MESSENGER, CHURCH PAPER FOR SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS IN THE BRITISH ISLES VOLUME 84 NUMBER 8/9 13 APRIL NEW PUBLISHING DIRECTOR FOR BRITAIN by Pastor E. H. Foster, president, British Union Conference WE are very happy to inform the Union. The Fidelia family plan to be constituency of the appointments of in England by 2 May. Pastor Roland Fidelia as Publishing Pastor Fidelia's experience, en- director of the British Union Con- thusiasm and dedication, we are ference. sure, will provide strong leadership We most heartily welcome Pastor to the literature ministry. There are and Mrs. Fidelia and their family to many challenges to be met in this the work in the British Isles. area of service and we believe your . Roland and Valerie Fidelia, with their children For twelve years they have served prayers and your encouragement will Gerard, Alain and Harvey. Baby Claire was still unborn when this photograph was taken. in West Africa. Currently Pastor sustain Pastor Fidelia as he dis- On behalf of the membership in Britain MES- Fidelia is Publishing and Communi- SENGER welcomes them to service in this charges his responsibilities. country. cation director of the West African OFFERING FROM WORLD CHURCH TO BENEFIT STANBOROUGH SCHOOL PART of the Thirteenth Sabbath Over- flow offering for the second quarter of 1979 is to go to Stanborough Secondary School. This is an offering to which Sabbath School members throughout the World Church contribute. It has been decided to appropriate the proceeds to the building of a new school hall/gymnasium. It is anticipated that the offering will meet only a por- tion of the total cost and much faith is placed in the generosity of private donors. Stanborough Park's Estate Hall — the 'tin tabernacle' — has served the school as an assembly hall since it was built as a 'temporary structure' not long after World War II. According to ex-head- master, Dr. Edward E. White, even at the time of construction 'it was more like a huge barn, draughty and ugly.... While it served a useful purpose it was always regarded by some with disdain, • by others as a bad joke.' In this issue . Page 4 On the Air in Birmingham Left: Headmaster Derrick Mason and senior master, Phillip Richards, discuss the plans for the new school assembly hall/gymnasium drawn up by Malcolm Bayliss. Page 12 SDAs on Woman's Hour Top: Two sixth formers, Robert Beardsell and Geoffrey Smith, hard at work in the physics laboratory. Page 16 W. L. Emmerson on the new Bottom: Colin Powell learns the Master's craft from master craftsman and woodwork master, Terry Menkens. Photos Paul Sundquist Pope. gelism in Londonderry and Coleraine News in pictures from July to the end of November in order to consolidate the work along Ulster's north coast. In March 1980 Pastor Currie has been invited to conduct a 'reaping' campaign in Cornwall, following a variety of pre- paratory activities which are planned for the interim. New official name for Church Youth organization The General Conference has authorized the name 'Seventh-day Adventist Youth' in the place of 'Missionary Volunteers' as the official name for the Church youth organization. 'Adventist Youth' is recog- nized as an acceptable shortened version of the whole name. Fourth previous student to join Stanborough School Staff The Stanborough School is commending itself well to the student body in so far as a fourth, former student — Miss Brenda Lewis — plans to join the staff in Septem- ber. D. C. Clothier returning from Mission service Pastor D. C. Clothier, after having com- pleted his term of service as president of the North Nigerian Mission, will be re- turning to Britain in August to take up an appointment in the South England Conference. As March winds gusted their squalls of hail over and around Stanborough Park, passions were also blowing up a storm. The scene, in a small way, resembled Blitz- Stewardship year 1980 krieg over Poland, with bulldozers instead of tanks. They had come to take our trees The General Conference has designated away and to replace them with parking bays, widened roads and, apparently yet 1980 as 'Stewardship Year' when special more signs. Most Holy Row residents thought it a poor exchange and were boiling emphasis will be given to the blessings up an unholy row. Other interested parties joined in. For a time the BUC switchboard which accrue to faithful stewards. was jammed. Someone quipped: 'Plant a tree in '73; plant a sign in '79.' For the W.1.A. benefit of those who are turned on by cherry blossom rather than tar macadam The Stanborough Press photographic department have produced a montage of last year's Distinguished visitor at BUC Office blossoms and the Stanborough Park management have planted more trees. Photos John Pasco Dr. Roy E. Graham visited the Union Office on Wednesday, 28 March en route to Spicer Memorial College (India), where he is to lecture at the Andrews IN TOUCH WITH BRITISH UNION NEWS University Extension School being held there 6 April — 8 May. On account of his Missions presidents' re-appointment L. P. Anderson appointed ABC modesty and our lack of communication to office manager/HHES treasurer we have never expressed through the The constitutions of the two missions Pastor L. P. Anderson, presently serving medium of the MESSENGER our congratu- require the BUC Committee to appoint as district leader at Wolverhampton, has lations to Pastor Graham on his attain- presidents mid-way between Union Ses- been called to head the new ABC/HHES ment of the Ph.D. degree from Birming- sions. Consequently, at the March meet- programme at The Stanborough Press. ham University in July of last year. His ing, Pastors E. Logan and R. H. Surridge The new position calls for preaching research thesis was entitled, 'Ellen G. were re-appointed for a further term of and promotional skills with reference to White: An Examination of Her Position service as presidents of the Welsh and church visitation; and administrative and and Role in the Seventh-day Adventist Irish Missions respectively. financial expertise as far as the office Church'. Our belated but nevertheless programme is concerned. Pastor Ander- sincere congratulations are offered to Dr. Graham on this achievement. G. S. Crutchfield renders special son is looking forward to the challenge. Another significant milestone in Roy's service in Tanzania Annual General Meeting — varied denominational career was his In response to an appeal from the Afro- appointment as Provost of Andrews Uni- Mideast Division, Pastor G. S. Crutch- World-Wide Advent Missions versity on 15 March 1979. In this posi- field has been released by the South Eng- At the AGM of World-Wide Advent tion he discharges the responsibilities of land Conference to conduct a six-week Missions on 20 March 1979, the board the second executive officer of that evangelistic campaign in Tanzania, members voted unanimously to express notable institution. E.H.F. where Pastor Derek Beardsell serves as appreciation to all churchmembers who Union president. Meetings commence on participated in the 1978 campaign, when 27 May. a record total of £190,720.79 was raised POSTAL DELAYS for the Church's outreach programme YOUR Union ABC and The Stanborough Press wish to apologize for the delays experienced in Dates for Mission Sessions, 1980 receiving supplies. This is due to industrial dis- The dates for the two Missions Sessions Schedule for Union evangelist putes both in the U.S. and our own postal system. in 1980 are as follows: Ireland, 13-15 Pastor A. D. C. Currie has been invited We are unable to post to London or Eire at the moment. Please allow a FULL 4 WEEKS for June; Wales, 5-7 July. to extend the period of his public evan- other areas. 2 EDITORIAL To a member in good and regular standing I heard about it from a friend, much Adventists in at least two other countries.) them: "Dead to the world. The end of given to dramatic hats and irregular hours. Have you noticed it? all things is at hand. Be ye also ready". It had been received through the post and God probably has a word for it be- They looked just like all the vain ones expressed a point of view of which the cause He knows the heart. I can only around them . .. They were in the broad sender was not proud. That can be as- note the symptoms — for this week any- way, yet they professed to be of the sumed from the fact that it was unsigned. way. With the Bible in one hand and the number who are travelling the narrow In place of a signature was typed the Spirit of Prophecy in the other we might way.'4 legend, 'From a Member in Good and find a few broad hints as to the nature A dual carriage-way in God's last Regular Standing'. of the condition, when space allows. Church, then, with Members in Good and It was Friday and soon my Beetle was Symptoms, then. And at least one New Regular Standing in both north and south chewing up the miles of the motorway, Testament writer thought that you can lanes. But God's servant saw that this homeward bound. I had time for cogi- deduce a fair bit from the symptoms.2 polarization or shaking times would occur • tation. And like the gossamer that idles At one end of the polarity is a group not long before Jesus comes. We need to in the wanton summer air (except that it just to talk to whom makes you feel that wake up to the challenge of the task still was winter) that phrase kept playing your soul has been watered.