Digital Commons @ George Fox University Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church Evangelical Friend (Quakers) 8-1976 Evangelical Friend, July/August 1976 (Vol. 9, No. 11) Evangelical Friends Alliance Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_evangelical_friend Recommended Citation Evangelical Friends Alliance, "Evangelical Friend, July/August 1976 (Vol. 9, No. 11)" (1976). Evangelical Friend. 56. https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_evangelical_friend/56 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church (Quakers) at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Evangelical Friend by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. I I I ..... ----... 4 EVANGELICAL FRIEND "I sought for a man . .. that should ... stand in the gap I ... but I found none." HT BY PAUL THORNBURG "I SOUGHT FOR A MAN" cried God The first book on "Pastoral Theology" of the Bible, methods of Christian educa­ in Ezekiel 22:30 " ... [a man to] stand has been translated into Kirundi with the tion, theology, and personal evangelism in the gap ... but I found none." We aid of one of the first seminary graduates for people who would never be able to are all aware of a sort of leadership crisis and is now being studied by its first class leave their work to go to school. in this groping world. This need for of over fifty students, who will never live A second concern, to help men who well-equipped, Bible-centered leaders is on campus or come for studies but will are standing in the gap, is being brought quite a concern to us in Burundi. Even be enrolled in our files as students. We to our attention these days. The people though we enjoy directing and teaching are giving the first final exam to the first of our area and culture are essentially in a Bible institute and seminary that is class in a few days. By next year we "oral learners" rather than "reading supposed to supply this need, we have not hope to have several hundred students learners." Information is passed on by been gratified with the results. The enrolled. This appears to be the most word of mouth. The government uses young men coming out of Bible school exciting and profitable venture in many radio to inform its people, and many are too young and immature to be taken years. There is enthusiasm on the part cannot read. There are weekly and bi­ into church leadership, and to get a of the learners. Our problem is to keep weekly hill meetings with representatives student through the seminary takes eight ahead of them in translating and printing. from all families. African leaders have years, so there is a great time lag while been asking why we do not have a center At this very moment . "in due waiting. for meetings of pastors, elders, teachers, time" . God is meeting a great and for spiritual renewal, for encouraging Something interesting is happening crying need. Our Christians are menaced present leaders and for bringing in special right before our eyes. Just this last two by many multiplying "isms" from all speakers for a few days to speak and months while regarding the needs on so directions. Nothing but Bible-based teach specific groups. Here at Mweya many fronts . pastors, elders, out­ teaching and guidance will hold them we have ample acreage for such a camp school teachers needing further training steady. We witnessed with great concern site. We could have "holiness camp meet­ and Bible study, we saw a great shaft of and sorrow the brainwashing of one of ings" as well as youth camps and the light. To answer the financial and logistic our church elders who was put into whole gamut of church-building seminars problems of bringing these men to the forced confinement with a Jehovah's Wit­ for all denominations. This would be in Bible school, we now have an active TEE ness. When he returned home he was so use the year around since it would not be (Theological Education by Extension) muddled up that even after months of tied to any other schedule. Such a pro­ program to take the school to them. prayer and counsel he still feels that gram, if developed, will need consider­ Jesus has already returned and taken the able prayer, planning, and finance. We Christians and we are in the tribulation Paul Thornburg, with his wife Leona believe that if it is in God's plan He will with little hope. He refuses to return to and family, has served faithfully for lead us a step at a time. church services. We hope to prevent several terms on Kansas Yearly Meeting's Both of these exciting ventures, TEE mission field in Burundi, Africa. Within casualties like this and to have courses and an available camp site, are worthy the last few months a breakthrough in for elders, pastors, Sunday school teach­ and obtainable objectives for 1976. We the training of national leadership has ers, and other laymen available soon. developed in that country, TEE­ pray that as God looks at the field of Theological Education by Extension-a Next month at the Bible Institute, we Burundi, He will see no gaps-but will program proving to be extremely effective will be having intensive training for lead­ see many men and women, young and in overcoming the common problems ers of TEE centers. We hope to have old living and teaching the precious of finances and logistics. centers in many communities for study Word of God. ~1 JULYI AUGUST 1976 5 RALPH BEEBE AMERICA COVER THE BEAUTIFUL? "America the Beautiful"-a statement of 2 fact or a question? Designed by Stan Put­ man and using the works of several photo­ PAUL THORNBURG I SOUGHT graphers, our cover centers on the idea that AMAN America's "beauty" is mainly determined by 4 her variety of people-what they are and do. DAVID R. EKSTEDT HELP US BRING ANTECEDENTS NEW LIFE The editors extend appreciation to Ralph 6 Beebe for writing and coordinating an excel­ lent series on America's Bicentennial since JACK L. WI LLCUTS EDITORIALS April 1975. With his usual insight into the larger scope of America's problems and her 9 role in the world, he ends the series this issue by writing on "America the Beautiful?" BEATRICE C. KINNEY He reviews our past 200 years-the ugly and A BICENTENNIAL the beautiful-and comes up with 18 practi­ FRIENDS MEETING cal suggestions that "may be a springboard 26 from which we [Christians] can begin to improve our country" this coming century. Related to Ralph Beebe's theme is David Ekstedt's "Help Us Bring New Life," a plea REGULAR FEATURES for the small church's plight in metropolitan America, caught between the affluence of Over the Teacup 10/ Books 10/ The Face of the World 11/ suburbia and the poverty of deteriorating First Day News 13/ What's New 17/ Friends Write 17/ transition zones. "Right at our doorsteps are Once upon a Time 18/ Friends Concerns 19/ thousands of lost sheep living in darkness Friends Gather 22/ Friends Record 25 as oppressive as any gloom of night lurking in the hearts of faraway heathen," David declares. "Where are the workers-the mis­ sionaries?" he asks. In reading Ralph Beebe's and David Ek­ stedt's challenges, one could easily be con­ vinced that America itself is our greatest mission field as we enter our third century. May we rise to the challenge of man's total needs on the entire globe! -H. T.A. EVANGELICAL FRIEND Editor-in-Chief: Jack L. 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