August 23, 1966 Volume LVII! Number 33 Good-Neighbor Camps Provide Opportunities Unlimited (See page 2) Opportunity Camps Are Worth The Investment UNDREDS of boys and girls who have never known God through the book of nature. They learned that some- H the joy of Sabbath School or a Christian elementary body cares, somebody is interested in them. school this summer attended Seventh-day Adventist camps. Read now about opportunity camps in the Lake Union, What did they learn? They learned much the same things camps sponsored jointly by the departments of lay activities that your campers learned when they went to junior camp. and youth activities. They learned to pray together, they learned to sing choruses, to say grace before meals, to love the animals, and to know ILLINOIS HOST TO 76 OPPORTUNITY CAMPERS On July 11, 76 youth arrived by train at Carbondale to begin their five-day camping experience at Little Grassy Lake. These opportunity campers, brought in from all walks of life, were guests of the conference and the churches of Illinois. A regular camp program consisted of preparing for in- spection, morning devotions, flag raising, breakfast, work, camp council, swimming, crafts, recreation, dinner, work, boating, rest, swimming, crafts, supper, recreation, flag low- ering, camp fire, and bed time. These youth were so thrilled with their camp experience they didn't want to go home. Money invested in youth, whether they be from the world or from our churches, is money well spent. Camping in God's nature could be the answer to your family problems, for families that play and pray together, stay together in God's truth. E. L. ALLEN, Public Relations Secretary Illinois Conference Row, row, row your boat—that's camp life. COVER PICTURE Nearly thirty-five camps have been or are being held in the Lake Union this summer. Six of these camps are opportunity Shuffleboard experts are soon developed at camp. camps. Three others are of the "big brother" type. They are being conducted by three of the conferences in the Lake Union. The cover scenes are typical of what these underprivileged MICHIGAN HOLDS FIVE OPPORTUNITY CAMPS youngsters see when they come to an Adventist camp. Left: Recently a good-neighbor camp for underprivileged chil- bridge and boat dock at Little Grassy Lake. Right top: time to buddy up at the Michigan Upper Peninsula camp. Lower right: dren for the Upper Peninsula was held at Clear Lake near inspection time at Little Grassy Lake. "Show me those calluses Shingleton, Mich., a private camp site. Fifty-eight children from keeping the cabin clean." representing every area of the Upper Peninsula were picked up by Michigan camp buses for a thrilling adventure of a week of camp comprised of swimming, boating, nature Entered as second-class matter in the Post Office, Berrien Springs, study, the making of useful crafts, and guided recreational Mich. Printed weekly, 50 times a year (omitting the weeks of July 4 and December 25) by the University Press, Berrien Springs, Mich. Yearly periods with plenty of good, wholesome food three times a subscription price, $2.00. day. Under the direction of the conference MV department, Postmasters: Send all notices to "Lake Union Herald," Box C, Berrien Springs, MI 49103. the camp is staffed by representative youth selected from 2 LAKE UNION HERALD Many youngsters learned to pray for the first time at opportunity camp. Their routines at camp are quite similar to those at regular youth camps and the youngsters learn to enjoy the creatures of nature which many of them never before realized existed. academies and Andrews University participating in the youth scholarship summer-camping program. Many of these young people from underprivileged homes pray for the first time at camp under the guidance of Ad- ventist youth counselors. It is heartwarming to hear these children express thankfulness and gratitude to God for the opportunity of attending a good-neighbor camp. Five such camps have already been conducted this summer —four at Scott Lake, and one for the Upper Peninsula. Besides the 58 at Clear Lake Camp, about 300 more children of all faith were selected by local churches, often in cooperation with welfare and court authorities, to enjoy the facilities of Scott Lake Camp. A few deaf and blind campers were included. The conference Lay Activities department endorses these camps wholeheartedly, for they are a vital part of our ex- panding good-neighbor program of helping and serving those in need and provide a very worthy and practical outlet for the expenditure of a portion of our conference welfare reserve fund that is built up annually through our Ingath- canoe. ering reversion plan. W. M. BUCKMAN, Director Mr. Atkins shows how to handle a Layman's Activities WAHDOON CAMPERS SHARE FUN WITH OTHERS Michigan Conference Pastors, church members, and conference officials are doing their best to stem the tide of parental-offspring indif- ference that is the cause of so much crime and immorality in this generation. Endeavoring to register their concern for the many young people running the sidewalks in our cities and town, another "big brother" program was put into operation in conjunction with our regular Wisconsin youth camps. The benefactors of this "good will" gesture were young people from homes who were underprivileged in one way or another. Without the help of "someone who cared," a week of camp would have been just another unfulfilled dream. In a plan whereby churches selected worthy young people of the community and sent them to Camp Wandoon with the churches paying a portion of the expenses and the con- ference paying the lion's share of costs, more than 20 young people registered at one of the camps to enjoy a week of swimming, hiking, making crafts, listening for the first time to stories that live, and in general having the time of Ann Steinweg, extreme right, directs the members of her class to the sight of a bird in a nearby tree for identification in their bird their lives. study class at one of the Michigan opportunity camps. Young people from all denominations were accepted and August 23, 1966, Vol. LVIII, No. 33 3 Opportunity campers have learned to take responsibility well as evidenced by the diligent dishwashing details (left and center). With tem- peratures which soared above 105° (right), Illinois' P.R. director, E. L. Allen didn't have to look at the thermometer to tell it was hot. Elder Bill Draper at Camp Council seeks to teach campers of life's The girls' director, Rilla Tol, serves pancakes to campers. What true values. a feast! Camp staff at the Upper Peninsula Good Neighbor Camp included, left to right, first row, Elder and Mrs. M. Y. Fleming, camp director; Art Leavitt, boys' director; Rilla Tol, girls' director; Mrs. Frank Cook, and Cindy Fleming. Howard Hodges, waterfront director, is standing at the extreme left in the third row. Right: Line call at the Michigan Upper Peninsula camp showed 58 campers present plus counselors. The camp director is counseling in front with his assistants for the boys' and girls' divisions. At Scott Lake Camp another 300 enjoyed opportunity camping. 4 LAKE UNION HERALD freely intermingled with our own young people without Madagascar Publishing House Expansion any difficulty on the part of anyone. Chief differences be- From Madagascar, in the Southern European Division, tween our camp and any that they had ever attended before comes the plea for enlarged facilities for their 17-year-old was the vegetarian diet which took them quite by surprise, publishing house. The public are becoming increasingly in- the open friendliness of both their fellow campers and their terested in our literature which is now being distributed by staff members, the clean language on the part of everyone, twenty colporteurs in the Malagasy language. and the overall Christian atmosphere. Akaki Training School Administration Building H. J. HARRIS, Public Relations Secretary Wisconsin Conference In old Ethiopia an administration building is urgently needed at our Akaki Training School just outside Addis Ababa. The old temporary structure has been patched and bolstered up for many years but must now be replaced. Missions Extension Sabbath Icelandic Publishing House On September 10 church members in North America will Another most deserving project is the Icelandic Publish- have a golden opportunity to meet some of our overseas ing House. Always a book-loving nation, the Icelanders as fields' most urgent needs. Of these we name but a few: far back as the 12th century produced high class literature in their own Icelandic language. Navesau School in the Fiji Islands Our own work in Iceland began in 1897, and with the Dotted over an expanse of ten million square miles of publication of Steps to Christ the following year, our litera- ocean are three hundred islands belonging to the Fijian ture has been to the forefront ever since. The printing press group. On these islands live 9,000 Seventh-day Adventists. operates in the basement of the Reykjavik Church, and those One of their great problems is the education of their chil- who have visited it have been astonished at what they have dren. They do have in Fulton Missionary College a center contrived to do with the limited facilities and accommoda- for the training of ministers and teachers but at Navesau tions they have. only extremely limited and poor facilities for their younger children. Built of local native materials, the buildings have Mwami Mission in Zambia reached the place where the school faces closure. The church Here 250 lepers are housed in the colony, and hundreds membership and our leadership alike are most anxious that more are being treated as outpatients.