Editor's Column: The Advance Turns 50-Soon! NEW WORLD OUTLOOK Why-you may be asking-is New World Outlook featuring the 50th P11blisher fhe Randolph ugent Anniversary of the Advance in the July-August issue of 1997 when the Editor Advance for Christ and His Church actually turns 50 in 1998? Alma raham A good celebration takes months of preparation. Anyone who has ever Associate Editor ' Tn planned a wedding will tell you to start at least 18 months in advance to by Christie R. House book a hall, the entertainment, and the caterer-and make sure the pastor Ari Director Prod11ction Manager is available. When we wanted to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Roger C. Sadler ancy Quigley Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference, we set out for Tulsa a year 10 Le Lnyo11t/Desig11 Desktop P11blishi11g before the event happened. Big celebrations take time. They take thought­ by Hal Sadler Eli e C. Malsd1 ful planning, especially if they are to include everyone. Ad111inistrative Assistant Cirwlation F11 lfil/111en t The 50th Anniversary of the Advance is a big celebration. It isn't just the 14 M Patricia Y. Bradley Su an Siemer $700 million that the Advance has raised for mission over the last 50 by Editorial Offices years-though that is an impressive amount of money. Everyone of the A/111a Graha111 475 Riverside Drive, Room 1470 1800 Advance projects in the Partnership in Missions catalog is a unique ew York, 10115 ministry in which people of God have come together to serve God and 1sn 212 / 70-3765 one another. Each Advance number represents a faithful community of Ph Christians at work, doing its best to live out the Gospel in a world that E-mail [email protected] needs the Good News of Christ. 23 Ci Advertising/P ro111otio11 Director We bring you a few of these individual stories in almost every issue that Ruth Kurtz New World Outlook publishes. This particular issue is chock full of 06 475 Ri verside Drive, Room 1470 New York, NY 10115 Advance stories. In the United States, we report on Tacoma Community 212 / 870-3784 House (Community Centers, #982149-3) on the west coast and McDowell 27 w Mission (#391515-5) in the eastern part of the United States. In Brazil, Published bimonthly by the Gene ral Board of by G lobal Ministries of The United Methodis t we've touched on four projects that your congregation could adopt in Churm. (ISS -0043-8812) response to the study on Brazil: Niter6i Social Action Center (#010553- Second class postage paid at New York, NY, and 4DN), People's Central Institute (#009182-4RA); and two UMCOR 30 M additional mailing office . Copyri ght © 1997 by the General Board of Global Ministries of The Advance Projects, Mechanical Cow Dourados (#714505-0), and the by United Methodist Church. o part of New World Tapepora Mission (#714520-8). 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All Anniversary Celebration, #500000-7. fo reign countries: One yea r $17.00 (combination Tl $25.00) . Get your party hats ready, dip into the fruit punch, and raise a toast to 50 years of the Advance. Happy Anniversary. Cover Photo: Toge Fujihira. Photo from United Methodist Archives, Madison, NJ, World 011tlook files. Children from the daycare center help earn other put on thei r sho at Scott's Run Settlement House in Osage, West Virginia, 1972. Scott's Run is -Christie R. House one of the community centers that benefits from the Advance special fo r community centers. Photo/ Art credits: p. 46 2 NEW WORLD OUTLOOK JULY-AUGUST 1997 -~- - ~ - --- - . , . ~ . ' '.... ' " . " . ' New Series Vol. LVII No. 6 ew World Outlook ~~e~ri~;~~~NoA I' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~JUL~Y--A-uc_u_sT_1_9-97~~~~~~~~~~i/ he 50th Anniversary of the Advance for Christ and His Church ver t The Advance At 50 2 to ;tor by Christie R. House the ear 10 Love Shines Out in West Virginia fht· by William MacDougall ~~e 14 Ministry to Children in Church Neighborhoods ~, by Marion Way and Christie R. House 1ue ~d 18 The Mission of Tapepora Revisited : Mato Grosso do Sol , Brazil of Photo Essay by Christie R. House at at 23 Celebrate! The 50th Anniversary of the Advance for Christ and His Church of Designed by Barbara Ball /ry' ell 'l.7 Witnessing With UMCOR in a Muslim Nation lil, by Fred Lamar in ~e 30 Meeting Jesus in the Here and Now ~: by Hannah C. Meadors and Marshall L. Meadors, Jr. [ 34 Reflecting on a Life of Service : A Conversation with Howard and Peggy Heiner by John W Peterson 38 Tacoma's Open Door: A United Methodist Legacy to Immigrants and Refugees by Patricia A. Schug DEPARTMENTS Editor's Column 21 Cole 's Column: They Went the Final Mile 22 Mission Memo 42 Mission Stories: Glenn and Darla Rowley 44 Mission Education NEW WORLD OUTLOOK JULY-AUGUST 1997 3 THE ADVANCE AT 50 by Christie R. House The achievements of the Church members did launch Crusade for Christ cannot a crusade. Over the quadren­ be summarized adequately. nium, as the war ended and The Church sought $25 mil­ reports of Europe's devastation lion for relief, reconstruc­ were brought home, The tion, and service to a post­ Methodist Church collected an war world. The people unprecedented $27 million to contributed $27,011,243. aid in emergency relief and (From Bishop G. Bromley reconstruction. The church Over its 51). O xnam's Address, 1948 received the e millions over Above: Mfi General Conference in and above the regular appor­ Below:Mfi Boston) friend in KA tionments, the World Ser ice Opposite'I dollars (apportioned at slightly 111trod11ced It was an awakening. In less than $24 million), and the "Adm nee" the aftermath of World War cost of maintaining churches in II, the United States as a the United States. Never before nation raised a collective had so much money been col­ sigh of relief as daily life lected in such a hort time for resumed. Church leaders such specific cau e . and parishioners alike But fundrai ing wa not the decided that something had to be only records that The Methodist done about the millions of people Church broke at that time. In 1944, left destitute and mission institu­ according to Bishop Oxnam, tions left shattered by the war. 578,317 new member were Even during the war, at the 1944 received into Methodi t churche General Conference, the leaders of on profe sion of faitl1, and another The Methodist Church had the 485,417 were received by tran fer. foresight to plan for emergency This was the large t number of relief and reconstruction efforts. people to be recei ed b an "We were but 41 days from the church in any imilar peri din the Normandy Invasion and the hi tory of the Unit d tate . storming of the Fortress Europe; Th Methodi t hurch awakened the chu1 376 days from German capitula­ the world were to be killed, great World. ii tion; and exactly 475 days from centers of production de troyed, far excee< Japanese surrender," said Bishop historic structures bla t d into , sors, it w Oxnam in 1948. "Before the pas­ debri , millions mad h m - that the sage of these 475 day , t n of le .... In uch an hour. .. the Churd1 Wan t to thousands of the finest you th of was wnmon d to cru ad ." 1 find a wa 4 Methodists may achieve a deeper understanding of and commitment to Our Faith, Our Church, Our I Ministry, and Our Mission." The i second was a world-wide ,1I Advance in which Methodists may I share in a ministry of relief and in carrying the Gospel of Christ to the peoples of the earth." (Journal of the 1948 General Conference) The second part of the emphasis included a recommendation to increase World Service apportion­ ments by another third.