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THE JOURNAL of April/May 2015 Website: http://jae.adventist.org THE JOURNAL OF April/May 2015 SPECIAL GENERAL CONFERENCE EDITION The Journal of CONTENTS ADVENTIST EDUCATION EDITOR Faith-Ann McGarrell APRIL/MAY 2015 • VOLUME 77, NO. 4 EDITOR EMERITUS Beverly J. Robinson-Rumble 3 Editorial: A Heart for Mission in a World of Learning ASSOCIATE EDITOR (INTERNATIONAL EDITION) by Lisa M. Beardsley-Hardy Luis A. Schulz SENIOR CONSULTANTS 4 The Aims of Adventist Education: A Historical Perspective John Wesley Taylor V, By George R. Knight Lisa M. Beardsley-Hardy, Benjamin Schoun, Ella Smith Simmons CONSULTANTS Adventist educAtion 2010-2015: division RepoRts GENERAL CONFERENCE Mike Mile Lekic, Hudson E. Kibuuka, Luis A. Schulz EAST-CENTRAL AFRICA 8 East-Central Africa Division 40 Southern Asia Division (SUD) Andrew Mutero (ECD) Directing Students to the EURO-ASIA Growth and New Opportunities Creator Vladimir Tkachuk By Andrew Mutero By Gollakoti Nageshwar Rao INTER-AMERICA Gamaliel Flórez 12 Euro-Asia Division (ESD) 44 Southern Asia-Pacific Division INTER-EUROPEAN Leading Students to Christ (SSD) Barna Magyarosi NORTH AMERICA Through True Education Great Challenges, Even Greater Larry Blackmer By Vladimir Tkachuk Opportunities NORTHERN ASIA-PACIFIC By Lawrence L. Domingo and Chek Yat Phoon 16 Inter-American Division (IAD) Canadian Z. Panjaitan SOUTH AMERICA Educating Citizens for God’s Edgard Luz Kingdom 48 South Pacific Division (SPD) SOUTH PACIFIC By Gamaliel Florez Steady Growth and Improvement Ken Weslake SOUTHERN AFRICA-INDIAN OCEAN By Ken Weslake 20 Inter-European Division (EUD) Ellah Kamwendo SOUTHERN ASIA Keeping the Flame Ablaze 52 Trans-European Division (TED) Nageshwara Rao By Barna Magyarosi Encouraging News From Difficult SOUTHERN ASIA-PACIFIC Places Lawrence L. Domingo 24 North American Division (NAD) By Daniel Duda TRANS-EUROPEAN Education Report Card Daniel Duda By Larry Blackmer, Carol 56 West-Central Africa Division WEST-CENTRAL AFRICA Campbell, Arne Nielsen, and (WAD) Chiemela Ikonne COPY EDITOR Davenia Lea Wholistic Quality in Values- Randy Hall based Education ART DIRECTION/GRAPHIC DESIGN 28 Northern Asia-Pacific Division By Chiemela Ikonne Harry Knox (NSD) ADVISORY BOARD John Wesley Taylor V, Chair; Jeanette Bryson, Lisa M. Beardsley- “Mission First”: Our Reason for Attached Union Report Hardy, Larry Blackmer, Erline Burgess, Hamlet Canosa, Keith Being Hallam, Hudson E. Kibuuka, Linda Mei Lin Koh, Mike Mile Lekic, 60 Middle East and North Africa Michael Ryan, Luis A. Schulz, Carole Smith, Tim Soper, Evelyn M. By Chek Yat Phoon Sullivan, Charles H. Tidwell Jr., David Trim Union Mission (MENA) 32 South American Division (SAD) “Immense Investment”— Nurturing Hope for a New Eternal Results Generation By Donovan Cleary THE JOURNAL OF ADVENTIST EDUCATION publishes ar- By Edgard Luz ticles concerned with a variety of topics pertinent to Ad- 63 World Education Statistical ventist education. Opinions expressed by our writers do not necessarily represent the views of the staff or the offi- 36 Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Chart 2014 cial position of the Department of Education of the General Division (SID) Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. THE JOURNAL OF ADVENTIST EDUCATION (ISSN 0021- Adventist Education: An Inspir- 8480) is published bimonthly, October through May, plus a ing Journey single summer issue for June, July, August, and September by the Department of Education, General Conference of Sev- By Ellah Kamwendo enth-day Adventists, 12501 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, MD 20904-6600, U.S.A. TELEPHONE: (301) 680-5071; FAX: (301) 622-9627; E-mail: mcgarrellf@ gc.ad ventist.org. Yearly subscription price: U.S.$18.25. Add $3.00 for postage out- Photo and art credits: Cover and article motif design, Harry side the U.S. Single copy: U.S.$3.75. Periodical postage paid Knox; Candle photo used in motif, Thinkstock; p. 25, Guild- at Silver Spring, Maryland, and additional mailing office. house Group and Journey Films: p. 26, Dan Weber, NAD Com- Please send all changes of address to 3200 West Fourth munication Department. All other photos courtesy of the re- Street, Buchanan, MI 49107, U.S.A., including both old and spective divisions and institutions. new address. Address all editorial and advertising correspon- dence to the Editor. Copyright 2015 General Conference of SDA. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to THE JOUR- The Journal of Adventist Education®, Adventist®, and Seventh-day Adventist® are the registered trademarks of the General NAL OF ADVENTIST EDUCATION, 3200 West Fourth Street, Conference Corporation of Seventh-day Adventists®. Buchanan, MI 49107, U.S.A. 2 The Journal of Adventist Education • April/May 2015 http://jae.adventist.org EDITORIAL Lisa M. Beardsley-Hardy A Heart for ive years ago, the General It draws on the expertise of hundreds Conference (GC) Department of educators who share a passion for of Education set four goals to Mission the mission of Adventist education. F accomplish during the 2010- The GC Department of Education 2015 quinquennium. These were: (1) also operates the IBE and IBMTE to to strengthen Adventist mission and in a World of foster the success of new institutions identity, (2) to strengthen leadership of higher learning and new pro- and boards, (3) to expand the capac- Learning grams. Teacher conferences through- ity of teachers to achieve the redemp- out the world divisions and two pub- tive purposes of Adventist education, and (4) to disciple lications—THE JOURNAL OF ADVENTIST EDUCATION (JAE) and nurture Seventh-day Adventist students in non-Ad- and Dialogue—have helped facilitate a strong Adventist ventist colleges and universities. identity and mission. This issue of the JOURNAL shares the During the quinquennium, divisions, unions, confer- reports on the progress of Adventist education during the ences, and schools worked together to achieve these goals past five years from the 13 divisions and one attached with support from the Accrediting Association of Sev- union. enth-day Adventist Schools, Colleges, and Universities Between December 31, 2009, and the end of 2014, the (AAA), the International Board of Education (IBE), and total number of Adventist schools has increased by 25 the International Board of Ministerial and Theological percent, with 96,388 teachers now educating 1,942,828 Education (IBMTE). The AAA surveys academic stan- students in 7,946 schools. Primary enrollment has re- dards and other quality-assurance measures and func- mained constant, tertiary enrollment has increased 11 tions as the denominational accrediting agency of Sev- percent, and secondary enrollment has increased 27 per- enth-day Adventist educational institutions at all levels. cent.1 During this same period of time, the number of medical schools in the Advent - ist system worldwide has dou- bled from three to six. The Adventist Church’s com mitment to establishing and maintaining Adventist schools remains strong. Some regions, such as the East-Cen- tral Africa Division (ECD), have carried on the work of education in the face of major challenges such as rebel activ- ities (Congo), civil war (South Sudan), and terrorism inci- dents (Kenya). Nevertheless, according to Andrew Mutero, ECD education director, the sense of mission and commit- General Conference Department of Education Office Staff: Back row, left to right: Chandra ment among teachers has re- Goff (JAE Administrative Assistant), Susana Schulz (Dialogue Managing Editor), Faith-Ann mained undiminished. McGarrell (JAE Editor), Esther Rodriguez (Administrative Assistant), Beverly Robinson-Rumble (JAE Editor Emeritus). Front row, left to right: John Wesley Taylor V (Associate Director), Luis Other regions have had to Schulz (Associate Director), Lisa Beardsley-Hardy (Director), Hudson Kibuuka (Associate Di- work amid severe military rector), Mike Lekic (Associate Director). Not shown: Linda Torske (Administrative Assistant). crises. For example, Vladimir Continued on page 62 http://jae.adventist.org The Journal of Adventist Education • April/May 2015 3 Why operate Adventist schools? weapons for the advancement of the cause.”4 That is a good question, but one that was seen as irreverent Unquestionably, the denomination’s early leadership in- and irrelevant by the earliest Adventists. After all, wasn’t Jesus tended that the Battle Creek School would train people to going to come soon? And if so, why educate Adventist children preach the gospel. Ellen White agreed with this aim. “We need for a world that would end before they grew up? In fact, didn’t a school,” she wrote in “Proper Education” (1872), “where those sending children to school indicate a lack of faith in Christ’s who are just entering the ministry may be taught at least the soon coming? common branches of education, and where they may also learn This mentality led W. H. Ball in 1862 to ask if it was “right and more perfectly the truths of God’s word for this time.”5 consistent for us who believe with all our hearts in the immediate But Mrs. White’s vision for the goals of Adventist education coming of the Lord, to seek to give our children an education?”1 was broader than that of other church leaders. Thus, in her 1872 Note that this question was being asked 18 years after the Mil- article, she also dealt with the importance of education, the dis- lerite disappointment. The anti-education “bug” had firmly im- tinction between education and training, discipline as self-con- planted itself in the Adventist mentality. trol, the need for a prac tical/useful education, and the impor- James White’s reply is of interest, since he argued that “the fact tance of balancing the mental and spiritual aspects of education that Christ is very soon coming is no reason why the mind should with the physical.6 In short, while she agreed with the worker- not be improved. A well-disciplined training goals of the church leaders, and informed mind can best receive she also introduced themes that fore- and cherish the sublime truths of the shadowed a much broader education. Second Advent.”2 His wife, Ellen G.
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