38 Cover 20/9/05 8:40 AM Page 1 RECORDOctober 1, 2005 In this issue Australian youth involved in CQ CD ADRA helps community house Unity and mission Pastor Jan Paulsen and his wife, Kari (centre), taking part in one of the “Let’s talk” recording sessions with young people from around the South Pacific Division. South Pacific youth question GC president WAHROONGA, NEW SOUTH WALES resident of the Seventh-day do you want from your church leaders?” Adventist Church, Pastor Jan A second “Let’s talk” recording session Paulsen, took time to discuss a vari- also took place earlier in the day, consisting ety of topics with young people of the of an Avondale College student audience, PSouth Pacific Division on September 5. and will go to air on Hope Channel on “Let’s talk” . South Pacific was filmed November 21. Pastor Paulsen was pleased at Adventist Media, Wahroonga, NSW, with the productions. “These were good and broadcast live on Hope Channel. sessions,” he says. “It was different to the Totally unscripted, Pastor Paulsen gave others. There was more interaction among on-the-spot answers to issues such as why the participants.” Fiji’s record women are not being ordained, online Both sessions were hosted by Andrew business and the Sabbath, living “in sin” Robartson, community relations officer for before baptism and worship styles and the Central Coast Adventist School, NSW, Pathfinder use of drums in church. and the host of the 2002 live REZ10 broad- Participants also had the opportunity to casts. “I think it’s great that the conversa- ask Pastor Paulsen’s wife, Kari, questions tion has been opened,” says Mr Robartson. before the session was wrapped up with “It’s a gutsy move.”—Scott Wegener camporee Pastor Paulsen asking participants, “What More @ www.letstalk.adventist.org ISSN 0819-5633 38Editorial 20/9/05 8:30 AM Page 2 editorial Knowing where we came from makes our existence more meaningful. Past, present, future E’RE INUNDATED WITH QUIZ We want to know our roots. Knowing was fascinating, and my interest was kin- shows. They’re all over TV, where we came from makes our existence dled. Now I want to know more. On my even the ABC. Melbourne, at more meaningful. That’s one reason why browser I bookmarked the Adventist least, has a nightly 20 questions we in the Antipodes, with only a derivative Heritage Ministry** web site. It cares for Wradio quiz. The winner gets a CD from culture, perform the obligatory pilgrimage church-related historical sites in the US, some obscure artist. For answering the to London once in our lifetimes. And it’s which I’m now determined to visit. The sites same questions on Channel 9’s Who Wants my guess that this is why the second and include the Battle Creek village and homes to Be a Millionaire?, well, you would be a third generations seek their ancestral roots. of Hiram Edson and William Miller. millionaire. Of them all, I prefer One of the good things about my job is Ignorance is not bliss. So much of who Millionaire, because you know the answer that I am literally close to history. Right out- and what we are as a denomination was is in there, and you have a one-in-four side my office door I’m reminded of it daily, determined by its history, its roots in chance of getting it right. as the Signs Publishing Company’s her- American Methodism, for example, and In fact, I could have won the British mil- itage display—an old press, the lead type and our present attitudes and future actions are lion-pound variant—the one where the galleys, old cameras and photographs, books influenced by that. Not surprising, then, ex-guardsman cheated his way to the prize. and magazines—is housed there. Spending that the Adventist Heritage Ministry’s Everyone knows a “google” is 10100—the a bit of time browsing gives insight into how slogan is, “The past with a future.” one-million-pound question. (All of those the church was established in this country It’s a cliché these days, but true never- zeros were a big hint.) It brings satisfaction through the eyes of one insitution, and helps theless, that statement by Ellen G White knowing you know ahead of a contestant, develop an interest in it. that “we having nothing to fear for the which is the appeal of quiz shows. Because it owes so much to literature future, except as we shall forget the way the So here, for your pleasure, and there’s no work, I’ve come to appreciate the central Lord has led us, and His teaching in our million-dollar prize, is an Adventist history place of our publishing house, the books past history” (Life Sketches, page 196). question: Which of the following came to and magazines it produces, and those who While in this passage Ellen White is Australia as the first missionary? (a) John distribute them. speaking personally, telling of her life with Corliss (b) Mendel Israel (c) Henry Scott (d) But how much about our church’s past James, her husband, reviewing their work William Arnold?* do you know? (Have you phoned a friend together, it isn’t unfair to apply it to our History used to be taught as lists of facts yet?) Are you interested in it? Do you see it own lives and church. to be memorised, but it’s really much more as irrelevant to the contemporary scene? But if you’re going to live this statement, than that—it’s the whys and wherefores, the Recently I was required to produce a you have to know what our history is. It’s what could have been, and impact of those church historical piece for an event that led my purpose to encourage members to study facts on society that make it interesting, me to examine our old publications, dating it a little more deeply. especially when it’s rounded out with anec- from when the church was first planted in dotes of real people who made a difference. Australia, which piqued my interest in *Answer: (a), (b), (c) and (d)—they arrived together in 1885, aboard the same ship. As we get older, history becomes more church history. I reviewed many old copies **http://adventistheritage.org important and interesting to us. I know this of RECORD and Bible Echo from different from my days as a teacher, trying to teach it, eras, discovering much of interest along the and before that, as a disinterested student. way. My short journey through the annals Lee Dunstan OFFICIAL PAPER of the South Editor Nathan Brown Mail: Signs Publishing Company Pacific Division Seventh-day Senior assistant editor Lee Dunstan 3485 Warburton Highway Adventist Church Editorial assistant Adele Nash Warburton, Vic 3799, Australia ACN 000 003 930 Editorial assistant Scott Wegener Phone: (03) 5966 9111 Fax: (03) 5966 9019 www.adventist.org.au Copyeditor Graeme Brown Email Letters: [email protected] Editorial secretary Meryl McDonald-Gough Email Newsfront: [email protected] Vol 109 No 38 Layout Jason Piez Email Noticeboard: [email protected] Cover: Adventist Media Senior consulting editor Barry Oliver Subscriptions: South Pacific Division mailed within Australia and to New Zealand, $A43.80 $NZ73.00. Other prices on www.record.net.au application. Printed weekly. 2 October 1, 2005 38 News 20/9/05 8:53 AM Page 3 news Signs and Edge magazines receive ARPA awards Mr Winfield’s illustration (pictured, MELBOURNE, VICTORIA right) was part of a prophecy special edi- igns and Edge magazines received tion in the July 2004 issue. awards for artwork and design at “This isn’t the first award Shane has the Australian Religious Press received for his innovative artistry in Shane Winfield’s award-winning illustration Association (ARPA) annual general Signs, and given the talent and creativity for the Signs, which was part of a prophecy Smeeting in Melbourne, on September 10. special in the magazine. Signs of the Times was awarded “Best credit to Shane, but to be ahead of Leunig, illustration” for a graphic by Signs designer arguably the country’s best-known artist— Shane Winfield, who pipped recognised that’s a real achievement! As for The Edge, Melbourne Age cartoonist, Michael likewise. It’s up there with the best.” Leunig, who had Former editor of the The Edge, Kellie illustrated a fea- Hancock, says, “It’s great to see The Edge ture in The being recognised by industry peers. Melbourne Creating that cover concept was a team Anglican. effort. We borrowed a Barbie [doll] for the Receiving a afternoon and my desk became the studio “Highly com- for the photo shoot. Nathan Brown helped mended” run- strategically position Barbie in the mouse ner-up award trap while I took photos. Then Kathy [a was an Edge Editors Lee Dunstan (left) and Nathan Brown Signs designer] added the finishing cover (pictured, represented Signs’s stable of magazines— touches with her great designer style. left) featuring RECORD, Edge and Signs—at the ARPA “Although the topic may have been the issue of porn- Awards night. confronting for some, my aim was to The cover that won The Edge ography, de- he brings to it, it won’t be his last,” says create a cover that got people’s attention in magazine a “Highly signed by former Lee Dunstan, Signs’s senior assistant editor. a slightly cheeky way. The response we commended” award for best Edge editor “The look of the magazine is always had to that issue suggests we were on the cover.