Pacific UnionR April 15, 1974 / Volume 73, Number 40 / Angwin, California / Official Organ of the Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Honolulu Maranatha Project Next equipment to match their new six masons who laid more than building. Principal Earl Spaul- 10,000 cement blocks was ding says they still need about climbing the scaffolding with $5,000. his wooden leg. Brick-and-mortar, it seems, And now Maranatha prepares "Free Labor" of Love for Indian Mission were more quickly assembled again to assist the Pacific Un- than torches and tables, wires ion. Their June 10 and July 8 They laid down the tools of lumbia and Colorado they came But then the 149 students at and ovens. flights and three-week service their trade—those three physi- to join with Californians and AIMS waited—for furnishings stints will build a sanctuary cians, that mortgage-loan offi- to outfit the model kitchens in Workmen who gave of their Arizonans in the Maranatha for the Honolulu Central con- cer, the three pastors, this time ranged in age from 84- Project for Adventist Indian the home ec lab and sewing ma- gregation—in the Hawaiian mountaineering instructor, year-old Oscar Olson, a retired Mission School, Holbrook, Ari- chines that the girls might learn Mission where land alone costs those dozen homemakers, the carpenter of Berrien Springs, zona. a more-modern method of gar- in excess of a half-a-million x-ray technician, dentist, chem- Michigan; 74-year-old Joe Turk In three weeks, a 70 x 140 ment making. dollars. ist, rancher, commercial fisher- foot cement-block building for Old welding equipment and of Paradise, California, a re- men and those beekeepers. vocational arts instruction was hoists to elevate engines were tired carpenter; 73-year-old Maranatha Flights was in- From New Hampshire and erected, painted and almost reinstalled into the new auto Avard Gates, of West New- corporated three years ago, pri- Massachusetts, Tennessee and ready for occupancy. Only elec- mechanics quarters. Electrical, bury, Massachusetts, a retired marily to fly student mission- Alabama, New York and Michi- trical fixtures late in arriving drafting and homemaking arts metalspinner and woodworker; aries to their summer posts of gan, Illinois, Texas, British Co- were missing. classes continue to wait for to 18-year-old Jim Lindsay of duty. Then these business and Memphis, Tennessee, who took craftsmen pilots saw there was time out from pre-med studies more they could do. at Southern Missionary College, At Holbrook, for example, and six students from Thunder- their donated labor was valued bird Adventist Academy Flight at $90,000. In Hawaii, it could Club. well match the land cost. Most of the older workers crossed the country by bus. One Your prayers are solicited for Baptist lost $400 in income Maranatha workers, and your during his "free labor" of love gifts for both projects will be for the Indians. No one recog- welcomed too. nized the handicaps; one of the See more pictures on page 8. Dezer Benavides Will Coordinate Spanish Work in the Pacific Union Returning home to give a a great way. In fact, during new, strong leadership in co- the five years in Colombia- •ordinating the fast-growing Venezuela he was able to bap- Spanish work in tize more than 2,000 converts. the Pacific Un- In 1973 alone, he was the in- ion Conference strument of God for 750 souls. is Eliezer Bena- Another first to Elder Bena- vides. vides' credit is the first Spanish Before finish- Field School of Evangelism for ing his work at Andrews University held in La Sierra, El- Michigan, following his mas- der Benavides ter's degree in church leader- Eliezer Benavides entered the ship. Now in that conference work of the there are two Spanish groups. Southeastern California Confer- As the first full-time Span- ence in the Imperial Valley— ish coordinator in the Pacific impatient to get into the minis- Union (retired Elder Samuel try after two years in France Weiss was also an evangelist), and Germany during World Elder Benavides will oversee War II. In fact, from Septem- the work of all Spanish-speak- ber, 1951, to June of '67 he ing people and give emphasis served as pastor and/or evan- to the education of Spanish stu- gelist in every portion of the dents, especially to the minis- conference where there were try. Spanish-speaking individuals. Mrs. Benavides is the former (1) Bill Parker came from Huntsville, Ala- He was ordained at Riverside Esperanza Ayala and was born bama, to lay bricks, while (2) Larry Good- in 1956. in Phoenix, a few years after hew and his daughter, LaVonda, came from In the summer of 1967, Elder her husband's birth in San Diego. They have four children: Klamath Falls, Oregon, to lend their hands Benavides took his family to Colombia, South America. For Irene, graduating from Andrews of assistance. three years he was associated this summer; Armando; Samuel, (3) Dr. Olaf Hove of San Diego traded with the Asociacion del Alto Glendale Academy; and David, tools for a few days to work with Robert Magdalena in Bucaramanga, Glendale Elementary. Conibear of Sedona, Arizona. (4) Retired and the last three years he Pedro and Julia Benavides, Jonathan McFeters of Mountain View was served as the first ministerial the minister's parents, are re- not the oldest donating his time, (5) nor secretary for the Colombia- tired at Carlsbad, California. was AIMS electrical student Walter Hub- Venezuela Union in Medellin. His mother served as a Bible bard the youngest. Elder Benavides has through worker in Central and South- the years been used of God in eastern for 35 years. UTIHICASTERINI Charles Schultz Returns to Nepal News Notes Elder Charles Shultz, who 1.40 Elder R. L. Watts, pres- po The master plan for San has been the pastor of the Fall- vo Elder Carlos R. Malan has ently pastor at Indio, has been Pasqual Academy has been brook Church, has been asked been asked to serve as the pas- asked to serve as the new pas- completed and is waiting ap- by the General Conference of tor of the Calexico Church. The tor of the Fallbrook Church proval by San Diego County Seventh-day Adventists to re- old church has been razed and since Elder and Mrs. L. Charles and the City of San Diego. The construction will start on the turn to the Kingdom of Nepal. Shultz will be leaving shortly industrial building is already new church-auditorium as soon During the three years that for Nepal. completed. The next two proj- Elder Shultz previously had as plans clear the city building ects are the disposal plant and commission. been located in Nepal, he V Pastor Jerry Kunkel, as- the cafeteria. worked as •a 'health educator sociate pastor at the La Sierra and health evangelist. His work Church, has been assigned to Pastor and Mrs. Charles Schultz the pastorate of the Indio carried him along remote will once again be giving health mountain foot paths to isolated Church by the Executive Com- education to the people of Ne- Constituency Report of the Department of l . villages and to 'the capitol city mittee. of Kathmandu where he trained pal. Po Elder Mel Tompkins, pas- government 'health educators health and while they regret to tor of Bakersfield, has been and family planning workers in leave Fallbrook they can not called to be one of the associate the use of hand puppets as a help but be drawn by Nepal and pastors of the La Sierra Laymen's Activitiesi teaching media. its need for improved physical Church. He has accepted the in- Kenneth H. Livesay, Director Since no one has been found and spiritual health. vitation and will move shortly. to carry on the work that Elder The objective of the department of laymen's activities is service to Shultz began in Nepal in this the laymen of our churches in cooperation with the pastoral staff. The director serves the conference administration to promote the annual area of health education, he has Corona Plans Homecoming and Founder's Day programs in the Signs, Ingathering, and avenues of all lay ministries been asked to return to con- which include Community Services. tinue the work that he started The Corona Church cordially tion of 10 acres where the new there. invites all former members and facilities will be constructed. PERSONAL EVANGELISM: God has given the Adventist Church "The religious beliefs of these friends of the church to a The program will commence some directives that affect the work and the influence of total evan- gelism. In the book Ministry of Healing, page 149, we have a most Hindu and Buddhist people are Home-coming and a Founder's at 9:30 a.m. and will continue Day, April 27, 1974. challenging directive: "Every church should be a training school for particularly fascinating," says through a Fellowship Dinner Christian workers. Its members should be taught how to give Bible Elder Shultz, "and it is inter- The history of the church and following the church service. readings I studies], how to conduct and teach Sabbath School classes, esting that they consider Satur- the official unveiling of the pro- Officials of the city will be in how to best help the poor and to care for the sick, how to work for day to be the Sabbath day or posed church facilities which attendance. All guests are in- the unconverted." their day of rest, even as Sev- are planned will be held. Plans vited to attend the Fellowship To fulfill this mandate, this department has been invited to con- enth-day Adventists believe." are being laid for the dedica- Dinner.