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News and Testimonies June 2003 From AroundHARTLAND the World INSTITUTE www.Hartland.edu Volume 9, Number 3 HHAARRTTLLAANNDD MMIINNIISSTTRRYY RREEPPOORRTT PLAN NOW TO ATTEND HARTLAND’SVERY SPECIAL 20th Anniversary Camp Meeting COME AND RECEIVE A GLORIOUS BLESSING! July 29 - August 3, 2003 ALSO: RELIGIOUS LIBERTY TOUR IMMEDIATELY AFTER CAMP MEETING – AUGUST 4-7, 2003 S IGN U P N OW!

COVER STORY ❑ “Hartland Made Me a Committed Soul-Winner” ...... PAGE 2

Packed House at Spring Convocation ...... 3 Scattered Literature Brings Results ...... 4 “I Had Stomach Problems for 30 Years” ...... 5 Azeze’s Miracle ...... 6 Traffic Jam Evangelism ...... 7 Volunteering: An Investment in the Future ...... 8 Calling All Volunteers! Don’t Miss It! ...... 9 Thomas and Thomas - Two Men, the Monks and Their “Friends” ...... 10 Miracle: Hartland’s First Mortgage Payment, 1983 ...... 11 Miracle in Toronto ...... 12 The Spirit of Giving ...... 13 M1 inistry in South Africa ...... Hartland Ministry Report - June 2003 15 hmrjun03V9#3color 6/4/03 9:32 AM Page 2

HARTLAND COLLEGE HARTLAND WORLD MISSION “Hartland Made Me a Committed Packed House at Spring Convocation Soul-Winner” By Sheri Trueblood I Come to Hartland f the ministers would get out of the way, if Convocations Because… attended Hartland College between studies, speak in public, teach, and much they would go forth into new fields, the 1994 and 1999. I majored in Bible more. And this has helped me in so many I members would be obliged to bear “Naomi and I I Work and minored in Health situations. While at Hartland, I had many responsibilities, and their capabilities would come for the Ministry. I also trained as a colporteur. opportunities to work for God in mission- increase by use.” (Ev. 382) spiritual food Hartland College is a ary and soul-winning work. This statement was one of a number of and fellowship. school where it’s not just I didn’t have to wait until I similar statements read to the crowded audi- We just love it! theory. I learned to be a graduated to work to win It’s like a family ence by Pastor David Westbrook at the Spring reunion, and thinker, not a mere reflector souls. I helped with an evan- Convocation on the Hartland campus. His now we know of other men’s thoughts. gelistic series in England, an theme “Confessions of an Adventist Minister” more people who love the truth too!” You have got to be able to extension school in captivated the attention of the campers who Kent Millard, OH stand on your own two feet, Romania, medical mission- overwhelmingly approved of the serious not just say that “so and so ary work in the Dominican counsel for our church pastors. “Hartland is a place where says. . . .” I also learned time Republic, a camp meeting in “Our ministers are not to hover over the I can fellowship with those of like precious faith, and management, to make the Czech Republic and churches, regarding the churches in some learn to share it. It keeps every moment count. But evangelism in Barbados. particular place as their special care.” me on the cutting edge of most importantly I learned At first I thought that (Australasian Union Conference Record,August prophecy. I also come to practical Christianity. four years would be too 1, 1902 par. 7) With this counsel fresh in his see old friends.” When you live and work Sheri Trueblood long, but my four years at listeners’ ears, Pastor Westbrook opened up Michael Martin, VA together and do mission Hartland didn’t seem like alternative trips together, you have to get along. You four years at all because God had me possibilities “I was impressed that the can't just profess to be an Adventist learning and working for souls at the for them to negative things I heard Christian. At Hartland there is a strong same time. contemplate. weren’t true and I started emphasis on character development. Since graduation, I have worked as a coming. It is a wonderful P astor spiritual experience.” Before I came to Hartland, I tended to colporteur, a teacher, a health educator Westbrook Estonia Patton, NJ be legalistic. But while a student, I learned and a Bible worker. I was even an assis- also addressed what righteousness by faith really is, what tant dean of women for a while. Now I’m the “worship balanced Christianity is, how to be a true teaching at an SDA school in Honduras. wars” in the “I was invited. I enjoyed this very much. I'd come every Christian, and to know the God who gives Hartland students are trained in Pastor David Westbrook Seventh-day you power to do all things. I learned to be many different skills. They are very flexi- Adventist year, even though we have to a well-rounded Christian. Where else can ble when they have completed their Church and showed how Satan has attempted stay in the hydrotherapy you study the Bible, history, education, training, and they are equipped to handle to steal the experience with Christ from God’s room.” Larenzo Martin, SC and yet work with other committed many of the world’s crying needs. There people by introducing the “Willow Creek” young people? There were so many is no lack of opportunity for a Hartland format of worship style in our churches. He “This is my first time at opportunities! Some schools are known graduate. I have found that if you are not concluded with a serious and important mes- Hartland. I came expecting for their sports, some for their science, wanted in one place because you are a sage on the life and ministry of Enoch. to gain a blessing and I did.” health, or nursing. But Hartland is known Hartland grad, you are certainly wanted “I learned a lot!” said one enthusiastic Pauline Shniper, PA for its missionary work. in many others. camper, “I didn’t realize why our churches The things I learned at Hartland were But the great treasure of Hartland is were so weak and lifeless.” Another said, practical, and they have already proven family and friends. All around the world “There was a lot of truth [presented] here “My wife and I are spending very useful. Besides my challenging aca- there are those who will always be there [this weekend].” And a third commented, our first anniversary at demic classes, I learned how to give Bible ... continued on page 7 “What a refreshing from the presence of Hartland. We wanted a the Lord!” spiritual retreat. This was a great meeting!” Remember to attend Camp Meeting,July 29-August 3 Dale McKray, NC 2 Hartland Ministry Report - June 2003 www.Hartland.edu - Phone (540) 672-3100 - Fax (540) 672-1992 - [email protected] 3 hmrjun03V9#3color 6/4/03 9:32 AM Page 4

HARTLAND PUBLICATIONS HARTLAND WELLNESS CENTER Scattered Literature Brings “I Had Stomach Problems Results for 30 Years” By Faith Lyons By Joan Reichard & Hal Mayer ohn Watson, a United Methodist, sells another church, it would be the Seventh- e heard about Hartland from a gram, Effie was put on an exercise pro- insurance for a living in North day Adventist Church even though I have gentleman who came here with gram, given hydrotherapy treatments and J Carolina and loves to scatter Christian never attended an SDA church ever, even W cancer and had only six months massages, and trained in cooking proper- literature. In fact, he and his brother run a yet! Before I didn't know differently, but to live. But after being ly and healthful- little free literature ministry called Our now I'm no longer ignorant.” at Hartland Wellness ly. “I learned Father’s Business. John had a very teachable spirit. I Center, he lived six those recipes!” He has a client in asked him if I could send him a book she said. an elder care called The Great Controversy by the same Hartland home where he author of Happiness Digest. I explained “Just getting Wellness Center often leaves this book would help him understand the helped Effie to tracts. One day Reformation my cholesterol heal. “My choles- on the table and how the down made it terol dropped next to where denominations sixty-six points he puts his lit- came into exis- well worth it,” and I lost ten erature, he tence. I assured pounds,” she noticed a him that he says Effie. says. “Just getting copy of Be would not be my cholesterol Careful of able to put it down made it Protestant down. I also told well worth it. But Teaching.Intrigued, he took him it would years! So we came my blood pres- it home and read it. John called to ask answer a lot of hoping to do some- Effie and Charles Nevills sure is regulated what our relationship is to the SDA questions. I told John Watson thing about my diges- and also my church. I told him that Hartland is a lay- John how some- tion problems,” said Effie. blood sugar. My stomach swelling is down operated self-supporting ministry that is one anonymously sent me a book that When Effie and her husband, Charles, too.” not funded by the church, but loyal to its changed my life and that I have scattered came to Hartland Wellness Center, Effie Charles was thrilled with the spiritual message. thousands of pieces of literature too. I had high blood pressure, a blood sugar atmosphere. “It’s almost like you walk John knows that there are many told John it was obvious God was leading problem, and high cholesterol in addition into another world,”he said.“When we go false teachings in the Protestant church- him and that it was interesting that God to the digestion problems and bloating. home, the thing I’m going to miss most is es. He knew that our pamphlet didn't used scattered literature to reveal light to One of the first things they noticed was our worship services with Male Bone come from the Catholic Church because him, just as he had done for others. the happy staff. “I haven’t met nicer peo- Laing. He brought the Bible alive. He told it didn’t agree with its teachings. He had He promised me he would read the ple. Everyone we’ve met has a beautiful me, ‘You may forget me, but don’t forget personally studied the Bible on the topic book and call me again. smile—all the time,” says Charles. the Bible.’ He made it more meaningful.” of hell, searching every scripture on this Please pray for John that there will be They were both put on a juice fast “I think we can pretty much stick to subject and knew that what this booklet at least one sequel to this story. Some which helps to cleanse and stabilize their this lifestyle,” Effie says, “and we would said was true, despite what other church- faithful literature missionary in NC left bodies. “I was surprised I was not hun- recommend this program to others.” es taught, including his own. this pamphlet where this gry,” said Charles. During the daily pro- John told me that some years ago truth-loving soul picked someone had given him a copy of it up. God bless you, who- Happiness Digest. “I just couldn't put it ever you are! Special Commemorative Camp down,” he said. “In fact I ordered 100 copies to scatter wherever I went!” Faith Lyons is Director of Meeting,July 29-August 3 Amazingly, John said, “If I were to join Hartland Publications

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HARTLAND WORLD MISSION LAST GENERATION Azeze’s Miracle Traffic Jam Evangelism By Frances Lundberg By Betsy Mayer hat can you do when you are the irate motorists. One hundred and first became acquainted with Azeze But then the test of faith began. He was stuck in immovable traffic? fifty copies were accepted and soon we Tesfamariam Hagos in November 2001 refused an exit visa to leave Eritrea. Well, if you are fortunate to could see people reading magazines all when he asked Hartland to print his Undaunted, Azeze crossed the border into W I have a traveling companion with you to around our van, some with obvious Tigrigna translation of The Embattled Ethiopia, a dangerous journey because of keep the car moving, you could try “traf- interest. Church by Colin and Russell Standish. war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. He was fic jam ministry.” The particular issue we had that day Tigrigna is the most widely spoken lan- arrested and detained in a house with Two weekends in a row, the Hartland was Keys to the Kingdom,featuring the guage in Eritrea, East Africa. After some other prisoners. While they awaited International Touring Choir was stuck in Ten Commandments. We noticed several correspondence, I decided to visit Eritrea. release, Azeze taught them Bible lessons. serious traffic jams on their way to week- people especially interested in the arti- In 1997 Azeze met a Seventh-day end concerts in the Northeast. The traffic cle,“Does Anyone Have the Authority to Adventist who shared the Sabbath with Poor area of was backed up for at least an hour on the Change God’s Law?” with statements him. He was thrilled and went to his Asmara Garden State Parkway in New Jersey and from the Catholic Church claiming Coptic Orthodox Church and shared it where the for over two hours on I-81 south of authority over the Bible and authority to with the youth group. He naively thought Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. change the day of rest from Saturday to that the entire church would embrace the gospel is needed The first time it happened, Nic Sunday. truth. Not so! They disfellowshipped him LeClerc, a tenor from Montreal and a sea- The second time we were stuck, choir and four other youth who desired to keep soned colporteur, grabbed a box of Last members didn’t need urging. Again we God’s Sabbath. With no place to worship Azeze escaped and went to Addis Generation magazines and challenged passed out over one hundred and fifty they met in a cave. Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, to request an some other choir members to help him magazines. Soon God blessed him in raising up a exit visa. While waiting he preached on the pass them out The choir regularly carries literature company of SDA believers in his home- radio. Again he was refused an exit visa. to the four with them and leaves it with tollbooth town.When war broke out between the But he had a goal! Miraculously, he crossed lanes of cars collectors, gas station attendants, concert neighboring countries, Azeze moved to the border into Djibouti. Knowing it and trucks attendees, and other people we meet. Asmara, capital of Eritrea, to work in the would be a miracle, he visited the emigra- stopped in We pray that these Mission Field Office. Shortly after my tion office. front of us for seeds of truth will spring March 2002 visit, Azeze wrote that the gov- Charging a high price and thinking as far as we up into an abundant har- ernment had closed all Protestant church- that he couldn’t get a ticket in a short time, could see. vest. What are you doing es. Members had to worship in homes the immigration officer issued him a ten Handing out LG Four students to scatter precious seeds? while seeking government permission to day visa. He must secure the money, pur- joined him. meet in their churches (still unresolved!). chase a ticket, and leave Djibouti in ten magazines to drivers Betsy Mayer is the Editor of stopped in traffic jam They offered a Last Generation magazine days or the visa would expire. diversion to But God is in the miracle business, and Azeze, on Azeze is at Hartland College studying left, with Pastoral Evangelism. He is eager to learn all “Hartland Made Me a Committed Soul-Winner” ... continued from page 2 one of his that he can and return to Eritrea to minis- for me. It has been that way, and will still be an SDA if I hadn’t attended converts ter to his people. He also feels called to always be that way. Hartland College. I would recommend it Ethiopia to work for those who speak the We need to start more Hartlands to any spiritual young person who really Azeze wanted more education. He was Tigrigna language. Please around the world, schools of a different wants to learn to serve God. advised by church leaders to attend pray for Azeze as he trains order. I love Hartland! I don’t know if I’d Newbold College in England and was even for service. awarded a scholarship. But the British Make plans now for a special occasion, the Embassy refused his visa! He then applied Frances Lundberg to Hartland College and, surprisingly, is Director of 20th Anniversary Camp Meeting, secured a U.S. visa with little effort. Hartland World Mission July 29-August 3

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HARTLAND INSTITUTE HARTLAND INSTITUTE Volunteering: An Investment Calling All Volunteers! in the Future Don’t Miss It! am happy to volunteer at Hartland I am teaching classes in disease assess- artland Institute’s first volunteer ward. Those with building skills, and those because I want to impress young peo- ment and health assessment. This is a dis- project is planned for this October. with no special skills are needed. All hands I ple that they can get the tools they cipline that is very important, because it is HHartland is calling all volunteers to on deck! You are urged to come for all or need to do a wonderful work for God foundational to other disciplines in natu- help build two ladies’ dorms during its part of the project. If you have willing using His simple remedies. When ral health care. How to correctly identify 20th anniversary year. The dorms will be hands and a loving heart for the work of Hartland College disease, and to evaluate the health of a similar to the two men’s dorms completed God and the training of young people, you needed some help client provides the information to know last year. The beautiful thing is that when are welcome. Please contact Jan Caster at teaching, I was will- what to recommend. these dorms are in use, they will free up 540-672-3100 ext. 285 for more informa- ing to come I like to teach at Hartland College much needed tion about this project. because I knew that because I am educating young people for classroom, lab If you have an RV, we have hookups God would use me self-supporting ministry and because it is for water and electric. There is a shower here. Besides, some always a good learning experience for me. Completed house for campers to use during their stay. Other limited housing is available on cam- of the students who There is such a need for dedicated self-sac- Men’s Dorms attend Hartland rificing workers today, and there are so few pus. The project will be conducted during College are from schools really training for this, that it is the school term, so you will get to work my home country. vital for Hartland to have the best aca- and office along side some of the students and be My husband demic and practical training. I want to be space in the able to attend Hartland’s daily chapel and Giovanna mansion where the college ladies are weekly prayer meetings. Best of all, you’ll and I manage a self- Restrepo, M.D. a part of that. supporting ministry Hartland College is training students presently living, thus “killing two birds get to be at Hartland for the upcoming in Venezuela called Las Delicias near very effectively. When they graduate they with one stone.”The project will run from Fall Convocation, October 17-19. Barquisimeto. I manage a city restaurant are well prepared to use and share God’s October 6 through about November 7, and medical clinic where we are very busy simple natural remedies. They gain a lot depending on progress. Breaking News… Just before consulting patients and teaching them of experience by working in Hartland The home-style buildings are press time, we received a most generous how to use God’s eight natural remedies. Wellness Center, going on mission trips designed to accommodate 20 students matching offer! A very special friend of The needs are so great, and the young and helping with many outreach min- each in ten ensuited rooms. The buildings Hartland has offered $100,000 toward the people that graduate from Hartland are istries. They are ready for action. will also include a small kitchen/dining $250,000 cost of these two dormitories if very well equipped to help us in this I’m glad Hartland asked me to help! area, a laundry and utility room, and a liv- we are able to raise another $75,000. If ing area for dorm worships and other work. So I see my volunteer work as an you can help with this matching offer, no investment in the future. By Giovanna Restrepo, M.D. group meetings. They will be wood frame construction on a concrete basement. matter how large or small your donation, Think of the camaraderie when pres- please mark your check “Ladies Dorm” ent truth-loving people get together to do in the memo, or contact Stewardship IMPORTANT NOTICE! an important project! You’ll get to work Ministries as soon as possible. side by side with other faithful souls who Thank you. Camp meeting is going to continue through want to see God’s work at Hartland go for- RD 5:30 P.M.on Sunday, August 3 . A Lesson from History ... continued from page 10 their faith. They had no peace of heart in enemies. It was his very friends that Please plan to stay for the special doing this, however, and both died in brought Bilney to [abjure his faith].” shame. Another reformer, Hugh Latimer, Which would you abjure? Your friends 20th Anniversary “Praise and Thankfulness who died in flames, once said, “I would or your faith? advise you, above all things, to abjure all All quotes from, D’Aubigne, J. H. Merle, History Commemoration Service.” your friends; leave not one unabjured. It is of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century,(London, they that shall undo you, and not your 1846, Oliver & Boyd), pp 791–793. 8 Hartland Ministry Report - June 2003 www.Hartland.edu - Phone (540) 672-3100 - Fax (540) 672-1992 - [email protected] 9 hmrjun03V9#3color 6/4/03 9:33 AM Page 10

A LESSON FROM HISTORY HARTLAND INSTITUTE Thomas and Thomas - Two Men, the Miracle: Hartland’s First Monks and Their “Friends” By Hal Mayer Mortgage Payment, 1983 By Hal Mayer uring the time of Henry VIII, artland began in July of 1983. told us that he had heard of the Reformation in England There was an $18,000 mortgage our need and was going to send $500 and D was well under way. Thomas H payment every three months. call a friend of his in Montana. We Bilney and Thomas Arthur were Imagine the trickle of income in the first thanked him profusely and then thanked friends and co-laborers in the cause three months of Hartland’s life. I was the the Lord. of truth. treasurer at that time. Each staff member I remember telling the Lord that we Bilney, a preacher, was naturally was receiving a stipend of $25 per month would need to move things along a little timid, but while other matters were and we had barely enough money to pay faster, because $500 a day wasn’t going to bestirring the English realm, Bilney the electric bills. With the first mortgage get us enough money in time for the pay- gathered courage and entered the payment looming in the not-to-distant ment due the following Monday. pulpit with energy “quite apostolic,” future, I was greatly concerned that we The next day we were praying for says D’Aubigne. “These five hundred Thomas Bilney in chains would not be able to make that payment. $5,000. During the morning we received years,” he said, “there hath been no good death, the preaching of the gospel there- Somehow I had squirreled away $12,000 another phone call from, you guessed it, pope ... for they have neither preached nor fore is to be forsaken. Every Christian towards it, but we still needed $6,000. an unknown friend in Montana. He told lived well,...whereunto this day, they man, yea every layman, is a priest. Let our I prayed my special prayer again us that something truly amazing had hap- have borne the keys of simony” (as adversaries preach by the authority of the (that’s the one for when I’m really getting pened to his family that morning. They opposed to the keys of the kingdom). Also cardinal; others by the authority of the anxious). “Lord, if You want to lose this had received a tax refund, but were unsure he said, “The Jews and the Saracens would university; others by the Pope’s; we will project on its first mortgage payment after what to do with it. They had dedicated it long ago have become believers, had it not preach by the authority of God. It is not You have taken us this far, that’s up to You. to the Lord that morning during family been for the idolatry of Christian men in the man that brings the word that saves If You want our reputations dragged worship and asked Him where to send it. offering candles, wax, and money to the soul, but the word which the man through the mud, and all the funds You No sooner had they gotten off their knees, stocks and stones.” brings. Neither bishops nor popes have have prompted people to give to Your he said, “and we had a call from Idaho These things angered the monks. But the right to forbid any man to preach the cause so far wasted, then that is up to You. telling us of your need.” He said the they could only resort to their Almanac in gospel, and if they kill him he is not a But if You want us to make that first amount was about $5,000, just the their vain attempt to convict the Bible of heretic but a martyr.” $18,000 payment on time, then You’ll have amount needed for the mortgage pay- error. Once a monk angrily retorted with, The priests were horrified by these to work a miracle.” ment! “If I did not know that the saints would doctrines. To them there was no God out- The payment was due on Monday, Needless to say, we again breathed a take everlasting vengeance upon you, I side of their church, no salvation outside October 3. On the previous Tuesday, while sigh of relief and thankfulness for the would surely with these nails of mine be of their sacrifices. Thomas Arthur was sitting in a planning meeting, we received goodness of God in your death.” thrown into the same prison as Bilney. a phone call. Dr. Standish was asked how sustaining Hartland’s Eventually, Bilney was thrown in These noble words apply today. But things were going. He explained that fledgling work, des- prison, but his friend, Thomas Arthur, some are nearly as horrified by them as everything was fine, except that we had tined to become a continued working with his converts in the monks were. been praying for $6,000 to make the mort- world-wide ministry. their homes. “Good people,” said he, “if I The rest of the story: Sadly, both gage payment. The gentleman from should suffer persecution for the preach- Bilney and Arthur, under pressure from Virginia said, “OK, I’ll send you $500 and ing of the gospel, there are seven thousand both “friends” and enemies, thought it call of friend of mine in Idaho.” Hal Mayer more that would preach it as I do now. wiser to save their lives in order to “serve On Wednesday, we were praying for is the Director of Therefore, good people, think not that if the Lord” longer, and abjured (denied) $5,500. Shortly after we had finished our Stewardship Ministries these tyrants and persecutors put a man to ... continued on page 9 prayer there was another phone call. This time it was from Idaho. The gentleman If you would like a copy of D’Aubigne’s important work, History of the Reformation in the Time of Calvin, or a copy of J. A. Wylie’s History of Protestantism, please contact Hartland For a complete history of Hartland, please order the book, The Vision and Publications. Both wonderful books have just been reprinted. 1-800-774-3566 God’s Providences, by Colin Standish from Hartland Publications.

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HARTLAND WELLNESS CENTER HARTLAND STEWARDSHIP MINISTRIES Miracle in Toronto The Spirit of Giving By Maria Gligor By Hal Mayer fter graduating from Hartland I had applied for a three-year religious iving is the spirit of heaven. you” (Luke 6:38) because He knew how College, I was needed to work at visa, but it was hard for him to understand Heaven was emptied for us that