Vol. 62 First Quarter, 1973 N O. 1 NORTHERN EUROPE-WEST AFRICA DIVISION Projects: • An assembly hall for Adventist Col- • Development program for Stanbor- lege of West Africa, Nigeria. ough Secondary School, England. [For clarification of projects, see page 2.] 0-.10•••••04 1.114 1...1•••,11”.•1•00Mr1,41•111.114 04•••.411 1.411•111.4•1.4101•1•11.1•1•110.11.10.1.411.414M.NMO.14=1.0•11.1.711 OVERFLOW PROJECTS NORTHERN EUROPE-WEST AFRICA DIVISION A. Stanborough School Development Program Overwhelmed by steeply rising building costs in Britain, the 1 British Union Conference has had to turn away from its 'L225,- 000 (US$580,500) program to something less expensive. Yet the needs are tremendous. The plan now is to: 1. Use the present primary school, which is only five years old and near the secondary school, for secondary edu- cation. 2. Build a new primary school on a new site. 3. Use some of the present multipurpose secondary school building for dormitory accommodation. However, this older building will require substantial modification to meet present-day fire regulations. It is to provide this extra dormitory accommodation that half of the Thirteenth Sabbath Offering overflow will be applied. B. Hall for the Adventist College in West Africa, Nigeria The other half of the offering overflow will be used to provide a much-needed chapel-assembly hall for the Adventist College of West Africa. Established in 1959, the college is so crowded that the dormitory chapel has had to be turned into sleeping quarters. And still four or five students are crowded into every room. It is hard to keep pace with the rapidly increasing church mem- bership in Nigeria. 111.4.04.11•1114.0411.11141.0.1•1••01,411.1141.1140.••=16.14111•044 1.41n.l.n.dn64•441.ffbut.b.4.4.4mi.ak Nigeria extends mission work. Theology student, Florence Iyabo Ogunseso, at Adventist College of West Africa, displays Picture Rolls to be used in child evangelism. (CAPTION) SABBATH, JANUARY 6 Let us tell you first how much your offering to this division three years ago accomplished. One third Overflow Projects—Past of it went toward the purchase of and Present much-needed equipment for the growing publishing house in Po- by W. Duncan Eva land. Because of the Adventist lit- erature that this publishing house [W. Duncan Eva, president of the Northern handles, the printed page is being Europe-West Africa Division, worked for many greatly speeded to the people of years in the Trans-Africa Division as church Poland. school teacher, pastor, evangelist, and union Another third was used to help president. From 1954 to 1965 he was secretary of that division, and in 1966 was called from open work in the hitherto unen- the Secretarial Department of the General tered West African country of Up- Conference, where he hod served a short time, per Volta. There in the city of to his present post as president of the North- ern Europe-West Africa Division.] Ouagadougou (pronounced wa- ga-doo-goo) the Henri Kempf pio- The Northern Europe-West neer missionary family from Africa Division stretches from France, but recently returned from "Greenland's Icy Mountains" and Andrews University, are already the "Land of Fire and Ice" (Ice- hard at work. land) in the far north Atlantic The last third of the offering, southeastward to embrace the four $32,500, went toward the comple- Nordic countries of Denmark, tion of the Empress Zauditu (zow- Norway, Sweden, and Finland. It de' too) Adventist Hospital in Ad- gathers to its fold Poland and the dis Ababa. At the time, the Ethio- Netherlands on its way to the pian Union was still a part of this Emerald Isle across the Irish Sea. division. The Northern Europe- It then leaps two thousand miles West Africa Division is proud to to include Gambia, Sierra Leone, have been able to provide from Liberia, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, within its own territory almost two Ghana, Togo, Dahomey, and Ni- thirds of the total one million dol- geria, in its vast West African lars needed for the construction of Union. From all these countries the hospital. Now completed and more than 155,000 Sabbath School operated by a dedicated overseas members cordially greet your Sab- and national staff, it today serves bath School this first Sabbath of Ethiopia nobly. 1973. What are the plans for this quar- How grateful they are that their ter's overflow offering? We expect turn has come again at the close to divide it between two important of this quarter to receive from the educational projects—one in West Sabbath Schools of the world, the Africa, the other in Europe. Thirteenth Sabbath Offering over- The Stanborough School is the flow. In anticipation they say a big only Seventh-day Adventist sec- and appreciative THANK YOU! ondary school in the British TELL IT! THEY WILL ENJOY IT BETTER. 3 Union and draws young people, pace with the expanding needs and including the children of mission- to provide for the future, the aries, from many parts of the shape of which is already easily world. Its facilities are old and in- discernable, ACWA's program adequate, and for some time the must be improved and expanded. British Union has been working And so here too, a carefully on a carefully prepared develop- phased development plan has ment plan. The offering overflow been worked out, and one half of is part of the plan of finance and this quarter's overflow is to be de- will make possible additional ur- voted to an essential need in the gently needed dormitory accom- senior college—a chapel or assem- modation. Seventh-day Adventist bly hall. young people who now must at- tend non-Adventist schools be- 11313E 1L The Northern Europe- cause there are no accommoda- West Africa Division believes in its tions available for them at Stan- youth. They will soon be bearing the borough School will then have the burdens others are laying down. In privilege of a Christian education. what better cause than the proper edu- West Africa is one of the most cation of its young people can the fruitful fields in all the world. It is church invest its money? Let us give growing in numbers and in ma- our future leaders the best possible turity. On Christmas Day, 1970, preparation and they will not disap- the first all-black conference on point us, nor, and this is infinitely the whole continent came into ex- more important, will they fail or dis- istence in Ghana. It is making appoint their Lord. good progress and is growing in strength and responsibility. There are other areas in West Africa that might fairly soon be ready to fol- SABBATH, JANUARY 13 low suit. In this connection one of the most urgent needs is for a larger number of well-trained and A Reputation in Faraway educated indigenous ministers and Places workers to meet the challenge of its populous and rapidly develop- by Alf Lohne ing countries. ACWA—Adventist College of [Alf Lohne is a native of Norway. He worked as an evangelist and conference president in West Africa—holds the key to the Norway, then served as president of the West church's future. For some years Nordic Union for sixteen years. Since 1967 he now it has offered limited work on has been secretary of the Northern Europe- the senior college level and has West Africa Division. Pastor Lohne is the author of four books printed in Norwegian, produced promising and produc- Danish, and Greenlandic.] tive workers, some of whom are successfully carrying heavy respon- The fifty-bed capacity Jengre sibilities as leaders. But to keep SDA Hospital in North Nigeria 4 WORLD MISSION REPORT does not rank among the big ones care of him. Dr. Bland cut loose in Africa, but it certainly fills its the contraction and did some place as a true mission institution. grafting on Jimmy's leg from other A Nigerian chaplain conducts wor- parts of his body. He and the ship every morning in the lan- nurses did their utmost for the boy. guage of the people, and a nurse To the joy of all and the surprise gives simple health instruction and of many, the day came when demonstrations to the large groups Jimmy left the hospital and re- of outpatients waiting their turn to turned home to his village walking see the doctor. Six hundred students on his own feet. No wonder that fill the classrooms of the primary during the next weeks and months school attached to the hospital— a stream of patients with leg prob- all taught by Nigerian Seventh-day lems flooded to the hospital. Adventist teachers. Unfortunately, not all cases Some of the patients travel up turn out as well as Jimmy's. One to four hundred miles, beginning evening, after Dr. Bland had gone their journey on narrow savannah to bed, a man knocked on the door trails, riding on mules, carried by and pleaded for his sick wife. Mrs. friends, or simply wheeled on a Bland went along with her hus- bicycle. They continue by lorry band on this late visit. They trav- and truck on some of the world's eled by car as far as the road per- most dusty roads in the dry season mitted ; the last part they went by or on nearly impassable roads dur- foot on winding paths through the ing the rainy season. bush. There was no moon, so only Why do they come from such the flimsy light of torches guided faraway places as Sakoto and Ma- them.