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ON VIDEO SCREENS OR FRANTICALLY SWAYING TO MIND NUMBING TUNES ENTERTAINING THEMSELVES TO DEATH 0ERHAPS SOME #HRISTIANS THINK THE CROWDS DESERVE WHAT THEY ARE GETTING 0ERHAPS THEY DON T HAVE A RIGHT TO OUR TEARS AND OUR TIME -AYBE THEY RE NOT WORTH ALL THE EFFORT THAT IT TAKES TO GET CLOSE ENOUGH TO SEE THEIR PRIVATE TEARS AND FEARS 4HEY CHOSE THE BARGAIN BRAND WHEN THE SINK OF LIFE WAS OVERmOWINGÂ&#x2C6;NOW LET THEM REALIZE THEIR MISTAKE LET THEM MOP THEIR OWN mOORS -AYBE IT WILL TEACH THEM A LESSON "UT 3CRIPTURE SAYS THAT *ESUS HAD COMPASSION FOR THEMÂ&#x2C6;THAT (IS HEART AND MIND WENT SEARCHING AFTER THEM BEFORE THEY EVER MADE A MOVE TOWARD (IM $O WE HAVE COMPASSION FOR THEM /R DO WE NEED TO GET DOWN ON OUR KNEES TONIGHT AND CONFESS THAT THE BIGGEST OBSTACLE TO THE GROWTH OF THE KINGDOM IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS MAY BE OUR OWN JUDGMENTAL ATTITUDES ) AM PRAYING FOR THE COMPASSION OF *ESUS AS ) LOOK AT THE CROWDS WHO lLL UP MY WORLD ,EFT TO MYSELF ) WILL FAIL IN BEING LIKE (IM *OIN ME THIS MONTH IN ASKING FOR SPECIAL GRACE TO RISE ABOVE OUR FEARS AND PREJUDICES AND TRULY LOVE THE ONES FOR WHOM (E SACRIlCED (IMSELF

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5NITED 3TATES +YTE PREVIOUSLY SERVED AS OUTSIDE COUNSEL FOR THE COMPANY FOR YEARS WHILE IN PRIVATE PRACTICE 4HE /FlCE OF 'ENERAL #OUNSEL CURRENTLY EMPLOYS lVE ATTORNEYS TO OFFER LEGAL ADVICE FOR ENTITIES AT THE CHURCH S WORLD HEADQUARTERS -AJOR AREAS INCLUDE TAX PENSION RELIGIOUS LIBERTY EMPLOYMENT IMMIGRATION LAW

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#ANADA IN (E SUBSEQUENTLY REPRESENTED INSURANCE COMPANIES IN PRIVATE PRACTICE AND SERVED AS GENERAL COUNSEL AND DIRECTOR OF 0UBLIC !FFAIRS AND 2ELIGIOUS ,IBERTY FOR THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH IN #ANADA $OUKMETZIAN HAS SERVED !DVENTIST 2ISK -ANAGEMENT FOR YEARS lRST AS CLAIMS COUNSEL AND THE PAST EIGHT AS VICE PRESIDENT OVERSEEING THE CHURCH S INSURANCE COMPANIES CLAIMS SERVICES

AND CAPTIVE BROKERAGE ! FREQUENT PRESENTER AT !2- MEETINGS INCLUDING THE ANNUAL RISK MANAGEMENT CONFERENCES AND 0RESIDENTS 3YMPOSIUMS $OUKMETZIAN ENCOURAGED CHURCH LEADERS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR ACTIONS AND FOCUS ON AREAS WITHIN THE SCOPE OF MANAGEMENT THAT COULD RESULT IN POTENTIAL CLAIMS AGAINST THE CHURCH h(IS IMPACT WITHIN THIS COMPANY HAS BEEN TREMENDOUS OVER THE YEARS v !2- PRESIDENT 2OBERT 3WEEZY SAID h4HIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR HIM TO FURTHER SERVE THE CHURCH AND DO WHAT HE LIKES BEST AND THAT IS TO PROTECT THE CHURCH IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE v 2OBERT ,EMON TREASURER FOR THE 'ENERAL #ONFERENCE OF THE 3EVENTH DAY

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!DVENTIST #HURCH AND CHAIR OF !2- S BOARD WORKED WITH $OUKMETZIAN IN #ANADA h4HE THING ) APPRECIATED ABOUT WORKING WITH HIM EVEN WHEN WE lRST WORKED TOGETHER BACK IN #ANADA

WAS NOT JUST HIS LEGAL EXPERTISE BUT HIS UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHURCH AND ITS MISSIONx ) M SURE HE WILL BRING THAT SAME DRIVE AND DETERMINATION TO THE /FlCE OF 'ENERAL #OUNSEL v +YTE THE OUTGOING GENERAL COUNSEL

SAID $OUKMETZIAN S EXPERIENCE HAS PREPARED HIM WELL FOR THE NEW APPOINTMENT h)T WAS A PLEASURE WORKING WITH HIM AT !2- AND ) BELIEVE HE WILL BRING ENERGY FOCUS AND PRACTICALITY THROUGH #HRISTIAN PRINCIPLES TO THE OFlCE v +YTE SAID !FTER COLLEGE $OUKMETZIAN CONTEMPLATED ATTENDING LAW SCHOOL IN THE 5NITED 3TATES AND SOUGHT ADVICE FROM THE MOST SENIOR OF THE #ANADIAN !DVENTIST ATTORNEYS h'O TO LAW SCHOOL AND USE YOUR TALENTS TO SERVE THE CHURCH v HE WAS TOLD 4HERE WERE ONLY FOUR !DVENTIST LAWYERS IN THE COUNTY AT THE TIME $OUKMETZIAN IS LICENSED TO PRACTICE LAW IN BOTH #ANADA AND THE 5NITED 3TATES (E SAID HE PLANS TO TRANSITION TO HIS NEW POST IN -AY

(E IS MARRIED TO ,OIDA #ORTEZ $OUKMETZIAN A SCHOOLTEACHER IN THE 7ASHINGTON $ # AREA AND THEY ARE MEMBERS OF 3LIGO 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH IN 4AKOMA 0ARK

-ARYLAND 5NITED 3TATES 4HEY HAVE ONE SON *OSEPH Â&#x2C6;2EPORTED BY !NSEL /LIVER !DVENTIST .EWS .ETWORK WITH INFORMATION FROM 0AULA 7EBBER !DVENTIST 2ISK -ANAGEMENT 2IMOLDI 2ELIGIOUS ,IBERTY %XPERT )S .EW !DVENTIST 5 . ,IAISON N 4IZIANO 2IMOLDI AN )TALIAN 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST AND A CHURCH STATE RELATIONS EXPERT HAS BEEN APPOINTED AS THE WORLDWIDE DENOMINATION S LIAISON TO THE 5NITED .ATIONS )N HIS NEW POSITION PROFESSOR AND AUTHOR 2IMOLDI WILL WORK OUT OF THE WORLD CHURCH S $EPARTMENT OF 0UBLIC !FFAIRS AND 2ELIGIOUS ,IBERTY h)T IS ENCOURAGING TO KNOW THAT ) AM JOINING A DEPARTMENT OF VERY COMMITTED AND EXPERT COLLEAGUES v 2IMOLDI SAID UPON LEARNING OF HIS !PRIL

APPOINTMENT 2IMOLDI CURRENTLY A PROFESSOR OF RELIGION RIGHTS AND SOCIETY AT )TALIAN !DVENTIST #OLLEGE 6ILLA !URORA

HOLDS A MASTER S DEGREE IN LAW FROM THE 5NIVERSITY OF "OLOGNA WHERE HE CONCENTRATED ON CHURCH STATE RELATIONS (E ALSO EARNED A DOCTORATE 0 ( / 4 / # / 5 2 4 % 3 9 / & 0! 2 ,

.%7 2%02%3%.4!4)6% #HURCH STATE RELATIONS EXPERT 4IZIANO 2IMOLDI WILL SERVE AS THE !DVENTIST #HURCH S LIAISON TO THE 5NITED .A TIONS 2IMOLDI IS EXPECTED TO EXPAND THE CHURCH S INmUENCE IN MATTERS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AT THE 5 .

IN CANON LAW ECCLESIASTICAL LAW FROM THE 5NIVERSITY OF 0ERUGIA 2IMOLDI REPLACES *ONATHAN 'ALLAGHER WHO HELD THE POST FOR EIGHT YEARS 0REVIOUSLY 2IMOLDI SERVED AS SENIOR ACCOUNTANT FOR THE !DVENTIST #HURCH S )TALIAN 5NION AND HELD A POST AT THE ,ONGOBARDI ,AW &IRM IN 2OME !N )TALIAN CITIZEN 2IMOLDI

SPEAKS )TALIAN IS mUENT IN %NGLISH AND &RENCH AND UNDERSTANDS 3PANISH (E IS WIDELY PUBLISHED IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS IN THE AREAS OF LAW AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM #URRENTLY HE IS RESEARCHING STATE lNANCING OF RELIGION IN )RELAND AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN !DVENTIST MISSION IN #AMEROON h7ITH HIS STRONG BACKGROUND IN INTERNATIONAL LAW AND CHURCH STATE RELATIONS 2IMOLDI WILL EXPLORE NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE !DVENTIST #HURCH AT THE 5 . v SAID *OHN 'RAZ

0UBLIC !FFAIRS AND 2ELIGIOUS ,IBERTY DIRECTOR FOR THE !DVENTIST WORLD CHURCH h(IS ABILITY TO LEAD COALITIONS AND ANALYZE RESOLUTIONS WILL BE AN ASSET TO THE CHURCH S WORK IN THE REALM OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY v 2IMOLDI WHO CURRENTLY LIVES IN &LORENCE IS EXPECTED TO MOVE TO THE 3ILVER 3PRING -ARYLAND 5NITED 3TATES AREA WHERE THE CHURCH S WORLD HEADQUARTERS IS LOCATED )N THE MEANTIME 2IMOLDI WILL ASSUME MOST OF THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF HIS NEW POST

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!DVENTISTS 6OTE N .IKOLAUS 3ATELMAJER GOT AN IDEA AFTER LEARNING THAT HUNDREDS OF CHURCHES AND SYNAGOGUES CELEBRATED h%VOLUTION 7EEKENDv THE PAST THREE YEARS 3ATELMAJER EDITOR OF THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH S -INISTRY MAGAZINE THOUGHT 7HY NOT HAVE A DAY TO EMPHASIZE CREATION )N !PRIL THE DENOMINATION S WORLD LEADERS SIGNED ONTO THE IDEA VOTING TO APPROVE h#REATION 3ABBATH v A DAY TO EMPHASIZE 'OD AS THE #REATOR 4HE DAY OF EMPHASIS IS SET FOR 3ATURDAY

/CTOBER h4HIS ISN T TO ENTER INTO A DEBATE ON EVOLUTION VERSUS CREATION BUT TO EMPHASIZE 'OD AS OUR #REATOR v 3ATELMAJER TOLD DELEGATES MEETING AT THE CHURCH S WORLD HEADQUARTERS IN 3ILVER 3PRING -ARYLAND 5NITED 3TATES %VOLUTION 7EEKEND IS HELD EACH YEAR ON THE WEEKEND NEAREST TO THE BIRTHDAY OF SCIENTIST #HARLES $ARWIN AUTHOR OF 4HE /RIGIN OF 3PECIES (UNDREDS OF PARTICIPATING CONGREGATIONS SUPPORT A CREATION COMBINED WITH EVOLUTION ACCORDING

TO THE #LERGY ,ETTER 0ROJECT THE SPONSORING ORGANIZATION 4HE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH TEACHES THE BIBLICAL DOCTRINE OF A LITERAL

SEVEN DAY CREATION OF THE WORLD h4HE MAJOR INmUENCE OF $ARWIN S WORK WAS TO SEPARATE 'OD FROM THE WORLD v SAID *AMES 'IBSON DIRECTOR OF THE DENOMINATION S 'EOSCIENCE 2ESEARCH )NSTITUTE IN ,OMA ,INDA

#ALIFORNIA h/UR MESSAGE OF CREATION IS TO UNITE 'OD AND THE WORLD IN PEOPLE S MINDS v 'IBSON SAYS ONE OF THE CORE TENETS OF !DVENTIST THEOLOGY THE THREE ANGELS MESSAGES IN 2EVELATION HAS THE BELIEF OF CREATION BUILT IN h)T SEEMS TO ME THAT WHEN WE CELEBRATE THE THREE ANGELS MESSAGES WE ARE REALLY CELEBRATING CREATION TOO v HE SAID REFERRING TO THE lRST ANGEL S MESSAGE OF WORSHIPPING #HRIST THE #REATOR h3OMETIMES ) THINK THERE S BEEN TOO MUCH TIME RAISING QUESTIONS AND DEBATING AND WE REALLY SHOULD BE SAYING @,ET S EXPLORE THE MEANING OF 'OD AS OUR #REATOR v Â&#x2C6;2EPORTED BY !NSEL /LIVER !DVENTIST .EWS .ETWORK *UNE \ !DVENTIST 7ORLD

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HE GOAL OF 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST EVANGELISTIC AND OUTREACH WORK AMONG ADHERENTS OF WORLD RELIGIONS IS TO BRING PEOPLE TO A SAVING FAITH IN *ESUS #HRIST AND NOT TO SIMPLY ENHANCE THEIR CURRENT SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE WORLD CHURCH DELEGATES AFlRMED ON !PRIL

THE SECOND AND lNAL DAY OF THE YEAR S 3PRING -EETING OF WORLD CHURCH LEADERS h'OD IS CONSTANTLY ENGAGED IN SAVING WHOMEVER (E CAN LAY (IS HANDS ON v NOTED *AN 0AULSEN 'ENERAL #ONFERENCE PRESIDENT IN INTRODUCING THE DRAFT DOCUMENT FOR DISCUSSION AND INITIAL APPROVAL BY THE LEADERS OF WORLD CHURCH REGIONS AND TERRITORIES 4HE DRAFT DOCUMENT WILL BE EDITED AND PRESENTED TO THE !NNUAL #OUNCIL OF THE 'ENERAL #ONFERENCE %XECUTIVE #OMMITTEE IN /CTOBER WHERE IT WILL LIKELY BE ADOPTED AS PART OF THE CHURCH S 7ORKING 0OLICY BY THE MORE THAN DELEGATES AT THAT MEETING h4HE SPIRIT OF THE AGE ENCOURAGES ACCEPTANCE OF ALL WORLD RELIGIONS AS VALID EXPRESSIONS OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT AND DISCOURAGES EFFORTS TO PERSUADE PEOPLE FROM ONE RELIGION TO ANOTHER v THE DOCUMENT S h2ATIONALEv SECTION READS IN PART "UT !DVENTISTS hMUST lND OUR ROADMAP FOR MISSION IN THE SPECIlC INSTRUCTIONS AND ACTS OF *ESUS AND THE APOSTLES AS RECORDED IN 3CRIPTURE v !NOTHER SECTION OF THE DOCUMENT

TITLED h4HE -ISSION v NOTES h!LTHOUGH OTHER #HRISTIANS ALSO PREACH THE

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&/#53 /. -)33)/. !NGEL 2ODR¤GUEZ DIREC TOR OF THE "IBLICAL 2ESEARCH )NSTITUTE AT THE 'ENERAL #ONFERENCE PRESENTS THE DOCUMENT

GOSPEL !DVENTISTS UNDERSTAND OUR SPECIAL CALLING AS PROCLAIMING THE GOOD NEWS OF SALVATION AND OBEDIENCE TO 'OD S COMMANDMENTS 4HIS PROCLAMATION TAKES PLACE DURING THE TIME OF 'OD S JUDGMENT AND IN THE EXPECTATION OF THE SOON RETURN OF *ESUS BRINGING TO AN END THE COSMIC CONmICT v CITING 2EVELATION AND 2EVELATION IN SUPPORT h!DVENTIST MISSION THEREFORE

INVOLVES A PROCESS OF PROCLAMATION THAT BUILDS UP A COMMUNITY OF BELIEVERS @WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF 'OD AND HAVE THE FAITH OF *ESUS 2EVELATION 4HEY LIVE LIVES OF SERVICE TO OTHERS AND EAGERLY AWAIT THE 3ECOND #OMING OF THE ,ORD v THE DOCUMENT SAYS 4HE h2OADMAPv DOCUMENT ENCOURAGES !DVENTISTS TO GIVE THE "IBLE PRIMACY AS THE GUIDE TO #HRISTIAN FAITH AND PRACTICE 4HE SCRIPTURES OF OTHER WORLD RELIGIONS CAN BE USED TO BUILD BRIDGES SUPPORTED BY COMMON TRUTHS BUT hTHE NURTURE AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH OF NEW BELIEVERS MUST BE ACCOMPLISHED ON THE BASIS OF THE "IBLE AND ITS EXCLUSIVE AUTHORITY v 4HE DOCUMENT ALSO CALLS FOR h/PENNESS AND )DENTITYv IN MISSION

STATING hWE ARE TO CARRY OUT OUR MISSION OPENLY NOT CONCEALING OUR NAME AND PURPOSE UNLESS THEY CREATE FORMIDABLE BARRIERS )N MANY CONTEXTS IDENTIFYING OURSELVES AS @3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST WILL BE PREFERABLE TO @#HRISTIAN v 4HE DOCUMENT S WRITERS SUGGESTED

ONLY A LIMITED ROLE FOR INTERMEDIARY STEPS IN BRINGING PEOPLE TO #HRIST h)N SOME SITUATIONS !DVENTIST MISSION MAY INCLUDE THE FORMATION OF TRANSITIONAL GROUPS USUALLY TERMED 3PECIAL !FlNITY 'ROUPS THAT LEAD PEOPLE FROM A NON #HRISTIAN RELIGION INTO THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH v THE DOCUMENT NOTES (OWEVER SUCH GROUPS MUST OPERATE WITH A DELIBERATE TIMELINE hTO LEAD THE PEOPLE INTO MEMBERSHIP v -OREOVER h;ANY= MINISTRY OR GROUP THAT IS FORMED WITH THE INTENTION OF REPRESENTING THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WILL ENDEAVOR TO PROMOTE BOTH THE THEOLOGICAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL UNITY OF THE #HURCH v THE DOCUMENT SAYS 2EACTION FROM MANY DELEGATES WAS POSITIVE h)T lLLS A GREAT NEED IN THE CHURCH AND WE IN THE 4RANS %UROPEAN $IVISION WILL TAKE IT VERY SERIOUSLY v SAID "ERTIL 7IKLANDER DIVISION PRESIDENT 4HE DOCUMENT hAVOIDS THE PITFALLS OF UNIVERSALISM AND EXCLUSIVISM v SAID 'ANOUNE $IOP DIRECTOR OF THE CHURCH S 'LOBAL -ISSION 3TUDY #ENTERS AND AN EXPERT ON )SLAM h) JUST WISH WE HAD THIS DOCUMENT YEARS AGO v ADDED 'ERRY +ARST A GENERAL VICE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD CHURCH

SUGGESTING THE DOCUMENT S CLARITY WOULD HAVE HELPED RESOLVE TENSIONS WITH WHICH THE CHURCH HAS WRESTLED IN SEVERAL WORLD REGIONS

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URUNDI S SCENIC LANDSCAPE HAS BEEN OVERSHADOWED BY MORE THAN A DECADE OF CIVIL WAR AND TRIBAL GENOCIDE 3MALL IN SIZE "URUNDI IS A LANDLOCKED EQUATORIAL NATION IN THE HEART OF EAST CENTRAL !FRICA S 'REAT ,AKES REGION BORDERED BY ,AKE 4ANGANYIKA THE $EMOCRATIC 2EPUBLIC OF THE #ONGO 4ANZANIA AND 2WANDA ! LAND OF ROLLING HILLS AND DEEP LAKES "URUNDI WAS ONCE AN IDEAL TOURIST DESTINATION (OWEVER MANY TODAY THINK MORE OF "URUNDI S TRAGIC PAST THAN ITS PROMISING FUTURE 6ARIOUS TRIBAL KINGS RULED "URUNDI UNTIL WHEN +ING -WEZI )6 TURNED SOVEREIGNTY OF THE COUNTRY OVER TO 'ERMANYÂ&#x2C6;WHICH AGREED TO LET HIM REMAIN MONARCHÂ&#x2C6;IN AN EFFORT TO MAINTAIN SOME DEGREE OF POWER !T THE END OF 7ORLD 7AR ) 'ERMANY LOST CONTROL OF "URUNDI TO "ELGIUM "ELGIUM THEN MERGED "URUNDI WITH 2WANDA WHICH WAS ALREADY A "ELGIAN COLONY CREATING 2UANDA 5RUNDI )N "URUNDI SPLIT FROM 2UANDA NOW KNOWN AS 2WANDA AND OBTAINED ITS INDEPENDENCE IN (OWEVER

IT WASN T UNTIL THAT "URUNDI WAS ABLE TO HOLD ITS lRST DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION "UT JUST DAYS INTO THE NEW PRESIDENT S TERM HE WAS KILLED ALONG WITH 2WANDA S PRESIDENT WHEN THEIR PLANE WAS SHOT DOWN OVER +IGALI 2WANDA 4HIS INCIDENT WAS BLAMED FOR SPARKING WIDESPREAD ETHNIC VIOLENCE BETWEEN THE MAJORITY (UTU AND MINORITY 4UTSI TRIBES IN BOTH "URUNDI AND 2WANDA -ORE THAN "URUNDIANS WERE KILLED AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MORE BECAME REFUGEES

4ODAY "URUNDI IS ONE OF THE WORLD S POOREST NATIONS 0ERIODIC FAMINES DEVASTATE THE COUNTRY AS MOST "URUNDIANS DEPEND UPON SUBSISTENCE FARMING FOR THEIR LIVELIHOOD /NLY PERCENT OF CHILDREN GO TO SCHOOL AND ()6 !)$3 IS SAID TO INFECT APPROXIMATELY ONE IN ADULTS !DVENTISTS IN "URUNDI

$ESPITE THE MANY CHALLENGES THAT EXIST IN "URUNDI THE !DVENTIST #HURCH IS STRONG ONE PERSON OUT OF EVERY IN THE COUNTRY IS AN !DVENTIST )N "ELGIAN MISSIONARY $AVID $ELHOVE BECAME THE lRST 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST TO ESTABLISH A WORK IN WHAT IS NOW "URUNDI (E HAD TRAVELED THROUGHOUT THE REGION AS A RECONNAISSANCE OFlCER FOR THE "ELGIAN !RMY DURING 7ORLD 7AR ) !FTER THE WAR HE RETURNED AND HELPED OPEN THREE MISSION STATIONS (E REMAINED A MISSIONARY TO !FRICA UNTIL HIS DEATH IN #HURCH MEMBERSHIP HAS GROWN TO MORE THAN

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7 / 2 , $ 6 ) 3 4! )NTEGRITY IS SUCH A BIG ISSUE IN THE NEWS MEDIA AT PRESENT )T SEEMS THAT EVERY DAY WE RE SEEING MORE EXAMPLES OF CORPORATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS WHO SACRIlCE PRINCIPLE FOR PROlT 3O IT S PROBABLY NATURAL FOR CHURCH MEMBERS ALSO TO ASK (OW S MY CHURCH DOING IN THIS AREA (OW WOULD YOU ANSWER &IRST WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO HAVE INTEGRITY 4O ME IT IS ABOUT OPENNESS AND TRUSTÂ&#x2C6;YOU ARE WHAT YOU SHOW 7HEN PEOPLE SEE YOU THEY DON T HAVE TO WONDER WHAT S REAL AND WHAT S NOT 4HE VALUES THAT YOU PROJECT ARE THE VALUES THAT ACTUALLY GUIDE YOUR LIFE )NTEGRITY COVERS AN ALMOST UNLIMITED RANGE OF ISSUES ) M HERE CHOOSING TO FOCUS ON JUST ONE 7E RE HEARING MORE ABOUT WHAT S GOING WRONG IN THE WORLD S lNANCIAL MARKETS AND THERE S A PALPABLE SENSE OF ANGERÂ&#x2C6;OF OUTRAGEÂ&#x2C6;DIRECTED TOWARD THOSE WHO VE ABUSED POSITIONS OF TRUST 4HESE ARE INDIVIDUALS WHO VE BEEN DRIVEN BY EXTREME SELlSHNESS AND GREED TO hGATHER UNTO THEMSELVES v AND WHO ARE CLAIMING REMUNERATION FAR IN EXCESS OF WHAT S FAIR AND REASONABLE $OES ALL THIS IMPACT US AS A CHURCH IN ANY WAY 9ES ) THINK IT DOES 7E RE NOT ISOLATED FROM THE KIND OF SCRUTINY IT GENERATES /UR MEMBERS LIVE AND WORK IN THE SECULAR MARKETPLACE AND SO WHAT HAPPENS THERE AFFECTS THEM ALSO !ND IN THIS ECONOMIC CLIMATE

THEY BECOME EVEN MORE SENSITIVE TO HOW THE CHURCH USES ITS MONEYÂ&#x2C6;AND RIGHTLY SO 4HEY SHOULD BE SENSITIVE AND THEY SHOULD HOLD CHURCH LEADERSHIP ACCOUNTABLE ) HAVE TO REMEMBER AS ) TALK ABOUT THIS ISSUE THAT WHATEVER OBSERVATIONS ) MAKE PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO ASK

7ELL THEN HOW DOES THAT APPLY TO YOU ) CAN T TALK ABOUT THIS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A BYSTANDER ) M REALLY TALKING ABOUT HOW ) AS A CHURCH LEADER

ALSO lT INTO THIS PARTICULAR LANDSCAPE

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!N INTERVIEW WITH 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH PRESIDENT *AN 0AULSEN

9OU MENTIONED THOSE IN THE CORPORATE WORLD WHO HOLD POSITIONS OF TRUST WITH RESPECT TO PEOPLE S MONEY 4HE TRUST RELATIONSHIP IS EVEN MORE CRITICAL

ISN T IT WITHIN A SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY

WHERE PEOPLE ARE hINVESTINGv SO MUCH MORE OF THEMSELVES THAN JUST THEIR lNANCES 9ES THAT S TRUE #HURCH MEMBERS HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS PRECISELY BECAUSE THIS IS THEIR OWN SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY !ND SO IF YOU TAKE ON AN ASSIGNMENT WITHIN THE CHURCH YOU MUST REMEMBER WHATEVER YOUR

WORKÂ&#x2C6;IT IS PRIMARILY ABOUT SERVING 'OD AND SERVING HUMANITY 3O HOW THEN HAS THIS SITUATION DEVELOPED 7ELL THERE ARE CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF WORKERSÂ&#x2C6;HIGHLY SPECIALIZED WORKERSÂ&#x2C6;WHO ARE IN DEMAND WITHIN SECULAR SOCIETY BUT WHOM THE CHURCH ALSO NEEDS BECAUSE OF THE SPECIAL SKILLS THEY BRING 4HEIR FUNCTIONS MAY NOT BE FUNDED ENTIRELY BY CHURCH RESOURCES BUT BY THE SERVICE THAT THE INSTITUTION PROVIDES OR SOMETIMES

NOT MADEÂ&#x2C6;WHEN INTEGRITY MAY HAVE BEEN IN SHORT SUPPLY v 7HAT WOULD YOU SAY 9ES WE COULD CERTAINLY MAKE A LIST OF MISTAKES BOTH HERE IN .ORTH !MERICA AND IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD lELD 4HE IMPORTANT QUESTION NOW IS $ID WE LEARN SOMETHING FROM THEM 4HE MAJOR MISTAKES THAT COME TO MIND WERE NOT CAUSED BY SYSTEMIC mAWS IN THE SENSE THAT WE DON T HAVE BOARDS OR BODIES SET UP WITH THE ABILITY AND AUTHORITY TO MONITOR THIS 7E DO "UT PROBLEMS ARISE WHEN

0EOPLE WHO SUPPORT THE CHURCH HAVE A RIGHT TO EXPECT THE HIGHEST INTEGRITY FUNCTION YOU RE A SERVANT 9OU RE ENTRUSTED WITH A RESPONSIBILITY BY YOUR FAITH COMMUNITY AND BY YOUR 'OD 4HAT MUST BE THE MENTAL BACKDROP AGAINST WHICH SALARIES BONUSES AND ALLOWANCES ARE VIEWED "UT THERE ARE SOME WITHIN THE CHURCH WHO ARE GIVEN SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS &OR THEM TO ASK 7HAT IS SOMEONE IN A SIMILAR POSITION IN THE CORPORATE OR SECULAR WORLD GETTING v AND THEN LET THE ANSWER DElNE THEIR OWN SALARY EXPECTATIONSÂ&#x2C6;THIS IS A FUNDAMENTALLY mAWED WAY OF THINKING )T S mAWED BECAUSE IT FAILS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THEY ARE lRST AND FOREMOST PART OF A SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY THEY ARE SERVANTS )F A LARGE PAYCHECK IS REQUIRED IN ORDER TO BRING OUT YOUR BEST THEN ) WOULD SUGGEST THAT SOMETHING IS FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG 7HATEVER THE CHURCH IS INVOLVED INÂ&#x2C6;WHETHER IT IS PREACHING TEACHING HEALING

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YES THERE ARE SOME WHOSE HIGHLY TECHNICAL ROLES SHOULD BE REMUNERATED DIFFERENTLY FROM THOSE WHO LIKE MYSELF FUNCTION IN THE CHURCH IN A PASTORAL ROLE "UT ) WOULD ALSO SAY TO THOSE WHO HOLD SUCH POSITIONS h9OU TOO ARE SERVANTS OF THE ,ORD v /F COURSE YOU HAVE TO BE ADEQUATELY PROVIDED FOR

BUT THERE COMES A MOMENT WHEN YOU MOVE BEYOND WHAT S REASONABLE 7HAT DOES THE PRESIDENT OF THE 5NITED 3TATES GET (IS SALARY IS AROUND )T S SUBSTANTIAL BUT FAR LESS THAN LEADERS IN THE CORPORATE WORLD (OW MUCH MORE SHOULD THOSE WHO SERVE WITHIN A SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY AVOID EVEN THE APPEARANCE OF THE EXCESSIVE )N ANY DISCUSSION ABOUT INTEGRITY WITHIN CHURCH ADMINISTRATION SOME WILL POINT OUT h4HERE HAVE BEEN TIMES IN THE CHURCH S HISTORY WHEN THE BEST lNANCIAL DECISIONS WERE

INFORMATION DOESN T mOW THROUGH WHERE IT SHOULD OR WHERE MEMBERS OF A BOARD OF AN ORGANIZATION VOTE ON ISSUES ABOUT WHICH THEY HAVE LITTLE UNDERSTANDING OR KNOWLEDGE 7E RE A SPIRITUAL COMMUNITYÂ&#x2C6;WE PRAY BEFORE EACH MEETING OF A BOARD OR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE "UT WE RE NOT SHELTERED FROM mAWED HUMAN JUDGMENTS NOR ARE WE ALWAYS PROTECTED FROM DELIBERATEÂ&#x2C6;AND UNACCEPTABLEÂ&#x2C6;ATTEMPTS BY SOME INDIVIDUAL LEADERS TO hlLTERv INFORMATION THEY GIVE TO A BOARD 4HESE CHAPTERS IN THE CHURCH S HISTORY COST US DEARLY AND IT S NOT MEASURED PRIMARILY IN MONEY BUT IN LOSS OF TRUST AND LOSS OF CONlDENCE 4HIS CAN TAKE YEARSÂ&#x2C6;DECADESÂ&#x2C6;TO REBUILD AND ) WOULD SAY JUSTIlABLY SO 0EOPLE WHO SUPPORT THE CHURCH HAVE A RIGHT TO EXPECT THE HIGHEST INTEGRITY AND THE HIGHEST CARE FROM INDIVIDUALS AND BOARDS MAKING EXECUTIVE DECISIONS 3O ) CAN T *UNE \ !DVENTIST 7ORLD

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OVERSTATE THE IMPORTANCE OF OPENNESS AND TRANSPARENCY IN ADMINISTRATIONÂ&#x2C6; ALLOWING A BOARD TO KNOW ALL THE RELEVANT INFORMATION AND TO BE INFORMED ABOUT THE FULL EXTENT OF THE RESOURCES THEY RE DEALING WITH

ALSO REGULARLY SEE EXAMPLES FROM THE OPPOSITE END OF THE SPECTRUMÂ&#x2C6; INSTANCES IN WHICH INTEGRITY REALLY SHINES THROUGH 9ES ABSOLUTELY +EEP IN MIND THAT WE RE TALKING AGAINST A VERY SPECIlC BACKGROUND EVERY TIME WE -UCH OF THE WORLD SUFFERS WITH OPEN A NEWSPAPER OR TURN ON THE POVERTY )S POVERTY A FACTOR IN INTEGRITY TELEVISION WE RE BEING SATURATED WITH 0OVERTY CAN PLAY TRICKS ON THE MIND INFORMATION ABOUT CORPORATE GREED )NDIVIDUALS CAN BEGIN TO RATIONALIZE AND MISMANAGEMENT 3O IT S GOOD FOR AND JUSTIFY CERTAIN THINGS OR ALLOW US TO EXAMINE OURSELVES AND ASK !RE RESOURCES TO COME TO THEM THAT ARE NOT WE DOING ALL WE CAN TO MAKE SURE THESE RIGHTFULLY THEIRS )F IT S DELIBERATE FRAUD DYNAMICS AREN T ALSO CREEPING INTO THE THEN AUDITING SHOULD CATCH THAT AND IT CHURCH DOES 7E HAVE A GOOD AUDITING SYSTEM "UT LET ME CLEARLY SAY THE VAST IN PLACE "UT INTEGRITY IS MOST OFTEN MAJORITY OF OUR OPERATIONS AS A CHURCH COMPROMISED NOT BECAUSE SOMEONE AND OUR INSTITUTIONS FUNCTION WITH GETS PERSONALLY RICH IN THE PROCESS BUT TRANSPARENCY WITH OPENNESS WITH BECAUSE THEY ALLOW THEMSELVES TO BE HONESTY AND WITH GOOD MANAGEMENT DRAWN INTO LESS THAN CANDID OR OPEN "UT AT THE SAME TIME UNLESS WE ARE ADMINISTRATION VERY CAREFUL AND DELIBERATE WE LL ALLOW PROBLEMS IN ! FEW MOMENTS AGO ) )S ONE REMEDY PERHAPS GREATER MENTIONED GREED 9OU KNOW GREED IS INVOLVEMENT OR OVERSIGHT BY LAYPEOPLE VERY VERY DIFlCULT TO RESIST EVEN IN IN SOME MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS SMALLER PORTIONS "UT IT WILL DAMAGE ) THINK WE VE ACTUALLY BECOME BETTER US )T S SO IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT AT ENSURING THIS 7E VE SOMETIMES SATISFACTION FULlLLMENT AND SENSE OF BEEN CHARGED IN THE PAST WITH LEAVING FAIR REWARD FOR OUR EFFORTS SHOULD NOT DECISIONS IN THE HANDS OF MINISTERS BE DElNED ONLY BY MONEY THAT THEY RE NOT SPECIlCALLY TRAINED TO MAKE AND THIS IS A FAIR POINT 3O PUBLIC INTEGRITY IS BUILT ON THIS 7E ARE MORE DELIBERATE NOW IN PERSONAL INTEGRITY ON MAKING SURE OUR MAKING SURE THAT ENTITIES THAT ARE PERSONAL PRIORITIES AND VALUES ARE IN MAKING MAJOR lNANCIAL DECISIONS

ORDER AND THE BOARDS OF THESE ENTITIES

9ES 7HAT YOU ARE IN YOUR OWN HAVE SKILLED PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP

PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS AND BEHAVIOR AND THIS INVOLVES MANY LAYPEOPLE IS BASICALLY HOW YOU WILL BE AND !LTHOUGH IN FAIRNESS IT SHOULD BE FUNCTION IN A PUBLIC SETTING )F YOU SAID THAT SKILLS IN MATTERS OF lNANCIAL CHOOSE NOT TO BE OPEN AND HONEST MANAGEMENT ARE NOT WHOLLY OWNED IN YOUR PERSONAL DEALINGS IF YOU BY hLAITYv OR hMINISTRY v 3KILLS HAVE BECOME SUBTLE OR CALCULATING THEN TO DO WITH TRAINING EXPERIENCE AND YOUR MOTIVES AND INTENTIONS BECOME GOOD JUDGMENTÂ&#x2C6;WHETHER IN LAITY OR LESS TRANSPARENT !ND THIS BECOMES MINISTRY PART OF YOUR PERSONALITY AND FEEDS INTO THE WAY YOU FUNCTION IN SOCIETY AND 7E VE BEEN FOCUSING MAINLY ON THE WITHIN THE CHURCH NEGATIVES AND SITUATIONS THAT CAN ) MEET SO MANY PEOPLEÂ&#x2C6;PEOPLE ) COMPROMISE INTEGRITY "UT YOU MUST WORK WITH EVERY DAYÂ&#x2C6;WHOSE LIVES ARE

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AND A COMMITMENT TO TRANSPARENCY 3ADLY ) HAVE ALSO MET PEOPLE WHO WILL SELL THEIR INTEGRITY FOR CASH !ND THIS IS A PROFOUNDLY DISAPPOINTING THING TO SEE 9OU VE SAID ON A NUMBER OF OCCASIONS THAT THE !DVENTIST #HURCH SHOULD BE MORE INVOLVED IN THE PUBLIC DISCOURSE ABOUT INTEGRITY THAT WE HAVE SOMETHING SIGNIlCANT TO CONTRIBUTE 7HY DOES THE CHURCH NEED TO MAKE ITS VOICE HEARD MORE CLEARLY ON THIS /NE COMPELLING REASON IS THAT THIS ISSUE HAS IMMENSE VALUE FOR YOUNG PEOPLEÂ&#x2C6;THOSE AND UNDER 4HEY NEED TO TRUST YOU BEFORE YOU EVEN OPEN YOUR MOUTH 4HEY NEED TO FEEL THERE S ENOUGH BASIC INTEGRITY THERE THAT THEY DON T HAVE TO WONDER IF THERE S A HIDDEN AGENDAÂ&#x2C6;THAT THINGS ARE BEING DELIBERATELY LEFT UNSAID !ND YOU CAN BE SURE THEY WILL HAVE AN UNFAILING SENSE OF WHEN THE hTALKv DOESN T QUITE LINE UP WITH THE ACTION #ONSIDER ALSO THE GROWTH OF OUR CHURCH 4ODAY WE MAY BE A GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF SOME MILLION

YOUNG AND OLD )N YEARS IF THINGS KEEP GOING AS THEY ARE AND THE ,ORD HASN T YET RETURNED THE lGURE WILL BE CLOSER TO MILLION WORLDWIDE ) VE VISITED WITH MANY LEADERS OF STATE AND ) VE HEARD SOME OF THEM SAY h9OU !DVENTISTS YOU RE GOOD FOR US 9OU RE GOOD FOR OUR COMMUNITIES AND GOOD FOR OUR NATION v "UT IN OTHER PLACES ) VE SENSED UNSPOKEN QUESTIONS 7HO ARE YOU REALLY 7HAT ARE YOUR INTENTIONS 7HAT DO YOU HAVE TO CONTRIBUTE ) WANT THEM TO KNOW THAT !DVENTISTS WILL CONTRIBUTE HONESTY INTEGRITY AND A COMMITMENT TO SERVE HUMANITY IN MANY MANY DIFFERENT CAPACITIES AND ) WANT THEM TO KNOW THAT THEIR CITIES AND THEIR NATION WILL BE BETTER PLACES BECAUSE WE ARE THERE

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COURAGE WISDOM KNOWLEDGE AND OTHERS IN THAT CLASS DElNE THE COMMUNITY OF FAITH A COMMUNITY FROM WHICH OUR OWN FAITH lNDS ENRICHMENT 4HE CHURCH THROUGH ITS MEMBERS SHOULD SERVE AS 'OD S ARM ON THE SHOULDERS OF THE WEARY AND HEAVY LADEN BRINGING COMFORT PROVIDING COMPANIONSHIP AND FRIENDSHIP 3TUDIES SHOW THAT UNLESS A NEW CONVERT MAKES

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lVE TO SEVEN FRIENDS IN THE CHURCH THEY ARE UNLIKELY TO SURVIVE MORE THAN ABOUT ONE OR TWO YEARS

STANDING BY OUR SIDES AMID TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS ARE TRULY GIFTS FROM 'OD ) NEVER REALIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS FACT WHEN TIMES WERE GOOD 7E .EED &RIENDS /NLY WHEN THE LANDSCAPE OF MY LIFE 5NFRIENDLY CHURCHES ARE LIKE WINTER CHANGED TO THE HARSHNESS OF WINTER LANDSCAPES "UT TRUE FRIENDS ARE LIKE DID ) EXPERIENCE THE BLESSING AND THE STARS IN THE NIGHT SHINING DOWN ON MIRACLE OF #HRISTIAN FRIENDSHIP AND THE FROSTY BLEAKNESS /R TO CHANGE COMMUNITY )T WAS THEN THAT ) WAS ABLE THE lGURE THEY RE LIKE EVERGREENS TO DRAW UPON A RESOURCE THAT 'OD HAD EMERGING AS SENTINELS AMID THE CHILLY PROVIDED LONG BEFORE ) FELT MY NEED SNOWDRIFTS $OTTING THE DESOLATE #HANGING THE METAPHORS YET AGAIN

LANDSCAPE SUCH EVERGREENS ARE LIKE ) WOULD SAY THAT THERE IS NO SUN WITHOUT FRIENDS WHO REMAIN FAITHFUL THROUGH A SHADOW 7HEN THE DARK NIGHT THE STORMS THAT BATTER OUR LIVES LIKE DESCENDS UPON THE SOUL AND WE lND THE COLD WINDS OF WINTER 3UCH FRIENDS OURSELVES BURIED UNDER MOUNTAINS

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"Y 2OSS #HADWICK

2ANDOM REmECTIONS ABOUT THE SUPPORT OF FELLOW PILGRIMS ON THE #HRISTIAN JOURNEY

OF TROUBLE WE CAN DIG EITHER A CAVE OR A TUNNEL )F A CAVE THEN WE lND OURSELVES LOST GROPING FRIENDLESS IN THE DARK )F WE DIG A TUNNEL THEN THERE S THE HOPE OF ENDING UP ON THE BETTER BRIGHTER SIDE OF LIFE %VERY AFmICTION BRINGS WITH IT A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY !ND IT WAS IN ONE OF THOSE DARK TIMES THAT 0ROVIDENCE WORKED THROUGH HUMAN FRIENDSHIP TO HELP ME DIG MY WAY TO THE BETTER BRIGHTER SIDE

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/THER METAPHORS COME TO ME 4RUE FRIENDS ARE LIKE ANGELS THAT LIFT US TO OUR FEET WHEN WE HAVE FORGOTTEN HOW TO mY 4RUE FRIENDS ARE LIKE THE RISING OF THE MOON WHEN THE TIDE OF LIFE IS AT ITS LOWEST EBB AND THE CRABS ARE PLAYING IN THE MUD )T IS THE MOON THAT BRINGS FORTH THE WATERS TO lLL THE COAST ONCE MORE 4HE MOON WAXES AND WANES

REMINDING US THAT THE HEART LIKE ALL NATURE HAS ITS SEASONS !ND AS THE MOON SHINES FROM THE BORROWED LIGHT OF THE SUN IT REMINDS US THAT THE JOYS OF FRIENDSHIP SHINE THE BRIGHTEST WHEN FACING THE 3UN OF 2IGHTEOUSNESS 7ITH 'OD IN ITS MIDST THE CHURCH mOWS ON LIKE A RIVERÂ&#x2C6;LIKE A RIVER OF GRACE 9ET IT ALL BECOMES TRULY MEANINGFUL ONLY WHEN THAT GRACE IS MANIFEST IN WARM AND SUPPORTIVE FRIENDSHIP WHEN THROUGH CARING MEMBERS THE CHURCH CAN PUT ITS ARM AROUND THE SHOULDER OF THE WEARY AND BURDENED WHEN LIKE EVERGREENS IT CAN BRIGHTEN THE SNOW COVERED LANDSCAPE OF SOMEONE S LIFE WHEN LIKE THE ATTRACTIVE PULL OF THE MOON IT CAN LIFT THE BURDEN OF SOME LONELY STRUGGLING SOUL

N h7E THEN WHO ARE STRONG OUGHT TO BEAR WITH THE SCRUPLES OF THE WEAK xv 2OM N h"Y THIS WE KNOW LOVE BECAUSE (E LAID DOWN (IS LIFE FOR US !ND WE ALSO OUGHT TO LAY DOWN OUR LIVES FOR ;ONE ANOTHER=x -Y LITTLE CHILDREN LET US NOT LOVE IN WORD OR IN TONGUE BUT IN DEED AND IN TRUTHv *OHN

)N THE #HURCH AND 3OCIETY N h"Y THIS ALL WILL KNOW THAT YOU ARE -Y DISCIPLES IF YOU HAVE LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHERv

*OHN N h)F WE WOULD HUMBLE OURSELVES BEFORE 'OD AND BE KIND AND COURTEOUS AND

TENDERHEARTED AND PITIFUL THERE WOULD BE ONE HUNDRED CONVERSIONS TO THE TRUTH WHERE NOW THERE IS ONLY ONEv %LLEN ' 7HITE 4ESTIMONIES FOR THE #HURCH

VOL P N h)T IS THROUGH THE SOCIAL RELATIONS THAT #HRISTIANITY COMES IN CONTACT WITH THE WORLD %VERY MAN OR WOMAN WHO HAS RECEIVED THE DIVINE ILLUMINATION IS TO SHED LIGHT ON THE DARK PATHWAY OF THOSE WHO ARE UNACQUAINTED WITH THE BETTER WAYv 4HE -INISTRY OF (EALING P )N THE (OME N h&ATHERS DO NOT PROVOKE YOUR CHILDREN LEST THEY BECOME DISCOURAGEDv #OL N h4HE ATMOSPHERE SURROUNDING THE SOULS OF FATHERS AND MOTHERS lLLS THE WHOLE HOUSE AND IS FELT IN EVERY DEPARTMENT OF THE HOMEx -AKE YOUR HOME ATMOSPHERE FRAGRANT WITH TENDER THOUGHTFULNESSv % ' 7HITE 4HE !DVENTIST (OME P N h4HOUGH DIFlCULTIES PERPLEXITIES AND DISCOURAGEMENTS MAY ARISE LET NEITHER HUSBAND NOR WIFE HARBOR THE THOUGHT THAT THEIR UNION IS A MISTAKE OR A DISAPPOINTMENT $ETERMINE TO BE ALL THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO BE TO EACH OTHERx 3TUDY TO ADVANCE THE HAPPINESS OF EACH OTHER ,ET THERE BE MUTUAL LOVE

MUTUAL FORBEARANCE 4HEN MARRIAGE INSTEAD OF BEING THE END OF LOVE WILL BE AS IT WERE THE VERY BEGINNING OF LOVE 4HE WARMTH OF TRUE FRIENDSHIP THE LOVE THAT BINDS HEART TO HEART IS A FORETASTE OF THE JOYS OF HEAVENv %LLEN ' 7HITE

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F !DVENTISTS WERE ASKED TO DElNE THE UNIQUENESS OF THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH DOUBTLESS THE ANSWERS WOULD BE QUITE VARIED 3OME MIGHT SEE THE CHURCH S UNIQUENESS IN THE WAY MEMBERS WORSHIP ON 3ATURDAY 3ABBATH RATHER THAN 3UNDAY /THERS MIGHT MENTION THE UNDERSTANDING OF #HRIST S MINISTRY IN THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY OR THE PROPHETIC MINISTRY OF %LLEN 7HITE 3TILL OTHERS MIGHT POINT TO LIFESTYLE ISSUES SUCH AS REFRAINING FROM CERTAIN KINDS OF FOODS AMUSEMENTS OR STYLES OF DRESS AND ADORNMENT )N ONE SENSE ALL THESE ANSWERS WOULD BE AT LEAST PARTIALLY CORRECT "UT THERE IS ANOTHER WAY TO DElNE !DVENTISM AND THAT IS AS A PROPHETIC MOVEMENT 7HEN ONE DOES SO

!DVENTISM IS SEEN TO BE UNIQUE BECAUSE OF THREE DISTINCT CHARACTERISTICS .O OTHER CHURCH CLAIMS THESE IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS BUT !DVENTISTS SAW THEM AS DElNING THE CHURCH EVEN FROM BEFORE ITS OFlCIAL FOUNDING IN 4HOSE THREE DElNING CHARACTERISTICS DESCRIBE !DVENTISTS AS THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO lND THEIR PROPHETIC ROOTS OR HISTORY PREDICTED IN 2EVELATION PROPHETIC IDENTITY DElNED IN 2EVELATION PROPHETIC MESSAGE AND MISSION GIVEN IN 2EVELATION

4HE PERIOD OF TIME THAT $ANIEL WANTED TO UNDERSTAND WAS THE DAYS AT THE END OF WHICH THE SANCTUARY WOULD BE CLEANSED 4HAT WAS THE ONLY SEALED MESSAGE IN THE BOOK OF $ANIEL -ANY CENTURIES LATER ON THE )SLE OF 0ATMOSÂ&#x2C6;IN VISIONÂ&#x2C6;*OHN WAS SHOWN A TIME IN THE FUTURE WHEN A MIGHTY ANGEL WOULD DESCEND TO EARTH HAVING IN HIS HAND A LITTLE BOOKÂ&#x2C6;OPEN .OT CLOSED .OT SEALED "UT OPEN &ROM OUR VANTAGE POINT OF HISTORY WE CAN SEE THAT IT WAS NEAR THE END OF THE DAY PROPHECY IN THAT THIS ANGEL WITH THE OPEN BOOK OF $ANIEL DID JUST AS *OHN WAS SHOWN !T THE PRECISE TIME PREDICTED THE ANGEL S PROPHETIC MESSAGE EMBRACED THE WHOLE EARTH !S PREDICTED IN *OHN S VISION PROPHETIC TIME HAD REACHED ITS CLIMAX !ROUND THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AND THE BEGINNING OF THE NINETEENTH PEOPLE BEGAN STUDYING THE PROPHECIES OF $ANIEL AND 2EVELATION )N SO DOING MANY CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE DAYS OF $ANIEL WOULD END IN THE S 4HINKING THAT THE CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY DESCRIBED BY $ANIEL REFERRED TO THE CLEANSING OF THE EARTH BY lRE AT THE SECOND COMING OF

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M O V E M E N T !DVENTISTS DO NOT MAKE THESE CLAIMS WITH ANY ATTITUDE OF RELIGIOUS EXCLUSIVENESS OR BOASTING 4HE ISSUE IS NOT THAT 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS ARE hBETTER THAN v BUT RATHER hDIFFERENT FROMv OTHER CHURCHES 0ROPHETIC 2OOTS IN 2EVELATION

4HE APOSTLE *OHN IN 2EVELATION DEPICTS EVENTS THAT INTEREST !DVENTISTS AS THEY LOOK FOR THE PROPHETIC ROOTS

OR HISTORY OF !DVENTISM !DVENTISTS UNDERSTAND THE hLITTLE BOOKv MENTIONED IN VERSES

AND TO REFER TO THE BOOK OF $ANIEL !LTHOUGH $ANIEL S PROPHECY WAS PRIMARILY A TIME MESSAGE WHEN HE ASKED THE MEANING OF THE TIME THAT HAD BEEN REVEALED TO HIM HE WAS TOLD TO hSHUT UP THE WORDS AND SEAL THE BOOK UNTIL THE TIME OF THE ENDv $AN 4HE MESSAGE WAS NOT FOR $ANIEL TO COMPREHEND THEN BUT AT THE TIME OF THE END WHAT FOR AGES HAD BEEN SEALED WOULD BE UNDERSTOOD

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#HRIST THEY CONCLUDED THAT *ESUS WOULD RETURN THEN 4HAT EXCITING NEWS WAS SOON PREACHED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD &OR 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS IN PARTICULAR AND THE YEARS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING IT EVOKE THE NAME 7ILLIAM -ILLER "UT HE WAS ONLY ONE OF MANY DURING THAT TIME WHO PREACHED THE SOON RETURN OF *ESUS 0EOPLE SUCH AS -ANUEL ,ACUNZA *OSEPH 7OLFF (ENRY $RUMMOND %DWARD )RVING

(UGH - .EILE AND THE CHILD PREACHERS OF 3WEDEN WERE ALSO PROCLAIMING THE FACT THAT THE GREAT TIME PROPHECIES WERE ABOUT TO MEET THEIR FULlLLMENT AND THENÂ&#x2C6;AS THEY UNDERSTOOD ITÂ&#x2C6;*ESUS WOULD RETURN !ND IT WASN T JUST IN !MERICA OR %UROPE THAT PEOPLE WERE MAKING THIS PROCLAMATION 4HE MESSAGE WAS CIRCLING THE GLOBE 7OLFF PREACHED IN THE -IDDLE %AST AND .ORTH

!FRICA FROM %GYPT TO !FGHANISTAN AND %NGLAND TO )NDIA )N HE EVEN VISITED THE 5NITED 3TATES WHERE HE ALSO PREACHED /UT IN )NDIA $ANIEL 7ILSON %PISCOPAL BISHOP OF #ALCUTTA PREACHED AND WROTE PAMPHLETS SPECIlCALLY ON THE PROPHECIES OF $ANIEL )N !DELAIDE !USTRALIA THE MESSAGE OF A SOON COMING 3AVIOR WAS PREACHED BY 4HOMAS 0LAYFORD #ROWDS THERE BECAME SO IMMENSE THAT HIS FOLLOWERS HAD TO BUILD A LARGER CHURCH FOR HIM !T THE END OF PROPHETIC TIME PRECISELY AS THE APOSTLE *OHN HAD BEEN SHOWN AND AT THE VERY TIME PREDICTED BY $ANIEL MORE THAN YEARS IN ADVANCE THE MESSAGE WAS PROCLAIMED WITH A LOUD VOICE AROUND THE WORLD .O WONDER THE !DVENTIST PIONEERS WERE EXCITED WHEN THEY REALIZED THAT THEY WERE FULlLLING PROPHECY 2EVELATION READS h4HEN ) TOOK THE LITTLE BOOK OUT OF THE ANGEL S HAND AND ATE IT AND IT WAS AS SWEET AS HONEY IN MY MOUTH "UT WHEN ) HAD EATEN IT

MY STOMACH BECAME BITTER v 4HERE COULD BE NO BETTER SUMMARY OF WHAT HAPPENED NEXT IN !DVENTIST #HURCH HISTORY THAN

(AMPSHIRE WERE RINGING WITH THE MIGHTY CRY @"EHOLD THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH GO YE OUT TO MEET (IM !S THE LOADED WAGONS STAGES AND RAILROAD CARS ROLLED AWAY THROUGH THE DIFFERENT STATES CITIES AND VILLAGES OF .EW %NGLAND THE CRY WAS STILL RESOUNDING @"EHOLD THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH 4IME IS SHORT 'ET READY 'ET READY v h,IKE A TIDAL WAVE v %LLEN 7HITE WROTE hTHE MOVEMENT SWEPT OVER THE LAND &ROM CITY TO CITY FROM VILLAGE TO VILLAGE AND INTO THE REMOTE COUNTRY PLACES IT WENT UNTIL THE WAITING PEOPLE OF 'OD WERE FULLY AROUSED v 4HE GREAT DAY lNALLY ARRIVED 7ILLIAM -ILLER OBSERVED THAT hEVEN THE WICKED SCOFFERS STOOD MUTEv THAT DAY "UT HE WENT ON TO SAY h)T PASSED !ND THE NEXT DAY IT SEEMED AS THOUGH ALL THE DEMONS FROM THE BOTTOMLESS PIT WERE LET LOOSE UPON US 4HE SAME ONES x WHO WERE CRYING FOR MERCY x BEFORE WERE NOW x MOCKING SCOFlNG AND THREATENING IN A MOST BLASPHEMOUS MANNER v 4HE EXPERIENCE THAT HAD BEEN SO SWEET IN THEIR MOUTHS

AS FORETOLD BY THE APOSTLE *OHN NOW TURNED NAUSEATINGLY BITTER IN THEIR STOMACHS %VEN AS NONE OF US CAN FULLY REALIZE THE EXPERIENCE THEY WENT THROUGH IN ANTICIPATING #HRIST S

,EFT TO RIGHT *OSEPH 7OLFF 7ILLIAM -ILLER !..5!, #/5.#), !DVENTIST WORLD CHURCH PRESIDENT 2OBERT 0IER SON ADDRESSES !NNUAL #OUNCIL ATTEND EES IN THE 4AKOMA 0ARK -ARYLAND

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THOSE PROPHETIC WORDS 4HE CHURCH FOUNDERS HAD ALL BEEN -ILLERITESÂ&#x2C6;THAT IS FOLLOWERS OF 7ILLIAM -ILLER AN !MERICAN "APTIST FARMER TURNED PREACHER WHO PROCLAIMED THAT #HRIST WOULD RETURN ABOUT OR Â&#x2C6;AT THE END OF THE DAY PROPHECY AS HE UNDERSTOOD IT &OR !DVENTISTS LIVING TODAY SOME YEARS AFTER THAT EVENT IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE HOW PRECIOUS WAS THE EXPERIENCE OF THOSE -ILLERITES AS THEY APPROACHED /CTOBER

THE DATE THEY DETERMINED FROM THEIR STUDY WAS THE END OF $ANIEL S LONG TIME PROPHECY 4HEIR EXPERIENCE WAS ESPECIALLY SWEET DURING THE LAST FEW WEEKS AND DAYS PRIOR TO /CTOBER "Y READING SOME OF THEIR ACCOUNTS

WE CATCH A GLIMPSE INTO THEIR HAPPY YET SOBER FEELINGS *OSEPH "ATES DESCRIBING THE %XETER .EW (AMPSHIRE

CAMP MEETING HELD IN !UGUST WHEN THE /CTOBER DATE WAS lRST PREACHED LATER RECALLED h7HEN THAT MEETING CLOSED THE GRANITE HILLS OF .EW

RETURN ON THAT LONG AGO 4UESDAY NEITHER CAN WE FULLY COMPREHEND THEIR HEART WRENCHING DISAPPOINTMENT IN THE DAYS AND WEEKS THAT FOLLOWED /CTOBER (IRAM %DSON PROBABLY SUMMARIZED THEIR EXPERIENCE AS GRAPHICALLY AS ANYONE h7E LOOKED FOR OUR COMING ,ORD UNTIL THE CLOCK TOLLED AT MIDNIGHT 4HE DAY HAD THEN PASSED AND OUR DISAPPOINTMENT BECAME A CERTAINTY /UR FONDEST HOPES AND EXPECTATIONS WERE BLASTED AND SUCH A SPIRIT OF WEEPING CAME OVER US AS ) NEVER EXPERIENCED

*AMES 2 .IX IS DIRECTOR OF THE 7HITE %STATE AT THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH S WORLD HEADQUARTERS IN 3ILVER 3PRING -ARYLAND

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BEFOREx 7E WEPT AND WEPT TILL THE DAY DAWN v "UT 2EVELATION CHAPTER STILL HAS ONE MORE VERSE h!ND HE SAID UNTO ME 4HOU MUST PROPHESY AGAIN BEFORE MANY PEOPLES AND NATIONS AND TONGUES AND KINGSv 2EV

+*6 !DMITTEDLY IN THEIR DISAPPOINTMENT THE !DVENTIST PIONEERS DID NOT FULLY COMPREHEND THIS VERSE ESPECIALLY THE PART ABOUT PROPHESYING hAGAIN BEFORE MANY PEOPLES

AND NATIONS AND TONGUES AND KINGS v 4HE WORLDWIDE WORK BEING ASSIGNED THEM WOULD ONLY GRADUALLY DAWN UPON THEIR MINDS !ND SO ALSO THE EXPANDED MESSAGE THAT THEY WERE TO PREACHÂ&#x2C6;INCLUDING THE 3ABBATH THE SANCTUARY THE STATE OF THE DEAD THE HEALTH MESSAGE AND SO FORTH %VEN THIS BRIEF OVERVIEW HOWEVER REMINDS US WHY !DVENTISTS SEE THEIR PROPHETIC HISTORY FORETOLD IN 2EVELATION "UT THIS IS ONLY THE lRST OF THE THREE PROPHETICALLY IDENTIlED CHARACTERISTICS

GIVEN HERE #ONSEQUENTLY 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS lND THEIR PROPHETIC IDENTITY IN THE TWO CHARACTERISTICS GIVEN IN 2EVELATION )T WAS UPON A NOW UNKNOWN DAY IN THE MONTH OF $ECEMBER IN THAT A YEAR OLD %LLEN (ARMON

WHILE PRAYING WITH FOUR OTHER WOMEN EXPERIENCED THE (OLY 3PIRIT RESTING UPON HER AS SHE NEVER HAD BEFORE 'OD HAD DONE IT AGAINÂ&#x2C6;ANOTHER PROPHETIC MESSENGER HAD BEEN COMMISSIONED *UST AS (E HAD DONE AT SO MANY OTHER CRUCIAL JUNCTIONS IN SALVATION HISTORY SUCH AS .OAH BEFORE THE mOOD AND *OHN THE "APTIST BEFORE THE MINISTRY OF #HRIST 'OD NOW SENT ANOTHER PROPHETIC MESSENGER !NOTHER CRUCIAL BEACON LIGHT IN PROPHETIC HISTORY HAD

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0ROPHETIC )DENTITY IN 2EVELATION

2EVELATION COVERS MORE HISTORICAL TIME THAN DOES ANY OTHER SINGLE CHAPTER IN THE "IBLE FROM THE FALL OF ,UCIFER TO ! $ )N THE CHAPTER S lNAL VERSE

WE lND 'OD S TRUE CHURCH EMERGING FROM ITS hWILDERNESSv EXPERIENCE AND THERE COMES TO VIEW A hREMNANTv +*6 PEOPLE IDENTIlED BY TWO CHARACTERISTICS 4HEY KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF 'ODÂ&#x2C6;ALL OF THEM INCLUDING THE FOURTH OR 3ABBATH COMMANDMENT 4HEY POSSESS THE hTESTIMONY OF *ESUS v WHICH IN 2EVELATION IN THE +ING *AMES 6ERSION IS DElNED AS THE hSPIRIT OF PROPHECYvÂ&#x2C6;A RENEWED BESTOWAL OF THE DIVINELY INSPIRED GIFT OF PROPHECY 7HILE A FEW OTHER CHURCHES KEEP THE SEVENTH DAY 3ABBATH AND OTHERS CLAIM THE PROPHETIC GIFT IN THEIR MIDST NOT ONE OF THEM lTS BOTH IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS

!DVENTIST 7ORLD \ *UNE

ARRIVEDÂ&#x2C6;THE GREAT TIME PROPHECIES OF $ANIEL AND 2EVELATION WERE COMING TO THEIR END AND JUST AS PREDICTED

THE GIFT OF PROPHECY WAS RESTORED TO 'OD S REMNANT PEOPLE )N %LLEN (ARMON MARRIED *AMES 7HITE (ER MINISTRY WOULD EXTEND FOR A PERIOD OF YEARSÂ&#x2C6;FROM UNTIL HER DEATH IN INCLUDE AN ESTIMATED VISIONS AND INCORPORATE HER AUTHORING MORE THAN PERIODICAL ARTICLES AND BOOKS PLUS TWO UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS BEFORE HER DEATH .OW AFTER MORE THAN YEARS TO OBSERVE THE FRUIT OF HER WORK IT CAN BE DEMONSTRATED THAT THE COUNSELS 'OD GAVE

THE CHURCH THROUGH %LLEN 7HITE ARE SOUNDÂ&#x2C6;THEY HAVE STOOD THE TEST OF TIME !NY CANDID APPRAISAL OF THE DENOMINATION S HISTORY REVEALS THAT THE CHURCH HAS PROSPERED WHEN IT HAS FOLLOWED 'OD S LEADING THROUGH THE 3PIRIT OF PROPHECY AND FALTERED ON THOSE OCCASIONS WHEN IT HAS NOT 4HIS BRINGS US TO THE THIRD CHARACTERISTIC

SETTING OF THE JUDGMENT HOUR MESSAGE AND THE CALL TO COME OUT OF "ABYLONÂ&#x2C6;WERE BOTH lRST SOUNDED BY THE -ILLERITES )T WOULD TAKE THOSE DISAPPOINTED -ILLERITES WHO EVENTUALLY FOUNDED OUR CHURCH SOME TIME BEFORE THEY DETERMINED THE SIGNIlCANCE OF THE THIRD ANGEL S MESSAGE "UT AFTER DISCOVERING THE OBLIGATION AND PRIVILEGE OF KEEPING THE SEVENTH DAY 3ABBATH THEY SOON ALSO CAME TO REALIZE ITS 0ROPHETIC -ESSAGE IN 2EVELATION THEOLOGICAL AND PROPHETIC SIGNIlCANCE IN RELATION TO THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS BELIEVE THEY HAVE A MESSAGE FOR THIRD ANGEL S MESSAGE THE WORLD FOUND IN 2EVELATION 4O THE BEST OF MY %LLEN 7HITE WROTE h%VERY FEATURE OF THE THIRD ANGEL S KNOWLEDGE NO OTHER CHURCH TODAY IS PROCLAIMING THE hTHREE MESSAGE IS TO BE PROCLAIMED IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD 4HIS ANGELS MESSAGES v IS A MUCH GREATER WORK THAN MANY REALIZEv 4HE 5PWARD )T IS WORTH NOTING THAT WHEN TRANSLATING THE "IBLE INTO ,OOK P CONTEMPORARY %NGLISH FOR 2OMAN #ATHOLICS -ONSIGNOR 2ONALD +NOX INCLUDED AN INTERESTING FOOTNOTE FOR #ONCLUSION 2EVELATION IN HIS +NOX TRANSLATION 9ES AT THE END OF TIME THERE WILL BE A FAITHFUL

)N 2EVELATION THE +ING *AMES 6ERSION IN %NGLISH COMMANDMENT KEEPING GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS HERE ON EARTH IDENTIlES THE THREE ANGELS MESSAGES AS THE hEVERLASTING GOSPEL v WHO ARE DISTINGUISHED FROM ALL OTHER RELIGIOUS BODIES IN )N HIS TRANSLATION +NOX TRANSLATES IT AS hA lNAL THREE UNIQUE WAYS GOSPEL v (E THEN ADDS THE FOLLOWING FOOTNOTE h@&INAL /NLY 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS lT THIS DESCRIPTION EXACTLY LITERALLY @ETERNAL )T IS NOT CLEAR v +NOX SAYS hWHY THE @GOSPEL 4HE FACT THAT !DVENTISTS HAVE BEEN CALLED TO SAY SOMETHING UNIQUE JUST BEFORE #HRIST S SECOND COMING IS NOTHING TO BOAST ABOUT !FTER ALL THE MESSAGE IS NOT THE CHURCH S MESSAGE BUT 'OD S 4HAT BEING SO !DVENTIST #HURCH MEMBERS NEED TO BE LIVING DIFFERENTLY ACTING DIFFERENTLY AND PREACHING DIFFERENTLY -ANY OTHER CHURCHES ARE DOING A GOOD WORK

BUT NONE IS PREACHING THE hEVERLASTING v OR hlNAL v GOSPEL IN THE SETTING OF THE lNAL JUDGMENT HOUR MESSAGE 4HIS SHOULD GIVE !DVENTISTS A SENSE OF URGENCY ABOUT THEIR PREACHING 4HE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH HAS A SPECIAL END TIME WORK TO DO 'OD FORBID THAT !DVENTISTS EVER LOSE THEIR SENSE OF PROPHETIC FOCUS AND MISSION BUT RATHER AGAIN EXPERIENCE THE EXCITEMENT AND COMMITMENT OF THE CHURCH PIONEERS WHO REALIZED THAT 'OD WANTED TO WORK THROUGH THEM TO lNISH (IS WORK HERE ON EARTH -AY THAT SAME PREACHED BY THE ANGEL IS SO DESCRIBED BUT THE CONTEXT SENSE OF WONDER AND DEDICATION BE THE EXPERIENCE OF EACH SUGGESTS THAT IT IS THE LAST CALL TO REPENTANCE WHICH WILL BE MEMBER OF THE !DVENTIST #HURCH TODAY OFFERED TO MEN THIS SIDE OF ETERNITY v 2EGARDING THIS VERY POINT MANY YEARS EARLIER %LLEN 4O READ THE FULL ARTICLE ORIGINALLY PREPARED AS A SERMON GO TO 7HITE WROTE h)N A SPECIAL SENSE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS WWW WHITEESTATE ORG RESOURCES NIX UNIQUE?MOVEMENT HTML HAVE BEEN SET IN THE WORLD AS WATCHMEN AND LIGHT BEARERS 4O THEM HAS BEEN ENTRUSTED THE LAST WARNING FOR A PERISHING 3PECIAL THANKS TO 2OGER #OON FOR CONCEPTS USED IN THIS ARTICLE WORLD /N THEM IS SHINING WONDERFUL LIGHT FROM THE WORD OF 'OD 4HEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN A WORK OF THE MOST SOLEMN , % &ROOM 0ROPHETIC &AITH OF /UR &ATHERS VOL PP - % /LSEN /RIGIN AND 0ROGRESS OF 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS P IMPORTÂ&#x2C6;THE PROCLAMATION OF THE lRST SECOND AND THIRD *OSEPH "ATES 3ECOND !DVENT 7AY -ARKS AND (IGH (EAPS

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ANGELS MESSAGES 4HERE IS NO OTHER WORK OF SO GREAT %LLEN ' 7HITE 4HE 'REAT #ONTROVERSY ED P 7ILLIAM -ILLER MANUSCRIPT LETTER TO * / /RR - $ $ECEMBER

CITED IN & $ .ICHOL 4HE IMPORTANCE 4HEY ARE TO ALLOW NOTHING ELSE TO ABSORB THEIR -IDNIGHT #RY P #(, ED P )BID ATTENTIONv 4ESTIMONIES FOR THE #HURCH VOL P (IRAM %DSON UNDATED AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT LOCATED IN THE !NDREWS 5NIVERSITY &OR MORE THAN YEARS !DVENTISTS HAVE BEEN ,IBRARY PP A

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P FOOTNOTE ON 2EVELATION PREACHING OF THE hEVERLASTING v OR hlNAL v GOSPEL IN THE

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ISSION STORIES OFTEN THRILL US AS WE LEARN WHAT 'OD IS DOING THROUGH (IS PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD /THER TIMES THEY SHAKE US TO OUR VERY CORE AS WE VISUALIZE HOW MUCH WORK REMAINS TO BE DONE !ND ALWAYS THEY INSPIRE US TO FALL TO OUR KNEES IN PRAYER AND CHALLENGE US TO DO WHAT WE CAN TO HELP FURTHER THE GOSPEL COMMISSION !S ) VE TRAVELED TO VARIOUS REGIONS OF THE WORLD AS A RESULT OF MY WORK ) VE SEEN 'OD S SPIRIT OPERATING IN THE LIVES AND HEARTS OF THOSE ) MEET 4HESE EXPERIENCES HAVE ENCOURAGED ME MOTIVATED MEÂ&#x2C6;AND EVEN CHANGED ME -UHAMMAD S 0RAYER

)T WAS 4HURSDAY AFTERNOON IN A -IDDLE %ASTERN COUNTRY 3UNITA

A NURSE FROM )NDIA WAS lNISHING UP HER DUTIES IN THE HOSPITAL AND GETTING READY FOR THE LONG WEEKEND 3HE HAD BEEN PLANNING FOR THIS WEEKEND FOR MONTHSÂ&#x2C6; ESPECIALLY FOR THE &RIDAY NIGHT #OMMUNION SERVICE 3UNITA S PASTOR LIVED IN ANOTHER COUNTRY /NLY HE AND ONE OTHER !DVENTIST PASTOR OVERSAW THE CHURCHES IN SEVEN

!LL &RIDAY NIGHT AT WORK 3UNITA WAS UPSET )T ISN T FAIR SHE THOUGHT 7HY DID 'OD ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN 3UDDENLY A DOOR mEW OPEN AND WITH A SHOUT OF EXCITEMENT IN RUSHED YEAR OLD -UHAMMAD 3UNITA HAD KNOWN -UHAMMAD SINCE HE WAS A BABY (E HAD BEEN BORN WITH A MEDICAL CONDITION THAT REQUIRED FREQUENT AND PAINFUL TREATMENTS -ANY TIMES SHE HAD BEEN HIS NURSE DURING THOSE DIFlCULT SESSIONS 3HE HAD HELD HIM AND GENTLY RUBBED HIS HEAD )N HER HEART SHE HAD PRAYED FOR THIS LITTLE BOY AND HIS FAMILY "UT 3UNITA HADN T SEEN -UHAMMAD FOR TWO YEARS 7HEN HE HAD TURNED HIS WEALTHY FAMILY HAD LEFT THE COUNTRY 4HEY TRAVELED THE WORLD LOOKING FOR A CURE FOR -UHAMMAD S CONDITIONÂ&#x2C6;OR AT LEAST FOR A LESS PAINFUL TREATMENTÂ&#x2C6;BUT HAD RECENTLY RETURNED WITHOUT SUCCESS .OW -UHAMMAD WAS HAVING ANOTHER ATTACK AND NEEDED TREATMENT IMMEDIATELY !S THE LITTLE BOY LOOKED UP AT HER THROUGH PAIN lLLED AND FEARFUL EYES HE SQUEEZED HER AGAIN AND SAID h/H

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DIFFERENT COUNTRIES OF THE -IDDLE %AST (E HAD TO APPLY FOR A VISA EVERY TIME HE CAME TO VISIT 3UNITA S CHURCH AND FOR MORE THAN A YEAR THE GOVERNMENT HAD NOT GRANTED HIS VISA REQUESTS 3O WHEN 3UNITA HEARD THAT MY WIFE "ARBARA AND ) WERE COMING TO VISIT HER COUNTRY SHE ASKED IF ) WOULD HOLD A #OMMUNION SERVICE FOR THEM 3HE AND OTHERS THEN SET TO WORK PLANNING AND PREPARING 4HIS WAS GOING TO BE THEIR lRST #OMMUNION SERVICE IN MORE THAN A YEAR 3UNITA MADE ARRANGEMENTS TO HAVE THAT WEEKEND OFF WORKÂ&#x2C6;EVEN WORKING EXTRA SHIFTS TO BE ACCOMMODATING %VERYTHING WAS GOING WELLÂ&#x2C6;UNTIL 4HURSDAY AFTERNOON WHEN HER BOSS WALKED INTO THE NURSES STATION h3UNITA v HE SAID h) M SORRY TO HAVE TO SAY THIS BUT SEVERAL STAFF MEMBERS ARE SICK AND ) NEED YOU TO WORK TOMORROW NIGHT v

!DVENTIST 7ORLD \ *UNE

3UNITA ) AM SO GLAD YOU ARE HERE ) PRAYED YOU WOULD BE v 4EARS RAN DOWN 3UNITA S CHEEKS 3HE KNEW NOW WHY SHE WAS IN THE HOSPITAL INSTEAD OF AT CHURCH 3HE WAS THERE TO HELP ANSWER A LITTLE BOY S PRAYER &OR YEARS 3UNITA HAD WONDERED IF HER WORK IN THIS COUNTRY WAS MAKING ANY DIFFERENCE 3HE WASN T HAVING "IBLE STUDIES WITH ANYONE 4HAT WAS ILLEGAL .O ONE HAD BEEN BAPTIZED OR HAD STARTED COMING TO CHURCH BECAUSE OF HER INmUENCE 3HE WONDERED IF SHE WAS A FAILURE AS A MISSIONARY "UT NOW SHE FELT 'OD HAD OPENED HER EYES -AYBE SHE WAS MAKING A DIFFERENCE AFTER ALL !DVENTIST 46

)N THAT SAME COUNTRY ANOTHER !DVENTIST NURSE WAS ALSO WRESTLING WITH WHAT SHE WAS DOING FOR 'OD *ANET HAD BEEN IN THE REGION FOR YEARS 3OMETIMES IT SEEMED TO HER THAT THEY 0 ( / 4 / 3 " 9 ( / - % 2 4 2 % # ! 2 4 ) .

TO TUNE THEIR SATELLITE AND PROGRAM IT INTO THEIR FAVORITES SO THEY COULD SEE IT ANYTIME .OW THEY WATCH MANY OF THE !DVENTIST PREACHERS AND PROGRAMS v h(AVE YOU DONE THIS WITH ANYONE ELSE v ) ASKED h9ES v SHE SAID h) HAVE DONE IT WITH MOST OF MY FRIENDS AND COWORKERS ) lND A PROGRAM ) THINK THEY WOULD LIKE

THEN TUNE THEIR SATELLITE AND ENTER IT INTO THEIR FAVORITES LIST v ) GENTLY CHIDED *ANET h$ON T TELL ME YOU AREN T MAKING A DIFFERENCE HERE v ) SAID h9OU MAY NOT BE SEEING PEOPLE BAPTIZED OR IN CHURCH BUT ALL OVER THIS CITY FAMILIES ARE WATCHING !DVENTIST TELEVISION BECAUSE THEY HAVE LEARNED TO LOVE AND TRUST YOU 3OME OF THEM WILL BE WALKING THE STREETS OF HEAVEN WITH YOU WHEN *ESUS COMES AGAIN v 3OMETIMES WE MAY THINK THAT NO ONE AROUND US IS INTERESTED IN HEARING ABOUT OUR BELIEFS 7E MIGHT EVEN BE IN A PLACE WHERE WE DON T FEEL FREE TO SHARE OUR BELIEFS "UT DON T BE DISCOURAGED !S WITH 3UNITA AND *ANET THE ,ORD COULD BE WORKING THROUGH YOU TO REACH OTHERS IN WAYS YOU MIGHT NOT REALIZE

%!'%2 &/2 4(% 7/2$ %GYPTIAN !DVENTISTS ATTENDING CAMP MEETING AT .ILE 5NION !CADEMY IN #AIRO EAGERLY EXAMINE !RABIC BOOKS BEING SOLD BY THE !DVENTIST PUBLISHING HOUSE

"Y (OMER 4RECARTIN HAD BEEN WASTED YEARS h(OW WILL THE WORK OF TAKING THE GOSPEL TO THE WORLD EVER BE lNISHED IF ) CAN T EVEN lND A WAY TO DO IT HERE WHERE ) LIVE AND WORK IN THE -IDDLE %AST v SHE WONDERED /NE DAY SHE INVITED MY WIFE AND ME TO VISIT SOME FRIENDS WITH HER 4HE HOSTS WELCOMED US WARMLY AND IT WAS OBVIOUS THEY CONSIDERED *ANET PART OF THE FAMILY !T ONE POINT WHEN THE FAMILY WAS OUT OF THE ROOM *ANET SAID SOFTLY h0ASTOR LOOK AT THIS v AND SHE REACHED OVER TO THE GIANT SCREEN SATELLITE SYSTEM ON THE WALL AND TURNED IT ON ) GASPED IN SURPRISE AS A FAMILIAR PICTURE CAME UP ON THE SCREEN )T WAS A WELL KNOWN !DVENTIST PASTOR PREACHING ON ONE OF THE !DVENTIST SATELLITE CHANNELS h*ANET v ) ASKED IN AMAZEMENT hHOW IS IT THAT THIS FAMILY IS WATCHING !DVENTIST TELEVISION v 3HE LAUGHED AND SAID h4HEY LIKE COOKING 3O WHEN ) SAW A COOKING PROGRAM ) TOLD THEM ABOUT IT AND OFFERED

! 'ROWING #HURCH

!LMOST YEARS AGO THE !DVENTIST #HURCH STARTED AS A SMALL %NGLISH SPEAKING GROUP IN THE 5NITED 3TATES )T TOOK MEMBERS A LONG TIME TO REALIZE THAT THE CHURCH HAD A RESPONSIBILITY TO CARRY THE GOSPEL TO THE ENTIRE WORLD "UT ONCE THEY DID THEY POURED THEIR HEARTS INTO THAT MISSION

AND THE CHURCH HAS GROWN RAPIDLY EVER SINCE )N THERE WAS ONE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST FOR EVERY

PEOPLE IN THE WORLD SO TAKING THE GOSPEL MESSAGE

(OMER 4RECARTIN IS AN ASSOCIATE SECRETARY OF THE 'ENERAL #ONFERENCE DIRECTOR OF !DVENTIST 6OLUNTEER 3ERVICE AND PLANNING DIRECTOR OF !DVENTIST -ISSION *UNE \ !DVENTIST 7ORLD

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TO ALL THE WORLD SEEMED TO BE AN OVERWHELMING CHALLENGE )N LESS THAN YEARS HOWEVERÂ&#x2C6;BY Â&#x2C6;WE HAD ONE MEMBER FOR EVERY PEOPLE !NOTHER YEARS

AND WE HAD ONE FOR EVERY )N THERE WAS ONE MEMBER FOR EVERY PEOPLE !ND BY THE END OF IT WAS ONE FOR EVERY PEOPLE ON EARTH 7HAT AMAZING PROGRESS 4HE CHURCH NOW CLAIMS ALMOST MILLION MEMBERS OR TO MILLION MEMBERS IF WE COUNT THE CHILDREN AS MOST CHURCHES DO 7E ARE NO LONGER JUST AN %NGLISH SPEAKING CHURCH IN .ORTH !MERICA 3PANISH IS NOW THE CHURCH S NUMBER ONE LANGUAGE /NE THIRD OF THE MEMBERS LIVE IN #ENTRAL AND 3OUTH !MERICA /NE THIRD LIVES IN !FRICA !ND THE lNAL THIRD IS DIVIDED UP BETWEEN .ORTH !MERICA

!USTRALIA %UROPE THE -IDDLE %AST !SIA THE FORMER 3OVIET 5NION AND THE REST OF THE WORLD 4HE 3OUTHERN !FRICA )NDIAN /CEAN $IVISION NOW HAS ONE !DVENTIST FOR EVERY PEOPLE )NTER !MERICA HAS ONE FOR EVERY 3OUTH !MERICA HAS ONE FOR EVERY 4HE %AST #ENTRAL !FRICAN $IVISION HAS ONE MEMBER FOR EVERY PEOPLE 4HE .ORTH !MERICAN $IVISION HAS ONE MEMBER FOR EVERY PEOPLE )N COUNTRIES !DVENTISTS MAKE UP MORE

!DVENTIST WALK PAST %VERY MINUTES "UT IF WE CLIMBED THE -OUNT OF /LIVES IN )SRAEL OR THE MOUNTAINS OF #ENTRAL !SIA WE WOULD HAVE TO WAIT MINUTES HOURS BETWEEN EVERY !DVENTIST !ND IF YOU CAME WITH ME TO %GYPT AND WE SAT ON A PYRAMID AND HAD THE PEOPLE OF %GYPT lLE BY ONE PER SECOND SINGLE lLE

HOURS A DAY WE WOULD HAVE MORE THAN A DAY BETWEEN EACH MEMBER HOURS &OR 3AUDI !RABIA IT WOULD BE DAYS MONTHS BETWEEN EACH !DVENTIST )N -ATTHEW *ESUS SAYS OUR FOCUS DOESN T NEED TO BE ON THE HARVEST BECAUSE THE HARVEST IS ALREADY RIPE (E SAYS WE SHOULD BE PRAYING FOR LABORERS *ESUS $IDN T $IE FOR -E

THAN PERCENT OF THE POPULATION !ND IN SEVERAL COUNTRIES !DVENTISTS ARE PERCENT OR MORE OF THE POPULATION

7HEN "ARBARA AND ) WERE WORKING IN THE -IDDLE %AST 5NION WE LIVED IN #YPRUS /NE DAY WE WALKED INTO A SMALL SHOP MANAGED BY A 'REEK /RTHODOX MAN (E WAS A TALKATIVE GUY AND WAS HAPPY FOR A CHANCE TO PRACTICE HIS %NGLISH 3OON HE ASKED WHERE WE WERE FROM AND WHY WE WERE IN #YPRUS 7HEN ) SAID ) WORKED FOR THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH HIS EYES NARROWED h#HURCH v HE SPAT OUT THE WORD h!RE YOU #HRISTIAN v (ESITANTLY ) SAID h9ES WE ARE #HRISTIAN v h7ELL WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE v HE SAID WITH AN AIR OF SUPERIORITY ) SENT UP A PRAYER AND THEN ANSWERED h) BELIEVE *ESUS DIED FOR ME (E PAID THE PRICE FOR MY SINS ROSE AGAIN AND IS COMING BACK TO TAKE ALL WHO WILL ACCEPT (IM TO HEAVEN v ! WISTFUL LOOK CAME OVER HIS FACE AS HE SAID h) WISH ) KNEW THAT *ESUS DIED FOR ME v 7E TALKED SOME MORE AND ) LEFT HIS SHOPÂ&#x2C6;PUZZLED (OW COULD A #HRISTIAN NOT KNOW THAT *ESUS DIED FOR THEM -ILLIONS OF PEOPLE DON T YET KNOW THE GOOD NEWS 4HEY AREN T JUST "UDDHISTS (INDUS *EWS AND -USLIMS 4HERE ARE ALSO MANY h#HRISTIANSv WHO DON T KNOW THAT *ESUS DIED FOR THEM 4HE HARVEST SURELY IS RIPE

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4HIS IS FANTASTIC PROGRESS 7E HAVE MUCH FOR WHICH TO BE THANKFUL "UT BEFORE WE PAT OURSELVES TOO MUCH ON THE BACK LET S LOOK AT SOME OTHER STATISTICS N COUNTRIES HAVE MORE THAN PEOPLE FOR EVERY !DVENTIST N COUNTRIES HAVE MORE THAN PEOPLE PER !DVENTIST N COUNTRIES REPORT MORE THAN

PEOPLE PER !DVENTIST ,ET ME ILLUSTRATE IT ANOTHER WAY ,ET S PRETEND WE CAN CLIMB THE TALLEST BUILDING IN 3OUTH !MERICA AND HAVE ALL THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE 3OUTH !MERICAN $IVISION lLE BY ONE PER SECOND SINGLE lLE

HOURS A DAY (OW OFTEN WOULD WE SEE A 3EVENTH DAY

7E NEED LABORERS 7E NEED !DVENTISTS LIVING IN EVERY COUNTRY CITY TOWN AND VILLAGE ON EARTH 7E NEED VOLUNTEERS FANNING OUT AROUND THE WORLD TO SPEND A YEAR OR TWO LEARNING TO KNOW PEOPLE IN PLACES WHERE THERE ARE FEW OTHER !DVENTISTS 7E NEED MEMBERS WHO CAN SHOW WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A FAITHFUL FOLLOWER OF *ESUS AND HELP PEOPLE REALIZE THAT *ESUS DIED FOR THEM "EING A LABORER ISN T ALWAYS EASY )T INVOLVES SACRIlCE AND RISK "UT THE HARVEST IS RIPE *ESUS IS LONGING TO COME !LL (E NEEDS NOW ARE LABORERS &OR INFORMATION ABOUT BEING A VOLUNTEER GO TO WWW !DVENTIST6OLUNTEERS ORG

.AMES IN THIS ARTICLE OTHER THAN THE AUTHOR S AND HIS WIFE S ARE PSEUDONYMS

h) WISH ) KNEW THAT *ESUS DIED FOR ME v

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&EELINGS ARE NOT A GOOD TEST OF YOUR SPIRITUAL LIFEÂ&#x2C6;'OD S 7ORD IS h%XAMINE YOURSELVES WHETHER YE BE IN THE FAITH v 3OME CONSCIENTIOUS SOULS ON READING THIS IMMEDIATELY BEGIN TO CRITICIZE THEIR EVERY FEELING AND EMOTION "UT THIS IS NOT CORRECT SELF EXAMINATION )T IS NOT THE PETTY FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS THAT ARE TO BE EXAMINED 4HE LIFE THE CHARACTER IS TO BE MEASURED BY THE ONLY STANDARD OF CHARACTER 'OD S HOLY LAW 4HE FRUIT TESTIlES TO THE CHARACTER OF THE TREE /UR WORKS NOT OUR FEELINGS BEAR WITNESS OF US 4HE FEELINGS WHETHER ENCOURAGING OR DISCOURAGING SHOULD NOT BE MADE THE TEST OF THE SPIRITUAL CONDITION "Y 'OD S 7ORD WE ARE TO DETERMINE OUR TRUE STANDING BEFORE (IM -ANY ARE BEWILDERED ON THIS POINT 7HEN THEY ARE HAPPY AND JOYOUS THEY THINK THAT THEY ARE ACCEPTED BY 'OD 7HEN A CHANGE COMES AND THEY FEEL DEPRESSED

THEY THINK THAT 'OD HAS FORSAKEN THEM 2ECEIVING 'OD S -ERCY

'OD DOES NOT LOOK WITH FAVOR UPON THOSE SELF CONlDENT ONES WHO LOUDLY EXCLAIM h) AM SANCTIlED ) AM HOLY ) AM SINLESS v 4HESE ARE 0HARISEES WHO HAVE NO FOUNDATION FOR THEIR ASSERTION 4HOSE WHO BECAUSE OF THEIR SENSE OF UTTER UNWORTHINESS DARE SCARCELY LIFT UP THEIR EYES TO HEAVEN ARE NEARER TO 'OD THAN THOSE WHO CLAIM SO MUCH PIETY 4HEY ARE REPRESENTED BY THE PUBLICAN

WHO WITH HIS HEAD ON HIS BREAST

PRAYED h'OD BE MERCIFUL TO ME A SINNER v AND WENT TO HIS HOUSE JUSTIlED

RATHER THAN THE SELF RIGHTEOUS 0HARISEE "UT 'OD DOES NOT DESIRE US TO GO

THROUGH LIFE WITH A DISTRUST OF (IM 7E OWE OUR (EAVENLY &ATHER A MORE GENEROUS VIEW OF (IS GOODNESS THAN IS ACCORDED TO (IM BY OUR MANIFEST DISTRUST OF (IS LOVE 7E HAVE AN EVIDENCE OF (IS LOVEÂ&#x2C6;AN EVIDENCE WHICH AMAZES ANGELS AND IS FAR BEYOND THE COMPREHENSION OF THE WISEST OF HUMAN BEINGS h(EREIN IS LOVE NOT THAT WE LOVED 'OD BUT THAT HE LOVED US

AND SENT HIS 3ON TO BE THE PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS v 7HILE WE WERE YET SINNERS 'OD GAVE (IS 3ON TO DIE FOR US #AN WE DOUBT (IS GOODNESS *ESUS -AKES THE $IFFERENCE

"EHOLD #HRIST $WELL UPON (IS LOVE AND MERCY 4HIS WILL lLL THE SOUL WITH ABHORRENCE FOR ALL THAT IS SINFUL AND WILL INSPIRE IT WITH AN INTENSE DESIRE FOR THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF #HRIST 4HE MORE CLEARLY WE SEE THE 3AVIOUR THE MORE CLEARLY SHALL WE DISCERN OUR DEFECTS OF CHARACTER #ONFESS YOUR SINS TO #HRIST

AND WITH TRUE CONTRITION OF SOUL CO OPERATE WITH (IM BY PUTTING THESE SINS AWAY "ELIEVE THAT THEY ARE PARDONED 4HE PROMISE IS POSITIVE h)F WE CONFESS OUR SINS HE IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE US OUR SINS AND TO CLEANSE US FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS v "E ASSURED THAT THE 7ORD OF 'OD WILL NOT FAIL (E WHO HAS PROMISED IS FAITHFUL )T IS AS MUCH YOUR DUTY TO BELIEVE THAT 'OD WILL FULlLL (IS 7ORD AND FORGIVE YOU

AS IT IS TO CONFESS YOUR SINS &AITH IN THE 0ROMISES

%XERCISE FAITH IN 'OD (OW MANY THERE ARE WHO GO THROUGH LIFE UNDER

A CLOUD OF CONDEMNATION 4HEY DO NOT BELIEVE 'OD S 7ORD 4HEY HAVE NO FAITH THAT (E WILL DO AS (E HAS SAID -ANY WHO LONG TO SEE OTHERS RESTING IN THE PARDONING LOVE OF #HRIST DO NOT REST IN IT THEMSELVES "UT HOW CAN THEY POSSIBLY LEAD OTHERS TO SHOW SIMPLE

CHILD LIKE FAITH IN THE (EAVENLY &ATHER WHEN THEY MEASURE (IS LOVE BY THEIR FEELINGS ,ET US TRUST 'OD S 7ORD IMPLICITLY

REMEMBERING THAT WE ARE (IS SONS AND DAUGHTERS ,ET US TRAIN OURSELVES TO BELIEVE (IS 7ORD 7E HURT THE HEART OF #HRIST BY DOUBTING WHEN (E HAS GIVEN US SUCH EVIDENCES OF (IS LOVE (E LAID DOWN (IS LIFE TO SAVE US (E SAYS TO US h#OME UNTO ME ALL YE THAT LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN AND ) WILL GIVE YOU REST 4AKE MY YOKE UPON YOU

AND LEARN OF ME FOR ) AM MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART AND YE SHALL lND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS &OR MY YOKE IS EASY

AND MY BURDEN IS LIGHT v $O YOU BELIEVE THAT (E WILL DO AS (E HAS SAID 4HEN AFTER YOU HAVE COMPLIED WITH THE CONDITIONS CARRY NO LONGER THE BURDEN OF YOUR SIN ,ET IT ROLL UPON THE 3AVIOUR 4RUST YOURSELF WITH (IM

4HIS ARTICLE IS EXCERPTED FROM ONE THAT lRST APPEARED IN THE !DVENT 2EVIEW AND 3ABBATH (ERALD NOW THE !DVENTIST 2EVIEW

-AY 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS BELIEVE THAT %LLEN ' 7HITE EXERCISED THE BIBLICAL GIFT OF PROPHECY DURING MORE THAN YEARS OF PUBLIC MINISTRY

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3KIP APPROACHED ME FOLLOWING THE DISASTER h*EFF

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INCREDULOUSLY 4HIS WAS THE SAME PERSON WHO SEVEN DAYS BEFORE HAD SAID h*EFF ALWAYS FOLLOW YOUR CONVICTIONS v .OW HE WAS SINGING A DIFFERENT TUNE h*EFF NEXT WEEK S GAME WILL DECIDE THE CHAMPIONSHIP 7HAT WILL YOU DO 9OUR TEAM NEEDS YOU TO PLAY NEXT WEEK v .EXT WEEK MEANT NEXT 3ABBATH 7ITH 3KIP LOOKING AT ME PLEADINGLY AND WITH THE TEAM LOOKING AT ME IMPLORINGLY WHAT WOULD ) DO 7HAT SHOULD ) DO 7HAT DID ) DO ) PLAYED "UT DID WE WIN .O WE DIDN T 7E LOST THE GAME AND ) LOST THE PEACE OF MIND THAT COMES WITH DOING WHAT 'OD SAYS IS RIGHT ) HEARD *ESUS WORDS h!ND IN VAIN THEY WORSHIP -E TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS OF MENv -ATT ) KNEW WHAT ) HAD TO DO 4HOUGH ) LOVED MY "APTIST CHURCH FAMILY ) GOT BAPTIZED AND JOINED THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH -ORE AND MORE #HRISTIANS ACROSS THE WORLD HAVE COME TO REALIZE THAT THE 3ABBATH IS A BEAUTIFUL BENElT NOT A BANEFUL BURDEN -AX ,UCADO BEST SELLING #HRISTIAN AUTHOR WRITES h/F THE TEN DECLARATIONS CARVED IN THE TABLETS WHICH ONE OCCUPIES THE MOST SPACE -URDER !DULTERY 3TEALING 9OU D THINK SO #ERTAINLY EACH IS WORTHY OF AMPLE COVERAGE "UT CURIOUSLY THESE COMMANDS ARE TRIBUTES TO BREVITY 'OD NEEDED ONLY lVE %NGLISH WORDS TO CONDEMN ADULTERY AND FOUR TO DENOUNCE THIEVERY AND MURDER "UT WHEN HE CAME TO THE TOPIC OF REST ONE SENTENCE WOULD NOT SUFlCE v ,UCADO IS CORRECT 4HE COMMANDMENT SAYS h2EMEMBER THE 3ABBATH DAY TO KEEP IT HOLY 3IX DAYS YOU SHALL LABOR AND DO ALL YOUR WORK BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE 3ABBATH OF THE ,ORD YOUR 'OD )N IT YOU SHALL DO NO WORK YOU

NOR YOUR SON NOR YOUR DAUGHTER NOR YOUR MANSERVANT

NOR YOUR MAIDSERVANT NOR YOUR CATTLE NOR YOUR STRANGER WHO IS WITHIN YOUR GATES &OR IN SIX DAYS THE ,ORD MADE

THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH THE SEA AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM

AND RESTED THE SEVENTH DAY 4HEREFORE THE ,ORD BLESSED THE 3ABBATH DAY AND HALLOWED ITv %X ,UCADO CONTINUES h'OD SAYS ONE DAY OF THE WEEK YOU WILL SAY NO TO WORK AND YES TO WORSHIP 9OU WILL SLOW DOWN AND SIT DOWN AND LIE DOWN AND REST 3TILL WE OBJECT @"UT x BUT x BUT x WHO IS GOING TO RUN THE STORE @7HAT ABOUT MY GRADES @) VE GOT MY SALES QUOTA 7E OFFER UP ONE REASON AFTER ANOTHER BUT 'OD SILENCES THEM ALL WITH A POIGNANT REMINDER @)N SIX DAYS THE ,ORD MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH THE SEA AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM AND RESTED THE SEVENTH DAY 'OD S MESSAGE IS PLAIN @)F CREATION DIDN T CRASH WHEN ) RESTED IT WON T CRASH WHEN YOU DO v )T DOESN T ALWAYS REQUIRE GREAT THEOLOGY TO CONVINCE PEOPLE 4O BORROW THE WORDS OF THE "IBLE hA LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM v 4HE "OY S 3TORY $ID )T

h!LONI -UHINDWA FROM 5GANDA WAS EDUCATED IN "RITAIN AND BECAME A PRIEST IN THE #HURCH OF %NGLAND &ROM HIS EARLY YOUTH HE HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT THE 3ABBATH 0ASTORS SEMINARY PROFESSORS AND BISHOPS REFUSED TO DISCUSS THE MATTER )T WAS LATE IN LIFE THAT A STORY WAS TOLD TO HIM BY A BOY AS HE SIPPED A SOFT DRINK IN A SHOP ON HIS WAY TO HIS COFFEE PLANTATION h4HE BOY SAID @/NCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A GREAT KING WHO HAD TEN SONS "EFORE LEAVING FOR A LONG JOURNEY HE CALLED HIS PRIME MINISTER AND HIS TEN SONS BEFORE HIM AND SAID FAREWELL (E CHARGED THE PRIME MINISTER TO TAKE GOOD CARE OF HIS SONS !S SOON AS HE HAD GONE THE PRIME MINISTER CALLED THE TEN SONS TOGETHER AGAIN REMOVED THE FOURTH SON WHO DIDN T SEEM TO HIM REGAL ENOUGH AND REPLACED HIM WITH HIS OWN SON THAT HE JUDGED TO BE A lNER SPECIMEN OF ROYALTY

3ABBATH

4HE BENElCENT #REATOR AFTER THE SIX DAYS OF #REATION RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY AND INSTITUTED THE 3ABBATH FOR ALL PEOPLE AS A MEMORIAL OF #REATION 4HE FOURTH COMMANDMENT OF 'OD S UNCHANGEABLE LAW REQUIRES THE OBSERVANCE OF THIS SEVENTH DAY 3ABBATH AS THE DAY OF REST WORSHIP AND MINISTRY IN HARMONY

h"Y AND BY THE KING RETURNED AND CALLED FOR HIS SONS (E GREETED THEM ONE BY ONE UNTIL HE CAME TO THE FOURTH SON @7HO IS THIS IMPOSTER 4HIS IS NOT MY SON 7HAT HAPPENED TO MY SON -R 0RIME -INISTER 4HE PRIME MINISTER EXPLAINED @9OUR FOURTH SON DID NOT LOOK LIKE A ROYAL SON TO ME SO ) PUT MY ;OWN= SON IN HIS PLACE !S THE STORY GOES

THE KING BANISHED THE PRIME MINISTER FROM THE REALM AND RESTORED HIS SON !LONI NOW ASKED THE LITTLE BOY WHAT WAS THE MEANING OF THE STORY (E SAID @4HE KING IS 'OD THE TEN SONS ARE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 4HE PRIME MINISTER IS THE CHURCH BUT THE CHURCH CHANGED 'OD S FOURTH COMMANDMENT AND PUT IN A COMMANDMENT OF HER OWN "UT THE +ING IS COMING BACK ONE DAY SIR AND (E WILL ASK WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO (IS COMMANDMENT h@7HERE DID YOU LEARN THIS SON @5P AT THE +EREKA -ISSION ON TOP OF THE HILL SIR 3O THE OLD PRIEST WAS LED BY THE LITTLE BOY UP TO THE 3ABBATHKEEPING MISSION WHERE HE SPENT SEVERAL DAYS IN INTENSIVE "IBLE STUDY 4HE NEXT 3UNDAY HE STOOD BEFORE HIS CONGREGATION AND SAID @4HIS IS MY LAST 3UNDAY AS YOUR PRIEST &ROM NOW ON ) AM A 3ABBATHKEEPER v ! * *ACOBS THE SECULAR JOURNALIST WHO SPENT ONE YEAR KEEPING THE MORE THAN RULES HE HAD DISCOVERED IN THE "IBLE WAS ASKED h7HAT IF ANY RULES ARE YOU STILL FOLLOWING v (E REPLIED h) LOVE THE 3ABBATH 4HERE S SOMETHING ) REALLY LIKE ABOUT A @FORCED DAY OF REST v ! DAY MADE BY *ESUS TO FELLOWSHIP WITH (IS FAMILY

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FOUND KNEELING BY HIS BED IN PRAYER !DVENTIST MISSIONARIES ARRIVED IN SOUTHERN !FRICA SOME YEARS AFTER ,IVINGSTONE S DEATH )N 7 ( !NDERSON HIS WIFE .ORA AND TWO OTHER !MERICAN MISSIONARIES TRAVELED FOR SIX WEEKS BY OXCART FROM 3OUTH !FRICA TO :IMBABWE 4HERE THEY ESTABLISHED THE lRST PERMANENT !DVENTIST MISSION STATION ON THE CONTINENT OF !FRICA 4HAT MISSION STATION IS NOW THE SITE OF 3OLUSI 5NIVERSITY 4HE !NDERSONS SERVED NEARLY YEARS IN SOUTHERN !FRICA

EVENTUALLY ESTABLISHING MISSION STATIONS IN :AMBIA AND !NGOLA AS WELL 4HE LEGACY OF FAITH AND COURAGE LEFT BY #HRISTIAN MISSIONARIES SUCH AS ,IVINGSTONE AND THE !NDERSONS LIVES ON IN THE 3OUTHERN !FRICA )NDIAN /CEAN $IVISION

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&OR YEARS MANY OF THE COUNTRIES HAVE BEEN DEVASTATED BY WAR CIVIL UNREST AND WIDESPREAD POVERTY 9ET DESPITE THE PHYSICAL HARDSHIPS 'OD HAS BLESSED (IS WORK HERE !DVENTIST CHURCH MEMBERSHIP HAS GROWN 'REAT CHALLENGES REMAIN HOWEVER 4HERE ARE FEW !DVENTIST SCHOOLS AND MANY OF THE EXISTING SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED BY WAR MAKING IT DIFlCULT FOR !DVENTISTS TO GET AN EDUCATION !DDING TO THE PROBLEM THERE AREN T ENOUGH TRAINED !DVENTIST TEACHERS SO !DVENTIST SCHOOLS OCCASIONALLY HAVE TO HIRE NON !DVENTIST TEACHERS

INTO THE AREA 3OME OF THE MISSION S BUILDINGS ARE STILL STANDING BUT ARE IN URGENT NEED OF REPAIR 0ART OF THIS QUARTER S 4HIRTEENTH 3ABBATH /FFERING WILL HELP REBUILD "ONGO -ISSION INCLUDING THE "ONGO !DVENTIST 3EMINARY "EFORE CLOSING ITS DOORS "ONGO AVERAGED STUDENTS AND OFFERED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL AND THREE YEARS OF "IBLE INSTRUCTION

TO THE NORTH AND -OZAMBIQUE TO THE SOUTH )T S CONSIDERED BY SOME TO BE ONE OF THE WORLD S POOREST COUNTRIES /NCE A "RITISH COLONY :AMBIA IS HOME TO SOME MILLION PEOPLE AND NEARLY !DVENTISTSÂ&#x2C6;A RATIO OF ONE !DVENTIST FOR EVERY PEOPLE 9ET IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY THE !DVENTIST #HURCH HAS ONLY ONE SECONDARY SCHOOL AND A HANDFUL OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS )N THE !DVENTIST #HURCH -OZAMBIQUE ESTABLISHED :AMBIA !DVENTIST -OZAMBIQUE LIES ALONG !FRICA S 5NIVERSITY IN SOUTHERN :AMBIA

SOUTHEASTERN COAST JUST NORTH OF 3OUTH ABOUT KILOMETERS MILES !FRICA ,ONG SANDY BEACHES AND THE OUTSIDE THE CAPITAL OF ,USAKA !LREADY !NGOLA WARM )NDIAN /CEAN ONCE MADE THIS MORE THAN STUDENTS STUDY ,OCATED JUST BELOW THE EQUATOR COUNTRY A VACATION DESTINATION (OWEVER THERE 4HE SCHOOL LIBRARY HAS SOME ALONG SOUTHWESTERN !FRICA S !TLANTIC YEARS OF CIVIL UNREST HAVE LEFT DESOLATE

BOOKS BUT NO LIBRARY SPACE /CEAN COASTLINE !NGOLA LIES BETWEEN WHAT ONCE WERE LAVISH LUXURY HOTELS TO HOUSE THEM 0ART OF THIS QUARTER S .AMIBIA AND THE $EMOCRATIC 2EPUBLIC )N AFTER NEARLY lVE CENTURIES 4HIRTEENTH 3ABBATH /FFERING WILL HELP OF #ONGO 4HIS 0ORTUGUESE SPEAKING OF 0ORTUGUESE RULE -OZAMBIQUE PROVIDE A LIBRARY FOR THIS UNIVERSITY NATION IS REBUILDING AFTER ENDURING GAINED ITS INDEPENDENCE /VER THE 4HIS 4HIRTEENTH 3ABBATH YOU MORE THAN A QUARTER CENTURY OF STRIFE NEXT TWO DECADES A CIVIL WAR RAGED

HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SUPPORT AND AN ONGOING DROUGHT SENT THE )N !NGOLA GAINED ITS THE !DVENTIST #HURCH IN SOUTHERN COUNTRY SPIRALING INTO AN ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE FROM 0ORTUGAL AFTER !FRICA 9OU CAN HELP TELL THE WORLD DEPRESSION YEARS OF COLONIZATION 7AR SOON BROKE ABOUT *ESUS BY REBUILDING !DVENTIST $ESPITE A CHRONIC LACK OF RESOURCES SCHOOLS IN !NGOLA AND :AMBIA SO OUT AS DIFFERENT POLITICAL FACTIONS FOUGHT FOR CONTROL -ORE THAN PEOPLE THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH IN YOUNG PEOPLE CAN GET THE EDUCATION WERE KILLED AND MILLION REFUGEES -OZAMBIQUE HAS GROWN RAPIDLY OVER THEY NEED TO BE BECOME ACTIVE AND SUFFERED DURING YEARS OF CIVIL WAR THE PAST YEARS #HURCH MEMBERSHIP CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS OF THEIR &OLLOWING THE SIGNING OF A PEACE HAS GROWN FROM TO

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