Lay Preachers on the March in SOUTH BRAZIL

July 14. 1960

GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

Lay Preachers on the March IN SOUTH BRAZIL

By R. E. ADAMS, Departmental Secretary, South Brazil Union

HE success of any large project above all, much prayer it was felt we Tdepends to a great extent on care- were ready to launch the greatest sin- ful preparation and planning. Believ- gle missionary effort in the history of ing this, the South Brazil Union has the South Brazil Union. been preparing more than 1,500 lay April 2, 1960 was chosen as the preachers so that on a single night great night. Six months ahead of this 1,500 new lay efforts could be started date plans were laid, the fields were throughout the three conferences and alerted, and the churches received three missions of this union field. their instructions. Goals were sent During the past 18 months more out from the union office. Each field I than 1,500 faithful members have divided its goal among the districts, been graduated from the classes of and each pastor divided his goal "120" of Today throughout the union. among the churches and groups in the From Goias on the north to Rio district. Not one church was left out Grande do Sul on the south, from our of the plan. Not one lay preacher was little churches in the interior to our to be idle. big metropolitan centers, every church More than 200 new projectors with has caught the thrill of having a part 200 new sets of film were imported in preparing a people for the finishing into our union and sent out into the of the work here in Brazil. field before the date for our united After 18 months of promotion, let- evangelistic drive. With the 300 pro- ters, bulletins, personal contacts, and (Continued on page 24)

Groups recently commissioned as members of the "120" in south Brazil. Top to bottom: Laymen from Villa Matilde, Rolandia, and Barreiro D'Oeste. Right: Evangelism being conducted on the main city square of Sao Paulo by lay preachers of the Central church. More than 35 have been baptized in the past three years, and about 60 others are studying for baptism.

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f4..04, 9 4 4 [These news items are taken from Religious News Service, Ecumenical News Service, and other sources. We do not necessarily concur in statements made in these items. We publish them simply to give our readers a picture of current COVER - - - Lay Preachers on the March in South Brazil religious developments.] EDITORIALS Page 3 Critics and the Sacred Tithe—The High Price of Vatican Paper Editorial Comments on Ordination of Criticism—"Be Sure Your Sin . . . " Women GENERAL ARTICLES ------ Page 5 t Osservatore Della Domenica, Vatican weekly newspaper, Beware of Loneliness—The Kingdom of Grace—The commenting on the recent ordination of three women by the Art of Living With Others—The Christian's Greatest State Lutheran Church in Sweden, said Catholics "can never Peril—Full of Years approve of what had been done . . . and still less imitate it." TO YOUR HEALTH Page 11 The paper declared that women would never be able to receive What Makes My Back Ache, Doctor? sacred ordination in the Catholic Church. OUR HOMES Page 12 "I Ought to Tell Her"—Youth Jesus Loved Doctor Ida Scudder Dies in India FOR ADVENTIST YOUTH Page 14 Po Business in Vellore, India, halted for a day as residents, You Have a Responsibility—Youth in the News— government officials, and foreign diplomats paid their final Adam to Atom, Part 2 respects to "Doctor Ida," a missionary of the Reformed Church FEATURE ARTICLE OF THE WEEK - Page 16 in America, who had given more than half a century of devoted Festival of the Holy Scriptures service to the people of India. Many of those present as 90-year- old Dr. Ida Sophia Scudder, founder and president emeritus of NEWS FROM HOME AND ABROAD Page 18 famed Vellore Christian Medical College and Hospital, was Forward at Tekerani Mission, Nyasaland—A New laid to rest owed their lives to the kindly gray-haired woman. Church Organized and Dedicated in Southern Japan— In the short space of 60 years she had given this area an 800-bed Oshawa Churches Contribute to Hospital—Series on Nutrition Held at Walla Walla—Held by Insurgents modern hospital, a medical college, and a nursing school. in Burma—Church Organized in Connecticut—Hos- As the hearse carrying "Doctor Ida" to her final resting pital Day at Orlando, Florida—Business Enterprises place passed through the city, hundreds of grateful mourners Help the Cause—Fifty-five Years of Service—Inca shared the sentiment that the missionary had expressed on Union Junior College—West Indies College Week of her Golden Jubilee in 1950—"If only this was my thirtieth in- Devotion—Spreading the Gospel in Viet Nam— stead of my eightieth year." Central American Union Workers' Meeting—Manila Evangelistic Center—Jurist Invalidates Pennsylvania Blue Law—Church Dedication at Bay Roberts, New- More Religious Teaching in Australian Schools Urged foundland—Winter Meetings in North Pacific—Our Work in Turkey—From Home Base to Front Line— frt Speaking in Sydney, Australia, Archbishop Hugh R. Gough, In Brief—Look to the Hills—Church Calendar for Anglican Primate of Australia, urged the state government to 1960—Sabbath School Activities introduce general religious teaching into the curriculum of SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON HELP Page 28 high schools. He told about 500 lay religious instruction teach- The Holy Name (Lesson for Sabbath, July 30) ers, gathered to mark the 80th anniversary of the Public In- struction Act of 1880, that the measure was not being carried POETRY • out today, although it is still in force as law. "If it was impor- Wake Up, p. 5; Transition, p. 6; Sing Unto the Lord! tant 80 years ago that the teaching of our state schools be based p. 7; I Will Not Doubt, p. 8; He, Too, Was Young, on Christianity, how much more important is it today?" he p. 14 asked. TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS Lutheran Leader Urges Return to Sunday Evening As the chronicler of the history of the church the REVIEW is always interested in prompt reports with pictures of important happenings—church dedications, Services camp meetings, evangelistic meetings, and other newsworthy events. An out-of- date report is not news, and is not acceptable. Also, the REVIEW is interested v Dr. John M. Stensvaag of Minneapolis, Minnesota, presi- in articles. Copies of manuscripts sent to other journals cannot be used. Lay dent of the Lutheran Free Church, called for a return to members should identify themselves by giving the name of the church they at- tend and the name of their pastor or local elder. 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