The Mid-America Adventist Outlook for 1986 - Vol. 07 - No. 11

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November, 1986(cid:9) Mid-America Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
"In every thing give thanks;
for this is the will of God
in Christ Jesus concerning
you." 1 Thessalonians 5:18
* The President's Outlook *
Ott Look
Mid-America's
Century has left deep scars among the Sioux
and other Native American tribes.
Mission Field Alcoholism and poverty continue to con-
Official organ of the Mid-America Union Conference of
trol the lives of many which makes it espe-
Seventh-day Adventists, P.O. Box 6127 (8550 Pioneers
cially difficult to reach them with the gos- Blvd.), Lincoln, NE 68506. [phone].
pel. Understandably, some perceive
Christianity as only the "white man's Editor (cid:9) James L. Fly
Assistant Editor (cid:9) Shirley B. Engel
religion". Typesetter (cid:9) Cheri Winters
Those who have worked among the Printer (cid:9) Christian Record Braille Foundation
Sioux believe the answer lies in teaching the
Change of address: Give your new address with zip code
principles of Christianity to the children at
and include your name and old address as it appeared on
an early age so their attitudes and habits will previous issues. (If possible clip your name and address
influence future generations. That is why from an old OUTLOOK.)
the Pine Ridge Mission operates an elemen-
News from local churches and schools for publication in
tary school as its main outreach.
the OUTLOOK must be submitted through the local
A dozen non-Adventist Sioux children conference Communication Department, not directly to
are eating two hot meals a day and studying the OUTLOOK office.
under the loving discipline of their teacher.
Mid-America Union Directory
It takes special people to work in an isolated
President (cid:9) J 0. Tompkins
situation such as this, people like Wilbur Secretary (cid:9) George Timpson
Joel 0. Tompkins
and Jan Mauk and their family. Treasurer (cid:9) Duane P. Huey
A mission field is wherever we live, The Boulder, Colorado Church Youth Assistant Treasurer (cid:9) Arthur Opp
Adventist Health System
wherever there are people who don't know Club and the education majors from Union
Middle & Eastern (cid:9) J. R. Shawver
about the gospel of Jesus Christ. But when College annually make the Pine Ridge Mis- Church Ministries (cid:9) Ben J. Liebelt
Christians use the term "mission field" they sion a special project. They have helped Communication, A.S I(cid:9) James L. Fly
often mean a Third World country where with maintenance and construction and Education (cid:9) Don Keele
Associate Education (cid:9) Melvin E. Northrup
the culture is different and the living stand- have conducted special health and spiritual
Health, Temperance,
ard is lower than in North America or programs for the people. Inner City (cid:9) George Timpson
Western Europe. If you get a chance, I would invite you to Ministerial & Evangelism
Recently I had an opportunity to visit visit Pine Ridge Mission too and help how- Coordinator (cid:9) James A. Cress
Publishing and HHES (cid:9) Hoyet L. Taylor
such a mission field right here in Mid- ever you can. It will open your eyes to
Associate Publishing (cid:9) William Dawes
America Union--the Pine Ridge Indian another culture and make you realize that Associate Publishing (cid:9) Lynn Westbrook
Reservation in South Dakota. you don't have to go overseas to find the Associate Publishing/HHES (cid:9) Bob Belmont
In fact, I think it may rank as one of the "mission field". Religious Liberty (cid:9) D. J. Huenergardt
Trust Services (cid:9) George Woodruff
most challenging mission fields in the It's right here in Mid-America.
world. The loss of their nomadic culture to Joel 0. Tompkins, President, Local Conference Directory
America's westward expansion in the 19th Mid-America Union Conference CENTRAL STATES: J. Paul Monk, President: E. F. Carter, Secre-
tary; Leroy Hampton, Treasurer; P.O. Box 1527, Kansas City, MO
64141, 5737 Swope Parkway, Kansas City, MO 64130; Telephone
[phone]. Correspondent, Nathaniel Miller
DAKOTA CONFERENCE: John Thurber, President; Wm. C.
Brown,Treasurer; Marvin Lowman, Secretary; P.O. Box 520, 217
Outlook for November
North Grand, Pierre, SD 57501; Telephone [phone].
ABC, Star Route 9, Box 170, Bismarck, ND 58501; Telephone
[phone]. Correspondent, Marvin Lowman
IOWA-MISSOURI: W. D. Wampler, President; Walter Brown,
Mid-America Youth Attend Bible Conference (cid:9) page 6 Secretary; G. T. Evans, Treasurer; P.O. Box 65665, 1005 Grand
Ave., West Des Moines, IA 50265; Telephone [phone].
Correspondent, Herb Wrate
Sickness Brings Life to Maurice (cid:9) page 7
KANSAS-NEBRASKA: Gordon Belzer. President; J. Roger
McQuistan, Secretary; Norman Harvey, Treasurer; 3440 Urish
Sunnydale Celebrates 40 Years (cid:9) page 8 Road, Topeka, KS 66614-4601; Telephone [phone].
ABC, 4745 Prescott, Lincoln, NE 68506; Telephone (402)
488-3395. Correspondent, Teddric Mohr
Union College Sponsors Basketball Outreach (cid:9) page 9
MINNESOTA: C. Lee Huff, President; Raymond R. Rouse,
Secretary-Treasurer; 7384 Kirkwood Court, Maple Grove, MN
55369; Telephone [phone]. Correspondent, Beverly Lamon
A Faithful Family (cid:9) page 10
ROCKY MOUNTAIN: Don C. Schneider, President; L. D. Cleve-
land, Secretary-Treasurer; 2520 So. Downing, Denver, CO 80210;
Family, Friends and Experience Prepare Telephone [phone]. Correspondent, Robert
McCumber
New Adventist Chaplain (cid:9) page 11
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November: Lincoln photographer Stanley Strange captured 12-year-old Lenora Surdal in a pensive address changes to Mid-America Adventist OUTLOOK, P.O. Box
mood at her home in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa last fall. Lenora has since moved to Nebraska with her family 6127, Lincoln, NE 68506.
where her mother, Cyndy, teaches at the Holland Elementary School about 15 miles south of Lincoln.
Lenora's 10-year-old brother, Jacob, also attends the school Her father, Kelvin, has been working as a
sales representative for a grain-drying equipment manufacturer.
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Sharing Their Hearts
At Pine Ridge
BY JAMES L. FLY
T
"(cid:9) he work among Native Americans 1880s a number of Sioux turned to the
will truly test the faith of this Ghost Dance Religion which promised that
church," Elder A. Leroy Moore, the dead warriors and the buffalo would
coordinator of Native American Missions come back to life and the white man would
for eleven years, has said. be driven forever from their land.
Perhaps no place symbolizes that On a December morning in 1890,
challenge more than Wounded Knee on the soldiers surrounded Chief Bigfoot's band
Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, camped on Wounded Knee Creek. The
home of the Sioux. Wounded Knee marked Sioux surrendered but when soldiers began
the last battle fought by the Plains Indians ransacking their lodges searching for
to keep the pioneers from taking over their weapons, an indignant brave opened fire.
hunting grounds. When the battle was over, 146 Sioux men,
Led by their great chief Crazy Horse, the women and children had been massacred.
Sioux won their most decisive victory when
they defeated Custer and his men at the The Mauks and the Catledges combine
Little Bighorn in 1876 but after that the their talents to run the Pine Ridge
U.S. Army pursued them relentlessly and Mission. Front row: Juanita and Lowell
confined them to reservations. Catledge. Back row: Jan, Wilbur and
Life on the reservations devastated a Dwayne Mauk. Right: A little Sioux girl
proud, self-sufficient people used to poses shyly in the front yard of her
roaming as free as eagles fly. In the late house.
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told me, punctuating her words with a
hearty laugh.
Spending a full day with the Mauks and
Catledges convinced me that Juanita was
telling the truth. Up at 6:45 in the early
morning chill as tentacles of sunlight
stabbed the darkness of the prairie, I met a
sleepy Dwayne Mauk at the 1972 van that
serves as the school bus.
He had to pick up four children but we
had to wait for a band of pinto ponies to
cross the road before we reached the first
house. He told me Sioux boys often jump
on one of the horses and ride bareback
across the plains like their ancestors used to.
"Wouldn't you rather be in college now
with young people your own age?" I asked
Dwayne who has started taking college by
correspondence in a special program
operated by Southwestern Adventist College.
Turning into the driveway of Mary
Belle's house, his first stop, Dwayne replied,
"I miss it a little but I know I'm needed
here. Besides, I think I mix well with people
and this won't last forever."
Dwayne honked the horn and Mary
Belle, a round-faced girl with raven-black
hair emerged from her house, rubbing her
eyes. We quickly picked up three boys,
Damien, Cameron and Jason, and headed
back to the mission.
"This is my favorite time of day," Lowell
Catledge greeted me, rubbing his hands
together with a gleam in his eyes. Judging
by the tantalizing aromas wafting from
Juanita's pots and pans in the school
Defeated and in despair, they, like many the people more effectively than any
other tribes, began drinking the white man's seminary graduate could.
liquor to soothe their pain while they Wilbur's wife, Jan, teaches the dozen
became dependent on government aid to non-Adventist children in the elementary
survive. Today, reservation Indians, half the school. Like Wilbur, she has no degree but
total number in the U.S., still have the gained experience while teaching their son,
highest unemployment, poorest health and Dwayne, at home. Besides teaching, Jan
lowest education of any U.S. group. plans all the morning and noon meals and
Nobody understands the challenge of keeps the books.
trying to communicate the gospel of Jesus Nineteen-year-old Dwayne Mauk drives the
and the Adventist message to the 18,000 school bus and does general maintenance
Sioux living on the Pine Ridge Reservation work on the mission. Wilbur's mother,
better than a hardworking family from the Juanita Catledge, runs the Dorcas Center
Northwest who are sharing their hearts with and cooks all the meals while her husband,
a people who in many ways buried theirs at Lowell, serves as the janitor and gardener.
Wounded Knee.
Wilbur Mauk, a 43-year-old former Combining Their Talents
diesel mechanic, directs the Dakota Snip. Snip. Snip. Juanita Catledge's
Conference-sponsored Pine Ridge Mission scissors cut methodically into old garments
while pastoring the Pine Ridge and Martin as she made quilt pieces in the Dorcas Room.
Churches and a company at Red Shirt "Jan and Wilbur were here a short time Top Left: Jan Mauk helps one of her
Table. He doesn't have a degree in theology when they realized they needed help so they students with his lesson. Above: Wilbur
but his deep personal study of the Bible and called Lowell and me. We all have to use Mauk plays softball with the children
his practical experience help him minister to our talents to make the mission work," she during recess.
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kitchen, I could understand why he felt that
way and if the eager faces of the Sioux
children were any indication as they lined
up, they probably shared the same opinion.
After a breakfast of egg gravy over
homemade biscuits, Wilbur read one of
Uncle Arthur's bedtime stories to the
children. Then as Juanita and Lowell
cleaned up the kitchen and Dwayne
manhandled a second plate of food, Jan
headed upstairs to start school.
Wilbur and I stood in the doorway
watching Jan take control of her neat,
orderly classroom and begin writing a Bible
verse on the blackboard.
"My wife is my pride and joy. She's done
a tremendous job in improving the
discipline of the children and the
appearance of the classroom. She doesn't
have a degree but I'll put her up against any
other elementary school teacher," Wilbur
said.
Soon Dwayne scouted ahead of us on a
four-wheel all-terrain vehicle as Wilbur and
I in the bus swayed and lurched up and
down hills dotted with sandstone
formations and miniature sunflowers. In
rainy weather, this dirt road can sink the
school bus to the hubs of its wheels so we
were thankful it was dry.
I stood by as Wilbur visited the mother
of Carl and Sissie, two of their students.
Before he left, he prayed with her and gave
her a Listen magazine.
Top: Wilbur Mauk drives the 1972 school bus over a dirt road to visit two of the
students' mother. Above: Eager students line up as Jan Mauk and Juanita Catledge
serve breakfast. The government furnishes commodities such as milk. Left: Striking a
pose reminiscent of his ancestors, a Pine Ridge boy watches the softball game.
While Wilbur played softball with the Ridge Adventist student at Union College
children during recess, Jan talked to me this year. He is studying elementary
about the initial culture shock she education and wants to help his own people
experienced as a missionary teacher. when he graduates.
"My first year was a real challenge but You may not be able to visit Pine Ridge
I've learned to adapt. You must understand Mission yourself, but you could help them
that this is not middle-class America. This is purchase a Chevrolet Suburban four-wheel
the Sioux Nation." drive vehicle that they desperately need to
That evening Virginia Simmons of Union help bus the elementary school children in
College's Education Department and Union the winter and take the secondary students
College food service director Pat Parmele to Holbrook Indian Mission School in
arrived at the mission to prepare for the Arizona.
weekend visit of 50 Union College If you're interested, please contact
education majors. They were coming to Wilbur Mauk at Pine Ridge Mission, P.O.
experience another culture, do volunteer Box 380, Pine Ridge, SD, 57770, (605)
work and conduct worship services. Among 867-5490.
them was Allen Blue Dog, the only Pine That way you can share your heart too.*
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attitudes and behavior within the church.
But as I reminisce over the Bible conference
and all youth ministries in Adventism, I'm
encouraged. Jesus warned it would be as
wicked as Noah's and Sodom and
Gomorrah's time when He returns. How
grateful I am for every individual youth
who respects God, His truth, His church, its
leaders; youth who respect parents and all
sponsors who give them a chance to be
saved and to save others. It's astounding
how bright and talented they are. They can
effectively lead the future church, if and
when they so choose. There is so much to
encourage us!
The youth participated with music,
prayer, skits and testimonials. A special
group from Campion named "Reflection"
gave an unforgettable presentation. It was a
modern version of what it could be like to
be hunted down in order to be tortured and
killed, just for being a Christian. It was a
solemn undertaking for teenagers. Slides
and music interspersed the acting. It was
deeply intense and called for strenuous
mature acting in order to come through as
Mid-America Youth it should. Lines were well memorized; even
highly emotional scenes were effectively
enacted (including tears at times). These
youth really put their souls into their
Attend Bible Conference presentation. It was much more than acting
and came through to the audience in a very
positive way. They are receiving invitations
to witness to youth in various parts of the
nation. On the Campion campus, many
BY BEN J LIEBELT
young people consider it a distinct privilege
to be a part of this activity.
P
ublic schools do not sponsor Bible 3. "Finding A Mate" - Larry Unterseher, With the Union College group was
Conferences, and they shouldn't. But Dakota Conference Angelo Nanocchio, a convert to the
it's understandable and credible that the 4. "Finding Salvation" - Rich Carlson, message. He presented the lesson study.
Adventist education system, its youth chaplain, Union College Afterwards I got acquainted with him. In
leaders, conference administration and 5. "Finding Peace" - Jim Brauer, Kansas- Colorado Springs a few years back, he
committed, sacrificing parents bring Nebraska Conference attended meetings held by Dale Brusett. For
together youth in Bible Conferences. I wish These presentations were very a time he fought and resisted certain truths;
you could have been at our most recent one. fundamental and straight, and the youth but finally surrendered to the Holy Spirit.
These youth are chosen from their were responsive and accepting. These youth His wife turned against him and divorced
academies to represent their school at the were warm and loving as they mingled him. He lives alone with their five-year-old
union Bible conference. Academy together. They manifested the same attitude daughter and is a senior at Union College.
leadership is to be commended for the fine toward the adults present. I was impressed He has paid the price, not only to be an
youth they selected and brought. This year when in the prayer groups and during Adventist as a single parent, but has studied
the conference was held at Broken Arrow breaks, students would seek out fellow to be a worker for the Lord.
Ranch near Manhattan, Kansas. Jim students or their chaperoning adults for one- In the last vesper service of the Bible
Brauer, youth director of Kansas-Nebraska, to-one expressions of appreciation, requests Conference, Rich Carlson minced no
and his staff were the hosts. for prayer, perhaps certain confessions, and words when he challenged the youth that
Much credit goes to Don Keele, union expressions of love. Often there were "when God says no, it means no". It
educational director and his wife, Della, for accompanying tears. I was deeply moved was very effective to hear him emphasize
their effective organization, coordination and wept with them. why it's best to obey God explicitly and
and direction of the entire conference. This The servant of the Lord affectionately not to rationalize some way around His
year's planning called for conference youth spoke about "such an army of youth" as the will.
directors to address issues vital to youth. church's most prized possession. If she were I came away from the conference saying
Five important subjects were effectively alive now to witness the wholesale to myself, "These youth were not brought
presented: desecration of true love, marriage, morality, to Broken Arrow Ranch for entertainment
1." Finding Self-Worth" - Fordyce Koenke, the home, and the inroads of alcohol and or to be fed spiritual pablum". I am deeply
Iowa-Missouri Conference drugs, I feel she would earnestly appeal to grateful that their spirit and commitment
2. "Finding Life Work" - Bob Reynolds, us to attempt to save our youth at any experienced there can help them to be a
Rocky Mountain Conference sacrifice. I thought on these things during positive influence for their school family
the conference. on their own home campus. Please pray
Ben J. Liebelt is church ministries Sometimes I'm tempted to despair when with me that it may be so all school
director for the Mid-America Union. I consider youth losses and some youth year.
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Sickness Brings Life
To Maurice
BY LIZ SWEENEY WALLS
I
n May of 1979, 19-year-old Maurice give it meaning and purpose.
Walls had a lot to live for. He'd recently "Liz and I began to talk about religion,"
attained the coveted rank of Fagle Scout. remembers Maurice. "She told me about
He'd been a tennis champion at his local Sabbath, the state of the dead, and other
high school. His ability as a debater had doctrines. One day I asked her if she would
won him several awards. He was a student pick me up for church. I don't know who
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was more shocked to hear me say that--she
preparing for a career as a corporate lawyer. or I."
Then one morning while on a summer "I did come and get him that Sabbath,"
home leave in Syracuse, New York, he had Liz puts in. "He hasn't missed a Sabbath
trouble getting out of bed. His left foot since except when ill."
didn't seem to be working properly. Maurice and Liz Walls Maurice learned much at Liz's church,
"At the time it didn't seem like anything the Northside Church in Lincoln. He began
serious," says Maurice in retrospect. "I magazines. to study with the pastor, Marcius Siquiera,
assumed I had sprained my ankle at the In addition, he could no longer see things and another member, David Bresnahan III.
party I'd been to the night before and or people clearly when they were more Later on, he attended a series of evangelistic
dismissed the matter from my mind." than a few feet away from him. Even strong meetings where his decision for Christ
However, the problem didn't go away. It glasses didn't help. Maurice continued became firm. Tapes and flexible discs from
got worse, in fact so bothersome that wearing the glasses, though, mostly for eye the Christian Record Braille Foundation
Maurice finally agreed to see the family protection. were a further adjunct to his Christian
doctor. Probing questions during the In spite of these difficulties, Maurice growth and development.
examination brought to light the fact that determined to finish college. That was four years ago. Since then
Maurice had been experiencing some "I wanted that bachelor's degree," he several things have happened. Most
dizziness and weakness which he had says emphatically. "That accomplishment importantly, Maurice was baptized. Dave
thought were meaningless. meant a lot to me." and several other men carried him on a
After a thorough exam, the doctor For help in reaching his goal, he chair down the slippery steps into the tank.
dropped the bombshell. He told Maurice, "I contacted the campus Affirmative Action When Maurice called his mother to tell
think you have multiple sclerosis." office. They provided him a list of potential her of his baptism, he learned to his
"I'll never forget how I felt as my mother notetakers and textbook readers. surprise, that she herself is a former
and I walked across the lot on the way to Adventist. Maurice sees this as a great
our car," says Maurice. "Suddenly the Maurice Meets Liz opportunity for witnessing and soul
enormity of the thing hit me and I just Maurice took the list home and began to winning. A year or so later Maurice got his
collapsed on a parked car and sobbed my try contacting the people on it. None of coveted diploma from UN-L. As he
heart out." them were at home when he called--except received his diploma, the thousands of
A battery of tests at the local hospital a young woman named Liz. He learned that people present gave him a standing ovation.
confirmed the diagnosis. A virus of she had submitted her name as a reader One interesting sequel to this story is that
unknown origin was destroying the myelin over a year before and had never been during the course of events, Maurice and Liz
sheath on Maurice's nerves. Myelin is a contacted for services. She had, in fact, fell in love and were married. They are still
substance which helps conduct impulses forgotten that she'd even placed her name both loyal members of the Northside Church.
from the brain to the appropriate body part. on the list. Maurice was recently re-elected to the
Destruction of the myelin means that the Maurice offered the job of reader to Liz position he held last church year, that of
brain messages are interrupted or delayed so and she accepted. She began coming being one of the Sabbath School
that bodily actions are impaired. regularly to his home and reading his superintendents.
As the weeks went by, Maurice became assignments to him. "I just love his Sabbath Schools,"
unable to run. Then his balance was "I noticed right away that Liz was comments another Northside member. "They
affected so that he could no longer walk different than most of the girls I knew at the are so inspiring—the best I've ever attended!"
without support. Eventually he was forced University," says Maurice. "She dressed This coming year, Maurice also plans to
to use a wheelchair. neatly, used no makeup, did not use coarse use his special talents in working with the
"I hated that chair so much at first." One language, and carried no cigarettes in her youth.
can see the lingering pain in Maurice's dark purse. I wanted to know more about her." Maurice's life isn't always easy and he
eyes as he says this. "I wouldn't let anyone Maurice soon learned that it was her still gets discouraged at times.
take a picture of me in it and kept it parked religion that made the difference. Religion "My faith in God gets me through those
out of my sight when I didn't need it." never meant much to Maurice before. His times," concludes Maurice. "Having this
Maurice's eyesight also deteriorated. It parents rarely attended church and had disease has its problems. But if I hadn't got
gradually diminished so that he was unable never insisted that he go. He had recently sick I would never have had the opportunity
to focus on normal print or books or become heavily involved in the drug and of meeting Liz and learning the Adventist
alcohol scene. But as time went on, he message. God has worked through my
Liz Sweeney Walls writes from Lincoln, began to feel the need of something illness to give me real joy and peace of mind
Nebraska different in his life, something that would for the first time in my life."
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SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST HIGH SCHOOL.
Holbrooks Help Sunnydale
Celebrate 40 Years
BY JAMES L. FLY
D
elmer and Betty Holbrook are widely
known in Adventist circles; he was
elected recently as the first director of the
new church ministries department of the
General Conference and she serves as an
associate director, coordinating women's
ministries.
Back in 1946, however, the Holbrooks
were known by only a few students and
fellow faculty members at Sunnydale
Academy in Missouri. Following their
spring graduation from Union College, he
served as Sunnydale's first boys' dean and
she as the first teacher of English and typing.
On the weekend of September 26-28, the
Holbrooks returned to their first job
assignment to celebrate Sunnydale
Academy's 40th anniversary. Team-
preaching sermons on Friday night and
Sabbath morning, the Holbrooks delighted
young and old with their memories of
Sunnydale's first years.
"Delmer, does this meeting remind you Top Left: The Sunnydale Academy sign frames students standing in front of the
of the first chapel we attended forty years cafeteria. Top right: Betty and Delmer Holbrook enjoy a quiet moment reminiscing
ago?" Betty asked Delmer with a teasing with a friend. Above: A quartet of young men perform on Sabbath afternoon. At far
smile. right is Terry Gibson. He and his two brothers and one sister all attend Sunnydale.
"I should say not," Delmer replied. "This school emphasizes sticking close to Christ. Each teacher here wants us in
"Why, in those days we went to chapel in heaven," he says.
the barn and bales of hay were stacked up
behind the pulpit!" stamp: "The purpose of Sunnydale year and Sunnydale's successful industries
Laughter rippled throughout the Academy is to train young people to grow employ half the student body.
Sunnydale church, but then everyone grew up in Christ and serve Him throughout the "We've enjoyed working here more than
serious as the Holbrooks talked about the world," he said. anyplace we've lived. The people are open
difference that Sunnydale has made in their Between meetings, Sunnydale alumni and friendly and the school spirit is good.
lives and the lives of the thousands of enjoyed strolling on the newly finished The key to Sunnydale's success, I feel, is that
students who have studied there for the last sidewalks in the flower-bordered mall in we have a conference president who has a
four decades. front of the renovated administration vision for Christian education," Marsh says.
"Young people, 'Remember when?' may building. When you talk with Elder Bill Wampler,
sound kind of boring but your turn is Larry Marsh, Sunnydale's enthusiastic Iowa-Missouri Conference president, you
coming. This school will put a stamp on principle, has initiated much of Sunnydale's know what Marsh means.
you and you'll be grateful for it," Betty said. new look and in his quiet way, he's "This school is here to stay," declares
Later in the sermon, Delmer Holbrook "button-busting" proud of the school. The Wampler. "It has a great past and an even
identified the purpose of the Sunnydale enrollment has increased by 17 students this better future."
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Union College Sponsors
An athletic witness program of this type
is not new to North American Seventh-day
Basketball Outreach
Adventist institutions of higher learning. At
present, Atlantic Union and Southwestern
Union College have joined the National
Christian College Athletic Association for
fellowship involving men's basketball and
women's volleyball. Walla Walla College
has associated with the Fellowship of
Christian Athletes and plays basketball
games under the guidelines of the FCA. To
be eligible to participate in Union's
Basketball Witness Program, students must
meet high academic, social and spiritual
standards.
A maximum of 16 students will be
members of the team; however, only a
maximum of 12 will be selected for the
traveling contingent. The players selected
will represent the best recruiting potential
for the academy or metropolitan area to be
visited.
The basketball witness visit to
Maplewood Academy is exemplary of the
team's academy trips. Leaving on Thursday
morning, Union plays a basketball game
with St. Paul Bible College of St.
Bonifacious, Minnesota at 3:00 p.m. that
day. That night, the Union players will
conduct a basketball clinic for the
Maplewood students. On Friday morning,
Coach Paul Gnadt discusses strategy with five of the Union College students involved
Union will conduct chapel at Maplewood
in the basketball witness program. From left to right: Kevin Norton, Devin Scott, Mark
and visit with the students the remainder of
Murray, Paul Gnadt, Mark Pearlberg, and John Hoehn.
the day, then conduct vespers that evening.
T
On Sabbath, they will conduct services at
"(cid:9) he Spirit of Prophecy reminds us Union players will give each visitor a gift to the Wayzata church in Minneapolis.
that Jesus mingled with people, express appreciation for their visit. The gift Saturday night the team will play a
meeting them on an individual basis and will contain Morris Venden's book "How basketball game with North Central Bible
accepting them regardless of their situation Jesus Treated People" a pamphlet on "Why College. After the game, the team will host
at that point in time. That's what excited I Am A Seventh-thy Adventist" and a area alumni and Adventist public high
me about the Union College Basketball Union College shirt suitable for casual school seniors at a reception. On Sunday,
Witness Program," says John Wagner, dress. The visitors are hosted overnight in they will conduct a basketball clinic for
Union College President. Our students will the dorm rooms of the Union players, area Adventist high school students before
visit twelve Christian college campuses, providing quality time for sharing and returning to Lincoln.
witnessing, sharing, and using basketball to becoming friends. "The Basketball Witness Program gives
break down biases, prejudices and While visiting a boarding academy, Union College another avenue for
misconceptions that others may have about Union College witness team members will witnessing, recruitment, evangelism, and
Seventh-day Adventists." be visible as role models by conducting the service. Furthermore, it provides those
The Union College Basketball Witness Friday evening vespers and being students with superior God-given athletic
Program is a men's basketball team that responsible for the entire Sabbath morning ability an opportunity to use that talent to
represents Union College in exhibition services. They will meet with small groups glorify God," says Dr. Ward Hill, Union
games and skill development clinics at to talk about Union College and with College academic dean.
Adventist boarding academies, major individual students to talk about their faith. The colleges with whom the Union
metropolitan areas and other sites within The program is directed by a group of College Basketball Witness Team will
the Mid-America Union. The team is volunteer Union College alumni known as fellowship this year are: Concordia College
scheduled to visit five of the six Mid- "The committee of coaches". They are of Seward, NE; Vennard College of
America Union boarding academies and Byron Bradley '62, Brad Forbes '82, Paul University Park, IA; Avila College of
both day academies this season. In addition, Gnadt '66, Derryl Ogden '56, Winfield Kansas City; Mid-America Nazarene of
they will conduct Sabbath services at Des Scott '68, Gail Skinner '72, and Russ Olathe, KS; Nebraska Christian College of
Moines, Denver South, Olathe and Wineland '63. Gnadt directs the program Norfolk, NE; Grace Bible College of
Manhattan, Kansas, and Wayzata, and serves as head coach. Omaha, NE; Platte Valley Bible College of
Minnesota. While en route to or returning The committee of coaches is responsible Scottsbluff, NE; Nebraska Wesleyan J.V. of
from their trips, the team will play a limited to the board of advice and approval who Lincoln, NE; Manhattan Christian College
number of games with teams from other are Union College administrators (Ward of Manhattan, KS; Colorado Christian
Christian colleges. Hill, Dan Klein, Leona Murray, Lilya College of Denver, CO; St. Paul Bible
In addition, eight Christian colleges will Wagner, and Gary Wisbey) plus chaplain College of St. Bonifacious, MN; North
visit Union to fellowship through Rich Carlson. Central Bible College of Minneapolis, MN;
basketball. Each game is preceeded by a The Union College board approved the Evangel College of Springfield, MO;
devotional attended by both teams and program with the provision for review in Central Methodist College of Fayette, MO;
followed by a pizza feed, at which time February of 1987. Ozark Christian College of Joplin, MO. *
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Massachussetts, Nebraska and Alabama.
A family discussion concluded the
following reasons for the fact that all family
members are church members:
1. The parents (Earl and Grace) daily
conducted their own worship early each
morning. Their children often heard them
reading aloud from the Bible and Spirit
of Prophecy.
2. They always conducted morning
and evening family worship, which
includes studying the childrens' Sabbath
School lessons.
3. Although they were not perfect and
they made mistakes, they were serious
about their Christianity and practiced it
at all times.
4. Every Sabbath they drove the 16
miles to church, attending the Sabbath
services with their children.
5. They looked to Christ, the Bible and
Spirit of Prophecy for truth and not to
other people, seeming not to be
influenced by peer pressure.
6. They sent their children to
Adventist schools. The children recall the
ten years they lived in South Texas,
The six children of the late Earl and Grace Clark of Sedgwick, Kansas: Celia George,
when they rode the school bus 100 miles
Montrose, CO; Ernest Clark, Richmond, VA; Esther Bates, Boulder, CO; Violet Cruz,
round trip to Valley Grande Academy.
Agana, Guam; Glen Clark, Escondido, CA; and Marilyn Stearman, Austin, TX.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could
encourage all our Adventist families to have
A Faithful Family
regular family worship with their children
and send them to an Adventist school? It is
of greater value than any of us may realize
to keep our families close to Christ and in
BY ERNEST CLARK, the Church.
PASTOR, RICHMOND, VA
UP WITH A GOOD CHURCH
If all the lazy folks will get up,
And all the sleeping folks will wake up
And all the discouraged folks will
cheer up,
And all the gossiping folks will shut up
And all the dishonest folks will
confess up,
And all the estranged folks will make up
And all the disgusted folks will
sweeten up,
And all the lukewarm folks will
fire up,
And all the dry bones will shake
up,
And all the sanctified folks
33 persons, all members of the Adventist Church, attended the Clark family reunion. will show up,
And all the leading folks will
R pay up,
ecently the six children of the late Church (or any church for that matter). And all the true soldiers will
Earl and Grace Clark of Sedgwick, Two are ministers, three are nurses, and stand up,
Kansas had a family reunion in Montrose, three are teachers. Several are maintenance Then—yes; Then, we'll have a
Colorado at the home of their daughter, men, one is a dentist, and the others good church!
Celia George. The reunion group included represent a variety of other occupations. We're going to wake up, pray up
all spouses, 13 grandchildren, 2 great- Violet Cruz, one daughter of the Clarks, teach up, stay up, pay up,
grandchildren and several other relatives, all came the farthest with her family from and never give up, back up, or
of whom are active Seventh-day Adventists. Guam. She has worked in the Adventist shut up until the cause of Christ
There were 33 in attendance. Medical Clinic there for over 27 years. is built up!
It is unusual to find an entire family Others came from Virginia, Tennessee, —Selected
that remains in the Seventh-day Adventist Texas, California, Colorado,
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