1,14,016adiirMSFAKAIM,K 4Pv,PIAF ti . `Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation." Mark 16:15 NIV * The President's Outlook * Church expected to create and devise programs and ideas of how the church work should pro- Oaliroc7k gress. These programs and ideas in turn Official organ of the Mid-America Union Conference of Ministries were passed on to the next lower organiza- Seventh-day Adventists, P.O. Box 6128 (8550 Pioneers tional level, and so on until they at last Blvd.), Lincoln, NE 68506. (402) 486-2550. Editor's Note: For the next few months, reached the local church. This was the Editor James L Fly Elder Joel Tompkins has decided to share accepted procedure for years in the Ad- Editorial Assistant Shirley B. Engel his editorial space with the Mid-America ventist church for carrying on its work. Typesetter Cheri D. Winters Union departmental directors so they can With the coming of Church Ministries, a Printer Christian Record Services communicate to our readers the most impor- new approach has been introduced which Change of address: Give your new address with zip code tant issues involving their departments in the basically starts at the local conference level and include your name and old address as it appeared on operation of the church. instead of at the General Conference. At the previous issues. (If possible clip your name and address local conference level, the departmental from an old OUTLOOK.) The new Church Ministries Department director sits with his conference president has been in existence since the last General and hammers out a program based on what Conference Session. Much of the reorgani- he has found the local church needs within z=E .11 id-America Union zation which this new department calls for that ministry. When that departmental .7 ',EVENT, I 0. ADVIATN, has taken place at the division and union director comes to a union departmental levels of our church government. At the council, he does not come looking for new Mid-America Union Directory local conference level, five of our six confer- programs from the higher organization. President J 0. Tompkins Secretary George Timpson ences have a Church Ministries director in Now, the director comes to such a council Treasurer Duane P. Huey place and are making an effort to adjust to and shares with other Church Ministries Assistant Treasurer Arthur Opp the new department. directors the "orders" and programs he/she Adventist Health System As the talk goes in the higher levels of our has received from his/her president. In this Middle & Eastern J. R. Shawver Church Ministries Ken L. Bushnell organization, Church Ministries is here to sharing process, a common denominator is Communication, A.S I James L. Fly stay; and after the 1990 General Conference developed where the directors are able to Education Don Keele Session, the local churches will not only recommend union-wide programs which Associate Education Melvin E. Northrup hear more about Church Ministries, but they know their presidents have already Health, Temperance, Inner City George Timpson also begin to feel the effects of the reorgani- endorsed. The Union, Division, and Gen- Ministerial & Evangelism James A. Cress zation which will take place in the local eral Conference give support and guidance Publishing and HHES Hoyet L. Taylor churches. Change will come, and the new on how the local conference program can Associate Publishing William Dawes department will be an integral part of the be most effectively carried out. Associate Publishing/HHES Bob Belmont Religious Liberty D. J. Huenergardt church program. The main idea of this new approach is Trust Services George Woodruff One of the changes that has already taken that the local conference president and his place, and will continue as the new Church officers (secretary and treasurer), working Local Conference Directory Ministries Department reaches into the with his departmental directors, form pro- CENTRAL STATES: J. Paul Monk, President; Phyllis Ware, acting Secretary-Treasurer, 5737 Swope Parkway, Kansas City, MO local churches, is the thinking of church grams based on the felt and fundamental 64130; Telephone (816) 361-7177. Correspondent, Nathaniel leaders and laity in terms of relating to pro- needs of their local churches. These pro- Miler grams, methods and ideas which somewhat grams are designed to lead the churches to DAKOTA CONFERENCE: Don Shelton, President; Marvin traditionally have come from the General the ultimate need—Jesus Christ. The higher Lowman, Secretary; Douglas Hilliard, Treasurer; P.O. Box 520, 217 North Grand, Pierre, SD 57501; Telephone (605) 224-8868. Conference to the local churches. This organizations give support and guidance ABC, Star Route 9, Box 170, Bismarck, ND 58501; Telephone procedure is referred to as "going through rather than programs to the local confer- (701) 258-6531. Correspondent, Marvin Lowman the channels." In organizational jargon it is ence. IOWA-MISSOURI: W. D. Wampler, President; Walter Brown, called a line relationship. In the past the Ken Bushnell, Church Ministries Director Secretary; G. T. Evans, Treasurer; P.O. Box 65665, 1005 Grand Mid-America Union Conference Ave., West Des Moines, IA 50265; Telephone (515) 223-1197. General Conference leadership has been Correspondent, Herb Wrate KANSAS-NEBRASKA: Gordon Retzer, President; J. Roger McQuistan, Secretary; Norman Harvey, Treasurer; 3440 Urish Road, Topeka, KS 66614-4601; Telephone (913) 478-4726. Outlook for April ABC, 4745 Prescott, Lincoln, NE 68506; Telephone (402) 488- 3395. Correspondent, John Trento MINNESOTA: C. Lee Huff, President; Raymond R. Rouse, Guerrillas For God page 4 Secretary-Treasurer; 7384 Kirkwood Court, Maple Grove, MN 55369; Telephone (612) 424-8923. Correspondent, Barbara Huff ROCKY MOUNTAIN: Don C. Schneider, President; Marshall VOP Harvesttime Rally Gleans Lincoln Listeners page 8 Chase, Secretary-Treasurer, 2520 So. Downing, Denver, CO 80210; Telephone (303) 733-3771. Correspondent, Don C. Schneider Recommitment Dished Up Via Satellite page 10 UNION COLLEGE: 3800 South 48th Street, Lincoln, NE 68506; Telephone: (402) 488-2331. Correspondent, Linda Dick What To Do With Doubt page 12 Vol. 10, No. 4, April, 1989. The Mid-America Adventist OUT- LOOK (ISSN 0887-977X) is published monthly by the Mid- America Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, 8550 Pio- Outlook On The Cover neers Blvd., Route 8, Lincoln, NE 68506. Printed at Christian Record Services, Second-class postage paid at Lincoln, Nebraska. Apra. Pastor Ernesto Maldonado of Villa Alegre, Chile, prepares to baptize one of 74 candidates at Annual subscription price, $8.00. POSTMASTER: Send address Providencia, Eden Valley Institute's newest overseas mission in South America. Looking on is Pastor changes to Mid-America Adventist OUTLOOK, P.O. Box 6128, Jorge Lezana Ortega of Constitution. Students from Providencia helped Pastor Lezana Ortega conduct Lincoln, NE 68506. a successful evangelistic crucadP there last fall. 2 OUTLOOK April, 1989 had just completed the sermon on my way! I have my friends, and I don't want to Treasure comes in many forms. Many I favorite topic, "Adventist Christian change." They reached a compromise tend to think of it in terms of gold, silver, Education," in the small rural church. After agreement. Scott would attend the first gems, stock, bonds and certificates of the greetings and exchanges at the door, semester of his fifth grade year. If he was deposit. However, as Christians we readily Scott stepped up to share his story and not happy after that, he could transfer back acknowledge that our most priceless testimony. to public school. treasures are the children and youth that Scott was raised by his parents without Scott went on to say, "In that five-eight God has entrusted to us as families and as a religious training. His mother had been multi-grade room I stood out like a sore church. Many are experiencing the reared in an Adventist home but during her thumb. Bad language, poor study habits, satisfaction and peace of mind that comes turbulent teens had left the church of her and baloney sandwiches with white bread. from a "secured investment" in the children childhood and married a non-believing man But I had a wonderful, caring teacher. That and youth. who was to become an alcoholic and woman loved me. She helped me so much, How are they doing it? By making the abusive husband and father. and I love her to this day. She turned my church's schools a major depository for Subsequently divorced and desirous of life around. I had no religious training at their "priceless treasure." These investments putting her life back together, she strongly home. I got it all at school. I know that are reaping rewarding dividends now and desired to help her son and expressed her runs against the odds, but it has never left greater returns to come when they fully wishes for him to attend the local Adventist me. That's why just recently I've moved mature in eternity. school. His immediate response was, "No back to this valley. I'm determined that my Scott knows where he will be placing his treasure for a "secured investment" because he knows that Adventist Christian schools have something special—THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE—JESUS CHRIST. Secured Investments There are thousands attending Adventist Christian schools that feel the same way as Scott does. Listen to these former and BY G. L. PLUBELL current students' comments. "I've forgotten the symbol for potassium, but I remember the teacher who