 cards to all residents. Their teacher, Carol Coppock, is conductor.

mbers ofKress Memorial church, Winter Park, Fla., ordained two men and one man as local elders. In special ordination services ium Ulmer (who had been serving as a local elder for some e), Elaine Ellis (the pastor's wife), and John Boden, were or- ned: (from left) Pastor Albert Ellis, Elaine Ellis, Andre Van keric head elder; and John Boden.

Hobart and Dorothy Sullivan of Springfield, Tenn., joined by family and friends, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary March 7, at the Lela Whor- ton Elementary School gym in Ridgetop, Tenn. The Sullivans were married in Vernon, Ind., in 1937. In 1949, the family moved to Lakeland, Fla. Shortly after arriving there, they attended a tent crusade conducted by J. R Spangler and Henry Carubba. At the end of the meetings the parents and two oldest children were baptized and joined the Lakeland church. Pictured above (left to right): Richard Sullivan, Marvin Sullivan, Dorothy and Hobart Sullivan, and Elaine Sullivan Giles. The Sullivans have 10 grandchildren and two great- grandchildren.

Smyrna Hospital Vice President Rick Hale (left) and hospital Foundation Board Chair- man Jack Miles (right) received a $7, 500 grant from David Colwell (center), assistant director for health at Philanthropic Service for Institutions (PSI) —a part of Adventist world headquarters in Washington. The grant comes from PSI's Hospital Development Fund, established to stimulate increased support for AHS hospitals. Smyrna qualified for the grant by reaching its annual campaign goal of $60,000 in 1986. The Hospital Development Fund is a $1.4 million challenge grant program created by funds from the General Conference, union conferences (including the Southern Union), and Adventist Health system.

May, 1987 Southern Tidings MI 17 CALENDAR May Carolina Ala.) followed by a potluck lunch, hiking and S M T W T F S sightseeing. Adventist Singles Ministry - Carolina Chap- May 30 - Camp meeting potluck at 1:30 p.m. ter 1 2 at the home of Kathryn Steen, 5621 Edgmon 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 May 2 - Singles Day, Greensboro church. Car Rd. For info. call Jane Lee (615) 236-4662. pool from Fletcher church parking lot at 5 Sixth Annual Retired Workers' Convocation 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 a.m. For more info. contact Lorraine Hansen in North America - May 7-12. Southern Col- 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 (704) 697-2409. lege. Contact Marvin Robertson, Southern Col- 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 May 30 - Camp Meeting potluck lunch. Lake lege,Collegedale, TN 37315, for room or RV 31 Junaluska after the 11 am. service. Meet in reservations or phone (615) 238-2908. the bacement of Harrell Hall. Kentucky-Tennessee Graduation Florida May 1 - Consecration, Robert Folkenberg, Endowment Sabbath - May 9. Ridgetop, Sr., 8 p.m., church. Association of Seventh-day Adventist Cross Plains, Gallatin, and Hendersonville May 2 - Baccalaureate, Dr. Benjamin F. Nurses (ASDAN) - May 31. 8 a.m. - 4 p.m., churches. Reaves, 11:05 am., P.C. Center. Forest Lake church. "Introduction to Critical Madison Academy Graduation - May 15-17. May 3 - Commencement, Dr. D. D. Devnich, Care Nursing" - six contact hours. Presented Association Board - May 19, 8:30 a.m. 10 a.m., P.E. Center. by Florida Hospital's Critical Care Internship Conference Committee - May 19. 10 a.m. Program staff. To register: (305) 862-5533, Madison Academy Finance Committee - May Southern Union 897-1965. 19. 7 p.m. Voice of Prophecy Hanfestime Rally - May 2. Highland Academy Graduation - May 22-24. Marietta, Ga. 3:30 p.m. Cobb Civic Center, 548 Georgia-Cumberland Highland Academy Executive Committee - Clay St., SE. Grief Recovery Weekend with Chaplain Larry May 26. 10 a.m. Disaster and Famine Relief Offering - May 9. Yeagley - May 15-17. Cohutta Springs Ad- Pathfinder Fair - May 31. Highland Academy. Spirit of Prophecy Day - May 16. ventist Center. Call (404) 629-7951, ext 48. North American Missions Offering - June South Atlantic 13. Graduation Weekends Stewardship Rallies Georgia-Cumberland Academy May 15-17 May 9 - Raleigh, N.C. Out of Union Atlanta Adventist Academy May 22-24 June 6 - Johnson, S.C. Family Life Workshop - June 7-15. Andrews May 22-24 Collegedale Academy Communication Guest Day - May 30. High University. For more info. call (616) 471-3286. Alumni Meeting - May 30. Southern College Point, N.C. Fourteenth Christian Writers' Workshop - cafeteria, 5:00 p.m. Pre-Camp Meeting Preparation - June 7-11. June 8-11. Andrews University. For a brochure Evangelistic Meeting - May 8 - June 20. and application form, write to Lifelong Learn- Marietta, Ga. Verne Snow and Maurice Witt, South Central ing, Andrews Univ., Berrien Springs, MI speakers. Pathfinders 49104, or call (616) 471-3125. Training Seminar - for Home Revelation Annual Campout - June 12-14. Oakwood Col- National Association SDA Nurses (NASDAN) Seminars. Harry Robinson, speaker: lege - June 18-24. Boudwin College, New May 9, 3-7 p.m., Atlanta Belvedere church Investiture - June 13. Oakwood College Brunswick, Maine. Topic: "Marketplace." Sab- May 23, 3-7 p.m., Collegedale church bath guest speaker, Paul Gordon. June 6, 3-7 p.m., Tifton church Oakwood College Cincinnati 1st Church Centennial Celebra- June 27, 3-7 p.m., Greeneville church Pre-Exam Week - May 13-20. tion - July 3, 4. Reunion of Old Friends for former students of Final Exams - May 21-25. Milton (Jct), Wisc., 100th-Year Celebration A. W. Spalding Elementary - July 4 weekend. College Consecration - May 29. - July 10-12. Contact Helen Anderson, P.O. Especially for those who attended during the College Baccalaureate - May 30. Box 234, Milton, WI 53563. (608) 868-2601. mid to late sixties. Call or write for further info. College Commencement - May 31. to: Rita Can Tucker, Rt. 6, Box 104, Murphy, Announcement NC 28906. (704) 644-5592 or 837-5724. Southern College "Lovers After Eden," five interviews on the top- Adventist Singles Ministries - Collegedale Summer School Session ics of dating, pair-bonding, and marriages Chapter May 4 - First summer session begins that last, will be presented on the Voice of May 16 - 9:30 a.m., meet for Sabbath school May 6 - Last day to add a class for the first Prophecy's daily broadcast during the week of and church at DeSoto Park (near Ft. Payne, session May 4-8. TRANSITIONS

On the Move STEWART - PURCELL Tracy Purcell and Jimmy C. Stewart were married on Georgia-Cumberland Jan. 31 in Owensboro, Icy. Pastor P. Prater performed the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Dale McConnell, from Gainesville, Ga., has Purcell. The groom is the son of Mrs. Mandy Stewart and been invited to become pastor of the Americus/ the late Roy Stewart. The couple is residing in Oglethorpe, Ga., churches. Greg Ellis, as- Owensboro. sociate pastor in the Marietta, Ga., district, will CHRISTIAN - DAVIS become pastor of the McMinnville/Spencer, Karla Elayne Davis and AI Kailne Christian were Tenn., churches. John Hanson, pastor in the married at the Pine Hills church (Orlando) on Nov. 30, Phenix City, Ala., district, has been invited to 1986. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert become pastor of the Valdosta, Ga., church. Davis, Sr., of Tampa, Fla. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Pedro Christian, Jr., of St. Croix, Virgin Islands. The Mykal Ringstaff, pastor of the Lakeland/ bride is employed at Florida Hospital/Southqn Orlando Douglas, Ga., churches, has been asked to be- as a medical records clerk, the groom is also employed come pastor of the Macon, Ga., church, upon the at Florida Hospital as a supervisor in environmental retirement of Robert Kimball. Carl Pine, re- services. The marriage ceremony was performed by tired pastor currently helping at the Chattanooga Louis Wisdom. The couple now resides in Orlando. church, has been invited to pastor Ladd Springs on a stipend. Larry Pumford, pastor in Ontario, Canada, has been invited to become pastor of the Cumberland Heights/Beersheba Sunset Springs, Tenn., church. May May May May May June 1 8 15 22 29 5 Weddings Atlanta, Ga. 8:21 8:26 8:31 8:36 8:41 8:45 Charleston, S.C 8:02 807 8:12 8:17 8:21 8:25 GUTHRIE - GENTRY Charlotte, N.C. ... 8:08 8:14 820 8:25 8:30 8:35 Patti Lynn Gentry and Todd Bruce Guthrie were Collegedale, Tenn. 8:26 8:32 8:37 8:43 8:48 8:52 married on Dec. 28, 1986, at the Campus Hill church in Huntsville, Ala. ... 7:31 737 7:42 7:47 7:53 7:56 hre storp Loma Linda, Calif. George Vandeman performed the Jackson, Miss. ... 7:42 7:47 7:52 7:56 8:01 8:05 ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Louisville, Ky. 834 8:40 8:47 8:53 8:58 9:03 Robert V. Gentry, of Knoxville, Tenn., and a graduate of Memphis, Tenn. .. 7A5 7:51 7:57 8:02 8:07 812 Coming soon to your ABC Southern College and Loma Linda University School of Miami, Fla. 7:52 7:55 7:59 8:03 8:06 8:10 Health. The groom is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Richard S. Montgomery, Ala 7:26 7:31 7:36 7:41 7:46 7:49 Guthrie, of Ukiah. Calif., and a graduate of Walla Walla Nashville, Tenn. .. 734 7:40 7:45 7:51 7:56 8:00 7:59 8:03 8:08 812 8:15 8:19 College and Loma Linda University School of Medicine. Orlando, Fla Wilmington, N.C. . 7:55 8:01 8:06 8:12 8:17 8:21 The couple resides in Colton, Calif.

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1987 Southern Union Camp Meeting Scheduies

CAROLINA GULF STATES May 24-30 Lake Junaluska May 22-30 Bass Memorial Academy Theodore Carcich, Lewis Walton, Ron Halvorsen, Garrie Williams, Robert W. Olson, Dan Matthews, A. C. McClure, C. E. Bradford, Robert Folkenberg Stanley C. Knapp, MD, Ron Watts, Harold and Nelma Drake

KENTUCKY-TENNESSEE FLORIDA May 29 - June 6 Highland Academy May 29 - June 6 Forest Lake Academy George Vandeman, John Carter, N. 141 Dower, Paul Gordon, Ron Halvorsen, Sr., Graham Maxwell, W. 0. Coe, John Loor, Jr., A. C. McClure Del Delker, Gary Dunlap, Harold Otis, Joy Swift SOUTH ATLANTIC Spanish Camp Meeting June 11-20 River Oaks Campground May 29 - Jura 6 Forest City Spanish Church Bemardo Rodriguez, Humberto Treiyer, Henry Niemann SOUTH CENTRAL June 12-20 Oakwood College

GEORGIA-CUMBERLAND SOUTHEASTERN May 27-30 Southern College June 18-27 Hawthorne Robert Spangler, Royce Williams, H. M. S. Richards, Jr., Silbum Reid, Samuel Meyers, C. D. Brooks, John Fowler, A. C. McClure Sandy Robinson, Walter Arties, 0. J. McKinney

Summer Camp Schedules

CAROLINA GULF STATES Nosoca Pines Ranch, Liberty Hill, South Carolina Camp AlamIsco, DadevIlle, Alabama Trip Camp I (10-15) June 7-14 Blind Camp June 14-21 Bicycling Friendship Camp (8-14) June 21-26 Trip Camp 11 (10-25) June 14-21 Senior Youth Weekend June 26-28 Whitewater Raft Adventure Camp (7-10) June 28 - July 5 Trip Camp III (10-15) June 21-28 Junior Camp (10-12) July 5-12 Backpacking Teen Camp (13-16) July 12-19 Trip Camp IV (10-15) June 28 - July 5 Family Camp I July 19-26 Carolina's History Family Camp II July 23-26 Basic Skills Camp (10-15) June 14-28 Reading and Math Junior Camp I (10-12) June 14-21 KENTUCKY-TENNESSEE Junior Camp II (10-12) June 21-28 Indian Creek Camp, Liberty, lbnnessee Teen Camp (13-15) June 28 - July 5 Teen Camp (13-17) , June 14-21 Adventure Camp (8-9) July 5-12 Junior Camp (10-12) June 21-28 Specialty Camp (10-15) July 19-26 Cub Camp (8-10) June 28 - July 4 Horsemanship/Waterskiing Friendship Camp July 5-10 Family Camp July 26 - Aug. 2 Specialty Camp (12 - High School) July 19-24 FLORIDA Four Camps in One Camp Kulaqua, High Springs, Florida A. Overland Horseback (13-18) Cub Camp (8-9) June 7-14 B. Waterski (13-18) Junior I Camp (10-12) June 14-21 C. Wilderness Canoe Adventure (12-18) Junior dl Camp (10-12) June 21-28 D. Computer (12 - Senior in High School) lWeen Camp (12-13) June 28 - July 5 Teen I Camp (13-16) July 5-12 Teen it Camp (13-16) July 12-19 SOUTH ATLANTIC Blind Camp July 19-26 River Oaks Campground, Orangeburg, South Carolina Family Camp September 4-7 Junior Camp (10-15) June 28 - July 12 Senior Camp (16 - up) Sept 4-7 GEORGIA-CUMBERLAND Collude Springs Camp, Crandall, Georgia SOUTH CENTRAL Cub Camp (8-9) June 7-14 Booker T. Washington Park, Chattanooga, 'Amasses Junior Camp I (10-12) June 14-21 Youth Camp (9-16) June 6 Junior Camp II (10-12) June 21-28 Family Vacation Camp June 30 - July 5 Family Vacation Camp Weekend July 3-5 SOUTHEASTERN Junior Camp III (10-12) July 5-12 Southeastern Conference Campground, Hawthorne, Florida Tween Camp (12-13) July 12-19 Junior Camp (9-15) July 12-25 Teen Camp (13-16) July 19-26 Senior Camp (16 - up), Bahamian Cruise Sept. 4-7

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HEALTHFOODS EXPRESS: Complete selection of your favorite health $18 for anything longer than 15 words up to 35 words. 65 cents per foods from Loma Linda, Worthington, Cedar Lake & Millstone delivered word beyond 35. Ads may run only two months in succession, or in to your door. Best selection of fresh nuts & dried fruit. Substantial alternate months. Out of Union: $15 for 15 words or less, including year-round savings & no case purchases required. Send now for full address. $25 for anything longer than 15 words up to 35 words. 80 info. to: Healthfoods Express, Box 8357, Fresno, CA 93747. (5-12) cents per word beyond 35. Accepted as space is available. Ads may run in successive months as space permits. IS YOUR SON OR DAUGHTER ABOUT TO GRADUATE and establish one of your SOUTHERN TIDINGS makes every reasonable effort to screen all adver- a home? Make a subscription to the Adventist Review tising, but in no case can the periodical assume responsibility for house-warming gifts. Subscribe today. Send US $27.95 to: Subscriber advertisements appearing in its columns, or for typographical errors. Services, Box 1119, Hagerstown, MD 21741, or order through your local ABC. (5) - PROPERTY MAILABLE - - MEDICAL POSITIONS AVAILABLE - FOR SALE: Lovely, immaculate custom-built brick rancher, 3 bdrms., 2 full ceramic baths, 2 deep ponds, fishing, swimming, barn, fruit FOOD SERVICE DIRECTOR: Immediate opening for Registered Dieti- trees, berries, large garden & wooded areas, approx. 17 acres, near tian with Administrative emphasis, 3 yrs. management exp., & dem- Laurelbrook Acad. &church. Dayton, Tenn. $89,900. (615) 775-3425. onstrated ability leading people & effective delivery of food service. (5) Apply to Bill McGregor, Vice President, Reading Rehabilitation Hosp., R. D. #1, Box 250, Reading, PA 19607, (215) 775-8203. (5) FOR SALE: 51/2 acres with 14 x 60 like-new mobile home, Pine Mtn. Valley, Ga., 2 bdrms., 2 baths, 2 utility buildings, good well, creek, DEPARTMENT HEAD POSITION: Medical 'Technologist, BS, ASCP with hard woods. Near church, sch., Callaway Gardens. More land available. management ability. Must qualify for Tenn. laboratory supervisor's license. Write: Personnel, Takoma Adventist Hosp., P.O. Box 1830, (404) 628-5007. (5) Greeneville, TN 37743, or call Ron McBroom, (615) 639-4721. Accepting FOR SALE: Energy efficient 3-bdrm. split plan home. Approximately resumes for technicians with microbiology exp. (5) 5 mi. from Forest Lake Acad. & elementary sch. Family room, 2 bath, 2-car garage, privacy fence. Lovely for retirement or for family with OPPORTUNITY for experienced OB head nurse, 12-bed unit presently school-age children. (305) 886-0284. (5) delivering 70 babies per month. Critical care & M/S staff RN. Beautiful rural Adventist community, 10-grade sch., hosp., & ch. on beautiful FOR SALE: 3-bdrm., 2-bath country home on 31/2 acres in Adventist lake setting. Excellent benefits (including weather). Call collect (813) community. $31,500. Rt. 2, Box 1008, Jemison, AL 35085, or call (205) 453-7511, V. Mixon, RN/VP, Walker Memorial Hosp., EOE (5) 646-2437. (5) RN's: Full-time work with every weekend off at the new Hadley Memo- FOR SALE: Beautiful, 2-story, cedar home, full basement, separate rial Hosp. Our flexible work program gives you the option to work efficiency apt., large screened breezeway, 2% wooded acres on paved Monday-Friday and have every weekend off. Located right off Interstate road. P.O. Box 231, Geneva, FL 32732. (305) 349-5941. (5,6) 295 with easy access from anywhere in the metropolitan Washington, FOR SALE: Orlando, 3-bdrm., 11/2-bath home, garage, central h/ac. D.C., area. Please contact the Personnel Office at (202) 574-5725 or 2 mi. to ch. & sch., near large medical center. Quiet neighborhood. send a resume to Hadley Memorial Hosp., 4601 Martin Luther King, $50,000. Alex Jones, 2603 iNakulla Way, Orlando, FL 32809. (305) Jr., Ave., S.W, Washington, DC 20032. (5) 855-2615. (5) MEDICAL RECORDS DIRECTOR: Hadley Memorial Hosp. in HOME FOR SALE: Hendersonville, N.C., rural, mountainous setting; Washington, D.C., is seeking a competent manager for its Medical 4 bdrms., 21/2 baths, family rm., f/place, individual room electric heat, Records Dept. ART plus exp. is required. RRA is preferred. Very competi- carport plus garage, close to SDA church, hosp., and schools. Call: tive salary & benefits. Located right off Interstate 295 in SW Harold Streidl, (215) 562-7874. (5) Washington, Hadley is easily accessible to the entire metropolitan Washington area. Call or send resume to: Ted Lewis, Hadley Memorial FOR SALE: Tri-level house near Forest Lake Acad. 4 bdrm., 21/2 bath, Hosp., 4601 Martin Luther King, Jr., Ave., S. W, Washington, DC 20032. family rm. with f/place, new carpet. New roof, dble. garage, shade (202) 574-5700. (5) trees. In the 70's. Irene Houser, realtor. (305) 869-4600. (5, 6, 7) FLORIDA HOSPITAL needs registered nurses to staff 1,071-bed hosp. FOR SALE: Quality built home with income! Approx. 4,000 sq. ft, in Orlando. Openings in Critical Care, Medical, Surgical & Psychiatry. 12 rms., 7 baths, 2 f/places. Jr. Olympic pool, recreation area on 3.5 For more information on benefits, Time Off Option & relocation reim- acres with room to expand. Creek & garden space. Presently has 4 bursement, contact: Judy Bond, Employment. In Florida (305) 897- apts., plus owner's 3-bdrm., 2-bath quarters. Potential, office/institu- 1998. outside Florida (800) 327-1914. (5,6) tion, apts., community swimming, summer day camp, etc., 1 mi. from Mt. Pisgah Acad. $225,000. Call Frances Kirby, Sunset Realty/Better LOUIS SMITH MEMORIAL HOSP., a 40-bed hosp. in Lakeland, Ga., Home & Gardens, (704) 253-3309 or 667-8305. (5,6) has immediate openings for exp. healthcare professionals for the fol- lowing positions. Director of Patient Business, Director of Nursing Serv- FOR SALE: Lovely 3 bdrm., 3 bath, den, living room with f/place, ices, & Radiological Technician with Ultrasound exp. Interested appli- dining room with built-in china cabinets. Kitchen with custom-built cants should forward a resume, or call collect: Lucille Mann, Director oak cabinets. 37.9 acres with lake. 35 mi. from Chattanooga. Will of Personnel Services, Louis Smith Memorial Hosp., P.O. Box 306, consider trade for part of payment. (615)949-4764 or 472-6868. (5) Lakeland, GA 31635, (912) 482-3110, Ext. 198. (5,6) FOR SALE: Brick home on 10.3 acres near Corinth, Miss., & SDA FLORIDA HOSP. is seeking a staff Occupational Therapist to work church/sch. 3 bdrms., 2 baths, f/place, fruit trees, lg. garden, beautiful in rehabilitation. Head & spinal cord injury total hip & knee replace- creek, double carport storage shed, utility bldg., guest house poten- ment stroke. Must have interest or exp. in splinting & infant stimula- tial, privacy. Price $55,000. Call (601) 286-8440. (5) tion. Excellent benefit program. Salaries start at $23,000 and are com- mensurate with exp. Send resume or contact Rick Rios at (305) 897- - MERCHANDISE FOR SALE - 1998. Out of state call (800) 327-1914. Florida Hosp., 601 E. Rollins, NEW FOR JUNIOR & EARLITEEN SABBATH SCHOOL DIVISIONS: Hall Orlando, FL 32803. (5-9) of Faith audio-visual series produced by Mission Spotlight. Companion PHYSICAL THERAPIST: Immediate opening. Park Ridge Hosp., new books by Pacific Press. For details contact your conference Sabbath 103-bed acute care hosp. AHS/Sunbelt facility. Located in the beautiful School Dept. or call Mission Spotlight 1-800-221-8663 (Ext. 222). (5, 6) Blue Ridge Mountains. Contact Ken Mattison, (704) 684-8501, Ext 105. IF YOU TAKE VITAMINS you want the finest vegetarian supplements (5) available. Our formulas are 100% Vegetarian Pure & Natural. Compare CHIEF CLINICAL DIETITIAN OF NUTRITIONAL SERVICES: Immediate our formulas with yours & see the difference for yourself. Adventist opening for A.D.A. Dietitian to coordinate clinical areas of a 307-bed owned. Write or phone for our brochure of vitamins & dried foods. general hosp. Must have at least 2 yrs. clinical exp. Located near ch. Royal Laboratories, Inc., 465 Production St., San Marcos, CA 92069. sch. & acad. Salary commensurate with exp. Contact Personnel Office, iblifree: California 1-800-724-7040; Nationwide 1-800-824-4160. 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FLOAT IDAHO WHITEWATER: Salmon Middlefork & Lower Salmon. — NON-MEDICAL POSITIONS AVAILABLE — Individual, group or family. Exp. Adventist outfitter. Sabbath camps. ENGINEER NEEDED: AWR urgently needs an assistant engineer for Vegetarian food. Drury Family, Box 249, Troy, ID 83871, (208) 835-2126. Guam. Broadcast exp. & electronic training required. Send resume to (5) Adventist World Radio, 6840 Eastern Avenue, NW Washington, DC IS YOUR TEENAGE SON REBELLIOUS, defiant, failing in sch., smok- 20012. (5) ing, or drinking? have you tried everything with no noticeable results? IMMEDIATE OPENING IN LITHO for exp. combination person, exp. Advent Horne may be your answer. For more information call (813) in camera (line & halftone), 4-color stripping, & platemaking. Contact 866-3677. (5,6) Personnel, Review and Herald Publishing Association, 55 W Oak Ridge ROCK-BOTTOM CAMP MEETING PRICES on all It Is Written video Dr., Hagerstown MD 21740. (301) 791-7000, ext. 400. (5,6) packages! What I Like About . . . , The Rise and Pall of Antichrist, others. Check at your ABC, or write to It Is Written, 1100 Rancho Conejo Blvd., — MISCELLANEOUS — Newbury Park, CA 91320. (5) MILD CLIMATE. Country living near Atlanta. Small new rural church LEARN COURT REPORTING: Be in demand always. We train court sch. Rated in top 20 of the conf. Day-care facilities attached to sch. reporters for this exciting profession. The nation's only home study Good work opportunities. Active Pathfinder club. Call (404) 495-5854 program. Also resident day classes. No Sabbath problems. All or contact Mark Fowler, 33 Ninety-two Place, Griffin, CIA 30223, (404) graduates are eligible for lifetime placement assistance. Since 1940. 299-4466. (5,6) Financial aid available. Call or write for brochures. (904) 246-7466. HARBERT HILLS ACADEMY — Preparing lbday's Youth for Eternity. Stenotype Institute, Thyra D. Ellis, President and Court Reporter, 500 We are located in a peaceful rural community in lAtst lthn. Through Ninth Ave. North, Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250. (5,7,9) our program we offer our students an opportunity to pay for their high AMATEUR RADIO service center shop near Collegedale. Latest study sch. education through our work/study program. Opportunities for guides. Exp. technician. Equip. sales & service. Call Dean (AA4XL) or building blocks to the future include: lenn. state certification as a Ruth (N4NvX) at (615) 476-9466 or from Chattanooga call 238-5164. nursing assistant, a training program aimed toward licensure at our (5) acad.-based radio station, on-the-job training in our auto repair & body shop, agricultural education through our gardening program, COLLECTOR wishes to buy Adventist & Millerite books published as well as on-the-job training in institutional maintenance, environmen- before 1910. I will pay a very fair price. State title, author, date, & tal services, & dietary depts. Recreational activities include: swimming, condition. Michael Lebowitz, P.O. Box 25, Mt. Zion, WV 26151. (5) softball, basketball, hiking, horseback riding, volleyball, as well as occasional trips to local state parks where there are nature trails & CORRESPONDENCE CLUB: SDA Singles is a growing worldwide cor- boating. At Harbert hills Acad. we are training our youth to be the respondence club of nearly 1,000 members—the perfect club for fellow- leaders of tomorrow but most importantly we are training them for ship, friendship, love and marriage within the church for ages 18-95. eternity. If you are interested please write or call Harbert Hills Acad., Mail self-addressed stamped envelope to SDA Singles, P.O. Box 5612, Rt. 2, Box 212, Savannah, TN 38372. (901) 925-3098. (5) Takoma Park, MD 20912. (5,6)

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22 MI Southern Tidings May, 1987 1J A Little Help From My Friends by Alva James

ccounting is like riding a bicy- be able to offer help to students who cle," says Everton Miekle, a do not meet the acceptance level," sophomore at Oakwood Col- she says. "This is the reason for lege, as he tutors a group of DLRC." students at the school's Develop- The Center, located on the ground mental Learning Resource Center floor of Cunningham Hall, is (DLRC). "When you first start out you equipped with media materials and wobble a little, even if someone is individualized study guides designed holding you. But after a while you get to assist students effectively. it right." The services offered go beyond Miekle, one of 35 students chosen mere tutoring. The services provided to tutor in the peer-tutoring program also include reading, writing, and at DLRC, is an accounting major and math labs; computer-assisted instruc- knows how it feels to be a frustrated tion; and a freshman studies program student. A year ago, he too, needed which involves diagnostic assess- help in his accounting classes and ment, academic advisement, pro- sought help at the Center. gram planning, and other special Linda Ittbb, DLRC director "DLRC really works for students services. who make use of it," he says. "Soon According to Webb, it is a coopera- who must take the initiative to sign I wasn't struggling, but mastering the tive method which keeps the program up for the service. subject." working. Professors and advisers ob- "The journey begins with one sim- Linda Webb, director of the pro- serve students in the classrooms and ple step," says Webb. "After that, we gram, says this is the Center's key pur- refer those who are having difficulty help them in the right direction." pose. It has a program designed to grasping the work. Any student on But according to Miekle, the jour- aid students who need additional academic probation, with a grade ney is not only for students on academic assistance. point average below 2.0, is automat- academic probation. Students meet- "With an open-door policy of admis- ically referred. But the real responsi- ing the acceptance level can also ben- sions at Oakwood College, we should bility is in the hands of the student, efit from the program. "When I first started, I was a good student," he says. "But I wanted extra Student using DLRC computer equipment help. Soon I was doing so well that Mrs. Webb asked me to become a tutor." Miekle's situation is similar to many of the student tutors, who are chosen because of their academic perform- ance. "They are usually sophomores, jun- iors, and seniors, with a 3.0 or higher OPA, who are recommended by their department heads," says Webb. "Once they are accepted, we acquaint them with interpersonal relationship skills." Miekle tutors accounting students 12 hours a week. He meets with eight students a night. "There is nothing like witnessing the improvement that a student makes," Miekle says. "It's worth it when that student comes back and tells me, 'I understand.' "

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give needless offense to one of order. But they will never forget our children (see Matt. 18:6). the memory of daddy's coming Inspiration Many times in the home, home at the end of the day with parents are not as careful as they a smile and a hug for each should be in their practice and member of the family. their stand taken before the You too can have such a home. The children. We may argue that The same God is ever ready to looking at certain television Appearance help you as He has helped others. programs does not hurt us. But All you need to do is to ask Him. Of Evil what about the children? As to the He will answer your prayers more books and magazines we read, we than abundantly. Ah may be able to discern between that which is good and that which What about the spiritual growth Abstain from all appearance of is evil. But can the children do of the child during these early evil. I Thess. 5:22. that? Both the church and the months and years? It is an inspiring thought, yet a sobering Edward fieppenstall — The home are troubled at times with one as well, that a little child's Christian must avoid everything what appears like carelessness in concept of God is based on what that looks evil. He must abstain relation to Biblical standards. We he experiences in his day-to-day from every form that evil may are commanded to keep the faith. contacts with his father and assume. It is not enough to People should have no doubt as mother. He derives his idea of the abstain from what we know to be to where we stand on moral justice of God from what he sees evil. The emphasis in the text is issues. of the fairness or hasty judgments on what appears evil. and punishments of his parents. We can argue that some Reprinted from IN TOUCH WITH The only way he can get any particular thing is wrong only in GOD by Edward Heppenstall, conception of the love Jesus has appearance, and that is all; Review and Herald Publishing for him is by experiencing their therefore to engage in it cannot Association. loving care of him. So you are be wrong. But the text affirms teaching him about God without that if there is a doubt about it, saying a word. we would be wise to avoid it. Family Some feel that this denies It is bound up in the Christian liberty. overworked but too-little-practiced Paul wrote to the believers in word, love. Nothing else is so Corinth, "If meat make my brother How Can We essential to the Christian home as to offend, I will eat no flesh while Have a love of the parents for each other, the world standeth" (I Cor. 8:13). for the children, for God, and for To eat it did not appear to him to Christian His church. be evil. However, if his eating of Home? "For me to live is Christ." That that which had been offered to is what you want your family to pagan idols might cause someone do — to live Christ. Then your to stumble, then Paul would not Frank II. Richardson, MD — children will know you have eat it. It was perfectly lawful for Just what is the Christian home something they will want as they him but it was not expedient. that you two are building? And grow up. The spirit of the love of People can very well why do you wish to create such a Christ in your hearts is what misunderstand what we eat and home? The most important thing makes your religion radiate, and drink at certain times. They might about a Christian home is that it creates the happy Christian home get the wrong impression should is a place where God is. And, as you want yours to be. we attend to our secular the apostle John tells us again and again, God is love. It is a Children like to repeat short responsibilities during the week Bible verses, if memorizing is not but neglect worship in the house place where the things of the stressed to the point of fatigue. of God on Sabbath. Such a course spirit are valued more highly than material things. Simple blessings before meals are has, in the estimation of many, little prayers of thanks to the One the appearance of evil. The Let's try to realize the who gives them the good things principle applies to the importance in your children's lives they enjoy. amusements in which we engage. of having been brought up in To seek relaxation is good. But such a happy home, a home Stories from the Bible are we have no right to do what may bubbling over with fun and good fascinating, and can be made seem evil to others. We must times. No other memories will more realistic with pictures. have a conscience void of offense ever mean so much to them. The Sabbath can easily be made toward God and man. Christ said They may not remember whether different from other days. Going that it were better to die than to the house was always in good to church nursery, to Sabbath

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school, on nature walks; and rhinitis," which simply means that histamine, and remove it from the talks, Bible games, books brought a running, dribbling nose occurs system, so its effects will be out only on the Sabbath, all set as a result of the system's allergic lessened. Bowel regularity (once the day apart as something reaction to an invading protein. considered the ace remedy for special to be keenly anticipated. The most common protein flitting everything) will similarly help around planet Earth in the warmer eliminate some of the chemical On these walks it is natural to seasons are pollens. also, so don't knock the thank God for the bright sunshine, the blue sky, the gay-colored Pollen is an inherent part of the suggestion. flowers, and to encourage the life cycle of plants, whether they Working in a pollen-free, or little ones to thank Him too. Thus be weeds, cultivated flowers, trees, non-polluted atmosphere is ideal, the Lord's day is enjoyable; not or any of the myriad forms of but often not practical. Many find the Puritan day of repressions and plant life. Bees commonly transmit air conditioned premises a prohibitions, but a time of happy pollen from flower to flower, thus valuable assistance. Try to avoid family fellowship. completing the reproductive cycle the troublemakers, such as kapok, of plants. But pollens are readily But what has all this to do with feathers and animals, especially blown around by prevailing air the development of the child's furred ones. You may be allergic currents. It is common for the to the hairs, or to the "danders," spiritual life? A great deal. For it fine misty material to blow in the is in the happy Christian home, the scaly material that comes upper airways for many hundreds where the Bible is read, prayer from their skin, a bit like dandruff and, indeed, thousands of comes naturally, and it is in humans. Substitute foam kilometres. So what grows out common practice to talk about rubber pillow and mattresses for west frequently visits cities, to mix God, that strength is given and kapok or feather or down ones. with the mass of local pollution, scriptural promises become a and finally to be inhaled by the Try to avoid house dust. Do not reality. local dwellers. vigorously sweep with a broom Eagerly anticipating the future which will send millions of particles into the air. Use must not keep you from enjoying Unpleasant Reaction every moment of the present. mechanical cleaners if possible. Every minute is precious, every In some people an unpleasant Medication is often second counts. Babies turn into silent reaction occurs. These are recommended, and your family runabouts, runabouts into persons known to be sensitive or doctor may prescribe this. teen-agers, teen-agers into young allergic to certain products. Anti-histamine tablets have been adults. You are building the world Instead of the body coping with used for many years, but their of tomorrow as you go about them and taking no notice, the major drawback is that although doing the tasks of today. "The foreign particles latch onto special they effectively reduce symptoms, world moves forward on the feet cells which are present in nearly their adverse side effects often of little children." So build straight all organs called mast cells. In make them totally impractical. paths for these little feet. turn, these react and produce a chemical called histamine. Very Some doctors carry out tests to quickly, this may have a local discover the pollens and foreign This article consists of excerpts reaction, and cause symptoms. Or proteins to which the patient is from A CHRISTIAN DOCTOR TALKS it may circulate in the allergic. An extract is then WITH YOUNG PARENTS, by Frank bloodstream to other parts of the prepared, and this is given either H. Richardson, MD, 1962, Review body, and produce other by regular injections or as drops and Herald." symptoms. over a period of many months. The idea is to build up the The most common are those person's immunity against the which collectively produce the product, so that when subjected Fitness symptoms we call hay or spring to later hits, he will not be fever. The eyes smart, water and adversely affected. It is often there is a mad desire to rub them successful, and the oral extracts to relieve the irritation. The nose are now widely used by many Treatment for dribbles non-stop. The more you allergy and nose specialists. Your The Wheezy dab the more it runs, and very own family doctor may refer you Sneezy Season soon the tip becomes red and to the appropriate specialist if he tender as the constant drip, drip, thinks this could help you. drip continues. Sydney Doctor — The sneezy, wheezy season has How to Treat GOOD HEALTH, Vol. 18, No. 6, arrived, and will smoulder on for Nov. -Dec. 1986. Signs Publishing many months to come. Drink lots of fluid, simple water Company, Warburton, Victoria, Doctors refer to it as "Allergic being best. This helps dilute the 3799, Australia

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An Adventist Essential Christ-Centered Education

by Stewart J Crook

rain a child in the way he along the road, when you lie Not only do all in society not believe hould go. . . ."1 — familiar down and when you get up. as we do but the laws of the land do words to the Seventh-day Ad- Tie them as symbols on your not allow the public schools to direct Tsventist parent, yet words hands and bind them on attention to the spiritual guidance of which are not always understood. your foreheads. Write them students. If our desire is that our Why? Why do some of us not under- on the door frames of your young people be prepared only for stand this admonition? Could it be houses and on your gates.2 success in this life it is possible that that we lack discernment concerning By looking at the biblical record of they may gain training for what the that which constitutes true educa- some of their children, it becomes ob- world measures as success without tion? vious that parents did teach these pre- emphasis on the spiritual element of Vit could become very emotional if cepts and such training enabled the education. accused of not loving our children youth to stand firmly for right in times We who believe in eternal life will and desiring the very best for them. of testing. Witness the actions of desire that special training for our But doesn't the best include training Daniel and Joseph. children and youth which will include both for this life and the life to come? Would we not be quick to argue that preparation. ". . . for the higher joy If this is true, it is essential that we today's society is a more complex one of wider service in the world to understand the admonition of the and fraught with far more tempta- come." Such training can only be ob- wise man and learn how to follow it tions for our children and youth than tained in situations where Christ is in the training which we and others that of biblical times? Today's human- made the center of education. These provide for our children. istic society surrounds them with in- situations include the home, the Perhaps we equate training with fluences that are difficult for even the church, and the school. A good argu- making certain that our children and strongest to resist. ment (with statistical support) can be youth receive the best in the scientific, Now then should we prepare our advanced that if any one of these ele- literary, and domestic arts. These are, young people for meeting these ments is missing it is most difficult without doubt, aspects of training, temptations? What can we do to en- to provide a complete training for this but are they the training spoken of by sure that they will exhibit the same life and the life to come. the wise man? No doubt Solomon integrity and firmness as did Daniel It was said of Abraham, "For I have would include them in his definition and Joseph? chosen him, so that he will direct his of training but perhaps we should ask Education as defined by inspiration children and his household after him if there is more. is ". . . the harmonious development to keep the way of the Lord by doing Moses, in instructing a people who of the physical, the mental, and the what is right and just. . . ."5 Will the had only recently been enslaved in a spiritual powers. It prepares the stu- same be said of you and me? heathen society, gave emphatic direc- dent for the joy of service in this tions to them concerning the training world, and for the higher joy of wider Prov. 22:6 NW of the children. lie said. service in the world to come."3 2 Duet. 6:6-9 NW 3 Education. p. 13 These commandments that Public schools offer much that is 4 Ibid. I give you today are to be good in the way of physical and men- 5 den. 18:19 upon your hearts. Impress tal training but can they offer the them on your children. 'Palk spiritual training which our youth Stewart J. Crook is director of trust about them when you sit at must have as an integral part of their services and endowment for the home and when you talk education? The answer is obvious. Southern Union Conference.

26 ■ Southern Tidings May, 1987 Next Time, Heaven

n a cold winter morning in the world church and related the ulti- early 1887, eight charter mate story on "Forgiveness." A Special Centennial members met with the The centennial service at 2:30 was 0 conference president to a real highlight of the weekend. Celebration for organize a church in Bowling Green, Frances Davis brought the history and Kentucky. There were five other progress of the church from 1887 to The Bowling Green, churches in the conference at that 1987. Special recognition was time. From that small beginning, the brought to three who have been mem- Kentucky, Church. church has grown. Now, 100 years bers for more than 50 years: Frances later, the Bowling Green Seventh-day Upfold, Irene Kinser, and Doris Lee. Adventist Church was busy in eager They were presented with pink carna- anticipation of its 100th anniversary. tions for their dedication. Wilson The special centennial weekend brought another inspirational mes- began with a consecration service on sage to make the service a special Friday evening. Conference President memory for all. He said, "I am very Clinton Shankel brought an inspira- happy to be able to feel the pulse of tional and timely message, "I Re- my family here in Bowling Green!" by Judy Clarke member My Church." lie reminded Special music was brought by Mark members of all the special services and Marilee Dalton, Janis Sherer, and they had witnessed and shared over Agnes Weaver. the past 100 years. Several members A special vespers program closed said they were richly blessed as they the weekend. Many hours of prepara- listened, remembered, and rededi- tion were spent by the youth group cated their lives for service. Special of the church for the drama entitled, music was provided by the Sounds of "The House Across the Hedge," led by Brass, led by Jim Closser. youth director Marilyn Carter. All who As Sabbath morning's bright rays observed the play were indeed moved shone down on the church, it was to serve our Master more than ever filled with worshippers on this special before. Sabbath. Everyone listened intently "We praise God for making this very to the mission story told by Herb special weekend possible," stated Hewitt from Ridgetop, Tennessee. present pastor, James Clarke. "Our Conference treasurer Dwight Hilder- next centennial weekend is planned brandt made the Sabbath school les- to meet by the Sea of Glass, with fea- son study very meaningful. With great tured speaker, Jesus Christ, our Lord anticipation, the members waited to and Saviour." hear the featured speaker, Neal C. Wil- son, president of the General Confer- Neal C. Mlson, featured speaker for the Bowling Green church centennial. ence. His timely and challenging mes- Judy Clarke is the wife of Bowling sage shared some of the activities of Green pastor, James Clarke.

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to be featured in the proposed 24-pro- gram set include J. N. Andrews, the first SDA foreign missionary, Anna An Audio-Visual Knight, native of the Southern Union and a missionary to India, and Hans Mayer, a German who, at 17, went to Until now South America as a missionary and Believing that idealistic young today, at 84, still lives in Chile. Minist people need heroes they can look up "We present the story in a way young to, the Mission Spotlight team could people can relate to," says Jerry Hein- think of no one better than the self- rich, narrator for the "Hall of Faith" by Gary L. Ivey less Adventist missionaries who dedi- programs. "For instance, in the pro- cated long years, endured terrible gram on J. N. Andrews, we emphasize hardship, and often risked their lives the fact that his children went with by don't you do something to carry the Third Angel's Message to him and worked as hard as he did." for the juniors and ear- often-hostile foreign lands. Included in each package of three iteens?" "We have nothing to fear for the fu- programs, released each January and Wl "Why not?" Oscar L. ture, except as we forget . . ." says re- July, are 10 collector's cards for each Heinrich repeated the question to tired Southern Union Sabbath School/ program, which the young people can himself. Heinrich is former Southern Religious Liberty Director Fernon D. collect and trade. Union communication director, the Retzer, now part of the "Mission Spot- A number of other materials com- voice of "Mission Spotlight" and a light" team, recalling the familiar quo- plement the programs, including a long list of other audio-visual proj- tation from Thstimonies for the series of 24 books published by the ects. Church, vol. 9, page 10. "That's really Pacific Press for further reading. Also Since the first "Mission Spotlight" the basis for the program." available are 14-by-18-inch posters programs were produced in 1966, the Designed to be shown during Sab- matching the honor plaques hung in Southern Union has witnessed the bath school, using the same equip- a special "Hall of Faith" at "Mission birth of a variety of programs by the ment as the "Adventure Series," the Spotlight" headquarters. By ordering Decatur, Georgia, production com- programs are called "The Hall of the posters, local Sabbath school de- pany Photo Sound International, di- Faith." Each one centers on the life of partments can establish their own rected by Heinrich's son, Jerry. a missionary or mission family, most "Hall of Faith." In addition to "Mission Spotlight," from years gone by. "We're not trying to sell programs now seen in 3, 300 churches, the quar- "These are not old people's and equipment," says Oscar Heinrich. terly "Personal lbuch" highlights lay stories," says Heinrich. "Most of the "We're trying to convey the love and witnessing efforts across North people featured began their work dedication that was displayed by America; "The Family of God" orients when they were very young." these people." new members to the Church; and the The first program features Leo and "Adventure Series" is for young chil- Jesse Halliwell and their work for the For more information, write 4284-D dren. But there was nothing for the natives of the Amazon River valley in Memorial Dr., Decatur, GA 30032, or juniors and earliteens. Brazil beginning 50 years ago. Others call 1-800-221-8663, ext. 222.

Brennan and Chad Kirstein, sixth-generation de- scendants of J. N. Andrews, examine the Jim Padgett painting of Andrews held by "Hall of Faith" narrator Jerry Heinrich while visiting their grandparents in Orlando, Florida, from their home in Maryland, where their father is employed by the Review and Herald Publishing Association.

Plaques such as these are being hung in a special "Hall of Faith" at Mission Spotlight headquarters.

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a substantial beneficial impact on these hospitals. We expect 1987 to be a difficult year, though not a repeat of 1986. It will be a Health System year of change and turnaround. We expect Adventist Health System/Sunbelt to con- solidate and retrench, then over a period of years, grow from the consolidated base. The health-care industry in this country, Deals With and consequently our church's hospitals, will continue to face heavy challenges. Our government has promised medical serv- ices to the public, but has chosen not to fully reimburse health-care providers for Radical Changes those services. Moreover, hospitals are ex- pected to provide services on a highly dis- by Mardian J. Blair counted basis. It is clearly felt that the outlook is posi- he health and hospital work in the larger, more financially secure organiza- tive—if the operational changes that have Southern Union has been an im- tions. Historically, that arrangement was been initiated in the corporation continue, portant part of our church's mis- considered not only acceptable, but desir- if nonviable entities are divested, and if Tsion for many years. Health facil- able and important for the continuation other adverse business situations are di- ities such as Tennessee Christian Medical of the church's mission in those com- rectly addressed. This does not mean the Center (formerly Madison Hospital), munities. end of financial stress. I anticipate that Florida, Scott Memorial, and Takoma Ad- However, today's business climate is im- Sunbelt will experience stressful econom- ventist are examples of hospitals that have pacting the financial viability of even cer- ic times for several more years. served their communities for many, many tain historically successful hospitals. Excessive Debt Being Cut years. These institutions, along with the Throughout the United States, many previ- other Adventist hospitals in the Southern ously viable institutions, particularly rural Sunbelt has more debt than it should Union, have impacted the church in a very institutions or small hospitals in major have in the present economic setting. marked way. Ti-aditionally, where we have metropolitan areas, have closed their Debt was acquired in times of prosperity, hospitals, we have strong churches. doors. when there was no anticipation of the rad- In the past two years in the Southwest- ical changes that have taken place. Sun- However, the health-care industry na- belt's assets, as of December 31, 1986, tionwide is going through some radical ern Union Conference, which is a part of AHS/Sunbelt, five small hospitals have are more than $550 million, including changes that are affecting every medical buildings, equipment, and land at book institution, including those in Adventist been either returned to county govern- ments which own them or have been in value. It should be noted that the proper- Health System/Sunbelt. I am writing this ties are valued at original cost less ac- article because these changes have al- one way or another divested and we no longer operate them. I know this has been cumulated depreciation, and are greatly ready affected and will continue to affect undervalued compared to market value. the hospitals of the church. I want you to a real blow to the Southwestern Union and to the conferences where these hospitals The corporation presently has a bond in- hear the facts directly and correctly from debtedness of just under $350 million. me, rather than via the grapevine, in all are located. It has been a difficult experi- ence for all of us, but a necessary one. Present total assets less total liability likelihood with inaccuracies. leaves a conservative net worth of $91 mil- Losses Exceed $11 Million Reimbursement Policies lion. These situations, combined with other Limit Occupancy The fact remains that the debt is still factors such as decreased reimbursement there and it must be paid. It will not be Drastic and dramatic changes are occur- and decreased volume of business, con- paid off quickly or easily. In 1986 Sunbelt ring in health-care operations in this coun- tributed to a bottomline loss in 1986 of reduced its debt by $10 million and will try. Federal regulations, such as method $1L 6 million for Adventist Health System/ continue to pay it off on a regular basis of Medicare payment, and a number of Sunbelt. Of this loss, approximately $7.5 as it has in the past several years. private initiatives are impacting physi- million is attributable to the divesture or In the 24 years that I have been a chief cians' practices. The development of close-out of unprofitable operations, executive officer in Adventist health care, health maintenance organizations and start-up costs of a health insurance com- I have never seen a time of greater preferred provider organizations, pany, and loss on the early payment of economic stress in the health-care indus- changed relationships with insurance bond issues. try or in church hospitals than exists today. companies and with business and indus- Due to the 1986 losses, significant struc- Nevertheless, it is my deep belief that Ad- try—all are creating changes that affect tural/organizational changes have been ventist health-care institutions provide a every aspect of health care today. made in Adventist Health System/Sunbelt very significant service for this church and The most significant change in hospital Health Care Corporation. First, the staff at for the general public. These institutions operations in the past 20 years was the the corporate office in Orlando is being were ordained by God, and they have a government's prospective payment sys- reduced from 48 to about 30. These cuts, definite part in the mission of the church. tem initiated in 1983. After many years of when combined with overhead, travel, and 'We Will Be Stronger' cost-based reimbursement, the govern- other expenses such as certain fixed ex- ment changed to a system of paying a penditures, will result in an annual savings I believe that, even though we are ex- fixed dollar amount for a given illness. Em- approaching $2 million. periencing difficult times, as are many in- stitutions in the world at large, through a phasis was placed on limiting admissions, Four Clusters Being Developed reliance upon God's leading and by work- and for those patients who were admitted, Another action to save costs and limiting their number of days in the hospi- ing together we will find our way through strengthen managerial effectiveness is the these difficulties. It will take diligence in tal. Outpatient business skyrocketed, due organization of hospitals and their man- to federally initiated financial incentives, management and careful guidance by our agement into four clusters. One will be in boards of directors and various commit- while fewer patients were being admitted Middle 'Tennessee, with 'Tennessee Chris- to hosptials. As a result, revenues to oper- tees, and the cooperation and mutual sup- tian Medical Center as the flagship hospi- port of our total Adventist Health System. ate health-care facilities have been re- tal. Another will be in Florida (plus Louis duced. In the end, I am confident, we will be Smith, in south Georgia) under Florida stronger than we have been in the recent Small Hospitals Hit Hardest Hospital. A Southwest cluster will include past, and Adventist health care will con- Many of our small, rural hospitals, while the hospitals in Texas and New Mexico. A tinue, with God's blessing, to be a Chris- they may contribute to the well-being of fourth group will include Gordon, Park tian witness in the Southern Union. IN their communities, have experienced sig- Ridge, Smyrna, and 'Pakoma Adventist, nificant financial stress in recent times. which do not clearly fit into the other clus- Mardian J. Blair is president of Adventist Many have relied on support from the ters. I believe this arrangement will have Health System/Sunbelt.

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Volume 81, No. 5 May, 1987 Official Organ of the Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE DIRECTORY Mardian J. 3978 Memorial Drive Blair Mall Address • P.O. Box 849 • Decatur, Georgia 30031 Telephone (404) 299-1832

President A. C. McCLURE ADVENTIST HEALTH CARE Secretary W D. SUMPTER Associate Secretary R. P. PRAY Seventh-day Adventists have, since our Treasurer K. P. CENTER earliest days, viewed their mission as a Undertreasurer L D BEERS, JR. ministry to the whole man - sharing the Assistant Treasurer (Association) . . ARDITH A. BEERS message of salvation through Jesus in the Confronting Painful Realities Departments context of the Three Angels' Messages of It is extremely painful, of course, to lay Church Growth/Evangelism RON HALVORSEN off large numbers of employees. It is also DENNIS ROSS, JR. Revelation 14 and an extension of our Church Ministries, ASI W M. ABBOTT, JR. Lord's care for man's physical needs. This very painful to see conditions develop that Associate M. E. JOINER view quickly led to engaging in medical make it impossible to continue to operate Associate 0. J. McKINNEY, JR. missionary work. Ellen White likened this some of our institutions, especially in light Associate A. R. WILLIAMSON Communication GEORGE A. POWELL work to "the right arm of the message." of our mission. But we must be realistic Associate GARY L. IVEY This concept has helped to establish and and make decisions that will ensure the Associate OLSON PERRY strengthen the work of the church around future of those institutions that are in posi- Sign Engineer CARL D. CROWSON Data Processing ROGER PARKER the world. tions of strength. We believe it is better to Systems Analyst THOMAS WORTHEN Maintaining Our Mission While make painful decisions than fail to act and Education D. K. GRIFFITH thereby jeopardize the entire system. Associate NORWIDA A. MARSHALL Altering Methods I commend Mr. Mardian Blair and the Associate DONALD L WEATHERALL Maintaining a clear vision of our mission Evangelist LYLE D. ALBRECHT Adventist Health System/Sunbelt for the Health/Temperance R. P. PEAY and making it work in the real and chang- bold approach that is being taken to as- Inner Cities W D. SUMPTER ing world requires great diligence and sure that the witness of Adventist hospitals Ministerial 0 J McKINNEY, JR. much prayer. While the principles of heal- will remain strong in the Southern Union. Public Affairs and Religious Liberty . . L. A. STOUT ing and ministry do not change, scientific Publishing B. J. BECKWORFH Some very difficult decisions have been Associate GERALD R. BIETZ and social developments may dramati- made, and more will be made. A,wiate G S CULPEPPER cally alter our methods. Unwillingness to Associate T. R. SMITH accept change and adapt to it may well The Future Is Bright Revelation Seminars HARRY ROBINSON As vice-chairman of the board of AHS/ Must Services/Endowment STUART J. CROOK lead to loss of our opportunities. Associate GLENN E. SMITH On page 30 in this edition of SOUTHERN Sunbelt, I assure you that the health sys- TIDINGS is a report on changes taking place tem is relating to these developments in a Local Conference Directory within Adventist Health System/Sunbelt. responsible and sound way. I believe that CAROLINA - K S. Folkenberg, president; W Benny These changes are necessitated by a the future of our health work is bright. We Moore., Jr., secretary; A. L. Ingram, treasurer; 6000 health-care marketplace that is undergo- still have a mission to minister to the Conference Drive (P.O. Box 25848), Charlotte, North Carolina 28212. Telephone (704) 535-6720. Adventist ing radical shifts in utilization and reim- needs of our fellowman. Your prayers are Book Center - Telephone (704) 535-6728. bursement. Hundreds of hospitals across needed that our Lord will enable the PL01111111 - M. D. Gordon, president; 0. 0. 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