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N FOR SEVEN L Beve BY PAT ANDREWS Many are the songs Christmas sings. Many are the rituals to which we cling. Whatever gift the season may bring, let it be love more than any thing!

GREETING FROM T STAFF, 2 THE FOUR C's OF CHRISTMAS, 8 Left to right: Roy Adams, Jackie (Ordelheide) Smith, Myron Widmer, William Johnsson, Carlos Medley, Kit Watts, Eugene Durand, Chitra Barnabas

At this season of hope, may you find joy in the birth of Jesus, God's Son, and in the promise of His soon return. We, the staff of the Adventist Review, wish you happiness and the assurance of salvation. We thank you for your interest and support, your letters and articles, your prayers and thoughtfulness. We also thank our columnists—Miriam Wood, Calvin B. Rock, and Gary M. Ross—for their ministry. Among the many beautiful things that came our way in 1991 was this letter from William L. Adams, of Beavercreek, Oregon: "Recently an academy senior came up to me and asked, 'Mr. Adams, would you help me with a problem?' He told me that his mother had had an outstanding academy bill from more than 20 years before. She married and had children, then the family sacrificed for their own children to have a Christian education. So she was never able to pay off the old debt of about $600. "The young man asked me, 'Would you help me raise the money so I can secure the diploma for my mom this Christmas?' I was taken back by surprise, but agreed to help him. I phoned the educational office of the conference and also sent a letter to the conference treasurer, asking for his assistance. "All parties involved were amazed at the young man's concern for his mother. People began to donate items to sell in order to help him. He also sold materials to raise money. Soon he had several hundred dollars in his savings account. "The conference and the academy agreed to a 50 percent settlement. In less than eight weeks the student had raised the needed funds and received a letter from the conference treasurer giving him the decision of the committee and complimenting him on his love for his mother. "I took the $300 to the conference office and received the diploma. When I gave it to the young man a few days later, he said with tears, 'What a grand Christmas this will be for Mom!' "

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6 Newsbreak 11 Children's Corner 8 The Greatest Gift of All The cause, the cost, the condition, and the consequences of 14 Ross Report Christmas may be found when we look beyond the wrappings. 20 World Report by Gayland Richardson 22 Bulletin Board COVER STORY 23 Reflections 8 To see beyond 12 Mother and Child the wrappings A Christian teacher tries to reach a child barricaded behind a EDITORIALS wall of isolation. by Patricia Habada 4 On Becoming Distinct TURNING POINT 5 Witness 15 Beyond Perfect Pitch The position as a violinist with a symphony orchestra was not enough to satisfy his spiritual hunger. NEXT WEEK by Gary McLeer and Lilya Wagner "Hold Fast Till I Come" Precisely what STORY 16 Against great did Jesus mean we How No Years Became Fifteen odds in Burma should hold on to? 16 A former missionary to Burma recalls how God overruled "Adventists and Cul- some well-meaning counsel, his wife's illness, and the threat ture" Christians can- of an early return. by William L. Murrill not accommodate cul- tural patterns that conflict with heaven.

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ADVENTIST REVIEW, DECEMBER 19, 1991 (1339) 3 EDITORIAL North America: On Becoming Distinct ithout much fanfare, a milestone given to the other world divisions. While all tithe and offerings from Win Adventism will quietly occur In a conversation with A. C. McClure, NAD churches will still bypass the di- January 1, 1992. It is the attainment of president of the North American Divi- vision and flow to the GC, the GC will full and distinct division status for the sion, I asked what he believes the new begin returning a percentage of the NAD nearly 780,000-member North Ameri- status will mean for North America. Af- tithe and offerings to fund the division. can Division. ter a moment for reflection, he said it "At least we will know what our income The milestone probably means little would clearly provide "more identity is," commented President McClure, for most members, but among church and self-determination." "and we will have the ability to deter- leaders and those who watch emerging And he suggested a reason for the mine its utilization. That will be a sig- trends in church leadership it is a signif- change: "There has been a growing rec- nificant step in providing self- icant, even historic, change in how the ognition over the past five or six years determination. " Adventist Church conducts its ministry that the General Conference, with the Another significant step would be to for a growing, worldwide congregation. responsibility of overseeing a rapidly change the flow of funds. Elder McClure To help us understand the change, we growing church worldwide, needs to re- says the division's leaders are now be- need to review the past. Ever since 1913, late to all of its divisions in a rather even- ginning to "explore the flow of dollars" when the first North American Division handed manner. Therefore, it needs to be through the system, believing that "the (NAD) emerged, the General Confer- less identified with the North American time has probably come that all tithe and ence (GC) has taken a primary lead in Division." offerings should flow first to the divi- directing the work in North America. "We're not saying to the General sion, with the proper percentage then Why? Probably because of two rea- Conference that it must stay out of North sent on to the GC—the procedure fol- sons: proximity and money. North America," continued President Mc- lowed by the other 10 divisions." America has always been home to the Clure, "for we are an integral part of it. Elder McClure is quick to reaffirm, GC headquarters, and through the years We're saying that we appreciate the op- though, that whatever changes might be it has been the source of financial portunity for more self-determination, made, "the North American Division strength for the church's worldwide ex- and that we are willing to accept the has no intention of changing its financial pansion. responsibility that comes with it." support of the world field." The GC's direct involvement in North American work has continued through On the Practical Side Leadership Issues the years, despite the creation of 10 other The change to full and distinct division But beyond the in-house administrative world divisions of the GC, with virtual status (voted officially at the 1990 GC ses- kinds of changes, North America now autonomy given to them to direct the sion) means much on the practical side of faces, as Elder McClure aptly put it, the church's work in their respective terri- administration, including titling. The di- responsibility of "more self- tories. I say virtual autonomy because vision president is now the president, not determination. " And all eyes will be upon the divisions are not independent enti- simply the vice president for North Amer- the division, for North America now faces ties, but comprise the geographical di- ica. All other NAD leaders serve as direc- some incredible challenges to ministry. It visions of the GC, and each division acts tors or associates of their own division de- now falls upon the North American Divi- in behalf of the GC in its assigned ter- partments (no longer as simply associates sion leadership to take the clear lead. ritory. Consequently, division presidents in GC departments), which allows them to And in Elder McClure's keynote ad- carry the dual title of both president of create their own departmental plans. Di- dress for the NAD year-end meetings No- the division and vice president of the vision employees are now located on the vember 3-6 (see "Dreams of What Can General Conference. second floor of the GC building instead of Be," Adventist Review, Nov. 7), we being scattered throughout the offices in might have seen a preview of the strong, New Meaning Given the various GC departments. The division forward-thinking leadership role that So what does the new status mean for now has its own administrative committee, North American Division leaders will North America? It means that North and as of January 1 the division will begin take, and will be needed, in the days America will now have the right to the its own budget, separate from that of the ahead. same sense of administrative autonomy General Conference. MYRON WIDMER

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Witness

I n December's early darkness some- see fulfilled—we who look for the Sec- Immanuel —God's present in our pres- thing appears in the windows of homes ond Advent. Remembering Jesus: Child ence, bone of our bone and flesh of our in my neighborhood that lights the sea- of God, born of woman, Gift and Giver flesh, divine love personalized and son and speaks of faith. wrapped in one. Remembering how we hand-delivered into our midst. And this Candles appear on eight-branched as Christians, in important ways, may reality stirs our hearts with a blessed candlesticks, added one by one each stand apart from others at this season of hope: we look for the Advent to end all evening through the week. I sometimes the year. advents! see them being lit by attentive children This day and its trappings, this feast whose silent figures move along the row and its trimmings—these are neither a Very Good of tapers inside their picture windows. matter of conscience nor command- Some of our witness may be words of From the street I see and do not hear, but ment, although they may make a state- kindness and deeds of goodness, gifts of as the flames shimmer in these children's love and songs of hope, and high ideals eyes I know something of what is in their lived out in thought and action. But our hearts. In the Orient I have seen witness may also be rightly evident as we It is Hanukkah, and they are remem- share the great joy of this season. As bering. Remembering a miracle of long Ellen White wrote in December 1884, ago.' Remembering after all these mil- Christmas without Christ. Christmas "can be made to serve a very lennia who they are and what they stand good purpose." 2 for. Remembering a promise they long to Having once lived in Japan and Sin- see fulfilled. Remembering how, in im- It is an ad theme to gapore, I know what a Christmas without portant ways at this season of the year, Christ looks like. It is an ad theme to they remain apart from others of us who stimulate the market; it is showy mer- live nearby. stimulate the market, a chandise in department stores; it is a hol- On December 25 their windows will iday without a soul. Buddhists, Shin- be dark. Mine and others will be full of toists, Hindus, businessmen, atheists, light. Family and friends will be within. holiday without a soul. secularists—all these buy and sell such a In the fireplace embers will glow. A pine Christmas on the Ginza or in Change will exude its pungent fragrance, and Alley. tiny bulbs will dapple the walls with Yet, I believe, Christmas is a day in color. Carols will linger on the stereo. ment of faith even to strangers looking many corners of the world when the gos- The table will boast apples and oranges, on. pel story can be told, and when it may be nuts and peppermints. So it was with Daniel. No command- really listened to. Many would stand for ment caused him to pray three times a a moment—as I do in my neighborhood Remembering day where everyone could see rather than on the December evenings of We:11 reread the gospel story that in a closet, as Jesus would later recom- Hanukkah—to look in the window, to weaves together a cast of unlikely mend. But those who knew Daniel and watch, and to wonder. players—a teenage girl and a carpenter, those who passed by came to count on his shepherds and an innkeeper, philoso- witness in the window. In 165 B.C. Jews led by Judas Maccabeus defeated the Syrian tyrant Antiochus IV. When they cleared the Temple phers and angels, a mother and child. In today's world we also need to give of idols they found only a one-day supply of oil to light the Before bedtime I'll walk under the stars, witness to One who is the source of our holy lamps. Miraculously, it lasted eight days until clean oil could be obtained. drinking in some of the sky's eternal im- identity and the foundation of our faith. 2 The Adventist Home, p. 478. perturbable stillness. This One chose to come to us not as a It will be Christmas—and I'll be re- preacher but as a babe; chose to arrive membering. Remembering a miracle of not at the center of religious activity but long ago. Remembering after all these in a manger at the outskirts of human- millennia who we are and what we stand ity. for. Remembering a promise we long to It is our privilege to give witness to KIT WATTS

ADVENTIST REVIEW, DECEMBER 19, 1991 (1341) 5 NEWSBREAK

South Atlantic Hosts Women's Retreat

ore than 2,000 individuals converged on Hilton Head Island, Southern Union president Malcolm Gordon and Hazel, his M South Carolina, November 15-17, for the largest Adventist wife, congratulated the South Atlantic Conference Women's Com- women's spiritual retreat ever held in the North American Divi- mission for organizing a model retreat. Evelyn VandeVere, Eliza- beth Sterndale and Ramona Perez Greek, and Rose Otis, women's ministries directors for the Southern Union, North American Division, and General Conference, respectively, also greeted the conferees. 10 Seminars Offered In addition to a full slate of meetings, musical events, and a formal banquet, the retreat provided 10 seminars on topics ranging from "Women and Their Careers" and "Women and Their Men" to "Women and Their Finances" and "Women and Left: Hyveth Williams; right: South Atlantic incoming women's commission director Carolyn T. Their Images." Hinson (left), union director Evelyn VandeVere (center). and Deborah Harris A unique feature of the retreat was a separate sion. The attendance doubled the 1,050 at the South Atlantic Con- but simultaneous track of activities for young women, ages 5 to ference's first biennial retreat, in 1989. 17. Two hundred fifty registered for these religious, educational, Dr. Deborah Harris, women's commissioner for the conference, and recreational events. organized this year's retreat, which attracted women from 21 states. Prior to the retreat, approximately 100 elected coordinators for The retreat's theme, "Lifting as We Climb," encouraged attend- women's ministries in the South Atlantic Conference's local ees to seek their own spiritual renewal and to reach out to others. churches spent two days in lead- Among the guest speakers were Hyveth Williams, pastor of the Bos- ership training. They learned how ton Temple SDA Church; David R. Williams, an Adventist professor to start a women's ministries pro- of sociology and public health at Yale University; Jacqueline Jack- gram, work with the pastor, re- son, wife of Jesse Jackson; and Patricia Russell-McCloud, an attor- solve conflict, and write grants. ney and Christian motivational speaker. Brenda Woods, TV anchor- This fall's topics built upon those woman for Eyewitness News in Atlanta since 1988, was mistress of covered at the first leadership ceremonies for the Saturday night banquet. institute, held in January. A In her address at the banquet, Mrs. Jackson declared, "As $15,000 grant from Eli Lilly and women, our time has come. We must feel good about ourselves, Company funded the training pro- for we will be the force that sustains the world in the crises grams. ahead." She said that by the year 2000 the work force in America The weekend retreat was dedi- is expected to be 70 percent women. Jackson also called women cated to Dr. Rosa Banks, who to prayer. "To stand, we must first go down on our knees. Let us organized the first retreat for Ad- Workshop speaker Jo Thomas take our men and our children to church." ventist Black women in the Southern Union in 1988. Banks now directs the NAD Office of By Kit Watts, assistant editor Adventist Review. Human Relations and is assistant secretary of the NAD.

WORLD CHURCH dented evangelistic goals— Weisheim reported extensive have been organized. including 33 new congregations growth throughout the confer- "The greatest challenge now Upper Magdalena Sets High in Bogota, Colombia's capital. ence. Since July 1990, when is to build churches to house the Evangelistic Goals. The Upper At the recent triennial confer- the Global Mission thrust be- thousands of new members," Magdalena Conference, with ence session, Arturo Weisheim, gan, the conference has orga- Weisheim says. Twenty-three headquarters in Bogota, Colom- conference president, reported nized 27 churches and entered church buildings are now under bia, has challenged its pastors that there are 67 congregations 71 new areas. And in the past construction, each with seating and members to reach unprece- currently in the capital. three years, 40 new churches capacities of 400 to 700.

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Clinic Director Shot in leaders, the Episcopal Synod Ethiopia. The director at the U.S. Presidential Adviser Visits LLUMC of America on November 8 clinic located at Ethiopian Ad- declared the establishment of a ventist College in Kuyera, Dr. Allan Bromley (left), director of the Office of separate national diocese led Shoa Region, was killed when Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office by traditional bishops. assailants' bullets shot out his of the U.S. President, was among the special guests The announcement came car windows and struck him on attending a dinner and breakfast convocation at Loma after a daylong meeting called November 8. Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) on Novem- to fashion an action plan for According to Maurice Battle, ber 17-18. traditionalists who contend that an associate secretary of the Gen- The two events com- some practices sanctioned by eral Conference, nurse Artemio memorated the first anni- the 2.4 million-member de- Gorospe's housekeeper was also versary of the LLUMC's nomination are contrary to killed. Gorospe's wife, Rupelin, Proton Cancer Treatment teachings of the Bible. Tradi- and his three children were un- Center. The $45 million tionalists cite ordination of harmed. center holds the world's women as one example, in- Gorospe, a missionary from first hospital-based proton creasing tolerance of homosex- the Philippines, had recently beam therapy system de- uals as another, says Religious transferred to the "safer" Kuyera signed and built for clini- News Service. location from the Sakie Clinic cal use. (20 miles away), where he had The evening banquet was held in honor of California Con- American Religion Changes served since 1983 as director. gressman Jerry Lewis (right), who has contributed to as Outsiders Move In. Undaunted, Mrs. Gorospe, many projects at Loma Linda. Through his efforts, American religion is in a state also a nurse, wants to return to LLUMC secured $19.6 million in government funding for of flux much like corporations Ethiopia after her husband's the project. LLUMC named an entire floor in the center in a deregulated economy. burial in the Philippines to after Lewis. That scenario was illustrated in continue her husband's work. Bromley delivered a speech on the future of Ameri- dozens of scholarly papers pre- The Eastern Africa Division can technology at the breakfast convocation. sented by experts attending a has granted her request. meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Church Helps Typhoon and the Religious Research Victims in Philippines. The C-130 planeload of used cloth- training opportunity for confer- Association. Central Philippine Union and the ing and distributed 2,500 emer- ence and union family minis- The conference theme was Adventist Development and Re- gency shelters. About $17,000 tries directors as well as for "Religious Marginality"—the lief Agency International are giv- in food was distributed to Adventist family professionals, growing respectability and ing emergency help to victims of 7,650 families. Medical teams according to Ron and Karen power of religious groups at the the typhoon that struck the Phil- from two area Adventist hospi- Flowers, associate directors of edge. The scholars cited many ippines on November 5, accord- tals have treated 3,000 patients the General Conference Church fringe groups (for example, ing to John Sipkens, ADRA's for illnesses caused by flooding Ministries Department. Muslims, feminists, and New director in the Far East. and exposure. Agers), who are vying for Flash floods and mud slides ALSO IN THE NEWS power in America. These groups caused by the tropical storm First European Conference are tightening their structures lashed the central Philippines, on Family Held. More than Dissident Episcopalians and beliefs while many mainline killing an estimated 7,000 peo- 100 delegates from 15 Euro- Establish New Diocese. In a Protestants and Catholics are ple and destroying tens of pean countries gathered at move that may signal schism loosening theirs, reports Reli- thousands of homes. Sipkens Newbold College in England to to United States Episcopal gious News Service. reports that at least 27 Advent- attend the first European Con- ists, including two complete ference on the Family, spon- CHURCH CALENDAR families, were killed or miss- sored by the Trans-European ing from the 400-member Or- and Euro-Africa divisions. Dec. 21 World Stewardship Day moc church. The church build- The conference featured Dec. 28 Thirteenth Sabbath Offering for the ing was not damaged. workshops and discussions on Eastern Africa Division ADRA and the Central Phil- a broad range of family life Jan. 4 Soul-winning Commitment ippine Union have airlifted a issues and offered a major Jan. 11 Inner City Offering

ADVENTIST REVIEW, DECEMBER 19, 1991 (1343) 7 DEVOTIONAL The Greatest Gift

t was a beautiful present. The bright the concepts might sound to mainstream green foil paper reflected the spar- of religion, there was a scriptural basis for kling lights and refracted them into those teachings. 1a multitude of rainbows. The red So after much contemplation, Nico- ribbon with the fluffy bow seemed to demus decided to visit the young Rabbi serve as a crown for the package. But as and ask some questions about His views I admired the symmetry and colors, it of the nature of God and the predica- occurred to me that I was looking at the 1 ment of the human race. It was a clan- packaging and not at the present itself. destine meeting in a secluded spot, but As I looked around the store I began to from that secret rendezvous came the notice that the cellophane and the boxes We must look beyond most profound explanation of God's probably cost as much as some of the saving grace mankind has ever heard. In toys they contained. And the packaging the wrappings to find it. the record of that meeting the focus is served one purpose: to draw attention to not on the packaging, but on the Gift. the contents and to heighten the antici- The wrapping is disregarded, and the pation. Present is seen. Salvation is shown. Re- BY GAYLAND RICHARDSON Perhaps that was what God was doing demption is revealed. Deliverance is on that first Christmas when He "gift- displayed. Hope is heralded. And wrapped" His Present. God's Gift is glorified. Look at the story. It's easy to focus Recall those famous words: "For on the wrappings—the Wise Men and Gift itself, however, is found in the Gos- God so loved the world, that he gave his camels, the sheep and shepherds, the pel of John, chapter 3. only begotten Son, that whosoever be- cows, the donkeys, the hay. Of course, The setting is approximately 31 years lieveth in him should not perish, but there's the star and Mary and Joseph. after the birth of Jesus, and we find a have everlasting life" (John 3:16). In We picture angels singing, cattle low- man, Nicodemus by name, wondering this one verse we have a description of ing, people worshiping. Our imagina- about the Gift. Being a bit of a scholar, the greatest Gift of all. We see the cause tion filters those barnyard smells into a and something of a religious gourmet, of it, the cost of it, the condition and pine-scented fragrance. The rough tex- Nicodemus had done more than a small consequence of it—the four "C's" of ture of the swaddling clothes becomes bit of thinking about the relationship of Christmas, we may say. Let's discuss a hand-knitted afghan, and somehow God and man. He thought of God as a these briefly. all other celestial bodies fade into an vindictive, condemning, superstern indigo sky lighted by a lone, brilliant grandfather carrying the all-time big 1. The Cause star. stick and possessing an eagerness to use The real cause of Christmas is not But all of these things are really it. some neurosis growing out of a Freudian just the packaging for the true Gift— But he had heard some strange new need of mankind. The cause of Christ- just the paper and the ribbon. ideas being taught by an obscure, uncre- mas sprang from the heart and mind of The story describing the wrappings is dentialed, unlicensed Teacher. They God long before history began. "For found in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, were really radical ideas, but for Nico- and Luke. The best description of the demus they also answered some very big questions about the nature of God, and his knowledge of Scripture forced him to recognize that no matter how unorthodox

8 (1344) ADVENTIST REVIEW, DECEMBER 19, 1991 inconvenience for a few hours on the cosmic clock. The cost was a nonrevo- cable change wherein the Son became tied to humanity forever. God became

It was a clandestine God so loved the world . . ." There's the come worn and slick. They slide cause. It didn't spring from the drawing smoothly through our minds without board of some advertising agency on catching and pulling a single thread of meeting, but from it Bethlehem's Madison Avenue. It pre- meaning. The verse literally says, dates sales promotions, cash registers, "God loved the world like this" or and credit cards. Christmas came from "this much" or "in this way." He came the most profound the realization by God that the human loved it by giving, and that brings us to race would need something only He the second "C" —the cost of Christ- could supply. mas. explanation of the The Greek language, in which this text was originally written, has an in- 2. The Cost teresting construction for this phrase. The verse says, "He gave His Son Christ event. The King James Version translates it . . ." That is Christmas in a nutshell. It "For God so loved . . ." —which is a is God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit good translation. But the words have giving a part of Themself,* changing man and in some way gave a part of His been repeated so often they have be- Their very existence, modifying Their very manner of being. It's more than we manner of being, so we might have sal- can understand or explain completely. vation. The cost was not just 33 years But that was the cost of Christmas. out of eternity. It was not just a minor 1

ADVENTIST REVIEW. DECEMBER 19. 1991 (1345) 9 3. The Condition about the contents and the socks were of the universe doesn't worry about me No matter how beautiful the ribbon, intended for me, I have to believe enough to send a personal, gift-wrapped how ornate the paper, or how valuable enough to unwrap the package and put present just for me!" the contents, it is possible to ignore the them on if they are to actually "work." That must have been Nicodemus' present and leave it beneath the Christ- Just so with the blessing of Christmas. viewpoint. He belonged to a group of mas tree. In order to have the gift, a It comes with the condition that we have people who taught that God was waiting person must do more than agree that the for all the Jews to keep all the laws com- tag has his name on it. He has to believe pletely perfectly for one full day so the enough to accept and open it. Christmas Christmas is a personal Messiah would come. But I suspect that is for "whosoever," the text says. This deep down in his own heart Nicodemus is a Gift large enough for all the world. knew that he couldn't manage a full day Indeed, that is exactly what the tag says: confrontation with the pos- without doing or thinking something "For God so loved the world . . " But wrong, and therefore, he was afraid and there is one condition—belief. worried. Let's say I notice a package that has sibility of my new birth. Jesus must have read his fearful mind. my name on it among the gifts. So when "God did not send His Son into the world no one is around, I fish it out and poke to condemn it," He assured him, "but to it a little. I squeeze it and shake it, and save the world through Him." discover that by holding it in the light the kind of active belief that actually So the consequence of Christmas is just right I can make out a label on the "wears" the Gift. not condemnation, but salvation. contents that says there are socks in the Christmas makes possible the A + on package. As I think about it, my senses 4. The Consequence the report card of life. The Incarnation agree with the label. It feels like socks Jesus told Nicodemus that anyone who is the oasis in the desert of human ex- feel. The shape and the size are right. So believes "will not perish, but have ev- istence. By believing in Jesus Christ as I walk away and say, "I have been erlasting life." This shows that it is pos- God's solution to my pollution, I pos- given a pair of socks to replace my sible to disbelieve and perish. It suggests sess a quality of life that is eternally worn-out ones." But even if I'm right that it is possible to say, "Surely the God new. The apostle Paul says that we pass from death to life.

Beyond the Wrappings To talk about birth at Christmas is very correct. To think of gifts and giving is also correct. But we must see more than the wrappings. There is more to Christ- mas than the birth of a baby Boy in Bethlehem. Christmas is a personal con- frontation with the possibility of my new birth. Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man. It is more than tinsel and lights, parties and carols, sheep and man- ger scenes. It goes beyond these wrap- pings. It is more than a day. It is an event that happens every time a humble heart receives anew that wondrous Gift, the saving Christ.

* We use this term to remain true to the revelation of God as both unity and Trinity.

Gayland Richardson is the senior pastor of the Alhambra SDA Church in California.

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nowflakes were falling thick and fast kitchen, calling, "Mom, can we go?" gone about five miles when the girls L...)as Arm hurried home from school. It Mother looked up as she stirred the heard Mother say, "Oh, no!" Right then was just two days before Christmas, and breakfast cereal. "I don't know if the a pickup truck slid and smashed into the Ann was excited because school had roads have been plowed yet," she re- passenger side of their car. The car skid- been dismissed for the holidays. plied. "But you can start packing your ded, turned completely around, and fi- She soon covered the two blocks home suitcase, and maybe the roads will be nally came to a stop along the edge of the and burst into the kitchen, where Mother clear by the time we're ready to go." opposite ditch. was preparing supper. "Mom, where's Ann and Ellen got their clothes together. Mother turned around to look in the my suitcase?" she asked breathlessly. "I After breakfast Mother helped them finish back seat, and asked in a shaky voice, want to get started packing so we'll be packing the suitcase. The girls played with "Are you all right, girls?" ready to leave for Grandma's house early their dolls while Mother cleaned up the Ann and Ellen slowly nodded their tomorrow morning." kitchen. Soon they heard a scraping sound heads. "What happened?" Ann asked. Mother stopped peeling potatoes and "I guess the driver of the truck didn't looked out the kitchen window. "The stop at the stop sign," Mother replied. way it's snowing, the roads must be very "Maybe he slid on a patch of ice. Let's slippery. I'm not sure if we'll be able to get out and see how badly the car has go tomorrow. We'll just have to wait and been damaged." see what the weather looks like in the Mother opened her door and pushed morning." the front seat forward so the girls could When Mother saw the disappointed get out. The three of them walked around look on Ann's face, she gave her a re- the car to the passenger side. They stared assuring hug. "I know how badly you at the huge dent right in the middle of the want to be at Grandma's house for car door. Christmas Eve. But if the snow doesn't "Oh, girls," Mother exclaimed, "I'm stop so the roads can be plowed, we out in the street. Ann ran to the door and so thankful you decided to ride in the would probably slide into the ditch be- looked outside. "It's the snowplow, back seat today. If you had ridden in the fore we got very far." Mom!" she called as she ran to the front seat, you would have been hurt Soon supper was ready. Mother, Ann, kitchen. "The roads must be plowed." badly, probably killed." and little sister Ellen ate quietly. After Before long Mother was ready to go. Ann was quiet for a few minutes. She supper Ann stepped out on the front The girls helped carry the luggage out to remembered that she had asked Jesus to porch to see if it was still snowing. The the car. Ann pushed the front seat for- protect them. "Mom, do you suppose wet, heavy flakes soaked into her ward and climbed into the back seat. our angels helped us decide to ride in the sweater and her hair, and she scurried Mother asked in surprise, "What are you back seat today?" she asked. Mother's back inside the house. Before long it was doing in the back seat, Ann? You always eyes glistened as she wiped away tears of bedtime. Before Ann climbed into bed, ride in the front seat." thankfulness. "Yes, dear, I'm sure they she knelt for her evening prayer. "And, Ann shrugged her shoulders. "I don't did," she answered. Jesus, please make the snow stop so we know. I just feel like riding in the back In a few minutes a policeman drove up can go to Grandma's tomorrow," she today," she said. to talk to Mother and the truck driver. prayed. "Thank You for hearing my Three-year-old Ellen liked to copy her After Mother had answered his ques- prayer. Amen." big sister, so she turned to Mother and tions, she and the girls got back into the Ann crawled into bed and soon fell asked, "I ride in back too, Mommy?" car and continued their journey. asleep. "Yes, you may," Mother answered. A couple of hours later they arrived The next morning was the day before "Looks like I'll be in the front seat all by safely at Grandma's house. Christmas Christmas. Ann jumped out of bed and myself today." Eve was a special occasion as Grandma ran over to the bedroom window. It had Mother started the car and drove and Grandpa joined them in thanking stopped snowing! She ran out to the slowly out of the little village. They had Jesus for their guardian angels.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, DECEMBER 19, 1991 (1347) 11 t was Christmas 1961. I was teaching in a small town in Ohio—a White/Anglo-Saxon/Protestant community unperturbed by the civil rights movement growing in the urban areas a few miles to the north and east. Twenty-seven bright-eyed and bushy-tailed third graders eagerly anticipated the great day of gifts and giving. A tree covered with tinsel and gaudy paper chains graced one corner.I In another rested a manger scene produced from cardboard and poster paints by chubby—and sometimes grubby — hands. Someone had brought a doll and placed it in the cardboard box filled with straw that served as the manger. No matter that you could pull a string and hear the blue-eyed, golden-haired creature say, "My name is Susie." "But Jesus was a boy baby," one of the MOTHER boys had proclaimed. The baby stayed. New Wonders Each day the children produced some new wonder—German bells made from wallpaper sam- ples, which we hung from the ceiling. Strings of popcorn and handmade trinkets. Through it all she remained aloof, watching & ILD from afar —her mind many miles away. What would happen to this quiet child—once so happy — A Christian teacher tries now so suddenly withdrawn? Surely the festivities would appeal to her. But nothing did. to reach a child barricaded We made cards and gifts. Gifts for mothers and dads, for sisters and brothers, for grandparents, and for each other. It was the time of fried behind a wall of desolation. marbles—the children vied with one another to bring in the prettiest ones. BY PATRICIA HABADA "You put them in a hot frying pan, teacher. And you let them get real hot, and then you watch what happens inside—but you don't fry them too long or they break." So I made each of my students a little pouch for carrying fried marbles. And I knew they had each made something for me—bookmarks carefully cut, colored, and sometimes pasted together; cards and special drawings; liquid embroidery doilies, hand-fringed, of course. The day of gift-giving finally came. We oohed and aahed over our handiwork as the gifts were exchanged. Through it all she sat quietly watching. I had made a special pouch for her—red and green with white lace. I wanted very much to see her smile. She opened the package so slowly and so carefully. I waited. But she turned away. I had not penetrated the wall of isolation she had built around herself. After school the children left in little groups, chattering about the great day yet to come when long-hoped-for two-wheelers and bright sleds would appear beside their trees at home.

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Outstretched Hands She lingered, watching them bundle up and go out the door. I sat down in a child-sized chair to catch my breath, hardly aware of what was hap- pening, when she came to me with outstretched hands, bearing a small white box, unwrapped, and slightly soiled, as though it had been held many times by unwashed, childish hands. She said nothing. "For me?" I asked with a weak smile, suddenly feeling very insecure for my 30-odd years. She said not a word, but nodded her head. I took the box and gingerly opened it. There inside, glis- tening green, a fried marble hung from a golden chain. I was startled. I knew I could never wear it, for inexpensive though it was, it was jewelry. Then I looked into that elderly 8-year-old face and saw the question in her dark brown eyes. In

I wanted very much to see her

smile, but she turned away.

a flash I knew. I knew she had made it for her mother— a mother she would never see again, a mother who would never hold her or brush her hair or share a funny story, a mother who would never again hear her childish joys or sorrows. A mother who had taken her own life just three weeks before. I held out the chain. She took it in both her hands, reached forward, and secured the simple clasp at the back of my neck. She stepped back then as if to see that all was well. I looked down at the shiny piece of glass and the tarnished golden chain, then back at the giver. And I meant it when I whispered, "Oh, Maria, it is so beautiful. She would have loved it." Neither of us could stop the tears. She stumbled into my arms, and we wept together. And in that moment I became her mother, for she had given me the greatest gift of all—herself.

Patricia Habada is curriculum specialist, Church Minis- tries Department, General Conference.

ADVENTIST REVIEW. DECEMBER 19. 1991 ROSS REPORT

Out of Africa By Gary M. Ross veryone exclaims over Africa's three sources: inalienable—inseparable from the indi- diversity—her vivid differences in The primacy of the group in African vidual. Government's role is not to con- geography, language, living standards, tradition. fer freedom, and certainly not to re- and politics. Is this also true of religion? Africa confers priority upon the com- move it, but rather to safeguard the And if pluralism characterizes the reli- munity over the individual, the whole blessings that accrue to us simply by gious scene, do the various groups some- over the part. People take their identity virtue of our being human. how live together in peace? from the family, tribe, village, or other Unfortunate side effects of "mis- We went to see for ourselves. The entity to which they belong. Such values sionary religions." International Religious Liberty Associa- hardly augur well for the rights of par- Indigenous peoples of Africa often tion, an affiliate of the General Confer- ticular, even idiosyncratic, people. welcomed the religions of Islam and ence, sponsored an all-Africa religious Hence, if government should designate a Christianity. But sometimes foreign liberty conference in Nairobi, Kenya, zealots forced their religions upon Af- September 8-11. Before about 300 del- rica. Whatever the case, as people came egates in the internationally known Ken- The emerging liberal- to know the virtues of the Bible and the yatta Centre, government, church, and Koran, they imbibed something else, academic spokespersons plumbed the too: notions of conquest from the ancient meaning of religious liberty and identi- democratic regimes and stories of Joshua. Once known, these fied its presence or absence in sub- stories became the justification for intol- Saharan Africa. Daniel arap Moi, the erance between the great religious tradi- president of Kenya, warmly greeted our multiparty systems tions and between factions within them. conference in Nairobi. Of course, one must not be glib about That continent seemed a natural intolerance. What seems intolerant by venue. Was not the African land grant should augur well for Western standards may, in the context of issue part of the nineteenth-century ma- Africa, seem allowable or even war- trix in which Seventh-day Adventism as- ranted. sumed the responsibility of religious lib- the liberties we value. Take government intervention in a erty advocacy? Did not some of our struggle between religious factions, for severest recent religious liberty issues, instance. A dangerous presumption of now happily resolved, occur in the Af- authority? Or government's rightful con- rican nations of Burundi and Uganda? day, or a portion of a day, for contributed cern for its citizens? labor from a section of society, as often And besides, the political winds of Religious People happens in Africa, dissent from someone Africa are changing. The emerging As characterized by the experts who whose day of worship is infringed liberal-democratic regimes and multi- addressed us, Africans are religious peo- thereby seems abnormal. party systems should augur well for the ple. They understand, desire, and widely Liberty as tolerance—the grant of a liberties we value. practice religious freedom—an inclina- beneficent government. I left Africa enriched by her cultures tion that springs from the traditional re- Generally, the constitutions of African and peoples, but troubled by the work ligions of the continent. nations enshrine freedom of religion, but remaining there—and around the But religious liberty problems do arise they treat it as the gift of an enlightened world—to increase the knowledge and there, especially when jobs and employ- system. Hence, governments sometimes practice of religious liberty. ment advancement depend on examina- remind religious people that they should tions set exclusively on Sabbath (a problem be thankful for their freedom to worship, by no means unique to that part of the and churches often express precisely Gary M. Ross serves as an associate world). Such problems occur because of such thanks. director of the Public Affairs and Reli- Africa's enormous potential for religious Yet what government gives, govern- gious Liberty Department and congres- intolerance. ment can take away, in contrast to the sional liaison for the General Confer- That potential derives from at least libertarian view of freedom as ence.

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TURNING POINT

By Gary McLeer as told to Beyond Perfect Pitch Lilya Wagner od spoke to people in dramatic That day the auditioners called me One day during the strike I drove my Gways in the Old Testament, but He back. "You're not exactly what we motorcycle past the Forest Lake also spoke in a "still, small voice." I want," they told me as I winced, "but Seventh-day Adventist Church. A sign in think that's how God communicated you're the best we've heard all day. front of it said "Revelation Seminar." with me not long ago. Come finish the audition." By the end of "All right!" I said to myself. "I'm I was born in Alexandria, Virginia, the ordeal I had the job—a full-time po- going to learn more about the book of and grew up in a secure, musically in- sition with the Florida Symphony. For Revelation." At the seminar all my ques- clined family. When I was 4 my parents eight years I enjoyed a rich musical ex- tions were answered. It was amazing. discovered that I had perfect pitch, and perience. When I learned about the Sabbath I from then on my career future was cer- Yet somehow it wasn't enough. In wanted to keep it. I didn't have any hes- tain. I began piano lessons at age 5, but itation. Before Christmas I joined the disliked them intensely. At 8 I turned to Seventh-day Adventist Church. Finally I the violin. When I got excessively was satisfied! The symphony strike con- For seven summers I studied at Mead- tinued, but the Lord opened other op- owmount, a music camp in the Adiron- portunities for me to play and make dack Mountains of New York. Each nervous in an audition money. I spent the money buying books summer I left home happily, eager to by Ellen White. make my own decisions, but about six weeks into the camp experience I would I just walked out. What Next? be ready to go home again. I took private The orchestra strike ended in January lessons during the school year. I must 1991. Because orchestra personnel had have quit a hundred times, but Mom promised to accommodate players who would come after me with a tone of voice July of 1990 I woke up one day with a had taken other jobs, they extended this I couldn't refuse. real hunger—not for ordinary food, but privilege to me also. I was allowed to Hard work paid off. I qualified as a for spiritual food. I can't explain it, but keep both the Sabbath and my job for a violinist in a youth orchestra. Then I en- I had a real passion for wanting to read year. I don't play concerts during the rolled at a fine music school in Balti- a Bible. I couldn't find one in my apart- Sabbath hours. Although I'm not sure more, but elected to drop out and study ment, but I did discover a book about the what I can or will do after my year with privately for the next five years. Bible, one that had been given to my the Florida Symphony is up, I am sure grandmother in 1903. I read it vora- that the Lord will open new opportunities Audition Ordeals ciously. I also began praying a great for me. Finally I felt ready to audition for a deal. God didn't use thunder, blinding light, playing job with an orchestra. Unfortu- I hadn't attended church for a number visions, or anything dramatic in commu- nately, I got nervous each time and of years, but now I began "church shop- nicating with me. God elected to speak in struck out often. My search for a position ping." I went to a nearby church, but the a "still, small voice." led me to Orlando, Florida, in 1982. By formality and ceremony didn't appeal to I'm glad I listened. this time I was hardened to the rigors of me. Each time I visited a church, I had a gut feeling that something wasn't right. an orchestra audition and didn't really Lilya Wagner is associ- care how I did. When I got excessively In the meantime I began studying the ate director of the Fund nervous during the audition I just walked book of Revelation, which fascinated Raising School, Center me. But I had so many questions and out! for Philanthropy, Indi- nowhere to find the answers. ana University, India- Then the Florida Symphony went on napolis, Indiana. strike in October of 1990. I was only one of two members who voted against the strike. Suddenly I felt a spirit of hatred from other players.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, DECEMBER 19, 1991 (1351) 15 William and Ruth Murrill posed for this picture in 1963 with their sons Roger (top center) and Larry.

I ow No Years 1 I Became Fifteen A former missionary to Burma recalls three providential experiences.

BY WILLIAM L. MURRILL

s I look back on the years I Nearly all we knew about Burma was and my family served in that Eric B. Hare had worked there for Burma, three experiences many years. It seemed a faraway, mys- Astand out. terious place. Several of the General Conference Overcoming Counsel leaders knew of the precarious political During my senior year at Columbia situation in that country. After we re- Union College I applied for mission ser- ceived the call and were trying to make vice. About a year and a half later, in the difficult decision as to whether to January 1951, while I was working at accept, several of these leaders talked to ESDA Sales and Service at the General me about it. Conference, my wife and I received a One vice president had been to Burma call to our Adventist hospital in Ran- a few weeks before. He and others sug- goon, Burma, where I would be the busi- gested that the situation was unfavorable; ness manager and she a staff nurse. we might have to evacuate at any time Burma had gained its independence and leave all our personal effects behind. from the British Empire in 1948. The They pointed out that this need not be our following year the Karens (pronounced only opportunity for mission service. Cor-rinnes), the largest minority group Other calls would come in the future. I in the country, almost overthrew the new knew they were trying to give fatherly government. They reached the outskirts counsel, but that kind of advice made our of Rangoon, the capital, but there the decision all the more difficult. drive faltered and they had to retreat. Ruth and I did a lot of praying. We The Shwe Dagon Pagoda (Golden Pagoda) in Civil war was still brewing when we re- were greatly impressed by the thought Rangoon, Burma, is 2,000 years old and the ceived our call, making the situation in that if we didn't have enough courage to largest Buddhist temple of its kind in the world. the country unstable. accept the call and fill the need at the

16 (1352) ADVENTIST REVIEW, DECEMBER 19, 1991 Rangoon hospital, the General Confer- held for us. The doctor's prognosis year or two. This would enable us to ence would find another couple who proved very bleak: if her condition fol- complete the building program at the would be willing to step out in faith and lowed its normal course, in about three Rangoon hospital and finish some other go to Burma. We were concerned about projects I had been working on. how we would feel if others went and Before leaving, we had a special stayed for several years. Sending my wife and two prayer and anointing service for Ruth. Soon we decided that we might as well We asked God to heal her if it could be be that couple, and accepted the call. We His will, or at least arrest her condition went to Burma and served there for 15 babies off to the United so that we could continue our work in years. When we finally had to leave the Burma. country, it was not because of the civil We had been back in Burma only a war situation. States for medical treatment few weeks when Ruth's condition be- gan to improve dramatically. Her bal- Overcoming a Prognosis ance returned, the drop foot cleared up, About six months after we arrived in while I stayed behind in and though she was not healed, she felt Burma our first child was born. The much better than she had during the past American doctor who cared for Ruth two years. Even though she had con- gave her a spinal anesthetic to make the Burma was about the hard- tinuing health problems as a result of the delivery easier for her. original nerve injury, her overall con- Instead of the spinal making it easier, dition remained quite stable for the next it made things much more difficult. She est thing I have ever had to 30 years. suffered a very bad reaction that virtually Instead of staying in Burma for an- paralyzed her from the waist down. We other year or two, we continued for an- almost lost the baby, but he was finally do in my life. other 11 years, and it wasn't Ruth's delivered after a struggle that went on for health problem that eventually caused us nearly three hours. We were thankful to leave. that he was all right, but Ruth experi- years Ruth would be paralyzed from the enced terrible headaches and was unable waist down. Overcoming Orders to walk for the next two weeks. Her con- With the approval of the Southern We had been back in Burma for only dition gradually improved, however, and Asia Division, we decided to return to a year when the immigration office in- she got along quite well for the next two Burma and try to serve at least another formed the Burma Union that I would and a half years. Then her health began to deteriorate. She was losing her balance, had devel- oped a drop foot, and had other prob- lems. By that time we had a second child about 1 year old. We were advised to send her to White Memorial Hospital in Los An- geles for a complete neurological checkup. In the midst of rebuilding the hospital, I felt that I couldn't leave for a few months. Sending my wife and two babies off to the United States for medical treatment while I stayed behind in Bunna was about the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life. Ruth left the youngest child with her parents, who were serving in Indonesia at the time. The specialists at White Memorial Hospital diagnosed her problem as arachnoiditis, a condition in which little bands grow around the spinal cord. These gradually restrict the cord until they eventually cause paralysis. After four months I decided to take an early furlough and see what the future William Murrill (seated) with the business office staff at the Rangoon Adventist Hospital in 1953.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, DECEMBER 19, 1991 (1353) 17 have to be replaced as manager of the residence permit for this new assign- minister U Nu made a visit to India. Just hospital by a Burmese national. ment. This application was also rejected before the prime minister's arrival, Elder We appealed this decision, but the by the immigration authorities. Now it Johnson obtained an interview with the government stood firm. My assistant at really looked like our service in Burma Burmese ambassador to India to discuss the hospital succeeded me, and my wife was about to come to an end. our case. Being acquainted with our and I thought we would be leaving Another appeal was submitted to the work in Burma, the ambassador agreed Burma. government, however. Duane Johnson, to discuss the situation with the prime About that time a position opened up secretary of the Southern Asia Division, minister while he was in India. at the union office, and I was appointed did not give up easily. He was deter- U Nu knew our hospital well, having secretary-treasurer of the Burma Union. mined to appeal our case all the way to attended its opening ceremony in 1948. We submitted an application to the im- the prime minister's office if necessary. He came again when the new building migration office for an extension of my A few weeks later the Burmese prime was opened in 1954. Hence, he reacted favorably to the intercession on my be- half. He even ordered the ambassador to accompany him back to Rangoon to per- The salvation story in the language of children Forever Stories helps preschool and early elementary children Now it really looked like understand the plan of redemption and grasp its meaning for their lives. Written in simple terms, the stories begin with the fall of Lucifer and follow through to the new earth. Brilliantly colored il- lustrations on every page spread make our service in Burma was the world of the Bible real and exciting. 64 'V j These delightful stories will quickly be- E S' ' come your children's favorites, helping about to come to an end. them develop a lifetime friendship with Jesus. This five-volume set is available at your ABC for US$49.95, Cdn$59.95. sonally follow through on the extension of my residence permit. We had always received only a one- year extension each time. By now we had been in the country without a valid per- mit for nearly two years. When the ex- tension finally came through, it not only covered the period we had been in limbo but also extended our residence permit for another two and a half years. After that permit expired we received further yearly extensions until finally, in 1966, the new military government or- dered all missionaries to leave the coun- try. As we look back on our service in Burma, we recognize God's guiding hand in helping us to get there and His providences in allowing us to spend 15 years of very rewarding service in that wonderful country. With the apostle Paul I can testify, "If God is on our side, who can ever be against us?" (Rom. 8:31, TLB).

William L. Murrill, former president of the Burma Mission, is di- rector of personnel ad- ministration at the Gen- eral Conference.

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• PORTUGAL Adventist World Radio Looks Back 20 Years Pioneers recall small beginnings in Lisbon.

rd ventist World Radio (AWR) Eu- utes before the first broadcast was to he wrote to the radio office in Greece, A ope began in Lisbon, Portugal, in begin. A technician grabbed the first asking them to send a Bible. It was not 1971 on the seventh floor of an office reel and ran into the master control possible to send one by mail, but they building. room to put it on the recording machine. fmally found someone going to East Ger- There AWR occupied a room in the In a few minutes the very first AWR many who took the Bible, found the man, Radio Trans-Europe (RTE) suite and broadcast was heard on the air: "Lift up and gave it to him. He not only studied the leased time on its station with other or- the trumpet and loud let it ring . . ." It Bible but attended the Adventist church in ganizations such as the Greek govern- was aimed at Italy, and the date was his town and was baptiwd. ment, Deutsche Welle (Radio West Ger- October 1, 1971. many), and the Pentecostal Church. It took two weeks for the first re- Reaching Remote Areas They also shared a production studio sponses to come by mail: 16 letters from AWR reaches people in remote areas. with the other groups. A young woman in the far north of Swe- We made contact with the studios that den listened to the program, took the would produce our AWR programs and Bible correspondence course, and re- began to collect a supply of recorded quested baptism. The nearest church and tapes. Although we leased only 20 hours pastor were 200 miles (320 kilometers) of time to begin with, we broadcast in 12 away, but they managed to fill her re- languages: German, English, Greek, quest, and she became a Seventh-day French, Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian, Adventist. Macedonian, Italian, Russian, Ukrai- A family in Switzerland began taking nian, and Dutch. the Bible course after listening to AWR These programs came to us on reel- Allen and Andrea Steele pioneered Adventist and soon decided their family business, to-reel tapes, which we put together with World Radio shortwave broadcasts from Portugal a tavern, was not in keeping with their appropriate announcements into hour- in 1971. new faith. They decided to transform long tapes for broadcast and hand-carried their tavern into a milk bar and ice- them to Lisbon, since programs sent by 10 European countries, as well as from cream shop, and it became a successful mail invariably got hung up in customs. Japan and Australia. Soon a flood of mail venture. Allen [Steele] took the programs by car turned the little office into a beehive of A Communist party official in the So- to the RTE broadcast studio 24 miles activity. viet Union listened to the broadcasts and (about 40 kilometers) south of Lisbon, After a while we began to hear stories wanted to sign up for the Bible course, near the fishing village of Sesimbra. about people whose lives were but realized he could easily be found out changed. A young man who was bap- if the lessons came through the mail to Message From Silent Mountain tized in Germany wrote: "I had been his home or office. His government job From Sesimbra the signal was relayed listening to the AWR broadcast, and I required that he visit Italy routinely, so by microwave to the transmitter site at was convinced it contained truth, so I he arranged to have the lessons sent to his Sines, two hours south of Lisbon by car. asked one of my friends to study with barber in Rome, where he could pick From a hill near Sines called Monte me because I am blind. He stopped them up when he went for a haircut. Mudo, Silent Mountain, Adventist helping after a while because he thought Radio is still one of the major means World Radio went over a 250-kilowatt what we were studying was heresy. So of outreach to the unreached people Marconi transmitter. I asked another friend to help, and the groups we hear so much about today. As the first day of broadcast neared, same thing happened. So I prayed that Some of them will never hear the mes- preparations reached a feverish pace. God would send a sign that I was doing sage without radio. After a rushed trip to Sesimbra, Allen the right thing, and He did! That very The Adventist World Radio stations — walked into the on-air studio just min- day an Adventist pastor, sent by the AWR-Africa, AWR-Asia, AWR- radio office, came to visit me." Europe, and AWR-Latin America— By Allen and Andrea Steele, general A young man from Greece took a job in today broadcast the message of Christ's manager, AWR-Guam, and director of Germany, where he heard the Greek salvation in 35 languages for nearly 500 public relations and development, Ad- broadcast over AWR-Europe. He began to hours a week, reaching nearly every ventist World Radio, respectively. search for a Greek Bible, but in vain. So nook and cranny of the world.

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Truk, Caroline Islands, left Los Angeles August 7. Pohnpei, Eastern Caroline Islands, left Los Angeles Au- To New Posts John Emerson Davidson (PUC), of Newbury Park, gust 7. Adventist Volunteer Service California, to serve as teacher, Palau Mission Academy, Dahlon Mark Hess (AU), of South Bend, Indiana, to Koror, Palau, Western Caroline Islands, left Los Angeles serve in construction, Guam-Micronesia Mission, Agana James Stephen Pipkin, to serve as maintenance August 7. Heights, Guam, left Los Angeles August 7. worker, Deborah (Butler) Pipkin, to serve as teacher, Eileen Nora Davis (WWC), of Sandy, Oregon, to serve Guam Adventist Academy, Talofofo, Guam, and two chil- Joseph H. R. Hokanson (AU), of Cottage Grove, Wis- as teacher, Marshall Islands Mission Academy, Majuro, dren, of Keene, Texas, left Los Angeles August 14. consin, to serve in construction, Guam-Micronesia Mission, Raymond Edward Sansonetti, to serve as teacher, Western Marshall Islands, left Los Angeles August 7. Agana Heights, Guam, left Los Angeles August 7. Grianach House School, Irish Mission, Galway, Ireland, Warren Kyle Davis (SC), of Berrien Springs, Mich- Reginald D. Horton (SC), of Memphis, Tennessee, to of Beaumont, California, left Ontario, California, August igan, to serve in construction, Guam-Micronesia Mission, serve as teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, Seoul, Agana Heights, Guam, left Los Angeles August 7. 20. Korea, left Los Angeles August 12. Doyle Kevin Dreger (CaUC), of Lacombe, Alberta, Donley Gilbert Steck, to serve as librarian, and Ferne Alicia Y. Hunt (SAC), of Keene, Texas, to serve as Canada, to serve as teacher, Korea SDA Language Insti- Colleen Steck, to serve as home economist, Spicer Me- teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, Seoul, Korea, tutes, Seoul, Korea, left Los Angeles August 3. morial College, Pune, India, of Paradise Valley, Califor- left Los Angeles August 12. Kevin Allen Dumitru (PUC), of Citrus Heights, Cal- nia, left Chicago August 1. Geofferey John Hyde (AUC), of Elyria, Ohio, to serve ifornia, to serve as teacher, Palau Mission Academy, Ko- Walter Henry Toews, to serve as computer program- as assistant dean of men, Swedish Junior College and mr, Palau, Western Caroline Islands, left San Francisco mer, Uganda Union, Kampala, Uganda, and Irene Flo- Seminary, Rimbo, Sweden, left Detroit August 20. August 7. rence (Reimche) Toews, of Williams Lake, British Co- Pamela Rae Ingram (CUC), of Burtonsville, Mary- lumbia, Canada, left Vancouver, British Columbia, Rebecca Lynn Duncan (WWC), of College Place, land, to serve as teacher, Ebeye SDA High School, Ebeye, August 7. Washington, to serve as teacher, Japan SDA English Marshall Islands, left Los Angeles August 7. Schools, Yokohama, Japan, left Los Angeles August 7. Julie Beth Jacobs (SC), of Cicero, Indiana, to serve as Adventist Youth Service Stefanie Paige Elkins (AU), of Calhoun, Georgia, to teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, Seoul, Korea, serve as teacher, Thailand English Language Centers, Linda Gene Agard (AY), of Hyattsville, Maryland, to left Los Angeles August 12. serve as occupational therapist, Montemorelos University, Bangkok, Thailand, left Los Angeles August 12. Anthony Reagan Jasper (AY), of San Jose, Califor- (SC), of Apopka, Florida, to serve Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, left Dallas, Texas, Jeffrey Dean Emde nia, to serve as teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, as teacher, Thailand English Language Centers, Bangkok, August 23. Seoul, Korea, left Los Angeles August 12. Thailand, left Los Angeles August 12. Bernie J. Anderson HI (SAC), of Keene, Texas, to Sharon Marie Jones (AU), of Richmond, Vermont, to serve as teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, Seoul, Susan Lyn Escamffia (PUC), of San Jose, California, serve as teacher, Yap SDA Elementary School, Colonia, to serve as teacher, Kosrae SDA Elementary School, Korea, left Los Angeles August 12. Yap, Caroline Islands, left Los Angeles August 7. Shane Noel Anderson (WWC), of Titusville, Florida, Tafunsak Kosrae, Caroline Islands, left San Francisco Steven Tracy Karst (SC), of Bowmanville, Ontario, to serve as teacher, Pohnpei Adventist High School, Ko- August 7. Canada, to serve in construction, Guam-Micronesia Mis- lonia, Pohnpei, Western Caroline Islands, left Los Ange- Cheryl May Estep (SC), of Collegedale, Tennessee, to sion, Agana Heights, Guam, left Los Angeles August 7. les August 7. serve as teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, Seoul, Kevin Scott Kellbach (LSU), of Chula Vista, California, Edward Bruce Ashton (WWC), of Ooltewah, Ten- Korea, left Los Angeles August 12. to serve as teacher, Marshall Islands Mission Academy, nessee, to serve as teacher for refugee evangelism pro- Phyllis Mane Fields (SC), of Collegedale, Tennessee, Majuro, Marshall Islands, left Los Angeles August 7. gram, Thailand Mission, Bangkok, Thailand, left Los to serve as teacher, Pohnpei Adventist High School, Ko- Beverly Ann Keyes (SC), of Collegedale, Tennessee, Angeles August 12. lonia, Pohnpei, Eastern Caroline Islands, left Los Angeles to serve as nurse, Bangkok Adventist Hospital, Bangkok, Lisa Ann Beery (UC), of Loveland, Colorado, to serve August 7. Thailand, left Los Angeles, August 12. as teacher, Pohnpei Adventist High School, Kolonia, Jonathan Michael Fisher (PUC), of Berrien Springs, Kenny Kim (PUC), of Orange, California, to serve as Pohnpei, Western Caroline Islands, left Los Angeles Au- Michigan, to serve as musician, Thailand Mission, teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, Seoul, Korea, gust 7. Bangkok, Thailand, left San Francisco August 13. left Los Angeles August 27. Carla Berkeley (SAC), of Keene, Texas, to serve as Madelyn Fletcher (AY), of Chehalis, Washington, to Nanci Chin Eton Kim (SC), of Auburn, Georgia, to teacher, Truk SDA School, Moen, Truk, Western Car- serve as teacher, Irish Mission, Down, Ireland, left Se- serve as teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, Seoul, oline Islands, left Los Angeles August 7. attle, Washington, August 21. Korea, left Los Angeles August 12. Mary Eva Renee Bonney (PUC), of Reedley, Cali- Sherri Annette Frakes (SAC), of Hurst, Texas, to Kathryn Marie King (AY), of La Selva Beach, Cal- fornia, to serve as teacher, Palau Mission Academy, Ko- serve as teacher, Taiwan San Yu English Bible Center, ifornia, to serve as teacher, Ebeye SDA High School, ror, Palau, Western Caroline Islands, left Los Angeles Taipei, Taiwan, left Honolulu, Hawaii, August 19. Ebeye, Marshall Islands, left Los Angeles August 7. August 7. Janine Monica Freed (AU), of Berrien Springs, Mich- David James Kokinos (WWC), of Garden Valley, Cal- Diane Kay Brown (WWC), of College Place, Wash- igan, to serve as teacher, Marshall Islands Mission Acad- ifornia, to serve as teacher, Marshall Islands Mission ington, to serve as teacher, Truk SDA School, Moen, emy, Majuro, Marshall Islands, left Los Angeles August Academy, Majuro, Marshall Islands, left Los Angeles Truk, Western Caroline Islands, left Los Angeles August 7. August 7. 7. Rebecca Freier (AU), of Berrien Springs, Michigan, to Thomas Dean Krein (SC), of Gentry, Arkansas, to Christopher Paul Chandler (AU), of Sinking Spring, serve as teacher, Japan SDA English Schools, Yokohama, serve as nurse, Thailand Mission, Bangkok, Thailand, left Pennsylvania, to serve as teacher, Ebeye SDA High Japan, left Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 7. Los Angeles August 12. School, Ebeye, Marshall Islands, left Los Angeles August Dean Takashi Funada (PUC), of Orange, California, Kristine Ellen Law (CaUC), of Whitehorse, Yukon, 7. to serve as teacher, Japan SDA English Schools, Yoko- Canada, to serve as teacher, Palau Mission Academy, Esther Jung Cho (AU), of Brook Park, Minnesota, to hama, Japan, left Los Angeles August 7. Koror, Palau, Western Caroline Islands, left Los Angeles serve as teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, Seoul, Yvonne Marlene Galloway (SC), of Lake Toxaway, August 7. Korea, left Los Angeles August 12. North Carolina, to serve as teacher, Palau Mission Acad- Michael C. Paki Leialoha (PUC), of Colton, Califor- Carrie Lee Christensen (UC), of Glenwood Springs, emy, Koror, Palau, Western Caroline Islands, left Los nia, to serve as teacher, Palau Mission Academy, Koror, Colorado, to serve as teacher, Ebeye SDA High School, Angeles August 7. Palau, Western Caroline Islands, left Los Angeles August Ebeye, Marshall Islands, left Los Angeles August 7. Neil Thomas Gerrans (UC), of Colby, Kansas, to 7. Frederik Walton Christensen (WWC), of Lakeport, serve as teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, Seoul, Dean Mark Liao (PUC), of Whittier, California, to California, to serve as radio technician/operator, Guam- Korea, left Los Angeles August 12. serve as teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, Seoul, Micronesia Mission, Agana Heights, Guam, left San Fran- Rebecca Jo Goff (AU), of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, Korea, left Los Angeles August 12. cisco August 6. to serve as teacher, Marshall Islands Mission Academy, Jeremy David Liu (SC), of Olney, Maryland, to serve Laura Clough (SC), of Interlachen, Florida, to serve as Majuro, Marshall Islands, left Los Angeles August 7. as teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, Seoul, Korea, teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, Seoul, Korea, Taris Danielle Gonzalez (SC), of Odessa, Texas, to left Los Angeles August 19. left Los Angeles August 12. serve as science laboratory assistant, Stanborough Sec- Richard Edward Lockridge (SC), of Columbus, Mis- Jennifer Lee Coburn (AU), of Berrien Springs, Mich- ondary School, Watford, England, left Dallas, Texas, sissippi, to serve as teacher, Thailand English Language igan, to serve as teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, August 29. Centers, Bangkok, Thailand, left Los Angeles August 12. Seoul, Korea, left Los Angeles August 12. Samuel Ira Greer (SC), of East Oshawa, Ontario, Rowena Manalo (AU), of San Diego, California, to Amy Lynne Cook (SC), of Ooltewah, Tennessee, to Canada, to serve as member, evangelistic team quartet, serve as teacher, Japan SDA English Schools, Yokohama, serve as teacher, Korea SDA Language Institutes, Seoul, Thailand Mission, Bangkok, Thailand, left Los Angeles Japan, left Los Angeles August 7. Korea, left Los Angeles August 12. August 12. Ramona Shirley Mann (AU), of Sturgeon Bay, Wis- Amor M. Corrales (LSU), of Spring Valley, Califor- Shelly Rose Harman (WWC), of Burns, Oregon, to consin, to serve as teacher, Taiwan San Yu English Bible nia, to serve as teacher, Majuro SDA School, Majuro, serve as teacher, Grianach House School, Galway, Ire- Center, Taipei, Taiwan, left Los Angeles August 12. Marshall Islands, left Los Angeles August 7. land, left Boston August 21. Naomi Celeste McCall (SC), of Jonesboro, Arkansas, Anne M. Creitz (Golden SDA Church), of Denver, Cheri Harvey (WWC), of Phoenix, Arizona, to serve to serve as teacher, Palau Mission Academy, Koror, Colorado, to serve as teacher, Truk SDA School, Moen, as teacher, Pohnpei Adventist High School, Kolonia, Palau, Caroline Islands, left Los Angeles August 7.

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All the Others

he afternoon sun spread a medley of light opposite wall the sun burst through an intricate Tand shadow across the walls, enhancing stained-glass window. detail. The artistry of the spires, the columns of "Think of all the people, the cooperation, the sculptures staring down from antiquity; the win- hard work," Jean said. dows . . . "Magnificent." I breathed the word. I nodded. I had been thinking. The solid strength of towers storied toward the "So many doing so much." sky, and their massive ornateness combined in "All that God-given genius," I said. "The exquisite power. "Think of all the brilliant engineering, the architecture, the artistry." minds . . ." "Think of all the work involved in creating just one window," Jean added. Compressed History Building a "Fantastic craftsmanship. Brilliant design." My own mind staggered at the amount of "More than that," she corrected. "The de- history compressed into one structure. Before signers, the craftsmen, the workmen. Certainly. me stood one of Britain's finest medieval cathedral takes But think of all the others." churches—the Wells Cathedral, dating from about 1180. My imagination scurried through Beyond the Obvious centuries of craftsmen and artisans, architects great art, With effort I tried to push my thoughts beyond and engineers, the best of each generation giv- the obvious. ing their talents to constructing, improving, re- "The others who prepared their meals," Jean storing, beautifying. engineering, said. "Who washed their clothes. And mended "You must see this." My friend Jean pulled them. Who tended them when they fell ill. Think me into the present by urging me toward an of all who dedicated their lives to doing all those arched corridor. The sun washed through window and skill—but thankless and forgotten tasks so that the workmen grills and splashed their geometric shapes from could build." ages past onto an ancient stone floor. "Isn't it She was right. Beyond the artistry lay some- lovely?" even that is not thing just as important—the greatness of dedica- I nodded. Her photographer's eye delights in tion. The willingness to do the unpleasant and the interplays of light and texture. But then the enor- thankless. mity of the history surrounding us was everyday enough. "Without all of those others." A sentence for her. from the apostle Paul's writing came to mind as Inside the cathedral itself a hush insulated the she spoke. "So in Christ we who are many form scattered clusters of visitors. Jean pointed to- one body, and each member belongs to all the ward the arched ceilings, the sculptings, the others" (Rom. 12:5, MV). altars, then led me through a corridor lined with In all places and in all ages, God needs tombs. dedication—the dedication of each person doing Stone likenesses of certain church leaders from the best of what he or she is called to do. Only past centuries reclined over their resting places. then can the great task be finished. Within these vaults lay people who once lived and breathed, people who hundreds of years before had shaped their communities, church, and na- tion. I walked where they once had walked, and wondered if they too had ever been overwhelmed Corrine Vanderwerff writes by the magnificence. from Lubumbashi, Zaire. While I continued to look about with awe, a meager few slipped into quiet chapels to medi- tate, to pray, and to light their candles of hope. BY CORRINE Jean and I settled onto a quiet bench. High on the VANDERWERFF

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