NION GLEANER VoL. 54, No. 12 COLLEGE PLACE, WASHINGTON, MARCH 23, 1959 State Civil Defense Agency, and a corps Union Welfare Workshop Well Attended of his top assistants surveyed for us the place of the church in the Civil RITCHIE By C. J. Defense program. All felt deeply im- Home Missionary Secretary, Oregon Conference pressed that there are certain branches of Civil Defense in which the Seventh- More than 300 representatives from ciety and Dorcas Federation leaders day Adventist Church can co-operate the conferences of the North Pacific who attended in studying how we more fully. Union were present at the Dorcas Wel- might expand and more efficiently The evening of Monday, March 9, was fare Workshop held at Gladstone Park, operate this important phase of the occupied by the State Welfare Leader, March 9 to 12. Most practical and time- Lord's work. Miss Jewett. She helped us better to ly instruction on the organization and The discussion periods and reports understand the definite place that the operation of Welfare Centers and from local centers provided valuable Seventh-day Adventist Church can oc- other phases of our Dorcas Welfare information for the improvement of cupy in the State Welfare program. program were presented by Elder C. E. our operations. Elder N. R. Dower, Guenther of the General Conference, president of the Washington Confer- The representatives whose churches Elder George Liscombe of the Union, ence, led out with a wonderful series had not yet organized a welfare center and the Home Missionary secretaries of studies on the spiritual background returned from the meeting determined of the local Conferences. and motivation of our Good Samaritan to exert their strongest influence to A group of ministers and home mis- activities. see that a center was organized in sionary leaders from local churches On the evening of Tuesday, March 10, every well-established community. The joined the large number of Dorcas So- Colonel Sheets, Director of the Oregon wonderful influence of these centers and our enlarging welfare program convinced all that we should speedily take steps to be the first church to undertake such work in an organized way. Elder George Liscombe, the Union Conference Home Missionary secretary, as chairman, gave excellent leadership and directed a well-planned program. Meals provided by Mrs. Anderson and her associates were unexcelled for mass cooking. Not a single delegate ex- pressed disappointment in any way, but on the contrary, many were the sincere expressions of appreciation for the workshop. 25th Anniversary National Medical Cadet Corps Training Camp CAMP DOSS Grand Ledge, Michigan JUNE 2-16 This year's staff will include: MCC-COLONEL CLARK SMITH MCC COLONEL EVERETT N. DICK Left to right: Elder D. A. Neufeld, home missionary secretary for the Wash- ington Conference; Elder W. A. Striven, home missionary secretary for the Upper CPL. DESMOND T. DOSS Columbia Conference; Elder C. E. Guenther, associate home missionary secretary Contact your local conference MV of the General Conference; Elder George W. Liscombe, home missionary secre- Department for tary for the North Pacific Union Conference; Leon Cornforth, home missionary APPLICATION BLANKS secretary of the Idaho Conference; Ralph Gladden, home missionary secretary TOTAL COST: $31.60 of the Montana Conference; Elder C. J. Ritchie, home missionary secretary of the Oregon Conference. 2 NORTH PACIFIC UNION GLEANER North Pacific Union Gleaner 25th Anniversary Includes Corporal Doss Box 248 College Place, Wash. BY CLARK SMITH, Associate Director Telephone JAckson 9-1543 General Conference War Service Commission Mrs. Ione Morgan . Editor Seventh-day Adventists across the Corps for the General Conference since J. C. Kozel . Managing Editor country joined in the audience of 40,- 1940, will also be at the camp and will 000,000 regular viewers of the "This is help celebrate the 25th anniversary of Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of Your Life" TV program on the night the MCC. October 3, 1917, authorized June 25, 1920. of February 18 in giving honor to one From the present indications it ap- Entered as second class matter, March 20, 1910, at the post office at College Place, Washing- of the greatest heroes of World War pears that the 1959 camp will be the ton. Published weekly, 50 issues each year. II, Corporal Desmond T. Doss, only largest national camp yet conducted. It Subscription price, $1.00 a year. All copy for publication should reach the conscientious objector in the history is open to young men sixteen years GLEANER editorial office in College Place not of the United States to be awarded of age or older who would like to pre- later than Thursday morning preceding date of issue. Copy to appear under local confer- the Congressional Medal of Honor. The pare themselves for military service ence headings should be sent through the inspiration of Corporal Doss will help when and if they are drafted. The respective conference offices. Copy should be typewritten and double spaced. untold numbers of young men who current world crisis emphasizes anew watched that program to live up to the fact that Seventh-day Adventists NORTH PACIFIC their own conscience. of this generation are living in the UNION CONFERENCE DIRECTORY Corporal Doss will be at the National turmoil of the last days of this world's Office Address: 1544 S. E. Hawthorne Blvd. Medical Cadet Corps Training Camp at history and need to give their youth BElmont 5-4121 Grand Ledge, Michigan, this summer. every training possible for this life Portland 14, Oregon President . C. A. Striven' This camp, which meets from June 2 and the life to come. Secretary-Treasurer . J. C. Kozel to 16, is named in honor of Corporal Posters and leaflets including enroll- Auditor . E. S Humann Educational . J. C. Porter Doss. The 1959 camp is the 25th anni- ment blanks are being distributed to MV, War Service, Self-support- versary of the military medical train- the churches. If you do not have one, ing Institutions, Medical and Industrial Relations . J. H. Hancock ing begun in the 1933-34 school year write the MV secretary of your con- Publishing Department . C. P. Lampson at Union College under the direction ference or union conference and re- Home Miss. and Temperance G. W. Liscombe Sabbath School and of Everett N. Dick. Colonel Dick, who quest further information about Camp Press Relations . B. M. Preston until his retirement from this work at Doss for 1959. The dates are June 2 the last General Conference Session to 16, the place is Grand Ledge, Mich-, LOCAL CONFERENCE DIRECTORY has directed the activities of the igan, and the total cost is $31.50, which ALASKA Seventh-day Adventist Medical Cadet includes board and room. A. L. Zumwalt, President; 718 Barrow Street, Anchorage, Alaska. Phone 6-2232. Reprints of Dr. McCoy's Articles is $1,521.72 above our objectives of IDAHO $120,000. Last year we raised $121,604.75 A. J. Gordon, President; J. 0. Hanson, Sec- This series of very vital articles by retary-Treasurer; P. 0. Box 2238, Boise, Idaho Dr. McCay discussing the health teach- which means that we are just $83.03 Phone 2-1811. ings of Mrs. White has just concluded short of the total amount raised in 1958. MONTANA in the Review and Herald of February We are sure that many of our believers George E. Taylor, President; J. W. Griffin, who have not yet done their part or Secretary-Treasurer; P. 0. Box 743, Bozeman, 26, 1959. Because of urgent requests Mont. Phone JUniper 6-2414. Make Wills, coming in from all parts of the field— who have some additional funds to Trust Agreements, or Annuities payable to The solicit will bring in enough not only to Montana Conference Association of Seventh- from churches, from individuals, and day Adventists. from institutions—we are making a re- cover this shortage but to put us well OREGON print of this series of articles. We hope over last year's total. Watch for the Lloyd E. Biggs, President; Vernon T. Jester, to make just one printing of this series. March report. Secretary-Treasurer; 605 S. E. 39th Ave., Port- land 14, Ore. Phone BElmont 6-2187. Make wills There will be eight pages of material, To our pastors and missionary lead- and bequests payable to Western Oregon Con- printed on a good grade of paper. The ers who have worked so faithfully and ference Association of Seventh-day Adventists. prices are: 10 copies or more, 6 cents hard to make this achievement possible UPPER COLUMBIA each; 100 or more, 51/2 cents each; 1,000 we say again, "Thank you for your C. M. Bunker, President; L. W. Crooker, Sec- or more, 4% cents each. Orders should faithful leadership." And to all our retary-Treasurer; 1025 W. Indiana, Spokane 17, Wash. Phone FAirfax 7-6631. be sent promptly and directly to: Peri- members who have participated by WASHINGTON odical Department, Review and Herald singing, soliciting, and giving, we say N. R. Dower, President; L. R. 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